If Bethesda goes by this video's list of things casual players never did, they'll figure it's a waste of time making any quest that the player is not explicitly led into from the start. Also, no alchemy/crafting next time. On a positive note, even casual players enjoy classes, so maybe that's a hint.
Got a semi powerful pc? Look into the nolvus modpack, it actually brings back that sense of wonder you got in the first playthrough, the world looks incredible. The combat is super fun in third person with a combo system and active dodge rolls. My personal favorite are the new sneak idle squat and the fact that bows, quivers, and swords kind of move around on your character while you walk around. It HIGHLY recommend it. It's also an auto install, you just need lots of space.
@@Agc2749 Yes i do, I will check it out, but the way I felt playing it back in 2012 when I was 11 years old… damn, I don’t think any game will ever match that. And on top of that, I don’t have as much time to play as I would like
man fu*k all the people hating on you this was a great video. It’s super cool to still see people learning new stuff and having new experiences on skyrim so many years later.
@@James-mh4nn when the vid was like a few hours old there was only 15 comments and one dude had commented like 3/4 times abt “how stupid” he was for not knowing abt the dark brotherhood, i wasn’t arguing with anyone either tho i was leaving a separate comment telling the dude that despite those other comments it was a cool video
@@codeine.dreamz3913Admittedly this is pretty ridiculous. I’m betting it’s just the script, but it is a silly thing to say given the premise of the video. Overall this is high quality content though
something interesting with hitting him with mehrunes razor, the ebony warrior has the heavy armour perk that allows him a chance to deflect a strike, meaning you very well could've killed yourself when you hit him lol
Another fun fact, the perk works no matter who holds it, so you can give it to your adopted children…who will practice on a target dummy if you have one in your house. If you walk in front of then while they’re swinging you can actually be instantly killed
Skryim is such a crazy thing. Two guy's who've put literally thousands of hours into it can have had completely different experiences doing so. From I think 2015 to 2018 or so it was the only game I played. At all. I didn't touch a single other game in that time. And I still run into people who have done things I had no idea existed in it. It's madness
ikr? same here, only difference between you and me is that i used to play the game since 2011, i finished the game with hundreds of hours in multiple playthrough in different platforms in which i was either a warrior or a mage or mix of two. my main build is always mage. in January 2018 i decided to finally mod the game because i thought there is no way theres still quests i still didnt play myself or watch someone play them right? but to my surprise, 2024, theres still things i am discovering. sometimes im so surprised to the fact i discovered something in 2024 where i would google the quest/npc/place etc. just to see if its part of a mod or not at this point, im rushing to finish my modded game so i can 100% the game without mods. maybe only combat mods, graphical mods, bug fixes and stuff like that. but no mods that add new places or npcs or anything like that
i sometimes wiash i never got into mods for bethesda games. i only recently tried doing a "full playthrough" (which for me is all MAIN quests + whatever convenient sidequests). i used to fuck around with mods so much i'd lose my save and and have to restart, hundreds of times lol. fallout 3, NV, 4, TES 3, Oblivion, Skyrim, all of em
It’s actually super impressive how big the game is. I didn’t even know about some of the stuff in this vid. Crazy how big Skyrim is compared to the other Bethesda games like Starfield.
It’s not going to be confirmed when tes vi drops as paarthurnax has isolated himself since the dragon war, Bethesda probably won’t mention him in a new book or piece of worldbuilding and leave it to the player’s interpretation
@@Nockgun The Emperor's death is canon even if you destroy the Dark Brotherhood. They have their own secret canon and your choices don't matter. That's why they haven't made an Elder Scrolls 6 or moved the timeline along in the other Elder Scrolls games released since Skyrim. They are shithouses who are waiting 'til we've all been killed off.
@@A9hl6fgx5ebisb72op Even if it wasn't, there's still quite a bit pointing to the unique aspect of prisoners, anyway. Besides. Bethesda would make things vaguely canon, regardless
Before going to Whiterun, I always go to the Riverwood Trader and speak with Lucan Valerious and pick up his side quest. That way his sister also shows you the best path to Whiterun and you get to complete two quests at once once you finish Bleakfalls Barrow.
i am currently playing skyrim for the first time in like 10 years and its so refreshing to see someone who is around my knowledge level to experience the game! nice video
So here’s a good trick Become the leader of the companions Then bring your radiant quest, giver, along as your companion Get the quest, recruit him then go to the location and complete the questthen un recruit him right there on the spot to get the next quest, then recruit him before he walks off again You end up traveling all over Skyrim with a good companion and doing quests super fun with a camping mod
I played Skyrim for years before I started a no fast travel playthrough. It was the most fun I've had since then. You can even find the Redguards, who are looking for Saadia, harassing other women who look like her before they are triggered to be in Whiterun.
It actually blows my mind that basic stuff like walking places instead of fast-travelling absolutely everywhere is some kind of revelation for people. Having played Skyrim since 2011, it's been evident ever since then that a good 80% of the magic in a Skyrim playthrough is what happens on the roads, just out and about, because that's where all the game's systems interact best. Glad that you could have this experience after so long!
On my first, second, thrid, n-th playthrough, I always naturally did it just how the book says. Because that's the games intention, but not limited to it. I always says that Skyrim is the most linear open world game ever. Even if you don't play "by the book", it will feed you constant stuff to do, open world is just an illusion.
Exactly, fast travel should ONLY be used to travel back and forth between locations tied to quests, for example fast traveling to Jorrvasker after each Companions job. Walk to the objective location manually but feel free to fast travel back to Whiterun if you'll just take the same path back, again though this shouldn't be for every quest just the kind that have you going back and forth from one set location
The dark elf is just an excellent choice for anyone who wants to do a bit of everything. Good at melee, sneaking, and magic out of the gate, and one of the most fun racial powers
Bro these people hating for no reason this video is great i dont know the interwoven plot and secrets of the witcher 3 even though its been out just as long
@@James-mh4nn when I posted this comment there were only 6 comments and at least 2 or 3 of them seemed negative or discouraging just wanted to say it was a great video and it's okay to not know things about old games
The order of questing is such that the book is more orderly. When it comes to the game itself, it's generally the best idea to talk to everyone and gather all the quests wherever you are, and just complete them as you go. So for example doing the Mythic Dawn Museum quest as soon as you get the letter, and running into Vaermina quest and other quests on the way. This is especially the case with no fast travel.
