SKYRIM!!!!!

The Elder Scrolls games have always been a great treat; a great escape to a vast fantasy world full of magic and wonder. I remember the first time I played Oblivion with an old friend. She was showing off her dark elf and all the badass spells it learned. After that, we started a new game and she showed me how to create my own character. I was a female nord, in the warrior class, and I was a tank. I remember playing Oblivion during summer vacation, investing endless hours....those were the good ol' days.

Now those good ol' days are back with the newest installment to the Elder Scrolls series: Skyrim. This time, the story takes place in the frozen tundra where the Nords reside; my favorite class of barbaric viking people! The best part of the new game are the dragons, and the dragon shouts you obtain throughout the game. It feels so rewarding to kill a dragon and gain power from it. I actually enjoy this more than closing the oblivion gates in the previous game; that was just time consuming and annoying....

So yeah, I spent a total of 53+ hours playing Skyrim with my boyfriend on his PC. He did all the main quests, and I did all the misc ones, which were endless. The main quest is kind of lame, so we completely avoided it and stuck with hundreds of other side quests. That's the beauty of Skyrim...it makes the player have the shortest attention span possible. Whether your catching butterflies, exploring the sprawling landscape, hunting, cooking, smithing, selling, bartering, swimming, killing dragons, pick pocketing, etc.... Skyrim is just an overall satisfying time killer...and boy does it kill time.

I can't believe my boyfriend and I spent 53+ hours on the game in one weekend. It's just THAT good...