I have been playing The Last of Us and Skyrim for my last few play sessions. I have to say Skyrim can still enchant and amaze me. Yes, the gold dust has been cleared away to an extent. We have been through a whirlwind of Skyrim coverage from its launch up until its re-release, in the form of a legendary edition. I can't let myself be caught up in the retrospective, haughty posturing of some peoples present opinion on Skyrim. Especially since it took some of those same naysayers hundreds of gaming hours to come to such a pessimistic opinion of the very game they once cherished.
I have put some odd hours into Skyrim, it was an addiction like no other. A place where one could express the station of their choosing. One could choose the role of a thief, cunning and agile, or the headstrong warrior, traditional, aggressive, and proud of the swaying sword. I have played a multitude of styles. Preferring, for the most part, to go for a hybrid build, where I would have a greater swath of options. My dark elf thief/assassin has pilfered countless manors throughout Skyrim.But, even after all this time, since Skyrim launched in November of 2011, I still find something of relative novelty. I run across a cave and in that cave I spot a squatter of some virility and a key of some importance.I find a grove, a grove with some oasis like quality, a grove secluded and untapped by the Romanesque imperial empire.
