Revisiting Skyrim
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, is one of my favourite videogames ever. It holds a VERY special place near my heart, partly for nostalgia, and partly for... a deeper sort of feeling it gives me.
In this video, I go over why I, and many others, love Skyrim so much!
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00:00 SKYRIM
01:20 HELGEN & RIVERWOOD
04:49 LIMITLESS
06:49 CONTRIBUTING TO HISTORY
09:01 IMMERSION
12:11 SURREALISM
15:02 OBSESSION
17:26 WHAT'S NEXT? - Hry
In a word, home.
You got it.
I remember being at my uncles house during Christmas and playing Skyrim when I was really young. Then i forgot about the game, but there was always a deep desire to find it and play it again.
Oh dude I know that feeling of forgetting a game you played as a kid, and then rediscovering it feels so insane
Thankyou for the comment!! :D
I understand, people think escapism is a bad word but thats what skyrim often is to me. Its a virtual vacation in a fantastical land. I'm just as happy sipping mead in game(and irl) while sitting in Nilheim watching the sun set as I am larping as the dragon born. Its a living breathing world and it really makes you just want to be a part of it.
fun fact, the stars which are actually just holes in the universe aren't actually random and they even move with the seasons like real stars. You can actually find the constellations that make up the skill trees in the sky.
The only people who think escapism is bad are people who want to drag you out of it.
My 83736366272th Skyrim video….keep ‘em comin, it never gets old
It’s timeless! :D
Picking flowers have never been more immersive. Lolz
Just imagine when Beyond Skyrim is fully completed and all of Tamriel can be experienced. I’m sure I’ll never play anything again.
Skyblivion too! Lots of cool things to look forward to in the modding scene!
Skyrim basically saved my life. During the first lockdown, things were just awful. I don't usually play RPG but I have played Skyrim once in 2017 albeit not knowing wtf am I doing lol. I decided to install the game again and immersed myself into the world and to the lore. Enough to take my mind off the real world stuff. It's comforting. Really. Nothing beats a Skyrim night session with lights off and headphones on.
Especially if it’s raining or snowing outside
Someone described Skyrim as the perfect imperfect game (or something like that). This describes Skyrim for me perfectly. Being aware of its flaws I love it and treat it as almost a real place to spend some time in when I need to a rest from the real world. Thank you for this video.
‘The perfect imperfect game’ is an amazing way to put it! I didn’t speak about the technical side of the game because we’re all aware it’s nothing special (and is bad in certain cases), but it’s perfect for, conceptually, what Bethesda created, and the emotions the game evokes.
Thankyou for commenting!! :D
Say what you will about Skyrim, but it has given us one of the most iconic openings of all time
Nice video (though you don't need to worry about the corn! Embrace it! Everyone watching a skyrim video in 2024 is fully on board with corny platitudes).
I think Skyrim for many people (including me) is a good example of Hiraeth, which has been (mis)translated as homesickness for a place you cannot go. We all feel at home in Skyrim, so strongly that it's almost as though it is a real place.
That’s a very nice way of putting it! It really does feel like homesickness, hence why a lot of us feel the need to reinstall it at least once a year lol
I honestly can’t think of another game that has had the same effect of escapism on me..
That "helgen" was magical
I should start voice acting
Now I'm gonna mod my next Khajit run with a racoon visual mod overhaul.
I am honoured
You’ll probably be the first and only raccoon in the Elder Scrolls universe
I bothered my parents to buy me this game, they got me the game a month after it came out and it let me down a rabbit hole of buying it on every fucking platform you can think of.
This game has helped me through my most loneliest of times and my highest moments, I go back to it not to even quest, but to listen to secunda for the 1000th time, it’s a beautiful game and while it has its moments, it’s a game that I always hold close to my heart to this day.
Oh yeah for those of us who played as kids, the immersion and feelings it gave us really just resonated with us all these years later. I completely understand creating a character just to walk around, enjoy the scenery and music! It’s truly beautiful man
This video came up randomly on my feed and it’s really great
Thankyou!! I appreciate it! :D
this whole time I thought "skyrim" was a cereal
NOMNOMNOMNOM
Great video man!!! I’ve been in love with this game since its release in 2011!!!
Thankyou! :D glad you enjoyed!
I feel so sorry for the people who never got the magic and joy of Skyrim and just hate on it and its players for whatever reason. People who love Skyrim are almost always super peaceful, creative and kind and I'm so glad to be surrounded by such people irl
alright first - i was 21 when skyrim came out and now all of a sudden i can relate to the people that were adults when they played gameboy or SNES for the first time...
second, special edition... is what makes skyrim special.. in case you hadn't... errr
Kinda irrelevant but I feel the exact same familiarity and connection to super mario galaxy
I’ve heard a lot of people feel that way about Galaxy! I don’t play a whole lot of Nintendo games, but I really want to check that one out!
Thankyou for the comment! :D
Probably going to play this game again for the first time in a few years because of you
Aw dude im honoured! Go slay alduin!
