Alchemy (and other non-combat skills) are also a great way to overlevel while underpowered. Go ahead, craft a zillion iron daggers, make a zillion potions, then get some hired thugs on your tail for stealing from a witch you killed on first meeting. Not fun. ='[.]'=
Alchemy is also good for making your own healing potions tho. I always spend the most on that every play through so diving into alchemy has been saving and making absurd amounts of money
@@abrianamedland-young4020 that’s not exactly a great comparison. I can farm iron ore all day around the area of the standing stones when you first get out of the Helen cave. Not to mention the other ore nodes around or the fact that iron ore is freaking everywhere. It’s really really really simple and doesn’t take much time to get a fuck ton of iron at the start of the game and spam daggers without having to go far. That armor on the other hand you have to go much farther for as well as likely do quests to get to it / get it as well as likely kill enemies much higher than your level. Granted this all depends on how early you start going for each of those things.
I play skyrim and never one was I a steath archer reson : I play only in 3rd person + I HATE bows in every game I play I never ever use bows ( my aim is trash and I take to long to line up shots )
@PKD Orion I love roleplaying in Skyrim as the lore is so easy to get into, especially with the modding community behind it. I recommend Wintersun: Faiths of Skyrim it incorporates the religions of different races which give you different perks, that paired with the survival mode has made the world so much more personal for me. I just wish I had VR 😩 I would be complete
Technically you can get Uthgerd without entering Whiterun, she often goes outside the city on 'hunts' as part of her AI, and is first encountered speaking with the stablemaster outside the gates about an encounter with Cicero.
Ive got a Ordinator build atm where i draw arrows much faster and ive noticed almost every other shot is a crit, against dragons its so much fun its bonk after bonk.
My friend and I started playing Skyrim when it was first released. After a few weeks, she (who played a lot less often than me) was talking about how she was dragonborn and had magic shouts. I had no idea what she was talking about! I had avoided the main quests to make the game last longer. Never got the dragonstone or met the grey beards. I trained as a blacksmith in whiterun and got involved with the companions, then went off to university to learn magic. I was a hundred hours in, and it was like we were playing different games! That blew my mind like no other game ever did.
@@richardreinertson1335 same. I wait til I have a good build going at around lvl 30-40 so I can eliminate dragons more easily. It gets old real quick when a dragon appears outside every city you fast travel to
I dont know this is so mindblowing. Its not like Skyrim was the first or the last game to wait a few quests until properly starting the story, nor is it the best game that did it the best way.
I finished Skyrim a long time ago and was fairly impressed with the story, but then I saw my gf play through it a couple of years back and holy shit she did so much stuff I never even knew existed. I was just clearing some dungeons and fighting some dragons, my gal fought vampires as a werewolf while traveling weird parallel dimensions and exploring a huge hidden subterranean world. This was when the depth of Skyrim really impressed me.
yep I have been playing it since I was on my ps3, and then ps4. I come back to this game atleast once a year even with the limited mods of ps4. Now that I can finally build a pc I already know im gonna put a lot of hours into this game again.
not the game, the lore. the game itself is utter garbage and mods only barely make it playable. players talk about the lore and characters, make theories, they roast bethesda for the bugs. they never talk about how great skyrim is
feel you.. there's not many games that give me this kind of feeling, maticulously crafted worlds like this are way too rare. if you haven't checked them out already, the rpgs that sucked me into their world about as much as skyrim are enderal (kinda cheating because it's a mod but it's hands down better than skyrim in almost every way imo), and gothic (1 and 2. 3 is great if you love 1 and 2 and install a thing or two on top) - risen came close but didn't quite do it for me, definitely worth a look though (the first one, 2 and 3 are meh at best imo). I'd recommend starting with enderal since it's the "most modern" of the bunch but if you're okay with older games and the way they inevitably end up showing their age at some point I implore you to give the gothic series a go! if the graphics are really offputting to you there's a ton of patches etc. available, the game may be 20 years old but the community is amazing as it ever was. maybe don't play in english though since the synch is... let's say servicable. german is the best one I think but polish, czeck and a few others are very good too, I've heard.
10,000 hours would be 27 years of playing Skyrim with no breaks. They game has only been out for 1/3 of that time. Edit: i cant math, pretend you saw nothing here
Man, I still remember standing in line all those years ago for Skyrim. Even after a decade it’s still running strong thanks to some dedicated mod makers.
same here homie, waited in line with my brother at gamestop for the midnight launch. got the collectors edition that came in a huge box with the alduin statue. i remember how damn cold it was at midnight in Michigan during november lol.
You guys waited in line. That's kind of funny. Not because of your efforts to get the game though. Its funny because I got Skyrim on accident when it first came out. My kids got it for me for my birthday. I didn't know what it even was. I had been describing a different game, poorly I might add, that I was interested in. My kids nabbed up Skyrim for me instead. Almost 10 years later, I'm still playing this and have no idea what the other game I was expecting to get even was.
@@markbrowning4334 I was like 12 and just strolling through a random store with my mom and seen a small section of used games that were like $5 a piece and I seen a one with a really dark picture and thought it seemed very mysterious, it was the xbox 360 goty version of Oblivion. I went into that game completely blind and had never played a open world game outside of San Andreas at that point. I was blown away by absolutely everything in it. Wasn't much longer after that I seen a yt vid I think by ign showing off gameplay for the new Skyrim coming out. I honestly have never had more fun, intrigue and playtime with any other games. I have played other games objectively better in various areas and have as much playtime but nothing quite hits the mark the way Bethesda does for some reason
Not just the mod makers. Also the mod guide makers. There’s one called lexy’s legacy of the Dragonborn that is a massive amount of mods but ends up just being an entirely new take on playing Skyrim without anything too extreme
@@jamessauls9994 You played Oblivion and Skyrim and _aren't_ criticising Skyrim for every Oblivion feature it lacks? There really are all sorts of people, huh? That's a nice change.
I remember starting a playthrough where I decided to use conjuration as my way form of attack Then I found conjure bow and became a stealth archer again
I basically do a similar thing, but I have been nicknamed a “loot goblin” because I’m constantly looting for even 2 gold pieces from a dungeon skeleton. It’s a fun way to play, just constantly picking up every little thing you come across. And then barely selling it but still owning all the houses due to the gold picked up along the way
I do that on every character lol. Unless I'm running through a dungeon with a purpose or when I'm not rushing through, I open every burial urn that I see and search every draugr, every skeleton, every coffin.
I do something similar but follow a bit of a mental ratio. if the value is 10 or more times the weight i take it. The exceptions are obviously top tier heavier armor/weapons, ingredients, and food.
I actually love magic in Skyrim. But it just feels like it rewards the player to be anything but a mage, plus doing any guild quest line feels awkward as a mage to me, minus the college.
I've never cared about archers and honestly have never played an archer build before in any TES game. My closest was with a kajjit assassin character in Oblivion who used a bow only to get some far away sneak attacks, but that's about. Other then that, I always do carry a bow just incase, especially in skyrim so I can shoot at dragons while they're in the air
I think the restoration glitch is really a tedious process but tbh it makes you a god by level 20. I have 8,000 health, 6,500 stamina and 5,800 magika. I didn’t go higher because last time I crashed my game haha
@Mr Spitsworth first 2 playthrough was stealth archer for me then I discovered using invisibility, calm, and muffle magic and now I personally go up to enemies and slit their throat. 10/10 more fun than stealth archer
@Mr Spitsworth I have over 1k hours in Skyrim and have never gone fully into the stealth archer build. I don't mind overpowered builds but it is so lame imo.
@@g4md0r32 Its a good thing to do till you get to your desired build like an Elf Mage and you have no skill yet lol. Stealth Archer build sucks coz it takes away the excitement that your about to die and you get more invested when you actually finish something while butt clenching along the way. Usually do stealth at first but i drop it as soon as i can. I like Paladin builds, with the right mods you can go Deus Vult across Skyrim and it turns into an inquisition and we have to take Jerusalem imma ryt. Deus Vult, destroy the heretics.
I never even sleep, enchant, forge, or cook anything the first time I played the game. Just hacked and slashed, until I realized there was a story to follow.
I was a lawless bandit, I got locked up in whiterun's dungeon and then liked everyone that would die. After that, I realised I broke the fn game, it didn't stop me from killing on, I just needed to get it out my system, now I'm a great player that always has a bounty in only one hold, sometimes.
I never really liked all the sneaking around. Too op. I did enjoy the illusion build though, probably the funniest build so far. I would just walk into a room, make everyone chill, loot and be on my way
Vegetable Soup was my most trusted companion since my first playthrough. As it slowly regenerates stamina, it means that you can power-attack without ever being forced to wait for stamina to regenerate.
Yep, best food in the game IMO. It lets you train block really easily as you can just non-stop shield-bash people while stunning them at the same time. For me it's the only effective way to train my block skill in a timely manner.
@@MichaelJ44 he thought a stupid ass human would just make him take a nap and hed get up later. But this was no regular human. Instead of getting a nice nap, he got his soul eaten by a nord chad
@@zzodysseuszz casual, it's better to have a garden and greenhouse with 13 mora tapinella, 8 creep cluster and 8 scaly pholiota to make 39 potion 2k+ price each. Wheat is good with blue flowers for fortify health + heal potions
@@vasilyd8578 it’s better to use enchanting to give yourself infinite carry weight and then carry 800 of every ingredient you use. And to make money off the dozens of better methods then potions. Your tactic is the most casual. I also don’t give a fuck if wheat is useful in another potion. He said to use it in a potion you don’t need it in at all and hence he’s a casual wasting ingredients. Work on your reading comprehension
I love that your first true option is to either follow Hadvar or Ralof into the keep. I wanted *other* options. Like the opportunity to kill Elenwen with your wrist bindings and turning yourself back in to General Tullius in the midst of Alduin's attack. Only for him to look at you bug eyed and say: "There. I cut your bindings and threw them into a fire. Now climb over the wall before anyone else figures out what you've done. Idiot."
