Hey Gman, you're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border right? Walked right into that demonetization ambush. Same as us, and that thief over there.
Glad to see someone who FINALLY gets that mods arent a legitimate reason for a game to be good. Even so, I’d be lying if I said that I didnt love the absolute shit out of skyrim.
that's not what he is saying hes saying mods are not an excuse for the games flaws, Gmod for example is only worth it because of the hundreds of mods and custom severs, and it was intended that way.
spore bubu maybe I didnt word it properly. As far as Im concerned, no game should be made with the intention that someone can mod something playable out of it. Thats a copout, specifically because you cant guarantee there will be an audience to mod it. All the time I hear people excuse fallout 3 and 4 with “Its good if you mod it” and thats a load of bullshit. A game should be able to stand on its own merit and if you require mods to make a bad game good, then youd be better off putting the same effort into modding a good game to be better.
@@motorcycleman115 this is Bethesda they need the modding community. Albeit that community has given Bethesda too many chances. Hopefuly they get it together before tes6
SmokeySmokez this is what you sound like. “its ea they need microtransactions” the only reason they “need” the modding community is so they dont have to put in the effort to fix their bugs. P.S. I guarantee you they wont have their shit together before es6
Fallout 4 isn't good, not even with mods. Fallout 3 is a decent game, even without the mods, but mods improve upon it. Personally, if the devs are as incompetent as Bethesda, giving us tools to edit the engine even in the slightest is truly a gift. Imagine if these games did not have mod support, nobody would play them. I know I wouldn't.
I never played Skyrim for its gameplay or story. It was always about the adventure and world. Also side quests. The side quests in Skyrim were mostly better than the main story.
Mix and match in quality IMO. The Thieves Guild for example is absolutely atrocious, worst line in the game, so many plot holes you have to shut off your brain to avoid screaming at the screen (the side missions with Delvin and Vex are far better, and they're just fetch quests basically with some nice cappers), where the Dark Brotherhood quest is likely the best one, a nice companion to wash the bad taste out of your mouth from the thieves guild given the same type of character would likely be doing both of them.
what i liked about Skyrim were the random generated quest - they gave me the excuse to loot a random dungeon. In morrowind, i always were ascared of going into random dungeos becouse i could accidendly destroy some guild quest by that.
@@12halo3 in most situation yah - what is anticlimatic and destroys the whole feeling of accomplishment. But theres always a possibility that you find some quest item and sold it becouse you think is generic loot, and later cant complete quest becouse youll never remeber who you sold it to
@@mikeangelo2886 Actually there are no such dungeons in Skyrim where that can happen. All of the quest-dependent dungeons are locked off before the quest begins, you can't get into the thieves guild or college ones, the Companions ones just ends after the first room with no way to progress (collapsed roof that later is cleaned up with a shovel next to it, and an impassable door for the two others), same with other questlines (Potema questline dungeon the place where you drop down the hole into the tombs are closed). The exception to this is the Dark Brotherhhood, where all three (if you count the optional one) can be finished before you ever join the dark brotherhood, you might even have collected the reward you'd get in the first proper DB quest from one of them (maybe even because Lost to the Ages also sends you to that dungeon), while for the two others it's just a matter of talking to a person, and picking up some loot. The Bard's College side quests for the teachers also qualify in the quest item part, specifically to find Rjorn's Drom, Finn's Lute and Pantea's Flute, you can pick up all those items which will be quest items, however if you just go to the people that want them (Giraud Germane, Inge Six-Fingers and Pantea respectively) you can hand in the items and get the reward (+1 point to all warrior/thief/mage skills) without needing to do the Burning of King Olaf stuff beforehand. The same happens with Dravin's Bow and Roggi's Amulet of Talos, which you can both pick up before you get the quests (for the bow just go find a dunmer named Dravin at the farm right outside the Riften gates, for Roggi's amulet if you took it off him as his head rolled you can find one of the kids running around Solitude that "don't want to talk" and be told to go to her mother who wants it). Note however as with the Lost to the Ages conflict, any of the quests you get from innkeepers or jarls or fetch quests for NPCs could easily go to any of those quests, in fact first time I got Rjorn's Drum it was in the same chest as Runil's Journal that I was actually looking for, and the third Dark Brotherhood dungeon has 9 out of 10 times been the place the Jarl of Markarth sends me for the thane quest. A mod I highly recommend for people who want to explore dungeons but want a quest/reason for it is either the Missives mod, or the Notice Board mod, they both add notice boards in all the towns and outside all inns that you can get radiant quests off based off the vanilla companions/etc quests to go to x dungeon and kill y or retrieve z then return to quest giver for a reward, all of them based off the list of 'radiant dungeons' which are basically all non-quest dungeons in the game like bandit camps etc., if you have Dragonborn or mods like Falksaar then the new lands dungeons will get added to that list also.
ua-cam.com/video/QCWlS2hxMTY/v-deo.html Someone needs to add physics to the vegetation as you pass through it. Even the witcher 3 no one has come forward to change the face of immersion for mankind. x87? Seriously nvidia? Technological crimes I say.
@@Gggmanlives github.com/Yodasraytracedretrostudios/Yodasraytracedretrostudios I went ahead and overhauled some old ones with some maxed out knowledge. You cant do better without really hacking the game order of effect passes which I cannot do at this time. Looking for some modders to join in. Real HDR inject, and texture mods across the spectrum.
Draganox Plays Not really. You can add content to disguise the fact the game is shallow as a puddle, but the game systems are non interactive and the game engine does not allow for interesting world interactions, other than pure gimmicks. It’s an interesting, albeit inconsistent world. But as an RPG, it’s a failure on all fronts.
@@joeltarnabene5026 You can add very interesting story lines, interesting characters, great role playing and game play systems. I wouldn't be satisfied without 300 mods and 6 Dlc sized mods with great voice acting though, considering how bad the vanilla game is. It's basically just a really good foundation for modders to create a game on.
People are looking at it wrong. Sure, you can't give Skyrim credit for the mods, but you really DO have to give mod creators credit. Their work is some of the best seen in the gaming industry. i don't like this idea of people ignoring mods because Skyrim itself is a bad game. If that's the case, then maybe you're reviewing the wrong thing. NexusMods is what deserves the review, not Skyrim.
Love how all these keyboard warriors and false UA-cam intellectuals say the vanilla game is so bad as if your opinions hold any weight over the hundreds of critics and millions of gamers that praised the living hell out of the game at release and years on.
one of my most memorable moments in the game was when i maxed my sneak to 100 and enabled all the subskills of sneak i was sneaking around in cold snowing tundra and i came across a snow bear. i went very close to it almost point blan krange and i just watched what he was doing he apparently just made some growling noises while digging the ground with one of his frontal paws/claws. and the nhe just slowly went on to sleep. at that time i needed bear pelts for a quest giver who hates bears. but seeing that bear sleep made me feel as if its not a code in a computer but rather a real living creature. i just couldn't kill that chunky boi and just watched his innocent kitten sleep and then moved on. there are a few games that can do that sort of thing.
the stuff you said about the level of a skill not affecting it is false, while the perks do have a more visible effect the difference between 10 and 80 sneak even without perks is very noticable
While this is true, it's a pretty forgivable mistake. Most of the passive effects from skills were either subtle, or required you to keep a pretty close watch on given stats. Sneak is probably one of the easiest to track, but unless you respec out with a soul on Solstheim, and then Legendary the skill, you might not realize the skill did anything.
