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    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    Game » consists of 30 releases. Released Nov 11, 2011

    The fifth installment in Bethesda's Elder Scrolls franchise is set in the eponymous province of Skyrim, where the ancient threat of dragons, led by the sinister Alduin, is rising again to threaten all mortal races. Only the player, as the prophesied hero the Dovahkiin, can save the world from destruction.

    100+ Things You've Learned Playing Skyrim (Spoiler Free Edition!)

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    #201  Edited By raynate2022

    207. What felt like playing for 12 minutes, was actually the last 3 hours of your life.

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    #202  Edited By Tennmuerti

    208. The Emperor is a pretty cool guy and doesn't afraid of anything.

    209. Some dragons are soulless bastards.

    210. The Blade's recruitment standards have really gone downhill. As long as you are Dragonborn's buddy (even drinking buddy) it's all cool.

    211. Organized crime (of both sorts) in Skyrim is in a pretty pathetic state. But you can save it!

    212. A dude can accumulated quite a lot of obligations on his afterlife to various parties.

    213. If you're a werewolf and you marry a werewolf. Do you always do it doggy style?

    214. You can back stab and slit throats of ghosts.

    215. For that matter you can decapitate ghosts.

    216. People like to shout macho things at you while they are being decapitated. And even a few moments afterwards.

    217. Todd Howard lies when marketing, wait I already knew that.

    218. Bards guild sucks. And so they remain the worst profession in rpgs. All is well.

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    #203  Edited By sweep  Moderator

    @QKT said:

    74. sometimes you have an arrow permanently stuck in your face.

    Just like in real life.

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    #204  Edited By BlinkyTM

    219. Dragons can fly under the ground and attack you from below.

    220. Real life Bards are better than most in-game bards:

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    #205  Edited By mike

    Edited all of the numbers, deleted some duplicates. Up to 220 now and all should be in order, keep 'em coming! Try to avoid anything remotely spoiler-ish and keep off topic chatter to a minimum so we can keep the topic as clean as possible.

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    #206  Edited By paskaroni

    I apologize if I missed someone posting this earlier...

    221. If you're right-handed in real life, so is your character in Skyrim, and vice versa...

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    #207  Edited By Dharmasaurus

    222. Some of the guards sound like Schwarzenegger.

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    223. Knee armour has yet to be invented.

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    #209  Edited By drmadhatten

    224) Most people in Skyrim concluded that you should not have come here.

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    #210  Edited By benspyda

    225) If an enemy can't find the person who sniped their buddy, they come to the conclusion they were just hearing things.

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    #211  Edited By AhmadMetallic
    @benspyda said:

    225) If an enemy can't find the person who sniped their buddy, they come to the conclusion they were just hearing things.

    lol
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    #212  Edited By DoctorWelch

    226. Never let a Frost Troll chase you into a town or the Guards will be pissed at you and murder you while the Troll murders everyone else.

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    227. Most of my friends don't know what an Oblivion gate is...

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    #214  Edited By Rxanadu

    228) Don't shout at the Graybeards. They'll juggle you with their shouts until you die.

    229) Two dragons fighting each other is actually a deadly debate in practice.

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    #215  Edited By MariachiMacabre

    230) Seriously, kill the Thalmor. All of them. They only serve to insult you until you murder them.

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    #216  Edited By InternetCrab

    231. If you shout, you blow people away.

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    232.Watch out. Sometimes if your just walking down the street and dude with a wagon of cabages walks by don"t get too close. One time a cabage got stuck on me and was floating in front of my face. I then drew my sword and it floated to the backside of my head. Finally it got off somehow, I don't remember what I did. 233.Going up to random citizens and shooting them in the head with an arrow might sound like a good idea, but it does have its consequences.

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    #218  Edited By MCFunkyStudent

    234) Don't feed the Sabre Cat, that is all

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    #219  Edited By Linkhyrule

    235) Bears and Sabre Cats work together... against you.

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    #220  Edited By rb_man

    236) Don't start a fist fight it summons Dragons

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    #221  Edited By DiegoBorin

    237) Ulfric is a stage name. Real name is Adolf.

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    #222  Edited By Storms

    238. If, in the course of 250 hours of playing, 20 of the 2,000,000 things in the game go awry, wailing and gnashing of teeth will ensue.  
    239. Carrying a million gold on your person doesn't weigh you down even 1/10 of a unit. Packing away hawk feathers, that's a different story.
    240. Bethesda is pretty much satan for not keeping things stable, polished, focused and unambitious. 
    241. Too much magic can be dangerous. You could burn your sweetroll. 
    242. Buying a gaming PC is, apparently, a reasonable solution to casually suggest for every issue one might encounter -- but buying a controller if you don't like the way the UI handles on a keyboard is just silly.

