So, Skyrim's out 11/11/11

[Thenryb]

Just finished the main quest but was a bit disappointed. I expected a followup quest to wrap up business (visit key characters, receive piles of treasure, etc) when there came none. the final area was interesting however (good music!).

Now I'm going to finish achievements. I'm at 66%.

I have not been concerned with achievements but out of curiosity checked to see how many I have and the answer is none. I have not been playing in offline mode, when I check Steam it says I have no connection. The game launches just fine, but it does not track achievements. I started a new character and made it a point to launch the game specifically by hitting the play button in my steam library. The character got two achievements (escaping the barrow and hitting the standing stone) but none after that as I lost my "steam connection".

I'm three notes from "a friend" short of getting all the shouts. I'll probably get them, then retire.

The last two, completed my mask collection, so I went to Labrinthian to get the ninth mask (which was kind of a let down. -- where is the epic battle? ) I had a weird glitch during that crusade, everyone hated me for a little while and would attack me on sight. But, when I got back home, everything had smoothed over, and the guard's were telling me about their bad knees again.

I guess to get achievements you need to actually launch the game through steam by clicking on the "play" icon when you open your steam games library. I began by just launching with the exe. After the 1.2 patch I launched using the SKSE loader. After 1.3 I went back to using the exe. That is when I discovered that in spite of defeating Alduin twice, I had zero achievements. I have since been launching the game from within Steam and have now have about half the achievements. Actually, I think the whole concept is rather silly but I am doing it to have something to do in the game besides choosing a side or doing the endless Dark Brotherhood or Companion quest lines.