Game Discussion of the Week: The Elders Scrolls V: Skyrim

I actually bought it for VR, I put it the other day, and I still haven't figure out if it is a good idea to pick up everything you encounter, or what type of things are important to pick up.

Apparently when you pick up too many things you can't even walk. If I hit storage they disappear from the pause menu, and I can walk normal again, but I have no idea where they go when you do that.

My guess is that later on I would be able to access those things, but I don't know for sure, or if it is worth it picking them up in the first place.

I also noticed it is important to quick save every time you do something because the autosave doesn't do it often enough. I still haven't figure out which is the best weapon to use either.

I'm motivated to keep playing because on VR it feels like you are really there and that it is your head the one that is about to get chopped off, but I wish there was a guide for those things I mentioned.

I looked on YouTube, but I couldn't find anything about it. To me, knowing what type of thing are important to pick up could save me a lot of time. I was trying to pick up everything just in case they would mean more currency, but I have no idea if that's the case.



If you think about it, you can't prove your character isn't naked in many first person games.

In Skyrim when you pick up things from women you leave them in their underwear, but sadly they are already dead at that point, so unless you are some kind of weird necrophilian, it doesn't help the cause.



I heard the plat is easily 100 hours or more.

I am not sure about the storage via the pause menu, perhaps that is different with the VR version.  I know storage as walk up to a "box" and take or store items.  There are "safe" places out in the world you can find (look up "early save storage").  You can buy a house through the main quest at Whiterun soon enough.  For selling stuff, you speech level is key.  One of the problems with the game is that you level you speech up by selling stuff; easy enough, right?  But you get more points by selling one item at a time rather than selling all items at once (you have 100 coal, well sell one at a time for more leveling).  Eventually you can get a trait that allows you to sell anything to any vendor (at the beginning you can only sell armor/arms to smiths, food to food vendors, etc).  That helps a lot with selling items and quick money.  Don't worry about COLLECTING EVERYTHING.  Just get the more expensive items: arms, armor, etc.  You can sell everything, but don't over-encumber yourself too much with junk.

I wouldn't enjoy it. Aside from the graphics and physics it seems like a downgrade in every respect. Modding aside, Oblivion and especially Morrowind give the player so much more power and freedom, mainly through spellcrafting, as well as through enchanting in Morrowind (Oblivion had enchanting but it was much more toned down).

But my point remains the same: in the older games using magic was so much more fun. And since I never got much enjoyment out of playing as an archer or using melee combat, I know for sure that Skyrim would be boring as hell.