As strange it is to say this, it has to be Rain World. Sure, it's extremely hard and unforgiving, but there is a hidden beauty inside of it that I always love seeing. The scenes, the moments where you stand still, taking in the world itself, and begin to truly see just how breathtaking it all is. It always brings me joy being curious, wandering to different areas, and soaking in the beautiful views after a hard day. Sometimes you'll be treated to a little tune!
Skyrim for me as well. Its one of those games were i can just play and relax. Ive always loved the feeling it gives me. Unlike fallout Skyrim just makes me feels more free. The Nature, enviroment and the places. The Inns and people (Nazeem go away). Of course i use mods to enhance my experience but its always been there.
"I envy you,you know. To climb the 7000 steps for the first time..i once made the pilgrimage,did you know that? High Hrothgar can be a very peaceful place." -Jarl Balgruuf
I think something that a lot of people underappreciate about Skyrim is that all of the items in game are physical 3d items that you can interact with. You can drop them out of your inventory and manipulate them.
@@ciri151 yup, the only thing I am missing is that on top of manipulating those items, that you could glue them in place if you wanted. Since one wrong fus-roh-dah or even one wrong jump on a table and all the decorating is ruined. I remember in morrowind you could make truly nice expositions since all the items stayed where you put them😂
@NeuroTalkGaming I remember spending ages trying to position something in one of the Hearthfire houses back when it first came out. Eventually, I lost my temper with it and hit "fus-roh-dah" to vent my frustration, trashing the entire house in the process. I walked out the front door and never went back to that house again. 😂
I've been playing the game for 3 days and just came across this video on my youtube home page, and everything you said is so true, the game feels alive, it feels like a real world with real problems, it embraces you, the feeling of freedom is truly refreshing, been searching for a game like this for a while. So happy with it
As someone who's been playing since the midnight release back in 2011, welcome to the game and I hope you have as many countless hours of fun playing it as I have.
I've been playing Skyrim since February 2014. I was in middle school and got it on xbox 360 with money i got for good grades. Since then i've bought it on xbox one, Switch and twice on PC. Skyrim is my favorite game of all time and has been since i got it. Welcome to Tamriel friend, enjoy. (PS. this may be an unpopular opinion but i prefer vanilla or AE on switch over super modded PC versions. I have more hours on my switch characters than my PC characters lmao)
"Ownership of your experience" is so real actually. As a gm of ttrpgs, I'm constantly thinking about the balance of providing gentle direction without railroading my players. I'm not saying that emulating Skyrim is my ideal way to run, but it serves as a beautiful example of what 'sandbox' can mean.
I agree its great as representation of sandbox gamedesign, also I am also actually DMing games, but I usually led more focused experiences like Curse of Strahd :D
Skyrim is my go-to comfort game too and your video really made me smile. You described it perfectly, from the meditative music to the unique environment and the meaningfulness in the most simple game actions. Well done! "Every choice feels valid." ❤
I just started playing Skyrim because it was $5 on Steam. And honestly, I'm having fun just walking around and just exploring the world for the first time. Its a lovely place to just be in.
Yup, it has a great variety of everything and if you ever get into modding its a game that can literally be anything you want😂 Wishing you the best adventures in Tamriel❤️
Just bought Skyrim AE after not playing for nearly 10 years. I never finished it when I was a kid and I’ve been dying to try and finally finish that main quest. This video perfectly explains what makes this game great, peace and love brother
enderal is skyrim but with witcher storytelling, and i loved it for it. But yeah I understand what you mean, some mods and you can life as a ranger and just chill
Thank you for your video. I’d watched a few videos where people have tried to summarise the magic of the game, and why people like myself just keep returning to it. I think your video has captured those reasons really well. I’ve played the game since I was 17 (now 30) and I just keep returning despite people around me not able to understand why I love it so much. For me, it’s been a calm, predictable and constant presence in my life, something that feels like returning home time and time again. I love the predictable comments from NPCs, and the quests I know like the back of my hand. As a huge fan of the Witcher series I also understand your comparisons there. Thank you for your wonderful video ❤
Thank you a lot for sharing your love with a game, it's good to also know that many people feel the same way as me and also huge thanks for compliments, it truly means a lot for me❤ I don't think any game truly can capture the magic of Skyrim as even many of the shortcomings that fans of the series would mention are exactly the reasons why it feels so good to play it. Since Morrowing while better in worldbuilding, was much more hostile and confusing place compared to Skyrim :)
Losing a job and playing this has really made me want to get back up, something about it feels so unrealistic and realistic at the same time which is making me want to fulfill my own life outside the home
Skyrim is one of those games where you're rewarded for going out of your way to explore, be it through side quests and loot, or just the experience of comming across an old ruin. During one of my many replays of the game I decided to follow a worn out path on the side of the road when I was on my way from whiterun to windhelm, by the time I reached the end of it I found a random jail door just sitting there in the middle of nowhere. There weren't any walls, no sides to the door, or even any other traces of a ruin it was just a door. It perplexed me, but It also gave me a sense of wonder and curiosity that I havent really felt when playing most open world rpgs save for a handful of examples like fallout new vegas or breath of the wild.
