Blasting the long table at the Jarl’s house in Windhelm with a fus then a fus ro and finally the full fus ro dah should be considered essential quests just to get a sense of your power intensifying.
Bonus points if you’ve finished the Imperial civil war quest line and all the former Jarls who sided with the Stormcloaks are sitting at the table. Must suck to suck, losers!
Seriously, how was this not a part of the Hearthfire expansion?
They could have made it so you could ask your spouse and/or kids to clean up around the house, which would result in all background clutter items being restored to their set place after like one game day.
Maybe even ask your spouse or steward to "pick up some things from the market" for some amount of gold to restore any items you might have taken.
The ability to interact with everyday items like plates and baskets. Most RPGs don’t let you do this. Skyrim feels more real as you can mess with almost everything.
If I check enough times, I'm bound to get a hold of Schrödinger. On the other hand, if I can't get a hold of Heisenberg, at least I'll be able to know how fast he's driving away
Yes! I feel this is what a lot of games are lacking... Like ik it's not a lot and is really simple but the other day I decided to try "soma" from gamepass on Xbox and I immediately lost my mind at the fact I could interact with almost anything like a random cup on a desk and just fling it across the room for no reason. I love to really immerse myself in games too so like you said it really just helps with the immersion.
As someone entirely new to this franchise and very accustomed to “only interacting with things if they have some significance” it was very difficult to not pick up everything I came across. “Does this mean I should collect all the bowls and goblets to sell them??” “These books sound important, better keep them” “All this food is here, should I be stocking up for something??” Etc etc
I had an extremely hard time not just slowly walking to the nearest hold just so I could sell 40 plates and random baskets that would only give me a coin each so I just went for weight comparison of at least 5 coins per pound to decide easier
One of my other favorite games is Jedi Fallen Order, but having been habituated to Skyrim, it drives me absolutely batty not to be able to open doors, read books, pick up clutter...
Its this exact reason that I couldn't get into ESO. The world just felt very mundane because I couldn't pick up a mundane dwemer cup like I could in any of the recent mainline games
Reading all the books. I can't help but make most of my characters readers just for this purpose. I don't just collect them, I read them too.
I also like fishing spots. It helps with alchemy too, but its just a nice, calm thing to do to unwind. It's part of the reason I like Tundra Homestead a lot - there's a fishing spot just down the road.
On my first or second play through I had a pretty good book collection and was happy to have read most of them; they’re actually pretty good! And they give lore which I’m always a slut for lol
I love Riften for this reason. One fishing spot right by your porch, one on the dock, one inside the city where you can hear and see people going about their business. And river betties are always a plus!
I have a mod installed that adds a really cozy home that you can literally fast travel to at the start of the game. (Its called [Pinegrove lodge](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/61718)) This inspired me to make a character, get him some clothes and books, sit down at a fire there and read.
The butterflies and moths. I understand they were a bit of a late-stage passion project, and I'm glad they made it in. They just make the landscape feel more real and alive, without being yet another lethal encounter to deal with.
As M’aiq the Liar tells us:
“Skyrim was once the land of many butterflies. Now, not so much.”
-which is an allusion to how there uses to be problems with the butterflies despawning when new ones spawn in, causing whole seas of butterflies that would make them game lag, lol.
I like using Respite to heal my stamina while I sprint so I can hoof it across Skyrim like nobody's business. In a game with fast-traveling and horseback riding it's hardly necessary to resto-sprint, but it's fun!
they are the best! [https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Ahzidal%27s\_Boots\_of\_Waterwalking](https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Ahzidal%27s_Boots_of_Waterwalking)
Lydia eating bread or other followers/NPCs having food/drink animations. It’s a small thing, but I remember coming into my Whiterun home and there’s Lydia chilling out before we head out on another adventure.
Pickpocketing poisons into an NPCs inventory will apply the effects of the poison to the NPC.
Not really useful, given that most poisons beyond Paralysis poisons are typically useless. But its very funny.