Agreed. He passed on explaining the leveling properly, how everything levels up in an organic way and he didnt even bother touching the interactive and dynamic world building and interactions of the game that culminates into an immersive experience by achieving emergent gameplay.
One thing i found very surprising regarding Skyrim's skill progression is that's like, and yes i'm being serious, Dark Souls. Individual levels of each skill/stat have effects so minimal that they're seemingly pointless, but over time each of these tiny minimal effects stack up to later have a dramatic difference. A character in Dark Souls with 30 Vigor will have a much larger hp than one with only 15 Vigor...but each individual level of Vigor will have too little of an effect to ever tank any more hits. The same formula applies to a Skyrim character with 80 Sneak compared to one with 20 Sneak; the 80 Sneak character can crouch undetected like a ninja while the 20 Sneak character struggles to take a step without the whole dungeon noticing, but each level of sneak is borderline worthless on its own.
@@markokecman1177 while that is true I wouldnt say its Easy to tell the diffrence its subtle. With oblivion its super obvious who is what race, but then again that game looks awful.
@@apolloreviewers1395 If you think Skyrim does a bad job at it, look up Elder Scrolls Online's atrocious races. The elves all look like regular humans with pointy ears, half the Nords look like Bretons or have waay too square a jawline, and the other races just look bad. Skyrim and Morrowind did the races the most justice imo.
Skyrim holds a very special place in my heart, every time I replay it there's a warm feeling of lost childhood memories playing in the background of my mind. I miss the early 2010s when videogames were still fun.
Being a random guy in an rpg is much better than being a legendary chosen one in my opinion really ruins the immersion when you chose to be an orc or something random yet you’re a legendary dragon born, sounds like a dreamworks movie to me.
The saddest part of Character building in Skyrim is when you realize most skill nodes do nearly nothing. You can kinda do everything wrong and it doesn't change the experience much while doing one synergy combo breaks everything. You don't even need Blacksmith or Enchanting either. The game just kinda breaks itself when you pick the right perks, stones, spells, ect.
Something I’ve noticed with triple A western RPGs is the lack of balance because they tend to lean more towards world building, lore and overall role playing aspect over things like combat and gameplay.
@Sentire I know! The soundtracks to Elder Scrolls 3, 4 and 5 are more or less the soundtracks to my life. He released an album last year called The Northermer Diaries that feels like a continuation of adventures in Tamriel, if it helps.
Bro, have you considered doing a Mod Corner video on Enderal? It's a total conversation mod of Skyrim that takes place in its own universe with it's own story, lore, characters and quests.
I was _so_ goddamn hyped for Skyrim. A few of my friends and I all went to the midnight launch at Play N Trade to pick it up. Then we all brought our 360s and TVs over to my friend's apartment and spent the next week playing the game together. We were all disappointed that the Dragonborn didn't shout *FUS RO DAH* the way he did in the trailer, but man did we love the game. I put 400+ hours into the 360 version alone. And then a few years later I bought it on Steam and found all the lewd mods ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Now this video takes me back. The countless hours I played vanilla/modded. The huge world filled with people and stories 🙂 Now I wonder how TES 6 will look and play.
It's a shame 9999 out of the 10,000 stories in it are, "Hey, I'm a dipshit and somehow managed to lose my families ancient and powerful heirloom in this monster infested ruin, pls go get it" I literally got paranoid about speaking to all and any random NPC's as the vast, VAST majority give those uninteresting and reptitive side quests. But no to shit on your cheerios, there are plenty of good things Skyrim did as well and a lot of what I don't like about the game is subjective so, more power to you!
oh my god. he did it. he is the dragonborn (also to get the most realistic way to play the game, play it on ultra, then get a 4k texture pack, then get a fire extinguisher then hope) *magic edit* The reason why i said that is because i got a new PC installed a 4k texture pack and I can run it with 4K, but with 50 fps, which is really good.. But, i like the 2k textures :)
This game was amazing back in 2011 and was an absolute pleasure to go to school and talk to everyone about all your individual adventures and think holy shit you can do stuff like that?? I love your content keep up the good work!
You weren't a random character in Morrowind, you were the Nerevarine, reincarnation of Indoril Nerevar In Oblivion kind of debatable, Emperor Patrick Stewart seemed to think you were meant to be there but I don't remember if you're ever told that you're some kind of Chosen One™
I hope they ditch the Chosen One aspect in the next game, because it's become repetitive and tiresome. I want to be allowed to make my own destiny, someone who is a nobody at first and is allowed to forge my own path.
The thing is in Morrowind, it can still be debated that you're the Nerevarine. By the end of the game you've accomplished all of the prophecies not because you're the Nevevarine but because you did a bunch of secondary quests any random person could potentially do.
I remember playing this when it first came out. Man what a game it was. Fun, dark, and beyond atmospheric. My favorite moments where the ones I’d just be journeying by foot at night and seeing the moons and auroras in the sky.
Certain prerequisites though, I think if you do the main story and civil war out of a certain order it can glitch out capturing one of the forts near the beginning for the Civil War Questline. Fort "Greenwall" if memory serves me correct, it happened to me.
Don't forget the grab the sword on the bow of the ship after you complete the assassin mission where you have to kill the emperor. It staggers on EVERY hit.
Real talk though for all its faults with game design and writing, the atmosphere in this thing sucked me in for years and still hasn't quite let me go.
My favourite bug/moment from skyrim was my attempt at a wedding. This wedding must have been about 70ish hours in, did it mainly for the sake of it. The big day comes, I enter the temple and what happens as I load in? A heavy thud. I think the game is meant to spawn in your companians and some people you've interacted with. I dont believe however that it is meant to spawn in dead people. What was infront of me was the body of Lydia, who must have died well over 50 hours before in a dwemer ruin somewhere after I accidently killed her. Needless to say the other characters there werent happy about me killing her (I assumed the body was tagged as me killing it) so people started shouting at me. I decided to get on with the ceremony but the priest also wasnt happy at all and the dialogue option wouldnt appear so I did what everyone would do in that situation and left, thinking I could come back later to get married. Well first of all my fiancee wasnt happy about being jlted but I said sorry and she forgave me. I went back to the temple and the priest still refused to give any dialogue options God Damn Lydia
I was on holiday in Iceland this week and saw the Northern Lights aurora. The people I was with were amazed and all I could think was "Looked better in Skyrim!" That's the only game that ever made my mind do that. If Bethesda make a game even 10% as immersive, atmospheric and downright awesome as Skyrim with the next Elder Scrolls game then I'm in it from day 1. I can't even put into words how deeply this game took over my life and engaged me and my friends into it's world. Just amazing, even 11 years later!
I remember buying into the hype of this one. I'll give it that this RPG gave me so much to do back on the xbox360 as back then with no job and relying on parents money, it kept me busy threw out my pre teen years.
I love these reviews, so true, real and honest. This is one of my favorite games of all time (and GOD the nostalgia is through the roof), for all its faults. And I'm glad to see someone else as horrified by those damn Frostbite spiders as I am. I'd rather face a bunch of Fallout 3 Centaurs in a narrow hallway than face even one Frostbite spider in an open cave. And then there's that bit in the DLC where you're riding a river current in a cave, and the bastards drop in after you and you just KNOW they're gonna be right on top of you when you fall down the inevitable waterfall. NOPE
his complaint was that Oblivion was generic fantasy land when other Elder Scrolls games had a theme. A higher tier nerd might correct me but Cyrodil was supposed to be jungle Romans at one point.
If we talk about aesthetics it always bothered me that Skyrim should be a chilly place while almost everyone is half-naked and half of them map is really summery.