You are correct, skyrim is just a comfortable world to be in. Yeah it's combat is boring and yes quest are not the refined, it has its flaws certainly. But yet, I return to skyrim everytime I feel stressed, or just don't know what to play and I am just relaxing. For example, I am now on my way to complete Elden ring for the first time, but I just got tired of constant feeling of threat and got back in Skyrim to chill a little bit before returning to elden ring
@@MsVector666 yeah, I mean Skyrim is the greatest game for exactly that, chilling. And IMO if it had very engaging gameplay or very good sprawling story - It just wouldnt work🙂
Sure, all of the games have their strengths and flaws and such, but I think the lore and music adds so much to the soul of The Elder Scrolls series. Bethesda Game Studios has crafted a very unique universe in my opinion, and I absolutely love it. Best game series of all time!
I've been playing Skyrim ever since I was 9 years old, this game really has been with me through a lot of stuff both good and bad, if it wasn't for Skyrim giving me an escape during the worst parts of my life so far I don't think I could've found the happiness to carry on. I'm entering university soon and it just astonishes me how I'm still clinging onto this game, it may not be a great RPG (especially in Morrowboomer terms) but it's certainly a masterpiece of a game with just how much freedom and character it has, and the modding scene speaks for itself with the quality and quantity of stuff being put out daily. (P.S. I have a crippling skooma addiction)
I totally agree, while I also love Morrowind for better worldbuilding, but game doesnt have to be the best in either gameplay, story or whatever. Same as art it might be just good at elliciting feelings and mind states that are pleasing and thats more than enough❤️
You wake up, you're hungry. You eat an apple pie and drink some wine. You leave town and head for knifepoint ridge, where the bandit leader has made camp. It's a couple hours walk. you take in the sights as your feet walk the moss covered land. You stop for a while and grab some cheese and bread and wine to eat. You approach the site, but before you do, you think of a plan, how to approach these bastards. Now you're kinda nervous. You've done this a million times, but you can never get the hang of killing, not really. You cast a spell you learnt a few days ago, rage. You cast it on the mage outside the little wooden fort and he starts throwing spells in anger towards his mates, killing a couple before being stabbed by another. By then, you're already there, slashing and killing. You enter the cave, and cast the same spell on the unsuspecting bandits and they fight and kill each other, until it's just you and the leader. He slashes you bad in a quick swing you didn't expect, but you bash his face a couple times with the hilt of your sword, and manage to slash his neck. He falls lifeless. You sit down and drink a couple health potions and a bottle of wine. You're wasted in that cave, alone. Dammit. A bandit could walk in here and you'd be done for. Fuck it. You eat some of the food the bandits had until you sober up. You leave the cave, not before looting everything of value, a few hundred gold, a spell book, potions and an orcish sword you'll probably sell. Not bad. The sun is almost setting and the cold is noticeable. You hurry back to Whiterun not to get eating by a sabre cat. You arrive back at the inn where you drink and eat, you chat up Ysolda, who's really grateful for that mammoth tusk you brought her a couple weeks back. You sit and listen to the music, chat with a few locals about the state of the Whiterun guard or childhood. You're getting tired so you walk to your bedroom, you remove you armor, you clean it, and you hop in bed. Your eyes close automatically and you dream of nothing. You wake up refreshed, and ready to attack the day. You walk up to the cloud district and hand in the bounty and get 500 gold for it. Good. That will last you at least a week and a half. You take a walk around the market and browse a few shops. Today you're going to take it slow and enjoy your hard earned gold. In which other game can you do this?
I completely agree with you. Been playing it since it's release. Elder Scrolls is my favorite escape games for years now. They help with my anxiety especially Skyrim. I don't use all those mods either. Thank you for this!
That "simply existing" is exactly what I love about Skyrim most of all... Most of my builds have been literally that. Just characters who simply exist in that world, unconcerned with the main story, or saving the world, just doing their own thing, creating their own story. And in no way does the game penalise you for doing that...
@@Skumtomten1 yeah, as I mentioned in previous vid, i aint even waiting for Elder Scrolls 6 really, I am waay more excited about Skyblivion though. Or big mod expansions for Skyrim such as Lordbound😂
Skyrim challenges the test of time because it is a well done game that can be new experiences every new character you create. It also has a deep modding community that makes it fantastic.
Yup, in this way Skyrim is timeless, but tbh so is every Elder Scrolls game. With a remake of Daggerfall on Unity it looks like, even second game got its revival😂
Definitely a game where you can take in the beauty I’ve been tinkering with Skyrim before I do a actual playthrough right now I’m messing around with graphical mods to improve the graphics but not to the point it’s unrecognizable from the vanilla experience and I catch my self just looking around into the distance life has been stressful recently for me and I feel even me just tinkering really helps
I love the video, and the enderal footage, but I feel it may be a bit of a disservice to group Sureai's complete overhaul with skyrim when it has a completely different approach to gameplay, exploration, story telling and music. But I can agree, Skyrim is a magical game and feels almost impossible to recreate. Can't wait to see more videos from you.
