The Elder Scrolls V

[=GG= Mr Moe]

Then you haven't searched hard enough.


Here, when you explore harder you can also find this interesting potion and it's effect:

Spoiler!

Hmmm, I have all my graphic settings on Ultra and while it looks pretty good, it doesn't look quite that good. Is this a screenshot or doctored promo pic?

 

[Fedorov]

Hmmm, I have all my graphic settings on Ultra and while it looks pretty good, it doesn't look quite that good. Is this a screenshot or doctored promo pic?

I think he is just high on skooma.

 

[Murphy]

Hmmm, I have all my graphic settings on Ultra and while it looks pretty good, it doesn't look quite that good. Is this a screenshot or doctored promo pic?

Looks exactly like on my screen. The weird blur effects are from the killing blow animation.

 

[Homuth]

Hmmm, I have all my graphic settings on Ultra and while it looks pretty good, it doesn't look quite that good. Is this a screenshot or doctored promo pic?

Straight from the game mate, nothing edited at all, taken with steam.

My settings:
16:10 , 1690 x 1050
AA 4X
AF 8X

Details all on High, except Decal quality which is on Ultra. I can't put shadows on Ultra because I'll start lagging, due to ATI card not supporting some shadow features on Ultra I believe.

All option boxes checked in that menu as well.

Everything maxed out in the view distance menu and the checkbox checked.

 

[Fedorov]

 

[Moyako]

By the way, how the hell do you get up there(main storyline quest)? I went through the whole damn mountain but didn't find a way to ascend up there

Spoiler!

You're supposed to climb from Ivarstead. I found that AFTER I went to the throat of the world from Riverwood. I spent an hour getting there, talked to the elders and on my way down I found the road coming from Ivarstead.

Exploration win for me

xD

 

[mamoo]

That sums up my Skyrim experience with frightening accuracy.

 

[Grabbed_by_the_Spetsnaz]

Spoiler!

Being playing on a friends game with his account so I may be wrong about this, BUT:

One thing that does confuse me in the plot of Skyrim, OK so your an unknown prisoner, obviously about to be executed, but a dragon comes and ruins everything, essentially saving your life, but then it and others try desperately to kill you because your the last of the "dragonborn".

However! If it wasn't for the dragons intervention, you would have been killed, or if you DID manage to escape/convince for his life the guards, you still wouldn't have known about this whole "dragonborn" ordeal in the first place, meaning that he'd waste his life (and therefore Skyrims only chance of survival) being worthless like every other being on Skyrim, leaving evil god whatshisface with a whole lot less hassle in doing what he wanted to do.

And what even more confusing, is that in the end the dragons HELPED you defeat monster dick god whatshisface, because they hate him. So if the dragons really wanted help from him/her why did they try to kill him and not just go up to him and say "Yo dawg, there's this guy, and he's a massive dick to us, and only you can defeat him, and we'll give you all these powers and shizz" and have the hero do what they wanted all along without having to have wasted so many lives of their former comrades.

Or am I just overthinking things

 

[Murphy]

How about dem spoilers?
I'm inclined to theorize you're not overthinking this, or anything else for that matter. :/

 

[Zennousha]

Alduin didn't come to save you. Nor did anyone up to the point of Whiterun's defense did anyone even really know you were Dovahkiin.

You're just overthinking it.

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

Spoiler tags!

 

[LightsabeR]

SPOILERS AHEAD!

@Grabbed_by_the_Spetsnaz

Spoiler!

OK so your an unknown prisoner, obviously about to be executed, but a dragon comes and ruins everything, essentially saving your life, but then it and others try desperately to kill you because your the last of the "dragonborn".

If anything, Alduin came to Helgen to kill you and you managed to escape. Tho I would suspect that he didn't even know you were there.

However! If it wasn't for the dragons intervention, you would have been killed, or if you DID manage to escape/convince for his life the guards, you still wouldn't have known about this whole "dragonborn" ordeal in the first place, meaning that he'd waste his life (and therefore Skyrims only chance of survival) being worthless like every other being on Skyrim, leaving evil god whatshisface with a whole lot less hassle in doing what he wanted to do.

You discover that you're the Dragonborn later in the game, not when you escape from Helgen.

If we presume that Alduin came to Helgen to kill you, then he would have found you somewhere else as well. If it was just by random chance that he attacked Helgen, then, since the whole of Skyrim was basically under attack by the dragons, you'd run into one sometime anyway.

One way or the other, if you were to fight and kill a dragon, you'd find out you're the dragonborn.

