Skyrim, or, How I Ruined My LifeFollow

I don't know what the hell they did to the PS3 version. I've got both the 360 and PC versions and I've never had the game freeze on me.

Lucky you. I get freeze ups every other time I play the game. Got to the point where I made sure to quicksave often for fear that I would loose my progress.

Between Skyrim and Battlefield 3, I end up having to get up and reset my PS3 just about once every hour.

Just got Skyrim yesterday and only played a tiny bit with it last night.

Man, it's damn near impossible to construct a female character who doesn't look as though she was beaten in the face with a muskrat's ***. People in Skyrim age hard.

I think they just kind of suck with character creation engines, really. It can be done well, it's just not their strength.

Although you got to admit it is amusing that we take so much pride in making our characters look as good as we can in a game where we never see their face unless we pan out and whip the camera in front of them. Even then certain helms hide their face completely.

Joph- If you're on PC, head on over to Skyrim Nexus, get their mod manager, & nab "no more blocky faces" & the "detailed faces" mods.

It'll help. So will the HD textures if your rig is decent.

Meh, I made a Bosmer who looks Asian. It was kind of the best I could hope for.

Don't over power your spell pool initially is my advice, MP is finite until you start finding items with good MP regen, or cost reduction. (i like MP regen, because swapping sets for every spell you cast sucks.)

I took a few sneak > backstab, One hand Crit, Stamina reduction (benefits conjured swords as well) and one arrow damage mod (all though conjured bow is stupidly strong and I feel I wasted that point.)

Your spells just won't have the damage to MP ratio early on, and you will find yourself having to kite fights for a long time if you are dependent on MP for both survival and damage.

(or you could always just make some op clothes early if you get lucky with disenchants with alchemy/enchanting/smithing and go all out mage pretty easily.)

I found spell casting a bit boring. No matter what gear and spells I got, going heavy armor and just plowing through mobs with a sword in one hand and Flames in the other was a lot faster than pure spell casting.

Not to mention the survivability. When you run out of magicka - which you will, at least early on - being skilled in heavy armor and one-handed weapons makes a huge difference.

Diff'rent strokes, I guess, but the game just feels designed around physical combat. I'm a huge spell casting fan, so I always go spell casting first, but in this particular game, I felt I was being constantly steered towards physical combat.

I found that, post level 20, the physical characters started to get a lot harder though. Particularly against dragons.

For me, I went through Oblivion recently just spam clicking my melee attacks and driving everything into the ground before me.

Basic game play in Skyrim isn't really different so I figured I should try a different character style 'lest I be bored within a couple hours.

Semi-related, since I'm actually looking at mage gear now, I noticed my +50% Magicka regen Novice robes are values at around 155 and the Illusion Robes with +50% Magicka Regen and 12% Illusion bonus are worth about 20. What's up with that zaniness?