Why It's Impossible To Play Skyrim Now.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- I first played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim when I was eleven years old. Is it time to say goodbye?
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I just got married and found out my wife had never played it. Watching her discover the game for herself for the first time is truly wonderful
It's boring. I never completed it.
@@ThisMyhandlenowYou’re boring, you have no imagination.
@@ThisMyhandlenow To each their own
I actually just got my woman into this old gem. She loves it
You can play with her.
There is a Coop mod out there...
I’ve played it to death over the years since I was 12. I’m 22 now. I’m at the point now where I know every cave, every NPC, and every side quest.
I’m in the same boat, I was 13 when Skyrim came out, Iv played Skyrim for thousands of hours and have completed everything. Got all the game trophy’s. I still love it and look back with happy memory’s, but I can’t play it anymore without getting bored after an hour. It feels like the magic of playing it has gone.
Play enderal if you haven't
Same here, I was 11 when the game came out
Isn't the game 11 years old now?
Same and it's boring
You can always role play and never run out of quests. I've been playing over 10 years now and still to this day I am still finding stuff and making up adventure to keep it alive. They've never made a game like it since.
I don't even really quest anymore other than for the noatalgia raiting. I mostly just camp and hunt lol
This and Borderlands 2 are like games that I should be forgotten and moved on but it's impossible. So as passed old games that are made out of love and not greed or undercooked
@@moonrivervayonettabooooo borderlands is still the best of the entire borderlands series come on troll stop lying and don't ever compare Skyrim to a crappy made second instalment of a game, Elderscrolls Oblivion is better then what you claimed and skyrim paid homage to what was in Oblivion.
@@antlerr Comparing? Where in the flying fuck I mention comparison in my previous comment. Aight I'll restate it AGAIN. These games in the past are like fine wine, I never said one is better than the other. I suggest reading SLOWLY think TWICE...
@@moonrivervayonetta you tried saying borderlands two was made so well you can't forget it! so no you need to pick up a dictionary and learn what words mean, borderlands two was a crappy made game the 3rd even worse only borderlands game that is good enough to replay is the original like I said how dare you try comparing a crappy made addition to a serries to a amazing game like skyrim where people still are finding new stuff to be done and the game was released in 2010 and a year after won the worlds most sold game, the 2011 gamespot games choice winner, the 2011 E3 winner, PiAU winner of best of E3 2011, and 2011 best game crittic reveiw! now borderlands 2 has not one accalade or title but has a ton of holes, flaws and critticts saying how bad it is. it's morons like you not thinking and not understanding the very language you speak that is why the worlds so messed up right now, thinking you are right even when you are speaking out your ass!
I was 42 when Skyrim came out, and I still have and scratch that itch from time to time. For both Fallout and Elder Scrolls, it's wandering around the vast worlds that keep me coming back. That and the mods.
Yeah, this video seemed focused on people who played the game as kids and had that childhood nostalgia. I played it when I was 31 and am reinstalling right now to play once again. (with a ton of mods of course)
Kind sir, may I introduce you Devil May Cry, Metal Gear and Final Fantasy as a side quest?
why are you so old
@@williams00what are mods and how would you "install" them onto your Xbox Series X?
@@roadracerdave7645 mods are modification of the game, you can download it if you have the pc version but if you dont have a pc then my apologies
Being older makes you realise how the ebony warrior felt, there really doesn't feel like there is anything else left to do in Skyrim.
Edit: yes I know about mods.
and i believe that this feeling goes further just like ebony warrior wanted to stop living with dignity i also want to leave skyrim in a dignified way not just abandon the game you know? skyrim is so amazing that when you get very strong right at the beginning or very early on you get the feeling of "what am I going to do now?" just like ebony warrior is more different from him we don't have a stronger warrior to fight
mods are a good life support, but I've gotten to the point where I just spawn in the artifacts and spells I wanted to toy with, level myself automatically to 30, but newer, greener games have popped up over the 10+ years, the series I grew up with, the legend of Zelda, has one banger of an open world game.
You either quit early, or play long enough to see yourself become the Ebony Warrior
I still come back to Skyrim, the music the gameplay and most importantly the nostalgia.. I will always love this game.. and the memories it brings...
@@gaygekko Yes and you become more stronger that he
I think I've somehow reached the opposite point. I can't stop playing Skyrim because of how familiar it is to me. It's been a part of my life for 12 years now. The fact that I've seen everything there is to see makes me feel relaxed and at ease. Kind of like home.
youve gone mad!
you belong to sheogorath now
Honestly, I can relate to that extremely hard! Skyrim is a predictable world that in a sense you can control, you know what is going to happen and there is none of the guess work that comes with other games that haven't been played much. Like you said, it is in many ways another home. It has and will always be a comfort game for me
With all the shit games, I find myself going back to the older games I grew up playing, me being older and wiser now.
This is what FO: New Vegas is to me. Some places are so nostalgic (like Novac- my home/base every playthrough) I almost cry when I revisit them x)
I genuinely cannot explain why, but Skyrim is enveloped in this intense sense of melancholy and wonder that has faded but never dissipated. I went through a very difficult childhood, and I still remember first hearing from a friend at school about this new game called Skyrim. I bugged him for stories from his playthrough and lore of the series until my mother was finally able to get it for me. I was presented with the biggest and most open world I had ever seen, and I was immediately hooked. I spent literally thousands of hours during my childhood playing Skyrim, and it became a quirk of my personality that I was obsessed with The Elder Scrolls. Any time things got too hard for me, I had a pair of headphones and a controller that immediately allowed me to escape to a world in which I, and the actions I took, actually meant something. I even met my best friend because of Skyrim, and we shared stories, lore, and gameplay until we lost touch with one another. Now when I play, I get this strange feeling of both longing for the past, and being thankful that this game allowed me to escape it. Even the music makes me feel something in my soul. For this, I will forever love Skyrim.
It’s ever since I played cyberpunk 2077.
Ain’t shit dissipated we just aren’t kids anymore so our imagination isn’t as strong.
I would say especially the music makes it very nostalgic often
@@MultiBearsfan54Not how it works
Maybe YOU'RE not a child anymore; I was 26 years old when Skyrim released and I loved and obsessed over ever minute of it.
Getting my rig ready to start a full VR playthrough in a few months.
If you're unable to enjoy things you once loved, there's a good chance it's depression, not "growing up"
I totally agree with this, I love this game. I was 14 when it came out
This comment was so contradicting and backwards it gave me a migraine trying to understand lol
Oblivion was my Skyrim. After not playing it for about 8 years, I picked it up and started to play. Felt good again.
I still play both regularly, but Oblivion is the best. One of the single greatest games of all time
@@aguy2162 I agree
same
Closing the gates always felt janky to me, but I agree Oblivion is an amazing game.
