The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Angry Review
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- Опубліковано 22 лис 2011
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Who’s still playing Skyrim in 2020?
Fuck yeah man.
i just started. loving it! Didn't have a good PC before.
Played until I reached Whiterun and then abandoned it. The game was not as good as I thought.
requiem ... yeah
@@ElBandito you are a fool
60 hours of Skyrim... that's cute
Take in consideration that its only a few days when tesv was released. 60 hours already is madness
60hrs in 12 days since its release. That's not bad considering he has a life.
You DO realize this video was made at the games release right? Idiot.
@@majik5194 it's just a joke man.
I was gonna say something but everybody just covered it up so yea whatever ur an absolute moron
"We are the middle of a dynasty franchise that keeps on giving."
Oh Joe, if only you knew...
It was going downhill since Morrowind. The game is good, great even, but it was rolling down. Shit, even Joe around 5:50 says something like "you can upgrade your character easier than ever before!" as if dumbing the game down more and more and more with every instalment is a good thing, like the fact that you can be an orc with a big axe and not know a single spell and become the magic guild master (i dont remember how its called at this point lmao), how it poses no challenge to the player. From the complex way of building your character in Daggerfall or Morrowind where you could replay those games with different builds and have a completely different experience playing the game they went to this, the most simplified RPG ever, with the idea of "even a 5yo child needs to be able to play it so we can squeeze as much money out of it as we can" as their focus.
Its still a good game, don't get me wrong. But you could see their focus shifting from making great RPGs to sacrificing the gameplay in favor of more sales.
@@aw2584 it’s not about squeezing as much money out of it it’s making it a fun experience for everybody because it’s not 2004 anymore games experience change play Dues Ex 1 from 2000 and then play Deus Ex Human Revolution it’s completely different wouldn’t you want to see games be fun for everybody who plays it?
@@aw2584 all games are easier now it’s not just Skyrim
@@aw2584 it’s not going downhill it never was
@@aw2584 Personally I don't see it as a problem. In FFXIV, your character can level any job in the game, unlike WoW where you need to roll another character to even experience another job. Streamlining is not necessarily bad, it was so awkward having to mail resources to myself in WoW. The problem with Skyrim as I see it was it was bloody broken. Replaying it in 2021, I tried to marry my follower and she ended up bugged and walking out in the middle of the ceremony to permanently disappear from the game along with most of my stuff. It was a joke, I had to restarted the marriage 4 times and troubleshoot the problem with a online guide. Or that dumb Thieves Guild quest where you put rat poison in a brewing vat and yet somehow the quest has it that the already bottled mead reserved for taste testing somehow get's poisoned from that action. It's the same problem with Fallout 76, the games from Bethesda are janky and broken, the engine needs to buried in a deep grave and covered in concrete. But the leveling system in Skyrim is still great in my opinion, it really makes it fun anything in the perk tree can be a goal and I like that you level up specifically from your actions. It's a feature missing from a lot of RPGs.
I uninstalled cyberpunk and installed skyrim
Wise decision, play it at least in master difficulty.
Just finished Cyberpunk 2077 and feel.. empty. Going back to Skyrim as well!
Me too
Wait,,
you've
never played Skyrim??!
(/funfact: Google actually auto-corrects it if you mis-spell it)
I never uninstalled skyrim
" a talking dog came up to me while I was chasing butterflies"
Dear God never change Joe
Are you asking God not to change joe? Or asking joe in the name of God not to change? Or both?
M'arvin-dar likes to chase the butterflies too!
@@Jumbocombo deputy meal
He can be a bit less domineering over OJ
That change would be nice lol
To think. He gave it a 10/10 and a BADASS seal of approval *Before* the dlcs and most of the mods
Yep! And the DLCs just make it even better. And the mods...OH TALOS ALMIGHTY the MODS!!!!
That’s just how good it is of a game. If get time, I’m certainly replaying this
Wow you're right. God I miss good complete games 😭 guess there's cyberpunk to look forward to
Mods with skyrim by itself allows it to reach witcher 3/rdr2 level, but imagine if those had heavy mod support :0
@@bajkotamas1610 Are the mods really that good. It's my favourite game of all time but I only have console.
It hurts to see Joe so happy and excited knowing what happened to Bethesda after the events of 2011!
@@Tekno994 76
Bethesda Game Studios released one bad game (Fallout 76) and it wasn't even a mainline project.
Starfield will probably be good and everyone will forget Fallout 76 even happened.
Zaid Abraham were gonna see tes6 before we see starfield so just dont even bring it up lol
Never forget 2011
@@Southized Starfield is releasing first. Starfield is probably 2021 and TES VI probably 2024.
I can't believe how much this game still holds up almost a whole decade later. Mods or not, it's been easy to come back to Skyrim as comfort food when I can't find something to play lol
Skyrim > Fallout 4
Skyrim = Fallout
Why is fallout 4 on there twice?
The Witcher 3 > Both
yoav Cohen I couldn't really get into the witcher 3. To many systems and menus for me personally, it seems like a good game, though.
IcarusAblaze It may seem a bit complicated at first. But has any game ever hooked me that much like The Witcher 3 did. It'll be worth your while, trust me. Give it a try.
still playing it to this day
I maxed the time counter on consoles and a think I have like 80000 hours
+The Sole Survivor oh my god haha i feel like restarting whenever i hit 20 hours
Same
The remaster though
75% of my time spent on modding the game than actually playing it :). I still got like 1500 hours of playing though.
