Scuzz
3341
What does the Lovers Stone do for you then?
I think it just boosts XP.
marxeil
3343
Problem sorted. I made another child’s bed and she came over. I think Lydia was occupying the first bed.
So I spent a bunch of time with this over the weekend, and had a blast. I finished the Thieves Guild questline, and on the way got caught up with the events in Markarth, which was a ton of fun. Also ended up getting the Mace of Molag Bal, which is nice and all, but I keep going back to my beloved Dawnbreaker. Now I’ve begun the Companions questline, and am just enjoying myself way too much. Great, great stuff. Shame the Companions don’t seem to dig magic though.
The Companions are the fighters guild in Skyrim so, yeah, no magic. Odd though for a game that allows players to mix 'n match skills so freely.
Whatevs, they didn’t like my one magic sword but were fine with another one, so they can deal. ;)
Ugh… why did I adopt a child? So annoying… like real life, I suppose. :)
What’s annoying about it?
JeffL
3349
After hundreds of hours, I have now finished all of the major guild story lines except for the mage guild (which doesn’t fit my character, he has almost no Magika, so I won’t do that one.) Then finished up the Dawnguard story line, which was very cool. Played it on the vampire hunter side, can’t imagine how it plays on the vampire side after playing on the other side. Now just getting into the Dragonborn DLC and it is so cool to be on a major landmass where everything is new and everything has to be discovered again!
Hundreds and hundreds of hours, this is absolutely in my top 10 games of all time (and I go back to 1980 in computer gaming! ;) )
That’s amazing dude. I’m only 50-some hours in and I’m still finding awesome shit to do. I have a feeling I’ll be putting in around that much time as well.
This reminds me I need to get back to this, soon.
Definitely top 10 games of all time for me even though I’ve only put about 60 hours into it - that’s starting the game and playing for about 20 hours three times from the beginning - something always comes up and I’d rather start again than continue a months old game. The fact that I’ve started 3 games and have put that many hours into it and don’t mind doing it again (this time so I can play it through the end!!!) says a lot.
Steam says I have 236 hours in my one game of Skyrim. I have made little progress on the main quest, but my wife Lydia and I are wearing armor made of dragon remains. I think I may outdo my 505-hour Oblivion game by quite a bit.
Maniac
3353
According to Steam I’m at 293 hours with my single character, and I still need to finish the civil war, dark brotherhood and thieves’ guild quests. Most of the other side quests are done though. Though I still occasionally discover new locations and quests in the wild.
Are most of you guys with 200+ hours playing a single character, or multiple ones? If I go back to this game, I thought I’d do a new one so I wasn’t too overpowered. Now I wonder if I should just continue my old character.
I’ve been playing this with my kids (9 and 5) for some weeks now. Basically I drive, but decision making - which quest to take next, how to reply to NPCs, leveling etc - is all done by the kids.
No blood mod is recommended for anyone trying this.
I’m at 550 hours and my third play-through. I wanted something fresh and “pure” to do Dragonborn with, instead of walking into it with my level 62/55 gods. I’m still missing a handful of achievements because they were bugged on my first play-through, and I didn’t do everything with my second (it was primarily to play Dawnguard with).
JeffL
3357
I have only played with one character. And I play it very role play-like: I make the decisions my character would make, and exploring the world is as much or more a goal than “winning.” I just imagine myself as this character wandering around this huge world, often going quite some time between story missions. Hmmm - I wonder what is up that mountain? What if I just follow this creek as far as I can? I almost never fast travel.
I have treated the whole overpowered aspect as the natural growth of my character over time. Yeah, at this point he rarely dies (though it still happens) but that is because he is such an experienced veteran. So at this point it is less about staying alive than it is about exploring and choosing who to help and how. My wife mjoll is now retired and living in the home I built with our two kids we chose to rescue from the streets and I store everything at home.
I will miss this world when I finally hang up my armor and store it at my house overlooking the water near Falkreath.
I can see it now. You’re out on the porch and some young buck runs up looking for monsters to slay. You just smile wistfully and say " I used to be an adventurer like you…"
And he replies, “Really? Did you ever get that quest where you have to assasinate the old retired adventurer who’s sitting out on his porch?”
And your last words, uttered with a confused face: "Um, wha-"
I’m playing a single character. I like to walk most places, taking the occasional wagon, no map travel. Morrowind was my first Elder Scrolls game, and since running took stamina, I got in the habit of walking so that running in an ES game just feels like rushing around. It means I see a lot of things as I go and head off to explore them. I also tend to make choices in character, so there’s a definite roleplaying aspect to the things I do in game that may not be the most efficient way to play.
