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I...
I just spent 15 straight hours playing Skyrim.

I think my eyeballs are bleeding.

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:r

Damn man, I'll be playing tomorrow for sure. How awesome is it?

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It's that awesome. No more classes. I was going to be upset about that but it works really well. Looking at the achievements it seems like the level cap is at least 50. There are a few different kinds of advancement.

Pacing is really good. Environmental effects are awesome. They really ran with the crafting aspect as well. You can make and enhance items. Durability is out, as are those awful repair hammers.

v. impressed.

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Steam says I played for 10 hours yesterday.

Sounds about right. I took breaks :banger

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Ugh. Then I got myself invited to the SWTOR beta this weekend. So much for productivity. Meh.

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This is a bad month for me. I just finished Batman, picked up Skyrim and MW3 yesterday. MW3 still suffers from some of the flaws of mw2, although its 100 percent better than BOPS.

I doubt ill get too serious into it. SKyrim is insane, and I'm barely 2 hours in.

AC:Revelations Tuesday, and Uncharted 3 still sitting in the wrapper...

After 6 months of absolute trash on the consoles, we get hit with 5 seriously playable games...

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Just started playing AC: Brotherhood while waiting on Saints Row to drop.

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Playing it now yeah damn, seems pretty great. I just got raped by a frost troll though. Apparently heavy armor and a shield fully upgraded gets me 3 shot OUCH!

I guess you have to avoid it? :sh

Level 5 right now, half way to level 6.

Frost trolls are a higher level than you. Try again in 10 levels :tu

I got OWNED by a giant the first time I tried to kill one. After I got some levels under my feet and upgraded in the skills menu it became much easier :)
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Well my build succeeded easily after the first 2 tries. There's a strategy, once you get it down you're good.

I killed a Frost Troll at level 5 and another at level 7.

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Frost troll? o.O?

I'm L20 I'm not sure I've seen one, unless it was that thing I ran by while yelling OHS**TOHS**TOHS**T on the 7000 steps, in which case, yeah, I just bolted past it.

Now plain old trolls, yeah those are in the Dwemer ruins for the mage guild questline. Having "15x damage while sneaking with dual daggers" is awfully handy for them :-)

Come to think of it, having 15x damage with dual daggers while sneaking is handy for most things.

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Yes it was on the 7000 steps, I took it down. Took 2-3 tries but I got the bastage :r

I'm playing a tank class Orc with sword/shield. Put all my points into health and I'm doing quite well.

Almost level 13 :banger

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Cool, good to know. I play ninjarific classes. archery/light armor/1-hand/sneak/lockpick. I couldn't get close enough to him before he charged to get in more than one stealth crit with the bow, daggers out of the question. But yeah I'm gonna have to go visit that dude again.

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Still playing almost level 17. Leveling in this game is so easy.

I love this game so much, definitely going to try and play it through with a harder build to play.

I'm doing
One-handed
Block
Heavy Armor
Restoration
Smithing

So far, VERY effortless compared to what it probably should be.

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I have some trouble with the stealth build. The first kill is always pretty easy, but after that you're a sitting duck. I've got sneak up to 79 so if there's someplace to run, I'm good. But the Deathlord? Yeah, he's not a fan of letting you get away. It's sufficiently difficult that I've got to think about the combat scenarios, which is about right. In Oblivion I'd get to L6 and just be dogmeat.

I want to try a pure mage build.

And if you havent, definitely play around with enchanting/disenchanting. It's an awful lot of fun. Smithhing looks neat but I don't train it fast enough to make stuff that's better than I've already got. I keep plugging away though, improving everything when I can, keeping raw materials in Breezehome.

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Something not about Skyrim!

I just thought of something.

What do you think about the idea of buying a console (don't give a hoot which one) in order to use game rental services (gamefly, etc.)?

I tend to burn an awful lot more than I'd like on games that end up sucking righteously. Now I don't mind paying for games I'm gonna play, But I'll bet if I did the math that I'd be net positive if I could rent to try them (including console cost, a TV, etc) in relatively short order.

what say you?

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Hmm Yeah you might want to try my tank build so far I slay dragons like they are wolves.

Let me get my stats real quick

All gear is legendary Daedric except boots and helmet, I need 2 more daedric hearts and they will be legendary Daedric. Sword/shield same thing.

49 damage one handed with 446 armor rating

Health 280, stamina 140 and magicka 100

Smithing 91
Restoration 30
Heavy Armor 54
Block 40
One-handed 57
Enchanting 22

I'll be leveling enchanting next. I could use some higher block too.

The key is to pound smithing. Just make Iron Daggers in MASS quantities. The higher your smithing the higher you can upgrade items. Daedric armor to Legendary Daedric armor is a BIG boost. Also the quicker you can wear Daedric armor. Most things hit me for minimal damage.

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Where do you get that quantity of raw materials? I end up with 2 bits of iron before a node is exhausted.

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I've never even seen the nodes.

Buy them, Iron ingots and leather scraps, they are cheap. You can pound like 15 levels for 1000 gold. Although it gets MUCH harder at 75+ you need a lot more but it is still very easy.

Mehrunes razor quest gives you 2400 gold, Mehrunes razor and 4 daedric hearts.

Excellent quest rewards.

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Oblivion GOTY edition is $5 on steam.

You are losing money by NOT buying it at this price! GET IT (if you don't already have it)!

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Ending the day at level 28. If it weren't for the bugs/glitches....this is about as close to a perfect game as I've seen in YEARS.