@@briankelly1240 There is little immersion in joining side factions as a rookie after having slain the world eater. At this point every faction would crave your membership and worship the ground you walk on. But there is immersion in joining them before doing that, then becoming their leader after Alduin. It also makes sense to do a lot of side quests and dungeons before Alduin as that makes you run into word walls and dragons to power up before the fight.
Dude I’m playing Skyrim for the first time right now and I didn’t even know you could sprint until like 35 hours of play time in. Thanks for this vid it was actually helpful to me it’s great
There are three different speeds the player can move. Walk, run, and sprint. On PC, I believe the default speed is walk. You can press shift to run, or caps lock to toggle running. Alt controls sprint. Something I learned recently as a veteran Skyrim player -- interacting with the little flags positioned on the in-game maps of Skyrim (ex. Upstairs behind Balgruuf's throne), will mark the location on your map, similar to when an NPC talks about a location. I thought it was so cool!!
@@zadarasimoleons1019 I play on my switch bc I don’t have a pc but I totally didn’t know I could run either, maybe I should look at the controls screen haha thank you
I discovered sprint after 6 month of playing,idk why but for me running on the keyboard was on “ i “ button, and I was in a werewolf form when I discovered it,seeing how my character in a beast for gets on four and sprinting like wolf,left me speechless
you may have actually given me a reason to go through my New Vegas guide. I thumbed through it at first, mumbled "nyeh, more like guidelines than actual ruules" then proceeded to build the same fkn character for 13yrs.
I was shocked when I saw that you only had 44 subscribers. I thought this video would have had at least 50,000 views and you 10,000 subscribers. Amazing content, amazing quality
It is easy to forget, in games like Skyrim, that game designers actually, you know, design the game...with intention...and method. 💪😎🤙. Great video, and let it be known that you can never arrive too late to notice things in this game that are awesome.
I remember when I first played Skyrim I couldn’t figure out where the entrance to whiterun was so I stole a horse and tried to jump over the walls lmao
I have 4000 hours into Skyrim, in my opinion Skyrim is one of the best games ever made. I started playing in 2012, and I still play it to this day. Great video!
@@coreyaldridge1753 I have, and I would say there is a lot of positives that one has that the other one doesn’t have and vice versa. I would definitely prefer Skyrim over Oblivion, but Oblivion story is great and the fact that you can create your own spells is amazing. That’s something Skyrim should have had.
Such a well structured and edited video. You're also really good at narrating. Feels like you've been a youtuber for years! Very impressive. Well done!
@@deffdefying4803 can't tell if this is a diss on BG3, but it has a crazy amount of detail and content that makes sense for a big download. A better comparison is something like, say, Call of Duty that is 300gb and has absolutely no right or reason to be that bloated.
Great video! I loved it. Small suggestion: as a longtime retrospective enjoyer, I would suggest some kind of outro sequence for future videos just to tie everything together and put a definitive end to the video. Helps with the overall narrative. It just felt a little jarring imo to have the vid drop off at the end.
8:25 I was so happy when I figured out how to do that. In my second play through, I got to that room and thought "I didn't get that last time. But now I know Tod Howard" and looked around, finding that broken bridge above. Skyrim is so cool.❤ There is a lot of cool and unique stuff along the main path that does not make other appearances. Like the birds flying away when you exit Riverwood, the entirety of Jurgan Windcaller's tomb (the number of times wirlwind sprint is needed), unique animations like the way Esburn searches his pockets, wearing the Thalmor Robes to pass peacefully, the voice acting for the main characters is full of personality, and Clear Skys is only used twice in the entire game, unless I missed something. And the wardrobe with the false back, I've only seen it in Riverwood and Blood on the Ice. The main story is so interesting.
I just love seeing different people's playstyles, or learning about them. 'I see no point in alchemy' or 'I grow gardens of blisterwort, canis root, and swamp fungal pod'; 'walking the overworld is wonderful' or 'I will climb the walls if I have to walk to Ivarstead one more time'; 'I can kill Paarthurnax for the quests' or 'I would die for my precious uwubebe formerly genocidal dragonbean' ^_^ Fascinating stuff.
I have a garden with a whole bunch of plants, but the ones I was really happy to discover were scaly pholacia and creeping canis root (I hope I remembered those names right) because they create a Fortify Carry Weight potion, which is crucial for me because I tend to pick up everything of value when I go on quests.
@@EG-cm5th scaly pholiota and creep cluster? I'd probably build a whole separate house for them, but for some reason, for me, creep cluster in a garden has about 0.5 pixels in which it can be harvested :/ Banger potion combo though!
Skyrim holds a special place in my heart not many games will ever compare to. I've done this play through before and I'm impressed you put in the time. Hope you keep exploring Skyrim. There are a few channels who create build guides that are fun and give your character a background and purpose within Skyrim, which are also very fun to check out, Fevy being one of my favorite. Great video, thanks for sharing.
Absolutely, loved this video. I was a little bummed out when Avati only did it so minimally. I love how you went through the whole playthrough! Great job, man! My only critique was the ending felt abrupt and I feel like I didn't hear you give a conclusion. I guess an epilogue you can say lol I felt so invested and watched your whole video in one sitting. I thought I was going to hear a "Final Thoughts" where we kind of have a sit-down and what you thought and everything lol
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. I’m currently lvl 41, been playing every now and then since it came out, in many different characters and all editions of the game.
I probably have more than 10 k hours in skyrim, yet I didnt know about the torture chamber subjects giving you a quest to gather treasures, Well Done! great video, and I hope you keep playing it from time to time as many of us do
You can completely trivialize the ebony warrior fight by getting the dual cast destruction knock back perk + the "fus" study from parthenax, it's functionally a 100% chance to stagger enemies. And then you can stunlock him to death 💀 get the twin souls perk from conjuration, dual cast daedric warriors, bring a follower, now it's a 4v1 with infinite stunlocks😂
@@botondnyitrai3128 to me it's hilarious to imagine what the Ebony warrior must think as he watches you run up the side of his mountain with 3 homies after he challenged you alone to a fight. Bro gets jumped in every playthrough that I hit 80+
Fun fact! You actually don't have to kill Parthurnaax to get everything you can from the Blades. Just ask about restoring the Blades before you talk to Angir. Then do that, and you'll get the Dragon Infusion perk. And anything else you would get from them you can just take.
