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Friday 11 November 2011

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - what I think




I'm simply going to start by saying The elder scrolls never disappoints. This game has very good first impressions I havent played much I have only reached the first town in the game and you can build your own weapons, armors, also you can increase the damage and the defence rating on your armor. This game is so awesome the graphics is incredible, bethesda has worked really hard making this game, its really easy to see how they worked on every small pixel just to make this game.


The enemy in the game well the only things I fought is the imperials, spiders, and lastly the bear. The texture on these enemies is wonderful it looks very realistic and also very interesting, such as the spider which actually looks like it has little hairs on it.


Travelling
Skyrim is a huge place, so there will require a lot of travelling. There is different ways to travel such as using the horse, instant travel, taxi. Running to your destination isn't ideal since it will take long and obviously its faster by horse, you can sprint which costs stamina but the stamina will deplete in 10 to 15 seconds, doing this is pretty long but you will sometimes end up having to do that because sometimes its hard to find a horse. Horses in the game is pretty hard to find as I said but you can buy a horse just outside of the town "Dragonreach" the horses cost 1000 coins but its way worth it since running normally on the horse is faster than running on feet, and the pace on the horse is very fast. The instant travel in the game works only for places that you have located this is good in some ways but I prefer it to have more instant travel options rather than just places you know since the map is huge using instant travel costs nothing. Taxi at least that's what I call it, well its the dudes that rides you around in the carriages, using these is a fair way to travel the cost depends on where you go the only prices are 20/50 coins and you can only travel to towns known, or not this is a good way to travel to quest locations near to towns rather than just running from the town that is far away. You can find the taxi's in front of some towns not all. 


Story line
Fairly interesting. Skyrim has a good storyline which is about dragons. I'm not going to go further into it because I don't want to spoil it for you readers. The story in skyrim is as good as the one in oblivion. There is also side quests you can do where you can earn money or new items. You can also join guilds which is cool since you also get side missions from there and work your way up the ranks into becoming a professional.


Gear
The most important part of the game. There is different types of gear in the game the usual leggings, boots, chestlplate, gloves, you can also equip Rings, necklaces, crowns, that sort of stuff to increase your skill or do something else maybe summon skeletons. There is also 3 different types of weapons Swords, Axe, and the Warhammer, these 3 listed are for melee attacking there is also weapons for the range like a staff basically the sword is faster than the axe and the axe is faster than the warhammer but warhammer deals more damage than the axe and so on. You can craft your own armor or buy them from a blacksmith, 


Leveling system
The leveling system in skyrim is fairly interesting since you can level up obviously but you can only gain levels from gaining skills (which I will talk about later) as soon as you level up you can pick from the 3 Magicka, Health, Stamina, you can only pick these 3 for a few levels then you can start putting some talent points into perks, there is so many perks I wont be able to talk about it. The skill system is fun in Skyrim there is a large range of skills here's an example the Two-handed weapons skill you can gain skills by attacking enemies with a Two-handed weapon, when you gain skill you will be able to put your skill points into that type of perk such as putting a point in doing 20% more damage for example but I'm not sure if I'm truly correct.
there is also the Armor skills which falls down into Heavy armor skill and Light armor skill where you skill up simply just by taking in damage with that sort of armor on.
Skyrim perk system

Crafting
Crafting in skyrim is good its what you expect. You can do certain crafting in the game like Blacksmithing, Alchemy, Enchanting (Disenchanting), these are some of the stuff in the game, To increase what you can craft or making it have more effect then you will have to skill it up and use the perk system to spec into it. Also the best Armor you can have is the one you can craft. in enchanting you can increase how much power it gives by putting a point into the perk. This also works for alchemy.


NPC's
In the game of skyrim the NPC's play a big part since you have to collect and deliver quests. You can also attack NPC's in skyrim such as the blacksmith and the jarl, (I tried killing the jarl but he simply didn't die) but I managed to kill the blacksmith so now he doesn't re-spawn and I cant sell my items. I'm sure you are simply thinking why don't you sell your items to a different vendor. Well because the vendors usually buy different items e.g alchemists only buy herbs and potions from you. The way the NPC's work is great! I killed a man that is married and when I went to talk to his wife she was mad! The NPC mechanic is great and I have never seen such wonderful mechanics. 

Shouts and spells
There's 3 simple classes in skyrim Mage, Thieve, and the epic Warrior. I obviously play warrior since its so epic also a 2-handed one. I haven't really played with the spells much in skyrim the only thing I used for spells is actually restoration and I only spent about 2 skill points in it which is to reduce the usage of magicka by 50% and using the healing spell in both hands will increase healing done. There is also shouts which I know quite a lot of about. You gain shouts by clearing dungeons and sometimes if you are lucky you can gain a spell by the end of it which is written on the walls. When you kill dragons you gain Dragon Souls which allows you to spend it on spells you learn so you gain access to use it. There is a good amount of shouts in skyrim such as the unrelenting force (Which is now becoming a internet meme) which shouts at the enemy and throws them backwards this is a good thing to use if you are fighting a difficult enemy so you can knock him to the ground and beat him a little until he gets up.




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