The fact that Skyrim came out in 2011 and is still relevant today and enjoyable to play speaks volumes. Skyrim made a huge impact when it first came out and still manages to draw in attention.
Quentin Compson Thanks, yeah I’m excited to play BOTW when I get a Switch. Skyrim will always be my favorite game. I’ve never put as many hours into a game as I did Skyrim and probably never will. I’ve been playing Skyrim since it came out and I continue to play it to this day.
Tbf that has a lot to do with the modding community, which kept the game alive. And of course because of Bethesda, and their strategy to rerelease this game on every new toaster that comes out.
It's been 5 long years since I've played Skyrim. I know I'm due for another playthrough, but I'm also afraid to lose hundreds of hours of my life. I've seen things man.
For me, I love botw, but I felt at one point there was a time limit. I was walking around having done all the shrines and side quests basically just looking for koroks lol. I beat the game in around 140 hours after realizing there was nothing much else for me to do. It was an incredible game that was well rounded in all aspects. But you do get to a point where you just have to beat the game. Whereas with Skyrim I am already a good 300 hours in and have barely touched the main quest at all. There is literally SO MUCH to do that it sucks your life right out from under you (kind of a bad thing for me since I'm a student). It is definitely way more buggy and there is not much diversity in fighting, but if you are looking for a massive world with endless things to do, Skyrim is the game for you.
@@mactills1368 i have played breath of the wild its a good game but when i finished it feels boring and empty cause theres nothing else to do i already explore the whole castle beat all the shrine and divine beast and explore the world
To me: Zelda's combat mechanics is superior. In terms of IMMERSIVE story-telling and quests, Skyrim is superior! I think I'm beginning to favor Skyrim more because of the immersive quests and side quests, and how they are introduced in unexpected ways!
And how many have you actually come across, honestly. Not just jumping on the "all bethesda games have massive bugs" bandwaggon? I'm 50 odd hours into skyrim and the only one I've encountered is the audio glitching out. Well over 1000 hours on other platforms and even then I never saw backwards dragons and stuff. Just Lydia getting in the damn way every chance she got till I had her sacrificed lol
Perspective from 4 years later: Having never played a real open world title because I thought they were too overwhelming, I played Breath of the Wild as my first real foray into them and I think it was the perfect game to make me want to delve deeper into other open worlds like Skyrim. And it helped me get more comfortable with directing my own experience without being tooooo much. I'm now waist deep in my first Skyrim playthrough and I'm obsessed! Really thrilled BotW exists so I didnt end up missing out on all these things!
@@RFNY315 lmao you caught me about to start a new file actually 😂 It was amazing, I devolved into a mindless blob that only consumed Skyrim content for a while. Made it unrecognizable with mods. God I love it so much 🥲 I stand by this comment still too, BotW made it possible for me to tackle Skyrim, and I'm so happy because Skyrim is easily a top 3 or 4 game for me now.
@@CaBobProductions niiiiiiice lol. I played skyrim only for like an hour or two when it released originally. Then for some reason never went back. Played a ton of BOTW though. And love TOTK so far. But I’ve been thinking about giving skyrim another try. Plus, it looks like it might be pretty fun on the switch. It often goes on sale and has that uograded edition
When Skyrim came out it was a gigantic, immersive game for it's time. The fact that I can now play it while waiting at the doctor, or while travelling, is amazing. I played many hours of Skyrim when it first came out, but I can easily see myself getting sucked back into the game on the Switch.
I’ve played both for roughly 50 hours apiece, and I gotta say... Skyrim takes it. Don’t get me wrong, they’re both phenomenal games, but for me, the sheer grandeur and epicness of Breath of the Wild’s landscape is surpassed by just how free you are to interact with the world of Skyrim: You wanna tackle the main quest and be the hero of legend? You can do that. You wanna ignore it completely and be a sellsword or thief? You can do that. You wanna just be a peaceful citizen, only occasionally going on the odd quest? You can do that. With Breath of the Wild, your options are more limited: True, you could skip the main quest if you wanted and you’d still find enough to do to keep you entertained, but your ability to carve out a place for yourself in Hyrule is limited by the fact that, regardless of where you go or what you do, you’re still the hero of legend. In addition, Zelda’s leveling up system is really... REALLY slow and repetitive. To gain more health and stamina, you have to clear four shrines and collect four spheres in order to increase either by ONE point. So, to make yourself strong enough to tackle the games harder sections, you gotta clear A LOT of shrines consecutively, while occasionally being distracted by the odd minor quest. As beautiful and epic as the game is, the grinding for health and stamina goes a bit too far. Skyrim, on the other hand, is more natural and progressive: You just... do what you wanna do, and your skills and abilities will strengthen depending on which ones you use. Additionally, you’ll receive perk points with every level you increase to, allowing you to devote those to whichever skills you want. As for art style, it’s almost pointless to compare them; even taking away the fact that these games are 6+ years and a console generation apart... it’s two completely different styles. Skyrim is going for a sharper, more realistic look for its landscapes and characters, while Zelda is more cartoonish with its exaggerated designs and bright colors; it looks vary much like the characters of a medieval tapestry or a fantasy storybook come to life. If I had to choose in this particular regard, though, I guess I’d have to go with Zelda; even ignoring Skyrim’s advancing age, I like BothW’s art design too much to pass it up.
You’re welcome. But just know that whichever one you choose, the other is also more than worth playing too should you get the chance. They’re both beautiful and phenomenal games... Skyrim just does more for me personally.
Scotttjt the problem with skyrim is enemy scaling. You can be maxed out level and armor and get killed by a bear. Zelda botw doesn't have that problem and gets my vote
marshall lowry you haven‘t really played Skyrim that much, have you? Only some enemies level together with you, but every enemy that does so (with some exceptions) stops leveling on a certain level. Bears for example have a set level of 12 ^^
Whenever I ask people about what makes Skyrim so great, it's either vague "it's just great" remarks like they're so baffled anyone would question it's greatness, the mods, and it's got so much stuff as if quantity alone was some measure of quality.
Skyrim has more content but the attention to detail in Zelda is crazy. The small things I missed about an open world game like that when going back to Skyrim was crazy. Both great but Zelda beats it out for me.
marc richards Honestly it is very hard to actually play open world games now since playing Breath of The Wild because of how much it does. Even playing Skyrim now makes me wish it had done a lot of things Breath of The Wild did.
@@llChrxsll If you are referring to physical details, yes. But overall pretty sure Breath of The Wild definitely has more. The way rain, fire, water, and the weather affects you and even items is pretty insane. interaction details is where Breath of The Wild shines. And it is easily more polished as well. Actually it may be the most stable massive scale open world game ever released up to this point.
@@gamersinger5118 thats just difference of tecnological advances. Look at the huge gap in release date. Still skyrims massive attention to detail beats zeldas better visuals any day
I like more the way we control link than the character in Skyrim. And I feel there is more little fun things to search everywhere in botw. And I really love the climbing aspect in botw. BUT I love the multiple ways we can play Skyrim and choose the strength of our character. And I recognize there is way more mission to complete in Skyrim. This is a win win. Both game are excellent and have there own strength and weaknesses
I don't know, I never really got hooked into Skyrim when I first tried it out, played for about 4 hours and I just couldn't get into it on the first day, pretty sure I had a total of 10 but i just couldn't really get into it. Meanwhile Breath of The Wild, just somehow was able to get me hooked, like I have about 75+ hours in it so far( I know, casual numbers lol) but if I had to pick between the 2, Breath of the Wild is probably the better game, in my opinion of course.
