Skyrim: Game of Every Year-- Since 1911

Not my character, but a pretty cool one, its his.

You thought I was done, didn't you? WRONG! I'm here to continue on about my impressions about the greatest game of all time, beating up Arkham City pretty hard by so far winning both the Inside Gaming GOTY award and now Spike TV's GOTY award.

Seems like my brother's prediction's may be a bit off, eh?

In any case, I want to continue on talking about some of the features in Skyrim that just makes it well, better. Its taken huge strides since Oblivion, and feels like a completely new game. 

But is this necescarily a good thing?

So, on my main account I've logged around 63 hours. I have 19/20 shouts (and 47 out of 60 words), I've destroyed Alduin, stopped a civil war, killed an emporer, become the archmage, and become a werewolf. 

Not to mention the 37 or so dragon's I've vanquished, or the 17 poor defenseless bunnies I've slaughtered, or the 76 nirnroots I've mindlessly plucked from the ground. I've spent a miniscule amount of time in Skyrim compared to Oblivion, but here I am, done with 3 major quest-lines, and close to done with 5. The game moves fast, which is something I like, but I still find it irking that I have only so little time put into it and I've accomplished so much. I'm only level 36, what will I be doing at 47?

Now, it is true that I have been really only focusing on doing questlines, I will admit, I finished the Alduin quest in 4 days because I rushed it. But, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be longer. I have ten and a half million misclaneous quests, but the main dragon story is only 10 hours long? Seems a little obtuse. When am I ever going to actually remember to bring that mammoth tusk to that one guy? Or find gold ore? It just builds. I'll get to them when I have absolutlely NOTHING left to do. I'll probably have all of the crimson nirnroots by then, god forbid. 

The other problem (which is true with every game put out by Bethesda) is bugs. I've been stuck on one part of the Thieves Guild quest for so long that I just gave up and made a new character. It just wasn't worth it. There are other points where I cry with laughter, like using revive on a dragon's skeleton. IT's really quite hilarious. Although these quirks are nice at times, the pro's do not outqeigh the con's.

Overall, Skyrim truly is a remarkable game, that pushes everything to preform a little bit better to keep up with the status quo. It does deserve game of the year because of its changes, but it shouldn't be hailed as perfect since it isn't, but no game ever has, or will ever be. But, until then I have Skyrim. And TF2. And League of Legends. Toontown...

Until next time,

--Santa

WHY XBOX WHY?

So, I wake up earlier this week and think "YEAH! TIME TO DO BLOG POSTS!"

Didn't happen.

I'm sorry, internet-at-large, but Santa has many things to do. Like Skyrim (Expect a continuation of my review over it in the next few days), or LOL cats. Oh yes, my love for those "Adorabul littl kitteh's" is undying.

But, I'm here now, and you know what that means!

Xbox has changed their Dashboard. Again.

Isn't he cute? Got him a hat and everything!

I got on to play Skyrim at 3:37 am like I always do on Wednesday mornings and was surprised by the "DOWNLOAD NOW" option shove into my face. Another 20 minutes later I found that my abhorrent internet connection had brought me an early gift-- a new thing to memorize.

Listen Microsoft, I know you love money, and most of the time, I oblige to your money-grabbing ways. I didn't even go kamakazi when you decided to up the price of XBL, or when you thought "Let's change to the NXE!" Since I got my cute little avatar, as seen to the right. So now, XBL has changed from the "New Xbox Experience" to the new "New Xbox Experience." The only thing I've experienced since the change is my cynicism going through the roof. 

Maybe I'm just too annoyed by change to "appreciate" the new layout. I mean, really, all they did was change it to be more like the Wii. Look at it: Its all boxxy (not her) and white. It's so sterile I could operate on my little avatar (also from the Wii, except done better) and sell his little cybernetic kidneys on eBay for 25 cents each. Sorry little me,  but I could use another pack of Juicy Fruit.

I'm certain in about 3 months I'll have forgotten all about the change, and come to accept it for what it is. The new layout looks essentially like Windows 8, and I'm certain that wasn't just by chance. I appreciate Microsoft trying to keep it all "fresh" or whatever it is that the kids are saying these days, but all they've done is make it look like an over-sized cell phone that plays fancy games. I think I'll just stay off the Xbox for awhile, show them my distaste in their ideas.

Just kidding, I'm only level 33 in Skyrim, I've got to fix that.

--Santa