- by Arthur "Arturis" Orneck
- Posted on November 22, 2011 @ 8:00 PST
YouTuber Wren the Reaper knows that to truly appreciate the beauty of Bethesda's Skyrim, one needs to take a moment to stop slaying, stealing, and crafting and simply look around. Using a bit of in-game time lapse witchery, Wren has created a video that lets you bask in the glorious scenery of the land without fear of a randomly generated dragon showing up out of nowhere and biting your head clean off.
Feel free to take a moment to watch the following video. Meditative yoga pose entirely optional.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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I "acquired" Skyrim for the PC. It is too gorgeous for my PC. I am going to wait until I tire of Battlefield and then get it for PS3. Looks great so far though.
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Hey now, stop "acquiring" games, that's shorting money from an industry I plan on living off of some day!
Also, Skyrim is worth every penny. I wont go into details because Mandie has a review in the works that should be hitting the site soon, but its definitely a must-own. Legitimately purchased, preferably. :P
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I generally don't acquire games in that fashion. In fact, of all of the games I have recently torrent'ed, I purchased them all on one platform or the other (Fallout: New Vegas, Stracraft 3, and Battlefield 3). Now, to be perfectly honest, the main reason I don't pirate games is that I enjoy the trophies, online play, and DLC ... all of which cannot (at least the first two) be enjoyed with a non-retail game.
As for the game, the best review I heard about the game needed only one sentence. "They [Bethesda] simply dropped an entire country into a box."
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I can agree with the "country in a box" metaphor. Skyrim is pretty much following the definition of a Sandbox RPG, where you can spend hours, days, even months playing the game and completely ignoring the main story line if you wanted to. The only thing I could ask for would be an option to create personally hosted, persistent multiplayer servers, so that I could "live" in the same copy of Skyrim as my friend's characters. Not so much a full on MMO, because then you bring in the Random Asshat Factor, which can destroy the immersion instantly.
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I would never, ever, ever spot a hordie on an escort quest and ...
Stealth
Premeditation
Shadowstep
Ambush
Shadow Dance
Ambush
Ambush
Ambush
Vanish
No, never.
Signed,
Asshat
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Well, I was speaking more about the type of Asshat that randomly slaughters all the Quest NPCs or burns down a town just to make the game unplayable to others, but Ill admit the annoyance of your type of Asshat as well. ^_^ But thats why I dont play on PvP servers - so I dont have to worry about that kind of thing.
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SIngle-player RPGs.... just don't pull me in like they used to. I beat KOTOR 1&2 with every possibility in both games (mainly because I'm a Star Wars super-fan...SUPERRR FANNN!!!...Ok just Super Fan. Just fan.).
Fable and Mass Effect came a long and they didn't have that same effect on me. I beat them...once. Maybe it's just all the MMOs I played at one point, from free to p2p. The motivation to acquire things in the MMOs was much higher but in the single-player rpg, obtaining the Epic Super Sword of 10,000 Lost Souls was like,"cool, ok. done".
Can't wait to see the GGX Skyrim review though! Maybe I'll pop the game in.
