14 DAY TRIAL // I think I might be an addict, not in the traditional sense of the word where my neurons are linked to a pleasurable chemical, but I have no other good term to define the relationship that I have developed with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
This game launched on November 1 of this year and I started my playthrough at about 12.05 on that day and I am both happy and terrified to report that today I am still spending most if not all my gaming time engaged with it.
As with all addicts, I am partly to blame for my longterm link with Skyrim, because I have a tendency to explore the world in all its details, meet as many people as possible and see as many places as I can.
I like the time I spend in the province in Skyrim and I love fighting new dragons, battling angry skeletons and solving the small and big problems of those who live in the huge cities and small barrows.
But while playing this fifth Elder Scrolls video game I am ignoring Batman, another game that I believes I would love, and I have not yet laid a hand on Uncharted 3, even though I thoroughly enjoyed the second entry in the franchise.
I have learned long ago to balance my gaming life with my social side and with the time I spend enjoying other entertainment mediums, like books, movies and music, so I don’t get any complaints from friends or have any regrets about this Skyrim addiction.
I love what Bethesda managed to do with their latest game and at times I wish that the experience would never actually end but I also understand, rationally, that gaming like this will only become more niche as time goes by and more and more quality titles are launched each year.
So I would love to see studios create somewhat shorter games that still manage to deliver the same kind of depth without swallowing up so much of my precious time, even though I know that this is a hard balancing act for any developer.