Lmao I played it the first time like over 7 years ago and recently I started it again I feel like you can always start Skyrim new and it's a lot of fun
I first started playing Fallout a few years ago with Fallout 4. I had tons of fun, believe it made a great introduction to the series, with a simple yet captivating storyline, a RPG system that worked just fine and some great interactions between characters. Then I played fallout New Vegas, which sincerely looks more like a Mad Max universe than a post nuclear apocalypse, but the Gambling system was really fun to use. Then this year I played 76... OKAY YEAH IT SUCKS ON "SOLO", but if you gather a few friends it can really be a great way to have fun. Me and the bois liked to go bunkers on West Virginia and it was pretty damn good. What I believe happens is that the previous games had a similar vibe that worked out greatly, and the most recent ones try new styles, which sometimes backfires or people dislike it because it's not the same as before. I for myself am very happy that many franchises are trying to rewind some games with a fresh new look, and as long as you have fun or a good experience playing a game, I believe it achieved it's purpose. I might be the only guy that actually liked Mass Effect Andromeda and No Man's Sky, soooooooooo....
I spent a summer in Skyrim with my wife years ago . We couldn’t get enough and had a non existent social life . She discovered the game and I set up multiple monitors in the living room , for us . A completely great experience at the Time.
Skyrim came out when I was in highschool and I mostly played it over the summer. Waking up, breakfast, turn on the AC on freezing and play Skyrim. god I miss those days.
I think we can all agree that without Jeremy Soule, Skyrim would be a complete different experience. The soundtrack combined with the atmosphere of the game is still to this date brilliant.
One tidbit on the archery section, as an archery instructor, you actually do aim "lower" on close targets. It still felt sort of intuitive to me because at short range, because of the angle of your eye to the arrow tip, you actually do aim the tip of the arrow sometimes WELL below the target. It's why when you see bows with sights on them the sights are so high up and sometimes have multiple prongs to aim with to account for nearer and farther targets
was just about to mention this! path of trajectory. arrows in archery and rifle rounds on the range too! both go slightly upwards with all that force behind them before gravity pulls back down.
I believe Skyrim’s graphics are beautiful in a way like a Monet painting. It’s in no way sharp, extremely detailed, nor realistic. However, the scenery, the vibrancy, and the somehow simultaneous simplicity and complexity has a certain charm.
@Alvi Syahri You're not gonna believe this, but I'm playing skyrim right now, and it crashed so I was using my phone waiting for it to reopen and I got this message. Damn.
Skyrim makes me feel so cozy. Heading to Breezehome after raiding a Dwemer ruin, waiting forever for my chest to load all of my hoarded loot, receiving gifts from my adopted children, eating dinner with my wife Ysolda, awkwardly walking past Lydia to sleep in my bedroom, only to head out the next day to find Adrianne the blackmith has been reduced to a pile of ash by a vampire attack, enlist with the Dawnguard for revenge, become a Vampire Lord instead; It's all so beautiful. Also, never forget the flying mammoths.
I wonder if there's a mod to make adopted children fight alongside you. I made my duty to always bring my daughters the best daggers i could find in quests, alongside the usual books and treats, and would be nice being both their mother and master
@@odioalospoopers Yes there is a mod to turn children into warriors. You will see them on the road hunting or in town with weapons fighting. "children of skyrim.warriors in training"
@@green_frogball1015 thats an art style so no one js really expecting it to be photo realistic. Skyrim howvever was trying to be photo realistic but its time is up. Its old and crappy. I enjoyed it back then but now I can't even play cause the game hurts my eyes.
@@dragonballhaven1417 The assets themselves might be dated, but you can alleviate that with mods. In contrast, the visual design is genuinely masterful.
@FreeTime Player also minecraft is beautiful while being more pixelated than the orginal Mario,and art don’t need to be realistic to be beautiful,just look a Picasso’s art.
I play skyrim atleast 4 times a year. I almost never finish it. I just make a new character and go explore the world. Even after all these years I still seem to find something I hadn't found before
I've put hundreds of hours into it and there's still things I've never seen and questlines I've never done. Meanwhile Cyberpunk has like 40 hours of actual quality gameplay.
Might be that I'm getting old, but I never understood why people shit on Skyrim's graphics so much. That is literally the most often cited criticism I've heard of the game. Yes, obviously today's games look better, and obviously modded graphic packs make the game look more stunning, but in my opinion, Skyrim's vanilla graphics are already on a level that after a couple minutes of play, I'd completely forget about these minor details and be immersed in the world.
Don Korb it’s the same logic people use when they say “ I can’t believe this is still happening in *insert year*”. They think because tech is better now that it should have been that way then. But Skyrim was pretty impressive visually to me. Still is
I don't understand that one either.. I started playing Skyrim on 360 and was floored by the graphic's and the details. Bug's ..sure, glitches...yep. That very 1st aurora, I mean holy crap! from 11-11-11 to now, I still play - though on a heavy mod'd PC game - Yes I could have a photo real mod, but I just enhanced what was there. My mod's are mostly combat and AI changes..err and a lot, I mean a lot of armor mods and Character beauty enhancements ( NO not that kind )
Skyrim is the first game both me and my daughter loved. Got special edition for xbox 360, xbox 1, PS4 and Playstation VR. We love this game is an understatement. The first gift I ever made my daughter was the blade of woe out of wood. The dark brotherhood is her fav faction.
@@shadowswithin702 I know right? I tried a bit after Christmas. When I crouched in the water it looked like it was right up to my chest. Could almost literally feel the coldness of the water.
You must be a 3 year old who loves games that hold your hand and always tell you what you need to do without you having to figure anything out on your own
Growing up I was a very quiet kid and always kept to myself and never talked to people, but when my parents got me Skyrim for my birthday it helped change me. I would get lost in the world for hours just wandering around taking in the amazing views and listening to all the sounds the game offered me, the music was always great and helped soothe my social anxiety to the point when I would go to school I could actually have a conversation with someone. Might sound dumb but Skyrim gave me hope when I couldn’t give it to myself, it gave me freedom, and it helped me get out of the dark places in my head. This game is easily my favorite rpg of all time and definitely my favorite game in general. The memories I’ve made and had with this game is why I love Skyrim.
I try to avoid listening to the Skyrim music outside of the game because when you load into the game and hear that music after not playing for a while it freaking hits you
One of my best memories is being so excited to have bought Honeyside in Riften back in middle school. It was my own little cozy thieves' den, in that wonderful, warm, autumnal city... Until I turned around to head down the stairs, only to see my mannequin just staring at me, faceless, from the bottom of the steps. To this day, I've never set foot in that fucking hellhole again.
Was it that home or the one in Solitude where the mannequin actually moves around the house? Creepy shit! I think I heard it really was an accidental glitch but still!
@@danieldavis8607 In my case, it was Riften's Honeyside! I never bought a home in Solitude, since I've always been a Stormcloak player...and I never wanted to go near a house with a mannequin again, so I stick with my ol' faithful modded Breezehome!
@@IAmWhiteEagle Crazy to think people played Skyrim when in middle school. Then likely graduated around 2016. It's been awhile since Skyrim released. A long while..
@@the_blind_hearing6 Oh yeah, I graduated in 2017. The nostalgia of when I first ran through Helgen's caves still stings. I'm only 20, but damn, I want to be 12. I can't believe it's been 8 years since I first read about Skyrim coming out in a Game Informer mag. Yikes. Oh man, and I totally miss M.A.G. too - loyal S.V.E.R. edgy kid, no matter what. I hope there's a good reboot some day soon.
It's because It's a cultural landmark that was a massive part of a whole generations upbringing and it feels good to play it because it brings you back to a simpler time and has become synonymous with relaxation and careless fun.
Honestly every time I try to explain why it’s a masterpiece I get different explanations. It’s just a good game man. And I love the farming, like you don’t even need to farm for loot you’re just likely to get loot normally
Frankly, I can go on at length about the issues with Skyrim. I understand why a lot of people find it disappointing as an RPG. Doesn't mean I'm not going to turn it on once every two years or so and put in another 100 hours.
@@Corrupted I wouldn't say it's "product"-feeling, but there are a lot of aspects that clearly were designed to be mass-produced first and hand-crafted second. The melee combat is a big offender. There's still a hell of a lot of content, and very little of it has NOTHING to throw you off, hence why I keep finding new things. Even if most locations in Skyrim only have one thing that sets them apart from every other crypt in the same genre, I've played games that don't even reach *that* standard, and I naturally didn't play them for something like 500 hours over ten years.
Honestly, just "going for a walk" in Skyrim is one of my favourite things. Enjoy the landscapes, enjoy the music, enjoy mowing through a dungeon full of draugr.
On my first playthrough this was sadly something I missed entirely. I fast traveled everywhere once I knew I could and missed out on a TON of hidden gems.
I have played through Skyrim at least ten times. Every time I say "I'm going to try a different type of gameplay!". EVERY time I end up being a stealthy archer.
I love being a stealth mage. Use illusion to go invisible and charge up a master level destruction spell, destroying everyone before going invisible again and walking away
If you want a fun one to switch it up try an unarmed kajit build. Literally breaks the game it's amazing. And the finishing moves for unarmed attacks are BRUTAL.