Technically there is a parry system, it requires you to shieldbash at the right moment before an attack lands. You even get a skill that slows down time right before an attack lands so you can easily shieldbash 'em.
Rather belatedly, I've always thought that Skyrim's civil war plot suffered from the same problem as Deus Ex: Invisible War. Don't set a faction up as an antagonist towards the player character if you want that faction rivalry to a be a major side plot, because that initial hostile contact will lead players to lean more towards the other faction. I would be willing to bet that most first-time players instinctive sided with the Stormcloaks simply because they weren't the ones bending the player over the chopping block within the first few minutes of the game, with the most common first-time Imperial players probably being people who first played Skyrim after having played older games in the series (meaning they have experience playing in the setting of the actual Empire, and have context that a new entry into the series lacks).
My friend he loved Skyrim it's the last game he played on steam before he died and I miss him so much I can't watch this video I miss my friend please come back
"Jeremy Soule is also back to compose the music and at this point it'd be a crime if he didn't come back." Boy have I got some bad news for you regarding TESVI.
I've played thousands of hours of Skyrim. Most of it modded. I don't think Skyrim, vanilla, is a good RPG. In fact it's pretty terrible as an RPG since the mechanics are shallow at best, the story kinda sucks, and the combat isn't any good. However, it's a damn good sandbox and there's a lot of work that has been done on this world. It's not a bad game, just a bad RPG. And then you mod it till it crashes and before you know it it has actual combat and mechanics. Oh, and you can bang all the chicks. ALL OF THEM. As a game to mod, this is the absolute best. No questions.
Bethesda is fantastic at the "pick a direction and go" style of game but they (now) suck at rpgs. Sometimes i wish they would abandon the rpg aspects entirely.
Tbh I didn't feel like Witcher 3 was also a good RPG. It was a good action narrative rpg. The combat mechanics of w3 is even more shallow because your playstyle never changes at all there is no standalone magic only support spells and no conjuring, crossbow is meh...
@@yashkaushik6116 Agreed, Witcher 3 is not a good *RPG* . It was a pretty good *action-adventure* open world, with a decent main story and some good side-quests (although perhaps not as good as some people claim). Definitely a lot of fun; on the RPG front, however, it kinda sucked.
I haven't even gotten past the ad, and I know this is going to have the following words: "Overrated" (I wouldn't have it any other way) "Sheit" "Sonny Jim"
A minor error in the review, the skill points in skills do affect how powerful the skill is, the perks are just percentage boosts to that skill, or extra effects. 80 points in sneak, as per the example in the video, will actually make you quite hard to detect even without perks. Other than that the review is spot on IMO, especially the bit about separating combat and non-combat skills for combat scaling.
No matter what people say nowadays, Skyrim was a phenomenon in gaming and it came out during a time when there were very few decent fantasy RPGs out there. Sure it is not a perfect game, but the sandbox adventure, world building and atmosphere is 10/10. I didn't really like the combat all that much, it felt kinda clunky and simplistic, but i loved the exploration, the ruins, the NPC characters, the side stories, the awesome scripted events, the well written questlines and all the content the game had to offer, but most of all i love the immersion in that strange viking inspired northern land that had some of the most beautiful environments that i had ever seen in a game. The modding community also improved the game 10 fold and truly turned it into a masterpiece. I get what you are saying that mods are not supposed to excuse the problems a game has on release, but it also has to be said that it was a blessing Skyrim came with modding support from release and THAT was it's biggest achievement as a game. Just think about how many games could have been improved by mods but they never had modding support. For me Skyrim will always be a masterpiece and is one of my top 5 RPG games. KEEP CALM AND FUS RO DA!
Agree on the atmosphere and sandbox aspect, but world building? That's by far one of the weaker aspects of the game. I could be the Thane of a town, yet be treated like a common peasant by the guards. Or how dragons (the selling point of the game) are a cakewalk, yet lesser trolls knock you 10 feet into the air.
@@JackFrost-1856 There were some better games that deserved the goty in 2011. I just checked about far cry 3 and I missed a year (2012). L.A. noire, Arkham city and much more... One thing is saying best Rpg (there was darksouls too but I can accept). One other thing is saying best game in 2011. There were games with a better combat system, a better story and a better AI. Even before... That award wasn' t for Skyrim... An incompleted game that only works with mods...
another great video bud. don't harp o. yourself for reviewing games that have been reviewed... a good review these days is about having someone's opinion you appreciate talk about a subject you are interested in... mission accomplished 🏄 I can't tell you exactly why I enjoyed watching your video... but it's apparently since I've watched so much of your content that I am more connected with your perspective. This video made me realise I need to buy Skyrim for a 3rd time... for my switch.
Hmmm not so keen on this review tbh. Usually love your stuff. You can actually miss the civil war truce meeting completely and alduin has a much more detailed lore and motives
The Thing (1982) with the head spider is what made me not like spiders along commonly encountering Black Widows tucked in almost every other car I got to repair for a decade or so. I still give them the carburetor cleaner and mini torch treatment since I'm not a sorcerer or summoner.
No matter how many times I play this game, I always get scared leaving a cave I just cleared. Something about walking past a bunch of corpses and being the only living thing in the area gives me the heebie jeebies. I always sprint out like a little kid who just turned off the basement lights.
I still remember buying Skyrim in 2011 with zero expectations. At this point I dont like to use mods, I have the Daedra armor and weapons and finished every quest. 10/10 go buy it now!!
I still remember going into the game with high expectations, what with its dozens of awards and "best RPG" claim by many - only to be met with the most underwhelming RPG experience I've had yet, primarily due to terrible combat (even for 2011 standards), shallow RPG elements and poor world building. Definitely nowhere near being GOTY 2011, plenty other RPGs the same year were far better.
@@JackFrost-1856 you said you played with high expectations and everything else is very arbitrary, you should not have played the game expecting something else.
@@bsherman8236 wut? Considering the number of accolades it's received you'd expect it to do an outstanding job at being an RPG - sadly it doesn't, it's not even as good as it's predecessors. How is everything else arbitrary? Shit combat is shit, dumbed down RPG elements are dumbed down, and poor world building is poor - none of these are "arbitrary", they're just how the game is. Believe me, I didn't let the praise it gets cloud my critical view of the game. And for proof of that, look no further than it's fellow 2011 RPGs - ALL of which were better: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Witcher 2, Dark Souls, Bastion, and so on. And yes, I've played all of them.
I could be wrong but I thought that levels earned in every skill affect character performance in addition to skill points spent on them. This is definitely true of smithing since you can reach the mid upgrade tier without putting in any points. I'm also fairly certain that weapon skills add damage, armor skills increase armor values and sneaking makes you harder to spot.
When suggested that he go to the Throat of the World to see if he's possibly bound for greater things, my Kadjit Habbad just ran away. Every time a dragon showed up, I'd just run him into the nearest building or cave until it left. When he'd emerge from hiding to find himself the lone survivor of the attack, he'd just steal anything that wasn't nailed down, eat an apple pie or two, and then go find somewhere else to steal things.
You say: "You aren't some random character anymore". Well in Morrowind you are the reincarnation of the Nerevarine, doesn't seem like a randon character to me. And not only that, you keep talking as if Bethesda only ever released 2 elder scrolls games.
Skyrim was such an important game in my teen years, I literally look at time as "Pre-Skyrim and Post-Skyrim". 2011 was just such a big year and I feel like we've just been chasing that high for over a decade just to keep coming up disappointed.
