How Do You Play Skyrim. :)

Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:49 pm

So, how do you play skyrim. What's your style.
Are you good, bad, neutrel, mixed?
What do you always do, what would you never you do?

Obviously, given skyrim has the most broken, linear, system in rpgs, ever, the ammount you can be good, bad and neutrel is unfairly and illogically low.

I have good, bad, neutrel, mixed characters.

Most of the time I have chaotic good characters. They are good, but kill large ammounts of people for fun or because they want to.
Without essential tags, entire towns and factions would be annihalated, whatever my character.

I would love to have a kill happy villain who depopulates entire towns for fun, but I can't.
Damn essential tags.

I will never, ever, side with the stormcloaks. There is no reason why anyone would side with, braindead, racist idiots, whatever race they were.
Yes, I thought about doing it from curiosity, but I can't bring myself to do it.

I always side with the imperials. Best for everyone.
I join most factions. Apart from the thieves guild.

I will never, ever join the TG, ever.
I did it once, solely for the trophies, but never, ever, again.
I would destroy them all and anyone to do with them, if I could.

I only get houses with proper beds with bed linen, wear clothes when not in combat.
I roleplay all my characters. They eat, drink, sleep regularly.

I have light armour or robes or clothes.

Heavy armour is useless and a waste of time.
I love dwemer armour, but not interested in making a heavy armour person just to wear it.
Falmer and aincient nord look good too, but still not worth doing heavy armour for.

And looks stupid on females and males with the boobplates.
Yes, I checked, even males have boobplates.

I have mages or warriors usually. I tried a archer but the the archery freaked out and she she could'nt hit to save her life and had the defense of a level 1, despite being properly made.
I have one handed weapons usually. Or one hadned and magic, or duel wielding magic.
I will try any combination apart from 2 handed. 2 handed is boring.

they always have lots of magic.

I usually have females. I tried males, but they don't look as good as females.
The maxed out weight makes females look curvy.
On males it makes them look boxey.

I want to do a nord barbarian berserker lady, with skull warpaint. But the armour that would be perfect, aincient nord and falmer, is heavy. And barbarians are usually light armour.
Playing wise I would be better off making her light armour. Roleplay, she'd look great in falmer or aincient nord.

What to do. Maybe make her heavy armour, just this once.

So what do you do? How do you play skyim? :smile:
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:11 am

I play drunk and sees where it takes me, no plans at all but i do go with items armor, weapon etc that does look good rather than being the best and i play both evil and good depending on the day and for warriors the bigger weapon the better but i prefer spellcasters in TES.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:00 pm

"Obviously, given skyrim has the most broken, linear, system in rpgs, ever, the ammount you can be good, bad and neutrel is unfairly and illogically low".

This is the reason I hardly play.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:49 pm

I'd never tag myself good, bad or neutral. These labels are a holdover from the genesis of DnD. When DnD started up labels like this were necessary to differentiate possibilities in gameplay, but now such labels reek of being under developed.

Think about it. What person starts out in life by deciding they're 'evil' and then goes out looking for evil things to do? Realistically, whether people end up in careers as thieves or assassins, they still think that what they're doing is 'right'.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:07 pm

I roleplay so it's not about how I play, It's about who my characters are. Most of my characters tend to be flawed. They make mistakes. Furthermore, they tend to change as a result of their mistakes and other experiences they have in the games. So they often behave differently at level 50 than they did at level 1. Most of them tend to do good things sometimes and bad things other times. The percentage of good to bad depends on the character.

The same thing applies to gear. Some of them wear Light Armor, some wear Heavy Armor, some wear only clothes. Some do the main quest, others don't. A few do no quests at all. It all depends on the character.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:50 pm

I suppose Era, my warrior, is what you'd call chaotic neutral verging on chaotic evil. I prefer the term 'amoral', myself. She's ferociously curious and utterly uninhibited when it comes to satisfying that curiosity. She doesn't pick the 'right' choice - she picks the 'interesting' one. She'll just as soon play tag with the kids in Solitude as torture the captives in the Dark Brotherhood's cellar to test their pain threshold. She's insatiably power-hungry to boot, so she joined (and excelled in) all the guilds, became a Thane in every hold, bought up every available home on the market, conquered Skyrim for the Stormcloaks and, of course, defeated Alduin. My character Anja, on the other hand, is more of a neutral good. She helps others when she can, but tries not to needlessly put her life in danger. If you have a package you need to deliver or a rogue troll to put down, she's your girl; if you're looking for someone to plumb the depths of a draugr-infested crypt, adios. Unlike Era, she'll never embrace or even be aware of her role as the Dragonborn or join any of the guilds. She fought for the Imperial Legion not for honour or glory, but because the Empire makes her feel safe and she wants to restore stability to Skyrim. A day of hunting in Whiterun's plains followed by a good night's sleep in her quaint little cottage in Riften is all she'll ever want.
As you can see, my playstyle depends entirely on which character I'm playing. Apart from those two I've got: a burly Khajiit with a good heart who fell in with the Thieves Guild simply to keep from starving on the streets; an Argonian hippie who traipses about looking for pretty places to get her daily skooma fix and thinks wolves look adorable when they've been Calmed; a snooty vampire noble who doesn't deign to sully her hands and has her bodyguard do all the dirty work; a Dunmer mage who's slowly spiraling into an unhealthy obsession with necromancy as she struggles to find a way to bring back her beloved. I don't confine myself to any one way of approaching the game. :)
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