The fact that you cannot persuade the Blades is BS. They are supposed to follow The Dragon Born yet try to order you around proves why you shouldn’t listen to them.
I remember when I was defending whiterun from a dragon and the cow ran past me and into a fireball I had casted. The guards completely forgot about the dragon.
There's a card in TES legends called "Prized chicken", as well as a chicken pet in ESO called "Riverwood chicken" which has a description lightly referring to the unrelenting aggression of the villagers if the chicken is hurt.
Argonians and Khajiits in Skyrim are the most OP characters imo because of claws, water breath, poison resist, disease resist and the best of all, a mod that gives their tails a piece of armor so you can look fancy about it
The funniest part about skyrim khajiit is that claw damage still applies while wearing gloves, including the gloves of the pugilist which increase your melee damage significantly, allowing you to just kill everything in the first half of the game with two punches.
As much as I love playing Khajiits, I actually disagree with this take. Unarmed isn’t useful past the early game (yes, even in AE) and poison/disease resist in pretty inconsequential due to the werewolves and vampires giving immunity and one of them giving buffs that will work no matter your build and with almost no drawbacks.
Is is possible to play as NOT the dragon born, so long as you never meet the Jarl of Whiterun, the dragons will never spawn and you will never be revealed as the dragon born. The best part, it that all the NPCs that recognize you as dragon born will have alternate dialogue. So yeah, you can just fuck off and do the game as regular joe. Only real down side is that you can't finish the civil war. But the Skyrim unbound mod fixes this
I hope one day The Elder Scrolls provides the player with a New Game Feature that allows you to play as a different type of character after beating it the regular way. For example, if you want to you could start as a new Initiate of [Insert Faction] or a type of resident of [insert town/city]. Yay for Alternant Start but it’d be nice if this was a feature in the actual game instead of a mod.
As a side fact Durnehviir, the dawnguard dlc dragon, recognizes you as the dragonborn, but if you haven't done said quest, he'll note that you'll know what he means later.
Not long after I got my Steam Deck (not long after it launched) I used vanilla Skyrim as a practical performance test. I intended to run the Helgen opening, then use console commands to go to various places to check the performance and just generally muck around a little. Maybe 60-90 min at most... around 35 hours later I had to reconsider calling it a performance test as well as consider some sleep. Ended up playing ye olde vanilla Skyrim for around 300 hours and then another 100 hours mucking about with mods. I have played thousands of hours of Skyrim, but that was the first time I played the official vanilla Skyrim since launch for any length of time. It was also the first time I had played Skyrim in a few years at the time. I honestly had thought I wasn't going to get absorbed into a non-modded Skyrim, but that thought was quickly quashed. In the end it really just cemented how great of a game it is, even with its unending list of flaws.
People complain about Skyrim's many flaws exactly because of how long it has been played. Hundreds of millions of collective hours over the past 13 years and countless mods is plenty of time to identify every last glitch and scrap of jank until that is all so many people can see.
Exactly. Despite the non ending list of issues there's so much to the game, the replayability, exploration loop being so much more engaging than most open world games since. Absolutely love it.
13:45 so when you first come out of the cave at the start of the game you can get a full set of thalmor armor if you go to the main road take the left instead of the right to go down to the standing stones, go till you pass the campsite with the three bandits and there’s a path up the hill to a Talos shrine where you can find a bunch of worshippers bodies and the thalmor agent sent to kill them who was then killed by a wolf you can find, just loot the corpses and boom you’ll have a full set of thalmor gear within five minutes of escaping helgen
37:32 I hated Hammer so much. If she weren’t unkillable…. I would have prevented that Spire pretty early on. ‘Girl if you are surprised I picked the dog, then I don’t know who you’ve been traveling with.’
I swear, that damn chicken from Riverwood... The year was 2012, the console was a PS3. The target? A damn chicken. It was a simple question. Can I kick the chicken? Will there be a cuckoo response like in Zelda? Enter Me, a young high elf, only a mere 350 yrs old. Sneaking. Creeping. Hunting.... There, blissfully unaware of her impending doom, just casually crossing the road, walked a chicken! I had spied her, my heart! Anyways, I digress. As I drew back the string, I paused. A breath, a quick glance at the thin slit of an eye to tell me I was unseen, and I let my arrow fly! WOOOSH! Flies my arrow, true to my heart! A perfect strike! So, woe be me when out of nowhere comes a bounty?!?!? The F*CK? This BROKE the rules. I was livid. Confused. Spiraling out of control as I ran for my young (comparatively) life, I questioned everything. Does stealth work differently in this game? Was there a hidden guard? Did the game somehow include deductive reasoning in the NPC's? Eventually, I realized the truth. The awful, unavoidable truth... The chickens are a protected class in Skyrim. Not protected like vital NPC's, but more protected like the polar icecaps and Skyrim is Greta Thunberg. You can destroy them, but be prepared for a lot of annoyance if you do.
If you named him Gizzard and he was clearly experienced in combat, he could Gizzard the Grizzled Lizard Wizard. And put him in a snowy climate, he could be Gizzard the Grizzled Lizard Wizard in a blizzard.
The one thing that genuinly made me feel bad in a videogame happened in Knights of the Old Republic. When you arrive on Tattooine a woman approaches you telling that her husband had died and her children were starving. But she had a hunting trophy her husband had treasured, but she cannot sell it because she doesn't have a hunting license. And since you basically get handed one to you upon arriving on the planet she asks you if you can sell the trophy in her stead and give her the money, so she can buy food for her children. So I went and sold the trophy, got back to the woman and told her of the sale but also that I keep the money. Another really evil thing you can do in KotOR is you can have your Wookie companion kill his best friend, a teenage Twi'lek girl. But you have to be so irredeamably evil to 1) get the girl to leave your party and 2) to manipulate the Wookie into trusting you way more than his best friend
Telling Big Z to kill Mission due tot the Life Debt is the Wildest thing in the KotOR Series. Two Dark Side Choices that are always funny for me are the Locker Man in Mannan and The Thugs of Nar Shadaa in KotOR 2.
