Finished the main quest in Skyrim.

So I finally got around to doing the main story line quest in Skyrim tonight. In true Bethesda fashion the graphics bugged out making part of it a confusing lucid dream. And then some people clapped. I must say I was a little underwhelmed. I feel like these guys keep skating by on their huge world, and I was really hoping that they had stepped it up a notch this time.


In many ways Skyrim is a great example of everything Bethesda sucks at. From interfaces to animation, or any kind of AI and path finding. Yet it's done well enough that I'm sure they will only have to spit and polish maybe one of those things before the next one.


I know this isn't the point. I get that. I know I'm just meant to be exploring for hours on end, and I do. I have for the past three games. But I also feel I have the right to ask them to put an actual combat system in at some point. That would be cool.

Dark Days

Dark Souls is a fantastic game. Demon's Souls was too. They taught you the most valuable lessons games possibly can - that death is as unavoidable as the freaking tides, and grown men still cry. The only thing wrong with both of them was that they were attached to my hand by a cinder block called a console controller.

The petition to get a PC version has like 60,000 signatures on it now which is pretty cool. Go do your part even if you couldn't give a rat's ass, because we do. Though we all know these things never go anywhere.

When I first fired up the original Demon's Souls (Don't forget that apostrophe!) I proceeded to not move from the couch for 22 hours. I nearly died of hunger while dying over and over again. It blew my mind to experience that old feeling of, "sure I'm playing like crap, but that's because it's actually difficult."

Unfortunately it wasn't something that held up in the original game. The difficulty curve petered out once you got a decent weapon and realized that the attack patterns were very predictable. Dark Souls, the darker and less possessive sequel, fixed much of this by choosing to kick your ass forever and ever. And I loved every second of it.