@@tidalwave_music Skyrim takes it. Don’t get me wrong, they’re both phenomenal games, but for me, the sheer grandeur and epicness of Breath of the Wild’s landscape is surpassed by just how free you are to interact with the world of Skyrim: You wanna tackle the main quest and be the hero of legend? You can do that. You wanna ignore it completely and be a sellsword or thief? You can do that. You wanna just be a peaceful citizen, only occasionally going on the odd quest? You can do that. With Breath of the Wild, your options are more limited: True, you could skip the main quest if you wanted and you’d still find enough to do to keep you entertained, but your ability to carve out a place for yourself in Hyrule is limited by the fact that, regardless of where you go or what you do, you’re still the hero of legend. In addition, Zelda’s leveling up system is really... REALLY slow and repetitive. To gain more health and stamina, you have to clear four shrines and collect four spheres in order to increase either by ONE point. So, to make yourself strong enough to tackle the games harder sections, you gotta clear A LOT of shrines consecutively, while occasionally being distracted by the odd minor quest. As beautiful and epic as the game is, the grinding for health and stamina goes a bit too far. Skyrim, on the other hand, is more natural and progressive: You just... do what you wanna do, and your skills and abilities will strengthen depending on which ones you use. Additionally, you’ll receive perk points with every level you increase to, allowing you to devote those to whichever skills you want. As for art style, it’s almost pointless to compare them; even taking away the fact that these games are 6+ years and a console generation apart... it’s two completely different styles. Skyrim is going for a sharper, more realistic look for its landscapes and characters, while Zelda is more cartoonish with its exaggerated designs and bright colors; it looks very much like the characters of a medieval tapestry or a fantasy storybook come to life.
I got skyrim on PS3, Xbox360, PC and when I get a Switch Lite, it will be that system too. I've never bought a game ever more than once. But skyrim is something else
Since I first played this game in 2011 on Xbox it has become a growing tradition of mine to revisit Skyrim every Fall/Winter. There is something comforting about just being in the world and exploring and hearing the music and seeing the landscapes. Most of the time I take the same path but I think the next time I play I will take a new path. Funny enough I've never beat the main campaign. At the end of 2022 I am picking up my old file from the Nintendo Switch Online cloud and planning to finish my Level 40ish Wood Elf. I'm joining the Thieves Guild and taking side quests but really focusing on the main quest so I can finally beat the game proper. Even if I don't finish I'm sure I'll find myself wanting to visit Skyrim next year or sometime in the future. There's so much nostalgia and memories I've had with the game. It was the game that really changed my perspective on open world games. GTA is great yet Skyrim really gets me in that fantasy mentality and reading the books and soaking up the lore never ceases to captivate me.
Virtual Nerd that’s either a lie or evidence of your lack of understanding... I’ve been playing video games for what? 20 years... your “just better” sub point is completely preference but as far as immersive? I remember when weather conditions, day and night cycles, and different topography in video games was ground breaking, revolutionary! Bethesda has been doing what they do best for years and not much has changed and to their credit they’re one of many pioneers HOWEVER... Breath of the Wild is by far more immersive than Skyrim... for example, I’ve found myself on my way to a shrine that took me 10-15 minutes to get to ONLY to be rained out and I had to find a different task to do because it was nearly impossible to get to without freezing or falling to my death... in Skyrim you can traverse the open world and you’ll only feel immersed in the dialogue with NPCs and not the actual world around you... BotW feels the most immersive and every other night the blood moon reminds you of the evil spreading across the world as the red moon spawns more difficult enemies... the shrines in my honest opinion feel disconnected from the world but pays homage to the puzzle like dungeons from the past... that parts being reimagined to fit with BotW world. Again BotW is by far the most immersive RPG to date...
V IE You're the one who don't know what he's talking about. BOTW? Immersive? It's certainly realistic but it's not that immersive compared to Skyrim. All your points are towards a game being realistic but not being immersive, the two are different things. While realism plays a factor in being immersive, it's not everything when it comes to immersion. Immersion is when you can feel yourself being inside a game, you can self insert yourself to the character and be the character having the same name and as close to your appearance as possible. Can you self insert yourself to Link and be Link? Possible, but the character is still Link, not you. In BOTW, you can become Link. In Skyrim, the Dragonborn IS you. Not to say that BOTW isn't immersive, it is but not as much as Skyrim.
@@nexus2828 yes you can be link and the world is more immersive due to the better gameplay mechanics. In skyrim I was a cat person.....when I went to third person I wasn't more immersed as a cat named mittens than when I was as an elf named link.
I couldn't agree more. I have had a hard time putting Skyrim down. I absolutely love it. One thing I have been saying for months now is "I wish BOTW had more towns and stuff to do." The only problem I have had with Skyrim is it seems that Lydia can't be resurrected. I tried everything it said to do in several TH-cam videos and it seems she is just gone. Oh well. Still a great game. So glad I got it.
Skyrim for me the game is a master piece! The fact you can play so many play styles be a warrior a mage a theif a assassin a archer and many more! or you can mix it up! A mage warrior a thief mixed with assain skills! So many more so you can play the game over and over with different play styles I've lost count how many different play styles I have played! BOTW done a fantastic job but once you played it I doubt you would start a new game any time soon due to lack of play styles you just have a bow and a sword and I hate the fact weapons break
Excellent analysis. I love both games and have them foe the switch. Skyrim has better people, places, and things to do but BOTW is better in about everything else like combat, physics and survival. Keep up the great videos.
I got to that part about 3 seconds after clicking the button to comment. But no game has before or since given me the feeling I got that first time playing BoTW at night, and in game it was night.. then started to rain... then the lightning... and then lightning hit a tree that caught on fire.. then suddenly I'm sparking, I realize I need to take off all my metal gear, so i'm huddled wet in the rain half naked in hyrule trying to get a fire started under a rock shelf.. it was.. incredible.
"Skyrim is a much more stagnant game. You can't do anything to make the game more interesting." lol. After only 20 hours, no. You haven't even gotten to building your own home yet.
Skyrim is definitely more addicting to me. I put in over 200 hours in Skyrim on PS3. Which was the most ever in a game for me. Then BOTW came and the put 320 plus hours! There is way more to do in Skyrim but Zelda had me smiling the entire time. I’ve been playing Skyrim on Switch and I’m right back again lost and loving it in Skyrim. I think BOTW is a top 5 game for me and I can’t wait for the DLC. Both games give me an excuse to go portable. I play them soo long that I need to share the TV so portable is awesome. Both are great. Skyrim has more content and Zelda has more style.
imagine Skyrim with weapons that break easily, weather and temperatures that can kill you, enemies that revive when a blood moon randomly appears and you can climb mountains like Spiderman unless it rains lol (I love both Skyrim & Breath of the Wild)
Controls i can understand but the character in Skyrim you make is yours and you build him or her from the ground up so its your fault if you dont like the character you made
To me it's not even a contest. Skyrim wins. I was burned by bugs 3 times with that game and still appreciate it for what it is. The second GOAT of openworld gaming. The first is oblivion :P
Thanks for the review on Skyrim. I have not played this game and I have been thinking of getting it for awhile now. This video has got me excited for it. Can’t wait to go pick it up.
Is this game majority played from the first person point of view? If so, that's a huge let down. I'm not a fan of the first person view. I prefer third person view in video games.
