TES [The Elder Scrolls] - Skyrim, Oblivion, and more!

Part of what I love about TES is that there's really no "wrong" way to play the game. I do it just to get immersed and pick flowers. And my brother showed me that guard trick, only he did it with sneak and Muffle because he's a genius. And then he was Level 34 with absolutely no skills.

Yeah, that's generally been the rumor for the past two years, is that it's going to be set in Black Marsh. How this would work given that betmer are just in general discriminated against and that the Argonians in particular overthrew the Dunmer in mainland Morrowind to throw off the yoke of slavery is... well. But more attention to betmer is always good. Especially because there's this whole thing with the Hist, and it's never talked about and I want to see a Hist.

Mostly in my head I'm just going LORE LORE LORE LORE LORE GIVE US MORE LORE

 

As much as I love the Hist, I REALLY want to see Elsweyr. We've only seen what, three types of Khajiit in the games? TINY LITTLE HOUSECAT KHAJIIT. MASSIVE FUCKING TIGER KHAJIIT. DENSE JUNGLES. VAST DESERT WASTES. Bosmer-looking mama khajiit with her battlecat son towering over her! I JUST LOVE THE KHAJIIT OK.

 

I JUST READ THIS ON ThE WIKI BEFORE SEEING THIS POST HOLY SHIT YES
though tbh the Dwemer were just GIGANTIC shitlords about this too and deserve like 3/4 of the blame, since technically the Nord acted in Revenge (not good but at least not UNPROVOKED MASS GENOCIDAL POISONING OF PEOPLE YOU PROMISED TO HELP FOR FUCKS SAKE)

-starry eyes- yes pls, dwemer so cool so horrible, so fascinating

YES

Now I feel like I should talk about how badly I broke skyrim's balancing with my khajit thief oh gosh
did you know that if you somehow convince the game to give you hella loot really early on you can play almost the entire first half of Skyrim with a Khajit without any fucking weapons because I sure did that after I got a pair of gloves with a hand-to-hand-combat enchantment on them and BOY did it take long for me to find weapons that had more damage then my dainty little kitten paws with magic gloves.
Also for some reason that playthrough had in general a just COMPLETELY broken amount and quality of loot.
I had to leave behind enchanted weapons and armor in almost every single fucking dungeon because I was already SO PACKED WITH BETTER ENCHANTED WEAPONS AND ARMOR. I am kind of convinced that khajit are just broken like that in skyrim but it might just be a single incident.

 

I can't play Oblivion because I am A Huge Weenie and going into the portal thingies makes me cry because there is too much blood and severed body parts.

I did not come here to contribute anything more useful than that, I am sorry. But I loved Skyrim! I want to try playing Morrowind, I think.

 

i should really install oblivion again on something and try to actually play through it lol.
Might actually report back with usable results from endeavor 'actually play through oblivion' in some time depending on when I start to either give up or have attention span fail, heh

 

Day 2 of playing Morrowind. I FUCKING LOVE THIS GAME

Not only do I want diverse!Khajiit, I now want fucking raptor-ass looking Argonians. Kind of like this (my other video game sperg oh god the LORE). REPTILES WITH FEATHERS AND SCREECHY VOICES

 

After lowering the difficulty to about 1/4 I'm playing a breton summoner type mage lady and I was having so much fun until the game crashed almost right after I finished the cultist quests with the books (ugh names in dubs and shit)
Martin also sadly has a tiny but of an insufferbale edge to his voice, everyone here speaks with this nasal intonation that annoys the shit out of me, except for argonians and khajit who growl and grumble and make me glad I have subtitle enabled lmao.

 

My computer overheated earlier while I was playing Morrowind and shut itself down. I hadn't saved in 45 minutes. Woe.

Just meant I knew what I was doing the next time C: I should not have discovered a new video game obsession so close to finals, but there you have it.

 

Also: dear companions I love you all, but please do not SPRINT AT ME AT FULL SPEED IN A DUNGEON AFTER I WALKED THROUGH A DOOR BECAUSE YOU SPAWNED SLIGHTLY MORE DOWN THE CORRIDOR
i swear I've accidentally panic-murdered so many of them because of this. So many reloads BECAUSE NO I AM NOT RPing A MURDERER YET.
That has gotte be the worst bit in the oblivion ai, that some of the companions decide they have to stand right in front of you staring soullessly at you when they aren't in combat. why.

