Heard about you and your...honeyed words....

[Tyrion Bean]

Stuff with drives me absolutely spare in Skyrim.

Alright, time for a little Skyrim rant. That's because I love it so much, and I figured I'd let loose a bit while I'm new in the forums, so people can see what I'm all about.

1) Nobody who matters actually knows who I am. This drives me absolutely spare. The companions have never heard of me? I'm the bloody Thane! That's who I am. I'm probably the one who countersigns the execution orders around Whiterun and in other towns (I'm thane in all of them on one character). Imagine the VP showing up and saying "Hi, I'm Joe Biden", and you say..."Oh, never heard of you." Not only that, didn't I bloody well save the entire city from a Dragon? Between them not knowing whom I am, and treating me like a complete newbie, no matter what I've accomplished, I gotta say that it's peeving me to no end! Bloody hell!

Let's be honest: even some of the guards have heard that I'm the leader of the Dark Brotherhood. Insignificant guards, for goodness sakes! What...do they listen to the news more often than important people in Skyrim?

2) Belethor. Don't get me wrong: he's useful at times. But what a scuzzball. Seriously. Not only is he scuzzy, he's also butt frigging ugly. And the unfortunate thing is that I loathe him so much, I associate his multitude of other voices with him. That means that anyone else he voices starts grating on my nerves. Boy, I can tell you: I absolutely loved killing Mercer Frey so much that I reloaded it three more times just to do it again, and again, and again. Yes, really.

3) The guy selling steaks in Whiterun. I actually don't hate him at all (and I had to kill him for a Dark Brotherhood contract on one character, which I didn't really want to do. But, business is business.) I actually like him because his whole schtick about choice cuts makes me kind of hungry when I'm chopping wood nearby to make arrows.

4) Nobody ever, and I mean ever, remarks on how you saved their butt in a dungeon. I'm not talking about the default followers here, but the one-off companions for certain dungeon delving missions. They not only don't remark at how I often save their butts, but they never, ever, remark on how bloody good I am with my bow at wiping out the Draugr before they even wake the hell up from their slumberless sleep. Just once, *once*, I'd like somebody to say something along the lines of: "Wow, you're really frigging awesome. I love your style."

5) The Jarl's kid in Whiterun. Boy, do I want to kick his ass each time he opens his mouth about me kissing his father's feet. What a little frigging prick bastard that kid is. He needs a spanking so hard that he starts seeing Sovngarde.

6) Ancano. Did the same with him as I did with Mercer Frey. 'Nuff said.

7) Nazeem. Shouldn't he know who the hell I am more than most? Well, I simply had to kill him for his snobby pestering ignorance. He isn't missed.

8) Forsworn. Boy, do I love pickin' on them. They're my absolute favorites. You know why? Because to me, they're little spoiled rich kids who want to play Peter Pan in the woods. Has anyone else noticed how much money they tend to carry on them? And not just gold, but jewels as well. Every time I want some spare cash, I just pick on a Forsworn camp. They just remind me of spoiled rich kids who want to play with the occult because they have such idle angst, no direction, and think there's something special about playing with magic in cave man gear. They're like the Osama Bin Ladens of Skyrim. God, I love killing those twerps.

9) This is an odd one, I know: My sneak is 100, and I wear sneak gear which I enchanted myself, so I'm pretty much invisible without using any potions or abilities 99.999% of the time in a dungeon or cave or whatnot. Sometimes, when I'm sneaking around, I actually miss people sitting in chairs (like bandits and the like). I'll be rifling through stuff here and there on tables and the like and I turn and suddenly I see their face literally in front of mine. They were there the entire time and never saw me. Of course, they never saw me either...or the arrow which promptly ventures forth into their forehead after the millisecond it takes me to get over my startled state.

10) Moving stuff around in the house. Is it just me, or did the game devs actually not *try* this out before releasing the game? I have say that most of the time, I just don't bother. If I knock something down, I'll just pick it up and store it in a chest full of miscellaneous house stuff. That's because it is simply the biggest pain in the neck to actually try to put it back out the way it was without knocking over more stuff. You'd think that with the interactivity being touted as something revolutionary in this game (and it truly is...), they'd have fixed it so that it wouldn't be such a major hassle to really get stuff set up the right way. Wasn't that part of the point, after all? Or was it to have stuff going flying off like a tornado just visited your home and said hi, every single time you happen to open the door and bump into something in passing?

Thoughts?

 

[Neriad13]

Have you ever played Oblivion? Eventually, if you're following a heroic path, virtually every single NPC begins kissing the ground you walk on. In time, it got boring and a tad bit creepy. And then, after saving the world, becoming a god and founding my own holy order, I decided to loosen up and give the Thieves' Guild a spin. In the course of my adventures with the dark underbelly of Tamriel, I ran into one character who really, truly didn't like me. He gave me sass with every other syllable, insulted my intelligence, demeaned me in a way that I had not heard in a very long time.

