Skyrim Is A Love Letter For Elder Scrolls Fans

Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:28 am

Thank you Beth for this amazing game. I will be living in this world for a long time to come. Simply amazing.

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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:56 am

Thank you Beth for this amazing game. I will be living in this world for a long time to come. Simply amazing.

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agreed
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:01 am

Thank you Beth for this amazing game. I will be living in this world for a long time to come. Simply amazing.

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*applauds*
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:41 am

agreed
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:30 am

A much greater thank you to those talented modders who will make this game stay alive for a very long time. Of course, if they ever release the Creation Kit for whatever BS reason they have for not releasing it. I am sure it has to do with the DLC content for Xbox and PS3. I would bet it would be released around the time DLC comes out on the consoles. :rolleyes:
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:37 am

*takes long gulp of mead* yup
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:23 am

I agree, this game is amazing. I feel sorry for the guys who rushed through to get to the end. My father used to relay this saying to me all the time. "it's not the destination, it's the journey". Cheers Bethesda!
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:03 am

If this is a love letter, this love letter is filled with tacks, chewed gum, and acidic paper, however that works.
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:50 am

Agreed!

Complainers... go home! :D
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:39 am

If this is a love letter, this love letter is filled with tacks, chewed gum, and acidic paper, however that works.

No love it perfect.

I love this game more than any other I've ever played and that includes Morrowind.
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:59 am

RPG fans yes, Idk about elder scrolls fans... they butchered a lot of what made the elder scrolls out of the game.

Great game none the less.
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:37 am

I've pretty much lived in Skyrim since 11/11 and fear I will continue to do so for a little while longer.

All flaws aside; Skyrim is by far the best TES game to date, IMO.
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:17 am

More like a "Dear John" letter.
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:05 am

Yes it's an amazing & truly incredible game. One which I plan to be playing for a very long time.
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:20 pm

Feels more like a "we've had some fun, but it's time to move on" letter to me

/ES fan since 1997
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:05 am

they butchered a lot of what made the elder scrolls out of the game.


An overly exaggerated verb, no further elaboration... the argument of the centuries to come, I'd say. Not.


As for me, who unquestionably is a Fallout gamer as anyone can see, Skyrim is the first Elder Scrolls I truly liked (played Oblivion and Morrowind). Good gameplay, adequate plot, very good aesthetics, optimization and much immersion from "developers think of everything". The only thing I really don't like is the abominable (mouse) controls for the PC version, but I hope they get corrected in the future.
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:41 pm

More like a "Dear John" letter.

If your name is John then I'm sure that you like getting "Dear John" letters :whistling:
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:11 pm

Thank you Beth for this amazing game. I will be living in this world for a long time to come. Simply amazing.

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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:01 pm

*takes long gulp of mead* yup

Is that an arrow in your knee or are you just happy to see me?

aye this game is truly epic
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:49 am

If your name is John then I'm sure that you like getting "Dear John" letters :whistling:


I'm sure you well know what a "Dear John" letter is, smarty. :whistling:
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:41 pm

The game was great, until I got an arrow in the knee.
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:17 am

Great game. Thanks for letting us know 6'2" women can be hot with the right pixels as well.
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:57 am

A Loveletter you say?

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Ald Sotha Below, 5E911
House Sul Progenitor House, duly noted under the digital house,
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Chronocule Delivery: souljewel count: 78888-00-00-00-000

My name is Jubal-lun-Sul, of House Sul, whose name is known and heard throughout the Scathing Bay and the Nine times Nine Thrones. Our lord is High Alma Jaroon, of House Jaroon, whose city is the First City of the New North, where all who Went Under from Landfall settled and made peace with the Worm, when we were not Eighty and One separate peoples but One, carrying the tibrols on our back together and cutting tunnels by the light and heat that all mer wore, with equal dust in every mouth. My family’s name comes from the first child born in the Velothiid, Haeko-dol-Sul, and, like him, we are salt merchants. Our crest is the tusk of the bat-tiger. Our bloodline is registered by C0DA.

