So...Skyrim

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Post by Rankkor

Obviously there are going to be better early talents, etc., but you simply can't level one skill all the way right away anymore.

The best skills you can develop early are the crafting ones.

Smithing, alchemy, and enchanting can make you a truly game-breaking overpowered bastard once you level them. Specially smithing and alchemy.

Not to mention that the best armors in the game (Dragon armor and Daedric armor) can only be obtained by crafting them via smithing.

Post by Rankkor

The Imperial Legion is my choice, not because i believe they're awesome, but because at the very least they are still led by intelligent dedicated people, instead of brutish thugs that speak about pretty ideals, but betray their ideals with every action.

¬.¬ you DO realize that the imperial legion is led by a colovian warlord who rose to power by storming the imperial city with a 1000 men and took it by force and self-proclaimed himself emperor right? Thus being no better than Ulfric himself.

The empire used to be awesome back when it was led by the septim dynasty, a group of wise men who always kept the good of all the people at the front. But ever since oblivion, the septim line died when martin did. Since then, the elder council tried to place new emperors on the throne, all of which did such a crappy job, that there were rebellions everywhere, and it wasn't until a ruthless warlord named Titus Mede I took over the empire by force, that the rebellions stopped (Because he executed any sign of resistance to his rule)

Thus your lovely empire is led by even worst brutes than the stormcloaks themselves. The son of Titus Mede I is Titus Mede II and is the current emperor, and he's little better than his father in terms of honor, being the one who placed his own life ahead of the lives of his people.

Stormcloaks may be brutes as much as you wanna paint it, but at least they place the interest of skyrim ahead of all else. Whereas the empire places the interest of Mede ahead of all else, so, in the long run, nords WILL be shafted when they need the help of the empire, just like morrowind, hammerfell, and highrock.

If anything, its the Mede Dynasty that fancies their actions with pretty words, but when the crap hits the fan, they are the first to bend the knee and screw whoever doesn't like it.

of course, if the game was actually going to let me make MY choice, i'd start forming my own third side

this is pretty much the only part we can agree.

I don't LIKE the stormcloaks that much, but I still believe that they are better (for skyrim) than the empire, so between having to choose, I pick the lesser evil. The stormcloaks have their own issues, and they are many, but skyrim will be a better place with them at the head than a decadent empire that has reduced itself to a shadow of its former glory.

If it was up to me, I'd support secession from the empire, but putting someone else other than the stormcloaks in charge.

Ulfric has shown in many parts that he can act like a petulant child when he doesn't get what he wants.

Post by Palapower27

The wizard from dragon's reach sounds like John Malkovich, sarcasm and all. - Come to dragon's reach to discuss the ongoing hostilities, like the rest of the 'great warriors'?

So what is everyone's favorite mod?

SkyUI

Their reworking of the inventory menu is brilliant and I can't wait to see what they will do with the rest of the UI, a part of Skyrim that REALLY needs to be redone.

Although it is only in its beginning stages (most of the mods are at this point are without the Creation Kit to work with), I'm excited for this realism mod, mostly because I'm a realism junkie. Here is the thread that details the modder's goals.

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Post by Interest

Thoughts on frapsing quality guys? =P

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Post by Azazel

At least that was my experience before christmas joy filled my computer.

Damn. I've spent too much time on the other side of internet.

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Post by Interest

The frame rate differs incredibly heavily depending on your rigout, that particular video looks like he was running it on high with a 4 year old video card, which makes me motion sick. On low he'd have constant 60, on medium it would ping pong between 30 and 60, on high it goes from 20-40, on ultra you can go as low as 10 and only ever reach about 25. At least that was my experience before christmas joy filled my computer.

Seeing that the general consensus is that you should have twice what you need to run it in order to record with fraps (in the faq for fraps or the purchase taglines) I'd say that he just needed a beefier rig or lower settings.

I was thinking about the same. It was actually monumentally worse during recording. The framerate dramatically improved when I rendered it and stuff.

Maybe I'll just overclock or reduce quality to medium. It was a recording quality test anyways.

Also, you don't know that is me?

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Post by Rankkor

Hmmm seeing as of how lore wise everything that can happen in an Elder Scrolls game does happen in an Elder Scrolls game, Titus Mede the ll may be having a bit of trouble leading from the afterlife, does he have a son?

unknown, all lore regarding the emperor comes from 2 ingame books called "The Infernal city" and "Lord of Souls", both of them dedicated to Titus Mede I, and neither mention if he had grandkids, only mention his 2 sons, Titus Mede II and Attrebus Mede.

