Just bought Skyrim for 360! Anything I should know?

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Gunner 51

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There is one thing you might want to know about the game.
If you have Dawnguard on it and you hit level 7 - be prepared for vampire attacks in town. If you're unfortunately to be visiting Whiterun between 6pm - 9am the chances are that the female blacksmith is going to be an attacked as she's the closest to the main door.

So be sure to visit towns during the day, failing that rent a room and don't wake up till 9am. :)
 

kenu12345

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Make sure you always have a utility skill up whether that be alchemy enchanting or smithing. It makes the game a tad bit easier for you besides that I would recommend rping or limiting yourself. It makes for a funner playthrough.
 

Thomas Barnsley

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The only thing I would recommend is to use heavy armour. Once you reach the higher levels it is the same as light armour but better. In fact, go find the Steed Stone (look it up) and activate that and you won't even need to wait for higher levels.

I say this from personal experience, light armour is a waste of time.
 

Zeren

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If you want an unstoppable killing machine, play as an orc and give him a two handed weapon of your choice. Use his racial skill and you will be the top murderer in all of skyrim.
 

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Racecarlock said:
Have a healing spell in one hand. Upgrade your magic anyways even though you're going for a melee guy since you're really going to need healing spells.

Also, yeah, there are a lot of dragons. Sometimes two at a time. And they can attack you at any time on the main quest or anything else you're doing. Good luck with that.

Also, use a small axe. They're faster and can be dual wielded. And you can have one axe and one healing spell which is what I and yahtzee do.
You really don't need healing magic, you find potions absolutely everywhere, you can just use those.
 

kenu12345

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Thomas Barnsley said:
The only thing I would recommend is to use heavy armour. Once you reach the higher levels it is the same as light armour but better. In fact, go find the Steed Stone (look it up) and activate that and you won't even need to wait for higher levels.

I say this from personal experience, light armour is a waste of time.
I actually found light armor pretty damn good.
 

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For the most part Skyrim is fairly easy. Just remember a couple of things. For an RPG fan the almost complete lack of a traditional character creation is a little jarring. You pick a race/sex/appearance and that's it. Then look at your skills menu and decide what you want to be able to do... then do it. You level abilities by using them and you level up by leveling abilities. Oh and as others have mentioned; just because you may have fought a dragon or 2, giants are not impressed. The game will reload your last save before you hit the ground. They will hit you so hard you might achieve escape velocity.
 

faranar

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You should have bought it for the PC. You're missing out on better graphics, more fluid gameplay and a fuckton of mods
 

Thomas Barnsley

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kenu12345 said:
Thomas Barnsley said:
The only thing I would recommend is to use heavy armour. Once you reach the higher levels it is the same as light armour but better. In fact, go find the Steed Stone (look it up) and activate that and you won't even need to wait for higher levels.

I say this from personal experience, light armour is a waste of time.
I actually found light armor pretty damn good.
I just found that most people at my level (40) had a significantly greater health bar and the main difference between our characters was that they use heavy armour. It didn't really matter to me, as I was generally a sneaky mage, but sometimes health is important.

That's what I think anyway.
 

kenu12345

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Thomas Barnsley said:
kenu12345 said:
Thomas Barnsley said:
The only thing I would recommend is to use heavy armour. Once you reach the higher levels it is the same as light armour but better. In fact, go find the Steed Stone (look it up) and activate that and you won't even need to wait for higher levels.

I say this from personal experience, light armour is a waste of time.
I actually found light armor pretty damn good.
I just found that most people at my level (40) had a significantly greater health bar and the main difference between our characters was that they use heavy armour. It didn't really matter to me, as I was generally a sneaky mage, but sometimes health is important.

That's what I think anyway.
The thing is health has nothing to do with what class armor you wear. Its a stat that you upgrade by leveling or just applying enchantments.
 

Thomas Barnsley

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kenu12345 said:
Thomas Barnsley said:
kenu12345 said:
Thomas Barnsley said:
The only thing I would recommend is to use heavy armour. Once you reach the higher levels it is the same as light armour but better. In fact, go find the Steed Stone (look it up) and activate that and you won't even need to wait for higher levels.

I say this from personal experience, light armour is a waste of time.
I actually found light armor pretty damn good.
I just found that most people at my level (40) had a significantly greater health bar and the main difference between our characters was that they use heavy armour. It didn't really matter to me, as I was generally a sneaky mage, but sometimes health is important.

That's what I think anyway.
The thing is health has nothing to do with what class armor you wear. Its a stat that you upgrade by leveling or just applying enchantments.
Well they die less quickly, you know what I mean. My point is it helps you not die more and its drawbacks are negligible or easily removed. If you'd rather not deal with those drawbacks then I suppose light armour is better.
 

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MiracleOfSound said:
Pick a direction and walk. Get out there and explore - best way to play an Elder Scrolls game ;)
^ This is literally the best advice of all. Everything else just don't listen to, well except for the people saying, "Figure out what you like best" because honestly it took 3 goes before I found out how I most enjoyed playing the game.
 

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Jynthor said:
Racecarlock said:
Have a healing spell in one hand. Upgrade your magic anyways even though you're going for a melee guy since you're really going to need healing spells.

Also, yeah, there are a lot of dragons. Sometimes two at a time. And they can attack you at any time on the main quest or anything else you're doing. Good luck with that.