Hey man, loved the video. Skyrim is my favorite game ever, I've played the vanilla version for more than two thousand hours, on the PS3, Xbox 360, PS4 and finally on PC hahahahah, and I feel you perfectly captured it's feeling and why it's so great. Thank you for reminding me of how Skyrim makes one feel.
As someone whos experienced everything this game has to offer multiple times, I was 5 minutes into this video watching you follow Alvor for the first time when i said, "Oh so you've never played before" 😂
I'm guessing the book makes no mention of the dragonpriest masks. So if you want something to do returning to this save file, if you collect all of the dragonpriest masks in the base game there is a hidden secret mask you can get and it has a very powerful effect. Have fun on one of the games best treasure hunts in my opinion.
😂😂😂 experiencing this when you're already an adult gives you the major hint that you missed so much of the game years ago. I enjoyed this game in 2012 and for 4 years. Now I actually own a legal copy of the game in steam all because I still want to play it (legally now).
As someone who has played an unhealthy amount of Skyrim ever since it came out, modded and unmodded, I really love this video. Skyrim to me is less of a game with a start and end point as much as it is a sandbox world for you to explore.
I’m replaying the game right now for the first time in awhile, and I’m genuinely enjoying (with no mods)… It’s such an amazing game for new players or OG players. I just love that you can take the game into any direction that suits you. It’s a comforting game for late nights after work.
I’ve seen several instances of this tbh, people who approach the game with the mindset that all this random “side stuff” is boring and not worth doing…until someone or something in a video somewhere makes them rethink their approach, and then once they approach the game in the way it’s designed to be played, they find themselves “having more fun playing Skyrim than they ever have before” and everyone else is just over here nodding like “yes, glad to see you’ve finally discovered all the stuff that’s been there all along”
This video is so nostalgic. I remember standing out a gamestop for the midnight launch - and i got the strategy guide with it. That was one of the most detailed and thick strategy guides ive ever seen. I spent many hours reading it standalone and playing with it by my side.
3:00 so far this is exactly how I tend to play from the start anyway. I have played this game about 6 times over by now though, & in my last I was a spellsword too, though a male high elf.
the special thing about skyrim to me is that i still havent beaten every quest and THAT alone keeps skyrim's as a still unexplored mysterious world in my head
One of the first games I’ve ever played was Skyrim in the 360. Unfortunately I was quite young and was just starting to learn English, so I frequently felt discouraged and didn’t go far into the game. Nevertheless I still hold some dear memories from playing it. This video made me want to pick up a remaster and do a full run after all these years.
loved this video soo much! how you don't have more subs is baffling to me, great cadence and flow talking, I can genuinely feel the love for the game! EDIT: TY for highlighted comment!
I personally enjoyed the Dawnguard more, but I also just really like vampire stuff. I also used the Serana dialog add-on mod that made her more interesting and interactive
The strongest combat perk is Shadow Warrior all around. Impact is not really good, unless you already have 100 Enchanting, which already makes it useless since you might as well have strong gear and kill everything easily at that point.
@@Borntolagagain shadow warrior is more of a getaway tool and I’m just talking about mechanically and not running around with infinite magicka or one shotting everything…
@@zoey8977 I guess you are not aware that you can spam the perk to "frontstab" people and dodge the enemies in front of you over and over again and re-engage? Even if you don't want to backstab people in combat, it's still great because you can use it as a dodge, to reposition, etc., it's also the best perk mechanically. Impact without infinite magicka is even worse from the perspective of you argument because it uses destruction spells. Destruction spells are a terrible design that one shots everything brainlessly in low difficulties while being mostly useless in high difficulties. Boring either way.
@@jaredplathe2623 I guess you’ll have to buy the book. Or just assume as it’s “The way bethesda intended”, you have two choices, launch some arrows with that guys bow or sneak past the bear.
I love that you've explored all of this. Skyrim is awesome, I have done all the quests many times over, except the Ebony Warrior. I am leveling up my character to 80 no to do so. Now they have added the realistic mode that disables fast travel completely and adds food, sleep, and cold. So much fun
So, I am about 8 minutes in now. Just past the part where you talked about following the path up to High Hrothgar. I want to tell you, and anyone else who wants to do a "no fast travel playthrough," which is how I play by default. There are a few shortcuts between Whiterun and Ivarstead that will save you a LOT of time that I didn't learn about for a long time. As you are traveling the road east from Whitrun, keep an eye out for a stone cairn on the left side of the road. If you hit the Towers, you missed it. This cairn marks a trail that is very lightly used and hard to spot as a result. If you follow it, it should lead you up some switchbacks and then through a small pass on the face of The Throat of the World, high enough for snow. It will connect with another shortcut that will lead you up to Ivarstead, beware of the troll near the stream crossing. The second shortcut is beyond the towers, after the road reconnects with the white river at the bottom of the falls and crosses a bridge. There is a cairn that marks the trail to Lost Knife Hideout, a cave, on the left. You can continue past Lost Knife up the hill. This trail will eventually connect to the other trail I mentioned. Dont forget to check out the tree bridge on your way up this trail. That whole cliffside has a bunch of trails and shortcuts between the Rift and Eastmarch. Roads are good for getting where you want to go, but dont forget to get lost on a trail or two. Finished the video now, good work. Personally I still haven't fought the Ebony Warrior, I play to slow. Skyrim is a magical game, and it's always fun to witness someone's "firsts" with it. Its just a fun game to play and share your experiences with.
I read the entire vanilla Prima Official Gide of this game (not the Legendary Edition), and I remember the game avatar they had was a male Nord named Bendu Olo married to Jenassa.
I actually started up another playthrough of skyrim a couple weeks ago after not playing in a couple years. And it just reminded me of why Skyrim is, without a shadow of a doubt, my favorite game of all time. Was there for the midnight release. And still playing it nearly 13 years later. There is just something magical about skyrim. The environment. The music. The exploration. it just all comes together so perfectly.
