Fun ways to play skyrim

What are some unique fun things you can do in skyrim outside of Quests?

I've had my fair share of adventuring, and I've done most all of the quests, (Mainline, Guilds, Dadera, etc.)
What's something fun and exciting to spice up the game a bit?

 

Mods

 

Skyrim rules.
You could always become really good at selling stuff and just go make a shitload of money?
Or just walk to somewhere and starting hitting people and try to survive as long as you can.

 

Especially if you play on pc with steam.

 

Unfortunately I have Xbox.. I torrented a copy of skyrim on my computer to use for only mods. Which was fun for awhile, but then for some reason one day it stopped working.. I probably accidentally updated it or something and it realized the serial was fake.. Idk

I've been playing through Dawnguard though!! Oh man!! The Vampire story line is SOOO cool!

 

Haha, I thought you had just started the game for the first time. I think you did more Daedra quests than me cause I still have most to do!

Obviously just cruising around stoned through new found cities or nature is one of the best things to do besides following the quest lines. Sometimes just seeing a wellknown place from a rarely visited location can keep me viewing for minutes.
I also enjoy improving my enchanting and potion brewing skill a lot. Smithing too. But only when I'm in the mood so I generally stash my new found ingredients and metals in my house and use it all when I feel like going smithing/brewing/enchanting some stuff. Excellent pastime to light up the doobie with in my opinion Sometimes I also get caught in an in game book.
Just trying to make money for the sake of it is boring to me but I do it automatically in between quests trying to get some cool stuff (example is a magic staff of chain lightning which automatically leaps the lightning to the next enemy, really handy! :biggrin.
I think the random dragon attacks are really well paced too since I rarely avoid them. Always fun to see it end with a cinematic action So collecting all the words of power from the dragons dens is good fun to me as well as the travel to it.

 

Fun ways to play Skyrim??

How about sitting in a kiddie pool of jello with a vibrator up your butt while three blonde dwarfs with huge boobs give you a head to toe tongue bath.

That sounds like it could be a fun way to play Skyrim, as long as you don't drop the controller in the jello.

 

Still have to try that out (all the dwarfs are prudes here)!

 

Dawnstar is almost dl'ed.
Can't wait to hit this today.

 

Just curious, how many of you have played all the Elder Scroll series?

Arena- now a free download-http://www.elderscrolls.com/arena/

Daggerfall- now also a free download-http://www.elderscrolls.com/daggerfall/
Redguard
BattleSpire
Morrowind
Oblivian
and now Skyrim

I've played Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowwind and Oblivian. Haven't started Skyrim yet.

Redguard and Battlespire were so-so and fell outside the main Elder Scroll series main thread storyline, so I never really got into them.
Elder Scrolls also introduced what I feel is the best RPG character development system around. It's as simple as 1-2-3. The skills you use are the ones you gain experience in. None of this getting points and then assigning them to skills that you never actually used.

Of all of them so far Daggerfall still stands out as the best for me.
Graphically it's now dated, but what made Daggerfall so great wasn't the graphics, it was the first real free-form, free-roaming game. Hell I played it for two hours a day for 15 months before I even started the main storyline!

Plus all the dungeons were generated dynamically and were all random, except for certain quest specific areas. It also had an awesome, for the time, 3-D mapping system for dungeons, a real life saver. Any of you who played Daggerfall know what I mean.

With Morrowind and the pre-placed environments and models, it lost that completely free form feel and open ended game-play.

Whatever, I'm rambling now, but check out the other games in the series.

 

Yeah Noxious that's awesome, I've looked into Arena and Dagger fall, but I've never had the chance to play them

I actually didn't discover the elder scrolls until Oblivion came out, and I played it a lot. I know a lot of people would disagree with me, but I didn't like Oblivion that much. Skyrim came around and I fell in LOVE with it, I still play it, I still Oblivion now and then, but Skyrim is better than Oblivion in just about every aspect. Everyone complains about Skyrim's leveling system, but I like it a lot.

After messing around for awhile I looked into the lore and the series, so now Morrowind is one of my favorite games, certainly better than Oblivion (IMO), not as good as skyrim, but that's only because of the technology. I'm fairly confident Morrowind was a huge breakthrough at the time it came out, with the complete 3d modeled open-world. The Music and lore for Morrowind is my favorite though, I wish they could somehow remake that game with the game engine used for skyrim or a better one! It's soo amazing, it's only real downside is the combat system, and if that were fixed, the game would be top notch.

There were rumors of them bringing Morrowind or perhaps even Cryodill (sp? - Oblivion home land of the Imperials) into a DLC for skyrim. I kind of doubt it though, why would they spend all that time and sell it as a DLC? If something like that came out, it would easily be $60+

That's cool though Noxious, I'll check out Dagger-fall and Arena soon

 

I really wanted to play Morrowind but it gave me awful motion sickness.

 

I only played Morrowind, which surely made me fall in love with the Elder scrolls world and lore. A friend of mine had Daggerfell on floppydisks and recommended it so I tried that one out for awhile. Couldn't get really passed the dated graphics though. I have the same problem a bit with Morrowind now otherwise I most likely would play that one again as well. Never played Oblivion somehow (except for a couple of hours). It looked good though. I am still willing to try it sometime if only to see that part of Tamriel

Yes, it was! It was one of the reasons I started playing it. I have never played a lot of games but this was just one that suited my taste and I just had to get it. Spend lots and lots of hours on it and never finished the story

 

The dwemer are one of my favourite parts of the elder scrolls lore. I generally don't really dig advanced technologies in epic fantasy like this but I love their mysterious ruins and history. There was this quest in Morrowind where you were supposed to find out what happened to them, another very lengthy sidequest. Now you can just read about it in the books in Skyrim :biggrin:

 

I rarely ever play the actual game and quest, I just go exploring.

 

My favourite skyrim past time is shooting ice bolts through unsuspecting peoples heads

 

I love attacking soldiers on Oblivion and then seeing how long I can stay on the run before getting arrested.

 

I liked that more in Red dead redemption when you could get a posse looking for you and get pretty intense shootouts :2thumbsup:

Just wondering, haven't you explored everything by now? I'm now playing the game and storyline for a second time and the only way I still see new places is because I went not everywhere (although saw about 80% first time round) I could go

 

Nice!

I know it's cliche and over done but I still love Fus Ro Dahing people/animals off mountains and then playing the game of Find the Corpse.

 

He..he...he
same here.
highest bounty I ever got was over a quarter million, that was for slaughtering dozens of people and guards at one time.:devil:
Walked into a busy tavern and picked a fight and it was on.

I played my darker self in Oblivion, became head of the thieves & assassin's guilds, Arena champion, head of the vampires, etc.
I played as a vampire for over a year. Finally got tired of never seeing green trees and daylight, lol.


Here's another question for you guys.

How many times have you killed that black guy that is in every friggin' Elder Scrolls game since Daggerfall (voice actor)?
I try and kill him at least a few times in each game.
Hell he's even in Fallout 3!
You think they would at least get some new character models!
Oh well, maybe the guy is someone's nephew at Bethesda or something.

you guys know who I'm talking about don't ya?
In Oblivion he was often one of the heads of the guards, as well as various other characters.
don't recall exactly who he was in Morrowind, but he was there.
In Fallout 3 he is the guy that greets you at Megaton, as well as other various characters.

Always the same character model and voice, but he also voices some other characters as well.

So is this guy in Skyrim as well? I'd be surprised if he wasn't.