IGN Reviews - Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Game Review 

I'm playing it right now.

Same I heard the sound track in this vid and I just gt the feels :)

Hunter Jarrett Seriously just bought this today. Veeery excited to be trying this for the first time.

Warning.... Its like crack bro i didnt shower for 3 days cus i was hooked on it

ivan delgado :D

Like a fine wine

Tetris wins then lol, still played now

Because theres so much to do!

At of all Bethesda's games Skyrim has held up the best, especially with mod support. It's like the game never ends because stuff is always being made for it.

the only thing i dont like is how im basicaly forced to play the version with enchanced graphics...it would have been nice if it was like borderlands where you get both the normal version and the one with enchanced graphics

***** What you're saying is stupid. If no game ever made deserves a ten, then why the hell do we have it as an option? By giving a 10/10, it means that the game is really, really good. It doesn't mean it's perfect.

Deroni76 agree

natte Rich Then why is there a ten in these number scores? Oh wait it's just a number. Stop whining.

natte Rich IGN has given numerous games a 10/10. Your way of thinking is pretty primitive.

natte Rich But impractical.

it doesn't actually....uhh

IT DOESN'T ACTUALLY MEAN HE GOT SHOT IN THE KNEE

You seem young then, lol google it yourself next time elderscrolls.wikia.com

How did you know kappa

so the knee means that you have been married....

Me

Im gonna try it for the first time now lol

@@spcover2260 me too

Haven't stopped since I first discovered the game on 2014.

Quarantine got me playing this so much

Im downloading it rn to play it for the first time

@@rsoisaiahI am thinking of playing it too . Is it worth it in 2024

You just took the words out of my mouth. Exactly how I was feeling.

I know the feel...Its...Something...Gives me goosebumps when i try to figure it out..Guess we will never find out what is that little feeling that makes skyrim so much better..

+Reis Fire it's called magic, pretty rare to have in a game nowadays

HercuLex Pffff magic? What magic?I use steel armor and FISTS.ITS HOW A TRUE MAN SHOULD FIGHT.

+Reis Fire Lol WORD!

***** but the open world itself is better in skyrim imo

fallout 4

+HyalineJustice Witcher 3 has no competitor since it launched. Every RPG now feels, empty, small and underwhelming, even Skyrim.

+HyalineJustice should i get it just to play on xbox one? I've never played an rpg

Bradd the witcher 3? yeah its a brilliant game, however skyrim isnt playable on xbox one

Everyone

Darksiders is much better

Me

​@@AbduHarakat cry about it. Oblivion is even better

Yo!!

@@Daventry85still can’t believe one of the best games ever made didn’t get a 10…then again it’s IGN

***** tnks

*****U serious?? My friend here loves skyrim but really hates other RPGS, Skyrim is a good RPG(wich are hard to find).

I never liked RPGs before playing this game, once I played his game I got addicted to them

Kim Jong Un in 2015 id buy the Witcher3 instead

Kim Jong Un Have you been living under a rock?

+mangaas Just finished modding the crap out of mine.

PampkinInsanity SSD's aren't immortal.

+mangaas Me too !

2016 and I just got the full package all dlc, p4 collecting dust lol

+mangaas Sweet, I feel like doing the same, never got round to building my own house and stuff. I really must play Witcher 3 though and see what all the fuss is about, looks awesome

remember

I give it 10

Cod's have the same rating though.

Oh look, it’s Gaara.

You know this meme is terrible, right?

+Alex da Vinci Everyone in the world has played this game -.-'

igor sarti nah people are recently rediscovering nes games, sega games, gamecube games etc etc

Alex da Vinci Man...I'm brazilian and even here everyone played this game so much That they don't even wanna hear about it anymore.

+igor sarti i dont think you speak for everyone. there are people who havent played this game, period!

***** youre going to be addicted to skyrim for a loooong time :-)

Fuck man... This game WAS my life for a long time after I got it, I am not in my prime, but now a Skyrim is what I was called now... :) Plan on going back on master, as my normal wood elf. :)

What life XD

"I play video games not because I don't have a life... I play them because I chose to have many." XD

i know i was just kidding i play video games cuz they are awsome two

Roughly half of them are, yes... Then you see the hell in the gaming community: COD... The very thing that will kill the gaming industry like what happened back in '83...

