Well… How about that Bethesda? How about that Fallout 76? How about that Todd Howard and his Sweet Little Lies? Yeah, I am really aware of how cool it is right now to hate on Fallout 76, and I am aware that not a lot of people are fans of Skyrim. In fact, hating it is kind of a law now, but just because 76 is a mistake, that doesn’t mean I will grow to hate Skyrim, no matter how many times they re-release it.
Elder Scrolls: Skyrim takes place in, well, Skyrim, as the hero of the story, known as Dragonborn, comes to find that the land is under attack sa pamamagitan ng dragons. So, with the use of his voice, a voice that allows him to shout spells in the language of the dragons, he must battle the dragons, as well as their leader, Alduin, and save the kingdom and the world from ruin. The game is your typical medieval pantasiya RPG. You got your humans living with elves, reptilian humanoids, and neko people, as well as having to fight off skeletons, wolves, bandits, giants, trolls, and the occasional walang tiyak na layunin enemy that you find. Skyrim was a game that I loved to explore. Yes, the endless mountains that you can climb as been memed to hell and back, but regardless of their being a to where you can go, I still pag-ibig traveling across Skyrim. Compared to the green, green, and madami green of Oblivion, Skyrim really mixes it up with lushes green forests, tall snowy mountains, Dwarven cities, dark caves, bandit camps, and towns ranging from small villages to bustling kingdoms. Just travelling down the path at night as the games lovely orchestra soundtrack plays in the background is always something fun to do. Especially if you look up at the sky to see different moons, stars, constellations, adn planets. You just look at it and say, “Oh, what is that thing”. Sure, the character mga model all look like chimney sweepers in an old British stage play, but the environments are real beautiful. From the snow, to the grass, to the ants on a puno stump. It all impresses me and I really pag-ibig exploring Skyrim just so I can find very miniscule details like this. And the use of the voices, which is new to Skyrim, add to a lot of fun. And I mean madami fun than just shouting your followers off a cliff and watching them go a mile away. That’s a different kind of fun. From shouting to summon dragons to freezing your foes in place, there are a ton of dragon shouts to find, and it makes exploring all those caves with Norse zombies and angry goblin creatures worth it, that and the ton of ginto and weapons you get from the treasure chests at the end. And even years later, I am still not done with the game. It’s not endless, I am aware, but there is so much to do with this game as far as side quests go. And with the DLC, it just adds madami and madami to the game then there already is, and I just pag-ibig going through it, even if, I will admit, the combat is nothing too special.
Skyrim is, yes, far from a perfect RPG. The combat is lame, the story is really dumb, and it has every medieval pantasiya trope in the book, but I had hours, and hours of fun with Skyrim. madami hours than I did with Fallout 3 or Oblivion, honestly. I don’t care how many times they release Skyrim, because I still have fun with it. I’ll damn Bethesda for Fallout 76, and I think anyone will, but they did a good job with Skyrim.