Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[Guest]

What do you mean that he's only died 3 times? Is there a way to bring your companions back?

I lost Lydia a while back and I've been going it alone ever since. I'm finding some of the quests pretty tough though, so it's be good to have some backup.

[Stig]

What do you mean that he's only died 3 times? Is there a way to bring your companions back?

He died but then so did I so when the game reloaded he was alive again.

Couple of questions - I'm level 39 at the moment & still have my house in Whiterun. I've not really touched anything outside of completeing the Companions quest arc (Vampires ? I've only found one Vampire in a ruined tower and she went down quicker than your mum. No sign of any on the companions quest things).

I'm sure when I was told about the quest "Trouble in Slyrim" the guy was going on about Vampires. Could be wrong.

*edit*

Turns out that Trouble in Skyrim is random and you can be given 1 of around a dozen different quests that involves going and killing some evil doers.

[Distinct muttering]

That went straight over your head didn't it. Of course it's got nothing to do with me, why would I feel aggrieved?

That someone costantly bashes a game that they keep playinf is rank idiocy of the highest order - because not only are they still playing and thus getting enjoyment out of it, this means they are rewarding the devs by putting hours and hours into it.

And hey! It's a standout game of this generation, nothing else comes close in its genre. Look at the balls that are Two Worlds 2 and Arcana Gothic 4 and tell me this isn't head and shoulders above them. "Ohh it should be better, it's do crap ohhh, waaaaa."

By then crying that it's shit is ungrateful to those who've made tor and yet most ironically to ones self...because you're saying how awful it is and yet putting yourself through it and then you keep on playing like some childish game of self harm. "I don't like the pain but I like the stick, my life SUCKS!!11".

Idiotic.

Havent you done exactly this with FIFA for years?

[martingee]

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).

If you're on PC you can probably find the console command online, that will skip that part of the quest line and put you onto the next bit. Its a bummer but i've had to do it a couple of times when a quest chain has broken.

[Stolly]

I may have hit a main quest problem. I've got the imperial guy Tullus (sp?) to agree to go to a truce meeting but when I speal to the Stormcloaks counterpart Ulfric (sp?) about the same thing, he keeps referring me to his side kick Garmal (sp?). I need to speak to Garmal anyuway as I need to tell him that I've done the join the stormcloaks quest but Garmal is blanking me too. This is mentioned as a glitch on Skyrim Wiki but I have no idea if there's a PS3 work around. I'm going to visit the monks on the mountain next just in case things can proceed on their own. Failing that I might try repeatedly talking to Ulfric just in case he chooses to answer me.... one day

[SpagMasterSwift]

I got a bug on the main quest...

After being flown to some special part of Skyrim that you can only get to on the back of a Dragon and left there to quest alone, SPAGGLEHORN pressed forward! Suddenly I was knee deep in attacking dragons and to my horror all the arrows (I had bought a shedload before taking the trip) had vanished from my inventory...I tried hitting the dragons on the head with my mace, but it just wasn't the same...

Reloaded and thankfully it hasn't happened since.

[Stolly]

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.

That doesn't make sense to me. I love exploring and the countryside, mountains, swamps, lakes and ice flows are just utterly beautiful. You are using quest markers right? Or are you really just wandering aimlessly

[sir stiff_one]

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).

They did that to me, the penises. I just kept running about and eventually they trundled along.

[StephenM]

I'm still early on in this, but, I mean, crikey. It's just so big.

It's my first Elder Scrolls game, I like a good RPG, but this is so potentially massive that I can't help but find it really stressful. What doesn't help is that people have said on here that some of the best stuff is in the side missions/quests - are there are really, really great things I should do?

[JoeK]

I'm still early on in this, but, I mean, crikey. It's just so big.

It's my first Elder Scrolls game, I like a good RPG, but this is so potentially massive that I can't help but find it really stressful. What doesn't help is that people have said on here that some of the best stuff is in the side missions/quests - are there are really, really great things I should do?

To be honest, the great joy I had with the game was just 'stumbling' on things. Things which lead on to those great missions that folk talk about. Don't stress about it though - you won't fail to find the cool stuff. Probably cool stuff that none of us have found! The game really doesn't punish you in any way for traipsing off and doing whatever you want (well, unless a bug happens, but I've yet to find a game destroying one), so take your time and journey through it.

