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Being accustomed to 90s JRPGs, I’m not used to so much “flavor text” and it still bewilders me that they would pay voice actors to recite even the most mundane of lines–though as you know, a lot of it is stock phrases. Though the bards singing & playing line by line is a little jarring. I must say though that the voice-acting is top-notch–even the children! I’m surprised they were able to squeeze it all on one DVD.
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times… who are all you people? To tell you all where I was in my Gaming Thread posts, I kept having to boot up the game to look up the proper nouns. Things improved a little as I went on and I met characters with more personality ( Sheogorath in particular is a delight), but still most names went in one ear and out the other. I just can’t be brought to care about most of the people, places or things in this world. That’s probably my biggest peeve with this game. Right from that first mission through the woods to an old house in Riverwood, however, I noted that I wasn’t caring much about these characters or relationships. The lock-picking minigame is much more interesting than, say, Bioshock‘s. Mapping what little I knew about managing inventory and personal stats onto this. And Delphine is pretty badass (even if her door-closing policy is inconsistent 😉 ).Īnyway, after that thrilling dragon-assisted escape (why are they helping me when we’re mortal enemies? Do they know that yet?), I slowly made my way through that initial dungeon, trying to find my bearings. Even the Iverstead sawmill is run by a woman. Though I may not like the medieval trappings, I’m very appreciative of the more-equal footing women seem to have in this society. I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing. Thousands of lines of dialogue, micro-adjusting your race, class and body features (something I always hated doing “I don’t care what I look like, just let me play the game! This is way too much to be asking of me as literally the first thing you do!”), skills represented by constellations, meretriciously-detailed landscapes, the option of doing missions or just start walking in a random direction (with some even becoming “fantasy life sims”)… One thing ES4: Oblivion did that I wish Skyrim did is zoom in on NPC faces as you’re talking to them. I made it maybe 25 pages into Lord of the Rings, was bored by the Fellowship of the Ring film adaptation and never played D&D, despite having an interest in seeing what it’s all about).Īs research for this article, I watched Lazy Game Reviews’ um, reviews of the previous Elder Scrolls games and I traced the history of some of the things present here. There was a lot of getting accustomed to things, including dual-stick combat and Western fantasy tropes (which, I’ll be honest, I was never a big fan of.
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It was a few firsts for me: first time digging my teeth into a sandbox game (not counting Brutal Legend or sinking a few hours total into the PS2 Grand Theft Autos), first time with a Bethesda game and–most importantly–first experience with a Western RPG (the opposite of Chum Jolley).
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That’s right, I’m playing the OG release no options for mods here. I bought Skyrim for $5 after hearing about it from a few friends. In April 2017, I found a used Xbox 360 at a Goodwill for $20, and later picked up a few games for cheap. I was vaguely aware of the ads for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and the memetic status thereof, but that was it. Game titles went in one ear and out the other (and, TBH, still kind of do). I was practically left stranded on the side of the road as trends came and went, and American-made games overtook the Japan-centric scene I was used to.īy the turn of the 2010s, I was barely gaming at all anymore, let alone tuned into the scene. And as I got older and finally had my own money, I was still conservative with it and typically only bought a generation or two behind. I was cut off from the cutting edge just as gaming was experiencing probably its biggest growth spurt ever. I mean, one of my sweetest memories of the summer of 1996 was playing Sonic 2 and NBA Jam for goodness sake! But when my family moved in 1994, what few new friends I had didn’t have new systems.
I was never allowed to have a game system of my own growing up in the 8- and 16-bit eras, so I relied on my friends and their collections. If you know my posts in the Gaming Threads, you know I’m primarily a retro gamer.
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