@Ohmicheal Oh for sure. Came here the day before release thinking Cyberpunk deserves a 10 lmao.

Oh no trust me, this games hype was HUUUGE before it even came out. Many people saying it would be the greatest game of all time.

True!

​@@MBM1117727True.

+Joe Slater Especially with all the mods out there, they add unimaginable great content keeping the game so replayable and fresh.

Fallout 4 lacked content in my opinion, there is a lot don't get me wrong but I finished all main and side quests wayyyyy too fast. I was amazed when I had a lot of quests but as soon as I ran out I was disappointed that it ended so fast, I had about 120 hrs on it though so money well spent

MoAbExpert1133 i was the same, i finished fallout 4 and got the platinum trophy (in a ps4 trophy race with a friend). took about 4 playthroughs to get them all but still would of liked it to take under a month. Obviously didn't 100% the game in a week, feel like im pretty much done with everything now though

Fallout 4 is the worst fallout in the series

I love Skyrim. I can go back and re play it no matter how many times I've already played it.

Bossman how?

That doesn't show how amazing the game is. It just shows how long the game is

@@SidPil you really think it would still have the player base willing to play that long without finishing the main quest 10 years after it’s release if it was a bad game

And oblivion

​​​@@Reefer-Rampage69never played oblivion or morrowind but if there anything like skyrim there bad games as well

That or the combat is extremely repetitive and simplistic in all of the Elder Scrolls games.

Morrowind at least has an interesting world and NPC interactions. Some MMOs may have bad combat, but their main driving force is multiplayer. Skyrim has nothing going for it.

***** The beautiful world full of gray fog and muted greens and browns? The interesting people that I can do errands for, and not actually have complex interactions with? So there are "cool" sidequests, where I can go from point a to point b? The devs don't trust players enough to listen to or read directions, so they hold their hand along the way. Great, I can now follow a point on a map. Some of the dungeons may be "cool", but they are few and far between. Most of them are stone or dirt hallways with insultingly simple puzzles. I have never encountered anything extremely notable in the bandit camps. What could they really add to the game. This is about quality, and not quantity. What differentiates "awesome" weapons so much, and why would those matter in the overall game? Are there drastically different moves or unique abilities that will matter in the simple combat? I could listen to the soundtrack on its own. Does it help set the mood for specific situations well, or does it just sound nice alongside gameplay? You fight dragons from the start of game. You are the undoubted hero from the start of the game. Dragons are never a big threat. They scale with you, and serve give you a small power rush, and fit with the theme. You never feel that you grow into defeating them, you just hit the trigger button until they fall over, almost every time. Eventually they just become an annoyance. So yeah, there's a whole lot of stuff there, a whole lot of nothing.

Are you saying that Morrowind is good, or are you making a stupid joke about how I am describing MW and not Skyrim?

Joe Cleary Youre rocking those nostalgia glasses hard lmao

Your friends recommend overrated games with gamebreaking glitches that not even reloading your save file fixes?

And I love GTA 5 and was playing it the second time when I started playing Skyrim last month. GTA 5 doesn't even come close to how good Skyrim is.

IKR!

GTA 5 is much better. Of course, both the GTA and the Skyrim fanbases think their games are masterpieces, when niether of them actually are.

There's a difference between an enjoyable game and a good game.GTA is a good game,Skyrim is an enjoyable game.

Gta 5 , everyone can play and get into , skyrim is bit of patience required to admire

+MikeG82 It runs on PS3. I've easily put 700 hours+ on PS3, it's that good

Just bought it 😀

I've tried playing but lose interest. Isn't fallout 4 much better?

@@sweeners8950 no it doesn't. It means that the game is legendary and it hits the bullseye dead center. It's not perfect because nothing is. But Skyrim is the benchmark for legendary games. Games that multiple people spend thousands of hours on. Skyrim deserves a 10/10. Oh and by the way the glitches do not kill this game.

