Skyrim: upside down bear

VIDEO: VLOG#5 Skyrim Platinum Trophy

A VLOG! And it’s #5. This time, I am playing a Role Playing Game or RPG on the PS3 called THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM and I’m about to earn a Platinum Trophy. Watch the video cuz I say stuff:


This is the only Elder Scrolls game I’ve played, but some trivia: FALLOUT 3 was the very first game I played on the PS3 (Bethesda made both Fallout 3 and Skyrim). I kept being reminded of Fallout 3 when playing Skyrim. For example, every time I killed a bandit woman in Skyrim and she’d flip-flop around like a rag doll, I was reminded of when I’d kill a bandit woman in Fallout 3 and she’d flip-flop around like a rag doll. Not much else to say since I say it in the video.

But let’s see what I tweeted about in regards to SKYRIM…

navel4eve: Played SKYRIM until it froze up. My character is so ugly. But I went through all the presets and they’re all ugly. December 26, 2011 3:06 PM

navel4eve: Still playing SKYRIM. My character got stuck hopping around in a basket. And I accidentally killed some bard who was following me around. December 26, 2011 11:12 PM

navel4eve: SKYRIM is making me procrastinate with even internet stuff. Whatever, it’s the holidays. Time to chill. December 27, 2011 3:02 PM

navel4eve: Back to SKYRIM I go. Accidentally killed so many followers, now I constantly panic when I don’t see Lydia my current follower. December 31, 2011 4:35 PM

navel4eve: I can’t believe I haven’t played SKYRIM in 3 days. I need to plat this game before FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 comes out end of this month. January 7, 2012 12:26 AM

navel4eve: SKYRIM: I love it when the bosses glitch and get stuck in their surroundings. Easy kill. January 11, 2012 3:00 PM

navel4eve: SKYRIM: I’m level 37 and just discovered perks. These will help a lot hehe January 12, 2012 5:48 PM

navel4eve: SKYRIM pet peeve: your companions ALWAYS stop and stand in a doorway thus blocking you from getting through. Drives me crazy. January 14, 2012 2:47 PM

navel4eve: COWBOYS & ALIENS: kind of like SKYRIM but with cowboys and aliens. There’s even a ‘trapped by environment easy kill’ scene. January 15, 2012 10:32 PM

navel4eve: SKYRIM: I think I’m getting close to the final boss battle cuz I keep dying. If I had known, I would’ve brought a sword or something. January 28, 2012 4:43 PM

navel4eve: SKYRIM: finished the main story. Made it through with thief apparel and no sword LOL! Time to plat it! January 31, 2012 3:35 PM

navel4eve: Picked up FINAL FANTASY XIII-2. First need to plat SKYRIM cuz I won’t want to ever play that game again. January 31, 2012 10:33 PM

navel4eve: SKYRIM: This “Married” trophy is so dumb. To protest, I was gonna marry this a-hole, but plans were foiled cuz quest had me kill him. February 2, 2012 7:40 PM

navel4eve: Got my platinum trophy in SKYRIM. Made a video so stay tuned. February 3, 2012 3:27 PM

And some funny pictures.

Louis Letrush clone glitch watching my every move: I had to waste an invisibility potion in order to break into that house behind them without getting caught.

Skyrim: upside down bear

Lydia, my companion, killed this bear while I was busy picking flowers. It died upside down.

What I really wish I had done was taken a video of when my character was stuck hopping around in a basket. That was the best glitch that I experienced while playing SKYRIM. The most WTF-moment that stunned me for about 2 minutes was when a Hagraven (a hag-raven, I suppose) fell on top of me dead (flip-flopping like a rag doll). First I felt relief that I didn’t have to battle her for she was already dead, then I was like “WTF” for two minutes because it made no sense why she fell out of the sky dead as I was just strolling around in some village and no one around me was fighting or anything.

10 comments
NAVEL4EVE
NAVEL4EVE

Galloping Glen You can decapitate in Skyrim? I played as an archer. One shot head kill 'n' hide is what I did.

Galloping Glen
Galloping Glen

Lol i love the ragdoll effect. My blade skill os high enough to decapitate now lol. They quiver headless 10% chance.hahaha. .its the little things in life .....

Maximilien Mathiez
Maximilien Mathiez

Yeah they need to upgrade from ragdoll physics to human body physics.

NAVEL4EVE
NAVEL4EVE

It's a combination of a very powerful bullet/sword slash and a ragdoll. I think their mistake is using a ragdoll. They're made of rags! Like fabric and cotton balls. Not flesh and bones.

Maximilien Mathiez
Maximilien Mathiez

It would've been awesome if it killed you. In Call of Duty 4 I was twice killed by bombs I dropped on the other side of the map, because I was close to the opposite edge. Apparently it looped around like those old Atari games when you walk off the side and pop back on the other side. No one else was killed but me. But yeah if you go on YouTube and look for ragdoll physics glitches with various search terms, there's lots of fun clips. Some of them look like breakdancing but the ones I've experienced are usually creepy. Sometimes people I shoot will get strung up on doorframes or quasi-amputated by walls. I wonder if it's a combination of collision detection and ragdoll physics errors or what. Must research.

NAVEL4EVE
NAVEL4EVE

Still?? So slow. I think the physics engine overdid it when it threw that dead Hagraven at me.

Maximilien Mathiez
Maximilien Mathiez

It seems all PC/console games occasionally have that issue with twitchy bodies and shaky objects. Still perfecting physics engines and suchlike I suppose.

poison_taster
poison_taster

That's hilarious. The falling out of the sky thing.

navel4eve
navel4eve moderator

I gasped when it happened. It was like someone tossed her at me, but I looked around and saw no one! This was in a small mining town. She had some blue fireball in her hand. It died out as she died out.

poison_taster
poison_taster

@navel4eve That's awesome. So poetic. What I like about that glitch and others is that they can add a sense of depth to the game, that stuff is happening in the world without you, not just in a scripted way but flawed like the real world. Even as it draws attention to the fact that it's a game.