Bethesda aren't themselves anymore. Fallout is dying. Elder Scrolls 6 is years away. Now, we're gonna look back at Bethesda's last adored project, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. We're going to ask and answer one simple question. Why did you love Skyrim?
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at this point skyrim is not just a game but a family member you go visit every now and then
Couldn't have been said any better.
And give gifts to every time a slightly more special edition comes out.
True af
Skyrim is that cousin you hung out with as a kid and now only see every so often and reminisce
Lmao I played it the first time like over 7 years ago and recently I started it again I feel like you can always start Skyrim new and it's a lot of fun
alright dude enough, you made your point. downloading skyrim again
anyone else re download skyrim once or twice a year and barely invest more time into playing it than modding it?
Just did 200 hour back in october/november...
wadj83u nwd LOOLL
wadj83u nwd spend like 3 hours modding it and 1 hour playing
@Grillidan i only got like 600hrs in but ive never ever modded it over the years :D
You know the saying you never quit skyrim you just take a break
Yea i know it a classic
This.I get burnt out in it by playing a character for 40 hours,stop playing and return after a year or so and fall in love with it again.
Yep
Yep...nieces and nephews still play and so not many breaks
As much as i love this game but if i could go back in time id erase this game from history fuck this game but ima go play skyrim now
It was my first open-world game that allowed me to create my own character. It was pretty much an escape from reality for myself.
Same.
True dat
Mine was saints row
It’s the only rpg I’ve ever played where I can make fully fledged completely finished builds before I’ve done a single quest
world of warcraft
After fallout 76 Bethesda no longer gets to the cloud district very often.
Nazeem we hate you Love everybody
Catch these hands nazeem i dont want you thinking youre the shit
I first started playing Fallout a few years ago with Fallout 4. I had tons of fun, believe it made a great introduction to the series, with a simple yet captivating storyline, a RPG system that worked just fine and some great interactions between characters. Then I played fallout New Vegas, which sincerely looks more like a Mad Max universe than a post nuclear apocalypse, but the Gambling system was really fun to use. Then this year I played 76... OKAY YEAH IT SUCKS ON "SOLO", but if you gather a few friends it can really be a great way to have fun. Me and the bois liked to go bunkers on West Virginia and it was pretty damn good. What I believe happens is that the previous games had a similar vibe that worked out greatly, and the most recent ones try new styles, which sometimes backfires or people dislike it because it's not the same as before. I for myself am very happy that many franchises are trying to rewind some games with a fresh new look, and as long as you have fun or a good experience playing a game, I believe it achieved it's purpose. I might be the only guy that actually liked Mass Effect Andromeda and No Man's Sky, soooooooooo....
Edward Sawyer not only Mad Max IS a post-nuclear apocalypse (seriously), Fallout is largely based on Mad Max. It's more blatant in the first games.
Of course they don't
Ysolda was my first wife in Skyrim and hearing about her drug operation makes me feel like Skyler in Breaking Bad.
“I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS, DOVAHKIIN!”
trenchwire lmaoooo
Yeah magic, bitch!
It’s fr the reason why I married her in game. Always love drug operation type shit in games.
Same
I spent a summer in Skyrim with my wife years ago . We couldn’t get enough and had a non existent social life . She discovered the game and I set up multiple monitors in the living room , for us . A completely great experience at the Time.
Literally the gamers dream
That sounds like the best worst summer
@@xtermnyjkat least he isn't lonely. Sounds like you are lonely.
Skyrim isn’t just a game, it’s a life experience.
The saddest life experience you could ever have.
@@applescruff1969 How so
@@MichaelJ44 It's horrible. If it was a person, it'd be the loser cousin with 10 DUI's.
It really is
@@applescruff1969 Well you know what they say, it's fine to be wrong :)
Nothing beats playing Skyrim on a cold day in the warmth and cozy atmosphere of your room. Echoes of a simpler time, my friends
Kriegsman That’s exactly how I’ve always felt man, it’s such an awesome feeling!
Cold days like that when we got off work early. I would run home and play all day.
Amen!
Skyrim came out when I was in highschool and I mostly played it over the summer. Waking up, breakfast, turn on the AC on freezing and play Skyrim. god I miss those days.
Kriegsman so true
Might be that I'm getting old, but I never understood why people shit on Skyrim's graphics so much. That is literally the most often cited criticism I've heard of the game. Yes, obviously today's games look better, and obviously modded graphic packs make the game look more stunning, but in my opinion, Skyrim's vanilla graphics are already on a level that after a couple minutes of play, I'd completely forget about these minor details and be immersed in the world.
Don Korb it’s the same logic people use when they say “ I can’t believe this is still happening in *insert year*”. They think because tech is better now that it should have been that way then. But Skyrim was pretty impressive visually to me. Still is
I don't understand that one either.. I started playing Skyrim on 360 and was floored by the graphic's and the details. Bug's ..sure, glitches...yep. That very 1st aurora, I mean holy crap! from 11-11-11 to now, I still play - though on a heavy mod'd PC game - Yes I could have a photo real mod, but I just enhanced what was there. My mod's are mostly combat and AI changes..err and a lot, I mean a lot of armor mods and Character beauty enhancements ( NO not that kind )
Same here man
Idk how people complain about the graphics they seem pretty realistic to me, i wish developers spent more time making games fun instead of realistic
prolly cause gears of war from 2006 looks better than skyrim from 2011
I play skyrim atleast 4 times a year. I almost never finish it. I just make a new character and go explore the world. Even after all these years I still seem to find something I hadn't found before
Same.
I play it once every 4 years but put 200 hours in. It really is a bad game.
And whatever build you try to go you eventually go back to stealth archer
I've put hundreds of hours into it and there's still things I've never seen and questlines I've never done. Meanwhile Cyberpunk has like 40 hours of actual quality gameplay.
@@chabbab6698 "bad game" returns to it every few years and plays it for 100+ hours, right....
Skyrim is one of those games where you can't explain why this game is such a masterpiece. You just love it.
An age of time of pure innocent dumb fun. No obsessive need to shame the player for not agreeing with the developer's politics and bigot sandwiches.
Honestly every time I try to explain why it’s a masterpiece I get different explanations. It’s just a good game man. And I love the farming, like you don’t even need to farm for loot you’re just likely to get loot normally
Frankly, I can go on at length about the issues with Skyrim. I understand why a lot of people find it disappointing as an RPG. Doesn't mean I'm not going to turn it on once every two years or so and put in another 100 hours.
I can write multiple essays on why I hate it lmao, it's one of the most 'product' feeling games out there imo
@@Corrupted I wouldn't say it's "product"-feeling, but there are a lot of aspects that clearly were designed to be mass-produced first and hand-crafted second. The melee combat is a big offender. There's still a hell of a lot of content, and very little of it has NOTHING to throw you off, hence why I keep finding new things. Even if most locations in Skyrim only have one thing that sets them apart from every other crypt in the same genre, I've played games that don't even reach *that* standard, and I naturally didn't play them for something like 500 hours over ten years.
I believe Skyrim’s graphics are beautiful in a way like a Monet painting. It’s in no way sharp, extremely detailed, nor realistic. However, the scenery, the vibrancy, and the somehow simultaneous simplicity and complexity has a certain charm.
Landscape up close- bad Landscape from a mile away- beautiful
@@jakes1566 You got those two mixed up.
Or you could dump in 500 terabytes of Graphic mods and make it look like a game made in 2088
@Alvi Syahri You're not gonna believe this, but I'm playing skyrim right now, and it crashed so I was using my phone waiting for it to reopen and I got this message. Damn.
lmao nah they're muddy asf and the water looks like its from a different game
Visuals don't depend entirely on Graphics. Art is just as important if not more.
Yea look at borderlands1/2/3(pre sequel but we don speak of that one) they can’t make them look better cause it’s a simple style of graphics
@@green_frogball1015 thats an art style so no one js really expecting it to be photo realistic. Skyrim howvever was trying to be photo realistic but its time is up. Its old and crappy. I enjoyed it back then but now I can't even play cause the game hurts my eyes.
@@dragonballhaven1417 The assets themselves might be dated, but you can alleviate that with mods. In contrast, the visual design is genuinely masterful.
@FreeTime Player Halo should be realistic.
@FreeTime Player also minecraft is beautiful while being more pixelated than the orginal Mario,and art don’t need to be realistic to be beautiful,just look a Picasso’s art.
One tidbit on the archery section, as an archery instructor, you actually do aim "lower" on close targets. It still felt sort of intuitive to me because at short range, because of the angle of your eye to the arrow tip, you actually do aim the tip of the arrow sometimes WELL below the target. It's why when you see bows with sights on them the sights are so high up and sometimes have multiple prongs to aim with to account for nearer and farther targets
was just about to mention this! path of trajectory. arrows in archery and rifle rounds on the range too! both go slightly upwards with all that force behind them before gravity pulls back down.
Growing up I was a very quiet kid and always kept to myself and never talked to people, but when my parents got me Skyrim for my birthday it helped change me. I would get lost in the world for hours just wandering around taking in the amazing views and listening to all the sounds the game offered me, the music was always great and helped soothe my social anxiety to the point when I would go to school I could actually have a conversation with someone. Might sound dumb but Skyrim gave me hope when I couldn’t give it to myself, it gave me freedom, and it helped me get out of the dark places in my head. This game is easily my favorite rpg of all time and definitely my favorite game in general. The memories I’ve made and had with this game is why I love Skyrim.
Skyrim makes me feel so cozy. Heading to Breezehome after raiding a Dwemer ruin, waiting forever for my chest to load all of my hoarded loot, receiving gifts from my adopted children, eating dinner with my wife Ysolda, awkwardly walking past Lydia to sleep in my bedroom, only to head out the next day to find Adrianne the blackmith has been reduced to a pile of ash by a vampire attack, enlist with the Dawnguard for revenge, become a Vampire Lord instead; It's all so beautiful. Also, never forget the flying mammoths.
I wonder if there's a mod to make adopted children fight alongside you. I made my duty to always bring my daughters the best daggers i could find in quests, alongside the usual books and treats, and would be nice being both their mother and master
@@odioalospoopers Children fighting in a war? Sounds like the battle of Berlin.
@@odioalospoopers *Teaches child to use great sword*
You found that just lying around? Good find.
@@odioalospoopers Yes there is a mod to turn children into warriors. You will see them on the road hunting or in town with weapons fighting. "children of skyrim.warriors in training"
I think we can all agree that without Jeremy Soule, Skyrim would be a complete different experience. The soundtrack combined with the atmosphere of the game is still to this date brilliant.
I know right
Agree
Oblivion soundtrack way better.
Rhinoceros oblivion’s is good, but not better
@@shekelboob Yeah, as I said 'way better'
The fact that I feel physically cold every time I play skyrim is a testament to the effort put into the visual and audio design
Yes! When I bought it I turned off my fan I think when I went to the labyrinth and I live in AZ lol
This is why i prefer Oblivion. I live in a country where it is mostly cold so i prefer warmer games.
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AYYYYY fellow kotor fan
Skin suit
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Skyrim’s deadass gonna be one of those very few games you will probably always remember for the rest of your life
100%
i still remember 'chess 64'
And Diablo II
@Christopher Marlowe alzheimer: let me introduce myself
Not really. It was mostly hype. It was the newest thing on the menu, but it wasn't that great. It wasn't earth shattering.
Playing Skyrim is like walking into a Bob Ross painting.
Never played Oblivion, huh? Skyrim is so *gray* in comparison.
MirrorscapeDC yeah I’m sure, especially with all the bloom making everything look washed out AF
Yeah a bob Ross painting with spiders in it
@@MirrorscapeDC The animations are worse and so are the graphical details as far as textures.. ESPECIALLY on characters. Oblivion had better saturation, it's COLOR was only better alongside it's story THAT'S IT!
@@mikewil7571 I never said that Oblivion had better graphics. It's years older, of course it doesn't. But OP compared Skyrim to a Bob Ross painting, which I didn't agree with because Bob Ross paintings are super colorful while Skyrim is not.
The greatness of the Elder Scrolls games lie in their scope. Whenever they come out, they're a bit clunkier than they should be but the sheer scope of what you can do always surpasses other contemporary games by a lot. So I can overlook some of the wooden NPC dialogue and random bugs because the world is so open and enormous it's outshines all of the negatives.
Its funny because I enjoy the wooden dialogue and use of few voice actors for NPCs, it somehow gave the games charm. Unintentionally hilarious when two visually different looking NPCs talk to each other with the same voice. Plus the lines are quotable as hell especially in Oblivion and Skyrim. "By the gods, there's a psychopath on the loose" or "My cousin's out there fighting dragons and what do I get, guard duty".
2 years late but one month early to add that it's not only Elder Scrolls, Bethesda are pioneers in the game industry. It's not about achieving the very best graphical and gameplay performance within its timeline. It's about creating new concepts and innovating on what drives the player, through the screen. Why one month early? Because Starfield will soon be launching and i have zero doubts that the game will be forever remembered. I don't expect it to be bug-free nor short of some issues that others games may have already solved, matter of fact, i don't expect anything from Bethesda RPG's and i still get pleasantly surprised.
I still remember Todd Howard saying you could climb the mountains and I lost my mind
Yes you could but not you should😂😂😂😂😂
Correction: slowly shivey up a mountain for 10 minutes
You can, just not in a logical way, lol.
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@@veknr6839 nooooo😭🤣🤣
i identify as a skeleton
he should have said bonepeople. : p
VR
”Did” I never stopped...
Same
me neither
How do you play skyrim for so long? Skyrim feels so empty and lonely i can play it for only like 30 minutes until i get lonely
@@vanzwho854 mods
@@sexycavetroll2788This
Honestly, the moment Skyrim became truly immortal, is when Bethesda basically gave people the keys to Skyrim, and said to just make more for ourselves. Thus, Skyrim Modding came into existence. The shear number of mods available, for FREE by the way, is staggering. Got bored of something. Install this neat mod, that does basically nothing but make the world look a bit cooler, and play through the nite game again. Skyrim has become an near eternal toy for people to play with, as they add more and more pieces, until they make something basically there own, a basically unique selection of mods, unique to them, there own personal Skyrim.
That is how I always think about Doom and Skyrim. They're quite identical when it comes to how well-known they are:they're both old but gold,people all over the world love it with passion,you can play them on pretty much anything and the mods make them either into something more enhanced or a completely different game. Id Software's Doom and Bethesda's Skyrim are basically the gamer's most loyal friends that cemented their legacies into the history of games,unchanged by the time itself.
And some things break free of Skyrim. Forgotten City was a mod, but the dev remade it as its own standalone game, which reviewed pretty well!
Nothing beats playing Skyrim for the first time through VR. Going into the game, I had no idea what to expect, but putting the headset on, it really felt like I was in a fantasy world. Having to manually aim and pull the bowstring is so immersive
"The arrow actually burrows deep inside your targets" shows clip of arrow bouncing comically off of a draugr deathlord
It's the draugr sword ...
that was the sword the draugr was carrying, not the arrow
They must use the enchanted KneeSeeker Arrows, that always hit targets in the knee, magically turning dangerous adventurers into government guards.
@@Trenk2009 To clarify, it's not bouncing off the sword, it's the sword flying away. I had to watch it several times before your comment clicked.
@@theindooroutdoorsman Oh yeah sorry I wasn't clear enough x)
"My lovely girlfriend" /camera pans to Todd Howard.
I was wondering about that too lol
It just works
One of the most addicting games I've ever played.i absolutely loved this game.absolute masterpiece.
“You can’t kill a dragon with a wooden sword” If I can kill a dragon with my fist, I can kill a dragon with a wooden sword
We to do the fortify restoration loop, get a potion that improves smithing for about... I dunno, 3786521% sounds about right... Yup, one piece of firewood and a grindstone later we're ready to one shot Alduin. With a kid's toy.
I have played through Skyrim at least ten times. Every time I say "I'm going to try a different type of gameplay!". EVERY time I end up being a stealthy archer.
I've strayed away from that path exactly once and played a Redguard two weapon fighter. It was actually really fun.
May I suggest being a stealth mage?
I love being a stealth mage. Use illusion to go invisible and charge up a master level destruction spell, destroying everyone before going invisible again and walking away
If you want a fun one to switch it up try an unarmed kajit build. Literally breaks the game it's amazing. And the finishing moves for unarmed attacks are BRUTAL.
I always end up using dual wield swords and bows
“What about Ysolda, who’s secretly been running a meth business the whole time?” Me, having sunk hundreds of hours into the game at this point: “MY WIFE IS RUNNING A METH BUSINESS?! WE HAVE TWO KIDS AND A FOX!”
You got a pet fox mod? Lol awesome
@Classy Ducks yeah and mine brought home a CRAB ;-;
Same lol I just noticed it too
My first thought was basically, "oh shit spoilers for this old ass game that I've put hundreds of hours into over multiple releases"
@@charlieenglish9864 kill that devil!
16:20 I’ve shot in archery competitions since I was 12 years old, and I can tell you from experience that when you don’t have sights on a bow, you don’t aim right at your target. Sure, our bows only had a maximum of 25 lbs of pull back, significantly less than what the long bows in Skyrim would have, but even 10m away from the target I’d have to aim almost at the bottom of the target to hit a bullseye. I know, I know, it’s just a video game, and the English long bow had ~100lbs of pull, but having to aim lower the intended target was something I appreciated, even it doesn’t make sense. Archery was really fun when I tried Skyrim vr because of the crazy shots I could try that I never could in competition 😂😂
"As a Mage, you got a pain tolerance of a Football Player" That was good lol
You've never made a fight wizard then, destruction + restoration + enchanting + heavy armor
I just love that this game is as old as it is, and yet there's still an endless amount of new content and discoveries being made in 2020.
Jorgan Freeman so true
I still discover things an cool places to this day
Skrø gur dang I posted this two months ago but thanks for the reply 🤗🙏🏽
@@damiasperez6365 hey no problem bro😂
It's because It's a cultural landmark that was a massive part of a whole generations upbringing and it feels good to play it because it brings you back to a simpler time and has become synonymous with relaxation and careless fun.
One of my best memories is being so excited to have bought Honeyside in Riften back in middle school. It was my own little cozy thieves' den, in that wonderful, warm, autumnal city... Until I turned around to head down the stairs, only to see my mannequin just staring at me, faceless, from the bottom of the steps. To this day, I've never set foot in that fucking hellhole again.
Was it that home or the one in Solitude where the mannequin actually moves around the house? Creepy shit! I think I heard it really was an accidental glitch but still!
@@danieldavis8607 In my case, it was Riften's Honeyside! I never bought a home in Solitude, since I've always been a Stormcloak player...and I never wanted to go near a house with a mannequin again, so I stick with my ol' faithful modded Breezehome!
middle school? oof im old. No offense of course my man
@@IAmWhiteEagle Crazy to think people played Skyrim when in middle school. Then likely graduated around 2016. It's been awhile since Skyrim released. A long while..
@@the_blind_hearing6 Oh yeah, I graduated in 2017. The nostalgia of when I first ran through Helgen's caves still stings. I'm only 20, but damn, I want to be 12. I can't believe it's been 8 years since I first read about Skyrim coming out in a Game Informer mag. Yikes. Oh man, and I totally miss M.A.G. too - loyal S.V.E.R. edgy kid, no matter what. I hope there's a good reboot some day soon.
that thing about rorikstead is cool, but they forgot about the book that farengar says could date back to the first era, and it mentions rorikstead, but the FOUNDER of the place is very much alive.
it's my comfort home to go to, helped me get thru rough patches years ago when I was suffering a lot
I hear ya, it helped me get through the death of my mother. It’s crazy to even say that, but it really did.
YSOLDA IS A DRUG DEALER???????.... Been playing for 8 years and I didn't know that.
Same
And she's giving you a cut of the sales ;) (if you marry her)
I suppose you never wondered what she wants with a mammoth tusk either?
@@praxis22 She literally says she's going to give it to the Khajiit when you first get the quest.
oh what could the sleeping tree sap possibly be used for...
I try to avoid listening to the Skyrim music outside of the game because when you load into the game and hear that music after not playing for a while it freaking hits you
You are clearly a virgin
@@choosetolivefree LOL
@@choosetolivefree yeah but is he wrong?
@@lukeclapp499 The music is great. The game is shit
@@choosetolivefree the game is well liked by a lot of people, your opinion isn't a fact so stop telling people they're wrong for liking a game.
Grand Theft Auto VI, Half-life 3, The Elder Scrolls VI, Dead Space IV *Not Released But Not Forgotten*
Dead space 😔
@@leof6482 I feel the pain too.
The two things that stuck out to me the most when I first played was the darker, grittier art style compared to other fantasy RPGs and the sense of scale, freedom and adventure when exiting the introduction.
Despite its flaws, Skyrim is one of those of games that I continuously go back to. I love it when I first started and I still love it now.
I played Skyrim for years and was pretty burned out on it but Skyrim VR brought me back in. In love again.
Skyrim is the first game both me and my daughter loved. Got special edition for xbox 360, xbox 1, PS4 and Playstation VR. We love this game is an understatement. The first gift I ever made my daughter was the blade of woe out of wood. The dark brotherhood is her fav faction.
Try it in vr...it's just wow
@@shadowswithin702 I know right? I tried a bit after Christmas. When I crouched in the water it looked like it was right up to my chest. Could almost literally feel the coldness of the water.
You must be a 3 year old who loves games that hold your hand and always tell you what you need to do without you having to figure anything out on your own
Why did I love Skyrim? Well do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh what am I saying.. Of course you don’t.
Don't you just love when he says that line inside of Dragonsreach
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ExceedingEnder all I know is I got trinkets, odds and ends. That sort of thing.
we gotta give props to the sound guys! had a teacher my freshman year, whos son worked on skyrim's sound team! got to hear a couple pretty cool stories about the work he did. Teacher was a pretty genuine guy! only had him for a few months. he was a long term substitute teacher, but wish i could remember his name.
Arcwind Point is my favourite location. Whenever I'm finished with a character and want to do another playthrough, I first part way with my followers then venture up to Arcwind. Fighting through deathlords and a dragon, I finally reach the top of the watchtower and take in the view while reflecting on all my time in the world.
"Sometimes the code breaks" Every time I walk into my home those godforsaken mannequins are staring at me
... thats not normal.. DELETE YOUR SAVE QUICK BEF [error]
mannequins are NPC's in Skyrim. Frozen NPC's that cant move, unless they bug out during loading... Creepy AF!
Strange, I've never had that glitch. And I have over 600 hours clocked in between PC and the PS3
BEYOND THE SPIDER FILMS I have a clip saved on my Xbox of me turning a corner into a room, backing out while seeing the mannequin turn to look at me, then double-taking while simultaneously shitting myself. It’s great.
@@coleb.6276 Post that
Honestly, just "going for a walk" in Skyrim is one of my favourite things. Enjoy the landscapes, enjoy the music, enjoy mowing through a dungeon full of draugr.
It's the worse for me because I sneak through the woods not trying to attract frostbite spiders
On my first playthrough this was sadly something I missed entirely. I fast traveled everywhere once I knew I could and missed out on a TON of hidden gems.
Yeah thats the only fun thing you can do in that game until of coarse you get attacked by a dragon for some reason
@@funnygamer5405 Dude those spiders are literally the thing of nightmares. My arachnophobia is severe to say the least.
@@piccoloatburgerking I don't even have arachnophobia and yet they make me not wanna play the game
Skyrim is my personal favourite game I've played so far in my short life because it provides me with that world I know I can fall back into at a moments notice
Skyrim of itself was an experience.. but when your into modding and can make a good job of it .. it becomes just unreal. And I've never reached what you would call the peak of modding but have come very close.
I have like 16 mods to fix the the awful mechanics, UI, character models, and it makes the game *vastly* better.
Found a potion of true shot on a shelf in a bathroom stall. 10/10.
They were trying to pee with out it split into to streams
How about potion of fortify one-handed in a bathroom stall?
I found a potion of healing in one
@@lsswappedcessna hmmm
@@lsswappedcessna How about some hagraven feathers in the corner?
Ive been playing skyrim since it came out, and I never even realized that headshots don't do more damage.
Wait...
Same here
they don't...........??
They don't n I still aim for the head
@@kayaeki Yep, headshots with a bow/crossbow don't do any more damage whatsoever than a normal body shot. I still do them because it's fun. :P
I played skyrim during the pandemic, when we were all under lockdown. It was all I did almost everyday, my little brother and I, and we enjoyed it. What a good memory. Now I feel like I don't wanna try playing it 'cause what if it's not as good as I remember?
I love Skyrim. I've played it my whole life, exploring the world truly was never something I did. It's amazing how you can play a game for so long and only know a fraction of what it has to offer.
For me, Skyrim basically feels like home at this point. I know the land so well, I'm comfortable in every inch of it. Nothing is ever gonna stress me out when I go there like with most other games. That's what video games are meant to do, and this one delivers on that more than nearly any other. I can't imagine what they must have planned for ES6, it could be something large enough to be played for decades, or even an entire lifetime.
fr, you could drop me into skyrim anywhere and I could find my way back to breezehome ez
@@ToxicBastard without compass and map?
@@Gonzakoable piece of piss, I've crawled over every peak and crevasse in skyrim's over world. It disappoints me that there's no natural splendor explore in my local area.
I hope Serana is in it again
@@ToxicBastard but there are some hot single moms in your local area! (its an ad joke)
16:15, actually, in real-life arrows do briefly raise up before falling. At shorter distances, you actually need to account for that.
you Thank
@@SoulDevoured this What's? format meme new A?
@@love2fight205 lmao no. Mobile YT bug. Reverses sentences for some reason. Or it was, I think they fixed it.
@@SoulDevoured lol ah ok
you Thank
I remember teared up after playing the forgotten city quest mod, when the sky opens again and you are free, now that's something to behold, that quest mod is certainly a masterpiece
Dont forget that Soule has also made the amazing (and dark feeling) soundtrack of "Secret of Evermore"! A great game, which gets easily forgotten
I remember my first playthrough i didnt notice the compass so instead of heading to riverwood i ended up finding Riften as my first city
Ended up in windhelm getting slaughtered by some guards cause i punched!!! a horse Not the best first experience as a 13 year old :D
Yea, as if there aren't mini maps and waypoints directing you exactly where you need to go, like a baby riding a bike with training wheels.
choosetolivefree I never played an rpg, there actually isnt a minimap, and i wasnt really focused on what symbols on a compass i wasnt even focusing on because such a gorgeous game was in front of me.
@@tylerv6341 Dude don't listen to this guy he's clearly a troll. I love Skyrim too ❤. Have have nice day sir.
hektik You’re Braithe all grown up, ain’t ya?
1. Grew up playing Wolfenstein, Doom, Half-Life 2. Didn't play games for many years after 3. Didn't know what an RPG was 4. Never heard of Elder Scrolls 5. Saw a Skryim video, was impressed, bought game 6. Blown away by the seemingly endless world, the visual beauty, and the music 7. Tons to do, but doing nothing is also still fun 8. I cared about how quests turned out and they could have emotional weight 9. Got obsessed with exploiting enchantments, like cheating, but you have to earn it 10. It's the music and atmosphere mostly. Feels like another world. Thank you Jeremy Soule.
This is basically me except instead of Half-Life, I'd play Unreal Tournament.
Same, minus Half-Life, plus Borderlands in '09. I thought Borderlands was the bomb. Then... SKYRIM!
Yeah me too. I can't remember exactly, but I think Borderlands was one of the first games I got on the Xbox. Many hours into those, but not as many as Skyrim.@@joelhassig6099
@@joelhassig6099 same, Except instead of Skyrim, it was KnAcK 2 baby!
The quests? The quests are shit in Skyrim. That's what got the most criticism with the game after how amazing the quests were in Morrowind, Oblivion, and Fallout 3. If you love Skyrim's quests you may have a heart attack if you do the quests in those games
I was definitely a fast traveller with my first couple characters, but at some point i remember sitting down to play and saying to myself: "alright, today we're going to discover every location on the map" and honestly? i found so many things i'd never seen before and i _still_ didnt find everything
The amount of different save files i have is insane, and they all end up being a stealth archer at some point. I'm amazed that it's still relevant after 10 years
Lol, I walked into my home once and I saw the mannequins running around for a few seconds and then suddenly stopped in their current animation. Sometimes I wonder if Skyrim is actually a horror game..
King Wasabi it just works
I played Oblivion for about 30 minutes before I decided it was a horror game. It was my first ever first-person RPG and it was creepy AF. Never picked it back up... With Skyrim I was already heavily invested before bugs like this became horrific. I was so deep in I couldn't back out... yet I regret nothing.
I was 10 years old when I saw them blink it freaked me out the next day they were walking around and I was afraid to go back into my 10000+ gold house.
I loved Skyrim for one simple thing: Freedom. The freedom to go and do anything I wanted to do and make builds super overpowered and broken. Also, the mods man. The mods.
You should look into Daggerfall
This cat knows what's up
ikr, like you go to aventus arentino and afterwards when you go to sleep in game you piss your pants when you wake up
But there was nothing of any actual substance to do.. Everything in that game could be boiled down to 'go in X cave/dungeon/tomb, kill everything, get Y item, return to main hub area and sell all the trash you picked up'. Exploring and leveling up to get stronger was fun but there were no interesting stories or characters in that world to actually make you care about anything. The world felt full of life and lifeless at the same time because of it.
@@darko1295 i really love the inigo mod, best companion imo. he has an actual character ark too and you get to see his thoughts in specific areas. i agree with you that most quests do that, but that quest in markarth where you either slay ever guard in the city or you go to jail and have a huge breakout is so fun. Also dark brotherhood questline? Civil war was so hyped up but was a huge letdown, but the blades thing is above average, not amazing but the meeting and going to sovngarde is really cool. i think that a lot of the dungeon quests can be unique like blackreach and hunting down karliah and mercer frey, and the miraak temple was really sick at the end.
When you mentioned darksiders 2 i had so much nostalgia and was impressed that people still remember it
You describe it so perfectly, truly capturing why I still am so fully in love with Skyrim.
I feel like the whole Dragonborn dlc was more well done than the main story
Oh it absolutely was
Nobodylikesbad rappers idk man I cut down/explode the shit out of bandits on the regular, and I’m only lvl 22. I call bullshit.
@Nobodylikesbad rappers man ur character is just weak
I've seen 11 year old girls write better stories than the whole of the fucking main game.
@@Chaosligend what were their names?
Well, the "Skyrim Together" part of this video certainly hasn't aged well.
What happened with it?
Vyacheslav Molotov I think the people who made it got caught having stolen another modders code or some shit. Also, it doesn’t work well enough to be playable, and they made loads of money out of it even though it turned out pretty shit.
@@KCD1403 at least its in closed beta now i think. or alpha... idk i watched TheEpicNate315's channel check it out
@@lordbizzle2424 They used parts of the SKSE code without permission
Felix Courtney it isn’t fully out yet give it a chance but still critic it to make shore they know what to fix
man I wish this was on the level of your darksiders two video. I love your commentary and would love to see something from the elderscrolls touched on in the way you did with Darksiders Two.
I’ve been playing Skyrim for about 9 years. I’ve nearly half of of my life in that game and look back at memories of it so fondly. The 3 places listed at 8:15 I had no idea they existed and I was someone who doesn’t always like to fast travel and thought they had found everything. Looks like I need to go make a new save.
It’s part of the Dragonborn dlc main quest
Farty McPPbum
i just love roleplaying as a super powerful warrior that goes to inns and listens music and drinks ale, its beautiful
Your tag name fits you well.
Toss a coin to your witcher
Nordic onggg 😭
..."We are all Bonemen on the inside." Truly inspiring.
The skeleton isn't inside you. You're the brain, so you're inside the skeleton... mind blown.
L Hughes so we are all bonemen on the outside?
@@and_raw2036 EXACTLY my friend.
@@lhughes6656 BRO... OMG DIRTY MINDED GOBLINS ARE ALL IN BONEMEN
@@lhughes6656 You're not the brain, you use the brain to think, but who's to say that is who you are?
Skyrim is more than a game. It's home. That feeling when you play skyrim is so unique I can't find it in another game
Gothic 2?
Bro the soundtrack is god tier sometimes I just go to woods up in the mountains in real life and just walk around listening to the soundtrack
I've gotten back into this game and Become Ethereal shout has become my favourite shout, it gives you a moment of invincibility and allows you to plan out your attack. It's incredibly powerful against mages
I feel like an addict that struggles with addiction when it comes to Skyrim, stuck in a loop of getting clean then relapsing after a certain amount of time
When I first played Skyrim the only time I didn't think about it was when I was asleep.
@@lordskyrim2495 exactly that.. ahh I guess it's time to reinstall.. shit..
Okay, good to know Im not the only one that could compare my love for skyrim to an addiction. I feel better now. LOL
@@thebloodbaron7168 lol I feel you
@@thebloodbaron7168 You think " You're " addicted. Look at my name lol. I finished the game twice on XBox. Working on finishing my first game on Xbox1. Still haven't started the PS4 VR. Sometimes I find the highest mountain to look down at the view. I'm fascinated just by the graphics of the game.
I had never played any RPG before playing Skyrim, and I just started it one day and I really can't even describe that feeling of being there, seeing the sights and hearing the music, I still feel that way when I play it. Nothing has come close to that feeling since.
Skyrim is not an rpg
Szenczi Boldizsár yes it is
@@szencziboldizsar6532 Go away.
Action rpg.
@@szencziboldizsar6532 Although Skyrim's RPG mechanics are relatively simple, especially when compared to its predecessors, it does still qualify as one- even if just barely.
I’ve recently started playing Skyrim and it so far has been a great escape from the stress of school and being so immersed in the world that I don’t remember what time it is
just found your channel. this video was in my recommended. omw to watch the rest of your work
I was introduced to this game when I was 12 by my next door neighbor friends. We would spend hours outside playing pretend Skyrim around our neighborhood then we would go home and play the video game on our own. Those were the best times. Skyrim will always hold a special place in my heart.
Did you also run around yelling "Death or Sovngarde!" and "A true Nord never backs down!".
@@ChryI xDDD
That’s great
ChryI That, and “Never should have come here!” 😂
@@donatotusi9140 ECKSDEE
I still haven't completed the main storyline
Me either and I've been playing since it came out lol
Over my ~30 created characters (half of them being level 40 or higher) I've beaten the main story once. ONCE.
And if you complete the main story, you have all the secondary missions
@@krsi2105 are there combats mods you recommend? thats what put me off the most from playing it
@@tsRR09 There's some pretty good ones out there. I remember one of them makes AI smart during combat so they'll move to surround you and are way better at defending and attacking at the right times. I watched a video a while back to know which ones to download, searching up "Skyrim combat mods" on KZhead should do the trick.
Almost every time I play a new save, an yearly tradition of mine, I always get 30-40+ hours of gameplay even before doing the first high rothgard quest with the first frost troll lol, I love how the world is so engaging it literally swallows me and my time without me even noticing
This is such a beautiful video, I love re watching it every now and then
The atmosphere in this game, all that iconic lines of npc's, even the animations of characters are heart warming at this point. Skyrim is not just an ordinary game. It's our part.
You don't go to the cloud district very often- what am I saying, of course you don't!
I personally love all the little poops and farts and burps 🥰
Playing without fast travel is one of the best things to enjoy.
Stefan Lucian ehh
Yeah but it’s so hard to resist sometimes
but still fuck those who complaint about restricting it,this is a choice for the player.Also making you find a chair in fallout 4 so you could wait is retarded,who gives a shit if it looked silly in skyrim now i have to spawn in a chair everytime i wanna get to daytime.
@@jhood2323 accurate as fuck
@Kristopher Prime Exactly! I never fast traveled while on my first playthrough but I do not need to walk from Rifton to Windhelm 1000 times.
That intro was amazing hahaha. I've seen this video so many times yet it still tickles me every time.
I always walk everywhere in Skyrim, no quests enabled, never fast travel and never use the map.
Roses are red Violets are blue Damn faithless imperials Talos guide you
The grass is green, Riverwood is made of oak. What do you call a treacherous oaf? A stormcloak.
Dumb Benioff, Dumber Weiss Roses are red The imperials are just bragging Long live king Ulfric No Lollygaggin’
Egypt has pyramids Norway has fjords Damn faithless imperials Skyrim belongs to the nords
harvey Harrington Honningbrew or Black Briar, Either quenches my thirst, Don't the witless, bigotted Nords know? The elves were there first!
Daniel Leslie prepare to hate every Tamriel race then.
"A mage shouldn't be able to use a sword" *my spellsword build*: Just Try to Fookin Stop me
It's like he forgot about Oblivion being a thing
ill be making a mage 10 seconds later im a battlemage
My Morrowind Dunmer with a Glass Dagger and nice magic "Take this S'wit"
I remember 11.11.11 and I was a kid at the time. A hyped one. One year later I menaged tio convince my parents to buy a PC that could handle Skyrim. I already watched a lot of gameplays but getting into the game itself was such a great time. Extremely immersive with best visuals at the time. A decade has passed and I've been playing for more than 2000 hours.
Just began playing Skyrim for the first time recently. The exploration and looting is incredibly addicting. The depth of the world and scale is easy to get lost in and distracted. The leveling up and even the gameplay (once you get your footing) is just flat out fun. And the overabundance interesting lore is great. But most of the story, characters, and surprisingly companions are just meh. It might just be the style that Bethesda opts to tell it in, but it doesn’t intrigue me and I always find myself ignoring most of it. That being said, it’s a great game and I’m glad I’ve finally played it.
Wait Ysolda runs a meth business... I've been playing for almost a decade, thousands of hours... and i just find out she runs a meth business...
Dont worry, its moreike heroine
You’re just incredibly dense
sithmastur fuck you my guy
You sound like someone who hasn't even seen the giant crab.
@Gaming Miser not much of a clue when half the nords do. Maybe they're all a bunch of junkies.
Because I’m able to kill absolutely everything with a fork.
Phig Newt except for children
I remember once making 'The Gourmet' being a cannibal orc using a Fork and Knife for weapons. The beginning was borderline impossible but eventually via enchanting it somehow ended up working.
@@draconian_dragons6588 mods
ESO....is that you?
YES. you are literally the only one here that understands that this game is so fucking easy you can beat it with a fucking fork. Thank you.
_When you spend half your entire playthrough grinding to Smithing 100 so you can get Dragonbone armor_
if you do the fortify restoration glitch and have gear that fortify smith by a stupid amount you can go from level 15 smithing to level 100 with a single sharpen.
The first time I entered Blackreach was a moment I wont forget. Easily up there with many of my best gaming memories. Sure the game is absolutely breakable, but if you dont exploit its magic, stealth and potion making you can have a good time.
The simple fact that I ignored the main quest, got married, bought a house, solved a murder mystery, joined an assassin cult, joined a guild of adventures who are actually werewolves, became a werewolf, ended a civil war, went hunting, joined a college for wizards, got into a drunken fist fight which led to doing a quest for a demon, to then finish the main quest which ends in you fighting a dragon god in the afterlife. And then I build a house, tame and ride a dragon, become a vampire, and then become a vampire hunter. Also the Stormcloaks are just racist
Also the imperials are dick heads and the thalmor are... dick heads. Well fuck I guess we are a bit stuck here haha
The stormclocks to live in skyrim with there nativd people, and not to be controled and told whst to do by another race, not racist
bh l13 I mean they do make argonians and dark elves work and live in slums soo they are a bit but Skyrim is for the birds soo
LUSH FN Why are the imperials dickheads?
DarthBricksEmpire imo they betrayed the people they ruled by allowing the white gold concordat to be allowed
1. Jeremy Soule soundtrack. 2. Aurora borealis.
AT THIS TIME OF DAY? AT THIS TIME OF YEAR? IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY? LOCALIZED ENTIRELY WITHIN YOUR VIDEO GAME?
madman beat me to it
@@madman6962 yes
@@bishop2286 ...may I see it?
@@madman6962 hmmm...no
I’m surprised you didn’t talk about the spontaneity and chaos of the dragons. To me, that’s what splits this game apart. Fighting the final dungeon boss is never as satisfying to me as fighting literally any dragon.
THAT INTRO SENT ME 💀💀💀 Edit : didnt expect to watch the entire video. Man even in an analysis of the game Skyrim just immerses you. The combination of the music and the epicness of the world is just unreal.