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Stolly

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I don't think they could have made the text any smaller, could they? It's not making it easy to play when I have to lurch forward just to see what the options in the menu are.

And it's not like they have a lack of space on screen to enlarge things.

It's a shame because I find it frustrating, and you can't exactly play the game without using a menu or dialogue screen.

Text size is perfect for me :blink:

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FuzzyDunlop

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Text size is perfect for me :blink:

It's very small and narrow, a bit like this but not so bold. If it's designed to be more readable on bigger screens then that's a fucking huge UX oversight on their part.

I'll take the usable menus over a pointless 360 degree render of an object that fills half the screen.

Like I say, this wouldn't be a problem but the menu system's too big a part of the game.

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Been sightseeing across the first proper town for a bit and already have a questlog taking up half the screen. This is a big one, isn't it?

It's enormous. I've put in 45 hours, maybe halfway through the main storyline, barely tickled the thieves and assassins sidelines and not touched the mages side quest.

Now I've got something like 20 quests open and maybe 30 misc quests. Tonight I spent a fair bit of time stealing a horse from a house and then killing a dragon after. Oh, and sneaking around stealing stuff whilst invisible.

Tomorrow I think I might go and kill some witches. There's a huge amount to see and do, and it's not getting anywhere near dull yet.

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Joyrex-J9

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Cheers

I don't seem to be finding as many quests as everyone else, I've been to every corner of Whiterun, and picked up two maybe three there. Maybe I need to progress the main story a bit more?

I've killed the first Dragon, and everyone is like ZOMG wow! a shouty dragonborn dude! go see some old dudes on a mountain

But I've not been there yet. I'm reluctant to progress the main quest too much as I know how short they are in Bethesda games.

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Cheers

I don't seem to be finding as many quests as everyone else, I've been to every corner of Whiterun, and picked up two maybe three there. Maybe I need to progress the main story a bit more?

I've killed the first Dragon, and everyone is like ZOMG wow! a shouty dragonborn dude! go see some old dudes on a mountain

But I've not been there yet. I'm reluctant to progress the main quest too much as I know how short they are in Bethesda games.

Its worth following the main quest up until

the mountain bit as you get some very handy in battle stuff. Finishing the main quest doesn't really alter the main world either so finish it at your leisure, just make your way up the mountain ASAP.

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Joyrex-J9

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And wander. Just roam about, "What's that over there?" Find out.

I've done a bit of that and I think I've been unlucky as I've not found anything interesting. I'm sure it's probably selective memory but in Oblivion you'd be tripping over old dungeons, caves, tombs, entrances to temples, etc all the time. I've found a few standing stones, a guard tower or two and a hut. :unsure:

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I've done a bit of that and I think I've been unlucky as I've not found anything interesting. I'm sure it's probably selective memory but in Oblivion you'd be tripping over old dungeons, caves, tombs, entrances to temples, etc all the time. I've found a few standing stones, a guard tower or two and a hut. :unsure:

Skyrim's world seems to be bigger and handcrafted, which is why you're not tripping over a copy and pasted location (as it would have been in Oblivion) every 2 mins. In oblivion the walk over to a new place would be the most dull fucking thing ever, on a typical walk in Skyrim, I see waterfalls, mountains to climb, streams, rivers, mammoth/giants travelling, thalmors and their prisoners, bards singing on the roads, animals which I could hunt but I never have the heart too (can't shoot the poor rabbit :( ). Enjoy the world and take your time, it's far better built and more lovely to look at than any of the ones before.

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sir stiff_one

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Uzi pretty much nails it. Stop being a humongous control freak and just play it how you want. There's almost no wrong way to play it. Like Luke Skywalker you'll be dicking around in a village and then before you know it you're a fucking Jedi in the middle of an intergalactic struggle. I had no real idea what I wanted to do with my character at first, and really it doesn't matter, you can do whatever the hell you want and make you mind up any time and change it any time. Also the feeling of being a weeny little man in a big world to riding around knowing you're one of the biggest badasses on the continent is pretty wicked.

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Joyrex-J9

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Chill dudes, I can see it's better crafted world than Oblivion, just saying I hadn't stumbled randomly across any dungeons or nifty underground stuff yet.

I hope there's going to be at least some of that to be found, but yeah even Fallout 3's vaults started to feel a bit copy n paste towards the end.

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How far in are you Joyrex? There are so many dungeons, mines, shrines and burrows dotted across the land you may have to travel off the pathways to find some of them. Also I'm sure places of interest appear on the compass at the top centre of the screen.

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Stolly

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Yeah there's loads of places to find; its just that the map is so huge thats all. I'm now deepish into a dwarf dungeon hunting down an elder scroll right now and, although its irrational, I keep thinking back to the last dwarf dungeon I happened across at about level 6, and the pasting I got at that time. It looks like I'll be meeting some falmer too (judging by the journal I just found) and again two of those guys tore me apart during one of my hapless trips into a dungeon early doors.

Mind you it might just be pay back time :)

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Is there any way to see how much damage bound weapons do? Archery has been my secondary means of fighting throughout, and I am about 70 in Archery now. I have 4/5 overdraw and the conjuration perk Mystic Binding which means bound weapons do "more damage" though it doesnt say how much more. The only thing I have found online is a suggestion that bound weapons have the same base damage as their Daedric equivalents, which is obviously a good thing. I also have 100 in Enchanting and have some ridiculous + Archery enchants, testing out in the wild my guy can one shot a giant or two shot a mammoth with the sneak attack bonus (3 X damage) and in a fight against a "normal" dragon four arrows took it down while my companion tanked. I guess that is all I really need to know, but this is a Role Playing Game and I want a number!

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By the way, my guy is looking pretty fucking awesome now. Level 47 and pretty damn powerful. It is very rare I get hit as my destruction magic and archery are so strong, and even when I go in for melee combat it is usually from invisibility to get the 30 x backstab bonus. However, my guy is sporting Glass armour and boots, Ebony gauntlets and helmet. I havent put any perks into armour (wearing or crafting) at all, and I had gone light armour all the way before recently. My destruction magic gloves are Glass too, but the Ebony helmet is so damn cool looking I wear it all the time even if I do play in first person. Hopefully I will find a full Ebony set before I get bored of this character.

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I'm starting to get a bit fed up with all the random dragon encounters. I've got all the bones, scales and souls I could ever hope to use, but seem to get attacked by at least one every time I walk anywhere. Then main annoyance is that they always seem to be Ancients now, which means a battle lasting a good ten minutes that uses up the majority of my health potions. At least you could just walk round the Oblivion gates!

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