The Elder Scrolls Skyrim 10 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective
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Date: 2022-04-14
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MrPallanza
About 8 months after it's release, I played a cracked Vanilla Skyrim and basically sacrificed 2 years of my life, a Masters Degree, developed carpal tunnel, and had sleepless nights playing it for the first time. I remember playing an Argonian heavy armored combatant who is good in Sneaking and an expert in resoration, and making 4 other characters and playing the shit out it to the point my laptop needed a motherboard replacement. Was it worth it? Maybe, but it really led me to rethink my life's choices.
Fast forward to today, I bought Skyrim on Steam and replayed it. It was amazing, and I was much more story and lore driven than having the impressionable mind I had before. I made three main characters, a Dunmer arch-mage wielding dragon slaying magic, a Wood Elf heavy armor combatant who can swing her battleaxe harder than Giants, and a Dark Nightingale Brotherhood Khajiit who can steal a sweetroll in broad daylight with 5 witnesses. I played each to their specific strenghts and leaning. The Dunmer the arch mage of Winterhold and a Dawnguard champ, the Wood Elf who slain Miraak, about to experience lycanthropy and a Stormcloak supporter, and the Khajiit a vampire to be and an Imperial loyalist. All three just passed level 30, and are all at the Season Unending quest just nearing the endgame of Skyrim. My headcanon is that these three characters are a Dragonborn troupe out to slay Alduin.
But after sinking nearly 100 hours into it, it just feels like the magic and joy playing this game for the first time just isn't there any more. Sure the game looks amazing and still immerses you in the massive world before you, but like all adventurers, that arrow would meet your knee eventually. I'm just happy I have experienced Skyrim in my lifetime. Thanks for the review, Clint! Cheers.
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About 8 months after it's release, I played a cracked Vanilla Skyrim and basically sacrificed 2 years of my life, a Masters Degree, developed carpal tunnel, and had sleepless nights playing it for the first time. I remember playing an Argonian heavy armored combatant who is good in Sneaking and an expert in resoration, and making 4 other characters and playing the shit out it to the point my laptop needed a motherboard replacement. Was it worth it? Maybe, but it really led me to rethink my life's choices.
Fast forward to today, I bought Skyrim on Steam and replayed it. It was amazing, and I was much more story and lore driven than having the impressionable mind I had before. I made three main characters, a Dunmer arch-mage wielding dragon slaying magic, a Wood Elf heavy armor combatant who can swing her battleaxe harder than Giants, and a Dark Nightingale Brotherhood Khajiit who can steal a sweetroll in broad daylight with 5 witnesses. I played each to their specific strenghts and leaning. The Dunmer the arch mage of Winterhold and a Dawnguard champ, the Wood Elf who slain Miraak, about to experience lycanthropy and a Stormcloak supporter, and the Khajiit a vampire to be and an Imperial loyalist. All three just passed level 30, and are all at the Season Unending quest just nearing the endgame of Skyrim. My headcanon is that these three characters are a Dragonborn troupe out to slay Alduin.
But after sinking nearly 100 hours into it, it just feels like the magic and joy playing this game for the first time just isn't there any more. Sure the game looks amazing and still immerses you in the massive world before you, but like all adventurers, that arrow would meet your knee eventually. I'm just happy I have experienced Skyrim in my lifetime. Thanks for the review, Clint! Cheers.
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UnforgivenCaleb
Still can't believe this game is 10 years old now. I remember when I first got this game on the 360, it was a memorable experience. Being on the horse-drawn cart on the way to Helgen, with Ulfric Stormcloak nearby. Then witnessing the dragon attack, I knew then and there that this was a completely different beast from Oblivion. I also remember wandering around Whiterun, getting launched into the stratosphere by a giant, delving into numerous Dwarven ruins and caves. It obviously had its flaws, but I loved it.
Now? I still play it from time-to-time. on PC. with a ton of different mods. Say what you will about Skyrim and it's 37 million re-releases, but you can't deny that this game has one of the biggest modding communities out there (moreso with the Legendary Edition than the Special Edition, which still has a ton of mods.
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Still can't believe this game is 10 years old now. I remember when I first got this game on the 360, it was a memorable experience. Being on the horse-drawn cart on the way to Helgen, with Ulfric Stormcloak nearby. Then witnessing the dragon attack, I knew then and there that this was a completely different beast from Oblivion. I also remember wandering around Whiterun, getting launched into the stratosphere by a giant, delving into numerous Dwarven ruins and caves. It obviously had its flaws, but I loved it.
Now? I still play it from time-to-time. on PC. with a ton of different mods. Say what you will about Skyrim and it's 37 million re-releases, but you can't deny that this game has one of the biggest modding communities out there (moreso with the Legendary Edition than the Special Edition, which still has a ton of mods.
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Matt
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.
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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.
