Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[Yiggy]

I want to buy a house, but so far I haven't found anything for sale. During the opening the Jarl of Whiterun said I could buy property in his city, but there don't seem to be any for sale. Is this something which unlocks during the game (like in Fallout 3), or do I have to look in other places? I could do with a home to store some stuff, as I'm constantly fighting my inventory space and I don't want to sell everything because some of the stuff may prove useful later in the game or I don't know what it's for yet.

The house in whiterun is available from the start. You need 5k to buy the bare bones house. Don't speak to the Jarl. Speak to his assistant who stands to the left of him I believe most of the time. He sells it to you and will sell you all the customisable options for it.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Ah thanks, I just blew my money on training though so I guess I need to save up a bit

[Aardvark]

Ah thanks, I just blew my money on training though so I guess I need to save up a bit

5k doesn't take that long to raise if you set your mind to it, I raised the 25k for the house in Solitude in an evening by flogging loot and enchanting anything that wasn't high enough value already.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

I've not really gone into the whole economy stuff, just been selling off loot I got from adventuring. I just bought a horse and travelled to Riften to get an 'unusual gem' appraised. And another quest strand opens

[The Liberal Elite]

if you buy a second house, how much is it to get the removal men to move all my crap from Whiterun?

[cale]

How do you level up Speechcraft? Struggling to really affect it at all. No heavy spoilers please.

[sir stiff_one]

Buy and sell a lot of stuff. Persuade and intimidate a lot of people.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

I don't think I could ever get tired of just grabbing a horse and riding around.

[Stig]

Today I set off with completing the first Thieves Guild quest and then was going to focus on the main story line. 3 hours later and I haven't done any of it and two side missions instead. I've got solo many side missions to do and not enough time to do it.

[bingowings]

i have about 20-25 side missions left open, only a handful seem interesting - i can't be fucked to-ing and fro-ing just pick up someone's bucket or some such shit. trouble is, any time you talk to someone they say '...oh, you look a bit handy. fancy some extra cash?' and before you can say 'fuck you, little man. i shit death and kill dragons for kicks' you're lumped with another pile of nonsense.

spent all of last night going through the Dark Brotherhood story, which ended up being pretty awesome from such a meagre beginning. only a couple of loose ends to tie up before it is completed but before that i'm back on the main storyline again. had a few interesting glitches such as dragon skeletons falling from the sky, corpses attaching themselves to doors so they swing about - keeps things amusing.

[BitterToad]

Just got around to being able to use Adept destruction semi-regularly without running out of Magika.

Adept destruction is amazing...

[Stolly]

I must now have at least 75 hours of play time.... and I'm still only level 27 . I'm cracking on with the main quest and trying to sort out a truce right now - the imperial legion have agreed to go to the parley but I have to finish my 'join the stormcloaks' quest to get any sense out of matey at Windhelm. So next up I'm off to hand an ice wrath its arse; they're a doddle nowadays.

I think I ideally need to find a few easy peasy dungeons and just wade in there with my sword and dagger - my sneak and archery skills are really high but I've seriously neglected meleeing so my one handedness and heavy armour ratings are probably still quite poor

[neoELITE]

I started again after contracting vampirism. I don't care now. I've seen other parts of the map straight at the beginning that I'd yet to see after putting 30 hours in in my previous game. The part I saw was astonishing. An entire field of flat-land complete with geysers, a sea of mammoth bones and, at the end of that, a giant whacking the shite out of a dragon I skipped in near the end, gave it a whack and consumed the soul

This game is broken as fuck. I've had a few crashes during the loading screens and I've seen some major glitches but it's just so good.

I had a task earlier where I had to take evidence to Wilholm (this is a character) and I misread it and misheard it and went to Winterholm by mistake - the journey was amazing and I got there and read the quest again... Wilholm, not Winterholm you idiot but I had the above experience getting there. Thumbs up for a truly borked yet captivating game.

I've never played a videogame before where I've sat open jawed at the vista. I've dreamt of it before but this is the game that delivers it in spades. WOW

[bingowings]

so yeah, going through the main quest and found the old guy under Riften. turns out it's...

Max von Sydow!!!1!

suddenly and without warning the game has gone from enjoyable entertainment to AWESOME!

