In a word, home.

I remember being at my uncles house during Christmas and playing Skyrim when I was really young. Then i forgot about the game, but there was always a deep desire to find it and play it again.

My 83736366272th Skyrim video….keep ‘em comin, it never gets old

I understand, people think escapism is a bad word but thats what skyrim often is to me. Its a virtual vacation in a fantastical land. I'm just as happy sipping mead in game(and irl) while sitting in Nilheim watching the sun set as I am larping as the dragon born. Its a living breathing world and it really makes you just want to be a part of it. fun fact, the stars which are actually just holes in the universe aren't actually random and they even move with the seasons like real stars. You can actually find the constellations that make up the skill trees in the sky.

Nice video (though you don't need to worry about the corn! Embrace it! Everyone watching a skyrim video in 2024 is fully on board with corny platitudes). I think Skyrim for many people (including me) is a good example of Hiraeth, which has been (mis)translated as homesickness for a place you cannot go. We all feel at home in Skyrim, so strongly that it's almost as though it is a real place.

Skyrim basically saved my life. During the first lockdown, things were just awful. I don't usually play RPG but I have played Skyrim once in 2017 albeit not knowing wtf am I doing lol. I decided to install the game again and immersed myself into the world and to the lore. Enough to take my mind off the real world stuff. It's comforting. Really. Nothing beats a Skyrim night session with lights off and headphones on.

Someone described Skyrim as the perfect imperfect game (or something like that). This describes Skyrim for me perfectly. Being aware of its flaws I love it and treat it as almost a real place to spend some time in when I need to a rest from the real world. Thank you for this video.

Picking flowers have never been more immersive. Lolz

Just imagine when Beyond Skyrim is fully completed and all of Tamriel can be experienced. I’m sure I’ll never play anything again.

Now I'm gonna mod my next Khajit run with a racoon visual mod overhaul.

Say what you will about Skyrim, but it has given us one of the most iconic openings of all time

That "helgen" was magical

This video came up randomly on my feed and it’s really great

I bothered my parents to buy me this game, they got me the game a month after it came out and it let me down a rabbit hole of buying it on every fucking platform you can think of. This game has helped me through my most loneliest of times and my highest moments, I go back to it not to even quest, but to listen to secunda for the 1000th time, it’s a beautiful game and while it has its moments, it’s a game that I always hold close to my heart to this day.

Great video man!!! I’ve been in love with this game since its release in 2011!!!

Probably going to play this game again for the first time in a few years because of you

this whole time I thought "skyrim" was a cereal

I feel so sorry for the people who never got the magic and joy of Skyrim and just hate on it and its players for whatever reason. People who love Skyrim are almost always super peaceful, creative and kind and I'm so glad to be surrounded by such people irl

alright first - i was 21 when skyrim came out and now all of a sudden i can relate to the people that were adults when they played gameboy or SNES for the first time... second, special edition... is what makes skyrim special.. in case you hadn't... errr

I was 21 when skyrim came out. i remember standing in line for the collectors edition.(I still have the Alduin statue it came with)

Skyrim offers a kind of immersion that I haven't experienced with any other game ever since. The lore and storytelling just drags you into it, and you can go from one rabbit hole to the next. Still, it doesn't force you to adhere to any story. You can get to level 81 and still not have fetched the dragonstone from Bleak Falls Barrow, or you can take down Alduin a few hours after your arrival in Skyrim and then settle down as the world renowned Dragonborn. And then there's all the mods, where countless people have put effort into adding more stories and more quests and more locations to an already huge game.

Kinda irrelevant but I feel the exact same familiarity and connection to super mario galaxy

Really good video!

A big part of it is the time at which it released. Back in 2011, there weren’t many games like Skyrim. Now-a-days we may have numerous open world experiences that strive for atmosphere and immersion, but Bethesda was already on board that train long before most other studios. Another factor, in my mind, is how Skyrim was marketed and how it differs in its goals as compared to previous Elder Scrolls games. Morrowind and Oblivion were considered to be more traditional RPGs, where the character you played as was a blank slate for you to design yourself. On the other hand, Skyrim advertised its protagonist as this badass hero who kills dragons and [i]eats their souls,[/i] while wearing this sick helmet with big horns on the side. And I think that idea just resonated a lot more with many more people. I’m not saying that TES 3 and 4 are bad for the way they did things, and I know that many older fans prefer those games for that reason. But I think it’s important to recognize that Skyrim was able to draw in new people - people who might’ve otherwise never played or never had an interest in RPGs in the past - by approaching its design from a perspective different to that of its predecessors. And I don’t think it might’ve had the same success that it has today, where Bethesda is constantly rereleasing the game every year, had it stuck more closely to the standard Elder Scrolls formula.

skyrim feels like home. I undertand that feeling =)

I've been on a major Skyrim kick lately, trying to get into making mods now. I find myself spending as much time, if not more, modding. The gameplay and combat sucks balls but the world is good enough it keeps me coming back, makes for one of my favorite games ever.