Skyrim doesn’t have artificial difficulty. The souls games have what I call artificial difficulty. That’s when enemies deal a lot of damage to you, but you don’t deal very much damage.
@ it’s still not good difficulty with dark souls. I’d say good difficulty is having enemy that adapts to how you play over increasing the difficulty by just damage. Granted Skyrim doesn’t have good ai, but it also doesn’t have bad difficulty that prevents you from enjoying the game. Not to mention the souls series ruin the concept of magic by making magic run out. That right there ruins my role playing because wizards don’t run out of magic.
@NeuroTalkGamingI don’t think it will necessarily be beat, but I think one day, someone might make a spiritual successor. An RPG that lets you interact with objects and puts exploration and breathing at the top. It may not be the same but I think it can happen. It will probably just take forever, maybe literal decades. Just my thoughts. Thanks again for the video.
Skyrim has always been one of the prettiest games to me, even if the graphics are inferior to current day standards, because the art direction easily carries it. I love just walking around forests and taking in the scenery, and the OST is always on point too. Its charming just like Valheim.
Skyrim is a world that I've never truly left. It's a world I often escape back into that feels alive and is always there to welcome me when I'm having a bad day or just want to unwind 🤍 This video hit the nail on the head 🔨
A bit of advice for enjoying Skyrim: do not return the Dragonstone to Whiterun in the beginning of the game, as that begins the main quest, and from then on you feel pressure to save the world from the dragons. You and others will also be attacked by dragons and it makes the world less safe. Simply enjoy the game without going to Bleak Falls Barrow, or if you do, make sure to not deliver the Dragonstone to the Jarl's court wizard in Whiterun. Without having to deal with the dragons, you are free to just do whatever you wish.
@NeuroTalkGaming Yes, that is the price you pay to have peace from dragon attacks and no feeling that people are dying while you are off picking flowers.
I think there was another way by starting "Blade in the Dark" where you meet Delphine. It also suspends dragon attacks, but also at that point you have full fus-roh-dah learnt and you could also farm dragons before to get your favourite shouts and continue game with those
@ I didn't know that! I like that better, fus-ro-dah is a lot of fun, and it is good to have the dragons in their lairs defending their territory. Thanks, I will try it out!
Skyrim is the only game I ever uninstalled not because I got bored of it, bit because I enjoyed it too much. Having sunk 1000 hours into it, I knew I risked compromising my studies by keeping the game. So I erased it from my life, along with all my imaginary role-play life that I had built in it. Close to 10 years later, I am wondering whether to go back in. But I'm left facing the daunting task of installing the dozens of mods (possibly 100) that made skyrim particularly fun for me.
@NeuroTalkGaming I dupe things by accident all the time. On my most recent play thru I seemed to have gained 20 pounds of carry weight that isn't tied to any object. There was a frozen horse, and I wanted to yell at it, so I quick saved. Upon reloading, I was overweight.
Skyrim is still the True High King of gaming that was falsely dethroned. (This is a joke/slight bit but no one can deny skyrims sticking power still being enjoyable and replayable. Games come and go but Skyrim is quite literally timeless. This is my opinion is what people forget about gaming as a whole. You want something to play that makes you feel like its your own. Something that grants you freedom from the outside world. Anyone who says otherwise doesnt understand why gaming as a hobby was created and why people love gaming as a whole. Critical as people may be of skyrim...all you can complain about is the bugs. The game is beautiful, fun to play, has freedom, secrets and collectibles, a pretty fun story and lots of replayability. Idk what you want more from a game as a whole...sorry I'm very passionate about gaming as a whole lmao.
Its all good I am also quite passionate on the theme. I totally agree that Skyrim is one of the few experiences that delivers so nicely on player freedom and making the game your own. Of course it has its issues, for me the issue was always that engine has limitations and if you truly want to make Ultra-Modded Skyrim setup it your saves can get corrupted fast with increasing ref limits😂 I wish they got the ref limit from Fallout 4 into Skyrim rerelease since there I think its twice as big
Skyrim as an engine is phenomenal Give it to people and they will make true wonders with it that modern devs struggle to catch up with But the default is wayyyyy old Still, it's interesting how the game still inspires folk Bethesda managed something strange there, i still don't get how it became such a phenomenon Don't get me wrong, i grew up with ES, Oblivion was one of my favorite games for a while, then Skyrim - even though it crashed mercilessly without mods and unofficial patches - but despite this i do consider Bethesda to be kinda creatively destitute, especially seeing Starfield The game looks like a massive potential that was failed by its creators... I don't hate Beth, i just wish they improved, or were allowed to improve, Todd being the bottleneck for their creativity is a big minus i believe Welp... i don't know if it can heal a soul, that depends on how scarred and bruised the soul is maybe, mine is certainly sore But i WILL get back to the game some time soon hopefully with this video in mind Thanks for your thoughts
Bethesda has certainly lost its way nowadays, but that also makes sense, since microsoft was never really a company with people that could create artistic products😂 I hope you will enjoy your travels in Skyrim, returning to this game helped me work through some of my issues, so I wish the same for you as well❤️
@NeuroTalkGaming Well Morrowind was a terrible engine and gameplay so that's fair Skyrim is a good foundation though, just look at Enderal - a complete game in of itself or all the insane combat mods or collections like Gate to Sovngarde, Lorerim, Nolvus etc
@ Skyrim is super expansive game and engine I agree. I mean the modding scene of it is so big that there are channels that live just by looking at mods :D
@NeuroTalkGaming The experience is almost the same in that way. The world feels alive too, and the NPCs have routines like sleeping and eating. Speaking of eating, they don't pull a bread from thin air, they actually eat food that it's actually there and you could grab (that's why the Dark Brotherhood's poisoned apples work).
