03-05-2011, 08:15 PM
Ok so I'm a Morrowind fan, though it has to be the PC version with at least the 'Better Heads&Bodies' mod installed. Otherwise the chars faces are just too damn foogly in their default glory.
I like Oblivion ok, didn't hate it but didn't quite inspire the same feelings for me. Maybe it's just the overplayed generic semi Tolkienesque euro-fantasy setting. Scenery graphics was nicer, though I still think Morrowind did a better job with the waters.
I do like the combat a lot more in Oblivion compared to Morrowind. And the optional quests\guilds IMO can be more epic than the main quest. -cough- Thief's Guild quests -cough-. (The Grey Fox Lives!)
When I heard the next Elder Scrolls game will be Skyrim, I was interested but not super excited or anything. Maybe some lingering feelings over some of the parts of Oblivion that I didn't quite like.
Until I saw the trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muK3GGppPpM
I'm cautiously stoked. But I'm not ashamed to admit it. The music got me. The overall vibe got me. I'm digging the feel of it. When I hear the (presumably) Dovahkiin yells out the POWAAAH WORD!!! (around the 1:10 mark) I was giddy. This looks like as close to the ideal Super Awesome Viking Glory action RPG game I always want to play.
I'm sure the time and occasion to critique and complain about parts of the game will come soon enough. (level scaling, dungeon clvl, broken quests, bug and more bugs...super keen players who goes to Klingon Language camps deriding how unrealistic the vaguely Nordic sounding language of Skyrim and making 29 page threads about it)
But for now at least, I gotta say, I'm kinda excited.