I woke up with a urge for an adventure. Not a planned, linear, do what I tell you to do, adventure. No, an epic, long journey spanning huge expanses of land, form the cold north to the tropical south, from where the sun rises to where it sets. I have been watching a lot of Game Of Thrones recently, as you can probably tell, so what better game to play than Skyrim. I would play the Witcher but I don't have it yet. (What can you do?). Seeing as Skyrim was just £2 on the Steam Summer sale I decided to buy it. Now, everybody has played Skyrim but I had only owned it on console so I was excited to see it with better graphics and mods. With the implementation of Steam workshop, they are addictively easy to install so I got a whole bunch before I even started the game. I mainly got cosmetics, not mechanic changes, and they are all great mods, I've put them here:
Birds and Flocks- Adds birds, bats etc in flocks that fly off when startled (not individual vanilla birds)
Auto unequip arrows- Auto unequips arrows when bow is unequiped
Akaviri Samurai Armor
Run For Your Lives- People run inside when a dragon appears, not trying to fight it leave that for the professionals.
Warchief Armor
Faster Vanilla Horses- Makes the fat Nord horses a bit more speedy
Horse Armor
Sounds of Skyrim Wilds- Adds more in-depth, immersive wildlife sounds.
Birds and Flocks- Adds birds, bats etc in flocks that fly off when startled (not individual vanilla birds)
Auto unequip arrows- Auto unequips arrows when bow is unequiped
Akaviri Samurai Armor
Run For Your Lives- People run inside when a dragon appears, not trying to fight it leave that for the professionals.
Warchief Armor
Faster Vanilla Horses- Makes the fat Nord horses a bit more speedy
Horse Armor
Sounds of Skyrim Wilds- Adds more in-depth, immersive wildlife sounds.
When I completed the first mission, I immediately used the cheat console to level my character to Lvl 5 and add 1000 coins so I could buy myself a horse, and got to work. I started my adventure at Riverwood and rode down to Winterfell... I mean Winterhold (too much Game Of Thrones), bravely killing many wolves and bunnies along the way. Eventually I got to the city, and rested my weary legs at the tavern, where I ordered some good ol' fashioned, Nordic mead, and bought myself a bed for the night. I woke, ready for some more adventuring. I headed to the famous Skyforge and bought some armor and weaponry using legit- totally not cheated- money. I decided to get myself a mammoth tusk, because I had never slayed a mammoth before, so I headed toward the giants camp. I circled around it, trying to find a way I could lure a mammoth away from his fearsome herders. Nothing seemed to work, even running up to it and seeing if it would chase me, so I shot it with some arrows.
However, this created a slight problem, namely the fact that now all the mammoths and giants were after me. So I ran, as fast as I could back to my trusty steed, and hopped on. I pulled out my great sword, and turned to face my enemies. Screaming a warcry I charged at them, my sword ready for the blood it would draw. I charged up a slash, and plunged my sword deep into the mammoths leg, and laughed as it reared up in terror. I AM THE MAMMOTH KILLER. Of course, it takes a lot more to kill a mammoth than that. I spun around and swung at me with its great tusks, catching me across the back. My horse was killed, and I was severely wounded. I stood up ready to fight to the last breath. I was surrounded by all the giants and mammoths. But I was out of luck. They plunged into me killing me in a few hits. The cold northern wind washed over me, the grass swayed gently in the wind. Maybe I would be better watching the heroes than to become one. Game of Thrones is so good!