Your "wow" moments.

[bulbaquil]

A minor thing, but one I found amusing:

Having retrieved the journal about Brand-Shei's past, I went to the Riften jail to give it to him, and while there, took the opportunity to look around the cells. Granted, the Riften jail is in itself one of the more lavish jails in the game to begin with, but Sibbi Black-Briar's cell is a legitimate luxury prison suite - there's a fancy bed, tons of mead and wine, etc.

I thought this was a nice touch on Bethesda's part, because it basically emphasizes the way Riften works. Sibbi may have angered Maven, but he's still a Black-Briar, and can't be treated like a common criminal.

 

[IpmaN]

In my 30 hours of game play I had this one WTF WOW moment that I can never forget. Take note my brother was watching that time and the volume of the game play is on maximum level.

Nightfall and I just finished opening the chest inside a secluded tent along the river in darkwater crossing when all of a sudden I heard this terrifying sound right at my back and when I turn saw a FREAKING BEAR blocking the door of the tent! We scream out all our voices as I try to escape the ferocious animal straight to the river and run like hell! I even use my Whirlwind Sprint just to escape that terrifying moment... God I was really trembling that time!

So why not fight the damn bear? fluff just seeing a giant bear in front of you at the first person view is really not a good sight to see.

 

[IpmaN]

Another wow moment for me here. I lured the giant into Whiterun and the result are...




Playing Skyrim at a Low Graphic Settings but still LOL!

 

[FlickerWick]

I'd just finished clearing out a cave full of trolls somewhere up near Winterhold/Windhelm. As I exited the cave, a dead horse fell out of the sky and landed a few feet in front of me. Absolutely no word of a lie.

As for genuine 'wow' moments, there's nothing more spectacular than Skyrim's equivalent of the Northern Lights. I remember this one time where the night sky in Solitude being practically on fire with this really vivid red/yellow display - I climbed up on top of the Winking Skeever's roof and just looked at them for about 10 minutes of real time. They might only be an array of pixels but they're still utterly mesmerising.

 

[The Hungry Orc]

When one of the guards told me the arrow to the knee line for the first time, I actually gave them another arrow to the knee and I didn't get a bounty for it.

Pretty lame, but it was still kinda funny.

 

[bulbaquil]

Fun with event triggers:

Apparently, anytime Maven Black-Briar is the Jarl of Riften, she will offer you Honeyside for sale "in honor of your service in battle."

Even if the way Maven became Jarl of Riften is by Season Unending negotiations. Heck, you could probably play the Stormcloaks questline up through taking the Reach, trade Riften for Morthal in Season Unending, and she would still do it. "In honor of your service in battle to the side I'm not on, I grant you permission to purchase property in Riften, likely because your comrades will want a place to stay when you retake the Rift after defeating Alduin."

(I technically had taken sides in the game I did this on, but had only played up through returning the Jagged Crown to Ulfric. Balgruuf was still jarl of Whiterun, but the Imperials made the opening demand for Riften. That might have something to do with it but I doubt it.)

 

[Abraxus76]

My 1st WOW moment would be when I upgraded to level 50 on my one handed combat skill and got into a fight with a rather testy Orc who called me a Milk Drinker... "Milk Drinker my Ass". Anyhoo the moment came when I hit my R2 button to hit the Mo Fo one more time and it cut to kill cam thus severing his head.

 

[shlobster]

the gratest wow moment for me was when i saw a dragon crash land still alive right in front of me

 

[Scott from Scotland]

I just saw a ghost of a headless horseman run through dragon bridge and was like WTF?!?!


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[GasgGuitar]

So I just had a WTF moment...

Was in Whiterun's Inn "The Bannered Mare" and I asked the barmaid for work, she sent me to hunt down a Giant at Sleeping Tree Camp, "No biggy" I thought, I just reached level 30 and I thought this would be a good test for me, anyway... Getting to the WTF moment!

On my way to the camp I get attacked by this Boethiah Cultist... Since I'm all "stealthy" like I start running and shooting arrows at him.. all of the sudden two Giants join me to kill the Cultist guy.. So apparently Giants support the Thieves Guild (I'm Guild Master of the Thieves Guild) or they work for the Vigilants of Stendarr lol

Anyway here are some pics of my WTF moment..

I was gonna add bigger screenshots but I thought people would get mad about my post taking their whole screen lol... anyway, I had a laugh when this happen, enjoy!!

