1721

Will it synch if I use the email method?

1722

Why do you want to sync, and what phone is your phone? You can add epub files manually to an iPhone via iTunes.

1723

OK, sorry to derail the thread, used the email method and it synched just fine on the Kindle. However, when I use the “actions” item on it in manage my kindle, sending it to my iPhone or PC is greyed out, so it appears I can only send what it considers Books that were downloaded from Amazon to the Kindle apps on the PC or iPhone. On the PC, no problem, I’ll have to figure out how to import it into the Kindle app on the iPhone.

1724

Jeff, why do you want to import it into the Kindle app? The iPhone has its own perfectly fine ePub reader…

1725

I don’t know, LOL! I suppose because I’m a new iPhone user and have only used the Kindle app for reading books. I use the synch option quite a bit, e.g. I’ll be reading a book on my Kindle, then later when I’m away from my Kindle I can open it on the Kindle iPhone app and it will start at the last page I read on the Kindle, and vice versa. But that would not be a factor here, so maybe time to try out the book reader on the phone. ;)

1726

Yes, just install Apple’s iBooks if you haven’t already (it’s free) and then do a File -> Add for the ePub file in iTunes. Works fine, I just checked. You might also be able to add the file to your Kindle app in iTunes; some apps like GoodReader support that.

1727

Thanks for checking, kerzain. It doesn’t make much sense for damage per second or poisons to work any other way but there is some ambiguity in the descriptions and in-game messages.

I ran into my first hagraven late last night in a dark cave just before heading off to bed. Ack. What a deeply creepy encounter. Of such things are nightmares born.

1728

Just wait till you have one of their heads staring up at you every time you open your inventory.

1729

Another question about enchantments: when one destroys an item to learn its enchantment, is said enchantment only eligible to be applied to a similar type item? That is, clothing to clothing, armor to armor, jewelry to jewelry, weapon to weapon?

1730

No you can enchant anything you like once you have learn the enchantment, however there are certain limitations the game places on which kind of enchantment can be placed on different items.

1731

Easier than that: install iBooks, visit the blog using your iPhone, click the ePub link, click “open in iBooks”, job done :)

1732

Ah, very cool - I forget I have a browser on my iPhone, that worked perfectly.

1733

So I am finally playing the game, and after the first 13 hours, I don’t know… the game is good, very good even, but I don’t see the BEST GAME EVER!!!1 that half internet seems to experience.

It’s an improved Oblivion, but still have several of the problems of the Elder Scrolls games. Huuuuge amounts of quantity, yep, but I would prefer quality over quantity. Bland quests, very bland npcs and writing, lots of caves and dungeons (most of them similar, if not in geometry in the general gameplay structure) that exist only to be assault and looted by the player.

I am seeing it right now as having the same quality as Fallout 3.

1734

I agree… There are a couple of quest formulas that get rehashed literally hundreds of times. Like Morrowind, I think the biggest achievement here is geographic and architectural… the realization of a big, well-thought-out world where the building styles are encoded with cultural cues and conform to the landscape such that you absorb the imagined history and social context just by walking around and soaking in the atmosphere. I’ve said it before: Bethesda seems to be populated by people who are really interested in set and costume design and have little to no interest in realizing characters or actually playing games.

1735

Sometimes i say to myself it’s not the game, it’s me. I understand how for some players this have to be their ideal game: a huge open world where they can go and live their own single player “D&D experience”: talking to a needed npc in tavern who needs something to be done (say, recovering an old magical artifact), traveling in the wilderness, descending to the dark dungeons where an evil wizard have the artifact, killing his undead minions, looting his place, finally killing the evil mini-boss, winning some magical doodads, returning, winning the reward, leveling up, selling the loot from the dungeons, buying some cool armor, and repeating again.

I could go and say how the game lacks… i don’t know… a decent choice & consequence mechanics implemented (right now 1 in 20 quests i have done had some c&c), but being honest, the point of this type of game is not about having a extensive and complete c&c and having a deep dialogue system, but exploring, killing every bandit and critter you see, taking all the loot you can, stealing all is not nailed to the ground in the cities, and becoming more and more powerful.

1736

I’m kinda sad for you. I wish you could appreciate it like I do, because for me it’s the best RPG (not counting my love for a particular MMO) I’ve played since Fallout 1. You’re missing something amazing.

1737

Don’t be sad, I am not “missing it”, I already played my own best RPG i experience in years. It was called Fallout New Vegas ;)

1738

I own FO:NV, but I own it on the 360 (it was a gift). I didn’t get very far with it before setting it aside until I’d be ready to pick it up on the PC (don’t like the 360 controller for that game). I hear tons of praise for it (and I enjoy FO:3 quite a bit, though not nerarly as much as Skyrim), but I probably won’t be getting around to playing the PC version till next year (assuming some Skyrim expansion/dlc doesn’t get in the way), because I plan to delve very deeply into it.

My only real complaint with FO:NV in what little time I spent with it is that I managed to get to the strip in like 2-3 hours of playtime (sneaked all the way to town pretty much), and I swear it felt like I was doing end-game stuff much, much sooner than I should have (I don’t know for sure, but it seemed to be wrapping up storylines I never encountered and the like, and I felt kinda ripped. On my next playthrough I plan to avoid that stuff.

1739

Yeah, definitely don’t do that.

I got to the strip after playing for about 25-30 hours.

1740

Yay!