The Elder Scrolls Skyrim 10 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective
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- Опубліковано 10 лис 2021
- Fus Ro Dang, it's time for an LGR review of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim! It's now one decade old (wut) so let's take a look back the original game from 2011 in celebration of its 10 year anniversary. Wow time flies, that midnight launch on 11-11-11 still seems like yesterday.
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#LGR #ElderScrolls #Skyrim - Ігри
2001-2011: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
2011-2021: Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim
Oh my dear, let me fix that for you... :
2001-2011: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
2011-2021: Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim and more Skyrim...
@@Z0MBUSTER can't we just get beyond Skyrim?
to be fair there was ESO but ehhhhh
Not to name what shall not be named but what about elder scrolls online?
@@zyriuz2 Would you like to take an arrow in the knee? Cause that's how you take arrows in knees... NI !
Heard they're reforming the Dawnguard. Vampire hunters or something, in the old fort near Riften. Might consider joining up myself.
You know... I could have gone into that sanctuary. Killed those Dark Brotherhood types. But I was... sick that day.
I heard they are remaking Skyrim. An elder scrolls game or something, made by Bethesda. Might consider buying it myself.
Need something?
There is a mod that makes them explode if saying that line, or the arrow one.
Say what
LGR : Why is there so much scrolling.
Me : Well, the game's called the elder scroll no ?
Queue canned laughter
So all this time, the elder scrolls series is just an old person (perhaps Skyrim grandma) scrolling through menus?
Ba dum tss
And you're elder when you're done scrolling? I think I get it.
@@MondySpartan Did someone say my name?
Ahhh perfectly balanced even 10 years on!
7/10 not enough Yorkshire tea
I have the feeling this comment is an exploit of some kind....
Lovely, Ladies and Gentlemen! ♥
A wild spiff appears
Is it a good channel or another salty anti SJW whine fest?
Looking forward to LGR's 20 year Skyrim retrospective
HAYOOOO
Just in time for the rerelease on the PS6 and Xbox Weird Name featuring 8K texture, RTX, and Metaverse multiplayer support. Just in time to quench your Elder Scrolls thirst as you wait for the soon to be delayed release of Elder Scrolls 6.
Same
And, presumably shortly after, a review of the newly launched Tamriel Rebuilt v1.0.0.
It'll probably be out before ES6
“Honey it's time for your 2PM new version of Skyrim"
“Yes dear"
@ShortHax I don't get it, but it must be funny because you have a check mark thingy!
@@euphoria_7477 It's a reference to the meme:
"Honey, it's 2PM. Time for your pegging."
"Yes dear.'
@@LochNessHamster isn''t this from the Christopher Nolan film "Memento"?
I eɑt ɑss...
I'd rather take the dick flattening tbh.
"it's 200 years after the events of Oblivion" yeah man, feels that way!
Every time I try replaying Skyrim, I always find that I like the idea of replaying Skyrim more than actually replaying Skyrim.
I’m the same way with many games. Terraria is another big one. I start a new character and world all fired up to finish it. Build my starter house and explore a bit for a few days until it’s about time to kill WoF, then I quit playing for a year. Repeat. Still have never entered hard mode.
Same with me.
Morrowind is the opposite for me. I find that game hard to go back to with how hard it can be, but can play through hours with it and get sucked in so hard.
@@corntastrophy What mods do you use with Morrowind? I really would like to get into it but the mods seem so daunting and there is no easy way to install them
I dunno, I'm having a bit of fun, actually.
@@grahamcrackers5645 get OpenMW and all your problems will be solved
Man, seeing LGR cover Skyrim as a Retrospective feels straight up weird and makes me feel very old
Same here.
It's a shorter retrospective than others, granted
Yep.. I hate it, XD.
Haha dude I know ..I got a part time job at GameStop just because of this game (went on to work there for 8 years). Sad part was I didn't even like it as much as Oblivion. Speaking of Oblivion, let's see that remaster or something...just something beyond Skyrim ver 4.10.014
i remember when LGR covered Arena 10 years ago, calling Skyrim "new"
By the time we have all passed away, the AI Copy of Todd Howard will still be re-releasing Skyrim.