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    #223  Edited By DiegoBorin

    243) Sweetroll thievery is a big issue for guards in Skyrim.

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    #224  Edited By coreymw

    243.8. These blue orbs in an unnamed dungeon follow you everywhere.

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    243.9. This is a .gif. Click it to animate. Mammoths are not to be screwed with. They killed a dragon, straight up.

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    #225  Edited By Blackout62

    244. No one will ever have enough gold to buy all the dragon bones and scales you're carrying.

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    #226  Edited By blueinferno

    245. When NPC's glitch out, kill them

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    #227  Edited By Bollard

    @Vexxan said:

    50. A horse will always want to fight a dragon, but a horse will never win against a dragon.

    Unless it's Shadowmere.

    246. I used to be an adventurer. Until I took an arrow to the knee.

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    #228  Edited By GaryDooton

    @DiegoBorin said:

    243) Sweetroll thievery is a big issue for guards in Skyrim.

    247.) As is " lollygaggin' " . Never lollygag.

    248.) Do you not attempt to talk to a recently decapitated head at the guillotine, because, as you will be duly informed, "this person is busy".

    249.) You will have a hard time explaining yourself when your wife catches you undressing a dead woman and throwing her down a hill.

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    #229  Edited By pweidman

    Every urn, in every dungeon, in the entire skyrim universe, contains between 2 and 8 septims.

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    #230  Edited By ripsaw117

    @Afroman269 said:

    10) Fuck trolls, especially ice trolls. (not that kind of fuck)

    LOL

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    #231  Edited By CamiKitten

    251) Dead dragons still tend to make flapping sounds as skeletons. 

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    252) The Dragonborn can slay giants, dragons and trolls with ease but can't quite figure out how to jump while sprinting.

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    #233  Edited By asmo917

    100. The worst time to have enough health potions to survive an encounter with an Elder Dragon...is when you have TWO Elder Dragons circling above you.

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    #234  Edited By MHMason

    Two dragons are not better than one.

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    #235  Edited By Rizzest

    21) Some Orcs are on a reservation for Orcs...so they are Native "Skyrimians"? (Trying to spin off Native Americans.)

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    #236  Edited By Stepside

    254. At earlier levels, don't complete the quest with Barbas the dog (i.e. take him back to his cave/master) - just keep him as your companion. He's invincible and can't be killed and will prove invaluable bait to enemies who attack him while you backstab them like crazy.

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    @DiegoBorin said:

    243) Sweetroll thievery is a big issue for guards in Skyrim.

    Ha! -thumbs up-

    #Whatevernumberisbeforemine) I am over qualified to be a guard: I have taken countless arrows to not only the knee, but face, back, chest, appendages, and I am STILL adventuring.

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    #238  Edited By Aegon
    @ripsaw117 said:

    @Afroman269 said:

    10) Fuck trolls, especially ice trolls. (not that kind of fuck)

    LOL

    Exactly what I was going to say. 
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    #239  Edited By SexyToad

    257)Your horse still loves you if even though you punch him, bashed him, lit him on fire, froze him, slash at him, shoot an arrow at them, make them jump off of unreasonable heights, make them climb mile high mountains, etc.

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    #240  Edited By SarcasticIndeed

    257. Never piss off a horse with eyes.

    258. When a companion blocks your path, shout at him.

    259. Never steal anything from the Sleeping Giant Inn, or you'll have an immortal delphine chasing you for the rest of your life.

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    #241  Edited By Skyrimnerd

    21) over half of the skills can be leveled to 100 on a short time with glitches

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    #242  Edited By SgtCarlMc

    In the Mehrunes Razor Quest, when you get to Mehrunes Alter, the Daedric Lords keep respawning at least 6 times, thats 12 Daedric Hearts for Daedric Armor

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    #whatevernumberisnext:

    Do not EVER contract vampirism. Period.

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    #244  Edited By muktor

    you can become an archmage in one day

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    #245  Edited By RyanD

    264) it doesn't matter if you take all of a dragon's bones. The dragon will still have bones when you walk away...

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    #246  Edited By plantass

    you can kill a fuckin dragon at level 10 but you can't kill a giant till your level 30

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    #247  Edited By RedCricketChase

    @bunnymud said:

    110. Your smoking habbit doubles while playing Skyrim

    Inaccurate.

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    #248  Edited By SteveRodgers

    save now to save your ass later

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    #249  Edited By Tsoglani

    267). Arrow to the knee jokes got old very, very quickly.

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    #250  Edited By ChadMasterFlash

    Hypothermia isn't a thing.

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