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"" Exactly. I think it's common these days that people insist on having an opinion on everything, even things they know nothing about and can't be bothered to research. We seem to have a lot in common 🙂 It definitely feels good to get to be the great fixer of everything wrong with the world, even if it's just a game. 😄 That's the thing with RPG, you get to create your own story around the game, so you can come up with a story where it's right to be an assassin. Or "Robin Hood". I have the oposite situation going on. Our TV is small and from an era before the invention of flatscreens (I'm not even kidding!). And at a pretty good distance from the couch. So I'd very much struggle to see the details with a console! And we're fortunate to have the room for a desktop (with a really big screen). It's good that most games seem to be released for both, so there's the choice.

Spoilers incoming... The one that springs to mind happened yesterday. There's a scene in the Skaal Village where you're talking to this great man who's their shaman and his daughter. While talking about revealing the deepest Skaal secrets Haemus Mora, followed by him reading the black book, with black tentacles piercing through his head and body, his daughter is saying a bunch of really serious things. Meanwhile, while her head was standing still, her body was constantly spinning around in circles. It was a little hard to take her serious then 😄 Unfortunately I've never had mammoths fall from the sky yet 😄

You're nice, thanks for asking 🙂 I've only had 4 followers so far, Faendal, Sven (I played it to level 15 earlier, then started over. Had Sven until I got Lydia then), Lydia and Vilkas (from the companions). Of these I like Vilkas the most. Probably because he gives me the best sense of knowing what he's doing. I've just unlocked daedric smithing, so I'm running around in a set of legendary Daedric Armor (and matching greatsword), him in legendary ebony armor, so we're pretty badass. At least considering I'm only level 27 so far. I've also considered taking J'zargo up on his offer and trying him out. It could be useful to have a mage follower. I'm just worried he'd be too low level compared to myself and Vilkas, now that I've played with Vilkas for a good while? But of course I could always switch back if it didn't work out. Unfortunately it doesn't seem that I can marry Vilkas, I would like him as a partner that way too 😄

You're welcome about the ECT stuff. It's nice to spread the word about what a treatment it is today, so the stigma is slowly lowered. A lot of people are against the use of ECT, without actually knowing what it is these days. They just assume that it's the same as it was in the 30's. Fortunately not so. It's also important to remember that this treatment is strictly used only when nothing else works and the disease is so bad that the benefits of the seriously effective treatment far outweighs the risk of side effects (effected memory). My brain functions much better now than it did before ECT, despite the number of treatments, and I've had almost no ill effects from it. I've not been turned into a tortured zombie! It's my medication that's slowing my reaction time and all that, not ECT. Anyway, as you can see I can go on and on about it 😄 That is an interesting thought about why games are third person. It makes sense. I've been trying to "be a good person" in Skyrim, just like I try to e a good person in reality. It makes sense that it would be easier to be a more shady character when it's third person. In first person it feels like you're there, more than like you're playing somebody significantly different from yourself. Well, I really get immersed in the game anyway. Though I'm sure I would still enjoy playing as a thieving assassin with a power complex. Haha. Haha. My laptop also really can't run much when it comes to games. I have a stationary set up for games. My boyfriend and I got it because he thought he would be playing Guild Wars (he used to back in the days) and I wanted to be able to play The Sims 4. It's almost ten years old by now anyway, so it's not exactly up to the challenge of running these fancy new games, even on the lowest settings. I can't help wondering why game consoles are so popular. You're much further away from the screen than when you play on a PC yes? Or do you pull a chair up close to the TV? What is the advantage of choosing a console instead of a PC? I've never actually tried playing on a console, except for trying Crash Bandicoot at a friends place when I was a young girl back in the mid 90's. So i can't say I'm able to compare the two.

It's awesome that you get so good effects from gaming! That's a treatment free from side effects (though quite addictive 😄 ). 🙂 I get the adrenalin going when playing, but I still sleep well after too. Though one night I dreamt I was killing draugers, in real life! 😄 When it comes to electroconvulsive therapy, it's surprisingly drama-free. You get general anesthesia, so you're completely knocked out, and you get a muscle relaxants, so you don't move. Then ten minutes later you wake back up. The idea is that you induce a seizure, just like an epileptic fit. They don't know why, but for some reason that works super effectively. It's different how people react to it. Some lose a few hours of memory from just before the treatment, but that's not very common. I didn't have any memory loss, I was just tired afterwards. The worst side effect is that there's a risk it effects longer term memory too. That is taken very seriously though. I didn't get more memory loss than I already had thanks to the depression, except after 53 treatments, then I thought I might have a tad and then the treatments were stopped right away. It turns out that I can really thrive, comparatively, with just medication now. That's an amazing result of the treatments! I didn't get effect from medicine before those treatments. All in all, electroconvulsive therapy saved my life. It's really a life saving treatment for the people who are doing really bad and don't get effect from medicine. So I'm always so happy to explain it to people, because it has a really bad rep. People don't know how it really is, they think about One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest and think it's torture and has terrible effects on the brain. Both are not the case for the modern version. Oh, and people aren't strapped to a bed and given it against their will like in the good ol' days! Haha. It's really an important treatment. So I'm really a big proponent! Do you feel the same connection with your character in third person (like in Dragon Age) as you feel in first person games? Now that you've gotten used to it. The only "third person" game I've ever tried, literally, is the Sims (2, 3 and 4). And that's hardly the same. 😄 The Kingdoms Of Amalur is supposed to be a really good, open world, action RPG. It's also in third person though. It's supposed to have some similarities with Skyrim. (I have to try playing some games that aren't RPG's too at some point. I know I had a lot of fun killing zombies in Left4Dead with a friend. I just enjoy Skyrim so much though, I have to try more RPG's first.) Otherwise I don't know much about the game. It's somewhat old too, it's from 2012, so the system requirements are low enough for my current PC components and it's not expensive, which is always good too. I don't think my graphics card can handle the Dragon Age games, as far as I can see from a quick Google. If I get really hooked on gaming in the long run (seems like I will), I'm getting new CPU and graphics card, and a much needed bigger SSD drive, but that's a pretty big investment, so for now I'm sticking with less demanding games. Once I upgrade I really want to buy the "latest and greatest" components, so it doesn't get old as fast and I can run whatever I want. The Sims are notoriously demanding too, so once the fifth incarnation comes out someday I'll be able to run it at the higher setting. So I have plenty of excuses for spending money on shiny, new toys eventually! 😄

