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Yeah, when you're in the game flow thing, there's a button and I believe it's x that brings up the full playcalling screen. You may have to hit a button (I think B) to go back a few screens to the formation screen though as it starts on the Ask Madden play by default.

I always move around the world in third person and do 90% of combat in first person. I like being able to see how my character looks, but as someone else said the combat in third person is really just...off. Anyway....I've tried every kind of character build I can think of sans barehand but I think I like sneaky characters the best. Using the backstab/daggers is fun, but ridiculously overpowered (one hit pretty much anything) especially at the high levels. Sneaky archers are a lot of fun, but take some getting used to. The nice thing about it is that the game feels almost like an entirely different game when you're playing a sneaky type vs straight melee character, at least to me. I've also tried straight magic characters and while they're more versatile than melee and sneak characters the damage (since it's tied directly to a finite spell damage number) isn't nearly what some of the other classes do. Ultimately in combat I end up using Incinerate with both hands and the stun skill that I forget the name of, and it works but sometimes feels like a sword or bow would be quicker. Overall though it's very doable. If they really wanted to balance things out, they probably should make the "magic armor" spells have a little bit longer of a duration. As it is now, I never use them because switching to the armor spell and then back to the damage spell just isn't worth it for how often it would need to be done.

Yeah. They're ugly as sin . Also people keep calling you lizard or something. In reality what race you choose doesn't seem to have more than small effects on the game. Stuff like being an orc means you don't have to do a quest to be allowed into orc strongholds like everyone else does, etc. Also racial powers make a small difference. Again some are more useful than others though. As far as followers, I usually find one I like and stick with them, but I've read that what level you are when you first encounter said follower determines what level the follower is, but they all have a level cap of some sort although different characters have different level caps. That's what I read anyway. My current magick using character got his first follower killed (I think I used fire storm when he was low on health ) but I used undead thrall on him to bring him back as a much less vocal follower. I can only imagine how the conversation when I recruited the next guy would go: "Would you like to come adventure with me? Oh that guy? He's my former follower. He's dead now. I still keep him around to help me and occasionally carry stuff. So are you in or what?". The undead thrall seems pretty useless though. He hangs back when I'm in fights and the only way to get him to carry stuff is to kill him, stuff his corpse, and resurrect him again. Kind of a pain but apparently the carrying that way is unlimited.

So redid that part today. The path is up the east-northeast side of the mountain. Hope that helps, if you haven't found it yet.

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That place IS a cave. Although it's much bigger on the inside than it looks from the outside. yeah, that place is actually a little ways up the mountain if I recall and was a little bit of a pain to get to...I had to walk around the base of the mountain until I found a path up if I recall correctly. I can check again when I get home from work, but pretty sure there was a path up the mountain, but I had to walk (in my case to the left) until i found it.

I don't recall exactly. I fast travelled to the nearest area I had and then walked from there. It's through like a cave (which is where the quest marker should take you I believe). You may have to travel around the mountain... which is always a pain in Skyrim of course, but it shouldn't be too terribly hard to find.

What guy are you speaking of? The guy to begin the quest? He randomly walks up to you in town, and tells you to go somewhere and then it's marked on your map for you. At least that's what happened to me. I had no problems finding the dawnguard fort, doing the first mission and then choosing to take on the transformation. A word of advice though, if you want to change the way your character looks, do so (in Thieves Guild) BEFORE you become a vampire if that's your path. She will not change your appearance afterwards. Also, I was wondering, I noticed Arrows are craftable while smithing now. I was wondering if that's from the patch, or from the DLC. Anyone know? Just curious I guess.

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Enchanting is useful. It's almost game-breakingly effective at high levels. With 100 enchanting, I can enchant armor so that I can cast two schools of magic with no mana loss, or nearly double the effectiveness of my weapons. My bow on my assassin/thief character for example does about 100 damage with skills if I recall correctly. It's a standard glass bow. With enchantments (and he's at about 80 enchanting) it does over 200. With sneaking, that's a difference of 300 damage and keep in mind it's not even maxed yet. It's the difference between a one-shot kill and a two-three arrow kill. Other skills are equally useful like being able to carry more or resistances etc. Smithing is probably slightly more useful, and neither are NECESSARY (You can find good armor and with the armor skills probably get it near the armor cap without improving it...not sure on that, and you can find enchanted items and probably eventually get what you're looking for) but you really have a lot more control over your character with both Smithing and Enchanting. I highly recommend both.

It was the soldier he was talking to at the top of the stairs when Joffrey left, I believe. Or he was talking to him at some point. Maybe it will get some more explanation later or something.