Me too! I'm trying a overhaul with it.
I think the DB & Theives Guild is much better
I’m always gonna go back to Skyrim. I don’t think it can ever really leave my life after giving me so much freedom during the worst times.
The mods are just insane. You can change the game so much and make it feel completely fresh each time you come back. It's a never-ending game.
The game is obsolete. And if you want to mod it, good luck: you need 3 months for every patch, fix, compatibility patch with other patches... quite frankly, not worth it.
@@bdleo300 Always entertaining seeing people like you out themselves as not knowing what they are talking about lol.
that's entirely not true@@bdleo300
@@bdleo300hear me out, if you bought the game it'd be way easier to mod than on a pirated version
Arena was my Skyrim. Having 3D skeletons that moved and fought based on limb bones was truly amazing. Especially when all other games were 2D arcade scrollers or blocky 3D shooters like the original Doom and Castle Wolfenstien.
You poor soul ... Forevermore lost to the True World ... We shall all weep for your passing ~
I still find joy in games such as Skyrim at the age of 48 you don't have to be a kid to enjoy them you just need to be a kid at heart . As you age being a kid as heart is to me extremely important because it gives you a way to escape the real world and it helps relieve the stresses of the everyday adult world that we all live in.
Well said mate, I don’t think just because you turn 20 you can’t touch into your youth or past youth and be like a kid on a fun game for a bit like this video implies is wrong.
We grew up during the video gaming era, definitely will keep enjoying what we grew up on. 👍🏽
This is exactly how I feel and think about it. I'm 63 now and I still play and enjoy gaming just like I did when I was very young. It is only that most of the other people of my age can't understand it. I often hear I am wasting my time or worse. The same people that seek psychologists or other people to help them with problems I don't have because I could dive into a virtual realm to help me through rough times. And I don't think this will change even when I'll be twenty years older (or more if my brain/body keeps up to it)
It’s rare that I see a take as heartfelt as this. I agree and thank you for putting me in such a good mood.
@@Myrtana1 "You're wasting your time" is such a stupid thing to say when you're talking about things you like. All of us are wasting our time until the day we're no longer here. Might as well waste it with things you love to do.
I am 60 and I have only been playing Elder Scrolls V since 2018. I have mods installed that give it the look and feel I want which is wonderful. This time around I am a treasure hunter. I explore every inch of the lands and have found even to this day things I had missed. Just doing the quest is not enough, you have to explore everything. To me that is what Skyrim is all about. I have talked to NPCs and then the next time I talk to them something new is there in what they say. I hear so many say, "I beat Skyrim" and I laugh. You don't beat Skyrim, you explore it and finish quest if you want too. I got interested in this because of Shirley Curry watching her play in her 80's and thinking "Wow, this looks fun to play". Thanks to her, I am now a forever Skyrim fan.
You're 60? Have you played the older Elder Scrolls games?
Hello fellow sexagenarian! 64 here and playing since release. currently using the NOLVUS modpack with mixed results. It seems a tad unstable even though my setup is very much capable of handling it. But I have a lot of modded unstable games like Kerbal Space Program, Oxygen Not Included, Fallout 4 and many others, so par for the course!
We apparently are superheros as we are (according to the video here) doing the impossible.
I've never in the twelve years since release, not once completed the game, always something else to do or see, or a new mod to explore.
Never played the older ES games though, I tried Oblivion but couldn't get into it, and before that it was usually simracing and flight simulators.
Have a great weekend vikimseruh!!!!😎
A friend of mine visited a little while ago and saw me playing, (He didn’t recognize that it was Skyrim because my game is so heavily modded), and told him when he asked me what game it was. He then said, “oh, my son already beat that game.” I told him, “then he ain’t playing it right. You don’t just beat Skyrim. You unravel it, like the wrapper on a piece of candy.”
I first played Skyrim about the same time Avarti did, only I was 46 then. It is not that we are not children (he is still one by my standard and I am envious of that) anymore it is that after awhile you realize that you can't say what you want, the NPC's rarely more than 4 sentences deep, and it is still mostly DPS contests followed by loot fests when it comes down to it. The boss fight convention is getting tiresome. I was as impressed with Pong when it came out in '72. My immersion with that only lasted an hour or so. 21 years later in '93 Doom blew my socks off and that immersion lasted a few weeks. 18 years after that Skyrim's immersion lasted a couple months about 3x over 11 years. When AGI both writes the next great game and runs the NPCs of it, we may finally have lasting satisfaction. Anyway, Avarti hasn't waited for the holy grail of computer RPGs anywhere near as long as many of us. He was born into the age of decent computer games.
Have you played Ark? In singleplayer there are really not even one NPC. But the lack of real storyline does bore me in it. But if you are a roleplayer there is a lot to imagine within the map. I was also in my 40s when Skyrim came out, and yes, the lack of depth in NPCs since they are in the game is what ruins it.
not sure i've ever felt old more strongly than when @Avarti said "i was 11 when skyrim was released"... man i was out of college by that point what the hell happened to me?????
I totally feel you. I find the ONLY thing keeping me playing is the Legacy of the Dragonborn mod. Trying to completely fill out the museum with thousands of quest items, weapons, all armor sets, etc gives me the fuel to play the quests again, and the feeling of hanging it in the museum is great.
Thankfully I wasn't able to fully mod Skyrim until 2020, despite having played it since release, so It's still rocking and fresh for me.
I play on Xbox360... so still no mod in 2023 😅 I think some adventure still waiting for me
same here. my secret formula that everyone knows: Mods, lots of them.
Yes bro same here jus got a pc so it’s new and fresh for me
Bruh, I just recently got a pc and bought Skyrim yesterday. Glad I don't feel this way
You lucky son of a Took! 😢
I’ll never get tired of Skyrim, the lore and fantasy and all is just so rich and interesting to me.
My issue is the whole how shallow it is. When it first came out and I heared you could play as a "dragonborn" I was so hyped. I was thinking it'd be a dnd like "dragonborn" but I was disappointed to learn that the term "dragonborn" was used to mean "dragon hunter" not actual "born of dragons" (doesn't help that in cannon he's a nord). All the "fantasy" games never really give you the option to do evil shit. Only game that comes close is bauldersgate 3 which I love it...BUT i kinda wish there was a real time action game like that
@@silverscalederg8632 could you please clarify what you mean by evil shit when you mention that skyrim doesn't offer that option? in skyrim, you can actually engage in morally questionable actions like killing innocent people and making deals with daedra, which I'd consider quite evil. however, i'd like to point out that i'm not familiar with baldur's gate 3, so i'm interested in your perspective on what you define as evil shit and why you think baldur's gate 3 allows it while skyrim doesn't.