Skyrim offers a kind of immersion that I haven't experienced with any other game ever since. The lore and storytelling just drags you into it, and you can go from one rabbit hole to the next. Still, it doesn't force you to adhere to any story. You can get to level 81 and still not have fetched the dragonstone from Bleak Falls Barrow, or you can take down Alduin a few hours after your arrival in Skyrim and then settle down as the world renowned Dragonborn.
And then there's all the mods, where countless people have put effort into adding more stories and more quests and more locations to an already huge game.
I've been on a major Skyrim kick lately, trying to get into making mods now. I find myself spending as much time, if not more, modding. The gameplay and combat sucks balls but the world is good enough it keeps me coming back, makes for one of my favorite games ever.
MAKING mods?! GGs man, I can’t make them myself but at least I’ll be able to install yours lmao
Skyrim is such a weird game, because the gameplay is mid at best, the story isn’t particularly amazing, the characters are two dimensional, but I still consider it one of the best games I’ve ever played, the world, music and art direction are just on a different level
Really good video!
I was 21 when skyrim came out. i remember standing in line for the collectors edition.(I still have the Alduin statue it came with)
I just started my "completionist" playthrough with the legacy of the dragonborn mod to act as a checklist.
A big part of it is the time at which it released. Back in 2011, there weren’t many games like Skyrim. Now-a-days we may have numerous open world experiences that strive for atmosphere and immersion, but Bethesda was already on board that train long before most other studios.
Another factor, in my mind, is how Skyrim was marketed and how it differs in its goals as compared to previous Elder Scrolls games. Morrowind and Oblivion were considered to be more traditional RPGs, where the character you played as was a blank slate for you to design yourself. On the other hand, Skyrim advertised its protagonist as this badass hero who kills dragons and [i]eats their souls,[/i] while wearing this sick helmet with big horns on the side. And I think that idea just resonated a lot more with many more people.
I’m not saying that TES 3 and 4 are bad for the way they did things, and I know that many older fans prefer those games for that reason. But I think it’s important to recognize that Skyrim was able to draw in new people - people who might’ve otherwise never played or never had an interest in RPGs in the past - by approaching its design from a perspective different to that of its predecessors. And I don’t think it might’ve had the same success that it has today, where Bethesda is constantly rereleasing the game every year, had it stuck more closely to the standard Elder Scrolls formula.
skyrim feels like home. I undertand that feeling =)
I Too Love Skyrim, it's my favorite PC Game alongside Aliens vs. Predator 2 and Unreal Tournament 2004
Ulfric had his hands tied in front of him and he could have easily pulled his gag down and shouted his and our arses the hell out of there but noooooooooooooooooo. What a tosser! Up yours stormcloaks!
Well, at least he wasn't the one ambushing two innocent travelers on their way to or from skyrim.
I can relate to that being inspired by things like skyrim to create something, tried creating a game in unreal inspired by aspects I liked in skyrim, I put that on hold though as I found it a bit too much.
It always throws me off when someone outright say skyrim sucks, it's like I get that it has many rough spots but it has so much going for it still and the atmosphere, the vibes is unmatched.
The vibes are there for sure lmao
I’m glad you understand that feeling of inspiration though, it’s like I play Skyrim and see this amazing world that Bethesda have crafted, and it makes me want to make something like that myself
Thankyou for the comment! :D
I agree with you on basically all your points; my only criticism is that you shouldn't be afraid to sound corny. We all get it pal, Skyrim is such a deeply important game to so many people.
That’s really nice of you to say man! I appreciate the reassurance! I’ve never really done a video talking about games that mean a lot to me so I’m sure I’ll get used to saying how I feel over time!
Thankyou for the comment! :D
Did this man just say he was 2 when oblivion came out??? How am i getting this old????? Im only 33 lolol
Lmao I know man, I hate that I’ve missed out on so many games
Thankyou for the comment! :D
Wait till you check out Skyrim: Very Special Edition
I have near on 600 hours of skyrim... i still have yet to actually finish the main story lol
LMAO maybe one day.. or not
Subbed.
I appreciate it!! :DDDD
@@antiXTRAI was a gamer back in the 90s and early 2000s - then I got into my late teens and got hooked on prescription drugs. I stopped being interested in games. My life went to shit. I got myself thrown in prison for 53 months. When I got out in 2015, I moved in with my dad and little brothers who had an Xbox one in the basement hooked to a giant TV. Skyrim was the first game I started playing again after wasting the previous decade doing drugs. It became my new addiction. I went to work, came home and played Skyrim for hours and hours. This was my routine. And it kept me out of trouble. It was the first open world game I ever played. Now my life is fucking awesome, and I’m still addicted to gaming. My wife accepts it though lol I’m very lucky. I game on PC now and I play Skyrim still, but only in VR. With the proper mods it becomes the best VR experience a person can possibly have.