"It just wor-wor-wor-works." Todd Headroom ca. 2111 AD
Unless it crashes.
"You see that planet over there? You can travel to that planet"
@@0verkill161 and then the ai crashes
That wouldn't be a problem, but we would all still waiting for Elder Scrolls 6....
Fun fact: There is, obviously, a mod that vastly improves the map screen and even lets you see the roads across the landscape
It's the best. Let's you get a reference for locations on the map.
Why bother with it when i can remember every cave,rock and grass in the world.
Funny how modders fix AAA title so quickly yet get attacked by the companies
@@captaintoyota3171 Except in this case, nothing was broken, and no companies went after the modders.
@@junibug6790 I think he's taking aim at Rockstar/Take Two
Though he lent his voice to several memorable characters in Skyrim, I am glad they used Stephen Russell's voice as Mercer Frey, the leader of the Thieves Guild. A great nod to Stephen also voicing the greatest thief of all time: Garrett from Thief - The Dark Project.
He then went on to voice one of the best gaming detectives, Nick Valentine
“What in Oblivion is that?” ‘Thomas the Tank Engine theme plays.’
Clint referencing his ruination thanks to dunkey's videos set me off. I too have brain mush that could only see Thomas flying around
@@juancarlosdaran758 No joke, me too. As soon as the scene started, I was like "Will he go there?"
Ladies and Gentlemen... SKYRIM is here to save us!
@@tristikov CLAAAsic
I was already humming the theme tune before Clint mentioned it. :D
Unmodded Skyrim - now that's a sight I haven't seen in years.
It's heresy I'm telling you! Playing Skyrim on PC unmodded like some filthy console peasant! Next you tell me he's playing with an Xbox360 controller.
@@OnionChoppingNinja then you'd probably hate me because that's how i played the game first and hated it
Buy it for Switch :D
Same dude
@@XZ-III Why? I played Skyrim on the 360 first as well since I didn't have the PC to run it at the time. (I think. It's been a long time.)
This game was my escape throughout high school, and was really the only game I ever connected to on a personal level.
Whenever I hear the music , see the scenes I feel a wave of nostalgia rush through my chest in the most painful of ways. I really wish I could play it for the first time again, and just be that 13 year old kid.
It’s not the perfect game, but it was perfect for me. And whatever Bethesda do next, I will always be thankful for making my teenage years so much better.
nice same, lmao
I feel you man, skyrim may not be the best game ever, but there is just something special in this game that no other game can make me feel.
1:31 “It had been five long years since the release of Oblivion”
The jokes write themselves
I love how Clint disliked his own Elder Scrolls Arena video.
Within a few weeks we can't see dislikes anymore anyway... Stupid UA-cam (in Homer voice)
I mean it was entertaining, but I can see why he hated it.
@@robertgijsen It's pretty much like they're trying to get rid of judgement and it's kinda sad
ES: Arena to this day I think actually has this special quality to it that no other ES game has. If I had to say what it was, it might be that, generally, you just never know what's going to happen next. Everything about the mechanics of this game just seems so raw and wild. It also gives the player an ass-ton of freedom, even for an ES game. If you know how, you can get out of the tutorial dungeon in about a minute. Maybe not even that. And right from there, you can go into the Mage's Guild and start immediately breaking the game, or look at your loot and see if you got a ridiculously powerful item from the starter dungeon (very likely actually). You're also barely ever safe. Even in town, if you're there in the streets at night, you will get attacked. If you stay too long in one place, you will get attacked by angry medieval police officers. And finally, this may be personal preference, but I just really like the general art style of the game.
All of this contributes to making Arena really interesting to play, even after all this time, and even with all the jank it has. (And there is a LOT of jank.) I will say it doesn't really have a lot of staying power at all, even compared to Daggerfall, but I think any serious ES fan should give it a try at least once.
@@XZ-III They claimed it's to protect small businesses or whatever. I personally doubt that's truly the case and think it's some form of damage control, but I've been wrong before.
One of my favorite parts of Skyrim was when I 'fixed' the mining.
