As a long-time player of Elder Scrolls games, there are a few things that often bother me about the games. The game components are poorly done, the voice acting can be spotty, completing a fraction of the available content has a bad tendency to morph your character into some kind of amoral demigod, hoarding items […]
Continue ReadingAs someone who has been one of the main supporters of the concept of us having a blog, I find it odd that I’ve never taken the time to ever write a blog entry for the blog that I’ve so thoroughly supported. Ever. I’ve encouraged others to do so, but I never actually sat down […]
Continue ReadingI’ll admit I was one of the skeptics at first when Zenimax Online announced that The Elder Scrolls Online was being developed. Bethesda spent nearly two decades making the most incredible and detailed single player RPG experience that I’ve ever played, and then I heard that it was being made into an MMO… It scared […]
Continue ReadingMy initial thoughts on the recent Elder Scrolls Online announcement as a veteran Elder Scrolls fan is a mixture of both excitement and worry. I’m excited to see yet another chapter in the Elder Scrolls series unfold with hopefully more adventures and lore to be discovered. I’ve enjoyed all seven ES games in series to […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been meaning to write something about Skyrim for a couple of weeks, but any time I had a few spare minutes I decided they were better spent actually playing the game than writing about it. Today, I finally feel sated. I don’t mean I’m done playing it, because I’m not, but I no longer […]
Continue ReadingTen days to go now, and the anticipation makes me remember what it was like to be ten years old on the evening before Christmas, although the knowledge that the first eight hours or so after I get the game will be spent doing stuff for the wiki tempers things a bit. Anyway, it’s nine […]
Continue ReadingThis is going to be a quick blurb about something that been bothering me about UESP as of late: the popularity of taking speculation and guesswork as fact. We’re all guilty of it, in one way or another. We love to believe what we desire to believe. But, unfortunately, UESPWiki (or any wiki for that […]
Continue ReadingPerhaps one of the most controversial topics as of late is the Occupy Wall Street movement. For those unfamiliar with the demonstration, it has its roots with the Canadian activist group Adbusters. In June of 2011, Adbusters registered the domain name “occupywallstreet.org”. Three months later, on September 17, protesters inspired by the Tahir Squate Uprising […]
Continue ReadingYep, another rant about “Well, back in my day…” except without that actual phrase; I can’t say back in my day — I’m 13! But what I can say is that from what I understand from my older siblings and their friends, there have been some very drastic changes in the heart of the video […]
Continue ReadingIf you obsessively read everything on UESP you may have noticed one or two cryptic posts like this and this lately. What are these ESM and ESP files, and why are Daveh, Nephele and I trying to pull them apart? Take a look in your Oblivion program directory and you’ll find a few different files. […]
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