Skyrim - One Year On

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Dandark

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Multiple characters, a lot of multiple characters but my most recent main was leaving it something like this before reality broke and the Gods destroyed all!!!(My computer broke)

Vampires are the most powerful being in Skyrim, more powerful even than dragons. They stalk prey at their leisure and none can stand against them as they can turn the day to night.

My character will travel in the form of a cloud of bats before decending on her prey to feed, either forcibly or through seduction. She has created her own vampire children who have infiltrated positions of power in each of the holds including as housecarls and Jarls.

She was in the process of helping the empire crush the stormcloak rebellion shortly after finishing with the Dawnguard. She wasn't too concerned about the dragons due to the lack of threat they posed to her and had not investigated further beyond a suspicion the Thalmor could be involved.


Although an already powerful vampire she has become an adept in Necromancy with the ability to summon a small legion of moderatly powerful undead servants, she has also through this gained access to powerful death and spirt magic, she travels through the Sygian pathways at will and enslaves or devours the souls of any enemy she comes across.
Many bandits and Forsworn have fallen victim to her seemingly endless hunt for the souls and essence of the fallen, to be either devoured so that she can gain their memories and knowledge or enslaved as a servant.

With her powerful death magic there is nothing living that can stand against her, the only threat are the dead and those she can control. Using her necromantic knowledge she is also able to strengthen and enhance her already capable vampiric body to be faster, stronger and to heal at an abnormal rate.


Currently she is setting up the stages of her plan to assassinate the Emperor in the name os Sithis and for the Dark brotherhood but also engaging in a plot to take control of the thieves guild at the same time.

I have been having fun because mods make things like Vampirism and Necromancy so much fun, although I haven't finished everything yet im setting up my character to become a powerful vampiric necromancer who controls most of Skyrim.
 

Pandabearparade

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As a world Skyrim was amazing, but as a roleplaying experience.. meh, New Vegas kicks the shit out of it.

I wish they had taken the time to give you a few choices when you quest, and I wish I didn't have to use mods to give my character competence in certain skills from the outset.

Was I the only one who saw the end of the Dark Brotherhood line coming from a mile away and wanted to side against the Night Mother? Hot blonde assassin>old lady corpse any day.
 

Daveman

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It was alright... but I did get bored after a while, and these DLC take a fucking ridiculous amount of time to come out.
 

MrGalactus

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I did everything, despite not wanting to do the Dark Brotherhood/Theives Guild/Participate in a fucking war. On a character basis, doing that stuff didn't make sense, but I'm not doing 234553212354 playthroughts to do everything. Skyrim doesn't have much RP in its RPG.
Fallout FTW
 

Thedutchjelle

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I try to be a good guy, so I didnt join the thieves guild and I massacred the Dark Brotherhood (really, what a pushovers.. I was expecting WAY more out of that, but they had the same retarded "I guess it was just the wind" A.I. as the rest of the NPCs)
The soldiers who you report to are the most naive of the entire planet - you can just tell them you killed the Dark Brotherhood without any evidence you did so and they instantly believe you.

I'm somehow head of the mage college despite having only 30 in restoration and nothing in anything else. The mages still make me do every little fetch quest, was hoping they'd be more respectful :(

I'm in the process of wiping out the Stormcloaks, but again I had expected more out of this storyline. Not only was the Battle of Whiterun a scripted mess for me (had to restart twice) with Stormcloaks just running ala Zerg mode.. it just doesn't feel like a war. A Imperial Garrison in Whiterun constist of like 5 guys? I know you're stretched thing but THAT thin? I'm told I'm some high rank now but the imperial soldiers seem to care little. If I kill random Stromcloaks I find on the road, I get bounty. Wtf?

I don't hate Skyrim. When I'm playing it I'm having an alright time. But it might have stretched itself too thin, wanting to be everything but ending up lacking in all departments.
I find it hard to immerse myself in a world when the NPCs are acting so idiotic at times. Bribing the Riften steward half a meter away from a patrolling guard?
 
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I'm currently getting toward the end of my 2nd playthru. Apart from a 2 week love affair with Dishonored that ended as abruptly as it began, it's all I've had going since the Summer. I've been alternating between modding and playing, and spent 10 days creating this mod [http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/25190], which sadly enjoyed only a month before getting copied shamelessly. It's fun to see what new additions there are available, to tailor and tweak the game for a better experience.

Despite that many hours I've spent wandering Skyrim, I do agree with the sentiment above. The game lacks *direction*, role-playing and to be honest, I'm always reminded that I'm playing a console port. I would give anything to have a game like this made for PC first, then ported across, though I realise that will never happen. Why developers are satisfied making games for ancient hardware is beyond me, but it's held development back by years and the games show it.

I've slain vampires as a member of the Dawnguard, before becoming a VL myself, a VL that can fly. I'm also a werewolf that can run 3 times faster than any horse. I've completed all the guilds as of yesterday and have only the main quest and civil war to go. My trusty Sabercat companion will help me maul some Stormcloaks when I take the fight to Ulfric. Racist son of a gun bad mouths elves to my face, me, a bosmer.
 

Adeptus Aspartem

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Played for 150 hours the first few weeks.

Did tons of random quests. Did nothing big.
Didn't play the mainstory further than a handful of missions, just derped around doin' what i wanted to do, at least i finished the werewolves and joined the thiefs.

And that was enough to play for 150 hours. Guess i should get back into that game again.
 

The Artificially Prolonged

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I've not played Skyrim in awhile though I've still managed to rack up about 300 hours in game and I've yet to complete The Dark Brotherhood or Thieves Guild quest lines nor haven't play through any of the dlc yet. I have explored alot and ran with a few different characters and of course trying out awesome mods. I think I will return to Skyrim once all the dlc is out and even more awesome mods surface.
 

