I have about 400 hours over two playthroughs and was still finding new locations towards the end. Just when I was sure I had covered every square inch of the map, I would stumble across a new cave. The exploration in this game is crazy.
I made a poor decision in the opening quest during dialogue with someone and fucked what I wanted to do.
The dungeons and caves in this game aren't that hard to get through...
Ok I understand. So you just reloaded a save and redid the quest from the beginning? I've had to do that before.
Problem is... all my autosaves were from AFTER the decision and my manual save was 6 levels and near 7 hours prior to where I was... ARGH!
Yeah that would really suck.
It happened and I was in a party with a friend (we were both playing Skyrim) and I guess I cut loose a string of expletives, slurs, and in general nastiness that he said he only ever heard one other time while in the military.
I don't know what you mean. Perhaps I'm missing something.
OK @KBE6EKCTAH_CCP I won't quote you on that.
I use money for training and buying expensive rare items (ex: black soul gems, daedra hearts etc). I agree with you: base items are not great. That's because crafted and enchanted items are awesome! You're supposed to use money to level up your crafting and enchanting to boost the items you craft and enchant. I very rarely use base weapons, unless I'm game playing a specific character.
The bow example is even worst for me because I haven't used a bow in years. From the day I learned there was a book of "summon bound bow" at Fort Amol, I always stop there around lvl 6, just before facing my first dragon. The bound bow is as strong as a base deadric bow and it comes with 100 bound daedric arrows at each summon. It's the most powerful bow you can get before a long while.
You just need to balance your perks or enchant an item to allow you to cast bound bow and you'll never use another bow! I don't, unless I gameplay a thief/archer. And your last statement is spot on: production (crafting/enchanting/alchemy) should be aimed at leveling up. Money is useless on its own.
Might as well boost your skills and create your own overpowered arsenal.
I don't want to play the "PC master race" card but Skyrim is a different animal on PC. I have been using mods for years and for me, doing the basic quests is fast and straightforward. With mods, you don't have to replay the vanilla game: you can make each playthrough unique and only replay the basic quests (dragonstone, greybeards, parthunax etc).
I didn't know that glitch. The pickpocket trick is a whole strategy meant to "power level" by using pickpocket. It doesn't negate the ability to completely build your character with the PC console. It's a tactic meant to make life easier for PS3 or Xbox users, before the mods arrived. I still use it on PC when character building because it's more fun than just messing with the console.
I'm pretty much the same. Played it a ton on PS3 and, looking back, it's hard to believe how glitchy and poorly the game performed on that console. It froze and crashed all the time.