[Aardvark]

Well that was frustrating. An elder dragon decided to pay a visit to Dawnstar. Fairly easy to deal with except if any spell so much as brushed a civilian then the whole town would turn on me. Reload, try again with lower level spells, almost kill it when a guard walks in front of me…reload…

I think I would have been less annoyed if becoming a thane of Dawnstar hadn't been so glitchy.

[lampkin]

I've just done this quest:

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:The_Forsworn_Conspiracy

At the end of the quest when I came across Eltry's body I figured I'd fight the guards. After killing a number of them I decided to surrender and went through the whole escape routine.

My stats now say I have 3 murders to my name and a 4,000 bounty on my head

Is that right then?

ed: Just read this:

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/The_Forsworn_Conspiracy

"Fighting the guards in the Shrine of Talos will add a huge bounty (1000) for the Dragonborn in the Reach. If more guards notice the battle inside the Shrine, they will come to aid the corrupt guardsmen as well (killing them adds further bounty - 1000 per extra guardsman slain). The initial bounty can only be removed by going to prison - the Cidhna Mine quest listed above (Thieves Guild membership, being Thane, paying a Bounty Collector - don't work in this case). However, the extra bounty for killing additional guardsmen is removed automatically when/if the last witness is dead or if the Dragonborn pays the Bounty Collection at a later time."

Arse

[Dandy_Sephy]

If you've done enough of the Companions questline, you can conveniently avoid the bounty

transform into beast form outside the shrine before entering

It's a bit difficult to know about it in advance unless you read up about it though.

I've decided to concentrate on the main quest now and return later to do the billion things that are sill available to do, however a potential problem has sprung to mind that I'd like a simple yes/no from someone who has finished the main quest. Presumably if I complete the main quest, I'll not be able to...

get the achievement for twenty dragon souls or unlock any words of power if I'm short on souls?

[alxbly]

Presumably if I complete the main quest, I'll not be able to...

get the achievement for twenty dragon souls or unlock any words of power if I'm short on souls?

Don't worry,they still spawn in (the same) locations so you can still get the achievement and unlock everything.

[Guest]

Well, I'm only a level 9 and I've had 4 dragon encounters already. I haven't been fast travelling anywhere yet as I want to get to know the place, but I'm running for it every time I see one as I keep getting my arse handed to me.

I'm really loving it though and the sense of place is amazing. I daren't say this in the Zelda thread for fear of getting negged into oblivion (heh), but I wish that game had given me such a sense of scale and a truly believable living world to explore. As it is this is getting booted up ahead of it every single time.

I'm getting that many side quests thrown at me I just don't know what to do next. I think I'll do a few more of these to level up a bit, then head back to the main storyline.

I never thought I'd get dragged in again like I did with Fallout 3, especially with that being my first ever game of this kind and me not really liking New Vegas all that much, but I'm in love all over again.

[CrichStand]

Well, I'm only a level 9 and I've had 4 dragon encounters already. I haven't been fast travelling anywhere yet as I want to get to know the place, but I'm running for it every time I see one as I keep getting my arse handed to me.

I'm really loving it though and the sense of place is amazing. I daren't say this in the Zelda thread for fear of getting negged into oblivion (heh), but I wish that game had given me such a sense of scale and a truly believable living world to explore. As it is this is getting booted up ahead of it every single time.

I'm getting that many side quests thrown at me I just don't know what to do next. I think I'll do a few more of these to level up a bit, then head back to the main storyline.

I never thought I'd get dragged in again like I did with Fallout 3, especially with that being my first ever game of this kind and me not really liking New Vegas all that much, but I'm in love all over again.

I'm a big Zelda fan. I'm with you 100%.

[Monkeyspill]

I finally got smithing to 100. It took ages. It was only right at the end when I was at 85 or so that someone told me

that making ebony armour was a waste of time and I should just blast through it with iron daggers and leather bracers

. Now to get up my enchanting. It's only on about 50 at the moment.

[polygon_monkey]

Out of the 94 games my Xbox tells me I've played I've only 1000/1000 3 of them (and with two of them being King Kong and Lost only one really counts). Until tonight:

99 hours on the clock. Finished the main quest at around 98 1/2 and then spent the final half hour murdering someone in each town for the final achievement. I think it's now time to stop playing.

