The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim part 2

Now the two most important elements of a video game is 1: gameplay it is a video GAME so if the game play is horrible whats the point of playing it? 2: Story as long as the gameplay is good i can overlook a bad story line however a storyline is very important part to any game, to me at least.

So now we must ask how was Skyrims gameplay and story line? The gameplay is a hack and slash dungeon crawler that can be either third person or first person, i personally choose third person. Outside of dungeon crawling you can also practice trade skills such as cooking, fishing, and to the newest and most hyped about blacksmithing. Now I'll be honest i didn't practice any trade skills. I wanted to make dragon armor so i payed for lessons from the guy in Whiterun. The combat (again this is from a person who 99% of the time used a two handed axe the other 1% was shouts) I felt was done very well. It wasn't anything new or ground breaking but it did its job. Run up to opponent press attack repeat until either opponent is dead or you need to heal. After awhile i felt that two handed weapons might have been a bit over powered when there wasn’t much i couldn’t one hit kill. Every dungeon being different made crawling much more enjoyable. The dragon fights while extremely easy in the later in the game, in the beginning was difficult and felt very rewarding when you finally beat them.

The leveling system in Oblivion was pretty much just make whatever class you want, then you can only level up those skills. Skyrim looked at that and said HA just make whatever you want i don’t care, level up all the skills you don’t need a class. I personally liked this route, in Oblivioin you could make any kind of class you wanted to, mine as well just make it more simple for us to use right?

so all in all the gameplay I felt was done well, now that leads us to the other part I look hard on, story.

There’s not much to talk about here honestly. The whole story is explaining what a dragonborn is, and how to defeat the bad guy. The Dark Brotherhood and Companion quest offered some good story. I’m not going to say much more than that because i don’t want to get into spoilers and also it would take many pages to discuss the story, so short version Story was good and the NPCs were well made as story drivers, so in the end it gets a pass.

so gameplay and story was good, I was pleasantly surprised by this game, usually a good game that gets a crappy sequel only gets worse and the games go on but i have to say this game far out shines its predecessor and is defiantly worth getting.

I’m Cody “the Geek” Vermillion and until next time, don’t get owned