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Aselene
Remember saying to my son (then 10 years old) in 2011, you play and I'll watch because if I play I'll never stop playing. fast forward to 2022, son is at university and I'm still playing skyrim lol. Well I grew up in the 80's where a Dungeons and Dragon fan only had 8 bit graphics on computers or alternatively a pencil, a piece of paper, Dice, some cool figurines, a monster manual and two half inch thick A4 hardback rule books, for the table top adventure. Back then we couldn't even imagine something so brilliant on a computer, So you see, to me, skyrim is rather special and impo still hasn't been bettered as a perfect dungeons and dragons computer game.
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Remember saying to my son (then 10 years old) in 2011, you play and I'll watch because if I play I'll never stop playing. fast forward to 2022, son is at university and I'm still playing skyrim lol. Well I grew up in the 80's where a Dungeons and Dragon fan only had 8 bit graphics on computers or alternatively a pencil, a piece of paper, Dice, some cool figurines, a monster manual and two half inch thick A4 hardback rule books, for the table top adventure. Back then we couldn't even imagine something so brilliant on a computer, So you see, to me, skyrim is rather special and impo still hasn't been bettered as a perfect dungeons and dragons computer game.
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Boudens4ge
As a person who just recently decided to give Skyrim a try, I gotta say I was pretty disappointed. I only played one of Bethesda's RPGs before, fnv. Although the game itself was really rough around the edges, but I got captivated by the plot, the dialogue was great, and options were vast. Here, well I was somewhat disappointed, especially the combat and especially for the price. I could help myself, but constantly ask, why am I playing this, when I can just play Witcher 3? It does everything skyrim does, just better, so yeah, bethesda should've let it die peacefully with status of classic, instead of milking it's rotting corpse.
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As a person who just recently decided to give Skyrim a try, I gotta say I was pretty disappointed. I only played one of Bethesda's RPGs before, fnv. Although the game itself was really rough around the edges, but I got captivated by the plot, the dialogue was great, and options were vast. Here, well I was somewhat disappointed, especially the combat and especially for the price. I could help myself, but constantly ask, why am I playing this, when I can just play Witcher 3? It does everything skyrim does, just better, so yeah, bethesda should've let it die peacefully with status of classic, instead of milking it's rotting corpse.
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TheSteelRodent
funny thing about Fallout 3 being a -hit-: it was far more popular with people who'd never played the real Fallout games (1 and 2) than it ever was with the Fallout community, simply because it was a very weak and lackluster entry into the franchise
Skyrim is great in itself, but because Bethesda refuse to support it, despite the annual re-release, it still requires heavy modding to not be a totally buggy mess and make it look somewhat acceptable on modern high-end hardware
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funny thing about Fallout 3 being a -hit-: it was far more popular with people who'd never played the real Fallout games (1 and 2) than it ever was with the Fallout community, simply because it was a very weak and lackluster entry into the franchise
Skyrim is great in itself, but because Bethesda refuse to support it, despite the annual re-release, it still requires heavy modding to not be a totally buggy mess and make it look somewhat acceptable on modern high-end hardware
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The
Skyrim was for me a big damn event. came out early for me and I and me mate played for over 10 hours straight. My imagination went to overdrive while playing and it felt like a next gen title really. I loved oblivion but skyrim was my essence in life. gaming, stories, fantasy. dragons and infinity. Skal to those involved and skal to the impossible legacy it shall always have. to be remembered forever I can believe shall be within skyrim.
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Skyrim was for me a big damn event. came out early for me and I and me mate played for over 10 hours straight. My imagination went to overdrive while playing and it felt like a next gen title really. I loved oblivion but skyrim was my essence in life. gaming, stories, fantasy. dragons and infinity. Skal to those involved and skal to the impossible legacy it shall always have. to be remembered forever I can believe shall be within skyrim.
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MafiousBJ
The fact that in 2021 I'm waiting to get an upgraded PC rig and the first thing I will probably do with it is install Skyrim and mod the hell out of it again (now in 4K) talks about the weird longevity it has. and I never bought any other release after the first one and the DLCs.
Maybe being released alongside medieval fantasy series like GOT was the perfect storm for this game
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The fact that in 2021 I'm waiting to get an upgraded PC rig and the first thing I will probably do with it is install Skyrim and mod the hell out of it again (now in 4K) talks about the weird longevity it has. and I never bought any other release after the first one and the DLCs.
Maybe being released alongside medieval fantasy series like GOT was the perfect storm for this game
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fanjoy
I remember that I got hooked to Skyrim thanks to my bf at the time purchasing the special edition first release on ps3 with the dragon figure (that we later topped on an XMas tree one year) and after watching him and our friend/roommate playing it. I basically -hijacked- it from them for myself whenever I came over.
They only had themselves to blame for that! Lol!
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I remember that I got hooked to Skyrim thanks to my bf at the time purchasing the special edition first release on ps3 with the dragon figure (that we later topped on an XMas tree one year) and after watching him and our friend/roommate playing it. I basically -hijacked- it from them for myself whenever I came over.
They only had themselves to blame for that! Lol!
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