5:12 It is immensely enjoyable to hear of Karlach being the most dorky character having too much fun even being "Sneaky Karlach". One day, one day I will stare into the BG3 abyss.
28:48 Dragons can report you??? No… could it be? Once one of my saves was rendered unplayable because the entirety of Skyrim found out I was a vampire, but I had no idea how, I had never drank blood, I went straight to fix it But in the process of trying to get rid of vampirism, a dragon attacked the town the guy’s in, and I got the whole withdrawal thing mid fight Is… is that why??? The freaking dragon ratted me out?!
N'jaila: being mean in video games makes me feel sooooo bad :(((( Also N'jaila: I trapped brendan urie in a dungeon and cursed him with immortality so that, much like Prometheus chained, he may suffer forever without the sweet release of death the sims truly brings out the best in us all
11:00 It's not only the horses. All the vendors have their wares lined up on their market stalls, but when you pick something up, it automatically becomes stealing, when it *should* instead have you purchase the item. And with how cramped some of the market stalls are (esp. the Windhelm ones) and how wide the hitbox of the cursor is, it's easier to accidentally steal than to talk to the shop owner.
On my first playthrough of Skyrim, I froze a bear on a mountain and with the original quirky unpatched physics, he slid down the embankment, accelerating like a bullet until he hit an obstacle and then yeeted off into the sun. Disappointed that I got no XP, I promptly forgot about it and went about my business. Five in-game days later, I was in Whiterun when a bear came charging into town with the singular purpose of wrecking my sh*t. None of the NPC's took any notice. I wonder to this day if that beast was the same one I froze, with his revenge bit set to one and a 255 grudge level, stalking my a55 across the wilderness, changing tack every time I fast travelled.
It's funny to think that if someone would kill the Dragonborn before he gets the dragon tablet the NPC would save the world, because the dragon's don't show up in game until the Dragonborn completes that quest.
I really appreciated having N'jaila join in occasionally with Karl on these videos. They seem very cool and I've learned a lot by looking up their charity organization.
The last time I played new vegas I made my character an unarmed cannibal who dismissed arcade solely to activate Archimedes so I could eat the NCR soldiers without taking damage
The question of manipulating ai in video games, and talking about Oblivion, I have to mention this as it's something as a kid (and honestly now as a adult) I am proud of. In Oblivion the Skull of Corruption staff, when used on someone would make a copy of them that was hostile to them, so you would use it on an npc, say a bandit, and a copy of that bandit would appear and attack the original. Also in Oblivion, as Karl has stated, npc will sometimes pickup weapons that are better then what they already have, this includes staffs. I dropped the Skull of corruption in a town, punched a few civilians, one of them picked up said skull of corruption, used it on me, and a copy of me proceeded to kill me very quickly, because unlike me at the time, they knew my fully upgraded Blade of Woe was by far the best weapon I had. I tended to favor the Blade of Woe on the rest of this playthough.
I think in Morrowind the only item that items have substance, so we used to steal every pillow we could find and make pillow forts in the sky, then pickup the stairs, so we could have a pillow fort in the sky with an overflow loot bag (which will work if you drop an item anywhere in the city) and use an acrobatics spell to hop up there.
I have tried, for ages, to do an evil playthrough of Fallout 4, but I can't even handle insulting Codsworth in like the first coversation after you leave the vault.
Oblivion has a quest you can solve with ai manipulation. During the Dark Brotherhood questline, where you're tasked with cleansing the Dark Brotherhood sanctuary, you can steal all the food in the sanctuary and replace it with poisoned apples. Since the npcs are programmed to eat, they will eat what's available to them.
Yeah, that's been known since maybe a day after that game came out. It's the optional way to do one of the brotherhood quests that isn't the cleansing one.
Kingdom come deliverance makes crime too easy. I cant help myself when put with the opportunity to take the entirety of the armorsmiths shop inventory.
Funniest thing i had happen to me was when I returned to Farengar for something and some thugs were standing around him. The thugs immediately turned on me to "teach me a lesson" and Farengar joined me in the fight against them. I looted their corpse and found a note from Farengar hiring them because I took something from him previously.
Talking about the AI of Skyrim, I want to share a unique experience I had playing Skyrim on PS3 during the pandemic I took on Uthgerd as a follower, intending to marry her (I didn't look at the Wiki lol). She and I must have travelled around doing the entire plot, the Thieves Guild, the Companions, the Bards College... She was bad*ss. But finally, we started doing something to do with vampire dens, and no matter how many times I save-scummed (which I hated to do, as I'm an avid roleplayer), I couldn't save her or stop her from dying. Even when I stationed her outside the cave, she would come running when the battle started. Finally, I said the Divines had a different fate for us. I dragged her body back to the nearest town and did my best Dragon-born send-off funeral off the side of a cliff where I wouldn't find her. In the meantime, I solemnly took her keys and vowed to keep her home warm until I could mod the save somehow and resurrect her. About a week in-game of using her chests and sleeping in Breezehome night, being too depressed to adventure without her, a Whiterun guard stopped me as I exited her home one day. He said something along the lines of "Uthgerd appears to be missing, the townsfolk have seen you but not her. Do you know where she is?" And I explained she fell in battle. The guard was like "Well that's unfortunate, but you can't be here because this isn't your property." I was stunned. I've asked other Skyrim players about this kind of interaction, and I've been met with: "Are you sure that's real?" I'm beginning to think I made it up in my fervor of roleplay! But I remember the genuine shock and surprise of having such an in-depth conversation with the NPCs about a character I cared about extensively.