@@rectifyx2779 Dude i put that comment up like 2 years ago i dont even think that any more

3.5/10, water too wet.

1/10 not call of duty

+joe foley really

+Joxa Gaming Then you haven't played Oblivion... Like... holy shit

*many

For me, it's Pros: A huge open world to explore Tons of sidequests Great soundtrack Intricate detail Badass dragon fights Cons: Okay story Bugs and glitches uninteresting combat generic art style

TheSatanistGamer I agree, story was pretty underwhelming Bugs and glitches are a problem, but Elder Scrolls games wouldn't be Elder Scrolls games without em. The combat is realistic. No auto-aiming, no weird special swings that include somersaults and other weird unnecessary animation bullshit. Swing your weapon, block, shield bash, shoot an arrow, cast a spell, move around. That's what combat is. Other games seem to make it so flashy like some weird anime bullshit, and it just loses its flavor. The way it is in Elder Scrolls, you can tell a truly epic battle from a regular one. In other games, you kill a rabbit the same way you slay a giant beast - giant flashy exaggerated animations and effects. As for art style, it's hardly "generic." It's realistic. It's not stylized if that's what you mean. That's hardly a con, unless you prefer the more anime-looking cartoonish art styles.

PurpleDerpy Yes, but realistic doesn't necessarily make it better. The combat suffers because of it. Not that it's bad, but it's just barebones. Dragon's Dogma for instance has great combat, lots of different combos for each type of weapon, creating variety, so that the game doesn't get monotonous since combat will be thing you'll be doing for at least 60% of the game. Also, yes, you DO fight rabbits the same way you fight dragons. Wale on them with your weapon or magic until they die. I guess I didn't phrase the statement well, but I meant the look of the creatures, armor and world have been done million times before in a million different fantasy games. Again, realistic doesn't necessarily make it better.

TheSatanistGamer True, realistic doesn't always mean better. But when forging fantasy, ESPECIALLY in an rpg setting, you want things to be believable. Otherwise it turns into an gamey experience. How can I get attached to characters and story if the gameplay is completely unbelievable? Yeah, Anime-Hair Johnson is a really cool guy with a dark past so he stopped a massive fireball explosion with his nipples or something with no explanation as to how. He's unstoppable. Nothing can kill him. Zzzzzzzzz... and that's the kind of stuff you get out of games like Final Fantasy or

So...I guess dragons and trolls became realistic without me noticing. Who knew? No, but seriously, just because a game is 'unrealistic' doesn't mean that characters or setting can't be unrelatable or compelling. Quite a few (definately not all) animes are able to be relatable AND compelling without having to be 'realistic'. Also, this IS a video game, so why not take advantage of it and have a little fun? Honestly though I still do REALLY like the game, I just found the art style as being something done time and time again. LOTR, KOA:R, all these have the same generic elves and orcs and dragons. Well, to be honest, I have been gaming for quite some time. So maybe it's just getting old for me personally. Something like Dark Souls has very creative and diverse creature and environment design, but still retaining that fantasy feeling at the same time. If DS could do that, why couldn't elder scrolls. Well, feel free to reply and enjoy your game because i will too

G2a now is like 2 bud for dlc and everything

Meto buh I got it this year 😭

@@christopher-ne7pt I'm getting it soon

Chuka amur NOOOOOOO.....16 out of 10

Chuka amur 999/111

Chuka amur too many glitches to be that good

R u define games by glitches?

plays properly for me.

Me

Same! Got my legendary too! It was well worth the money!

PixelJoy i got the game for free from nosteam but seeming how good it was i brought it again

kordian duda bought*

okok sorry im not english

C.S. Ewens I think Witcher 3 was more immersive, but Skyrim's pretty good.

C.S. Ewens mate Morrowind by far had more depth than Skyrim. But I get what u mean. Skyrim really tapped a market that hadn't yet seen such a lore heavy universe be adapted into a game that was still accessible and easy to get into.

C.S. Ewens what u talking about? Angry birds for 60 on ps4 ? Youre talking out ur butt

C.S. Ewens Couldn't Agree More..

C.S. Ewens 👍

+maso zane until you actually play the game

Reborned V but then you play it tho...

