{"id":94,"date":"2012-06-26T12:17:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T12:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/40plusgamer.wordpress.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2012-06-26T12:17:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T12:17:37","slug":"skyrim-the-gaming-monkey-on-my-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/game-thoughts\/skyrim-the-gaming-monkey-on-my-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Skyrim &#8211; the gaming monkey on my back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just stepped away from my desk to pick up the box for this game so I could recall the full title:<\/p>\n<p>The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.<\/p>\n<p>This is a brilliant game and to be honest I&#8217;ve spent way too much time playing it &#8211; hence the &#8216;monkey on my back&#8217;.\u00a0 I started playing this at the beginning of February\u00a0(according to the first achievement I got)\u00a0and have really not played any other game in that time.\u00a0 That&#8217;s actually pretty worrying.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t get into it to start with there was just too much to do but once you settle in to it the game is fantastic throughout.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to try and get through all the Achievements for this game to help me feel I had in some way finished it and the other day I finally achieved the &#8216;Master&#8217; achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Phew &#8211; brow was wiped, dungeon was finished and that I thought was that.\u00a0 Time to move on to something else I&#8217;ve not played (Crysis 2 as it happens).<\/p>\n<p>But no I&#8217;m not allowed, launching today is the first Skyrim DLC, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Dawnguard.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m torn do I buy the DLC and get back to more Skyrim or do I move on and get the Skyrim gaming monkey off my back for all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just stepped away from my desk to pick up the box for this game so I could recall the full title: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. This is a brilliant game and to be honest I&#8217;ve spent way too much time playing it &#8211; hence the &#8216;monkey on my back&#8217;.\u00a0 I started playing this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}