It's 2023, I'm 8 months pregnant, and I'm addicted to Skyrim all over again. Gotta love this game
Good luck with the rest of the pregnancy
Congratulations
Am I the father?
If you don't name your child Dovahkiin then are you truly addicted to Skyrim?
Weird flex but congrats 👏😅
"There are no invisible walls" I don't think this guy knows the bucket glitch.
Lol that’s how I start out every game stealing from the white run chest and then the thieves guild chests
@@riotrecker8978 I wonder how many play the 'bad' side of the game? I'm probably the only White Knighter around here, never touched the DarkBrotherhood and Daedric stuff or even grazed a 'good' NPC on a save run for 10 years believe it for not xDD
Thing is, I was about to do a DB run but then I heard Windshear got nerfed and so is total crap now, is this true sry?
@@netweed09 false unless you have the unofficial patch might have something to do with it btw I do all good and evil quests every dam time it's fine honestly you should play them all seriously so much content that you dont dive into
4 years and its still really fucking good and immersive game. 11/10
100/10
Markka Oblivion is even better
+Jobe Duckworthh morrowind is even better than oblivion
true. True
+Jobe Duckworthh Oblivion was shitty.
Every RPG review now
- "Not as good as skyrim"
- "Open world like Skyrim"
- "Should have been more like Skyrim"
Elder Scrolls 6 will take the throne, but not my nostalgia
No Fallout 4 will take the throne.
Brrruuhhhh
Maybe, but not in my heart *queue sentimental music*
***** Hunter :o its catnamedhappy or sigurd :o
CatNamedHappy
LOL WTF XDDDDDDDDD
***** contact me on skype or something its been a while
I'm playing Skyrim now in 2021... and holy shit. I can't believe I missed out on this absolute titan of a game. This 10 year old game puts games of this day and age to shame. Hats off to the devs who created this master piece 👏 🙌 👌
I have 3,456 hours on the game 😅
Use nexusmods website. The game is meant to be played with mods.
@@marzouk6270 is all of the hours in one playthrough?
@@cenktuneygok8986 umm no it’s not
I just got it on sale on steam cant wait to play it. Is it a similar universe to the Witcher like the elder blood or no?
What i would give to relive my first time playing Skyrim
The little firsts that blow you away. The first time you fight a dragon. The first time you see a crazy waterfall. The first time you see a dragon and a giant fighting and think "oh that giant is wounded now my level 4 can take him" and promptly get put into orbit. This game has so many first moments like that
rammstein
...and he's talking about Vanilla Skyrim. That's just one-tenth of the game's potential.
A Person this is not even my full power.
A Person try the bottom 1% of its potential. Without mods no one would still be playing
Federation of Sleepy Femboys lol. No. People still be playing even without mods. Although 20,000 steam user wont be playing skyrim daily, every day, thousand will still continue to come back to skyrim because why not?
Even without mods. You still can have fun on skyrim unlike New Vegas where you need mods to let you Start New Game....
I'm a dirty console peasant, who's never even played the DLC, mainly because I don't have it. I still consider it my favorite game. Mods aren't everything.
@@croc3862 speak for yourself
Who is watching this trying to remember when Bethesda made this masterpiece instead of fallout 76 disaster
Edit: thank you all for the likes
me
Well, I am!
Exactly why I’m here dude. I lived and breathed skyrim for like a year after it came out. So disappointed with Bethesda right now
yes
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The FINAL VERDICT for the Elder Scrolls Skyrim is a full HIGHEST RATING that I can issue 10/10 and it EASILY earned the BADASS SEAL OF APPROVAL
i cant wait to see all the dlc and -
THEEEEEEEEEEEIVES GUILD
Wow. That's sad.
Just started playing for the first time
Savor it my friend. I would trade anything to be able to play Skyrim for the first time again
@@caosonnguyen3336 really? I could never get into it as a kid
@@trappb4371 HERETIC
@@makavelithedon7127 VIRGIN
Cao Sơn Nguyễn Likewise. 😍
I'm still watching this review 5 years later..
Same
+Da Bomb but game is 4 years old
+artttuhh It was made in 2011
+Da Bomb so it's 4 years until November 11th 2016
+Da Bomb me toooo i love this game and review.
Am i the only one that thinks my friend is telling bullshit that he did EVERYTHING in the game in a week or so ?
*****, Yeah... he is bullshitting you
He cant because There are always new quests
And there is a Dark Brotherhood quest that never ever ends
***** yep definitely did everything
***** it is possible to complete the main quest on the easiest difficulty, but not EVERYTHING
Skyrim in March 2024 anybody??
😄😄😄🎉🎉🎉
I remember sneaking into a dwarven museum to steal items to craft dwarven arrows. I was being over confident and became overburdened. I snuck outside and a random dragon encounter happened. I struggled over to a corner to dump some of the weight and battled the dragon killing it. I regathered my stolen items and safely made it out. It was one of those immersive events I cherish to this day. It’s like one of those stories you tell by a fire within the game of Skyrim!
Is it just me or did youtube adds get longer and unskippable
I got a whole minute trailer that I couldn't skip. It's retarded
install adblock or magic action extension
I have adblock installed and they still somehow manage to sneak back
Sir Henderson Try magic action app
Will do
Came back to watch this to help with my remaster hype....
