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Sunrise!

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It’s either put this here or start a dang screenshot thread, and I don’t think any of us want that.

1582

Wallpaper size please.

1583

Thank god there isn’t an armored character in that screenshot.

1584

I dunno, I really like the look of the ebony set. The daedric set is… eh, it’s just ok, but you know what you’re getting with that going in, and also it’s armor made out of hearts so it probably gets a pass on the probability front.

The only set of armor I’m really disappointed in the look of is the dragon set, or at least the heavy version of it. It just looks like a bunch of bones. What sucks is that since it’s, you know, the best armor in the game, it’s probably the one you end up wearing the longest; I’m only level 24 now and I’m already making excuses for not capping my smithing skill just to put off switching from my cool-looking (and brand new) ebony set to the dragon stuff, since I’d be wearing it for 26+ levels after that.

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The ebony set really does not look much more ornate than suits of rennaissance armour I have seen with my own eyes. The daedric armour is clearly, well, daedric. I would expect a suit of essentially demon armor to look demonic.

And the dragon plate armour looks like a bunch of bones because it is a bunch of bones. I love how it is constructed from bits of actual dragon skeleton in a plausible manner… in fact without being too crazy ornate.

But yeah of course it is subjective… given that Skyrim is high fantasy I think a little fancy armour is appropriate. In a low fantasy/realistic setting of course it’s over the top. Cue Foxtab telling us how Mount and Blade has better armour and weapons.

edit: actual plate helmet, for reference

1586

Yeah, that does sound good in theory. I guess scratch my rationale, I just plain don’t like the look of the stuff. Hopefully I’ll like it better in action, though.

edit: actual plate helmet, for reference

Ha ha ha, holy shit that’s awesome.

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1588

Oh my god. Is the mustache decorative, or is it actually designed to protect that guy’s mustache?

1589

Decorative and protective.

If it wasn’t so low-res it’d be excellent image macro material with that little cock of the head. OH HAI

1590

That steel mustache is more embarrassing than Batman’s armored nipples.

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1592

The one thing that’s bugging me about Skyrim right now is the “favorites” interface. Or just the interface in general. I know we’ve been over this, but it still gets on my nerves. I’m fine with the way the inventory is laid out–whatever. I don’t care about wasted space and it only slightly bothers me that it doesn’t always work with the mouse.

What I’d really like is an expanded quick-selection menu, or something along those lines. I hate that I either have to have everything I might use marked as a “favorite” and have to scroll through a non-sortable list every time I hit “Q,” or I have to navigate through the inventory every time I want to pick a healing potion. I’m fighting, having a good old time, and I’m low on health so: TAB, click, click, scroll, scroll, click on potion. TAB. Back to the fight, take a couple hits, low on health again. TAB…

It pulls me out of the action, and I hate that.

1593

You can assign hot-keys on the favorites list. Just hover over the item in the favorites list and press a number key.

Its not very well documented, and it still sucks, but its better than not using them.

1594

Yeah, that helps a little. I them set up for my weapons and a couple of my favorite spells. Not a great solution, though.

1595

Anyone who has a problem with Skyrim’s armor looking silly should relly spend more time playing WoW.

1596

Fixed that for you.

1597

Last night:

  • leveled smithing to 50
  • finished my scaled armor set
  • cleared out two bandit camps and saved a particularly dubious damsel in distress
  • now continuing on with the mage’s quest

GODDAMMIT I love this game, being able to go from dungeon-crawling to overland-hiking to city-intriguing to obsessive-crafting and back again just doesn’t get old. Also I am boosting stamina on my dual-wielder to a ridiculous degree, and now I am a freaking Ginsu blizzard – I can dish out three consecutive full-on dual-wielding power attacks, which takes down damn near anyone. My biggest problem is I still forget to shout enough.

Speed-running the combats is the way for me to play this game – the faster I can clean a room, the better my survivability, but if I get surrounded or if I lose my escape/quick-heal route, I can die mighty quickly even on my low difficulty level.

I admire those who play on Master and who experience Dark Souls-like gameplay challenge, but that ain’t me, baby. I’m in it to see the world, and my glass cannonosity is quite well calibrated at humble ol’ adept level. I reserve the right to crank it up to expert if I start building up a ridiculous quantity of healing potions, but that hasn’t happened yet.

1598

Screenshot or it didn’t happen!

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That’s my favorite thing about Skyrim. Whichever mood strikes me, there’s something for me to do. Bored with too much talky-talky? Go clear out a barrow! Combat getting old? Root out some corruption in the big city! Needing some more combat efficiency? Crafting time!

I just absolutely adore this game.

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I spent almost 45 minutes last night reading all of the books I had obsessively been picking up. I felt like that was time well-spent.