When I played skyrim I had a high elf necromancer vampire. Her main house was in riften. One time a dragon attacked and my go to shout is call storms. Anyway the storm wrecked the town and built up a huge bounty. So because I was being attacked I just butchered the town and made it my main feeding base. Every time I had to feed I'd just summon two daedra to attack the town and keep the guards busy while I snuck in and fed on whomever I found first. I also kept like 10 bodies in the basement for the permanent dead thrall spell. So had people broke into the house they'd have found a pile of corpses in the house of the vampire that on a near nightly basis sends daedra after them. I was a monster. Lmao.
I can't take credit for this because I learned it from the Web Comic MacHall, but in Morrowind, the NPC commentary on the PC not having any clothes on was higher on the dialogue tree than any of the lines guards are supposed to say when punishing you for a crime. Nudists could break the law with impunity.
Used to watch ur videos 6-7 years ago when I was in my early teens. Glad to see you’re still kicking! I forgot the name of the channel after all these years so I searched “pop culture presented by english guy” and luckily enough, you popped up lmao.
The thing that made me feel awful in a video game. Skyrim. I had Serana as a companion when I stumbled on Meeko's shack. There was a random spider wandering close by. Serana resurrected Meeko's owner to fight the spider (!!!), and he turned to dust after the set resurrection time. I avoided that area of the game for the rest of the playthrough because I couldn't face running into Meeko and having him lead me back to the empty bed of his beloved, dead owner...
What's interesting about Skyrim's crime system is that if your bounty's not particularly high, you can get a dialogue option where the guard who tries to arrest you for stealing a mug worth 1 gold can't be arsed with it. If you try to talk to them again though, they'll try to arrest you
Human warrior, no damaging spells or shouts, considering the rest as 'gadgets or medicines'. Its my way to make the game fun. Forcing some fair difficulty and challenge that i can handle.
Nothing is more fun than taking a dude in a trunk to the salt flats in ghost recon wild lands with a buddy, or even just trying to keep that guy alive and move him from trunk to trunk
The first game I got really into was fallout 3. I decided I was going to do a moral run first, then an evil run second. I got as far as blowing up megaton on my second run, then realized I was living with a bunch of d bags and had killed all my friends, so I quit playing and never finished that run.
one of my fav skyrim stories is that while fighting karstaag they did the ground slam and sent lydia to fuckin' space and so i just went "yea she dead this time" and like 30 seconds later i saw her slam into the ground, get up and star fighting again
I remember making a set of 100% Chameleon armour in Oblivion. Chameleon is a spell that lets you blend into the background, making you harder to spot. If you took a Grand Soul gem and filled it with the strongest type of soul and put that gem into a piece of armour, it would give you 20% Chameleon. Make and wear 5 such pieces and you are now effectively permanently invisible and NPCs will not react to you doing anything, be it stealing, casting spells or even attacking them. After that I was basically just casually strolling into Oblivion gates and closing them without ever having to unsheathe my weapon.
Not an rpg but in one of the assassins creed games I'd dart a guard with the berserk dart then proceed to throw money at him and watch all the civilians die trying to get the money
I set my armor up as my various factions. It makes me feel like batman or something For my evil characters i will have my theif, nightingale, summerset shadows, assassin etc. Then ill make a second armory (bc i hate the towers) in my family house with things like companions, civil war, + a few custom armors with themes like dragon born (nordic armor) and thane (fancy clothes)
I love playing lawfully in games like GTA, because it is a challenge. Most missions are impossible without some leeway, so I minimise the damage I cause, but the rest of the time is not attacking NPCs, keeping to traffic laws, etc., accompanied by some of my favourite songs through the use of the custom radio station
I never heard about the Oblivion Skooma Mosh Pit, but I remember hearing that one character was set to buy a certain armor as a collector. He would buy all the armor the shop offered, dump it on his rug, rinse repeat the next day, and testers could never buy armor in that one city, and going into the NPC's house late-game would crash the game.
I haven't done it myself but I know in BG3 you can manipulate Astarion in to sleeping with you when he is vulnerable and doesn't want really to (you basically imply thats all he is good for), the scene that comes after is heartbreaking
I am actively trying not to buy skyrim on the switch. And this man gives me the idea to make a argonian call king gizzard and make him a lizard wizard... This must be how sober alcoholics feel.. 😅🤣
Mentioning the radiant AI I think the system woulda been absolute GOLD if NPCs werent finite. Even "Shithead 35" will never respawn. Or at least the GUARDS will, iirc? Either way I think if we had a lot of random NPCs to fill out slots that respawned it'd be really cool cause then you can find that drug dealer having been murdered for his drugs thing and go "Oh shit- Thats kinda sad." and not immediately be like "aw for FUCKS sake"
Yes I was thinking this exactly! I've had one save for over six years on PS3, and it feels so empty now. I realized that through all the adventuring and battling, and with none of the children growing up to take up new roles, the population of Skyrim is set to dwindle. It would be so cool to have mods with like, new travelling caravans, options for children to grow up and/or new children to be born, basically just add one more layer of fluff RNG mechanics to keep the world alive.
Not wanting to be mean to NPCs is how some roomies and i came up with "Nice City". It's almost impossible to play Vice city without running over NPCs because of their marked tendency to fling themselves joyfully in front of your car. The 'par' for the game is (Far as i remember) 350 NPCs must ded to beat the missions. There are ways around this. Mostly involving jumping out of cars just before they esplode. My roomie managed to beat the game with 150 under par NPCs deded. Epic. Totes EPIC! I totally recommend trying it. It is so hard to get even close to par.
