Today’s epic videogame metal song video of the day by charlieparradelriego is The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The Dragonborn Comes!
This is the ultimate song of epicness. The familiar theme you will likely recognize if you’ve heard any media from Skyrim is a given a very awesome metal twist with Charlie’s version. This video just fills you with feelings of pure awesome and this song is just so so SO beautiful. You gotta love it!
Just when you thought Skyrim couldn’t get any more awesome, Bethesda goes and adds Mounted Combat to the game!
That’s right, combat while riding horseback will be added with the official “Patch #1.6″ which is currently in beta as we speak. If you are playing Skyrim via Steam, you can download the Mounted Combat Patch Beta to see what its all about and help the developers iron out all of the bugs!
A release date for the Mounted Combat Patch 1.6 has yet to be announced, but hopefully it’ll come sooner rather than later, for consoles as well as PC.
The Mounted Combat Patch for Skyrim follows many other very cool features that have been patched into the game via updates, including snazzy new Kill Cams and the long-awaited gesture-and-voice controls for the Xbox 360 Kinect Motion Camera!
The long-running American RPG series finally enters the online realm in 2013! Platforms unspecified.
The day of reckoning has arrived! The Elder Scrolls Online MMORPG has been announced, taking Morrowind, Oblivion & Skyrim online! OFFICIALLY! (okay your actual copy of said games isn’t going online, it’s a play on words see. Read below)
Elder Scrolls Online will not launch until next year, 2013, for unspecified platforms, but the game has been confirmed and you can watch the debut trailer below.
Few details are known about the game, although much more will be learned once the newest issue of Game Informer magazine hits, which got the exclusive scoop on The Elder Scrolls online. This is the first Massively Multiplayer Online game in the long-running American/Western RPG series, and the first to be set in an online world where thousands of players can explore the deep mythos of the Elder Scrolls world together simultaneously!
It has long been rumored that the Elder Scrolls games would make a great MMO, and that the mythos was rich to provide the backdrop for one. And many people rumored that an Elder Scrolls MMO may have been in the works even after the success of Morrowind. And that anticipation only grew with the exponentially more successful Oblivion and Skyrim titles. Now, finally, it will actually be a reality! Which I think comes as a big surprise to many. It’s one thing to speculate, its quite another to know that the real deal is coming!
Gamplay details on The Elder Scrolls Online are scarce, but we know that the game is set in the ENTIRE world of Tamriel, that includes the lands covered in the Morrowind, Oblivion AND Skyrim games… the lands of Cyrodiil, Morrowind and Skyrim respectively. No word if any of the lands explored in the first two games will make an appearance, but you can probably bet on it.
The Elder Scrolls Online has a plot that is set 1,000 years before the events of Skyrim, set in a world on the brink of destruction by demonic forces attempting to assimilate the world into their kind, all at the hand of the Daedric Prince known as Molag Bal.
Three playable factions will be featured in the game, although we don’t know what they are yet or if there will be more. There is a rumor circulating that these will include a unspecified “Bird of Prey” race, a lion race and a dragon race. This by the same reporter of the rumor that The Elder Scrolls Online existed and would soon be announced (which has now been confirmed to have been true), so take that as you will. We’ll find out soon.
The Elder Scrolls Online will be the debut title from a new developer founded five years ago by Matt Firor, the co-founder of Mythic Entertainment (Dark Age of Camelot), he is head Game Director on The Elder Scrolls Online with his “Zenimax Online Studios”. Given how important this license is to Zenimax (the owners of Bethesda), you can be SURE AS HELL that they will do everything in their power to ensure The Elder Scrolls Online lives up to the Elder Scrolls name.
Here is the debut trailer for The Elder Scrolls Online.