When I first played Skyrim I thought that the introduction was one of the best I had ever seen. It still is, but with that many characters milling around in one place, it has the potential to be so much more.
No, that's too good of a game design and allows for too much player autonomy. You can't. Want to convince The Blades that sparing Parthuunax is good even though you're the Dragonborn and you shouldn't have to do that because you're their boss? No. You can't.
Maybe we will live to see a day when Skyrim is re-worked from scratch as a much bigger project. I Am not hoping for anything like "Skyrim 2" new releases might lose the great idea we had here and it just feels sad to throw Skyrim away. Maybe in 10 years, maybe in 20 years but it will return, same as Witcher 3 someday. It truly has the potential to be the best RPG game ever but it's just so empty, in 2011 they didn't have the technology or the money to make it more alive. Later they patched it, added Special Edition but it still didn't fix everything or add that many new things. Serena is the best example of what Skyrim NPC COULD HAVE BEEN or just followers overall. She is the only companion in the game that is not fucking annoying after 2-3 hours and has an interesting story. Well her dialogues are also limited but it's still very promising. Imagine if Skyrim was a high budget game made in like the 2030 year, greatly polished and with passion like previous TES releases(Although they all had silly flaws, they were still great. Nothing can be perfect). Yeah, I know. Wet dreams.
I love to play that way. I’m a role player and I write my story as I play, and I try to develop my in game character. I also love alchemy and smithing and enchanting, and although I become overlevelled, I like to play in a way where I can only use what I make myself.
This is how I played Skyrim for years now because I always play with Survival Mods active. This way you can’t fast travel, health doesn’t regenerate, warmth becomes a factor and more. So cooking your own food, making potions and gather all materials by yourself becomes much more important and more fun.
@@aldobarra6847 the thalmors are my enemies and I kill every single one of them they even think that I'm dangerous and come out after me and I kill them every time the dam thalmors
Restoration is also really op, at skill 40 it also regents stamina. So it’s really good for traveling on foot and not having to wait an hour or running with no stamina. Edit: I haven’t used a health potion since low level
I feel like this would be a pretty refreshing way to play the game, you get to use so many skills that you would never use otherwise and you also don't end up falling in to stealth archer either
@@dennbearr Melee stealth is one of the most challenging ways to play the game IMO so long as your stealth isn’t through the roof with perks and enchantments.
@Rick Vis lol it doesnt mater if the US army didn't exist when you compare an army for its time with others. The Mongolian army was a bigger powerhouse for its time than US army is today for its time. And 6/10 of the Mongolian army was horse archers and 4/10 was lances, besides the bows was also used for hunting so thats one part of the mobility when the army can feed itself when moving around. The Mounted bowman was more importent than the lancer if you should pick one of them. And when we take Europé its not like I said armies was 100% archers, the portion of army with range units grow not shrink during the middle ages. Range units just played a bigger and bigger part of the armies during the ages. Calvarly just shrink due to pikemen and better range weapons.
Ive been playing a two-handed heavy armor redguard and almost exclusively using warhammers, and it’s really let me realize how fun the game is when you let yourself go and play off your instincts
Skyrim is like that best relationship you had that fizzled out after a year but you kept coming back to it on and off for about almost 10 years now because their isn't anything else as nostalgic to go to.
Dunno about that. I never came back to it and each time I see a video of it I think it's much worse than I remembered it. I prefer playing Gothic. That is a true nostalgia trip for me.
It’s not even nostalgic to me anymore, I keep going back to it because there really aren’t many other open world RPGs that do things the way Skyrim does. If anyone knows of one though, I’d love to experience a new game.
I don’t know about you guys, but I love playing a two handed heavy build. My first build was a two handed heavy Argonian that had daedric armor by level 17. (I love the smithing perk) I faced Alduin with very little issue, and basically won the civil war by myself. I can enjoy a stealth archer, especially the thieves guild story line, but for me, there is nothing like a 2H heavy build.
@@yangdye He probably uses the "Immersive Citizens" mod, with that mod Uthgerd travels from Whiterun to Riverwood killing stuff, and you have a scripted meeting with her at the Whiterun Stables, where she talks about having seen Cicero with the horse guy.
the first thing I do after helgen is sell all the crap I picked off the bodies in helgen, then go back to embershard mine (of course, discovering embarshard mine on my way out of helgen) after getting faendal to carry my stuff. Makes a lot of money b4 level 5 or 6, and you could get almost 5000 gold out of that area alone.
First thing I do is go straight to the Guardian Stones then to embershard mine and grab a pickaxe because later on when you get the transmute mineral ore spell you can make so much gold. Which is great because honestly you need a house if you're going to make a good game. Because I keep so much stuff. You should save everything you find that's Enchanted and if you don't use it break it. Get the enchantment and then turn all your iron to gold and enchant your gold rings that way your leveling up your smithing your enchanting your speech and your rich LOL it's magnificent I got to say I have a excellent strategy. Although if you don't really care about upping your enchanting skill and you just want to make money the fastest way to make money is to enchant iron daggers they go from being worth $10 to worth 400 even $900 depending on the enchantment the best enchantments are Elemental early on in the game and soul trap and anything like fortify two handed one-handed or archery although those don't work on weaponry. You get the idea LOL sorry for nerding out on you
I've tried playing skyrim again, but after playing countless hours grinding for everything, getting all the armors and special weapons I don't think I can go through it again with being occupied by other games too. My favorite thing is just the music. Such a masterpiece. Can't wait for es 6
So lucky I was younger when Skyrim first dropped, I have so much nostalgia for all the Es games watching my older brother play. But since I was young and didn’t have my own console going back to Skyrim and 100%ing even vanilla is still fun to me.
Exploiting the game makes it boring tbh I actively tried to avoid cheesing and it’s so much better you don’t get bored instantly after your targeted skills is at 100 at like level 15
We’re never getting an elder scrolls six. The modding community makes enough free content that Bethesda has zero reason to put money into making another game.
"Upgrade and enchant armor regularly" nah, I just max out my enchanting and smithing immediately so I'm god tier at like level 30 before I even start anything
@@stefan1924 Or just raise the difficulty. Adept is always easy. Even if you're not a stealth archer. Master and expert are better. Legendary is for masochist.
@@millenniumfox4814 Lol...to be honest, only first 10 levels are hard on legendary and thats because of stupid scaling. I wish there would be overpowered enemies on the map from start, so you'd have to come back to beat them... But everything just scales to you, so as soon as you have elven/steel armor.. Its gg. Dual swords, both enchanted,, even with 1 element each.. Or without so u can use attack speed shout. Easy. I love gothic way of things, or witcher 3, where you need to run away. The ONLY enemy that you're not supposed to beat early in Skyrim is Giant....and then you stealth shoot him/magic 😂
@@AlenPesec am I the only one who goes melee against a giant at the very start and it takes ages to get it down but after the battle I leveled Block, one handed/two handed to about lvl 40 ? No ? Just me ok...
@@s8theninjawarrior916 Ok that's nice...but that must really take long. Like 25-40 mins??? and 1 mistake and you're dead...idk.. I'd rather go into a cave and spawn 10 wolves and repeat. I did that for Vampire Lord build and it worked great, especially with Better Vampires MOD EDIT: Also how did you level block, if when Giant hits me I always flew across the Tamriel, lol
I have to admit, when Jeremy Soule's From Past To Present started playing at 1:35 I really got an urge to load up Skyrim and start a new playthrough. What a fantastic soundtrack.
You will play it, and like it! I miss first playing Skyrim and after my first 200 hour mark, I finally realized you could catch a ride to all the holds. I played it old school ES style. I fuking walked everywhere! .. and loved it
"Who...are you?" I'm sorry, that's a personal meme for me. You just wake up in a wagon and they're like, "Who are you? Nevermind, you are accused of treason."
I fucking love cooking in Skyrim!! I really wish they made it a skill in vanilla game because I just really fucking enjoy it so much. The food is super great, especially the soups/stews! I have a whole barrel in Honeyside filled with cooking materials that I have bought or “bought” and the most satisfying thing to do is to take everything out of the barrel when i get like 20 salt piles (making 500+ pounds of shit i have in my inventory) then crawling to the cooking pot and making so much food. Then I crawl back to the barrel and dump everything I haven’t used yet back in there. I’m level 55 but I haven’t been to the Greybeards yet. I’ve completed a fuck ton of side quests including 11 Daedric quests. My main weapons are my enchanted ebony bow that I upgraded before putting a fire damage enchantment on it, and my two upgraded and enchanted scimitars. Scimitar 1 is named “soul soup, Kyle” and it fills a soul gem if the target dies within 5 seconds. Scimitar 2 is named “Dave and Buster’s” and it absorbs 10 health points(which I think is realistic to D&B). My bow is named “Bazingo” and i have 500 ebony arrows that i usually use, if there’s a really bulky enemy I’ll switch to my daedric arrows that i usually only have like 50 of. I love playing Skyrim so much because it’s like perfect for my special interests (I am autistic) which Skyrim lets me indulge in 2 of them: storytelling and art history. I love reading the books in the world and I love role playing my character who is very different from me. I love developing her character as I play and I get really into character while playing! So much so that my verbal stims change to what my character would usually say. I adore Elder Scrolls so much and Skyrim is literally the only big name game I’m really good at.
Hello. This may sound weird af but I really enjoyed reading your comment. You sound so excited and happy that it made me happy and I dont even play Skyrim since like 7 years lol. The excitement for cooking in the game is wholesome af. Brightened up my day. I hope you proceed to have a good time and that you and your loved ones are happy and healthy. Greetings from Germany to you🤝
@@costamcostam8961 If you're the sort of gamer that just plays so they can nut as their numbers get bigger, I have a brand new latest-gen graphing calculator I can sell you.