I think the one time I genuinely could not go through with something in a game was GTA IV. I remember this one mission where you had to bust some guy out of somewhere, and the entire time you're driving away with him, he's just so happy to be free, until you get to the end point and he realises you've only 'rescued' him just to kill him off. I... I just couldn't do it. I walked away, both in-game and in real life. I don't think I've played any GTA game since.
That NJRUA sounds super rad. On the note of morality and dogs in games, it's always the worst thing playing something like Far Cry or Last of Us or whatever and they force you to fight them. The combat tutorial of one of the Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous involves saving someone from their possessed dog and the only way to progress is to kill the dog, and the person blames you for it, I reloaded it repeatedly to try to find another way and couldn't save the dog so I quit.
37:20 I'm playing through fable 2 again and you guys got me thinking about the ending, SPOILERS but hammer hates you regardless of what you pick, even though the final 3 options to choose are tailored to each of the 3 heroes Yeah makes total sense that she'd hate me if I picked money, but still hates me EVEN IF I decide to revive everyone from the spire? OR make the choice she would likely choose and revive my loved ones?! Sure that last one is still mildly selfish but at least you're still bringing back murder victims that you know personally
You knock, knock. Me..... You "you're supposed to say who's there. Me "no I'm an introvert, we don't answer doors we make no one is at home as we peek out the window or ring door bell cam to make sure they leave." 😊
At a certain point, I am able to have multiple followers I can have a regular follower like Faendal, then Serana, then Barbas, plus a pet companion like an armored troll, a horse, and a conjured creature. It can get very hectic when one follower hits another on accident. I am also able to use a glitch where I can become a vampire lord and a werewolf.
In Oblivion, Shadowmere being an essential npc would become unconscious when killed, during which you could loot. I would use this to my advantage by using Shadowmere as a mobile chest.
Carl man of culture that he is naming his toons wu tang. I had a bard in dnd that was basically just a thief that occasionally threw out a poem or rhyme and i named him odeebie. The dm would describe a scene and setting and ask the oarty "ok so what are you guys doing?" Regardless of the situation odeebie was always 'lookin for shit to steal' that was such a fun character. His cha was insane so i could basically steal something like a ring from an npc and literally use it for reference to help them look for it... Like "did it look like this ring?"
Every single time I played skyrim, I always end up going dark elf with a ton of a magicka, bound weapons, and daggers. I just always default to magic ninja for some reason.
Special guest, N'jaila.
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- Karl
I want her to read my audio books to me.
Your brother unalived parthunax!!!?!?!?!?!?! What a c***
Seems like you dont need it decriminalized considering its legal if you videotape it
I didn't realize until this video how much I wanted to see Karl and the crew play DnD. I don't know why, but I feel like it would be hilarious.
Yes, but I would not want Karl as a DM. I think it would be way more fun if he was a player and screwed around with what the DM gives him.
@@BeOtterMyFriend I've thought about asking him if he'd like to play. I run Call of Cthulhu scenarios and stuff. 🤣🤣
There is a mod, The Paarthurnax Dilemma, that allows you to spare him, as you SHOULD have been able to do.
The fact that you cannot persuade the Blades is BS. They are supposed to follow The Dragon Born yet try to order you around proves why you shouldn’t listen to them.
We can always rely on modders to fix Bethesda games. Too bad Bethesda can't make such quality content.
@@wilhelmschmidt7240 This wasn't intended to bash on Bethesda. I was just letting them know about it. Nothing more, nothing less.
The reason you likely can't is because they have intentions of writing his death in a book for the future games
Even better, there's a relatively new mod, Paarthurnax quest expansion which goes a bit more elaborate with the whole ordeal.
No mention of what happens if you accidentally kill a chicken? Every NPC in the town immediately treats you like they caught you eating children.
"You killed Captain Cluck. You *killed Captain Cluck*!"
Didn't the video open with with a video clip of this?
Way back on 11.11.11, this was my first death 😂
I remember when I was defending whiterun from a dragon and the cow ran past me and into a fireball I had casted. The guards completely forgot about the dragon.
There's a card in TES legends called "Prized chicken", as well as a chicken pet in ESO called "Riverwood chicken" which has a description lightly referring to the unrelenting aggression of the villagers if the chicken is hurt.
Argonians and Khajiits in Skyrim are the most OP characters imo because of claws, water breath, poison resist, disease resist and the best of all, a mod that gives their tails a piece of armor so you can look fancy about it
The funniest part about skyrim khajiit is that claw damage still applies while wearing gloves, including the gloves of the pugilist which increase your melee damage significantly, allowing you to just kill everything in the first half of the game with two punches.
If you rp you could also pretend argonians swim very fast, and khajits run fast lol
Love using them in unarmed builds lol. Nothing like dropping that one two as the lizard people!
Yes, this one agrees, khajiit are the best.
May warm sands greet you
As much as I love playing Khajiits, I actually disagree with this take. Unarmed isn’t useful past the early game (yes, even in AE) and poison/disease resist in pretty inconsequential due to the werewolves and vampires giving immunity and one of them giving buffs that will work no matter your build and with almost no drawbacks.
"Skyrim becomes stawdew valley as it was always meant to be" that line got me 😂. Its so true and i never noticed before.
Is is possible to play as NOT the dragon born, so long as you never meet the Jarl of Whiterun, the dragons will never spawn and you will never be revealed as the dragon born. The best part, it that all the NPCs that recognize you as dragon born will have alternate dialogue.
So yeah, you can just fuck off and do the game as regular joe.
