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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Game) Review

By Mike Fahey

On November 20, 2011, 11:56 PM

The tantalizingly brief Skyrim teaser trailer debuted by Bethesda Softworks late last year filled my mind with visions of titanic battles between man and beast; of shining steel bathed in ancient flames; of a champion rising from humble origins, prepared to sacrifice everything for the fate of the world.

After 60+ hours with the game those visions have been fully realized — and rendered largely inconsequential.It's the sort of tale that fuels ancient epics and trashy fantasy novel trilogies alike, certainly sufficient enough to serve as the plot for the average role-playing game. This is not your average role-playing game. In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, this titanic tale is merely a framing device for a much larger story. My story.

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  1. Definitely a great game, i'm amazed how many quests there are and a lot of them have considerable effort put into them.

  2. Skyrim is certainly a culmination of everything Bethesda has achieved so far. It's a brilliant game, really. Graphically, it may not be technically mind-blowing, but it's beautiful if every fashion. The tone and the art style are very well executed. Definitely one of my favorite titles of all time.

  3. I've never been one for playing The Elder Scrolls, but always a player of Fallout. This will be a definite for the collection!

  4. Hey ramonsterns can I have ur sword ??

  5. i have played my game for around 15 hours and once after becoming the arch mage of winterhold college i went up the the "archmage courters" and the game suddenly took a long time to load then after freezing, only seeing the staircase going upstairs to the main courter, after that i turned the xbox off to try playing again on the same account and the game then told me the disc is unreadable, i tried all possibility to fix it i even tried signing into my other account to play and it work totally fine but when i chose the other one it said the same thing "disc is unreadable" i tried to load it and continue it i even tried to start a new game and once i step off the carriage at the beggining it once again said disc is unreadable, please help!!!

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