Why I was Screaming Like a Little Girl During E3
on June 6th, 2011 at 7:24 pmSo, as you all know by now, we’re getting an exciting new installment to the Elder Scrolls Series.
If you’re not familiar with the series, it’s what you could call a FPS RPG game. The game gives you a bit of a background story, the rest is up to you. Your skills, your decisions, the order in which you’ll do quests if you choose to do so. The nice thing is that you can get into any of the games without having to have played the previous one. I recommend The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. You can purchase it in a GOTY pack that comes with some GLORIOUS expansions.
Back to the topic on hand. If you’ve played The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, you know how shitty it is compared to Morrowind.
The magic didn’t feel right, the environment didn’t feel right, the quests didn’t feel right, and the GOD DAMNED OBLIVION GATES EVERYWHERE. Seriously, they have a shit ton of them and they’re all rehashes of the first one. The Oblivion realm is fucking dreadful, and not because it was designed to feel dreadful, it’s because it’s shit. If you don’t know what an Oblivion Gate is, it’s a damned Gate that are scattered all around the world. Once you enter the gates, you are teleported to the most bland levels videogaming has to offer. The same basic layout, the same basic objective: Get to the top of the tower and remove a Sigil Stone to close the gate. Woopie. No scripts. No new action, no plot development. Nothing.
Seriously, some scripting would be freaking fabulous in Oblivion. So many times you’d get to see a really cool area and would want to know more about it’s history in reference to the lore of the game. Nope, you just kill and loot shit. You never get to find out anything about anything.
Luckily for us, Bethseda learned it’s lessons from Oblivion and gave us…this…this masterpiece…The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Honestly, I screamed like a little girl when the theme song started playing in a video where the game was revealed.
I screamed like a little girl when…THIS….WAS UNLEASHED…
I don’t know about you, but I’m preodering a collector’s edition.
I actually just watched this today. I always though the Elder Scroll series was kind of stupid, but this trailer just blew my mind. Now I have to get a PC good enough to handle such gaming goodness.