So I have been a little lax in my
blogging duties as of late. Partly, or perhaps in large part because of some
blasted game called Skyrim. You see, as a Techno-geek I have always been a game
player. My favorite game types are first person fantasy adventure games that are
not on-line. When a new game is released I always check them out on the web and
look at reviews. There is nothing worse than a poorly created game with poor
graphics and worse, a poor story line. The last game I played was fairly good
but had a horrible ending and the game was too short. I finished the game in
three days. For $60.00 it wasn't worth it.
I had checked out Skyrim but I skipped
on it mainly because I had played its predecessor, Oblivion, and I had not like
it. The graphics was great, the story was good but it was very slow and time
consuming to get the smallest tasks completed.
Over the Christmas holidays some
nephews suggested that I play skyrim because it was excellent. After some
discussions on the why's of it being so great, I decided I would give it a try.
Another reason was because I had not played a good game in almost three or four
years. I had tinkered with one other game of a different genre but after a few
days I had given up on it. I had also been feverishly waiting on the release of
a new installement of one of my all time favorite games, Diablo III which has
been promissed but a no show for many many years now. Diablo II was released in
2000 and by 2005 we had heard rummors of III being release. The wait was on. In
2008, it was officially announced that Diablo III would be released and so it
was expected, rightly or wrongly, for Christmas of 2008. Again I and many others
waited in 2009, 2010 and again before christmas this past year in 2011. As of
this writing it is in fact supposed top be released on May 15th of this year.
Only two weeks away.
Back to Skyrim; let me just say that
Skyrim is by far the best Fantasy Adventure game I have ever played. Period.
Exceptional graphics, an incredible story line, or rather several storylines
with hundreds of smaller stories or side quests. Phenomenal combat and magic
systems, great playability and what seems to be a never ending story. This is by
far the longest game I have ever played. Usually I finish a game within a month.
Here we are 5 months later and over 300 hours played and I am still not
finished.
Usually, games that have lasted longer
than a month became borring and often ended up un-finished. Skyrim is anything
but that. Just when you think is getting the slightes bit dull, a new twist or
some great new part of a story line is thrown your way. Oh, and the dragons are
incredible! An excellent, no, "the best" Fantasy Adventure game I have ever
played and the best $50.00 ever spent. Oh wait, it was a gift, but it would
still be the best money I ever spent on a game.
I am now almost finished, although not
sure as this game seems to take the weirdest twists but if indeed I am at the
end of the game it will be just in time. Post a few blogs, work on a few
projects, then on to Diablo III.
Francois Cleroux
(Version 1.01 - May 2012)
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