[Ravern]

I'm still early on in this, but, I mean, crikey. It's just so big.

It's my first Elder Scrolls game, I like a good RPG, but this is so potentially massive that I can't help but find it really stressful. What doesn't help is that people have said on here that some of the best stuff is in the side missions/quests - are there are really, really great things I should do?

Part of the magic of the game is the (partly false) impression that you really are creating your own adventure and discovering things other people would never have seen. This would be entirely spoilt by seeking out things that you know are there to be found.

The feeling of new exciting stuff and making your own way is so much better than the construction of particular quests.

[Guest]

Havent you done exactly this with FIFA for years?

I was half expecting such a response. I stopped playing FIFA, and didn't buy FIFA 12 in the end.

So, no.

[sir stiff_one]

Someone absolutely nailed it much earlier in the thread when they described it as an 'adventure simulator'. So true. The game world is very much suited to creating your own stories and narratives. To me this is one of the main reasons why it's been so popular with so many different gamers.

[boxoctosis]

I found something else awesome yesterday - I've recruited this chap

as a follower. He's equal parts funny and creepy. Plus he's a cat!

[Laine]

I found something else awesome yesterday - I've recruited this chap

as a follower. He's equal parts funny and creepy. Plus he's a cat!

Where did you find him? I want one!

[boxoctosis]

Where did you find him? I want one!

Up North at Winterhold in the Magician's College. He's a trainee wizard or something - help him out with a short side quest and he'll follow you about after. He's easily the best follower I've found yet.

[Gringo]

I too had J'zargo as a follower. He was my loyal and trusted companion. After finishing one particular skirmish with a large group of ice wraiths I looked around to give him a pat on the back for a job well done. I began to panick after not seeing him and was horrified to discover he was now a smouldering ash pile. To this day I still miss my Feline friend. Lydia is not fit to lace his boots. If I could backhand her for not being J'zargo I would.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

I find I'm playing my usual conflict-avoiding character once again. Like in New Vegas, I stall taking sides with any of the major parties as long as possible, even if it means I'll let injustice happen sometimes, hoping that I'll be able to put it right in a diplomatic or sneaky matter without the whole faction falling over me. I wonder how long I can keep it up before definitely having to make a choice. In New Vegas I managed to stay neutral until the very endgame.

[RaoulSilva]

Don't know if it's a game destroying bug

The other day I got to Hag's End and couldn't learn the word there due to it not lighting up and absorbing it in the usual manner (it's a well documented bug)

I just carried on with other quests, I have an obsession with trying to accquire the rarest books and arrange them neatly in my house!

[polygon_monkey]

Don't know if it's a game destroying bug

The other day I got to Hag's End and couldn't learn the word there due to it not lighting up and absorbing it in the usual manner (it's a well documented bug)

I just carried on with other quests, I have an obsession with trying to accquire the rarest books and arrange them neatly in my house!

I had this. What you need to do is stand close to the wall, get the game to autosave (apparently manual doesn't work - I have mt menu autosave set to 5 mins so I just went to the menu and it happened to be past 5 mins), fast travel some where far away and then load the autosave. You should load right into the word being learnt.

I'm amazed that it wasn't until I was about 85 hours into the game that I learnt that the greybeards

give you quests to lead you to all the power words. I'd found most of them just through never turning a discovered dungeon down

.

[Aardvark]

This evening I made a brief and unusual friendship with an elder dragon. We met in the usual fashion, he flew around roaring his challenge and I tried to shoot arrows and fireballs at him to little effect, but combat was joined. As we ranged across the landscape our antics disturbed a giant, and casting our differences aside we joined together to rid the world if this threat. Soon the giant lay dead and we joined in combat again only to attract the attention of some bears, so once more we turned on our mutual enemy. By the time the bears were dead the nearby fort full of necromancers had seen us and so together we destroyed them all, along with more mud crabs than I could count.

Finally we finished our battle and I slew my noble opponent, but his soul will always have a special places in my heart.

[Aardvark]

You kept his foot as a souvenir?

I think my brain just got confused with the giant's toe.

[Shook]

That cat follower looks cool. Unfortunately I killed him at the magic lesson (was due to a bug)

I've got this follower caled Marcurio. He's a bit of a prick but you should see him zapping dudes all over the place with lightning! He's quite handy.