@@DivagandoLibremente being able to join the Dark Brotherhood and the Volkihar vampires is already pretty evil lol. Sure, both of these factions have neutral aspects, but on the surface they're plain evil
Never really played skyrim got an xbox 360 last week with legendary edition I’m gonna sit down and play the whole thing
@@DivagandoLibremente "morally questionable" sure but there are no options to be truely..."evil" like in lets say bauldersgate 3 where you can kill basically anyone you damn well please, can betray your crew, there even is a character option dedicated to being evil. All that aside being able to side with dragons as a "dragonborn" (because logiclly if one is a dragonborn there are ties to dragons...meaning one shouldn't fucking massacre them for no reason
Very well put. I thought aesthetically it was a beautiful and very cool game for its time, i loved watching my brother and partner at the time play it. I was 19/20 in 2011, now i’m 32, but i can still appreciate its beauty despite its age and how many technical issues/glitches it has. Recently i was talking to my 21-yr-old coworker about it and when i said it was a gorgeous game he said “hmm… it is…. Interesting”, like he didn’t agree but he didn’t want to be rude either. I didn’t remember how old the game was and had to look it up for myself-i can’t believe it’s from 12 YEARS AGO!!! No wonder he had such a different opinion of it.
I've never played skyrim before, but after new years, I saw it in my library, and though I'd try it.
Some of the most fun I've ever had in gaming, can't wait to play more
Good luck brother, from a skyrim veteran.
Good luck man, and if it feels boring after playing one or two times
Look towards the nodding community, there is an ENDLESS amount of mods
I became a blacksmith irl thanks to Skyrim. This game made my childhood, gave me my passion for fantasy and created my dreams, that came true. After more then 4K hours and 1K iron daggers, I can say for sure that this game was, and still will be, best part of my life.
the golden ring grind irl must have been insane.
what irl exploit did u use to level up your blacksmithing?
@@sol4976exact same as in Skyrim, you can just keep doing something over and over and keep getting better.
Except usually irl you can’t smith 2334 daggers in two minutes with an autoclicker.
@@Yannopillusually!?
@@ogway1772 The necromantic side is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be… unnatural.
I'm 39 and I still play Skyrim in VR. It's a Whole different experience in VR. We often move away from our childhood interests as we get into our early adult years. Interest usually return in your 30s sometime. You're still quite young. You'll see
This, im 34
31, never lost it haha. But yeah it's true
Love this comment.
I'm tired of people making definitive statements and your take is very refreshing and positive instead of the nonsense these click bait title videos produce...
Yeah, I already an adult by the time Skyrim came out. Not all of us have the experience of playing this game when we were more ignorant. I still play it today, and I don't even use combat mods. Maybe the game has aged, but honestly the only newer game I own is Shadow of Mordor, and I haven't played that in quite a few years. Skyrim may not be perfect, but considering what game programmers go through, honestly its better if we don't ask for perfection. Several programmers took their own lives due to the mistreatment they got making Red Dead Redemption 2. Now I just assume any new game lead to real-life tragedies. Point is, maybe my not playing more recent games has helped keep the game from aging as badly. I simply know nothing better. And I'll be honest, I'd rather keep it that way.
Besides, we still have the Beyond Skyrim project to look forward to. It'll greatly expand the world, and actually have decent writing. Of course, who knows if we'll ever see it at this rate, given the trouble the team has finding people to work on the stupid thing, and Bethesda trying everything in their power to stop mods from working. I'm shocked the project is even still in development. Mods that old normally don't work anymore. It'll be great if it comes out, and it'll surely give Bethesda a run for their money. It may be in an older engine, but it'll still be higher quality. Besides, es6 is being made with the creation kit again, so honestly it probably won't be THAT big of a leap beyond Skyrim. Fallout 4 was a major disappointment when it came out, and the same damned engine is going to be used for es6. Imagine what THAT'S going to look like when it finally comes out in 5 years? I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it was a repeat of the release of ET for the atari 2600. Fallout 76 was already a diseaster, and fallout 4 failed to make any real impact. The Beyond Skyrim project is basically going to be what an ES game should be, but Bethesda cannot manage for w/e reason. If we never see any of the Beyond Skyrim projects (it has been a while since we've gotten an update, and they did admit some time ago the projects haven't been going too well), oh well. It is what it is. Besides, plenty of people still play this game despite Beyond Skyrim literally not existing yet. People still play freaking Morrowind, and a year or two ago they even came out with their own 'Beyond Morrowind' project (for lack of a better term). Skyrim is a younger game, so it'll probably last longer than Morrowind does. Point is, morrowind shows that old games can continue to live on, and honestly Skyrim got's far more going for it than Morrowind (other than Morrowind arguably having the better writing).
Dang every couple years? I have my “yearly play through” every year. Gotta get those numbers up
This was truly eye opening. Thanks for sharing your personal thoughts on this matter.
I feel now that I'm older (26) I'm able to fully comprehend and understand emotions of characters better then when I first played Skyrim in 2011. I'm more inclined to listen to what every npc says and how they feel, I never skip through dialogue. Skyrim to me feels like an old book from my childhood that even as I age, I am able to enjoy the story for different details I didn't fully get to appreciate when I was younger.
Exactly. Better with mods. 😎
26? Still much younger than me lol.
Exactly, the Stormcloaks are a good exemple of this for me
@@BlazingBurrito2K if you want good characters and writing... novels are the way to go.
@@BlazingBurrito2K fair enough that you want it from a video game. I, however, do not. I never watch cutscenes if I can skip them. If I can't, I'll just read until they mercifully cease... 😏 Saying that... the original God of War games are fine with story etc for me.
I played about 10-20 hours of skyrim when it launched in 2011, I had just graduated highschool then. Now I"m 30, and just picked it up again for the first time since then, and I'm very much enjoying it! Although I can see how folks who have played it a lot over the last decade+ would start to burn out. You've seen and done it all. I'm hoping Starfield can pull a lot of us back into that "first" time feeling just like Skyrim did in 2011. Child or not, a good enough game can still get me lost in its world.
Im with you. Last time i really played it was on 360 haha. I have bought like 3 version at least by now an really didn't play it much with the updates. Its definitely a lot better these days
Skyrim probably would've felt unique back in 2011, but after playing FO3, New Vegas and 4 first, I already felt that I had already experienced that type of RPG so it didn't exactly blow me away (then again I finished Skyrim the first time last year).
@@_MaZTeR_ yeah they are all super similar Mechanically speaking*
i remember buying that sucker for $60 on the ps3, now i see the same copies for 5 bucks.
