User blog:Madman97/You know what really grinds my Wabbajack's? S2E2: Completely Useless Stuff.

Hey audience, sorry for the wait, I'm sure you were all practically dying without me, but have no fear! Because we are onto our second episode of season 2 for Wabbajack grinding. Without further ado, let's dive right in!

So, I'm wandering around Skyrim and go into a house. In there was plates, buckets, baskets, goblets, jugs, Wooden plates, spoons, basic kitchen utensils, and other crap, go into a tomg and there is, burial linens, sacrificial tools, other random Nord bullcrap. I walk outside and go to a nearby vilage, and there is a giant sawmill and that grain wheel thing. And then I noticed something...There is a lot of pointless stuff in Skyrim. Now granted, most people look past this, but it rubs me the wrong way, I guess because I am a sort of critic and I notice this sort of thing, and let me explain why.

When your questing along a Nord tomb and come across a sacrificial tool, wouldn't that be a wonderful oppurtunity for a weapon? Yeah, the weapon that killed the draugrs in the first place is super effective against them. Tat would be cool! Or use those linnen wrap things to make clothing. Seriously, you should be able to make normal clothing. Go back to those kitchen asthetics. Has a guard ever arrested you because you were the one who stole a fortune in gold, or that deadly thief who stole all those wooden plates? THE FOOD WIL NEVER BE SAFE AND SOUND ON A PLATE AGAIN!!! Have you ever found a use for a jug? How about those wooden spoons? The only thing I ever found a use for was a basket to hold all my potions and soul gems, and buckets to cover the head of shopkeepers when I'm stealing their S***. Don't make me bring up the sawmills and grain thing. Granted, they fixed the grain thing in a dlc and now you can make flour, but before that it was pretty freaking useless. In fact, who here actually makes food as well? Do you even ever eat it? The only kind of food I ever have was maybe all the Black Briar Reserve Bottles stacked neatly beside all my skooma bottles, (Keep it on the down-low, the guards don't really know about it). At least the beer and S*** gives you maybe thirty stamina, but the food gives you maybe 1 health. It's freaking ridiculous.

But that's not what get's me. It doesn't get to me that they serve no part in the story and are a objects to make the world seem more real...BUT THAT'S THE PROBLEM! THEY ARE ALL ONE BIG WASTED OPPURTUNITY! WOULDN'T IT B TEN TIMES COOLER IF YOU COULD ACTUALLY USE THESE ITEMS FOR SOMETHING? IT COULD BE ANYTHING, USE THE SPOON AS A WEAPON, ACTUALLY HAVE THE SAWMILL BENIFET SOMEONE! ACTUALLY MAKE THE FOOD RELEVANT FOR GOD'S SAKES!!! I mean come on! The food is probably the one item that people find they almost never have to actually do anything with, even if there is still some in your inventory. If they made a hardcore Skyrim mode like they did with Fallout: New Vegas and made food a requirment, that would be something. If they made the sawmill actually have that wood go towards something instead of just laying on a pile that doesn't get any larger, do that! This is one of the biggest mistakes of Skyrim. There is so much wasted oppurtunity when it's sitting right in front of us! They call the world immersive now,  think what it could be like if every object served some sort of purpose! I'm not against having purely cosmetic objects in the game, it's just the stuff that is can actually be used for so much more. I can think of ten different things that would have been better to take up the space that that stupid sawmill does.

(Sigh) it just grinds my Wabbajacks the wrong way. There is a lot of oppurtunity to make this world even more immersive and real than it already is, and it makes me mad that the developers didn't go all the way like they should have. Like I said in my Season finale of season 1, Skyrim is just an unfinished game.You heard it here foks, farewell, and stay ranty people. Good day.