Seeing as Titus Mede II is killed during the events of skyrim, the next in line for the throne will be the brother Attrebus, who considering who his father was, is very likely to be the same as him.

Then if you have aided Tullius in regaining control of Skyrim he's going to look pretty good when they're supposed to be getting ready for a war, and do you really think he's going to just let Rikke fade into the background after she's proven so trustworthy and effective?

it could be because english ins't my main language, but I have no idea what you were trying to say here =( u're gonna have to elaborate more on this point.

My point is: You dissed the stormcloaks because they are a bunch of brutes who go by the creed "My way or the highway", but the empire is even worst, its current line of emperors came to power by the actions of a man that makes Ulfric seem like a harmless little puppy.

Not to mention that on top of being brutes, the empire is also led by backstabbers.

Did you know that shortly after the White-gold concord was signed, The empire promised Ulfric Stormcloak free worship of Talos in exchange for retaking The Reach from a group of breton dissidents.. Ulfric formed a Nord militia and crushed the Reachmen at Markarth with the aid of his Thu'um. The survivors fled into the wilds forming a group called the Forsworn. And here's the kicker Ulfric was then arrested by the Thalmor when they discovered the open worship of Talos. Yep, the empire just wanted the reach (largest source of silver in skyrim) taken from the breton Dissidents, without spending imperial soldiers in the process and used Ulfric as an unwitting pawn, only to then discard him as a scapegoat to the thalmor once he outlived his usefulness.

Ulfric and his men were eventually released, but the incident kindled what would become the Stormcloak Rebellion. Mostly because the Thalmor believed in the old saying of "Divide and Conquer", they realized that Ulfric had a justified chip on his shoulder against the empire for the double betrayal, and if he led an insurrection, civil war would cripple skyrim. They actively encouraged that war and didn't wanted a victory, neither from the stormcloaks nor for the empire, they wanted the nation to be consumed by in-fighting

Still defend the empire?

Post by Rankkor

As a last bit: Even after you aid the rebels to win the civil war, Ulfric doesn't do what Titus Mede I did, he doesn't self-proclaim himself High King.

Instead, he says that the Moot (Something similar to a council of nobles, conformed by every Jarl in skyrim, as well as lesser nobles) must choose the next High King.

He even lets Elisyf, the wife of the former High King remain in power as a Jarl, provided she swears off the empire for good.

So there you have it, not so much a bunch of brutes anymore huh?

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Post by Rankkor

I was insinuating that Tulliius could make a grab for power.

he's a military leader, nothing more nothing less, he has no intentions of being crowned emperor.

Not brutes? Killing thousands of your kinsman to prove a point doesn't seem a little brutish to you? How about killing everyone who disagrees with you or doesn't immediately agree and fall in line?

again, the same thing was done by the empire, I feel compelled to remind you that nobody actually chose Titus Mede I emperor, he crowned himself as emperor when he stormed the imperial city by force. And enforced his rule by executing those who didn't accepted him as emperor.

and then murdered a boy half his age that admired and respected him.

/sighs, this again? dude I tought we had agreed that Torygg was anything but a boy, Ulfric is at most in his mid 30's, he still looks quite young, at best he would be no more than 5 or 6 years older than Torygg. And its not Murder when it was a duel that both sides agreed to, as is nord tradition.

How kind of him to kill everyone who opposes him on the moot, and then decide that once only people that he likes are on it that then they are qualified to do their job.

If his intentions were to bully his way into the moot he would not have:

A: Sent me to retrieve the Crown of the first high king. He did that in order to gain favor with the moot, if his plan was to kill those who didn't liked him he wouldn't be bothering to gain favor in the first place.

and

B: Would not had let Elisiff live, considering she would be the Jarl that most oposses to him.

Or maybe he's a childish con man that says pretty words that mean nothing, touting the banner of freedom, while deliberately curtailing any such thing.

again, ditto for the empire, they talk pretty but they put the Emperor's priorities over everything and everyone else, The way they used Ulfric to retake the reach (Promising him and his men free reign to worship Talos, but then discarding them like scapegoats to the thalmor) as well as the way they sacrificed the freedom of Hammerfell (The White-gold concord allowed the Thalmor to freely take pretty much the southern half of Hammerfell, regardless of what the Redguards feel about that. When the Redguards refused to cede half of their land, what did the emperor did? declare that Hammerfell wasn't a part of the empire anymore) and the way they completely abandoned Morrowind to its luck once they proved they weren't useful anymore, proves that their words are just that, words, their actions are something else completely different. So much for touting the banner of freedom, right?

