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Every session on this, whether 1 hour or more, leaves me reflecting on a multitude of adventures that spiral off in a totally different direction than I could ever have imagined.

Had the drinking competition quest tonight. Set off to find the person as a result and instead stumbled on another area and uncovered some pretty awesome artifacts.

Next session I will get there (or not, who cares!)

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i'm playing on PC and having a nightmare with it. keeps crashing every five minutes, variable frame rates, issues with flickering and stuttering despite fraps giving me a constant 60fps. batman aa on the other hand runs like butter with zero issues.

I don't know why PC gamers are having so many crashes. I've played 42 hours now, and I've had 1 crash to desktop in all that time.

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I finished the party in the end by murdering everyone, but they deserved it so that's ok.

I continued a few quests and in one a super-powerful mage needed to get from A to B, so I decided he is now going to be my companion while I clear off other, harder, quests. Then something awesome happened....the very next quest I started gave me a super-powerful warrior type! I assume they can't die since they are part of various plot lines :D

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FlowerOfInfinity

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Erm that cooking video with the power attacks is interesting... partly because it's made me realise I don't know how to perform power attacks.

Anyone...?

Hold down the attack button rather than just pressing it, but remember that power attacks use stamina. Also, if you find more than one word for a Shout, holding the Shout button rather than pressing it uses the stronger version.

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neoELITE

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It's glitchy as hell but what an amazing experience thus far; 8 game days in, level 10 and I've still not even scratched the surface. My Dad came over yesterday before we trudged off to the football and he's a Wii owner so that's all he plays and he was staggered at how stunning the game looks on my TV as he thought it was a Lord of The Rings DVD I had on.

There are many little things that should fill me with rage; the fact you can run down a sheer mountain without falling to your death, the fact you get stuck in the scenery far too often, the melee combat can do some very odd things and riding an invisible horse really shouldn't happen. But you can forgive it as it's such an enormous, massive game.

I'm not sure how you can play test something this huge. It does make Red Dead Redemption look tiny in comparison and that blew my mind last year.

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Cosmic_Guru

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I've got that issue with Aerin hanging around too - this marriage definitely has too many people in it.

Coming into the final lap or two now I think with the main quest and the thieves guild which was supposedly my priority but which as been neglected a bit. After a fairly indifferent start and too much fighting (in my book anyway) the whole thing comes together nicely and the town specific special quests you get after crunching through enough radiant requests are more like it. The guild is almost back to it's best too - it could make a decent base now, and all the fences have more gold available.

I think I will complete the main quest after this, and then go out on some massive skooma & booze driven rampage through all the holds, just for the hell of it. Actually that could be a good place to leave the game in readiness for the dlc - in jail with no gear apart from a single lock pick.

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Well I'm done with my Skyrim experience. The gameworld, weather system and dragons were absolutely astounding. I found it to be a beautiful place to explore but not that engaging to play which surprised me as I fully played out my Oblivion and Fallout games. Maybe it was the combat which after playing the high tension swordplay of Dark Souls, just felt a bit flat. With healing in one hand and a sword in the other I just windmilled /button mashed away. It all feels a but floaty and disconnected and for me it just stands too far off the fidelity of the visuals. Also I never seemed to find any really decent loot, there's so much stuff to open in the dungeons and the dungeons go on so long I lost the will the open all the urns and pots by the end.

I'll probably return to Skyrim when I'm more in the mood for the slower more open pace of it rather than the more focused play I've been used to these last months.

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Maybe it was the combat which after playing the high tension swordplay of Dark Souls, just felt a bit flat. With healing in one hand and a sword in the other I just windmilled /button mashed away. It all feels a but floaty and disconnected and for me it just stands too far off the fidelity of the visuals.

If you aren't feeling melee combat you could always try archery or spells?

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Joyrex-J9

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Only just started this. I have a complete noob question, about the very beginning and first quest (so I won't bother spoiler-ing it)

At the start I seem to have "sided" with the Imperials, but it was rather hectic at the time and I'm not sure that's what I wanted to do.

Is this choice fixed now? Have I picked my side for the whole game?

Oh and had my first glitch within the first ~45 mins. The guy following you through the caves just got stuck in the torture chamber and stopped following me, so I had to go on without him, then he magically appeared again once I exited to the surface. :blink:

Is the rest of the game this buggy?!

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Only just started this. I have a complete noob question, about the very beginning and first quest (so I won't bother spoiler-ing it)

At the start I seem to have "sided" with the Imperials, but it was rather hectic at the time and I'm not sure that's what I wanted to do.

Is this choice fixed now? Have I picked my side for the whole game?

No. Doesn't make any difference.

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Karzee

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Question re: potions.

If I have a potion that, say, makes smithing 20% easier for 60 seconds, if I used 3 of them at once, does it make it 60% easier? Or just makes it 20% for 180 seconds, or does fuck all?

It'll do "fuck all". I have not found that potions stack.

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Only just started this. I have a complete noob question, about the very beginning and first quest (so I won't bother spoiler-ing it)

At the start I seem to have "sided" with the Imperials, but it was rather hectic at the time and I'm not sure that's what I wanted to do.

Is this choice fixed now? Have I picked my side for the whole game?

Oh and had my first glitch within the first ~45 mins. The guy following you through the caves just got stuck in the torture chamber and stopped following me, so I had to go on without him, then he magically appeared again once I exited to the surface. :blink:

Is the rest of the game this buggy?!

Just wait till you spend ages on a quest just to find you cant complete it because of some stupid bug.

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And yet, 20 hours in, I haven't had a single bug.

It a huge shame how some people are having so many issues with the game. I've put well over 100hrs into my main character on the PS3 version, completed the main quest and all that jazz, and besides the odd freeze or crash during loading I've had very few issues with the game in terms of bugs or glitches (bookcase bug is probably the worst I've encountered).

Having bought Bethesda games on release since Morrowind this is comfortably the best release from them yet for me, but that's clearly not the case for everybody. :(

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macosx

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If you aren't feeling melee combat you could always try archery or spells?

Yeah. I started with destruction putting all my points into flames, but that got a bit tedious forever holding one button and backing up till my flame shout charged.

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OogyBoogy

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I had one bug with my first character where the game crashed my 360 when fast-traveling back to Whiterun. It did this repeatedly until I fast traveled to Riverwood instead and had no isues afterwards.

I do seem to encounter items floating in mid-air these days though, and usualy they drop after I'm around them for a while.

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Me again with another fun problem. Anyone had problems with the "Blood on the Ice" questline in Windhelm? Aside from it fucking up if you accidently find the house too soon, and the guard not turning up again (so I had to load a previous save to start it again) the missus can't even get it to trigger. It's not an uncommon problem, a quick squint on one of the first links to come up (the Playstation forums) gives mixed responses, that you can't buy the house in Windhelm unless it's done, that it triggers once you've bought the house, but if that's the case the only way of doing enough quests seem to be if you join the Stormcloaks. She doesn't want to do that, so is there any way of triggering this quest? Anyone found a solution?

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