Shoggoth2588

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Chrono212: I love your avatar

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I haven't visited the frozen north in a few weeks but my Argonian Dragonborn has...

*Kept the Empire present and preserved their strength in Skyrim
*Cut down the Stormcloak uprising by beheading Stormcloak himself
*The people of Skyrim have regained their faith...in The Night Mother
*Many Deadric Gods and Goddesses have regained power throughout Skyrim
*The Guild of Thieves has broken the curse upon them and regained their infamy
*The College of Winterhold nearly doomed a town but was ultimately saved
*The Blades have not given Dragonborn a good enough reason to slay Paarthanax
*Alduin has met its ultimate end

I will return ever so often but I'm journeying back for less and, less time. I am missing a few achievements but am pretty sure I know how to get those unlocked. I haven't downloaded a single piece of DLC but this is mainly because I can't maintain a connection to XBL.
 

Soxafloppin

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I keep meaning to get it, but other games keep coming up.

I game on PS3 too, which makes me a little weary of the glitches n stuff.
 

scw55

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I play Skyrim casually. I haven't bought any DLC yet.
I download replacer files for armour to make them revealing because I am a massive pervert.
 

AgentLampshade

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Last time I saw Skyrim, it was frozen in place...
Which sounds awesome considering the lore, but no. No. That's not it.

I had the PS3 version.
 

TheDrunkNinja

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Whew... I can safely say I've done everything, just with different characters. I mean I would never have my knightly Nord character doing any Thieves Guild quests or Dark Brotherhood quests, but that doesn't mean I never got to them with my Dunmer ranger.

Interestingly enough, though not being a magic user, my warrior did end up becoming the Arch-Mage without having to cast more than two or three spells. I played it that he went to the College of Winterhold with the intent of investigating the Elder Scroll, but decided to stick around when he realized there was probably a Thalmor plot that needed to be thwarted.

Strangely enough, I always have a hard time getting into the Civil War quests. Still haven't completed either storyline, even though I've started both at one point or another.
 

Baron von Blitztank

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Let's see...

-Brought the Dark Brotherhood back from the ridge of extinction
-Joined the Empire and killed Ulfric Stormcloak
-Became the new Guildmaster of the Thieve's Guild
-Became the new head of the Companions
-Obtained and cured lycanthropy
-Repelled Alduin out of Sovngarde
-Got married to the only marriageable Argonian
-Did a shitload of bounty missions for the Jarls
-Attained a completed collection of Dragon Priest Masks and Daedric Artifacts (Hircine doesn't count)
-Killed more bandits than villagers
-Killed a Dragon or fifty

I went back to try Skyrim's older sister Oblivion and I must say, I'm enjoying that a lot more. I dunno, maybe it's because it's because I've got it on the PC and I've modded all the warts out of it or maybe it's because there's more variety in things instead of most missions following the same formula:

1) Go to Tomb
2) Kill a truckload of Draugr, Skeletons and Frostbite Spiders
3) Picture puzzles (if you can call them puzzles)
4) Kill a stronger Draugr
5) Obtain thing
6) Loot chest and stare at a wall for a bit
7) Leave
 
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In my first file I explored every inch and location in the map.
-Rose to Harbinger of the companions.
-Rose to arch mage of the college.
-Became Listener of the Dark Brotherhoodd.
-And am forever stuck in Whiterun because my save file is 15MB and if I so much as turn it lags for several minutes.

Ps3 version here :D
 

eternal-chaplain

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I left my Skyrim the same as it was before. Even though I was told dragons were going to take over the world, the game didn't exactly back that up, so I didn't have a reason to start the main quest, and luckily that one dragon that actually did show up just decided to go home or something and the land went back to the regular times of civil war. Grade A design, Bethesda,
you fucking morons....
 

FallenTraveler

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I have not played since summer... honestly, I cannot take Skyrim, I tried for 30 some odd hours and came out of it feeling rather bored and like I could be doing something better with my time. I thought the combat was better, the graphics purrtier, and everything all around improved, but it lacked the feeling of adventure I got in oblivion. I felt like exploring in oblivion and for some reason I just don't in skyrim. Honestly I think I just got pretty bored with the setting and story.
 

AgedGrunt

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Deeply questioning what everyone sees in TES series, as it was my first dip into the lake that is said to be on holy ground. Granted, it was a console version, but still.

Giving a pass on bugs, glitches and all things wonky...

-Melee combat modeled after real-life pinatas
-Swat another "epic" dragon, get overburdened
-Oh look, another twenty minutes gone traveling to merchants who have no gold (and they had the brass to make a perk for that)
-Crafted 500 enchanted iron daggers? Your skill is legendary.
-Like items? Take your thousand ingredients, potions and heavy, useless items with poor accessibility and no management. Manual accounting using ledgers is fun!

I'm sure the PC community has made a really fun game of it, I blame Bethesda for modding Fallout and doing a horrible job at that.
 

Reincarnatedwolfgod

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i did all main quests, all faction quest (expect the blades one because they are ungrateful assholes), most side quests, a lot misc quest. i most likely got every area in my map unlocked. i found all word wall. all that left to kill more dragons to unlock all remaining shout. i have left skyrim at that

exploring is the only element of gameplay skyrim does right and it does it every well. of course you have deal with the combat to explore. the combat works and is acceptable but it's not good.

i got no dlc and i won't buy it even if i could get it on the ps3(which barely gave me any problems in the game so lucky me).
now i am waiting for the goty edition for the pc before i play agian skyrim. i want the ability to mod my game before i ever touch skyrim again. also buying the dlc individuality is a waste of money when you could be them all cheaper when there bundled to together
 

TheIronRuler

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I got bored of that boring game and left. I couldn't finish the main quest and I finished the thieve's guild quest-line once.