Tale

This game has way too much too do. And I like almost all of the dungeons I've visited. I feel like I've done so much. I've got way too many shouts, level 26, am Archmage of the College, Thane of two holds, and am somewhat into the Companions series. But I've only really visited those two holds, and just walked into a third a few minutes ago. Only completed one major faction quest, and there's still more quests to do with it. And barely touched the main quest. I'm 40 hours in and I don't have any skill up to 70. I've got Assassin's Creed coming on Tuesday. I don't have time for all of this!

Finished the College of Winterhold. I've only visited three cities so far, two of them holds, so that's really interesting. Unlike Oblivion, where you had to visit every city for the Mage's quest. Edit: Make that four cities, forgot Dawnstar. And I apparently lost track of two hours on the final few missions. I looked at my clock expecting to see 2 am. It's 4:30.

Finally started a guild quest line. I keep wanting to run through barrows, but

I wish they could frame all UI elements as magic spells.

Heck, even with the compass I find myself using Clairvoyance a lot. Those mountains are a bloody maze.

I had one crash yesterday. That's the worst I can say after 7.7 hours of play. The best I can say is "WHEE, REANIMATED CORPSES, DO MY BIDDING."

One word: fury. I had a problem encounter earlier. Room was being watched over by a mage. If I engaged, the mage would run, grab a higher level enemy, and I'd have a bad fight on my hand. If I furied the mage, it would run and fight the higher level enemy, and I'd never be bothered by either of them.

Those who went to High Hrothgar, anyone else encounter a Frost Troll? Took me about 10 minutes and 20 potions to take him down.

"Destruction magic's okay, just don't set the inn on fire." The reactivity is kind of neat. Anyone found anything to do with Nirnroot? I ended up eating the first one I found, figuring it was just a regular ingredient this time around. But then the second time I found one, I realize it has its own environmental sound cue.

And here I thought they just had a vbulletin exploit on the forum. :/

A regular wired Xbox 360 controller will (or at least in XP) require a driver. The driver can be acquired from windows update once the controller is plugged in.

Maybe it's like Oblivion's lockpicking minigame. That is an offense to mouse cursors everywhere.

It's supposed to be by local time. A few regions seem to be missing on that. I've heard that Singapore should have unlocked earlier, but hasn't. And I'm still not clear on if US is all unlocking at the same time or by time zone.

I think that Rybicki Maneuver article was a good one. I tend to side with "ignore scores, read the content," but it makes a good argument for why even that is flawed.

Please tell me that the famous "Bangers and Mash" of english cuisine is not sausages on top of mashed potatoes.

I'm sorry that people feel to objectify their subjective preferences so that I'm a **** for liking x and y, even when I don't even think that one is better than the other. Kind of like I don''t think that Natalie Portman is better than Chris Evans, but I'd still only like to have sex with her. I don't recall anyone pretending their preference was objective. What I have noted is that you have descended into mockery (the sonic boom/falcon punch comment). It's sort of like "hey, have I mentioned that I think dragon shouts are silly today?" We got it, man. Let's move on. Let us let go.

I'm sorry that the idea of godlike creatures altering reality with their words bothers you so much.

And dragon romance.

Oh wow, sorry to hear that.

This month also includes a Metal Gear Solid release. And Assassin's Creed.

What's your beef with Hadvar, man? He's an accomplice to their crime.

Tullius is on the List. All of the Legion in the starting town are.

What I'd normally do is check the steam forums for similar problems. But their forums are down. You've done everything I could think to suggest. I've heard similar things to this with DLCs from time to time. I don't know if there is one recurring problem or if each time it's something different. I'll try looking again when their forums get up. Edit: Google pulls up nothing.

Hi-five!

I think they're trying to channel Morrowind here. There's some definitely reused themes. There's political and house struggles. The player is essentially a living god. And a hint that they're looking for grey morality in the new Empire. And the Thalmor, who aren't really all that grey, but seem interesting enough for behind the scenes plots.