Cracking the cryptic: why do Hadvar and Ralof say, "I think it's best if we split up?" Because they have to get to Riverwood to inform Delphine that when Lokir of Rorikstead was killed Alduin returned. When you return the dragonstone to Farengar Delphine is leaning over the book Holdings of Jarl Gjalund. You don't hear what Delphine says to Farengar but you hear his reply which is "You see, it's a different terminology..." There is only one entry in Holdings of Jarl Gjalund that has a different terminology in 4E 201 and that is Rorikstead is a different terminology of Rorik's Steading. They can only be talking about Lokir of Rorikstead's death causing the return of Alduin. When Felldir the Old banishes Alduin he says, "From all our endings unto the last." It's the "ending" of Lokir that causes Alduin to return and no one else. Bethesda Games Studios has committed a deception against us. They belong to a cult that is working to keep us deceived. I'm not accusing them of lying but then again they don't tell us the whole truth. They've turned deception into and art form. They give you enough information to tell you that Lokir of Rorikstead was the last Dragonborn and if you believe you are the last Dragonborn then more fool you. Before Skyrim starts a genocide has been committed by the Blades which is an underground organisation. They have done it to fulfill the prophecy of the last Dragonborn. That's why Hadvar was willing to let you go when you exited the cave at Helgen. When Lokir was killed and Alduin returned it was mission accomplished.
I enjoyed this video. It's nice seeing someone enjoying the game gradually as you once did, through exploration. Granted, there are still a lot of things in the game I haven't done (such as killing Paarthurnax and thus the Blades quest) but it just shows you can play this game however you'd like and have fun
The guide seems to reads as if it's more for a 'survival' playthrough, if not that would definitely be interesting to see how it'll contest. Great video 🎉🎉♥️👍🏿
to be able to play this game for the first time again but with a book telling me what to do and where to go. all love on the video tho, im glad you enjoy my favorite fictional world that i know of
Started a no-mods 100% run last month. If a quest takes me through an area I haven’t explored much, I do not fast travel to experience the world and discover new locations. Great way to play
23:19, not an infinite game lol, there aren’t unlimited quests and dungeons. eventually you’ll run out of unique random encounters as well. if you’re efficient you could 100% the game in less than 100 hours
You killed our bro, Partysnacs?? You've a terrible stain on your soul that will be there for the rest of your life. (shakes head in extreme disappointment...)
Breaking, local man genuinely enjoying Skyrim in 2024
Vanilla skyrim too
To each their own but I just don’t understand it…
I do more so oblivion tho
Every skyrim player returns once every year or every few years to play and have some fun lol
Im playing and streaming it with the Nordic Souls modlist, right now. Its SO GOOD.
A new hand touches the beacon
a new ham touches the bacon
THE 🅱️EACON
A new ham touches the bacon... Mmmmhmmmm bacon.
no no NO NO GOD PLEASE NO-
GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD
I guess this video proves that a lot of players actually don’t play by the book
Why would you. The book Bethesda uses was written by lunatics
I didnt know there was a book
Budumtsss
If Bethesda goes by this video's list of things casual players never did, they'll figure it's a waste of time making any quest that the player is not explicitly led into from the start. Also, no alchemy/crafting next time.
On a positive note, even casual players enjoy classes, so maybe that's a hint.
Yet, it helped me making my own adventures, heavily modded that is, to still enjoy them the way Bethesda intended. Immersed, even in 2024
I wish i could play this for the first time again
Got a semi powerful pc?
Look into the nolvus modpack, it actually brings back that sense of wonder you got in the first playthrough, the world looks incredible. The combat is super fun in third person with a combo system and active dodge rolls.
My personal favorite are the new sneak idle squat and the fact that bows, quivers, and swords kind of move around on your character while you walk around.
It HIGHLY recommend it.
It's also an auto install, you just need lots of space.
@@Agc2749 Yes i do, I will check it out, but the way I felt playing it back in 2012 when I was 11 years old… damn, I don’t think any game will ever match that. And on top of that, I don’t have as much time to play as I would like
But have you played it stoned? That's like playing it for the first time again... sort of.
@@Agc2749appreciate that recommendation. I'm gonna check that out
@@Matthewjs33every time I play I play high as shit cause I wanna enjoy it even more
man fu*k all the people hating on you this was a great video. It’s super cool to still see people learning new stuff and having new experiences on skyrim so many years later.
Its one salty wannabe know it all, not a ton of people lol
Who's hating? No ones hating. Your fighting invisible comments
@@James-mh4nn when the vid was like a few hours old there was only 15 comments and one dude had commented like 3/4 times abt “how stupid” he was for not knowing abt the dark brotherhood, i wasn’t arguing with anyone either tho i was leaving a separate comment telling the dude that despite those other comments it was a cool video
@@codeine.dreamz3913Admittedly this is pretty ridiculous. I’m betting it’s just the script, but it is a silly thing to say given the premise of the video. Overall this is high quality content though
video just got 19 dislikes, wheres the hate bro? 😭
something interesting with hitting him with mehrunes razor, the ebony warrior has the heavy armour perk that allows him a chance to deflect a strike, meaning you very well could've killed yourself when you hit him lol
Power Word: No U
Another fun fact, the perk works no matter who holds it, so you can give it to your adopted children…who will practice on a target dummy if you have one in your house. If you walk in front of then while they’re swinging you can actually be instantly killed
Bit of a nitpick, but it's actually a chance to reflect
Uno reverse is always the most powerful card to play
@@MinisculeBugDid you read what they said?
Skryim is such a crazy thing. Two guy's who've put literally thousands of hours into it can have had completely different experiences doing so. From I think 2015 to 2018 or so it was the only game I played. At all. I didn't touch a single other game in that time. And I still run into people who have done things I had no idea existed in it. It's madness
After having played for literally years, I randomly stumbled into Sinding's quest line in Falkreath. Going hunting for a huge spectral deer? So cool.
ikr? same here, only difference between you and me is that i used to play the game since 2011, i finished the game with hundreds of hours in multiple playthrough in different platforms in which i was either a warrior or a mage or mix of two. my main build is always mage.
in January 2018 i decided to finally mod the game because i thought there is no way theres still quests i still didnt play myself or watch someone play them right? but to my surprise, 2024, theres still things i am discovering. sometimes im so surprised to the fact i discovered something in 2024 where i would google the quest/npc/place etc. just to see if its part of a mod or not
at this point, im rushing to finish my modded game so i can 100% the game without mods. maybe only combat mods, graphical mods, bug fixes and stuff like that. but no mods that add new places or npcs or anything like that
And that’s why it’s a one of the greatest games of all time elder scrolls 6 will be insane
i sometimes wiash i never got into mods for bethesda games. i only recently tried doing a "full playthrough" (which for me is all MAIN quests + whatever convenient sidequests). i used to fuck around with mods so much i'd lose my save and and have to restart, hundreds of times lol. fallout 3, NV, 4, TES 3, Oblivion, Skyrim, all of em
It’s actually super impressive how big the game is. I didn’t even know about some of the stuff in this vid. Crazy how big Skyrim is compared to the other Bethesda games like Starfield.