[Stolly]

Yep I've hit a wall with the main quest, trying to speak to Ulfric (to get him to go to the peace parley with Tullus). Its because I have the join the stormcloaks quest open I think (I've killed the ice wraith for Garmer, Ulfric's lieutenant, to join and my quest log for that requires me to report to Garmer now).

So if I speak to Ulfric, he says speak to Garmer and if I speak to Garmer, he just waffles on about not believing that I've convinced Ulfric to go to the peace meeting (which as yet I haven't). I'm stuck in a loop and I guess I'll have to just do other things in the game (which I'm not short of it has to be said) and hope for a PS3 patch . I was really getting into the main quest story though....

[Hello Goaty ♥]

That cat follower looks cool. Unfortunately I killed him at the magic lesson (was due to a bug)

I've got this follower caled Marcurio. He's a bit of a prick but you should see him zapping dudes all over the place with lightning! He's quite handy.

Marry him.

I did, and hes a good breadwinner! and as you say hes a tough character!

[robdood]

I don't know why they don't have the usual RPG thing of when you talk to a quest npc, have them say 'what is it?' and then you choose a line of dialog relating to the quests.. surely it would help prevent bugs like the above.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Yep I've hit a wall with the main quest

Half of the excitement and tension of playing Bethesda games is to see if the game itself won't fall apart during play. I'm now about 40 hours in, and haven't seen any bugs yet apart from some amusing graphical glitches, and this worries me - in New Vegas it seemed they kept all the bugs for the final 25% of the game so I hope this won't be a repeat of that! I make sure to save often and in seperate files so that I can, hopefully, always revert back without losing too much progress if the thing goes belly up.

I've started off with the Dark Brotherhood questline last night, and I might try to combine this with the Thief's Guild at the same time. Time to invest in some stealthy perks...

[Kelthink]

They did that to me, the penises. I just kept running about and eventually they trundled along.

Cheers, I hope that works. I just kept barking at the old fella but he'd just walk back to the same place.

[Distinct muttering]

The more I play this the more bugs I am coming across that are starting to annoy me a little (45 hours in).

Annoying one last night was when I was getting the horn of Jurgen from the main quest line and my map showed that another of my active missions had something to do in that dungeon also, to meet the Priest of Boethiah. I spent a good 30mins trying to reach the point indicated on the map but to no avail, so I completed the main quest and made my way out. Then when I was outside the pointer for the priest was now showing miles off to the West, and nowhere near my current location. I am finding increasingly that the show on map option is a load of rubbish and doesn’t work, in fact Whiterun disappeared all together from my map the other night, and I was only able to locate it by heading towards the Meadery that I remembered was close by (this was during a stormcloak mission which also turned out to be glitchy as hell).

Also I have a mission which appears to be stuck, the one with the burnt down house and vampire issues around it. I need to talk to some guy Thorrin or something, however he is nowhere to be seen, and in fact I have even waited in his house for days on end, but only his kid turns up to go to sleep at night.

Anyway, I am still totally addicted, but these issues are beginning to mount up and ruin the enjoyment a little as they can cause you a good hour or so of precious game time as you scratch your head running around in circles.

How did Oblivion end up eventually with regard to bugs? Can we expect to see most of these fixed?

[Boozy The Clown]

Is this typical ?

I'm making my way across the plains to get the horn of jericho and I encounter my 2nd dragon at the same place we killed the 1st. It gets brought down and I get the goodies from it. 5 minutes later I encounter another but this time it's just me and Lydia. It's firing blue flame/light/frost at us and I'm doing my best to keep my shouts/health/magic/arrows in reasonable state and slowly managing to bring it's health down.

Just when I'm about to deliver the final fatal blow to it's big scaly napper a sabre cat appears from nowhere and bites me on the arse killing me.

2nd attempt - It kicks seven shades out of us both and bites my head off.

3rd attempt I try to use a nearby cottage for a bit of respite during battle only to be frozen to death by the occupant.

I'm only level 9, hardly wearing any armour (mage robes), rapidly running out of potions and a pretty crap archer. I'm pretty good at making iron daggers and getting a decent price for them but I don't think the dragon is impressed by this.