Only real down side is that you can't finish the civil war. But the Skyrim unbound mod fixes this
I hope one day The Elder Scrolls provides the player with a New Game Feature that allows you to play as a different type of character after beating it the regular way. For example, if you want to you could start as a new Initiate of [Insert Faction] or a type of resident of [insert town/city]. Yay for Alternant Start but it’d be nice if this was a feature in the actual game instead of a mod.
i can be the dragon born, tomorrow
iirc someone said dragons dont spawn as long as you dont activate the dragons rising quest
As a side fact
Durnehviir, the dawnguard dlc dragon, recognizes you as the dragonborn, but if you haven't done said quest, he'll note that you'll know what he means later.
Not long after I got my Steam Deck (not long after it launched) I used vanilla Skyrim as a practical performance test. I intended to run the Helgen opening, then use console commands to go to various places to check the performance and just generally muck around a little. Maybe 60-90 min at most... around 35 hours later I had to reconsider calling it a performance test as well as consider some sleep. Ended up playing ye olde vanilla Skyrim for around 300 hours and then another 100 hours mucking about with mods.
I have played thousands of hours of Skyrim, but that was the first time I played the official vanilla Skyrim since launch for any length of time. It was also the first time I had played Skyrim in a few years at the time. I honestly had thought I wasn't going to get absorbed into a non-modded Skyrim, but that thought was quickly quashed. In the end it really just cemented how great of a game it is, even with its unending list of flaws.
People complain about Skyrim's many flaws exactly because of how long it has been played. Hundreds of millions of collective hours over the past 13 years and countless mods is plenty of time to identify every last glitch and scrap of jank until that is all so many people can see.
@@MaxUltimata Or one could just read the change list for the unofficial patches.
Granted that might take a thousand hours on its own.
Exactly.
Despite the non ending list of issues there's so much to the game, the replayability, exploration loop being so much more engaging than most open world games since.
Absolutely love it.
Skyrim: the video game of all time
Baldurs gate 3: the new video game of all time
I love both so much, great stuff.
The greatest video game of all time in history vs the strongest video game of all time today.
13:45 so when you first come out of the cave at the start of the game you can get a full set of thalmor armor if you go to the main road take the left instead of the right to go down to the standing stones, go till you pass the campsite with the three bandits and there’s a path up the hill to a Talos shrine where you can find a bunch of worshippers bodies and the thalmor agent sent to kill them who was then killed by a wolf you can find, just loot the corpses and boom you’ll have a full set of thalmor gear within five minutes of escaping helgen
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I hated Hammer so much. If she weren’t unkillable…. I would have prevented that Spire pretty early on. ‘Girl if you are surprised I picked the dog, then I don’t know who you’ve been traveling with.’
I swear, that damn chicken from Riverwood...
The year was 2012, the console was a PS3. The target? A damn chicken. It was a simple question. Can I kick the chicken? Will there be a cuckoo response like in Zelda? Enter Me, a young high elf, only a mere 350 yrs old. Sneaking. Creeping. Hunting....
There, blissfully unaware of her impending doom, just casually crossing the road, walked a chicken! I had spied her, my heart! Anyways, I digress. As I drew back the string, I paused. A breath, a quick glance at the thin slit of an eye to tell me I was unseen, and I let my arrow fly!
WOOOSH! Flies my arrow, true to my heart! A perfect strike!
So, woe be me when out of nowhere comes a bounty?!?!? The F*CK? This BROKE the rules. I was livid. Confused. Spiraling out of control as I ran for my young (comparatively) life, I questioned everything. Does stealth work differently in this game? Was there a hidden guard? Did the game somehow include deductive reasoning in the NPC's?
Eventually, I realized the truth. The awful, unavoidable truth... The chickens are a protected class in Skyrim. Not protected like vital NPC's, but more protected like the polar icecaps and Skyrim is Greta Thunberg. You can destroy them, but be prepared for a lot of annoyance if you do.
How the hell did you say "Lizard Wizard!" while keeping a straight face? I effin choked on my laugh.
Lizard Wizard
Too bad it isn't king gizzard
He's just a lizard wizard in a blizzard. Nothing to see here
If you named him Gizzard and he was clearly experienced in combat, he could Gizzard the Grizzled Lizard Wizard.
And put him in a snowy climate, he could be Gizzard the Grizzled Lizard Wizard in a blizzard.
I've got a DND character whose a Lizard Wizard. His name is Arazzo and he loves soft fabric.
The one thing that genuinly made me feel bad in a videogame happened in Knights of the Old Republic. When you arrive on Tattooine a woman approaches you telling that her husband had died and her children were starving. But she had a hunting trophy her husband had treasured, but she cannot sell it because she doesn't have a hunting license. And since you basically get handed one to you upon arriving on the planet she asks you if you can sell the trophy in her stead and give her the money, so she can buy food for her children. So I went and sold the trophy, got back to the woman and told her of the sale but also that I keep the money.
Another really evil thing you can do in KotOR is you can have your Wookie companion kill his best friend, a teenage Twi'lek girl. But you have to be so irredeamably evil to 1) get the girl to leave your party and 2) to manipulate the Wookie into trusting you way more than his best friend
to be fully honest, i sometimes forget that you can be mean and do those things
Telling Big Z to kill Mission due tot the Life Debt is the Wildest thing in the KotOR Series.
Two Dark Side Choices that are always funny for me are the Locker Man in Mannan and The Thugs of Nar Shadaa in KotOR 2.
5:12 It is immensely enjoyable to hear of Karlach being the most dorky character having too much fun even being "Sneaky Karlach".
One day, one day I will stare into the BG3 abyss.
28:48 Dragons can report you???
No… could it be?
Once one of my saves was rendered unplayable because the entirety of Skyrim found out I was a vampire, but I had no idea how, I had never drank blood, I went straight to fix it
But in the process of trying to get rid of vampirism, a dragon attacked the town the guy’s in, and I got the whole withdrawal thing mid fight
Is… is that why??? The freaking dragon ratted me out?!
