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The Stormcloak missions might have been my favorite in the game. Slaying dragons is fun and all but....... some of the battles in the civil war were just so awesome and so different than the rest of the game. The more I play Skyrim, the more I love it and the more I hate it. I love the game world, the absolute best world I've played in this generation (except maybe Red Dead Redemption... but I am The Cowboy Poet after all, so I'm a bit biased for westerns). On the flipside, there's some things the game does that totally breaks the immersion the game world creates. I'm not expecting Uncharted 3 level of character animations, but twice now I've been told to "place your hands on the alter" I nudge forward and then the game moves on... but nowhere did my character place his hands on the alter. That's fine, obviously character animations weren't important to Bethesda... but why then, not once, but twice (possibly more in other missions I haven't played), have characters ask you to do something your character can't do? Similarly, (very minor spoilers), late in the main quest you need to fly on a dragon, I never expected to actually get a cut scene where you see your character flying on the dragons back over Skyrim, that is until the dragon said something along the lines "I must warn you, once you fly over the world as a dragon does, your jealous of the dova will increase greatly". AWESOME, I thought, this dragon is really hyping up how great this is going to be. Instead, my character jumps on the dragon, they fly off, and the camera stays put, loading screen pops up (wait wait wait) then you are at your destination. Well... why have the dragon talk about how great this is going to be then? What a tease.

Still working my way through Skyrim. Clunky combat, stiff (or lack of) animations, and some pretty bad glitches haven't really ruined my enjoyment for this game! I am 76ish% to my goal of platinuming it, just need to finish the Thieves Guild (almost done!) and Companion Missions, then learn 3 more shouts, read about 12 more books, explore some more caves, and level up a bit more. I'm really curious to see what Bethesda is going to do with the expansion DLC packs. I'd love to go explore some more of Tamriel.

The lady and I watched Midnight in Paris a few days ago, might be one of my favourite films of 2011. The next night we watched Melancholia, which was absolutely the worst film ever. OK maybe it's not worse than The Day After Tomorrow or The Core, but it was pretty bad.

Looks like you were right, Dean. http://subcathoin.tumblr.com/post/15296563118/the-next-big-thing

I'm confused. Was Brian the editor in chief up until recently or did Joel replace him a year ago and Brian stayed on?

Playing it alone just reminded me of a poor mans Fallout 3. Like Ethan, I got into it too late.

I don't mind it, I just want them to put analog triggers/bumpers, and switch the thumbsticks with the d-pad and face buttons. But they won't, they're Nintendo and they don't play by the rules.

I'll end up doing what I did with the original... waiting 18 months after launch, buying it and all the DLC off the PSN for 15 dollars.

See, this is why I'm sort of excited for the Wii U. I can sit on the couch next to my girlfriend, she can watch her crappy TV show and I can play a console video game. I was under the impression that the WiiU's tablet was more of a supplement to the TV screen rather than a replacement for it. At E3 they showed it being able to be used similar to a DS touch screen but also able to switch what's playing on the TV onto the tablet, then it's just a matter of changing the TV's source. That was my understanding at least.

See, this is why I'm sort of excited for the Wii U. I can sit on the couch next to my girlfriend, she can watch her crappy TV show and I can play a console video game.

Dammit, I'm trying to get the Oblivion Walker trophy but the quest with the dog threw me off, I didn't realize that the Axe wasn't the Daedric Artifact, since you have to kill the dog to obtain it... unlike every other quest where you have to kill someone to obtain the artifact.

As a Canadian I have to agree, in my city at least there's 3.. maybe 4 black people.

Happy New Year from the west coast of Canada!

I don't know if it's a mispronunciation or not but it's always confused me when watching American TV and they say "roof" but they say it more like "ruff". Doesn't the double O's mean you'll get that ooo sound?

The Batman Beyond skin doesn't have a cape right? In story mode can you still glide?

I purchased Deus Ex: Human Revolution and it came with a copy of Kane & Lynch 2, which I will realistically never ever get to playing with the current status of my back catalogue.

Actually, last time they played a show in my city, they had known gang members standing on stage with them, and according to the news paper, gang members in the crowd trying to recruit people. That's a massive disappointment... I haven't kept up much since about 2003. At least I've never heard them rap about their gangs, shooting cops, the usual tropes. The closest I've heard was the odd drug song here or there. Were you at the Prince George show? It seems they've disavowed the gang members, though I didn't know about the personal connection to HAs. Those guys are generally scum... No, but that was the show in question. It was all over town, newspapers, apparently the police were investigating (I can't guarantee that, my memory is foggy). We can give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they didn't know the gang members. I'm not really a rap guy but I remember liking a few of their singles back in their hey-day.

Actually, last time they played a show in my city, they had known gang members standing on stage with them, and according to the news paper, gang members in the crowd trying to recruit people.

Dragon Age 2: the game that fixed everything I didn't like about the first, and broke everything I did like. I have been meaning to get back to it, I'm about 4 hours in. $10 is pretty good for a fantasy version of Mass Effect, even if it's only got 3 different locations.

Wow, 6 weeks?! I know mine was a little long but not that long. Of course, when I wasn't in school, I was working full time. :-/ Of course, when I was a kid I used to love the two month long summer vacations. I really miss those. What I would do for two months off again.... think of all the video games I could play.... But now a days, having two months off probably means I got laid off. :-/

Got the Dragon Armour! Took me 4ish hours of building daggers, mining iron, smelting, hunting, leathering, but I did it. Now me and Lydia walk around Skyrim looking cool and being tough as nails (dragon nails!).

I completed the main quest to Skyrim. Does that count as "beating it"?