PARTYSNAX DEATH IS CANON!? NOOOOO
It’s not going to be confirmed when tes vi drops as paarthurnax has isolated himself since the dragon war, Bethesda probably won’t mention him in a new book or piece of worldbuilding and leave it to the player’s interpretation
@@Nockgun The Emperor's death is canon even if you destroy the Dark Brotherhood. They have their own secret canon and your choices don't matter. That's why they haven't made an Elder Scrolls 6 or moved the timeline along in the other Elder Scrolls games released since Skyrim. They are shithouses who are waiting 'til we've all been killed off.
Everything is canon. No, really, the prisoner takes every possible path at once. So, yes and no.
@@HylianKirbo eso Isn’t canon N’wah
@@A9hl6fgx5ebisb72op Even if it wasn't, there's still quite a bit pointing to the unique aspect of prisoners, anyway. Besides. Bethesda would make things vaguely canon, regardless
Before going to Whiterun, I always go to the Riverwood Trader and speak with Lucan Valerious and pick up his side quest. That way his sister also shows you the best path to Whiterun and you get to complete two quests at once once you finish Bleakfalls Barrow.
I always just go immediately to bleak falls barrow then go to Riverwood talk to the trader then dip out to whiterun to turn in the dragon stone
I love sticking it to Farengar 😂
i am currently playing skyrim for the first time in like 10 years and its so refreshing to see someone who is around my knowledge level to experience the game! nice video
I’m tempted to also play through again but with mods on pc since I’ve only ever played on xbox360!
So here’s a good trick
Become the leader of the companions
Then bring your radiant quest, giver, along as your companion Get the quest, recruit him then go to the location and complete the questthen un recruit him right there on the spot to get the next quest, then recruit him before he walks off again
You end up traveling all over Skyrim with a good companion and doing quests super fun with a camping mod
I played Skyrim for years before I started a no fast travel playthrough. It was the most fun I've had since then. You can even find the Redguards, who are looking for Saadia, harassing other women who look like her before they are triggered to be in Whiterun.
It actually blows my mind that basic stuff like walking places instead of fast-travelling absolutely everywhere is some kind of revelation for people. Having played Skyrim since 2011, it's been evident ever since then that a good 80% of the magic in a Skyrim playthrough is what happens on the roads, just out and about, because that's where all the game's systems interact best.
Glad that you could have this experience after so long!
not even the random encounters just the visuals with the music is something else.
If you old school and respect old school rules, you'd never fast travel, especially when the world is filled with content both random and surprising.
On my first, second, thrid, n-th playthrough, I always naturally did it just how the book says. Because that's the games intention, but not limited to it. I always says that Skyrim is the most linear open world game ever. Even if you don't play "by the book", it will feed you constant stuff to do, open world is just an illusion.
Exactly, fast travel should ONLY be used to travel back and forth between locations tied to quests, for example fast traveling to Jorrvasker after each Companions job. Walk to the objective location manually but feel free to fast travel back to Whiterun if you'll just take the same path back, again though this shouldn't be for every quest just the kind that have you going back and forth from one set location
@@Arnechk this makes no sense at all. Giving stuff to do doesn’t make an open world an illusion… it’s gives you stuff to do in the open world.
Once winter hits here I’m crushing a new play through. I play Skyrim every winter since 2011.
Same
What's the build this time?
@@venomrg7608 all subsequent play throughs lead to stealth archer
Seems like the way I play Skyrim is shockingly in line with the guide lmao
Even down to the spellsword female dark elf. Loved the video, keep it up
The dark elf is just an excellent choice for anyone who wants to do a bit of everything. Good at melee, sneaking, and magic out of the gate, and one of the most fun racial powers
Bro these people hating for no reason this video is great i dont know the interwoven plot and secrets of the witcher 3 even though its been out just as long
Who's hating? No ones hating. Your fighting invisible comments
@@James-mh4nn when I posted this comment there were only 6 comments and at least 2 or 3 of them seemed negative or discouraging just wanted to say it was a great video and it's okay to not know things about old games
@@becauseforeverended8861 your slow
@@James-mh4nnat least im faster than you
@@James-mh4nn *You're actually.
The order of questing is such that the book is more orderly. When it comes to the game itself, it's generally the best idea to talk to everyone and gather all the quests wherever you are, and just complete them as you go.
So for example doing the Mythic Dawn Museum quest as soon as you get the letter, and running into Vaermina quest and other quests on the way.
This is especially the case with no fast travel.
'best' by definition of efficiency.
Some can play to maximize immersion or other measures of enjoyment.
All valid, whatever lets you enjoy the game!
@@briankelly1240 There is little immersion in joining side factions as a rookie after having slain the world eater.
At this point every faction would crave your membership and worship the ground you walk on.
But there is immersion in joining them before doing that, then becoming their leader after Alduin.
It also makes sense to do a lot of side quests and dungeons before Alduin as that makes you run into word walls and dragons to power up before the fight.
Everytime I got to a new city I knew I was gonna be in that city for hours doing quests
Dude I’m playing Skyrim for the first time right now and I didn’t even know you could sprint until like 35 hours of play time in. Thanks for this vid it was actually helpful to me it’s great
There are three different speeds the player can move. Walk, run, and sprint. On PC, I believe the default speed is walk. You can press shift to run, or caps lock to toggle running. Alt controls sprint.
Something I learned recently as a veteran Skyrim player -- interacting with the little flags positioned on the in-game maps of Skyrim (ex. Upstairs behind Balgruuf's throne), will mark the location on your map, similar to when an NPC talks about a location. I thought it was so cool!!