Oh dude that’s awesome!! Skyrim is definitely the better addiction lmao, and it’s so awesome how it affected your life like that! You’ve probably got the best Skyrim story so far lmao
You don’t understand how jealous of you I am that you get to play modded Skyrim vr man. I got SkyrimVR for the ps4 a few years ago and it was one of the biggest disappointments I’ve ever had with a videogame… but in typical Bethesda fashion, the modders fix what the devs can’t! I’m saving up for a new PC, so I’ll probably invest in a VR in the future, solely for Skyrim and Blade and Sorcery
Thankyou for the comment man, you’re awesome! :DD
I don’t remember this (at 10:00) at *all*! Where/what is it? I’ve only played the game all the way through once and got horribly sidetracked every time since…
I do enjoy Skyrim a lot, for basically the same reasons. It feels alive; it goes on forever; it has history (a bit too imperialised IMO); and it doesn’t just consist of pretty 3D wallpaper but is highly “interactable” whether or not any given chicken, sweetroll, plate, goblet, moth, burned book, roll of paper, wooden sword, piece of glass, bowl of troll fat, snowberry or embalming tool is useful or part of the plot or not. They’re physically there, part of the world. If anything, I’d have liked deeper survival gameplay without the grafted-on feeling of some of the mods. And more consequences to joining factions. Apart from the civil war and maybe the vampires/Dawnguard, they just seem to exist side by side and it doesn’t matter to the world if you’re all those things at the same time.
In defence of Oblivion, I like the NPC “AI” in principle. Yes, it leads to the most inane, unnatural non-conversations… but that they *do* stop to talk to each other during their various errands, and not just when it would benefit the player, is… charming? A weird kind of alive. I just see the whole societal side of Oblivion as a parody played out by lovable eccentrics who get lost in a picture they’ve painted or grieve for the rats in the cellar.
04:25 I don't know man. With my autism Oblivion conversations sound rather normal to me.
They do have a certain charm to them, I won’t deny that lmao
Skyrim hits differently for some people because in that universe everyone's lives are centered around their faith, people, nation, communities, honor and so on, a feeling of which most people in modern times are completely deprived of in favor of a mindless pursuit of maximizing numbers in spreadsheets. And i doesn't even matter what you consciously think about those things, the fact is that humans are biologically wired to see those things as good, so if something taps into that in an indirect and non explicit manner, then everyone will like it, despite of their real life political leanings.
Skyrim gives the players a taste of what it would feel to belong to somewhere, and that's why people often describe it as "familiar" or how Skyrim is like an old friend.
Objectively skyrim is a terrible buggy mess that makes no sense. But it's amazing. I cant stop replaying it.
EXACTLY!! The atmosphere propels that game to be WAYYY better than it has any business being! :D
skyrim is the best game ever made
Answer: mods, mods is the reason we can't stay away
I played this game for many many years before I did a modded playthrough. I think a lot of people definitely do come back for the mods, but that’s not the only thing that Skyrim has going for it
@@antiXTRA I think of skyrim more as a very good single player exploration sim the wild is the only thing it has going for it lore to if you are willing to read or listen to it but either then that everything is clunky even for it's time.
"What makes Skyrim so special."
It's special because it managed to sell so many copies of the same game over and over. It's special because one single title has never been such a lazily milked shameless cash grab. It's special because in spite of the fact that the engine barely functions, you people keep buying the SAME 11 year old product. It's special because it has LESS spell effects, play styles, and player agency than every other game in the series.
Skyrim is special because it's a D- student who got elected president.
Go cry somewhere else man, this isn’t the therapy room
No. Go play better games.
@antiXTRA You, just like Bethesda, are blatantly exploiting the lowest common denominator for views and clout.
Pathetic.
I made a video talking about why a VIDEOGAME means a lot to me. If you’re THIS bothered by that, I’m sorry to inform you that you’re the pathetic one.
Anyway, I’m gonna go boot up Skyrim now, talk to you later man.
Play "better" games, huh? How does one define "better?"
Nothing. Any open world game made with same amount of resources would be just as good.
Incorrect, Skyrim was divinely inspired. If you can't understand this I'm afraid you're soulless.
@@jasonhymes3382 what?
Ubisofts games have similar or much higher budgets than Skyrim, but I don’t think most people praise their games as much as Skyrim. It’s not just about resources, it’s about creativity and originality.
I'd disagree with that, the assassin's creed games for example are very full and pretty to look at, but they are nowhere near as immersive as Skyrim
Why do you love Skyrim? Cos you have poor taste. Skyrim sucks.
Just out of genuine curiosity, what kind of games do you like then?
I just made an ENTIRE video talking about why I love it. Are you stupid?
i remember being over at a friends house aroujd 2nd grade and watched his dad play skyrim and instantly falling in love with it yet not having the ability 2 play it until around 6th grade 🪦 so when i got my hands on it you know i played it for days and days lmao
Oh dude, that feeling when you FINALLY got to play it must’ve been crazy!! :D
Your comment actually just sparked a future video idea for me lmao 🤐