Sure, there is a breakdown for all the races but was just wondering what your thoughts were.
I'ma play it today too, but first I must attack my kitchen stove.
Dismantled it last night and left it's ugly bits soaking in a sink full of black water. 

i like most races, i've played as most of them at one point or another.
orcs are good too.
i started with khajiit again this time. so far so good. ^^


aha nice stuff, sounds like a fun afternoon.

I chose khajiit again as well.  (cats are attracted to me for some reason)
But I plan to try using more magic this time.

I started over as a Dunmer, using single handed swords, alteration & destruction magic, and utilizing sneak more to get into position.

Found the problem with dual wielding spells and using a two-handed weapon was that you really can't change on the fly very well, so there's moments where you're extremely vulnerable while trying to backpedal and switch. 

I guess we are all Dragonborn by now eh? I've killed three dragons so far yet everyone still wants to make a fucking rug out of me!

Hey have you guys had this problem where when you try to search a corpse or read a book or take something you pick it up instead? I mean in games like COD4 you sometimes need to hide the bodies or carry the wounded but this feature seems to be hit and miss in Skyrim and anyway there really is no reason to hide the bodies so why is this happening?

I also had a problem with remapping the keys where the game would forget the key bindings between sessions. But I found If you run it as admin then make the changes they stick. (win 7)

On the PS3 version, how long you hold the button determines whether you use an item or pick it up.

You can pick up items you don't want to move them out of the way.  You also may be able to pick up and drop items while sneaking to draw an enemy's attention - it worked for me the time I tried it, I'll have to experiment more to know if it really works.

Killing dragons has been surprisingly easy.  I've had more trouble in some of the dungeon areas with multiple enemies than I have had with dragons.

I hate the way horses work in the game.  I bought a horse.  It was great for a while, but charged into battle against a really tough enemy and got itself killed.  I wish you could park them at a stable or park them at a tree or something, instead of having them follow you constantly.  At least in Fallout 3 you could send your dog away so he wouldn't get killed when you were entering a tough fight.

I bought a horse too. You have to park it far enough away so that it doesn't realize there is a fight, but yeah they have no sense and will charge into battle against any enemy. On at least one occasion I came back to find my horse had killed two bandits and was just standing there like "What?" I guess moving stuff out of the way could have a value.

Well I finally lost that horse. It disappeared while I was clearing a fort. Never found it's body so it may have just ran off, but usually if it's not dead they show up again the first time you fast travel. In the last episode I had a horse run off and later I found it back at the stable where it came from.

Didn't go to long without one though, I was hired to steal one named Frost along with it's pedigree papers way down in Riften but used persuasion to take it from the guy I stole it for and now it's mine. He had actually bought the horse in a deal that got fucked up so once I persuaded him that I should just keep the horse instead of being paid it actually became my 'sort of legal' property. 

I was reading via the recent posts link and i did not notice the above was in the games thread...  I did not notice anything weird about the post until i got to the words 'fast travel'.

Somebody lost a horse ?... oh okay np.  Can't find the body ?... sure, that can happen. 

Yeah Emp, Nitya and I are all currently playing Skyrim.

You also may be able to pick up and drop items while sneaking to draw an enemy's attention - it worked for me the time I tried it, I'll have to experiment more to know if it really works.

The picking stuff up has been useful so far in organising my house (^.^) and in stealing stuff - if theres something i want to steal and they can see me clearly, I move the object to somewhere that I can still pick it up but I'm not in their line of sight.

Didn't go to long without one though, I was hired to steal one named Frost along with it's pedigree papers way down in Riften but used persuasion to take it from the guy I stole it for and now it's mine. He had actually bought the horse in a deal that got fucked up so once I persuaded him that I should just keep the horse instead of being paid it actually became my 'sort of legal' property. 

just about to start that quest! aha.

havent bothered getting a horse so far cause theyre too slow and they make fighting wild animals just more effort.

I wouldn't say they are to slow, They are much faster than walking, they can outrun all the wild animals  and they can go some places you just can't go on foot. Like today I stopped of at an old castle and my character couldn't climb the rocks to get up to it, but Frost went right up it with no trouble.

There was a way up by stairs in an attached tower but I like to go the unexpected route when possible. The place is packed jam full of undead and ghosts and I had to quit before I cleared it. There is a phony Imperial officer there camped in the courtyard with orders to find some ancient weapon and he wanted to conscript me to go fetch it. I didn't like that idea so I declined his offer, waited until he went to sleep and stole the key. (and his orders)

Whatever is in there I want for myself. So far just a whole lot of gold and ancient arrows.

Oh and you're right about picking stuff up Emp, you have to click the mouse fast to take stuff, if you hold it down it picks stuff up until you drop it. One thing I want to try is using a dead body as a shield.

Yeah but who walks when you can run?

