On 11/11/11, this beautiful, glitch-filled, masterpiece was released. Skyrim is the fifth of The Elder Scrolls series following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It's set in the province of Skyrim, Tamriel in the year 4E 201. You play as the Dragonborn who goes on a bunch of quests to essentially destroy this "evil" dragon, Alduin. I put quotes around "evil" because in the very beginning of the game he pretty much saves your life by interrupting your beheading. But other than that, he's a pretty bad dragon. Dragons haven't been around for quite sometime; in fact, they died out a long time ago. Alduin's suddenly bringing the dragons back to life in the middle of a civil war between the Stormcloaks and Imperials. Like wow, dude. Cool timing. You're really cool (But seriously the dragons are really cool). CustomizationAfter the introduction, you get to customize your player. There are ten races, and they are all put into three separate categories: Human, Mer (Elven), and Beast. The human races are Breton, Imperial, Nord, and Redguard; the mer races, Altmer (High Elf), Bosmer (Wood Elf), Dunmer (Dark Elf), and Orsimer (Orc); the beast races, Argonian (Reptiles) and Khajiit (Felines). You can customize the gender, weight, skin color, face, and hair. Unlike previous Elder Scrolls games, gender doesn't affect gameplay, but race does (barely). Race basically determines how people talk to you, but it doesn't affect whether or not they will talk to you. Race also determines your skills, but in the end you could either be a sneaky Orc or a sneaky Nord; skill bonuses shouldn't determine which race you choose, but special powers should. Each race has their own special power or "shout." A shout is a group of three words from the Dragon Language that the Dragonborn uses to do a certain thing (eg: Unrelenting Force (FusRoDah) pushes/throws people, Dragonrend (JoorZahFrul) forces dragons to land). FactionsThere are so many factions you can join:
Attributes and CombatThere are three attributes: Health, Magicka, Stamina. Health is the amount of damage you can take before you die; Magicka is the energy you can use for spells; Stamina is the energy you have for sprinting and power attacks. Every time you level up, you can choose to also level up one of the three attributes; each time you do, the charge of whatever you chose goes up by 10 points. If you level up stamina, then your carrying weight (how much you can carry) goes up by 5. Unlike previous games, you can equip something in both hands; you can have a weapon in one and a spell in the other, or you can dual wield with either two spells or two weapons; you cannot, however, dual wield anything with a bow equipped. That'd be cool, though. Other Things You Should KnowThis game is really glitchy, but some of the glitches don't affect the gameplay; some are just things like people flying. Also, warning: this game is really good and you might become obsessed with it and play it nonstop for multiple days. So go play it. You can also learn more about Skyrim at the official website or the "unofficial" (it's totally official) wiki site.
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