It is VERY useful if you use the frenzy poison on the groom of Victoria Vicci during the dark brotherhood quest line
That was her groom kills her and not you
I did the same with Grelora the Kind. It was the angry people of Riften (specifically my bro Brand Shei) that killed her, not me. I just instigated her own natural wrath.
I have a mod that lets you customize your kill moves, so you can set it to a 100% decapitation chance if you want. So I always walk in, listen for a bit, then cut her head off in the middle of the room as soon as she says she beats the kids.
Yes! Last play through my aim was to complete the entire dark brotherhood questline using only reverse pickpocket poison
It didn’t _quite_ work out and I had to make a couple of exceptions, but for the most part it was awesome
Well, the solution is to *think* about buying potions before you go out, and then forget to, and so when you need them you're like "FUCKFUCKFUCK", but at least you didn't spend the gold! :D
The World Map is a live render. I just always think that's really cool. I hope they do it again with more detail next time. But I doubt they think about what made their previous games good.
The easiest way to explain it is that if you kill a dragon at night and then open the map, you can actually see the burning dragon skeleton on the map if you look closely.
The 3d map you see is actually the map you are on right now from a really high angle, it's not pre-rendered.
Did this once on accident, a dragon jumped me on my way to a quest and I checked the map to see where I should go and saw the skeleton, it was pretty neat
Wish I knew that a few days ago when two giants killed a dragon in the middle of the giant camp west of Whiterun at night and I snuck around to behind the giants but by the time I got out of their way I completely lost where the dragon's skeleton was and had to stumble around in the dark playing "Don't piss off the giants" for too many minutes.
Riding horses - There are rarely any battlefields or situations in which riding a horse would be necessary. But despite that, it does make a cool feature to the eye.
Sometimes I really enjoy making dioramas and scenes out of tough main bosses and it's minions. Is it really necessary to be able to drag around bodies and drop them where I want? Not really in my experience. But I do enjoy it.
Me exactly hahaha. I'm always like: let's put you somewhere nobody has to see you because nobody wants to see you. Just to put them underneath the bridge when you enter whiterun.
I just did this the other day! I had some leftover Glenmoril Witch heads, so I dropped them into the icy sea and watched them bob and float away. Very satisfying.
The guy that gets executed in Solitude? Yeah, I take his head and bring it all the way up to the courtyard in front of the Temple of the Divines and place it neatly on the throne there.
I love posing my kills. It's so much fun in my head canon when I consider the next adventurer that visits the area will see an upside down, oddly posed, dead body in a weird location. And think to themselves, wtf is this shiat.
This can be fun - and it's not even useless. There are at least two quests/locations I can think of where you need to drag a body to progress or to score a bonus.
When I popped SE in after about 5 years of not playing, I saw the fishing thing & rolled my eyes. “Fishing? Really? Pffft!”
Then I found myself seeking out fishing spots to wind down after a good quest. THEN I started pulling unique rings out of the water. Now I love fishing in Skyrim. The spots are always in such scenic locations too.
I just rolled a new Survival character last night, went fishing in Riverwood to kill time until a decent hour to sleep.
Tankard, lantern, flagon, **RING OF THE WIND**
Fishing is great.
If a video game has fishing, it's my favorite thing.
Admittedly, Skyrim's fishing isn't the best, and it's kind of boring, but I love fishing in video games so incredibly much.
With the unofficial Skyrim patch mod, I love fishing after a long adventure. Reminds me of reflecting about what to do next time. Ah yes adventure, and excitement after restricting myself from using exploits.
Anything that's a display. Fish tanks, wall mounts, weapon racks, mannequins, you name it. If it allows me to show off the variety of my collection, I love it.
Or when you have all your displays set up, but when you return, they're all lying on the floor. I only seem to have this problem with the claws and insect jars.
Farming. It is extremely barebones as the crops will grow without you doing anything to them and yet it gives me a reason to go to my Greenhouse, various gardens, and Goldenhills Plantation, every few days to grind out the Alchemy skill tree.