Ah, Skyrim Civil War. During my first playthrough I joined the red-haired rebel who promised to make Skyrim great again, only to later realize he has a... far from perfect past, keeps Argonians behind a wall and Dark Elves in a dirty ghetto, seems to have zero clue about how to beat the Thalmor once Skyrim does get independence, and has a clear double standard when it comes to religious freedom, not lifting a finger against Vigilants of Stendarr and their harassment of daedra worshippers. Appointing Thongvor Silver-Blood as Jarl was probably the last straw, fighting corruption of the Empire my ass. In a later playthrough I joined the Empire; seeing Maven Black-Briar become a Jarl made me reconsider my stance on Thongor, and Ulfric's successor in Windhelm was... sort of more civil, but did not really address the Argonian and Dark Elven situations. Well, I did the best I could, time to go enjoy that Redwater Den everybody seems so thrilled about...
The Stormcloaks were intentionally written to be unappealing. Ulfric had the makings of a deep and fascinating character but he ultimately ended up as a caricature. The writing in Skyrim was downright terrible at times.
@@constantin5509 Well... perhaps having characters that you desperately wish were fascinating but are actually not is kind of the point? I can't say I found Stormcloaks "intentionally unappealing" either, they portrayed a faction with its merits and flaws and the merits resonated with everyone to a certain extent.
@@DG9-q6f Ulfric was supposed to be a flawed man that wanted the best for his country. He had a legitimate point as to why he didn't want Skyrim to be part of the Empire or the Thalmor, but they simply portrayed him as a big ol' evil bigoted racist, not to mention a man with no real vision for Skyrim after the war, so you are less inclined to side with him. It's an old fashioned manipulative trick, and given that gullible dolts (like you) fell for it hard, it clearly worked. Also, "desperately wish"? The only thing I "desperately wished" from Skyrim was a story that wasn't written for people with IQ that doubled as their shoe size(again, like you).
@@constantin5509 LOL. Well... I did see him as a flawed man that wanted the best for his country and not as an inherently evil guy; I guess it's another case of art being perceived differently by different people. I also suggest you spare your "harsh words" on other's personality for someone who'd actually care about them.
It's kind of like Fallout 4. It's downright broken at times, but somehow it just sucks you in. Although Fallout 4 is on a whole other level of broken than Skyrim.
fighting the spiders in SKYRIM VR was the most unnerving thing i ever experienced in my life, i do not only hate and fear spiders, i get downright catatonic when i see one....so imagine how i felt fighting that huge ass spider.....nightmare fuel to say the least......thank goodness i do not own fallout vr , because if i fear anything more than spiders, it is roaches and i don't think a radroach is anything to laugh at in VR :'(
6:25 is a really easy fix, just google "skyrim play at 144fps" or download BethINI (tool to configure your skyrim settings easily) and just set up 144fps that way. BethINI is really easy to use, it's just a settings menu, except in another app.
>Praises Skyrim in the slightest
*Todd starts breathing heavily*
*screaming* releases skyrim on nokia older models.
@@adr.k8676 todd ejaculates pure skooma
Sounds like Todd ready to make another Skyrim re-re-re-re-re-re-re release.
Better release it on *everything*
Hey, at least Skyrim _just works_ on everything.
Hey Gman, you're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border right? Walked right into that demonetization ambush. Same as us, and that thief over there.
THESE FEES ARE OUTRAGEOUS
This is gold
@@hazzmati We're all brothers and sisters in copyright strikes now, thief.
dislikes i can handle, but strikes? World gone mad i say.
Damn you article 13, youtube was fine until you came along
Kind of upset you didn't play the game on your fridge.
Well I have it on my Alexa xD
@@chrisplissken4626 *see you in the field alexa*
Solid_Snake
You go in the water the fridges water dispenser starts spraying you lolol
A mage does a cold spell on you, the freezer door opens lololol
@@Zeina107 exactly, a real 4D experience lol
Fridge ? Why not in his aglets or his toothbrush?
Glad to see someone who FINALLY gets that mods arent a legitimate reason for a game to be good.
Even so, I’d be lying if I said that I didnt love the absolute shit out of skyrim.
that's not what he is saying hes saying mods are not an excuse for the games flaws, Gmod for example is only worth it because of the hundreds of mods and custom severs, and it was intended that way.
spore bubu maybe I didnt word it properly.
As far as Im concerned, no game should be made with the intention that someone can mod something playable out of it. Thats a copout, specifically because you cant guarantee there will be an audience to mod it.
All the time I hear people excuse fallout 3 and 4 with “Its good if you mod it” and thats a load of bullshit. A game should be able to stand on its own merit and if you require mods to make a bad game good, then youd be better off putting the same effort into modding a good game to be better.
@@motorcycleman115 this is Bethesda they need the modding community. Albeit that community has given Bethesda too many chances. Hopefuly they get it together before tes6
SmokeySmokez this is what you sound like.
“its ea they need microtransactions”
the only reason they “need” the modding community is so they dont have to put in the effort to fix their bugs.
P.S. I guarantee you they wont have their shit together before es6
Fallout 4 isn't good, not even with mods. Fallout 3 is a decent game, even without the mods, but mods improve upon it. Personally, if the devs are as incompetent as Bethesda, giving us tools to edit the engine even in the slightest is truly a gift. Imagine if these games did not have mod support, nobody would play them. I know I wouldn't.
To say this game took over my life is an understatement.
I don't even remember the start of 2012
What's up irish
I’d say. Even your profile picture reflects your statement.
I literally didn't play anything else for like an year, i was completely hooked
I feel bad for you.
_I live in Australia, we invented spiders!_
THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING
They also invented kangaroos, so it kind of balances out.
my wifes boyfriend loves this game
OOF
No way! My wife's boyfriend's son also loves this one
Hold up...
Stop! YOU HAVE VIOLATED THE LAW!
@@Speedwaay618 THANK YOU KIND SIR
I never played Skyrim for its gameplay or story.
It was always about the adventure and world. Also side quests. The side quests in Skyrim were mostly better than the main story.
Mix and match in quality IMO. The Thieves Guild for example is absolutely atrocious, worst line in the game, so many plot holes you have to shut off your brain to avoid screaming at the screen (the side missions with Delvin and Vex are far better, and they're just fetch quests basically with some nice cappers), where the Dark Brotherhood quest is likely the best one, a nice companion to wash the bad taste out of your mouth from the thieves guild given the same type of character would likely be doing both of them.
what i liked about Skyrim were the random generated quest - they gave me the excuse to loot a random dungeon. In morrowind, i always were ascared of going into random dungeos becouse i could accidendly destroy some guild quest by that.
@@mikeangelo2886 wouldn't it just be beaten early?
@@12halo3 in most situation yah - what is anticlimatic and destroys the whole feeling of accomplishment. But theres always a possibility that you find some quest item and sold it becouse you think is generic loot, and later cant complete quest becouse youll never remeber who you sold it to
@@mikeangelo2886 Actually there are no such dungeons in Skyrim where that can happen. All of the quest-dependent dungeons are locked off before the quest begins, you can't get into the thieves guild or college ones, the Companions ones just ends after the first room with no way to progress (collapsed roof that later is cleaned up with a shovel next to it, and an impassable door for the two others), same with other questlines (Potema questline dungeon the place where you drop down the hole into the tombs are closed).
The exception to this is the Dark Brotherhhood, where all three (if you count the optional one) can be finished before you ever join the dark brotherhood, you might even have collected the reward you'd get in the first proper DB quest from one of them (maybe even because Lost to the Ages also sends you to that dungeon), while for the two others it's just a matter of talking to a person, and picking up some loot. The Bard's College side quests for the teachers also qualify in the quest item part, specifically to find Rjorn's Drom, Finn's Lute and Pantea's Flute, you can pick up all those items which will be quest items, however if you just go to the people that want them (Giraud Germane, Inge Six-Fingers and Pantea respectively) you can hand in the items and get the reward (+1 point to all warrior/thief/mage skills) without needing to do the Burning of King Olaf stuff beforehand. The same happens with Dravin's Bow and Roggi's Amulet of Talos, which you can both pick up before you get the quests (for the bow just go find a dunmer named Dravin at the farm right outside the Riften gates, for Roggi's amulet if you took it off him as his head rolled you can find one of the kids running around Solitude that "don't want to talk" and be told to go to her mother who wants it). Note however as with the Lost to the Ages conflict, any of the quests you get from innkeepers or jarls or fetch quests for NPCs could easily go to any of those quests, in fact first time I got Rjorn's Drum it was in the same chest as Runil's Journal that I was actually looking for, and the third Dark Brotherhood dungeon has 9 out of 10 times been the place the Jarl of Markarth sends me for the thane quest.
A mod I highly recommend for people who want to explore dungeons but want a quest/reason for it is either the Missives mod, or the Notice Board mod, they both add notice boards in all the towns and outside all inns that you can get radiant quests off based off the vanilla companions/etc quests to go to x dungeon and kill y or retrieve z then return to quest giver for a reward, all of them based off the list of 'radiant dungeons' which are basically all non-quest dungeons in the game like bandit camps etc., if you have Dragonborn or mods like Falksaar then the new lands dungeons will get added to that list also.
when dark souls ?
I can't compete with you, bb.
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Someone needs to add physics to the vegetation as you pass through it. Even the witcher 3 no one has come forward to change the face of immersion for mankind. x87? Seriously nvidia? Technological crimes I say.
Oblivion sadly was a no go. Depth buffer was pure unuseable garbage. Im sorry. I have failed you.
@@Gggmanlives
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I went ahead and overhauled some old ones with some maxed out knowledge. You cant do better without really hacking the game order of effect passes which I cannot do at this time.
Looking for some modders to join in. Real HDR inject, and texture mods across the spectrum.
@@remasteredretropcgames3312 Dude... get a life
Bruh i know mods arent supposed to change the score but hinky shit they way you can make this game 100x better is just insane
Draganox Plays
Not really. You can add content to disguise the fact the game is shallow as a puddle, but the game systems are non interactive and the game engine does not allow for interesting world interactions, other than pure gimmicks. It’s an interesting, albeit inconsistent world. But as an RPG, it’s a failure on all fronts.
Jonas Leffler
That’s very true. As an RPG it’s absolute rubbish. But it’s great for relaxing, or just wanting to play something simple.
@@joeltarnabene5026 You can add very interesting story lines, interesting characters, great role playing and game play systems. I wouldn't be satisfied without 300 mods and 6 Dlc sized mods with great voice acting though, considering how bad the vanilla game is. It's basically just a really good foundation for modders to create a game on.
People are looking at it wrong. Sure, you can't give Skyrim credit for the mods, but you really DO have to give mod creators credit. Their work is some of the best seen in the gaming industry. i don't like this idea of people ignoring mods because Skyrim itself is a bad game. If that's the case, then maybe you're reviewing the wrong thing. NexusMods is what deserves the review, not Skyrim.
Love how all these keyboard warriors and false UA-cam intellectuals say the vanilla game is so bad as if your opinions hold any weight over the hundreds of critics and millions of gamers that praised the living hell out of the game at release and years on.
one of my most memorable moments in the game was when i maxed my sneak to 100 and enabled all the subskills of sneak i was sneaking around in cold snowing tundra and i came across a snow bear. i went very close to it almost point blan krange and i just watched what he was doing he apparently just made some growling noises while digging the ground with one of his frontal paws/claws. and the nhe just slowly went on to sleep. at that time i needed bear pelts for a quest giver who hates bears. but seeing that bear sleep made me feel as if its not a code in a computer but rather a real living creature. i just couldn't kill that chunky boi and just watched his innocent kitten sleep and then moved on. there are a few games that can do that sort of thing.
that's awesome! great experience
Woman: "I think the Jarl can't keep things under control."
Balgruuf: "O RLY?"
_Music starts_
masterneme He's ballin'. Jarl ballin'.
Holla if ya need me. Swag.
Draw me like those prety french girls hahahaha
Woman i'm LOOORRDD OF RINGS!!
@@syro2412 Haters gonna hate
OW!
Haters gonna hate
OW!
this game really makes you FEEL like modder
😂🤣🤔 Who??
No not really. Makes me FEEL like I’m downloading mods
@@suzyL420 i dont talk to people with anime girl avatars
the stuff you said about the level of a skill not affecting it is false, while the perks do have a more visible effect the difference between 10 and 80 sneak even without perks is very noticable
While this is true, it's a pretty forgivable mistake. Most of the passive effects from skills were either subtle, or required you to keep a pretty close watch on given stats. Sneak is probably one of the easiest to track, but unless you respec out with a soul on Solstheim, and then Legendary the skill, you might not realize the skill did anything.
Agreed. He passed on explaining the leveling properly, how everything levels up in an organic way and he didnt even bother touching the interactive and dynamic world building and interactions of the game that culminates into an immersive experience by achieving emergent gameplay.
One thing i found very surprising regarding Skyrim's skill progression is that's like, and yes i'm being serious, Dark Souls. Individual levels of each skill/stat have effects so minimal that they're seemingly pointless, but over time each of these tiny minimal effects stack up to later have a dramatic difference.
A character in Dark Souls with 30 Vigor will have a much larger hp than one with only 15 Vigor...but each individual level of Vigor will have too little of an effect to ever tank any more hits. The same formula applies to a Skyrim character with 80 Sneak compared to one with 20 Sneak; the 80 Sneak character can crouch undetected like a ninja while the 20 Sneak character struggles to take a step without the whole dungeon noticing, but each level of sneak is borderline worthless on its own.
"Have you heard of the High Elves?"
Oh yeah. I had snuu snuu...
I 'low key' want you to review Dark Souls 1 (because you mentoned it), but I know you will not do it, because it's not a genre that you like.
I think it's that he doesn't review anything that isn't First Person. He obviously likes RPGs.
@@zerosuitfan91 Yup, that's more likely. I still wouldn't mind a review tho :D
@@zerosuitfan91 That's false he has done multiple 3rd person games. Manhunt 1 and 2 are just two examples from a pool of many.
But Dark Souls is an RPG though
@@zerosuitfan91 he reviewed risk of rain 2 not that long ago
Skyrim, the game that bethesda try release in every gaming machine.
Skyrim on Atari 2600 soon
Skyrim coming soon to your local lamp posts
it's the new Resident Evil 4
*every machine.
not wii u
Skyrim, a broken game but "It just works"
Feels a bit weird to see Skyrim without any lewd and beautified female character mods
14:57 Thanks xD
My most favourite Skyrim moment was when I was walking in the wild and suddenly saw a giant and two mammoths fighting a dragon.
Awesome 😁
YESssss😎😎😎😊
When this came out, my grades dropped massively.
So did my life
Easily distinguishable races? Dude have you seen a bretton and nord standing next to eachother?
Nords are taller, buffier and blondier...
What ^ said.
