Just started playing Elder Scrolls IV GOTY for 360... any tips?

[Injury]

Loved Fallout 3, was told this is in the same vein, different setting.

Can you get a house of sorts in this one... or is there a safe place to stow my crap?

 

[Queasy]

Yeah, you can buy houses in different cities. There's a shack you can buy in the Imperial City. Just go to the merchant district and there's a merchant there that sells properties.

 

[Platypus]

Brian,

1) Pick a character that can get the max amount of magica possible.
2) Complete the mage quests first, your housing and lots of other issues will be solved

Take your time on the Oblivion gates.. once you beat that portion of the game it ends rather quickly. Do all the weird/random side quests, you'll get all sorts of cool shit to help you in the game.

Shivering Isles is weird and sorta frustrating and very repetitive but it's fun.

I have every achievement for that game and played just about every possible thing, PM me or shoot me a message on Live if you get stuck or want help

Make sure to save often, it's buggy and will crash and you will be pissed as fuck when your game isn't saved.

 

[RyanPaulShaffer]

My tip: Watch the speed run video of the guy who beat it in like 10 minutes. Save yourself a lot of time and move on to a better game. 😉

 

[Dumac]

My tip: get it on PC so you can fix all of the horrendous problems with the game that nearly make it unplayable

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: Dumac
My tip: get it on PC so you can fix all of the horrendous problems with the game that nearly make it unplayable

The 360 version has all the updates now to make it perfectly playable.. you just have to save it every so often because in the 200 hours I played it, it probably crashed about 10 times.

 

[oznerol]

Does the GOTY version come patched to fix the replicating items glitch or do you need to download it like the regular version?

I really want to play the game again on the 360 and I want the GOTY version, but I also want to cheat and use the glitch.

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: ducci
Does the GOTY version come patched to fix the replicating items glitch or do you need to download it like the regular version?

I really want to play the game again on the 360 and I want the GOTY version, but I also want to cheat and use the glitch.

That glitch was fixed.

 

[oznerol]

Originally posted by: Platypus

Originally posted by: ducci
Does the GOTY version come patched to fix the replicating items glitch or do you need to download it like the regular version?

I really want to play the game again on the 360 and I want the GOTY version, but I also want to cheat and use the glitch.

That glitch was fixed.

I know it was a patch for the original game - does the GOTY version come pre-patched on the disc or do you still need to download the update when you sign in to Live?

I figure I can just not download anything, get items and cash, and then patch when I'm rich.

 

[Queasy]

I believe the GOTY version includes all the patches up to the point that it was released. You would need to play the original version and make sure not to download the update to take advantage of the glitch.

 

[Dumac]

Originally posted by: Platypus

Originally posted by: Dumac
My tip: get it on PC so you can fix all of the horrendous problems with the game that nearly make it unplayable

The 360 version has all the updates now to make it perfectly playable.. you just have to save it every so often because in the 200 hours I played it, it probably crashed about 10 times.

I wasn't even talking about glitches, though there were a bunch of those. I was talking about mods that change all the horrible leveling/scaling/combat/exploration/everything else systems in Oblivion to actually make the game enjoyable.

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: Dumac

Originally posted by: Platypus

Originally posted by: Dumac
My tip: get it on PC so you can fix all of the horrendous problems with the game that nearly make it unplayable

The 360 version has all the updates now to make it perfectly playable.. you just have to save it every so often because in the 200 hours I played it, it probably crashed about 10 times.

I wasn't even talking about glitches, though there were a bunch of those. I was talking about mods that change all the horrible leveling/scaling/combat/exploration/everything else systems in Oblivion to actually make the game enjoyable.

It was still enjoyable to me on the 360. Plus I got to enjoy the 160 hours I played sitting on my couch playing on a 37" LCD and then a 50" Plasma instead of stuck in my computer chair.

 

[thraashman]

My biggest recommendation for playing is to max your conjuration skill fast. Make it a main skill, get the cheapest conjuration spell you can (usually summon dagger), and grind it randomly in towns. When you can cast it, get a Summon Clannfear spell. They're the fastest creature your can summon, do a pretty good amount of damage, and have an automatic Reflect Damage cast on them. Enemies tend to get distracted by a summoned creature as well. So if you're overwhelmed you can summon a Clannfear and run. I've found that when the Oblivion gates opened constantly, an easy way to close them was to run to the main tower, summon a Clannfear, and run through. I rarely even bothered to fight at higher levels.