And what even more confusing, is that in the end the dragons HELPED you defeat monster dick god whatshisface, because they hate him. So if the dragons really wanted help from him/her why did they try to kill him and not just go up to him and say "Yo dawg, there's this guy, and he's a massive dick to us, and only you can defeat him, and we'll give you all these powers and shizz" and have the hero do what they wanted all along without having to have wasted so many lives of their former comrades.

It was actually only one dragon that helped you. Thanks to Paarthurnax you also managed to find a way to get one other dragon to help. All the other dragons, even after you killed Alduin, were still either indifferent or hostile towards you.

The dragons didn't just fly up to the Dohvakiin and say "yo dawg help us out", because they didn't even all agree on if Alduin should be killed. They were all afraid of Alduin and non of them wanted to publicly stand up to him. Nowhere in the game did other dragons directly fight or disobey Alduin (except for Paarthurnax who helped you).

Or am I just overthinking things

No, you're just drawing some really weird conclusions.

 

[Murphy]

They should have fixed the primitive water-pane behavior by now.
If the camera isn't fully submerged or fully above water the zone settings of over- or under-water are applied to the whole screen. Meaning that by tilting your screen at the right angle you can see underwater with the view-distance of not-underwater, as seen in the screenshot in the spoiler-tags below. The opposite is possible too, if you want to look around the world with a horrible brown tint and really murky draw-distances.

Spoiler!

Morrowind is old enough to be excused, Oblivion is kind of on the verge, but Skyrim is definitely new enough that STILL having water-zones behave like this is unacceptable, imo.

UT3, I think, is the first game I saw that did this properly. If you had your screen at water-level the upper half would look normal, and the lower half looked like it was under water.

Why can't Skyrim have this?

 

[Zennousha]

They should have fixed the primitive water-pane behavior by now.
If the camera isn't fully submerged or fully above water the zone settings of over- or under-water are applied to the whole screen. Meaning that by tilting your screen at the right angle you can see underwater with the view-distance of not-underwater, as seen in the screenshot in the spoiler-tags below. The opposite is possible too, if you want to look around the world with a horrible brown tint and really murky draw-distances.

Spoiler!

Morrowind is old enough to be excused, Oblivion is kind of on the verge, but Skyrim is definitely new enough that STILL having water-zones behave like this is unacceptable, imo.

UT3, I think, is the first game I saw that did this properly. If you had your screen at water-level the upper half would look normal, and the lower half looked like it was under water.

Why can't Skyrim have this?

Well, you realize UT3 as you mentioned is actually beyond a DX9 game, which Skyrim is. I wouldn't be surprised if it was flat out a constraint with the old engine and rendering.

 

[Xendance]

UT3, I think, is the first game I saw that did this properly. If you had your screen at water-level the upper half would look normal, and the lower half looked like it was under water.

Why can't Skyrim have this?

Umm, I don't think UT 3 did that. It used volumes which behave exactly like Skyrim in this matter.

 

[Murphy]

The postprocessing only works when you're in the zone, you're right about that, so the same thing happens as in Skyrim as far as the over-the-top blurriness from underwater goes, but at least the fog works properly!

Spoiler!

With the drastic difference in the fogs over- and underwater in Skyrim that would probably be enough. I don't even know if there is post-processing involved the naked eye would miss in the short instance your screen shows both over- and underwater, but at least you couldn't exploit this anymore to scout out underwater areas (e.g. for sunken ships) before you dive into the murky soup.

 

[DraKon2k]

Wow this game is huge. 11h and I feel like I explored maybe 1% lol.

 

[Dr.Phibes]

Wow this game is huge. 11h and I feel like I explored maybe 1% lol.

Get's stale fast though, at least for me.

 

[Nenjin]

40 hours and endlessly fast traveling to try and finish the Thieves' Guild quest finally did me. I enjoyed those 40 hours though. If you've played Oblivion or Fallout 3, I think Skyrim doesn't quite feel as big as it first strikes you. Seems like the biggest area that takes the longest to travel across is the plains west of Whiterun. Everything half the time I was like "What? I'm already here?"

 

[Shadrach]

Oh man, I *never* want to go down another of those damned tombs.

Draugr, Draugr, Draugr, Draugr Boss, Tough Draugr, Draugr, Draugr Draugr Draugr etc etc.

Sometimes I think the guys designing these dungeons are sadists. It's like this - you get to a big room and think it's the end, but NOOOO then there's a bit with some tunnels and spiders and back in to 10 more miles of dungeon

I'm certainly not complaing I havent got my 50€ worth out of this game... but like I said I am on an extended dungeon break.