“What about Ysolda, who’s secretly been running a meth business the whole time?” Me, having sunk hundreds of hours into the game at this point: “MY WIFE IS RUNNING A METH BUSINESS?! WE HAVE TWO KIDS AND A FOX!”
The greatness of the Elder Scrolls games lie in their scope. Whenever they come out, they're a bit clunkier than they should be but the sheer scope of what you can do always surpasses other contemporary games by a lot. So I can overlook some of the wooden NPC dialogue and random bugs because the world is so open and enormous it's outshines all of the negatives.
Its funny because I enjoy the wooden dialogue and use of few voice actors for NPCs, it somehow gave the games charm. Unintentionally hilarious when two visually different looking NPCs talk to each other with the same voice. Plus the lines are quotable as hell especially in Oblivion and Skyrim. "By the gods, there's a psychopath on the loose" or "My cousin's out there fighting dragons and what do I get, guard duty".
2 years late but one month early to add that it's not only Elder Scrolls, Bethesda are pioneers in the game industry. It's not about achieving the very best graphical and gameplay performance within its timeline. It's about creating new concepts and innovating on what drives the player, through the screen. Why one month early? Because Starfield will soon be launching and i have zero doubts that the game will be forever remembered. I don't expect it to be bug-free nor short of some issues that others games may have already solved, matter of fact, i don't expect anything from Bethesda RPG's and i still get pleasantly surprised.
@@TotallyNotJoe_ oh my God, I just wanna puke from reading my own comment. Starfield, as you say, it's utterly disappointing and the most unseasoned RPG I think I've played. Jesus, I won't even delete it, so people can understand that temptation to buy something may blur you out of rational reasoning.
I feel like an addict that struggles with addiction when it comes to Skyrim, stuck in a loop of getting clean then relapsing after a certain amount of time
@@thebloodbaron7168 You think " You're " addicted. Look at my name lol. I finished the game twice on XBox. Working on finishing my first game on Xbox1. Still haven't started the PS4 VR. Sometimes I find the highest mountain to look down at the view. I'm fascinated just by the graphics of the game.
@@MirrorscapeDC The animations are worse and so are the graphical details as far as textures.. ESPECIALLY on characters. Oblivion had better saturation, it's COLOR was only better alongside it's story THAT'S IT!
@@mikewil7571 I never said that Oblivion had better graphics. It's years older, of course it doesn't. But OP compared Skyrim to a Bob Ross painting, which I didn't agree with because Bob Ross paintings are super colorful while Skyrim is not.
For me, Skyrim basically feels like home at this point. I know the land so well, I'm comfortable in every inch of it. Nothing is ever gonna stress me out when I go there like with most other games. That's what video games are meant to do, and this one delivers on that more than nearly any other. I can't imagine what they must have planned for ES6, it could be something large enough to be played for decades, or even an entire lifetime.
@@Gonzakoable piece of piss, I've crawled over every peak and crevasse in skyrim's over world. It disappoints me that there's no natural splendor explore in my local area.
choosetolivefree I never played an rpg, there actually isnt a minimap, and i wasnt really focused on what symbols on a compass i wasnt even focusing on because such a gorgeous game was in front of me.
I loved Skyrim for one simple thing: Freedom. The freedom to go and do anything I wanted to do and make builds super overpowered and broken. Also, the mods man. The mods.
But there was nothing of any actual substance to do.. Everything in that game could be boiled down to 'go in X cave/dungeon/tomb, kill everything, get Y item, return to main hub area and sell all the trash you picked up'. Exploring and leveling up to get stronger was fun but there were no interesting stories or characters in that world to actually make you care about anything. The world felt full of life and lifeless at the same time because of it.
@@darko1295 i really love the inigo mod, best companion imo. he has an actual character ark too and you get to see his thoughts in specific areas. i agree with you that most quests do that, but that quest in markarth where you either slay ever guard in the city or you go to jail and have a huge breakout is so fun. Also dark brotherhood questline? Civil war was so hyped up but was a huge letdown, but the blades thing is above average, not amazing but the meeting and going to sovngarde is really cool. i think that a lot of the dungeon quests can be unique like blackreach and hunting down karliah and mercer frey, and the miraak temple was really sick at the end.
Nothing beats playing Skyrim for the first time through VR. Going into the game, I had no idea what to expect, but putting the headset on, it really felt like I was in a fantasy world. Having to manually aim and pull the bowstring is so immersive
I had never played any RPG before playing Skyrim, and I just started it one day and I really can't even describe that feeling of being there, seeing the sights and hearing the music, I still feel that way when I play it. Nothing has come close to that feeling since.
@@szencziboldizsar6532 Although Skyrim's RPG mechanics are relatively simple, especially when compared to its predecessors, it does still qualify as one- even if just barely.
I was introduced to this game when I was 12 by my next door neighbor friends. We would spend hours outside playing pretend Skyrim around our neighborhood then we would go home and play the video game on our own. Those were the best times. Skyrim will always hold a special place in my heart.
1. Grew up playing Wolfenstein, Doom, Half-Life 2. Didn't play games for many years after 3. Didn't know what an RPG was 4. Never heard of Elder Scrolls 5. Saw a Skryim video, was impressed, bought game 6. Blown away by the seemingly endless world, the visual beauty, and the music 7. Tons to do, but doing nothing is also still fun 8. I cared about how quests turned out and they could have emotional weight 9. Got obsessed with exploiting enchantments, like cheating, but you have to earn it 10. It's the music and atmosphere mostly. Feels like another world. Thank you Jeremy Soule.
Yeah me too. I can't remember exactly, but I think Borderlands was one of the first games I got on the Xbox. Many hours into those, but not as many as Skyrim.@@joelhassig6099
The quests? The quests are shit in Skyrim. That's what got the most criticism with the game after how amazing the quests were in Morrowind, Oblivion, and Fallout 3. If you love Skyrim's quests you may have a heart attack if you do the quests in those games
BEYOND THE SPIDER FILMS I have a clip saved on my Xbox of me turning a corner into a room, backing out while seeing the mannequin turn to look at me, then double-taking while simultaneously shitting myself. It’s great.
Lol, I walked into my home once and I saw the mannequins running around for a few seconds and then suddenly stopped in their current animation. Sometimes I wonder if Skyrim is actually a horror game..
I played Oblivion for about 30 minutes before I decided it was a horror game. It was my first ever first-person RPG and it was creepy AF. Never picked it back up... With Skyrim I was already heavily invested before bugs like this became horrific. I was so deep in I couldn't back out... yet I regret nothing.
I was 10 years old when I saw them blink it freaked me out the next day they were walking around and I was afraid to go back into my 10000+ gold house.
The atmosphere in this game, all that iconic lines of npc's, even the animations of characters are heart warming at this point. Skyrim is not just an ordinary game. It's our part.
@@tsRR09 There's some pretty good ones out there. I remember one of them makes AI smart during combat so they'll move to surround you and are way better at defending and attacking at the right times. I watched a video a while back to know which ones to download, searching up "Skyrim combat mods" on TH-cam should do the trick.
Honestly, the moment Skyrim became truly immortal, is when Bethesda basically gave people the keys to Skyrim, and said to just make more for ourselves. Thus, Skyrim Modding came into existence. The shear number of mods available, for FREE by the way, is staggering. Got bored of something. Install this neat mod, that does basically nothing but make the world look a bit cooler, and play through the nite game again. Skyrim has become an near eternal toy for people to play with, as they add more and more pieces, until they make something basically there own, a basically unique selection of mods, unique to them, there own personal Skyrim.
That is how I always think about Doom and Skyrim. They're quite identical when it comes to how well-known they are:they're both old but gold,people all over the world love it with passion,you can play them on pretty much anything and the mods make them either into something more enhanced or a completely different game. Id Software's Doom and Bethesda's Skyrim are basically the gamer's most loyal friends that cemented their legacies into the history of games,unchanged by the time itself.
Vyacheslav Molotov I think the people who made it got caught having stolen another modders code or some shit. Also, it doesn’t work well enough to be playable, and they made loads of money out of it even though it turned out pretty shit.
I can speak only for myself, and for me the combat system's simplicity is one of the best things about the game. I play a game to have fun, not be driven mad by complicated mechanics - perhaps it's my age (72).
combat doesn't have to be complicated to be fun, for example dark messiah of might and magic is pretty similar, except combat is more dangerous and you have to actually think.
16:20 I’ve shot in archery competitions since I was 12 years old, and I can tell you from experience that when you don’t have sights on a bow, you don’t aim right at your target. Sure, our bows only had a maximum of 25 lbs of pull back, significantly less than what the long bows in Skyrim would have, but even 10m away from the target I’d have to aim almost at the bottom of the target to hit a bullseye. I know, I know, it’s just a video game, and the English long bow had ~100lbs of pull, but having to aim lower the intended target was something I appreciated, even it doesn’t make sense. Archery was really fun when I tried Skyrim vr because of the crazy shots I could try that I never could in competition 😂😂
Last time i played skyrim i was like 13 and i could never get into it so i didnt get far at all. Thus was in xbox 360 days. Should i gameshare wit my friend and download it again on ps4?