The Digitals say we come from another star, but so many have forgotten. I have not, for my lineage granted me audience with Memory, and I have spoken with the Wheels of Lull. I have seen proof, as any who come Up during Landfall Season, when the winds die down enough Above that all may make pilgrimage under the banner of Vehk and Vehk. Though many Above have renounced Memory, they too remember.

--

I tell you now, brothers and sisters of the coming 4th, that the holy Scripture of Love contains all you need to avoid the perils of the Landfall. By chronocules granted by the ‘neers of Lull, this warning is given freely and by Love. Sermon 35 begins properly:

“The formulas of proper Velothi magic continue in ancient tradition, but that virility is dead, by which I mean at least replaced. Truth owes its medicinal nature to the establishment of the myth of justice. Its curative properties it likewise owes to the concept of sacrifice. Princes, chiefs, and angels all subscribe to the same notion. This is a view primarily based on a prolific abolition of an implied profanity, seen in ceremonies, knife fighting, hunting, and the exploration of the poetic. On the ritual of occasions, which comes to us from the days of the cave glow, I can say nothing more than to loosen your equation of moods to lunar currency.”

The C0DA broke when Twice Vehk appeared again from Aether, but they captured enough of Him to render the words stable again. In this passage, He describes the goal of the Lunar God, who some of you still ascribe the name “Lorkhan”. When stabilized, the words become proof:

All creation is subgradient. First was Void, which became split by AE. Anu and Padomay came next and with their first brush came the Aurbis.

Void to Aurbis: naught to pattern.

“Later, and by that I mean much, much later, my reign will be seen as an act of the highest love, which is a return from the astral destiny and the marriages between. By that I mean the catastrophes, which will come from all five corners. Subsequent are the revisions, differentiated between hope and the distraught, situations that are only required by the periodic death of the immutable. Cosmic time is repeated: I wrote of this in an earlier life. An imitation of submersion is love's premonition, its folly into the underworld, by which I mean the day you will read about outside of yourself in an age of gold. For on that day, which is a shadow of the sacrificial concept, all history is obliged to see me for what you are: in love with evil.”

The marriages of the Aether describe the birth of all magic. Like a pregnant [untranslatable], the Aurbis exploded with its surplus. Will formed and, with it, the Potential to Action. This is the advent of the first Digitals: mantellian, mnemolia, the aetherial realm of the etada. The Head of this order is Magnus, but he is not its Ward, for even he was subcreated by the birth of Akatosh.

Aurbis to Aetherius: possibility to maintenance by time.

“To keep one's powers intact at such a stage is to allow for the existence of what can only be called a continual spirit. Make of your love a defense against the horizon. Pure existence is only granted to the holy, which comes in a myriad of forms, half of them frightening and the other half divided into equal parts purposeless and assured. Late is the lover that comes to this by any other walking way than the fifth, which is the number of the limit of this world. The lover is the highest country and a series of beliefs. He is the sacred city bereft of a double. The uncultivated land of monsters is the rule. This is clearly attested by ANU and his double, which love knows never really happened.”

Lull calls this a refutation of sorts, but the wise may know it as the first appearance of Nu-Mantia, which is Liberty. Rather, the road to Liberty.

Another subcreation happened to the wheels of the etada, a shore that all of creation crashed against, the terminus of limits known as Oblivion. An echo of the Void before but unalike, many spirits fled here and came to power by merely harnessing the impossibility of Limit+All.

Aetherius to Oblivion: creation to destruction.

“Similarly, all the other symbols of absolute reality are ancient ideas ready for their graves, or at least the essence of such. This scripture is directly ordered by the codes of Mephala, the origin of six and murder, defeated only by those who take up those ideas without my intervention. The religious elite is not a tendency or a correlation. They are dogma complemented by the influence of the untrustworthy sea and the governance of the stars, dominated at the center by the sword, which is nothing without a victim to cleave unto. This is the love of God and he would show you more: predatory but at the same time instrumental to the will of critical harvest, a scenario by which one becomes as he is, of male and female, the magic hermaphrodite.”