@@ElInventor Right, I rememer you didn't even had to plant it in their pocket, but you could just put it on a table near them at times and it would still work :D
I don't understand how you can be a Skyrim hate it was so revolutionary to modern RPG games sure you don't have to love it hell even like it but you can't hate it just by what it has given us, ex cyberpunk, Witcher 3, breath of the wild and so many more
Son, I don't think you understand what a soul is. A soul is YOU, that is literally who YOU ARE. Souls live forever. YOU will NEVER DIE your Soul cannot Ever Get Sick! Only choice you have to is accept Jesus so you will go to heaven or your soul will burn for eternity. Your choice. No game on Earth can effect your soul ever. Not possible.
I love the video, and the enderal footage, but I feel it may be a bit of a disservice to group Sureai's complete overhaul with skyrim when it has a completely different approach to gameplay, exploration, story telling and music. But I can agree, Skyrim is a magical game and feels almost impossible to recreate. Can't wait to see more videos from you.
I agree that SureAI need a separate video discussing the strengths of what they made, but quite honestly playing Enderal gave me very similar vibes to Skyrim anyway, despite a more brutal gameplay and unforgiving world🙂 I hope I will be able to make great videos for you to enjoy going forward as well❤️
Question for you guys: Which game is the one you play when feeling down?
As strange it is to say this, it has to be Rain World. Sure, it's extremely hard and unforgiving, but there is a hidden beauty inside of it that I always love seeing. The scenes, the moments where you stand still, taking in the world itself, and begin to truly see just how breathtaking it all is. It always brings me joy being curious, wandering to different areas, and soaking in the beautiful views after a hard day. Sometimes you'll be treated to a little tune!
I think that Rain World, due to being very primal and "wild" goes into our reconnection to nature, which is known to be healing on the psyche :)
Skyrim for me as well. Its one of those games were i can just play and relax. Ive always loved the feeling it gives me. Unlike fallout Skyrim just makes me feels more free. The Nature, enviroment and the places. The Inns and people (Nazeem go away).
Of course i use mods to enhance my experience but its always been there.
@@xFeedGamingx I somehow love the house mods on Skyrim, cuz it makes me feel even more cozy there, especially if it's one of Elionora's ones😂
Skyrim, but with 17 billion mods for the true "immersive experience"
"I envy you,you know. To climb the 7000 steps for the first time..i once made the pilgrimage,did you know that? High Hrothgar can be a very peaceful place."
-Jarl Balgruuf
The only sad thing is that it wasnt actually 7k steps😂
@NeuroTalkGaming I know lol but in lore it is
@@l-Darren-l yup, and it was big enough to convey the feeling tbh
Crazy how that's such a good analogy of the game itself
I think something that a lot of people underappreciate about Skyrim is that all of the items in game are physical 3d items that you can interact with. You can drop them out of your inventory and manipulate them.
@@ciri151 yup, the only thing I am missing is that on top of manipulating those items, that you could glue them in place if you wanted. Since one wrong fus-roh-dah or even one wrong jump on a table and all the decorating is ruined. I remember in morrowind you could make truly nice expositions since all the items stayed where you put them😂
@NeuroTalkGaming I remember spending ages trying to position something in one of the Hearthfire houses back when it first came out. Eventually, I lost my temper with it and hit "fus-roh-dah" to vent my frustration, trashing the entire house in the process. I walked out the front door and never went back to that house again. 😂
I've been playing the game for 3 days and just came across this video on my youtube home page, and everything you said is so true, the game feels alive, it feels like a real world with real problems, it embraces you, the feeling of freedom is truly refreshing, been searching for a game like this for a while. So happy with it
I think we all need that one game we play when we feeling down, enjoy your adventures in Tamriel :)
@ for someone who been playing mainly competitive games mostly, skyrim really heals your soul
As someone who's been playing since the midnight release back in 2011, welcome to the game and I hope you have as many countless hours of fun playing it as I have.
I've been playing Skyrim since February 2014. I was in middle school and got it on xbox 360 with money i got for good grades. Since then i've bought it on xbox one, Switch and twice on PC. Skyrim is my favorite game of all time and has been since i got it.
Welcome to Tamriel friend, enjoy.
(PS. this may be an unpopular opinion but i prefer vanilla or AE on switch over super modded PC versions. I have more hours on my switch characters than my PC characters lmao)
"Ownership of your experience" is so real actually. As a gm of ttrpgs, I'm constantly thinking about the balance of providing gentle direction without railroading my players. I'm not saying that emulating Skyrim is my ideal way to run, but it serves as a beautiful example of what 'sandbox' can mean.