N'jaila: being mean in video games makes me feel sooooo bad :((((
Also N'jaila: I trapped brendan urie in a dungeon and cursed him with immortality so that, much like Prometheus chained, he may suffer forever without the sweet release of death
the sims truly brings out the best in us all
11:00 It's not only the horses. All the vendors have their wares lined up on their market stalls, but when you pick something up, it automatically becomes stealing, when it *should* instead have you purchase the item. And with how cramped some of the market stalls are (esp. the Windhelm ones) and how wide the hitbox of the cursor is, it's easier to accidentally steal than to talk to the shop owner.
On my first playthrough of Skyrim, I froze a bear on a mountain and with the original quirky unpatched physics, he slid down the embankment, accelerating like a bullet until he hit an obstacle and then yeeted off into the sun. Disappointed that I got no XP, I promptly forgot about it and went about my business.
Five in-game days later, I was in Whiterun when a bear came charging into town with the singular purpose of wrecking my sh*t. None of the NPC's took any notice.
I wonder to this day if that beast was the same one I froze, with his revenge bit set to one and a 255 grudge level, stalking my a55 across the wilderness, changing tack every time I fast travelled.
Someone stealing your horse is the equivalent of someone driving off with your car with your dog in the back.
It's funny to think that if someone would kill the Dragonborn before he gets the dragon tablet the NPC would save the world, because the dragon's don't show up in game until the Dragonborn completes that quest.
I really appreciated having N'jaila join in occasionally with Karl on these videos. They seem very cool and I've learned a lot by looking up their charity organization.
The last time I played new vegas I made my character an unarmed cannibal who dismissed arcade solely to activate Archimedes so I could eat the NCR soldiers without taking damage
37:23 the dog can be resurrected in the knothole isle dlc
The question of manipulating ai in video games, and talking about Oblivion, I have to mention this as it's something as a kid (and honestly now as a adult) I am proud of.
In Oblivion the Skull of Corruption staff, when used on someone would make a copy of them that was hostile to them, so you would use it on an npc, say a bandit, and a copy of that bandit would appear and attack the original.
Also in Oblivion, as Karl has stated, npc will sometimes pickup weapons that are better then what they already have, this includes staffs.
I dropped the Skull of corruption in a town, punched a few civilians, one of them picked up said skull of corruption, used it on me, and a copy of me proceeded to kill me very quickly, because unlike me at the time, they knew my fully upgraded Blade of Woe was by far the best weapon I had.
I tended to favor the Blade of Woe on the rest of this playthough.
I think in Morrowind the only item that items have substance, so we used to steal every pillow we could find and make pillow forts in the sky, then pickup the stairs, so we could have a pillow fort in the sky with an overflow loot bag (which will work if you drop an item anywhere in the city) and use an acrobatics spell to hop up there.
I have tried, for ages, to do an evil playthrough of Fallout 4, but I can't even handle insulting Codsworth in like the first coversation after you leave the vault.
Oblivion has a quest you can solve with ai manipulation. During the Dark Brotherhood questline, where you're tasked with cleansing the Dark Brotherhood sanctuary, you can steal all the food in the sanctuary and replace it with poisoned apples. Since the npcs are programmed to eat, they will eat what's available to them.
Yeah, that's been known since maybe a day after that game came out. It's the optional way to do one of the brotherhood quests that isn't the cleansing one.
@@yolobathsalts You'd be surprised how many people still do not know this
@@derubor you'd be surprised how many people do because there's been videos posted about it since release day
@@yolobathsalts I didn't know about it.
He mentioned this in an old video
Whaaa? Your back and it looks like you have been back for a while. YAY!
Kingdom come deliverance makes crime too easy. I cant help myself when put with the opportunity to take the entirety of the armorsmiths shop inventory.
Funniest thing i had happen to me was when I returned to Farengar for something and some thugs were standing around him. The thugs immediately turned on me to "teach me a lesson" and Farengar joined me in the fight against them. I looted their corpse and found a note from Farengar hiring them because I took something from him previously.
Talking about the AI of Skyrim, I want to share a unique experience I had playing Skyrim on PS3 during the pandemic
I took on Uthgerd as a follower, intending to marry her (I didn't look at the Wiki lol). She and I must have travelled around doing the entire plot, the Thieves Guild, the Companions, the Bards College... She was bad*ss. But finally, we started doing something to do with vampire dens, and no matter how many times I save-scummed (which I hated to do, as I'm an avid roleplayer), I couldn't save her or stop her from dying. Even when I stationed her outside the cave, she would come running when the battle started. Finally, I said the Divines had a different fate for us. I dragged her body back to the nearest town and did my best Dragon-born send-off funeral off the side of a cliff where I wouldn't find her. In the meantime, I solemnly took her keys and vowed to keep her home warm until I could mod the save somehow and resurrect her.
About a week in-game of using her chests and sleeping in Breezehome night, being too depressed to adventure without her, a Whiterun guard stopped me as I exited her home one day. He said something along the lines of "Uthgerd appears to be missing, the townsfolk have seen you but not her. Do you know where she is?" And I explained she fell in battle. The guard was like "Well that's unfortunate, but you can't be here because this isn't your property."
I was stunned. I've asked other Skyrim players about this kind of interaction, and I've been met with: "Are you sure that's real?" I'm beginning to think I made it up in my fervor of roleplay! But I remember the genuine shock and surprise of having such an in-depth conversation with the NPCs about a character I cared about extensively.
When I played skyrim I had a high elf necromancer vampire. Her main house was in riften. One time a dragon attacked and my go to shout is call storms. Anyway the storm wrecked the town and built up a huge bounty. So because I was being attacked I just butchered the town and made it my main feeding base. Every time I had to feed I'd just summon two daedra to attack the town and keep the guards busy while I snuck in and fed on whomever I found first.
