I thought it was Real Life............Damn and I was going on vacation to Summerset Isles next week............LOL

Better question is, why does it bother you so much that people are more excited than you TC? Really don't see how much we do or don't care about Skyrim has any effect on you whatsoever. Probably bein' a bit whiny and negative in retrospect, eh?

Wait you have a pencse inside your head?

Yeah its just a game, but this is the forums man.... NERD OUT!

No, we all obviously don't realise that it is just a game, thank you so much for bringing it to our attention. Stupid post, just Please continue, my good sir. man.

Yes we know it's a game. It just more fun to blow things out of proportions, you never done that with your friends?

This may be my first post here, but I just want to say that I don't understand what the people who post these types of threads gain. If you consider the game just to be some form of escapist entertainment you can enjoy for a while, and don't take seriously, then fine. There are plenty of things I consider to be just that. But some people, myself included, consider TES to be more than that. And if they get passionate about the things they love, what is the harm?

Nobody is hurting anyone else by being passionate about Skyrim. And that is what I think a lot of people are missing in life. They seem to think, "If I get real excited about this game/movie/whatever, people will think I'm a real nerd. Better play it cool while I tell you how much I love manly things, like sports and booze." People don't get passionate about things as much as they should. Skyrim may just be a game, with man-made pixels and polygons, but it is a game that some people might use to escape from their life and it's various periods of ups and downs.

Skyrim is a game. But so is life.

Says the Halo guy.

Stop Right There Criminal Scum

How dare ye talk of Skyrim in such a manner. The Elder Scrolls is my second life, where I go to when I need some time alone. Even though this game is close to my heart...I still know that it's a game.

*Goes into an *

HA! It's real!!!!

I am hard headed.

Idont have much to do in my life...
And playing skyrimmakes me happy.

And a very good post at that.

I wouldn't try to explain too much to the OP. One day, when he gets old enough to buy the game, he will understand why we feel that way we do.

I'm afraid we will have to wait, until tomorrow, for his response. Right now, it's waay past his bed time.

elder scrolls for life!

I was trying to explain this to someone on the fallout board.... I think it comes from how and why we play games. You and I might play the same game and we might both enjoy the same game, but we can still be playing for very different reasons. From the moment PCs were invented people (nerds, if we're being honest) were trying to recreate the best of D&D-style PNP games. PNP games are only limited by imagination, but as computers have advanced we get ever closer to that ideal - the ability to live a virtual life, exploring and contributing to a virtual world.

Ultima, Fallout 1/2, TES, Baldur's Gate, Arcanum - all have given us worlds to explore, NPCs to meet and, at the end of it, our own unique tales to tell.


What I'm trying to say is that some people play 'games' while some people explore virtual worlds.
I'm not saying one is better than the other. Both groups can play the same RPG, one group roleplays and the other grinds through quests - we all have a great time.
It's also the reason that the FO3 vs FONV rages on - FO3 is more 'game-y' while FONV is more of a virtual world. They have a lot in common, but they are very different experiences at their heart.

I'm so excited to have the world of Skyrim to interact with and explore. Can't wait.

You fool!MWAHAHAHAHA.Only I have the antidote.

This is true. I may be too busy slaying dragons to really care about him, though.

Its an Elderscrolls game. Just a game?

As Lord of the Rings is just a book

Dark Side of the Moon is just an album

Jimmy Hendrix was just a guitarist

Einstein was just a patent clerk

Skyrim is a convergence of imagination and technology that gives us the opportunity to not only escape, for a while, from the mundane and oppressive but to do so with sword and sorcery.

Its a damned awesome game is what it is and deserving of every single one of the 300+ hours I intend to spend playing it for the next couple of years.

I pick Skyrim over my life.

I have been assured that this is no game,but in-fact is a direct portal to Tamriel.

Football is just a game as well.

This thread is pointless.

/thread

Also, a book is just a book, a fish is just a fish, a woman is just a woman and religion is just religion.

In math it's called the reflexive theory, but in common usage we just call it the most obvious thing ever.

I can smell your insecure judgement from here, and it is rank.

Edit: Ninja'd by VagabondAngel.

And here I thought Skyrim was fish and chips. My mistake. /sarcasm

Skyrim?

I thought this was The Elder Scrolls V: Blackmarsh!

Have I been lied too? =.(

I realise every game is a game. I also realise i'm a gamer, means i like games. I don't need to eat KFC, but i do, it's just chicken but its GREAT chicken.

You seen people go loopy over the HP books or the LOTR films? Same thing applies here... Do not confuse excitement, with anything else.