Normally, you're locked into a painfully slow animation in order to mine. However, if you equip the pickaxe as a weapon and swing it as such at the mining spot, you still gain the material.
There's also a shout that temporarily increases your weapon swinging speed.
I think you can see where I'm going with this. Find a mining spot, equip dual pickaxes, shout and flail wildly at the spot until depleted.
Made mining for the Hearthstone materials a lot faster, it did.
Holy shit, I can’t believe I’m just now learning about this after 10 years 😂
Always surprised to learn about the sheer number of people that still don't know you can do that, although, to be fair, the game never really does anything to tell you that it's an option.
Don't you get less of the material when you do that?
@bulldozer, nah you get the same amount of material
@@samadams3802 Huh. Good to know.
That chuckle at 10:18 encapsulates perfectly the feeling you get when you make a stealth bow kill, it's overpowered in the game, but it's so satisfying to do
That promo card for Prey 2 you have in that DVD case is a super interesting bit of history, this version by Human Head was killed off by Bethesda, along with the studio, over corporate shenanigans and Arkane did a completely different game afterwards.
It was apparently along far enough to print promo material for it.
Yeah come to think of it it was kind of sad but that was a different time to be honest and secondly I'm fine with the current pray we got
"keep things in check so you don't end up with abominations"
And then in came the modders.
arguably far worse than oblivion characters. Ugh.
modding was the only thing that kept this game relevant for so long
@@StandTallTx That is true for every Elder Scrolls game since Morrowind though.
TBF, modders are the reason why I still play Skyrim ten years later.
@@VekhGaming True, really that applies to all Bethesda games but far more to Skyrim than any of the others. However, most of them went stagnant after 5 years, with the much newer Fallout 4 in that same process of dying off right now. Meanwhile Skyrim has no less than 4 major mod projects in the works at once and continues to get new works in all major sectors of it's scenes.
The leaflet for the doomed prey sequel is a piece of history in itself
I was gonna write something about seeing it. Still mad that we never got that.
@@naomiplays644 totally agree, I remember seeing videos and thinking it looked cool. Still think it'd be really unique too had they made it
That game had _so_ much potential. :-( I remember seeing it at Quakecon in 2011.
I would have loved it, but i think if it was released it would be been a cyberpunk situation.. so I'm kinda bitter-sweet we never got it
Yeah, I caught that too. The actual second game called Prey was actually probably a lot better of a game, so it didn’t end all that badly I guess!
I think it's funny the way that Bethesda clings to skyrim. I am impressed that this game is still having new official content released a decade after its launch. I have played this game so much that I have memorized the lay of the entire game world. Bless you modders, you made this game the joy it is to play.
I mean, Rockstar is doing the same thing with GTA V
and there's still new shit coming out for Age of Empires II 20(?) years on
@@victorkreig6089 Its not the best of anything.
Its average enough at everything to appeal to a giant amount of people. It's easy and generic with everything it does going from game mechanics to story writing and progression.
I was 10 years old when skyrim came out. I remember my dad buying it for me for christmas, he thought I might like it cause I always loved RPG open world games. And my god was he right. Ten years and thousands of hours later its still my favorite game, i later picked up Oblivion and the Fallout games and spent another thousand hours in those lol.
Im 20 now and cant wait for Starfield and TES 6..
@Julyxart Then you'll be 24 and 40 respectively, and if you live long enough you might see the release of the next one after those lol. 😁
I don't particularly mind open world rpgs, but I've also enjoyed condensed route based rpg adventures like the classic Pokemon series, Paper Mario, and octopath traveler.
Same almost. My mom got me skyrim for Christmas when I was 12. One of the most legendary games ever and I still play it to this day
So Starfield came out. Was it what you expected?
My favorite way to play Skyrim is to spend 10 hours installing mods, and then actually playing for 3 hours.
But all jokes aside, Skyrim definitely is in the top 3 of games I've put the most time into over the years. Definitely has a special place in my heart.
That's no exaggeration either lmao
...and then spending another 10 hours eliminating huge exclamation marks for badly implemented mods.
@@phunkracy... or another 10 hours solving a possible mod conflict or mod incompatibility that causes CTDs.
