Many many people are spending far too much time this weekend playing Skyrim. I’ve been trying not to fall behind on my NaNoWriMo (unsuccessfully, I’m one day behind so far) but with eye candy like this waiting for me it’s been hard. I’m closing in on 20,000 words, which means I’m getting closer to the middle of NaNoWriMo. The hardest part for me to write. I’m good at figuring out what happens first, and what happens last, but when it comes to all of the juicy details in the middle I tend to stutter around. We’ll see how it goes. I’ve worked things a little different this year, planning the story out one little chunk at a time, so that I have at least a rough idea of what is happening next.
Skyrim is as good as I thought it was going to be, and I’m really pleased I picked it up. I wasn’t going to, but the hype got the better of me and I’m pleased that it did. The graphics remind me a lot of Vanguard (but better) as does the wide open world. If I see it off in the distance changes are I can walk to it. I love exploring, and I’ve been picking up absolutely everything I can get my hands on that won’t land me in jail for doing so. I’m not very far into the story yet because of these things but the point is I can play this game ‘my way’ and feel absolutely comfortable doing so.
That’s been my weekend so far, although I did also spend some time in EQ2 and WoW (Fireland dailies, how I loath thee) it wasn’t very much time. My hands have been giving me some trouble as of late so I can only spend 30 minutes or so typing / using the mouse before I have to take a break. Hopefully that solves itself sooner rather than later.
What about everyone else, how did you spend your weekend? Let me know in comments below! As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself.
I’ve re-subbed to EQ2 so I’m familiarizing myself with it again. Did a touch of Rift and I’ve also been doing the SWTOR Beta Weekend event as well. The tester NDA says I can only say I’m in it and nothing else, so that’s all I’ll say for now. EQ2’s quite fun and I even finally got the enervated conversion of my SK’s Mythical weapon finally. What with the DOV gear inflation we had a group that just powered through Cella, ignoring the strategies for the nameds, just dps’ing them down. Used to be hard, now it’s not. Weird how that happens. . . . .
I spent pretty much all of yesterday playing Skyrim, and a good chunk of today playing LA Noire… both are gloriously entertaining. :D
That is a beautiful screenshot. Very nice!