Kupowered: Skyrim - In This Place, There Always Be Dragons

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Skyrim - In This Place, There Always Be Dragons

At least, that's what Todd Howard, Producer, says. Not only will dragons be part of scripted events and such, but they will also just be a randomly spawning monster around the countryside. While not explicitly surprising, it is a bit comforting to me especially, as I am a man who enjoys Dragons, clearly. (I really don't even have to link to that post. For whatever reason, it has about 10x more views than any other post of mine and I have absolutely no clue why.)

Now, I haven't talked about Skyrim much, and that's just mostly because of the little stigma I have with Bethesda games. I always get them for consoles, and then I always end up getting them again on PC to actually play them, what with all the mods and such out there. Real cheap-like, of course, but I always feel like I let myself get into them too early, when a packaged version of the 'full' game comes out a year later and drops like a brick in price. Of course, I can't currently play them on PC since this PC just.....just sucks and I wouldn't actually want to do any gaming on it, but you get my point.

And I'm pretty sure that's what I'm going to do with Skyrim this time. Not only did my last foray into a Bethesda game burn me a little (Oblivion GotY on PS3, no DLC = Angry Panda), I just don't have enough time. With Summer coming around, I'm not going to be playing my PS3 a lot unless I get some real, true cooling options out here, which isn't that likely, and I already have too many games as it is. One of them being Fallout 3: GotY which I haven't even touched yet, which, well, I'm sure I don't have to explain anything about that at all to you, the reader.

Of course, that isn't to say that if whatever computer situation I get next is able to play it (which isn't too likely) I won't, because Skyrim looks really, really interesting. The Dragons, the new Dual-Wielding system, the usual 'real' open-world you get from Bethesda, its allure is pretty strong. And it just looks absolutely wonderful from all the material they've released. But then you have to consider 'the other side', the bugs and such that you know will be there, and might be a continual pain in the ass and, again, the fact that there will likely be two big expansions, little bits of DLC, and then a big package deal after a year and change.

I like to think I've become a fairly patient man.

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What's all this, then?

This is going to be many things, but first and foremost, it is, quite simply and unsurprisingly, a place for me to write. Sometimes about video games, sometimes about movies, and other times, just to write out mini-stories and the like. As an outlet for me, it will likely reflect how I am; at times it will be entertaining, and other times it will be informative. I just hope that every time it's interesting at the very least.

The current goal is a post every other day to settle myself in; eventually, I will seek to post every day, if just to raise an inquiry that I've found I've tripped over most of that day, or to retell an amusing, or perhaps less so, tale from the day. I find that I can be long-winded at times, so perhaps this will be less of a concern than I imagine!

While it would make sense to change this to grow as "Kupowered" does, I hope to keep this just as it is and, sometime down the road, re-read it with a slight chuckle and mumble to myself, "I did it." So take this as a mission statement, if you will, and we will see how it works out!

Handy Post-Types Guide!

A Look Back: In lieu of reviews (which I might do in the future), these posts will be fond recollections of older games from my past, telling you why I believe them to be good and why you might be interested in playing them.
Giant Robot On: I like Giant Robots. Who doesn't? These posts will always be talking about something with Giant Robots in it, be it video games or anime or movies.
Less-Short Story: On occasion, inspiration will hit me and I'll want to write a short story or, as the name implies, expand on a story from my old Ficly. That will be these posts.
LittleBigThings: In these posts, I will be discussing (read: gushing about) things in the LittleBigPlanet series of games, from the game itself, to user-created levels, to my own adventures in Craftworld.
Music!: Fairly self-Explanatory. In these posts, I will talk (gush) about music I like, and possibly music that I don't care for.
Popcorn On: These posts will revolve around movies that I've seen that are just great in one way or another. The aim is to give you enough to interest you into seeing it without giving too much so that you feel you know what's going to happen.
Quick Note: These will usually be, as can be expected, short posts to keep in touch with the blog and it's readers if I'm not prepared for a full post or if I'm updating on a past post.
Ragequit: Completely opposite of A Look Back, these posts will be about the few games I've had to quit playing because they just weren't fun. (Or that I might have finished, but still hated.)

There will likely be more types of posts added in the future that will be explained here.