I also kept like 10 bodies in the basement for the permanent dead thrall spell. So had people broke into the house they'd have found a pile of corpses in the house of the vampire that on a near nightly basis sends daedra after them. I was a monster. Lmao.
I can't take credit for this because I learned it from the Web Comic MacHall, but in Morrowind, the NPC commentary on the PC not having any clothes on was higher on the dialogue tree than any of the lines guards are supposed to say when punishing you for a crime. Nudists could break the law with impunity.
I love that I just started playing Skyrim again after so long, a couple weeks ago, and now Karl and Co. make this
This is such an important cause, thank you for helping with it!
Thanks for the plug I didn't know that about charity's and it was worth knowing.
I went on a mission to steal everything from everyone and stuff it all in a single chest.
13:01 Talk about biting the hand that feeds. I just have a drink of mead and a pie with my partner to celebrate becoming Thane.
Used to watch ur videos 6-7 years ago when I was in my early teens. Glad to see you’re still kicking!
I forgot the name of the channel after all these years so I searched “pop culture presented by english guy” and luckily enough, you popped up lmao.
The thing that made me feel awful in a video game.
Skyrim. I had Serana as a companion when I stumbled on Meeko's shack. There was a random spider wandering close by. Serana resurrected Meeko's owner to fight the spider (!!!), and he turned to dust after the set resurrection time. I avoided that area of the game for the rest of the playthrough because I couldn't face running into Meeko and having him lead me back to the empty bed of his beloved, dead owner...
I did an evil run on BG3,, but I drew the line at handing Scratch back.
Some things are sacred and even evil people have standards.
What's interesting about Skyrim's crime system is that if your bounty's not particularly high, you can get a dialogue option where the guard who tries to arrest you for stealing a mug worth 1 gold can't be arsed with it. If you try to talk to them again though, they'll try to arrest you
Human warrior, no damaging spells or shouts, considering the rest as 'gadgets or medicines'. Its my way to make the game fun. Forcing some fair difficulty and challenge that i can handle.
I play Skyrim until I get the Thief Quest armor, then I'm Batman, I'm Batman of Skyrim, I win!
Just watching someone leave the dog made me feel bad.
For a brief moment i forgot karl had told the oblivion cheese story on the internet before, and I was like "why dose that sound familiar?"
Nothing is more fun than taking a dude in a trunk to the salt flats in ghost recon wild lands with a buddy, or even just trying to keep that guy alive and move him from trunk to trunk
The hawks could also report crimes, which is just hilarious. Bird Brother is watching.
“Is there a moment you couldn’t help yourself and you did commit some crimes?”
Nazeem the second he mentions the cloud district
I don’t ever get a house in the game, I’m just ooga dooga live off the land sleep where I get tired, and then continue the mission
The first game I got really into was fallout 3. I decided I was going to do a moral run first, then an evil run second.
I got as far as blowing up megaton on my second run, then realized I was living with a bunch of d bags and had killed all my friends, so I quit playing and never finished that run.
one of my fav skyrim stories is that while fighting karstaag they did the ground slam and sent lydia to fuckin' space and so i just went "yea she dead this time" and like 30 seconds later i saw her slam into the ground, get up and star fighting again
Dude just the clip of scratch pleading with you made choke up
I remember making a set of 100% Chameleon armour in Oblivion. Chameleon is a spell that lets you blend into the background, making you harder to spot. If you took a Grand Soul gem and filled it with the strongest type of soul and put that gem into a piece of armour, it would give you 20% Chameleon. Make and wear 5 such pieces and you are now effectively permanently invisible and NPCs will not react to you doing anything, be it stealing, casting spells or even attacking them. After that I was basically just casually strolling into Oblivion gates and closing them without ever having to unsheathe my weapon.
Not an rpg but in one of the assassins creed games I'd dart a guard with the berserk dart then proceed to throw money at him and watch all the civilians die trying to get the money
I think i’ve beaten Skyrim probably 20 or 30 times now. Just speedrun the story to enjoy the rest of the game without worrying
Hell yeah, Karl is a based Argonian enthusiast.
As hist intended
22:04 I'm fucking crying at this clip
I like how you tried the trunks of the cars but didn't check the insides for keys lol
Guard: Attacks me while i'm saving their life.
Me: Fine see if i save the world then.
Been there.
YAYYYYYY I never thought you were coming back
I set my armor up as my various factions. It makes me feel like batman or something
For my evil characters i will have my theif, nightingale, summerset shadows, assassin etc.
Then ill make a second armory (bc i hate the towers) in my family house with things like companions, civil war, + a few custom armors with themes like dragon born (nordic armor) and thane (fancy clothes)
Goes back to house to drop treasure on the floor and leaves to get more? Maybe Karl is dragon
I've tried every race and build and it always ends with a stealth archer
This is THE WAY
Nothing better than a sick day watching some FactFiend
Wait you're telling me you didn't know cluck cluck holds up in the Skyrim court.
Its official. Shadowheart knows about NTR and uses it as a threat and insult.
Honest, its in character for a follower of Shar
I also use the same lettuce knock knock joke. Its one of the only ones that i can always remember
Oh wow. I fell for your Discord notification mix.
I love playing lawfully in games like GTA, because it is a challenge. Most missions are impossible without some leeway, so I minimise the damage I cause, but the rest of the time is not attacking NPCs, keeping to traffic laws, etc., accompanied by some of my favourite songs through the use of the custom radio station
I never heard about the Oblivion Skooma Mosh Pit, but I remember hearing that one character was set to buy a certain armor as a collector. He would buy all the armor the shop offered, dump it on his rug, rinse repeat the next day, and testers could never buy armor in that one city, and going into the NPC's house late-game would crash the game.