Okay I used to say Skyrim is better but last night I literally had some epic breath of the wild gameplay this game is amazing as well both are good but honestly breath of the wild is…massive
Skyrims world is more immersive but its gameplay and particularly its combat is clunky. Breath of the wild has better combat and gameplay but has a much less immersive world. Botw is the better single play through game but little replay value, Skyrim has infinite replay value but slightly sub par experiences past the immersiveness of it. Both main quests are meh. Both are must buys!!
I'm perfectly ok with them doing open world, they just need to give the player a better reason to explore than just finding new environment and looking for shrines. Korok Seeds is NOT content. Plus, the enemy variety in BotW would work better with a linear Zelda, but this is open world. Reskinning enemies and calling it variety doesn't work here.
Skyrim easily. BoTW open world is kind of boring to be honest. The climbing and paragliding mechanic are the best features. It just sucks that most of Hyrule is vast emptiness.
I have over 1500 hours on Skyrim all together on multiple different consoles/play throughs and have never even completed the main story line. To me that shows how much this game can take over your mindset and immerse you. You can be who you want and live how you want. There are Npc’s all around that although may not be the most uniquely dialogued , feel like people. The game is buggy/clunky and sometimes hilariously unpolished but it in the end makes it more of a sporadic experience. I myself hate to fast travel in games and choose to avoid it all together. In Zelda although i find the game beautiful and fun , i seem to lack the will to travel because everything comes off as empty and dull. You can walk on a road for 2 hours and see no npc’s and if lucky will see a man with a backpack who doesn’t want to talk to you.Vanilla Skyrim still holds up until this day unlike many games from early 2010’s . Zeldas art style however is unlike anything I’ve played . It is so pretty and smooth that it makes you want to explore when there is nothing much to explore being completely honest. I read comments about BOTW and all i hear about is the amazing “ATTENTION TO DETAIL “ but I myself see zero detail at all. Everything seems lifeless and as if you have seen it before .
BotW is just so...empty. It's basically just a painting you walk through, and it has almost no content as you're traveling between areas. Skyrim's definitely a better game, but BotW is more aesthetically pleasing.
ecksdee gotypicks.blogspot.com/?m=1 According to this site Zelda BOTW won 189 awards. Skyrim's over 200 awards is especially impressive because there weren't as many outlets giving GOTY awards back in 2011. However there are other factors of course like competition between games. In 2017 Horizon Zero Dawn grabbed 52 GOTY awards and Mario Odyssey 26 though I don't remember what was Skyrim going against back in 2011. Witcher 3 holds the record with close to 250 awards followed by the last of us which is also close to that number.
How I see it, if you’re playing Zelda BOTW for the first time you need to put Skyrim aside in your mind and realize it’s not going to be the same but will have the same aspects to it, it’s a completely a different game. After all it’s Nintendo. Both are still amazing games.
Did you know you can skip the lost woods entirely by cutting a tree in the right area and using stasis while hitting it multiple times to catapult yourself over then paraglide?
First time I’ve really disagreed with you my man. I think they are both great games and a lot of people may think that Zelda is better but I still think Skyrim is very immersive and I know personally I was sucked in but I’m also one of the people who’s played hundreds of hours and just bought the switch version. Keep making great videos man 👌🏽
Guys get Frea as an NPC in Skyrim and you can just stand around when being attacked and she can do most of the fighting for you because she’s so badass especially if give her the right equipment! :-)
Skyrim succeeds more than BOTW in crafting a whole world for you to live in. Most of Hyrule in BOTW is empty mountainous regions with settlements few and far between. That being said I think BOTW is still better as a whole.
+Ryan Wilhite I'll take Skyrim over ZBOTW any day. While ZBOTW is a great game, it's a one and done for me. I have no urge to play it anymore. With Skyrim, the world is still the most immersive world ever in gaming. It's a world that you lose yourself in. From Home ownership to marriage and adoption, I have a stake in Skyrim. If I want to place a bunch of apples on my kitchen table I can. If I want to lay all my collected staff's on the floor I can. Want to sit by the fire and read an open book, you can. Want to build your own home, you can. There's a lot more I could say, but I've said enough. In my opinion Skyrim is the better game overall.
WITLESSMASS Yeah I acknowledged the world of Skyrim is much deeper, I just prefer all of the zelda gameplay elements like patterned boss battles and shrine puzzles they put into BOTW more than the rinse and repeat gameplay of the Elder Scrolls series (which I've put about a thousand hours into overall). The next LOZ game should still be open world like BOTW but set in a Hyrule that is bustling with towns and villages full of people who have their own quests for you like the towns in Skyrim.
"Most of Hyrule in BOTW is empty mountainous regions with settlements few and far between." that's why it's called "breath of the wild." like RGT said, it's done by design in order to make it more conducive to the immersive experience of its overall game play dynamic.
I think Skyrim beats BotW when it comes to the story, side quests and rpg elements. BotW is better as a living and breathing environment. The ability to interact with everything and the pure exploration aspect is second to none. Both are great in what they seek to accomplish. Now develop a game that applies both of these aspects...
If this is ANYTHING like Breath Of The Wild, I know I'll love it. BUT....can you play the entire game in third-person mode? I read that you can in other versions. But I'm not sure about this one. First person games make me extremely motion sick. In fact, I was getting sick just watching this video.
Skyrim isn't as close to BOTW as I thought. I actually don't like it as much as I thought I would. It does some things better then BOTW but BOTW will always be miles better in my heart
@@Kcwright415 I felt the exact same way after I picked up Skyrim for the first time. Until then, I didn't notice just how little there is to do in Hyrule.
@@TheAbsol7448 Well, it is a Zelda game first. You go to the villages, you complete a main quest, and then you complete a few side quests for a few of the people there. You also complete a few dungeons, er I mean "shrines" by solving puzzles. Then you run around an open field and fight monsters in between. This is just how Zelda has always worked. It's just with this one, they've made the map the size of GTA 5's, and took away the linear gameplay. It's more about exploration than the storyline. I just wish that they gave you a big city to explore, the one we only see in ruins with guardian inhabitants. Would've been a bit nicer. Even without that though, I still love running around in that game, trying to find new shrines or new treasures and a few other things.
I happen to own both games. I got both from the local Pawn Brokers. Breath of the Wild I got preowned in its case, while Skyrim I got as a bonus with Assassin's Creed: The Rebel Collection, because it was in the same case as the latter. The owners of the Pawn Brokers let me have it for no extra cost. Lucky!
I've played Skyrim probably a thousand hours and BOtW 60ish hour. I have much more fun with Skyrim overall. BotW feels too sparse. You have to explore 30 min to pick up an apple. The dungeons are more puzzle than exploration. There's no sense of building up your character with weapons and armor. I don't really understand people who think BotW is a better game. I tend to think they just say that because it has Zelda on the cover.
Skyrim has a way better open world botw may have a huge open world but it doesn't have that much variety and quest and dungeons and skyrim had way more variety and quest and dungeons and way better story and writing lots of fun things to do hyrule was pretty empty af compare to skyrim
The only things I'll give BotW are its world(just Hyrule and not the content. It's absolutely more polished than Skyrim, especially with mountains), style, aesthetics, boss fights(I think), and maybe combat. The Champion's Tunic is also on par or even above Skyrim's outfits. The races are just as cool. I think the Zoras are just as cool as the Argonians(now I kinda want a Zelda that's built just like Skyrim, where you choose a race to play and write your own story). Skyrim has better characters(Teba is bird dad, though), better music, you can actually craft weapons in armor and make them stronger(could repair weapons in Morrowind), way more outfits, more combat variety, better quests, much more enemy variety, better houses, better traveling NPCs, better towns(except maybe Gerudo Town), and maybe better lore.
@@TheAbsol7448 honestly, theres nothing more blood pumping than entering a dungeon with an underleveled character on a high difficulty. The draugrs are more like final bosses XD
Gotta say, going to Skyrim after beating Breath of the Wild, Skyrim looks kinda weak now. In term of how the world is crafted, Zelda is far better, you don't even need the map to know where you need to go...or even better, to find where you WANT to go. In Skyrim...well, everything looks more or less the same, some trees on the left, some trees on the right. Oh a dungeon!...oh wait...didn't I do this one before? It looks so familiar =')
Weak? Compared to the ridiculous, cartoon graphics of Zelda? Lmao the game is awful, the character design is awful, the landscape is awful, the mapping system is a complete joke and I'll stop there coz I'm running out of breath!!! Plus dont forget Skyrim is nearly a decade old. 😁😁
I honestly prefer Skyrim. I have over 3000 hours in 3 different versions combined, I haven’t even beaten BotW because I got so bored with it. I love Zelda, in fact I’ve only played three Elder Scrolls games (Skyrim, Online, and Oblivion which I hated), while I’ve played almost all the Zelda games, but BotW is boring to me compared to other games in the series.
I got BOTW for the Wii U and later for the Switch. Incredible game, but I haven't finished it because there's a part of me that loves completing everything first! Just got my first Elder Scrolls and seriously I'm loving Skyrim a lot, and the fact that everytime you begin again it will be different gets me really into it more and more! Not feeling the need of getting everything but just surviving.
The fact that Skyrim came out in 2011 and is still relevant today and enjoyable to play speaks volumes. Skyrim made a huge impact when it first came out and still manages to draw in attention.
GenX Jay Great point. I prefer BOTW, but love both. Longevity is significant though. Skyward Sword came out in 2011...
Quentin Compson Thanks, yeah I’m excited to play BOTW when I get a Switch. Skyrim will always be my favorite game. I’ve never put as many hours into a game as I did Skyrim and probably never will. I’ve been playing Skyrim since it came out and I continue to play it to this day.
Tbf that has a lot to do with the modding community, which kept the game alive. And of course because of Bethesda, and their strategy to rerelease this game on every new toaster that comes out.
@@grungelab9473 you should try morrowind, its much better than skyrim. If they had equal graphics everyones favorite game would be morrowind
Skyrim is boring overrated garbage by a medicore dev like one dude said morrowind is far better as an RPG not a hack n slash game like skyrim.
Twenty something hours into Skyrim... Bless your heart....
Lol. True. I can easily say ive spent 300hrs+. If you like the game its pretty hard to do less than 100hrs on 1 playthrough
@@yshrenianknight2516 I'm approaching 500 hours (I've only really played the Switch version) and my average playthrough is 100 hours.
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Ha ha ha cute. I’ve played the same PS3 version since 2012
@Sirgreasy On the 360? Damn.
No need to compare, just buy both 😉 both are excellent.
I think that's a statement anyone could agree with.
Yes but see, some of us are on budget and really wants to get our moneys worth
definitely agree
THOR WAR I’m not wasting $120
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On a budget? Then pirate it. An R4S Dongle is only $20.
It's been 5 long years since I've played Skyrim. I know I'm due for another playthrough, but I'm also afraid to lose hundreds of hours of my life. I've seen things man.
Same
Except it’s been 8 for me
@juan Garcia Man I forgot all about this. I have to admit, the 10 year anniversary might be enough to make me grab Skyrim again.
shhhhh it's time again ;)
For me, I love botw, but I felt at one point there was a time limit. I was walking around having done all the shrines and side quests basically just looking for koroks lol. I beat the game in around 140 hours after realizing there was nothing much else for me to do. It was an incredible game that was well rounded in all aspects. But you do get to a point where you just have to beat the game.
Whereas with Skyrim I am already a good 300 hours in and have barely touched the main quest at all. There is literally SO MUCH to do that it sucks your life right out from under you (kind of a bad thing for me since I'm a student). It is definitely way more buggy and there is not much diversity in fighting, but if you are looking for a massive world with endless things to do, Skyrim is the game for you.
мιnту мøcнι thanks for telling i knew that botw was not that great but thanks for telling LONG LIFE SKYRIM.
You haven't looked in BotW then
I agree. Also in BotW you can't be a psycho murderer in charge of other psycho murderers.
@@mactills1368 lol you're a fanboy look at your pfp
@@mactills1368 i have played breath of the wild its a good game but when i finished it feels boring and empty cause theres nothing else to do i already explore the whole castle beat all the shrine and divine beast and explore the world
To me: Zelda's combat mechanics is superior.
In terms of IMMERSIVE story-telling and quests, Skyrim is superior!
I think I'm beginning to favor Skyrim more because of the immersive quests and side quests, and how they are introduced in unexpected ways!
totally agree! also skyrim has more intimate interaction between the player and objects, people, and places
@@jajafruit It all becomes better with modding as well!
@DrkAsDeath have you even played botw?
@@JackAttack301 yes and its wacky
I prefer Skyrim because I love RPGs. I’m really addicted to it and the glitches are hilarious. Lol.
And how many have you actually come across, honestly. Not just jumping on the "all bethesda games have massive bugs" bandwaggon? I'm 50 odd hours into skyrim and the only one I've encountered is the audio glitching out. Well over 1000 hours on other platforms and even then I never saw backwards dragons and stuff. Just Lydia getting in the damn way every chance she got till I had her sacrificed lol
Zelda is an rpg too.
And the award for best comment on this video goes ttoooo... Shrimp Poboy!!!!
Dragon_Eat3r yah, it is, wanna gold sticker?
Skyrim isnt even an RPG its a casual hack n slash lol 😂
Skyrim the whole reason for me buying a switch was so I’d be able to play it on the go
"You can be a Nord, you can be a thief."
@sirgreasy LOL SAME
Lol
Perspective from 4 years later: Having never played a real open world title because I thought they were too overwhelming, I played Breath of the Wild as my first real foray into them and I think it was the perfect game to make me want to delve deeper into other open worlds like Skyrim. And it helped me get more comfortable with directing my own experience without being tooooo much.
I'm now waist deep in my first Skyrim playthrough and I'm obsessed! Really thrilled BotW exists so I didnt end up missing out on all these things!
How did your playthrough go?
@@RFNY315 lmao you caught me about to start a new file actually 😂 It was amazing, I devolved into a mindless blob that only consumed Skyrim content for a while. Made it unrecognizable with mods. God I love it so much 🥲
I stand by this comment still too, BotW made it possible for me to tackle Skyrim, and I'm so happy because Skyrim is easily a top 3 or 4 game for me now.
@@CaBobProductions niiiiiiice lol. I played skyrim only for like an hour or two when it released originally. Then for some reason never went back. Played a ton of BOTW though. And love TOTK so far. But I’ve been thinking about giving skyrim another try. Plus, it looks like it might be pretty fun on the switch. It often goes on sale and has that uograded edition
You sold me! Just finishing TOTK and trying to decide between this and Witcher 3
@cabob- what are your top games?
When Skyrim came out it was a gigantic, immersive game for it's time. The fact that I can now play it while waiting at the doctor, or while travelling, is amazing. I played many hours of Skyrim when it first came out, but I can easily see myself getting sucked back into the game on the Switch.
I’ve played both for roughly 50 hours apiece, and I gotta say... Skyrim takes it. Don’t get me wrong, they’re both phenomenal games, but for me, the sheer grandeur and epicness of Breath of the Wild’s landscape is surpassed by just how free you are to interact with the world of Skyrim:
You wanna tackle the main quest and be the hero of legend? You can do that. You wanna ignore it completely and be a sellsword or thief? You can do that. You wanna just be a peaceful citizen, only occasionally going on the odd quest? You can do that. With Breath of the Wild, your options are more limited: True, you could skip the main quest if you wanted and you’d still find enough to do to keep you entertained, but your ability to carve out a place for yourself in Hyrule is limited by the fact that, regardless of where you go or what you do, you’re still the hero of legend.
In addition, Zelda’s leveling up system is really... REALLY slow and repetitive. To gain more health and stamina, you have to clear four shrines and collect four spheres in order to increase either by ONE point. So, to make yourself strong enough to tackle the games harder sections, you gotta clear A LOT of shrines consecutively, while occasionally being distracted by the odd minor quest. As beautiful and epic as the game is, the grinding for health and stamina goes a bit too far. Skyrim, on the other hand, is more natural and progressive: You just... do what you wanna do, and your skills and abilities will strengthen depending on which ones you use. Additionally, you’ll receive perk points with every level you increase to, allowing you to devote those to whichever skills you want.
As for art style, it’s almost pointless to compare them; even taking away the fact that these games are 6+ years and a console generation apart... it’s two completely different styles. Skyrim is going for a sharper, more realistic look for its landscapes and characters, while Zelda is more cartoonish with its exaggerated designs and bright colors; it looks vary much like the characters of a medieval tapestry or a fantasy storybook come to life. If I had to choose in this particular regard, though, I guess I’d have to go with Zelda; even ignoring Skyrim’s advancing age, I like BothW’s art design too much to pass it up.
Scotttjt Thank you. You made my decision easier.
You’re welcome. But just know that whichever one you choose, the other is also more than worth playing too should you get the chance. They’re both beautiful and phenomenal games... Skyrim just does more for me personally.
Scotttjt the problem with skyrim is enemy scaling. You can be maxed out level and armor and get killed by a bear. Zelda botw doesn't have that problem and gets my vote
marshall lowry you haven‘t really played Skyrim that much, have you? Only some enemies level together with you, but every enemy that does so (with some exceptions) stops leveling on a certain level. Bears for example have a set level of 12 ^^
marshall lowry it’s the same thing In Zelda stupid fanboy
Skyrim is the best game I have ever played and I've only played it for a week XD
It has so much content
It's jawdropping
Zelda gets it in my book though both are great games.
Eric Timmer I agree.
I disagree. Skyrim is a terrible game. It's a great canvas for modders to develop some projects on, maybe.
Arslan Aladeen hey that's your opinion and it none of my business but I like sky rim.
Whenever I ask people about what makes Skyrim so great, it's either vague "it's just great" remarks like they're so baffled anyone would question it's greatness, the mods, and it's got so much stuff as if quantity alone was some measure of quality.
Bro no one cares ... thats like .... your opinion man..
Skyrim has more content but the attention to detail in Zelda is crazy. The small things I missed about an open world game like that when going back to Skyrim was crazy. Both great but Zelda beats it out for me.
Skyrim has alot more details compared to Zelda.
Its a whole yt channel dedicated to skyrim details most people missed.... Soooo yea
marc richards
Honestly it is very hard to actually play open world games now since playing Breath of The Wild because of how much it does. Even playing Skyrim now makes me wish it had done a lot of things Breath of The Wild did.
@@llChrxsll
If you are referring to physical details, yes. But overall pretty sure Breath of The Wild definitely has more. The way rain, fire, water, and the weather affects you and even items is pretty insane. interaction details is where Breath of The Wild shines. And it is easily more polished as well. Actually it may be the most stable massive scale open world game ever released up to this point.
@@gamersinger5118 thats just difference of tecnological advances. Look at the huge gap in release date.
Still skyrims massive attention to detail beats zeldas better visuals any day
I like more the way we control link than the character in Skyrim. And I feel there is more little fun things to search everywhere in botw. And I really love the climbing aspect in botw. BUT I love the multiple ways we can play Skyrim and choose the strength of our character. And I recognize there is way more mission to complete in Skyrim.
This is a win win. Both game are excellent and have there own strength and weaknesses
When i played skyrim the first time I couldnt stop. I find myself taking lots of breaks between botw. I have to relearn the game each time
Skyrim is Epic... period, others only try and imitate
You ain't wrong
shredidiah morrowind is better than skyrim. Skyrim is mild in comparison
shredidiah fallout 4 is better than skyrim
Skyrim is better then Skyrim
shredidiah facts
I prefer Skyrim
How do I delete your comment?
Creep by buying another copy of Breath of the Wild of course
Same there’s more to do and you have more options where as in Zelda there’s limited things you can do
Domino Dolphin that’s not true. Zelda botw gets me hooked every day. There’s more to do than you think
Hugh Jass Hole i prefer you shut up 🙃
I spent over 500 hours on Skyrim and I still never completed everything. So much to be had.
I don't know, I never really got hooked into Skyrim when I first tried it out, played for about 4 hours and I just couldn't get into it on the first day, pretty sure I had a total of 10 but i just couldn't really get into it. Meanwhile Breath of The Wild, just somehow was able to get me hooked, like I have about 75+ hours in it so far( I know, casual numbers lol) but if I had to pick between the 2, Breath of the Wild is probably the better game, in my opinion of course.
same, Skyrim just feels really bland in comparison, can't get into it, although I'd like to
(In Skyrim, if you get hooked by it, you can have 200+ hours in it)
@@tidalwave_music I had the same view but then I start playing around and enjoying the game
@@tidalwave_music Skyrim takes it. Don’t get me wrong, they’re both phenomenal games, but for me, the sheer grandeur and epicness of Breath of the Wild’s landscape is surpassed by just how free you are to interact with the world of Skyrim: You wanna tackle the main quest and be the hero of legend? You can do that. You wanna ignore it completely and be a sellsword or thief? You can do that. You wanna just be a peaceful citizen, only occasionally going on the odd quest? You can do that. With Breath of the Wild, your options are more limited: True, you could skip the main quest if you wanted and you’d still find enough to do to keep you entertained, but your ability to carve out a place for yourself in Hyrule is limited by the fact that, regardless of where you go or what you do, you’re still the hero of legend. In addition, Zelda’s leveling up system is really... REALLY slow and repetitive. To gain more health and stamina, you have to clear four shrines and collect four spheres in order to increase either by ONE point. So, to make yourself strong enough to tackle the games harder sections, you gotta clear A LOT of shrines consecutively, while occasionally being distracted by the odd minor quest. As beautiful and epic as the game is, the grinding for health and stamina goes a bit too far. Skyrim, on the other hand, is more natural and progressive: You just... do what you wanna do, and your skills and abilities will strengthen depending on which ones you use. Additionally, you’ll receive perk points with every level you increase to, allowing you to devote those to whichever skills you want. As for art style, it’s almost pointless to compare them; even taking away the fact that these games are 6+ years and a console generation apart... it’s two completely different styles. Skyrim is going for a sharper, more realistic look for its landscapes and characters, while Zelda is more cartoonish with its exaggerated designs and bright colors; it looks very much like the characters of a medieval tapestry or a fantasy storybook come to life.
Skyrim's on a different level than all other open world games. It's not really fair to compare anything to it.
I got skyrim on PS3, Xbox360, PC and when I get a Switch Lite, it will be that system too. I've never bought a game ever more than once. But skyrim is something else
I agree
Since I first played this game in 2011 on Xbox it has become a growing tradition of mine to revisit Skyrim every Fall/Winter. There is something comforting about just being in the world and exploring and hearing the music and seeing the landscapes. Most of the time I take the same path but I think the next time I play I will take a new path. Funny enough I've never beat the main campaign. At the end of 2022 I am picking up my old file from the Nintendo Switch Online cloud and planning to finish my Level 40ish Wood Elf. I'm joining the Thieves Guild and taking side quests but really focusing on the main quest so I can finally beat the game proper. Even if I don't finish I'm sure I'll find myself wanting to visit Skyrim next year or sometime in the future. There's so much nostalgia and memories I've had with the game. It was the game that really changed my perspective on open world games. GTA is great yet Skyrim really gets me in that fantasy mentality and reading the books and soaking up the lore never ceases to captivate me.
I love Botw, but Skyrim is just better and more immersive.
Yeah, then glitches are immersive as heck, along with the awkward AI.
In all seriousness, Skyrim has an amazing world.
Virtual Nerd that’s either a lie or evidence of your lack of understanding... I’ve been playing video games for what? 20 years... your “just better” sub point is completely preference but as far as immersive? I remember when weather conditions, day and night cycles, and different topography in video games was ground breaking, revolutionary! Bethesda has been doing what they do best for years and not much has changed and to their credit they’re one of many pioneers HOWEVER... Breath of the Wild is by far more immersive than Skyrim... for example, I’ve found myself on my way to a shrine that took me 10-15 minutes to get to ONLY to be rained out and I had to find a different task to do because it was nearly impossible to get to without freezing or falling to my death... in Skyrim you can traverse the open world and you’ll only feel immersed in the dialogue with NPCs and not the actual world around you... BotW feels the most immersive and every other night the blood moon reminds you of the evil spreading across the world as the red moon spawns more difficult enemies... the shrines in my honest opinion feel disconnected from the world but pays homage to the puzzle like dungeons from the past... that parts being reimagined to fit with BotW world. Again BotW is by far the most immersive RPG to date...
Nah
V IE
You're the one who don't know what he's talking about. BOTW? Immersive? It's certainly realistic but it's not that immersive compared to Skyrim. All your points are towards a game being realistic but not being immersive, the two are different things.
While realism plays a factor in being immersive, it's not everything when it comes to immersion.
Immersion is when you can feel yourself being inside a game, you can self insert yourself to the character and be the character having the same name and as close to your appearance as possible. Can you self insert yourself to Link and be Link? Possible, but the character is still Link, not you.
In BOTW, you can become Link.
In Skyrim, the Dragonborn IS you.
Not to say that BOTW isn't immersive, it is but not as much as Skyrim.
@@nexus2828 yes you can be link and the world is more immersive due to the better gameplay mechanics. In skyrim I was a cat person.....when I went to third person I wasn't more immersed as a cat named mittens than when I was as an elf named link.
I couldn't agree more. I have had a hard time putting Skyrim down. I absolutely love it. One thing I have been saying for months now is "I wish BOTW had more towns and stuff to do." The only problem I have had with Skyrim is it seems that Lydia can't be resurrected. I tried everything it said to do in several TH-cam videos and it seems she is just gone. Oh well. Still a great game. So glad I got it.
Skyrim for me the game is a master piece! The fact you can play so many play styles be a warrior a mage a theif a assassin a archer and many more! or you can mix it up! A mage warrior a thief mixed with assain skills! So many more so you can play the game over and over with different play styles I've lost count how many different play styles I have played! BOTW done a fantastic job but once you played it I doubt you would start a new game any time soon due to lack of play styles you just have a bow and a sword and I hate the fact weapons break
3000+ hours in skyrim total so far, just started switch edition and probably hundreds of hours there too
I can play Skyrim longer. I did have more fun playing botw though.
Excellent analysis. I love both games and have them foe the switch. Skyrim has better people, places, and things to do but BOTW is better in about everything else like combat, physics and survival. Keep up the great videos.
I play skyrim every day because it’s my all-time favorite game
Still playing everyday?
@@bigballrecall not everyday but i still play it a lot
BoTW.
Skyrim is still kinda buggy for a game ported and 'fixed' so many times.
+Brian Preston yeah I come to that conclusion in a round about way.
I got to that part about 3 seconds after clicking the button to comment.
But no game has before or since given me the feeling I got that first time playing BoTW at night, and in game it was night.. then started to rain... then the lightning... and then lightning hit a tree that caught on fire.. then suddenly I'm sparking, I realize I need to take off all my metal gear, so i'm huddled wet in the rain half naked in hyrule trying to get a fire started under a rock shelf.. it was.. incredible.
Brian Preston Seriously so many amazing experiences. And they all felt unique and personal. Never has a game immersed me like botw.
I liked being able to climb in Botw bc Skyrim seemed to have invisible barriers preventing you from scaling up a mountain
I played the ps3 version for years and didnt encounter any bigs until about 200+hrs. Probably due to the shear toll it took on my old ps3
The Star Fox watch still fits nicely!
"Skyrim is a much more stagnant game. You can't do anything to make the game more interesting."
lol. After only 20 hours, no. You haven't even gotten to building your own home yet.
Skyrim is definitely more addicting to me. I put in over 200 hours in Skyrim on PS3. Which was the most ever in a game for me. Then BOTW came and the put 320 plus hours! There is way more to do in Skyrim but Zelda had me smiling the entire time. I’ve been playing Skyrim on Switch and I’m right back again lost and loving it in Skyrim. I think BOTW is a top 5 game for me and I can’t wait for the DLC. Both games give me an excuse to go portable. I play them soo long that I need to share the TV so portable is awesome. Both are great. Skyrim has more content and Zelda has more style.
imagine Skyrim with weapons that break easily, weather and temperatures that can kill you, enemies that revive when a blood moon randomly appears and you can climb mountains like Spiderman unless it rains lol (I love both Skyrim & Breath of the Wild)
Yesss yesss yessssssss
Skyrim is great and all, but it lacks the controls and character that BOTW has.
It lacks the control but has more charecter then botw
Controls i can understand but the character in Skyrim you make is yours and you build him or her from the ground up so its your fault if you dont like the character you made
Skyrim definitely has more deep and interesting characters.
Teba's best bird dad, though.
Sebastien Bricou I think he meant more so for the npcs
I was gonna get Skyrim, but I decided to buy BOTW a second time
PKMN_Trainer_Chito , maybe he had the wii u version.
I bought breath of the wild 3 times actually.... wii u, switch collection and now the explorers edition
And this is why 3rd party games sell poorly on Nintendo consoles. *sigh*
vio2112 they are actually doing pretty good on the switch do far
vio2112 I hope when the next Nintendo Console drops the fucking Nintendo Fans don't fucking ruin it for us that want ALL SUPPORT
I’ll pick it up when it gets down to 20 or 25$ it’s a little too expensive for such a old game. Great game though
Sadly every game is expensive on the Switch
I was just about to say. 3 years later still expensive.
To me it's not even a contest. Skyrim wins. I was burned by bugs 3 times with that game and still appreciate it for what it is. The second GOAT of openworld gaming. The first is oblivion :P
Thanks for the review on Skyrim. I have not played this game and I have been thinking of getting it for awhile now. This video has got me excited for it. Can’t wait to go pick it up.
The best game you ever played
I have never played Skyrim or BOTW, which should I try first?
Bzb123 botw on switch, skyrim anything else
Skyrim. Don’t listen to Marshall here, botw is a waste of money. Trust me, I bought it, and it was a HUGE disappointment.
Soo which game did u first bought ;0;
Borderlands.
