Andrew

then go do other stuff and level up a bit, not like youre short on options

yeh, once you get past that inital slightly overwhelming feeling of the size of the world and the stuff to do it becomes a total timesink, thereve been some good games this year but this is the first since fallout 3 that has given me a "oh its THAT time already" moment where hours have just disappeared

yep, skills in this one arent limited to stuff you pick at the start of the game before you know whats going on, they just improve the more you use them so if you play as a all action, all hack-n-slash brute then your brutey skills will be the ones improving as youre swinging swords and taking hits on heavy armour and all that theyll improve there is also a "guardian stone" system which is sort of like the picking a class of old except that you can go back and chop and change which stone you have active whenever you want, its much less rigid

EA really need to sort out this insistence on having everything go through their own servers rather than player hosting, everyone else seems to managed with that system just fine

good, you should

Since this is the first time in 3 days Ive been awake and not playing skyrim I figured I should post about it god this game is good, oblivion was good, one of my all time favourites, this has leap frogged it and just about everything else so far, from a design standpoint its unlike anything I've played, all my criticisms of oblivion have evaporated with this jump in the series though we'll see if that changes after the honeymoon period since this is such a vast experience but damn it all its good. I don't mind the odd bug and glitch that Im finding because I know they aren't as a result of shoddy work and they'll be patched out as time goes by. and just for you sonatine, here are some spoiler tags [ spoiler ] [ /spoiler ] and now some actual spoilers I'd recommend getting started on the DB line if you're a light armour user as the shrouded armour set they give you is brilliant and even moreso if you are a smith and can upgrade it, properly useful enchantments and looks good too. weapons wise I've been sticking with a bow on one quick favourite and a flames/sword combo on the other, blocking is for chumps skills wise obviously One handed, bows, destruction and light armour have bumbled up as Ive been playing but Id say to everyone, stick some time into smithing, its incredibly handy beign able to upgrade your preferred weaponry so that it keeps pace with you and your enemies (or outstrips you if you do it right) you can end up using gear beyond your paygrade if you put a little time into smithing. looking forward to making that dragon scale armour at some point too

shes gone back to whiteruns hall, you can buy a house from the bald black bloke who hangs out with the jarl

just got to 19 myself using all my money at the moment to get ingots and ore to ramp smithing

you need to speak to the Jarls man!

theyre brilliant, post when youve finished with them, I dont know anyone else who has yet

buy a house, keep stuff in it ridiculous high level gear, once its available, is always pricey too

btw there is, for now, an unlimited money generating exploit

use your favourites list (press y in your inventory to favourite stuff) then when you go on it (press up on the dpad) you can hotkey 2 things to left and right on the pad by holding whichever direction you want it to be I have sword/magic combo on one and my bow on the other, handy

yes yes a thousand times, Ive enjoyed a few really top games this year, BF3, Batman etc etc and this has simply blown them away

except youve got your fifa and pes analogy backwards stop shoehorning your bad taste into other comparisons

go find a frost troll/giant/dragon priest

shouldnt this thread be called "the change arena" now or something?

that was my philosophy, been destroyed by several creatures so far though

Frank "shoot on sight" lampard passes to iker casillas from 40 yards, thats what we need from our captain

acquitting ourselves fairly well so far, phil jones seems to be making the step as well as he did moving from blackburn to man u

glen johnson? GLEN FUCKING JOHNSON? for fucks sake

why no Adrian Chiles you abortion of a broadcaster, I don't want to hear your opinion on the poppy issue or anything else for that matter cunt

yeh basically, theres also some stuff about lower skills training quicker at higher levels and something I cant remember so if you decide to switch discipline you can get up to speed

what sonatine said there are falloutish perk trees in the form of constellations too which can be unlocked when you level up and have a high enough skill in whatever youre unlocking so if you're like me a magic/blade using smith then those skills will go up as you use them and then you can pick perks so you can smith higher level equipment by unlocking smithing perks or do more spells for less mana by using those ones its a good system, nice and free

it is though I could kinda see it coming from an earlyish point lets keep spoilers in tags please folks