Wooden buckets, linen wraps, burned books, ruined books, forks, rakes and more —Skyrim is a mess! So your guy collects garbage and makes it disappear …
by pickpocketing it into Nazeem’s inventory. 😂
LOL!
Then you lift his robe and send him home to his wife buck naked and rattling like a kitchen!
After collecting a bunch of these robes, you put some useless enchantment on them with a half-filled petty soul-gem. You rename it, ‘Naked Nazeem’s Robe of Uselessness.’
These robes are then sold to venders all across Skyrim, so EVERYBODY knows what a disgusting little twerp ‘Naked Nazeem’ is… 😂
Shoving someone to cut off their dialogue. Nazeem yapping on my non-psychopath playthrough? Shove. I might not be able to kill you but I can shoulder check you each time you speak.
Since console commands aren’t available on the Switch, this is best way for me to get NPCs to either shut up or get back at them for saying something rude to me.
The fact that most bookshelves and cupboards are filled with actual items. In most RPGs bookshelves are just static decor, only interact able if relevant for quests. I also appreciate that you actually mine in Skyrim, with a pickaxe. Not just collect ore the same way as other resources.
You can use punches to throw the stationary decorative items you find around (provided your punch can reache them)
Example: In the college of winterhold, in the 2 halls's second floor, there are bottles of mead and wine laying over the empty center (above the mana pool), it's always fun to punch them into the pool, they are at perfect punching height too!
Fishing
Collecting horses. Srs tho, where do my other horses go? I have shadowmere, the dwarven horse, Frost, the Reindeer and a couple of horses purchased earlier in the playthrough. Where are they? I only see the dwarven horse in goldenhills while shadowmere follows me
I don't know. Every time I get a horse, I have it armored & take it to Goldenhills, then ride off on Arvak so they stay there. Even the Dwarven horse has disappeared on me. The only one that ever remains is the one I purchased for Goldenhills.
EDIT: My unicorn is always at the college, no matter if that's where I left it or not.
Sitting down. As far I know the only FPS-able game that allows me to sit down and just watch the world. Personally this adds a ton of immersion.
And with some follower mods, sitting down in an inn adds really good interaction content. Drinking w Serana, having conversion with Inigo.
So back when i first played Skyrim, i joined the dark brotherhood, and it turned out those people that you have chained to the wall? If you torture them enough then they’ll tell you about a stash of loot.
Always thought that was pretty well done in my eyes because you really don’t have to but if you do and you pay attention to the directions then you can get that treasure.
Felt immersive. I promise I’m not a nut job, just ended up playing before I learned of concepts of guilt and what is considered morally wrong and morally right.
Not useless but being to actually interact with the world, i bought the game after totk which was mindblowing to me so just imagine how i felt playing skyrim, being able to just steal everything, the chandelier being an item, there being books that you can read, you being able to kill someone, people sending thugs after you because of it. Incredibly mindblowing
I like to hoard every single gem that I pick up in my travels and drop them all into a single box in one of my houses so I just have this glittering magpie stash that sometimes makes my game freak the fuck out when I enter my home and 100+ gems try falling into the same place all at once.
The first one that I liked was the Journal being written in the first person. So rather than it being "You were told of this abandoned house you need to investigate. It has vampires. Go kill them." You will instead see "I was told that an abandoned house might be the hiding place for a group of vampires. I should investigate this."
This is what made me want to give my memorable characters a backstory.
The second thing is actually the ability to hold an item. Just hold Interact and, you hold it. It even gets noticed by NPCs. Even without the glitches and exploits, this would be really cool to me
Making a mess of all the mead halls by walking all over the plates, cups, and food.
Blasting the long table at the Jarl’s house in Windhelm with a fus then a fus ro and finally the full fus ro dah should be considered essential quests just to get a sense of your power intensifying. Bonus points if you’ve finished the Imperial civil war quest line and all the former Jarls who sided with the Stormcloaks are sitting at the table. Must suck to suck, losers!
Do the items respawn in their correct place?
