I am not sure if this was mentioned before. I just found out the other night. Magicka only regenerates at 33% the normal rate while in combat, and none at all while using spells. In Oblivion the latter would not have been a big deal, since it only took a second to cast a spell. But Skyrim has many spells that you have to keep the button pushed, like the starting healing and flames spells. It makes the ward spells useless, as using one for just a few seconds completely drains your magicka, and you cannot get any of it back.

So if your pure mages are getting their butts kicked, now you know why. One of the first things I did with the Creation Kit was make a small mod that makes magicka regenerate how it should, at the full rate all the time.

The Good: too much stuff to mention. I don't have time to type it all right now.

The Bad: I miss all the numbers! The Attributes system. I grew up with numbers and stats, I'm old-fashioned in this regard and proud of it.

Skyrim's Favorite's system is also bad, in comparison with Oblivion's hotkeys. I only get 2 hotkeys in Skyrim, but had 8 in Oblivion. Therefore, gaming in Skyrim is unfortunately clunky, especially if I need to pull up a lot of spells (or whatever is Favorited). One thing Oblivion has over Skyrim is that gameplay is interrupted less often since 8 hotkeys can be assigned and used at will.

The Ugly: pretty much everyone in Skyrim is rather ugly. And I'm finding it difficult to make good-looking females especially.

Males, however? It's okay if they're ugly! Most of the men in Skyrim look like actual men. Cyrodiil's men (with their lack of facial hair) are more doll-like

This post has been edited by Lady Saga: Feb 28 2012, 02:07 AM

You can have 8 hotkeys. I do. I could not play this game without them. Here is how:

Favorite your items or spells as usual. If you remapped the change view key (from 1st to 3rd person), you have to use that key to favorite things, not what it says in the game).

Open up your Favorites list. (the default key is Q)
Select the item you want.
Press the hotkey number you want associated with it. You will see the number appear beside the item name.
Done.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Feb 28 2012, 02:45 AM

Renee is on the PS3.

I thought it worked the same on all platforms?

Console players are stuck with a meager 2 hotkeys + favorite system.

Wow, that bites.

Indeed.

I just use the favourite system, I never knew there were hotkeys on the PS3... ...Blimey...

Yea, there are. Left and right, that's all we get. There are basically 4 extra positions which go unused on the PS3's controller, and (I'm assuming) Xbox's controller as well.

Depending on the character, I'll hotkey what I consider the most important stuff. Crystal Beth's left is her Fire spell, and right is healing. Healing (Or healing potions) is always right with all my characters, in Sky and Oblivion. That right hotkey has saved my DiD characters more times than Donald Trump has fired interns. Lol.

This post has been edited by Lady Saga: Feb 28 2012, 05:20 PM

Is it like that in Oblivion too? I always thought the consoles had the same number of hotkeys as the computer versions.

Oblivion was like Fallout 3 with hotkeys. You had 8 of them corresponding to directional arrows below/above the left thumbstick.

So they had 8, and purposely chose to reduce it to 2 for consoles? Wow, talk about being A-holes.

They should have done it like Fallout New Vegas. There were 7 hotkeys and then 'up' had a special function. 'Up' should have been favorites and the other 7 should have been hotkeys.

It's one of the main things I dislike about Skyrim. Lack of spellcreating? I can live with that. there are lots of things like this that I'm not missing in Skyrim because I can roleplay around them, or I simply never used them much in the first place.

But less hotkeys? That's a functional issue, affecting the actual mechanics of gameplay. It blows not having extra hotkeys, makes gameplay clunkier. I can see why Bethesda did it, though. I am open-minded enough to see why they changed this. People complained about not having enough choices in Oblivion. With the new Favorites system, we can have all the choices on-hand we want, we're not limited to just 8. Problem is, they gutted several hotkeys to get this system to work. Apparently.

I'd rather have less favorites on-hand, and have Oblivion's system of 8 hotkeys at all times.

Bloody quests ar$ing up...

First, Roerek completely refuses to sell me Vlindrel Hall in Markath...Not once, despite the Jarl saying I can be Thane at that point...

And now, the dude who marries peoples in Riften has disappeared...

Oh, and my wife's game still freezes, despite this latest update that apparently fixes everything...

*Sigh*...

The wife probably needs to start a new game. If she is playing off of saves that are corrupted/glitched, then those issues are most likely going to follow her, no matter what version the game files are.

I've got a ton of broken quests where characters ask you to find something for them and when you do it is a quest item...except when I actually take it to them the dialogue option isn't there to actually turn the item in so I'm stuck with it.

The worst part? They each have weight and I've collected up quite a few of them so I'm constantly forced to carry like 20 lbs of literal junk in my inventory.

That said, Skyrim is one of the least glitchy games that Bethsoft has ever released.

Skyrim's unescessary removal of things that could of been used. Seriously, they removed "Night eye". Why would you even do such a thing?

Huh? I use night eye all the time!

I am disappointed that short swords aren't in the game.