I first played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim when I was eleven years old. Is it time to say goodbye?
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I can't play games like these without autoloot. Its a game, so i ain't fiddling around with pressing a button to pick up plants or whatever, walking nearby is immersive enough for me and helpnme enjoy the game much more
I don't think being a child has anything to do with it. Skyrim wasn't perfect, but it excelled at something it probably wasn't even aiming for. It's an amazing power fantasy game. You start as a nobody, a prisoner about to be executed. And you end the game thane of every hold, savior of Skyrim, beloved by all. Starfield will never be able to do that, because that's not the game they were trying to make. Nor is it the story they're really trying to tell. Starfield can reach it's own heights, but it's issues are holding it back. And a lot of the players aren't letting it slide this time around.
As long as people will keep modding Skyrim, I'll keep going back to it.
Ah 2012, I was in 5th grade at the time, and it was my birthday. My older bro told my dad to get me the game so he could play it too lmao. So my bro and I shared the game and played the absolute shit out of it. Great times, but it will never be the same. Now Im 23yrs old in the military and my bros are are all doing their own careers. We will never be able to go back to a simpler time. but it was great when it lasted.
Sorry, but I love the game at 52. The mods and upgrades have made it immensely enjoyable.
I i hated every word of this because it shone a light on something I'd been trying to ignore for a while…. not skyrim specifically. I'm actually very new to this game. But gaming in general isn't an adventure anymore. It's a hunt for nostalgic gratification that doesn't exist…
I started playing skyrium for first time on my own save file 3 years ago i bought it for switch. When i first bought it i didnt play it that much becuse i had other games i wanted to play but first couple times i played u jept making new character. The charcter im playing now i really enjoy. It was started out as survival mode character. But then i got frustrated by survival mode carring limit. Everything else about it was great. But i hated carrying limt. Im playing on switch with no mods by the way
Wait till you discover that Skyrim is the 2nd most modded game in existence and can be made into a better rpg than most modern ones, or just straight up DMC5 if you want to.
Try nofap. You will feel excited about small things again.
I get this way when i Play games from my childhood. but I do still kick ass at Mario Bros 3.
Skyrim is why people want TES6 so badly. Starfield is cool and all, but it's not what we're looking for. We want TES6. We want the magical mystical world, with elves, and magic, and evil-doers. We want to explore vast areas, NOT walk 3 km and then be told we have to go back to our ship and move in order to go further (serious Todd, WTF?)
I'm playing starfield, its fun, but it's not what I want in a game. I want TES6.
I never played skyrim in any way, but i'm planning too. I also didn't saw spoilers or only some dlc ones
Be child like but not childish. It’s okay to have a want for adventure and exploration. Growing up doesn’t mean leaving that behind
I recently got skyrim, never played it. I find it boring even If I use my Imagination or console mods. When I bulid my PC im going to try out the PC mods for skyrim to see why this game is loved
Its because we know the game inside out. The time will come when Elderscrolls 6 come out and we can all feel that again.
I miss my childhood
Well it's been played so much that is there anything to really explore on it anymore? How many times can you do the same quests over and over and over again until you get tired of it? Thing is is that skyrim was like their best. So it took longer to get completely tired of it. I can tell that they put a ton of work into the game. Sad thing is that they refuse to do the same with any of their new games since than. Seems like anything they make feels like a money grab anymore.
Who would've thought that a game would get boring after replaying it multiple times over 12 years?
I don’t care what anyone says, as a child I was never allowed to play violent games fair play to my parents, this I never got the opportunity to play this wonderful game or fallout, as I grew up since I was so used to playing FIFA & PES all my life, I would watch my friends play fallout & think this is so odd I don’t understand the controls or know what to do but one day I decided to give it a try & fell in love. I ended up beating fallout, so I decided to give Skyrim a try in 2023 & I’m still discovering & enjoying it thank you Bethesda ❤️
How are we yet to top this game a decade later? Ill never get it.
I feel old as fuck, was 21 when Skyrim was released and here I see a lot of people who were kids at that time… Skyrim was a great experience, I think every open world game has it´s own merits. I loved Skyrim because of the freedom and possibilities, you could play it for days in a row and still be surprised by something you weren´t expecting. I think I´m lucky, had different experiences before skyrim and it meant so much to me at that time, I grew up watching LOTR movies and playing some of the games, Skyrim was the closest I ever felt of experiencing middle earth, even though it wasn´t related to LOTR.
Adding 200 mods will create that itch again!
I am in the same situation with Morrowind. It is rather melancholy not being able to find the same feeling of wonder as it was during the first few play-throughs.
5:01 Combat should not be based on player skill. You want self-play, not role-play!
we've all become the ebony warrior,doing all there is to be done
lol I still play this game lol
Yeah, I don't want to play skyrim again, I want to play skyrim for the first time again. . .
I wish that there was some modern giant fantasy role-playing game as big as big as skyrim but games like this cost loads of money and time to create.