Me too ;-)
same
same
Yeah boy
ME too!
This is so fun to rewatch nearly 9 years later.
This is an OG Angry Joe Beauty!
At a time when microtransactions were on the rise and skyrim in it's original form came out and hands down won GOTY, and arguably THE game of the decade for the 2010s. (Still alot of contenders for that though so I won't say it 100% is because there's too many good games from the 2010s, but its definitely up there).
Little did we all know that 11 plus years later and still going strong, we would be coming back here to remind ourselves how much perfection this game truly was at its release, before we go back to loading back into our 110th playthrough as it's still the latest game in the franchise 😂.
Todd- please. Just give us a gameplay showcase or a rough release date. Anything. I beg you.
My brother traded Skyrim for a call of duty game...
FML
What an idiot.
Are you fucking serious
I'm trying to stop hating on COD because quite frankly it's become more overhated than overrated in my opinion, but yeeeeah no. Don't trade in Skyrim for COD XD
........... Words fail me. Was it at least one of the good ones?
Well, it was World at War. In my opinion, one of the better ones. But that doesn't make up for the fact that he traded SKYRIM FOR A COD GAME.
"no invisible walls"
You cannot go that way
Even in the base game there are invisible walls around some areas close to the base of mountains and sometimes when traveling across areas with lots of hills, even the edge of the map is a huge invisible wall.
Greedy Gamer Can confirm, I got the super special Remaster/Definitive/Complete/Wemadethe graphicsslightlybetterwhilebarelyfixinganyofthehundredsofbugssoyoucouldgiveussixtymorebucksforagameyoualreadyplayed Edition and I have encountered at least two invisible walls, both of which were on completely normal looking roads.
death_by_doom
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Greedy Gamer one time I walked into it and it just let me walk through. I mentioned so far out I fell off the map. It's weird out there. There is a lot of untextured hills and pits
TheFlamingCerbrus Itwould be funny if it was a bunch of deathclaws out there
Man i remember when joe was young and full of energy.
Those G-fuels have done f***ed him up.
Anyone still watching this and playing it in December 2019 ?
me lol
on my yearly play through
Hipster Thanos me😅
Getting back on every day
Gerard same bro it’s good to be back in skyrim
Who is still playing Skyrim in 2018?
VictoriumStudios 77 we are still alive and thriving brother
Started all over again vanilla with no mods. I'm currently Lvl 31 and just finished the thieves guild and restored it to its former glory. A lot of citizens have died from vampire attacks so decided to start the dawnguard questline or I might do companions next. Still discovering new things in my game 7 years later and still so many more adventures to be had.
Still playing till today. With mods of course.
VictoriumStudios 77 me
Recently just got this disk/game (from a buddy, for free, on 360) a few weeks ago, and I don't get all the hype (I got as far as level 5).
The graphics on the outside world and building interiors are great (not so much the dungeons/caves), but the people (the armour looks ugly/dorky...that stupid horned Imperial helmet? C'mon) and half the creatures look weird/goofy/ugly, the story is boring and confusing, and (worst of all) the gameplay/combat/magic is clunky and non-intuitive (I mean, the tutorial is pathetic...there's obviously tons to learn in this game, but it barely taught me fuck all).
I usually love RPGs and dungeon crawlers, but this just missed the mark big time IMHO. I think people like it mostly just because it's so big, and you can do so much (which I can understand the appeal in that)...but if you don't give me intuitive combat control, you lost me.
Im watching this 5 years later when i already pre-ordered skyrim special edition n finished the game 20 times at least
Same but I only got about an hour worth of play time and I loved it
+LaFIame then enjoy it in much better graphics
me to
me too
you ARE ME O.o
What a golden age for gaming
It was the tail end of the golden age. I like to think the “golden age” was 2006-2012. AAA gaming went downhill from 2013 onward.
@@dmalak4509 2013 and 2015 were pretty good years for AAA gaming tho
@@mohammedsarker5756We had great games in 2013-2015 but at the same time it was a point where publishers started to monetize everything and ruin games
Most addictive game I’ve ever played to this stay still
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Can't even spell.
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it's been too long since we got a game like this
+James Kirkland I like it more than other TES games, but it was also my first one. It's fun to play still though and I'm still finding new stuff still lol
+The Flagged Dragon Nowadays games are games are games...
+The Flagged Dragon Witcher 3. Nuff said.
+The Flagged Dragon Um no? Ever heard of Witcher 3?
+Baron Samedi Yes and no.
Yes, It has way less mechanics and freedoms for you, and it holds your hand like you're some kind of child.
No, becouse Skyrim streamlined old mechanics and is more fluid and easy to enjoy(and that's what it's all about, right? enjoyment)
So more correct way of describing this game is it being different to Morrowind. In the end such statements as yours(no offense), is equivelant to comparing apples and oranges...
I've recently just completed the main storyline within 50 hours of gameplay and still feel like I barely touched the surface. Dark Brotherhood, Theive's Guild, just killing bunnies. So much to do.
John Jackson I don't doubt it. Think I have about 80 hours. I just started with the Companions yesterday. Should be fun.
