Skyrim: The Post-Release *Spoiler-Free* Topic! NO SPOILERS HERE!

SirTomster · 2011-11-23T10:45:05.000Z

Two Sheds:

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.

This is one of my tasks this weekend. If I can sit down long enough to do it. I keep wanting to go explore.

RepoMan · 2011-11-23T10:50:24.000Z

I am amazed that you all pick up books. I read them on the spot – can’t spare the weight. The only ones I pick up are the skill-up ones that you can actually sell. I am surprised but pleased that I actually remember most of the books I read! Or, at least, I sometimes open a book and realize that it sounds familiar :-)

Now I know why I like buying skills from trainers: it lets me trade money for time. I always wind up with money just from looting dungeons, and if I can trade $3K for five quick levels of smithing, that saves me some in-game time and loses me nothing I care about. I’m fine with my little college dorm room, just so long as my wardrobes don’t fill up, and I do too much crafting to ever let that happen.

aganazer · 2011-11-23T11:25:55.000Z

I remember a great book in Morrowind that would list all the unique items throughout the world. It was cool since by the time I found it, I had already found a few of the items and so I kept the book with me as a guide to find the remaining items I wanted. I wish Skyrim would have more books with this kind of spoiler-like info in them.

Pogo · 2011-11-23T11:46:44.000Z

Strollen:

I hear you sitting at my Mom’s house and contemplating 11 more days of no Skyrim and cursing why I didn’t get dear old mom a quad core processor and real video card when I got her a new computer last year. Yes mom you really need a $1,000 computer sans/monitor for email and web.

I’m watching all the rural houses fly by on I-85 and I want to lock pick and loot all of them.

Sir_Digby · 2011-11-23T12:31:09.000Z

RepoMan:

I am amazed that you all pick up books. I read them on the spot – can’t spare the weight.

I steal every single book I find and haul them back to my house; I’d like to have a way to explain why I have 7 copies of Uncommon Taste in my house…

Alistair · 2011-11-23T12:31:31.000Z

Just passed this in a Chicago taxi…

Perhaps a visual spoiler…

Had a reflexive burst of happiness at finding a new word…

RepoMan · 2011-11-23T12:37:33.000Z

AWESOME

TheWombat · 2011-11-23T12:47:01.000Z

Found my first (after 73 hours of play) repeatable crash bug. Bonechill Passage, leading to some Ascent or something. Game dies every single time in there, whether you enter from one side or the other.

Giaddon · 2011-11-23T13:01:48.000Z

extarbags:

Wallpaper size please.

Sure!

Here’s full size (1680x1050):

Skyrim Sunrise

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And here’s a bonus picture:

Windhelm Nights

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Aeon221 · 2011-11-23T13:19:04.000Z

Alistair:

Just passed this in a Chicago taxi…

Perhaps a visual spoiler…

Had a reflexive burst of happiness at finding a new word…

Hah, that reminds me of not long after Oblivion came out, when I pulled on to the highway and had a moment of confusion because I couldn’t find the quicksave key on my pickup’s dashboard. You know, in case I died in Atlanta traffic. Fucking I-85.

Madmarcus · 2011-11-23T13:30:33.000Z

Every time I stopped at a rest area on the drive to Virginia I had to fight the urge to pick the flowering patents for alchemy use.

MrPerson · 2011-11-23T13:42:27.000Z

TheWombat:

Found my first (after 73 hours of play) repeatable crash bug. Bonechill Passage, leading to some Ascent or something. Game dies every single time in there, whether you enter from one side or the other.

Yup. The only reliable way through according to the internet and my own experience is to play in windowed mode. Otherwise it’s a 100% crash for me. Needless to say I did not go back after taking care of business there.

TheWombat · 2011-11-23T18:05:12.000Z

MrPerson:

Yup. The only reliable way through according to the internet and my own experience is to play in windowed mode. Otherwise it’s a 100% crash for me. Needless to say I did not go back after taking care of business there.

Cool, thanks for the info. Oh, another bug–there’s a quest that has you find three parts of some thingy or another; you can get it pretty early. I unfortunately stumbled on one of the dungeons where one of the thingies was, cleared it out, and went on my merry way. Now, with quest in hand, I go back to the now-cleared dungeon, and while there’s a quest arrow pointing RIGHT HERE! quite prominently, the item is NOT THERE, just as prominently. It was supposed to be on the corpse of the whatzit/whozit I killed before I think. Sadly, he ain’t there any more, and neither is the thingy.

I guess that quest goes in the “never to be finished” pile, this time.

Aeon221 · 2011-11-23T18:16:29.000Z

I was pretty impressed by how well the game handles missing textures. Most things just messily crash, this game the missing texture goes purple and you are still legit.

kerzain · 2011-11-23T18:22:24.000Z

Yea, I was wearing a full set of purple armor recently because of a texture issue that cropped up in the middle of a game. I felt like Barney.

zenblack · 2011-11-23T19:24:23.000Z

Pogo:

I have a frost resist shield and get into the bad habit of pressing Block with it whenever a dragon is blasting me in the face… yeah, you can’t block spells.

But you can block Ice with a perk. Not only ice but all elemental damage and it’s not too far up the block ladder.

XPav · 2011-11-23T19:30:14.000Z

I’ve got a bug (on XBox).

Everytime I approach the stables outside of Whiterun another Louis Letrush shows up.

There are now three of them, all standing there, doing nothing but making small talk.

Demon_G_Sides · 2011-11-23T19:34:14.000Z

Awesome. Now drop a mass fury spell and let them decide who is the true Louis Letrush.

Mr_Bismarck · 2011-11-23T21:30:52.000Z

I also have a bug. I got into a fight with two giants, one of whom blasted Lydia into orbit with his club.

I spent some time searching for her hoping to find her Tebowing somewhere to recover health, but eventually I have to give up and begin to mourn the loss of, (everything), Lydia, (is carrying).

Then later I came out of a cave and now I have the strangest feeling that I’m being followed.

kerzain · 2011-11-23T21:36:06.000Z

First off, WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU COLLECTING INDIVIDUAL IRON ARROWS?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Secondly, I have the exact same problem on my Nord, except it’s a dead dragon (not skeleton, a big floppy dragon) that follows me around everywhere, and fall out of the sky and plops all over buildings in cities when I zone into them. It never enters caves though.

Thirdly: It is no longer the mile high launching of Lydia when she gets pounded by giants that I find the funniest, but the thirty foot bounce she manages to make on her return from orbit.