@@markokecman1177 while that is true I wouldnt say its Easy to tell the diffrence its subtle. With oblivion its super obvious who is what race, but then again that game looks awful.
@@apolloreviewers1395 If you think Skyrim does a bad job at it, look up Elder Scrolls Online's atrocious races. The elves all look like regular humans with pointy ears, half the Nords look like Bretons or have waay too square a jawline, and the other races just look bad. Skyrim and Morrowind did the races the most justice imo.
I think that it needs some height and width tweaks between races and that would make them perfectly distinguishable.
Skyrim holds a very special place in my heart, every time I replay it there's a warm feeling of lost childhood memories playing in the background of my mind. I miss the early 2010s when videogames were still fun.
Nobody:
Gman: reviewing skyrim in 2019
14:56 Link to that mod? For uhh...scientific purposes
www.nexusmods.com/games
Go to LoversLab and you'll find out that having sex with an elf is just the beginning (of the end).
But check out the Ebony Valkyrie armour. Too hot
Didn't you mean... For Academic Purposes?
Someone's gotta do it. It's called sexlab framework
Wait...People play this for the gameplay??
I always thought it was just a sex mod simulator.
Learn something new everyday.
I like being a whore that kills everything that fucks... And vice versa...
@@markokecman1177 you shouldn't say vice versa here.
I love the jokes about Gman being a total weeb who's super into anime chicks peppered throughout all his videos
Being a random guy in an rpg is much better than being a legendary chosen one in my opinion really ruins the immersion when you chose to be an orc or something random yet you’re a legendary dragon born, sounds like a dreamworks movie to me.
The saddest part of Character building in Skyrim is when you realize most skill nodes do nearly nothing.
You can kinda do everything wrong and it doesn't change the experience much while doing one synergy combo breaks everything.
You don't even need Blacksmith or Enchanting either. The game just kinda breaks itself when you pick the right perks, stones, spells, ect.
Something I’ve noticed with triple A western RPGs is the lack of balance because they tend to lean more towards world building, lore and overall role playing aspect over things like combat and gameplay.
"It'd be a crime if they didn't have Jeremy Soule back."
Gman, I got some bad news for you involving part VI... :(
@Sentire I know! The soundtracks to Elder Scrolls 3, 4 and 5 are more or less the soundtracks to my life.
He released an album last year called The Northermer Diaries that feels like a continuation of adventures in Tamriel, if it helps.
Typhon Viserys Northerner Diaries is Soo Good!!!
"The cake is a lie" is from Portal 1
Bro, have you considered doing a Mod Corner video on Enderal? It's a total conversation mod of Skyrim that takes place in its own universe with it's own story, lore, characters and quests.
I was _so_ goddamn hyped for Skyrim. A few of my friends and I all went to the midnight launch at Play N Trade to pick it up. Then we all brought our 360s and TVs over to my friend's apartment and spent the next week playing the game together. We were all disappointed that the Dragonborn didn't shout *FUS RO DAH* the way he did in the trailer, but man did we love the game. I put 400+ hours into the 360 version alone.
And then a few years later I bought it on Steam and found all the lewd mods ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Now this video takes me back.
The countless hours I played vanilla/modded.
The huge world filled with people and stories 🙂
Now I wonder how TES 6 will look and play.
It's a shame 9999 out of the 10,000 stories in it are, "Hey, I'm a dipshit and somehow managed to lose my families ancient and powerful heirloom in this monster infested ruin, pls go get it"
I literally got paranoid about speaking to all and any random NPC's as the vast, VAST majority give those uninteresting and reptitive side quests.
But no to shit on your cheerios, there are plenty of good things Skyrim did as well and a lot of what I don't like about the game is subjective so, more power to you!
The legendary “Sonny Jim sword”
I love how he talks about being scared of spiders while I had to fight those things in vr
oh my god. he did it. he is the dragonborn (also to get the most realistic way to play the game, play it on ultra, then get a 4k texture pack, then get a fire extinguisher then hope) *magic edit* The reason why i said that is because i got a new PC installed a 4k texture pack and I can run it with 4K, but with 50 fps, which is really good.. But, i like the 2k textures :)
This game was amazing back in 2011 and was an absolute pleasure to go to school and talk to everyone about all your individual adventures and think holy shit you can do stuff like that?? I love your content keep up the good work!
Funny you mentioned Jeremy Soule, because he apparently won't be back for Elder Scrolls VI.
I know already that it’s going to be disappointing, simply based off that news
Damn. The new music better be good otherwise I'm modding Skyrim music in ASAP.
You weren't a random character in Morrowind, you were the Nerevarine, reincarnation of Indoril Nerevar
In Oblivion kind of debatable, Emperor Patrick Stewart seemed to think you were meant to be there but I don't remember if you're ever told that you're some kind of Chosen One™
I hope they ditch the Chosen One aspect in the next game, because it's become repetitive and tiresome. I want to be allowed to make my own destiny, someone who is a nobody at first and is allowed to forge my own path.
The thing is in Morrowind, it can still be debated that you're the Nerevarine. By the end of the game you've accomplished all of the prophecies not because you're the Nevevarine but because you did a bunch of secondary quests any random person could potentially do.
I remember playing this when it first came out. Man what a game it was. Fun, dark, and beyond atmospheric. My favorite moments where the ones I’d just be journeying by foot at night and seeing the moons and auroras in the sky.
As someone that got the platinum trophy on ps3 Skyrim, I can confirm you can rise through all of the factions in a single playthrough.
Certain prerequisites though, I think if you do the main story and civil war out of a certain order it can glitch out capturing one of the forts near the beginning for the Civil War Questline. Fort "Greenwall" if memory serves me correct, it happened to me.
Don't forget the grab the sword on the bow of the ship after you complete the assassin mission where you have to kill the emperor. It staggers on EVERY hit.
Real talk though for all its faults with game design and writing, the atmosphere in this thing sucked me in for years and still hasn't quite let me go.
My favourite bug/moment from skyrim was my attempt at a wedding.
This wedding must have been about 70ish hours in, did it mainly for the sake of it. The big day comes, I enter the temple and what happens as I load in? A heavy thud. I think the game is meant to spawn in your companians and some people you've interacted with. I dont believe however that it is meant to spawn in dead people. What was infront of me was the body of Lydia, who must have died well over 50 hours before in a dwemer ruin somewhere after I accidently killed her. Needless to say the other characters there werent happy about me killing her (I assumed the body was tagged as me killing it) so people started shouting at me. I decided to get on with the ceremony but the priest also wasnt happy at all and the dialogue option wouldnt appear so I did what everyone would do in that situation and left, thinking I could come back later to get married. Well first of all my fiancee wasnt happy about being jlted but I said sorry and she forgave me. I went back to the temple and the priest still refused to give any dialogue options
God Damn Lydia
I was on holiday in Iceland this week and saw the Northern Lights aurora. The people I was with were amazed and all I could think was "Looked better in Skyrim!" That's the only game that ever made my mind do that. If Bethesda make a game even 10% as immersive, atmospheric and downright awesome as Skyrim with the next Elder Scrolls game then I'm in it from day 1. I can't even put into words how deeply this game took over my life and engaged me and my friends into it's world. Just amazing, even 11 years later!
I remember buying into the hype of this one. I'll give it that this RPG gave me so much to do back on the xbox360 as back then with no job and relying on parents money, it kept me busy threw out my pre teen years.
I love these reviews, so true, real and honest.