***** Yup. Frost dragons are a real pain. Cave bears are more annoying than most dragons.
***** Which DLC would you recommend I get?
***** OK. Thanks for the advice. Dawnguard gives you a crossbow, right?
***** Why wouldn't you become a vampire lord?
8 years later and corporate commander still lurks, destroying the industry
Would rather play this than any modern rpg of today a true masterpiece that has stood the test of time.
its a modern rpg tho. anything from the hd era is a modern game
👍
Just killing Alduin for the 100000th time in 1st person =)
Even in 2021 Skyrim feels relevant
@@muzamilnabinadroo Especially in 2021, after the travesty that is Cyberpunk.
@@martinivanov1319 well younger people look at it as old but its rlly isnt but i can see why people could think is old cuz the graphics imoporved so much over the years a big jump
Who else is still playing this game?
I don't have money to buy any other games so I play Skyrim
Got it for the Switch.
just got the Switch version :)
Started a new game last night.
All
Angry Joe forgot to mention that u can be a talking cat that punches giants, mammoths and dragons to death.
2020, still playing, still discovering shit, keep in mind, i bought it on release
Been playing off and on since 2012. When I get immersed in Skyrim , I have a very special AMAZING feeling that I only get from Skyrim. I truly feel as though I'm living another life in a big, beautiful, mysterious, and magical fantasy world.
7 years late and Bethesda is milking the living shit out of this game lol
Masked Saiyan bruh the next elder scrolls will be milked so hard we will have colonized another planet until then
MRX Because Skyrim sells. Just look at the zombies in this comment section
Federation of Sleepy Femboys I can't deny it is a joy to play this game for a very long time , modding community mostly kept this game alive . People buying semesters is fine no problem with that but people buying Skyrim in every single fucking hardware is beyond me ... Either those people have a problem or something or I don't know
MRX I can guarantee this game was not saved by the modding community
MRX I wouldn’t call it milking it if tons of people still play and love it
I just started playing this game yesterday. I went up to a giant and got sent 100 feet in the air! I was like "WTF"
Basic Rule of Skyrim: Don't fuck with Giants. xD
At least, not till you've got some good gear ;)
Ah, the infamous up up and away bug. It's definitely hilarious.
I Sir Laughsalot I think you mean the Tamriel Space Program. :3
I made the same mistake. First time I saw a giant I was curious if they were friendly. Soon enough I found out I was not faster than them.
CinemaPoker You can get your armor skill up pretty fast though. I was playing a warrior in steel plate and did a rotation which was get hit twice, then cast healing. In around ten minutes it got me to 35 heavy armor at only lvl four because each time a giant hit me, the skill was raised
I love Skyrim for the soundtrack and atmosphere. Going from a big Field of grass to snowy biomes with glaciers with the music changing throughout locations is just amazing.
I had to come back here, to relive how an overhyped game feels, when it actually lived up to its hype.. Yeah Im looking at you Cyberpunk 2077...
Live up to the hype. Hah That's quite funny given that Skyrim is more of a modding engine than an actual compelling RPG...and it's state on release was abysmal too...boi do we, gamers have short memory span. The game lived only due to its hype and further modding support. The last good thing Bethesda gave the world was Oblivion and that too was poor in RPG quality compared to Morrowind.
So fucking sad that Cyberpunk blew it while knowing that Bethesda's rpgs will be shit and most other rpg franchises are in the gutter too.
@@WaywardHex Nah disagree. I had the most epic of times when I got Skyrim. I played for MONTHS/Years even in total. I've played Cyberpunk less than a month. And I never did mods for Skyrim, so your perspective is obviously from a very geeky POV. But I think more people agree with Skyrim living up to the hype, than Cyberpunk ;) Which is my point.
@@WaywardHex Dude. Been playing games for my whole life and Skyrim was AWESOME when it came out. I played on Xbox and LOVED it. Even now I can say that game was a masterpiece. When it came out it was the talk and it lived up to the hype 100%.
@@Christian-el2bz The core rpg mechanics and combat system in Skyrim sucks balls. I had to download 14 different mods to make the combat and levelling more palatable. Also the main questline is a super-fucking generic hero's journey, it pales in comparison to Dragon Age Origins or Witcher 3.
The main selling point of Skyrim is that its more immersive.
@@WaywardHex You barely even played it, did you? Skyrim was fun for both RPG spergs like myself who played KOTOR and Mass Effect for years, as well as the average rando who hasn't even finished Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I had such a blast playing it that I went ahead and played other Elder Scrolls games just because I had such fun with Skyrim.
Bethesda is the only AAA company I trust and love
Ps: The Elder Scrolls is the Star Wars of videogames
Have you look at that lore
diog gomzalez Bethesda and Valve, yeah.
So Many Poops he said the ones HE trusts and loves, not you.
Geek bros .inc I was saying my opinion. I wasn't saying that those were his opinions.
diog gomzalez Bethesda and Rockstar games for me. Blizzard is another favorite of mine, but they're still earning back my trust post Jay Wilson.
They should make a remastered version of this for xbox one and ps4
just buy pc and mod it
But what about the people who can't afford a pc you have a good point I have a pc but its no gaming pc I use for school It would never be able to run skyrim
***** i have a 500 euro laptop, its prob $750 converted, i can run skyrim all settings have to be the lowest quality or my laptop will have a s**t attack again and die lol, but honestly my laptop lags its d**k off even on those settings, aswell as the pc practically burns the table after 30 mins due to the heat it generates. so i can't actually play skyrim on my laptop so i only mod it and convert the save to either xbox or playstation and play it on them and build my own gaming pc in time.