Skyrim was my first AAA game, I’ll never forget my 12th birthday staying up until 3:00 am with a friend playing Skyrim for the first time, and then my dad finding out and taking away my computer for a week
we gotta give props to the sound guys! had a teacher my freshman year, whos son worked on skyrim's sound team! got to hear a couple pretty cool stories about the work he did. Teacher was a pretty genuine guy! only had him for a few months. he was a long term substitute teacher, but wish i could remember his name.
Ahh I remember seeing that opening for the first time. The carriages were having a rave party all the way to Helgen. Yes, my first experience with the game was the psychotic carriage glitch. Never had an introduction like than to any game.Never been more confused about anything in my life.
@@urfork1 It usually happens when you have too many mods installed. The opening sequence is probably the second most finicky part of the entire game, It's usually the first thing that breaks in a modded playthrough. It can just give up on its own as well, breaking for no reason despite having no mods.
The first time I played Skyrim I was dedicated to creating a mage so I immediately went to Winterhold. That walk to the other side of the map made me love the game, so much to see and do. Immersive
I did the same thing. It was a personal quest to get to the college, not something that was in the quest log which made it that much more immersive! Good times.
I think the walk to the other side of the map was more exciting than being in the college. I WANTED TO LEARN NOT TO GO IN A MISSION AND TURN MYSELF INTO THE PRINCIPAL MAGE.
Me too. I always played a mage before Skyrim. But I quickly realized, that magic sucked in the vanilla game and being a stealthy archer was so much fun! Skyrim taught me to diversify my builds. My latest character is fighting with a sword and I love it!
that thing about rorikstead is cool, but they forgot about the book that farengar says could date back to the first era, and it mentions rorikstead, but the FOUNDER of the place is very much alive.
I love how we are all convinced that Bethesda has seen its best days, but we still look forward to TES6. It's almost like we view TES as separate from Bethesda, like it's a franchise that's epic by default. I really hope Bethesda doesn't shatter this illusion we all have...
I honestly think their best days are ahead. They've clearly learned what their fans like and want. Starfields going to make or break BGS, so im sure their going to do whatever they can to make it perfect.
Idk man, you really think any company, after experincing such a massive failure, would want to continue to be such a failure right after? I’m sure they are going to look back at what formulas made them much profits in the first place, that being top quality single player only game, with no mtx.
Morrowind. Morrowind is the reason we have Skyrim today and possibly every other open world RPG since 2011. It saved Bethesda and let them make oblivion and Skyrim. Go back to TES Bethesda, save yourself.
Arrows apparently pulling upwards in the first few meters of flight is actually realistic, due to the dynamics of how energy is transferred to the arrow and aerodynamics.
Not only that but it is also realistic because most cross-hairs are zeroed for the most common medium range. Meaning shooting something closer will hit higher. It is the consequence of trying to approximate an arc with a straight line.
Arcwind Point is my favourite location. Whenever I'm finished with a character and want to do another playthrough, I first part way with my followers then venture up to Arcwind. Fighting through deathlords and a dragon, I finally reach the top of the watchtower and take in the view while reflecting on all my time in the world.
its kinda how i feel about bungie n destiny. fuck bungie. but i love destiny. D1 that is, d2 (not even spellin it with a capital d) is an unplayable chore of a game
I didn't love Skyrim. It's as stable as dynamite in an oven and the entirety of its content is doing the same shit over and over and over and over and OVER AND OVER AND OVER. And you can't even do it in peace because you'll be interrupted by a fucking dragon every fifteen minutes. SOMETIMES BY TWO AT ONCE. I hope you've been leveling Shields! Had enough dragonbone to build a fucking metropolis and enough souls to make Soul Edge obese.
Skyrim is my personal favourite game I've played so far in my short life because it provides me with that world I know I can fall back into at a moments notice
I remember the moment it sunk in for me that I really loved the game. It was after I'd climbed to the top of the Throat of the World for the VERY first time ever to talk to Parthurnaax. It was around 6 pm when I got there and the clouds cleared as night moved in so the northern lights were up. I couldn't wipe the smile off my face, it was beautiful. I'll never forget how epic that conversation was.
Too bad you aren't into challenging games and enjoy games built for children, that hold your hand every step of the way, tell you exactly where to go, and make it generally as easy as possible. You should try something with a real challenge. It's much more satisfying.
but still fuck those who complaint about restricting it,this is a choice for the player.Also making you find a chair in fallout 4 so you could wait is retarded,who gives a shit if it looked silly in skyrim now i have to spawn in a chair everytime i wanna get to daytime.
I love Skyrim. I've played it my whole life, exploring the world truly was never something I did. It's amazing how you can play a game for so long and only know a fraction of what it has to offer.
It's more of an old friend whom you never get tired of. You come back and spend a lot of time together reminiscing and thinking of the beauty that you shared together
I remember my dad playing this game on the couch when I was around 5 years old or 7 years old. When I was 10 years old my dad bought us both the Special Edition. I didn't know what to think of Skyrim at first. He said "It's the best game ever. Especially the music."I decided to give it a chance. So I played this & each moment I started becoming more & more obsessed with the game. I started played this for hours & I would barely get off my couch because I loved this game soooooooooo much. I even began watching Skyrim videos on TH-cam. My favorite character was Serana. I think Skyrim is one of the games I would definitely come back to playing.
I'm okay with people talking shit about modern Bethesda, but saying Skyrim was and always was bad? No. Skyrim is a damn masterpiece and always has been.
It's funny. Once you look at Skyrin objectively, it doesn't seem that good. It's glitchy, it's buggy. It lacks a lot of RPG elements and depth. Combat is meh. Yet it still managed to blow all of us away when we played it for the first couple of times. Astounding.
You had me agreeing until you said it manged to blow us all away. Nope. Easy ass game. Child's play. I literally know 5 year olds who have beaten this fucking game. TOO EASY. It holds your hand at all times. Mini maps, waypoints, fast travel. WEAK AS FUCK. I beat this piece of shit game without the least bit of effort
@@slugged5109 you're right, nor should he have any soul or anything to do with dragons, it's an insult with people who are dragons trapped in human bodies...you can not claim to have the soul of something that you'll slaughter to near extinction then steal their souls...would be like if hitler was a dragon who claimed he was humankin
Silverscale Derg i mean not really. The Dragonborn’s whole purpose is to Fight Alduin and save the world. This happens every couple thousand years because it’s the Dragonborn’s destiny to do so.
Not gonna lie though I love the magic combat in skyrim, love the different spells wish I could make my own like in oblivion but I get why they got rid of it.
Skyrim of itself was an experience.. but when your into modding and can make a good job of it .. it becomes just unreal. And I've never reached what you would call the peak of modding but have come very close.
What I love about Skyrim is that not only does it feel like you're in an actual world but still to this day, am finding out new stuff that I didn't know about. That's what you call a good game 👌
No, what you call a good game is a game that doesn't hold your hand and give you a mini map and fast travel, and direct you to every single place you need to go. That shit is weak as fuck. GOOD games let you figure it out on your own without holding your hand like you're a fucking baby
I played skyrim during the pandemic, when we were all under lockdown. It was all I did almost everyday, my little brother and I, and we enjoyed it. What a good memory. Now I feel like I don't wanna try playing it 'cause what if it's not as good as I remember?
We to do the fortify restoration loop, get a potion that improves smithing for about... I dunno, 3786521% sounds about right... Yup, one piece of firewood and a grindstone later we're ready to one shot Alduin. With a kid's toy.
I remember once making 'The Gourmet' being a cannibal orc using a Fork and Knife for weapons. The beginning was borderline impossible but eventually via enchanting it somehow ended up working.
I was exposed to Skyrim at age 10-11 (shortly after its release) because my brother played it. He let me create a character and play around for an hour, and I was instantly in love with it. I still remember my first night in Skyrim. I begged my parents to get it, and in a few months (I had to wait for holidays to get games) I had it at last. Thus began my eight-or-nine year plunge into the Elder Scrolls Franchise; I've since played over 1000 hours in the game, practically memorized entire questlines, and yet still find something new to do in the game to this day. I honestly don't think I would be the person I am today without Skyrim -- it gave me a love for fantasy, a love for video games, and so much more. I know it hasn't aged well, but I still absolutely adore it.
The two things that stuck out to me the most when I first played was the darker, grittier art style compared to other fantasy RPGs and the sense of scale, freedom and adventure when exiting the introduction.
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at this point skyrim is not just a game but a family member you go visit every now and then
Couldn't have been said any better.
And give gifts to every time a slightly more special edition comes out.
True af
Skyrim is that cousin you hung out with as a kid and now only see every so often and reminisce
Lmao I played it the first time like over 7 years ago and recently I started it again I feel like you can always start Skyrim new and it's a lot of fun
After fallout 76 Bethesda no longer gets to the cloud district very often.
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Catch these hands nazeem i dont want you thinking youre the shit
I first started playing Fallout a few years ago with Fallout 4. I had tons of fun, believe it made a great introduction to the series, with a simple yet captivating storyline, a RPG system that worked just fine and some great interactions between characters. Then I played fallout New Vegas, which sincerely looks more like a Mad Max universe than a post nuclear apocalypse, but the Gambling system was really fun to use.