I got the physical PC copy all the way in 2011 when I was just a preteen and I loved it. I really wish Starfield would able to resparkle that old spark in my heart again because I did really love playing Skyrim and it has only been reasent when I have been getting the burn out.
I feel you, particularly the line 'we're not children anymore'... most games don't hit me much nowadays, it's a rare title that does something new, that captivates you beyond being forced to drown countless hours into mundayne quests and story lines; with characters that you struggle to care about and worlds that just aren't immersive like the classics once were...
it doesn't help when the bloat games past the 10 hour mark
you have to be joking kid or never played skyrim holly fukin hell!
Skyrim sadly died for me when I did the restoration alchemy trick and took any challenge out of the game. Atleast I learnt to stop trying to max everything in a game and just enjoy it. It's so much more satisfying just doing whatever, treating the world as a sandbox, and dealing with the challenges that come from not building the most ultimate character ever rather than trying to eliminate challenge completely
Skyrim is my all time favorite game. It always will be and I’ll always go back and play it.
Skyrim is my favourite game ever, nothing has come close to what this game makes me feel. I played it when it first came out. I was 14 at the time now I'm 25 nearly 26 and I still find myself playing it and having a great time.
Same. It always take me a few try’s to get a fresh roleplay but every like 4 takes I’ll have a good long play once a year. I just recently have been playing an orc witch hunter and it’s the best immersive playthru I’ve had in years.
Skyrim sucks.. After playing games like the witcher 3 its impossible to enjoy Skyrim.. The quests suck.. The dialog sucks.. The story sucks
@@johnnyflannigan136 sucks so bad it’s still played, talked about, and relevant 13 years later. Cool opinion tho
@johnnyflannigan136 Witcher 3 combat isn't great and IMHO I think the game is overrated. I think it sucks, you may think otherwise but we all have opinions. Skyrim>Witcher3😊
I'm 17 and didn't grow up with games like Skyrim and Fallout: New Vegas. I only came across them in the last five years. I haven't encountered the issues you mentioned because I'm still exploring these games. I adore every bit of Skyrim, and it doesn’t matter to me if some consider it outdated. I've already invested 1000 hours in New Vegas and another 500 in Skyrim, and I feel like I'm just getting started. Perhaps in 7 years, I'll understand where you're coming from, but for now, I'm fully immersed in these adventures.
Same man! I was never allowed video games when I was a kid, so now that im older (18) ive been playing a shit tona skyrim, fallout:nv oblivion and stuff. I only just completed the final dlc for skyrim, but have only explored like four locations in solthsteim!
Well this video was auto generated everything is fake now you have to remember that sadly you missed the time when anything was real and genuine
But I also basically had the same experience around your age fallout new Vegas was my favorite and fallout 3 and 4 both made those areas in real life infinitely more interesting I highly recommend all of them as they’re from before the time of “games the service” back when people bought disks and games were games and movies were movies and life was life
@nothanks9503 did you say it was auto generated? Are you dumb? 🤦♂️
The thing i love about bethesda games is the modding community because if i ever get bored to the base game i go on nexus mods and go ham. Want more spells bam mysticism, odin magic overhall, apocolapse magic
Enjoy Guys.
Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim Are Life Changing Games.
After beating it several time, with all the gamer score achievements complete, I’ve also started to hit a wall on this piece of art. Some of the passive changes (such as gold fish in ponds, more butterflies, Etc) were welcome to keeping it “alive” as I didn’t do any mods. I still love it no matter what you say
I love Skyrim, I started gaming at a later age at 22 and years later I couldn't imagine ever getting bored of it. Story, lore, open world , fantasy and rping. I also suck at combat at really find no enjoyment in any combat, I mainly mash buttons and hope I make it through. I also love that I don't have to have a group of people following me.
The soul of TES is exploration, adventure, and discovery. If you no longer feel these, it's time for you to go out and find your own adventures, your own explorations, your own discoveries.
cringe
lmao
@@tehMaloWalo stfu and go touch some grass
Like that one time I played as a nobody that sold firewood for money and spent all the money in the tavern every night. …..it’s getting too real at that point.
@@tehMaloWalo not cringe, true
Really sad to hear this. Personally I still find so much joy and magic in the game. I'm also very much into writing and creating my own worlds though, so it's easy to find and make my own fun with a game like Skyrim.
Wishbone, same here with the writing. Hit me up, let me see what you got. As an aspiring writer, id love to give feedback
I don’t understand his point tho.
This isn’t surprising at all. Half of the content on this channel is devoted to tearing Skyrim apart despite claiming to love the game. He spends so much time hoping on the Internet bandwagon by needlessly nitpicking the game’s flaws instead of enjoying the game’s strengths that I stopped watching him because of how tiresome it got. I’m honestly surprised that it took him this long to admit that he had finally reached this point. It’s hard if not impossible to have fun playing a game when you spent so much time with the mindset of over-analyzing and obsessing over the game’s flaws instead of just taking in the whole experience and the positive elements that the game does very well.
Personally I think it’s good that he’s moving on from this game, because by this point, it doesn’t seem like his relationship with Skyrim is entirely healthy. Seriously, for a while he’s talked about the game more like an ex-girlfriend that he once loved and had a bad breakup with rather than a game that he enjoys. Although as I say this, it appears that he still makes content talking about Skyrim. 🤷🏻♂️
@@windowsVD Glad you called him out on this, I always thought it was odd but never commented this myself
@@windowsVDDude's gotta pace himself with the cynicism. He's only what, 23? Everything gets so much worse from here, but he's already more jaded than literally anyone I know my age, and I'm 42.
I hope you get it back my man I never lost it , I completed skyrim this year and im still seeing new things
Played it as a kid, still playing it to this day.
I have yet to get tired of this game. Been playing this every summer ever since it came out. I never do everything, never have I completed every single quest, every single faction during one gameplay and I knew what I was doing. Now I am able to start the game again, get myself some nice mods and immerse myself into the deep world of Skyrim.
Thank you idk wtf they wolfing about these mfs prolly just download sex mods 💀
Look at this guy lying
@@ThisMyhandlenowwhy can’t he enjoy a game?
@@ThisMyhandlenowi doubt that he is lying since I play games in the exact same way.
No matter how old Skyrim is getting it will never be old to me happy early birthday Skyrim I love you Skyrim the greatest game ever released in the world 🌍
You haven't played many games then lol
@@mr.wilson9941 And you clearly don't know what a good game is lol
@@claystedman6923How's skyrm the greatest game ever though...