Im not into pc gaming
jake prince Well sadly for *you*, PC gaming is the best type...
17:08
"before sitting down and reading a good book. Huh?"
*woof woof*
"Exactly."
When bethesda was still good
houdini abracadabra I still can’t believe that these were the guys who made fallout 76
Many people believe that skyrim was made after Bethesda went down hill
Lol doom is really good and prey was really good lol?
@@trafficcone7344 Honestly tbh, I think that Bethesda KNOWS how to make a good game. Nothing really changed between Fallout 76 and Fallout 4, and very little changed between Fallout 4 and Skyrim. Fallout 76 was a very deliberate "misstep". I say that in quotes because I think that it was really just supposed to be a public test demo for multiplayer in the creation engine. In that lens, it succeeded in stride.
@Jared Moreno And why does their name pop up in the studios that created the game and in the boot up screen
60 hours? That's nothing!
Elite Films 100000000000000000000000000000000 hours
60 hours for 6 years yes...but for 12 days xD
60 hours in less than 2 weeks is fucking huge dude
Elite Films yeah, just one of my dark souls 2 saves have 90 hours, and I have like 7 of them.
Elite Films amateur work
All I want is a skyrim remastered for the ps4. Same exact games, same vibe, same lighting, just different graphics. I remember how fun it was every Friday playing skyrim after school.
Yea some good times! spent a whole summer playing that game lol.
+Devin Black If you really want to, and have enough money to spend on your hobby, i would recommend buying a PC and mod skyrim to make a remastered customizable version of the game.
+Devin Black
There's a free DLC on steam for a texture pack upgrade.
+Devin Black If you have a PC with a decent, middle-class graphics card (mostly anything with GTX in the title from NVIDIA, AMD you'll have to look up), just download Skyrim on the PC, grab the official HQ textures pack off Steam and/or grab some HQ texture mods off the Nexus, install a lighting overhaul (Enhanced Lights and FX is a good one, same with Realistic Lighting Overhaul and Climates of Tamriel, just be aware that you can only have one lighting overhaul installed at a time unless a patch is available), and install an ENB. Graphics that are better than any game on the PS4 with 60 FPS, can't go wrong with that.
Ps4 sucks ass
2020, America is falling apart and I’m still enjoying Skyrim. It has truly transcended being a game and has become a work of art
While the world is tearing itself apart I’m transported into this game having the time of my life
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I uninstalled Starfield and installed Skyrim
Is that an upgrade?
@@xXSwagXGamingXXxyep with the mods that Skyrim has no game can touch it. Playing it since 2013 and I'll never get tired of it
Just started playing Starfield. Skyrim is that incredible?? If so, I'm about to start playing
@@Keyblademsterif you haven’t already then do it. I never finished Starfield and just went straight to Skyrim. Really shows how bad Starfield is but also, Skyrim is great this many years later.
The story was AMAZING in my opinion. It only took me a few years... But I got all my skills to 100 then to legendary then to 100 again!
Congrats! I have to get back into the game and figure out when I left off for last couple of years. So many games and so little time.
Do i really have to play other elder scrolls games to understand something about this one because i m new to this franchise i was more in dragon age games and how is the combat and everything specially the 3rd camera view thank you
***** You dont need to play any other elder scrolls games first.
***** Each Elder Scrolls game is almost completely uniquely different.
Pingering Thanks man
i only fear that elder scrolls 6 will suck.
I just hope they MAKE an Elder Scrolls 6..
***** They have already announced that they are working on TES 6.
arjenbij Well that's good. Let's face it, ESO is no ES game..
***** ESO sucks ass. Indeed it's nothing like an elder scrolls game indeed.
You are the only one. Bethesda knows what they are doing. The have proven it time and time again.
Skyrim is still a masterpiece RPG game of its time even though Bethesda have fallen recently, 9 years after there are very few game can reach Skyrim overall performance in game. We are living in a good time on gaming history.
Yeah. Skyrim had its issues. But its still one of the best action RPGs ever. And while Witcher 3 has taken the crown, its pretty fair to say Skyrim walked so that The Witcher could run
It's always going to be good, especially now after the Re-mastered version brought up it's visual fidelity to really make the 'HD' details stand out in 1080p now.
It's going to be the full 3D version of those Hall of Fame games like Tetris and Chrono-trigger. But much better obviously
Skyrim is not a rpg but I still respect your opinion
@@monkeykingdew744 I can't agree or disagree. It depends on YOUR definition of RPG imo.
It is not a typical old school RPG but you could RP in the game if you decide to. Have you ever try to 'live' as in character inside of Skyrim? Like waking up, cooking up some food, talk with your spouse then decide what to do for the day?
You see? It really depends on how you approach the game. Same situation apply to Fallout series as well.
@@MingWLee yes but every rpg needs a rpg system but Skyrim just has a perk tree
I spent over 2 days setting up a badass mod list for Skyrim. I've been diving into it again and absolutely loving it.
Quarantine baby, so much time to play. It amazes me how after over 9 years the game is still so much more enjoyable than 95% of the game that were released since then. Truly a masterpiece without equal.
Well, remastered edition has arrived, see you guys next year.
next year? ha try next 3 years it was 2014 and i still had not finished skyrim to the fullest, also gta 5 >_
Ernesto Lone Wolf: What do you mean "finish it to the fullest"?!? THERE IS NO SUCH THING IN A GAME LIKE THIS!
