The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Fast travel is essential, I guess what they meant is this: you are on the horse, an enemy appears, you have to get down from the horse to fight, then get back on, then you spot some alchemy ingredients you want to collect, then get off the horse, collect them, then get back on, then you walk some more and see an NPC, then get off the horse, talk, get back on...

Since you can only basically move with the horse, the constant getting off-on really interrupts the flow of wandering the wilderness, and the resources needed to actually flesh out horseback mechanics (talking, fighting, interacting) where not worth the investment, so they left horses in their most basic (and honestly silly) iteration.

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I've poured 95 hours into the game and I'm still loving it. Took me a while to explore the entire map. Of course I didn't find everything but I certainly discovered most areas. I'm done with all the major story lines except for the Dark Brotherhood. I think I have a couple of quests left before I've finished that as well. I did about half of the main quest and before I finish it I have to decide if I'm going to do the civil war storyline. I tend to lean towards the Empire because the Stormcloaks are racist bastards and seem to be corrupt.

I rather see a free Skyrim instead of having it under the control of the Empire. But I don't know if I need them against the Thalmor. I hope there is a chance to kill all those arrogant elves. Long story short, am I missing out if I don't do the civil war? How long does it take? Because I want to move on to other games as well

Suggestions would be appreciated

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there's almost no difference, basically some people die, and thats about it.

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Thanks! I'll skip it then

Oh wow, Bethesda just twittered:

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Skyrim Steam Workshop downloads are over 13.6 million. PC mods FTW.

It's so great that they show that even modern AAA titles can have such big mod communities .

OoooOOo

Just bought the game and gonna play later this evening.

So... Which mods do I need for better graphics? Been checking out some collections, probably just gonna pick a few and see how it goes.

I don't want anything that breaks the feel off vanilla though.

Here ya go:

http://kotaku.com/5903204/how-to-get-sk ... y-possible

Quality World Map is great and it was on of the few mods I've used. Most of the mods are like cheats (super armor) or teen-crap-gen graphics shit (tons of grass, hi res tomato textures).

Have fun, I've spent almost 70 hours playing. Great game, don't worry about the graphics at first quest, when you'll get to any other bigger town you'll see what this engine can render!

i really like the Cinematic Lighting ENB, even if it makes the game look a bit too colorful/saturated sometimes.

So I need Skyrim Nexus instead of the workshop then?

Thx for the suggestions!

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' timestamp='1352226439' post='316156']Dragonborn DLC, you can ride on... dragons!!

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Dawnguard and Hearthfire DLC's were also released not long ago.

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lmao

So I recently got the Legendary Edition of Skyrim for the 360, having never played the game before. It comes with all the DLC so that's cool, means I get an even richer first-time experience I guess.

Only been playing for a few hours so far but basically my living room is already covered in cum.

Haha nice. I keep trying to get back into Skyrim but the magic has gone for me. I played it waaaay too much when it first came out, and began to see its flaws a lot more. I really think that Morrowind was the best Elder Scrolls game, but it's so hard to take off those rose-tinted nostalgia glasses..

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why is there an arrow in the dog's back?