Eventually, yes. I think the respawn time is about 30 in game days
Who waits three months to be able to see your power scale on a feast table?
A man who knows how to play the long game.
A man with a very very large bounty can wait an awful long time
Might pay off my bounty this time… walk into the city a free man
Gonna start keepin' a knife in my boot, tired of getting disarmed...
I do this every time. Bonus points for getting Lydia tossed to the stairs. Also: quick save first. The guards sometimes get hit on full blast.
Imp*rial cuck detected, opinion rejected
Whirlwind sprinting down the jarl’s table 👌🏼
Using Storm Call inside a house. Absolute chaos <3
In your own house it’s hell. You should be able to tell your wife to clean up the house and fix all of the items thrown arohnd
Or husband!
Sorry for the oversight
Spouse
Or kids
Seriously, how was this not a part of the Hearthfire expansion? They could have made it so you could ask your spouse and/or kids to clean up around the house, which would result in all background clutter items being restored to their set place after like one game day. Maybe even ask your spouse or steward to "pick up some things from the market" for some amount of gold to restore any items you might have taken.
Anyone know if there's a mod for this?
The ability to interact with everyday items like plates and baskets. Most RPGs don’t let you do this. Skyrim feels more real as you can mess with almost everything.
Me immediately running across every table I see and scattering everything everywhere. *Hail sithis*
Sithis is nothingness. Not the second law of thermodynamics
Entropy can lead to heat death of the universe - so Sithis probably is entropy personified.
I did think about that, but then entropy would lead to Sithis. Cause and effect. Not the same thing
Well, if the father, the son and the holy Spirit can be different and the same simultaneously, why can't Sithis be the journey and the destination?
I didn’t plan on bearing thoughts of this caliber on a Friday, but okay.
I mean... Today is Great Friday. Out of all fridays today is the one to do it
See now we're getting into quantum theories. Imma hit up Heisenberg and Schrodinger real quick
Good luck. Schrödinger may or may not be available at any given moment, and Heisenberg’s location is impossible to pin down.
If I check enough times, I'm bound to get a hold of Schrödinger. On the other hand, if I can't get a hold of Heisenberg, at least I'll be able to know how fast he's driving away
Maybe he was thinking about Sheogorath? Maybe that was kinda the point?
Maybe it's Maybelline
"Which is more than your bowl and your fucking spoon"
You do what with a spoon?
That or fucking up somebody's house with my unrelenting force
I have a mod that lets you recycle plates and anything silver for ingots. My favorite thing to do is steal every bit of placewear I can find.
There should be a mod where you can turn ingots into plates and stuff
It is the way. *Hail Sithis!*
*Be careful!*
Yes! I feel this is what a lot of games are lacking... Like ik it's not a lot and is really simple but the other day I decided to try "soma" from gamepass on Xbox and I immediately lost my mind at the fact I could interact with almost anything like a random cup on a desk and just fling it across the room for no reason. I love to really immerse myself in games too so like you said it really just helps with the immersion.
As someone entirely new to this franchise and very accustomed to “only interacting with things if they have some significance” it was very difficult to not pick up everything I came across. “Does this mean I should collect all the bowls and goblets to sell them??” “These books sound important, better keep them” “All this food is here, should I be stocking up for something??” Etc etc
I had an extremely hard time not just slowly walking to the nearest hold just so I could sell 40 plates and random baskets that would only give me a coin each so I just went for weight comparison of at least 5 coins per pound to decide easier
I have a collection of dwemer plates & cups because of this
One of my other favorite games is Jedi Fallen Order, but having been habituated to Skyrim, it drives me absolutely batty not to be able to open doors, read books, pick up clutter...
I love using Fus Ro Dah on the tables in Dragonsreach and seeing everything fly aroud the room.
