The Skyrim/Elder Scrolls thread

[Valrifell]

personally i cant wait for the new openworld skyrim-like game from the obsidian franchise. It looks sick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3QkO8fy3tg

The trailer is only cinematic, but it’s a triple A game with a full budget, so it’s definitely going to be great IMO. It’s a couple of years off from what I hear. 2022/2023 release I reckon. By that time it’d be roughly a year or so before TESVI I think, though I am likely wrong. Either TESVI or Avowed would be a great breath of fresh air for the first-person fantasy roleplay genre.

I don't think we're getting TESVI before 2025, since the studio's main focus is on their sci fi game which also happens to not have a known release date yet.

[The Emerald Legion]

Honestly, I got it as a gift for 360, and kind of played that as a continuation of my Oblivion character for a while, before realizing magic was totally different.

Then I later bought it for PC and was given Skyrim special edition for free because I had it for PC.

As far as unintentional bugged encounters go, I can't really think of any. Closest would probably be the time I discovered rune spells can detonate on Draugr BEFORE their casket opens causing them to get blasted into the ether half the time.

On my latest playthrough (on Skyrim SE) I've had dragons fall through the floor at least twice (that I can think of off the top of my head) and the Legion quest softlock for no reason.

So...

I don't doubt bugs happen. Just I personally don't generally encounter them unless I'm doing something fucky to begin with.

[The Imperial Reach]

1. Well except no it's not, it's only added into big choices and decisions. I should know as I've been playing through the game and have gotten away with some pretty evil shit without getting much -Karma because I've been making +Karma big decisions.

It absolutely is. You're just bullshitting now. Fallout 3 forces you into a good/evil perspective that you may not necessarily agree with, unlike New Vegas where almost every decision that invokes karma points in either direction is related to something universally accepted as good (charity) or evil (slavery). The sole exception being that killing feral ghouls gives you good karma, a leftover from Fallout 3.

2. I already told you, I experienced 1 bug, and it was quite comedic. But yeah, that's it, and I'm playing on the OG 360 version. Maybe you're just unlucky?

Now you're just clown posting.

This game has been out for almost a decade now, and during that entire time it has been widely known that the original releases of the game were buggy as all Hell. Characters "sitting" on nothing, characters spawning on top of other characters, dialogue skipping on it's own or not playing at all, quest items getting stuck in your inventory after completing quests, characters spawning dead for no reason, characters glitching to the point you can't talk to them, enchantments not working, characters/items getting stuck in the ground, areas that should be accessible blocked off by invisible walls, dialogue options not being available when they should be, quests not starting when they should, characters freezing in place when they should be moving, scripts not engaging when they should be, characters turning hostile for no reason, even the most famous bug of all: giants launching you into space with their power attacks.

Skyrim is infamous for it's bugs. Again, if you've never encountered any but one then you either don't play that much or you're just lying. There is no other option. The Elder Scrolls wiki lists a bug on almost every single page regarding Skyrim - many of which I've encountered before.

And if you don't believe, go ahead and look up Skyrim related pages on the wiki then. Even the newer versions of the game have bugs in them.

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3. Yes, you did.

I know what I said, but you clearly did not. Reread the posts again. Specifically the first one you linked since the second isn't even remotely relevant at all.

[The first Galactic Republic]

Why are the vast majority of Skyrim vampires such dicks? Honestly.

[The Rich Port]

Why are the vast majority of Skyrim vampires such dicks? Honestly.

They can't go to the beach, I'd be pissy too XD

[San Lumen]

Why are the vast majority of Skyrim vampires such dicks? Honestly.

No idea. Guess they wanted you to hate them. Harkon turned me off the moment I met him. Speaking of the supernatural I wish Hircine's quest had dialogue with Sinding or Hircine acknowledging if the DB was a werewolf just like Harkon did when you meet him.

[Nevertopia]

The trailer is only cinematic, but it’s a triple A game with a full budget, so it’s definitely going to be great IMO. It’s a couple of years off from what I hear. 2022/2023 release I reckon. By that time it’d be roughly a year or so before TESVI I think, though I am likely wrong. Either TESVI or Avowed would be a great breath of fresh air for the first-person fantasy roleplay genre.

I don't think we're getting TESVI before 2025, since the studio's main focus is on their sci fi game which also happens to not have a known release date yet.

i doubt we'll be getting a new TES, if they release it after their scifi game theyd end up competing with themselves and their development cycle post-launch (dlc, expansions, microtransactions, etc) so I'd give it +5yrs after whenever their obisidan outer worlds knockoff comes out.

also Im worried that their in-house engine is now showing its age. The bethesda game engine was custombuilt iirc and is why its so buggy compared to other games who use the one engine everyone uses that gets updated every few years whos name escapes me right now. its just not worth making your own engine.

