Category Archives: Video Games
This Skyrim Christmas Lights Display Officially Wins Christmas
Whoever this person is, they have officially won Christmas. It’s the Skyrim theme song illustrated with the most elaborate Christmas lights display ever!
According to the Youtube page, the guy is 19 and lives in Minnesota. He makes elaborate Christmas light displays as a hobby. I’ve heard of worse hobbies. Hats off to this person, fellow geeks. He is the champion this day.
Free Batman: Arkham City Skin!
A lot of Batman: Arkham City players have been visiting my blog lately, so I thought I’d do a public service announcement and let everyone know that the game-makers, Rocksteady, are offering a free Batman skin for the holidays! It’s a big ‘Thank You’ to all their loyal players. I downloaded it earlier, it’s pretty cool. It comes from the recent Batman Inc. series by Grant Morrison.
Here’s a picture:
I love free stuff, especially if it involves Batman
There are several more skins, but you have to pay for them. I have to wonder how much work actually goes into these skins. One would think it wouldn’t be too hard to make new ones of every single Batman variation of all time. It sucks that they charge for them. Remember back in the day when alternate costumes were unlocked with a code?
Those were the good times.
Check out this article at GamesRadar for more information and a special code for more costumes.
The Skyrim Dragonborn Rap
With many geeks the world over absolutely in love with playing Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, it’s only natural that some of them would be creative. And while the most I’ve managed to do is write up some semi-witty blog entries about the game and my accomplishments, other people, like Dan Bull, have created an epic Skyrim rap!
So overall, I’m not yet sure if I’ll be writing a Skyrim review. The game has been out for about a month, and I haven’t beaten it yet. There’s just so much to do in the open worldness of it. The main storyline is the least exciting draw. My orc, Tannenbaum the Warrior Poet, has done so much else on the side. He trained at the Bard College, he crafted a full set of armor out of dead dragons, he slew the head of a museum dedicated to the bad guys from Elder Scrolls IV, and he did that under command of a demon. The demon gave Tannenbaum a knife in return, told him to spread carnage in his demon name. But Tannenbaum just threw the knife into his trunk back home.
I took a few more pictures, if you like. This one shows the epic scale of the game world.
A nice view
I can literally travel to anywhere I see, and that’s just a fraction of the world of Skyrim. There’s so much to do and see. For example, here’s Tannebaum slaying a dragon. It’s hard to see, but that’s him on the dragon’s head. Tannenbaum jumped on top and smashed his deadly axe into the dragon’s head.
An axe he forged out of pure ebony metal and a demon’s heart. The axe is imbued with fire, and it is name is ‘Demon’s Run’. Some of you will get that reference.
‘Demon’s run when a good man goes to war’
The graphics, especially of the dragons, are spectacular.
But it’s not just dragon-slaying and axe-making in Skyrim, no sir! There’s a lot of fun to be had as well. Just this weekend, Tannenbaum was walking a road to get to a nearby township when he was suddenly passed by the ghost of the headless horseman.
Somehow he’d fallen off his ghost horse. You can see it in the distance
Tannenbaum chased him halfway across the world map before finding a headless body…and looting it for a bit of coin.
So yeah, with so much going on and so very late since the game’s release, I haven’t decided if I’ll write a full review or not. Let me know in the comments.
Because When I Think ‘Transformers’, I Think Slow, Emotional Ballad
Last year, my friends and I played and enjoyed the video game Transformers: War for Cybertron. It sold well, and there will be a sequel coming out. The first trailer was released over the weekend, and considering the games are not based on the Michael Bay movies, this trailer goes in the exact opposite direction of the Bay movies. Sure there are explosions and giant warrior robots, but these ones are meaningful, dammit.
It’s called Transformers: Fall of Cybertron.
At least it has a giant, fire-breathing Tyrannosaurus Rex robot! He’s called Grimlock.
I’ve Got a Skyrim Song in My Heart
So I don’t know if I’ll ever write a review of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The game is just too massive, too wildly untamed, to really get it down in review form. I may whip something up someday, but for now, I figured I’d just update everybody on my status. Maybe some of you care, maybe some of you don’t. For those that do, keep reading. For those that don’t, at least enjoy this fun video.
Made by the same guys that did the earlier Skyrim songs.
Now then, my orc warrior Tannenbaum has continued to explore the world of Skyrim. He’s been to the frozen north and the jungles of the south. He’s been inside a magic black gemstone and he’s slain ghosts, giants, and humans alike. He’s even killed a few orcs who deserved it. Tannenbaum hasn’t chosen a side in the civil war, but who needs to? He’s the dragon-slayer!
The townsfolk were very grateful and came out to watch
And from that dragon, I crafted a legendary suit of dragon-scale armor.
I also made orphans out of its children
And I met a comely wench who sang the song of the dragon-slayer!
Very comely in the chest
Good times.
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