The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Quick hints

I finally have something positive about Skyrim to say! Well it's merely some of my knowledge I'd like to share for other beginners. Bear in mind that I am a newbie to this franchise and still have lots to learn myself so feel free to leave comments if you know of other ways to get ahead early. Being a huge RPG fan I enjoy the thrill of mundane tasks to level up so this little guide is not CHEATS, it's one way to make it in the land of Skyrim

I have no reccomendations for what type of fighter you should become. Thats totally your preference so feel free and go crazy








SKILLS TO FOCUS ON FIRST
 - Smithing (this allows you to create weapons and armors, making them stronger)
 - Enchanting ( placing magical abilities on weapons and armors making them more effective)
$$$ One main reason I reccomend these two to build on early is because they also can provide great sums of Gold $$$

So right away you will see a pretty epic intro where a Dragon attacks. After this area you are tasked to go to the town of Riverwood, though at this point you can explore to your heart's content, I reccomend visiting Riverwood and performing a deed that is a bit controversial, wicked, but fun!

Look for a wood elf who hangs around the lumber area next to the blacksmiths workshop. His Name is Faendal. He's in a little quarrel with another man in town named Sven. He requests you to deliver this fake letter to Carmilla so she ends up dispising Sven. Tell her the lie and Faendal thanks you and becomes the first of many followers you can obtain. Request he follow you, and backtrack out of town the way you entered and look for embershed mine not too far away. Enter here and run down the path triggering a boulder trap that will take Faendal out, or almost. Finish him off if he's still alive and rob him of his house key!

Now you have a place to stash stuff. Note that after sometime, I believe a month in Skyrim, the house returns to its original form so anything stashed may vanish, but not always. It's ok because a month is a long time and you won't need this place that long.

TRAVEL SOUTH EAST - RIFTEN
Armor up and ready to fight wolves, bears, bandits, and possibly other things along this long trip. If you didn't kill the first Dragon at the Whiterun western watch tower then the Dragons in game have no been released yet so you have nothing to fear there.

This next bit takes about twenty min or more but is worth it in the end. We're gonna raise the Speech Skill to 100 very quickly. Whether this is a glitch or not, I don't know but its basically the way you level it. Persuasion:

So they say this is a Glitch but oh well. Instead of trying to persuade all over the world, its easier to do it here repeatedly. Unlock the perks to allow you to sell anything to any merchant, and to allow you to invest, and to give all vendors 1000 extra selling gold.

I don't know if this works for everyone and or every console, but after giving all vendors the extra gold perk, invest 500 at the Riverwood trader and he will magically have 12,000 gold to buy your stuff with. I have started and played through four different save files of my own and this worked on ps3 everytime.

Now that we have that done with, you are free to go out and do as you please keeping these things in mind:
Animals slain in the wild: Pelts, pelts pelts, grab those pelts!
Soul Gems: stock pile them!

After you build up some pelts, use a tanning rack in a blacksmiths shop and create leather and leather strips and begin to make leather armors to build your smithing skill! Sell the armors for gold! or...

stock pile your creations and loot until your inventory is maxed of weapons and armors from bad guys because you can enchant them later.

Build up about ten thousand gold and now you can chain shop between towns, for example, like me, Riften, Faulkreth, White run, Riverwood. Check the traders for soul gems and pelts, the blacksmiths for leather, leatherstrips, and iron and steel ingots. Also Fahrengard at Dragonsreach in whiterun sells lots of Soul gems. By only filled soul gems for now and stock pile them. Now return to your blacksmith station and make armors out of all the stuff you bought. You should roughly break even on gold almost when selling everything back. Once you have a good amount of soul gems stashed, like 30 or 40, take a 30 or forty stocked weapons or armors and go to Dragonsreach to enchant them. Now they can be sold for alot more than they were worth before easily doubling your current Gold!

Also with a few perks in smithing unlocked, make sure all of your loot and armors created, are strengthed at the crafting table and sharpening wheels and they will be worth more!

So there you go, an easy way to get started in this world! One last hint for people like me that won't use sneak but want to gain a few levels: Raising the Sneak to 100!

Go to A cave south of Whiterun called White river watch. A blind man inside will ask who you area, lie to him and run past him into the cave and kill all bandits. Return to the blind man, undress completely for sneaking easier, and sneak into the wall behind him. Prop the ps3 controll up so the left joystick is slightly tilted forward so you sneak as fast as possible with the eye symbol opening. leave this for like 8 hours and your sneak will be maxed!

Skyrim: Final Thoughts

Bethesda knew about PS3 issues before launch

So it's been about four months or so since this game released and it still is not functioning on the playstation3 normally. Several patch attempts have been released to correct these errors but ultimately the game is still running terribly with large save files. I am officially ending my opinions on this game with this final blog on it.

