The Elder Scrolls Skyrim 10 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective 

7/10 not enough Yorkshire tea

I have the feeling this comment is an exploit of some kind....

Lovely, Ladies and Gentlemen! ♥

A wild spiff appears

Is it a good channel or another salty anti SJW whine fest?

@ShortHax I don't get it, but it must be funny because you have a check mark thingy!

@@euphoria_7477 It's a reference to the meme: "Honey, it's 2PM. Time for your pegging." "Yes dear.'

@@LochNessHamster isn''t this from the Christopher Nolan film "Memento"?

I eɑt ɑ​s​s...

I'd rather take the dick flattening tbh.

Oh my dear, let me fix that for you... : 2001-2011: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim 2011-2021: Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim and more Skyrim...

@@Z0MBUSTER can't we just get beyond Skyrim?

to be fair there was ESO but ehhhhh

Not to name what shall not be named but what about elder scrolls online?

@@zyriuz2 Would you like to take an arrow in the knee? Cause that's how you take arrows in knees... NI !

You know... I could have gone into that sanctuary. Killed those Dark Brotherhood types. But I was... sick that day.

I heard they are remaking Skyrim. An elder scrolls game or something, made by Bethesda. Might consider buying it myself.

Need something?

There is a mod that makes them explode if saying that line, or the arrow one.

Say what

HAYOOOO

Just in time for the rerelease on the PS6 and Xbox Weird Name featuring 8K texture, RTX, and Metaverse multiplayer support. Just in time to quench your Elder Scrolls thirst as you wait for the soon to be delayed release of Elder Scrolls 6.

Same

And, presumably shortly after, a review of the newly launched Tamriel Rebuilt v1.0.0.

It'll probably be out before ES6

Queue canned laughter

So all this time, the elder scrolls series is just an old person (perhaps Skyrim grandma) scrolling through menus?

Ba dum tss

And you're elder when you're done scrolling? I think I get it.

@@MondySpartan Did someone say my name?

I’m the same way with many games. Terraria is another big one. I start a new character and world all fired up to finish it. Build my starter house and explore a bit for a few days until it’s about time to kill WoF, then I quit playing for a year. Repeat. Still have never entered hard mode.

Same with me. Morrowind is the opposite for me. I find that game hard to go back to with how hard it can be, but can play through hours with it and get sucked in so hard.

@@corntastrophy What mods do you use with Morrowind? I really would like to get into it but the mods seem so daunting and there is no easy way to install them

I dunno, I'm having a bit of fun, actually.

@@grahamcrackers5645 get OpenMW and all your problems will be solved

Same here.

It's a shorter retrospective than others, granted

Yep.. I hate it, XD.

Haha dude I know ..I got a part time job at GameStop just because of this game (went on to work there for 8 years). Sad part was I didn't even like it as much as Oblivion. Speaking of Oblivion, let's see that remaster or something...just something beyond Skyrim ver 4.10.014

i remember when LGR covered Arena 10 years ago, calling Skyrim "new"

Holy shit, I can’t believe I’m just now learning about this after 10 years 😂

Always surprised to learn about the sheer number of people that still don't know you can do that, although, to be fair, the game never really does anything to tell you that it's an option.

Don't you get less of the material when you do that?

@bulldozer, nah you get the same amount of material

@@samadams3802 Huh. Good to know.

It's the best. Let's you get a reference for locations on the map.

Why bother with it when i can remember every cave,rock and grass in the world.

Funny how modders fix AAA title so quickly yet get attacked by the companies

@@captaintoyota3171 Except in this case, nothing was broken, and no companies went after the modders.

@@junibug6790 I think he's taking aim at Rockstar/Take Two

He then went on to voice one of the best gaming detectives, Nick Valentine

"It just wor-wor-wor-works." Todd Headroom ca. 2111 AD

Unless it crashes.

"You see that planet over there? You can travel to that planet"

@@0verkill161 and then the ai crashes

That wouldn't be a problem, but we would all still waiting for Elder Scrolls 6....

Within a few weeks we can't see dislikes anymore anyway... Stupid RU-vid (in Homer voice)

I mean it was entertaining, but I can see why he hated it.

@@robertgijsen It's pretty much like they're trying to get rid of judgement and it's kinda sad

ES: Arena to this day I think actually has this special quality to it that no other ES game has. If I had to say what it was, it might be that, generally, you just never know what's going to happen next. Everything about the mechanics of this game just seems so raw and wild. It also gives the player an ass-ton of freedom, even for an ES game. If you know how, you can get out of the tutorial dungeon in about a minute. Maybe not even that. And right from there, you can go into the Mage's Guild and start immediately breaking the game, or look at your loot and see if you got a ridiculously powerful item from the starter dungeon (very likely actually). You're also barely ever safe. Even in town, if you're there in the streets at night, you will get attacked. If you stay too long in one place, you will get attacked by angry medieval police officers. And finally, this may be personal preference, but I just really like the general art style of the game. All of this contributes to making Arena really interesting to play, even after all this time, and even with all the jank it has. (And there is a LOT of jank.) I will say it doesn't really have a lot of staying power at all, even compared to Daggerfall, but I think any serious ES fan should give it a try at least once.

@@XZ-III They claimed it's to protect small businesses or whatever. I personally doubt that's truly the case and think it's some form of damage control, but I've been wrong before.

nice same, lmao

I feel you man, skyrim may not be the best game ever, but there is just something special in this game that no other game can make me feel.

arguably far worse than oblivion characters. Ugh.

modding was the only thing that kept this game relevant for so long

@@StandTallTx That is true for every Elder Scrolls game since Morrowind though.

TBF, modders are the reason why I still play Skyrim ten years later.

@@VekhGaming True, really that applies to all Bethesda games but far more to Skyrim than any of the others. However, most of them went stagnant after 5 years, with the much newer Fallout 4 in that same process of dying off right now. Meanwhile Skyrim has no less than 4 major mod projects in the works at once and continues to get new works in all major sectors of it's scenes.

It's heresy I'm telling you! Playing Skyrim on PC unmodded like some filthy console peasant! Next you tell me he's playing with an Xbox360 controller.

@@OnionChoppingNinja then you'd probably hate me because that's how i played the game first and hated it

Buy it for Switch :D

Same dude

@@XZ-III Why? I played Skyrim on the 360 first as well since I didn't have the PC to run it at the time. (I think. It's been a long time.)

I mean, Rockstar is doing the same thing with GTA V and there's still new shit coming out for Age of Empires II 20(?) years on

@@victorkreig6089 Its not the best of anything. Its average enough at everything to appeal to a giant amount of people. It's easy and generic with everything it does going from game mechanics to story writing and progression.

Clint referencing his ruination thanks to dunkey's videos set me off. I too have brain mush that could only see Thomas flying around

​@@juancarlosdaran758 No joke, me too. As soon as the scene started, I was like "Will he go there?"

Ladies and Gentlemen... SKYRIM is here to save us!

@@tristikov CLAAAsic

I was already humming the theme tune before Clint mentioned it. :D

@@kaitlyn__L Good reply Kaitlyn, and the use of embiggen, kudos Lisa.

Spent my first 60 hours with Skyrim this past week and I’m having that same experience I would say.

@@raymondjurie9047 It's a perfectly cromulent word.

@@White_Tiger93 The Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood shouldve clashed. Forcing you to pick one, same with the College and Companions imo.

Yeah come to think of it it was kind of sad but that was a different time to be honest and secondly I'm fine with the current pray we got

@Julyxart Then you'll be 24 and 40 respectively, and if you live long enough you might see the release of the next one after those lol. 😁

I don't particularly mind open world rpgs, but I've also enjoyed condensed route based rpg adventures like the classic Pokemon series, Paper Mario, and octopath traveler.

Same almost. My mom got me skyrim for Christmas when I was 12. One of the most legendary games ever and I still play it to this day

So Starfield came out. Was it what you expected?

That's no exaggeration either lmao

...and then spending another 10 hours eliminating huge exclamation marks for badly implemented mods.

@@phunkracy... or another 10 hours solving a possible mod conflict or mod incompatibility that causes CTDs.

Lol pretty much yes

@@phunkracy Yep, that’s about where I am at the minute 😁. Vortex is in a right pickle.

I forgot it wasn’t what the ui was originally tbh lol

Same!

SkyUI, USLEEP, and the clearer map with roads. I honestly forget those mods aren't vanilla.

i cant play skyrim without my 200 mods

@@Iron_Stigmata If USLEEP (and LaL) didn't have such a stubborn asshole of a dev, I might use it.

I was gonna write something about seeing it. Still mad that we never got that.

@@naomiplays644 totally agree, I remember seeing videos and thinking it looked cool. Still think it'd be really unique too had they made it

That game had _so_ much potential. :-( I remember seeing it at Quakecon in 2011.

I would have loved it, but i think if it was released it would be been a cyberpunk situation.. so I'm kinda bitter-sweet we never got it

Yeah, I caught that too. The actual second game called Prey was actually probably a lot better of a game, so it didn’t end all that badly I guess!

I completely agree, Clint's writing and the way he narrates these videos is so entertaining and well written and I especially enjoy the alliteration. In this video the emotional cabbage line was my fave. Actually laughed out loud at that 😂

same, I remember being really hyped for years only to find out it was vapor ware

Idk man seeing the Napster logo was weird for me. Lol.

@@denniswoycheshen napster still exists just it's not what it was back in the late 90s/early 2000s

Don't worry, the Prey we got instead was so much better than whatever that dreck would've been

@@bleepbloop2318 Nah, Arkanes prey is great and all but dismissing prey 2 is being ignorant, bathesda killed a nearly complete game everyone wanted, and blamed it on quality concerns (insert fallout 76 joke here) Theres are whole videos on the bullshit todds company pulled that come down to bullying the devs into being bought up and when they didn't budge bathesda just nicked the project wholesale

I love your channel and it’s so awesome that y’all dig Skyrim too!!! Hi everyone, but specifically Matt!!!

I’m almost there. From release to now I’ve bought a houses got married had kids….

I also hope we get TES VI before I turn 40, and I'm 25 now.

They aren't starting development until Stanfield is done which will be released in November 11, 2022 so pretty much 2023 because its only 1 month away, ES6 will come out in 2026 unless they lied about the development time.

I just learned the map was 3D and the camera angle is changeable.

Same

Hot taco juice--always a pleasant Autumn beverage.

gotta be first time to comment on a youtube video. Emotional cabbage is genius level writing.

I was like 5 seconds late to that line from needing a new keyboard.

my first ever skyrim playthrough was in VR and damn, it was amazing

I so, so wanna try it, I genuinely am a massive fan of all the elder scrolls now but Skyrim was my first real entry point. I think I'd actually cry, to be able to feel inside the world like that

Skyrim vr exhausted me so i got back to just racing in vr (which you should try if you like it)

I'll say it time and time again, the atmosphere of Skyrim is INSANE, and immersion + atmosphere are both the most important parts of a game for me.

Definitely on my list! It will be worth the dizziness VR usually gives me :D

I’m so glad I got to experience midnight releases 😆 waiting in line and running home to play was a whole experience

The slow decline eh?

True story right there! Good times; great camaraderie. There was something special about that time. not banging on this time either, of course, but Skyrim is still a tremendous game. Bless the modders!

nah, it's better now. take off the nostalgia glasses

It's only unique because you're nostalgic to it , i am young adn the older games seem boring as hell to me since im not nostalgic to them , but im extremely nostalgic and defend the games i used to play when i was 8-11

wdym in ten years time, the jokes on you since Skyrim is already been released for Samsung smart fridges three years ago.

Also who wouldn't want a toaster that when it pops it plays the Skyrim Theme song

And if you insert the Skyrim disk into a cheesecake it should at least boot the loading screen!

@@KingofWolves3277 I'd prefer the toaster to yell: "Dovahkiiiiiiiiiiiin!!!"

Same here. I am a fan fiction writer mostly and I have the beginnings of at least four or five possible stories if I could find the time to sit down and flesh them out. Skyrim and Fallout for all of their many flaws are a ripe ground for creativity to take root.

No girls?

@@Pusfilth am girl

@@ophiolatrix no boys?

@@Pusfilth am also gay and was very socially awkward back then

That’s just sad 😔

Funny enough, there is a mod to re-enable achievements if you want to play with mods. It's called Achievements Mods Enabler.

easily fixed via mods of course

There is view bobbing tho, it's just subtle. Now in Oblivion and Morrowind there is no bobbing at all, it really feels like you are just floating in the air.

I am glad there isn't, as view bobbing causes me to get motion sickness. There is a reason few games have it, even nowadays.

@@herczegmarton9972 maybe because I’m used to Minecraft I never noticed it

@@Mathadar I would like the option. There may be one but I never noticed it

I still think its look good but then again I don't really play enough new games to have a comparison

@@majamystic256 The year before I was all hooked onto Fallout NV, it being to this very day my favourite Fallout in the franchise apart from 2. So when TES Skyrim came around the corner, I saw a game with so much genuine interaction and the enviroment, that it still gets me hooked to this very day.

Those were amazing times, can't believe it's been that long

@@babagandu I can't believe it either, it feels like it's only been a few years.

@@cheese_enjoyer. i havent really started playing skyrim is it my time to finally play so i can also experience those years?

That's weird, because I remember being surprised by Fallout 4 because it was by far the least buggy and most stable game from BGS (for me, for what it's worth). I remember some other people reporting as well that it was way less buggy than Skyrim. Saying that, even with Skyrim, I've mainly just had funny bugs, not game breaking ones. In the ten years and over a thousand hours of playing and modding, I've had a crash to desktop like twice, maybe?

I hope you've seen the Joel Haver animation about this.

I recently bought a ps3 for nostalgia reasons and bought skyrim, nothing hurts more than playing for hours only to run into that save bug and having to start all over again. Never experienced that till this year lol

This game on ps3 is single handily the reason I became a pc gamer. That plus the dlc delay on it.

That bugs are still in BGS products, I had such bug in Fallout76 too. I lose perks in the saves now the saves is bugged, I have to start it again but Fallout76 is so boring that isn't worth to play it. Skyrim has a good enviroment and character to play it again and again, like Fallout New Vegas.

Critical hit

Ten years before Skyrim released, the newest Elder Scrolls game was...Redguard.

His videos are funny but his fans, knock-offs and comment section are insufferable.

@@Roflcrabs Agree

I was supposed to be studying for a maths exam in my first year at uni. Instead I chose to stream Skyrim to a classmate using the share feature in Skype. One of my fondest memories, even if I probably made a poor choice at the time.

You don't? I was rolling with my first smartphone, the LG Optimus S.

I didn’t even have a phone in 2011 lol

Unless you mindlessly switching phones yearly, i think anyone can do that.

Clint is a techphile.

Wow I guess I’m just dumb, I remember it was a Samsung but I have no recollection of what model it was or even really what it looked like. But I did party a lot in my 20s it’s a blurry time.

@@victorkreig6089 Is this supposed to be bait? Stop whining.

@@fanasful ”Stop whining” - Person who whines. Stop calling people who don’t agree with you trolls, it’s so tiring and ridiculous...

@@victorkreig6089 While i do play on PC (pc masterrace, woo!), i also despise SkyUI... It tirns a streamlined and easy to use menu into a *clunky and cluttered mess...* It’s such a joke, andlooks absolutely hideous... At least on PC you can add a mod that removes it visually, yet keeps it’s added functions. Thank heavens...

there's something very endearing about the idea of todd playing his own games

@@schnek8927 1 word buddy. CONTAINERS.

Rookie number my friend

same man

@@jefverstraete8574 We all have, man. We all have...

Undead, to Redead.

What was the reference? I missed it somehow

@@shanehamilton5622 The sound effect at 7:25 I assume.

@@shanehamilton5622 7:20 - The Mario + Doom Shotgun

Someone needs to make it, I want to play too.

@@victorkreig6089 he said a lot, not all of them. And yes he’s awesome!

I've played this game a decade and still hate Blackreach. Any time I have to do something there or involving Falmer, I play fast music loud and speed run it. My character will just run at sonic speed, crushing Falmer skulls with a war-hammer to the music!

Personally? I’m judging you.

@@flouserschird I started a new game, removed all my mods, admitted that I don't enjoy survival mode, and am playing a a Breton. Granted, I'm at level 30 and haven't even finished The Horn of Jurgen Windcaller because I'm building my homestead and spending hours focusing on enchanting and alchemy instead of playing quests, but I refuse to get bored and stop this time.

I have never beat it and have played it vanilla on and off since it came out... somewhere along the way I always get distracted and then I just make a new character before I ever get back to the main quest. It is the best way to play any Bethesda game.

Nah it took me several characters before I bothered to do so. That was about 8 years ago though, always done it since.

I never finished it either. Same situation as you, easily put in over a thousand hours across various consoles. I get my enjoyment from exploring in open-world RPGs... as I've gotten older, I've learned it's fine to take enjoyment from a game in whichever way you see fit 🙂