It’s interesting that the Elder Scrolls Online MMO got off the ground before a Fallout MMO ever materialized. Many people thought that a Fallout MMO was inevitable, in particular because Interplay was once working on one (before Bethesda won the rights following a long, expensive and bruising court battle) and once Bethesda got ahold of the license, many fans thought a Fallout MMO would be next-in-line for the studio…. Looks like The Elder Scrolls will get the first crack at the online space however. And Zenimax will sure as hell have their hands full with such an epic transition to the world of online! I’m sure that the skyrocketing sales of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is what convinced Bethesda, once and for all, that it was The Elder Scrolls that needed to go online with an MMO, and NOT the Fallout license. Although Bethesda’s Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas sold extremely well, they can not TOUCH the insane sales of Skyrim, a game that sold an astounding $3.4 million copies in TWO DAYS across Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Think about that for a minute. And that’s at $60 for a regular copy, or a whopping $150 for the Skyrim Collector’s Edition…. :O *the mind wobbles*
Of course, it’s also likely that The Elder Scrolls Online was in development even BEFORE Skyrim… who knows, especially considering that fans have speculated about The Elder Scrolls MMO for a long time now, and considering Zenimax Online Studios was founded way back in 2007. It’s highly plausible that the game has been in development for years, and we are just now hearing about.
The Electronic Entertainment Exposition 2012, E3 2012, the world’s biggest videogame tradeshow (held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California), is only ONE MONTH away, taking place from June 5–7. So we are sure to hear new, solid details and see actual gameplay footage of The Elder Scrolls Online in the near future. The game will also likely get its platforms revealed soon (maybe in that Game Informer issue) and we are likely to learn the first details of the next Xbox, next PlayStation, and new games for Wii U at E3 2012, so we may get confirmation on what next-gen platforms, if any, Zenimax has in mind for The Elder Scrolls Online. Will it be PC only? Stay tuned and get hyped!
The first art for Skyrim’s Dawnguard downloadable content, hitting in June.
Skyrim Dawnguard downloadable content will be the first DLC released this June, just in time for summer, announced Bethesda.
Much to the dismay of non-Xbox 360 owners, the DLC will have a timed-exclusive deal meaning that Xbox 360 owners will get to play the DLC before anyone else. However it will only be exclusive for 30 days before hitting the PS3 and PC platforms.
Details like pricing and what exactly will be included in the first downloadable content will be revealed at E3 2012 in June, although it has been suggested and rumored that this first DLC will give players Crossbows and Snow Elves.
Peep the first artwork from the new content above.
Absolutely Dropdead Gorgeous Girl. She kills with a violin!
One Voice, One Violin’s Skyrim music video (duo of Lindsey Stirling and Peter Hollens) is absolutely mind-blowing and will put a gigantic smile on the face of anyone who watches it, cold-hearted hater of fantasy or Skyrim RPG junkie with no life, all will bow to the incredible power of this unbelievable video. You can even purchase this awesome Skyrim Main Theme Lindsey Sterling & Peter Hollens Song on iTunes for only $1.30! BUY IT!
Both of the cast of characters in this video; the incredibly sweet, cute-as-a-button, violin-master Lindsey Stirling and the man’s man, loincloth-bearing, voice-of-a-giant, Dragon-speaking bastard that is Peter Hollens (envious of this guy… :P) put on a show of absolutely epic proportions, with music that is of angels; and have given the world an incredible remastering of the Skyrim themesong composed by Jeremy Soule, from the epic RPG videogame that has engulfed anyone who has touched it (available for PC, Xbox 360 or PS3 from Bethesda Game Studios).
Lindsey vs Peter, Sword vs Violin Bow! FIGHT!
Unbelievably, the bear-of-a-man explorer named Peter used over 120 overlayings of his vocal tracks to create the incredible voices you hear throughout this piece, and of course the incredible violin playing of Lindsey (who’s drop-dead sexy performance on a violin will make all men rush out and exclusively date violin players) will bring you to your knees in spellbound amazement. Topping off this cake of the Heaven’s is cinematography that would make The Lord of the Ring’s film director Peter Jackson stand up and cheer.
Add in first-person videogame viewpoints, INCREDIBLE special effects of Lindsey and Peter shooting spells at each other ripped right out of a videogame, and a Violin bowstring vs sword battle between Peter and Lindsey, and you can easily see why this amazing video has over two million and a half views!
Even after seeing it multiple times, it still gives me chills. Absolutely completely utterly BEAUTIFUL. Do yourself a favor and give this masterpiece video a watch!