@@zadarasimoleons1019 I play on my switch bc I don’t have a pc but I totally didn’t know I could run either, maybe I should look at the controls screen haha thank you
I discovered sprint after 6 month of playing,idk why but for me running on the keyboard was on “ i “ button, and I was in a werewolf form when I discovered it,seeing how my character in a beast for gets on four and sprinting like wolf,left me speechless
you may have actually given me a reason to go through my New Vegas guide. I thumbed through it at first, mumbled "nyeh, more like guidelines than actual ruules" then proceeded to build the same fkn character for 13yrs.
😂😂😂 so relatable
😂
I was shocked when I saw that you only had 44 subscribers. I thought this video would have had at least 50,000 views and you 10,000 subscribers. Amazing content, amazing quality
pretty sure its an alt channel for a large cod zombies youtuber might be wrong
i think this is samuel the 17th. he was a very popular cold war youtuber that got popular by doing challenges while getting round 100 in zombies
58k views in a day lol
Good news: He now has a thousand subscribers
It is easy to forget, in games like Skyrim, that game designers actually, you know, design the game...with intention...and method. 💪😎🤙. Great video, and let it be known that you can never arrive too late to notice things in this game that are awesome.
I remember when I first played Skyrim I couldn’t figure out where the entrance to whiterun was so I stole a horse and tried to jump over the walls lmao
I have 4000 hours into Skyrim, in my opinion Skyrim is one of the best games ever made. I started playing in 2012, and I still play it to this day.
Great video!
Have you played Oblivion? Curious how you would compare the two.
@@coreyaldridge1753 I have, and I would say there is a lot of positives that one has that the other one doesn’t have and vice versa. I would definitely prefer Skyrim over Oblivion, but Oblivion story is great and the fact that you can create your own spells is amazing. That’s something Skyrim should have had.
@@coreyaldridge1753 no game can compare to oblivion
@@lennyface5540new Vegas is the oblivion of the fallout games
@@travistreadway3180wrong. It's the Morrowind. Aka the best of the series. If you disagree you're a casual.
as a guy who grew up playing skyrim im talking from 7 years old all the way to now 20 this was a great vid and i appreciate it great work samuel.
Such a well structured and edited video. You're also really good at narrating.
Feels like you've been a youtuber for years! Very impressive. Well done!
Crazy to think a game with this much content came out in 2011
Why is that crazy?
I couldn't tell you 3 games with similar content level that came out in the last 3~5 years @@whattheheckification
and it's only 14GB download. meanwhile, baldur's gate 3... 💀
@@deffdefying4803 I sort of think as games become more graphically intensive it hurts the amount of content you can put in a game.
@@deffdefying4803 can't tell if this is a diss on BG3, but it has a crazy amount of detail and content that makes sense for a big download. A better comparison is something like, say, Call of Duty that is 300gb and has absolutely no right or reason to be that bloated.
Great video! I loved it. Small suggestion: as a longtime retrospective enjoyer, I would suggest some kind of outro sequence for future videos just to tie everything together and put a definitive end to the video. Helps with the overall narrative. It just felt a little jarring imo to have the vid drop off at the end.
Partysnax, nooooooo!!! 😢
Lmao get rekt nerd
@@bronysaiyan5236 Partysnax is life. Partysnax is love. Now back to your cave, neckbeard 🤣
@@bronysaiyan5236 Partysnax is life. Partysnax is love. Now back to your cave, neckbeard 🤣
@@bronysaiyan5236 Partysnax is life. Partysnax is love. Now back to your cave, neck-beard 🤣
@@Lord_Ralph cant. Too busy fucking partysnaxxs skeleton
Great video, but your sin of Killing Partysnacks? Not even Sithis will forgive you.
8:25 I was so happy when I figured out how to do that.
In my second play through, I got to that room and thought "I didn't get that last time. But now I know Tod Howard" and looked around, finding that broken bridge above. Skyrim is so cool.❤
There is a lot of cool and unique stuff along the main path that does not make other appearances. Like the birds flying away when you exit Riverwood, the entirety of Jurgan Windcaller's tomb (the number of times wirlwind sprint is needed), unique animations like the way Esburn searches his pockets, wearing the Thalmor Robes to pass peacefully, the voice acting for the main characters is full of personality, and Clear Skys is only used twice in the entire game, unless I missed something. And the wardrobe with the false back, I've only seen it in Riverwood and Blood on the Ice. The main story is so interesting.
I just love seeing different people's playstyles, or learning about them. 'I see no point in alchemy' or 'I grow gardens of blisterwort, canis root, and swamp fungal pod'; 'walking the overworld is wonderful' or 'I will climb the walls if I have to walk to Ivarstead one more time'; 'I can kill Paarthurnax for the quests' or 'I would die for my precious uwubebe formerly genocidal dragonbean' ^_^ Fascinating stuff.
I have a garden with a whole bunch of plants, but the ones I was really happy to discover were scaly pholacia and creeping canis root (I hope I remembered those names right) because they create a Fortify Carry Weight potion, which is crucial for me because I tend to pick up everything of value when I go on quests.
@@EG-cm5th scaly pholiota and creep cluster? I'd probably build a whole separate house for them, but for some reason, for me, creep cluster in a garden has about 0.5 pixels in which it can be harvested :/ Banger potion combo though!
Skyrim holds a special place in my heart not many games will ever compare to. I've done this play through before and I'm impressed you put in the time. Hope you keep exploring Skyrim. There are a few channels who create build guides that are fun and give your character a background and purpose within Skyrim, which are also very fun to check out, Fevy being one of my favorite. Great video, thanks for sharing.
Absolutely, loved this video. I was a little bummed out when Avati only did it so minimally. I love how you went through the whole playthrough! Great job, man! My only critique was the ending felt abrupt and I feel like I didn't hear you give a conclusion. I guess an epilogue you can say lol I felt so invested and watched your whole video in one sitting. I thought I was going to hear a "Final Thoughts" where we kind of have a sit-down and what you thought and everything lol
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. I’m currently lvl 41, been playing every now and then since it came out, in many different characters and all editions of the game.
I probably have more than 10 k hours in skyrim, yet I didnt know about the torture chamber subjects giving you a quest to gather treasures, Well Done! great video, and I hope you keep playing it from time to time as many of us do
This video was so good I didn’t realize this wasn’t a big creator I wasn’t expecting at least 1M views with this typa editing 👑
10:57 I have never seen this before. I think it is time to start again 231232 times.
You can completely trivialize the ebony warrior fight by getting the dual cast destruction knock back perk + the "fus" study from parthenax, it's functionally a 100% chance to stagger enemies. And then you can stunlock him to death 💀 get the twin souls perk from conjuration, dual cast daedric warriors, bring a follower, now it's a 4v1 with infinite stunlocks😂
or use "marked for death" and melt him.
I remeber defeating him the first time by fishing for Mehrunes' Razor's instant kill effect
@@botondnyitrai3128 to me it's hilarious to imagine what the Ebony warrior must think as he watches you run up the side of his mountain with 3 homies after he challenged you alone to a fight. Bro gets jumped in every playthrough that I hit 80+
skyrim is how fun you make it
Fun fact! You actually don't have to kill Parthurnaax to get everything you can from the Blades. Just ask about restoring the Blades before you talk to Angir. Then do that, and you'll get the Dragon Infusion perk. And anything else you would get from them you can just take.
Hey man, loved the video. Skyrim is my favorite game ever, I've played the vanilla version for more than two thousand hours, on the PS3, Xbox 360, PS4 and finally on PC hahahahah, and I feel you perfectly captured it's feeling and why it's so great. Thank you for reminding me of how Skyrim makes one feel.
It’s never too late to enjoy Skyrim. Welcome to the family!
As someone whos experienced everything this game has to offer multiple times, I was 5 minutes into this video watching you follow Alvor for the first time when i said, "Oh so you've never played before" 😂
I'm guessing the book makes no mention of the dragonpriest masks. So if you want something to do returning to this save file, if you collect all of the dragonpriest masks in the base game there is a hidden secret mask you can get and it has a very powerful effect. Have fun on one of the games best treasure hunts in my opinion.
Fun Fact: If you take a drink everytime he says "The Book", you will die from Alcohol Poisoning. 🙂
I didn’t notice how many times he said it until I read this
This is how I played normally without reading the book
People actually split up from Ralof/Hadvar? I followed them to Riverwood in every playthrough
Old Orc is a good encounter, you're not alone.
You lost me at SELLING THE CLAW! What??? Madness!
Gotta make every piece of gold i guess? 😂😂😂😂
Great^^
This was fun to watch, great video^^
😂😂😂 experiencing this when you're already an adult gives you the major hint that you missed so much of the game years ago. I enjoyed this game in 2012 and for 4 years. Now I actually own a legal copy of the game in steam all because I still want to play it (legally now).
5:58 you’re not selling it per say the riverwood trader and his sister possessed the claw before having it stolen
You can steal it back and tell them both to go fuck themselves
Feel like I’ve played every possible scenario in Skyrim yet it’s still fun every time
As someone who has played an unhealthy amount of Skyrim ever since it came out, modded and unmodded, I really love this video.
Skyrim to me is less of a game with a start and end point as much as it is a sandbox world for you to explore.
I’m replaying the game right now for the first time in awhile, and I’m genuinely enjoying (with no mods)… It’s such an amazing game for new players or OG players. I just love that you can take the game into any direction that suits you. It’s a comforting game for late nights after work.
The amount of "I have never done that before" in this video, makes we wonder, if he ever even played Skyrim before.
I’ve seen several instances of this tbh, people who approach the game with the mindset that all this random “side stuff” is boring and not worth doing…until someone or something in a video somewhere makes them rethink their approach, and then once they approach the game in the way it’s designed to be played, they find themselves “having more fun playing Skyrim than they ever have before” and everyone else is just over here nodding like “yes, glad to see you’ve finally discovered all the stuff that’s been there all along”
This video is so nostalgic. I remember standing out a gamestop for the midnight launch - and i got the strategy guide with it. That was one of the most detailed and thick strategy guides ive ever seen. I spent many hours reading it standalone and playing with it by my side.
3:00 so far this is exactly how I tend to play from the start anyway. I have played this game about 6 times over by now though, & in my last I was a spellsword too, though a male high elf.
This video is just casual open world game player discovers immersion and deeper exploration
Damn i wish i could play this game for the first time again. Good Video man
If this isn't a Nord Warrior shout build who massacres elves im leavin
Not knowing dark brotherhood existed is actually kind of insane..
I'm thinking Skyrim was his only Elderscrolls game
the special thing about skyrim to me is that i still havent beaten every quest and THAT alone
keeps skyrim's as a still unexplored mysterious world in my head
One of the first games I’ve ever played was Skyrim in the 360. Unfortunately I was quite young and was just starting to learn English, so I frequently felt discouraged and didn’t go far into the game. Nevertheless I still hold some dear memories from playing it. This video made me want to pick up a remaster and do a full run after all these years.
Its insanely good still
Bro, great job on this. I can tell already this video is gonna do numbers
loved this video soo much! how you don't have more subs is baffling to me, great cadence and flow talking, I can genuinely feel the love for the game!
EDIT: TY for highlighted comment!
I personally enjoyed the Dawnguard more, but I also just really like vampire stuff. I also used the Serana dialog add-on mod that made her more interesting and interactive
Impact is the strongest combat perk in all of skyrim. Makes every fight a joke because the enemy literally can’t do anything lol
The strongest combat perk is Shadow Warrior all around.
Impact is not really good, unless you already have 100 Enchanting, which already makes it useless since you might as well have strong gear and kill everything easily at that point.
@@Borntolagagain shadow warrior is more of a getaway tool and I’m just talking about mechanically and not running around with infinite magicka or one shotting everything…
This logic but with a simple paralysis poison too
@@zoey8977 I guess you are not aware that you can spam the perk to "frontstab" people and dodge the enemies in front of you over and over again and re-engage? Even if you don't want to backstab people in combat, it's still great because you can use it as a dodge, to reposition, etc., it's also the best perk mechanically.
Impact without infinite magicka is even worse from the perspective of you argument because it uses destruction spells. Destruction spells are a terrible design that one shots everything brainlessly in low difficulties while being mostly useless in high difficulties. Boring either way.
@@Borntolagagain Did you even read my comment??
I have been at my 11th play THROUGH of Skyrim and I enjoyed watching this video of yours.
bro needed a book to discover alchemy, blacksmithing, and enchanting. Congrats on playing Skyrim for the first time
I enjoy you having this first time experience with many things! Cool to see you did it all
2:36 but WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THE BEAR
Asking the real questions here.