[San Lumen]

I don't think we're getting TESVI before 2025, since the studio's main focus is on their sci fi game which also happens to not have a known release date yet.

i doubt we'll be getting a new TES, if they release it after their scifi game theyd end up competing with themselves and their development cycle post-launch (dlc, expansions, microtransactions, etc) so I'd give it +5yrs after whenever their obisidan outer worlds knockoff comes out.

also Im worried that their in-house engine is now showing its age. The bethesda game engine was custombuilt iirc and is why its so buggy compared to other games who use the one engine everyone uses that gets updated every few years whos name escapes me right now. its just not worth making your own engine.

You dont think we will ever get ES VI?

[Northern Davincia]

>invoking Talos
>fight for the Imperials

You absolute milk-drinker.

How am I a milk-drinker? Ulfric is the one butchering Men while the Empire is in a cold war with the Dominion. Seems like he's an enemy of Mankind if he'd rather kill Men than Elves.

Pretty sure the Empire loses points for butchering men (without trial outside of combat) and banning the worship of Talos does not show reverence to him at all.

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

How am I a milk-drinker? Ulfric is the one butchering Men while the Empire is in a cold war with the Dominion. Seems like he's an enemy of Mankind if he'd rather kill Men than Elves.

Pretty sure the Empire loses points for butchering men (without trial outside of combat) and banning the worship of Talos does not show reverence to him at all.

You could argue that the Stormcloaks lose a lot of points for butchering men without trial at all as well, considering their treatment of the Reachmen

[The Islands of Versilia]

I don't think we're getting TESVI before 2025, since the studio's main focus is on their sci fi game which also happens to not have a known release date yet.

i doubt we'll be getting a new TES, if they release it after their scifi game theyd end up competing with themselves and their development cycle post-launch (dlc, expansions, microtransactions, etc) so I'd give it +5yrs after whenever their obisidan outer worlds knockoff comes out.

also Im worried that their in-house engine is now showing its age. The bethesda game engine was custombuilt iirc and is why its so buggy compared to other games who use the one engine everyone uses that gets updated every few years whos name escapes me right now. its just not worth making your own engine.

We will definitely be getting TESVI. It won’t be for at least 4 or 5 years, but we will be getting it. It has been announced, so it would be suicide for Bethesda to not make another one especially with some of the hype around it. Starfield is a new IP so once that’s out they’re going to go full steam ahead with TESVI.

Their engine was past its prime decades ago. They definitely need a new engine, because the one they’re using is just a barely updated version of their old one. I don’t see them just using another engine, only another one of their own making.

[The Imperial Reach]

How am I a milk-drinker? Ulfric is the one butchering Men while the Empire is in a cold war with the Dominion. Seems like he's an enemy of Mankind if he'd rather kill Men than Elves.

Pretty sure the Empire loses points for butchering men (without trial outside of combat) and banning the worship of Talos does not show reverence to him at all.

You mean the lip-service ban that was never enforced? The one that everyone - including authorities - ignored? The one that was never in effect until Ulfric threatened to ethnically cleanse Markarth if he couldn't worship publicly even though he pretty much could and always had without so much as a word from the Empire? The one that by openly defying it proved the Empire wasn't enforcing it to the Thalmor resulting in their demand to police it themselves thereby pretty much inviting the Thalmor to Skyrim in the first place and creating the very problem he keeps raging about? That ban?

Ulfric is a cowardly racist power-monger and certified dumbass. He's single-handedly preventing the Empire from being prepared for the next war with the Dominion. A historically renowned strategist like Tiber Septim would facepalm at his complete lack of tactical acumen. He does a disservice to Nords, Skyrim, Talos, the Empire, all Men and all of Tamriel with his selfish and reckless arrogance.

[The Rich Port]

Never mind Ulfric is an actual or inadvertent Aldmeri Dominion puppet whose presence has most certainly weakened the Empire and it has no chance to fight off the Dominion itself, ergo fomenting this rebellion dooms not just the Empire but Skyrim itself.

I'm curious as to why they bothered with him beyond giving the story flavor because it is comical how little he matters in the grand scheme of things. He's a mediocre practitioner of the Thu'um and a mediocre warrior, it's always way too easy to kill him every time I do. IMO he should have been on the same level as the Dragonborn, but whereas the Dragonborn had everything handed to them because of their dragon blood, Ulfric had to earn every inch of mastery he had, and depending on who you sided with, maybe he or General Tullius would become pawns of Alduin or something, it would have made him and the Civil War questline feel a lot more epic and important.

[North German Realm]

At the risk of being that guy, are we seriously still doing this?

[The Imperial Reach]

At the risk of being that guy, are we seriously still doing this?

