The true way to play this game

[antonkr]

Many of us are still playing the game for the first time BUT I challenge YOU to play this game the way it is meant to be played

Things you will need

*Patience

*A notebook

*a physical Skyrim map (either printed or the pre-order bonus works)

 

The challenge is to disable the HUD and not use the map nor the journal, but instead use your physical map, and write things down manually on your journal.

You must also eat and drink at least once a day. (going near a water source counts for drinking)

Sleep for at least 8 hours at least once every 3 days.

You must NOT use any resources during your quest other than the physical map and your journal.

You cannot use fast-travel and no caravan travel either.

You must also shout at your monitor every time you say a shout in game

I am doing this next time I play Skyrim hehe

Edited November 20, 2011 by antonkr

[McclaudEagle]

Sounds like a fun challenge, although I can see many people either not doing it, or giving up after a while when it takes 30 years to complete the game :P

[vertex23]

That would be awesome actually.

[Shantih]

The big problem is that the game doesn't give you precise indications during quests. It's go there and fetch that but without marlers you may end up looking for that thing for ages. It's ironic but this can work once you know the game inside out which ruins the purpose of the challenge.

 

It's not a bad idea but it's certainly not how the game was meant to be played.

[Jackal2233]

I'm waiting for a hunger/thirst/sleep mod anyways, not so sure about removing the hud, and writing stuff down... I can't be bothered lol. Still, will someone please tell me where I can find more salt piles! It's a pain trying to cook something just to roleplay!

[Michlo]

Sorry no, a game is supposed to be fun, not a job. :P

 

Good luck, though.

[TwiggySkyrim]

look through the barrels outisde buildings around town for salt piles- usually one or two have salt in. I think they're meant to be trash cans :P

[Rennn]

I'll do this. Maybe if I wander around searching for longer, an adventure will actually feel like an adventure and not like a five minute jaunt through a dungeon. Plus, any kind of hud ruins the immersion for me. Edited November 20, 2011 by Rennn

[hymhym]

Well, it's kinda like how I play the game. Except I do use the ingame map and journal (not that they are much help). I try to sleep at least a few hours every day, and if I go really long time without sleep, I sleep 12-14 hours, since my character should be feeling rather beaten after a long expedition. I also eat stuff regularly and drink plenty of mead and wine.

 

I also use the showracemenu all the time to adjust my characters hair, to simulate the passage of time. I also add more dirt on him after finishing a big dungeon crawl. After a long expedition, and 4 or 5 dungeons, he walks back to town hauling a ton of stuff and looking really dirty, with a shaggy beard and a tangled mess of hair on his head. Then he gets back to his home, dumps all the stuff to the merchants, gets a clean shave and a bath, and of he goes again.

 

Furthermore, I never use fast travel (only had to use it a few times to spawn my horse, which ran in to the woods and disappeared, when a dragon dropped from the sky on top of her.) and tend to walk most of the time. I find running around to be an immersion breaker. Besides, walking gives me more opportunities to take landscape shots, an activity that has become my number one thing to do in Skyrim. Dungeons are close second, the main quest clear thrid and everything else far far behind.

 

It does take a lot of time though. But hey, if you can afford the time then why not? It's a great experience. At the moment I have about 30 dungeons cleared, 12 or so side quests done, a level 31 warrior-smith-poet and haven't even finished the Diplomatic Immunity quest yet and have still managed to clock in 109 hours of game play. All that, and I still haven't managed to visit Riften, Falkreath, Dawnstar or Winterhold!

 

Oh, and I also avoid using trainers, since I like to earn my skills my self, and I take a long view of things. Only have had 5 training sessions. 2 were in sneaking at the very start of the game, mostly just to check out the feature. There rest were in alchemy I think... O r maybe there was a destruction lesson somewhere. Don't remember. Not that it matters, since I know a grand total of 5 spells at the moment. And I started the game with two of them.

 

And as a character who is primarily a smith, I too ran across the problem with abusing smithing. I could have jumped several tiers in equipment a long time a go. I just chose not to. Currently I am using a steel plate suit (that my character made himself and improved to legendary quality) even though I could be running around in Daedric armor. I don't care about the mechanical effectiveness of the different equipment grades, I am more interested in creating a narrative, where my character becomes a master smith, and finally, at some point, creates legendary Dragon Armor. Even though I could, with practically no effort, accomplish it at any time I so choose. (and I have plenty of materials since I've killed what 9 or 10 dragons so far)

 

Next I'm going to be making a set of Orcish armor since events in game made it feel sensible that my character would forge a new set of armor. No idea when I get to Ebony and Daedric stuff, but I'd wager it will be at least 60 or 70 more hours of game play before I am finally ready to make that Dragon Armor.

 

Playing these kind of game with a slower pace is deeply rewarding, but it does indeed require loads of free time, and not all of us are in a position where they can arrange to take a leave from life for month or so. But if you can, I say go for it.

[Jackal2233]

look through the barrels outisde buildings around town for salt piles- usually one or two have salt in. I think they're meant to be trash cans :P

 

So pretty much all my meals will have to be with salt from trash cans eh? :laugh: