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Jimquisition
How Skyrim Proves The Industry Wrong

| 28 Nov 2011 17:00
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You've all heard of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, right? Surely you have, for it's a ridiculously successful little game. Interestingly, however, it should NOT be a success, at least if you believe in some of the prevailing opinions that infest this industry. Hmm, seems to me that a few developers and publishers are talking bullshit, and Skyrim has called them out on it.

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Jim Sterling is the reviews editor for Destructoid.com and a game media gun-for-hire who appears regularly at GamePro, GameFront, GamesRadar and pretty much everywhere else. He has a tendency of making the Internet very angry at him, but he's alright sometimes.
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