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Today is Skyrim's birthday - it is 13 years old. Tell us your memories.
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efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
Happy Bar Mitzvah
TransTrender
Gold Member
I remember there was a bug compilation video which had the intro bugs like spinning around or bouncing off to infinity, and also the bugged horse with the song "This is my horse, my horse is amazing" fading in and out while it flies around.
I was playing Dark Souls at the time.
I was playing Dark Souls at the time.
cormack12
Gold Member
My god, a hardcore player! In this thread. At this time of day. Localised in this part of Neogaf!
I do wonder how many people actually did this. Then bought the game again and again and did the same lol
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
The only Open world I would actually want to live in.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
One of the best and most influential games of all time.
OceanicWaterHorse
Member
Nearly getting executed but saved when a Dragon attacked.
I must play it one of these decades on one of the platforms I own it on.
I must play it one of these decades on one of the platforms I own it on.
SkeletonQuays
Member
I played on ps3 with over 80 hours... so basically my memories are loading screens.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
One of my fav games.
I always play as an Argonian in ES games as they got some perks and swimming and they look cool.
Funny thing is I started the game on 360 just roaming around not caring about the main quest. Played it some more doing the same on X1. I think when I got a 1X I started over adding tons of mods and that one where you start at a random city. Then got an SX and really got into it with super fast load times at 60 fps, and plowed through most of the land and eventually finishing the game with that vampire chick NPC whose a great companion (I think you need to beat a DLC to get her).
It is a much better looking and playing game at 60 fps.
I always play as an Argonian in ES games as they got some perks and swimming and they look cool.
Funny thing is I started the game on 360 just roaming around not caring about the main quest. Played it some more doing the same on X1. I think when I got a 1X I started over adding tons of mods and that one where you start at a random city. Then got an SX and really got into it with super fast load times at 60 fps, and plowed through most of the land and eventually finishing the game with that vampire chick NPC whose a great companion (I think you need to beat a DLC to get her).
It is a much better looking and playing game at 60 fps.
Giallo Corsa
Member
My memory :
Spent 60 Euros on launch day.
Played it for 20-25 hours after which I couldn't deal anymore with the copy-pasted dungeons and usual Bethesda jank.
It's when I fell of hard from Bethesda games.
Now, FO4 is the game that, after not even 10 hours it - literary - made stop playing their games alltogether.
Fuck this company and their janky-ass engines, idiotic NPC behaviour, Zero A.I and spaghetti code.
After the whole Starfield fiasco... they're a shadow of their former selves, they just can't keep up with the times and it shows
Spent 60 Euros on launch day.
Played it for 20-25 hours after which I couldn't deal anymore with the copy-pasted dungeons and usual Bethesda jank.
It's when I fell of hard from Bethesda games.
Now, FO4 is the game that, after not even 10 hours it - literary - made stop playing their games alltogether.
Fuck this company and their janky-ass engines, idiotic NPC behaviour, Zero A.I and spaghetti code.
After the whole Starfield fiasco... they're a shadow of their former selves, they just can't keep up with the times and it shows
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mansoor1980
Gold Member
waiting for the pro patch......................
Oberstein
Member
I have fond memories of Skyrim.
It may be criticized for many things today, but in 2011 it also brought a new dimension to open-world immersion. The first climb to High Hrothgar, the unexpected encounters with the Daedra and the extraordinary musical ambience.
Yes, it had a ton of flaws, but there was still an almost naive aspect to it, far removed from today's " playbook " and wokist obligations.
Not to mention the countless meme's it produced.
It may be criticized for many things today, but in 2011 it also brought a new dimension to open-world immersion. The first climb to High Hrothgar, the unexpected encounters with the Daedra and the extraordinary musical ambience.
Yes, it had a ton of flaws, but there was still an almost naive aspect to it, far removed from today's " playbook " and wokist obligations.
Not to mention the countless meme's it produced.
SirKicksalot
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SweetTooth
Gold Member
Wait it released 2011? I thought it was around 2008?
Punished Miku
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Huge fan of Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3.
Dropped Skyrim in the first 2 hours. Just seemed very casual and simplifed.
Never fried Fallout 4.
Starfield was the best thing they've made since Morrowind.
I'll try Skyrim again at some point, but I wasn't that impressed with the intro.