Then this year I played 76... OKAY YEAH IT SUCKS ON "SOLO", but if you gather a few friends it can really be a great way to have fun. Me and the bois liked to go bunkers on West Virginia and it was pretty damn good. What I believe happens is that the previous games had a similar vibe that worked out greatly, and the most recent ones try new styles, which sometimes backfires or people dislike it because it's not the same as before. I for myself am very happy that many franchises are trying to rewind some games with a fresh new look, and as long as you have fun or a good experience playing a game, I believe it achieved it's purpose.
I might be the only guy that actually liked Mass Effect Andromeda and No Man's Sky, soooooooooo....
Edward Sawyer not only Mad Max IS a post-nuclear apocalypse (seriously), Fallout is largely based on Mad Max. It's more blatant in the first games.
Of course they don't
alright dude enough, you made your point. downloading skyrim again
anyone else re download skyrim once or twice a year and barely invest more time into playing it than modding it?
Just did 200 hour back in october/november...
wadj83u nwd LOOLL
wadj83u nwd spend like 3 hours modding it and 1 hour playing
@Grillidan i only got like 600hrs in but ive never ever modded it over the years :D
I spent a summer in Skyrim with my wife years ago . We couldn’t get enough and had a non existent social life .
She discovered the game and I set up multiple monitors in the living room , for us . A completely great experience at the Time.
Literally the gamers dream
That sounds like the best worst summer
@@merentoriat least he isn't lonely. Sounds like you are lonely.
Nothing beats playing Skyrim on a cold day in the warmth and cozy atmosphere of your room.
Echoes of a simpler time, my friends
Kriegsman That’s exactly how I’ve always felt man, it’s such an awesome feeling!
Cold days like that when we got off work early. I would run home and play all day.
Amen!
Skyrim came out when I was in highschool and I mostly played it over the summer. Waking up, breakfast, turn on the AC on freezing and play Skyrim.
god I miss those days.
Kriegsman so true
Ysolda was my first wife in Skyrim and hearing about her drug operation makes me feel like Skyler in Breaking Bad.
“I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS, DOVAHKIIN!”
trenchwire lmaoooo
Yeah magic, bitch!
It’s fr the reason why I married her in game. Always love drug operation type shit in games.
Same
I think we can all agree that without Jeremy Soule, Skyrim would be a complete different experience. The soundtrack combined with the atmosphere of the game is still to this date brilliant.
I know right
Agree
Oblivion soundtrack way better.
Rhinoceros oblivion’s is good, but not better
@@shekelboob Yeah, as I said 'way better'
One tidbit on the archery section, as an archery instructor, you actually do aim "lower" on close targets. It still felt sort of intuitive to me because at short range, because of the angle of your eye to the arrow tip, you actually do aim the tip of the arrow sometimes WELL below the target. It's why when you see bows with sights on them the sights are so high up and sometimes have multiple prongs to aim with to account for nearer and farther targets
was just about to mention this! path of trajectory. arrows in archery and rifle rounds on the range too! both go slightly upwards with all that force behind them before gravity pulls back down.
I believe Skyrim’s graphics are beautiful in a way like a Monet painting. It’s in no way sharp, extremely detailed, nor realistic. However, the scenery, the vibrancy, and the somehow simultaneous simplicity and complexity has a certain charm.
Landscape up close- bad
Landscape from a mile away- beautiful
@@jakes1566 You got those two mixed up.
Or you could dump in 500 terabytes of Graphic mods and make it look like a game made in 2088
@Alvi Syahri You're not gonna believe this, but I'm playing skyrim right now, and it crashed so I was using my phone waiting for it to reopen and I got this message. Damn.
lmao nah they're muddy asf and the water looks like its from a different game
Skyrim makes me feel so cozy. Heading to Breezehome after raiding a Dwemer ruin, waiting forever for my chest to load all of my hoarded loot, receiving gifts from my adopted children, eating dinner with my wife Ysolda, awkwardly walking past Lydia to sleep in my bedroom, only to head out the next day to find Adrianne the blackmith has been reduced to a pile of ash by a vampire attack, enlist with the Dawnguard for revenge, become a Vampire Lord instead; It's all so beautiful.
Also, never forget the flying mammoths.
I wonder if there's a mod to make adopted children fight alongside you. I made my duty to always bring my daughters the best daggers i could find in quests, alongside the usual books and treats, and would be nice being both their mother and master
@@odioalospoopers
Children fighting in a war? Sounds like the battle of Berlin.
@@odioalospoopers *Teaches child to use great sword*
You found that just lying around? Good find.
@@odioalospoopers Yes there is a mod to turn children into warriors. You will see them on the road hunting or in town with weapons fighting. "children of skyrim.warriors in training"
Visuals don't depend entirely on Graphics. Art is just as important if not more.
Yea look at borderlands1/2/3(pre sequel but we don speak of that one) they can’t make them look better cause it’s a simple style of graphics
@@green_frogball1015 thats an art style so no one js really expecting it to be photo realistic. Skyrim howvever was trying to be photo realistic but its time is up. Its old and crappy. I enjoyed it back then but now I can't even play cause the game hurts my eyes.
@@dragonballhaven1417 The assets themselves might be dated, but you can alleviate that with mods. In contrast, the visual design is genuinely masterful.
@FreeTime Player Halo should be realistic.
@FreeTime Player also minecraft is beautiful while being more pixelated than the orginal Mario,and art don’t need to be realistic to be beautiful,just look a Picasso’s art.
I play skyrim atleast 4 times a year. I almost never finish it. I just make a new character and go explore the world. Even after all these years I still seem to find something I hadn't found before
Same.
I play it once every 4 years but put 200 hours in. It really is a bad game.
And whatever build you try to go you eventually go back to stealth archer
I've put hundreds of hours into it and there's still things I've never seen and questlines I've never done. Meanwhile Cyberpunk has like 40 hours of actual quality gameplay.
@@chabbab6698 "bad game" returns to it every few years and plays it for 100+ hours, right....
Skyrim’s deadass gonna be one of those very few games you will probably always remember for the rest of your life
100%
i still remember 'chess 64'
And Diablo II
@Christopher Marlowe alzheimer: let me introduce myself
Not really. It was mostly hype. It was the newest thing on the menu, but it wasn't that great. It wasn't earth shattering.
Might be that I'm getting old, but I never understood why people shit on Skyrim's graphics so much. That is literally the most often cited criticism I've heard of the game. Yes, obviously today's games look better, and obviously modded graphic packs make the game look more stunning, but in my opinion, Skyrim's vanilla graphics are already on a level that after a couple minutes of play, I'd completely forget about these minor details and be immersed in the world.
Don Korb it’s the same logic people use when they say “ I can’t believe this is still happening in *insert year*”. They think because tech is better now that it should have been that way then. But Skyrim was pretty impressive visually to me. Still is
I don't understand that one either.. I started playing Skyrim on 360 and was floored by the graphic's and the details. Bug's ..sure, glitches...yep. That very 1st aurora, I mean holy crap! from 11-11-11 to now, I still play - though on a heavy mod'd PC game - Yes I could have a photo real mod, but I just enhanced what was there. My mod's are mostly combat and AI changes..err and a lot, I mean a lot of armor mods and Character beauty enhancements ( NO not that kind )
Same here man
Idk how people complain about the graphics they seem pretty realistic to me, i wish developers spent more time making games fun instead of realistic
prolly cause gears of war from 2006 looks better than skyrim from 2011
Despite its flaws, Skyrim is one of those of games that I continuously go back to. I love it when I first started and I still love it now.
I played Skyrim for years and was pretty burned out on it but Skyrim VR brought me back in. In love again.
Skyrim is the first game both me and my daughter loved. Got special edition for xbox 360, xbox 1, PS4 and Playstation VR. We love this game is an understatement. The first gift I ever made my daughter was the blade of woe out of wood. The dark brotherhood is her fav faction.
Try it in vr...it's just wow
@@shadowswithin702 I know right? I tried a bit after Christmas. When I crouched in the water it looked like it was right up to my chest. Could almost literally feel the coldness of the water.
You must be a 3 year old who loves games that hold your hand and always tell you what you need to do without you having to figure anything out on your own
Growing up I was a very quiet kid and always kept to myself and never talked to people, but when my parents got me Skyrim for my birthday it helped change me. I would get lost in the world for hours just wandering around taking in the amazing views and listening to all the sounds the game offered me, the music was always great and helped soothe my social anxiety to the point when I would go to school I could actually have a conversation with someone. Might sound dumb but Skyrim gave me hope when I couldn’t give it to myself, it gave me freedom, and it helped me get out of the dark places in my head. This game is easily my favorite rpg of all time and definitely my favorite game in general. The memories I’ve made and had with this game is why I love Skyrim.
I try to avoid listening to the Skyrim music outside of the game because when you load into the game and hear that music after not playing for a while it freaking hits you
You are clearly a virgin
@@choosetolivefree LOL
@@choosetolivefree yeah but is he wrong?
@@lukeclapp499 The music is great. The game is shit
@@choosetolivefree the game is well liked by a lot of people, your opinion isn't a fact so stop telling people they're wrong for liking a game.
One of my best memories is being so excited to have bought Honeyside in Riften back in middle school. It was my own little cozy thieves' den, in that wonderful, warm, autumnal city...
Until I turned around to head down the stairs, only to see my mannequin just staring at me, faceless, from the bottom of the steps.
To this day, I've never set foot in that fucking hellhole again.
Was it that home or the one in Solitude where the mannequin actually moves around the house? Creepy shit! I think I heard it really was an accidental glitch but still!
@@danieldavis8607 In my case, it was Riften's Honeyside! I never bought a home in Solitude, since I've always been a Stormcloak player...and I never wanted to go near a house with a mannequin again, so I stick with my ol' faithful modded Breezehome!
middle school? oof im old.
No offense of course my man
@@IAmWhiteEagle Crazy to think people played Skyrim when in middle school. Then likely graduated around 2016. It's been awhile since Skyrim released. A long while..
@@the_blind_hearing6 Oh yeah, I graduated in 2017. The nostalgia of when I first ran through Helgen's caves still stings. I'm only 20, but damn, I want to be 12. I can't believe it's been 8 years since I first read about Skyrim coming out in a Game Informer mag. Yikes.
Oh man, and I totally miss M.A.G. too - loyal S.V.E.R. edgy kid, no matter what. I hope there's a good reboot some day soon.
I just love that this game is as old as it is, and yet there's still an endless amount of new content and discoveries being made in 2020.
Jorgan Freeman so true
I still discover things an cool places to this day
Skrø gur dang I posted this two months ago but thanks for the reply 🤗🙏🏽
@@damiasperez6365 hey no problem bro😂
It's because It's a cultural landmark that was a massive part of a whole generations upbringing and it feels good to play it because it brings you back to a simpler time and has become synonymous with relaxation and careless fun.
Skyrim is one of those games where you can't explain why this game is such a masterpiece. You just love it.
An age of time of pure innocent dumb fun. No obsessive need to shame the player for not agreeing with the developer's politics and bigot sandwiches.
Honestly every time I try to explain why it’s a masterpiece I get different explanations.
It’s just a good game man.
And I love the farming, like you don’t even need to farm for loot you’re just likely to get loot normally
Frankly, I can go on at length about the issues with Skyrim. I understand why a lot of people find it disappointing as an RPG. Doesn't mean I'm not going to turn it on once every two years or so and put in another 100 hours.
I can write multiple essays on why I hate it lmao, it's one of the most 'product' feeling games out there imo
@@Corrupted I wouldn't say it's "product"-feeling, but there are a lot of aspects that clearly were designed to be mass-produced first and hand-crafted second. The melee combat is a big offender. There's still a hell of a lot of content, and very little of it has NOTHING to throw you off, hence why I keep finding new things. Even if most locations in Skyrim only have one thing that sets them apart from every other crypt in the same genre, I've played games that don't even reach *that* standard, and I naturally didn't play them for something like 500 hours over ten years.
Honestly, just "going for a walk" in Skyrim is one of my favourite things. Enjoy the landscapes, enjoy the music, enjoy mowing through a dungeon full of draugr.
It's the worse for me because I sneak through the woods not trying to attract frostbite spiders
On my first playthrough this was sadly something I missed entirely. I fast traveled everywhere once I knew I could and missed out on a TON of hidden gems.
Yeah thats the only fun thing you can do in that game until of coarse you get attacked by a dragon for some reason
@@funnygamer5405 Dude those spiders are literally the thing of nightmares. My arachnophobia is severe to say the least.
@@piccoloatburgerking I don't even have arachnophobia and yet they make me not wanna play the game
YSOLDA IS A DRUG DEALER???????.... Been playing for 8 years and I didn't know that.
Same
And she's giving you a cut of the sales ;) (if you marry her)
I suppose you never wondered what she wants with a mammoth tusk either?
@@praxis22 She literally says she's going to give it to the Khajiit when you first get the quest.
oh what could the sleeping tree sap possibly be used for...
I have played through Skyrim at least ten times. Every time I say "I'm going to try a different type of gameplay!". EVERY time I end up being a stealthy archer.
I've strayed away from that path exactly once and played a Redguard two weapon fighter. It was actually really fun.
May I suggest being a stealth mage?
I love being a stealth mage. Use illusion to go invisible and charge up a master level destruction spell, destroying everyone before going invisible again and walking away
If you want a fun one to switch it up try an unarmed kajit build. Literally breaks the game it's amazing. And the finishing moves for unarmed attacks are BRUTAL.
I always end up using dual wield swords and bows
Skyrim isn’t just a game, it’s a life experience.
The saddest life experience you could ever have.
@@applescruff1969
How so
@@MichaelJ44 It's horrible. If it was a person, it'd be the loser cousin with 10 DUI's.
It really is
@@applescruff1969 Well you know what they say, it's fine to be wrong :)
Why did I love Skyrim?
Well do you get to the cloud district very often?
Oh what am I saying..
Of course you don’t.
Don't you just love when he says that line inside of Dragonsreach
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ExceedingEnder all I know is I got trinkets, odds and ends. That sort of thing.
"The arrow actually burrows deep inside your targets"
shows clip of arrow bouncing comically off of a draugr deathlord
It's the draugr sword ...
that was the sword the draugr was carrying, not the arrow
They must use the enchanted KneeSeeker Arrows, that always hit targets in the knee, magically turning dangerous adventurers into government guards.
@@Trenk2009 To clarify, it's not bouncing off the sword, it's the sword flying away.
I had to watch it several times before your comment clicked.
@@theindooroutdoorsman Oh yeah sorry I wasn't clear enough x)
“What about Ysolda, who’s secretly been running a meth business the whole time?”
Me, having sunk hundreds of hours into the game at this point: “MY WIFE IS RUNNING A METH BUSINESS?! WE HAVE TWO KIDS AND A FOX!”
You got a pet fox mod? Lol awesome
@Classy Ducks yeah and mine brought home a CRAB ;-;
Same lol
I just noticed it too
My first thought was basically, "oh shit spoilers for this old ass game that I've put hundreds of hours into over multiple releases"
@@charlieenglish9864 kill that devil!
The greatness of the Elder Scrolls games lie in their scope. Whenever they come out, they're a bit clunkier than they should be but the sheer scope of what you can do always surpasses other contemporary games by a lot. So I can overlook some of the wooden NPC dialogue and random bugs because the world is so open and enormous it's outshines all of the negatives.
Its funny because I enjoy the wooden dialogue and use of few voice actors for NPCs, it somehow gave the games charm. Unintentionally hilarious when two visually different looking NPCs talk to each other with the same voice. Plus the lines are quotable as hell especially in Oblivion and Skyrim. "By the gods, there's a psychopath on the loose" or "My cousin's out there fighting dragons and what do I get, guard duty".
2 years late but one month early to add that it's not only Elder Scrolls, Bethesda are pioneers in the game industry. It's not about achieving the very best graphical and gameplay performance within its timeline. It's about creating new concepts and innovating on what drives the player, through the screen.
Why one month early? Because Starfield will soon be launching and i have zero doubts that the game will be forever remembered. I don't expect it to be bug-free nor short of some issues that others games may have already solved, matter of fact, i don't expect anything from Bethesda RPG's and i still get pleasantly surprised.
@@nurcirinoStarfield is one of the most underwhelming Bethesday games I’ve played up to date
@@TotallyNotJoe_ oh my God, I just wanna puke from reading my own comment. Starfield, as you say, it's utterly disappointing and the most unseasoned RPG I think I've played.
Jesus, I won't even delete it, so people can understand that temptation to buy something may blur you out of rational reasoning.
"My lovely girlfriend" /camera pans to Todd Howard.
I was wondering about that too lol
It just works
“gay, straight, black, white, man woman, we’re all bonemen on the inside” - whitelight
yea but gays are getting boned IN the inside
@@Ddot223 nooooo😭🤣🤣
i identify as a skeleton
he should have said bonepeople. : p
VR
I feel like an addict that struggles with addiction when it comes to Skyrim, stuck in a loop of getting clean then relapsing after a certain amount of time
When I first played Skyrim the only time I didn't think about it was when I was asleep.
@@lordskyrim2495 exactly that.. ahh I guess it's time to reinstall.. shit..
Okay, good to know Im not the only one that could compare my love for skyrim to an addiction. I feel better now. LOL
@@thebloodbaron7168 lol I feel you
@@thebloodbaron7168 You think " You're " addicted. Look at my name lol. I finished the game twice on XBox. Working on finishing my first game on Xbox1. Still haven't started the PS4 VR. Sometimes I find the highest mountain to look down at the view. I'm fascinated just by the graphics of the game.
The fact that I feel physically cold every time I play skyrim is a testament to the effort put into the visual and audio design
Yes! When I bought it I turned off my fan I think when I went to the labyrinth and I live in AZ lol
This is why i prefer Oblivion. I live in a country where it is mostly cold so i prefer warmer games.
16:15, actually, in real-life arrows do briefly raise up before falling. At shorter distances, you actually need to account for that.
you Thank
@@SoulDevoured this What's? format meme new A?
@@love2fight205 lmao no. Mobile YT bug. Reverses sentences for some reason.
Or it was, I think they fixed it.
@@SoulDevoured lol ah ok
you Thank
Playing Skyrim is like walking into a Bob Ross painting.
Never played Oblivion, huh? Skyrim is so *gray* in comparison.
