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I finally caved in and tried out Skyrim.

I was always wary of playing the Elder Scrolls series. Yep.

When you can describe a game series as "Dungeons and Dragons with Bethesda's Fallout engine", it's hard to find it interesting. The thing that makes the Fallout games so goddamn fun is the setting. It's unique, it's sometimes comically cynical and full of mythos, and the soundtrack's always great. I can explore the world for hours. Finding locations, fighting creatures with a laser gun I found from an alien spaceship. Blasting off the legs of 9 foot tall monsters with C4 I plant in their path. It's a joy!

What's interesting about a Dungeons and Dragons setting? It's been done thousands of times.

Well it turns out, it's pretty fun! Just accept the fact that it IS just DnD and enjoy it simply for that fact. Fighting dragons, exploring dungeons, gaining loot, casting magic. Just because it's generic doesn't make it not fun! There's a reason this genre's still alive and well!

I pretty much tried to adapt the Elf Wizard character I made for my first ever game of DnD, and am essentially going through the game as him the whole time. Except he's alot braver.

The most amusing moment so far is the time I went to Riverwood and caused the townfolk to riot just because I killed a chicken. Was NOT expecting that. Just make me pay a fine, people!

Skyrim is a lot of fun! I understand your aversion to medieval fantasy. Hell, I even share it. However, the setting (in my opinion) takes a significant number of steps away from DnD and I'd argue that it stands on its own. It has more than enough well-developed lore (hell, the dunmer and bosmer alone, along with all the Morrowind stuff and the plethora of books you find in-game), and doesn't necessarily deserve to be thrown into the same grab-bag as the overwhelming majority of poorly executed Tolkienesque settings.

And if we're talking about Skyrim stories, there was a time where I accidentally the entire city of Whiterun with two dragons and a Stormcall shout.