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This is what actual winterhold should look like according to lore, the scale of it. Not 3-4 shanty shacks.

I assume the ruins around the actual town are the remnants of old winterhold, which is nice to see

Winterhold used to be the Capital of Skyrim so it’s size should be massive plus it’s close to Saarthal the ancient capital of the Nords. Every single one of these videos are masterpieces.

This is incredible. Always loved dreaming about what the cities in TES would actually look like. Thank you.

Can you imagine what Windhelm looks like!!!?!?!? The Stormcloak capital in all its glory would be a site to see. The Palace of Kings. The docks. Hjerim Hall. The snow district. Seeing this makes me excited to see it.

This has got to be one of the most beautiful things I've seen this year. Can't wait to see your rendition of Riften someday.

Another jaw-dropping, beautiful glow-up of a Skyrim city. Well done!

I can see a lot of thought went into this. The people would have rebuilt as best they could. The jarl's hall looks like they repurposed a ship, much as the early Nords did. How I'd love to see this in the game. Great work.

This Winterhold looks more beautiful than in the original Skyrim, keep going👍

I love the night shot at 0:47. Looks so cozy living in one of those houses.

This is beautiful, makes me wish i could go there.

This is spectacularly beautiful. And exactly the kind of humble, practical town you'd expect Winterhold's survivors to begin again with!

I really hope ES6 has at least 1/2 this graphic quality, these vids are gorgeous!

These 1:1 scale cities are amazing, its kind of funny actually going into Skyrim and only seeing a few huts and a long house. What City do you want to do next?

I absolutely love seeing these videos of Skyrim remade in Unreal Engine because it shows me that other people are still passionate about my favorite game. Skyrim already has stunning graphics, but this left me speechless ❤

Господи, продолжай 👍

I'm glad these videos are rather new, so you can check these comments. For my part, this is just...breath taking....Truly a dream come true, to see the real lore-accurate size of Skyrim. Every single one of these videos feels so real, everything makes sense, so alive. The entire lore makes sense with these videos

I love these videos because they put the land of Skyrim into proper scale. Going from Markarth all the way to Windhelm for instance, even on horseback, would take about two weeks. Through projects like this, we get to see the true scale of Skyrim, as well as its beauty that could not be shown in the game, from the sprawling cities of Solitude, Whiterun, and Windhelm, to the ancient city of the Dwarves, Markarth, carved into the side of a mountain, to the sea side ruins of what was once a great city, Winterhold.

I would definitely live in such a Winterhold

You paid attention to a very small detail. The fronts of houses are lit by lanterns instead of torches. You got this right! Almost all movies and games put torches on wooden walls and under thatched roofs. Kudos!

Winterhold was always one of my favourite locations. Mostly because of the college of course, which I'd use like my own personal Hogwarts. Stepping outside in the blizzards and snow and then coming in for a warm hearth at the inn or in the college felt really nice.

I think I actually felt that blizzard when it rolled in, really good! This is a stunning piece of work! Imagine if there's at least one single city at this scale in TES VI 😍

Man I wish TES 6 would just have Skyrims landscape and setting as well 🥺 Those snowy mountains just look too good

A city that used to be the capitol of the country was reduced to 5 buildings, a burnt down shack and the college. all because Bethesda didn't feel like putting effort into a fifth city. marvelous work btw.

I’ve been addicted to Skyrim for years. I paint it for a living. This made my entire day. Brought up so many emotions. I believe this place once existed or it does exist in a parallel dimension. I want to live here.

man rest! for a bit. these look so amazing i'm worried u dont sleep

I really, really like this Winterhold. Ruins easily cover twice, thrice the surface of the town, yet town itself have quite homely look to it, and then there is College of Winterhold, as big as city itself, looming over it like grand monolith, with this physics-ignoring bridge to top if off. It seriously fits, and makes atmosphere of the place so much paltable.

for the real actual scale of Winterhold before The Collapse, Sky Temple Ruins are supposedly within the city walls

This is so breathtaking!! Super awesome!! I can almost feel the bite of the cold as I breathe in the frigid air and in my mind, I can hear the crunch of snow under my feet.