And I loved him for it. "Sir!" I gasped, as he spewed out his latest round of sharp remarks, "I want to shake your hand!"

 

[ColleenG]

Allow me to add, that you should be able to say "Good Dog" to your dog and you should be able to kiss your horse's nose.

 

[Mr Forz]

-Who's this whelp?
-Pssst, he's the Thane and the slayer of Aldu..
-ENOUGH! WHO, THE HELL, ARE YOU!

 

[Tyrion Bean]

Have you ever played Oblivion? Eventually, if you're following a heroic path, virtually every single NPC begins kissing the ground you walk on. In time, it got boring and a tad bit creepy. And then, after saving the world, becoming a god and founding my own holy order, I decided to loosen up and give the Thieves' Guild a spin. In the course of my adventures with the dark underbelly of Tamriel, I ran into one character who really, truly didn't like me. He gave me sass with every other syllable, insulted my intelligence, demeaned me in a way that I had not heard in a very long time.

And I loved him for it. "Sir!" I gasped, as he spewed out his latest round of sharp remarks, "I want to shake your hand!"

I never actually played any of the other Elder Scrolls game. My only experience with this is Skyrim. I've heard they are excellent and all, but one thing at a time, eh?

 

[Wildroses]

Imagine the VP showing up and saying "Hi, I'm Joe Biden", and you say..."Oh, never heard of you."

Your dislike of the fact nobody knows who you are is something that has been felt by a lot of people. It's frustrated many people. I remember when I was joining the Companions I felt a bit bemused Vilkas had never heard of the Dragonborn who saved the world, the Archmage of the College and killer of the Dark Brotherhood. But your example was perhaps not the best one for an internationally used forum. I had to google Joe Biden as I had no idea who he was. Seriously. I'm Australian. Memorising the names of American politicians is not something I care about.

Nobody ever, and I mean ever, remarks on how you saved their butt in a dungeon. Just once, *once*, I'd like somebody to say something along the lines of: "Wow, you're really frigging awesome. I love your style."

I once saved Nazeem's wife as part of a Companion rescue mission. I kid you not, literally five seconds after escorting her to Whiterun she went: "Looking for my husband Nazeem? Check the Jarl's backside. That's usually where he stuffs himself these days." And congratulations on being the 894726584319 person on this fourm to post of your murderous dislike of Nazeem. Sometimes I think my Skyrim is the only one which has him alive in it.

You know what I find the worst about trying to replace items in your house? I can never place them the right way up. No matter what I do or try, those bowls, candlesticks and goblets hang stubbornly upside down. It began annoying me more when I got Hearthfire. I started to take more pride in my in-game houses when I built them myself and chose the wings, and it pissed me off no end that I couldn't arrange my items beautifully on shelves and display cases.

 

[HappyFaceClown]

9. I find sneaking perks and sneak enchantments extremely op'ed to the point of ridiculous, which is why i never touch that tree. It amazes me that it isn't patched or at least nerfed down a little, if your serious about winning on this game all u really have to do is invest solely in sneak and pop a bunch of sneak enchants on your armor, you'll be invisible to everything on the entire game with exception of a few bosses which imho literally throws all challenge out the window so why even bother? -_-
5. I don't hate that kid at all in fact i feel sorry for him, the kid in whiterun i hate, sorry.... *DESPISE* is that annoying little bitch who steals the poor chaps money and talks plops to u every time u pass her! And there's absolutely nothing u can do about it! I envy pc players so much for there mod they can use which allows them to destroy anyone.

 

[Tyrion Bean]

RE: Joe Biden.

I actually agree. I wrote it in haste and I stopped at the Joe Biden part and tried to come up with a more "international" second in command, but I failed, so I carried on. In fact, I even (bemusedly) thought that even in the states, Joe Biden is sort of a nobody anyway. But the example still stands as if you're a Thane in Whiterun, and somebody in Whiterun doesn't know about you, then they really, really, are out of the loop.

RE: Nazeem,

He's still alive in my current play configuration. I killed him on my previous one. But he's sort of racking up assassination points real fast with me.

RE: Hearthfire,

Agreed. That's my biggest peeve. Hearthfire, aside from being useful to get more places to store things, isn't really that great when you think about it, simply for the fact that you just cannot place stuff easily in view. It all goes in chests and bookcases for me.

 

[Tyrion Bean]

9. I find sneaking perks and sneak enchantments extremely op'ed to the point of ridiculous, which is why i never touch that tree. It amazes me that it isn't patched or at least nerfed down a little, if your serious about winning on this game all u really have to do is invest solely in sneak and pop a bunch of sneak enchants on your armor, you'll be invisible to everything on the entire game with exception of a few bosses which imho literally throws all challenge out the window so why even bother? -_-
5. I don't hate that kid at all in fact i feel sorry for him, the kid in whiterun i hate, sorry.... *DESPISE* is that annoying little bitch who steals the poor chaps money and talks pl*** to u every time u pass her! And there's absolutely nothing u can do about it! I envy pc players so much for there mod they can use which allows them to destroy anyone.

