You asked for it, YOU GOT IT! After a year of procrastination, IT'S HERE Ft. Music by Patricia Taxxon: patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/ My Twitter: / hbomberguy My Patreon: / hbomb My Twitch: / hbomberguy
I've come to watch this video twice now, hyped for HBomb's in-depth analysis on Skyrim... "Oh, I don't remember him saying all that much, I must have fallen asleep or something, let's rewatch it."
This video upset me. Not because you bad-mouthed Skyrim, and not even because you bamboozled me. No, Im upset because I put this video on as a sort of podcast-type thing while I have a shower and after 1 minute of a convincingly real start to what I believed would be an in depth argument about long load screens and excessive ports (among other things), I put my whole body in the prison of running water. It was then that I realised I had been duped, bamboozled, smeckledorfed even. It was too late. I committed to the poppy upbeat song that befell my ears and accepted my fate... for I am a fool. I am a fool, and, as it turns out, this is the day for me.
If I'm being honest, 24:34 helped me realize why I personally couldn't enjoy skyrim. With help from a therapist over the last several months, I'm proud to say that I've overcome my failings as a player of video games and am now unable to stop playing.
28:00 There's a spike in the most-viewed heatmap on the progress bar for no discernable reason here. It really is nothing, but if people click on this timestamp to see what I'm talking about, it will self-reinforce and this spike could grow higher than the others. Also in case anyone's wondering which music by Patricia Taxxon is in this video, I found it. It's called "Winter Beats" and it appears to an album/track that is just one 37 minute long song.
Lol, I do that all the time. I will be watching a video like this and think of some comment to post. Then when I go to the comment section I see I posted the exact thing three years ago. The comment I was about to post is almost always word for word the same as the one I had forgotten about posting years before.
I held off on watching this video for months because I actually enjoy playing this game and wanted to get one more good playthrough before having it vivisected before my eyes. I would have still enjoyed the game but that enjoyment would be tempered by the knowledge of all of the sins I had only been vaguely aware of before. I guess my enjoyment is still intact?
I mean, his negative opinion on any game shouldn't have any bearing at all, in the slightest, on how you feel about the game. He calls Fallout 3 "garbage" unironically, but IMO Fallout 3 is one best open world action RPGs ever made and is one of the reasons why I always keep coming back to Bethesda. He made some valid points in his video, but the things that bother him don't necessarily bother me as well. People like PatricianTV make a literal 20 hour long analysis video and rant at length about the shortcomings of Skyrims story and gameplay and yet they still spent hundreds of hours playing the game. If a game really is shit, it wouldn't be worth your time going over ever single excruciating detail and picking apart each and every flaw one by one. You can literally do that with any peice of content ever made and then come to the conclusion that it's "shit".
@@mralireza931 Imo even without mods the game is still far from garbage. It has it’s problems, sure, but considering it’s sheer size and when it was released it is not too much of an exaggeration to call it a landmark in gaming
@@mmelo7832 Skyrim came out in 2011. It was big, empty and buggy as hell. Literally, any AAA studio could have done that at the time. But they didn't because they didn't want their fans to finish their game.
Woke from a nightmare at 3:30 am and was reluctant to go immediately back to sleep, so put this video on to take my mind off it for a while. Woke up this morning a little perplexed about the whole experience; it felt almost like a fever dream, with credits going on forever? Or at least every time I cracked my eyes open. Went back to check later in the day when properly awake and things suddenly make a whole lot more sense
@@CSorgini I think something hunted me? All I can recall is the sensation of terror and a silhouette with eyes glowing brightly, and I'm honestly amazed I remembered that much in the first place
@@AllegedlyHuman thats fucking terrifying. I recently had a nightmare similar, a wolf hunted me down and ate me alive, but what was super jarring is I hadn’t had a nightmare or even a dream that I remember since I was 10 years old a decade ago, took me by surprise.
my favourite thing is how when you hover over the thumbnail, it shows action footage, makes you look like it's something other than scrolling text. I don't know if RU-vid did that when this was uploaded, but if it didn't, I like how this will serve to further confuse future viewers.
