THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM (Zero Punctuation) 

Ah, remember when linear shooters were the mainstream default, and an open world game was a refreshing change of pace? What a fanciful concept.

My favorite glitch was when a skeleton dragon fell out of the sky on top of me as I was crossing the bridge to the college of Winterhold, pulling me off and sending me tumbling to my death. Well played, Alduin.

My best glitch is while walking through Whiterun, I was engaged in a conversation. To whom? I do not know, no one was around when it adjusted my camera. After leaving the dialogue, I noticed a person floating above my head, in a T pose. He floated forward a few feet and then ascended into the sky, never to be seen again. Some say, he is still ascending to this day.

to defend my intelligence. I went with empire because i had no fucking idea what was happening, there was a dragon and every thing else was background nose.

Getting launched into low orbit by a giant is still one of my all-time favorite vidya memories.

when I played Skyrim there was a glitch that activated when I died during that one mission for the companions when you first fight the silver hand or whatever. whenever my character was indoors I would hear this horrible rattling sound constantly and when I went into third person and my character model was completely gone. when I was at the tavern in whiterun I looked up for no reason and saw the 3rd person model of my character ragdolling across the ceiling. I managed to leave the tavern in 3rd person view and then I witnessed my character change from its intended position into a ragdoll corpse that slowly started to rise into the sky and never stopped. and then that one asshole asked if I get to the cloud district very often.

I once jumped on a bandwaggon full of cabbages when the wagon went flying at 300 mph at some poor old woman rambling to her son about how she just saw a dragon. She died and the son couldn't give less of a shit.

Weirdest glitch has to be Lydia dying in a cave then her body showing up in my house in Whiterun for some reason... just lying there.

I remember I killed a dragon once, but I didn't get it's soul. I kept walking, but then the corpse started following me and ragdolling where ever I went. In my house, in the cities, in the dungeons, in the freaking SOUL CAIREN! Everywhere that f-ing dragon never let me live it down that I killed him.

So, I once loaded my game where me and my companions were in Solitude, gearing up to set out and face the terrible creatures at Jurgen Windcaller's gravesite. And then suddenly, my companions started to run away from me. Very very quickly. They sprinted out the city gates and down to the harbourfront. That was the last time I saw them.

my glich was when i saw a butter fly in a rock and decided to "jump on it" and the damn thing when fliying up WITH ME STILL STANDING,

One time I was talking to some dude in the Whiterun Jarl's palace, and then a dinner plate came out of nowhere and smashed into his face. It was stuck there for a while.

I remember that in skyrim, the first time you witness a dragon being resurrected, it immediately flew of, attacked a mammoth, and was then killed by said mammoth, which had taken almost no damage. I will always remember that mammoths are apparently far more powerful than flying magic dragons.

My best glitch is when i tried getting off my horse and walking, but instead i was running extremely fast with galloping noises in the background.

my best glitch is when i became jesus (i killed a fox, dragged its body into a river and as soon as its floppy body touched the water it came to life)

Just because lots of people seem to want to share their Skyrim glitch stories- I decided to go on a killing spree in Riften one time in order to do some power leveling, and after the killing stopped, I went back to examine the bodies for gold and the like and I found what I can only describe as a wormhole connected to a fountain of blood. There was a constant stream of blood spurting out of thin air, apparently where I'd burst an artery on of one of my enemies.

I was tasked to kill a traveling noble in Solitude by order of the Night Mother. So I stabbed her right in the middle of town square, but it was okay because the game said I was hidden. After stripping her corpse of everything (because I was a horder) I left her body out in the streets as I made my escape. When I came back, I found at least 7 guards who had just noticed the naked corpse, and had all gathered round to "inspect" it, by bending down and touching it.

i assassinated a wizard and then he fell through the ground and rose back up behind me.

I wish the civil war questline was better integrated into the main story. It didn't feel like anything really changed afterwards.

my best glitch was during the opening credits scene, the wheels starting bugging out, and tried to fuse with the horse, and then we started doing backflips, I was in a tree for a while, and then we trotted off a cliff into helgen proper, all the while none of the NPC's noticed a thing, they just kept on with their dialog, and eventually we ended up stuck upside down on a building because our horse must've gained infinite density and shot off into space

the time my horse finished off the dragon. I swear I thought at one moment it was going to shout FUS RO DAH (I guess it held back in order to hide the fact it's the real dragonborn).

My first couple playthroughs, I got confused as to why the intro segment kept changing from playthrough to playthrough. It later turns out that I was so busy worrying about being *CHASED BY A FUCKING DRAGON ATTACKING THE TOWN* that I had completely missed the fact that there was some sort of moral/ethical decision to make over who you would run away with when you were being *CHASED BY A FUCKING DRAGON ATTACKING THE TOWN!*

My favorite glitch was when I saw a mammoth flying around roaring and breathing fire. Backwards.

The one thing i hated about skyrim was that just about everything was indoors, never out in the lush open world where all the nice trees are. a mission would tell you: Go to the glade of unimaginable beauty and splender. There you will find a dark damp cave. Go into the cave and get me the sword of "i bet you wish you were outside right now". then head over to fort "Just like every other fort" and get me the sacred kneebrace of saint "wishiwasinthewillows". then bring it to the crypt of "just like the first one you go to in this game" and fight some Draugr. Draugr, the reanimated corpses of Dead Nords. Not to be confused with zombies, which are the Reanimated corpses of dead humans that may include Nords. There are different because reasons.

How to win the game? Duel wield axes and use a speed shout, then swing your arms around like a "Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tubeman" until everything dies, then if your a Argonian just use your daily skill which heals you faster then chugging 5 potions

One night a glowing ghost on horseback, got hit by Giant, so i put a wish on that beautiful star flying through the sky...

The biggest problem I have with Skyrim is friendly fire. If you employ a mercenary or follower and accidentally breathe on them, they won't rest until your skull becomes bonemeal.

Jordis got smashed up by a giant but didnt actually die, she disappeared for a while but then as I was looking around for a corpse she came sliding into view on her back chatting away to me and she just wouldnt get back up. I walked around for ages with her just sliding along behind me.

I am very pleased he liked this Elder Scrolls. (I will never forget you hovering-over-the-ground-lady...)

My favorite glitch was and always will be the dragon corpse that follows you whenever you fast travel.

i once had a really strange bug where for some reason both ulfic stormcloak and general tullius spawned naked outside whiterun, then proceeded to get into a fist fight where neither could die, so they just continued fighting naked for eternity, i believe they are still there.

best way to play is with infinite carry weight. I love immersion and all but it's pretty annoying to travel back to town every 2 caves to unload your helmet collection I also find it fun to try to collect every armor set and unique weapon in the game

Yeah, I have to say, the game really, really didn't help itself present a choice that could go either way when the first you see of the Empire in Skyrim is that they're literally prepared to execute people by the job-lot despite no actual orders to do so, just because they were in a random area at a random time, and more importantly, they were about to do that to ME. It really doesn't help motivate me to give them a chance.

Skyrim is a kind of game in which if you start listing all the flaws you would almost literally NEVER run out

I guess the weirdest glitch I had was in Riverwood, in the general store, I did my usual routine of putting a pot in the vendor's head and the physics on the pot glitched out hard, it started vibrating at supersonic speed and doing that ragdoll bug noise and after a few seconds the dude died and he got dragged all over the room like a paper man following the crazy vibrating pot. All while her sister kept talking about how we needed to get back the golden statue thingie, good times.

I always loved picking a random direction, going in it, than being forcibly drafted into the local giant space program.

in memory of hovering ground lady 2012-2012

This game wins In my book because of one thing. Mods.

Best glitch? A giant smashed Lydia and myself into pancakes. After reloading, she was still dead on the ground. However, her lifeless corpse kept following me around like a normal follower, merrily sliding along the ground after me.

I entered *Radiant Raiment* and then I SHAT MYSELF!!! there were 5 mannequins faced tword me, about the shop. slowly moving tword me with clothing on like random generated npcs. Then suddenly they all went to T-pose had the clothes taken off them, and acted as normal mannequins again... *grumbles* god damn elf magic...

I went with the Empire on my first playthrough, not because I wanted to see what happened, or because they are better people. My thoughts were "HOLY CRAP A DRAGON RUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUN!"

Oh wow, it's a blast from the past to hear Yahtzee praising an open-world game for being different. Little did he know the glut of open-world games that the AAA industry would become...