Not my fault Stormcloaks keep bringing it up. 9 out of 10 times they start this discussion. By whining about Ulfric, Talos, and the Empire like a broken record.

[The Rich Port]

At the risk of being that guy, are we seriously still doing this?

Not my fault Stormcloaks keep bringing it up. 9 out of 10 times they start this discussion. By whining about Ulfric, Talos, and the Empire like a broken record.

Ever since that stupid idiot The Golden One did his white supremacy playthrough people won't shut up about the Nordic ethnostate, it's so dumb -_-

[San Lumen]

I hate that getting to near the end of Dark Brotherhood questline is the only opportunity to meet Emperor Titus Mede II.
I wish if you chose to destroy the dark brotherhood you also get the opportunity to meet him and he gives you an reward. Perhaps the entire amount of gold you’d get from the questline or a place in his court?

[Andsed]

I hate that getting to near the end of Dark Brotherhood questline is the only opportunity to meet Emperor Titus Mede II.
I wish if you chose to destroy the dark brotherhood you also get the opportunity to meet him and he gives you an reward. Perhaps the entire amount of gold you’d get from the questline or a place in his court?

The whole destroy the dark brotherhood questline is really fucking shallow. Which for someone who does it when going as a lawful character is a shame. You just go in there and stab them. It is just bland. Imagine having to actually stop the assassination with the potential to fail meaning you will not get rewarded. Would have been so much cooler.

[The Imperial Reach]

I hate that getting to near the end of Dark Brotherhood questline is the only opportunity to meet Emperor Titus Mede II.
I wish if you chose to destroy the dark brotherhood you also get the opportunity to meet him and he gives you an reward. Perhaps the entire amount of gold you’d get from the questline or a place in his court?

The whole destroy the dark brotherhood questline is really fucking shallow. Which for someone who does it when going as a lawful character is a shame. You just go in there and stab them. It is just bland. Imagine having to actually stop the assassination with the potential to fail meaning you will not get rewarded. Would have been so much cooler.

Bethesda has this weird fetish for being unable to fail quests.

[Cadonica]

Imagine having to actually stop the assassination with the potential to fail meaning you will not get rewarded. Would have been so much cooler.

Maybe they didn't want to rip off New Vegas that came out just a year before. Though Bethesda being lazy is more likely.

[San Lumen]

I hate that getting to near the end of Dark Brotherhood questline is the only opportunity to meet Emperor Titus Mede II.
I wish if you chose to destroy the dark brotherhood you also get the opportunity to meet him and he gives you an reward. Perhaps the entire amount of gold you’d get from the questline or a place in his court?

The whole destroy the dark brotherhood questline is really fucking shallow. Which for someone who does it when going as a lawful character is a shame. You just go in there and stab them. It is just bland. Imagine having to actually stop the assassination with the potential to fail meaning you will not get rewarded. Would have been so much cooler.

I hate the dark brotherhood and would never join them. I really wish you could meet the Emperor after destroying them. That would have been a far greater reward

[Theberstan]

Who would win, the Dragonborn, or Talion from shadow of Mordor/War?

[The Rich Port]

Who would win, the Dragonborn, or Talion from shadow of Mordor/War?

Doesn't the Dragonborn regularly beat up ghosts?

[The Emerald Legion]

Not my fault Stormcloaks keep bringing it up. 9 out of 10 times they start this discussion. By whining about Ulfric, Talos, and the Empire like a broken record.

Ever since that stupid idiot The Golden One did his white supremacy playthrough people won't shut up about the Nordic ethnostate, it's so dumb -_-

.... The what?

Look, I've been a storm cloak fan since I first got the game years ago. Because pretending the Thalmor wouldn't find an excuse to crack down when they're full of spies and the empire has none is silly and denying the divinity of Talos even in lip service is Heresy, especially when it wasn't needed because the empire won the war.

The White Gold Concordat was Cyrodiils Cowardice. Cyrodiil faced the most immediate danger from continued hostilities. Skyrim didn't.

[North German Realm]

Ever since that stupid idiot The Golden One did his white supremacy playthrough people won't shut up about the Nordic ethnostate, it's so dumb -_-

.... The what?

Look, I've been a storm cloak fan since I first got the game years ago. Because pretending the Thalmor wouldn't find an excuse to crack down when they're full of spies and the empire has none is silly and denying the divinity of Talos even in lip service is Heresy, especially when it wasn't needed because the empire won the war.

The White Gold Concordat was Cyrodiils Cowardice. Cyrodiil faced the most immediate danger from continued hostilities. Skyrim didn't.

And to be fair it is heavily implied that the nobility (At least in Skyrim) only accepted it when the Empire bribed them. Which does beg the question of where they even found the money and why they didn't continue a war if they had that sort of cash