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Yep. Menu behaves a little funny and about once every 4 hours I get a CTD. Hit Archmage last night. It was neat but I haven't found anything interesting to do at the mage's college once I topped out. (unless of course getting to archmage isn't tapping out and I haven't realized it yet.)

I've been crashing about every 5 hours of game play :/. It is usually right after I zone - so it autosaves anyway. Could be worse :)
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Biggest problem I have with it (because if I didn't come up with SOMEthing I'd be honor bound to have the skyrim symbol tattooed on my friggin head at this point) is that you HAVE to scroll the menus to get the right selection in to context. You can't just click the thing you want.

That and the fact that there's no category sorting of containers.

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Yeah I'm one quest away from archmage. Pretty awesome quest lines.

Same here. No idea why, oh well.

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I need to pick another guild to run though. Haven't been able to pick. Seems like Riften is the thieves guild city. I went a fair bit through Companions but... I stopped at what will be an obvious point to people who've done that line.

Not sure what else there is.

Still not committing to Imperial or stormwhatchamacallits.

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Yeah after I finish the last two mage quests I'll need to do the same.

Is there an arena in this game or no?

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Haven't seen it but there's gotta be. I've explored what seems like nothing so far. Spent a lot of time heading Northeast, found some neat stuff. I might head back to the main questline or knock off some of these misc quests I've been accumulating.

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Yeah that's what I am doing today just the miscellaneous quests. I would love to find an arena though

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Just hit level 30. Some of the bonuses higher in the trees are just amazing. I just snagged conditioning and matching armor. I run at full speed in full daedric now with matching armor gave me a nice +100 armor rating.

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Damn, you're cruising through this. I'm paralyzed by fear of gimping myself by putting points in stuff that would be fun, but get me killed later on (i.e. enchanting/smithing.)

I am about to hit stealth100 though. 90+ is insane. Though ice bears/snow wolves have a seemingly supernatural ability to sniff me out....then eat me.

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I haven't gotten to play in the last couple of days. I keep thinking about it, though :(

I believe that I have maxed out pick pocket and stealth and Kaldo is level 37ish. Archery is ~70 and smithing is about the same.
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Yeah I took the advice about iron daggers. It levels smithing almost every time at my current level.

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Ended yesterday at 33. Leveling enchanting now, tossed soul trap on my Daedric Sword and I've got 25 soul gems now. I just tossed the iron daggers on the floor so I can use them later. Something like 200-250 daggers on the ground.

Just enchant them and sell them :banger

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I have been able to break away from Skyrim and enjoy AC Revelations. It's very good, there is a ton of content packed in there.

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Revelations is out ?!?! Crap I must have it!

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heads up. turtle beach x31 on woot.com for $49

I bought one, all Frank(Drez)'s fault!

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When I saw you on the other day I decided to pick it up, and I put skyrim on hold. Picks up right where we left off, and I'm loving it thus far.

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Doesn't release until November 29, 2011 at 12:00 AM (US/Pacific) for PC :(

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Had a few friends pick up a 360 recently so I have been playing boarderlands with them and got back into Halo. Nothing to new yet except Gears 3(horde mode is fun as hell).

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LAME! :td :td

Anyone play Saints Row the Third yet?

Also has anyone found a way to have multiple characters in Skyrim? I just hit 37 and I feel like playing a sneaky Khajit with a bow and dagger.

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I wish, I played the crap out of SR2. I haven't had a spare moment to play much lately between getting married in Sept and 60+ hr work weeks. When they announce HL episode III I have to buy a copy of portal 2 and replay episode II just to get caught up on the plot line. :sl

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Almost forgot about HL Ep III, it's been how long?

P.S nice look revolver in your avatar :tu

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http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/80038-55.html It's the next gun purchase on my radar.
I have a similar but blued Colt Python that my mom keeps as a self defense gun. I started using backwoods as my handle long before I became aware of the backwoods line of cigars, I should probably change it to avoid confusion (I'm just a guy that likes to shoot crap out in the woods, I don't smoke 'em). I digress.

Did anyone notice much in the way of tie-ins with the HL storyline in Portal 2? (Don't tell me specifics, I haven't played it yet.)

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Yep, been playing it, but I haven't been able to devote much time to it. I am about 19% completed on the story line. Still lost of side missions. The clothes and character options are awesome, some of the stuff you can do in this game is so over the top, but somehow it just works. Like you can just walk down the street and start dancing with someone or you can do a wresting move on them. The driving I feel is better this time around, and I love jumping off a building and throwing my parachute.....now that's fun.

They also added in a new voice this time.......ZOMBIE! I haven't tried it yet, but I am thinking about going to the plastic surgery and having it done heh.

Xplay gave this game a 5 out of 5. I am hoping it keeps me busy until Mass Effect 3

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My new Game Informer came in, RAINBOW SIX is back!!!!!!!!! Called Patriots, unfortunately it won't be out till 2013 :td

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Interesting I'll look into it sometime this week.

Started a new character in Skyrim level 13 Khajit, sneak + bows is insanely overpowering. :banger

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Thing is, with light armor you sorta need sneak + ranged.

It gets a little tricky when you agro more than one at a time and can't one-shot them. Then there's the 'uh oh...here they come' moments.

I keep wanting to start a mage focused toon but I just can't see going through all of this more than once.

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I hit level 42 over the weekend. I still haven't touched the main quest line since about level 15 :r

Been working on assassin/thief guilds and their quest lines - along with the random tasks provided by people around town.

I played all weekend on my computer's gaming monitor along with watching MLG SC2 tournament on my TV. Damn it feels good to be a geek-ster :r
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Yeah I'm working on one handed now. We'll see how it goes. So far I'm good with just ranged.