Dual-wielding sword slow-mo radial blur ultra stabbings of..

[_Zyklon_]

Shin.. Just do what I did..

Start a new game!

I finished the main story quest and kinda felt the same way about the petty side quests and whatnot. MEH!

So i started a new game, and made an entirely different character. I went for a mage type, which is not normally what id go for. To put me out of my comfort zone . And its great. Now i have pushed back the main story like and im drawing the game out much longer. It hasn't gotten boring yet either

[Shinanigans]

Did you not turn your PC on for a few years before or after you played Bioshock?

Haha, man, i loved Bioshock I think it might've been my first RPG/FPS game and just enjoyed the **** out of it.

I reckon the problem with the pacing is Skyrim is that they don't tie the side stories in well enough, everything is either main story or TOTALLY off track and once you've done the introductory quests for each sideline there's not much to make you want to jump back and forth. There's also not much waiting for you at the end of the chains, I was pretty saddened to find that the boos of the fighters guild still does the same mundane **** jobs as you did when working your way up (less interesting in fact).

I actually kept playing a bit yesterday and kept finding things to do. Quite astounding. Totally agree with your point, these are actual decent missions that i only came across simply in my random travels (see a black icon on HUD, go that direction). It's an inherent problem with open-world sandbox games like this. It'd be pretty cool if you could kind of get some hints about quests you're yet to find, maybe more obvious icons or perhaps randomly generated AI to give you indications (like the messengers).

I made sure I added the Unofficial Patch as the last 2 times I played there were either missions that would never finish because they were broken or other things similar to that.

Only bug i had like that was doing misc dragon slaying missions for some guy in some random town. They wouldn't clear out of my inventory after finishing them. Common issue from what google tells me.

What I find strange is both other times after getting out of Helgen at the start with Ralof he has taken me to the local blacksmiths house to 'get the ball rolling' so to speak with what should be done. This time though, I followed him into the mill area where we talked to his sister.

What I want to know is, is that the way it started for everyone else? Going to the Mill or to the blacksmiths? It was a shock and I wasn't sure if it was because the unofficial patch fixed something or not.

Sure you didn't follow the Imperial soldier? During the chaos at Helgen you're given a choice to follow the Imperial soldier or the Stormcloak soldier. The imperial will take you to his brother (the smith), the Stormcloak will take you to his sister (lumberer). I'm 90% sure that's what happened anyway. Restarted yesterday and this time i went with the Stormcloak soldier, only now realising there was an option.

EDIT: Dammit, Serval!

Also, as for the main story line, I've only just given the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller back to the Greybeards and I am currently level 50

LOL! What have you been doing? I'm no rusher, it took my 150 hours to complete the main quests, but damn! I hope you've been doing other quests in the mean time!

So i started a new game, and made an entirely different character

I actually started to do this but then felt inclined to see if there was more i could do on my original character, which i found out there was! I kept remembering things i was supposed to do, get rid of my wolf blood, still many dungeons i haven't explored, etc, etc.

[Shinanigans]

Now, back to tradition! IMG SPAM!

Slowmooooo

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I had to do it

This thief got absolutely HAMMERED by the entire town. I was just there to finish the job...



"Do you have any face cream?"


Shin was ere '12

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Thought this was pretty cool, comparison before and after furnishing:

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Favourite two shots!



Feelsgoodman


ELBOWS OFF THE TABLE!



Grabbed this shot of the Helgen attack when i restarted:


Then i decided to go back to my previous character and start working on my two-handed skills...






Sup?

[Bicketybam]

Sure you didn't follow the Imperial soldier? During the chaos at Helgen you're given a choice to follow the Imperial soldier or the Stormcloak soldier. The imperial will take you to his brother (the smith), the Stormcloak will take you to his sister (lumberer). I'm 90% sure that's what happened anyway. Restarted yesterday and this time i went with the Stormcloak soldier, only now realising there was an option.

EDIT: Dammit, Serval!

I've never noticed actually.. I always thought I was following the same guy because you do all the same things in the "get-away" as the other. All the same lines for the bear etc, plus all these Nords look alike.

LOL! What have you been doing? I'm no rusher, it took my 150 hours to complete the main quests, but damn! I hope you've been doing other quests in the mean time!

Oh I've done heaps of other stuff, finished the Winterhold College quests, the Thieves Guild and the Dark Brotherhoods quests. Gone all over the place and done lots of the little quests.

But the thing that I love the most about Skyrim is that, yes this is my 3rd time round but there is still PLENTY of locations and quests that I didn't know existed. Some are small minor locations and some of the other quests are minor-ish but there are just so many different ones that I had never done before.

Things like "taking the bards leap" and helping the "Jarls children" are new to me this time. Had a quick look at the stats and basically I've done 7 of the main quests, 13 side quests and 172 misc quests (all those numbers and burglary jobs!!). And yet I know there are heaps and heaps more to do. In the main story line I have to Diplomatic Immunity next and I think I will just wait it out till God knows when.

What is funny is getting messages at the Inns from the "Jarls Men, to check out such and such peak to kill the dragon" etc and at the bottom of the mountain the Dragon is at, you discover their 'burial mound' and it is still intact because I haven't progressed far enough in the MQ to allow that to happen.

I know I will hit the cap before I get the main quests done, but then this time I think I will actually be able to do that because of the Unofficial patch. Just checking out my save game sizes, they are currently around 9mb each where as saves from previous run-throughs before that patch was added and at about the same level would be closer to 20mb each and the game would have gotten extra laggy by now.

[Shinanigans]

It's crazy how big the save games are. I'm at 10MB per save :F Had 3.5GB worth of saves before I realised.

I'm still finding caves and random missions I had no idea existed. Walked into some dudes house, he gets me to go and kill these big ghost animals. My concern is that if I play the game in the order I do, I'll miss out on some missions because I end up killing them before I get the mission or what-not. Spent so much time on UESP wiki researching people to find out if I need them or not

[Bicketybam]

Walked into some dudes house, he gets me to go and kill these big ghost animals.

That's Froki's shack.

My concern is that if I play the game in the order I do, I'll miss out on some missions because I end up killing them before I get the mission or what-not. Spent so much time on UESP wiki researching people to find out if I need them or not

Yeah I have the other Wiki open on the other machine all the time for the same reason basically.

This is new for me, found it on the mountain behind Solitude... someone really hated this guy, he's got about 5 different weapons sticking out of him, ouch!

[Shinanigans]

Yeah I have the other Wiki open on the other machine all the time for the same reason basically.

I purposely avoid that site because it crashes steam overlay with it's ridiculous advert spam popups