Current Obsession!

SKYRIM IS COMING!! In my oppinion, this is quite likely to be the greatest game to date. Am I holding Bethesda to unfair standards? No, certainly not! Oblivion WAS the pinicle of awesome and there is no denying it, but Skyrim's gonna trump it, along with anything else you're wasting your time playing! Now what I'm adressing here is this: WHY is Skyrim going to totally pwn all the other games? What's new about it that we did't see in Oblivion? Well here you have it my friends! However To avoid an excess in length, I'm splitting my Skyrim obsessions into various posts so be prepared for a series of blogs titled "Skyrim; (inster specific game aspet here)"...JUST OVER A MONTH TILL THE RELEASE!! haha yay. I'm so pumped, so I'm considering it my official job to get you equally as excited :)

Welcome to Tamriel History 101

Alright people here's what's up....SKYRIM COMES OUT IN BARELY OVER A MONTH!! And I couldn't be more excited. However there is something that I feel you should know. You don't just jump right on into Skyrim directily after oblivion, oh no. Your beloved friend who you played out the life of in Oblivion is now long dead. Skyrim takes place 200 YEARS after Oblivion! So I thought being the crazed fan that I am, I would take this oppertunity to fill you in on what you missed durring your two century coma, here you have it old man! Now before I begin let me just prepare you for this, "4E" means we are now in the Fourth Era. The history of the Elder Scrolls legend is in Eras. Time began in the Dawn Era, then there was the Metheric Era, then the First, Second, Third, and now Fourth. The number you see after "4E" is what year we are into that era by this time. If it is a question mark then I'm sorry to say I don't know the specific year in which the event took place. However these events are in chronological order so even the dates with question marks you have a good idea as they did in face come between the events above and below it. Class is now in session.

4E-0 The End of the Oblivion Crisis

The Champion of Cyrodiil (that would be you my brave and valiant friend) along with Martin Septim (the illigitimate sone of the emperor who was killed in the tutorial dungeon) have at this point banished Mehrunes Dagon (The Deadric Prince of Destruction, and he who is to blame for the Oblivion Crisis) From Tamriel.

The Septim bloodline now ends, as Martin Septim lost his life in the fight to banish Dagon from Tamriel.

4E-? Red Mountain Erupts

In Vivec (the Guardian God-King of Vvanderfell, a large island in the possesion of Morrowind)'s absense, the Minestry of Truth (the large moon ebing suspended above the city due to Vivec's power under the condition that the people continue to worship him)  became unstable

A device is created to hold it in place using the souls of both the living and the dead

The creator of the device's wife's soul was one that was stolen, and in an attempt to save her, the device was destroyed, causing the moon to hit te ground.

The impact of this fall caused Red Mountain to erupt, destroying the entire island of Vvanderfell where it sits.

4E-? The Empire Collapses

Blackmarsh, the land of the Argonians, succeeds from the empire. They are closely followed by Elsweyr, land of the Kahjiits. This by the way deepy upsets me, as I now assume that our beast races which I love dearly will be as scarce if not more so than Dunmer in Oblivion, and with equally as much animosity.

The Thalmor (the origional government in Summerset Isle and Valenwood) reclaim their territory. I assume this is because they were kicked out by the Septims, and now with them gone they felt it right to seize their homeland back.

Now this bit really gets me. Now that the Dunmer/Dark Elves (MY PEOPLE!) are at their weakest with the eruption of this cursed volcano the Argonians come all around here and do what I am assumig is an acto fo revenge for the slavery in Morrowind, and they invade and totally take us over. Argonian's ARE my second favorite race and all....but the Dark Elves are my favorite and I am NOT happy. Especially because now I assume, well maybe we will see Argonian's afterall....but at the risk of having ANY abundance of Dunmer in the game as they have not only shrunk in population from the devistating eruption but have now been taken over by the lizzards!

4E-? Titus Mede is crowned emporer by conquest

Before his reign as Emperor, Titus Mede had been several things, Colovian warlord, a soldier in an outlaw army, and a king in Cyrodiil. He took the Imperial City with less than a thousand men and seized control of the crumbling Empire. Basically What I got out of this is, the guy is a huge jerk face.
4E-18 Prince Attrebus Mede is born
Big jerk face's kid
4E-23 Annaig Hoinhart is born
I don't know much why this is important because everything i find about her starts when she is 17. All I'm really getting is that she is a pretty Breton girl who befriends an Argonian (as if she had a choice, she lives in Black Marsh for Akatosh's sake!) and the argonian is her "partner in adventure" and she has an extrememly crappy life. She doesn't seem to however be incredibly significant so I'm not sure why every time line and lore i find mentions this as an important date. However I do know someone (in the real world) wrote a book about her (in case you don't know there are several Elder Scrolls based books) and that may be the only significance she has. Simply that "Oh look here is where that girl from the book comes in!"
4E-40's The Infernal City
Umbriel, a floating city, appears on the coast of Black Marsh, heading toward Morrowind. The city of Lilmoth, Black Marsh, The hometown of the previously mentioned Annaig Hoinhart, destroying it. I do believe Annaig is now trapped on this "Infernal City".
4E-201 The high king of Skyrim is assassinated
Because with such ruins coming to the rest of the world what better to happen next than to depress the far north who missed the Infernal City disaster?
4E-201 The Nords take part in a civil war
What do you expect from the power hungry brutes upon the assassination of their king?
and this my fellow nerds of the internet, is where YOU come in. get ready, because I have a feeling it's going to be quite a ride in the frozen tundra up north.