I understand there will always be potential problems with a large game like this designed for PC and ported to a console but after Mr Howard's response about Skyrims PS3 issues, it all sounds like a bunch of bullshit. Bethesda knows that this game is not going to be fixed and now its time to own up to their big mess up. I was not a fan of this series going in, and I do think Skyrim is a great game, when it works anyway. I know that delaying the playstation release would have pissed off alot of playstation fans but they are already pissed off as it is now. Bethesda, you fucked up, end of story. You should have tested this game completely. You should have had at least two or three people on each console playing, exploring the map to 100% and completeing all the missions to see how the save files would hold up with such a large amount of information stored, but in the end, you were lazy and didn't care. I know people will still run out to the stores like their ass is catching fire to grab Elder Scrolls VI, if it ever comes, but I will not be one of them. This was inexcusable in my opinion. You make take credit for a great looking and fun playing game, but in the end, when it has problems running, shame on you.

In the words of Colin Moriarity, "Don't make excuses, make video games." If you can't port such a large game properly, then don't do it. Or maybe seperate the maps like Kingdoms of Amalur. Reckoning has a large map, but it's divided more than skyrim. It doesn't look as beautiful as skyrim does, but the fucking game plays. I've been involved with Amalur for two weeks now and I haven't even noticed the game even studder. I load Skyrim and if I play for more than two hours without lag or a slight freeze in the game, it'd be a fucking miracle. So PC, XBOX, fans can defend Bethesda all you want. What it comes down to in the end is if the game works great, and it does not. You don't see vehicle manufacturers selling poor running vehicles do you? Get your shit together.

The Elder Scrolls V: GLITCHrim

Oh man, have I complained about this game so much on facebook. But Seriously, such a highly praised game, and at the same time, what a piece of shit. I understand this game isn't compatible with the OS or whatever on the playstation, but then don't release it! I don't care if I would have missed out on such an addicting game. It puts me through hell more often than I have fun playing, and now I am locked in a fierce one on one battle with this pile of garbage thats trying to deny me my second platinum PSN trophy, but I will prevail, oh yes I will. Now, to the point. Let me take you on the journey I have gone through..................

So I begin the game totally new to this series with no clue where to go, or what my map compass at the top of the screen is telling me. At this point all I know is this may not be the most beautifully crafted world but it is pretty damn amazing. Before long I am kicking bandits out of mines, forts, and caverns. Hell I even crossed spiders, bears, wolves, dragons and Vampires. I contracted the disease without knowing what happened. Before long I go into my newly purchased whiterun home to dump loot off. I step backoutside and all of a sudden this lady walking by starts trying to the kill me! What the hell did I do? I sheath my weapons in surrender, but no, the sons of bitches kill me. (thank you auto save). I figure out now that I am a vampire, and naturally people want to kill me. Busting out my trusty Iphone I search the IGN guides on skyrim vampirism. Apparently I have been diseased for days and now I am so far gone people attack me on site. I searched how to cure it, went on quite an adventure, and finally pulled it off. Now I learned my lesson, use the strategy guides on the net! So I decide to start quest lines next.

I finished the college quests, the theives guild, and I begin the Civil War quest. I get through the rebellion pretty far and now I go to this camp and receive orders to attack this fort from the General. Meet some comrades outside of the fort, so I follow to the, now familiar, big white arrow on my map and compass. I arrive to a big empty green hill and about five feet above the ground floats the white arrow way marker. Not a person in site. So I go to the fort. Easy enough, I can take this fort myself. So I bust on through and what happens? A nice message appears on the top of my screen: MISSION FAILED (kill all remaining soldiers 100%) This simply means I did not meet up with my comrades but I can still take the fort. One problem. Remember when I did my early plundering? I must have raided this fort on my journey to see the world. Now the game is glitched saying there are 100% of the enemy in the fort, when the place is empty and quiet. Now for the first time Skyrim has spun me into a new demension of pissed off. I had just let my "7 day" return policy at gamestop pass me by because the game freezing up only happened once in a while, but now this? Oh so you have the balls to call this a "massive open-world" game? I think it needs renamed. "Massive open-world game but you cannot explore unless you do the proper missions" What a bunch of bull shit.

So the days drag on, the game freezes constantly making me want to throw it through a wall. It seems it would freeze right when I was diving in and getting really hooked on my current mission. Bethesda releases their first patch and it makes the game even worse. NO, you can't delete the patch if you have already played and saved your game with it, I tried. Anyway they next put out a memo saying to turn off auto save and what do you know, this actually works. Problem is I have to save every 5 min because I might die, or the game might freeze still. Motherfucking assenine bullshit.

So I push on, my character is strong as hell and I realize that I am gonna get this platinum trophy, I am almost there. Though I glitched the civil war mission, I just decided to start a new game and play a different race and just get that one trophy, and then back to my original game. BIG MISTAKE. This saved over my original. Oh now I am pissed. The strategy guide I bought took the full force of my madness. It's limping now but its a tough little soldier. So now I am stuck with this bogus character I dont care about as much. I am just powering through now to gather the rest of the trophies now (10 side missions) (15 artifacts) and then I am done. I wont touch this nightmarish piece of garbage until its patched over, and then I can do whatever I want since I wont care about failed mission glitches. I might even slaughter every killable NPC in it and declare myself ruler of all, fuck it. I hate this game. I am still addicted to it though. Bullshit.