Skyrim, or, How I Ruined My LifeFollow

The only issue I had with the PC version so far was the hot pink logs in some of the fire-pits. Also the crappy Follower AI pathing.

DLC officially announced. "Dawnguard, coming this summer to Xbox 360."

I'm sure they'll be real choked up as they cash that fat Microsoft check.

But yeah, timed exclusives are obnoxious. What's more insulting, to me, is that they're purported to be for the players' benefit. Publishers always try to couch it in terms of a player base "getting the game early". As if Zenimax is doing Xbox users a favor by having Bethesda work extra hard to get the Xbox version out ahead of time. A lot of people are gullible enough to believe that.

In reality, it's just delayed for everyone else.

Edited, May 1st 2012 2:36pm by Eske

My brother completely lost days of his life in Skyrim too! Open world gaming is definitely the future for this kind of immersive gameplay. In the end it will probably be like the virtual reality game that appears in the TV show Red Dwarf: Better Than Life (video clip), where you forget what's real and what isn't.

I'm looking forward to the launch of Core Blaze in 2013 which also promises to be a flexible open world game. They recently put up some new screenshots on their Facebook page that show some pretty awesome lighting effects (thanks to the Unreal 3 Engine it's built on).

That crossbow looked kind of keen.

I'm guessing that you get to pick which side you ally with, which means that vampire or not you'd only be seeing one side of things. I haven't typically been interested in vampirism or lycanthropy, but this expac does make it much more interesting in general.

But by the time it releases on the PS3, I almost certainly won't care anymore. Stupid console favoritism. There's still so much I haven't seen in the core game that it barely even matters, to tell the truth.

Is there a demo or something of this game? I know it's excellent etc - but oblivion gave me headaches/motion sickness (no idea why) so I've hesitated picking up skyrim, cause I am worried it will do the same thing.

I think I can kinda understand why--the first person open world nature is a little intense. If that's the issue, then Skyrim might, yeah.

You can play in third person if you prefer, that should help with the motion issues.

So, I started playing again, from the start. I can't help but fall into familiar patterns, though. I've always liked sword and board, and while I do try to force myself to play differently, I do always end up playing the same way.

Anyway, I haven't looked into mods for Skyrim, but I'm curious if any of you know of a mod to increase the power of conjured weapons, at least to be in line with what you can get through normal weapons. I really like the idea of a magic-based melee, but conjured weapons aren't very strong once you get mid-game, compared to what you can do through smithing and enchanting.

I'll probably still end up maxing sneak/archery/one-handed weapons again.

I am always tempted to buy new dlc (have it all so far) but I don't know why since I never get around to playing almost ever.

I bought the vampire pack on release and I felt it wasn't worth the money. Since they owe me I'm going to wait for it to go on sale.