+Peroxide I've played it and I can tell you it's the best rpg

Reborned V but then you played it...

+Peroxide you're trying too bad to be a troll. Go away

***** yah i'll just spend a $1000 on a PC for mods with such exclusives such as Bus Simulator instead of a $400 machine with such lousy exclsuvies like Uncharted

Michael Colby PC has more exclusives than Uncharted. Minecraft was PC only for a good few years, as was terraria. We have FTL, The Forest, AvP 2000, Civ 5/Beyond Earth, Starmade, Starbound, Unturned, GOOD CS:GO, Killing Floor, Audiosurf. The list goes on.

DJ_Jellyfish Quantity does NOT mean quality. I could care less how many more PC has, I do not have the time or money to play a thousand exclusives, 10 great exclusives is more than enough and I would prefer those 10 great exclusives to a thousand lame, indie games that would bore me to tears.

Michael Colby Yeah man so many bad exclusives compared to halo, TLOU, and Forza. 3 good series on consoles Fucking 3. docs.google.com/document/d/1Oak-3zZAQdud79EA_x_Ewp9elUFdPb8RSFbsY-uw5sM/edit

Orsyx Gaming lol ok bro lets just talk about PS4 exclsuves on it now or will be on it in the distant future Uncharted 4 The Last of Us Infamous Second Son Bloodborne No Man Sky The Order 1886 any future Little Big Planet or Killzone game as well

Tlou2 10 kekw

@@manabismanabis7472 oh no no no

What do you think of Dark Souls?

I've never played it although now you mention it I might check it out.

devoyinator Its just as good but you'll probably rage a bit more.

Fallout is up there too

devoyinator I am seriously addicted to Dark Souls. I even dream about it sometimes.

7.8/10 Too much land.

+FranzyGhost 7.8 too many dragons

Hobbit_Games OMG how can you say that? Don't you realise how many possibilites and options there are? Oh wait, they are all the same like: "go to the dungeon and kill draugrs"

Well meme'd friend. Your meming is beautiful

robert dalsbo Skyrim is like a 6/10 unmodded.

Enjoy :)

Me too 😁

David MacNeil I checked the top games of 2011 and most of them came out with Skyrim being better than Dark souls.

LeonXTaticzX Skyrim was more noob friendly which would explain that.

I like simple games so Assasin Creed for me. Well it aint really that simple but I like those kind of games. Skyrim makes me get headaches.

But it is true that Skyrim has harder combat than Dark Souls. So I guess if it's combat than dark soul wins.

David MacNeil No, in Dark Souls and you rip dragons out of the sky and steal sweet rolls and get arrow's to then knee? I think not, No lolly gagging.

You just don't know

You wouldn't know!

Is it worth it to buy today in ps3? I'm planning on getting it

+Namble Is it worth playing after all this years?

+Ezekiel Torres definitely

@@Em-hm6jp Skyrim is definitely the most fun game of the past 10 years though. I’d rather have a game like skyrim where it makes you feel a certain way with exploration and identity, rather than games that don’t have that but do everything else right like no bugs

Agreed :D Yet some butt hurt GTA5 fans say that this game is garbage :(

Lean Reyes I enjoyed GTA 5 but Skyrim was better hands down... Though there is actually one game that I CURRENTLY (sometimes it changes) like better than Skyrim.

Lean Reyes Amen!

bugs

yeah was thinking the same xD

Compare it to games of 2011 and before, it is stunning

haha. Right? Now in 2020 with reboot Modern warfare, this game is looking old. beautiful, but old.

This game was beautiful at it’s time, it still is.

u can mod it to look better than current gen games.

@Some One on PS?

Five years have passed since you said this...and the next elder Scrolls has only just been announced 🤣

Guess it only didn't make to 10 because of the amount of bugs. The game is AMAZING, but it had a few bugs that really pissed me out during gameplay... Of course that happened close to its release date, hopefully there's been patches/updates for most of those, I'm not sure though.

Luis Henrique Goll like the fucking ai. LYDIA MOVE OUT OF THE GODDAMN DOORWAY!