I agree its great as representation of sandbox gamedesign, also I am also actually DMing games, but I usually led more focused experiences like Curse of Strahd :D
Also Skyrim, it is just truly that game where you can fully relax and take your mind off of everyday stress.
It is for me as well🙂
I'd say you're not merely playing Skyrim.
Rather, Skyrim lets you experiment itself however you feel like.
Totally agree❤️
Skyrim is my go-to comfort game too and your video really made me smile. You described it perfectly, from the meditative music to the unique environment and the meaningfulness in the most simple game actions. Well done! "Every choice feels valid." ❤
Thank you a lot! I am really glad you liked it❤️
this game was the only little parcel of peace in a time of deep darkness, loneliness and suffering. this game was there when no one else was.
I agree, this game took me out from comparatively dark times
I just started playing Skyrim because it was $5 on Steam. And honestly, I'm having fun just walking around and just exploring the world for the first time. Its a lovely place to just be in.
Yup, it has a great variety of everything and if you ever get into modding its a game that can literally be anything you want😂 Wishing you the best adventures in Tamriel❤️
Much more genuine and deep than I thought it would be. Real af
I am glad you enjoyed it❤️
Just bought Skyrim AE after not playing for nearly 10 years. I never finished it when I was a kid and I’ve been dying to try and finally finish that main quest. This video perfectly explains what makes this game great, peace and love brother
Thank you a lot!❤ And I hope you have great time travelling in Tamriel🙂
enderal is skyrim but with witcher storytelling, and i loved it for it.
But yeah I understand what you mean, some mods and you can life as a ranger and just chill
Yup, or druid, or just regular farmer tbh😂
Thank you for your video. I’d watched a few videos where people have tried to summarise the magic of the game, and why people like myself just keep returning to it. I think your video has captured those reasons really well. I’ve played the game since I was 17 (now 30) and I just keep returning despite people around me not able to understand why I love it so much. For me, it’s been a calm, predictable and constant presence in my life, something that feels like returning home time and time again. I love the predictable comments from NPCs, and the quests I know like the back of my hand. As a huge fan of the Witcher series I also understand your comparisons there. Thank you for your wonderful video ❤
Thank you a lot for sharing your love with a game, it's good to also know that many people feel the same way as me and also huge thanks for compliments, it truly means a lot for me❤
I don't think any game truly can capture the magic of Skyrim as even many of the shortcomings that fans of the series would mention are exactly the reasons why it feels so good to play it. Since Morrowing while better in worldbuilding, was much more hostile and confusing place compared to Skyrim :)
Losing a job and playing this has really made me want to get back up, something about it feels so unrealistic and realistic at the same time which is making me want to fulfill my own life outside the home
I hope you are doing better now :) But I think Skyrim is a great place to meditate and think about life and what to do further.
Skyrim is one of those games where you're rewarded for going out of your way to explore, be it through side quests and loot, or just the experience of comming across an old ruin.
During one of my many replays of the game I decided to follow a worn out path on the side of the road when I was on my way from whiterun to windhelm, by the time I reached the end of it I found a random jail door just sitting there in the middle of nowhere. There weren't any walls, no sides to the door, or even any other traces of a ruin it was just a door. It perplexed me, but It also gave me a sense of wonder and curiosity that I havent really felt when playing most open world rpgs save for a handful of examples like fallout new vegas or breath of the wild.
Bethesda could do quite good environmental storytelling in its time
Bro mixed in Enderal footage in a video about Skyrim and thought we wouldn't notice
I wrote it first sentence in description bro🤣
I so agree with you. Skyrim is a place to exist.
I think one of the game designers were mentioning that they werent making the game to play, they were making the game where you could live
You are correct, skyrim is just a comfortable world to be in. Yeah it's combat is boring and yes quest are not the refined, it has its flaws certainly. But yet, I return to skyrim everytime I feel stressed, or just don't know what to play and I am just relaxing. For example, I am now on my way to complete Elden ring for the first time, but I just got tired of constant feeling of threat and got back in Skyrim to chill a little bit before returning to elden ring
@@MsVector666 yeah, I mean Skyrim is the greatest game for exactly that, chilling. And IMO if it had very engaging gameplay or very good sprawling story - It just wouldnt work🙂
Sure, all of the games have their strengths and flaws and such, but I think the lore and music adds so much to the soul of The Elder Scrolls series. Bethesda Game Studios has crafted a very unique universe in my opinion, and I absolutely love it. Best game series of all time!