I just started my "completionist" playthrough with the legacy of the dragonborn mod to act as a checklist.

I Too Love Skyrim, it's my favorite PC Game alongside Aliens vs. Predator 2 and Unreal Tournament 2004

I can relate to that being inspired by things like skyrim to create something, tried creating a game in unreal inspired by aspects I liked in skyrim, I put that on hold though as I found it a bit too much. It always throws me off when someone outright say skyrim sucks, it's like I get that it has many rough spots but it has so much going for it still and the atmosphere, the vibes is unmatched.

I agree with you on basically all your points; my only criticism is that you shouldn't be afraid to sound corny. We all get it pal, Skyrim is such a deeply important game to so many people.

Elder scrolls 5 skyrim, simply put, THE BEST GAME EVER MADE💯💯💯

Ulfric had his hands tied in front of him and he could have easily pulled his gag down and shouted his and our arses the hell out of there but noooooooooooooooooo. What a tosser! Up yours stormcloaks!

04:25 I don't know man. With my autism Oblivion conversations sound rather normal to me.

Wait till you check out Skyrim: Very Special Edition

Skyrim hits differently for some people because in that universe everyone's lives are centered around their faith, people, nation, communities, honor and so on, a feeling of which most people in modern times are completely deprived of in favor of a mindless pursuit of maximizing numbers in spreadsheets. And i doesn't even matter what you consciously think about those things, the fact is that humans are biologically wired to see those things as good, so if something taps into that in an indirect and non explicit manner, then everyone will like it, despite of their real life political leanings. Skyrim gives the players a taste of what it would feel to belong to somewhere, and that's why people often describe it as "familiar" or how Skyrim is like an old friend.

I have near on 600 hours of skyrim... i still have yet to actually finish the main story lol

Did this man just say he was 2 when oblivion came out??? How am i getting this old????? Im only 33 lolol

I don’t remember this (at 10:00) at *all*! Where/what is it? I’ve only played the game all the way through once and got horribly sidetracked every time since… I do enjoy Skyrim a lot, for basically the same reasons. It feels alive; it goes on forever; it has history (a bit too imperialised IMO); and it doesn’t just consist of pretty 3D wallpaper but is highly “interactable” whether or not any given chicken, sweetroll, plate, goblet, moth, burned book, roll of paper, wooden sword, piece of glass, bowl of troll fat, snowberry or embalming tool is useful or part of the plot or not. They’re physically there, part of the world. If anything, I’d have liked deeper survival gameplay without the grafted-on feeling of some of the mods. And more consequences to joining factions. Apart from the civil war and maybe the vampires/Dawnguard, they just seem to exist side by side and it doesn’t matter to the world if you’re all those things at the same time. In defence of Oblivion, I like the NPC “AI” in principle. Yes, it leads to the most inane, unnatural non-conversations… but that they *do* stop to talk to each other during their various errands, and not just when it would benefit the player, is… charming? A weird kind of alive. I just see the whole societal side of Oblivion as a parody played out by lovable eccentrics who get lost in a picture they’ve painted or grieve for the rats in the cellar.

Objectively skyrim is a terrible buggy mess that makes no sense. But it's amazing. I cant stop replaying it.

skyrim is the best game ever made

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Answer: mods, mods is the reason we can't stay away

"What makes Skyrim so special." It's special because it managed to sell so many copies of the same game over and over. It's special because one single title has never been such a lazily milked shameless cash grab. It's special because in spite of the fact that the engine barely functions, you people keep buying the SAME 11 year old product. It's special because it has LESS spell effects, play styles, and player agency than every other game in the series. Skyrim is special because it's a D- student who got elected president.

Nothing. Any open world game made with same amount of resources would be just as good.

Why do you love Skyrim? Cos you have poor taste. Skyrim sucks.

i remember being over at a friends house aroujd 2nd grade and watched his dad play skyrim and instantly falling in love with it yet not having the ability 2 play it until around 6th grade 🪦 so when i got my hands on it you know i played it for days and days lmao