FUS RO DAAAAAAAAAAH!!!! D:<

Kaan drem ov.

O.O

<^,^>

<:)

Yep, the devs never fail to challenge player agency and have their racial choices affect choosing sides, nor do they ever fail to avoid pissing us off with level-scaling everything, effectively negating the point of leveling up. And what did I get? Guard duty.

Stormcloacks being pretty much nazis but then being racially blind to the player felt soooo out of place, especially coming months after The Witcher which narrated racism very well.

Oh, most certainly! To make that slight seem less obvious I sided with the Empire. That made them hate me (almost) proper.

Skyrim's level scaling is actually far more limited than Oblivion's was, inside dungeons at least.

True, it's way improved, but level-scaling draugrs stole my sweetrolls D:

Never had a problem with any scaled critters.

It was the Uber-bosses that didn't scale that always ate my lunch - a lv13 Nord has no business trying to fight a Draugr Death Overlord with an Ebony Battleaxe.

My first encounter with a giant ended with me getting launched so high I was back at the load screen before what was left of my broken corpse hit the ground.

And don't even get me started on the DragonPriests.

Dragon priests are a bit of a cake walk (sort of) once you have the daedric item that has the fire enchant + undead flee. But even then they still hit -hard-. I've not come up against one on my thief character as of yet but I'm not looking forward to it.

Dawnbreaker. I love it.

Skipped going straight to visit the Greybeards. Returned around level 30, and almost got the shmidt beaten outta' me. All the NPCs warning about wolves can suck it, the liars; ran into nothing but nasty, and it wasn't any canine.

And those (usually) human bandits with nothing but hide armour and basic equipment can almost always beat me in a straight up fight despite my epic equipment and solid skills.

They're always somewhat better; doesn't seem too limited to me. Maybe that's just the 306 version?

By limited I mean dungeons have a level range and will not scale indefinitely. If you wander around on your own you can find dungeons with a minimum level much higher than your own (when lower level) and get plowed over. On the same token when you are higher level you can find some dungeons with a low maximum level, and you'll steamroll them. Radiant quests will try to direct you to level appropriate dungeons, if I understand it correctly. The "overworld" is a different story as you note it. I meant that in a good way actually, since in Oblivion the hitpoints of your foes would increase indefinitely regardless of whether or not your offensive capability hit its maximum. It's more restrained in Skyrim, though obviously some do not like it at all.

Ah, yes. That makes more sense, as it seems I've misread what you meant. And I do agree that Oblivion was terrible for that.

I had no problems running my dual 1h daedric axes when I over leveled. I out dps everything besides giants... I think you're not fus ro dah'in enough. The only problem that I faced is when I tried playing on master level at first, everything rapes you in a few hits.

That's not my point at all. Yeah, sure fus-RODAHing sends 'em skyward, but what I'm talking about is that with high skill proficiency AND FAR SUPERIOR equipment, and I still can have my ass handed to me easily by generic mooks with shoddy 1st-level equipment in a stand-up "even" fight. Why? Because they're always better than the player character. Which defeats the whole point of leveling up in the first place.

/facepalm

Weapons can only do so much damage in the hands of a player with maxed skill and the right perks, but once the AI wields it, suddenly each hit does exponentially more.

Yes, that is face-palm worthy.

I used to be a Marine once, but then I took a bullet in the knee. True story. The arrow guy can suck it :-P

Well, I met a guy in Windhelm who used to be a Stormcloak soldier, but then he took a sword to the chest… I blame necromancy.

In the game soldiers should have said: "i used to be a soldier, but the i assaulted a fort with a guy who used only fire-fucking-balls D:<".

Anyway, funny stuff. The stormcloaks recruiting non-Nords never made sense to me, either.

lol, Daedric Toilet... XD

The elven ones are self cleaning. TAMRIEL FACT.

yeah, but at least Daedric toilets help with medical conditions. o3o

As a Khajiit player myself, I too feel the same about the Nord's xenophobia.