Dropped Skyrim in the first 2 hours. Just seemed very casual and simplifed.
Never fried Fallout 4.
Starfield was the best thing they've made since Morrowind.
I'll try Skyrim again at some point, but I wasn't that impressed with the intro.
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
MY favourite memory?
I was walking on a mountain and there was a wall to earn a dragon shou. However, there was a dragon perched on the wall. I felt confident to take on the dragon, but as I approached the wall out popped a Dragon Priest. I then had to fight both the Priest and the Dragon at the same time. It took me about 30 mins and was probably one of the most intense battles I've experienced in gaming.
Also, 13 years and ESVI isn't even close to being released. That's depressing.
I was walking on a mountain and there was a wall to earn a dragon shou. However, there was a dragon perched on the wall. I felt confident to take on the dragon, but as I approached the wall out popped a Dragon Priest. I then had to fight both the Priest and the Dragon at the same time. It took me about 30 mins and was probably one of the most intense battles I've experienced in gaming.
Also, 13 years and ESVI isn't even close to being released. That's depressing.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
One of the games that is always installed here. \o/
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Dont even bother with the canned intro set piece.
Download that mod where you start in a different city. It's called Alternate Start I think.
King Dazzar
Member
At launch a cow falling from the sky just as I arrived at Riverwood for the first time.
After bouncing off it I left it alone for about a year in the hope that might fix it. But I ended up loving it more and more over the next years and spent over 1200hrs on it. Majority of that time was spent on PC. And several hundred hours of that modding it. Including getting quite deep into some of the engines short comings. I was running memory tools and script optimisers etc back before it was 64bit enabled. Modifying and reworking existing mods to make them more optimised. Its a flawed diamond though, even back then, in desperate need of a better engine.
I do love it though. For me its got spiritual aspects to it. And knowing how a lot of the scripts work. There's like a clockwork living heart inside it all. Magical.
After bouncing off it I left it alone for about a year in the hope that might fix it. But I ended up loving it more and more over the next years and spent over 1200hrs on it. Majority of that time was spent on PC. And several hundred hours of that modding it. Including getting quite deep into some of the engines short comings. I was running memory tools and script optimisers etc back before it was 64bit enabled. Modifying and reworking existing mods to make them more optimised. Its a flawed diamond though, even back then, in desperate need of a better engine.
I do love it though. For me its got spiritual aspects to it. And knowing how a lot of the scripts work. There's like a clockwork living heart inside it all. Magical.
vaibhavpisal
Member
Have no nostalgia, played it for first time last year.
I think it holds up really well today.
Better than 99% open world games releasing today. Mostly due to open ended exploration.
I think it holds up really well today.
Better than 99% open world games releasing today. Mostly due to open ended exploration.
Wolves hunt in packs
Member
Played it back then on Xbox 360, my first TES game, don't remember alot, but one thing comes to mind... one of the early quests you climb a mountain, and out of the blue you're attacked by some white yeti fucker that took alot of fire spells to die, cool stuff.
Saber
Gold Member
My memories with it are terrible. Game crashing everytime, trying to understand confusing mechanics that didn't work, bugged quests(never got master level spells because of it), hours of dumb walking around to find random pointless places, with random stuff that never got any better(except the enemies who aways scaled with me so I never felt strong), magic absolutelly sucks until I learned about the magica glitch, etc.
The game only turn fun to play when my brother said "why are you still playing this shit without mods?". Once I installed mods the game became better to play, specially the one that tries to fix most of things. I could even have fun playing with Silver Sword which is strangelly an useless sword during the entire game.
The game only turn fun to play when my brother said "why are you still playing this shit without mods?". Once I installed mods the game became better to play, specially the one that tries to fix most of things. I could even have fun playing with Silver Sword which is strangelly an useless sword during the entire game.
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rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Starfield is even more "casual" because the braindead AI.
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Codes 208
Member
ah yes, the minnesota blizzard of 11/11/11
That was a FUN midnight release
Jokes aside it was an awesome game, easily put 300+ hours just into the 360 version (waaay more into the eventual pc version when i got into the mods)
I also remember one of my friends got the game a few days early, cause amazon gonna amazon, and i was very jealous
That was a FUN midnight release
Jokes aside it was an awesome game, easily put 300+ hours just into the 360 version (waaay more into the eventual pc version when i got into the mods)
I also remember one of my friends got the game a few days early, cause amazon gonna amazon, and i was very jealous
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bender
What time is it?