MirrorscapeDC yeah I’m sure, especially with all the bloom making everything look washed out AF
Yeah a bob Ross painting with spiders in it
@@MirrorscapeDC The animations are worse and so are the graphical details as far as textures.. ESPECIALLY on characters.
Oblivion had better saturation, it's COLOR was only better alongside it's story THAT'S IT!
@@mikewil7571 I never said that Oblivion had better graphics. It's years older, of course it doesn't. But OP compared Skyrim to a Bob Ross painting, which I didn't agree with because Bob Ross paintings are super colorful while Skyrim is not.
For me, Skyrim basically feels like home at this point. I know the land so well, I'm comfortable in every inch of it. Nothing is ever gonna stress me out when I go there like with most other games.
That's what video games are meant to do, and this one delivers on that more than nearly any other. I can't imagine what they must have planned for ES6, it could be something large enough to be played for decades, or even an entire lifetime.
fr, you could drop me into skyrim anywhere and I could find my way back to breezehome ez
@@Shoxic666 without compass and map?
@@Gonzakoable piece of piss, I've crawled over every peak and crevasse in skyrim's over world.
It disappoints me that there's no natural splendor explore in my local area.
I hope Serana is in it again
@@Shoxic666 but there are some hot single moms in your local area! (its an ad joke)
One of the most addicting games I've ever played.i absolutely loved this game.absolute masterpiece.
I remember my first playthrough i didnt notice the compass so instead of heading to riverwood i ended up finding Riften as my first city
Ended up in windhelm getting slaughtered by some guards cause i punched!!! a horse
Not the best first experience as a 13 year old :D
Yea, as if there aren't mini maps and waypoints directing you exactly where you need to go, like a baby riding a bike with training wheels.
choosetolivefree I never played an rpg, there actually isnt a minimap, and i wasnt really focused on what symbols on a compass i wasnt even focusing on because such a gorgeous game was in front of me.
@@tylerv6341 Dude don't listen to this guy he's clearly a troll. I love Skyrim too ❤.
Have have nice day sir.
hektik
You’re Braithe all grown up, ain’t ya?
It was my first open-world game that allowed me to create my own character. It was pretty much an escape from reality for myself.
Same.
True dat
Mine was saints row
It’s the only rpg I’ve ever played where I can make fully fledged completely finished builds before I’ve done a single quest
world of warcraft
I loved Skyrim for one simple thing: Freedom.
The freedom to go and do anything I wanted to do and make builds super overpowered and broken. Also, the mods man. The mods.
You should look into Daggerfall
This cat knows what's up
ikr, like you go to aventus arentino and afterwards when you go to sleep in game you piss your pants when you wake up
But there was nothing of any actual substance to do.. Everything in that game could be boiled down to 'go in X cave/dungeon/tomb, kill everything, get Y item, return to main hub area and sell all the trash you picked up'. Exploring and leveling up to get stronger was fun but there were no interesting stories or characters in that world to actually make you care about anything. The world felt full of life and lifeless at the same time because of it.
@@darko1295 i really love the inigo mod, best companion imo. he has an actual character ark too and you get to see his thoughts in specific areas. i agree with you that most quests do that, but that quest in markarth where you either slay ever guard in the city or you go to jail and have a huge breakout is so fun. Also dark brotherhood questline? Civil war was so hyped up but was a huge letdown, but the blades thing is above average, not amazing but the meeting and going to sovngarde is really cool. i think that a lot of the dungeon quests can be unique like blackreach and hunting down karliah and mercer frey, and the miraak temple was really sick at the end.
Nothing beats playing Skyrim for the first time through VR. Going into the game, I had no idea what to expect, but putting the headset on, it really felt like I was in a fantasy world. Having to manually aim and pull the bowstring is so immersive
I had never played any RPG before playing Skyrim, and I just started it one day and I really can't even describe that feeling of being there, seeing the sights and hearing the music, I still feel that way when I play it. Nothing has come close to that feeling since.
Skyrim is not an rpg
Szenczi Boldizsár yes it is
@@szencziboldizsar6532 Go away.
Action rpg.
@@szencziboldizsar6532 Although Skyrim's RPG mechanics are relatively simple, especially when compared to its predecessors, it does still qualify as one- even if just barely.
Ive been playing skyrim since it came out, and I never even realized that headshots don't do more damage.
Wait...
Same here
they don't...........??
They don't n I still aim for the head
@@kayaeki
Yep, headshots with a bow/crossbow don't do any more damage whatsoever than a normal body shot.
I still do them because it's fun. :P
I was introduced to this game when I was 12 by my next door neighbor friends. We would spend hours outside playing pretend Skyrim around our neighborhood then we would go home and play the video game on our own. Those were the best times. Skyrim will always hold a special place in my heart.
Did you also run around yelling "Death or Sovngarde!" and "A true Nord never backs down!".
@@ChryI xDDD
That’s great
ChryI That, and “Never should have come here!” 😂
@@donatotusi9140 ECKSDEE
I still remember Todd Howard saying you could climb the mountains and I lost my mind
Yes you could but not you should😂😂😂😂😂
Correction: slowly shivey up a mountain for 10 minutes
You can, just not in a logical way, lol.
Found a potion of true shot on a shelf in a bathroom stall. 10/10.
They were trying to pee with out it split into to streams
How about potion of fortify one-handed in a bathroom stall?
I found a potion of healing in one
@@lsswappedcessna hmmm
@@lsswappedcessna How about some hagraven feathers in the corner?
i just love roleplaying as a super powerful warrior that goes to inns and listens music and drinks ale, its beautiful
Your tag name fits you well.
Toss a coin to your witcher
Nordic onggg 😭
1. Grew up playing Wolfenstein, Doom, Half-Life
2. Didn't play games for many years after
3. Didn't know what an RPG was
4. Never heard of Elder Scrolls
5. Saw a Skryim video, was impressed, bought game
6. Blown away by the seemingly endless world, the visual beauty, and the music
7. Tons to do, but doing nothing is also still fun
8. I cared about how quests turned out and they could have emotional weight
9. Got obsessed with exploiting enchantments, like cheating, but you have to earn it
10. It's the music and atmosphere mostly. Feels like another world. Thank you Jeremy Soule.
This is basically me except instead of Half-Life, I'd play Unreal Tournament.
Same, minus Half-Life, plus Borderlands in '09. I thought Borderlands was the bomb. Then... SKYRIM!
Yeah me too. I can't remember exactly, but I think Borderlands was one of the first games I got on the Xbox. Many hours into those, but not as many as Skyrim.@@joelhassig6099
@@joelhassig6099 same, Except instead of Skyrim, it was KnAcK 2 baby!
The quests? The quests are shit in Skyrim. That's what got the most criticism with the game after how amazing the quests were in Morrowind, Oblivion, and Fallout 3. If you love Skyrim's quests you may have a heart attack if you do the quests in those games
it's my comfort home to go to, helped me get thru rough patches years ago when I was suffering a lot
I hear ya, it helped me get through the death of my mother. It’s crazy to even say that, but it really did.
"Sometimes the code breaks"
Every time I walk into my home those godforsaken mannequins are staring at me
... thats not normal.. DELETE YOUR SAVE QUICK BEF [error]
mannequins are NPC's in Skyrim. Frozen NPC's that cant move, unless they bug out during loading... Creepy AF!
Strange, I've never had that glitch. And I have over 600 hours clocked in between PC and the PS3
BEYOND THE SPIDER FILMS I have a clip saved on my Xbox of me turning a corner into a room, backing out while seeing the mannequin turn to look at me, then double-taking while simultaneously shitting myself. It’s great.
@@coleb.6276 Post that
Lol, I walked into my home once and I saw the mannequins running around for a few seconds and then suddenly stopped in their current animation.
Sometimes I wonder if Skyrim is actually a horror game..
King Wasabi it just works
I played Oblivion for about 30 minutes before I decided it was a horror game. It was my first ever first-person RPG and it was creepy AF. Never picked it back up... With Skyrim I was already heavily invested before bugs like this became horrific. I was so deep in I couldn't back out... yet I regret nothing.
I was 10 years old when I saw them blink it freaked me out the next day they were walking around and I was afraid to go back into my 10000+ gold house.
The atmosphere in this game, all that iconic lines of npc's, even the animations of characters are heart warming at this point. Skyrim is not just an ordinary game. It's our part.
You don't go to the cloud district very often- what am I saying, of course you don't!
I personally love all the little poops and farts and burps 🥰
"Imagine calling a person a fleshman."
Clarification: The correct term is "meatbag."
bender bender bendeeer bender bender bendeeer
AYYYYY fellow kotor fan
Skin suit
Admiring Statement: Ah, a fellow droid of culture. At last, in this hellscape of negativity, I have found kinship.
I feel like the whole Dragonborn dlc was more well done than the main story
Oh it absolutely was
Nobodylikesbad rappers idk man I cut down/explode the shit out of bandits on the regular, and I’m only lvl 22. I call bullshit.
@Nobodylikesbad rappers man ur character is just weak
I've seen 11 year old girls write better stories than the whole of the fucking main game.
@@Chaosligend what were their names?
I still haven't completed the main storyline
Me either and I've been playing since it came out lol
Over my ~30 created characters (half of them being level 40 or higher) I've beaten the main story once. ONCE.
