Are You a Mountain Climber?

[Ned]

I've had this problem since Morrowind many years ago...

I waste hours, and I mean hours, of my time stubbornly trying to force my way up mountains to my goal instead of being reasonable and walking around and finding the path up. I will side step back and forth, back and forth while spamming the jump button gaining maybe an inch of progress every 30 seconds or so for long periods of time. It's absolutely ridiculous.

I don't know what's wrong with me. I fall to my death and get my character stuck and have to reload often. I climb for like 10 minutes straight, only to find myself completely shut down and having to descend shamefully back down the mountain while trying not to die from fall damage, as I've somehow manage to get my toon onto such a steep angle that his belly is basically parallel with the mountainside.

Well...at least I don't have cliff racers harassing me every few seconds, anymore. Rage inducing.

 

[The_Deadliest_Troll]

Haha, I admit, I fall into this sometimes too. It really only happens when I say to myself, "Ok, my goal is just over this little mountain. It will be much faster to climb over instead of going around." And then I can't actually climb it, and I wasted 20 minutes haha!

 

[Zoa Two Tails]

i ride horses for climbing mountains. This is the fastest way to climb.

 

[Gemini Sierra]

I so hate the mountains... one for putting them there and giving me the oportunity to do just as you describe and two for having area that look like they'd be perfectly easy to scramble over in real life and yet blocked by an invisible wall

 

[MushroomGenius]

Random dragon encounters while trying to play Cliffhanger are always interesting......

JUMP JUMP JUMP Strafe Left JUMP JUMP JUMP Strafe Right JUMP JUMP JUMP
Controller rattles
Dragon roars
Red dot appears on my compass
Flames start burning my back
FU Dragon!

 

[Tukah-Nei]

Yep, I'm definately a mountain climber. xD

And not just in TES. The exact experience you talked about has wasted me hours of playtime every second game I've played since the first mercenaries. Oh man, that one was the worst. xD

 

[Skullrattla]

I hate this game's map.

 

[Halkin]

i ride horses for climbing mountains. This is the fastest way to climb.

spider horse wins the day for sure

 

[Ned]

I've tried the horse thing, but my perspective gets messed up and I usually ended up getting my horse killed.

 

[ZeroDragon]

George Mallory, an English mountaineer, was asked "Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?" His answer "Because it's there". Unfortunately he was seen around 200m from the summit in 1924 and he was next seen when his body was found in 1999.

I've had a few climbing this mountain because it's in the way moments and wasted considerable time. I have noticed that any companion at the time waits for me at the bottom as if to mean that it was obvious I was wasting my time. So now I start climbing and then look back to see if they're waiting at the bottom and I go back and find the path up.

 

[Ching Of Skyrim]

When people see me play skyrim all I get off them is how the he'll do you play this game everytime I look you are either climbing up a big ass mountain or enchanting and blacksmithing.... Well if you want to watch some one go up the one tiny path hidden somewhere in that big ass mountain by all means take over, they pretty much leave you with no choice but to climb they could atleast make the paths up them a little more aces-sable!

 

[Perkless in Skyrim]

Absolutely. If I think I can get where I want to go in a straight line as opposed to the scenic route, I take it. So far I've had very few casualties where I fell and killed myself. I did manage to get stuck a couple times though, and had to reload.

Mountain climbing allowed me to gain access to the Orc stronghold Largashbur before I was high enough level to activate the Daedric quest The Cursed Tribe. I netted some nice Orcish armor with no one to stop me.

 

[mellojoe]

I don't spend that much time. It is mostly walking sideways on cliffs trying to go up while I go around and eventually find the path that leads to the summit. You can cling to a near sheer face just by walking sideways. So, even if I can't go up at that point, I refuse to go down.

 

[whiskey]

I'm a mountain jumper lol. Sometimes I get horribly lost, the map doesn't really help but I do spend way too much time trying to get up stupid mountains.

 

[Ironlung888]

You're a more patient man than myself. I can't stand climbing mountains for the very same reasons you enjoy it. Sometimes I can't even find a trail or a road leading to my next goal and I am forced to scale a mountain.

 

[Ned]

You're a more patient man than myself. I can't stand climbing mountains for the very same reasons you enjoy it. Sometimes I can't even find a trail or a road leading to my next goal and I am forced to scale a mountain.

Oh, make no mistake: I'm not having fun. I'm frustrated and annoyed by the perpetual failure of Bethesda to make the intended path more visible and accessible.

I'm just too stubborn and impatient to give in and search for the infernal path. Maybe it will take 20 minutes to climb, maybe it will take 20 minutes to find the path. I have no idea, so I'll make with the jumping. I'm a rebel, like that.

 

[Ironlung888]

I'm frustrated and annoyed by the perpetual failure of Bethesda to make the intended path more visible and accessible.

I'm just too stubborn and impatient to give in and search for the infernal path. Maybe it will take 20 minutes to climb, maybe it will take 20 minutes to find the path.

I agree with you there Ned. That's why I scale the sides of mountains as well.