Skyrim

My husband and I have been alternating playing now since it came out. It is his turn right now, which is why I am here... lol

Lol, have you been giving him advice and hints. I don't think I could stop myself. I've been taking it in turns with my brother, I'm slightly further ahead than he is. He's a Mage and I'm a warrior with a double handed sword. Seemed to take him longer to kill the first Dagon with magic.

The beauty of the game is we have gone so completely different directions.

We haven't really given hints, but it is nice to talk about certain parts of the game. He is a little further than me, but I also love to explore and look in everything...

Personally do not play (I'm an online gamer when I do play), but damn, that game looks super sweet.

buuuut I may just go out and buy this one

I anticipated it for so long. Pre-ordered it. Got the collectors **** and play it every chance I get (kinda hard atm, work, bf, life)

I'm a Dark Elf. Specialize in 2 handed crap.

I've been into this ever since Morrowind.. oh and I got it for PC

I pre-ordered it and got it the day it came out. Love this game! My husband, daughter and I are all hooked on it. Dinner converation now revolves around what we've done in Skyrim. Lol

I played way too much the day it came out. Then Saint's Row 3 consumed my life for 2 days, and then back to playing Skyrim too much again after that. Haha. I keep trying to do the main quest because I hear you get some killer shouts, but every time I set the main quest marker I get distracted by new places that pop up.

At least I've been playing a lot of dance central 2 over Thanksgiving break since I've been with family. I hope that balances out my lazy skyrim time .

(Also, Skyrim looks excellent on the PC!!))

Can't... stop... playing...

Will come back to this later, when I'm not at work, but had to jump into this discussion. Haven't read the whole thread yet. I seriously can't stop playing this game, and I'm not a gamer. Got hooked on Elder Scrolls starting with Morrowind. Played Oblivion obsessively until I wore out the disc. LOVING Skyrim. These are the only games I play like this.

Okay, I'm at home now. lol

My husband, knowing how much I love this series of games, pre-reserved me a copy and had it waiting at home for me when I got home from work, along with flowers and a bottle of wine, the day it was released. He let me open it and be the first to play it. I'm so hooked it's ridiculous. He laughs at me and tells me there are support groups for people like me.

However, we are now coordinating our game time. Almost the whole family is playing it. The only person in our house who is not playing is our youngest daughter. So... I get full unlimited access on the weekends since I don't have time to play during the week (and I would end up staying up too late and not be able to get up for work the next day...). My husband gets the game from when he gets home from work at 2:00 Mon - Fri until around 5:00-6:00, and he also gets Sat & Sun in the morning when I am sleeping in because I was playing all night. Our oldest daughter gets to play Mon - Fri in the evenings after dad is done for a couple hours, and our middle child cares the least so she just jumps in whenever she can... LMBO!

I'm a Redguard, level 21. I have joined the Imperial Legion, the Companions, the mages college in Winterhold, and the Dark Brotherhood. I'm also about to join the Thieves Guild. I want to experience EVERYTHING, so I follow every story line that is presented to me, which means I am constantly distracted by side quests and have not yet managed to advance with any of those groups. I am holding off on Dark Brotherhood & Thieves Guild activities somewhat as well because I want to get through the major story lines before I make everyone hate me.

Some points from having read this thread:

Lydia can die. Mine did pretty quickly. She wasn't that helpful to me anyway so I didn't bother going back to a previous save. She's just gone.

If you wear heavy armor and want to work on smithing, keep the dragon bones and scales. You can make dragon armor, and it's the best armor there is in the game. I WANT IT! I plan to make it and my house is stocked up on dragon stuff.

You will come across plenty of dragons as you progress through the game. I hesitated initially to use the souls to unlock the shouts, but I haven't had a problem with not having a soul to use when I have needed it. Of course, I wander all over and follow side quests constantly, it might be different if you progress through the main story lines quickly rather than taking your time and having more opportunity to run into dragons. I think I have killed 7-8 dragons. Lately they have been popping up all over the place. And once you get the hang of using those shouts, they are ridiculously helpful!

Elia
Level 18 Nord
Female
Home Owner in Whiterun
Arch Mage at College
Incredibly talented at two-handed weaponry especially battleaxes
Heavy Armor user
Adept at lockpicking and sneaking
Improving archery
Have no use for "persuasion"
8 dragons slayed sofar

Am I having fun? UM YEAH!