General guy: No I will rule Skyrim in the name of the Hostage Empire! Bearded guy: NO I WILL rule skyrim in the name of racist Nords Me: BITCH HOW ABOUT I RULE SKYRIM both: o_o Me: I own the local theives guild, the companions, the local dark brotherhood, Im the Archmage, I've killed well over 300 dragons on my way to fucking sell stuff, I have enough gold to build a palace out of it, I reformed the Dawnguard, I cured Serana here of Vampirism (its surprisingly easy), Im the Thane of everyhold, I have enough enchanted weapons and Armour to build an Army of SuperSoldiers, I'm the only one keeping the economy going by selling shit I dont need, I have 2 dragon buddies, ones an asshole and the other loves me! I'm able to instantly pick flowers and my ass which infact can hold as much shit as a freight train! Iv'e gained the attention of every Deadra asshole out there, I could win an eating contest against anybody and anything, I was mentored by all previous guild masters and a fucking dragon, they all ended up dying! Hell I murder every thalmor asshole I come across so under my rule they cant do shit, a rule inforced by the might of so many people who will follow me to Asgard itself, all equipped with weapons of legends, and I could kill anyone in this room with my fucking voice! Oh and i'm apparently a bard now... make me High King and with my leadership we could rule not only skyrim, but Tamriel itself, and the GALAXY!!!

Glitch swaping comment chain! The best glitch i remenber was when i saw a Whiterun Guard swiming in the middle of the air and drowing a few steps later.

The only way to play this game is with graphics card bigger than the computer...then download 233 MODS with every thing that should have been implemented in development...Shadows/Lighting?...Better Combat system o.O? Realistic Needs?...an actual CIVIL WAR!?...and boom you have one of, if not, the best RPG ever made

HAH! I NEVER TOOK PART IN THE CIVIL WAR! Come to think of it, I never actually tried stopping Alduin either.

my best bug so far is when i was fighting a dragon and suddenly the dragon stopped caring about me and went off to fight some bandits a few miles further. so i chased it and apparently the bandits did spawn but their clothing didn't, so i found myself fighting a dragon and a bunch of naked bandits. had some nude mods so they where full monty

I had a neat one off glitch where after a large battle the invisible Valkyrie descended onto the battlefield and promptly ignored the spirits of the fallen and instead decided to take their weapons and shields. All at once they began slowly floating straight up so high they disappeared. I came back later to find bodies still around but the weapons and shields were no where to be found.

It's fair to say that sequels will never continuously please fans because the game makers either: change it so little as to make it look like the same game as before, or change it to the point where it's not the same game and is not enjoyable in the same way.

My favorite Skyrim glitch was when I had a mammoth spawn in a tree and stand there while everything in the area tried to kill it including the giant that was supposed to be protecting it.

My best one was when a dragon flew out of the ground, with a giant riding it until he fell off, died at my feet and the dragon decided he was late for tea.

Here's a glitch: One time, I was just walking through the mountain pass between ivarstead and helgen, and then an imperial soldier on a horse blasted upward like a rocket, did a zig-zag, and initiated warp drive off into the sunset.

at the beginning of the story you find out that you have been captured for trying to cross the border, the bloke sitting next to you tells you that!

Even Yahtzee knows the difference between wyverns and dragons. Hence why he called then godzillas

my best glitch came when I was trying to do the exploit on console that lets you be both a werewolf and a vampire lord at the same time, somehow I messed it up and I turned into a half werewolf where I was in human form but I had a wolf head and claws but the rest of me was in human form

9 years later and you can't say Yahtzee didn't get his wish. Spunkgargleweewee is dead. Long live Jiminy Cockthroat.

Had a bunch of bugs with Serana. In the quest where you had to gather water to get entrance to the temple, she would keep looping around in a single area and not follow me. Had to quicksave to fix that. Another time was after beating Harkon. She got stuck in an attack position and it wasn't possible to talk to her at all. Had to beat her up to return her to normal. Oh and a bonus bug with Aela. After getting the first totem, she just forgot about it and disappeared from the game lol. Somehow the fix for this was to sleep for 2 days and she just magically appeared beside my bed and the quest finished normally.