@@miguelpadeiro762 It has influenced so many future open world games such as breath of the wild and Elden Ring, the open world is timeless with it great art style and music, the exploration and dynamic feel of how you come across quests and encounters in the game it something very few games even come close to matching, fun quests, lots of variety of armor, weapons, spells, skills, etc, and people love the game so much that they spent over a decade modding it so that they could keep playing. These are some of the reasons why its one of the goats, so successful, and why its been remastered and ported almost as much as RE4 (another one of the goats).
@@claystedman6923 Again, a fucking amazing and revolutionzing game. But imo not the greatest in anyway way. I even personally don't see it as the greastest TES game, let alone greatest of all games ever.
I sunk hundreds of hours into that game, over the course of 10 years. I tried playing it a couple months ago but I'm so familiar with it that it doesn't feel like an open world rpg anymore, but rather some simple game like rock paper scissors. Every encounter is known and I have experienced it thousands of times, random interactions do not induce awe and mystery like they used to. I have grown up and now math and physics is what makes me awe and wonder. That outro skyrim song still hit hard tho😢
I was introduced to Skyrim at 8 years old at a friends house, just after it was released, since then I have played maybe 3 playthough a of it a year. I will never get tired of it, modding the game and playing different play styles over the years has created a new experience for me every time, I will always love this game
Understand the burnout, for sure - I recently picked up Skyrim again a few months ago (after a 2-3 yr break) mainly due to modding. Graphical updates, improved scripting for combat and a few mods for fixing bugs really go a long way to making this game look and feel more contemporary. SKSE and other frameworks/tools ensure Skyrim will be improved for a long time to come.
Wish some of those cool ECO combat mods like the one with the samurai/ninja combat overhaul mod I saw on TH-cam, weren't just exclusive to Patreon accounts. You can find some good ones on Nexus though like the Sekiro combat mod and TK dodge or Elden ring combat
With me it is the opposite because Skyrim often helped me through bad times in my life. It always feels like coming home. I have been playing it for 12 years now (on and off and recently modded ) and it is wonderful to see my granddaughter playing it now. I also loved Morrowind and Oblivion and even more Nehrim and Enderal. I'm sure I am not yet done with Skyrim.
I used to be a gamer like you, then i took an arrow to the thumb.
@@judaychop 🤣
This warms my heart. Granddaughter?! 😭
See, I'm a newcomer, and I started off modding IMMEDIATELY after downloading, so playing it on my Switch with just the Anniversary Edition content is all new to me. Wish you could wear more than one ring, the shrine system had a bit more depth, and there were actually sky whales up in the atmosphere. 😂
I'm glad you loved it but as a morrow wind player and oblivion player it felt kinda half baked. I still enjoyed my time it is a good game but was a tad disappointed.
I know what you mean. I played both of them several times and I loved them for the dense atmosphere and history (I love the Dwemer ruins and I was sad there were so few in Skyrim). The funny thing is that I played Nehrim before I played Morrowind and Oblivion because after Gothic Morrowind seemed somehow weird and I didn't like the skill system and alchemy and the way they made the characters talk. Nehrim made the difference for me to fall in love with TES@@aaronbozack830
This is really depressing dude :( I’m sorry you feel this way. I’m 17 and I’ve played it for the first time recently and LOVED it until the quests started to feel the same. I also still love Minecraft and I really hope I don’t lose that love like you did…
The same thing happened to me, but with Wizardry 8. As a child I was *completely* engrossed in the game and completed multiple playthroughs, one after the other -- I just couldn't get enough! But, when I attempted to go back to it years later as an adult, its many, glaring flaws became immediately apparent to me and I didn't last 15 minutes before quitting and uninstalling. Despite this, I will always be grateful to the game for the countless hours of joy it had brought to my childhood.
I miss the way Skyrim felt when I first played it, and am sad I won’t feel that way about Skyrim anymore, but at the same time it’s calming to play knowing I’ve done all there is to be done.
mods
you have surely NOT done all there is to do....
@@jst601 and how exactly do you know that?
Play the big modpacks
VR Skyrim
I was introduced to Skyrim at 7 years old when a woman looking after me for the day let me play on one of her characters as long as I didn't get any bounty or complete any quests. Just from giving me something to do for half an hour has led to some of the best days at home I've ever had. The game is almost as old as me. Skyrim is something that holds me and my mother's relationship together, as we both play the game and she enjoys hearing me talk about the lore for hours on end while she searches through a dwarven ruin. I've made many characters, very recently I started on a male argonian, each character is like a new breath of fresh air for me, as it gives me an opportunity to explore more roleplay options. Skyrim has, and forever will, hold the most special place in my heart.
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oh my god I have the exact same story, same age, same everything. except I played on my own console, but never did any quests. since I was 7 I didn’t understand that there even was quests, I’d just wonder around and anytime I found whiterun I’d get so happy because I’d be like “wow this place is so big!!!” so that’s why whiterun will always be my favorite city, feels like I genuinely grew up there ya know? skyrim always will hold my heart truly
Aren't you a little too young to have big.booty_latinas as a nickname? :D
You’re still a child lol
You’re pretty well spoken for a 12 year old
It pretty hard to get tired or lose that sense of wonder when you have it modded out
Started playing it in about 2013 at age of 35. Still boot it up a couple of times a month. Even if it’s just to go on a fishing quest or hang out at the Bannered Mare. And every now and then something undiscovered still reveals itself.
Even listening to a song from the soundtrack fills me with nostalgia and unspoken joy. Truly iconic game for me, and it released during a period of my life where i really needed something like it. Forever grateful ⚔️
A buddy of mine has Skyrim atmospheres on his #1 played song.
Dude I play one off them all night to sleep. One of the deepest sleeps I've ever had
Oh, sweet summer child. I'm past 40 and I really dig how you have described - very precisely - how a lot of folks I've interacted with felt about Morrowind. It's touching.
Mind, I picked that one up in college, then finished it properly over the pandemic (thus beginning a trip through several other games, including skyrim, witcher iii, elden ring, etc.) So it's not quite the same for me, but I really relate to your story.
I just got re-addicted to Skyrim a few months ago and I'm having a blast with it. I'm also 31 years old.
Skyrim didn't change, Avarti. You did.
One of the problems with a single player game, like skyrim, is once you've beaten the game, played most/every side quest, played with so many different playstyles... the game eventually becomes less "Explore new places and do new things" and turns into "checklist of things to progress". They're fun to explore and see all the places and find all the new things, but once you've done that, nothing is new anymore, except for the occasional thing that was missed during play, like easter eggs or secrets.
It's sad, but we can _never_ experience something for the first time, again. Be it a game, a movie, a theme park, tasting new food, the list goes on. Once you have done something for the first time and experienced it, it's etched into your mind, you might LOVE going on rollercoasters, but that new thrill, the unsteady fear, the stomach churning, the dizziness, after you've ridden it, it's different from the first time, and always will be.
