Soon my friends...SOON.

It’s nearly here boys and girl. Battlefield 3 will be released in just a few short days. Unlike most of you I will not be going to any midnight release for the game. My Xbox is still not back from repair land. But it’s making its way here. Sadly it won’t be here till Wednesday after noon.

However I’m sure most people will be in the mid 20s by the time I start playing the game, and that’s good it gives them a chance against me. I plan on fully destroying that game when I get it, I’m talking non-stop playing till Sunday night when I pass out in a awesome pool of my own filth.

I don’t know about some of you but for me BF3 marks the start of some hardcore gaming. That lasts till I get Skyrim.  After the buy BF3 the next on my list is “The Lord of the Rings: War in the North.” And I fully expect to play that to death as well. Then of course is Skyrim, and I’m not sure if I am going to follow Skyrim with “Halo: Combat evolved” or “Batman: Arkham City” I haven’t really broken it down yet.

I do know that after I pay off Skyrim, I am going to save every cent I can spare, so I can just fucking wreck “Black Friday” you can get some of the best video game deals on that day. I also like to stock up on Blurays and other interesting shit. Anyhow back to the battlefield, if you haven’t seen it yet there is an interesting few web episodes of something called “TheController - Battlefield 3 - Episode 1”  

it’s a fun little thing that pits 6 Pro-Gamers with 6 nOObs. As they compete for $50k cash. It’s worth checking out if you are a fan of the new battlefield game or you just like to make fun of nOObs.

Skyrim!

As a lot of people are I am very excited for The Elders scrolls IV: Skyrim. If you are like us we are fans of the Elders Scrolls from way back, my friends and I played the living shit out of Morrowind for the original X-box, and even played it on the PC. I can think back to that game and for some reason it just sticks in my head, I can remember the quests I can remember the feel of it, Oblivion didn’t come close to capturing the huge scale of the game.

Dravic the Bloodtaker was born out of Morrowind, and has continued to be my adventuring sidekick for the rest of the Elder Scroll games. I spent countless hours developing that character, and making him into an all powerful god. I looted every cave; found every overly powerful weapon did every quest I could. Then the inevitable happened, I became so powerful I had to kill everything in the game.

Nothing was safe from my reign of terror, lowly NPC, guards and wizards they all fell before the Bloodtaker. With the power of my homemade spells I would levitate over cities and literally kill every walking NPC with the power of my AoE nuke. These are the kind of things that are missing from Oblivion, these kinds of freedoms. If I want to kill a town with my awesome powers of awesomesauce I should be able to.

I hope that when Skyrim is released, it will carry with it this kind of freedom. It’s not that I want to kill everything in the game I just want the freedom too. I want to be so powerful, NPCs run for cover.  I was around level 120 at the end of Morrowind, and I had a long sword skill around 2,000 something. Yes I used a glitch, (get over it). From the videos I have seen of Skyrim it seems they are bringing back the feeling of power to the player, I never felt that way in Oblivion I felt like I was held back, by the main story and the lack of authority given to my player.

I have nothing but hope for the Elder Scroll’s series, they seem to be fixing a lot of the issues that Oblivion had. Bringing all the power back to the player, fixing the combat animations, duel wielding, and better main storyline, everything about this game is going to be fantastic. If I had the money to blow I would buy that collector’s edition for $150 bucks or whatever the ridiculous price is. Until then I will see you in Tamriel!