Yeah, making twenty vegetable soup then chugging it down to regain your health as fast as the fire breath takes it is probably one of the most rewarding experiences to me.
From what I've heard, vegetable soup breaks the game. It allows you to power attack or shield bash as much as you want for as long as the effect remains. The unlimited shield bashing allows you to stunlock enemies.
That's pretty tame compared to doing an alchemy/enchanting loop. Do one long long enough and you might as well turn god mode on there would be no difference.
yeah the way it works is the slow regen allows for you to pretty much always have 1 stamina at all times (while active) so you can constantly power attack or bash.
I've recently 'finished' my first ever play through of Skyrim. I played a Spell-sword, because I thought it would be cool to have a weapon in one hand and shoot lightning out the other. I really liked the immersive style, similar to what Bethesda suggests. Had a ton of fun with the game and will sure have many more playthroughs
i'm most of the way through my first playthrough (not finished with the main quest but have completed many of the main side quests and dlcs), and your playstyle is pretty similar to mine. having enchanted, high level weapons is fun as hell when paired with conjuration magic and high stealth. can go through an area, sneak up and backstab enemies one by one, and if everything goes to hell you can conjure up allies or blast them all to bits (plus regularly using magic makes it natural to use restoration magic and save your health potions for dire insta-heal circumstances) . i'm a bit squishy still (fighting miraak was nearly impossible for me), but my last resort is transforming into a werewolf and going tank mode lol long way of saying i completely agree with you :D magic + swords is a super fun, pretty immersive way to play the game !
@@s8theninjawarrior916 This isn't as bad as it sounds. One handed weapons scale well with smithing and enchanting, and they still block decently. Plus longswords and maces are just nice-looking weapons.
i’m pretty sure on my first play through i did everything but the bleak fall barrow quest because i was too scared as a kid. finished the game at level 60 something lmao
Dawnguard can be accessed at level 5, crossbows help since they deal more damage, and all the weapons that deal more damage to undead are useful since we fight alot of them. From there you only progress far enough to have access to dragonborn and you can get top tier shit before ever doing much of anything.
i absolutely love the ending bit. you express that while it isn't your preferred way to play, roleplaying and doing everything in depth yourself can be fun, and is interesting enough for everyone to maybe try once. and you speak super eloquently, relaxed, and with class. i was honestly also super lost in the gameplay as i listened to your commentary. so mixing the gameplay and the spectacular speech and it made for a superb closer to your video. and now i also want to do a berserker orc run 😂 you have earned yourself a sub! excited for more content like this
You should probably do the main quest in a style similar to how Avatar: The Last Airbender is constructed. Journey to location cause main quest says so, on the way or once there do a couple side quests in the area, repeat until main quest is done.
Everytime i reach a town I try to take a tour around meeting the locals and accepting any quests they might have. As i travel around the land from one major quest to another, i'll plot my route in a way in which i can complete as many of the currently active side quests as possible. I never use fast travel
What I love about Skyrim the most is the fact that every single playthrough is always completely different... Apart from the main quests that I never brother to do... I mean, you can build any kind of character you want, the combinations are limitless and styles are vast. And then you head different direction than last time and make different decisions than last time. You can literally do anything you want. And that's the beauty of this game. Maybe you don't have a house in Whiterun and Lydia as your House Carl... My first character was a khajiit with a great sword and heavy armor and I joined companions. And now I'm playing as a High Elf with light armor and practically no weapon and I'm planning to join some other group. Next time I could be a sneaky archer, a dual wielding outlaw thief, or a shield bearing tank. Or some kind of a hybrid. Limitless possibilities. I just got into Alchemy, smithing, and Enchanting too. Previously I was just using whatever I found. Now I'm making my own stuff and it's very rewarding. TLDR; Skyrim is awesome because you can play it any way you want. The possibilities are literally endless.
@@youtubeshadowbannedme Back when I wrote that comment, I didn't use any mods yet. But now I do, and yeah, they open up the game even more, basically infinite possibilities. Although I'm still not using anything that changes the quests or characters or anything. Just graphical improvements and stuff like that. And I meant you can do whatever you want in terms of the limitations of the game itself, which I consider being a lot. But true, with mods it's a lot more. I'll start using more impacting mods once I have done most things available in the vanilla game. Which will take a loooooong time to do. 😅
@@Thunderhawk51 wait so you don’t complete every single quest line each play through? You just do the missions you come across naturally while exploring in character? Thats honestly sick, I wish my brain allowed me to immerse myself in a character like that
@@CrazedMonkeyPickle I'm not sure how to answer that. I have finished this game only once and there's still a lot I have never done. Not to mention the DLCs which are basically untouched. I don't do every quest or questline I come across. Usually, I have an idea for a character, a some kind of lore and I limit myself for a certain style. Like now, I'm playing as an Orc who loves smithing and enchanting. He's the very picture of raw power and strength, wielding 2 handed axe like it's nothing, but he has a heart of gold. He builds his own house, adopt kids and help people in need. He cannot steal, no matter what. He's honest like that. But he doesn't like elves. That's his biggest issue. I try not to complete the same questlines too many times to avoid burnouts. And I really just don't like some of them so I really have to create a character that can actually do them so I can get in the mood as well. Like being a thief, murderer, werewolf, vampire or something. Some day, I'm going to create a Character who doesn't do any quests. He'll be just a regular citizen, who makes his living by fishing and chopping wood or something like that. And sometimes, even if I have a clear plan, it may change along the way. And that's fine too. As long as I'm having fun playing, I can do whatever I want. 🙂 That's why I love this game so much. Also, I like watching other people playthroughs and get inspired that way. They do it so much better than I.
@@Thunderhawk51 that’s awesome man, thank you for the response. Next play through I’ll give it my best to immerse myself and commit to the character I choose to build like you do. This may sound dumb but I’ve honestly never considered that you’re supposed to actually role play in an RPG so I’m looking forward to approaching the game from a new perspective!
Avarti "bows are usually the pick we all use after a while because of how good they are" Me playing this game for 2 years and only using melee and magic 🤔
No cap, I've been playing since launch and only committed to a stealth archer a couple months ago. It's phenomenal and broken. Get the dagger damage upgrade, get the bow upgrades, and you can damn near 1 shot anything in the game. It gets old after a bit imo, and it can be a grind to get your skills high enough to unlock the OP shit, but its worth it
ive been playing since it came out and have never built a stealth archer. im a berserker orc necromancer duel wielding axes all day every day. also i sometimes do the cliche sword and shield because blocking is fuckin broken in game. *shield decapatation noises*
I took a year+ off playing Skyrim to play other games for awhile. Started a new character last week and I like being very role play oriented. It amazes me, even though the game has definite flaws, how it holds up really well against a lot of newer games. If ES6 is as bad as many other newer RPGs, Skyrim is going to contiue it's relevency.
@@sirjoesphjoestar8361 morrowind into oblivion into skyrim is pretty self explanatory. each game with less and less in the game with the quality objectively getting worse and worse
If you’d play with Requiem mod, you’d play pretty similar to how Bethesda intended it to play. That’s funny. If you’ve never played Skyrim with this mod - try it. Brings a new life to the game
As someone who very recently got using alchemy, it can be pretty good so long as you collect ingredients while you’re adventuring and make potions every time you complete quests and stock up, as it’s mostly just a matter of integrating it into your play style.
"Most of us become stealth archers" Me, ending up a stealthy, heavily armored sword and board archmage: "Yeeeeah...stealth archer. Thaaaat's what I do..."
Yeah who needs to spend 1,000 hours playing Skyrim and watching TH-cam videos about it when you can just buy a 650 pages book and spend those 1000 hours reading that instead, isn't that much better Edit : bruh you guys are crazy this is the most amount of likes of likes I've ever gotten so thank you :)
@@MiguelRodriguez-ff9wl that's the way to go Sometimes you're too far from the source of the sound or aren't really paying much attention to the surrounding audio and miss this kind of thing
"Its time consuming to gather the ingredients and cook the food" The roleplayers: wait, you guys DONT sit and cook with your spouse, dog, and 4 children?
No doubt. The cheer of bringing home a good hunt and forage along with a toy after "years" of dungeonig and alchemy to be rich enough to never adventure again
5:49 probably one of the few things I actually do on every character. No idea why but I end up going smithing on every single character. Always debated on EXP/Smithing mods since I've mad enough Iron Daggers to arm all of China by now (back when they have decent exp, gauntlets now)
@@TheCanadianGuy56 Haha, not being much of a mod user AND being an avid explorer, I found it pretty easily and always had an overabundance of materials.
"We all just eventually become stealth archers." I guess this is why I constantly reroll characters as pure builds. I always "die" the hero before "living" long enough to become the villain
Having seen so many videos sarcastically playing Skyrim “how it’s meant to be played” by thoroughly exploiting it, I was thoroughly surprised to click on a video where someone actually does it
*takes deep drag of cigarette* "game guide... haven't heard that name in 15 years..."
@David Saddy 😔
I’m the dude from Skyrim
You shouldn't smoke. It's not healthy
@@TwistedNerve1 hadn't thought of that. Thank you *puts cigarette out*
@@peshkybee7721
You're welcome ☺️
“Getting the Dragonstone before going to Whiterun is the more efficient thing to do.”
*Has follower from Whiterun*
Actually you can find her in Riverwood sometimes, I saw her in Riverwood not too long ago
He literally buys food from whiterun before
He also gets into the arch mages room without doing the college quests
@@flyingfey4883 you can still get into the room without doing college quests, but the room isn’t yours yet
@@TypicalPirate55 but the room is locked before you do the Sarthaal quest where savos wants to talk to u
I like how alchemy is less of a way to make useful potions and more of a method of making absurd amounts of money.
