A small insight into why these so-fabled dragons can ruin your day.... and your sanity.
Replaying Skyrim after 13 years is a reminder of the progress made in western RPGs over the last decade, but also what's been lost.
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
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The dragons in skyrim are about is big and challenging as the common baby dragons in dark souls.
I loved Dark Souls, but the dragons in skyrim are FUN to fight, unlike most of the enemies in Dark Souls, who are stressful to fight.
To me the dragons are a bit easy, my first unscripted one was tough as hell and had my blood pumping but after about 4 or 5 they get pretty easy. Although I've only fought normal dragons and blood dragons, no frost ones or named ones yet.
Best encounter was two at the same time, they circled overhead, one landed near a giant so I rushed over, the other doing a flame run overhead, thinking I would get help from the giant, they instead ignored each other and attacked me instead, to make matters worse there was a bear there as well who was half dead from fire attacks and 3 skeletons chasing me from an open patch of land that I ran through.
So I had to take care of a Dragon, a bear, a giant and 3, albeit weak, skeletons with only a companion. Then at the same time I had a second dragon circling breathing fire at me and everything else above.
After a very grueling magic show(lightning bolt and fast healing are my friends) I has the second dragon land just where the first one's bones were, he was down to 3/4 life as my companion already hit him with some arrows as he hovered before. Took care of him as well and then just stood there laughing.
This is the kind of thing you just can't make up, its was my second best moment in the game so far. My best is early on exploring a mountain I saw a shrine with a dragon statue on top of it. I thought "cool somewhere to explore or get a shout" as I got closer the damn "statue" was a bleeding dragon that made my heart race like crazy. That was my first encounter other than the story one, with a dragon, and it was insanely fun and enjoyable, scared the crap out of me when it 'came to life" as well. It was where I got the Krios mask I believe(may need a spell check on that name)
well those unscripted dragons can do that sort of thing....
This article was mostly for fun anyway. I'm not too mad at dragons, they just pick the most opportune moments to piss me off.