Stormcloaks = racist yet badass

Empire = pussy thalmor bitches (that tried to kill you)

I figured joining the Stormcloaks and beating the shit out of the empire would help them accept other races into Skyrim :3

Oh and Daedric toilet, lawl <3

I actually like that you've got good reason to hate and love both of them

I would have loved for them to allow the player to create a new faction/ignore it/or to remove racism from the storms motto after finishing their quest line.

What I'm gonna do next is join the Empire, since seeing why the empire are a bunch of pussies actually makes me sympathize with them a bit. Strengthening them might actually be better in the long run for Skyrim than having a bunch of big-dicked macho men run it XD

Bigger cock size means better leadership skills. Tru Fax.

When the cock goes erect, the blood doesn't exactly stay in the brain ;3

NORDS DON'T NEED BRAINS TO RULE! Brains are for sissy mages and look what they did to Winterhold! RAAAWWWR!

YOU SAID WE WOULD NEVER TALK ABOUT THAT WEEKEND EVER AGAIN >:c

NORD PHYSIOLOGY FACT: those aren't beards, those are keratin-based neural networks D:<

No wonder the dwarves went extinct, the Nords stole their beard technology!

I tried fighting for the cloaks, I ended up disappointed, (sorry no arrow to the knee joke). I mainly felt even though I won a countries independence did I really do any good? Bah Im thinkin on this to hard.

Awesome picture may Talos bless the leveling hell out of it

In skyrim the political question was really a shade of gray. The empire is shown to be on the verge of disintegration anyways, and the storms are utter nationalistic fools. I couldn't foresee any resolution for each side.

exactly, Truthfully I think it may or may not be build up for a add on in which they take the fight to the Thalmor. Love chopping those self righteous bastards up no matter what side I choose. Err no offense to any one who plays as a elf

Enchanted daedric toilets, please. This one has Drain Health and Drain Stamina cast on it.

Yay Skyrim!

I still haven't chosen a side for my character. The Stormcloaks seem pretty awful but the Empire allows and uses torture by orders of the Thalmor. Of course, they write it so doing nothing means the war continues which the Thalmor want. It's a no win situation from my perspective. The Empire clearly is race neutral though in policy, which is more than can be said compared to so much of Skyrim being openly dominated by racists.

To unlock the true powers of the Deadric Toilet, you need to kill an arch-plumber at the behest of the Deadric Lord of Bodily Functions.

I really wish Skyrim had a "Fuck You All" option like Fallout: New Vegas did.

And I wish Kahijit were half as buff as you've drawn them.

Totally buff Kahjiit! I play one but would love one as buff as that one...and the ability to wear some bad ass briefs instead of that aweful "underwear" they gave males...ugh.

The first five panels by themselves are golden, GOLDEN <3

Oddio la faccia che fa nel terzultimo pannello XD

Instant fave. You should to draw more Skyrim comics in future (or merely buff khajiits). Or humorous comics in general, as you seem to handle it quite well. :)

D:<

This is what I think of your SKYRIM. D:< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQmYF35w74

I will SO make new dialogue for your comic here. OH YES.

Fuck the Stormcloaks.

Fuck the Thalmor.

I don't want to join either side. They both suck. It's like the 2000 elections all over again.

PS: I voted for Nader.

buff khajiits yay! :>

I'm just sad that even when I'm carrying moonsugar, NPC's still talk to me :V

Also I don't know if it was a typo or on purpose, but "Kahijits" made me laugh. I pronounced it like Kah-idjit.

It was a bit of a tough call for me to decide whether to back the Stormcloaks or the Empire.

The Empire didn't help their case by trying to execute me right off the bat (thanks, Alduin!), but at least Hadvar offered to return my body to Elsewyr.

I finally went with the Stormcloaks despite their racism because I felt the Empire betrayed them (and itself) by signing the White-Gold Concordat.
Plus Jarl Ulfric makes a damned good speech.

As with so many things in the Elder Scrolls games, your mileage may vary.

LOLz, I would have different reaction when seeing the toilet.

http://goo.gl/mJ5Vc

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