• Elder Scrolls Lore: Daedric Prince Sheogorath ft. Wes Johnson & Jeff Baker
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the fact that sheogorath and haskill voice new dialogue for this is amazing [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVNWxXrDfx8[/media]
Possibly their best video to date.
That was fantastic.
God damn that was amazing.
Amazing
Shivering Isles was one of my favorite DLCs of any game. Definitely how an expansion pack SHOULD be done.
Aww man, he forgot the most important part, the whole "Jyggalag is reborn and you become the new sheogorath" Neat having the two voice actors come back, I hope the team working on this does better research in the future though. As a hardcore lore fanatic, I often catch huge mistakes that they make. That, and they consider TES:O canon, for whatever reason.
[QUOTE=DONUT KING;47319259]Shivering Isles was one of my favorite DLCs of any game. Definitely how an expansion pack SHOULD be done.[/QUOTE] im going to have to disagree the horse armor is how dlc should be done, little cosmetics that cost $5
Wes Johnson is such a great guy on top of being a fantastic voice actor.
Sheogorath was always my favorite character in the Elder Scrolls
if only the games were good.
[QUOTE=minilandstan;47319519]Aww man, he forgot the most important part, the whole "Jyggalag is reborn and you become the new sheogorath" Neat having the two voice actors come back, I hope the team working on this does better research in the future though. As a hardcore lore fanatic, I often catch huge mistakes that they make. That, and they consider TES:O canon, for whatever reason.[/QUOTE] I know it's been a long time since Shivering Isles but they might have omitted that because they still consider it a spoiler
[QUOTE=Shakma;47320418]if only the games were good.[/QUOTE] u wot m8 I'll fight you.
[QUOTE=DONUT KING;47319259]Shivering Isles was one of my favorite DLCs of any game. Definitely how an expansion pack SHOULD be done.[/QUOTE] No like, you guys don't understand. I went into the DLC at the age of like... 14? I'm 20 now and I don't remember when this came out so.. I went in with no details at all aside from what the trailers showed... (The fucking room turning into butterfiles was awesome in a sissy sort of way). It took me a couple of days to get out of the Fringe because I was so eager to get into Shivering Isles proper that I kind of ignored all of the NPCs.. I tried numerous times to kill that giant hulking flesh.... Thing. With no success of course, though I'm convinced a powerful enough character could just smite the thing and continue on through with little issue. It was pretty neat how you could go about killing the thing; using that Dark Elf's tears as poison against it, at least at the time, was ingenious I thought. There was a sort of... Magic? Yeah, we'll call it magic, that Cyrodiil didn't have. It had a similar sense of mystery that Morrowind had, and I often compared it to Morrowind at the time. Entering New Sheoth was amazing; I entered through the Dementia side and was pretty awestruck at the Gothic architecture and overall dark feel to the place. I ran into some guy who wanted to kill himself but the guards were always watching him or something so I had to assist in his suicide. Shoved him off the ledge and simply told the guard that he fell. It was morbid and I felt bad, which was something that no quest in Cyrodiil ever gave me.. There was a certain depth to this place that Cyrodiil didn't have despite spending almost 900 hours in just the main game itself. Then I entered Mania and hooooooly shit was it a night and day difference. The beautiful colors, the manic NPCs... This place was gorgeous. The gay Orc blacksmith really made me laugh at the time, and then some High Elf who slept with anyone she could find... I broke into her house and she had chains and shit in her bedroom and I had the biggest wtf moment I had ever had in TESIV, which further amplified the sense of wonder that Shivering Isles gave me. Sheogorath himself was actually rather dull to me, not sure why but I never really like his character much (aside from the beard, which I had never seen on an Elder Scrolls character in TESIV so it was pretty awesome to see). I attacked him and he teleported me above the Shivering Isles where I fell to my death... Yeah this place was a million times more entertaining than anything Cyrodiil had to offer. The coolest shit to me was the new weapons and armor sets that you could get, but my favorite thing in the entire DLC was Dawnfang/Duskfang. I had never seen a weapon like this before, so when I picked it up and killed something with it and saw that its power grew when I killed a certain amount of things with it, my mind was blown. (Keep in mind I was 14 at the time or whatever so this was pretty awesome to me.) I logged probably 200 hours in Shivering Isles ALONE just because I loved exploring the place. Come to think of it, I thought it was awesome that this place didn't have any horses or mounts of any kind because I loved slowly trudging through the alien landscape. It was so different from Cyrodiil, and there was always something new to see, whereas the base game was literally a gigantic copy-paste of the same section of forest or open plain... In fact the only thing that I actually remember from the base game was that damned painting world you could step into to find that guy who got stuck in his painting or whatever. Anyway, once I finally beat the main quest and found that I could actually have left the Shivering Isles any time I wanted to... I realized that I didn't even WANT to go back to Cyrodiil. But I had done pretty much everything there was to do in Shivering Isles. I had at least one set of each armor type that was in the game, even the ones that were made of Amber and whatever other material the Dementia blacksmith wanted. I had done (at least to my knowledge) every quest there was in Shivering Isles. And yet here I stood at the exit gateway back to Cyrodiil with a huge dilemma: I didn't want to leave Shivering Isles, but I also hadn't completed the main quest in the base game... It really struck me how much better Shivering Isles was compared to the base game to me, that I didn't want to leave. But there was questing to do in Cyrodiil so I went through the gate. I found out I could summon Haskill and talk to him, if I recall you could to a sort of 'fast travel' back to Shivering Isles whenever you wanted, but I never did it... I never really had a reason to. So I quested in Cyrodiil for a few days.. Every time I went to Bravil I'd always look out towards the lake and see the barely-rendered island of Sheogorath's many-headed portal and feel kind of sad. I loved Shivering Isles but I had done almost everything there was to do there. Was it too short? No, I think it was the perfect length. But it made me realize just how disappointing Cyrodiil was compared to Shivering Isles, and it made me wonder why in the hell they did such an amazing job with Shivering Isles, but the base game had such a boring landscape? In my mind, it was the perfect expansion pack for probably my favorite game at the time. Hell, it could have been sold as its own game in my opinion. Holy shit sorry for the ramble, but this gave me such a nostalgia trip... If Shivering Isles were redone in Skyrim, I would play the fuck out of it.
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