Borderland sucks
I love borderlands
Borderlands is too grindy.
Skyrim has more stuff to do.
Is this game majority played from the first person point of view? If so, that's a huge let down. I'm not a fan of the first person view. I prefer third person view in video games.
Ivan Walker you can choose 1st or 3rd person
For those late to the Skyrim game, it’s on sale in the eShop right now!
Skyrim or Doom Eternal? Which one you think is better?
@@MrYAZZ-hl7pw I have only played Skyrim, but I have to say I love it! It’s such an immersive experience and a beautiful example of an open world
Okay I used to say Skyrim is better but last night I literally had some epic breath of the wild gameplay this game is amazing as well both are good but honestly breath of the wild is…massive
Skyrims world is more immersive but its gameplay and particularly its combat is clunky.
Breath of the wild has better combat and gameplay but has a much less immersive world.
Botw is the better single play through game but little replay value, Skyrim has infinite replay value but slightly sub par experiences past the immersiveness of it.
Both main quests are meh.
Both are must buys!!
I'm a Nintendo fanboy and I prefer Skyrim.
Thanks bro!! You have come soo far!
This was helpful thank you
Put the bong down, you’re literally using the word “literally” incorrectly.
Skyrim, hands down. The jump to open world made Zelda really boring, they really should stick to their slightly more linear approach.
I'm perfectly ok with them doing open world, they just need to give the player a better reason to explore than just finding new environment and looking for shrines. Korok Seeds is NOT content. Plus, the enemy variety in BotW would work better with a linear Zelda, but this is open world. Reskinning enemies and calling it variety doesn't work here.
skyrim is better more content, replay value because of the amount of builds you could make
I'm an avid Zelda fan, but I still think Skyrim is the better game.
StoneCold agreed
That was hard for me to swallow at first when I played through Skyrim. Now, I think I'm as interested in TES as I am with Zelda, maybe even more.
Botws combat + skyrims quests would make the greatest game ever
Botw amazing game, but Skyrim just tops it for me much more to do and I can play it longer without getting bored
“Nord is a hand to hand combat warrior” yeah… that hurt to hear.
Skyrim is still the open world standard.
Skyrim on PC and with mods holds its own for sure against Breath of the Wild. Even without mods, it does. Mods just make it even better.
Skyrim easily. BoTW open world is kind of boring to be honest. The climbing and paragliding mechanic are the best features. It just sucks that most of Hyrule is vast emptiness.
Sparkz Mentalz skyrim seems more bland....
I have over 1500 hours on Skyrim all together on multiple different consoles/play throughs and have never even completed the main story line. To me that shows how much this game can take over your mindset and immerse you. You can be who you want and live how you want. There are Npc’s all around that although may not be the most uniquely dialogued , feel like people. The game is buggy/clunky and sometimes hilariously unpolished but it in the end makes it more of a sporadic experience. I myself hate to fast travel in games and choose to avoid it all together. In Zelda although i find the game beautiful and fun , i seem to lack the will to travel because everything comes off as empty and dull. You can walk on a road for 2 hours and see no npc’s and if lucky will see a man with a backpack who doesn’t want to talk to you.Vanilla Skyrim still holds up until this day unlike many games from early 2010’s . Zeldas art style however is unlike anything I’ve played . It is so pretty and smooth that it makes you want to explore when there is nothing much to explore being completely honest. I read comments about BOTW and all i hear about is the amazing “ATTENTION TO DETAIL “ but I myself see zero detail at all. Everything seems lifeless and as if you have seen it before .
'Hyrule Shield'
All Zelda players cringed.....
Very much so
Botw is a great game, but Skyrim is just next level. There's really no comparing the two because Skyrim is just that much better
The answer is super Mario odyssey
XD
STUPID, STUPID STUPID!!!
(Jk you ain’t stupid.)
Lol.
The answer is obviously Minecraft
I personally think Odyssey is overrated garbage. Huge disappointment, traded it for Skyrim, I wouldn't go back.
just started to play Skyrim yesterday...not being able to climb is really frustrating
BotW is just so...empty. It's basically just a painting you walk through, and it has almost no content as you're traveling between areas. Skyrim's definitely a better game, but BotW is more aesthetically pleasing.
I plan on picking Skyrim up later when I can afford it. I only put 4hrs on the PS3 version.
I used play Skyrim morning to night all day every day definitely sucked in 😂😂😂
how many hours in total is Skyrim and Zelda?
Skyrim has 200 game of the year awards so yer there's your answer
Well 2017 isnt over yet, lets wait and see how many goty awards LoZ gets
Vex RaZeR and it’s been out for like 7 years
ecksdee gotypicks.blogspot.com/?m=1 According to this site Zelda BOTW won 189 awards. Skyrim's over 200 awards is especially impressive because there weren't as many outlets giving GOTY awards back in 2011. However there are other factors of course like competition between games. In 2017 Horizon Zero Dawn grabbed 52 GOTY awards and Mario Odyssey 26 though I don't remember what was Skyrim going against back in 2011. Witcher 3 holds the record with close to 250 awards followed by the last of us which is also close to that number.
RGT 85 do u know that the voice actor of Mario also voiced paarthurnax in Skyrim?
I love both but as soon as I bought Skyrim on my switch it's been hard to go back to Zelda lol.
How I see it, if you’re playing Zelda BOTW for the first time you need to put Skyrim aside in your mind and realize it’s not going to be the same but will have the same aspects to it, it’s a completely a different game. After all it’s Nintendo. Both are still amazing games.
BoTW! Thank You for your time.
Who got the biggest map?
Botw
Dude! I think it’s time for a haircut. Looking like curly Sue. 😁
BigDaddyGeralt so true... XDXD
Hair is looking greasy too lol
What a bunch of idiots
Did you know you can skip the lost woods entirely by cutting a tree in the right area and using stasis while hitting it multiple times to catapult yourself over then paraglide?
I'll take skyrim. I got bored with botw plus the enemy types are to cartoonish for me
First time I’ve really disagreed with you my man. I think they are both great games and a lot of people may think that Zelda is better but I still think Skyrim is very immersive and I know personally I was sucked in but I’m also one of the people who’s played hundreds of hours and just bought the switch version. Keep making great videos man 👌🏽
I enjoyed or rather Still enjoying Skyrim, much more than Breath of the Wild. Wild's world seems empty.
Skyrim is so massice you can play for years and still not get 100%
Great review! Thanks
RGT you think fallout will be a switch title
Lets hope so. 3 and vegas are amazing, and using the same engine, oblivion would be great as a portable game too.
Mikey C I still play Vegas the most it’s awesome and imo best fallout
Not Fallout 4
Skyrim for my opinion
Skyrim is better. It has more content.
It might have content but its really hard to get through that content with gameplay so abyssmal
@@jkthegreat5687 At least it is better than The legend of zelda
Guys get Frea as an NPC in Skyrim and you can just stand around when being attacked and she can do most of the fighting for you because she’s so badass especially if give her the right equipment! :-)
Skyrim succeeds more than BOTW in crafting a whole world for you to live in. Most of Hyrule in BOTW is empty mountainous regions with settlements few and far between. That being said I think BOTW is still better as a whole.
+Ryan Wilhite nailed it.
+Ryan Wilhite I'll take Skyrim over ZBOTW any day. While ZBOTW is a great game, it's a one and done for me. I have no urge to play it anymore. With Skyrim, the world is still the most immersive world ever in gaming. It's a world that you lose yourself in. From Home ownership to marriage and adoption, I have a stake in Skyrim. If I want to place a bunch of apples on my kitchen table I can. If I want to lay all my collected staff's on the floor I can. Want to sit by the fire and read an open book, you can. Want to build your own home, you can. There's a lot more I could say, but I've said enough. In my opinion Skyrim is the better game overall.