 

[KITTEH]

My latest wow moment was killing my second dragon priest Korosis I had killed him with ice spikes by knocking off of a cliff and I had a kill cam with the ice spike in his head while his armor rolled down the mountain. Later I jumped off the cliff after him

 

[Valentina]

My biggest wow moment was when i got to the throat of the world for the first time and i saw this dragon and i was expecting a graybeard and i took out my ax and i was ready to fight and then he started talking to me and i was like HOLY MOTHER OF GOD IM HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH A DRAGON. Paarthurnax will forever be my favorite character in Skyrim.

 

[bulbaquil]

This is more of a "LOL moment".

I was playing my rebooted Sjadbek (even though the older one is still active), and came to that point between Riverwood and Whiterun where you scripted-encounter the Imperial soldiers escorting a Stormcloak prisoner to his doom. Hardline Stormcloak that Sjadbek is, he attacks the Imperials, but they're kind of in awkward positions and so even though he kills them all (that I could see) there either was a neutral witness or one got away, and he still has 40 bounty on his head.

So as I approach Whiterun, the guard attacks me. I yield and go to jail; upon release, I am immediately in Dragonsreach. I start up the Companions questline and go to improve my armor at the smithy. Even though Idolaf Battle-Born is not there, Adrianne still speaks to NOTHING according to what the scripted conversation between her and Idolaf should say (and remains silent for periods so that the absent Idolaf can "reply").

I have the game paused just inside the Whiterun gates. I'm half expecting to leave the city and get the "Halt! City's closed with the dragons about" conversation.

EDIT: I didn't, but it's still amusing to discover these places in reverse order. "Dragonsreach Discovered... Whiterun Discovered... Whiterun Stables Discovered... Pelagia Farm Discovered..."

 

[Punz]

I have so many Wow Moments during the course of my first play through that they all each need a separate post or thread but the one that sticks out the most for me and the one that remains the most satisfying is killing my first dragon. It may not be something worth bragging about since afterall, killing dragons in Skyrim is like facing the Drauger in a tomb, it's expected. However, what makes my first time unique for me is what I was when I fought the dragon. For my first time playing through Skyrim, I was a vampire. Now, most would say that's suicide, facing a dragon as a creature who has such a aversion to fire and sunlight. I heard so many negative things about being a Skyrim vampire and how it runes the game play plus the over all experience. HA! What a lie that was.

What being a vampire creates is an awesome and challenging dragon battle! My first dragon battle wasn't during the main quest, but just a random ordeal that came out of nowhere. The funny thing was the sun had just came up. I was running toward Whiterun to feed when I heard the Roar followed by this blast of fire. My screen turned orange and through the amber haze, my health bar took a monumental drop. Red to transparent. I was completely taken off guard. I wasn't prepared for a day battle with a fire dragon. I had no fire resistant armor or potions. No followers to help. Not even the occasional wander who will engage any wild beast who crosses their path. I was alone. All I had was the surrounding rocky ledges that could possibly shield me from the fire and my wits.

I jumped, ran and rolled my way out of as much danger as I possibly could. When I shot arrows, he fired back with fiery breath. I slashed my sword, he tagged me with a kick to the face. It was back and forth, with the dragon gaining the upper-hand. I took a TON of damage, but so did he, albeit slowly. I didn't time the actually battle, but it lasted all day- Skyrim time. I was on my last 3 magic potions and a few minor healing ones when the sun went down. Talk about a moral boaster! I hid for a while, wedged in-between some rocks, recharging my vitals. I periodically fired arrows at the dragon until I was 100%. Once I healed, once I was well enough, I charged that beast like a bat out of hell, my Nordic Battle Cry sounding off like a trumpet (more for symbolism than actual effectiveness). With my own fangs barred, Bow in hand, I proceeded to slay. I used my Lesser Ward to block his fiery breath. I managed to ground him again, which would become the turning point of the battle. There, I tore his flesh, hacking and slashing. I unleashed Vampiric hell.

I walked into Whiterun with and extra pep in my step, sank my fangs into some random villager's neck and left like the reverent I am. Oh, the dragon gave his soul that day... as did the rest who opposed me later on.

Sorry it's so long, but it was just pouring out. That was my all time favorite moment of the game.