RE: Sneaking,

I agree, except the fact that I play on the Master+ difficulty and it's extremely risky when I do get detected. A dragon can one-shot me if I'm not careful. It's very challenging. I also have another game where my character is a warrior, has no sneaks, etc...totally different play style. Actually, in some ways, it's a bit easier. In others, it's a bit harder. Same for my Mage character (no sneaks etc...). It depends on how you play and what you do with it, I suppose.

RE: That kid,

I assume you're speaking about Braith. The one who says she's not scared of you? She annoys me to no end as well. But she's not as bad as some kid saying I'm some sort of bootlicker to his father simply because I'm in the palace.

 

[HappyFaceClown]

9. I find sneaking perks and sneak enchantments extremely op'ed to the point of ridiculous, which is why i never touch that tree. It amazes me that it isn't patched or at least nerfed down a little, if your serious about winning on this game all u really have to do is invest solely in sneak and pop a bunch of sneak enchants on your armor, you'll be invisible to everything on the entire game with exception of a few bosses which imho literally throws all challenge out the window so why even bother? -_-
5. I don't hate that kid at all in fact i feel sorry for him, the kid in whiterun i hate, sorry.... *DESPISE* is that annoying little bitch who steals the poor chaps money and talks pl*** to u every time u pass her! And there's absolutely nothing u can do about it! I envy pc players so much for there mod they can use which allows them to destroy anyone.

RE: Sneaking,

I agree, except the fact that I play on the Master+ difficulty and it's extremely risky when I do get detected. A dragon can one-shot me if I'm not careful. It's very challenging. I also have another game where my character is a warrior, has no sneaks, etc...totally different play style. Actually, in some ways, it's a bit easier. In others, it's a bit harder. Same for my Mage character (no sneaks etc...). It depends on how you play and what you do with it, I suppose.

RE: That kid,

I assume you're speaking about Braith. The one who says she's not scared of you? She annoys me to no end as well. But she's not as bad as some kid saying I'm some sort of bootlicker to his father simply because I'm in the palace.

I play on master diff too bro and have breezed thru the main story using sneak on that level as well, maybe its just me but when i can get directly in an enemies face and him or her still not see me thats an exploit.

 

[Tyrion Bean]

9. I find sneaking perks and sneak enchantments extremely op'ed to the point of ridiculous, which is why i never touch that tree. It amazes me that it isn't patched or at least nerfed down a little, if your serious about winning on this game all u really have to do is invest solely in sneak and pop a bunch of sneak enchants on your armor, you'll be invisible to everything on the entire game with exception of a few bosses which imho literally throws all challenge out the window so why even bother? -_-
5. I don't hate that kid at all in fact i feel sorry for him, the kid in whiterun i hate, sorry.... *DESPISE* is that annoying little bitch who steals the poor chaps money and talks pl*** to u every time u pass her! And there's absolutely nothing u can do about it! I envy pc players so much for there mod they can use which allows them to destroy anyone.

RE: Sneaking,

I agree, except the fact that I play on the Master+ difficulty and it's extremely risky when I do get detected. A dragon can one-shot me if I'm not careful. It's very challenging. I also have another game where my character is a warrior, has no sneaks, etc...totally different play style. Actually, in some ways, it's a bit easier. In others, it's a bit harder. Same for my Mage character (no sneaks etc...). It depends on how you play and what you do with it, I suppose.

RE: That kid,

I assume you're speaking about Braith. The one who says she's not scared of you? She annoys me to no end as well. But she's not as bad as some kid saying I'm some sort of bootlicker to his father simply because I'm in the palace.

I play on master diff too bro and have breezed thru the main story using sneak on that level as well, maybe its just me but when i can get directly in an enemies face and him or her still not see me thats an exploit.

I don't see it that way. I worked darn hard to get sneak to 100. It took me a while. I also never pay for training up skills, so I'm pretty happy where it's at and how it got there.

 

[MetalHeadManiac]

i agree on 1 4 5 6 7 10

 

[Slijkster]

the thing that bugs the complete pl*** out of me is whenever you're in a dungeon or enclosed space, the people following you decide to camp themselves in the doorway so you cannot get out. its easily remedied by turning off the collisions momentarily, but I killed lydia and that blonde housecarl as well just so they would get the f***f out of the way.
That and Nazeem. christ do i hate that guy.

 

[Cren Reon]

I like to not iill nazeem until i get the radiant dark brotherhood quest so i have a real reason and get payed