WITLESSMASS Yeah I acknowledged the world of Skyrim is much deeper, I just prefer all of the zelda gameplay elements like patterned boss battles and shrine puzzles they put into BOTW more than the rinse and repeat gameplay of the Elder Scrolls series (which I've put about a thousand hours into overall). The next LOZ game should still be open world like BOTW but set in a Hyrule that is bustling with towns and villages full of people who have their own quests for you like the towns in Skyrim.
Ryan Wilhite I agree but BOTW it’s more of the gameplay experimentation whit its freedom
"Most of Hyrule in BOTW is empty mountainous regions with settlements few and far between."
that's why it's called "breath of the wild." like RGT said, it's done by design in order to make it more conducive to the immersive experience of its overall game play dynamic.
I think Skyrim beats BotW when it comes to the story, side quests and rpg elements. BotW is better as a living and breathing environment. The ability to interact with everything and the pure exploration aspect is second to none. Both are great in what they seek to accomplish. Now develop a game that applies both of these aspects...
If this is ANYTHING like Breath Of The Wild, I know I'll love it. BUT....can you play the entire game in third-person mode? I read that you can in other versions. But I'm not sure about this one. First person games make me extremely motion sick. In fact, I was getting sick just watching this video.
Jay M you can play in either first person or third person
Jay M you CAN play in third person, but it makes combat and picking up specific small items more clunky than playing in first person
Yes you can play in 3rd person. I prefer 3rd too.
Jay M the Elder scrolls were meant to play in first person. You’ll see why once you click that button lol.
Skyrim isn't as close to BOTW as I thought. I actually don't like it as much as I thought I would. It does some things better then BOTW but BOTW will always be miles better in my heart
Skyrim is my number 1 game. Been playing it on and off since 2011. Loving it on switch
BotWs open world isnt very good imo
what ???? why, please explain.
Its not very lively its empty in most places . I just didnt find the world itself very interesting
It's beautiful, but there's so little to do in it between areas. There may be good combat, but the enemy variety is embarrassingly small.
@@Kcwright415 I felt the exact same way after I picked up Skyrim for the first time. Until then, I didn't notice just how little there is to do in Hyrule.
@@TheAbsol7448
Well, it is a Zelda game first. You go to the villages, you complete a main quest, and then you complete a few side quests for a few of the people there. You also complete a few dungeons, er I mean "shrines" by solving puzzles. Then you run around an open field and fight monsters in between. This is just how Zelda has always worked. It's just with this one, they've made the map the size of GTA 5's, and took away the linear gameplay. It's more about exploration than the storyline. I just wish that they gave you a big city to explore, the one we only see in ruins with guardian inhabitants. Would've been a bit nicer. Even without that though, I still love running around in that game, trying to find new shrines or new treasures and a few other things.
I could not do this with out bias. I have had skyrim since lauch and have 5 copies of the game.
Pine To The Cone unrelated but nice propic 👌🏻
I happen to own both games. I got both from the local Pawn Brokers. Breath of the Wild I got preowned in its case, while Skyrim I got as a bonus with Assassin's Creed: The Rebel Collection, because it was in the same case as the latter. The owners of the Pawn Brokers let me have it for no extra cost. Lucky!
Dropped 120+ hours in both. Skyrim on ps4 though
Both so good in different ways
I would probaly lean toward BOTW aswell
Nice vid RGT !
I've played Skyrim probably a thousand hours and BOtW 60ish hour. I have much more fun with Skyrim overall. BotW feels too sparse. You have to explore 30 min to pick up an apple. The dungeons are more puzzle than exploration. There's no sense of building up your character with weapons and armor. I don't really understand people who think BotW is a better game. I tend to think they just say that because it has Zelda on the cover.
Bet you didn't Finish the Game Yet (BoTW)
You'll See How Good The Graphics IS
Are you joking ? BREATH OF THE WILD IS ALL ABOUT EXPLORATION . PEOPLE HAVE THOUSAND HOURS IN THIS GAME !
@@zeldahyrule4018 Breath of the wild is bad, the legend of zelda is bad.
The elder scrolls series is better
@RGT 85, how about Witcher 3 vs Zelda BOTW video?
Skyrim has a way better open world botw may have a huge open world but it doesn't have that much variety and quest and dungeons and skyrim had way more variety and quest and dungeons and way better story and writing lots of fun things to do hyrule was pretty empty af compare to skyrim
The only things I'll give BotW are its world(just Hyrule and not the content. It's absolutely more polished than Skyrim, especially with mountains), style, aesthetics, boss fights(I think), and maybe combat. The Champion's Tunic is also on par or even above Skyrim's outfits. The races are just as cool. I think the Zoras are just as cool as the Argonians(now I kinda want a Zelda that's built just like Skyrim, where you choose a race to play and write your own story).
Skyrim has better characters(Teba is bird dad, though), better music, you can actually craft weapons in armor and make them stronger(could repair weapons in Morrowind), way more outfits, more combat variety, better quests, much more enemy variety, better houses, better traveling NPCs, better towns(except maybe Gerudo Town), and maybe better lore.
@@TheAbsol7448 honestly, theres nothing more blood pumping than entering a dungeon with an underleveled character on a high difficulty. The draugrs are more like final bosses XD
@@yshrenianknight2516 Jesus Christ, I could only kill Draugr Overlords by hiding behind an urn, popping out to shoot 1 or 2 arrows.
BTOW is a much better game. As someone who's put over 200 hours on both games. I can say BITW beats Skyrim out at pretty much everything
David Garcia you would think after 200 hours gameplay you'd be able to spell BOTW at least once correctly! 😉
Bobby Hannah auto correct strikes again.
I played botw for 200+ hours till I got skyrim and it's been 600+ hours now
Arcadeperfect Reviews like what?
@@bobbyhannah8168 best comment ever
Gotta say, going to Skyrim after beating Breath of the Wild, Skyrim looks kinda weak now. In term of how the world is crafted, Zelda is far better, you don't even need the map to know where you need to go...or even better, to find where you WANT to go.
In Skyrim...well, everything looks more or less the same, some trees on the left, some trees on the right. Oh a dungeon!...oh wait...didn't I do this one before? It looks so familiar =')
Weak? Compared to the ridiculous, cartoon graphics of Zelda? Lmao the game is awful, the character design is awful, the landscape is awful, the mapping system is a complete joke and I'll stop there coz I'm running out of breath!!! Plus dont forget Skyrim is nearly a decade old. 😁😁
I honestly prefer Skyrim. I have over 3000 hours in 3 different versions combined, I haven’t even beaten BotW because I got so bored with it. I love Zelda, in fact I’ve only played three Elder Scrolls games (Skyrim, Online, and Oblivion which I hated), while I’ve played almost all the Zelda games, but BotW is boring to me compared to other games in the series.
I got BOTW for the Wii U and later for the Switch. Incredible game, but I haven't finished it because there's a part of me that loves completing everything first! Just got my first Elder Scrolls and seriously I'm loving Skyrim a lot, and the fact that everytime you begin again it will be different gets me really into it more and more! Not feeling the need of getting everything but just surviving.
Morrowind is the best elder scrolls
marshall lowry that’s truest thing I have ever heard from you
I don't think I even have 3,000 hours playing time in my entire life so far. Starting at age 4 in 1990.....