And if you complete the main story, you have all the secondary missions
@@krsi2105 are there combats mods you recommend? thats what put me off the most from playing it
@@tsRR09 There's some pretty good ones out there. I remember one of them makes AI smart during combat so they'll move to surround you and are way better at defending and attacking at the right times. I watched a video a while back to know which ones to download, searching up "Skyrim combat mods" on TH-cam should do the trick.
Actually I never stopped loving Skyrim.
Honestly, the moment Skyrim became truly immortal, is when Bethesda basically gave people the keys to Skyrim, and said to just make more for ourselves. Thus, Skyrim Modding came into existence.
The shear number of mods available, for FREE by the way, is staggering. Got bored of something. Install this neat mod, that does basically nothing but make the world look a bit cooler, and play through the nite game again.
Skyrim has become an near eternal toy for people to play with, as they add more and more pieces, until they make something basically there own, a basically unique selection of mods, unique to them, there own personal Skyrim.
That is how I always think about Doom and Skyrim. They're quite identical when it comes to how well-known they are:they're both old but gold,people all over the world love it with passion,you can play them on pretty much anything and the mods make them either into something more enhanced or a completely different game. Id Software's Doom and Bethesda's Skyrim are basically the gamer's most loyal friends that cemented their legacies into the history of games,unchanged by the time itself.
And some things break free of Skyrim. Forgotten City was a mod, but the dev remade it as its own standalone game, which reviewed pretty well!
Well, the "Skyrim Together" part of this video certainly hasn't aged well.
What happened with it?
Vyacheslav Molotov I think the people who made it got caught having stolen another modders code or some shit. Also, it doesn’t work well enough to be playable, and they made loads of money out of it even though it turned out pretty shit.
@@KCD1403 at least its in closed beta now i think. or alpha... idk i watched TheEpicNate315's channel check it out
@@lordbizzle2424 They used parts of the SKSE code without permission
Felix Courtney it isn’t fully out yet give it a chance but still critic it to make shore they know what to fix
I can speak only for myself, and for me the combat system's simplicity is one of the best things about the game. I play a game to have fun, not be driven mad by complicated mechanics - perhaps it's my age (72).
Ah well, you're never too old to play games man.
And for me its the same and I'm only 15 haha.
combat doesn't have to be complicated to be fun, for example dark messiah of might and magic is pretty similar, except combat is more dangerous and you have to actually think.
Damn you whitelight, that intro got me.
16:20 I’ve shot in archery competitions since I was 12 years old, and I can tell you from experience that when you don’t have sights on a bow, you don’t aim right at your target. Sure, our bows only had a maximum of 25 lbs of pull back, significantly less than what the long bows in Skyrim would have, but even 10m away from the target I’d have to aim almost at the bottom of the target to hit a bullseye. I know, I know, it’s just a video game, and the English long bow had ~100lbs of pull, but having to aim lower the intended target was something I appreciated, even it doesn’t make sense. Archery was really fun when I tried Skyrim vr because of the crazy shots I could try that I never could in competition 😂😂
..."We are all Bonemen on the inside."
Truly inspiring.
The skeleton isn't inside you. You're the brain, so you're inside the skeleton... mind blown.
L Hughes so we are all bonemen on the outside?
@@and_raw2036 EXACTLY my friend.
@@lhughes6656 BRO... OMG DIRTY MINDED GOBLINS ARE ALL IN BONEMEN
@@lhughes6656 You're not the brain, you use the brain to think, but who's to say that is who you are?
Sometimes I wish I could forget everything i know about Skyrim. Ahhhh good times.
everywhere I go everybody says they want to forget the things that they love to experience it all over again. Is this a new trend ?
Swaminathan T.V it’s to experience it again like it’s a new concept
hold still and i will use this rusty mace on you, :)
“You start running so I can stab you in the back”
Last time i played skyrim i was like 13 and i could never get into it so i didnt get far at all. Thus was in xbox 360 days. Should i gameshare wit my friend and download it again on ps4?
Skyrim was my first AAA game, I’ll never forget my 12th birthday staying up until 3:00 am with a friend playing Skyrim for the first time, and then my dad finding out and taking away my computer for a week
we gotta give props to the sound guys! had a teacher my freshman year, whos son worked on skyrim's sound team! got to hear a couple pretty cool stories about the work he did. Teacher was a pretty genuine guy! only had him for a few months. he was a long term substitute teacher, but wish i could remember his name.
Ahh I remember seeing that opening for the first time. The carriages were having a rave party all the way to Helgen.
Yes, my first experience with the game was the psychotic carriage glitch. Never had an introduction like than to any game.Never been more confused about anything in my life.
lmao
Woah what was the glitch?
@@urfork1 the carriage starts flying and ragdolling everywhere while ralof is speaking,its hilarious, just look it up
@@urfork1 It usually happens when you have too many mods installed. The opening sequence is probably the second most finicky part of the entire game, It's usually the first thing that breaks in a modded playthrough. It can just give up on its own as well, breaking for no reason despite having no mods.
@@dragonlord1935 never had many glitches in skyrim tbh
The first time I played Skyrim I was dedicated to creating a mage so I immediately went to Winterhold. That walk to the other side of the map made me love the game, so much to see and do. Immersive
I did the same thing. It was a personal quest to get to the college, not something that was in the quest log which made it that much more immersive! Good times.
I think the walk to the other side of the map was more exciting than being in the college. I WANTED TO LEARN NOT TO GO IN A MISSION AND TURN MYSELF INTO THE PRINCIPAL MAGE.
Me too. I always played a mage before Skyrim. But I quickly realized, that magic sucked in the vanilla game and being a stealthy archer was so much fun! Skyrim taught me to diversify my builds. My latest character is fighting with a sword and I love it!
Why did we all fall in love with Skyrim? The music
Z Bg true af
The Dovahkiin song gives me so much motivation
that thing about rorikstead is cool, but they forgot about the book that farengar says could date back to the first era, and it mentions rorikstead, but the FOUNDER of the place is very much alive.
I love how we are all convinced that Bethesda has seen its best days, but we still look forward to TES6. It's almost like we view TES as separate from Bethesda, like it's a franchise that's epic by default. I really hope Bethesda doesn't shatter this illusion we all have...
I honestly think their best days are ahead. They've clearly learned what their fans like and want. Starfields going to make or break BGS, so im sure their going to do whatever they can to make it perfect.
@@insurancefraud4594 keep believing that lmao
Idk man, you really think any company, after experincing such a massive failure, would want to continue to be such a failure right after? I’m sure they are going to look back at what formulas made them much profits in the first place, that being top quality single player only game, with no mtx.
Like Dishonored
Morrowind. Morrowind is the reason we have Skyrim today and possibly every other open world RPG since 2011. It saved Bethesda and let them make oblivion and Skyrim. Go back to TES Bethesda, save yourself.
Arrows apparently pulling upwards in the first few meters of flight is actually realistic, due to the dynamics of how energy is transferred to the arrow and aerodynamics.
The same can be applied to guns, even bullets go slightly upwards at first.
neeeeeeerd
I was going to comment this exact same thing, thanks lol
Not only that but it is also realistic because most cross-hairs are zeroed for the most common medium range. Meaning shooting something closer will hit higher. It is the consequence of trying to approximate an arc with a straight line.
@@nezfromhki Well im pretty sure thats because the barrel is at an angle.
Wait Ysolda runs a meth business... I've been playing for almost a decade, thousands of hours... and i just find out she runs a meth business...
Dont worry, its moreike heroine
You’re just incredibly dense
sithmastur fuck you my guy
You sound like someone who hasn't even seen the giant crab.
@Gaming Miser not much of a clue when half the nords do.
Maybe they're all a bunch of junkies.
Arcwind Point is my favourite location. Whenever I'm finished with a character and want to do another playthrough, I first part way with my followers then venture up to Arcwind. Fighting through deathlords and a dragon, I finally reach the top of the watchtower and take in the view while reflecting on all my time in the world.
I may not like bethesda anymore but i will always love Skyrim.
Like seriously, this game will never die.
Screw the Nords. Skyrim belongs to the die hard loyal fans!
its kinda how i feel about bungie n destiny. fuck bungie. but i love destiny. D1 that is, d2 (not even spellin it with a capital d) is an unplayable chore of a game
click my name for keys to the kingdom
I didn't love Skyrim. It's as stable as dynamite in an oven and the entirety of its content is doing the same shit over and over and over and over and OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
And you can't even do it in peace because you'll be interrupted by a fucking dragon every fifteen minutes. SOMETIMES BY TWO AT ONCE. I hope you've been leveling Shields!
Had enough dragonbone to build a fucking metropolis and enough souls to make Soul Edge obese.
@@casualsatanist5808 Yeah, destiny 1, for all its flaws, is a really great game and it's lore is one of the aspect that i love the most about it.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Damn faithless imperials
Talos guide you
The grass is green,
Riverwood is made of oak.
What do you call a treacherous oaf?
A stormcloak.
Dumb Benioff, Dumber Weiss
Roses are red
The imperials are just bragging
Long live king Ulfric
No Lollygaggin’
Egypt has pyramids
Norway has fjords
Damn faithless imperials
Skyrim belongs to the nords
harvey Harrington
Honningbrew or Black Briar,
Either quenches my thirst,
Don't the witless, bigotted Nords know?
