Saint Vicious
Still sober
I'm sorry it's a bit long. I was writing this as a rough draft for an article. But it went out of control and the wrong direction of what I wanted. I diddent want to just delete it so I decided to post it here. I'll come back and edit and fix it up some when I have time.
Details in Skyrim you probably diddent notice.
I’m going to start this article as a pessimist, but don’t worry I’ll make it all better. I tend to over evaluate things, small stupid things nobody else even cares about. Because of this I have great attention to detail, for better or worse (Mostly worse).
My first gripe is about the weapons. I actually restore and sharpen knives at a custom shop as a side job. And I’m an avid bowhunter/archer. I prefer traditional bows, long bows and recurves. Like those found in Skyrim.
But the weapons in Skyrim would really be useless in real life. The majority of one handed swords are too long and bulky. The design of these would actually suite better as two handed swords. And the iron sword especially. For a narrow and thin blade it would be alright. But do you know how heavy iron is? There’s no way your swinging that with one hand. I don’t care how big you are.The same argument goes for two handed swords. Imagine quickly swinging a battle axe several times in a fight. When the blade of the axe is as long and wide as your torso. It won’t be easy.
With bows, the long bow, hunters bow, and foresworn bow, they hit it right on the money. Perfectly sized and made of the right materials for the most part. But the dwarven bows,elven,ebony,deadric and so on. Not possible, even in a land with dragons and magic. Perfectly curved thin lengths of metal (spring steel is best) may work for a bow. But huge, wide and thick ebony, and brass (my best guess for dwarven metal). Will not flex, it won’t have any spring at all to shoot an arrow.
And they’re so damn big, it’ll take four people to hold the bow up and a hundred people to pull the string to fire an arrow. My biggest complaint though. None of them require leather strips to make. What’s the string made out of? Metal? Seriously, that’s the only thing I don’t like about Skyrim, no leather strips to make bows.
But complaints aside, I know it’s a video game, the weapons look cool as hell, and I love my deadric swords. The game would absolutely suck without them.
Now, to my optimistic side. The first time a saw a dwarven machine I thought “there’s no way that would run long without some kind of oil. Then I killed it and guess what, Dwarven oil! That blew my mind that Bethesda thought of that too. That one simple little item got me addicted to Skyrim.
Then the other night I watched as three wolves slowly circled, crouched and stalked a deer. Soon killing it. The amazing detail put into the wild life is done perfectly. Even the mammoths are done right, with the exception of the ones that fall from the sky. The elephant is the closest relative to mammoths we have today, and are actually easily tamable, and very protective of family, be it elephant or human, or in this case giants. But are also (with a few exceptions) generally peaceful animals and will not attack unless provoked.
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So, what are some small things that ya'll have noticed. Just extra little details that are easy to over look, but awesome just because they were included?
Details in Skyrim you probably diddent notice.
I’m going to start this article as a pessimist, but don’t worry I’ll make it all better. I tend to over evaluate things, small stupid things nobody else even cares about. Because of this I have great attention to detail, for better or worse (Mostly worse).
My first gripe is about the weapons. I actually restore and sharpen knives at a custom shop as a side job. And I’m an avid bowhunter/archer. I prefer traditional bows, long bows and recurves. Like those found in Skyrim.
But the weapons in Skyrim would really be useless in real life. The majority of one handed swords are too long and bulky. The design of these would actually suite better as two handed swords. And the iron sword especially. For a narrow and thin blade it would be alright. But do you know how heavy iron is? There’s no way your swinging that with one hand. I don’t care how big you are.The same argument goes for two handed swords. Imagine quickly swinging a battle axe several times in a fight. When the blade of the axe is as long and wide as your torso. It won’t be easy.
With bows, the long bow, hunters bow, and foresworn bow, they hit it right on the money. Perfectly sized and made of the right materials for the most part. But the dwarven bows,elven,ebony,deadric and so on. Not possible, even in a land with dragons and magic. Perfectly curved thin lengths of metal (spring steel is best) may work for a bow. But huge, wide and thick ebony, and brass (my best guess for dwarven metal). Will not flex, it won’t have any spring at all to shoot an arrow.
And they’re so damn big, it’ll take four people to hold the bow up and a hundred people to pull the string to fire an arrow. My biggest complaint though. None of them require leather strips to make. What’s the string made out of? Metal? Seriously, that’s the only thing I don’t like about Skyrim, no leather strips to make bows.
But complaints aside, I know it’s a video game, the weapons look cool as hell, and I love my deadric swords. The game would absolutely suck without them.
Now, to my optimistic side. The first time a saw a dwarven machine I thought “there’s no way that would run long without some kind of oil. Then I killed it and guess what, Dwarven oil! That blew my mind that Bethesda thought of that too. That one simple little item got me addicted to Skyrim.
Then the other night I watched as three wolves slowly circled, crouched and stalked a deer. Soon killing it. The amazing detail put into the wild life is done perfectly. Even the mammoths are done right, with the exception of the ones that fall from the sky. The elephant is the closest relative to mammoths we have today, and are actually easily tamable, and very protective of family, be it elephant or human, or in this case giants. But are also (with a few exceptions) generally peaceful animals and will not attack unless provoked.
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So, what are some small things that ya'll have noticed. Just extra little details that are easy to over look, but awesome just because they were included?