The correct answer is sneak into a wall to immediately max it out before exiting the cave
@@SergeantCustard16 but is it a REAL answer
@@jaredplathe2623 I guess you’ll have to buy the book.
Or just assume as it’s “The way bethesda intended”, you have two choices, launch some arrows with that guys bow or sneak past the bear.
Or you can just use the venom from the spiders and put it on an arrow..one should be good enough... usually@@SergeantCustard16
Ofccccc todd found a way to sell a skyrim book as well, the 13th version of skyrim by now.
If playing vanilla means killing parthunax then ill never play vanilla
I love that you've explored all of this.
Skyrim is awesome, I have done all the quests many times over, except the Ebony Warrior. I am leveling up my character to 80 no to do so.
Now they have added the realistic mode that disables fast travel completely and adds food, sleep, and cold.
So much fun
So, I am about 8 minutes in now. Just past the part where you talked about following the path up to High Hrothgar.
I want to tell you, and anyone else who wants to do a "no fast travel playthrough," which is how I play by default. There are a few shortcuts between Whiterun and Ivarstead that will save you a LOT of time that I didn't learn about for a long time.
As you are traveling the road east from Whitrun, keep an eye out for a stone cairn on the left side of the road. If you hit the Towers, you missed it. This cairn marks a trail that is very lightly used and hard to spot as a result. If you follow it, it should lead you up some switchbacks and then through a small pass on the face of The Throat of the World, high enough for snow. It will connect with another shortcut that will lead you up to Ivarstead, beware of the troll near the stream crossing.
The second shortcut is beyond the towers, after the road reconnects with the white river at the bottom of the falls and crosses a bridge. There is a cairn that marks the trail to Lost Knife Hideout, a cave, on the left. You can continue past Lost Knife up the hill. This trail will eventually connect to the other trail I mentioned. Dont forget to check out the tree bridge on your way up this trail.
That whole cliffside has a bunch of trails and shortcuts between the Rift and Eastmarch. Roads are good for getting where you want to go, but dont forget to get lost on a trail or two.
Finished the video now, good work. Personally I still haven't fought the Ebony Warrior, I play to slow. Skyrim is a magical game, and it's always fun to witness someone's "firsts" with it. Its just a fun game to play and share your experiences with.
🙏
Great video. Makes me want to play Skyrim again.
Clearly the book doesn't understand how Skyrim economy actually works.
Enchantment for ungodly profits, baby.
Wealth beyond measure
U are going places bud , keep pumping out the fun and entertaining videos !
I read the entire vanilla Prima Official Gide of this game (not the Legendary Edition), and I remember the game avatar they had was a male Nord named Bendu Olo married to Jenassa.
Really enjoyed the video, but the cold close was really jarring a small conclusion or summary of the video as a whole
“A new hand touches the beacon!” 16:16
I consider this video my last playthrough of skyrim after years of not playing it
thanks mate
Nah. You can’t kill paarthurnax
I actually started up another playthrough of skyrim a couple weeks ago after not playing in a couple years. And it just reminded me of why Skyrim is, without a shadow of a doubt, my favorite game of all time. Was there for the midnight release. And still playing it nearly 13 years later. There is just something magical about skyrim. The environment. The music. The exploration. it just all comes together so perfectly.
Cracking the cryptic: why do Hadvar and Ralof say, "I think it's best if we split up?" Because they have to get to Riverwood to inform Delphine that when Lokir of Rorikstead was killed Alduin returned.
When you return the dragonstone to Farengar Delphine is leaning over the book Holdings of Jarl Gjalund. You don't hear what Delphine says to Farengar but you hear his reply which is "You see, it's a different terminology..." There is only one entry in Holdings of Jarl Gjalund that has a different terminology in 4E 201 and that is Rorikstead is a different terminology of Rorik's Steading. They can only be talking about Lokir of Rorikstead's death causing the return of Alduin.
When Felldir the Old banishes Alduin he says, "From all our endings unto the last." It's the "ending" of Lokir that causes Alduin to return and no one else.
Bethesda Games Studios has committed a deception against us. They belong to a cult that is working to keep us deceived. I'm not accusing them of lying but then again they don't tell us the whole truth. They've turned deception into and art form.
They give you enough information to tell you that Lokir of Rorikstead was the last Dragonborn and if you believe you are the last Dragonborn then more fool you.
Before Skyrim starts a genocide has been committed by the Blades which is an underground organisation. They have done it to fulfill the prophecy of the last Dragonborn. That's why Hadvar was willing to let you go when you exited the cave at Helgen. When Lokir was killed and Alduin returned it was mission accomplished.
I enjoyed this video. It's nice seeing someone enjoying the game gradually as you once did, through exploration. Granted, there are still a lot of things in the game I haven't done (such as killing Paarthurnax and thus the Blades quest) but it just shows you can play this game however you'd like and have fun
14:14 Welcome, brother. Hail Sithis.
So worth coming back to this game every so often, such an immersive, massive game with so many ways to personalize your playthrough
how did you know about the ebony warrior but not the dark brotherhood? lol
The guide seems to reads as if it's more for a 'survival' playthrough, if not that would definitely be interesting to see how it'll contest. Great video 🎉🎉♥️👍🏿
3:44 SKYRIM CAPITALISM HELL YEAH 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
to be able to play this game for the first time again but with a book telling me what to do and where to go.
all love on the video tho, im glad you enjoy my favorite fictional world that i know of
If Bethesda makes the death of partysnax at the hands of the dragonborn canon, we riot.
Started a no-mods 100% run last month. If a quest takes me through an area I haven’t explored much, I do not fast travel to experience the world and discover new locations.
Great way to play
When you know everything about skyrim its hard to remember how good it actually is
fine.... Ig I'll go finish my platinum trophy hunt in Skyrim
23:19, not an infinite game lol, there aren’t unlimited quests and dungeons. eventually you’ll run out of unique random encounters as well. if you’re efficient you could 100% the game in less than 100 hours
Take a shot every time Samuel the third says “The Book”
You killed our bro, Partysnacs?? You've a terrible stain on your soul that will be there for the rest of your life. (shakes head in extreme disappointment...)
Gay
screw that wyrm, only a matter of time before his nature takes a hold of him again
@@SouthernRex-1994not like he’s been perfectly fine living peacefully for the last 8000 years or anything
you sir have won the internet!😂
Great video man I would love to see more Skyrim content