(Skyrim) Why so hastily ?

[hutchy27]

Well I been playing about 30hours so far and I only got the last level to do. I don't believe I rushed it at all, I paced it out. Might finish it tonight don't quite know.
I'm about halfway through dark brotherhood, just finished the honeyglade manor quest for thieves guild and one or two quests into college of winterhold. I also am the leader of the companions.

I'm only level 20 something with about 80 archery going for 100.
Done a bunch of side quests too like the hangover style one.

Forgot to mention, haven't started civil war quest line I shall wait until Alduin is dead and Skyrim is back to it's former glory.

 

[Riff Moonraker]

I have roughly 160 hours of play time so far in Skyrim. I have done the initial stuff with the Greybeards, and thats as far as I have gotten with the main storyline. I am off doing other quests, exploring, sight-seeing, etc. etc. and loving every single second of it. I wouldnt rush this experience for anyone.

 

[John the Gamer]

I have played multiple characters now, and have only gone past the greybeards in the main storyline once. I want to get a character that fits with my playstyle and looks cool before I start investing more time into the game.

Right now I haven't played it since the patch came out, because I'm waiting for them to fix it first. The game worked like a charm before the patch so what gives bethesda?

Well, back to Europa Universalis III it is.

 

[Something Amyss]

Preclude from what ? I'm not following.

You accused people of effectively "playing it wrong," not to mention promoting your way as though it were the only way that would be considered "immersive."

 

[Bvenged]

I completed playthrough numero uno in 10 hours. Slick, with a shitty character I'd cocked up all the perks on & that's jsut what I do with any game. I complete the main part of it first as quickly as possible.

Then I started again, got the perks generally how I wanted them, completed 3 of the guilds & a handful of side things. Ended that playthrough in 120 hours.
Playthrough 3, started the fourth guild, got to level 25 - the realised I'd cocked up the perks big-time again; so I've started a 4th character, level 10 so far and about as far through teh guild as I was before.

So, powering through the main quest straight away has nullified your post, in my case. I can guarantee my first character is going to bomb so I'd rather spend my time exploring & enjoying with a character I know I've not cocked up & not dying to find out what happens in the main quest.

 

[JesterRaiin]

Well, I'm sorry if I didn't go through every single one of the posts in this thread,

Hey, no problem, no harm done. I know how things are if you have +/-50 new messages in inbox of one of numerous forums you're logged into.

Ok, let's elaborate : how could you/your character possibily know that Alduin wants to destroy world ?

Because, after surviving the attack my character did what he thought was best and warn the nearest city, Whiterun, of the dragons. After helping out around there and slaying a dragon that attacked, he absorbed it's soul and was told he could very well be a Dragonborn. With this, he was advised to see the Greybeards. After meeting a member of the Blades while doing a task for them, he joined her in a dragon hunt. They then looked into the dragon resurrections and discovered that Alduin had returned, as was prophesied. Also in the prophecy was that a Dragonborn would return to fight him.
With that, he saw it as his destiny to stop the destruction of the world, and did so by eventually slaying Alduin.

A-ha. And that what made me wonder, since getting into this part of main quest took me more time than for plenty of people to finish it. I guess that immersion bows before principle of inception - there is always deeper level of it. ;p

Nope, said nothing about time running out actually.,

Sorry. I was mislead by words like "soon", "as swiftly as possible" etc. Language barrier i guess.

While your character clearly wasn't that interested in why he absorbed a dragon soul or what significance it might have, mine most definitely was, and so his dedication to discover more about the subject led him to, with the help of the Blades and Greybeards, find that Alduin had returned to destroy the world. My character's nature would be to seek to defeat him anyway, but since he was mentioned in the prophecy itself, Dragonborn, he felt a personal duty to save the world.[/b]

Being strong, healthy, deeply rooted in material world Redguard, my heroine was full of stoic calmness while things went Salvador Dali style.
And at this time, she couldn't even imagine that she's part of some prophecy.

BTW : Thanks for clarifying things a bit. It's nice to face good arguments if defence of one's stand.

Soooooooooo, my fellow Escapists, after reading yet another topic starting like this "after 20-30 hours i finally have beaten Skyrim and i find both main quest and its ending, blah, blah, blah"...

Because they've done just that. They've taken the 30 hours of Main Quest to get immersed, and roleplay their characters, their Dovakin (sp), who would do the Main Quest urgently, and not waste time with side-quests. If Dragons were fucking shit up in England, I wouldn't waste time looking around at all of the pretty places, collecting items, and doing random crap for passers-by.

Aside of Skyrim's part, i beg to differ. Only a few weeks ago (weeks, right ?) we all saw how people behaved during London's riots. Maybe "stealing plasma" or "robbing a shop" weren't very honorable subquests, but they were subquests neveretheless.

Possible, but rather far fetched, don't you think ?

Not at all. Why would it be.

They said the same thing about New Vegas and I as well as many others rushed to the ending when it started crashing every 15 mins. Mind you, this was after Bethesda patched it a few times....yet before the "big patch" that came out 6 months after launch.

Have you ever seen the crazy list of things people do in an attempt to get a Bethesda game to work properly? Rushing to the end is probably one of the least intrusive tactics.