On a more Skyrim related topic than my last comment 2 weeks ago.. The major issue I have with most open world games, especially Bethesda ones, is that there's really no replay value aside from just..playing the game again, and maybe using a different method of attack. The game doesn't change based on what you do. At the start, you get to choose one of two people to escape with, but both ways lead to almost identical missions. The only difference being which Jarl you talk to. And even then they both give you similar missions. The game doesn't change based on your options as a play. If I kill 10 people and there's no witnesses, I can come back later, and nothing changes. No one seems to care that I killed those 10 people. There's no one trying to find me, no wanted posters. Hell, there's a side mission in Skyrim where people flip out because someone was murdered in a town, and they ask you to help find the killer. So OBVIOUSLY death is something they care about. But if YOU kill someone, they don't care. You could leave bodies all over the place in that very same town, and the other NPCs wouldn't look twice. There's also no game-changing things either. Like, I can't use a fireball to light a house on fire, then come back later to see that house has burned down for the rest of the game. I can go into a town wearing full Daederic armor with a huge sword and a fireball in my other hand, and no one cares. Kids will still walk up to you and ask you to play tag, while other npcs look at you and think you'll be a good person to ask for help with their meaningless chore. I know it would be difficult to code, and probably take extra time. But I think it would be worth it. A game doesn't really feel like a real world, if nothing you do effects anything. It just feels like you're taking part in a pre-written story and your only input is telling the character where to go. And in an "OPEN WORLD" game, that's not exactly a good thing to feel. Sure, it's an open world game, but it's still really closed off and doesn't change much.

My best bug was when i absorbed a dragon soul before i killed the dragon, then it became a skeletal dragon flying around and i couldnt kill it. I came back later, and it was invisible. I still managed to defeat it though, with the floating blood shaped as a dragon's snout.

my most fond memory in skyrim is first figuring out the restoration potion exploit... When you can turn a bunch of fish and flowers into the power of a nuclear missile on a bloody fork and run around the country instakilling enormous monsters, you know you have reached the ultimate cheese

One time when I was woefully underleveled I found some dragon priest on top of a mountain. I managed to kill it, but as I approached the word wall I stepped on a random ribcage that was lying on the ground and was promptly launched ten feet into the air and straight off the side of the mountain.

My problem with Skyrim is that the dungeons are too linear. Travel through this twisting hallway, kill the boss, take the shortcut out. If you've played Oblivion, most dungeons in it had several floors and tons of different paths that usually lead to deadends and no shortcuts back out. And I'm disappointed that there is no mod to overhaul these existing dungeons either, even after 3 years of this game being out.

My stealth is through the fucking roof. I can literally crouch and combat roll strait in front of and into enemies! I can slit the throats of people having a conversation and the still don't see me on legendary. So in short, go stealth, it pays off.

It's been 8 years. Do you still remember floating floor lady?

I just ran, with a man, into a building, to escape a Dragon. Turns out he was from the Empire. Ok well whatever. I'll see what happens for the rest of the game....

My best Skyrim glitch was when I was just walking along and suddenly a horse landed on me. I died instantly. I think somehow a giant must have thrown it into the stratosphere. Anyway, after the horse incident, I found that a kettle came flying at me from behind. Thinking this was a quest starter, I turned around. Instead of starting a quest however, Barbas the talking dog slowly glitched his way out of the ground and started running around in a circle, his head held to the air, barking endlessly. Somehow he kept following me until I thought "Screw this" so I Unrelenting Force'd him to f*ck off.

Also I´m pretty sure that the "rim" in Skyrim is not about the circumference of the only female puppy in Paw Patrol (as implied), but rather about rime ice and you must admit the name fits very well then. You spend a lot of time under the open sky and there is a lot of ice.

the words "latest installment of the venerabpe elder scrolls series" hold way more power than they did nine years back

my best glitch was my horse who climbed up waterfalls

Fallout 3/NV and Skyrim have a unique problem, I love them so much so I play them a lot. But then I get to a point where I still love them but theres nothing left to do and I get depressed.

Fallout New Vegas is better than Skyrim! *Grabs popcorn* (This is my actual opinion though)

Woah, Skyrim happened 9 years ago? Almost makes me want to wait another year on a replay.

The imperials just kind of assume you're a rebel despite not having any files on you and the fact that you're not wearing rebel clothing. However, they are still the good guys in the war.

