Too Much Skyrim!

Recently I've been playing Skyrim, playing Skyrim... And sometimes prying myself from my chair when my body demands sustenance! Of course I exaggerate slightly since small people and my lovely other half take precedence over smashing dragons in the face, but apart from them I have pretty much been running around the land of snow and ice in a loincloth shouting zombies, bears, dragons, and the occasional peasant to death.

I think for me the draw is the same as it was for Oblivion and even Morrowind before that, the ability to do as you please in a vast fantasy world and also having a fairly solid story to run back to whenever you find yourself running out of villages to pillage and guards to slaughter (My normal behaviour when given unlimited power in a game being to make a magical sword, call it Bruce, and then slaughter the ever-loving-sh*t out of everything that moves until I'm sitting on a pile of loot the size of Mexico)!

I do have a few musings though, like for instance, Alduin has worked with humans before (Dragon priests) so, in a game of almost limitless choice, why the hell can't I join up with him and rock the apocalypse?! That would be hilarious and also a great form of stress relief after listening to all those guards talk about their arrow filled knees!

Also you can't throw a stick in Skyrim without it hitting a bandit, where the f@ck do all these guys even come from?! I'm going to go ahead and assume there are actually hidden underground cities populated entirely with interchangeable bandits... That or they are actually all immortal masochists that like to be killed repeatedly by heroes. Sick B*stards.

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 I have to admit though one of my favourite things to do in Skyrim is to plunder ancient tombs in the hopes the Draugr come out to play. The Draugr being the closest thing to zombies in this game. This not being just because they are zombies, but also because they are really satisfying to smack with an axe!

However it's also full of bugs that make me totally lose the will to play the game. For instance it took me three characters to get the house Hjerm and actually get to feel like I had a proper place to store my loot and such (something I get great pleasure out of).

So yeah... I imagine I'll spend a lot more time driving my lovely girlfriend slowly insane by spending far too much time playing on my Xbox.