These are stunning. Would be amazing if you compiled all these into a fan made game...;)

Amazing as usual! The feel of a new, wooden town built at the edge of a drestroyed great metropolis of stone. Love the one large hall in the middle of the town, very straightforward design. Looking forward to the next city! ALso, if you ever consider making a Solitude walkthrough video, that would blow up the internet.

I just happened to catch your Falkreath video in my feed, and now I'm binge watching the rest. Your work is jaw dropping. Bethesda, please hire this amazing artist and write a blank cheque if you have to !

This is breath-taking! I've always felt Winterhold was severely lacking, especially in ruins of the other half of the city. I would love to see what you do with Morthal, Windhelm, Riften, and Falkreath. If only the game could be expanded this way, sadly that'd require a full remake which I'm afraid we won't get.

I would absolutely love to see you do something with the inside of winterhold. Seeing the upgraded lighting bouncing off all of the structures and magical items would be insane.

Bethesda needs to start taking notes fr

This just transported me to another planet. Thank you. I never wanted a Skyrim tv show until now.

This is spectacular I would love to see riften next

OMG you did continue the series!! So grateful, thank you!!😍🙌🙏

Imagine if the game had this scale. People would never leave it.

What I wouldn't pay for you to create the entirety of Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, and the rest of Tamriel and its denizens and have it as a game. Keep up the good work!

I cant even imagine how Imperial City would look like

Thank you so much for this video. I absolutely love your work, first whiterun and then this ! Winterhold as alway been my favourite city in Skyrim. Younger I really flet like a student mage going to study at the best school, the magic arcanes. I was so much into the lore, trying to pick my favourites teachers (faralda for destruction magic), plus the magic classes in the big room. I loved the ambient of this city that has so many secrets and a nostalgic vibe considering the history of The Great Collapse. I always wanted to see a true Winterhold and I am still craving to look at one version prior to The Great Collapse. However you managed to nail every details of this city at the perfection, with the ruins, Azura (my favourite daedra with Arena Lelith her priest) . Thank you so much really.

Ultimate work again! At 0:51 i got full vibe of 🎄

i love this lore accurate winterhold, looks so good, not the 5 houses (2 destroyed) we got in the game. i know it would be a mess, but i would absolutely love to see riften in lore accurate size

Oh no. You can't keep doin these. Lol these are just too good. It hurts. I wanna move my Skyrim game saves into your version of these places. Lol it's just not fair lol God I hope you decide to do all the other holds and notable locations lol Edit: Ah!! The mountain top cloud shot above Azura's statue! I got chills....

I love this. I left feedback ages ago on your Whiterun that while I loved the fidelity, it lacked the surreal, magical feeling of Skyrim. It looks like you’ve really started to bring that into your work and have found a great balance between graphical fidelity and artistic license to give the place the *feel* of Skyrim along with a more realistic representation of the town. Cheers!

I know Skyrim has been released around 20 times, but can someone please go through the game, remodel it make the cities and towns more populated and look as beautiful as this guy does, introduce now character models, and just make it actually look like a modern video game, I have been looking for a game that pulls me in as much as Skyrim, and there is nothing, not the Witcher series, or any of the other games on those “similar games to Skyrim” lists. And also my biggest pet peeve is add an animation for Aela when skjor Curt’s her so the blood just doesn’t “appear” out of nowhere. PLEASE SOMEONE. I can’t risk Bethesda messing up elder scrolls 6

Its videos like this that make me wish i grew up in the castle era. I know it was a brutal era but these videos makes it seem like it would be bearable.

This is the most breathtaking view of a city that is so underrated in Skyrim is not even funny.