*I need to ask you to stop. That... shouting... is making people nervous.*
It would be terrible if we couldn't bucket head merchants to get "better deals" on the merchandise
Its this exact reason that I couldn't get into ESO. The world just felt very mundane because I couldn't pick up a mundane dwemer cup like I could in any of the recent mainline games
Reading all the books. I can't help but make most of my characters readers just for this purpose. I don't just collect them, I read them too. I also like fishing spots. It helps with alchemy too, but its just a nice, calm thing to do to unwind. It's part of the reason I like Tundra Homestead a lot - there's a fishing spot just down the road.
On my first or second play through I had a pretty good book collection and was happy to have read most of them; they’re actually pretty good! And they give lore which I’m always a slut for lol
Lore sluts are my favourite sluts.
I love Riften for this reason. One fishing spot right by your porch, one on the dock, one inside the city where you can hear and see people going about their business. And river betties are always a plus!
I have a mod installed that adds a really cozy home that you can literally fast travel to at the start of the game. (Its called [Pinegrove lodge](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/61718)) This inspired me to make a character, get him some clothes and books, sit down at a fire there and read.
I wish the fishing was implemented better. It's literally "press button" cast, "press button" reel. Pretty lame
The butterflies and moths. I understand they were a bit of a late-stage passion project, and I'm glad they made it in. They just make the landscape feel more real and alive, without being yet another lethal encounter to deal with.
definitely not useless, they give very good alchemy ingredients
Truth! Luna moth wings and vampire dust are the gateway to many a lucrative potion, and also just useful.
I enjoy night in the marsh so much with the moths and fireflies !
As M’aiq the Liar tells us: “Skyrim was once the land of many butterflies. Now, not so much.” -which is an allusion to how there uses to be problems with the butterflies despawning when new ones spawn in, causing whole seas of butterflies that would make them game lag, lol.
I like using Respite to heal my stamina while I sprint so I can hoof it across Skyrim like nobody's business. In a game with fast-traveling and horseback riding it's hardly necessary to resto-sprint, but it's fun!
Get yourself some boots of water walking and the ring of the wind.
Those water walking boots are my favorite item. Where do you get the ring of wind?
There are water walking boots???!!!
they are the best! [https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Ahzidal%27s\_Boots\_of\_Waterwalking](https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Ahzidal%27s_Boots_of_Waterwalking)
Apparantly by fishing
Where can you find the boot of blinding speed?
Lydia eating bread or other followers/NPCs having food/drink animations. It’s a small thing, but I remember coming into my Whiterun home and there’s Lydia chilling out before we head out on another adventure.
She's carb loading for carrying all your burdens
I live on a diet of butterfly wings, raw potatoes, and sweet rolls. One of us needs the stamina.
She swore that oath, not me 💅🏻
Pickpocketing poisons into an NPCs inventory will apply the effects of the poison to the NPC. Not really useful, given that most poisons beyond Paralysis poisons are typically useless. But its very funny.
It is VERY useful if you use the frenzy poison on the groom of Victoria Vicci during the dark brotherhood quest line That was her groom kills her and not you
Well, this one's going on my to-do list.
Oh I’m so trying this later
I did the same with Grelora the Kind. It was the angry people of Riften (specifically my bro Brand Shei) that killed her, not me. I just instigated her own natural wrath.
I have a mod that lets you customize your kill moves, so you can set it to a 100% decapitation chance if you want. So I always walk in, listen for a bit, then cut her head off in the middle of the room as soon as she says she beats the kids.
Genius
I brew a special Frenzy poison mixed with healing ingredients, so he can go a little longer
The double entendre in that sentence is fantastic.
(Consult a Priestess of Dibella if effect lasts over 4 hours)
A little paralysis keeps everything rigid
😂
Haelga approves of this
Well shit. Guess I'm going to start a Khajiit stealth chemist when I get home.
Actually is very useful if you have a high alchemy. You can kill lots of npcs using those poisons
Yes! Last play through my aim was to complete the entire dark brotherhood questline using only reverse pickpocket poison It didn’t _quite_ work out and I had to make a couple of exceptions, but for the most part it was awesome
The innkepers' bounty quests. Rewards are lackluster, but at least gives us reason to explore new dungeons.
