I wish you could earn giant camp favor.

Post » Tue Aug 14, 2012 9:34 am

What I mean by this is basically you know those passive giants you see heading back to their camps with Mammoths? Well, I was walking along side one and a blood dragon attacked, I basically saved its life from the dragon and I'm pretty sure if I followed it back to camp, it'd go berserk on me. I would actually like to be able to gain their (If not any faction/camp's) favor so I could enter their camp without being attacked.

I'm pretty sure they head back to camp.. haven't followed one long enough to know.
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Rozlyn Robinson
 
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Post » Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:19 pm

Wouldn't fit with the lore. They're 'gentle creatures', so long as you don't mess with their mammoths or whatever.

Sure it'd be cool, but I doubt you can even speak to them properly.

It'd go against the lore to much.
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Post » Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:33 pm

Didn't older games allow you to speak their language?
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Post » Tue Aug 14, 2012 1:57 pm

Wouldn't fit with the lore. They're 'gentle creatures', so long as you don't mess with their mammoths or whatever.

Sure it'd be cool, but I doubt you can even speak to them properly.

It'd go against the lore to much.

I honestly don't know much of the lore, I just kinda think of 'cool' (Depends on your point of view) ideas that'd "possibly" (Again, depends on your POV) make the game more fun.
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Post » Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:07 am

That would be cool, but to be honest I don't mind them as they are. Friendly at a distance, hostile when you get too close to them - or their mammoths!

To the best of my knowledge, they lack the intelligence of a normal human, meaning it would be hard to earn their favor due to difficulties communicating. Perhaps an offering like the farmers we see?
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Post » Tue Aug 14, 2012 5:40 am

That would be cool, but to be honest I don't mind them as they are. Friendly at a distance, hostile when you get too close to them - or their mammoths!

To the best of my knowledge, they lack the intelligence of a normal human, meaning it would be hard to earn their favor due to difficulties communicating. Perhaps an offering like the farmers we see?

Either an offering or saving them from like 10 dragons. xD (Would take a long time, but it'd be fun.)
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Post » Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:00 am

What I mean by this is basically you know those passive giants you see heading back to their camps with Mammoths? Well, I was walking along side one and a blood dragon attacked, I basically saved its life from the dragon and I'm pretty sure if I followed it back to camp, it'd go berserk on me. I would actually like to be able to gain their (If not any faction/camp's) favor so I could enter their camp without being attacked.

I'm pretty sure they head back to camp.. haven't followed one long enough to know.
Giantish was a language skill in http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Skills.
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Chantel Hopkin
 
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Post » Tue Aug 14, 2012 7:42 am

If you follow one of the farmers that offer a cow, the Giant kills the farmer....
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James Wilson
 
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Post » Tue Aug 14, 2012 12:14 pm

I stay away from giants, I like them so don't want to kill them. Which means staying away from them most of the time. :sad:
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Post » Tue Aug 14, 2012 5:04 pm

Either an offering or saving them from like 10 dragons. xD (Would take a long time, but it'd be fun.)
would be nice if giants didnt become automatically aggressive towards you when a dragon, and not you, attacks them.
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Eileen Müller
 
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Post » Tue Aug 14, 2012 7:46 pm

I wouldn't really want to be friends with them, especially after their free flying lessons they gave me.

I'm surprised they haven't killed everyone in Skyrim yet, I've seen what they can do, they can make their own clothes and weapons yet they remain in them open little camps.
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Post » Tue Aug 14, 2012 8:27 am

when the world is as ants to you, do you search out for those puny ants and squash them all?
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Post » Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:39 am

But they can't talk to you and you can't talk to them.
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Post » Tue Aug 14, 2012 7:16 pm

At first the Giants should be hostile, and the way it is in the game where they only bother you if you bother them is fine.

However, it might be nice to be able to befriend them, or maybe a camp. Perhaps a quest where the choice to help them or not lies with you. While they would not become friends to talk to and the like, it would be like that one Foresworn place that is peaceful to you or hostile depending on how you do one of the quests in the game. However, other than the curiosity of being surrounded by Foresworn that don't want to skin you alive there is no reason to go to this camp.

I do have to say it is fun to go on a Cheese raid and avoid their blows as I sprint through the camps.
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Post » Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:22 am

At first the Giants should be hostile, and the way it is in the game where they only bother you if you bother them is fine.

However, it might be nice to be able to befriend them, or maybe a camp. Perhaps a quest where the choice to help them or not lies with you. While they would not become friends to talk to and the like, it would be like that one Foresworn place that is peaceful to you or hostile depending on how you do one of the quests in the game. However, other than the curiosity of being surrounded by Foresworn that don't want to skin you alive there is no reason to go to this camp.

I do have to say it is fun to go on a Cheese raid and avoid their blows as I sprint through the camps.

While I agree that it's not really necessary, I think it'd be interesting if you could find a book that allowed you to get a very basic level of understanding of their language, which would open the door for a questline that allows you to learn more of their language and befriend them more. While I don't think they'd have any use for money, it'd be cool to see a different barter system of skulls, pelts, and other items, used for you to be able to trade with them.
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