Live Action Skyrim Trailer! If you like courtyards and snow, you will like this.
Hoi, polloi. Bethesda have released yon trailer, which is a live action imagining of what its like to ‘be’ in Skyrim. Cold, and occasionally very hot.
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Choose My Adventure! I need your input, friends and strangers.
Salute!
Right! Here’s a thing. I have been toying with the idea of a Choose Your Own Adventure style, co-operative blog short fiction mashup. Whoah! Mindblowing, I know.
Keen observers will see that I’m still mid-Rattus. So, that will be happening for a while yet. Do hope you’re enjoying.
Once Rattus has expired, I will attempt this new idea. Not sure which of my story ideas to use, or if I should develop a new one.
You can help me decide, while testing my poll buttons out! See Below! Choose one or two genres you like the sound of. I will try to write something ‘in’ the most popular one.
If there is a genre not listed that you fancy, or if you want me to continue something ive already written about in one of my shorts (perhaps a new story in the same setting) then use the Ole Comment Boxe.
Basically, I will write a segment. Probably a tad shorter than the ones I have been doing. Then I give options! Should Winston attack the badger, run away, or ask Ra’Skakuul to use his ray gun? That kind of thing.
There won’t be any statistics or instant death style wrong answers, like in the old choose your own books. Not to say that characters cant die… but the story will probably go on in some other way, unless it is at a closing point that feels natural.
I will do my best to make each choice have an impact later in the story.
So until Rattus is finished (giving me time to brew ideas) please give me some idea of what genres you are interested in, dear peoples:
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Skyrim voice over cast revealed! Michael Hogan, people! Frakkin’ Dragons!
Despite his name not being a headliner, I’m most pleased by the announcement of Michael Hogan (better known as Saul Tigh in Galactica, owner of the most ornery voice in existence)! Though of course who doesn’t love Max Von Sydow. Regurgitatum:
Bethesda Softworks®, a ZeniMax® Media company, today revealed the stage and screen legends lending their talents to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the next installment in the award-winning Elder Scrolls series. Skyrim will feature an ensemble cast of Academy Award nominees, including Christopher Plummer (“The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”, “The Insider”), Max Von Sydow (“The Exorcist,” “Minority Report”), and Joan Allen (“The Contender,” “The Bourne Ultimatum”).
Christopher Plummer, a two-time Emmy Award winner, two-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award nominee, takes on the role of Arngeir, a powerful Greybeard elder. An order of philosopher monks who are masters of the Way of the Voice, the Greybeards live in silent isolation atop Skyrim’s largest mountain.
Academy Award nominee, Max Von Sydow, stars as Esbern, a chronicler and agent of the Blades who has survived in hiding. Long obsessed with the foretold return of the dragon Alduin, the World Eater, Esbern will teach you how to confront this epic evil.
Tony Award winner and three-time Academy Award nominee, Joan Allen, will be making her videogame debut as Delphine, one of the last remaining members of the Blades – an ancient warrior society once sworn to protect the Emperor. Like you, Delphine is trying to unravel the mystery of the dragons’ return.
In addition, iconic actress and singer, Lynda Carter (“Wonder Woman”), voices Gormlaith Golden-Hilt, one of the Nord heroes who overthrew the dragons in ancient times.
“It’s been incredible to have all these actors together,” said Todd Howard, Game Director. “When you start a project, you always make your wish-list of actors, and to actually hear them in the game, it’s amazing. We can’t wait for everyone to experience it.”
Skyrim’s cast also includes
· Michael Hogan (“Battlestar Galactica”), who plays Imperial General Tullius, in charge of crushing the Stormcloak rebellion.
· Vladimir Kulich (“The 13th Warrior,” “Smoking Aces”) portrays Hogan’s nemesis Ulfric Stormcloak, Jarl of Windhelm and charismatic leader of the Stormcloaks, who aims to make Skyrim independent of the Empire.
· Claudia Christian (“Babylon 5”) joins the cast as Legate Rikke, General Tullius’s chief lieutenant, a loyal Imperial officer as well as a Nord who firmly believes Skyrim must remain part of the Empire.
· Diane Louise Salinger (“Carnivale”), Renee Victor (“Weeds”), and Saturday Night Live-alum George Coe (“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”) round out the star-studded cast of more than 70 different voice actors delivering over 60,000 lines of dialogue.
Developed by Bethesda Game Studios, the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose. Skyrim, which will be available worldwide on November 11, 2011 for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, and Games for Windows®, has already won numerous awards including Best Console Game and Best RPG from the official Game Critics Awards at E3 2011 and Wired.com believes it will be “one of the most sprawling, almost impossibly detailed game worlds ever created.”
For more information on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim visit http://elderscrolls.com/skyrim.
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