This is one of my favorite games of all time (and GOD the nostalgia is through the roof), for all its faults. And I'm glad to see someone else as horrified by those damn Frostbite spiders as I am. I'd rather face a bunch of Fallout 3 Centaurs in a narrow hallway than face even one Frostbite spider in an open cave. And then there's that bit in the DLC where you're riding a river current in a cave, and the bastards drop in after you and you just KNOW they're gonna be right on top of you when you fall down the inevitable waterfall. NOPE
"You weren't just some random character anymore"
Nerevarine: Am I a joke to you?
So now you'll review Morrowind, right?
"The combat is sheeeit."
@@typhonviserys8288 jokes aside. i also think like that
_"Skyrim has a much more Nordic feel than Oblivion."_
Cyrodil isn't a Nordic country.
his complaint was that Oblivion was generic fantasy land when other Elder Scrolls games had a theme. A higher tier nerd might correct me but Cyrodil was supposed to be jungle Romans at one point.
He's talking about the ascetic, idiot
Bethesda stated in an interview that they specifically made Cyrodil the way they did to try and capitalise on the success of the LotR movies.
If we talk about aesthetics it always bothered me that Skyrim should be a chilly place while almost everyone is half-naked and half of them map is really summery.
@@7r3v0r cyrodil was transformed from jungle into what it is in second era when Tiber septim used chim to remove the jungle
Technically there is a parry system, it requires you to shieldbash at the right moment before an attack lands. You even get a skill that slows down time right before an attack lands so you can easily shieldbash 'em.
Let me guess, someone stole your swee- Wait, I know you,
Macho Man Randy Savage Dragons Mod (Canon)
Rather belatedly, I've always thought that Skyrim's civil war plot suffered from the same problem as Deus Ex: Invisible War. Don't set a faction up as an antagonist towards the player character if you want that faction rivalry to a be a major side plot, because that initial hostile contact will lead players to lean more towards the other faction.
I would be willing to bet that most first-time players instinctive sided with the Stormcloaks simply because they weren't the ones bending the player over the chopping block within the first few minutes of the game, with the most common first-time Imperial players probably being people who first played Skyrim after having played older games in the series (meaning they have experience playing in the setting of the actual Empire, and have context that a new entry into the series lacks).
My friend he loved Skyrim it's the last game he played on steam before he died and I miss him so much
I can't watch this video I miss my friend please come back
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Nobody cares
"Jeremy Soule is also back to compose the music and at this point it'd be a crime if he didn't come back."
Boy have I got some bad news for you regarding TESVI.
Our Lord and Savior, Todd "the Bod" Howard's, finest hour. If only they would re-release this brown and green masterpiece again.
SKYRIM NOW AVAILABLE ON.....THE SONI-NTENDO 360...S
"I've never regularly enjoyed the outdoors in real life in my life, and anything that doesn't look like the Mushroom Kingdom is beneath me, waaah."
@@rpgfreak9999 I played over 100 hours of this drab gem and am quite the outdoorsman. I am, after all, a Gorilla. But you keep puffing Todd, sailor!
F76 can't get away with being buggy only because modders can't fix it. :P. If they could, Beth-fans wouldve been just fine with it.
I've played thousands of hours of Skyrim. Most of it modded.
I don't think Skyrim, vanilla, is a good RPG. In fact it's pretty terrible as an RPG since the mechanics are shallow at best, the story kinda sucks, and the combat isn't any good.
However, it's a damn good sandbox and there's a lot of work that has been done on this world. It's not a bad game, just a bad RPG.
And then you mod it till it crashes and before you know it it has actual combat and mechanics. Oh, and you can bang all the chicks. ALL OF THEM.
As a game to mod, this is the absolute best. No questions.
Bethesda is fantastic at the "pick a direction and go" style of game but they (now) suck at rpgs. Sometimes i wish they would abandon the rpg aspects entirely.
Tbh I didn't feel like Witcher 3 was also a good RPG. It was a good action narrative rpg. The combat mechanics of w3 is even more shallow because your playstyle never changes at all there is no standalone magic only support spells and no conjuring, crossbow is meh...
@@yashkaushik6116 Agreed, Witcher 3 is not a good *RPG* . It was a pretty good *action-adventure* open world, with a decent main story and some good side-quests (although perhaps not as good as some people claim). Definitely a lot of fun; on the RPG front, however, it kinda sucked.
Skyrim is an RPG
I haven't even gotten past the ad, and I know this is going to have the following words:
"Overrated" (I wouldn't have it any other way)
"Sheit"
"Sonny Jim"
Did I miss the Sonny Jim in this video?
@@ahandsomefridge Apparently, no.
Why aren't you playing on the superior Amazon Echo?!
A minor error in the review, the skill points in skills do affect how powerful the skill is, the perks are just percentage boosts to that skill, or extra effects. 80 points in sneak, as per the example in the video, will actually make you quite hard to detect even without perks.
Other than that the review is spot on IMO, especially the bit about separating combat and non-combat skills for combat scaling.
You reviewed Skyrim. My life is now complete. *dissolves into thin air*
Lmao.
I've been waiting for this for God knows how long. Thank you so much for making this video my dude.
No matter what people say nowadays, Skyrim was a phenomenon in gaming and it came out during a time when there were very few decent fantasy RPGs out there. Sure it is not a perfect game, but the sandbox adventure, world building and atmosphere is 10/10. I didn't really like the combat all that much, it felt kinda clunky and simplistic, but i loved the exploration, the ruins, the NPC characters, the side stories, the awesome scripted events, the well written questlines and all the content the game had to offer, but most of all i love the immersion in that strange viking inspired northern land that had some of the most beautiful environments that i had ever seen in a game.
The modding community also improved the game 10 fold and truly turned it into a masterpiece.
I get what you are saying that mods are not supposed to excuse the problems a game has on release, but it also has to be said that it was a blessing Skyrim came with modding support from release and THAT was it's biggest achievement as a game. Just think about how many games could have been improved by mods but they never had modding support.
For me Skyrim will always be a masterpiece and is one of my top 5 RPG games.
KEEP CALM AND FUS RO DA!
Agreed, it's a shame that Bethesda's recent track record has kind of tainted the reputation of their other games to a degree.
Agree on the atmosphere and sandbox aspect, but world building? That's by far one of the weaker aspects of the game. I could be the Thane of a town, yet be treated like a common peasant by the guards. Or how dragons (the selling point of the game) are a cakewalk, yet lesser trolls knock you 10 feet into the air.
Far Cry 3
@@IlMekkenno how's that relevant? It's not even an rpg
@@JackFrost-1856 There were some better games that deserved the goty in 2011. I just checked about far cry 3 and I missed a year (2012).
L.A. noire, Arkham city and much more...
One thing is saying best Rpg (there was darksouls too but I can accept).
One other thing is saying best game in 2011. There were games with a better combat system, a better story and a better AI. Even before...
That award wasn' t for Skyrim...
An incompleted game that only works with mods...
another great video bud. don't harp o. yourself for reviewing games that have been reviewed... a good review these days is about having someone's opinion you appreciate talk about a subject you are interested in... mission accomplished 🏄 I can't tell you exactly why I enjoyed watching your video... but it's apparently since I've watched so much of your content that I am more connected with your perspective. This video made me realise I need to buy Skyrim for a 3rd time... for my switch.
Hmmm not so keen on this review tbh. Usually love your stuff. You can actually miss the civil war truce meeting completely and alduin has a much more detailed lore and motives
"I live in Australia, we invented spiders !" XD
*Insert Obligatory Arrow To The Knee Joke*
I used to be an adventurer like you until I took an arrow to the knee
Any possibility of reviewing the TC Mods
Nehrim and Enderal for Oblivion & Skyrim respectively at some point?
