More so if you engage the game’s new survival mode, that forces you carry a lot less, does away with fast travel, and means you need to eat, sleep, and stay warm to keep your character alive.Ĭombat is as clunky as ever, with melee entailing little more than aimlessly pumping the trigger until your stamina gets low, then either retreating for a bit, or using food and potions to top yourself up before continuing the pummelling. Menus are a faff using a joypad, and you’ll spend just as much time wallowing in them as actually playing the game. Wolves look so small and skinny you’re tempted to stop and feed them rather than incinerate them with a fireball. Skyrim is the land that time forgot.Ĭharacters still walk like C-3PO, their lower halves shuffling along as though only peripherally connected to their torsos. Spending time in its seemingly endless landscapes remains a singular experience, but one that is inevitably tempered by a decade of progress. Skyrim may not have the subtlety and motion captured realism of more recent games but its vistas have a renewed beauty, with brighter colours and longer draw distances. Now everything is in focus, making those missteps entirely your fault rather than the result of a foggy interface. Gone are the days of casting about looking for a blurry chain to pull, or accidentally stepping on a fuzzy floor pad and triggering a spiked gate to swing into your face. It is very refreshing to explore without continual interruptions, but beyond that the changes are mostly graphical – a sharper, more defined world making its presence felt right from the start. The biggest improvement here is the absence of load times on next gen consoles. Arrow to the knee, ‘You never should have come here’, and the other oft-repeated phrases uttered by town guards and other characters across its snowy wastes have made it recognisable to the point of comedy, and the Anniversary Edition only hammers that home further. Returning, once again, to Skyrim after its decade of re-releases is a familiar process its opening, ‘Good, you’re finally awake’, having long ago descended into meme fodder along with so much of the rest of the game.
#SKYRIM EYEBROWS BUG FULL#
Being attacked by a towering, fire breathing dragon is a more visceral experience when you can hear it than when someone simply tells you about it, and the Elder Scrolls series was built on the principle of letting players experience the full richness and depth of life in a fantasy world. It was also nice to be able to see what was going on, rather than just using your imagination. In the early days of video games, the chance to experience such an adventure without needing reams of paper and encyclopaedic instruction books was instantly appealing. Brought to life solely in players’ minds, their chance encounters and battles were decided on the roll of arcane sets of dice. Role-playing games used to be the preserve of pen and paper, relying on verbal descriptions of an otherwise intangible fantasy world. The Elder Scrolls 5 beats GTA 5 to the punch by being released at full price for three generations in a row – but is Skyrim still worth it?
Skyrim Anniversary Edition – has it really been 10 years (pic: Bethesda)
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