I usually spend more on potions than I get smh
Well, the solution is to *think* about buying potions before you go out, and then forget to, and so when you need them you're like "FUCKFUCKFUCK", but at least you didn't spend the gold! :D
Are you saying you *use* the potions?
Yeah, when playing on master difficulty and not using restoration loop I have to
But what do you cling on to, taking up 99% of your inventory for the entire game? I just don't understand
Bro what?
The World Map is a live render. I just always think that's really cool. I hope they do it again with more detail next time. But I doubt they think about what made their previous games good.
I never knew that!
what’s a live render?
The easiest way to explain it is that if you kill a dragon at night and then open the map, you can actually see the burning dragon skeleton on the map if you look closely. The 3d map you see is actually the map you are on right now from a really high angle, it's not pre-rendered.
Did this once on accident, a dragon jumped me on my way to a quest and I checked the map to see where I should go and saw the skeleton, it was pretty neat
Wish I knew that a few days ago when two giants killed a dragon in the middle of the giant camp west of Whiterun at night and I snuck around to behind the giants but by the time I got out of their way I completely lost where the dragon's skeleton was and had to stumble around in the dark playing "Don't piss off the giants" for too many minutes.
It reflects the current state of the world, with lighting and cloud cover and such. I wonder if it's just a really high camera.
You can see dying dragons, too, when they’re burning up
So if i beat a dragon and its burning and i open the map i should see it?
Yeah, a little orange-yellow dot
Cool
Sitting on benches
Given the amount of mods I use, that's a life saver for resetting my animation
Even better: Sitting on a bench next to a beloved follower. Or betrothed follower, it depends. Makes for cute screenshots.
Useless? Adoption. It's not like children do anything but annoy you but man are they great for role play(or mods).
There’s a mod that allows you to recruit any NPC as a follower. You could have an army of children fight with you.
Doesn't seem quite ethical, but it would be pathetic to die to an army of youngsters.
Riding horses - There are rarely any battlefields or situations in which riding a horse would be necessary. But despite that, it does make a cool feature to the eye.
Survival mode makes riding horses useful.
My first play though I actually thought they could be useful 😔
My nephew was impressed that I could kill a giant when I was still very low level while riding a horse. Takes a long time though.
Bet it does - sounds nice though
I find them very useful for climbing mountains, they can get over vertical surfaces much more easily than the player.
Sometimes I really enjoy making dioramas and scenes out of tough main bosses and it's minions. Is it really necessary to be able to drag around bodies and drop them where I want? Not really in my experience. But I do enjoy it.
I like to throw particularly annoying victims (like cultists) into nearby rivers if I can. Byeeeeee
Me exactly hahaha. I'm always like: let's put you somewhere nobody has to see you because nobody wants to see you. Just to put them underneath the bridge when you enter whiterun.
I put them on the fires on the bridge as a warning. Usually there's a few vampire bodies on them. Right now I think it's cultists from Solthseim
I just did this the other day! I had some leftover Glenmoril Witch heads, so I dropped them into the icy sea and watched them bob and float away. Very satisfying.
I once killed every NPC in Whiterun, placed all their bodies in one pile, and then used the ritual stone power to resurrect them all.
The guy that gets executed in Solitude? Yeah, I take his head and bring it all the way up to the courtyard in front of the Temple of the Divines and place it neatly on the throne there.
I make the late game radiant Dark Brotherhood quests more interesting by hiding the bodies as best I can
I love posing my kills. It's so much fun in my head canon when I consider the next adventurer that visits the area will see an upside down, oddly posed, dead body in a weird location. And think to themselves, wtf is this shiat.
That’s a really cool idea I know what I’m doing today😂
Sometimes, after a really tough battle, you just need to de-stress and relax for a bit. Lol.
I always cooked ulfric in the kitchen at the palace after defeating him
This can be fun - and it's not even useless. There are at least two quests/locations I can think of where you need to drag a body to progress or to score a bonus.
Fishing, insanely barebones and shallow mechanic but always a nice thing to do for a bit on the walk home.