Alchemy (and other non-combat skills) are also a great way to overlevel while underpowered. Go ahead, craft a zillion iron daggers, make a zillion potions, then get some hired thugs on your tail for stealing from a witch you killed on first meeting. Not fun. ='[.]'=
it’s kinda both, there’s also the enchanting and smithing potions that just let you become god
@@Raycheetah If you craft a million daggers but can't get yourself a suit of legendary armor and an OP sword, that's on you.
Alchemy is also good for making your own healing potions tho. I always spend the most on that every play through so diving into alchemy has been saving and making absurd amounts of money
@@abrianamedland-young4020 that’s not exactly a great comparison. I can farm iron ore all day around the area of the standing stones when you first get out of the Helen cave. Not to mention the other ore nodes around or the fact that iron ore is freaking everywhere. It’s really really really simple and doesn’t take much time to get a fuck ton of iron at the start of the game and spam daggers without having to go far. That armor on the other hand you have to go much farther for as well as likely do quests to get to it / get it as well as likely kill enemies much higher than your level. Granted this all depends on how early you start going for each of those things.
"Most of us eventually become stealth archers"
Well that explains why so many people have taken arrows in the knee
There are actually stealth archers all over the place in Skyrim, you just can't see them because they're too stealthy.
I play skyrim and never one was I a steath archer reson : I play only in 3rd person + I HATE bows in every game I play I never ever use bows ( my aim is trash and I take to long to line up shots )
@PKD Orion I love roleplaying in Skyrim as the lore is so easy to get into, especially with the modding community behind it.
I recommend Wintersun: Faiths of Skyrim it incorporates the religions of different races which give you different perks, that paired with the survival mode has made the world so much more personal for me.
I just wish I had VR 😩 I would be complete
@@hollitaylor9025 for me only range weapons I use are guns and since Skyrim has no guns and crossbows suck ass I've never tried an Archer build.
If they keep getting shot in the knee, they mustn't be very stealthy
"It's more efficient to go through bleak falls before going to Whiterun." "Thankfully I've got Uthgerd with me." 🤔
was wondering the same
THANK YOU, SOMEONE NOTICED
Technically you can get Uthgerd without entering Whiterun, she often goes outside the city on 'hunts' as part of her AI, and is first encountered speaking with the stablemaster outside the gates about an encounter with Cicero.
@@CanisMythson hmm I’ve never seen her outside the bannered mare
In my game she never did this until I installed a mod that unlocked hidden dialog and ai
The "bonk" sound when you get a crit with the bow is so addictive though.
True
Use swords with critical strike perk then
@@gb9884 skyrim melee combat is deeply pepega
Ive got a Ordinator build atm where i draw arrows much faster and ive noticed almost every other shot is a crit, against dragons its so much fun its bonk after bonk.
*Is someone there???*
Avarti: “we will be playing the game the way bethesda intended”
also Avarti: *names his character Chad McThiccAss*
It just works
Legendary
The fat blue line
That's just the default name-
Just as Todd intended
My friend and I started playing Skyrim when it was first released.
After a few weeks, she (who played a lot less often than me) was talking about how she was dragonborn and had magic shouts.
I had no idea what she was talking about! I had avoided the main quests to make the game last longer. Never got the dragonstone or met the grey beards. I trained as a blacksmith in whiterun and got involved with the companions, then went off to university to learn magic.
I was a hundred hours in, and it was like we were playing different games! That blew my mind like no other game ever did.
I put off the main quest for a long time in my playthroughs. Playing a dragon-free game is way less annoying.
@@richardreinertson1335 same. I wait til I have a good build going at around lvl 30-40 so I can eliminate dragons more easily. It gets old real quick when a dragon appears outside every city you fast travel to
I dont know this is so mindblowing. Its not like Skyrim was the first or the last game to wait a few quests until properly starting the story, nor is it the best game that did it the best way.
@@ir6734 it was probably OP’s first experience with a game like that.
I finished Skyrim a long time ago and was fairly impressed with the story, but then I saw my gf play through it a couple of years back and holy shit she did so much stuff I never even knew existed. I was just clearing some dungeons and fighting some dragons, my gal fought vampires as a werewolf while traveling weird parallel dimensions and exploring a huge hidden subterranean world. This was when the depth of Skyrim really impressed me.
It amazes me how this game manages to stay relevant after 9 years
yep I have been playing it since I was on my ps3, and then ps4. I come back to this game atleast once a year even with the limited mods of ps4. Now that I can finally build a pc I already know im gonna put a lot of hours into this game again.
@@kolbekjm started on the 360 clocked in around 1000 hours on the Xbox one, still love it to this day
not the game, the lore. the game itself is utter garbage and mods only barely make it playable. players talk about the lore and characters, make theories, they roast bethesda for the bugs. they never talk about how great skyrim is
T amazes me how you can find this comment in every skyrim video
@DEEJMASTER 333 mods too 😩💦
I wish I could forget everything about this game and play it for the first time again, damn
feel you.. there's not many games that give me this kind of feeling, maticulously crafted worlds like this are way too rare.
if you haven't checked them out already, the rpgs that sucked me into their world about as much as skyrim are enderal (kinda cheating because it's a mod but it's hands down better than skyrim in almost every way imo), and gothic (1 and 2. 3 is great if you love 1 and 2 and install a thing or two on top) - risen came close but didn't quite do it for me, definitely worth a look though (the first one, 2 and 3 are meh at best imo).
I'd recommend starting with enderal since it's the "most modern" of the bunch but if you're okay with older games and the way they inevitably end up showing their age at some point I implore you to give the gothic series a go! if the graphics are really offputting to you there's a ton of patches etc. available, the game may be 20 years old but the community is amazing as it ever was. maybe don't play in english though since the synch is... let's say servicable. german is the best one I think but polish, czeck and a few others are very good too, I've heard.
@@oyblech8671 Just started the whole thing again. It's just as fun. Well, almost....
I just started my first playthrough ever and it's awesome
It's perfectly at 200, no one like their comment
The Elder Scrolls, Dark Souls, and Subnautica.
Me watching Avariti put poison on his axe against the draugr: “No...stop... you fool, poison doesn’t work on the undead” lol
Felt the same way.
I never use poison, I've put over 10,000 hours of gameplay on the 360 version alone.
For someone who loves to condescend everything, that was an incredibly stupid move.
10,000 hours would be 27 years of playing Skyrim with no breaks. They game has only been out for 1/3 of that time.
Edit: i cant math, pretend you saw nothing here
@@kingdomscollided4842 Exaggeration is nothing to worry about. Sometimes it does feel like 10,000 hours.
"It's not a bug, it's a feature." The definition of Skyrim.
The most broken game in history, but most of the game breaking bugs are really beneficial to the player lol
its a new feature -
bug was added
#StarCitizen
lmao
if its a bug, then im hardened enough to learn a different way
"Grabbing the Dragonstone before going to Whiterun is more efficient"
Also has Uthgerd as a follower, implying he has already been to Whiterun
Thank you I️ was thinking the same thing
Well the title is beating skyrim and he just ran to whiterun what'd you expect lol
@@stvanspawn "Beating Skyrim The Way Bethesda Intended" not just "Beating Skyrim"
You can actually find uthgerd in river wood from time to time
@@XxGamer42069xX ? no you can't
*Has game guide*
*Tries to poison mummy that has no blood*
To be fair venom has to deal with blood not poison. But yes you are right
@@yangdye
R E A L I S T I C
Lmaoo
@@yangdye and that's only one type of venom. Neurotoxins don't target blood at all.
Has game guide about how the game is ment to be played . Uses frostbite poison on an already cold body 😂😂😂😂
Friend, I had reached level 40 before I even realized that I'd forgotten about bleak falls barrow..
Holy hell
WHAT WERE YOU DOING THAT WHOLE TIME LMAO
I maxed my character out before I even stepped foot inside there
And I mean lvl.252
I did the same thing first time through
Man, I still remember standing in line all those years ago for Skyrim. Even after a decade it’s still running strong thanks to some dedicated mod makers.
same here homie, waited in line with my brother at gamestop for the midnight launch. got the collectors edition that came in a huge box with the alduin statue. i remember how damn cold it was at midnight in Michigan during november lol.
You guys waited in line. That's kind of funny. Not because of your efforts to get the game though. Its funny because I got Skyrim on accident when it first came out. My kids got it for me for my birthday. I didn't know what it even was. I had been describing a different game, poorly I might add, that I was interested in. My kids nabbed up Skyrim for me instead. Almost 10 years later, I'm still playing this and have no idea what the other game I was expecting to get even was.
@@markbrowning4334 I was like 12 and just strolling through a random store with my mom and seen a small section of used games that were like $5 a piece and I seen a one with a really dark picture and thought it seemed very mysterious, it was the xbox 360 goty version of Oblivion. I went into that game completely blind and had never played a open world game outside of San Andreas at that point. I was blown away by absolutely everything in it. Wasn't much longer after that I seen a yt vid I think by ign showing off gameplay for the new Skyrim coming out. I honestly have never had more fun, intrigue and playtime with any other games. I have played other games objectively better in various areas and have as much playtime but nothing quite hits the mark the way Bethesda does for some reason
Not just the mod makers. Also the mod guide makers. There’s one called lexy’s legacy of the Dragonborn that is a massive amount of mods but ends up just being an entirely new take on playing Skyrim without anything too extreme
@@jamessauls9994 You played Oblivion and Skyrim and _aren't_ criticising Skyrim for every Oblivion feature it lacks?
There really are all sorts of people, huh? That's a nice change.
Oh no, you can’t do this to me. You’re going to make me play Skyrim again, aren’t you?
Two weeks ago spent my Saturday picking mods and making a character never even played it, now I kind of wanna start a new one 😐
Of my laptop didnt suck I would play again because of this.
@@icantthinkofausername9422 ill buy u a new one brotha
@@pixilcoder1763 for real???
@@icantthinkofausername9422 yessiirrrr. pick a laptop and send me the link brotha
Skyrim guide: pick up some flowers on your way to Riverwood
Avarti: travels all the way to frigging Morthal to gather swamp shrooms
Definitely made this whole ordeal more meticulous than it needed to be haha
"We all just eventually become stealth archers."
Most accurate depiction of a Skyrim playthrough I've ever heard.
I have literally never once been a stealth archer. I bought the game in 2013.
I’ve played this game in many different ways and it all leads to the same road. Daedric armor with 100 sneak and 100 archery
@@Justin-qe3tj
Then you're weak, and always look for the easiest solution to your problems.
@@Alizudo it’s a video game shut up keyboard warrior lmao
@@Mac-gr9mb lmao
I remember starting a playthrough where I decided to use conjuration as my way form of attack
Then I found conjure bow and became a stealth archer again
I remember doing that lol
Im doing that right now
You can't escape the stealth archer build
@@jaramah5570 dude im trying so hard to not just stealth archer but its so easy my brain defaults to it cause its the most tactical choice
@@jaramah5570 interestingly, I'm just now playing my first ever stealth archer. I've had skyrim since launch.
I basically do a similar thing, but I have been nicknamed a “loot goblin” because I’m constantly looting for even 2 gold pieces from a dungeon skeleton. It’s a fun way to play, just constantly picking up every little thing you come across. And then barely selling it but still owning all the houses due to the gold picked up along the way
same lmao
But I call it „the greedy fucker that I am build“
I do that on every character lol. Unless I'm running through a dungeon with a purpose or when I'm not rushing through, I open every burial urn that I see and search every draugr, every skeleton, every coffin.
I do something similar but follow a bit of a mental ratio. if the value is 10 or more times the weight i take it. The exceptions are obviously top tier heavier armor/weapons, ingredients, and food.
@@Shaggy87781 same, the worth has to be at least like 500 or 10 times its weight
Ah yes the good old strategy of having 5000 pounds over your carry limit. Good times.
Saying we all *become* stealth archers implies that I didn't *start* as one.
I mean most of the time I’m like “I’m gonna do a pyro magic build!” Then discover bound bow and muffle
I actually love magic in Skyrim.
But it just feels like it rewards the player to be anything but a mage, plus doing any guild quest line feels awkward as a mage to me, minus the college.
@@XFizzlepop-Berrytwist wdym illusion is relevant and rewarding af for the thieves guild and the dark brotherhood
I've never cared about archers and honestly have never played an archer build before in any TES game. My closest was with a kajjit assassin character in Oblivion who used a bow only to get some far away sneak attacks, but that's about. Other then that, I always do carry a bow just incase, especially in skyrim so I can shoot at dragons while they're in the air
NO COST FORTIFY DESTRUTION IS MY FAVORITE
"Never made an alchemy build..."
All street cred lost.
U like my pfp
Best pic.
Dude for real it's like hes never played skyrim before.
Alchemy×enchanting=exponential growth
I think the restoration glitch is really a tedious process but tbh it makes you a god by level 20. I have 8,000 health, 6,500 stamina and 5,800 magika. I didn’t go higher because last time I crashed my game haha
Alchemy without the known exploits is really damn tedious.
I love how everyone plays Skyrim a little differently
I've platniumed the game without ever having a stealth archer build
@Mr Spitsworth first 2 playthrough was stealth archer for me then I discovered using invisibility, calm, and muffle magic and now I personally go up to enemies and slit their throat. 10/10 more fun than stealth archer
@Mr Spitsworth I have over 1k hours in Skyrim and have never gone fully into the stealth archer build. I don't mind overpowered builds but it is so lame imo.
@@g4md0r32 Its a good thing to do till you get to your desired build like an Elf Mage and you have no skill yet lol. Stealth Archer build sucks coz it takes away the excitement that your about to die and you get more invested when you actually finish something while butt clenching along the way. Usually do stealth at first but i drop it as soon as i can. I like Paladin builds, with the right mods you can go Deus Vult across Skyrim and it turns into an inquisition and we have to take Jerusalem imma ryt. Deus Vult, destroy the heretics.
A little differently is a big understatement
I never even sleep, enchant, forge, or cook anything the first time I played the game. Just hacked and slashed, until I realized there was a story to follow.
I was a lawless bandit, I got locked up in whiterun's dungeon and then liked everyone that would die. After that, I realised I broke the fn game, it didn't stop me from killing on, I just needed to get it out my system, now I'm a great player that always has a bounty in only one hold, sometimes.
@@chainlinksart6524 I have a 200000 bounty rn😀they didn’t stand a chance
@RexXflash and on the dark brotherhood
Wait... Skyrim had a story?! I was too busy getting high on game breaking potions and shooting people in the head with my 1mil DPS ebony bow.
Classic nord players
Play skyrim as bethesda intended
* tries to poison an undead.
Never change Avarti ❤
Well he clearly played it as Bethesda intended.
I see nothing wrong here
@@abyssstrider2547 ok
“Beating Skyrim the Way Bethesda Intended”
*proceeds to quit after first miniquest*
fr
Am I the only one that has 6 characters with none of them being a stealth archer
lol yes definitely. probably in the entire playerbase
@@Sogmabolz i usually play a mage, with spell research mod
I never really liked all the sneaking around. Too op. I did enjoy the illusion build though, probably the funniest build so far. I would just walk into a room, make everyone chill, loot and be on my way
Vegetable Soup was my most trusted companion since my first playthrough. As it slowly regenerates stamina, it means that you can power-attack without ever being forced to wait for stamina to regenerate.
And u can block bash as well when u take the vegetable soup
Yep, best food in the game IMO. It lets you train block really easily as you can just non-stop shield-bash people while stunning them at the same time. For me it's the only effective way to train my block skill in a timely manner.
8:36 i never realized the dragon says "Dovahkiin , no !" on his last breath
until now
What does that mean
I noticed immediately :')
@@MichaelJ44 he thought a stupid ass human would just make him take a nap and hed get up later. But this was no regular human. Instead of getting a nice nap, he got his soul eaten by a nord chad
Drink for the dirty! Food for the Monkey!
OMG! Me too
"It is very time consuming to gather ingredients" *giant toe and wheat PTSD kicks in*
From this comment alone, I know that the entire video is invalid.
Hah “wheat” casual. All you need is creep cluster and giants toe. Wheat is unnecessary and irrelevant
@@zzodysseuszz casual, it's better to have a garden and greenhouse with 13 mora tapinella, 8 creep cluster and 8 scaly pholiota to make 39 potion 2k+ price each. Wheat is good with blue flowers for fortify health + heal potions
@@vasilyd8578 it’s better to use enchanting to give yourself infinite carry weight and then carry 800 of every ingredient you use. And to make money off the dozens of better methods then potions. Your tactic is the most casual.
I also don’t give a fuck if wheat is useful in another potion. He said to use it in a potion you don’t need it in at all and hence he’s a casual wasting ingredients. Work on your reading comprehension
@@vasilyd8578 also what you said has literally no impact on what I said in any way at all.
I love that your first true option is to either follow Hadvar or Ralof into the keep. I wanted *other* options. Like the opportunity to kill Elenwen with your wrist bindings and turning yourself back in to General Tullius in the midst of Alduin's attack. Only for him to look at you bug eyed and say:
"There. I cut your bindings and threw them into a fire. Now climb over the wall before anyone else figures out what you've done. Idiot."
Oh my god, that would have been hilarious! XD
I need this mod!
When I first played Skyrim I thought that the introduction was one of the best I had ever seen. It still is, but with that many characters milling around in one place, it has the potential to be so much more.
No, that's too good of a game design and allows for too much player autonomy. You can't. Want to convince The Blades that sparing Parthuunax is good even though you're the Dragonborn and you shouldn't have to do that because you're their boss? No. You can't.
Maybe we will live to see a day when Skyrim is re-worked from scratch as a much bigger project. I Am not hoping for anything like "Skyrim 2" new releases might lose the great idea we had here and it just feels sad to throw Skyrim away. Maybe in 10 years, maybe in 20 years but it will return, same as Witcher 3 someday. It truly has the potential to be the best RPG game ever but it's just so empty, in 2011 they didn't have the technology or the money to make it more alive. Later they patched it, added Special Edition but it still didn't fix everything or add that many new things.
Serena is the best example of what Skyrim NPC COULD HAVE BEEN or just followers overall. She is the only companion in the game that is not fucking annoying after 2-3 hours and has an interesting story. Well her dialogues are also limited but it's still very promising.
Imagine if Skyrim was a high budget game made in like the 2030 year, greatly polished and with passion like previous TES releases(Although they all had silly flaws, they were still great. Nothing can be perfect).
Yeah, I know. Wet dreams.
Is it weird that I love to do things like mine ore to make stuff? Like, it’s my favorite part of the game. It’s so rewarding.
I love to play that way. I’m a role player and I write my story as I play, and I try to develop my in game character. I also love alchemy and smithing and enchanting, and although I become overlevelled, I like to play in a way where I can only use what I make myself.
Boy do I got a game for you.
@@dainsteiner9342 craftmine?
Chopping wood and harvesting vegetables to make money 😭 I love it
@@jolonghthong meincwaft
Did anyone else think it was hilarious to hear him say “fuck” in his super polite sounding voice and accent
It's a lot nicer sounding than how I say it....
First time I heard him curse lol
you mean posh accent
@@Sheridan2LT yes, I mean posh accent I just was so caught up trying to explain how it sounds that I never reached for the obvious term
Yes
Maybe I’m the Dragonborn, I just don’t know it yet
Maybe its maybeline.
@@ElectricAlien577 you're a homophobic.
@@bollockjohnson3706 lmaoo bro what
@@bollockjohnson3706 ???
@@bollockjohnson3706 you are an amazing person.