I totally agree, with amount of books and general worldbuilding this universe is one of the most developed ones❤️
I've been playing Skyrim ever since I was 9 years old, this game really has been with me through a lot of stuff both good and bad, if it wasn't for Skyrim giving me an escape during the worst parts of my life so far I don't think I could've found the happiness to carry on. I'm entering university soon and it just astonishes me how I'm still clinging onto this game, it may not be a great RPG (especially in Morrowboomer terms) but it's certainly a masterpiece of a game with just how much freedom and character it has, and the modding scene speaks for itself with the quality and quantity of stuff being put out daily. (P.S. I have a crippling skooma addiction)
I totally agree, while I also love Morrowind for better worldbuilding, but game doesnt have to be the best in either gameplay, story or whatever. Same as art it might be just good at elliciting feelings and mind states that are pleasing and thats more than enough❤️
You wake up, you're hungry. You eat an apple pie and drink some wine. You leave town and head for knifepoint ridge, where the bandit leader has made camp. It's a couple hours walk. you take in the sights as your feet walk the moss covered land. You stop for a while and grab some cheese and bread and wine to eat. You approach the site, but before you do, you think of a plan, how to approach these bastards. Now you're kinda nervous. You've done this a million times, but you can never get the hang of killing, not really. You cast a spell you learnt a few days ago, rage. You cast it on the mage outside the little wooden fort and he starts throwing spells in anger towards his mates, killing a couple before being stabbed by another. By then, you're already there, slashing and killing. You enter the cave, and cast the same spell on the unsuspecting bandits and they fight and kill each other, until it's just you and the leader. He slashes you bad in a quick swing you didn't expect, but you bash his face a couple times with the hilt of your sword, and manage to slash his neck. He falls lifeless. You sit down and drink a couple health potions and a bottle of wine. You're wasted in that cave, alone. Dammit. A bandit could walk in here and you'd be done for. Fuck it. You eat some of the food the bandits had until you sober up. You leave the cave, not before looting everything of value, a few hundred gold, a spell book, potions and an orcish sword you'll probably sell. Not bad.
The sun is almost setting and the cold is noticeable. You hurry back to Whiterun not to get eating by a sabre cat. You arrive back at the inn where you drink and eat, you chat up Ysolda, who's really grateful for that mammoth tusk you brought her a couple weeks back. You sit and listen to the music, chat with a few locals about the state of the Whiterun guard or childhood. You're getting tired so you walk to your bedroom, you remove you armor, you clean it, and you hop in bed. Your eyes close automatically and you dream of nothing. You wake up refreshed, and ready to attack the day. You walk up to the cloud district and hand in the bounty and get 500 gold for it. Good. That will last you at least a week and a half. You take a walk around the market and browse a few shops. Today you're going to take it slow and enjoy your hard earned gold.
In which other game can you do this?
Wow! That's truly some next level roleplaying❤️ That's a proper way to enjoy some Skyrim's atmposphere
I completely agree with you. Been playing it since it's release. Elder Scrolls is my favorite escape games for years now. They help with my anxiety especially Skyrim. I don't use all those mods either. Thank you for this!
You are very welcome!❤️ I am really glad you enjoyed it❤️
That "simply existing" is exactly what I love about Skyrim most of all... Most of my builds have been literally that. Just characters who simply exist in that world, unconcerned with the main story, or saving the world, just doing their own thing, creating their own story. And in no way does the game penalise you for doing that...
Yup, it actually actively encourages free exploration
I've just bought a £2000 pc and installed Lorerim just so I can keep playing this masterpiece like it's a modern game.
The only good use for 2k rig IMO
I'm actually in the process of installing a modpack for Skyrim VR as I'm watching this. Really nice to get me in the mood for the actual game 😊
Happy I could help❤️🙂
Skyrim forever ❤❤❤❤❤.....
Skyrim is alive
It truly is :)
Unlike Bethesda
@@Skumtomten1 yeah, as I mentioned in previous vid, i aint even waiting for Elder Scrolls 6 really, I am waay more excited about Skyblivion though. Or big mod expansions for Skyrim such as Lordbound😂
@ Yea. I think Bethesda is done at this point (like almost every other western AAA devs).
@@Skumtomten1 true, but I think at some point current indie market will become the new AAA scene😊
I remember years ago When i was struggiling mentaly all i thought was "if i could just lay in the fields of whiterun it would heal me"
I still imagine that at times :)
Skyrim challenges the test of time because it is a well done game that can be new experiences every new character you create. It also has a deep modding community that makes it fantastic.
Yup, in this way Skyrim is timeless, but tbh so is every Elder Scrolls game. With a remake of Daggerfall on Unity it looks like, even second game got its revival😂
Definitely a game where you can take in the beauty I’ve been tinkering with Skyrim before I do a actual playthrough right now I’m messing around with graphical mods to improve the graphics but not to the point it’s unrecognizable from the vanilla experience and I catch my self just looking around into the distance life has been stressful recently for me and I feel even me just tinkering really helps
Yeah modding Skyrim is a whole another thing that can take almost as long as playing it afterwards :D
I love the video, and the enderal footage, but I feel it may be a bit of a disservice to group Sureai's complete overhaul with skyrim when it has a completely different approach to gameplay, exploration, story telling and music. But I can agree, Skyrim is a magical game and feels almost impossible to recreate. Can't wait to see more videos from you.
No Man’s Sky is another game that has a similar effect as described in this video.
I basically never tire of playing it and use it to relax 🖤
Endless exploration of your personal universe sounds like a truly meditative experience❤️🙂
Skyrim doesn’t have artificial difficulty. The souls games have what I call artificial difficulty. That’s when enemies deal a lot of damage to you, but you don’t deal very much damage.