I would like a map that shows roads and trails (more clearly). It's hard to find your way in mountainous areas in Skyrim. Often you get stuck with impassable cliffs in the way.

I guess I can understand a bit of what OCD is like, I have anxiety and depression. I've gotten a lot of electroconvulsive therapy (electroshocks. Don't worry, it's not torture these days and it works where nothing else does. And it doesn't turn your brain to mush.) and I get some medicine that slows reaction time too. But I can still kill dragons! 😄 Dragon Age looks absolutely awesome too! More dragons! So does Red Dead Redemption, but as far as I can see it's only on console? I just watched the trailer for The Last Of Us. What amazing facial expressions! Sounds like there's a whole world of games out there that I can enjoy without feeling defeated! I'm also considering trying The Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckogning. Have you played that?

Sounds like we do have a lot in common yeah. What else do you like playing? I've considered Oblivion too. It's an old game, but that doesn't mean it'll feel too much like a "step back" from Skyrim. I'm a sucker for pretty graphics, but must admit that I haven't actually looked too much at what Oblivion looks like. And fancy graphics isn't the be all end all of making a good game anyway I'm thinking. I'm also keeping my fingers crossed that The Elder Scrolls VI isn't toooo many years in the future (I know it's not exactly around the corner). It's nice to not be the only one with the video game bug who faces a few extra challenges towards rocking all the games. From spending time on YouTube it's easy to get the impression all gamers naturally have super-human reflexes and can do a billion things at once just like that! But people showing of their game on YouTube have probably also practiced a lot to look so sleek.

Hi Stacey. Thank you for the recommendation. I've just watched a couple of reviews and it looks great! Exactly like a game I'd enjoy. You're definitely right that it's good to be able to pause mid-combat. Then you can take a deep breath and re-focus. And the VATS system looks like a super tool. Super way to feel bad ass and kill all the baddies, despite struggling to do a bunch of things super fast at once while dodging other super fast things. I also like that it's first person (if you chose so), I think that's a nice immersive feeling. And my computer should be able to handle these games, so I don't have to spend a fortune on upgrading to try them out. Excellent. I also imagine that with more gaming experience, from more different games, I'll slowly get better at playing. It's probably even good training for my brain. Thank you for the suggestion!

Hi guys. I could use some advice on what games to play. I'm pretty new to video games. Except for the Sims franchise. I've played some Borderlands and Left4Dead 2 with a friend, but that's a pretty long time ago (that was so much fun, but I don't think I'd enjoy playing them alone). However, recently I've fallen in love with Skyrim. I'm having so much fun, and that has made me want to explore more games. Browsing around for other games I might enjoy I've come across The Witcher 3 and Assassins Creed Oddyssey. Both look so beautiful and sound amazing. My worry is that they'd be too hard for me to have fun with. The thing is, because of the treatment of a chronic disease I have, my reaction speed is bad. I also easily lose overview over situations and don't multitask well. Skyrim on normal (Adept) mode is perfect for me, hard enough to be a challenge, but not hard enough to get me frustrated with my own limitations. I can charge in with a two hand weapon and bash the baddies to death. However it sounds to me like these two particular games I've gotten my eyes on may be too hard to be fun for someone with my particular challenges, even on easy mode. I don't enjoy getting killed 20 times in a row, I like to feel like I'm making some progress with the game and not just sucking. The obvious answer is to just try the games and see what happens. Problem is that to play these (gorgeous) new games I have to invest in new CPU and graphics cards, so that suddenly becomes a big investment for the sake of two particular games, when I could just have stuck with old games (I plan on trying out Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning once I'm feeling done with this play through of Skyrim). However if I feel confident I'll have fun, in the long run, with these and other new games I'm willing to make the investment. What do you guys think? If I can handle Skyrim on normal mode, can I also handle these two games without getting defeated? I'm not opposed to easy mode. I'd also love to hear other suggestions for games that I might enjoy. They need to be single player and available for PC. I am not comfortable playing with complete strangers, I don't like having to constantly share my whole illness history with random people so that they'll understand why I suck compared to them, and I don't have gaming friends. I like the open world and freedom to explore of Skyrim. It's nice to be able to chill with some smithing between fights, get the adrenalin down a little :D I don't enjoy puzzles (the ones in Skyrim annoy me, despite not being hard). Alright, this post is getting long. Sorry about that. Thanks for helping.