This is so beautiful. Genuinely. wish i can just experience it in vr or something, (will go norway) hopefully bethesda sees this and motivates them to reach this level of visuals and scale

Please please PLEASE, once you've finished with Skyrim, do some of ESO's cites next! Seeing Rimmen in 1:1 scale with the funky MMO "superscaling" (making everything bigger/taller to account for a wide 3rd person camera) removed would be AMAZING! Hell, just a loop of Daahin playing her Qanun in the market would be perfect.

Damn! you'll have the entirety of Skyrim done soon! 😆 Great work Leo!

you actually made it seem like a genuine nordic setting while still retaining the fantasy feel, this is incredible and i would absolutely play a skyrim remake made by you.

I need a game with an accurate size of everything in Skyrim. Cities, towns, the College, the sewers below Riften, everything. I'd like to waddle my way through a massive Solitude, just doing my day to day business, or go spelunking about in the swamps surrounding Morthal trying to find Giant Lichen. Go hunting in the forests around Falkreath and the plains outside of Whiterun. Explore the old keeps and forts littered throughout the land and fight my way through massive Falmer infested Dwemer ruins. 😌😌

I hope that one day when graphics are playable like this, we’ll get a complete remaster of Skyrim that’s lore accurate

Now that's a cozy looking town... instead of the collection of hovels we got in the game.

people seem to forget that Winterhold collapsed and a great portion of it got washed out by the sea. That's why it's so underwhelming in-game. Nice work, btw!

You’re doing the lord’s work! Over and over again! Time to sub

I kept expecting this to zoom in and begin a scene to an epic story. Amazing work! I wish it could have looked like this in the game

The foot prints in the snow good touch need some cart and horse wld nice. More variety of oil lamps lighting wld be sweet also

The lighting in the walkthrough is so inviting. I'd love to just walk into one of those buildings for a mead.

0:06 - Despite this being a tree-line and the right-frontal view of the Collage of Winterhold, something seems amiss, something seems... bigger. You can tell the scale of things has increased drastically. The engine also makes this location majestic to behold. 0:22 - A lonely lookout amidst rubble and rock, overseeing winterhold. You get a feeling of solace, as if you are remembering what was - a bigger kingdom, one rife with culture and life. Despite its rather bleak appearance, it speaks more volumes than the Guide to the Empire books. 0:27 - 0:38 - leading on from last comment. You begin to see what was... you also begin to be unable to fathom what could have done such wrathful damage. Or rather, how this damage occurred. 0:39 - just... beautiful, serene, complete. Just how I image in in my head. Nothing more, just pure, unadulterated beauty. 0:47 - 1:02 - Again, beauty. Except this time. You get a sense of community, a warm feeling despite the cold atmosphere present. It feels like the people there have something to old Winterhold citizens didn't - hope. Hope that they could recover from travesty. Cinematics and general - This is true beauty. Taking what was previously a dingy, depressing town-like "city" and bringing it back from the brink of total and complete loss. Bringing a sense of pride, recovery, and comradery to the people and the city itself. This is a location I would love to visit and complete *every* side quest present there. Graphics and appearance - Thanks to unreal engine 5 and some work done by yourself, this place not only looks real, but real-life type real. It looks like something I would actually lay my eyes on. Well done. Conclusion - I want it, and I want it now.

That was so sweet! Simply fricking awesome! Thank you for sharing this take on a realistic Winterhold.

oooh you brought me back a wonderful nostalgia for Skyrim with your magnificent work ❤

beautiful, xmas 2023 screensaver/wallpaper for sure :3

If this becomes a massive mod for the game, I would totally download it

Did just get a team of coders together and lawyers and put some good mods in and just finish the game with all buildings fully built inside. Just finish the game like this. It’s absolutely amazing. We are all drooling to play it like this. I’m sure there are plenty of fans that are skilled enough to help finish this project for free just for the chance to play it like this. Thank you from all of us in advance. Your work on this is truly breathtaking.