I sat there thinking it was going to be a "SEE THIS IS HOW I FELT WAITING FOR THE CUTSCENE TO FINISH" joke but it just kept going until I had the thought to hover over the time bar and see when he started talking again lol
Yep. He got me. April Fool and whatnot. No, that doesn't make it good lol I _especially_ feel bad for the Patreons who saw this at the time and saw just what their contributions were going for
I discovered your channel recently and loved your video on Fallout 3. I immediately went to check if you had made one on Skyrim and lo and behold, you did. Never felt so betrayed by someone I just met ever before.
I love that there's still people legitimately getting pissed at this video, it's hilarious. But on topic, in all honesty, the vanilla game is not all that good, but the fact I'm still playing the game in 2021 shows just how amazing the modding community is, fixing, improving and adding content on a regular basis for a whole decade now. That's nuts!
I saw someone just yesterday say that will NEVER watch any other video from hbomb because of how insulted he was by this video. It was rather hilarious.
@@wingedfish1175 can relate, i played Skyrim when it first came out. I got it on PS4 a couple years back and haven’t had to use mods to stay interested lmao, I’m re running the whole game rn for the trophies and I’ve still found it really entertaining to play whenever I have free time
This was my first hbomberguy video. I had this on my Watch Later because I heard good things about your reviews. When the scripted segment ended, I thought “hm, what a short review. Wasn’t this longer?” When the music kicked in, I wondered when I had added this snappy music to the playlist. Overall it was a good experience, 10/10
So um. It's been a year, and I waited patiently. Even a couple of days after April Fool's day, expecting a re-release of this exact video with better water textures....I'm sad to say I am now disappointed that you didn't follow through with your promise. I'm not angry...I'm just disappointed.
"Oh, good, ANOTHER April Fool's video. That's just what I wanna-" *Sees who uploaded it* "...Oh my God, thank you! :D There's no way this can be a joke!" *finds out it was just a prank* ...YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!
I kept thinking "Wow he's really commiting to this bit for a long time." Took me a solid three minutes before I decided to skip foward and realize what the deal was and checked the date.
There's a starman waiting in the sky Hey dude, I see you everywhere! Talking Heads videos, Fantano videos, Bowie videos, and now even here! Nice username, btw
The best thing about oblivion's opening is that after sitting through it with a character named "DO NOT DELETE" you can save the game right before leaving and have the option to remake your character right before entering the open world.
I named an Oblivion end-of-sewers character "Trump" after listening to a rap song with his name in it in 2014 and then when I opened I loaded saves from a backup recently I thought for a second that recent years had somehow entered into Oblivion and corrupted it. Ironically it's a heavily modded catgirl who's purpose is to placehold the settings for having a cute catgirl face.
This was the one saving grace to all of bethesda's boring ass intros. Then for some fuckin' reason they don't give you the opportunity to do this in starfield.
Opening monologue ends at 3:35. Spoiler alert: He gets into the core flaws of vanilla Skyrim, specifically the lack of storytelling strength due to the nature of open world games, the inconsistent levels of immersion due to the game’s design, development and world-building, and the rampant levels of bugs and unpatched features unaddressed after over 6 years, as well as Bethesda’s seeming refusal to replace the engine in the Special Edition and its poor implementation of its Creation Club.
