Skyrim, or, How I Ruined My LifeFollow

The sounds weird to me. The game autosaves automatically every single time you zone. How did you manage to turn that off? (Also, learn to love f5. It's a must for bethesda games. My friend presses f5 before he zones every time.)

I know it's the Auto-saving that causes much of the lag in the PS3 version. Some people do turn it off, you can access it in the Settings menu when you press Start.

I had to disable everything but the menu saving on the PS3, as it was DEFINITELY freezing my system (all the damn time). I still get occasionally freezes on the loading screens/when the menu opens up, but it's better overall. I just set my menu auto-save to 5 minutes, so generally speaking I'll only ever lose 7 minutes max of gameplay.

That said, remember that it's SUPER easy to just end up wandering around the gameworld. You only autosave at loading screens. If you end up chasing a butterfly into a bear, which chases you into a dragon, which forces you to climb a mountain to finish it off because it won't land near you, which makes you head down the other side of the mountain, which leads you to a simple bandit camp, where you end up chasing a butterfly...

I think you get my point.

Yikes the console versions sound rough. I never had any of those issues on PC. I started to crash occasionally when I zoned when I got to around 1000 saves (Not including auto or quick Ima saver big time.) That was between 4 toons though so I cleaned up some of the chaff and got back to around 100 saves and all was well.

I've got over 120+ hours on the 360 version at this point and I've only encountered two minor glitches, both of which were actually beneficial.

Yay I found another bug last night. SpoilerAfter finding out the betrayal of your thieves guild leader (can't remember his name) and doing some digging around for information quests I was sent back to the thieves guild headquarters. After some long winded talking between the npcs I decided to check the chests to see if they were restocked with loot. Turns out I missed a dwemer chest. Here is where the bug is at. Every time I failed at picking the lock it would kick me out of the lock picking minigame. The fun part was every time I went back to pick it the lock itself would change so it would be a wild guess where to unlock it at every single time. I might try it again later today.

Ah that could be it. There was a guild member standing a stones throw away. He didn't get upset at me picking it but that would explain why I couldn't. Thanks for the knowledge.

Yeah, I found that out when I tried picking a Master lock door in Windhelm on the docks -- got kicked out after one fail and a guard immediately tried to arrest me. =X Going into Sneak before starting seemed to help avoid detection though.

Hahaha, this is similar to what happened to me right after I left helgen for the first time. Except that the house was also spinning around. It was my glorious introduction to bethesda skyrim.

Went word hunting today after I dinked around doing various odds and ends, the most notable was the fun I was having with a horse I stole. First wall had a blood dragon guarding it. Surprised the thing didn't put up more of a fight. It did make some goats hostel to me, not sure how but amusing enough to see them stare at me until I pulled my sword out then watch them scatter. The second wall was a bit more annoying.

As I started my journey there I happened to get attacked by a frost dragon. After a rousing game of who can drink the most potions he died and I looted his corpse. I then sat there for a couple minutes waiting for the dang thing to give me his soul. Approached him from different angles and nothing worked. Frustrated I went back to town to unload my stuff (didn't want to kill another dragon at the second word wall and only have 15 lbs left I can carry). Quick travel back and the dragon's corpse is gone. Shrugging it off I made my way to the tower. As I approached I noticed there isn't a dragon in sight nor anything guarding the wall. Then it dawned on me, the frost dragon I killed earlier was stretching its wings and saw me as a snack. Oh well, bosmers give dragons a nasty case of heartburn anyways so it is for the best.

On a side note I love shouting around Solitude. The guards keep telling me to knock it off, I apologize and tell them it won't happen again, then shout past them when the conversation is done.

If that's the quest I'm thinking of, it's the one where you get challenged to a drinking contest by some guy and then you end up in the temple. Nchuand-Zel is Dwemer ruins if it's the place I'm thinking of and is unrelated to the drinking game quest, but if you're not comfortable fighting falmers and chaurus you might want to beat feet and get out of there.

Funny thing about the thieves guild, after you get done with the honey farm quest the quests tend to be less ****-ish and more redemption-ish. I am not going into details but I enjoyed it quite a bit. Plus you get some sweet looking gear.