We begin to see the first inkling of emergence, which by its nature requires the merging of two-fold powers. Inevitably, this leads to another gradient, but this time by forceful process: the Trap of the Lunar God. The Aedra are Named at this time, having lent their hands to what was to be the arena of the eternally impossible: Mundus, or Exactness.

Oblivion to Mundus: debris of all possibility to anchor of all things.

“Mark the norms of violence and it barely registers, suspended as it is by treaties written between the original spirits.”

When one visits Memory, you become filled with the first ideas of the Lunar God, and see the trap within the trap. Vehk knows it at this point, and sees for all of you, and realizes the need for treaty: avenue of escape, first stone.

C0DA translation: if all previous gradients continue along this path, especially given that there is now a centerpoint, impossible Mundus, the process of continuation can be pre-figured.

The echo of the Void is Oblivion. The echo of Oblivion is now mortal death. Death results in reappropriation of spirit towards its aligned AE—either to the god-planet Aedra or the Principalities of Oblivion. Vehk’s name for this transaction, mentioned above, is “lunar currency”.

AE CHIM NU-MEN NU-MANTIA

Mundus to Mortal Death: centerpoint to the soon recycled.

“This should be seen as an opportunity, and in no way tedious, though some will give up for it is easier to kiss the lover than become one.”

Here we come to the Scripture’s greatest resignation: to imagine the subcreation AFTER mortal death, which by pattern would mean an echo of Mundus, and through this imagining, the failures of so many.

The Digitals' record of the Lunar God’s involvement in all of this is called the Great Pain: “The Lunar God failed by his own devices, to show the new progeny how they might not.”

You in the Fourth Era have already witnessed many of the attempts at reaching the final subgradient of all AE, that state that exists beyond mortal death. The Numidium. The Endeavor. The Prolix Tower. CHIM. The Enantiomorph. The Scarab that Transforms into the New Man.

Simply put, as the Gods cannot know joy as mortals, their creation, so mortals may only understand the joy of Liberty by becoming the progenitors of the models that can make the jump past mortal death.

And so many of you give up.

Mortal Death to Z (Z being the state-gradient echo of Mundus Centerex): antinymic to [untranslatable].

“The lower regions crawl with these souls, caves of shallow treasures, meeting in places to testify by way of extension, when love is only satisfied by a considerable (incalculable) effort.”

Those who do not fail become the New Men: an individual beyond all AE, unerased and all-being. Jumping beyond the last bridge of all existence is the Last Existence, The Eternal I.

I AM.

A whole World of You.

God.

God outside of all else but his own free consciousness, hallucinating for eternity and falling into love: I AM AND I ARE ALL WE.

C0DA Digitals have confirmed that a subject in sensory deprivation begins to hallucinate after only twenty minutes. Scale unto this along the magical spectrum and maintenance of time, which is forever, and you begin to see the Lunar God’s failure as Greatest Gift. As above, “This is the love of God.”

Why Love?

Know Love to avoid the Landfall, my brothers and sisters of the past.

The New Man becomes God becomes Amaranth, everlasting hypnogogic. Hallucinations become lucid under His eye and therefore, like all parents of their children, the Amaranth cherishes and adores all that is come from Him.

I ARE ALL WE.

God is Love.

COME TO THE HOUSE OF WE.

God is Love.

ONE WORLD IN SPIRIT I AM.

God is Love.


AE ALTADOON
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:28 am

No love it perfect.

I love this game more than any other I've ever played and that includes Morrowind.




I still have to say Morrowind still had the better storyline. Now skyrim what makes me love it the most is very simple to explain. Each dungeon has pretty much its own story line into it. You used to go into the dungeon thinking ok the dead, bandits, vampires, or necromancers. Bethesda open this game way open and now i go into a cave and i have no clue what i could be versing.
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Post » Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:16 am

I love this game more than any other I've ever played and that includes Morrowind.
Despite it's technical problems, I have to agree, I'm borderline obsessed with the world, especially the exploring aspect.
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