Lol pretty much yes
@@phunkracy Yep, that’s about where I am at the minute 😁. Vortex is in a right pickle.
I love how Skyrim has been rereleased so many times that it's honestly felt like more than 10 years ago
Lol at “Randy Savage” ending!!!
I can't play Skyrim without SkyUI anymore. Absolutely required.
I forgot it wasn’t what the ui was originally tbh lol
Same!
SkyUI, USLEEP, and the clearer map with roads. I honestly forget those mods aren't vanilla.
i cant play skyrim without my 200 mods
@@Iron_Stigmata
If USLEEP (and LaL) didn't have such a stubborn asshole of a dev, I might use it.
In all the modern Bethesda games I've often found the main storyline to be kinda boring and tedious, getting much more enjoyment out of the side quests, so that by the time I decide to work on the main quest I'm overpowered AF.
@@kaitlyn__L Good reply Kaitlyn, and the use of embiggen, kudos Lisa.
Spent my first 60 hours with Skyrim this past week and I’m having that same experience I would say.
@@raymondjurie9047
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
@@White_Tiger93 The Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood shouldve clashed. Forcing you to pick one, same with the College and Companions imo.
OOF. That Prey2 poster hits hard yo, makes me sad that we'll never see it
same, I remember being really hyped for years only to find out it was vapor ware
Idk man seeing the Napster logo was weird for me. Lol.
@@denniswoycheshen napster still exists just it's not what it was back in the late 90s/early 2000s
Don't worry, the Prey we got instead was so much better than whatever that dreck would've been
@@bleepbloop2318 Nah, Arkanes prey is great and all but dismissing prey 2 is being ignorant, bathesda killed a nearly complete game everyone wanted, and blamed it on quality concerns (insert fallout 76 joke here)
Theres are whole videos on the bullshit todds company pulled that come down to bullying the devs into being bought up and when they didn't budge bathesda just nicked the project wholesale
When Skyrim came out I was just out of high school. Still waiting on TES6 and I've had 2 kids and I turn 30 this year. I have a feeling I'll be playing it with my grandchildren.
I remember being some little brat, showing my mom your Sims 3 reviews to try and convince her to buy me another over-priced pack. I didn’t get understand most of the jokes, but I loved your videos nonetheless. I’m in college now, still watching and enjoying. You’re a legend!
7:26 someone’s been watching Tim Rogers 😉
"Emotional Cabbage" made me spew hot taco juice out of my nose. Worth it.
Hot taco juice--always a pleasant Autumn beverage.
gotta be first time to comment on a youtube video. Emotional cabbage is genius level writing.
I was like 5 seconds late to that line from needing a new keyboard.
This was a lovely retrospective. Thank you.
Clint some mods you might like: ihud (can make hud smaller), there's one that hides the compass unless you hit a button (great for exploration), and Ordinator. Ordinator has new ways to enjoy stealth, thievery, magic, etc. I especially enjoy its additions to the stealth side of the game. Very good.
''Celebrate Skyrim 10th anniversary by buying it again'' - Todd probably.
From, "Well, what the nuts?" to, "Forests full of autumnal elegance,“ your writing for these episodes is always pleasing. The way you describe things always makes me chuckle but then also appreciate it from a new perspective. The metaphors, alliteration, and always awesome adjectives are the reason this is my favorite tech channel.
I completely agree, Clint's writing and the way he narrates these videos is so entertaining and well written and I especially enjoy the alliteration. In this video the emotional cabbage line was my fave. Actually laughed out loud at that 😂
I'm with you on hoping we get the next one before I turn 40 haha
I love your channel and it’s so awesome that y’all dig Skyrim too!!! Hi everyone, but specifically Matt!!!
I’m almost there. From release to now I’ve bought a houses got married had kids….
I also hope we get TES VI before I turn 40, and I'm 25 now.
They aren't starting development until Stanfield is done which will be released in November 11, 2022 so pretty much 2023 because its only 1 month away, ES6 will come out in 2026 unless they lied about the development time.
This hits me in the feels. The 2000s will NEVER be touched in terms of midnight/game releases in general.