At least they added mounted combat since he posted this haha :)

contrary to popular opinion, skyrim isn't actually a game. It's an enormous character creator. You spend the first 5 minutes choosing race and appearance by shifting nobs and the next 40+ hours choosing your characters skills by rapidly jamming the attack buttons they just forgot to add the actual game at the end

So, I had a bandit hand me back a dagger I'd dropped and politely warn me not to leave weapons around. While I was hiding and undetected. And then he walked away.

Oddly enough, I only came across one, big glitch while playing Skyrim. I was running from some bandits, trying to get to town when my character very suddenly launched a billion miles into the air. It was pretty funny until I realized I hadn't saved for over an hour.

I randomly decided to rewatch this video because I got back into Skyrim recently, and…Oh Yahtzee. I don't think there is a more adequate representation of "be careful what you wish for" then hearing Yahtzee beg for more open world games and less linear shooters ten years ago, given his recent gripes. XD

4 years and a 300-modlist later skyrim is finally a worthwhile game

My favorite/most frequent glitch is when dead dragons fall from the sky, right on top of me. They still have their skin, but you can't loot them or absorb their souls. It only started happening recently, but its already been 25-30 times. Makes me jump when I'm not expecting it.

I like cereal more than popcorn. Grabs popcorn

Popcorn Popcorn Popcorn Popcorn Popcorn Popcorn. Grabs Popcorn.

Everytime this pops up in my recommendations, I can't help but watch it again.

11 years later and the cooking pot, dog-bollock, piñata still has me in absolute hysterics, partly because it's an excellent joke delivery but mostly because my memory is so poor you could use it to strain spaghetti and every time is like the first time.

My favourite glitch involved The Companions quest where one of them dies. I looted the lovely armour from his corpse,but next time I went back to their hall there he was, sitting in his underwear drinking mead. He just looked at me (wearing his old armour) and asked... "Yes?"

I now know why it is called zero punctuation and i love it

“Sandbox sea- no no no no no!” Will always be that quaint little joy this midnight

after defeating a dragon, the dead corpse kept following me where ever I went

You know you COULD try doing a different attack strategy like say, using unarmed with a cat heavy armor and some fancy glove enchants, useing a bow as your primary and pwning anyone who comes within line of sight, playing hitman with your pricky little daggers, OR sneaking around like hitman, but stealing all their shit first and THEN kill them. If you take the last option you can sneak up on a briar heart forsworn and rip their heart out by pick pocketing them. this also works on many other enemies that have heart or skull in their inventory when you pickpocket them.

My favorite glitch in Skyrim is when a giant clipped onto a dragons back and I witness the first dragon rider

Oh the good ol' days when Skyrim only had one released edition and wasn't on everything including a fridge. I still haven't gotten around to finishing Skyrim because my first play through when it initially came out I quickly found the bug where you could make arrows powerful enough to instantly kill every enemy in the game with one shot and got very bored minutes later.

I've been binge watching these videos for about a half hour and have literally injured my throat from laughing. I pulled something or strained something and it hurts but I'm not stopping. XD

Morrowind was the best ES game. *Grabs popcorn* Oh, yeah. And the civil "war" was so nonexistent I found more bandits than soldiers.

Goodness even after 9 years he still feels the same

I remember taking down one of the aforementioned unfairly tough end bosses by stealing his weapon while he was sleeping and beating him to death while he was unarmed. I still had to run away at one point because he picked up a weapon off his dead friends.

I have to pick between the only two extreme glitches that I remember. But my favorite has to be when I was wrapping up the Dark Brotherhood's questline. Cutting out a lot, I was about to kill my target when his missing burly bodyguard ghosted through the wall. Had to wait until he decided to return to whatever dimension he'd popped out of.

my favorite glitch was when i was in my home in riften i was in the basement doing inventory and out of the corner of my eye i saw movement so i had a look around and saw noone except my manikin but for a split second i thought i saw it move so walk right up to it and stared at it for a few seconds and nothing then i laughed and thought it was my imagination ....then the manikin turn his head and looked me straight in the eyes and i jumped almost 3 feet out of my bed waking everybody in the house...

My favourite bug was when I killed a dragon only to come back later to find it's body had been replaced with a naked black lady with a man's head

One of your best reviews yet.

I just for the first time realised there is a reference to "The Name of the Rose". I should watch that again :) I think I have seen this review 8-10 times over as many years... I must be kind of dull witted.