Its more about it being adaptive actually and being similar challenge irrespective of your level (although you still become demigod in later levels)
@ it’s still not good difficulty with dark souls. I’d say good difficulty is having enemy that adapts to how you play over increasing the difficulty by just damage. Granted Skyrim doesn’t have good ai, but it also doesn’t have bad difficulty that prevents you from enjoying the game. Not to mention the souls series ruin the concept of magic by making magic run out. That right there ruins my role playing because wizards don’t run out of magic.
Skill issue
I feel so seen by this. I've thought many of the exact same things for YEARS about this game. There really is no beating it (yet)
Totally agree, I actually dont think someone will beat it, since even Bethesda cant nowadays
@NeuroTalkGamingI don’t think it will necessarily be beat, but I think one day, someone might make a spiritual successor. An RPG that lets you interact with objects and puts exploration and breathing at the top.
It may not be the same but I think it can happen. It will probably just take forever, maybe literal decades.
Just my thoughts. Thanks again for the video.
Skyrim has always been one of the prettiest games to me, even if the graphics are inferior to current day standards, because the art direction easily carries it.
I love just walking around forests and taking in the scenery, and the OST is always on point too. Its charming just like Valheim.
I totally agree, Skyrim has this graphics that dont get old🙂
You are right and not many games pull this off.
Skyrim is one of the very few indeed🙂
It sparks your imagination, something a lot of us I think deep down are longing for as adults.
@@RonanAquilius we all have that kid inside of us, that holds both our most intense emotions and our creativity🙂
Skyrim is a world that I've never truly left. It's a world I often escape back into that feels alive and is always there to welcome me when I'm having a bad day or just want to unwind 🤍 This video hit the nail on the head 🔨
Totally agree, there is no other place I would go than calming Whiterun plains to unwind🙂
The pinnacle of gaming. We didn't even know it.
That's why it was rereleased 2000 times :D
A bit of advice for enjoying Skyrim: do not return the Dragonstone to Whiterun in the beginning of the game, as that begins the main quest, and from then on you feel pressure to save the world from the dragons. You and others will also be attacked by dragons and it makes the world less safe. Simply enjoy the game without going to Bleak Falls Barrow, or if you do, make sure to not deliver the Dragonstone to the Jarl's court wizard in Whiterun. Without having to deal with the dragons, you are free to just do whatever you wish.
The only sad part is that it means you are not fus-roh-dah'ing anyone off the cliffs this way
@NeuroTalkGaming Yes, that is the price you pay to have peace from dragon attacks and no feeling that people are dying while you are off picking flowers.
I think there was another way by starting "Blade in the Dark" where you meet Delphine. It also suspends dragon attacks, but also at that point you have full fus-roh-dah learnt and you could also farm dragons before to get your favourite shouts and continue game with those
@ I didn't know that! I like that better, fus-ro-dah is a lot of fun, and it is good to have the dragons in their lairs defending their territory. Thanks, I will try it out!
Do you get to Skyrim very often? Oh, what am I saying, of course you do.
Almost like going to the Cloud District :D
After a 50h work week I just want a game to help me chill
Yup, imo Skyrim works better than anything else for that
Wait until you try Enderal
They soul trapped us all
@@StormKillzone Oh no! Back to the Soul Cairn we go together with Jiub😂
Skyrim is the only game I ever uninstalled not because I got bored of it, bit because I enjoyed it too much.
Having sunk 1000 hours into it, I knew I risked compromising my studies by keeping the game. So I erased it from my life, along with all my imaginary role-play life that I had built in it.
Close to 10 years later, I am wondering whether to go back in.
But I'm left facing the daunting task of installing the dozens of mods (possibly 100) that made skyrim particularly fun for me.
@@Max-px5ym last time I was installing all the mods it took me 2 full days for that I think😂😂
Just stay out of jail, when you get to Markath......
There's really no way out of there...
Skyrim is my top game.....the soundtrack is awesome....
Nothing beats soundtrack of Jeremy Soule😂
Beautifully written
Thank you a lot! I am glad you enjoyed it❤️
My comfort game is Stardew Valley, almost as good as actually taking a walk outside😂
Yeah, I think Stardew is my 2nd favourite comfort game :)
My favorite part of Skyrim is breaking it
All things considered its quite easy to do with this game :D
@NeuroTalkGaming I dupe things by accident all the time. On my most recent play thru I seemed to have gained 20 pounds of carry weight that isn't tied to any object. There was a frozen horse, and I wanted to yell at it, so I quick saved. Upon reloading, I was overweight.
😂😂 Typical non-patched Skyrim experience
For me its Diablo 2.I already have went through all bosses, but it's just nice to sometimes go back and feel almost like a god😂
Yeah Diablo 2 was the goat as well
Skyrim is still the True High King of gaming that was falsely dethroned. (This is a joke/slight bit but no one can deny skyrims sticking power still being enjoyable and replayable. Games come and go but Skyrim is quite literally timeless. This is my opinion is what people forget about gaming as a whole. You want something to play that makes you feel like its your own. Something that grants you freedom from the outside world. Anyone who says otherwise doesnt understand why gaming as a hobby was created and why people love gaming as a whole. Critical as people may be of skyrim...all you can complain about is the bugs. The game is beautiful, fun to play, has freedom, secrets and collectibles, a pretty fun story and lots of replayability. Idk what you want more from a game as a whole...sorry I'm very passionate about gaming as a whole lmao.
