My adventure in Tamriel continues at a slow pace. I've been playing Skyrim most evenings for about 30-40 mins, but I'm dying a lot which means progress has been sluggish at best. My latest blunder came when I entered a cottage only to be killed immediately by the guy inside. I reloaded, walked up behind the cottage, and then found myself engulfed in flames from a dragon that had emerged overhead. I'm not very good at massive adventure games, so I might take Martin's advice and lower the difficulty, although that would mean admitting he's right.
As I said on this week's podcast, lately I've been playing Gaslamp Games' Dungeons of Dredmor, an excellent little roguelike/dungeon crawler that I picked up for a quid in the Steam sale. Actually, that's not quite true: over the past week I've been doing my best to not play it. Dungeons of Dredmor is one of those beasts that swallows entire evenings in a matter of seconds. You'll resign yourself to having "one more game", and then suddenly it's 4am.
In any case, I've recently discovered that it's more fun to watch someone else failing. I've passed my addiction onto one of my housemates, so this way I get to enjoy his screams of anguish when he slips up and loses three hours' progress in a single moment of permadeath ineptitude (or plain bad luck). Earlier this week I quietly watched as he stumbled on a Monster Zoo - a room packed to the rafters with nasties. In an attempt to save his skin, he turned into a bat and flew away - a plan that worked perfectly... until the spell wore off as he was flying over a watery trench. Cue a splash, followed by an exquisite howl of pain. Oh yes, Dungeons of Dredmor certainly works as a spectator sport.
I know Tom is already doing Skyrim and he doesn't like it when there are repeats on VG Plays, but I'm going to write this anyway and if he doesn't print it then I'll see you next week when I will write another VG Plays for Skyrim. Because all I'm doing right now is playing Skyrim. Skyrim Skyrim Skyrim.
So, yeah, Skyrim is an interesting game because it gets better the more you play it - the more you start to identify with all those numbers and stats the more you cherish them. And, boy, I'm cherishing them so much at the moment it's possible I might call my first son One-Handed and my second Destruction.
Basically, what I'm trying to say is that I'm painfully addicted to Skyrim at the moment. It's always giving me something to see or do, and then it makes that "baruuuump" noise which means I'm about to level up. Great work, Bethesda!
Happy New Year everybody! Unlike you I've spent most of 2012 being violently ill, and the only thing that's been able to take the pain out of Winter flu season is occasionally dragging myself upstairs to play Star Wars: The Old Republic. Which as it turns out is a great game, if an odd MMO. Odd because in terms exploration it seems like a fairly linear, closed world compared to most Massively games. Still, being able to create and develop a character I actually like, exactly the way I want, is brilliant.
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