Tyrion Bean
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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?
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?