Its all good I am also quite passionate on the theme. I totally agree that Skyrim is one of the few experiences that delivers so nicely on player freedom and making the game your own. Of course it has its issues, for me the issue was always that engine has limitations and if you truly want to make Ultra-Modded Skyrim setup it your saves can get corrupted fast with increasing ref limits😂 I wish they got the ref limit from Fallout 4 into Skyrim rerelease since there I think its twice as big
Skyrim as an engine is phenomenal
Give it to people and they will make true wonders with it that modern devs struggle to catch up with
But the default is wayyyyy old
Still, it's interesting how the game still inspires folk
Bethesda managed something strange there, i still don't get how it became such a phenomenon
Don't get me wrong, i grew up with ES, Oblivion was one of my favorite games for a while, then Skyrim - even though it crashed mercilessly without mods and unofficial patches - but despite this i do consider Bethesda to be kinda creatively destitute, especially seeing Starfield
The game looks like a massive potential that was failed by its creators...
I don't hate Beth, i just wish they improved, or were allowed to improve, Todd being the bottleneck for their creativity is a big minus i believe
Welp... i don't know if it can heal a soul, that depends on how scarred and bruised the soul is maybe, mine is certainly sore
But i WILL get back to the game some time soon hopefully with this video in mind
Thanks for your thoughts
Bethesda has certainly lost its way nowadays, but that also makes sense, since microsoft was never really a company with people that could create artistic products😂
I hope you will enjoy your travels in Skyrim, returning to this game helped me work through some of my issues, so I wish the same for you as well❤️
@@MortSalazar ah and also in regards to engine, Morrowind got someone who rebuilt the whole engine from 0, so maybe it can happen again?😂
@NeuroTalkGaming Well Morrowind was a terrible engine and gameplay so that's fair
Skyrim is a good foundation though, just look at Enderal - a complete game in of itself or all the insane combat mods or collections like Gate to Sovngarde, Lorerim, Nolvus etc
@ Skyrim is super expansive game and engine I agree. I mean the modding scene of it is so big that there are channels that live just by looking at mods :D
Do you use a Wabbajack modlist? Your game looks amazing
Hey!
Mostly no, what you see is footage from Enderal in big parts of it, which is a great global mod on the game :)
@ ahhhh i’ve been wondering the locations look stunning
Did you play the previous one, Oblivion?
Yup, planning to make a video about it at some point
@NeuroTalkGaming The experience is almost the same in that way. The world feels alive too, and the NPCs have routines like sleeping and eating.
Speaking of eating, they don't pull a bread from thin air, they actually eat food that it's actually there and you could grab (that's why the Dark Brotherhood's poisoned apples work).
@@ElInventor Right, I rememer you didn't even had to plant it in their pocket, but you could just put it on a table near them at times and it would still work :D
By spending a soulgem?
Or drinking mana potion?😂
How I feel about bg3
...did you seriously two-shot a Vatyr with melee?? How over-leveled were you for that area?
Quite, but that's the whole point of Enderal to become a demigod in late game🙂
A friend of mine send me this video and insisted that i watch it. I'm a certified Skyrim hater, i played it for around 100 hours.
100 hours is still not enough, I think you need to play more to get a new hater certificate :)
I don't understand how you can be a Skyrim hate it was so revolutionary to modern RPG games sure you don't have to love it hell even like it but you can't hate it just by what it has given us, ex cyberpunk, Witcher 3, breath of the wild and so many more
I think it was a joke😂
nice
What makes Skyrim special?
Special Edition.
Duh.
😂😂
Son, I don't think you understand what a soul is. A soul is YOU, that is literally who YOU ARE. Souls live forever. YOU will NEVER DIE your Soul cannot Ever Get Sick! Only choice you have to is accept Jesus so you will go to heaven or your soul will burn for eternity. Your choice. No game on Earth can effect your soul ever. Not possible.
But your thoughts do affect your soul and game can influence those🙂
Your channel is actually so funny. You are like the perfect stereotype.
Yall need Talos
Last I checked nobody knows what a soul is lol so no
как же больно ушам
Грустно😅
Your video title is a statement, not a question. Learn basic English.
Statements dont start with how in basic English😅
Skyrim is old and outdated experience. It was fun 14 years ago, and now it’s just boring old crap
I would disagree, with still blooming community and a lot of mods its as alive as ever tbh
I disagree but to each is own ig
I love the video, and the enderal footage, but I feel it may be a bit of a disservice to group Sureai's complete overhaul with skyrim when it has a completely different approach to gameplay, exploration, story telling and music. But I can agree, Skyrim is a magical game and feels almost impossible to recreate. Can't wait to see more videos from you.
I agree that SureAI need a separate video discussing the strengths of what they made, but quite honestly playing Enderal gave me very similar vibes to Skyrim anyway, despite a more brutal gameplay and unforgiving world🙂
I hope I will be able to make great videos for you to enjoy going forward as well❤️