The elves were there first!
Daniel Leslie prepare to hate every Tamriel race then.
1. Jeremy Soule soundtrack.
2. Aurora borealis.
AT THIS TIME OF DAY?
AT THIS TIME OF YEAR?
IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY?
LOCALIZED ENTIRELY WITHIN YOUR VIDEO GAME?
@@madman6962 yes
@@bishop2286 ...may I see it?
@@madman6962 hmmm...no
True as FUCK
Skyrim is my personal favourite game I've played so far in my short life because it provides me with that world I know I can fall back into at a moments notice
K but reading books in skyrim was an actual pass time when I was in school, damn...
"Thief of Virtue" is my favorite, such a lovely story about a burglar who steal the ultimate treasure yet left with not a single coin in his pocket
@@gersongalvez2729 Beggar prince is awesome too
I remember the moment it sunk in for me that I really loved the game. It was after I'd climbed to the top of the Throat of the World for the VERY first time ever to talk to Parthurnaax. It was around 6 pm when I got there and the clouds cleared as night moved in so the northern lights were up. I couldn't wipe the smile off my face, it was beautiful. I'll never forget how epic that conversation was.
Too bad you aren't into challenging games and enjoy games built for children, that hold your hand every step of the way, tell you exactly where to go, and make it generally as easy as possible. You should try something with a real challenge. It's much more satisfying.
@@choosetolivefree jesus christ, getting that butthurt over a 4-month-old comment? fuck off and get counselling for whatever hurt you.
@@choosetolivefree how do you know he hasnt played any challenging games? You just proved how stupid you are by assuming that
@@choosetolivefree He dumbass I love Skyrim but I also play Dark Souls so people can like both.
@@choosetolivefree 40 year old virgin spotted
Playing without fast travel is one of the best things to enjoy.
Stefan Lucian ehh
Yeah but it’s so hard to resist sometimes
but still fuck those who complaint about restricting it,this is a choice for the player.Also making you find a chair in fallout 4 so you could wait is retarded,who gives a shit if it looked silly in skyrim now i have to spawn in a chair everytime i wanna get to daytime.
@@jhood2323 accurate as fuck
@Kristopher Prime Exactly! I never fast traveled while on my first playthrough but I do not need to walk from Rifton to Windhelm 1000 times.
I love Skyrim. I've played it my whole life, exploring the world truly was never something I did. It's amazing how you can play a game for so long and only know a fraction of what it has to offer.
It's more of an old friend whom you never get tired of. You come back and spend a lot of time together reminiscing and thinking of the beauty that you shared together
"A mage shouldn't be able to use a sword"
*my spellsword build*: Just Try to Fookin Stop me
It's like he forgot about Oblivion being a thing
ill be making a mage 10 seconds later im a battlemage
My Morrowind Dunmer with a Glass Dagger and nice magic
"Take this S'wit"
I remember my dad playing this game on the couch when I was around 5 years old or 7 years old. When I was 10 years old my dad bought us both the Special Edition. I didn't know what to think of Skyrim at first. He said "It's the best game ever. Especially the music."I decided to give it a chance. So I played this & each moment I started becoming more & more obsessed with the game. I started played this for hours & I would barely get off my couch because I loved this game soooooooooo much. I even began watching Skyrim videos on TH-cam. My favorite character was Serana. I think Skyrim is one of the games I would definitely come back to playing.
everyone's favorite character is serana, she's a vampire with daddy issues. what more could you ask for?
Kitties4ever When you said you got special edition when you were ten I was like oh so you’re like 11 then realized se is 4 years old
I had the exact same experience than you but with Oblivion
I started out with Morrowind in High school. I guess I’m getting old 😂
Hopefully the Elder Scrolls VI comes out soon ❤️
Nothing has ever made me feel older than hearing a now 14 year old say they remember their dad playing this game when they were 6
I'm okay with people talking shit about modern Bethesda, but saying Skyrim was and always was bad? No. Skyrim is a damn masterpiece and always has been.
Me: *Sees that smooth intro transition*
Me:
Me:
Me:
Me: *_IT JUST WORKS_*
It just works
Little lies
Stunning shows
People buy
Money flooooows
It's funny. Once you look at Skyrin objectively, it doesn't seem that good. It's glitchy, it's buggy. It lacks a lot of RPG elements and depth. Combat is meh. Yet it still managed to blow all of us away when we played it for the first couple of times. Astounding.
You had me agreeing until you said it manged to blow us all away. Nope. Easy ass game. Child's play. I literally know 5 year olds who have beaten this fucking game. TOO EASY. It holds your hand at all times. Mini maps, waypoints, fast travel. WEAK AS FUCK. I beat this piece of shit game without the least bit of effort
It was shit when you were introduced as "dragonborn" born of dragons...but somehow killing dragons...for their souls.
Silverscale Derg the Dragonborn isn’t born from dragons
@@slugged5109 you're right, nor should he have any soul or anything to do with dragons, it's an insult with people who are dragons trapped in human bodies...you can not claim to have the soul of something that you'll slaughter to near extinction then steal their souls...would be like if hitler was a dragon who claimed he was humankin
Silverscale Derg i mean not really. The Dragonborn’s whole purpose is to Fight Alduin and save the world. This happens every couple thousand years because it’s the Dragonborn’s destiny to do so.
14:01
*“You can’t just go from archery to two-handed 100 hours in you’d be cream crackered”*
Tell that to my first play through
I went from Dragonborn hero of the land to Master wizard in a day ready for the Dawnguard DLC when it released.
Not gonna lie though I love the magic combat in skyrim, love the different spells wish I could make my own like in oblivion but I get why they got rid of it.
It works with enchanting and smithing 100
@@justinallen2408 Magic in skyrim is terrible
Tell that to me.i made a stealthy nord archer who also specializes in two handed weapons
Skyrim of itself was an experience.. but when your into modding and can make a good job of it .. it becomes just unreal. And I've never reached what you would call the peak of modding but have come very close.
I have like 16 mods to fix the the awful mechanics, UI, character models, and it makes the game *vastly* better.
What I love about Skyrim is that not only does it feel like you're in an actual world but still to this day, am finding out new stuff that I didn't know about. That's what you call a good game 👌
No, what you call a good game is a game that doesn't hold your hand and give you a mini map and fast travel, and direct you to every single place you need to go. That shit is weak as fuck. GOOD games let you figure it out on your own without holding your hand like you're a fucking baby
@@choosetolivefree Fight the power!
@@AnonymousCuIIen Hell yea brotha
@@choosetolivefree Please stop being a dick.
hektik can you chill like how are you that mad.....why do you hate the fact that people like a game
Skyrim with fighting taken from "Dark Messiah of Might and Magic" would be 200% better.
That alot of kicking
or Dragon's Dogma's combat.
Yeah and the game like that would've started development in 2008 and ended it this year. :^)
Nonstop kicks hell yeah
a 36-minute video talking about Skyrim and how good it is. Thanks for entertaining me for half an hour!
Yea and about bonemen
I played skyrim during the pandemic, when we were all under lockdown. It was all I did almost everyday, my little brother and I, and we enjoyed it. What a good memory. Now I feel like I don't wanna try playing it 'cause what if it's not as good as I remember?
The end slayed me and now I'm a boneman stuck in the Soul Cairn. Plz send help.
[Todd Howard would like to know your location]
Remeber youre alwasy a bone man 36:14
Easy. Because Todd told me too or else I'd never see my family again
Think I've done 10 playthroughs of this game, and never knew about the Rorikstead/daedra thing. Love the depth of Skyrim!
“You can’t kill a dragon with a wooden sword”
If I can kill a dragon with my fist, I can kill a dragon with a wooden sword
We to do the fortify restoration loop, get a potion that improves smithing for about... I dunno, 3786521% sounds about right... Yup, one piece of firewood and a grindstone later we're ready to one shot Alduin. With a kid's toy.
Damn, upping the production values on the intro, I'm digging it!
Because I’m able to kill absolutely everything with a fork.
Phig Newt except for children
I remember once making 'The Gourmet' being a cannibal orc using a Fork and Knife for weapons. The beginning was borderline impossible but eventually via enchanting it somehow ended up working.
@@draconian_dragons6588 mods
ESO....is that you?
YES. you are literally the only one here that understands that this game is so fucking easy you can beat it with a fucking fork. Thank you.
I was exposed to Skyrim at age 10-11 (shortly after its release) because my brother played it. He let me create a character and play around for an hour, and I was instantly in love with it. I still remember my first night in Skyrim. I begged my parents to get it, and in a few months (I had to wait for holidays to get games) I had it at last. Thus began my eight-or-nine year plunge into the Elder Scrolls Franchise; I've since played over 1000 hours in the game, practically memorized entire questlines, and yet still find something new to do in the game to this day. I honestly don't think I would be the person I am today without Skyrim -- it gave me a love for fantasy, a love for video games, and so much more. I know it hasn't aged well, but I still absolutely adore it.
This kind of testimony right here? This is the good shit!
@@goukeban6197 I'm glad you liked it!
wow dude. love it
@@kieranyates8226 That is so cute!
The two things that stuck out to me the most when I first played was the darker, grittier art style compared to other fantasy RPGs and the sense of scale, freedom and adventure when exiting the introduction.