I'm reminded of this every time I try to replay a game I loved that was single player. Undertale comes up a lot, because I've only played it TWICE, once took about 9 hours and I soaked in everything, explored everything, talked to everyone, it was an emotional spiral. The second time I played it was a little bit after the first time, I just wanted to experience the game again, but I had already seen 99% of what the game had, talked to pretty much every NPC, already beat the game (pacifist), the only thing that was new to me was I went back to the start after beating it and got to talk to "Him" and get a little more lore, but the entire playthrough only took 2 hours this time, and it didn't feel as grand or emotional since I've already seen everything. I still love Undertale, but sadly I can never play it again.
Skyrim will never be boring to me no matter how many times I play it.
this video made me cry, the realization that i am looking for the feelings when i was younger, the nostalgia, when i had time and energy to lose myself in a world almost created for myself. i am no longer a child, i am no longer a person that could enjoy skyrim like i did before, just like you i was 11 when it came out, and i am just trying to reach that carefree innocence i once had.
Are you depressed bro?
@@TrysomieflexntjesThats just a natural transition from childhood to adulthood. I mean how could you not be depressed in a corrupt capitalist soul draining society who kills your imagination and sense of wonder everyday ?
@@veryrare432hzThats a you problem. I live in the same society, and im not depressed.
The guy who made the TH-cam video is 23. Still a kid.
It doesn’t matter how old you are, you can still get lost in games. He’s just become jaded and depressed entering adulthood. He will turn 30 and be much happier.
@@neurohack9038 he’s the most boring lispy voiced guy I’ve ever heard, don’t get how some people like him, he’s trying too hard to be cool but his voice is awful.. maybe Americans like it I guess
Mate I don't know what version of Skyrim your playing but it still holds up to this day
I only just started playing Skyrim but I hope that I can feel the wonder that you speck of I’m apparently loving the game so far
5:42 to 6:11 is so spot on. Even if Bethesda stayed completely the same in all these years, or even improved in every category, we're not the same audience we used to be. Either way, I'm happy for the next generation that will get to enjoy these with fresh, child-like eyes.
The fun in Skyrim is to mod it into oblivion. You can completely modernize it, extend and enhance it to the point you'll be able to play new stories again. Modding does require a lot of dedication and time though.
Pretty funny when a metaphorical statement like "modding it into oblivion" takes on a sort of literal meaning I the for of skyblivion
Yeah, it's almost a game itself. I don't even particularly care if I play it once it's done.
I play a modded version of Skyrim VR and I do make a new story for myself each time. It's just the flat screen version of Skyrim that I just can't play anymore.
It's the combination of all these things: completely making your own character and play style, open world, decent quests, medieval weaponry, dragons and other monsters, and so on... What other game has the whole package?
You know, to get tired of a game after beating it to death for a decade + is an achievement. It says a lot about how good this game actually is, even if it is a bit bland, perhaps its actually to its benefit. Elder scrolls games have always been a playground for its community, its like a series of books with the outline and tools already prepared for you, with a big hole in it for you to fill.
The heart-tuggingly yearning quality of the soundtrack and beautiful lore (and wisdom of Paarthurnax!) often tempts me back to play it again, but you're right you can never recreate the enjoyment of a game which you attach to a certain period of your life, probably more free, irresponsibile times. For me Skyrim was probably the third game I played on Steam back in 2012, and I was enthralled by and obsessed with it. But like an old flame that has since moved on, some things never feel as good if you revisit them.
One of the huge reasons aside from boredom, is knowing how much time it takes to complete even a small amount of tasks and I have more important stuff like a family so I can't even think of playing it.
It's the same for me with Skyrim and Witcher 3. I simply became too familiar with it. Installing mods didn't help. Oh well..
I literally put the skyrim ambient soundtrack on real low to fall asleep sometimes
I took a 5 year break from it and now it feels fresh again with a bunch of new mods that improve everything. If I had to play it vanilla I can't anymore.
I replay it every two years or so. By then, that burnt out feeling is usually gone.
I‘m actually very grateful for the anniversary edition; these new quests and items really give a new feeling to the game I haven’t felt in a long time
Try the mod “interesting npcs” has some great writing and can extend play time for hours. So much fun and so much to discover, although you will need the wiki for some of the more obscure quests
I don't enjoy it due to the way it's all inserted into the world. I didn't want the creation club content in the first place, but I could have dealt with it far better if they hadn't jammed it in with such little regard for how it could be integrated.
The Unofficial Patch devs making the most fallacious arguments to avoid letting people download the pre-anniversary edition version of their mod when it's already common practice to list both pre-AE and AE versions of mods only makes the problem worse.
Over all, I feel as though my choice as a consumer was violated, and I'm going to take control back wherever I can, even with my video games.
Would you agree with this Steam review? If I play it (1st time ever) should I remove the Anniversary Upgrade content from the game (if possible)?
"Why Bethesda why? Decided to get this bundle on sell was pretty excited, till about level 20~ish it just broke me. Why is none of this content even remotely balanced? The new spells, cheaper and stronger then base. New homes, make every other house obsolete and are often free. The armors, not level gated and often better then their standard conterpart, level one daedric. No elderscrolls is perfectly balanced, but this is ridiculous. All the new quests I have played have been pretty bare bones and outta place. There is some really nice things in this bundle, but so many broken things as well. If you do get this bundle please take a look at the items you decided to download in UESP."
@@PeterKoperdan If it’s your first time ever playing the game, I would advise you to remove the anniversary content at all costs. The anniversary edition is, in my opinion, made for people who already know every inch of the game and are looking for new refreshments to justify another playthrough; for those players - like me - the anniversary upgrade is a welcome one. Yes, it breaks the game and removes every last shred of balance it already didn’t have, but it’s new, and a lot of fun.
However, If you are a new player, you should experience the game raw. You get a much more authentic and balanced feel for the game, and it actually feels like Skyrim. Fall in love with the game first, get bored with it, leave it, come back to it, fall in love with it again, and repeat that until you got enough hundred hours into it that basically nothing about the game can surprise or excite you anymore, and THEN get the Anniversary Content.
@@shnoops7759 Thanks you your advice.
Replaying Skyrim in VR has brought it alive in a whole new way. Details I've never noticed before suddenly grab my attention, like the thief's symbols on various buildings. Wow, there is actually a lot of marked buildings. Despite 100's of hours of playing in various versions of Skyrim, I still discover new stuff.
replaying skyrim is a whole different perspective..its as they knew vr would be out.
This video hits home in so many aspects.
I still play Skyrim lol Just started again last month after a little over a year away from it,,,again, because I had a fun memory. Now I'm at level 52 and still enjoying it. I walk more and run less. Take in the scene and not just fly past things. I explore more now and still do quests at a leisurely pace. I will always be amazed by it.
