Skyrim

December 26, 2011

Skyrim - Unarmed Badass Viking

You have to hear this guy's accent.  

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It's Your (Virtual) World. Feel Free to Roam or Slay
(New York Times Review by Seth Schiesel)


Want to get lost? Play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

I mean lost in the best possible sense. As in, “Where did those six hours go?” As in, “I don’t really need to go shopping today.” As in, “Hello, Mr. Sunrise.”

When it comes to offline single-player games, no recent title will draw players in for hundreds of hours as readily as Skyrim. Plenty of games promise to let you unleash your inner all-conquering hero (or antihero), endowed with the power to shape both your own epic destiny and the fate of the world. Almost none deliver on that promise as thoroughly as Skyrim.

Why Skyrim is Horrible For The Economy

While I'm spending hours in Dork Disneyland, I'm not spending any real money.  Great for my bank account, but horrible for America.

One Night in Skyrim Makes a Strong Man Crumble A great game's great big problem

If you have no idea what the Elder Scrolls franchise is, you are probably either (a) an adult woman, or (b) the sort of person who once beat up the sort of person who likes the Elder Scrolls franchise, so herewith a quick primer: Bethesda Game Studios made it; its genre is the genre that has elves; and its subgenre is the open-world RPG.

How Will Videogames Pass Go?

Passage: Game mentioned in above article