a5c7b9f00b The country of Skyrim is locked in a bloody civil war between the Imperial army serving the Empire of Tamriel, and the Nordic rebel army of Stormcloaks named after their leader Ulfric Stormcloak. A midst this war, the gods have awaken the eldest dragon Alduin who has the ability to raise deceased dragons and devour living and dead souls. But there is one who can bring peace, this individual who has the ability to absorb the souls of a dead dragon and use to learn their tongue. They call that person; Dragonborn. The Aldmeri Dominion Invaded Tamriel and the Empire was almost defeated. But in the last hours the Empire signed The White Gold Concordat To be in peace with the Thalmor. Talos worship was banned in one of the treatys. After this The High King Of Skyrim has been murdered by Ulfic Stormcloak the Jarl Of Windhelm. The Jarl made the Stormcloak rebellion to fight against the Imperial Legion stationed in Skyrim. The Imperials ambushed the Stormcloaks and taken to Helgen. One of the prisoners was the Last Dragonborn Who was attacked by mistake And the Imperials did not know that he or she is not one of the Stormcloaks. When in Helgen the Last Dragonborn was supposed to be exucuted But then Alduin the leader of the Dragons attacked the Town. Then The player must escape Helgen and must learn the Way Of The Voice to control His powers. He or she can join the Legion or the Stormcloaks. He or she&#39;s destiny is to Destroy the evil Dragon Alduin. While he goes to the Blades Who where disbanded when the Peace treaty was signed. The Dragonborn will save Both Skyrim and the Empire. Contains SPOILERS<br/><br/>A lot of reviews have been written about what&#39;s good about this game, so I&#39;m going to focus on what I didn&#39;t like about it. (I played the XBox-legendary-version of the game. It is possible that some of these points have been patched in the PC-version.)<br/><br/>(1) There are a lot of different quests and stories, but almost all of them are too short. The &#39;main&#39; story in particular is far too short. To even call it the main story is ridiculous.<br/><br/>So, we have a sea of quests to choose from, but none has any real depth to it.<br/><br/>(2) The enemies&#39; level increaseyou level up, which is probably intended to keep the fights interestingyou progress in the game, but frankly only makes leveling up completely pointless.<br/><br/>(3) The skills are outrageously unbalanced:<br/><br/><ul><li>some skills are maxed in no time at all, it seems, others take forever: best example is Destruction. Even with most of the spells available (including the master-level ones) and custom made armor and jewelry to reduce the casting cost to 0, I was not able to achieve level 100 (using the spells in normal combat and in reasonable time, that is).</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>the difference in the power of the skills is huge: with a high Smithing, you can forge equipment way stronger than anything you can find in the game (*); with maxed Enchanting, you can reduce casting costs to 0 (as mentioned above). Destruction on the other hand is almost useless later in the game (especially, because of (2)).</li></ul><br/><br/>(4) (*) in (3) makes looting redundant, which is an utter fail in this genre.<br/><br/>(5) the loading times on the XBox are dreadfully long.<br/><br/>All this being said, the game still made quite a lot of fun, somehow. Which is why I settled on a score of 6/10 (as opposed to a much lower one). &quot;I&#39;m not really into all that wizards and dwarfs nonsense&quot; I told a friend when he talked about the new Elder Scrolls game, a series I had no interest in and even less knowledge of. The connection to the Fallout games though meant that I knew the basic gameplay would appeal to me since I like the idea of RPG but not the incredibly detailed stats packages that most come with – selecting equipment, taking notes and digging in menus I&#39;m fine with, but too much detail I&#39;m not. As a result I picked this game up, still not totally sure that I would like the loss of guns and dark comedy that I got with Fallout 3 and NV.<br/><br/>Very quickly I was into the game because I love getting caught up in the exploration, getting quests, finding stuff, building up my character and so on, all to the point where I really didn&#39;t progress the story very much until I had already played about 100 hours. The amount of quests is ridiculous and most of them do actually give you something to do other than just travel somewhere and come back. There are quests like that (the Thieves Guild &quot;job&quot; quests get tedious before you complete them) but they are the minority. The actual story is probably too short (ironic complaint for a game that I put down after filling the last few months and eating well over 100 hours); I left it at the end of Act 1 and when I returned to it I was surprised by how quickly I moved through the remainder of it to the end. I was also a little bit disappointed that the story did seem to stand alone and that it was easy to lose the plot if I spend ages doing lots of side-quests which rarely seemed to connection. Fallout NV got the mix better in terms of the storylineso many side quests supported the story. It still engaged me because the vast majority of the quests were really enjoyable and provided lots to do and experience, just that they did fragment the story a little for me.<br/><br/>In terms of the gameplay, it is accessible to the majority, which means lots of fringe players will be upset. So, for example, I would have liked the dungeon puzzles to have been harder, but I know they were still OK soto be fun for me but not frustratingly hateful for those that don&#39;t like puzzles! The levelling up system makes a lot of sense to be – if you keep doing something, you&#39;ll get better at it – works really wellan idea and in practice. I know it upsets &quot;proper&quot; RPG players who prefer limits on who you can be and lots more stats, but I felt it worked – I didn&#39;t pick who I was at the start, my character grew based on how I played – so my magic stayed weak because I never used it, unlike other games where you just assign points to a skill to make it better. The gameplay is varied but well balanced – so yes there is trading and making potions, but there is exploring, battles, talking to others, puzzle-solving etc – nobody seeking just one thing to be perfect will be happy, but again this is why the game is accessible and enjoyable to more players.<br/><br/>Graphically the game is beautiful. The load screens when entering a new area are fine until you&#39;re doing lots of rapid travelling, but in the open world of Skyrim you can walk for hours and hours and hours without ever seeing a loadscreen. The world ranges from snowy mountains to open green pastures and it all looks great. I did miss the humour of Fallout with this and the rather worthy talk of gods and kings didn&#39;t always win me over, but it still worked. The voice work is good and I accepted things like &quot;all guards have the same voice&quot; because such compromises makes room for more detail in other more important ways.<br/><br/>Overall Skyrim has good variation in gameplay and is engaging. The world is full of quests and experiences, with so much to do and explore that you will be playing this for days, not hours. Perhaps not for everyone and perhaps notperfectthe hype suggests, but this is still a very good and very engaging and once you get into it, you&#39;ll be playing it for a good long time.
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