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Holy crap. I'm playing Skyrim again.
Got a little tired of the constant low-level stress of the Far Cry games (due to the confined and stressful nature of the story missions compared to the open-ended "approach however you want" nature of the much more enjoyable side-quests) and wanted to play something open world where I wouldn't have to fear dying so much. Decided to print out a map of Skyrim with all locations marked and began meticulously comparing it to my in-game map. Despite walking up and down that entire map with a fine-toothed comb for over 300 hours I actually found a handful of locations I haven't been to yet!
Then I've still got my goal to find every location in the Shivering Isles for Elder Scrolls Oblivion and win the game by closing every Oblivion gate that opens, which is apparently a rare alternate victory scenario.
I suppose I could still go back to Fallout 4, as there are tons of locations I haven't been to yet. But I didn't find the systems as engaging or varied as I'd hoped for in that game. (Potion making, crafting, spell creation, becoming a vampire, becoming a werewolf, a thief, a wizard, etc.) I think I also just really prefer the fantasy genre over sci-fi these days.
And now that Bethesda has announced that they WILL be doing another press event at E3 this summer, I'm awash with unreasonable hopes that we'll get a "Skyrim: New Vegas" (I think they probably won't even announce a proper Elder Scrolls sequel) or at least a PS4 upscaled version of Skyrim to start all over again. Mmmmmm... Delicious...
Got a little tired of the constant low-level stress of the Far Cry games (due to the confined and stressful nature of the story missions compared to the open-ended "approach however you want" nature of the much more enjoyable side-quests) and wanted to play something open world where I wouldn't have to fear dying so much. Decided to print out a map of Skyrim with all locations marked and began meticulously comparing it to my in-game map. Despite walking up and down that entire map with a fine-toothed comb for over 300 hours I actually found a handful of locations I haven't been to yet!
Then I've still got my goal to find every location in the Shivering Isles for Elder Scrolls Oblivion and win the game by closing every Oblivion gate that opens, which is apparently a rare alternate victory scenario.
I suppose I could still go back to Fallout 4, as there are tons of locations I haven't been to yet. But I didn't find the systems as engaging or varied as I'd hoped for in that game. (Potion making, crafting, spell creation, becoming a vampire, becoming a werewolf, a thief, a wizard, etc.) I think I also just really prefer the fantasy genre over sci-fi these days.
And now that Bethesda has announced that they WILL be doing another press event at E3 this summer, I'm awash with unreasonable hopes that we'll get a "Skyrim: New Vegas" (I think they probably won't even announce a proper Elder Scrolls sequel) or at least a PS4 upscaled version of Skyrim to start all over again. Mmmmmm... Delicious...
