{"id":23804,"date":"2014-07-25T15:30:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T20:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23804"},"modified":"2014-07-25T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T20:32:36","slug":"skyrim-ep53-you-win-at-skyrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23804","title":{"rendered":"Skyrim EP53: You Win at Skyrim!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R8j-qT5jPs4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R8j-qT5jPs4'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>We give Bethesda a hard time for how shallow and unambitious the ending sequence is. And it really is. But in their defense, only 30% of all players ever see it<span class='snote' title='1'>Only 30% of players have the <a href=\"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/stats\/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim\/achievements\">Dragon Slayer<\/a> achievement, which is given after completing the main quest.<\/span>. (I only saw it once, despite the many hours I&#8217;ve clocked in Skyrim.) So if they want to focus their efforts on the parts of the game people are more likely to see, I can&#8217;t really blame them. On the other hand&#8230; where <strong>did<\/strong> they focus their efforts? Sure, there&#8217;s lots of fun \/ interesting \/ cool \/ hilarious stuff in Skyrim, but none of it stands out as particularly polished. Oblivion was criticized for being a mile wide and an inch deep, and Bethesda responded to this by making Skyrim <em>even wider<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>None of this makes it a bad game. It&#8217;s just that Skyrim is an incredible toybox of ideas and gameplay that always leaves me feeling vaguely unsatisfied. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) We give Bethesda a hard time for how shallow and unambitious the ending sequence is. And it really is. But in their defense, only 30% of all players ever see itOnly 30% of players have the Dragon Slayer achievement, which is given after completing the main quest.. (I only saw it once, despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[209],"class_list":["post-23804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-skyrim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}