I only used a horse for about 5 minutes, started getting attacked by some wild wolves and couldn't outrun them, it just made it more effort to kill them.

Well yeah I keep the run key on all the time too except when sneaking. I don't worry about wolves, my horse can take care of them on her own. She even stood her ground against a dragon yesterday and kept it distracted while I shot arrows at it from cover. She survived and provided a valuable service.  Shouting at them is a good distraction as well but doesn't seem to do much damage.

You can use the sprint key while mounted Nitya and I haven't seen anything yet she can't outrun. Horses have quite a bit of stamina even though you don't get a bar to indicate it and can keep up the faster sprint pace for a good amount of time. 

Hey speaking of horses, Back in the old west and even in the roman days They tied their horses up risking any sort of attack just so they would know where to find them. For a game that promotes itself as state of the art like Skyrim, where is the option to tie them up? Or make them stay in any way.  They will often fight to the death (even when you don't want them involved} when being attacked (one of the best $1000 diversions you could ever ask for) but just as often after being wounded they will take off running and never be seen again.

They could make it so that if you tied them and they were then attacked they could break loose and thus defend themselves in most cases. (algorithms are so cool)

So yeah where is the option to tie them? It should have been a given.

I think I need to speak to the developers of this game.

Been playing L.A. Noire... it isnt especially hard, but lots of fun to be had fanging 1940's cars around L.A., taking out street furniture and pedestrians.

The atomosphere is very nice too...

That one looks interesting Mosh. I might try it out next.

Hey Nitya you buy the house in Whiterun? I did last night just so I would have a place to dump all my loot. Seems most of the merchants in this game are really poor. I feel sorry though, my housecarl just sits around all day because I like to work alone.  I wanted the house in Riften but I accidentally killed a guard while fighting a dragon. I paid them off to forget it but I still can't get the option to buy there. Ummm yeah and I seem to be engaged to a woman there as well.

Oh one really good thing about owning a horse, when you come limping out of a cave or fortress with 600 pounds of loot and climb up on that bad boy (or girl), is that you can still fast travel!

 

You have to do a series of tasks for the Jarl as well as other things for people in Riften to be able to buy the house.  I have Riften and Whiterun houses.

The merchants are all relatively poor - you have to spend points in the speech tree to get them to hold more gold.  I buy crafting materials from merchants so they'll have more gold, then unload stuff on them.  It's generally a net loss in total value, but I'm trying to boost my smithing and enchanting skills rather than get rich.

I really concentrated on doing the tasks for Riften, I've done most I think for the Jarl and the citizens. (there are still a few side quests in progress) The guards used to ask me if I was looking for a house every time I passed through the gate.  They don't anymore though and there are no more jobs from the steward. I just needed a place to store ingredients, weapons and such to get them sorted out so I settled for the one in Whiterun. I joined the Thieves Guild too so maybe that changed things.

Have you picked a side in the civil war yet?  I wonder if that changes anything.

No I haven't, I've been trying to remain neutral until all the facts are in. But, I was stopped by a group of Imperials recently who tried to shake me down for 100 gold like common bandits. That kind of pissed me off so I attacked one of their prisoner escorts and set the Stormcloak prisoner free.   It wasn't a quest, I just spotted them moving along the road and ambushed them.

>>- you have to spend points in the speech tree to get them to hold more gold. <<

That's a good idea, I've got about 6 skill points and about 5 dragon souls saved up.
I have a lot of spells and scrolls but I still do most of my fighting with the bow and heavily rely on sneak bonus damage.

Melissa's playing it now ...
The last 2 games have been absolutely beautifully done with the sceneries and characters/monsters ...

Skyrim.

Wolves carry gold ?
Beggars sleep surrounded by vegetables ?

and nobody seems to get anything done without your help.

Hahahahaha yep.

But the beggars are spies for the thieves guild and the wolves, well, they eat people who have gold so...

Question, join the Dark Brotherhood or stamp it out?

I joined before I decided to restart my character last weekend.  You get a lot more gold for joining than you get by destroying them.  I think the only reason to wipe them out is if you're actually trying to role play a character and are imagining yourself as "lawful good" or something.

I was thinking I might miss out on quite a bit by taking them down.

Astrid has already dispatched three assassins to kill me though, (I ran into the first one really early in the game) and I haven't found out why yet.

I read online that there is an old witch woman named Anise or something like that and if you find out she is a witch she attacks you. If you kill her then her sister puts a bounty out on you with the brotherhood, but I haven't killed her. I guess I must have pissed off someone though.

I played a while last night after killing Astrid (saved first of course) and I now think there is more in favor of joining. I like to project onto my character my concepts of right and wrong (role playing) but assassins do fulfill a role as well and some people deserve to die. If I hadn't killed the woman at the orphanage this option might not have presented itself. But I think it was the right thing to do.   

All the children seemed to agree.

what game is this?