LIZARDWIZARD!!
LIZWIZ was the name for my second run of Skyrim.
He was in fact a lizard wizard.
Karl the Thane. Danger Will Robinson! 🤣
I haven't done it myself but I know in BG3 you can manipulate Astarion in to sleeping with you when he is vulnerable and doesn't want really to (you basically imply thats all he is good for), the scene that comes after is heartbreaking
I am actively trying not to buy skyrim on the switch. And this man gives me the idea to make a argonian call king gizzard and make him a lizard wizard...
This must be how sober alcoholics feel.. 😅🤣
and has 3000 butterflies in his pocket
If you get it on the switch you get Legend of Zelda gear in the game. I think it's a tunic, shield, and sword.
@@SnowWhite392 😱😱 no way.... this is impossible to resist...
24:30 Nineteen years for a loaf of bread.
Five years for what you did. The rest because you tried to run.
I mean, you can synchronise a clap to match audio, but your method is much more fun~
Mentioning the radiant AI
I think the system woulda been absolute GOLD if NPCs werent finite. Even "Shithead 35" will never respawn. Or at least the GUARDS will, iirc?
Either way I think if we had a lot of random NPCs to fill out slots that respawned it'd be really cool cause then you can find that drug dealer having been murdered for his drugs thing and go "Oh shit- Thats kinda sad." and not immediately be like "aw for FUCKS sake"
Yes I was thinking this exactly! I've had one save for over six years on PS3, and it feels so empty now. I realized that through all the adventuring and battling, and with none of the children growing up to take up new roles, the population of Skyrim is set to dwindle. It would be so cool to have mods with like, new travelling caravans, options for children to grow up and/or new children to be born, basically just add one more layer of fluff RNG mechanics to keep the world alive.
Not wanting to be mean to NPCs is how some roomies and i came up with "Nice City".
It's almost impossible to play Vice city without running over NPCs because of their marked tendency to fling themselves joyfully in front of your car.
The 'par' for the game is (Far as i remember) 350 NPCs must ded to beat the missions.
There are ways around this. Mostly involving jumping out of cars just before they esplode.
My roomie managed to beat the game with 150 under par NPCs deded.
Epic. Totes EPIC!
I totally recommend trying it. It is so hard to get even close to par.
Pretty sure in mideval times horse thievery was treated with such prejudice because getting a horse was wildly expensive
I think the one time I genuinely could not go through with something in a game was GTA IV. I remember this one mission where you had to bust some guy out of somewhere, and the entire time you're driving away with him, he's just so happy to be free, until you get to the end point and he realises you've only 'rescued' him just to kill him off. I... I just couldn't do it. I walked away, both in-game and in real life. I don't think I've played any GTA game since.
That NJRUA sounds super rad.
On the note of morality and dogs in games, it's always the worst thing playing something like Far Cry or Last of Us or whatever and they force you to fight them.
The combat tutorial of one of the Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous involves saving someone from their possessed dog and the only way to progress is to kill the dog, and the person blames you for it, I reloaded it repeatedly to try to find another way and couldn't save the dog so I quit.
37:20
I'm playing through fable 2 again and you guys got me thinking about the ending, SPOILERS
but hammer hates you regardless of what you pick, even though the final 3 options to choose are tailored to each of the 3 heroes
Yeah makes total sense that she'd hate me if I picked money, but still hates me EVEN IF I decide to revive everyone from the spire? OR make the choice she would likely choose and revive my loved ones?! Sure that last one is still mildly selfish but at least you're still bringing back murder victims that you know personally
Karl trolling everyone with Discord notifications.
Whenever I change my party in Baldur’s Gate 3 I invite people into a full party because everyone hates being told to wait in camp.
Ohmygod how did I not know this was a thing again?!?!
The most powerful thu'um
Off'Iss'Ur; summon Guards
Funnily enough it'd be effective because skyrim guards have higher level scaling than dragons
Did an evil playthrough of BG3, the only two excluded from my wrath were Karlach and Scratch.
damn that Scratch clip tore me apart o.o
Arvak > Shadowmere
Arvak on top. ✊️
this made me want to play oblivion again
You knock, knock.
Me.....
You "you're supposed to say who's there.
Me "no I'm an introvert, we don't answer doors we make no one is at home as we peek out the window or ring door bell cam to make sure they leave." 😊
Haven't seen the video yet as of this comment, but will soon. Just wanted to say the title makes me think of the Oblivion player horse.
At a certain point, I am able to have multiple followers
I can have a regular follower like Faendal, then Serana, then Barbas, plus a pet companion like an armored troll, a horse, and a conjured creature. It can get very hectic when one follower hits another on accident.
I am also able to use a glitch where I can become a vampire lord and a werewolf.
I always play my sword-and-board Nord paladin of wenches and mead.
On my umpteenth playthrough while listening to this. Lol imma watch out the chickens😂
In Oblivion, Shadowmere being an essential npc would become unconscious when killed, during which you could loot. I would use this to my advantage by using Shadowmere as a mobile chest.
In my defense, the previous comment was made before I got to the part where Karl mentioned the same thing.😅
Carl man of culture that he is naming his toons wu tang. I had a bard in dnd that was basically just a thief that occasionally threw out a poem or rhyme and i named him odeebie. The dm would describe a scene and setting and ask the oarty "ok so what are you guys doing?" Regardless of the situation odeebie was always 'lookin for shit to steal' that was such a fun character. His cha was insane so i could basically steal something like a ring from an npc and literally use it for reference to help them look for it... Like "did it look like this ring?"
Every single time I played skyrim, I always end up going dark elf with a ton of a magicka, bound weapons, and daggers. I just always default to magic ninja for some reason.