So goblins where troll skull cod pieces... Wow they sure have stepped up their game!

@Orcorn
You speapk the truth. :grad:

Oh man it is a troll skull! The troll in the screenshot for the concept art lapse seems to be around 6 to 7 feet tall, so I think the giant is probably about 10 or11 feet tall.

Just read that the tallest man ever was 8' 11.1". That should be the minimum for our giant. They should have ONE giant that is like 16-18 feet tall as a nice easter egg.

Ranged weapons like bows, this is a scenario where crossbows would be good...

... Or a spear...

THIS AGAIN?

Cross bows svck IMO, I've tried archery and preferred simple bows over compound and crossbows, they are simpler to use and once you get the hang of them, you're a crack shot. Spears? Hell no, if you start asking about Halberds, then I will stop getting pissed when I hear about this.

Shoot giant with poisoned arrow, wait until giant dies of poison.

I'd throw my effing duel wielded axes at him, then charge at him with while unsheathing my customized long sword, stab him in the stomach, grab my battle hammer from my back, jump on his back and bash his skull in!!!!!!!!!!!!! :drool:

Are you honestly saying if you were being chased by a giant and you came across a bow, a sword, a spear, and a loaded crossbow, you would be like, "Crossbows and spear? No way, I'm going with the sword (which would be able to hit a giant without stepping into his attack range) and bow (going to gave to draw it and aim).

Just saying if I was going up against a giant, I going with a pointed stick. Though I rather use a pike. Pike>giant

I'll just hack at him with my claymore; if that doesn't work I'll run away and do it all over again until he falls! :poke:

With my female character - I would begin by disarming him with my charming good looks, then when his guard was down I would unexpectedly uppercut him in the troll-skull codpiece he wore, sending one of his testicles right up into his pelvic cavity. Next I would proceed to paralyze him as he hunched over to coddle his other swollen melon and then I would furiously begin to poke him in the eye 7000 times with my 'fist of fury' perk before stripping his flesh clean from his bones with a blood-curdling, banshee-like shriek of a dragonshout, whose shrill squeal and sheer power will leave nothing but blood, bone and innard to fall to the earth below in a messy, splashing heap of crimson stew. The ruptured testis I had previously lodged in his pelvis; now caught in the wake of my vicious scream, would shoot loose from the giant's body with such wicked force; as his outer-shell gets shredded by my evil melody, that the testis would cut a five inch deep hole in a pine tree over twenty feet away before exploding in a sappy mess of puss at the heart of the trunk. Its toxic contents; the giant's vile seed, would poison the pine and slowly rot its wood from the inside out, beginning a long and painful death for the helpless tree--one which would inevitably end with the poor thing's withering demise in roughly ten years time. Lastly, I would summon a scamp and command it to feast on the giant mound of remains while I toiled away at casting an intricate fire rune on the ground, encasing both the bloody heap, as well as the demonic creature I had conjured, within its mystical design, eventually using it to incinerate them both in a magickal blaze; capturing the scamp's essence in a soul gem while leaving nothing but a smoldering splotch of blackened tar in place of where the giant once stood.

(And that right there is the story of Wyatt Hertz...why it hurts!)

Seriously though, I would probably go about killing him the same way I kill Minotaur Lords...Any way I damn well please! :toughninja:

Stab his brain and use your weapon as a kind of control knob, like in god of war.

they're not like shadow of the colossus sized
more like 1.5x the player's height

well in oblivion all damage (regardless of body part attacked) did the same. i'm hoping damage is alittle more discriminating. throwing spears(please god let them have throwing spears), arrows and, spells targeted at the face should work...slashing the ankles should cripple the giant, forcing him to crawl on his stomach and get to your level

Win.

All you need is an axe and a beanstalk

wrong

holy crap I think you guys are freaking right, the troll head confirms that this thing is pretty big! :mohawk:

I want to kick some giant's ass

To be honest, I actually doubt the troll skull he wears as a codpiece is accurately scaled to the size of a living in-game troll's head. I see it as being more of a 'shrunken' troll head/skull and would guess that the Giants will be about the same size, or just a little bigger than OB's Minotaur Lords(horns included in height).

party pooper

I hope to god I don't see high level sneaky types 1 or 2 hitting mammoths and gaints with daggers.

In Fallout most people fight Behemoths by back pedaling and abusing LOS - assuming they haven't set up an ambush. But you can't backpedal very well in Skyrim so...

I'm assuming it's going to be any way you want to. Do we even know how big the giants are in this game? There hasn't really been any comparisons. They're probably just like 3-4 feet taller than the average person.

:biggrin: Oh well excuuuussse me!! :cookie:

Here...just for you.

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I think you're probably right. I doubt giants are going to be THAT big. They'll be big reletively speaking in that they're larger than a lot of enemies you'll see, yes. But I highly doubt they'll be like Mehrunes Dagon or even the Gatekeeper, probably closer to ogres or minotaurs in Oblivion, and I don't expect there to be any kind of special strategy for fighting them, not sure why everyone is assuming they will.

Hmm. How indeed. Given my characters typical petite build, probably by convincing another giant to fight for me

Think about the way that Lord of the Rings did killing ogres and cave trolls.

The best way to fight a giant is like a pregnant cow .