I really think as Todd's last game at BGS he'll bring the team back to skyrim to make the game scale accurate instead of the representative stuff they had to do originally

You can practically hear the townsfolk complaining about "those damn mages up at the college"

My favorite place in Skyrim. I just love the snow and Shalidor's majestic college.

These real size of towns/cities are crazy good. What the original game should have been.

This is so pretty! The snow looks amazing!

I seriously would have no problem if they wanted to remake and rerelease Skyrim for the umpteenth time if they did this. This is so fantastic.

Oh wow! Seeing Winterhold as it could have been rather than the shacks that stand there that barely qualify a village... I was just thinking it would have been cool to help purge Winterhold of say ice wraiths, trolls and other nasties (maybe conjured by the College, magical mistakes?) that terrorise the town at night in the ruins of the city - that would have been cool. Winterhold just seems like it is half-finished.

I need these videos to be a game... Just imagine getting this level of remaster for a game this big, it would be game of the decade

Don't get me wrong, I love everything about this. However, I think adding some waves crashing against the cliffs would have set an even more perfect tone for this beautiful location. Great work, as usual!

I remembered playing a mage in Skyrim and feeling a little bit disappointed with Winterhold since I thought it should be bigger. This is what it should have been. Magnificent.

Excellent work! Also perfect choice with the music. 👍

Winterhold was done so dirty in the game, this is so beautiful. We really need Markarth Morthal and Riften, those three are some of the best city designs that the game could only hint at the grandeur

I have subscribed just for this types of videos. I just love this 😍

Its crazy and beautiful as always

Sweet Jesus! Another one of your Unreal 5 restaurations of Skyrim! This is absolutely wonderful! (And you also know how to pic the music).

I swear that back in 2011 when skyrim got released and i played it first time, well, it looked like this. And i just realised that was 12 years ago, damn.

The cinematography and score are beautiful.

Beautiful. I wish Bethesda would just hire you and let you make their maps.

Okay, now everyone is gonna be waiting for the Mage College! Beautiful work!

Вот такой Винтерхолд мы заслужили.Браво! 👍

0:53 would make a LOVELY background on Wallpaper Engine.

That's so epic dude. Looks incredible.

The sunlight through the clouds, in the mountains above the statue of Azura... just gorgeous.

You Sir deserve an award. This is simply amazing, I can barely describe the awe I'm experiencing.

It looks spectacular. If it was like that in game, it would also make it feel like the jarls were true leaders. Now a big bandit camp chief has as many subjects as the jarl of Winterhold. That being said, there could be more variety in the city layout considering how the citizens create their livelihoods. Back in those times, towns were also full of domesticated animals, like goats, poultry, and such. The inner courtyards of households were for them (surrounded by outbuildings and fences). I reckon around the jarl's longhouse and between it and the college, would be the fancier houses for the wealthier people, a side office for the Companions, bigger business buildings, and towards the outer edges of the city the households would become simpler, with agriculture and animal husbandry increasing. Particularly noisy and smelly trades ought to also find themselves a distance away from the jarl's house. The college would probably support a good bunch of people so that their trade wouldn't be obvious from their house, like was the case with most of the houses in your video. But it would still be just a fraction of the city population. A couple of big market squares should also be found. I feel like the folks would have also built a new temple as well, already, even if not as grand as there probably was before the collapse.

I love that you're doing these, they're incredible!

I absolutely LOVE these videos. The shot of town at 2:13 is sooo welcoming. It's what I always WANT to see when I get there. ❤

Wow this is incredible, so cozy in the city with the torches

Word cannot describe how much I wanna explore this city

The lighting at 2:11 onwards is an absolute masterpiece.

if i lived in a place where its never cold then id like winter, but since its constantly cold and this house is 100 years old it has no central heating, so its always freezing for me. imagine never being able to escape the cold and using plug in heaters as a small source to survive, im living the skyrim experience in real life.

I really hope Apple's Vision Pro headset becomes such a hit so that everything moves to VR. I imagine if that happens, in a couple more years we'll be able to enjoy games this beautiful in VR.