I've got 6 Dragon Souls at the moment and 3 shouts I cannot use because when I try to unlock them it says it requires Dragon Souls. Do some shouts require more souls or is there anyone else having this issue?

Try pressing X to unlock the shout. If thats not it, then maybe its a bug.

'Tis what I mean. When I try to unlock it I get a message saying it requires Dragon Souls to unlock. The game says I have 6, even tried immediately after killing a dragon when it says I've obtained one and it still won't work.

Mainly just curious if anyone has had the same thing happen and, if so, if they managed to fix it somehow.

I originally installed the game, but had an issue with a quest freezing up on me so I uninstalled it and in that instance the quest worked fine but I still couldn't use the souls. I would try reinstalling again but comments on the forums have said you shouldn't. Any suggestions other than wait until a patch hopefully fixes it?

Are you pressing A or X to unlock it? The A button equips the shout, X will unlock it if you have a dragon soul.

X, I was able to unlock the first shout and the Become Ethereal one but after that it wouldn't let me anymore.

Don't you have to go to the the next Dragon Stone Word? 3 Stones per Shout? (3 Different Words just saying)

^Forgot to add that isn't it there 3 stones in different dungeons and such? Just wondering cause I don't think its a bug.

In my experience thus far, I learned the first word for fire breathing, but after killing a second dragon I could not use the soul I got from it to learn Fire breath. After completing The Way of the Voice I was able to spend the 3 dragon souls I had gathered on other words I had learned.

I'm having the same problem, so I came here in hopes for some solution.
I've killed three dragons now, and every time I try to unlock a shout, it just tells me that it requires Dragon Souls to unlock. I don't get it since I have two dragon souls available!

Reinstalling the game worked actually. It started to screw up again and wouldn't let me learn anything new but uninstalling it once again made it start working again. I've since not had any problems and everything is working fine.

Now if I could just get my Orcish Sword to display on my weapon's rack correctly

I haven't had the trouble unlocking the powers as such, but I am having an issue of a similar nature. After reaching level 30 I have lost the dragon souls I had prior, and now I am finding that I can't absorb souls either so unlocking new powers is now becoming somewhat of an issue. I am not entirely certaina s to whether this is a bug or if I was a little too hasty in my use of the dragon souls I had already aquired, perhaps even unlocking storm call was a mistake so early on, thus far I have killed a total of 3 dragons, 5 blood dragons, 2 frost dragons and 1 named dragon after reaching level 30 and have only been able to absorb the soul from the 2 of the blood dragons, 1 of the frost and the named one. When it first happened I thought it was merley a single glitch and shrugged it off until I unlocked the power he was guarding and I had found that my souls were gone. Don't get me wrong I am loving the game, 4 days straight and still so much left to do but this issue is rather disconcerting.

Where did it first happen? I've had a similar glitch and have to wonder if it happened at the same place. I've played about thirty hours and killed five or six dragons, no soul-svcking problems, but then I was inexplicably unable to absorb the soul of the last beastie I killed. It happened at that small mountain near the boneyard in the hot springs area, at that exterior word-wall where you learn the frost breath. I killed the dragon, same as before, and once the deed was done the critter just flopped there looking stubborn and dead. I tried reloading and killing it several other times, leading it off to other areas more than once, and still the same flaccid end. No fire, no mystical effects, no dragon soul, just a ten-ton sack of dead, insolent meat. I can ignore graphics errors and bandit arrows hitching a permanent ride in my character's head, but an inability to carry on with the central focus of the game? WTF?

I too am unable to absorb dragon souls now. I first encountered the problem when I fast traveled to the Atronach Stone and a Blood Dragon showed up, I killed it and the body didn't burn up. I then fast traveled to Ancient's Ascent and found a plain dragon there, killed it, and still no soul. This is rather disconcerting.

I haven't been able to absorb a dragon soul. Just tried re-loading and killed it again, still won't absorb. Dragon just sits there with all it's skin etc. I can loot it but nothing else happens THis is just outside the silent moons camp.

Edit: I've killed and got the soul of the first quest dragon, but I haven't been up the 7000 steps yet. Can I absorb souls before I've been to the greybeards or not? I assumed I could cus of the first dragon outside Whitefun but now I'm just confused!

Yup, same here. I've killed 3 dragons so far and only able to use 2 souls. I have been just wandering doing misc. quests and haven't even gotten to the greybeards yet. I would think Bethesda would give the gamer freedom to start at lets say Markirth, Riften, Windhelm, etc...without having to go in such a lineal path main quest wise.

Hopefully a patch is being produced. It seems to be a problem for a bunch of people.

Love the game still BTW..

PEOPLE HAVING THE UNLOCKING TROUBLE: I thought i had the same problem, because I would go to the menu and press "a" to unlock a shout and it would say that "dragon souls are required to unlock shouts." However, if you look at the bottom of the screen the instructions say to press X to unlock the shout, and then it worked. I felt kind of stupid, and it is kind of obvious, but try that. I guess bethesda didn't make it A because they didn't want us to accidentally unlock shouts we didn't want to.