It's September 2019. I clicked on this video because it was in my recommended after I watched and enjoyed the Fallout 3 video. I watched the first 2 minutes about the long introduction and constant rereleasing. I saw him get up and leave and thought, hmm, people usually do this bit and go "BUT WAIT" and talk about more issues. But as the names were slowly scrolling, I scrolled down just a tad to take a look at the top comment, and went "....Oh", then I looked at the date of release and went "Ohhhhhh". Then I looked at the frame preview for the other 40 minutes of video and went "OH YOU FUCKER"
@@yourik.1260 Aw man i was so excited to see my childhood hero Five Time World Heavyweight Champion Patrick The Breezy P Finnigan had donated to hbomb too, that's disappointing :/
i mean it’d actually be pretty funny if he just released this same video again next year but made the green screen some generic windows background of water
What I've noted is that there is this weird tendency in Bethesda games to make the world feel dead. I can usually identify someone playing something immediately because the world feels fake. It's just something about the design or the feel that always put me off. I played Fallout 4 and enjoyed it up to a point, then the world started to feel like a empty carnival. Same things, same stuff to do, on repeat and no one was there but me. The NPC's all suffer from this weird empty feeling in their expressions and eyes. I don't know HOW they do that, considering the amount of people that work on design and graphics alone and that it's probably not even all the same people for every game, but it's a consistent feel and look and feel. Dead carnival. I know I'm not the only one either, but a lot of people don't see it.
Here is my review. I get this is a joke but I honestly don't get why people like this game. I'm a big fan of open world games, flashy games, power fantasies like Morrowind or character driven RPG's so I'm definitely the target demographic, but I refuse to believe so many are so gullible as to still think this game is good after so long. Everyone looks at those who hate or criticize the game like hipsters instead of trying to think critically about it like they don't want the illusion broken. The game is all flash and graphics with no choice or substance, no deep combat, no deeper meaning or statement, not even philosophical pandering or posturing. The only thing it did was be the first to have a free-roam open world that didn't have glaring restrictions all over. Skyrim is basically a pandering popcorn flick a'la Michal Bay but with a fantasy skin slapped on. Simple flashy spells and a cliche landscape as wide as an ocean but deep as a puddle. I think the only thing that's carried Skyrim was it's moders, good music and insane marketing to keep the hype alive. I loved their old games when you could tell they were trying to give you a unique experience with a deeper intrinsic value and meaning they were trying to communicate, be it about war, the human spirit, the hypocrisies and danger in America's patriotic culture, the flaws of capitalistic societies, the nature of adventure and lust for it in everyone, or just the desire to be important. Every game Bethesda has made just keep getting worse and more hollow, losing all meaning until they are glorified tech demos full of bugs... and Fallout 4 was everything wrong with Skyrim a dozen times over. Just gather, explore, combat and repeat, with dialogue that could have been written by a child. Great story, it's like they are just giving lip service to the idea of having integrity and meaning while trying to be hack'n slash/shooters but failing miserably at it. We should hold them to a higher standard, read any novel at all and you will feel your time was better spent. Play god of war or something if you want combat and high fantasy, play silent hill if you want atmosphere, play COD or BorderLands if you like shooters. Anything Skyrim and Fallout 4 do countless others do better. Skyrim is a first, but it's a jack of all trades yet a failure at all of them. That is why Skyrim is trash.
Yes but I.could criticize any game today for by breaking down it’s key, bare bones ideas and gameplay elements. Whether u enjoy it or not, the game was great for its time, and sure it hasn’t aged well but does mean it ithat it’s somehow gotten worse. I think the game has a charm to it, and frankly I have no idea what that it but it has kept my playing to this day and no amount of critizing it’s “shallow combat” etc will take that charm away
This video keeps showing up on my feed, and I always wonder "I remember watching this, why don't I remember any of the content?" Then 3:30 rolls around and I think "oh, that's why"
Once the credits started rolling I just kept waiting for the punch line, and eventually I zoned out for a couple minutes only to see the credits were still slowly scrolling up. Then I realized what day it is, even though I already knew what day.
The most annoying part of this is when I realized this was an April Fool's prank my hands were already soaking wet from doing dirty dishes. Luckily the music was lovely, so I didn't bother trying to turn it off but still. I was hurt. 😂😂😂
i really liked that part of the video where you talked about how pointless the civil war is and how the only thing it changes is what color the guard's uniforms are and which boring puppet sits on the throne of each city saying the exact same thing. i also really dug how you clearly pointed out every single guild questline was exactly the same; where it followed all the same exact beats and plot points as all the others and how in the end there was absolutely no impact on the world for being the master of every guild. that's the hard hitting and incisive commentary i subscribed for!
