Late Nights playing

There is nothing more that I like than to be playing until late hours during night. I hardly ever do it, since I usually wake up early, and have other responsibilities. Even so, I like playing video games regularly, this past months I've been caught in Terraria and Skyrim V.

What I love about both this games is that even if there's a story that you are supposed to follow, you can do almost whatever you want and choose to follow that story line or not. Furthermore, they are quite "follow your own rhythm" and there are not clear instructions, which I personally like. That way, I can try to do different things and read in forums and so about strategies, plans and more.

Terraria

Terraria is a 2D sandbox game with game play that revolves around exploration, building, combat, and mining.

The game starts in a procedurally generated world. You start out with three basic tools: a pickaxe for digging, a sword for combat, and an axe for woodcutting. With these tree, you have to be able to slowly find better amour and weapons, in order to be able to fight bosses and enemies. Many resources, can be found while exploring caves. Some resources, and most items, may only be found in certain areas of the map, stored in common and rare containers, or dropped by certain enemies. With the items that you encounter, you are able to create new objects. The world is divided into different biomes, with specific enemies and ambient. Some biomes,will naturally expand by slowly overtaking and converting blocks in adjacent biomes. The occurrence of certain enemies depends on several factors including time, location, random events, and player interactions.

By completing specific goals players can attract NPCs to occupy structures or rooms they have built. Interacting with them makes possible to obtain unique objects. The most interesting thing about this game is that the world develops and constantly changes as you progress fighting the bosses. For drastically changing the world and it's difficulty, you have to fight the Wall of Flesh boss and adds many new and much stronger enemies throughout the world, as well as new NPCs, bosses, ores, and items.

The game also features an expert mode difficulty, which can be enabled when creating a world. In addition to the higher difficulty level, expert mode increases the chance for enemies to drop rare items, and adds new items that can only be obtained by defeating the bosses on expert mode.

Terraria can be played by yourself or in multiplayer servers. There are several servers worth trying. This game can be played creatively with almost no fight, solely the random ones.

In 2013, was announced a second part for this game, but last year they announced that the game had been cancelled due to them not being satisfied with its development thus far, and unwilling to rush the release of a non-quality product as a result, which is pretty sad. Even so, developers continue improving it year after year, which is really nice.

One of the things that I enjoy doing now, after playing the game since 2017, is using modes and external programms such as TEdit, to create new things easier, being able to see the world map and my favorite, don't spend so much time mining your base and espend more exploring and fighting.

Skyrim: Elder Scrolls

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an action role-playing game, playable from either a first or third-person perspective. You can freely roam over the land of Skyrim which is an open world environment consisting of wilderness expanses, dungeons, cities, towns, fortresses, and villages. You can use a horse (careful not to bee seen if you plan on stealing it) or by fast travelling to locations in which you have already been to.

The game's main quest can be completed or ignored at the player's preference after the first stage of the quest is finished. However, some quests rely on the main story line being at least partially completed. NPCs populate the world and can be interacted with in a number of ways: engage them in conversation, marry, kill them or engage in a nonlethal "brawl". Careful though, if you happen to kill an NPC necessary for a quest, this will be unobtainable.

You have the option to develop your character. At the beginning of the game, players create their character by selecting their sex and choosing between one of several races. Over the course of the game, you improve their character's skills which are numerical representations of their ability in certain areas. When you have trained skills enough to meet the required experience, your character levels up.

Of course, there is a part of the players that mode Skyrim, with many different variants, from making it painfully realistic to making NPCs have animal features. On PC, it's relatively easy to access to the console commands, once there the is pretty much everything you can change. I love watching videos about Skyrim, specially silly ones, with questions you never thought but one you hear about them... You want to know the answer. This one is exactly a depiction of what I'm talking, enjoy!

I can't wait to the Steam Summer Sales, I've got a couple of games I want to add to my library... and possibly spent a night up playing those.

Image credits. Terraria Gamepedia, Skyrim V official page and TEdit forum