Also, use a small axe. They're faster and can be dual wielded. And you can have one axe and one healing spell which is what I and yahtzee do.
You really don't need healing magic, you find potions absolutely everywhere, you can just use those.
Ok seriously, am I the only one who got the versions of fallout 3 and skyrim where there aren't healing potions everywhere? Stimpaks are practically a rare item for me in fallout 3, and in skyrim health potions are nearly impossible to find for me. And I'm playing on very easy difficulty.
 

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Racecarlock said:
Jynthor said:
Racecarlock said:
Have a healing spell in one hand. Upgrade your magic anyways even though you're going for a melee guy since you're really going to need healing spells.

Also, yeah, there are a lot of dragons. Sometimes two at a time. And they can attack you at any time on the main quest or anything else you're doing. Good luck with that.

Also, use a small axe. They're faster and can be dual wielded. And you can have one axe and one healing spell which is what I and yahtzee do.
You really don't need healing magic, you find potions absolutely everywhere, you can just use those.
Ok seriously, am I the only one who got the versions of fallout 3 and skyrim where there aren't healing potions everywhere? Stimpaks are practically a rare item for me in fallout 3, and in skyrim health potions are nearly impossible to find for me. And I'm playing on very easy difficulty.
Yes, yes you are.
 

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If it hasn't been said already, work on blacksmithing early. That and sneaking.

But really the game is designed for you to do well in whatever you want. So pick a gameplay style you wanna do and go for it.

Still, though, I'd suggest taking up blacksmithing sooner rather than later. :p
 

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Anything you should know? Compare these,

Spoiler tags are for size and are not storyline spoilers at all.
 

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Thomas Barnsley said:
The only thing I would recommend is to use heavy armour. Once you reach the higher levels it is the same as light armour but better. In fact, go find the Steed Stone (look it up) and activate that and you won't even need to wait for higher levels.

I say this from personal experience, light armour is a waste of time.
I found heavy armor to be a waste of time- Steed is nice but Lord and Lady stones are better

you get more stamina and move faster with light, allowing you to just rain down duel wield power attacks, and with how powerful stealth is in the game light is generally better in my opinion
 

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Take your time and choose whatever path you'd like to go down, explore new lands and every cave you can possibly find since the fun parts are exploration along with questing to areas you've never been to before.

I also can't help but laugh at the "should have chosen PC" opinions as if they think PC is the only law and choice around here when it's really not.
 

Racecarlock

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Jynthor said:
Racecarlock said:
Jynthor said:
Racecarlock said:
Have a healing spell in one hand. Upgrade your magic anyways even though you're going for a melee guy since you're really going to need healing spells.

Also, yeah, there are a lot of dragons. Sometimes two at a time. And they can attack you at any time on the main quest or anything else you're doing. Good luck with that.

Also, use a small axe. They're faster and can be dual wielded. And you can have one axe and one healing spell which is what I and yahtzee do.
You really don't need healing magic, you find potions absolutely everywhere, you can just use those.
Ok seriously, am I the only one who got the versions of fallout 3 and skyrim where there aren't healing potions everywhere? Stimpaks are practically a rare item for me in fallout 3, and in skyrim health potions are nearly impossible to find for me. And I'm playing on very easy difficulty.
Yes, yes you are.
Well, that's just great. Why can't I ever get something cool from improbability like telekinesis or a space ship?
 

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First I would say have a rough idea of what type of character you want. You won't be confined to it, but it makes your early perk selections more effective. As others have said, don't try to be a jack of all trades, at least not in the first 20 or so levels. Focus on 2 combat skills max (preferably 1 melee i.e. One handed or Two handed, 1 ranged i.e. Archery or Destruction), 1 armour skill (hevey or light), block and maybe smithing if you're not rolling a mage, in which case focus on 2-3 schools. This ensures you won't be carved up by Draugr Deathlords and other such nasties later on because you decided to spread you're skills too much. Leave dabbling for the midgame. Early on the other trade skills, alchemy and enchanting just aren't all that good. They get seriously beefy later on, but dumping to many points into them early on will leave you on the receiving end of a Draugr rape-train. In terms of picking races, it doesn't matter as much as previous games. Unless you're playing a mage, any of the races can fill out pretty any role. If you're playing a mage, the three races you should be choosing from are the High Eleves (Altmer), Bretons or Dark Elves (Dunmer). Altmer get a starting bonus in all magic skills and +50 on their starting Magicka (5 levels worth of levelling), making them potent pure mages. Bretons are good for Spellswords with an emphasis on conjuration due to their +10 starting bonus, starting Conjure Familiar spell and 25% magic resistance. They're not quite as good for pure mages as they don't get a boost to magicka right of the bat and don't get bonuses in Destruction, so it's best to play with a one-handed weapon in one hand and a conjuration spell in the other, until you get the bound weapon spells. Dunmer are good for more offensive spellswords due to their +10 in Destruction, +5 in Light Armour, 50% Fire Resistance and Sparks as an additional starting spell, which is good for dealing with mages as shock damage damages health and magicka. Again, pair a weapon with a destruction spell.

Beyond the first 5-10 levels, the game is your oyster. You can pretty much do whatever you damn well please.

Also, and I know I'm going to sound like a colossal arse so I apologise in advance, but you probably should have got it on the PC. Mod support, user made patches and console commands can really help the experience and tailor it to your playstyle. For example, I play with mods that make combat more difficult and add survival elements like hunger, thirst, fatigue and exposure, 'cos I'm a mad bastard. Ultimately it doesn't matter. The vanilla game is still really fun and I went about 200 hours before dabbling in mods so don't feel as though you've made a bad purchase. Unless you don't enjoy. In which case you kinda did.