Sigil Stones worth getting in Oblivion gates, Resist Magic and the Shields (specifically Shock Shield, Frost Shield, and Fire Shield). The Shield stones allow you to enchant an armor with (at highest levels) 25% resistance to an element and 25 pts of armor. When the max armor rating without spells it 85 in full Daedric, adding an extra 125 points makes you near immune to physical damage.

Find the ring that gives you 50% magic resistance, then get Sigil Stones that grant resistance and put them on an amulet and a ring. If you do all I suggested, you can have full magic resistance and somewhere around 200 armor rating ... making you invincible.

The other option is to get 100% chameleon and be permanently invisible.

 

[Dumac]

Originally posted by: trmiv
It was still enjoyable to me on the 360. Plus I got to enjoy the 160 hours I played sitting on my couch playing on a 37" LCD and then a 50" Plasma instead of stuck in my computer chair.

That is funny, cause that is how I play Oblivion half the time too.

[note: you can plug your computer into an HDTV and you a wireless xbox controller to play the game]

😛

EDIT: Although honestly I'd rather just play it on a keyboard mouse, as the control is much tighter and the console is always at hand in the case of bugs.

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: Dumac

Originally posted by: trmiv
It was still enjoyable to me on the 360. Plus I got to enjoy the 160 hours I played sitting on my couch playing on a 37" LCD and then a 50" Plasma instead of stuck in my computer chair.

That is funny, cause that is how I play Oblivion half the time too.

[note: you can plug your computer into an HDTV and you a wireless xbox controller to play the game]

😛

EDIT: Although honestly I'd rather just play it on a keyboard mouse, as the control is much tighter and the console is always at hand in the case of bugs.

Well now I only own a laptop that runs Linux, so I can't play games like this on it anyway. I haven't had a gaming rig in about five years, and I don't miss it a bit.

For the OP, although you can join all the guilds, make sure the Mages Guild is your first one. It opens up so many cool things in the game with spell making. If you're a mage, don't overlook touch-based spells. I know a lot of mages don't like to get up close, but if you buff yourself with magic it's not bad. You can make touch spells super powerful with much less mana usage than ranged spells. I had a paralyze touch spell I made that I would follow up with a spell that did a ton of shock, fire, and ice damage at once along with adding weakness to those things first.

I also made a nice spell that boosted my speed, carrying ability and gave me nightvision all at once. Great to use while traveling around since you would probably cast all those separately anyway.

 

[Injury]

Thanks for all the tips everyone. Enjoying the game so far, aside from a few obvious degradations compared to Fallout.

 

[Dumac]

Originally posted by: Injury
Thanks for all the tips everyone. Enjoying the game so far, aside from a few obvious degradations compared to Fallout.

Also don't skip the Dark Brotherhood questline. Best questline in the game, IMO.

 

[Injury]

So I'm beyond hooked right now. I'm pretty much a total bastard. My character, Dicknose the Imperial of the "Asswipe" class born under the sign of the thief, managed to pickpocket his way into the 5000g house in Anvil. I've ripped off the Grey Fox himself on numerous occasions and managed to avoid doing jail time until just now. I had to off a few guards who found me wandering the halls of the Elder Library. Not a soul saw me do it... at least nobody left alive... and somehow the second I got outside they knew it was me. PSSSHHH. whatever. I fled long enough to dump my mountains of stolen property in a safe place and did my time... and stole the guard's clothes on the way out.

 

[Dumac]

Originally posted by: Injury
So I'm beyond hooked right now. I'm pretty much a total bastard. My character, Dicknose the Imperial of the "Asswipe" class born under the sign of the thief, managed to pickpocket his way into the 5000g house in Anvil. I've ripped off the Grey Fox himself on numerous occasions and managed to avoid doing jail time until just now. I had to off a few guards who found me wandering the halls of the Elder Library. Not a soul saw me do it... at least nobody left alive... and somehow the second I got outside they knew it was me. PSSSHHH. whatever. I fled long enough to dump my mountains of stolen property in a safe place and did my time... and stole the guard's clothes on the way out.

yeah, the telepathic guards are well known to people who haven't even played OB.

STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM