Finally bought Skyrim on Steam today since I've heard so much good things about it.

Now just need to wait for the game to download.

When I first played Skyrim, I was a bit disappointed. Gave me headache in first person mode, then I felt the scenery was too grayish and the story wasn't interesting. Also the combat felt weird for an FPS, and I didn't like the menu interface, sometimes I click on an item, but it quits the menu instead.

So I almost uninstalled Skyrim.

But after persevering a little more, the game grew on me. To solve my headache issue I use 3rd-person mode now. Also to make combat easier I just invested most my points in Twin-Hand/Heavy Armor. Now I've gone to more towns and areas, the game doesn't seem so gray, and the side quests are actually quite interesting (like the Saadia and Kematu one). Last problem the menu interface I can't solve, but I've learned to tolerate it.

Glad to see I'm not the only one experiencing this problem. This it has something to do with trying to be compatible with consoles. Anyway yeah I resort to use the keyboard when possible, seems more reliable than using mouse clicks.

That's exactly what I did lol. I think you get more gold that way in total, but I did it because I was curious to see what would happen.

Oh that would explain it. The FOV in Half Life 2 is also different and gave me nausea. That's why I had to change the FOV for Half Life 2.

For me the voice and sound effects is good, but the background music sometimes it's like totally unnoticeable at all. When it does play it's awesome, but sometimes they play some boring track. I think the background music is kind of inconsistent.

You know what's more fun than playing side-quests, playing a serial killer.
My sneak is quite high now, so I spend a lot of my time assassinating every annoying Guard I see.

I backstabbed a giant to death before, but there's no special animation.

(I did soften him with arrow sneak attacks before though).

I use archery and sneak because my magic skills all very low-level (hardly level anything not related to physical attacks).

There are a few quests that require that you kill a giant. I was sneaking up on this giant, when suddenly this muthafriggin dragon came and interrupt.



Too bad it pissed off the giant, and the giant killed the dragon lol

I was wondering who Sheogorath was (never played Oblivion). Then I Googled and realized he's the wacko that gives you the Wabbajack.

Just joined Dark Brotherhood. Astrid gave me the Shrouded Gloves. Now combined with the Assassin's Blade perk, backstab damage is now multiplied by 30.

Yeah there's no zonal damage. And no gravity effect too I think. But my old habits from using the Huntman in TF2 always make me aim near the head.

When I first started playing Skyrim, I didn't like it too. But that was because I was expecting something more like Dragon Age: Origins. I was expecting a clear cut storyline, clear cut areas and a party-based combat system.

But I grew to enjoy Skyrim after I decided to explore the side-quests. They're more fun and some of them tell great stories (Dark Brotherhood, Thieves Guild, Companions). Seriously, you can ignore the "Main" questline for a while. I've reached Level 100 Sneak and I've just barely completed Act 1 of the "Main" questline.

Also try playing the game as a Thief and Sneaking as much as possible. Nothing is more satisfying that killing everybody in a whole room without them even doing 1HP damage to you.

Skyrim is not a party-based game. Yes you can hire a Horse and get many Followers, but you usually only can have 1 Follower at a time and they are friggin unreliable especially if you're trying to sneak. But it's still a lot of fun even managing a single character, you get to focus all your efforts on one person.

The girls in Skyrim look better than the guys, and the armour looks good.

But I agree that Bethesda characters look really ugly compared to Dragon Age.

I love their leader Astrid's voice. The voice actress did a good job.

Also when you're asked to kill one of the prisoners, take their Executioner Hood. It makes you look like some psycho badass.



This post has been edited by Andrew Lim: Jan 6 2012, 11:15 AM

I've never played Morrowind or Oblivion. Skyrim is the first Elder Scrolls game I've played, but I actually enjoyed the Thief's Guild quests. At least the early ones anyway. The Goldenglow Estate quest was fun to me. I sneaked and assassinated everybody in there.

Also there's the Thief's Guild twist later on that I didn't expect that


But so far I think my favourite quests involves killing people, especially Giants.

I leveled up my sneaking to 100 and I can do backstab damage 30x.
So Giants die with at most 2 sneak attacks for me.

Play as a badass Viking. Use only Hands to kill people.

Don't need to mod to get Assassin's Creed armour.
Just get the real Thieves Guild Nightingale Armor. Looks better in my opinion:

Dark Brotherhood or Thieves Guild? To join Dark Brotherhood you have to be kidnapped.

I started investing in Smithing only around Level 30+. I spent a few hours hunting for pelts and changing them into leather. I didn't know you could just buy leather and leather strips from Blacksmiths.

Some of the bards in Skyrim are horrible singers. I think there's one Dark Brotherhood quest where you are assigned to kill one bard because he really sucks at singing.