There must come in a games lifetime that it has to end because ive done literally almost everything
Ernesto Lone Wolf: Hopefully not Legend of Zelda! I can't live without it!
n3whous3 they should add online co-op to Skyrim
>Nordic warrior
>Italian sword
>Greek helmet
>roman armor
>Latino male
um.....
GG
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed
fitting name
+Emperor of Fail Cultural appropriation overload
and the leather jacket HAHAHA
Just started to play Skyrim this week. So far i'm enjoying it a lot.
60 hours of skyrim
So you created your character finally?
He release this video like 12 dasys after the game came out dude
The Chief Is In r/wooooooosh
@@orbitingsentientsatellite4361 your joke also had a opinion in it so im stating my opinion
@@orbitingsentientsatellite4361 you cant get away from public debates when your joke has something you clearly believe in
@@orbitingsentientsatellite4361 maybe not exactly that
Bethesda.....you have become what Joe trained 100 years to destroy
😭
Do you think I am really that stupid?
@Kaverr That hurt. Ouch.
Googis The Great Truth hurts
Googis The Great Truth hurts
Googis The Great Truth hurts
IGN - 9.5
GameSpot - 9.0
AngryJoe - 10/10
For some reason I thought AngryJoe would give it a lower rating then the other's, I was wrong.
Edit: Skyrim is amazing!
Edit 2 (2019): 4 years later and I came back to fix a grammar error. Cheers!
Do they ever give a 10 do..? Because they need to appear critical..
Ign gave last of us a ten and I think ocarina of time
It's because Bethesda didn't pay those motherfuckers money to give it a high rating
9.5/10, 9/10, 10/10? dafuq overhyped scores are these? AI sucks(enemies are just standing there as you beat the shit out of them with your left mouse button), combat the same, story line the same, faction and radiant quests are joke, and list goes on. without mods i wouldn't give it more than 5/10, and with mods 7.5/10
i forgot to mention that the game had shit ton of bugs and glitches and modders fixed those before Bethesda did. modders did way better job that the game developers. hahahaha. can't stop laughing when thinking about this. even now the game has few bugs that haven't get fixed. for example the crosshair bug
PatricianTV brought me back to this gem/ 17:49
"Hopefully the character creation will be improved in the next game"
The Next Game: ...
Oh.. you mean Skyrim 10 Year Anniversary Edition?
Oh man. That intro with the corporate commander hurts now...
Bethesda. You've failed us :(
Sarcasm so tru 😓
Sarcasm what did they do?
Paid mods
Izhaan Juna Is that it n nothing else
You know you don’t have to buy it
Ahh back when Bethesda actually cared...
Alan Sajju it works! IT ACTUALLY WORKS PERFECTLY!!!!
Dont worry all of it just works
Elder Scrolls 6 and Starfield are in development and they aren't rushing either of those games. Just because they made one bad cash grab (Fallout 76), it doesn't mean they don't care anymore. You're an ignorant liar.
Unidentified Being wrong. Fallout 76 isn't the only example. They are literally doing it all for business now. Like how they require you to pay real money for their skrim mods. And i have yet to hear a positive business decision from them these past 5 years.
Unidentified Being but what they care about is money.
Honestly makes me sad seeing how Angry Joe (and all of us were) so excited for this game and to see what happened to Bethesda in the following years.
You can see the timeline of when big companies realized they could just milk the community's hard work with modding and get lazy with making new content around the early 2010s. Skyrim, GTA5, and plenty others from that era are all games that basically ended the "release a game every year or two" schedule that most companies were running with.
It's a damn shame. DLC practices and Microtransactions gutted the entire games industry. It's no wonder why people flock to indie games more than ever 2012 and beyond.
Almost a decade later and this game still going strong as hell!
i hope tes 6 will come good as skyrim or better
Hey Joe are you excited for fallout 4 ?
+basic204 wtf? everyone is excited for fallout 4! even my pet hamster is excited for fallout 4!
+Mighty EVILOSERUN I'm not excited.
+Lord Sir Crumpet remember me😛
+basic204 I'm 50/50 on it. I hated the gunplay on Fallout New Vegas. It was stiff and the hit boxes felt innocent. That and I haven't upgraded to a 970 yet...
Lee Stephenson Yes.
BETHESDA can't mess up skyrim, ZENIMAX STUDIOS can. SKYRIM IS THE BEST GAME EVER
well they messed up ESO hopefully they don't screw up Elder Scroll 6
Infinate Swag Nvm, realised that ESO was not made by Bethasda
Morrowind is better then Skyrim.
Will Johnson Opinions
Infinate Swag
very important !
These bitches from Zenimax Crapstudios milked ESO for money !
A bunch of skilless devs ,do not compare them to Bethesda which kicks ass !
12 years later and no sequel in sight
Corporate Commander was just too strong.
skyrim may be one of my all time favorites
I agree master koala , I still play this game even tho im worried about next gen
***** *I don't have good taste in video games.
***** "piece of shit" you know people have opinions, but you can't just say it was shit.
***** Your opinion. But it is fact that almost everyone who played the game loved it. There is a reason it was Game Of The Year.
***** PLS STFU Skyrim is one of best game ever made
Skyrim=200 years after oblivion
Fallout 4 =200 years after the war
Fallout 3 was 200 years after the war. Fallout 4 is 10 years after Fallout 3.