 

did anyone else ever find out the point of Adoring Fan from the arena? like does he ever have any use besides sporting a wild hairstyle and saying semicreepy things to you?



i tried to use him as a companion, but he's useless at fighting AND sneaking, and pointlessly antagonizes any enemy you run across.

 

This article says a little bit more about him. Apparently he'll fight if you Rally him. If you leave him in a dungeon for three days he'll "reset" out of the game, haha. And if you're feeling super-sadistic you can take him to your house, load him down with Damage Fatigue items, and use him to train your combat skills, because he'll never report you to the guards. I shouldn't be laughing this hard.


Today is a complete loss. MORROWIND ALL DAY IT IS THEN

 

According to Steam I've put 1526 hours into Oblivion, unmodded! (Though in fairness at least a quarter of that is probably times that I just left the game running while I caught forty winks or did homework.) I've actually been having a really hard time getting into Skyrim, because the UI and inventory feels so ugly and clunky after spending so much time with Oblivion. Also I get homesick for Cyrodiil. I want to get to the parts of Skyrim where you see Lucien and Sheogorath again, and talk to the big dragon at the top of the mountain, but getting there feels like such a slog. OBLIVION FAN FOR LYFE!

 

that is...very useful info indeed. i'm the type of weenie who can't pick the mean dialogue choice in games, so i don't know if i'll ever go down that road haha. maybe once i get to the "near impossible to level w/out turning the difficulty down" part of the game.

 

Does anyone else savespam in their games? I'm doing it hardcore with Morrowind right now because my speechcraft rolls are complete shit. Although it's funny to see how far they can go down when they fail. It's somewhere between zero and twenty-eight. You can just see the invisible dice rolling to see how much I suck. Suck it up too hard and I just revert to my last save state when the NPC still had a disposition above 30. Succeed and I just save over the last 'temp' save so I have a better starting place when I inevitably start sucking again.

I do it in Skyrim too with pickpocketing, although it's less obvious when there's no statistics showing how the RNG came out that time.

 

F5 is my best friend.

-opens door- F5 -kills stuff- F5 -attempts lockpicking- F5 -haven't hardsaved in two minutes- F5 and hard save.

 

Posting this here because I'm going to forget (again):

I believe that's the stack overflow ((2^31)-1) for any value of gold, and not just the value of gold for a specific item. I say this because my goal in life right now is to get a gold stack overflow to negatives on my X360 version of Skyrim. It'll take thousands of hours. It'll also be totally worth it.

 

MY BROTHER JUST CALLED ME TO LET ME KNOW HE GOT MEMED ON HARD

So in Skyrim the running joke is that line of guard dialog that you are guaranteed to hear over and over:


My brother was reading a fantasy book this morning and he was reading a scene where the innkeeper was describing how he used to be a caravan scout, how he used to go on all these adventures, but now his knee's all swelled up and he can't do it... because he took an arrow to the knee.

Skyrim was released in 2012. This book was published in 2008.

My brother just got memed on hard from something released before Skyrim was a thing.

 

Iirc, taking an arrow to the knee was Norse(?) slang for getting married. It just hit meme status because Skyrim.

 

oh. I thought that was an internet myth.
Game Theorists postulated that it could have been knee cap robbers:

 

I've played Morrowind and Oblivion through to their ends once each... Usually I puts around picking flowers, killing monsters and taking quests.

Spoiler: I beat Oblivion by cheatin, a bit.

I only beat Oblivion by exploiting Daedric god vs Daedric god combat: Using Sheogorath's staff and bellowing STOP is extremely helpful in the final escort mission."

On the topic of exploits that are completely permissible with unmodded, in game content: In Morrowind, you can kill a god with your bare hands as a level 1 character.

Spoiler: So You Want To Kill God

Step 1: be a Breton for the 50% Magic resist.
Step 2 (possibly optional?): Acquire the Boots of Blinding Speed
Step 3: Get at least one lock pick.
Step 4: Find the home of the mad wizard with all the lvl 100 locked chests whose attitude is, if you can break in, you get the loot.
Step 5: Save your game on a new save spot.
Step 6: Unlock the chest with the enchanted armor of 50% magic resistance. (See where this is going?)
Step 6a: Reload as many times as necessary to succeed.
Step 7: Equip the armor (and reequip the boots, if you have them). You are now 100% immune to magic. No spell can harm you.
Step 8: Go to Vivec. Go into the chamber where the god Vivec hangs out. Save your game in another new spot, because you're about to make your game unwinnable.
Step 9: Punch the god Vivec. Admire how he throws spells at you, but never lowers himself to mere physical harm. Punch him til he dies.