Elisif gets to live? So basically all that changes is that Ulfric pulls the strings instead of the empire? Leaving her as Jarl is downright foolish, she is far too pliable and trusting to make an effective leader in any way. A tailored puppet that will back down from any course of action in the face of mild disapproval.

Or, he let her live because she had already lost enough, because she too secretly worshiped talos despite licking the boots of the empire (She sends you the player to put an offering in an illegal Altar to Talos for her husband, thus making her a hypocrite) and because she didn't loved the Thalmor anymore than he did.

Did you miss the little exchange between ulfric and his general that highlights the fact that there's almost no chance they'll choose anyone but ulfric now, and that ulfric is aware of this, which is the only reason he said it in the first place? Kinda because like i already said, he's just gone on a killing spree of everyone who disagrees with him?

doesn't change the fact that he still let Elisif live, and that unlike Titus Mede I he didn't self-proclaimed himself king.

You've been ignoring all this time that we're looking at the bigger picture of what is best for skyrim, and considering the actions of the empire on the last 150 years, its pretty clear that if you remain with the empire, but are not from Cyrodiil chances are you WILL be screwed by them. Because after all its said and done, and when all the chips are down, the Empire looks after the interest of the empire, that's it.

Titus Mede II is dead you say? well, guess who ordered the hit? That's right, The Elder Council (one of its members) Which goes to show how corrupted they are, whoever is chosen as new emperor, chances are, will not be received well by the public, after all the previous Elder Council tried putting multiple emperors on the Ruby Throne, and none were well taken by the public, now that Titus II is dead, only Inner Turmoil awaits the empire, a new ruthless warlord will rise to power, and again, the provinces, who are blameless for all the crap happening in Cyrodiil will end up getting boned.

What happened to Hammerfell and Morrowind (Who were both provinces of the Empire and were abandoned by it on their time of greatest need) can and WILL happen to skyrim (in fact it already happened, Empire promised skyrim free worship of talos in return for retaking The Reach and paying their yearly sum of taxes in silver. Once skyrim did its part, the empire backed down on the deal, but still took the cash)

Skyrim is better off without the empire, and the more in-game history books you read about that, the more and more reasons you will find of why belonging to the empire is a bad BAD idea.

Ulfric may not be a saint, but he has Skyrim's interests as his number 1 priority.

Can YOU say the same 'bout the empire? (And back it up with actual evidence rather than conjectures? like.... say... something good the empire has done for skyrim, OR its provinces on the past 200 years since oblivion ended?)

Because all I've seen from the empire in regards to the provinces in the last 200 years have one thing in common: When they stopped being useful, they abandoned them to their luck. Red Mountain exploded leaving most of Morrowind in ruins, and now they are under attack by argonians? yeah, good luck with that elves, we're not gonna send any aid if that's what you wanted.

Thalmor on our doorstep? lets sell out the black dudes, they won't mind if we sell half their land to protect ours....... ohh wait, they dont' like that? HOW DARE THEY? lets exclude them from the empire, and refuse any more aid, lets see how much they disagree once the thalmor are crushing them.......... ohh wait, THEY ACTUALLY WON? crap......

Rebel Bretons took the Silver mines of Skyrim? why, lets lie to the nords to re-capture those mines, give them promises we don't intend to keep, and then when they pay up, just sell them to the thalmor. More $_$ for us, and less hostilities with the thalmor. EVERYBODY WINS........ wait, Ulfric actually got angry about THAT? HOW DARE HE? LETS SEND OUR MILITARY FORCES THERE TO CRUSH HIM.

Post by Rankkor

And now on a completely unrelated topic: Just now I saw the most awesome thing ever:

Wandering in the countryside while hunting some of the last Daedric shrines I've yet to complete, I saw a fight of epic proportions.......

A Pack of Werewolves, vs a Cabal of Vampires.

it was awesome :P

to make it even more epic, after the werewolves completely butchered the vampires, A DRAGON showed up, and attacked the werewolves xD. After the werewolves finished off the dragon (With a bit of my help since I used Dragonrend to permanently ground him) I just turned into a werewolf myself, and rather than attack a fellow lupine warrior, they just scattered to the wilds.

Its amazing how much epic you can get from mere random encounters :P

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Post by Interest

Heh, no i didn't, or i would have used different grammar, and even though i do end up browsing your profile ever other couple of days i've not actually looked at your youtube stuff before >_> color me embarrassed.

It's alright. I only had the link to my channel in my sig for a few days, which is apparently the only way people ever find out about my stuff...=(

(And people complain about the shameless advertising too. Such a bothersome lose-lose situation.)

Edit: On another note, I reduced quality to Medium from High. Difference seems minimal visually.

So...Skyrim

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