My niece is 11 now and starting to appreciate games and actually taking time to listen to dialog and stuff in games and I’ve been having the best time playing it with her and seeing her react to it with new eyes the way I felt when I first played it. I get that you’re burnt out but I still love it no matter how old it is and knowing every quest and cave etc of the game helps when playing with my niece, she loves it and I love playing it with her, she was so happy when she finished Bleak Falls Barrow by herself and fighting Mirmulnir at the watch tower
That's the fun thing about growing up you get to show your families kids fun experiences you had as a kid and rediscover discovery in a senses. The best way to describe it is as you get older you see a tree as just another tree you've seen them before. But it's not to a kid exploring for the first time it forces you to reexamine thing you once took for granted.
The only other time I felt that way, was when I played my first long form D&D campaign with a group of friends. I miss those moments.
This TH-camr should just start playing World of Warcraft season of discovery to get a similar feeling.
Picked up Skyrim in 2013 when I was in 2nd grade I’m now 17 and I still love going through and playing it every few years. I just can’t keep myself away from it.
I am 32 and just started playing the game last week on the Switch. I am roughly 20 hours in and loving it! I was burnt out from BOTW/TOTK, which felt like such a grind, but this feels like such a natural progression.
No matter what, I will forever love this game. It's been my introduction into the amazing world of the Elder Scrolls.
I will always get back to playing it from time to time along with Morrowind and Oblivion.
I always want to play Skyrim, until I actually play it. I mainly just listen to the soundtrack which is incredible. Its almost too epic for the game, and the content doesn't live up to the music. Its the idea of Skyrim and atmosphere which is appealing.
what game have you been playing?
@@NexusVain I'm mainly referring to the quests and gameplay. The atmosphere is still fantastic.
Very astute observation, thank you for bringing this realisation to me attention.
I started playing Skyrim in 2011 when I too was 11. It was the same year I discovered Minecraft and both games were the backbone of my teenage years. Went back and still felt kind of enamored by it but definitely didn't have that same wonder.
There's a backdrop of machinima "100 ways to die in Skyrim" that pops into my head when I walk across certain parts, and feel the history of the game set like dwemer concrete. And while I absolutely adore the rich storytelling of the Witcher 3, I can't put a basket on Dandelion's head to steal his lute. Skyrim fulfilled a niche in gaming so we'll that said niche became a genre and I'll never forget that but I too think I'm done with it
I started playing skyrim less than a month ago, without having any idea of what I was about to experience. I'm 100% blind on this run, and I'm playing it unmodded. Right now it feel immense and incredibly free in terms of gameplay, character development, moral choices and possibilities, aside from the exploration of the world itself. To me it is an incredible adventure, I find myself playing all night long without feeling the time running away. It's like being in my childhood again, when I could play destiny for hours and hours, when I could play without caring about anything, even if I actually have to.
Fellow Dragonborns, I'm pleased to join this community even if I'm late, I promise I'll be a great traveller, with the happiness of a child and the awarness of an older self.
I hope you can find a game that makes you feel this way again.
That feeling I got from playing Skyrim when I was 12 and well into my teenage hood, I thought could never be replicated again. But somehow, as a 21 year old man, Morrowind did just that. I genuinely feel people can’t quite grasp how amazing that game is until they play it for themselves.
Is there a way to get into it fully and without feeling lost? It's very difficult for me
@@piggymaster3209 allow yourself to feel lost! Be patient with yourself. The experience the game provides is more than worth it and one day, you’ll have it mastered, and you’ll long for the days that the world, it’s mechanics and creatures felt daunting and “larger” than you. Embrace the learning curve. Read the books. Explore the world without looking online. You won’t regret it :)
@@piggymaster3209 Learn to enjoy the experience of getting lost? I think that's part of it.
@@David-ix1qiReminds me of the souls series. I miss when everything was so daunting and scary, felt like everything was bigger than me. But at the same time I love to look back and recognize how good I've gotten and how much I know about the games mechanics.
@@David-ix1qiill try it again but I never look up guides or anything unless I absolutely have too
Downloaded Nolvus for the first time and my god it has probably turned Skyrim into one of my favourite games of all time and is up there with some of my most memorable moments in gaming.
It's not your age, friend. It's just the fact that there is nothing left to do in the game that you haven't done a billion times before. The sense of discovery can't exist when there's nothing left to discover.
I agree that the game has run its course and is a masterpiece I get a lot of enjoyment out of Skyrim by watching my niece and nephews play it now it reminds me of the awe that I experienced
I only got playing Skyrim when it was ported to the Switch, and I don't play it that regularly, but I don't feel like it ran its course, the only way it does that is re-releases, that said, playing it alone hasn't run its course.
Playing it right now. It's New Vegas I'm having problems with.
Im reverse i just finished fnv, i just started skyrim but its slow. Im just reading how to min max the stats, i dont care for the world :/
I love playing both games
i'm having problems with new vegas but for me it's getting the game to run without crashing or freezing on a loading screen
Yeah. It’s a great game but I’ve played over 2k hours there’s nothing in the game I haven’t seen
@@farr4_moon87that’s why most people don’t like Skyrim. Every time I play i couldn’t be less interested in the story and just end up fuckin around with side quests til I get bored and uninstalled it again
I was 11 too and i have played this game so much, last playthrough was 2020 late on xbox one and i did every quest and location and a few months ago i hopped on on the ps5 and while waiting for downloads i played a little skyrim and got hooked again to my suprise and made 2 characters and am 50 more hours in
I just installed Nolvus and it’s the same old Skyrim, but all fresh and new and exciting again!
I played Skyrim at 11 as well and remember the wonder of exploration and delving into lore to make my own character story. The game was truly the most wondrous gaming experience I have ever had and I would give anything to get those old feelings back. I listen to Skyrims music often and get the itch to play it but I realized that even with all the mods I have to make it a different experience, I just can't play it for a full play through anymore.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance showed me what an rpg should play like in recent years.. although it’s ageing a little these days the combat system was a huge challenge and added an extra layer of progression. The storyline and multiple endings really made it replay-able too. Some skills could be completely overlooked but added huge advantages to players who took the time to indulge in them. Skyrim set the bar for other games that followed, it’s like windows 98.. many have followed, but few have successfully added to what it brought to the table.
Kcd is awesome 👌
While I think some of the difficulty in enjoying games comes just from us getting older and more experienced I think an underrated aspect is that nearly all games lose their sense of wonder faster due to the existence of TH-cam B and wikis.