I give the game a 8 because unlike other games there really is not a class system which I do like to have in games like this and the magic itself could of been better other than that the games good.

Guys i've had skyrim since it came out back in november 2011 and i'm still finding things relatively fun to do. What does that tell you all? Lol, I've never bothered to get all the dragon priest masks until now. Getting most of the words of power and visiting all the dragon lairs. It's also pretty fun trying out the different races, discovering new locations and doing quests, even for a second or third time for unique items

Bugs. Lots. Of f**king. Bugs. I had to skip whole quests, because some glitch wouldn't let me progress further into the story, main or not. If it was as bugless as Oblivion, it would've been a 10. I would rate it a 9.5 though, just because of that glitch galore going on.

MARHVIN XII psych boi go play Zelda

Both game series are phenomenal and both deserve 10/10's

Morrowind and Obvilion is better

I'm from 2033, skyrim is still the best RPG and ES6 still isnt released

2020 soon

Twice in pc, my 3rd time in switch now

Feb 2020 mods are such heaven blessings

Plat trophy achiever here!

Guilty

Just started a new game

Aaron Johnson stop

Aaron Johnson 👍

Just bought it 😀

Brother it’s 2024

fallout 4 will and is going to be better

fallout 4 will and is going to be better

it could very well be but we'll see when skyrim 2 comes out in a couple of years

+eric vargas Skyrim is the 5th game in the series so it won't be Skyrim 2 it will be more like the elder scrolls 6 _________

+eric vargas up there with Ocarina of time for me

2020 too :P

What did you think? I’m revisiting it currently

Have fun man!!

the best experience is to download mods otherwise it does look outdated

⁠@@aidenraulgalvanrumor has it he hasn’t left his room since he started the game lol

I have. I almost hurled my game disc across the earth.

I'm iffy on Crysis. Crysis 2 was awesome but Crysis 3 felt like a complete repeat.

MasterOfMadness31 It sucks outside of it being big and having that badass soundtrack.

MasterOfMadness31 im 13 too :3 and skyrim is my favourite game

Ahmed Hasan Skyrim is an amazing game they just for got the MOTHERFUCKING LOADING SCREEN'S

Lewis Russell It's a reference from an Interviewer(Adam Kovic of Machinima) who accidentally said to a developer of farcry 3, that their game is like "skyrim with guns."

^FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT^

Oh Lol sry private hazard I hadn't seen the interview :/ but I'm sure you can understand my response to your comment.

it was a figure of speech and a joke. of course i didn't mean it literally, but if you feel offended then i apologise.

Lewis Russell You're an ass tard. Congrats.

I 100% agree

Well only the pvp is good I guess and the ost is quite good, other than that the game is not that good.

elder scrolls online was just the worst thing ever i think its best it stays single player and maybe a little coop other than tht stay how it should be.

Brokenname hope they can redeem themselves when ES6 comes out, i feel like Elder Scroll games are the only games in their franchise that can get them back on track again..

Same goes with Ubisoft. Old Assassins Creed games, Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six, Driver SF, Prince of Persia, Farcry 3 and now, they themselves don’t know what they’re doing

Same thing happened to me lol, I was into Fallout’s lore lot more but decided to try Skyrim simce I love The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit movies, so I decided to give Skyrim a try. Favorite. Game. Ever

+Syahroni Hermawan Yeah, and they gave MGS5 a 10!

That's bullshit!

Skyrim deserved a 4/10 the combat is boring and there are still bugs 4 years after release

@@TheHaHaNinja the bugs are harmless though

You gonna play starfield?

It seems, you love this game. And Im wondering which DLC should I buy. Dawnguard or the Dragonborn DLC.

3100Phoenix® Who doesn't like this game? Besides the sissies of COD players.

Shaun Vega I don't.. Just saying

antiguy360 Hey, we have our opinions.

Shaun Vega Very true.

Good man nice to see people like you (and me) supporting the developers:)

MYTHΩLΩGY 92 lol do you even have all the platforms or did you just buy them anyways

Arhum Ahmad i have them all.

MYTHΩLΩGY 92 lol nice

Could you give me the extra PC copy plsss