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[Charles Phipps]

Well I just bought the game and haven't gotten to play it much.

However, the start of the game is pretty good.

It's very very very similar to Fallout.

Oddly, it also has some Bioshock elements or maybe that's just the way I play with my plasmids...err I mean, Flame magic in one hand and sword in my other.

I think the game is a bit overdesigned in places, however.

Like, for instant, the map is this HUGE brightly lit floating mountain thing instead of a simple you know...map.

[Rob Pegler]

I used to have thoughts on Skyrim, but then I took an arrow... oh, you know.

[Charles Phipps]

Okay, now that I've played a bit more I can give some longer thoughts. The game is BEAUTIFUL. Really, you've got snow that's functional and sweeping vistas everywhere that just make everything live and brilliant to look at. Honestly, it makes me want them to make an Xbox 500 so they can make this game functional at a much faster pace.

So far, I'm only to Whiterun, which seems to be the basis for the game's early adventurers and the largest city in Skyrim but I've slain my first dragon and started the plotline. I confess, it seemed a little stereotypical but I enjoy anything related to dragons AND Highlander. I also am enjoying my first series of sidequests joining the Companions - who basically seem to be the world's biggest collection of D&D rangers.

One cool bit of the game I'm enjoying is the moral ambiguity. In Fallout: New Vegas you had Caesar's Legion as "rape, pillage, burn" and NCR as "The USA" with Mister House as the Neutral Option. Here, you've got the Empire who is seemingly the Roman Empire like Caesar's Legion but actually a fairly nice bunch of guys with a cosmpolitan streak (only they kill everything against them) and the Rebellion which I was all set for joining but is actually sort of a bunch of racist terrorists.

Or as one comic talks about it.

http://www.dorkly.com/comic/29281/the-skyrim-dilemma

[Charles Phipps]

I'm about forty hours in.

NOWHERE NEAR being done.

This game is a TIME SINK.

And I love it.

[Rob Pegler]

Finally caved and bought it on Saturday. Playing a couple of hours a night.

I just heard the "arrow in the knee" gag for the first time tonight. Brought a big goofy smile to my face.

[Dylan J Morgan]

I bought Skyrim at Christmas and for a while I was playing it non-stop. Really killed my writing time, but an absolutely fun, enjoyable, addictive game to play.

Sometimes the side quests are better than the main quest line. Get a list of about three or four side quests and then just tour the country with your follower and complete all these side quests. It's good fun. The Companions quest line is good, but you have to also do the Thieves Guild and the Dark Brotherhood quest lines, too. Way more fun than the main quest line.

What is also cool is while doing a quest, a random dragon could spawn and you'll end up running around the place trying to kill it before you can return to your original quest.

I haven't played Skyrim for about three weeks (deliberately trying not to, in order to get some novel work done), but I might just have to return to the game soon . . . one weekend.