Tag: Oblivion
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We Play Games – Games of the Generation
With the new generation of consoles looming, Zoey asks some of the team which games were the highlights of this generation for them.
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Lord of Souls and I
My wait for Skyrim’s release just a few weeks back was made even longer by an unexpected trip abroad. While preparing my suitcase for the windy winter weather of November in Russia, I chucked Lord of Souls into my suitcase for a spot of light reading on the plane. For those of you not in…
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Skyrim: a Blogger’s Excitement
I spent over 300 hours playing Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I had seen 431 game-days pass, completed 154 quests and found 231 places. I was a good citizen, a mighty hero, and an all-round nice Khajiit. I milked that game’s heavy, swollen, nutrient-rich teats until they had barely anything left to give; until they were totally…
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Travels from My Armchair
It’s an often acknowledged fact that since the creation of cinema, even more so than literature before it, people have been able to live richer lives and experience places and events they’d only ever be able to dream of. Whilst literature relied on the reader to use their imagination to summon up images of far…
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Love Ain’t Here Anymore
Things change. Sometimes we accept them. Other times we don’t. Like bus fare price increases, your favourite cereal not in the BOGOF offer any more (that annoys me!), TV presenters being replaced, bands changing their image, a new Doctor Who… change occurs all the time. It even happens in video games. And like all other…
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Game Dawdling
Something that usually only pensioners and absent minded gardeners do is now creeping into my life in the most astonishing places – pottering. Or in other words, ‘faffing around’. Games like Sims 2 are meant for this type of thing as you spend time deciding which of the twenty almost identical stripy tops to pick…