 

[Rju'ka]

I finished the main story line with my first main. The one I used to have in my sig before running into the Battle for Haafinger glitch which stops the battle for solitude dead in its tracks. Already being the harbinger of the companions, it was an orc warrior enchanterish so two handed weapons and heavy armor and black smithing were literally the only three skills I worried about perks for. So I start my new char, polar opposite of the orc. Dunmer chaos ice mage (chaos because he'll be a necro mancer as well). So i'm going through the intro, making my guy, sexy ass dark elf mage dude. alduin saves me from being beheaded, long story short. I get into the tower and instead of just following ralof I turn to see what Ulfric is doing, why? its simple "no mere dragon can kill Ulfric Stormcloak" so I was like, i wonder how he escapes. so i go back down and OUT the tower door and there are three archers failing to hit alduin. So nothing happens I jump from the tower to the house where to courpses are (wasn't this a town?) meet with the dude that's not tullius. follow him, run into ralof again, they cure each other, i follow ralof because i personally think the imperials are a bunch of whimpy thalmor boot licking lackies who don't have souls or minds of there own.

... guess what the next thing I hear as I reach the barracks with ralof to escape. I hear from above and behind in a great booming voice in dragon tongue something ending in "Dovahkiin" I'm thinking "what the hell, that's still alduin." I turn around, ALDUIN LANDS IN THE COURT YARD RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. next thing i know i'm trying to turn around with fire in my face as i starting hitting X to open the barrack door shouting in real life "no NO, I'M GOING TO DIE?!".

did you know you can fluffing get skill points before ever leaving execution yard of helgen. I'm not sure how or what i did. i'm assuming its because i took so long. I've seen videos of people wondering if they are going to get owned escaping alduin while still in helgen. Well i'm here to say, you may actually be able too . Maybe i milked it too much and REALLY pissed alduin off. I mean lets face it. He's goes to helgen, for YOU, the dovahkiin. one can only assume to rid himself of "us" before we reach our full dragon BALL ness

 

[Rju'ka]

I know i just posted but I couldn't help it. I noticed I started playing my ice mage after update for ps3 1.5. I'm sure everybody has seen the program designers devopler video where they gave the dudes one week to do whatever they wanted. well, I haven't gotten ice spike yet, but I did get the continuous frost blast, I forget the name. I got like 4 fatality cutscenes in 2 hours of playing. its was awesome!! can't wait for ice spike!!

 

[bulbaquil]

A "Wow, did that really just happen?" moment.

Battle for Fort Snowhawk. We've whittled down the enemy to 0%, meaning it's just the last Imperial stragglers who were spawned before then. I'm on one of the battlements with two of the leftover Imperial archers, both somewhat injured. The game apparently tells them to flee out of view, so they do... right off the tower, somehow plummeting to their deaths.

Two Stormcloaks then follow them, bravely running right off the battlements and onto the ground below. One survives and continues pursuit. One falls to his death. I then make it three Stormcloaks by also running off the battlements, running the risk of having to restart the Fort Snowhawk battle, and not only do I not die, I take zero falling damage. Huh? The below annotated image clearly encapsulates the absurdity of the thing.

And now for a more proper "wow" moment:

Reading the Thalmor dossier on Ulfric, when I reach a point where it says "As long as the civil war proceeds in its current indecisive fashion, we should remain hands-off. The Helgen incident is a case where an exception had to be made - obviously Ulfric's death would increase the likelihood of an Imperial victory which would totally screw us over blah blah blah".

And I was like: Wait, does that imply the Thalmor Ralof correctly points out were present at Helgen would have INTERFERED with Ulfric's execution, had Alduin not interfered before they had the chance?

 

[Harperlarp]

Wow moments? Ok.

1. The first few kill cams blew me away, love kill cams.
2. When I saw Alduin resurrecting Saloknir and he spoke to me during a blizzard at dusk. That was wow.
3. The first time I encountered a random dragon (outside Hillgrund's Tomb on the way to Ivarstead) I was literaly loving it.
4. The first time I decapitated someone.
5. When Delphine told me she was a member of the blades.
6. When I cast flames at the beginning I thought "This is how magic should be, not throwing fireballs at people!", hmm......
7. Becoming a werewolf (and later realising how useless the ability is apart from being a permenant 100% resist poison "enchantment").
8. Going to Sovngard, most beautiful place in the game.
9. Trekking up a mountain and suddenly stopping and taking in the view, usually at sunset or sunrise.
10. Pretty much the first 30 hours I played was a wow moment.

 

[unrealtron]

The first time my character decapitated someone. That was.... Unexpected.

 

[Atrocious]

I was traveling around and I see 1 mammoth, 2 giants, and 3 dragons that are having the most epic battle ever. They were all 3 blood dragons too.