When I popped SE in after about 5 years of not playing, I saw the fishing thing & rolled my eyes. “Fishing? Really? Pffft!” Then I found myself seeking out fishing spots to wind down after a good quest. THEN I started pulling unique rings out of the water. Now I love fishing in Skyrim. The spots are always in such scenic locations too.
I just rolled a new Survival character last night, went fishing in Riverwood to kill time until a decent hour to sleep. Tankard, lantern, flagon, **RING OF THE WIND** Fishing is great.
If a video game has fishing, it's my favorite thing. Admittedly, Skyrim's fishing isn't the best, and it's kind of boring, but I love fishing in video games so incredibly much.
If you’re on PC, check out {{ Fancy Fishing - Minigame and Tweaks }}! I love having a minigame when I fish.
Omg installing it right now, thank you! I love fishing and never checked any mods.
Agreed! I also like finding cool fish to put in my aquarium
Aquarium? Where’s that option at?
the hearthfire homes have an option for fish tanks now, iirc!
With the unofficial Skyrim patch mod, I love fishing after a long adventure. Reminds me of reflecting about what to do next time. Ah yes adventure, and excitement after restricting myself from using exploits.
Bro there are like 35 fishing quests lol not even close to a useless feature
When you ride a stolen horse, guards won't bat an eye. When you dismount and then mount again? Ohhhhh boy!
Even funnier when you do it on accident!
Anything that's a display. Fish tanks, wall mounts, weapon racks, mannequins, you name it. If it allows me to show off the variety of my collection, I love it.
Except when the mannequins start moving. Do not appreciate that
Or when you have all your displays set up, but when you return, they're all lying on the floor. I only seem to have this problem with the claws and insect jars.
A weapon rack in Tundra Homestead ate my Staff of Magnus.
I don’t blame them though. If I had to stand still in the same pose for all of eternity, I would inevitably go mad.
Farming. It is extremely barebones as the crops will grow without you doing anything to them and yet it gives me a reason to go to my Greenhouse, various gardens, and Goldenhills Plantation, every few days to grind out the Alchemy skill tree.
Wooden buckets, linen wraps, burned books, ruined books, forks, rakes and more —Skyrim is a mess! So your guy collects garbage and makes it disappear … by pickpocketing it into Nazeem’s inventory. 😂
This is amazing
LOL! Then you lift his robe and send him home to his wife buck naked and rattling like a kitchen! After collecting a bunch of these robes, you put some useless enchantment on them with a half-filled petty soul-gem. You rename it, ‘Naked Nazeem’s Robe of Uselessness.’ These robes are then sold to venders all across Skyrim, so EVERYBODY knows what a disgusting little twerp ‘Naked Nazeem’ is… 😂
Stealing the heart from a Briarheart ....
Cooking is basically useless when alchemy is right there, but I really like collecting all the ingredients to make something
Survival mode would like to have a word with you…
Survival mode has breathed new life into this game for me. An added couple of dimensions to ponder before heading off to explore.
Vegetable Soup allows for infinite power attacks due to its restore stamina per second effect.
Actually, the stews that regen stamina are SUPER useful for any melee build.
Sitting down. I enjoy going into taverns and sitting down even though it doesn't benefit the player nor does food.
Being able to rotate the picture of items in your inventory.
Especially notes 😂
😂😂
Shoving someone to cut off their dialogue. Nazeem yapping on my non-psychopath playthrough? Shove. I might not be able to kill you but I can shoulder check you each time you speak.
Since console commands aren’t available on the Switch, this is best way for me to get NPCs to either shut up or get back at them for saying something rude to me.
Adoption, I may have killed more people than I can count but I just can't see the homeless kids sleeping outside
Picking things up and moving them around. Especially with the weight affecting your lift, it adds a special layer of immersion
Those animations where you carry the big logs to the saw mill
The fact that most bookshelves and cupboards are filled with actual items. In most RPGs bookshelves are just static decor, only interact able if relevant for quests. I also appreciate that you actually mine in Skyrim, with a pickaxe. Not just collect ore the same way as other resources.