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Yes. Once being a werewolf is cured, you're capable of catching any disease including the vampire one that I forget the name of. I've done it

So, I am guilty, I have to admit. I wanted a magic character who had 100 enchanting before really even starting to work on my magic, so I got 100 speech (through grinding an exploit), put points into speech to where I could invest into a shop, and invested in the one in Riverwood that's glitched so that if you give him 500 gold, instead of having an extra 1000 when you go to sell he has 10,000 gold. Then I worked my way up to level 22, found a "banish" enchant item in a shop (which took about 2 hours), disenchanted it, created about 400 iron daggers and enchanted them all at the mages college (Took multiple trips, but done with nothing else in my inventory) with Banish and sold them to the shopkeeper in Riverwood. The gold value of that enchantment pays for materials and filled soul gems, of which you can buy in a fair amount in the hall of countenance if you go at night when 3-4 of the shopkeepers are there sleeping. Took me something like 6 hours in total, but I managed to get to 100 enchanting and THEN I started to work on my magic skills. Yeah, its cheap, and I admit it. Especially since the first thing I did was create multiple outfits for spells so I never have to use any magicka again. But I also have like 6 other characters that I played fair or mostly fair on Although running around with 100k+ gold on me is kind of nice, I will say. Pretty much the only character I've abused the crap out of glitches with.

The amount that smithing something raises the skill is based on the value of the item. It can still be done with iron daggers but it takes a ton of them now. Like thousands of daggers. It's something like 30 daggers for one level at higher levels. You're better off using transmute and creating jewelry. BTW: Banish enchantment + iron daggers = win

Yeah they're veering far from the books, and I'm seeing more and more fan "outrage" but honestly, if it makes the story more cohesive then I'm for it. Book vs show discussion below. Contains some intentionally vague spoilers.

Just as abrupt and anticlimactic in the books, honestly, although I'm not sure it translates that well to tv. Oh well..the rest of the episode was good

Looking at him in college, he appears quick but not fast and not tall. He seems shifty though, but it remains to be seen whether he will still have that after a devastating knee injury and if that will translate well into NFL ball. The CB we drafted looks like a decent nickel or dime back but nothing more. Yeah, this doesn't appear to be a very good draft. We will see though. So far Mayhew has earned a -little- patience from me.

Mostly the interface is better...party chat....easier to join friends online and to communicate with them. I have both systems. My 360 gets more play for those reasons. Well that and all my ps3 friends are more casual gamers and rarely play online.

Things from now are going to start being moved around and changed. So in short, I think you can enjoy both equally, the only thing is. Massive book swerves I can't see them dropping from the series and a couple of them ARE jaw dropping and book hurlingly shocking if you're able to avoid spoilers for them. The question is, could you resist temptation to get the next book to see what happens next when you have to wait nearly a year for the next part? A lot of the "fanboys" are up in arms a bit about this, but honestly, I don't think changing things around is necessarily bad. As long as it follows the same plot, and major characters still follow the same arc. In the books you're limited to the point of view of 5-6 characters, where the show is really not being shown from any particular character's points of view. So where one character doesn't appear in book 2 because none of the POV characters saw them, they WERE interacting with characters from the book during that timeline so it makes sense for the SHOW to put them in season 2. I don't think you are arguing for or against changes, but I just wanted to put that out there. Different doesn't necessarily mean worse, or even untrue to the source material. Now if there was no beheading in season 1 and they ended the threat north of the wall in a single season and went onto a plot where Jaime plots to become king by starting a rebellion or something equally inane, I could see some uproar, but minor characters having names changed, or very minor characters being merged into a single slightly more important character, I'm ok with. I love what I've read of the books so far, but they should be the outline for the story, not the end-all-be-all bible for it. MINOR changes are ok with me as long as they make the story better. I honestly do hope they tone down the nudity-for-the-sake-of-nudity slightly in Season 2 though. If nothing else, give me someone else's to look at. I feel like I could sit down and draw Roz's tits to the smallest detail for how much we saw them in Season 1 I'm not a prude, I just feel like sometimes they're insulting my intelligence a little.

I don't know which you should go with first. On one hand, I wish I could watch the show completely unspoiled by the books, but on the other hand, I imagine it's kind of tough to read the books once you've already seen what's going to happen by watching the show. I'm currently halfway through book 3 (read the first book probably 5 years ago and just never got around to following up on the 2nd until after season 1 of GoT) and I really cant wait until that particular season, for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately some of the big events coming up in the books have already been spoiled for me. That's the other thing. If you do get into the show or books, avoid any kind of forum or comments on youtube or any of that stuff (other than here, where people are generally pretty good about spoilers) because there's assholes out there that live to spoil the plot twists.

Unless they changed it for this iteration of the game, you can just stream it off of any PC that's on the same network as your console. I share all my music from my PC to my Xbox and I create themes on the pc then use them on the xbox without moving the files to the xbox.

My key to anti-dragon (and anti-giant... anti-anything-that-might-actually-be-a-threat for that matter) combat is the Slow Time shout. You can use it in conjunction with swordplay or spell-slinging, and can use it with bows without needing to use stamina for the slowdown with the bow skillset. Once you have legendary Daedric armor with Heavy Armor Skill enchantments you're a fucking tank. I can take down almost anything with a shield bash -> sword combination (not necessarily in just two hits mind) and can just slowly walk to archers Terminator style while keeping arrows at bay with shields. Both very true statements. I was just pleasantly surprised when I found out that Steadfast Ward shields you against dragon breath attacks. As long you're facing them. Of course, hiding behind a rock or a wall or something works too, and once you build a little fire/frost resistance/health it doesn't matter too much, but it's very useful to have a way to not take high damage every time a dragon decides to throw some elemental breath your way.

grr hit submit twice. I'm at work and the PCs suck, so I thought maybe I didn't hit the post button. Double post.