Britain votes to leave the European Union. If we only knew how little we would laugh for the rest of the decade. “It’s just Skyrim, with nicer textures and godrays”, I announce to the rest of the office, to rapturous laughter. We greet it with eyebrows raised and lips bent into sneers. It’s Skyrim, with nicer textures and godrays. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Unbeknown to us at the time, it would come to be the last triumph of Britain as a decent, liberal society. Some weeks later, the London 2012 Olympic ceremony brings tears to eyes across the land. Skyrim’s dominance of the gaming world shows no signs of stopping as Bethesda releases its first DLC, Dawnguard, about a sect of horrid, bloodthirsty vampires, leeching off an unsuspecting public (this is a metaphor). Many consider it a role-playing masterpiece (those who haven’t played Demon’s Souls, anyway). Skyrim is released to an Elder Scrolls thirsty public.