Tournaments, giveaways, actual limited editions, pre-ordering being a necessity sometimes. The digital era will never make this happen again, such a unique little blip in video game history I am glad to have grown up with.
I’m so glad I got to experience midnight releases 😆 waiting in line and running home to play was a whole experience
The slow decline eh?
True story right there! Good times; great camaraderie. There was something special about that time. not banging on this time either, of course, but Skyrim is still a tremendous game. Bless the modders!
nah, it's better now. take off the nostalgia glasses
It's only unique because you're nostalgic to it , i am young adn the older games seem boring as hell to me since im not nostalgic to them , but im extremely nostalgic and defend the games i used to play when i was 8-11
I've spent hundreds of hours on Skyrim and have only just learned today that the lockpicking mini game was supposed to have a controller vibration element to it!
I just learned the map was 3D and the camera angle is changeable.
Same
22:26 Splayed out corpse on brazier is both disturbing and hilarious. I had to rewind to make sure I saw what I thought I saw. Child staring up at said corpse is equally disturbing/hilarious. Happy Birthday, Skyrim!
I remember the unreal hype Skyrim had before it released. Everyone was so hyped for it. I didnt get it till 1 month later for xmas, but i remember obession over game play videos and reviews and that 1 month felt like an eternity! I played it non stop for the whole 2012. Blew me away and i coud not put the game down. I just starter a new character on the PS5 version and my god, its hooked me again! There is something about Skyrim that just takes me straight back to 2012, even all these years later. Truely one of my all time favourite games, and im so glad i was able to play back in the day when it was new and fresh
I remember 11/11/11 like it was yesterday. Waited in line at Gamestop for my PC edition, got home at about 1am and had taken that Friday off of work. There was some day one audio bug that kept the game from launching unless you set some weird audio setting manually to 44kbps or something but somehow the internet already had a fix posted on a forum somewhere. I then dove into a massive session that lasted about 50 hours of the 72 I had to work with before work that Monday. I remember coming into work and talking with coworkers that were excited for Skyrim, and they were like "have you faught a dragon yet!? One came out of nowhere and burned me to a crisp." To which I replied I had already killed 20 dragons and was close to finally maxing out my blacksmithing. A gaming memory I'll never forget.
After all these years I realized why this game always seemed weird to me. There is no "view bobbing". Walking is just too smooth
easily fixed via mods of course
There is view bobbing tho, it's just subtle. Now in Oblivion and Morrowind there is no bobbing at all, it really feels like you are just floating in the air.
I am glad there isn't, as view bobbing causes me to get motion sickness. There is a reason few games have it, even nowadays.
@@herczegmarton9972 maybe because I’m used to Minecraft I never noticed it
@@Mathadar I would like the option. There may be one but I never noticed it
Skyrim was my EVERYTHING during my late teens. I would spend whole Saturdays just glued to the computer fighting dragons and stealing cheese.
I was also that person who put too much thought and effort into the role playing aspect and created elaborate backstories for every one of my characters. (I didn't have a big enough friend circle to get a DnD game going so Skyrim was my outlet for that kinda thing instead)
Same here. I am a fan fiction writer mostly and I have the beginnings of at least four or five possible stories if I could find the time to sit down and flesh them out. Skyrim and Fallout for all of their many flaws are a ripe ground for creativity to take root.
No girls?
@@Pusfilth am girl
@@ophiolatrix no boys?
@@Pusfilth am also gay and was very socially awkward back then
Started playing this for the first time last night 🥳 11 years late...
This makes me feel soooo old (I was 21 at it's release). It's one of the last few games I will probably have nostalgia for. There has barely been anything in that same category since (maybe some Fallout and Witcher 2/3).
As I get older I am getting more and more bored with games, most probably cause the industry is just rehashing the same concepts and trying to milk consumers.
10:56 All your emotional cabbage (you sir, are great)
Man, so many memories in Skyrim. Took me years to realize what 'Fus Ro Dah' meant since since I spent years dicking around with side content and mods without touching the main quest. To this day, Steam shows hundreds of hours in both OG and SSE . . . but not a single trophy since, you know, mods.
