Tag: Skyrim

Imagine if The Wind Waker was made without its iconic cel-shaded graphics, and instead with those similar to, say, Skyrim‘s? Well, in a sense, this dream has been made into a reality through a new mod by Konniksanders that inserts an area with the same layout of Wind Waker‘s Windfall Island into Skyrim. Jump inside and take a look!

There can be little doubt that there’s always more to Hyrule’s story than we’ll ever know. With each game’s release, the land of Hyrule–as well as Link and Zelda’s eternal struggle with the forces of evil–sees a more thorough history being written. But what about the untold stories unsuited to a game? One of the fondest memories from my childhood was picking up the trio of Myst books shortly after buying the first two Myst games, Myst and Riven. Myst:…

Thanks to the work of a few industrious fans, Zelda devotees now have a chance to play as Link in Skyrim due to a couple of downloadable modifications There are two modifications you can get for your character. First is the Link armor by Handski which alters the clothing of your character to resemble the green costume worn by Link. Second is the Master Sword and Hylian Shield modification made by Tom Campbell. Also included in the mods are some…

With less than 40 hours to go in G4’s Video Game Deathmatch: Best of 2011, Skyward Sword holds a very narrow 51%-49% lead over Elder Scrolls: Skyrim. The lead has shifted back and forth a number of times over the course of the last few days, but it’s almost always been in that 49%-51% range. With both of these being such excellent games, it’s going to come right down to the wire and every single vote is going to count….

Round four of G4’s Video Game Deathmatch: Best of 2011 has begun today with only two battles left, one of which pits The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword against Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. In the previous round Skyward barely made it past Batman: Arkham City, nabbing the win with 51% of the votes to Arkham’s 49%. Beating Arkham City was quite the challenge for Skyward Sword, but it’s current opponent seems to be some pretty stiff competition as well. Most…

The folks at Kotaku had a little fun comparing Skyward Sword to Skyrim recently by getting deputy editor Stephen Totilo who is a die hard Zelda fan, and Michael Fahey the role playing gamer, to play each respective game and discuss their likes and dislikes. Totilo played forty hours of Skyward Sword while Fahey played sixty hours of Skyrim so that each had a great amount of information on their respective game to compare with each other. Although this article…

Can Skyward Sword look different than Uncharted 3 and still have good graphics? Duh. Audrey Drake of IGN has written an article that will surely become a weapon for Zelda fans everywhere against gamers who discredit games because of their graphical power, or lack thereof. Comparing Zelda’s artistic graphical style to classic paintings, she emphasizes that a game does not need to look realistic or sharp to look truly good. Read on to see more.

Skyward Sword is set to release on November 18th, but just one week prior to its release, gaming fans will get to experience Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. While Skyrim and Skyward Sword are coming to different consoles, they still are both highly anticipated fantasy adventures coming this holiday. The folks over at IGN have recently written an article entitled What Zelda Can Learn From Skyrim in which it talks about ideas from the Elder Scrolls series that could work in…