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[Putnam]

Which Oblivion dungeons were big and open? Certainly not the Ayleid ruins, and there were only, like, 6 Oblivion gates.

I do like Oblivion better in general, though, due to the modding and munchkinry.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

How to dungeon in Daggerfall: pick a wall and follow it to the bitter end.

You forgot the hidden doors.

If you tried walking to a dungeon, it would take forever; the world map of daggerfall was 161,600 square kilometers. Entrances were sprites on the landscape, so they were pretty easy to miss.

The entire area was flat.  Did I need to look at the ground?

[Teneb]

How to dungeon in Daggerfall: pick a wall and follow it to the bitter end.

You forgot the hidden doors.

Automap is your friend and detects all hidden doors. Just keep to the wall you chose after opening the secret area.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Automap is your friend and detects all hidden doors. Just keep to the wall you chose after opening the secret area.

...where can I get this tool?

[Arcvasti]

Personally, I liked Skyrim. It was fun. And DEFINITELY better balanced. And the Dragonborn DLC was really neat. I don't like Oblivion at all. I didn't like the setting. Just generic fantasy. Skyrim's was still generic, but not as bad. I didn't like the graphics. They seemed to occupy that middle section between "Good" and "Bad enough I can deal with it" that irked me. The quests were meh. Mostly, it was just meh for me. I played through most every quest once and finished the game. Never felt the urge to play it again. Although Shivering Isles was AWESOME. Loved Morrowind, in all its horrifically exploitable glory. Daggerfall is pretty neat too, now that I've figured out how not to die. Arena... is literally Daggerfall with less features and more annoying gameplay. Haven't played ESO, seems sort of meh. Its good for an MMO, but doesn't appear unique enough to warrant spending any amount of money on it.


RE: Daggerfall dungeons

My first experience with Daggerfall was terrifying. Wandering around, at low health[Because I couldn't find the rest key] in a dungeon filled with creaking doors. And then I run into the Skeleton Warrior at the beginning, roaring at me and being unkillable. Eventually, I got out of there and traveled to Daggerfall City. I arrived at night, climbed over the walls, heard VEANGENCE!!!!! shouted into my headphones at max volume and got murdered by an untouchable ghost soldier. But yeah, Daggerfall dungeons are horrible and the map visualizer doesn't help. While I can agree that really linear dungeons are boring, really complex and random ones are far worse. At least once, I ended up falling down 3 levels by running into a shaft fleeing from a Giant Scorpion and then NOT BEING ABLE TO GET BACK UP.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Well, my Skyrim just became a porn game.

Which one? AP? I like AP.

[Orange Wizard]

Well, my Skyrim just became a porn game.

Which one? AP? I like AP.

*googles*

...

why

[Kolnukbyne]

I've been playing Skyrim again for the first time since my 3 week long binge of it on release, since a friend of mine recently obtained the complete edition and I'd heard good things about Dawnguard. After my original spree with the game I felt completely hollow and disenchanted with the game, despite enjoying it during, but coming back to it now I'm having barrels of fun and I haven't even started any of the DLC content yet other than Hearthfire*. Overall I'd say I enjoy Skyrim more than I enjoyed Oblivion but that's not saying a whole lot: I wasn't very big on Oblivion (the thalidomide baby-esque faces and four voice actors kind of turned me off). I did play it for a good long time but I remember almost none of it, so it obviously didn't really do much for me and it felt quite boring when compared to Morrowind. I do feel Skyrim's quite disappointing**, having witnessed and bought into the pre-release hype but ignoring that and playing a more complete version of the game years later I really can't complain about that.

*Which is totally not the load of trash I initially expected it to be.
**I mean come on, that's the most boring civil war I've ever seen.

[Ultimuh]

Civil war boring?
Looks like you need the Civil War Overhaul mod.
And don't forget the Immersive Patrols as they seem to be compatible and suit each other nicely.

Also, you should try the Immersive College of Winterhold mod as well.

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Which includes the option to put Tolfdir in charge as archmage.

However both require SKSE and SkyUI. (SkyUI includes mod configuration options, should a mod have that.)

edit: If you like a variety of animals, Animalica adds a huge variety, it also has a Lore Friendly version for those of you who find tropical animals in Skyrim unrealistic.

[Kolnukbyne]

However both require SKSE and SkyUI.

And a PC which can run the game, which I unfortunately don't have.

Oh to have a good PC...

[Sean Mirrsen]

However both require SKSE and SkyUI.

And a PC which can run the game, which I unfortunately don't have.

Oh to have a good PC...

...I can run Skyrim on my tablet. Granted, it's a pretty good tablet, all things considered, but it's still a tablet. Just don't obsess over graphics settings, and you can run damn near anything on damn near anything.

[Sappho]

Yeah, your PC would have to be very old to not be able to run Skyrim (though such a thing is certainly possible -- the computer I had 2 years ago wouldn't have run it). I'm currently running it on my laptop, and before I figured out how to activate the video card, it was running on the Intel integrated graphics. I had to turn the settings down low, but it was possible. (Now that the video card is working, even though it's not a very good card, the game looks gorgeous even on "medium" settings.)

My condolences if you're stuck with a machine that really can't run it. I feel your pain. Just a few more months before I get my new computer... Fancy graphics, here we come!

In other news, I've been watching Sips from the Yogscast's channel, and I've been going through his Skyrim series... Inspired me to want to play the game again. I just played for about 3 hours. Ah, why did I stop playing? This game is amazing! And I've barely scratched the surface of it, I know. I just got my house in Whiterun, and got into the mage college even though I'm purely a fighter and don't use magic at all (I want to get one of those guys as a follower so I can have someone to cast spells for me). I'd like to get a plot of land and build a house, but I seem to recall it being possible to do that with mods, without having to buy the DLC, is that right?

I'm ignoring the civil war for now. I've decided my primary motivation is fairness. I'll help anyone who is being fair or asking for something fair, and work against anyone who is being unfair, selfish, or extremist. Maybe one day I'll kill the leaders of both sides of the war... Wonder what that would do...

I've also considered taking a break from Minecraft videos and doing a Skyrim series for a while (or maybe switching back and forth between the two games). I know it's probably been done to death, but would anyone be interested in watching that if I decided to do it, roleplaying and following audience suggestions?

[Flying Dice]

Skyrim is pretty decently optimized as far as Bethesda-and-related games go, runs smoother than FO3 or NV for sure, even with settings up higher and more mods.

Well, my Skyrim just became a porn game.

"I only did it for character models that don't look like crap, I swear!" 

[Kolnukbyne]

My 'PC' is a mac from 2007. I'd have to do unspeakable things to the corpse of Steve Jobs to imbue it with the power to run anything made after 2009.

The moment I have a stable income though I'm throwing this thing off a cliff and exorcising my home of it's spirit.

[Sergius]

Well, my Skyrim just became a porn game.

Which one? AP? I like AP.

I just started out trying out some skimpy armors, found out I needed one of the anatomically-correct bodies, added a skeleton for better animations, added some sexy poses (and Havok boobs), then decided I wanted a more "immersive" marriage for my female khajiit (she's called "Punch Kitty" because she loves to smack bandits around) and somehow ended up installing dingdongs and Lover's Comfort (part of the SL thing) and now every time I step into a tavern it seems to explode into an orgy, which I find fascinating.

Oh yeah, also added Amazing Follower wossname which lets me have more than 1 follower, which is great for threesomes apparently. I guess it's good as a break from all the questing, which fortunately I've still managed to keep doing.

Well, my Skyrim just became a porn game.

"I only did it for character models that don't look like crap, I swear!" 

... exactly...

*whistles*