[Gringo]

I never thought I'd get dragged in again like I did with Fallout 3, especially with that being my first ever game of this kind and me not really liking New Vegas all that much, but I'm in love all over again.

This is my exact experience. Fallout 3 was my first go of a game of this type and I loved it. After the mild disappointment of New Vegas I never thought I would be captivated like it again until Skyrim. I'm currently level 41, 80 hours in and I can't stop playing it to the point were if my girlfriend didn't tell me to stop and get some sleep, I'd probably have died ages ago.

[Aardvark]

if you buy a second house, how much is it to get the removal men to move all my crap from Whiterun?

I wish the game had removal men, sadly it's just you and your follower. I decided to leave the Whiterun house mostly decorated, but took a load of stuff from the chests and the weapon mounts over the bed. Then I made a whole bunch of enchanted armor so I could properly dress the mannequins in my new enchanting lab. It's almost like a disco in there now so much stuff is glowing.

It really does become horribly easy to make money once you are good at smithing or enchanting, upgrading loot to Legendary and/or enchanting it makes the vendors' supply of cash your only limiting factor.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

I never thought I'd get dragged in again like I did with Fallout 3, especially with that being my first ever game of this kind and me not really liking New Vegas all that much, but I'm in love all over again.

Same here. I rate Fallout 3 as my favourite game ever, although the only game of its kind I played before was Oblivion which I liked but wasn't too crazy about. Fallout 3 'clicked' completely and I never got tired of being in that world and exploring every nook and cranny and doing every single sidequest. This game gives me the same feeling, but there seems to be even more depth to it with stuff like the Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild and other various factions and organization sidequests. It's great. I'm about 20 hours in I think (frustratingly the clock keeps ticking even with the game on pause, or so it seems), am on level 8, killed 2 dragons and have a questlog the size of a small book and I haven't even explored 25% of the map yet It's a really good sign when you look forward to travel from one city to the next instead of doing fast travelling or hiring a coach.

[Yiggy]

I hit Smithing and Enchanting 100 last night and now have double enchanted glass armour with a dragon helmet. I am now on the hunt for dragons to get the full set.

My wife has been very supportive in my quest for crafting perfection but I think she had had enough now. She said to me last night 'Are you actually going to play the bloody game now.' The cheeky cow.

[scottcr]

Had a good wee bit of fun in a cave yesterday as part of the companions quest line. Some hard bastard who I couldn't kill, regardless of whether I tried stealth, two handed mauling, magic or werewolfery. Something I had to get was in a chest beside him.

So I sneaked up to the chest and unlocked it with my amazing lockpicking skillz to find some epic loot, my fetch quest target item macguffin and a storm atronach scroll. BOOM. I conjured it right in front of him. He shat it, started chasing me round the chamber and getting fried by the monster. I finished him off with a dragon shout.

[scottcr]

Then the companions told me I had to go to the other end of the map to get the next item...

I must admit, I don't find wandering around the environment that engaging. If Im a bit tired, I usually find myself dosing in front of the telly pushing up and randomly circling around until I wake up.

[Kelthink]

Sweet, I can't complete the main quest now, bah.

At the point of visiting Sky Haven Temple, I already got the entrance (the stone face) yonks ago. When I quick-travel there I see Wingus and Dingus waiting outside for me to slit my wrists into the seal. When I do so, the entrance opens, they beckon me to go ahead, and then they proceed to run to the first puzzle of the area as if it hasn't been completed. I haven't found any workarounds for this, am I boned? I don't think my earliest save goes that far back (as in, before getting to the Sky Haven Temple).

[Stig]

I can't do the first Companion quest to save my life. The first Vampire I meet keeps owning me and my follower so gonna go back when I've levelled up a little. Maybe find myself a Silver sword/axe to smash the bitch with.

Any tips on who's the best follower to use? I'm currently with Faendal (http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Faendal) an Archer from Riverwood. He's pretty boss at Archery and I've kitted him out with some pretty mean armour and given him an Enchanted Warhammer. He's faired pretty well so far and only died 3 times (but so did I do had to reload anyway), but I'm just wondering if theres any others that are more handy, maybe know more magic?

I have the option to have Uthgerd follow me, after I beat her in a fist fight in Whiterun. But that's it.

Anyone got any advice on who's good?