That’s just sad 😔
Funny enough, there is a mod to re-enable achievements if you want to play with mods. It's called Achievements Mods Enabler.
Skyrim has become like Doom where in ten years time we'll be running it on toasters and fridges
wdym in ten years time, the jokes on you since Skyrim is already been released for Samsung smart fridges three years ago.
Also who wouldn't want a toaster that when it pops it plays the Skyrim Theme song
And if you insert the Skyrim disk into a cheesecake it should at least boot the loading screen!
@@KingofWolves3277 I'd prefer the toaster to yell: "Dovahkiiiiiiiiiiiin!!!"
Man i used to be addicted to skyrim back in 2012 when i was 14, this game literally help me put out the stress after a longday at school during fridays.
This is my favorite game of all time. It is absurdly addicting even on repeat plays.
While LGR was laughing at the thought of Thomas the Tank Engine, I was just laughing at "sentries, what do you see?" "It's in the clouds!" Such a well-crafted game.
"Hey, you. You are finally awake". Ah I remember 10 years ago when I started my first playthrough of Skyrim. When I started the game horses instead of stopping in the site where executions were happening they started running in the wall and then died. I remember how confused I was. Bethesda games were always janky, but that was the part of their charm. Though interestingly Skyrim was less buggy for me than Fallout 4 at launch. I remember falling through floors in FO4 multiple times on launch version.
That's weird, because I remember being surprised by Fallout 4 because it was by far the least buggy and most stable game from BGS (for me, for what it's worth). I remember some other people reporting as well that it was way less buggy than Skyrim.
Saying that, even with Skyrim, I've mainly just had funny bugs, not game breaking ones. In the ten years and over a thousand hours of playing and modding, I've had a crash to desktop like twice, maybe?
*Sighs*
"Alright, time for another modded playthrough."
You always delight me with the atmosphere of your videos, that nostalgia feeling.
"Dunkey's videos have ruined my brain" Me too, man. Me too.
His videos are funny but his fans, knock-offs and comment section are insufferable.
@@Roflcrabs Agree
I remember playing an utterly broken game on ps3 for 100 hours then losing it all to a save bug. It was still fun though.
I recently bought a ps3 for nostalgia reasons and bought skyrim, nothing hurts more than playing for hours only to run into that save bug and having to start all over again. Never experienced that till this year lol
This game on ps3 is single handily the reason I became a pc gamer. That plus the dlc delay on it.
That bugs are still in BGS products, I had such bug in Fallout76 too. I lose perks in the saves now the saves is bugged, I have to start it again but Fallout76 is so boring that isn't worth to play it. Skyrim has a good enviroment and character to play it again and again, like Fallout New Vegas.
8:36 "Hoth like cave" with a skeleton hanging upside down in the ice is a nice touch.
Gotta say I'm glad to see this! I've been missing Clint doing game reviews and retrospectives.
10 years already? I still remember when my brother talked about how big the map is and offered me his hard drive that contained the installation file for Skyrim.
Steam says I have, 4,148hrs on the oldrim, the excellent mod community keeps me coming back for more, and still going.
I started watching you just after Skyrim came out.
Thanks for making these great videos, your productiom quality has increased by a ton.
Back then I was too poor to buy it myself but I watched my brother play it and when the first dragon came we were laughing our asses off because it was flying tail forwards towards him.
Fantastic.Love watching your videos on old-school games. Always interesting to watch your videos!
15:09 Even Todd Howard himself admitted he uses UI mods in a recent interview, so the vanillla UI is officially shit now.
@@victorkreig6089 Is this supposed to be bait? Stop whining.
@@fanasful ”Stop whining” - Person who whines.
Stop calling people who don’t agree with you trolls, it’s so tiring and ridiculous...
@@victorkreig6089 While i do play on PC (pc masterrace, woo!), i also despise SkyUI...
It tirns a streamlined and easy to use menu into a *clunky and cluttered mess...*
It’s such a joke, andlooks absolutely hideous...
At least on PC you can add a mod that removes it visually, yet keeps it’s added functions. Thank heavens...
there's something very endearing about the idea of todd playing his own games
@@schnek8927 1 word buddy.