My fav thing in skyrim would be the ability to choose factions like imperial, vampire, werewolf, stormcloak, blades, college of winterhold, bards college, cannibal cult, dark brotherhood, thieves guild, etc (Wish you could join the forsworn though but I can sorts get why you are not allowed, making your own bandit group would be cool though)
I like when they give the player passive abilities that they can always keep with them to remember there journeys rather then a weapon that would just be lying around in a cupboard in the players home because an enchanted fork from a high level player is better then an artifact from the gods
I love it skyrim takes me to a whole new world love it.
Title's a bit overkill. Made me think there was a bug or something that made the game unplayable. What i actually saw was "this game didnt age as good as other games and therefore i cant play it". Also, the "loss of wonder" segment is just nitpicking. Skyrim is over 10 years old. No game can be new forever.
Also, you can't escape internet nerd rage concerning fallout 4 or 76, no matter where you are.
I don’t know why, but Skyrim was never able to hook me like Oblivion.
Dude, skyrim wil never die.
like morrowind and oblivion .. or even arena and daggerfall .. an elder scrolls game will never be truly dead.
Wha…but I just did!
MODS BRO
Baldur’s Gate 3 has managed to capture me the same way Skyrim did when I was a kid
I think we all get these feelings. I'm over 50 now, but I still remember when things like Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights and Warcraft were a big deal. Quickly followed by Asheron's Call, which had little story; Dark Age of Camelot (which seemed great then), Everquest and more. Each of those games was a huge world to discover and I am happy to have been there at the dawning of the MMO genre. I am literally playing Skyrim now, wondering if Bethesda will ever develop Elder Scrolls 6 and if it will be worth playing, or just a prettier version of Skyrim. I note they are considering making it an Xbox-only title, which is sad to me because while many my age have played a host of console games, many of us still prefer the raw power of PCs.
Ironically you loved it to death. If you had played it once in a while you could still play it, but you burnt out on it. I’ve done that with certain musical artists. I played the music so much I can’t really enjoy it anymore
I started playing Skyrim in 2011 when I too was 11. It was the same year I discovered Minecraft and both games were the backbone of my teenage years. Went back and still felt kind of enamored by it but definitely didn't have that same wonder.
There's a backdrop of machinima "100 ways to die in Skyrim" that pops into my head when I walk across certain parts, and feel the history of the game set like dwemer concrete. And while I absolutely adore the rich storytelling of the Witcher 3, I can't put a basket on Dandelion's head to steal his lute. Skyrim fulfilled a niche in gaming so we'll that said niche became a genre and I'll never forget that but I too think I'm done with it
I was 42 when Skyrim came out, and I still have and scratch that itch from time to time. For both Fallout and Elder Scrolls, it's wandering around the vast worlds that keep me coming back. That and the mods.
For me, I equate "Skyrim" like a drug. You're trying to chase that first high. It will never be the same. For those who have yet to play "Skyrim", I truly envy you.
I find similar things which is where the mods come in to extend the life of the game dramatically because I'm constantly playing new content.
It's buggy, repetitive, a lot of missed potential, but it is home
Now I have a desire to play Skyrim. 😊
Hard for me to relate as I was 16 when Skyrim came out, but in a way I feel like this when I play some of the older Bethesda titles like Oblivion or Fallout 3. Heck, even some of the PS2 titles like Medal of Honor.
I started playing last week after not having played video games at all since i played Ocarina of Time when it came out. Its absolutely blowing my mind and i cant imagine it seeming aged
I was 56 when Skyrim came out, and I didn't buy it till it was on sale at Steam for about £7.00, so if I never play it again, it won't be because I have grown out of it! 😉
I've re-played Enderal more recently than Skyrim, but neither for quite a few years. The thought of all that levelling up to get strong enough to start really having fun puts me off, but I felt just the same about Fallout 4, and I have started a new playthrough of that – I'm now over 100 hours in, and only just started the main story with Nick V!
And now I've met him (but not as a companion – that is Biscuits the Chihuahua, and I have no plans to change that) I may get Far Harbor, so I'll be veering off the main story again for another 50 hours or so! (Think I may wait till I'm close to completion before trying Nuka World).
Skyrim is now def on my list of games to replay. With some tasteful mods, it can look pretty good – certainly good enough for a casual like me!
my brother, after 10 years of playing Minecraft tried the VR version and was absolutely blown away by it. I feel like re experiencing this game through the VR version might provide a new immersive experience all over again. Oh and also Mods
i started playing skyrim when i was 7 LMAO. i think the open world experience felt surreal because i never looked up tutorials, never cheated, and i just explored every corner of the world without thinking twice of it. i would skip sleeping in skyrim and instead try to speak (and kill if their dialogue seemed arrogant lmao) to as many npc as possible. i played for 3 years and only got to just barely above half of the game, never having actually finished it because i took my time figuring everything out and i appreciated everything, plus i never really used fast travel because i found adventuring on your own to be much more enticing.
it's been 4-5 years since i last played skyrim, really miss it and looking forward to play it again some day. my tip is if you want to make a game's experience as lasting and excitable as possible, never look up tutorials. do it yourself :]
Dude I am 28 i am an adult but i will never stop gaming lol . Throw some much needed comabt mods in and Bam i can run a playthrough lol