Playing Skyrim at launch

>promise me you'll never use that shiv on me

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sauce on this image pls

I feel like people shit on the thieves guild too much, it actually does some things right
>if you finish the whole main quest you DONT just become leader of the thieves guild
>have to do x amount of quests in certain holds to then get special quests that unlock new merchants
>after actually putting in the work and restoring the guild to its former glory you then become the headmaster

>>have to do x amount of quests in certain holds to then get special quests that unlock new merchants
Never actually done this but I hear it's tedious as fuck.

Huh? Skyrim is one of the few games with an actual good open world.

I'M NOT MANADNACH

Weren't those quests randomized so you had to reroll them to get the right holds? Man that sucked.

Yeah. The concept was a good one, but the actual implimentation was annoying as fuck if the RNG wouldn't cooperate.

>she's not marriable
Unless you are retarded, you should know by now that every single Npc in this game can be fucked and married. You can even marry your horse.

>you can even marry your horse
I'm not a white woman.

What if my horse is NTRing me with Cicero.

>that story that tells you about his daughter getting behead as she tried to plead for his innocence
It was pretty sad at the time but now that I think about it I could see her body ragdolling and clipping into the chopping block after. This game is some janky shit but still has a lot of soul after all these years. I'm still pissed they didn't become a proper settlement with trading and the rest of the forsworn cut it out with the road attacks.

Between that scottish prick in the market and Maven Blackbitch I still haven't bothered with that quest chain. That whole city in general was a fuckin shithole and I was glad to stay away from it during my travels.

Skyrim is popular because of the open world meme was novel at release. It's an incredibly accessible, easy to pick up and put down, and absolutely no investment or thought is required. Like the shitty vanilla 1k textures nothing holds up to scrutiny the minute you start looking closer.

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>I'm still pissed they didn't become a proper settlement with trading
I mean, the fact you can find Madanach and his gang in Druadach Redoubt and the Forsworn there become non-hostile for the rest of the game is still pretty big

>help them break out of the mine or whatever
>kill like half the town
>they fuck off
>forsworn are forever hostile to you
>also you can kill like all the rich dudes or whatever
>nobody cares after a few days
That whole quest is peak soulless and just shows that bethesda is capable of giving you great worldbuilding but refuses to go any further with it.

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Also all the wandering Forsworn around that area become non-hostile too.

Problem is literally nobody does it better. It's like the worst open world game except for all the other open world games.

Total War: Warhammer 2.

Cidhna Mine is about as interesting as the rest of the game. It isn't. I W+M1 that shit and never look back. Last thing the boring ass civil war plot needs is another side.

>Skyrim came out 11 years ago
>people still playing it
There will never be another Elder Scrolls game. There will never be another Prequel comic.

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>log in
>coom
>log out

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>spoiler
Wait it's dead for good this time? No hiatus or anything?

>LE NEVER ANOTHER ELDER SCROLLS
kys dumb fucking retard.

People don't shit on it enough.
The only good faction in the whole game is the Brotherhood, because they are the only one the game gives you the option to kill them all if you want.
The rest are dogshit.

Thieves Guild suffered the hardest from budget cuts or time constraints I bet. They blew their entire load in the heavily scripted first quest, and then every other quest in the guild turned into dungeon dives instead of thieving.

>Skyrim has the most utterly soulless open world
holy fuck i wish i could fucking curbstomp you and watch your brains bleed all over the pavement you fucking IDIOT

He's clearly never played anything by Ubisoft.

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Can we just talk about how shit skyrim is without mods?
>90% of the music is shitty chanting lullaby garbage
>combat is braindead, just power attack again and again and walk backwards until your stamina goes up
>smithing, enchanting, and alchemy are all that matters, if you dont use them you get one shot by everything, if you do use them you one shot everything
>speech, alteration, lockpick, (destruction doesn't scale, useless on very hard,) and (block, if you're blocking you're not power attacking) are worthless
>dialogue is fucking horrible, it's all so wooden and generic, npcs are two types, friendly and tell you their life story, or insufferable fucking asshole that get their skulls caved in by your warhammer instantly
>dragons are worse than cliffracers, and they love chasing a fox for miles right after they start a fight with you

It really is pretty bad when compared to the thieves guild questline in Oblivion.

And I will still play it over most modern wrpgs

The two underbosses give you a never ending supply of thieving quests. The more you do the more trophies you get for the hideout.

How did you miss that?

Thieve's Guild in Oblivion suffered the most from
>m-muh radiant quests
and had far too much utterly soulless generic "steal x amount of random fucking garbage to progress to the next level". Don't kid yourself, nobody liked any of the Oblivion quests except for Dark Brotherhood too.

