5 days until Skyrim. What are you doing first?

[Wuggy]

I will roleplay that sucker like nobody's business. So that is to say: what I'll do first is completely undetermined. If the main quest is urgent, I'll do that. If it's not, I will probably make my way to it slower. At one point or another I will deviate from the main quest completely and start doing my own thing, but I want to have a plausible reason for it.

 

[Uncle_Brainhorn]

I'll probably plow through the main story before I do the other stuff like exploring, guilds, etc.

 

[Ashley Mooney]

Become the Ultimate Assassin with the Dark Brotherhood...

 

[Mikeyfell]

Just as many people go to work/school on Friday as on Tuesday. You'd think a Saturday release would be optimal for breaking day one sales records?

Except that when people get out of school/work on a Tuesday, they have to go back to school/work the next day. After things let out on Friday, you don't need to worry about any of that.

Saturday still makes more sense, on Saturday people could go to the store at opening time and keep flowing through until closing.

I did notice the 11/11/11 thing. What's the deal with it? It's cool, but why shuffle around the release schedule just to get it. They are going to be the only game coming out that day so that's cool. It's just sort of weird.

They moved it by three days. Only three. And by moving it those three days, they created a release date that was both memorable and wasn't on the same day as MW3.

Oh yeah, MW3. duh. I wouldn't want to release a game that came out on that day either.

Also it's so close to Black Friday that I'm not even going to get it on day 1 anyway.

Really? You're going to endure Black Friday shopping so you can maybe get a few bucks off a copy of Skyrim? Is a retail stampede and the inevitable parking lot traffic jam really all that much fun?

I do all my Black Friday shopping on line anyway.
Last year I got Halo Reach, Fallout New Vegas, Dead Rising 2 and Left 4 Dead 2 for about $120.
I wouldn't go to a store on BF I'm not crazy.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

I won't have Skyrim come launch, but I'll be giving Oblivion another chance and I'll try playing through it without raging out and going "FUCK THIS GAME!" and going back to Fallout 3 or something...

 

[newwiseman]

86.5 hours until the Midnight Release!!! (Edit*I added 20 not 2 -_-)

And, I have Friday off.

Edit* I'll probably make a couple test characters and just explorer without doing any questing for a bit, in between hopefully modding a dragon mount into the game. That is provided that the mod tool is released on day 1.

 

[The Human Torch]

Wait until it ends up in the bargain bin. Why pay full price when in 6 months you pay 1/3rd of the price.

 

[TheGreenCube]

I shall find the first available guard and ask him to choose, Cake or Death? And we're out of cake!

Then I'll just play it by ear from there.

 

[Jedah_8882001]

Try to figure out if I want to play a Imperial rogue that duel wields daggers or a Nord that uses magic and bladed weapons. After that ether steal stuff if I play the rogue to build a money base, or explore as both.

 

[Robert Ewing]

Set out to become the most bad ass ************ around. Get all the coolest skills, find some cool armor, get my reputation as a silent pro killa'.

Then story mode.

 

[Discord]

I honestly have no clue... from what I've heard online the best thing to do is to pick a direction and keep walking. I guess explore the World would be my first task, same tactic I used for Fallout all these years.

 

[maniaccow22]

Now that Magic is actually cool, not just a ball of whatever you're shooting, to the Mage's Guild!

 

[rokkolpo]

Get me an axe or mace, HIT ALL THE THINGS!

 

[woodsymoments]

I'm going todo what i did in morrowind and oblivion and just wander for a while attacking things and plundering items

 

[Char-Nobyl]

Saturday still makes more sense, on Saturday people could go to the store at opening time and keep flowing through until closing.

That disregards the 11/11/11 thing. If they're going to be moving it to a Friday or Saturday, why would they pass up an opportunity like that just to put it on a day where more people can come in during the morning and early afternoon?

Oh yeah, MW3. duh. I wouldn't want to release a game that came out on that day either.

Yep. And in all honesty, the 15th is when the third Saints Row comes out, and there's probably some sort of publisher system for making sure that big-name games aren't pushed out on the same date.

 

[Kemea]

The first thing I would do....

Probably involves getting to the first town and trying to earn as much gold as I can before I continue. Stocking up on goods and trying to see if you can get drunk and then fight Perhaps I will open the skill menu first and gawk at that amazing menu as first action? hmmm

 

[Aiedail256]

I'll wish Minecraft hadn't been delayed...and that I had a system that could run Skyrim :'(

You know there's a beta, right? Literally, it's the only thing people have played.

OT: Kill something, probably.

*facepalm* yes I know there's a beta! I've been playing it since 1.4. But this is going to be by far the biggest update ever!

 

[zHellas]

I'll make a generic Sword & Shield Fighter and go around being a Shining Stereotypical Knight of Honor!

Then if I get bored or want to make a new character/beat the game, I'll start experimenting around.

 

[Rol3x]

Sign up with the college of mages, not all that exciting but they often give you some cool stuff (or have cool stuff lying around in chests)

 

[Jake0fTrades]

Hmmm, let me think...

Spoiler: What else?