+Luke Woodcock So... 210 years after the war
Rock Steel Right, but not the sequel. Skyrim was the sequel to oblivion, set 200 years later. Fallout 4 is the sequel to Fallout 3, set 10 years later.
Illuminati?
Skyrim = a billionish years after fallout
Who plays skyrim 2023
Hell yeah Bro
god I wish I could go back to this time
I think a lot of people were just looking for a reason to dive back into Skyrim. The Special Edition was that reason.
Pat Best
I still haven't played SE. Its gonna be my excuse.
Exactly.
64-bit :O no more 3.1gb vram limitation. Man, so much more mods can be run at the same time and more efficiently too. Although you have to give time for mod community to catch up and port stuff.
As far as I know SKSE for SE is just being developed. So no point in "upgrading".
It reminded me that the game didn't age well after playing games like the witcher.
my reason was Osex but yeah, I can see what you just said happening.
6-7 years later the game is 40$ at best buy while halo 5 is only 19.95$ a sign of a good game
TheFreePantheist WTF are you talking about it's $45 on steam for all 3 docs and the game and that's when it's not on sale. Also I know of games that suck ass and are still $60 after many years, price doesn't equal quality. Play TES 2 or 3 and you'll learn how shit this game is Toad Howard ruined TES and Fallout.
Henrey Eraser you’re telling me that you like when your character misses when you hit something directly in the face? And don’t say “get a mod” because most people play vanilla elder scrolls.
+Gewdvibes
The pain-in-the-ass nature of Archery in Skyrim is to provide an incentive for the slow time aiming perk. Getting that perk trivializes aiming, and attempting to make a new character really makes things screwy if you get too used to having that perk.
lmao boi black ops 2 is still $60
Gewdvibes Yes I do prefer that combat, this is because it's based on my character's stats and not my skill. In other words a RPG not an action game. And I don't mind Skyrim however I don't think it should have been a main game rather a spin off or a new francise.
Watching this after "death" of the corporate commander in the outer words review is funny. Just think about how much shit we've been through...
That's why im here
One of my favourite Joe reviews. Brings me back.
The music... The music... The ambience, the scenery...
This is what makes skyrim for me...
Pedro Ferreira Not the gameplay, I agree.
Pedro Ferreira the modding community for me
The quests mostly completely suck imo, the characters are bland and are broken records and the combat is clunky
BUT the scenery is awesome, the music is beautiful and the overall 'ambience' is unmatched.
Exploration is the best part without that it would be so much worse
The music sounds like it was made by the choir of russian armed forces also known as the alexandrov ensemble, or....red army choir (please no talking about communism, they’re not communist) they make real masterpieces as well
I didn't like oblivion that much
*grabs popcorn
Not a very popular show I guess =)
Alex Murray well at least I wasn't greeted by a rage comment.
was that what u were looking for
Sony Pony yeah, now balance is restored to the universe
The O Taco lol
I can’t believe there was a period where Skyrim released for the *first time.*
14:42 Little did you know it would take closer to 15 years.
Although Skyrim is a very large and amazing game, 3 words can make anyone buy it: THE F**CKING SOUNDTRACK
MUSTARD JAR
+The Handsome Animals Club Me Gusta
Not as good as motto winds though
sure
play oblivion if soundtrack is what you like
IT HAS BEEN REMASTERED
I CANT WAIT
I'm buying the legendary edition on steam to get the remastered for free. I don't even have a pc.
+somebody then why buy it
+raser abdel I'm planning on building a pc at the end of the summer, now that I have a job.
+somebody congrats on the new job
Looking back years later, it absolutley deserves that 10/10 rating. It does stand a decade later as the benchmark he so eagerly placed it at.
No, it really doesn't deserve a 10/10. It's at absolute BEST a 4/10 game.
@@bedrockcastle777 Unless this is sarcasm, care to name 10 rpg games you'd rank above skyrim? It might not sit at the top anymore, but its still one of the premier open world games in gaming history imho.
@@pointyheadYT Skyrim ain't an RPG, but I'll do this anyway.
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout: New Vegas
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Chrono Trigger
Disco Elysium
Icewind Dale
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Final Fantasy VI
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@@bedrockcastle777I know I’m late but, other than oblivion, those other games are shit. Man, you need to up your taste in gaming.
Who is still playing Skyrim in 2022?
Me💀
I still
Is it weird that I put over 2500 hours into this game?
Nope:)
Nope, it's completely normal
You're not alone.
***** I don't have a single mod in my game. :)
***** Even with 2500 hours that I put into the game with NO mods? I think YOU are the one missing out.
five and a half years later i'm still playing.
Jared Hutchison exactly
Lol you look like a Jared
jared has aides!
so i'm not the only one...
Lol everyone’s still playing even now in 2018
Not a single person could imagine that they would be playing this game on their fridge in the future.
Wow! It really amazed me how Angry Joe used to be such a Bethesda HARDCORE-fanboy, until.. Fallout 76 arrived.
Yeah, it's kind of sad, and Joe even mentioned his massive disappointment about the current state of BETHESDA in his review about F76.
Never played Skyrim, guess I gotta pick up the Remaster now
Wildly Coyote do it man it is so worth it
Wildly Coyote I am so jealous that you get to experience that world for the first time
It's AWESOME!!!!
the remastered is the Same as the original, its ridiculous. Some even had the game Running way worse.