Playstation 3 vs. Xbox 360

Let me begin with this bit of insight, I am in fact one of the nerdiest 18 year old girls you will ever have the misfortune to know. With that, I do rather enjoy my videogames. I have been told time and time again that I chose the wrong system and therefore I would at this time like to once and for all justify my choice. I'll go ahead and start by making a case for each system, however although I can see pros and cons for each system, I do still stand firm on my personal preference.

I can think of two reasons to buy an xbox: Fable, and online gaming. Fable is possibly one of the greatest RPGs out there (slow down there, I said ONE OF the greatest, everyone knows that the Elder Scrolls trumps) and it is so ridiculously owned by microsoft and will therefore never reach the ps3 unless the small company who microsoft owns either (a) chooses to lave microsoft or (b) is bought out by sony. I quite honestly don't see either of those happening as they are getting payed way too much to walk away (that would really just be completely ignorant) and I think Sony has other things to concern itself with (like recoding their systems so the entirety of playstation network users don't temporarily lose their identity again...we will get to that later though). ANYWAY back to Fable. While that was definatly a reason that xbox got props through the second installment of Fable...rd one was weak and gets litterally no props from me. I was thouroughly dissappointed. Especially in the lack of legitimate story after (spoiler alert) becoming king. It's really no longer much of a plus for xbox on that sour note. However as I have already mentioned once or twice, xbox does also have the advantage od of good online gameplay. No it may not be free like the playstation network, but in this case you certainly do get what you pay for. The online content for xbox is excellent and packed with awesome features and loads of competitors. In addition to that almost every shooter style game released for the 360 (along with some others outside of the genre such as Assassins Creed: Brotherhood) olidonline content and the chance to compete with friends and strangers alike. And in addition to that, whether a game has additional online content or not they allow you to compare your stats and skills and acheivements in game with that of your friends allowing you to make all your fellow nerds who spend equal to less time sitting alone in the basement beating trolls with enchanted warhammers in a digital world feel inferior to you! It's really quite wonderful actually. Not that the playstation network is completly useless but it simply isn't as good as xbox lives online content. And to conclude the advantage of online that xbox has over playstation there is that pesky problem that sony dealt with and microsoft never will called hackers. here is the simple version of why that is: Playstations coding for thier online content is too simple. Microsoft uses the same coding system for the xbox that they do on their computers. Every hour there is a slight change somewhere in the numbers so if you do by chance crack the code and hack in, when that hour is up and the codes change you will be rendered helpless and kicked out upon your next attempt at making any change or movement whatsoever. However the chance of you getting to make any change or movement in the first place is slim. How I should have started that was that if you break the code and still have a moment of time left, you will them be stopped with a firewall about as thick as the Great Wall of China is long, and then you still only have the remainder of the hour to get through that. So a definate thumbs up to xbox for that.

Now while  Playstation may not have the online gaming as well mastered ad xbox, the playstation advantage is simply this: graphics. The other advantage is simply the xbox can get a red ring of death and burn out while a playstation will do no such thing, however the latest model of xbox claims to have solved this problem. BACK TO GRAPHICS!! I don't have a lot to say for xbox because while the advantage is within the coding therefore I could tell u just as much as I did about the online coding issue, however it is a bit harder to understand so I won't bore you with the details. The point is playstation simlply looks nicer. Now I know to some that isn't such a big deal, but When playing the beauty that is Oblivion on a ps3 and on an xbox you undoubtedly get more of the effect on a ps3. In addition to that, with the excellence of the smooth graphics, it has more layering to the coding system and is able to carry more complex material. God of War. Great game right? Only for ps3. Is it cause they are owned by Sony? No. They aren't actually. They only release God of War on ps3 because to put it on xbox would mean downscalling the entire game in order to make it playable on the less layered graphic system that is xbox. And by the way if you haven't played the latest God of War game I highly reccomend it. It's excelent, plus (spoiler alert) the punch that you get to blow to Zues's face at the end has been called one of the most satisfying punches in video game history.
Now personally, I play RPG's. I don;t care all too much for shooters, and I'm not that good at them, My favorites are Elder Scrolls, God of War, Prince of Persia, and Assassin's Creed. So simply because if I had an xbox I would have very little reason to buy live, I went with graphics and am a proud ps3 player through and through. If you like xbox well then...you're simply wrong :)