Part of the wonder of gave as a child was experimenting to figure out the best way to play the game on your own, or talking to friends and combing over forums to try to find better strategies or information on the eggs eggs and epic side quests you missed.
Now it’s hard to temper urge to immediately turn to google the moment something gets too difficult or grinding starts to become dry etc.
Even though games are much larger, they feel much smaller.
Hi Avarti, having been born in 1988, I was definately not a child anymore when Skyrim launched. I have played both Morrowind and Oblivion since they released on day 1, being only 14 when Morrowind launched, so I was very familiar with The Elder Scrolls by the time Skyrim arrived. Still, I share the same experience. Between Morrowind and Oblivion, only a few years had passed. But Skyrim's successor is 12 years in the making, so it's been a very, very long time, and the same sense of nostalgia for it has grown inside of me. I sometimes revisit it, having done so lastly just yesterday. But its age cannot be denied, and by this point, the game holds little secrets, even with mods, so the whole experience is broken. The first 5 minutes still feel blissful, but I get bored after about half an hour and figure out it just isnt worth my time to revisit everything for the umpteenth time. My love for the Elder Scrolls is very deep, and I have a son who is now 4, so he can grow up with the Elder Scrolls VI in the same kind of way I did with Morrowind. I still have copies of the old games, so I will be sure to show them to him once he's a bit older. We need TES VI!
I did my heavily modded playthrough a couple of years ago, basically 100%ed the game plus a bunch of the highest rated quest mods and that recaptured the magic I felt when I first played it. But I agree, I'll always remember Skyrim and think back fondly of my time with it, but I'm ready for new games now.
I feel this so hard. I was at the midnight release in 2011 at Gamestop. School the next day, but I was a senior so my dad let me stay out and stay up to play it. I got through the opening and to Riverwood before calling it for the night. The sense of awe and wonder I felt was like nothing else. Beat the game over the next few months, did every side quest I could.
By the time the dlc came out I had moved onto other games, but assured myself I'd come back to it. When I moved to college and got a gaming PC, I did in full force. Sunk more hours into it with mods then I did my first playthrough. Sadly, the luster of mods kept me from playing the dlc.
Now, 12 years later, I still haven't fully finished dawnguard or dragonborn. The luster is gone, the nostalgia isn't enough to fuel the fire to play. I've tried and tried but this video is so true. I've moved on... The closest I came to reigniting it was when it came out on the switch. The portability made it viable and I got halfway through dawnguard... But stopped playing.
Still this game holds a special place in my heart, and the teenager that fell in love with it will always love it.
Try playing Skyrim in vR …..it’s jaw dropping and it is everything you imagine it would be like
try playing oblivion, it is older then skyrim but still has many similar elements and aspects to it.
This is exactly how I felt when I played rdr2 for the first time a few years ago, now I’ve started playing Skyrim and I can’t wait to get that feeling again
I couldn't really get into RDR2. I can't stand being locked into 3rd person view, and the movement doesn't make me feel immersed.
@@hengineer your able to go into first person on the ps5 idk about other consoles but I agree that the movement isn’t the best
@TribetWilson maybe I could on the PC. I think they focused so much on how realistic things were it broke player immersion when it came to wanting my character to "go here" "do this", to me anyway. The 3rd person view is what killed Witcher for me, though.
No one want it to believe... believe Avarti would post again 🎉
My last save on my pc was in 2020. Always want to start up a session and just run around off nostalgia but I know that time can be put to use exploring new games. Skyrim will always be the game I hold most high though. ❤
I just started a new playthrough after a few years. I still, and will always, love this game.
well, while that sucks to hear, i've also been playing since 2011 and i still greatly enjoy playing it and grinding and levelling my characters and exploring things i've already explored 😂
hopefully you can find the joy in it again 🙏
I think what works with Skyrim and what is impossible to reproduce after the first playthrough is that you want to explore. You are an adventurer, and the world invites you to explore, you quickly feel powerful and it feels good walking around.
I tried Fallout 4 a while back, and I felt so weak, everything outside is a threat, the very air wants you dead. I hope Starfield with its setting can make us feel like adventurer again.
However, growing up and understanding mechanics and seeing patterns in game makes it hard sometimes to enjoy games without thinking too much and be immersed.
I love Skyrim and I'm 61 years old. I've been playing it for quite a
few years now.
I've modded it, and still enjoy the heck out of it. Its so immersive.
I feel like I'm really in the game when I play. I love the world of
Skyrim. The graphics are absolutely beautiful.
Welcome to growing old. It sucks. I feel exactly the same. MAybe it helps you as it helped me. I started playing DAggerfall Unity, even I never played it in the past, it somehow triggered something and was a completely new experience I could enjoy as if I played Skyrim or Morrowind for the first time again.
I know the feeling. I remember i was at university and discovered the game. I had no idea what skyrim was and what to await in it's world. I started playing an afternoon and found myself at 3 am in a dark room with my laptop while outside was raining and it was cold. I was fighting vampires and monsters and it felt so immersive and magical and spent my next days abandoning my classes to play. For sure this feeling won't come back and it has nothing to do with the game but me. The first time for everything is magical and it never is the same and maybe that's good. I decided to play this game again after 8 years and to be honest i still enjoy it maybe even more as i now have a decent pc to enhance the experience.
One of the interesting things for me about replaying Skyrim is every time I pick it back up, I find something I've never seen before. Granted, its never a questline or something big, but maybe some small location behind something id never seen before, or an easter egg. It fills me with appreciation every time knowing Skyrim is so intricately put together that I've probably not seen everything.
Would you agree with this Steam review? If I play it (1st time ever) should I remove the Anniversary Upgrade content from the game (if possible)?
"Why Bethesda why? Decided to get this bundle on sell was pretty excited, till about level 20~ish it just broke me. Why is none of this content even remotely balanced? The new spells, cheaper and stronger then base. New homes, make every other house obsolete and are often free. The armors, not level gated and often better then their standard conterpart, level one daedric. No elderscrolls is perfectly balanced, but this is ridiculous. All the new quests I have played have been pretty bare bones and outta place. There is some really nice things in this bundle, but so many broken things as well. If you do get this bundle please take a look at the items you decided to download in UESP."
@PeterKoperdan So, the thing about the anniversary content is that it's not official content made by Bethesda. It's a compilation of mods made by prominent modders curated by Bethesda. When you fire up AE, the game downloads a bunch of mods basically. I think it's $20. The review is accurate, a lot of the new content is out of place and the spells are definitely stronger than vanilla spells.
But I personally like it. It's mods I wouldn't have put together, and I don't know everything in the mods so it adds a bit more of that discovery feeling back to skyrim for me. Up to you tho, you can probably find a list of the mods included in AE if you feel like saving $20
@@curtisyue182 Thank you.