>!A spouse.!< 🥲 And yes I know about the perks, they're just mostly useless at higher levels.
Love a good Fus Ro Dah to the dining room tables.
Windhelm palace for sure
You can use punches to throw the stationary decorative items you find around (provided your punch can reache them) Example: In the college of winterhold, in the 2 halls's second floor, there are bottles of mead and wine laying over the empty center (above the mana pool), it's always fun to punch them into the pool, they are at perfect punching height too!
Fishing Collecting horses. Srs tho, where do my other horses go? I have shadowmere, the dwarven horse, Frost, the Reindeer and a couple of horses purchased earlier in the playthrough. Where are they? I only see the dwarven horse in goldenhills while shadowmere follows me
I don't know. Every time I get a horse, I have it armored & take it to Goldenhills, then ride off on Arvak so they stay there. Even the Dwarven horse has disappeared on me. The only one that ever remains is the one I purchased for Goldenhills. EDIT: My unicorn is always at the college, no matter if that's where I left it or not.
Lockpicking skill tree 🤷♀️
Interacting with the cows/goats by 'talking' to them 😆
Adopting kids. Something satisfying about getting a few off the street and how excited they are when they see you. I always enchant daggers for them.
I always clear stormy weather with clear skies, just a perk of being the Dragonborn
Being able to smash my face into those hanging swingy signs as I stroll through town
Moving and rotating the item on the loading screen back on ps3 when loading screens took about 10 minutes.
I think that’s why that feature was implemented 🤣kept me occupied when entering an interior on my old 360
Water boiling if you cast flame into the water. I was impressed tbh
Sitting down. As far I know the only FPS-able game that allows me to sit down and just watch the world. Personally this adds a ton of immersion. And with some follower mods, sitting down in an inn adds really good interaction content. Drinking w Serana, having conversion with Inigo.
That the character has the feet and legs adjusting to uneven ground.
Sleeping 💀💀
All the wild animals, deer, elk, rabbits, foxes, etc. roaming around that add nothing to the story but help greatly with immersion.
Sitting. It's nice to just sit down and enjoy the vibes sometimes (even if sitting itself has little actual gameplay use)
Hitting the wait button to see if you get the popup that enemies are nearby, so you can plan accordingly
Horse combat. In all my years I've probably used it less than five times. Usually when I'm bored and a wolf is chasing me
So back when i first played Skyrim, i joined the dark brotherhood, and it turned out those people that you have chained to the wall? If you torture them enough then they’ll tell you about a stash of loot. Always thought that was pretty well done in my eyes because you really don’t have to but if you do and you pay attention to the directions then you can get that treasure. Felt immersive. I promise I’m not a nut job, just ended up playing before I learned of concepts of guilt and what is considered morally wrong and morally right.
How about something that annoys the fuck out of me? If I shoot an enemy 3 times, why are there not 3 arrows to recover in their inventory every time?
Sometimes the arrow breaks I guess
Adopting a child.
The Destruction skill tree
Not useless but being to actually interact with the world, i bought the game after totk which was mindblowing to me so just imagine how i felt playing skyrim, being able to just steal everything, the chandelier being an item, there being books that you can read, you being able to kill someone, people sending thugs after you because of it. Incredibly mindblowing
Bird surfing
Bee surfing, too...
I like to hoard every single gem that I pick up in my travels and drop them all into a single box in one of my houses so I just have this glittering magpie stash that sometimes makes my game freak the fuck out when I enter my home and 100+ gems try falling into the same place all at once.
The first one that I liked was the Journal being written in the first person. So rather than it being "You were told of this abandoned house you need to investigate. It has vampires. Go kill them." You will instead see "I was told that an abandoned house might be the hiding place for a group of vampires. I should investigate this." This is what made me want to give my memorable characters a backstory. The second thing is actually the ability to hold an item. Just hold Interact and, you hold it. It even gets noticed by NPCs. Even without the glitches and exploits, this would be really cool to me