Punished Miku
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nah, I thought Starfield was a lot more hardcore. I didn't play a ton of Skyrim though. Just designing ships in Starfield alone is more detailed. No city map made it pretty fun to learn the areas in depth. Some of the new difficulty modifiers are nice as well. Base building is incredibly intricate as well and most people just skipped it.
Kenneth Haight
Gold Member
Beat me to itwaiting for the pro patch......................
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
??? Skyrim doesn't have city map.
SJRB
Gold Member
Unbelievable experience with an unbelievable soundtrack.
Skyrim was a perfect storm of appealing themes (Norse/Viking is always a banger), incredible map design (kinda small surface-wise but felt HUGE to traverse with a lot of different biomes), extremely comfy vibes with the snow and skyboxes, good enough combat, fun quests, good skill tree, awesome shouts. It was just super rewarding to keep playing, you kept encountering new areas, new quests, new stuff. Yeah it was buggy as fuck and my PS3 would crash at some point because the save file became to big but I really didn't care at all.
Bethesda is never going to top this no matter how hard they try, mark my words.
Skyrim was a perfect storm of appealing themes (Norse/Viking is always a banger), incredible map design (kinda small surface-wise but felt HUGE to traverse with a lot of different biomes), extremely comfy vibes with the snow and skyboxes, good enough combat, fun quests, good skill tree, awesome shouts. It was just super rewarding to keep playing, you kept encountering new areas, new quests, new stuff. Yeah it was buggy as fuck and my PS3 would crash at some point because the save file became to big but I really didn't care at all.
Bethesda is never going to top this no matter how hard they try, mark my words.
Punished Miku
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I was checking out before I played a lot of it. I'll give it another shot someday.
nightmare-slain
Gold Member
I didn’t get it at launch. I bought it just before Christmas and played it between Christmas and new year. Didn’t have a job at the time so played it non stop.
It was my first time playing an open world RPG so it kinda blew my mind. Until then the closest thing I had played was GTA or Pokemon but I wouldn’t say they are the same kind of RPGs. If it wasn’t for Skyrim I might not have got into other open world RPGs.
I never played the DLC for Skyrim. I always wanted to but each time I went back to the game I got bored of it.
Maybe when ESVI comes out I’ll play that but can’t say I’m too excited. Starfield was shit and Fallout 4 was rubbish. I don’t believe Bethesda will be able to live up to Skyrim. It’s gonna be a huge disappointment I think.
It was my first time playing an open world RPG so it kinda blew my mind. Until then the closest thing I had played was GTA or Pokemon but I wouldn’t say they are the same kind of RPGs. If it wasn’t for Skyrim I might not have got into other open world RPGs.
I never played the DLC for Skyrim. I always wanted to but each time I went back to the game I got bored of it.
Maybe when ESVI comes out I’ll play that but can’t say I’m too excited. Starfield was shit and Fallout 4 was rubbish. I don’t believe Bethesda will be able to live up to Skyrim. It’s gonna be a huge disappointment I think.
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Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
i remember the experience being very trippy like super real... climbing to high hrotgar, delving into the ruins... that kind of thing
BigLee74
Gold Member
I remember my buddy at work being so into it when it first came out. After completing the game, he took his character back home and sat him in a comfy chair by a fire, then uninstalled it. To this day, he is happy that he left his character in a nice safe warm place.
Fucking bampot! Love that guy
Fucking bampot! Love that guy
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sainraja
Member
My story is similar except, there was no few years later part. haha. I just coudn't get into it. Not for me. Didn't know it even existed at the time of its launch but did hear of it from a friend who was into it. He also played Oblivion.
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ValiantInstance
Member
I remember reading a game magazine before it came out, back when they were still relevant. There was a huge preview and it sounded amazing. Got the game for Christmas and spent a solid 2 weeks playing it on the school break.
I miss being that excited about a video game. In the past 10 years I'd say only MGSV, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 have had me counting the days to release weeks out.
I miss being that excited about a video game. In the past 10 years I'd say only MGSV, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 have had me counting the days to release weeks out.