Because Skyrim is actually quite stable, matured product when compared to Fallout:New Vegas or Judas Grail of modern gaming also known as RAGE. People suffered glitches and problems, sure, but overally Skyrim runs pretty good. Also, it's your (with all due respect) speculation. Noone actually said that - people simply installed Skyrim, patched/cracked it and rushed to end.

Preclude from what ? I'm not following.

You accused people of effectively "playing it wrong," not to mention promoting your way as though it were the only way that would be considered "immersive."

I still don't follow you man. Are you trying to feel offended at my cost, or what ?

First of all, i never said "you're playing it wrong". I said "you're not doing it the way it was meant to be". I understand - the devil is in the details, but come on !

There's no right or wrong way to play video games, but there are good and better ones. Someone speedruns through sandbox game ? Sure, it's his/her right, but still, they miss plenty of content. Crpgs aren't meant to simply speedrun through them and i would be really interested in hearing arguments supporting that attitude.

Are you feeling threatened by me promoting opposite style of play ? Could you kindly quote myself saying it's "the only way that would be considered "immersive" ? Also, i'm still puzzled by this "preclusion" thing. From time to time i forget what timeframe i'm currently in, but i'm sure that i haven't started forming any kind of elitistic cabal of chosen gamers here. Yet.

 

[Captain Pirate]

BTW : Thanks for clarifying things a bit. It's nice to face good arguments if defence of one's stand.

No problem mate, glad I cleared things up.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Possible, but rather far fetched, don't you think ?

Not at all. Why would it be.

They said the same thing about New Vegas and I as well as many others rushed to the ending when it started crashing every 15 mins. Mind you, this was after Bethesda patched it a few times....yet before the "big patch" that came out 6 months after launch.

Have you ever seen the crazy list of things people do in an attempt to get a Bethesda game to work properly? Rushing to the end is probably one of the least intrusive tactics.

Because Skyrim is actually quite stable, matured product when compared to Fallout:New Vegas or Judas Grail of modern gaming also known as RAGE. People suffered glitches and problems, sure, but overally Skyrim runs pretty good. Also, it's your (with all due respect) speculation. Noone actually said that - people simply installed Skyrim, patched/cracked it and rushed to end.

Was Rage really in worse shape than NV?
Yea, it's mostly my speculation, I kind of pointed that out. But speculation has worked for me so far.

 

[F4LL3N]

160+ hours and I've done crap all. Level 61, finished the Thieves Guild and Magery. Haven't picked a side in the civil war, done only a few main quests, done a few Companion and Bard quests, haven't met with the Dark Brotherhood yet, and done about 12 side quests.

I built up about 10 quests when I first started, and I'm still trying to clear my questlog from them. However, I'm starting to get bored of it so I started doing the main quest again.

 

[skywolfblue]

Preclude from what ? I'm not following.

You accused people of effectively "playing it wrong," not to mention promoting your way as though it were the only way that would be considered "immersive."

I still don't follow you man. Are you trying to feel offended at my cost, or what ?

First of all, i never said "you're playing it wrong". I said "you're not doing it the way it was meant to be". I understand - the devil is in the details, but come on !

There's no right or wrong way to play video games, but there are good and better ones. Someone speedruns through sandbox game ? Sure, it's his/her right, but still, they miss plenty of content. Crpgs aren't meant to simply speedrun through them and i would be really interested in hearing arguments supporting that attitude.

You're imposing your own views and ideas on "how the game was meant to be played" here.

It doesn't matter how much content a person "misses". If they skip a shitty side quest because it's boring, that's cool, if they do only the main story quests because they weren't interested in doing any side quests, that's alright, if they quit playing the game after only two missions, then they're free to do so.

The whole philosophy of a "sandbox" is the player does whatever they want so to say that the game was "meant to be played this way" goes against the whole idea of an RPG.

 

[Joccaren]

Because I would like to finish the Dragon story line then fix up other things around Skyrim? Sure, there is a rebellion going on, but both sides have flaws and I'm tending towards Stormcloaks for victory ATM, so I go after the clear threat that I know is going to be bad for the world: Alduin and Dragons.
I can do a lot of the other stuff after that's done. For now, I'm gonna slay me some big ass dragon.

 

[JesterRaiin]

Preclude from what ? I'm not following.

You accused people of effectively "playing it wrong," not to mention promoting your way as though it were the only way that would be considered "immersive."

I still don't follow you man. Are you trying to feel offended at my cost, or what ?

First of all, i never said "you're playing it wrong". I said "you're not doing it the way it was meant to be". I understand - the devil is in the details, but come on !

There's no right or wrong way to play video games, but there are good and better ones. Someone speedruns through sandbox game ? Sure, it's his/her right, but still, they miss plenty of content. Crpgs aren't meant to simply speedrun through them and i would be really interested in hearing arguments supporting that attitude.

You're imposing your own views and ideas on "how the game was meant to be played" here.

I have my point of view, my reasons and arguments and most important among them is that speedrunning leaves players with incomplete experience.

Where's the crime in me saying "you're missing a lot" ? It's not that i threaten anyone with sudden strangulation if they won't do things my way. You're acting like it's some sort of heresy. Chill out a bit.