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I found J'Zargo pretty fun since I was playing a Khajiit mage and it was very fitting. His comments can be amusing. 🙂

Hi guys. I could use some advice on what games to play. I'm pretty new to video games. Except for the Sims franchise. I've played some Borderlands and Left4Dead 2 with a friend, but that's a pretty long time ago (that was so much fun, but I don't think I'd enjoy playing them alone). However, recently I've fallen in love with Skyrim. I'm having so much fun, and that has made me want to explore more games. Browsing around for other games I might enjoy I've come across The Witcher 3 and Assassins Creed Oddyssey. Both look so beautiful and sound amazing. My worry is that they'd be too hard for me to have fun with. The thing is, because of the treatment of a chronic disease I have, my reaction speed is bad. I also easily lose overview over situations and don't multitask well. Skyrim on normal (Adept) mode is perfect for me, hard enough to be a challenge, but not hard enough to get me frustrated with my own limitations. I can charge in with a two hand weapon and bash the baddies to death. However it sounds to me like these two particular games I've gotten my eyes on may be too hard to be fun for someone with my particular challenges, even on easy mode. I don't enjoy getting killed 20 times in a row, I like to feel like I'm making some progress with the game and not just sucking. The obvious answer is to just try the games and see what happens. Problem is that to play these (gorgeous) new games I have to invest in new CPU and graphics cards, so that suddenly becomes a big investment for the sake of two particular games, when I could just have stuck with old games (I plan on trying out Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning once I'm feeling done with this play through of Skyrim). However if I feel confident I'll have fun, in the long run, with these and other new games I'm willing to make the investment. What do you guys think? If I can handle Skyrim on normal mode, can I also handle these two games without getting defeated? I'm not opposed to easy mode. I'd also love to hear other suggestions for games that I might enjoy. They need to be single player and available for PC. I am not comfortable playing with complete strangers, I don't like having to constantly share my whole illness history with random people so that they'll understand why I suck compared to them, and I don't have gaming friends. I like the open world and freedom to explore of Skyrim. It's nice to be able to chill with some smithing between fights, get the adrenalin down a little :D I don't enjoy puzzles (the ones in Skyrim annoy me, despite not being hard). Alright, this post is getting long. Sorry about that. Thanks for helping.

@LadyDay @SpaceExplorer I can't recall J'Zargo's abilities, but I loved his comments about sneaking.

His rank seems to be Apprentice according to Fandom wikia , if that means anything. I don't really remember anymore how strong he was, but he was helpful to have in combat.

Spoilers incoming... The one that springs to mind happened yesterday. There's a scene in the Skaal Village where you're talking to this great man who's their shaman and his daughter. While talking about revealing the deepest Skaal secrets Haemus Mora, followed by him reading the black book, with black tentacles piercing through his head and body, his daughter is saying a bunch of really serious things. Meanwhile, while her head was standing still, her body was constantly spinning around in circles. It was a little hard to take her serious then 😄 Unfortunately I've never had mammoths fall from the sky yet 😄

@LadyDay "A lot of people are against the use of ECT, without actually knowing what it is these days. “ I can’t stand when people assume—and it happens a lot with psychology-related topics. When you mentioned it, I was surprised, so I thought, “Time to learn about something new and interesting.” “ I've been trying to "be a good person" in Skyrim, just like I try to e a good person in reality.” I do that too =D It just breaks my immersion to not try to be at my best as an in-game person. Plus, I derive most of my satisfaction from the catharsis that comes with being able to do something right in a game and sometimes get some sort of in-game justice. I mean, that almost never happens IRL. “Though I'm sure I would still enjoy playing as a thieving assassin with a power complex. Haha. “ Being “good” hasn’t stopped me from doing the thieves/assassins quests. I justify the thieves guild more or less by recognizing that as a group, they are oddly functional and pretty decent to one another, and I only take jobs that entail stealing from people I have an issue with. My wife Mjoll, lovely, accepting woman that she is, doesn’t seem bothered by it =D I’m an assassin as one character who is essentially furious that Markarth got traded to the Stormcloaks during negotiations (as that is horrible for the populace), and is out for revenge against the emperor. That is more like being a well-intentioned extremist than actually "evil" =D “You're much further away from the screen than when you play on a PC yes? Or do you pull a chair up close to the TV? What is the advantage of choosing a console instead of a PC? “ Laziness … honestly. And lack of space. I have a laptop, no room for a desktop, and no time to spend re-developing the computer knowledge to care for and upgrade a desktop. Plus, running games on a console = less stress on my computer. I am not far from the TV on my couch, and the screen is large. It’s perfect.

@LadyDay Reviving this thread to ask who your favorite followers are in Skyrim :)

@LadyDay Reviving this thread to see if you have any amusing glitch stories to share from Skyrim.