CONTAINERS.
If you played Skyrim back then, and have played it many times over since, you should absolutely try it in VR someday. The experience is like nothing else really, the game might not be all that great imo, but just the wave of emotions you get from getting to be inside all those same places you saw many times, it's a strange feeling to finally see it all so up close.
my first ever skyrim playthrough was in VR and damn, it was amazing
I so, so wanna try it, I genuinely am a massive fan of all the elder scrolls now but Skyrim was my first real entry point. I think I'd actually cry, to be able to feel inside the world like that
Skyrim vr exhausted me so i got back to just racing in vr (which you should try if you like it)
I'll say it time and time again, the atmosphere of Skyrim is INSANE, and immersion + atmosphere are both the most important parts of a game for me.
Definitely on my list! It will be worth the dizziness VR usually gives me :D
Oh my gosh! I remember watching your videos on the Commodore VIC-20, 64 and the original Macintosh when I was a kid. Glad you're still kicking and making content!
Thank you for the video. You did an excellent job, and it looks like it took a really long time!
That post-binge picture really captured a mood and a time.
I remember obtaining the game as a teen and being all amazed by the graphics for the time. It's amazing how much has changed in 10 yrs for games.
I still think its look good but then again I don't really play enough new games to have a comparison
@@majamystic256 The year before I was all hooked onto Fallout NV, it being to this very day my favourite Fallout in the franchise apart from 2. So when TES Skyrim came around the corner, I saw a game with so much genuine interaction and the enviroment, that it still gets me hooked to this very day.
Those were amazing times, can't believe it's been that long
@@babagandu I can't believe it either, it feels like it's only been a few years.
@@cheese_enjoyer. i havent really started playing skyrim is it my time to finally play so i can also experience those years?
I love these retrospective videos! Great upload.
I remember being in line at my local mall for the midnight release of the game. I was friendly with the guys who worked at the Game Stop because I also worked at the mall, and we'd wind up chatting on breaks. I remember that night, they brought me out a slice of pizza while we were all waiting, and then held my game hostage until i managed to throw a wadded up paper ball into a trash can (while not holding up the line, lol). It's just a fond memory with friends.
10 years before skyrim's release was 2001
I just wanted people to feel old
Critical hit
Ten years before Skyrim released, the newest Elder Scrolls game was...Redguard.
I've watched your tech videos here and there for years and always enjoyed them but can't recall seeing much gameplay videos. This is my favorite Skyrim retrospective on UA-cam so far. I've seen so many big documentaries just complaining about the game while also saying it's good backhandedly. I just want to remember it for the magic it still has to me. This game came out a long time ago now and it still is one of my favorite games of all time and I still am playing it and have bought it 5 times. Such a great world to escape in.
my favorite Skyrim moment: "what was that!?" :npc walks around with arrow sticking out of their head: "Huh.. must have been my imagination." :npc returns to original post with arrow sticking out of their head:
I hope you've seen the Joel Haver animation about this.
I remember exactly what my life was like at the time of Skyrim’s release. I was a sophomore in university. My friend was excited to take advantage of having a single dorm room so he could play Skyrim uninterrupted on his day off.
Our mutual friend and I didn’t understand the hype at the time. She lovingly referred to it as “Rimjob.” I still think of that every time I see it in my PS4 library.
I was supposed to be studying for a maths exam in my first year at uni. Instead I chose to stream Skyrim to a classmate using the share feature in Skype. One of my fondest memories, even if I probably made a poor choice at the time.
holy shit, an LGR retrospective in a game i actually saw the launch!, i feel old.
I jut downloaded my old Xbox 360 save from the launch edition of this game onto a thumb drive and loaded it into my Special Edition a couple months back. Hopped right in like nothing happened. Insane to be able to experience my old character this many years later.
im playing this game for years.
i have just played today.
i was on solstheim with my two-handed heavy armored orc
I didn't have the hardware for the game until 2019. But I'm hit with the same nostaligic feeling as if it has really been 10 years. What a game
I have literally waited years for this video.
same man
@@jefverstraete8574 We all have, man. We all have...