@MooseKing The Divine That's only on PC, the special edition runs much better compared to previous console versions.
the single greatest game i've ever played.
700 hours in and i am not even remotely bored yet lol
How the fuck have you gone through 2000 copy pasted tombs that respawn exactly the same where every SINGLE boss in the game besides like 3 is a draugr with 4000 health? Especially since there is no replay value as you can join every guild in 1 playthrough (Except both sides of the war, but they have the same quests so it doesn't matter). And don't even tell me about the world stuff. Become a vampire, master assassin and thief, and guards know about this and don't do anything. Especially because you can literally kill everyone in the game, pay like 100,000 gold, and be let of the hook. And Pickpocketing is the worst possible system, but lets you level up a ton, along with like 2-3 schools of magic that are completely useless, and the fact the game makes you make 0 choices at all. I mean you technically can make choices (except you cant, because everything is handed to you on a silver platter, whether you want it or not, so even if you don't want to be a thief, the message YOU MUST BE A THIEF is on the top of your quests afterwards), but a good game needs you to make choices, and forces you to, especially if the game claims to be an RPG. Honestly, the game is a recycled dungeons, casual combat, do anything you want anytime, kind of game that has a couple of good segments but is overall disappointing. Beat the whole game at level five using mostly healing spells, spend 40 hours on mostly the same quests next using spammed firebolts, and spend several hundred hours doing the same quest over and over afterward after switching to weapons because they fucked up magic progression and made it go the wrong way! Is not the kind of game I imagine people playing for hundreds of hours.
There are plenty of quests outside of Nordic tombs. Also, the game doesn't force you to join the thieves guild or any guild for that matter, are you incapable of ignoring it if it's in your journal? Also, a good RPG that forces you to make decisions in a linear fashion does not make it a better RPG, it's just different. A good RPG doesn't have to force you to do make decisions, especially not in TES series that capitalizes on allowing the player to create their own story with their "do anything at anytime" structure. This is what many players and Elder Scrolls fans value over a concrete and linear plot line where set pieces and decisions are thrusted upon you in a linear order.
But not necessarily a linear order. A journal implies a to-do list. Look at Baldurs Gate, where ignoring the main quest you can go anywhere anytime, but every quest has more than 1 outcome where some are really satisfying. In Skyrim, you get one choice: join the thieves guild. No options, just do it. And it doesnt even make you have to want to be a member of the guild, or use the lore to figure out about its existence. You just walk into town and get the quest: Steal and frame someone, and you cant decline the quest nor get an end result besides "yay youre in the thieves guild." You shouldnt have to ignore part of the game to play a certain type of character, the game should let you play a certain type of character and give you cool ways to do it.
And 90% of the long dungeons are draugr, and the short ones are all bandits.
Magnus Anderson The journal is there to keep track of what you can do, there is NOTHING forcing you to do it. You don't have to join the thieves guild and you can absolutely decline the quest by pretty much just telling him to piss off, but it's still there waiting for you if you change your mind. If you're playing the type of character that has no interest in being a thief, I don't see why ignoring that part of the game is a big deal.
And no they're not. There are plenty of dwemer dungeons, falmer ruins and a few forsworn dungeons. Half of the short caves that are filled with creatures rather than bandits.
There is nothing forcing you to do it, but thats beside the point.
There are two main reasons I dislike this part of the game.
1: There is only 1 outcome. If you want to play as a thief, great! If you want to play a thief on another character, boring as shit. If you dont want to play a thief, screw you! If there is more than 1 outcome to the quest, it becomes more satisfying because it lets you play something other than a lawful evil character. Lets say you want to join with the one guy and change the guild to a more loosely accociated group of chaotic evil characters. Or you want to actually destroy the thieves guild because you are playing some type of good or neutral character. Skyrim does not let you do this.
A roleplaying game should give you different roleplay options that all have conclusions rather than forcing you into one path you can choose not to walk along.
2: There are no logical reasons not to choose to join (in any guild). If you want to be a thief, the guards should treat you as one and try to kill/arrest you on sight, not give you easier bribes! Granted, this makes some sense in Riften which has corruption, but in Solitude?
Guard: Your the leader of the thieves guild and the Dark Brotherhood? Dont hurt me. I used to be an adventurer like you.
If there are no repurcussions in the game people wont even realize they are actually thieves, because they are treated like normal people who happen to be thieves.
Thats not to say this is a bad part of the game if you actually want to be a lawful evil thief. But when the game gives you no other options(and I am not considering not doing things to be an option because that doesnt make sense, an option is something the game lets you do, not something it lets you not do.)
Well, here we are 10 years later.
We've had so many games which surpassed Skyrim.
Like uhm... oh well, and then there was... oh hm, let's see... uh yea, yea no. We actually didn't get these games.
Witcher 3, Nier Automata, BOTW, FF7 Remake, just to name a few, but hey these are just my opinions. Also don't misinterprete this as me trying to bait, I think skyrim is an amazing game, hell, it was even the game, along side the mass effect trilogy that got me into rpgs.
@@mmcv9679 yea, i don't disgree that those are great games, but in my opinion they didin't surpass skyrim in many ways.
@@mmcv9679 both Witcher 3 and BOTW are amazing games and I had a real blast playing them... but Skyrim is the game that I always return to. Mods elevated it above legendary status
@@thelastgalvanizer whatever works for you, I don't use mods so can't comment on that.
Who’s still playing this in 2023?