I don't know if mine have been posted yet but hey, that's what makes them MY "wow" moments right?
My first major WOW moment, I capitalized it because I literally YELLED "WOW" when it happened, was when I killed the dragon, that I now know is there every 10 days, outside of Dawnstar with the help of a few guards and when it finally died they made comments like "thanks for your help" and "did you see that?" (assuming they were talking about absorbing the dragon's soul) and I was like "hey, thats pretty cool, but nothing new" and then EVERYONE that was outside at the time in Dawnstar ran out to crowd around the body and say stuff like "I never would have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes!" and "May the divine have mercy, a dragon!" I thought it was really cool that people who weren't involved but clearly would have SEEN the dragon reacted appropriately outside of combat.
My second WOW moment was a completely random occurance, I was just adventuring around outside of Whiterun to the west killing giants and wildlife galore when I came upon one of the many bandit camps in the area, one of the ones with wooden stake walls and a cave in the back of the camp, I don't care to be specific because this has actually happened a couple times to me but this was the first;
I was sneaking up on the camp perfectly fine, no one was detecting me from the camp because I was dodging behind rocks while I made my approach. Suddenly I was fully detected, eye just shot wide open, even though I was clearly behind cover, just as quickly the eye shuts and I am completely hidden again. At this point I'm a little bit like "wtf is going on" it continues to happen 2 or 3 times and by now I am looking around everywhere to try and find out what has sighted me, figuring it was a dragon or a distant wolf or something, and something caught my eye off to my right. Instead of looking right at it I decided to stay completely still. I noticed that my detection eye did the same little blinky thing again except this time it stayed full and a sabre cat stood up and rushed me. I GOT STALKED BY A FRIGGIN CAT AND IM A KHAJIIT! LOL! I jumped in my seat!
(Note: I can't confirm if this is an actual game function but I am pretty sure I have seen a sabre cat do this to elk in the distance before but I could just be crazy, either way it was trippy as hell!)
My 3rd WOW moment is pretty simple and it happened while I was half afk from the game talking to my roommate. I had my headphones on so I could hear if I got attacked and I was just standing in the entrance of a cave, all dirt supported by wooden beams, one of the ones that makes the ground shifting noises while you walk around. I was mid discussion with my roommate when I heard the ground shift in the game and I heard rocks falling down the cave walls, what I didn't expect was that some of those rocks would collide with a jug and knock it off the shelf it was sitting on. I stopped mid conversation to make sure what I thought had just happened had actually just happened. Reloaded the autosave and watched. My jaw hit the floor. Everyone expects ambient noise in their games and I am more than used to a game having noises like shifting ground while in a cave, falling rocks, moving water, etc. I noticed that the rocks despawn shortly after resting on the ground but it's still awesome that the extra effort was put it.
This game continues to amaze me at every turn, I am level 70 now and although the game has become more of a "grind the abilities I don't use to get to max level" than a questing adventure I still find little things around every corner that amaze and immerse me in the gaming experience. It has been a long time since I felt so immersed in a video game and I can't say it is unwelcome. Sure the game has it's glitches and bugs, but what game doesn't at release? I look forward to the future DLC for this amazing game and I look forward to seeing what else I will discover!
Barnaby Jones
Lvl 70 Khajiit Assassin