Those Silt Strider sounds when roaming Solstheim still give me the chills every now and then !
I beat the game a second time after 5 years. A lot of good memories. Having that vampire chick as your ally while you roam around and battle is cool.
Rookie number my friend
I remember my friends being so hyped for this game back in highschool. It's crazy thats already 10 years ago.
on the midnight release, I was getting out of a concert my buddy's band was playing at. We ended up at the nearby mall afterwards and saw a huge line outside gamestop with some familiar faces. Saw a couple people there I'd seen at parties but never chatted with, after that night we started seeing each other more and more around town and those guys ended up being my first roommates . This game really brought a lot of great people into my life.
"I used to be an adventurer like you, but then i took a arrow to the knee"
*Shoots him in the knee.*
Me: LMAO
6:32 Wait a goddamn second, are you telling me that I've been playing Skyrim on and off for years and I was always able to rotate that map?!
And it still baffles me that ten years later and this is still the latest Elder Scrolls game, still a great game despite its growing age. Kinda saying something that is getting retrospected here lol!
Does ESO not count?
Right? The fact that Skyrim feels contemporary rather than retro speaks for itself.
@@MONGIE30 ESO is great tbh but its an MMO.
Listen Wes Johnson could voice an entire game, and I'd be perfectly happy. He's great! A lot of the Skyrim VA's are just doing a bad Arnie impression.
@@victorkreig6089 he said a lot, not all of them. And yes he’s awesome!
This was a surprise to see, but a very pleasant one. Still one of my favorite games of all time. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I'm pretty sure your Arena video is the first LGR video I saw, and the reason I'm subscribed.
Is it bad that I've never finished the main quest, despite spending (presumably) thousands of hours playing the game in the last decade?
Personally? I’m judging you.
@@flouserschird I started a new game, removed all my mods, admitted that I don't enjoy survival mode, and am playing a a Breton. Granted, I'm at level 30 and haven't even finished The Horn of Jurgen Windcaller because I'm building my homestead and spending hours focusing on enchanting and alchemy instead of playing quests, but I refuse to get bored and stop this time.
I have never beat it and have played it vanilla on and off since it came out... somewhere along the way I always get distracted and then I just make a new character before I ever get back to the main quest.
It is the best way to play any Bethesda game.
Nah it took me several characters before I bothered to do so. That was about 8 years ago though, always done it since.
I never finished it either. Same situation as you, easily put in over a thousand hours across various consoles. I get my enjoyment from exploring in open-world RPGs... as I've gotten older, I've learned it's fine to take enjoyment from a game in whichever way you see fit 🙂
What’s most impressive is that Clint remembers the exact model of phone he had 10 years ago.
You don't? I was rolling with my first smartphone, the LG Optimus S.
I didn’t even have a phone in 2011 lol
Unless you mindlessly switching phones yearly, i think anyone can do that.
Clint is a techphile.
Wow I guess I’m just dumb, I remember it was a Samsung but I have no recollection of what model it was or even really what it looked like. But I did party a lot in my 20s it’s a blurry time.
WHOA! Your tip on putting that cauldron on top of the shopkeepers head is something I've never thought of and it genuinely blew my mind! Maybe I just need to work on being a more creative gamer. Which I'm going to work on doing right now! The great thing about have a work schedule Thurs-Sun is having Mondays off! Love your channel and appreciate you blowing my mind.
i love your channel, so genuine.
3 days straight? Holy moly, Clint. That's dedication! Plenty more left in Skyrim after 3 days, though! :)
I took a week off for Skyward Sword's release. Coworkers did it for releases all the time, so it was my turn. Bought ALL the snacks. Hehehe
"Dealing out Death on Dudes from a Distance" sounds like an indie game I'd play in a heartbeat.
Someone needs to make it, I want to play too.
"Dealing out death from a distance becomes a cinch"
*Shows a skeleton dying even more then it already has
Undead, to Redead.
Just found this channel and I gotta say - I love your videos!
Still remember when this game came out. I showed up at a friend's apartment and a bunch of us just sat and watched him play it on a big screen. Providing hilarious commentary all the while. Wish I could go back..