Gorgon

A simple job of delivering some jewelery became an epic trip where I discovered 3 new towns. Not every quest is like this though, I have completed plenty that were close or just around the corner. It does feel like the AI quest thing robs a me a little of the joy of exploration. It's more fun to find something yourself than to be led to it. I found the Shrine of Azura by accident, but there are loads of pilgrims who just happened to be on the way there in the game world. That kind of thing is fine, just not all the time.

Yeah, you are really really short on avialable keys surrounding WASD and then you aren't allowed to rebind 'f' to something useful. You can't bind a spell either, you have to drop it in the favorites pool first then hotgroup it with CTRL+number keys, meaning that the favorites pool becomes a junk drawer for all the things you want and wanted to bind, and so not very usable by itself at all. There is no quick spell pool, the quck spell shortcut takes you to your spell library, not to an instant listing of all your spells. You can't dual wield, although the animations looked pretty cool, you would have to manually equip with 3 or 4 mouse clicks every time you wanted to switch to a dagger and sword. I could go on. It really is abysmal. Fortunately the game is good enough to put up with all that.

Does anyone know how to work the console. I want to reclaim all those points I put into sword and shield, they just don't work with the shortcut system, and put them in two handed. I don't want to restart just for that.

I Just heard some guy mention that there were spells and probably trainers at the mage colledge. I so need a destruction trainer, I can only manage single enemies without a companion. Stole a horse and happened upon an inn on the way.

Stumbled on what must be the starting point for the Dark Brotherhood quests. So doing that next.

Across the stream from starterville. The trader there has a quest pointing you straight to it.

I don't get the complaint about difficulty though, I would die constantly if not for my trusty immortal henchman Sven taking the brunt of the assault. I'm lv7 and I don't have a skill above 25 because I'm having too much fun using bows, all kinds of magic, swords, shields, sneak and so on. Migth explain it.

stuck in one of the combo locks. Can't go back, it's blocked. there are 6 triggers each with 3 possible settings and no way to confirm if you are on the rigth track. That's too many options to get it by trial and error. There is no cue either anywhere. Anyone did the mages guild initiation quests pleas spoil me. (fish, snake, bird combination)

I wonder if the counter spells work in practice this time. They eat up a lot of mana fast. Just found the mage stronghold.

It's good. Why didn't they make weapon sets though. I need 4 keys just to swap between sword and shield and dual spells. I imagine it's going to get to be quite a hassle once I build up a repertoire of spells.

can't you put markers on the map ?

Feels like I'm playing The Wither intro again, dragons, kings, running, silly tutorial. Mouse is a bit wonky, but I can probably compensate with the logitech applet. Of course you can't see the back of your character's head which you are going to be looking at 99% of in game time during character creation. That would be too easy.

I can't change my password becacuse I used an old email for contact that I can't remember the password for. Now when they decide to force a password change in steam I'm gonna be in trouble.

Tried everything. Even tried an ad hoc fix bundle from techies who couldn't get it to run on win 7. Now it's gone from the device manager, I don't even have an unidentified entry. Bahh. I'm getting a real sound card with win 7 support tomorrow.

Scandinavian quisine is pretty lame if the criteria is that it has to be some god awful homespun dish that farmers used to eat 100 years ago. We are well aware of this and what we actually eat is the best world quisine has to offer.

Well you killed the butterflies in my stomach

Always the same when re installing. I can't for the life of me remember where I got the drivers for the integrated audio. MB manufacturer's drivers are a no go, they think I have the wrong OS installed ?. And yet I got it to work in my other win 7 installation. I don't suppose anyone knows where windows keeps its driver archive. Probably all encrypted and impossible to get to. grrr.

Get one. Everything is right there the second you log on. No more twiddling your thumbs while the HDDs churn along for ages.

Councils said fraud cases were rising because the current economic climate was putting pressure on people's personal finances and "tempting" them to commit fraud. They also said a reduction in staff numbers due to cutbacks was weakening internal fraud controls. Transparency in budgets is done out of consideration for the taxpayer who is supposedly interested in where his money goes and that there is not too much waste. I don't see the link to politically charged leaks and Wikileaks.

It's been up and down for me. It got pretty stable towards the end of the DLC cycle though.

What we need is a user rating as widespread as IMDB. They get it wrong on occasion, but I have never seen a good movie with a user rating of 4 or less. All this pre-launch Mumbo jumbo that is the life-bread of game sites. I don't trust it at all.

Those are opinions from someone whose paycheck exists largely because of ad revenue from game publishers. Whatever remains of impartiality is in the last 10%. ei. a sucky game gets 90%, something potentially good gets 100%

He is doing the usual song and dance about deregulation and small government. I don't think there is a nuanced layer hidden anywhere here.

Lame

Finally got around to ordering the SSD. 96 gb drive, cost about a third more than a good 1 tb mechanical drive and had gone up 1/8 in price over the last two months. In my experience mechanical drives break with alarming regularity so if SSDs are worse I had better figure out a practical backup system. Maybe one of those USB docks for hard drives.