Well done. Todd Howard slept well the night this video was released, knowing Skyrim was played the way he wanted at last
Before waking, stretching, having a hot steamy cup of lies and sitting down to think of ways to disappoint the fans once more.
This is how I played Skyrim for years now because I always play with Survival Mods active. This way you can’t fast travel, health doesn’t regenerate, warmth becomes a factor and more. So cooking your own food, making potions and gather all materials by yourself becomes much more important and more fun.
“Well, fuck I died”
Probably the most relatable phrase when playing Skyrim
Thank the Nine Divines for quicksaving lol
The Thalmors will watching you for that sentence
Eight *
@@zxylo786 10 if the drsginborn keeps going.
And I've seen someone had the gut to say you only die in Skyrim if you're reckless...
@@aldobarra6847 the thalmors are my enemies and I kill every single one of them they even think that I'm dangerous and come out after me and I kill them every time the dam thalmors
Middle of battle on the brink of death
*Eats 100 cheese wheels*
Lol yeah we all did
Out of potions, cheese & healing magic? Well better start eating raw ingredients for hp!
(Happened to me on morrowind oblivion & skyrim.)
Not even once. Potions are lighter, heal more, and easy to come by (you can also make them)
I’m lactose intolerant. I can’t imagine how miserable that would be lol.
You have contracted constipation. Effects: -50 points of stamina. 30% Chance to shit yourself when sneaking.
Somewhere in the world, Todd Howard is happy that he's still making money off of skyrim.
I mean he did a good job with it, bugs aside. Too bad his reputation was ruined by F76 tho.
@@Donnydarco100 nah, it's not ruined at all
@@cristianfatu2088 2019-2020 ruined his reputation
@@VentilatorenBumser a handfull of haters won't do anything really
@@Donnydarco100 76 wasn't directed by todd. it was just promoted by him lol
Restoration is also really op, at skill 40 it also regents stamina. So it’s really good for traveling on foot and not having to wait an hour or running with no stamina.
Edit: I haven’t used a health potion since low level
@Mr Spitsworth wear heavy armor than use muffle.
Get a horse :)
@@TheGamerPhysicist horses die easily and it feels like u need to constantly take care of them but that might just be me lol
@Mr Spitsworth conjuration might be somewhat worth it
@@insertunoroginalnamehere6189 conjuration is pretty OP ngl
I feel like this would be a pretty refreshing way to play the game, you get to use so many skills that you would never use otherwise and you also don't end up falling in to stealth archer either
I find it very funny how have never made a stealth archer I played a assassin but it was all melee and I played a archer main but they had low stealth
It's very op. 1 shot kills from stealth.
@@wesleytakahashi5334 Stealth with daggers also accomplishes this.
@@williamchristy9463 yeah but bow has longer range :(
@@dennbearr
Melee stealth is one of the most challenging ways to play the game IMO so long as your stealth isn’t through the roof with perks and enchantments.
"Getting the dragonstone before heading to whiterun is more efficient"
He has uthgerd in bleak falls
Yeah I never understood why he doesn’t comment on this.
yeah i was wondering if theres some way of getting her earlier than whiterun after i seen that lol
@@larrystclair6151 there isn't
There’s a mod that lets you find her out in the Whiterun Stables before you actually enter Whiterun so he may be using that
"Bows in this game are overpowered."
Dude, in a world where melee combat is the norm (such as the medieval period), bows ARE overpowered.
Then theres dark souls lmao
*sad magic noises*
I mean shooting a bow irl vs skyrim is a lot harder and less accurade haha
@Rick Vis The English archers and the French knights who fought at Agincourt would like to have a word with you.
@Rick Vis lol it doesnt mater if the US army didn't exist when you compare an army for its time with others.
The Mongolian army was a bigger powerhouse for its time than US army is today for its time.
And 6/10 of the Mongolian army was horse archers and 4/10 was lances, besides the bows was also used for hunting so thats one part of the mobility when the army can feed itself when moving around.
The Mounted bowman was more importent than the lancer if you should pick one of them.
And when we take Europé its not like I said armies was 100% archers, the portion of army with range units grow not shrink during the middle ages.
Range units just played a bigger and bigger part of the armies during the ages.
Calvarly just shrink due to pikemen and better range weapons.
Ive been playing a two-handed heavy armor redguard and almost exclusively using warhammers, and it’s really let me realize how fun the game is when you let yourself go and play off your instincts
the long hammer is pretty dope in this build i love it
10 years old game, and damn every time i replay it i just have so fun
@The Knight King Yeah I swear I've replayed it over 50 times and for some reason it still isn't boring
Lol it's a curse we can't get bored of it. This game we just can't
9 Years
i can't even imagine replay this game without mods!
@@anticorruptionagenda5106 im on ps4 so f for me
Skyrim is like that best relationship you had that fizzled out after a year but you kept coming back to it on and off for about almost 10 years now because their isn't anything else as nostalgic to go to.
Sounds like Minecraft too
Dunno about that. I never came back to it and each time I see a video of it I think it's much worse than I remembered it. I prefer playing Gothic. That is a true nostalgia trip for me.
@@DanateDMC People have different experiences, he's just making a general statement.
It’s not even nostalgic to me anymore, I keep going back to it because there really aren’t many other open world RPGs that do things the way Skyrim does. If anyone knows of one though, I’d love to experience a new game.
Can you not
" collecting the dragon stone before going to white run is more efficient "
No no, people only do it to impress farengar(?) the court wizard.
I like to think it's for the time saving, but I just want those sweet sweet compliments.
If you go to the Golden claw tavern, you can do the two quests at once without having the second listed. Much faster
@@lunaticfringe2763 I do this every new game
I do it so he doesn’t get sassy with me and make me want to kill him.
I don’t know about you guys, but I love playing a two handed heavy build. My first build was a two handed heavy Argonian that had daedric armor by level 17.
(I love the smithing perk)
I faced Alduin with very little issue, and basically won the civil war by myself. I can enjoy a stealth archer, especially the thieves guild story line, but for me, there is nothing like a 2H heavy build.
I once played with a two handed tank.
Then I murdered Alduin with two daedric hammer power attacks
"Collecting the stone before getting to whiterun is the more efficient thing" *has uthgerd with him* ?!?!?!
you can meet her, brawl and recruit Uthgerd in the outskirts of Whiterun, even before you enter the city.
This confused me as well
I was wondering if anyone else noticed that
@@bigboss4178 no you can’t? She’s in the tavern in whiterun from what I remember
@@yangdye He probably uses the "Immersive Citizens" mod, with that mod Uthgerd travels from Whiterun to Riverwood killing stuff, and you have a scripted meeting with her at the Whiterun Stables, where she talks about having seen Cicero with the horse guy.
the first thing I do after helgen is sell all the crap I picked off the bodies in helgen, then go back to embershard mine (of course, discovering embarshard mine on my way out of helgen) after getting faendal to carry my stuff. Makes a lot of money b4 level 5 or 6, and you could get almost 5000 gold out of that area alone.
First thing I do is go straight to the Guardian Stones then to embershard mine and grab a pickaxe because later on when you get the transmute mineral ore spell you can make so much gold. Which is great because honestly you need a house if you're going to make a good game. Because I keep so much stuff. You should save everything you find that's Enchanted and if you don't use it break it. Get the enchantment and then turn all your iron to gold and enchant your gold rings that way your leveling up your smithing your enchanting your speech and your rich LOL it's magnificent I got to say I have a excellent strategy. Although if you don't really care about upping your enchanting skill and you just want to make money the fastest way to make money is to enchant iron daggers they go from being worth $10 to worth 400 even $900 depending on the enchantment the best enchantments are Elemental early on in the game and soul trap and anything like fortify two handed one-handed or archery although those don't work on weaponry. You get the idea LOL sorry for nerding out on you
The fist thing I do is explore Skyrim’s massive immersive open world one of the best games I ever played - Dude from Skyrim
treasure map at the mini unmarked bandit camp nearby, and then yeah same here.
I imedeatly do the resto glitch on a dagger and ring and speedrun all deadric quest
@@Shaggy87781 huh, I never find that map or go after it, but it sounds like it could be pretty profitable
"It's much more efficient to go to retrieve the dragon stone before going to whiterun" *has a follower that's only found in whiterun*
I thought the same shit lol
She's found in the stables, no need to touch the city
@@lordpickle65 I never found her outside. only in the inn
@@lordpickle65 no, she's in bannered mere
@@ttchme9816 nigga she’s also at the stables, play the game a couple more times before you act like you know everything 🤣
I've tried playing skyrim again, but after playing countless hours grinding for everything, getting all the armors and special weapons I don't think I can go through it again with being occupied by other games too. My favorite thing is just the music. Such a masterpiece. Can't wait for es 6
So lucky I was younger when Skyrim first dropped, I have so much nostalgia for all the Es games watching my older brother play. But since I was young and didn’t have my own console going back to Skyrim and 100%ing even vanilla is still fun to me.
Have you played survival mode ?
Exploiting the game makes it boring tbh I actively tried to avoid cheesing and it’s so much better you don’t get bored instantly after your targeted skills is at 100 at like level 15
We’re never getting an elder scrolls six. The modding community makes enough free content that Bethesda has zero reason to put money into making another game.
@@adamlambboy8332 are you dumb? It was announced several years ago
"Upgrade and enchant armor regularly" nah, I just max out my enchanting and smithing immediately so I'm god tier at like level 30 before I even start anything
And then you can quit the game again right away because it's super boring at that point.
@@stefan1924 Or just raise the difficulty. Adept is always easy. Even if you're not a stealth archer. Master and expert are better. Legendary is for masochist.
@@millenniumfox4814 Lol...to be honest, only first 10 levels are hard on legendary and thats because of stupid scaling. I wish there would be overpowered enemies on the map from start, so you'd have to come back to beat them... But everything just scales to you, so as soon as you have elven/steel armor.. Its gg. Dual swords, both enchanted,, even with 1 element each.. Or without so u can use attack speed shout. Easy. I love gothic way of things, or witcher 3, where you need to run away. The ONLY enemy that you're not supposed to beat early in Skyrim is Giant....and then you stealth shoot him/magic 😂
@@AlenPesec am I the only one who goes melee against a giant at the very start and it takes ages to get it down but after the battle I leveled Block, one handed/two handed to about lvl 40 ? No ? Just me ok...
@@s8theninjawarrior916 Ok that's nice...but that must really take long. Like 25-40 mins??? and 1 mistake and you're dead...idk.. I'd rather go into a cave and spawn 10 wolves and repeat. I did that for Vampire Lord build and it worked great, especially with Better Vampires MOD
EDIT: Also how did you level block, if when Giant hits me I always flew across the Tamriel, lol
“The rest of us just become stealth archers.”
I can’t help it, ok! I just feel like such a badass!
I was Always A Stealth Archer since Day 1
But I was also a Mage Character but then I became an assassin because I was better at being an assassin
@@Metalfan-ve1zg same but with being a thief
An archer with back up dual wielding, when they added crossbows my life was complete and I basically played like a demon hunter.
I mean, it's natural to feel satisfied when your opponent has an arrow sticking out of its forehead.
It makes me so happy that the Skyrim community is still so alive this many years on. Great video!
This community will never die
Until tes 6 when comes out in 2056
I have to admit, when Jeremy Soule's From Past To Present started playing at 1:35 I really got an urge to load up Skyrim and start a new playthrough. What a fantastic soundtrack.
Probably my favourite in the gaming world. Unbelievable.
You will play it, and like it! I miss first playing Skyrim and after my first 200 hour mark, I finally realized you could catch a ride to all the holds. I played it old school ES style. I fuking walked everywhere! .. and loved it
Just started playing a couple days ago, this game is awesome and I finally know where the "Hey you you're finally awake" comes from.
@@SharkMako just now?
I play most RPGs that way, rarely using fast traveling.
@@what-oy8il yep, and it's becoming a favorite quickly
@@SharkMako Yep Skyrim is a fun action RPG.
"Who...are you?"
I'm sorry, that's a personal meme for me.
You just wake up in a wagon and they're like, "Who are you? Nevermind, you are accused of treason."
American Justice System
The empire really went from a bad joke to a worse one over time.
I fucking love cooking in Skyrim!! I really wish they made it a skill in vanilla game because I just really fucking enjoy it so much. The food is super great, especially the soups/stews! I have a whole barrel in Honeyside filled with cooking materials that I have bought or “bought” and the most satisfying thing to do is to take everything out of the barrel when i get like 20 salt piles (making 500+ pounds of shit i have in my inventory) then crawling to the cooking pot and making so much food. Then I crawl back to the barrel and dump everything I haven’t used yet back in there. I’m level 55 but I haven’t been to the Greybeards yet. I’ve completed a fuck ton of side quests including 11 Daedric quests. My main weapons are my enchanted ebony bow that I upgraded before putting a fire damage enchantment on it, and my two upgraded and enchanted scimitars. Scimitar 1 is named “soul soup, Kyle” and it fills a soul gem if the target dies within 5 seconds. Scimitar 2 is named “Dave and Buster’s” and it absorbs 10 health points(which I think is realistic to D&B). My bow is named “Bazingo” and i have 500 ebony arrows that i usually use, if there’s a really bulky enemy I’ll switch to my daedric arrows that i usually only have like 50 of. I love playing Skyrim so much because it’s like perfect for my special interests (I am autistic) which Skyrim lets me indulge in 2 of them: storytelling and art history. I love reading the books in the world and I love role playing my character who is very different from me. I love developing her character as I play and I get really into character while playing! So much so that my verbal stims change to what my character would usually say. I adore Elder Scrolls so much and Skyrim is literally the only big name game I’m really good at.
Hello. This may sound weird af but I really enjoyed reading your comment. You sound so excited and happy that it made me happy and I dont even play Skyrim since like 7 years lol. The excitement for cooking in the game is wholesome af. Brightened up my day.
I hope you proceed to have a good time and that you and your loved ones are happy and healthy. Greetings from Germany to you🤝
lol I love reading ingame books too, really helps to get deep into the atmosphere)
For a moment there I thought this was a copypasta
@@moritztabor1678My Russian grandpa: Germany you say
your comment is awesome, see you in whiterun bro!
"We all just eventually become stealth archers" is the most accurate thing ever
Look, if I can calmly send an arrow to do the job, why would I go get all bloody letting people beat on me?
@@jenrosejenrose7417 good answer, sometimes i love to get all close and personal tho
Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic!
Restoration with 1 handed sword is OP lol
Lol health and stamina absorption in a sword.. with restorstion spells
Is breaking the game
Or necromancy with restorstion spells
@@JuniorJuni070 or mod your game to overhaul restoration.
Okay spiffing brit
@@that_deadeyegamer7920 or download combat overhaul mods and make it similar to dark souls xD
"Shooting enemies from afar is so much more fun than mashing them in melee."
Me: That's just, like, your opinion man!
*nods in greatsword*
*Sneak attack 6x damage*
@@visionaeon *laughs in sneak dagger attack 15x damage*
@@costamcostam8961
If you're the sort of gamer that just plays so they can nut as their numbers get bigger, I have a brand new latest-gen graphing calculator I can sell you.
@@chesterstevens8870 Thank you, but i already play excel.
Why does this feel like a calmer version of a Mitten Squad video
Because this is where the real game begins
@@Nix42069 can't argue with that
Official guide: "mine some ore and sell it to make money :)"
me every playthrough: *salmon row quickload shop reset*
** Time to play Skyrim again.
todd you bastard did it again
This is actually how I always played from the beginning haha I love the grinding.
Much more immersive and fun
@@Yive. exactly
I always do side-quest, level up til I'm pretty much "living grim reaper" lol
....then it's story-mode time 😎
Yeah, making twenty vegetable soup then chugging it down to regain your health as fast as the fire breath takes it is probably one of the most rewarding experiences to me.
From what I've heard, vegetable soup breaks the game. It allows you to power attack or shield bash as much as you want for as long as the effect remains. The unlimited shield bashing allows you to stunlock enemies.
That's pretty tame compared to doing an alchemy/enchanting loop. Do one long long enough and you might as well turn god mode on there would be no difference.
yeah the way it works is the slow regen allows for you to pretty much always have 1 stamina at all times (while active) so you can constantly power attack or bash.
You can also stun lock with magic..
Holy shit, I never knew that. Well, now I know what I'm putting all my borrowed crops into.
I've recently 'finished' my first ever play through of Skyrim. I played a Spell-sword, because I thought it would be cool to have a weapon in one hand and shoot lightning out the other. I really liked the immersive style, similar to what Bethesda suggests. Had a ton of fun with the game and will sure have many more playthroughs
Skyrim is great but I would highly recommend Oblivion too
i'm most of the way through my first playthrough (not finished with the main quest but have completed many of the main side quests and dlcs), and your playstyle is pretty similar to mine. having enchanted, high level weapons is fun as hell when paired with conjuration magic and high stealth. can go through an area, sneak up and backstab enemies one by one, and if everything goes to hell you can conjure up allies or blast them all to bits (plus regularly using magic makes it natural to use restoration magic and save your health potions for dire insta-heal circumstances) . i'm a bit squishy still (fighting miraak was nearly impossible for me), but my last resort is transforming into a werewolf and going tank mode lol
long way of saying i completely agree with you :D magic + swords is a super fun, pretty immersive way to play the game !
"For most of, we eventually become stealth archeries"
*Me still doing my original build from the time I've played skyrim a few years ago* "wait what?"
Same, I have maybe 1 or 2 games as stealth archer but most of my games are one handed only (no shield for aesthetic lol) its honestly so much fun imo
@@s8theninjawarrior916 This isn't as bad as it sounds. One handed weapons scale well with smithing and enchanting, and they still block decently. Plus longswords and maces are just nice-looking weapons.
you: does main quest first
me: *becomes vampire, joins the brotherhood, and the nightingales before going to white run*
i’m pretty sure on my first play through i did everything but the bleak fall barrow quest because i was too scared as a kid. finished the game at level 60 something lmao
Dawnguard can be accessed at level 5, crossbows help since they deal more damage, and all the weapons that deal more damage to undead are useful since we fight alot of them. From there you only progress far enough to have access to dragonborn and you can get top tier shit before ever doing much of anything.
least you dont have to deal with constant dragons every fast travel
You murdered the emperor before ever heard Nazeem mention anything about the Cloud District.
Same except I joined the Dawnguard. I pretty much saved the main quest for last.
Btw, when you craft multiple items you don't need to drag a mouse to that item. Just clicking anywhere works fine.
I spam the L mouse and E buttons!
Quacker, Thats now how Bethesda intended it.
@@TheSpencermacdougall e and y over and over for me
i absolutely love the ending bit. you express that while it isn't your preferred way to play, roleplaying and doing everything in depth yourself can be fun, and is interesting enough for everyone to maybe try once. and you speak super eloquently, relaxed, and with class. i was honestly also super lost in the gameplay as i listened to your commentary. so mixing the gameplay and the spectacular speech and it made for a superb closer to your video. and now i also want to do a berserker orc run 😂 you have earned yourself a sub! excited for more content like this
"Well.. fuck, i died." Made me laugh because it's just.. the gamer thing when we are just so done with the games shit
GAMER THING
This is the first time "as intended" wasn't a joke.
You should probably do the main quest in a style similar to how Avatar: The Last Airbender is constructed. Journey to location cause main quest says so, on the way or once there do a couple side quests in the area, repeat until main quest is done.
That’s just how I normally play lol
Everytime i reach a town I try to take a tour around meeting the locals and accepting any quests they might have. As i travel around the land from one major quest to another, i'll plot my route in a way in which i can complete as many of the currently active side quests as possible. I never use fast travel
@@OsirisGrimoire If that's your plan, you should get Interesting NPCs.
What I love about Skyrim the most is the fact that every single playthrough is always completely different... Apart from the main quests that I never brother to do... I mean, you can build any kind of character you want, the combinations are limitless and styles are vast. And then you head different direction than last time and make different decisions than last time. You can literally do anything you want. And that's the beauty of this game. Maybe you don't have a house in Whiterun and Lydia as your House Carl...
My first character was a khajiit with a great sword and heavy armor and I joined companions. And now I'm playing as a High Elf with light armor and practically no weapon and I'm planning to join some other group. Next time I could be a sneaky archer, a dual wielding outlaw thief, or a shield bearing tank. Or some kind of a hybrid. Limitless possibilities.
I just got into Alchemy, smithing, and Enchanting too. Previously I was just using whatever I found. Now I'm making my own stuff and it's very rewarding.
TLDR; Skyrim is awesome because you can play it any way you want. The possibilities are literally endless.
No you cannot literally do whatever you want, unless you mean with mods then yeah
@@youtubeshadowbannedme Back when I wrote that comment, I didn't use any mods yet. But now I do, and yeah, they open up the game even more, basically infinite possibilities. Although I'm still not using anything that changes the quests or characters or anything. Just graphical improvements and stuff like that.
And I meant you can do whatever you want in terms of the limitations of the game itself, which I consider being a lot. But true, with mods it's a lot more. I'll start using more impacting mods once I have done most things available in the vanilla game. Which will take a loooooong time to do. 😅
@@Thunderhawk51 wait so you don’t complete every single quest line each play through? You just do the missions you come across naturally while exploring in character? Thats honestly sick, I wish my brain allowed me to immerse myself in a character like that
@@CrazedMonkeyPickle I'm not sure how to answer that. I have finished this game only once and there's still a lot I have never done. Not to mention the DLCs which are basically untouched. I don't do every quest or questline I come across.
Usually, I have an idea for a character, a some kind of lore and I limit myself for a certain style. Like now, I'm playing as an Orc who loves smithing and enchanting. He's the very picture of raw power and strength, wielding 2 handed axe like it's nothing, but he has a heart of gold. He builds his own house, adopt kids and help people in need. He cannot steal, no matter what. He's honest like that. But he doesn't like elves. That's his biggest issue.
I try not to complete the same questlines too many times to avoid burnouts. And I really just don't like some of them so I really have to create a character that can actually do them so I can get in the mood as well. Like being a thief, murderer, werewolf, vampire or something. Some day, I'm going to create a Character who doesn't do any quests. He'll be just a regular citizen, who makes his living by fishing and chopping wood or something like that.
And sometimes, even if I have a clear plan, it may change along the way. And that's fine too. As long as I'm having fun playing, I can do whatever I want. 🙂 That's why I love this game so much.
Also, I like watching other people playthroughs and get inspired that way. They do it so much better than I.
@@Thunderhawk51 that’s awesome man, thank you for the response. Next play through I’ll give it my best to immerse myself and commit to the character I choose to build like you do. This may sound dumb but I’ve honestly never considered that you’re supposed to actually role play in an RPG so I’m looking forward to approaching the game from a new perspective!
Avarti "bows are usually the pick we all use after a while because of how good they are" Me playing this game for 2 years and only using melee and magic 🤔
No cap, I've been playing since launch and only committed to a stealth archer a couple months ago.
It's phenomenal and broken. Get the dagger damage upgrade, get the bow upgrades, and you can damn near 1 shot anything in the game.
It gets old after a bit imo, and it can be a grind to get your skills high enough to unlock the OP shit, but its worth it
@@abrianamedland-young4020 I enjoy the stealth aspect of the stealth archer build. The bow is only used when no other option is available.
@@abrianamedland-young4020 Have you tried the Greybeards stealth leveling strat? Pretty funny, as it can level both one handed and two handed as well.
I've never made a bow build or a magic build.
ive been playing since it came out and have never built a stealth archer. im a berserker orc necromancer duel wielding axes all day every day. also i sometimes do the cliche sword and shield because blocking is fuckin broken in game.
*shield decapatation noises*
Mods: Imagine playing skyrim how it was intended
😂😂😂😂right I beat the og without mods many times, but once u get that mod taste, there is no going back
Sometimes I wonder if it’s better to play without my mods but then I see Cicero in his battle bikini and realize this is the way it was meant to be.
@@adamlambboy8332 truly the way
I can’t go back! I WON’T go back!
Mods: Imagine playing Skyrim
I took a year+ off playing Skyrim to play other games for awhile. Started a new character last week and I like being very role play oriented. It amazes me, even though the game has definite flaws, how it holds up really well against a lot of newer games. If ES6 is as bad as many other newer RPGs, Skyrim is going to contiue it's relevency.
If the elder scrolls trend continues hammerfell will be the worst one yet. I don't have high hopes for it
Mods, literally only reason I can play elder scrolls games more than once is because of Mods
@@GhostoftheTenthEye why
@@sirjoesphjoestar8361 morrowind into oblivion into skyrim is pretty self explanatory.
each game with less and less in the game with the quality objectively getting worse and worse
@@GhostoftheTenthEye wouldnt be so pesimistic about it
Stealth mage build is underrated.
Spell sword is pretty cool I get them to low hp when they’re running in then bop em
Still waiting for that pan-ultimate elder scrolls lore video: "why you should stay in prison."
If you’d play with Requiem mod, you’d play pretty similar to how Bethesda intended it to play. That’s funny. If you’ve never played Skyrim with this mod - try it. Brings a new life to the game
What does that do?
@@valravnsshadow9422 make the game harder. For me personally I using Yash2 mod.
@@istaka1416 Not just harder, also just generally more complex.
There are two builds, either you start as a stealth archer and gradually become a berserker or vice versa
As someone who very recently got using alchemy, it can be pretty good so long as you collect ingredients while you’re adventuring and make potions every time you complete quests and stock up, as it’s mostly just a matter of integrating it into your play style.
"Most of us become stealth archers"
Me, ending up a stealthy, heavily armored sword and board archmage: "Yeeeeah...stealth archer. Thaaaat's what I do..."
"Most"
"Most"
"Most"
Oh. My. Gawd. People. Learn to chuckle at the joke and move on.
@@therealbahamut
a joke is a transaction, bruv. and you forgot to supply the funny.
Completed in Record time - 11:00.
Guess Todd was onto something .
😳🤷🏾😊
"Tip of free soul gems..."
*Proceed to steal soul gems
They're actually in the hall of countenance with the enchanting table, but IIRC they're unfilled.
Everything is free when you apply the five finger discount
Best free soul gems filled and unfilled in a dwemer ruin.
cooking would’ve been a bit more helpful if it was it’s own skill tree or was somehow incorporated into the alchemy tree
"well, fuck i died." we speak the same language.
"The fight with the dragon is actually really hard".. All you have to do is wait inside the watchtower for the guard to kill it.
Yet the guards will still act like you are the dragonslayer
Yeah who needs to spend 1,000 hours playing Skyrim and watching TH-cam videos about it when you can just buy a 650 pages book and spend those 1000 hours reading that instead, isn't that much better
Edit : bruh you guys are crazy this is the most amount of likes of likes I've ever gotten so thank you :)
Imagine taking an hour and a half to read each page
Who take that long to read a book, let alone a guide?
I actually enjoy reading game guides 🤷♂️
@@athenavonheon2 it's a joke
@@callmemalik5469 omg i cant believe you take so long smh my head
I've always played the game this way but haven't played on a harder difficulty yet. You've tempted me into a legendary playthrough now damnit.
8:36 wait does Mirmulnir say "Dovahkiin! No!" when you kill him. I never knew that, and I've killed Mirmulnir 10+ times
Yes
10+ bump up those numbers man
@@MiguelRodriguez-ff9wl that's the way to go
Sometimes you're too far from the source of the sound or aren't really paying much attention to the surrounding audio and miss this kind of thing
Hahahhahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahah bragging about killing him 10+ times is the saddest thing ever
@@SupaSillyThyme is it really bragging though?
"Its time consuming to gather the ingredients and cook the food"
The roleplayers: wait, you guys DONT sit and cook with your spouse, dog, and 4 children?
No doubt. The cheer of bringing home a good hunt and forage along with a toy after "years" of dungeonig and alchemy to be rich enough to never adventure again
"I think a lot of players overlook food in Skyrim."
Is that like a personal attack or something? lol
5:49 probably one of the few things I actually do on every character. No idea why but I end up going smithing on every single character. Always debated on EXP/Smithing mods since I've mad enough Iron Daggers to arm all of China by now (back when they have decent exp, gauntlets now)
I usually get Transmute and make jewelry for Smithing exp
@@janeenschultz8502 i always forget about that spell. Used it all the time in Oblivion, but somehow my brain always thinks its a mod in skyrim
@@TheCanadianGuy56 Haha, not being much of a mod user AND being an avid explorer, I found it pretty easily and always had an overabundance of materials.
Try metal working for real ... or even 3D printing out a few small items.
Making your first viking axe or hand designed dinner ware set might be fun !
it’s just so useful. way cheaper to just make your own tools instead of spending a bunch of money buying gear
"We all just eventually become stealth archers."
I guess this is why I constantly reroll characters as pure builds. I always "die" the hero before "living" long enough to become the villain
8:09 ‘Well fuck I died’ had me rolling (way more than it should’ve). Great vid
Having seen so many videos sarcastically playing Skyrim “how it’s meant to be played” by thoroughly exploiting it, I was thoroughly surprised to click on a video where someone actually does it