Post by Mona Fuller on Jan 31, 2021 0:28:39 GMT
Skyrim is one of those games I've heard good things about for years. I've attempted to start it two times before, and now, on my third attempt, I finally made it to a city! To more than one! (even if I went off trail and had to spend like 2 hours trying to get to Riverwood)
For most of my gaming history, I've been a hack-and-slash/tank player. There's just something about smashing your enemies whilst looking them dead in the digital eye. Recently, I've really gotten into playing assassin types. It started with Zer0 in Borderlands 2 (BL2), then Zane in BL3...and then Mordecai in, surprise surprise, the OG BL. I regret nothing.
My first attempt at playing was probably some blond, vaguely Thor-esque Nord on the X-box. Second was on my roommates VR with a Khajit named Spooky.
This time, I'm a wonderful Khajit named Aphrodisous (level 32). He is beautiful and no one can tell me differently. He's majestic, and becoming very proficient in his one-hand skills (83). So, still a bit of hacking and slashing, but his archery skill (76) is the second highest skill he has.
I am really enjoying the game. It has rather similar elements to Dragon Age, but without a 'leadership' role, at least so far. I'm playing video games to avoid responsibility (and, like, to have fun, I guess), not to be the Inquisitor or your new leader in a radioactive hellscape (the reason I stopped playing Fallout, tbh). Usually with games like this, I run the risk of doing too much too quickly and then having to take a break. Which means that I then have to restart to try to figure out what is going on. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, I had to do that. Now it's been over a year since I last played my redo character and can't remember what's going on. All I really remember is that my elf is the prettiest elf in all the lands and I think I accidentally started to date Dorian. So far, I've gotten close to doing that in this game. But the lack of formal responsibility makes it a bit easier to get back into if I forget what is going on. I can just pick up a mission and don't have to worry about my companions liking me and how my decisions will affect my people.
The graphics are amazing. Looking at the landscape and scenery is something I don't think I'll tire of, especially the night skies. And the weapons are wonderful - the glass weapons I find particularly beautiful. I have a digital copy, and sometimes it lags and gets me killed, but for the most part, it doesn't happen terribly frequently. The bodies of my slain enemies sometimes disappear as well, but they probably had nothing I wanted to loot anyway. It's easy to see why about ten years later, people are still playing the game.
Somethings:
All-in-all, if you haven't played it, I would recommend it! Especially if you have like 100 hours you wish to fill with one game and enjoy running around mountains and fields and snowscapes...while killing things. I know I do!
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I am DecepticGluticus on Playstation. Come find me if you'd like!
For most of my gaming history, I've been a hack-and-slash/tank player. There's just something about smashing your enemies whilst looking them dead in the digital eye. Recently, I've really gotten into playing assassin types. It started with Zer0 in Borderlands 2 (BL2), then Zane in BL3...and then Mordecai in, surprise surprise, the OG BL. I regret nothing.
My first attempt at playing was probably some blond, vaguely Thor-esque Nord on the X-box. Second was on my roommates VR with a Khajit named Spooky.
This time, I'm a wonderful Khajit named Aphrodisous (level 32). He is beautiful and no one can tell me differently. He's majestic, and becoming very proficient in his one-hand skills (83). So, still a bit of hacking and slashing, but his archery skill (76) is the second highest skill he has.
I am really enjoying the game. It has rather similar elements to Dragon Age, but without a 'leadership' role, at least so far. I'm playing video games to avoid responsibility (and, like, to have fun, I guess), not to be the Inquisitor or your new leader in a radioactive hellscape (the reason I stopped playing Fallout, tbh). Usually with games like this, I run the risk of doing too much too quickly and then having to take a break. Which means that I then have to restart to try to figure out what is going on. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, I had to do that. Now it's been over a year since I last played my redo character and can't remember what's going on. All I really remember is that my elf is the prettiest elf in all the lands and I think I accidentally started to date Dorian. So far, I've gotten close to doing that in this game. But the lack of formal responsibility makes it a bit easier to get back into if I forget what is going on. I can just pick up a mission and don't have to worry about my companions liking me and how my decisions will affect my people.
The graphics are amazing. Looking at the landscape and scenery is something I don't think I'll tire of, especially the night skies. And the weapons are wonderful - the glass weapons I find particularly beautiful. I have a digital copy, and sometimes it lags and gets me killed, but for the most part, it doesn't happen terribly frequently. The bodies of my slain enemies sometimes disappear as well, but they probably had nothing I wanted to loot anyway. It's easy to see why about ten years later, people are still playing the game.
Somethings:
- It took an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to get the the Items/Map/Magic/Level Up menu. And how to charge my weapons
- I really want to get into the Thief Guild, so I've been avoiding Riften. I'm going to have to go soon. I just want to make sure my sneak level (75) is high enough to get into the guild. I need to be a part of this guild. Let my Khajit in!!
- It was night, and I came across a shack with some dude laying in bed. I wanted to speak to him, so I was like 'let's see if the game will let me sleep in bed with some random guy I don't know.' That's the story of how I slept with a dead man while my housecarl companion watched on in probable horror. Remember kids, dead people sleep on their backs with their eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling whilst having an existential crisis - alive people sleep on their sides and aren't ticked off when you wake them up at all hours to tell them you finished a mission for them
- I do enjoy how there are so many things to do and random missions to get. I have definitely started in on missions I was not at a level to do yet. I'm pretty sure I shouldn't have gone off to Solstheim when I was probably not even level 20 yet. But I got back to Skyrim and have been mountain goating across Skyrim since
- My roommate thought pronouncing the title 'sky rim' was childish and stupid and definitely not how it was pronounced. So, for years we've been calling it 'scrim' (like scrimmage, but without the 'age') because that was how she was so sure it was pronounced. I've finally gotten over the instinctual flinch of 'that's not how that's pronounced' every single time a character in-game pronounces it like it's supposed to be pronounced. It took days
- For a while, I would steal the woodcutter's axes whenever I saw them. Try to cut wood now, jerks!
- I really don't think my companion appreciates me trying to climb up (and down) the mountain faces like I'm trying out for the role of Mountain Goat #69 in the game. Same happens in Dragon Age, so at least I am consistently horrible about not going ten feet to the left/right and tAKING THE ROAD
- I finally backstab killed someone with the little 'cut scene.' It was delightful
- Quicksave has become my new best friend
- I've used magic precisely three (3) times. I feel that I should use magic more than precisely three (3) times
- I always read 'Petty Soul Gem' as 'Pretty Soul Gem,' and I don't think there's anything I can do to fix that
- Anyone else weirded out by that necrophilic necromancer, Arondil? I mean, sure, I slept with a dead guy (see bullet point 3), but that was platonic and a mistake I've sworn Lydia to never bring up again
- I can't decide if I should join the Stormcloaks or the Imperial Army. I was all for the Stormcloaks (they just scream Viking to me and I like Vikings), but Ulfric seems pretty racist. And I'm not a Nord. Seems like I should be wary. But the Imperial Army doesn't sound cool either. I mean, have you seen their little Roman Empire outfits?
All-in-all, if you haven't played it, I would recommend it! Especially if you have like 100 hours you wish to fill with one game and enjoy running around mountains and fields and snowscapes...while killing things. I know I do!
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I am DecepticGluticus on Playstation. Come find me if you'd like!
