I'm glad that you started this thread. I probably won't be picking this up for a while since I have several other games to play. I wonder if I will be able to run it on my four year old computer. I do have a 8800 GT card. I guess I will be looking to an upgrade first.

Nice one Scout.  I didn't spend much time in Riverwood (except for helping a shopkeeper get back something that was stolen), but went to the next place north and told them about the dragon attack.  I found out about a colleague of magic, so I went up to study with them, way up north (in Winterhold or Whiterun, I'm still getting those two confused).  There appears to no longer be any Mages Guild.

Also, there appears to be no spell crafting (which is a HUGE disappointment), and enchanting has been reworked into a horrible, horrible parody of itself - becoming something that more resembles WoW than an Elder Scrolls game.  unfortunately I have to lower my opinion of the game as a result.  The new levelling takes a little to get used to, too.

I've done three or four of the colleague's quests, killed two dragons, recovered Azura's Star (one of the barkeeps mentions it, and you can follow it up - definitely one of the most useful artefacts in the ES series, although with enchanting the way it is, I'm not sure how great it will be here).

I'm currently a level 11, high elf, mage - with around 10 or so hours under my belt.  Oh, and I'm playing on the PS3, so no mods for me.

Yup, straight mage at this stage, although I do sneak a fair bit.  Dual-wielding the streams of destruction magic is working a treat so far, and a bit further up the destruction chain, dual-wielded spells will also stumble targets, which I'm really looking forward to.

I have a Lydia too, although I don't know what to do with her just yet.  When I buy a house, I might see if she'll hang around it.  I'm always wary, in Bethesda games, to take allies with me.  I'm too worried I'll get them killed, and would rather see them somewhere safe.

What I'd like to do is enchant all of my equipment with Health Regen, in the hopes that I'll be able to heal faster than enemies can inflict damage (a trick I learnt in Morrowind).  Otherwise, I'd like to place Ward or Shield enchantments all over my clothes, but I don't know if you can do that.  I heard that if you place Fortify <magic school> 25% on 4 items, then spells of that school don't use Magicka at all... but I haven't "discovered" the right enchantments to do any of that yet.  Oh, and I want to place a paralyze enchantment on a dagger, if I can find that enchantment too (not that I really use weapons).  Stitches up spellcasters real good.

Anyway, enchantment dreams aside, I'm pretty happy to help the Mages out, and level up as I do so.  I wonder if we'll be given the chance to become the Arch-Mage...?  Liking the whole Viking feel of the villages and locations.

I think I'll have to re-watch The 13th Warrior when I get home...

Just yesterday I was watching one small spider dangle his way down from the lights overhangning the bed.  It was kinda like he was flying.  He was small, so I let him go about his business.

I started enchanting some iron daggers to help get my enchanting up.  They sell ok, but not enough to reimburse the cost of the materials yet.  Oh, and I was making the iron daggers that I was enchanting too, thus getting my smithing up at the same time.  This part of the game is very similar to what you do in WoW.

Somewhere along the way I accidentally sold my kick-ass robes, so now I'm reduced to some stupid leather armour.  So I enchanted that too, to help quicken my Magicka regen.

I blew all of my money trying to get my Conjuring up (and on enchanting/smithing supplies), so now I am very poor again.  Fortunately, I've just stuck my head into my first Dwemer (dwarf?) ruins, which look wealthy enough to recoup my losses.  Here's hoping.  Oh, and the ruins themselves look wonderful, I love what they've done with them.

Also, I've slain two more dragons - ony by myself (well, with a Flame Atronarch) at the College, and the other I lured into a Giant and his Mammoths.  I've run past a few giants, and they don't seem to be antagonist towards me yet... but maybe I just haven't been close enough to piss them off.  I have heard that they are monstrously fearsome foes, far stronger than dragons.

Unfortunately, I have a fair bit of reno's to do over the weekend, so I'm not sure how much Skyrim I'll be able to squeeze in.  Level 15 atm.

Hi guys, long time no see! 😉

Super excited about this game, so I thought I'd stop by and chat about it a bit.

So far, I'm on my third character (yup). Played the first time with a dark elf spell sword like character. Flames in one hand, sword in another. Mostly did the main quest line there.

Second character was a cat thief/archer, with whom I did the thieves guild stuff.

Now I'm on a Nord shield/axe type doing the warrior guild stuff, and may do the Stormcloak content as well (hey, I'm playing a nord).

Hope to try a full on mage next! I am way too into this game.

Runs great! Only a couple crashes in the 60+ hours I've already played (took a few days off work, I'm a nerd...) Playing on PC, so feel free to say hi on Steam and look at my many screen shots.

I like enchanting a lot more in this game. Feels much more streamlined and easy to handle. I hated everything about it in Oblivion, don't remember it from Morrowind.

Helmut: Spell effects are a million times better in this game. The magic system is possibly one of the biggest improvements. I know they took out spell creation, which is kind of a bummer, but I also like that it's all just kind of easier and less cumbersome. I like being able to just buy my spell, learn it, then fire away. By reducing the numbers/complexity of magic, they've made it much more accessible, and I'm (first time ever) ready to try a dedicated mage in a TES game.

Questions: Scout - How did you get an archer sidekick? I did that same quest you did two different ways, but no one came along with me.