A fair and balanced review! I'm glad you didn't fall into the "Reee! It's not Morrowind!" pit that I've seen a lot of people reviewing Skyrim do.
The Thing (1982) with the head spider is what made me not like spiders along commonly encountering Black Widows tucked in almost every other car I got to repair for a decade or so. I still give them the carburetor cleaner and mini torch treatment since I'm not a sorcerer or summoner.
Best adventure game I have ever played. The rpg mechanics are lacking, but exploring the world is such a joy.
No matter how many times I play this game, I always get scared leaving a cave I just cleared. Something about walking past a bunch of corpses and being the only living thing in the area gives me the heebie jeebies. I always sprint out like a little kid who just turned off the basement lights.
I used to be a video game reviewer like you
then I made you look at this meme.
“the snozberries taste like snozberries”
I understood that reference! Lmao! Geez I’m getting old...
Oh great another review!!
Im gonna save to watch later before sleep lol. Idk if people use the watch later tab feature
Don't need it. I know how to scroll down.
After 8 years i still never finished it! I definitely need to buy this again and actually finished the special edition!
Hay GMANLIVES thanks for anuther grate video bro!
I was waiting for this review for so long. Finally its here.
I still remember buying Skyrim in 2011 with zero expectations. At this point I dont like to use mods, I have the Daedra armor and weapons and finished every quest. 10/10 go buy it now!!
I still remember going into the game with high expectations, what with its dozens of awards and "best RPG" claim by many - only to be met with the most underwhelming RPG experience I've had yet, primarily due to terrible combat (even for 2011 standards), shallow RPG elements and poor world building. Definitely nowhere near being GOTY 2011, plenty other RPGs the same year were far better.
@@JackFrost-1856 lol skyrim is awesome shut up
@@bsherman8236 yeah let's brush aside valid criticism just because game is "awesome"
*slow claps*
@@JackFrost-1856 you said you played with high expectations and everything else is very arbitrary, you should not have played the game expecting something else.
@@bsherman8236 wut? Considering the number of accolades it's received you'd expect it to do an outstanding job at being an RPG - sadly it doesn't, it's not even as good as it's predecessors. How is everything else arbitrary? Shit combat is shit, dumbed down RPG elements are dumbed down, and poor world building is poor - none of these are "arbitrary", they're just how the game is. Believe me, I didn't let the praise it gets cloud my critical view of the game. And for proof of that, look no further than it's fellow 2011 RPGs - ALL of which were better: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Witcher 2, Dark Souls, Bastion, and so on. And yes, I've played all of them.
I could be wrong but I thought that levels earned in every skill affect character performance in addition to skill points spent on them. This is definitely true of smithing since you can reach the mid upgrade tier without putting in any points. I'm also fairly certain that weapon skills add damage, armor skills increase armor values and sneaking makes you harder to spot.
Im still requesting that you review Project I.G.I.- Im Going In. Thanks
When suggested that he go to the Throat of the World to see if he's possibly bound for greater things, my Kadjit Habbad just ran away. Every time a dragon showed up, I'd just run him into the nearest building or cave until it left. When he'd emerge from hiding to find himself the lone survivor of the attack, he'd just steal anything that wasn't nailed down, eat an apple pie or two, and then go find somewhere else to steal things.
You say: "You aren't some random character anymore". Well in Morrowind you are the reincarnation of the Nerevarine, doesn't seem like a randon character to me. And not only that, you keep talking as if Bethesda only ever released 2 elder scrolls games.
Skyrim was such an important game in my teen years, I literally look at time as "Pre-Skyrim and Post-Skyrim".
2011 was just such a big year and I feel like we've just been chasing that high for over a decade just to keep coming up disappointed.
Ah, Skyrim Civil War. During my first playthrough I joined the red-haired rebel who promised to make Skyrim great again, only to later realize he has a... far from perfect past, keeps Argonians behind a wall and Dark Elves in a dirty ghetto, seems to have zero clue about how to beat the Thalmor once Skyrim does get independence, and has a clear double standard when it comes to religious freedom, not lifting a finger against Vigilants of Stendarr and their harassment of daedra worshippers. Appointing Thongvor Silver-Blood as Jarl was probably the last straw, fighting corruption of the Empire my ass.
In a later playthrough I joined the Empire; seeing Maven Black-Briar become a Jarl made me reconsider my stance on Thongor, and Ulfric's successor in Windhelm was... sort of more civil, but did not really address the Argonian and Dark Elven situations. Well, I did the best I could, time to go enjoy that Redwater Den everybody seems so thrilled about...
The Stormcloaks were intentionally written to be unappealing. Ulfric had the makings of a deep and fascinating character but he ultimately ended up as a caricature. The writing in Skyrim was downright terrible at times.
@@constantin5509 Well... perhaps having characters that you desperately wish were fascinating but are actually not is kind of the point? I can't say I found Stormcloaks "intentionally unappealing" either, they portrayed a faction with its merits and flaws and the merits resonated with everyone to a certain extent.
@@DG9-q6f Ulfric was supposed to be a flawed man that wanted the best for his country. He had a legitimate point as to why he didn't want Skyrim to be part of the Empire or the Thalmor, but they simply portrayed him as a big ol' evil bigoted racist, not to mention a man with no real vision for Skyrim after the war, so you are less inclined to side with him. It's an old fashioned manipulative trick, and given that gullible dolts (like you) fell for it hard, it clearly worked.
Also, "desperately wish"? The only thing I "desperately wished" from Skyrim was a story that wasn't written for people with IQ that doubled as their shoe size(again, like you).
@@constantin5509 LOL. Well... I did see him as a flawed man that wanted the best for his country and not as an inherently evil guy; I guess it's another case of art being perceived differently by different people. I also suggest you spare your "harsh words" on other's personality for someone who'd actually care about them.
The most useful shout for me behind dragonrend is become ethereal, just because I can jump off mountains without dying and save time scaling down it
If we're talking about performance out of the box, just don't mention the PS3...
6:41 Hey, we got that with TENET and it wasn't bad at all
It's kind of like Fallout 4. It's downright broken at times, but somehow it just sucks you in.
Although Fallout 4 is on a whole other level of broken than Skyrim.
fighting the spiders in SKYRIM VR was the most unnerving thing i ever experienced in my life, i do not only hate and fear spiders, i get downright catatonic when i see one....so imagine how i felt fighting that huge ass spider.....nightmare fuel to say the least......thank goodness i do not own fallout vr , because if i fear anything more than spiders, it is roaches and i don't think a radroach is anything to laugh at in VR :'(
TBH. I'm one of tho people that played skyrim/fallout without mod and doesn't even touch one after 300+ hours.
I'm the same with skyrim but I modded fallout 4 on my second play through
Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well
I played NV for over 350+ hours, most of it was without mods.
Same. I only start installing mods after the Dragonborn DLC.
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Skyrim was one of my first games so it holds a special place in my heart. Heck, I still play it to this day (granted with mods :D)
The game that never dies. I still play it to this day
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You stole my comment you goddamn imperial .
That's actually a thing. The Elder Scrolls Travels.
6:25 is a really easy fix, just google "skyrim play at 144fps" or download BethINI (tool to configure your skyrim settings easily) and just set up 144fps that way. BethINI is really easy to use, it's just a settings menu, except in another app.
The fact you are making a video of Skyrim in 2019 says it all
This took so long for this review to come out...
Fantastic review!!!