Cidna Mine is pretty nice but it's unfortunately locked behind one of the most railroad-y quests in the whole game, or at the very least the one that made me the most upset when I first played it a decade ago.

Bullshit, I liked Mages guild, at least until Mannimarco appeared as a faggy elf and not the god of death he was in past games.

Only a Morrowindtranny would say something like this. Skyrim is one of the few open world game that actually feels like effort was put into it, the big shame is Skyrim is actually the dungeons and enemies rather than the world itself which is wonderfully crafted

Skyrim has the best dungeons in the series by far, however it's towns aren't as detailed as those in Morrowind and the overworld is only slightly less generic than Oblivion.

>best dungeons in the series
Only a few dragon priest dungeons and vohlikar castle, everything else is a generic nord tomb with a secret exit that loops back to the entrance.

>No Lich god with his harem of exotic necromancer dancers
This is what Todd took from you

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>Problem is literally nobody does it better. It's like the worst open world game except for all the other open world games.
Yeah, sadly, especially if we're talking about games with real-time combat and exploration. The freeform self-insert "you can do ANYTHING" sort of premise also lends itself to all sorts of roleplaying opportunities (the in-yo-head kind since the actual in-game choices are often shit) and there's plenty of builds on paper, plus all that and dev tools incentivize people to mod the shit out of the game to iron out some of its faults and add more stuff. Gameplay wise the most similar thing we've gotten is probably Kingdom Come, but it's more linear than Skyrim due to its plot and established protagonist, while the jank and difficulty curve keeps it from being popular. Same thing with TW3, and it has practically no build variety. For "true" open world RPG there's Underrail, but it's hard to say it even tries to compete with Skyrim.

>Can we just talk about how shit skyrim is without mods?
Worst thing about vanilla Skyrim's RP opportunities is that you're instantly railroaded into becoming the Dragonborn™ who gets fellated by everyone around them. There's no journey or anything, you're instantly the chosen one. Even if wanting to give shouts as gameplay mechanic early on is understandable from gameplay standpoint, surely they could've written something else like NPCs initially being in disbelief about the whole thing or written off the player's shouts as fancy magic, until they've become known enough. Dawnguard in particular makes the whole thing feel extra Mary Suish when your character can canonically get to be something like a dark elf dragonborn deluxe edition super vampire.

Based modders.
youtube.com/watch?v=rGUoRHqBgbo

Isn't part of the Dragon Break shenanigans that Mannimarco actually became a god?
It isn't the same king of worms, but still a pretty lame looking necromancer lord

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holy kino.

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This specific NPC actually isn't even in the official Skyrim guide developed in conjunction with the developers.
Basically, nobody except the 2 people who designed her knew she even existed prior to release and until a few years after release, she wasn't widely known among Skyrim players.
But by then, there were far fewer people playing and giving a shit about Skyrim.

I love the city but I can't stand some dickhead commenting on my sneak skill every time I walk into town
Let me abduct and kill this fucking guy or turn him into the cops or something

>dragons are worse than cliffracers, and they love chasing a fox for miles right after they start a fight with you
i always found that amusing, but ocassionally they'd find their way to a farm or something and massacre all NPCs there

Mannimarco Revisited + Rebalance is essential edgekino. It does all of that and more. They give him a voice filter but sadly the delivery is still hammy and the script is still shit.

>ToddTest Room
>Npc called Pretty Kitty
>Can't marry any cats in Skyrim
What did Todd mean by this?

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user, what do you think of Mannimarco Resurrection: Light and Dark?
I'm playing Oblivion going to finnish the Mage's Guild for the first time, and I would like more (decent) content.

Also, does anyone know a mod to make Jygallag sword more powerful or something? The fact that it is a 2h sword and it still is weaker than Umbra that is 1h sword greatly bothers me, I wanted a cool symbolic sword stronger than Umbra.

>until a few years after release, she wasn't widely known among Skyrim players.
Bullshit. There's a path leading straight to her house. Far from the most obscure thing in the game.

What I hate the most is how you're forced into being a baddy in daedric quests or have them forever cluttering your quest menu.
I really do not want to be the god of bdsm rape's bitch for all eternity.
It really does take modders to make beth games good.
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I've just installed skyrim VR and I'm downloading the ultimate VR essentials pack, what am I in for?

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On the one hand I want bethesda to make a new engine for TES6
On the other I don't trust them to be able to make something simple enough to easily mod but advanced enough to actually be a solid improvement

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I remember when skyrim released my friend brought it over to my house to play. All I did was make a crack head looking wood elf, chase salmon downstream all the way to solitude, then I got killed by a mud crab.

>forced into being a baddy
Your consent is neither requested nor required.

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You grossly underestimate the stupidity of the average Skyrim enjoyer.
Skyrim hit a massive public appeal.