"i really liked that part of the video where you talked about how pointless the civil war is and how the only thing it changes is what color the guard's uniforms are and which boring puppet sits on the throne of each city saying the exact same thing." You mean like 99% of all actual civil wars?
Same, this video keeps popping up in the recommended videos to the side when I'm re-watching old Hbomber videos. And every time I think _"Oh cool, I don't really remember that one. Let's watch it."_ And then I remember.
I do believe some of his points in the video are very good especially the ones around the 20 min and 28 min mark, but the complete ramble he goes on at 32 min is absolutely wrong. Overall, this video is very well researched and I appreciate that.
I am a new subscriber here, got caught by Pathologic and Fallout "Here is why"s. I watched all videos from "Here is why" playlist. And after that I found this video. First thought: "Why is this video not in that playlist? Well, I suppose author accidently forgot to put it there..." The thought in 3 minutes: "Huh, nice joke. Well, lets see, he should show up again in a couple of seconds and return to analisys." 30 seconds later: "Soooooo, the joke got too stratched..." 2 minutes later: "The fuck, when is it gonna stop?" *started tapping on timeline bar* 10 seconds later: "So, here is why it's not in the "Here is why" playlist..."
3:47 lol, nice bit Hbomb 5:30 ...okay pal I get it now, how long is this gonna go on 7:18 bruv 8:00 *scrolls along the time bar thing to see when it ends* ...oh. okay. sure. 8:30 *finally sees the upload date*
let's be fair: fallout 3, oblivion, fo4, skyrim, FO76 and guess what Fuckin' Starfield are all the _same game._ they can give it a new coat of paint and swap out a part here and there, but the core of the engine is the same. The very very very very buggy core.
I like all the Elder scrolls games, but it seems really silly to talk about this like it's a question of 'good' vs. 'bad.' There are many things that people love and hate about the game. For my part, and this is only speaking objectively, it failed to live up to the mechanical complexity of the previous two entries in the series. It was sorely lacking in depth, comparatively, and suffered because of it. This turned what was an RPG into essentially an action game. You just decide what you want to do, those skills level up, and no matter what choices you made you'll be pretty successful. (unless of course you decide to do a challenge run, like unarmed combat only) It mainstreamed what was until then, even among Oblivion players, a niche deep RPG experience. And then there are the many common complaints about bugs, voice acting, bad character faces, etc. But that's just par for the course in these games, everyone complains about that stuff.
It's not secretly terrible, it's open with its terribleness. You have striking gameplay such as "use right or left hand" tons of character building opportunities such as "do you want to kill things with sword, magic, or bows". No characters of note, a shit story, boring "walk straight" dungeons, and a disjointed mess of a world. Skyrim was built for the ground up by and for casuals. If you like it go ahead but don't pretend it's anything more than the gaming equivalent of a mcdonalds meal.
@@libenhagos9335 "Casual" doesn't equal "bad". Hell, "complex" doesn't necessarily equal "good" either. I like strategical depth in strategy games, but I've tried to get into the older Elser Scrolls games and while they aren't bad, the character advancement is so abstract it breaks the immersion.
I can't believed I never noticed this video while scrolling through your channel. It's like my mind couldn't comprehend it and just skipped over it every time I laid eyes upon the title. Now I am awake and I have to deal with this reality.
About once a year I click on this forgetting the joke going, "Oh yeah, I don't remember what he had to say about Skyrim.... Oh.... Yeah... That's right..."
Me: oh it must've been a while since I saw this, I don't even remember much of it, I guess I'll rewatch it now, hmm hmm Me 6 minutes later: I'm a frickin dumbass wow
I generally hate April fools jokes, because they're so goddamned obvious and they just make me wish the was actual content. But, despite being obvious, I like this video because my name was on screen for 56 seconds.
I loved this! When the patrons started scrolling i went "no way! What a power move!!" And every minute that it didn't psych out and go back to the video my titillation just grew.
