So, Skyrim's out 11/11/11

[kandrathe]

This might be a difference between us. I haven't tried to kill children.

I accidentally tried to slaughter all the children in Skyrim.

<Slain by KSOH>

All? Is there an epidemic? I felt bad enough saving my game, then sequentially murdering one guard in each hold, to get the "Master Criminal" achievement (then reloading to my pre-criminal status). So far, that is the only time I've had to go out of character to get an achievement.


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I have two Achievements to go... 15 Daedra Artifacts, and Pick 50 locks and 50 pockets (no trouble on the locks), I have about 46 pockets to pick though. This characters play style is not so much sneaking, but more shield bashing, thuum shouting, stomp the room, then loot the corpses.

For the daedric artifact hunt, I've only completed the ones I've stumbled upon, rather than seeking them out. I've done, Azura (white), Clavicus Vile, Hermaeus Mora, Mehrunes Dagon, Meridia, Molag Bal, Nocturnal, Sanguine, and Sheogorath. Yet to stumble upon, Boethiah, Hircine, Malacath, Mephala, Namira, Peryite, and Vaermina.

I've also stumbled upon 10 of the jewels from Boethiah's crown. Eventually, I'm going to have to go get a list of dungeons to search, as they are really easy to miss -- especially with stuff getting scattered due to the amount of explosions happening around me.

My advice on questing for now would be to save pursuing the battle between the Imperials and Stormcloaks until you've done everything else you want to do. I sided with the Stormcloaks, and I'm getting many undoable side/miscellaneous quests now that require me to talk to a missing NPC. Turn in any completed tasks beforehand as well. I still have a couple of miscellaneous quests (bounty) to turn in to the Whiterun steward, who is now deposed and missing from the game. All in all, there is still a 1.0 level of brokenness to quests, but I've only had about a dozen broken quests so far ( out of hundreds completed) -- unfortunately this is typical of TES line in general. Skyrim is not different from it's predecessors in this regard.

It also bugs me that when I encounter the remnant Imperial camps, I can slaughter the Imperial soldiers, but the leader of the camp is still unkillable. I end up freezing him in a block of ice, as I ride away.

I think my choice to complete the Imperial/Stormcloak conflict in the middle of the main quest, has also messed up Esbern. I'm done with both Main, and civil war quests, but Esbern is stuck wanting me to choose between Parthanax, and the Blades.

All in all, this Nord Battle mage character is mostly done at level 57 (about 200 hours of game play), and was my exploration of everything possible (companion, thieves guild master, listener to the black hand, and master of the mages college). He'll probably be retired at level 60 -- having 100 in the skills he primarily uses, single, two handed, block, heavy armor, destruction, conjuration, lock picking, smithing, and 30's to 60's in the rest. Most of his perks are in single blade, shields, heavy armor, smithing, and conjuration.

My next character will be a female Breton morally neutral mage, who will side with the Empire (no companions, no thieves guild, no assassins) ...