I was so addicted to skyrim when it released I was failing like 7-8 classes in middle school consistently due to how much time was put into playing it.
all these years later and the trailer still gives me Goosebumps. Also since she mentioned Game Of Thrones, the voice to the trailer is the 3 eyed Raven actor Max von Sydow who voiced the character Esbern
Actually GoT producers approached Bethesda (the studios who produced and released Skyrim) to create a Game of Thrones videogame, but it was so similar to the project they have already been some years under production (Skyrim) that they HAD TO decline their offer. Telltale studios picked it up and released GoT videogame in 2014 for nearly every console and device there was back then.
The day is the 11th of November, 2011. You go to your local cd or game store and buy The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Unaware that life will never be this good again.
What Skyrim and Witcher 3 did with me was crazy. I actually spent entire work vacations on both of them. There was a few times I forgot to eat, shower and whatsoever for a couple of days because I was playing. Nowadays I still hold these kind of games to play during my work leave so it doesn't make me lose my job or anything. It's what I'm doing with Baldur's Gate 3.
I usually watch the whole video before leaving a comment if I feel it's warranted. This video I paused at 2:55. The sheer joy my guy is feeling watching the video is so obvious, man this is one of those extremely rare things that bring an unexpected and greatly appreciated natural smile from me. That's fscking awesome. Keep being you playa
I learned that you could mod Skyrim a year ago and I said “I just want to make a few changes to the base game and spend maybe an hour or two a day” wow those 4 months really felt like 4 days
I bought Skyrim 3 years ago, thinking this was gonna be like a summer game session, I was gonna finish it, and that'd be it, great game. I did NOT anticipate to keep playing it for 3 years FOR HOURS every single weekend and holidays, vanilla Skyrim was fucking awesome but with how easy it is to mod you can literally play a new game each playthrough! I felt like it was such a steal for the price I bought it, it honestly makes you feel like you're buying 20 games or more for like $5. The trailer still brings tears to my eyes, the soundtrack is too beautiful.
hey actually yes, i saved money for ten years, to build an ultimate gaming pc, just for skyrim, playing skyrim on pc has been my dream for ten years, thats how much i loved it
By that point in my life I was sunk all the way down to the bottom, this game actually brought me back to the surface. I am no psychologist, but I'd bet that gambling addiction and videogame addiction are on the very same page.
I remember sitting in class daydreaming and planning out my days in detail to maximize the time I had to play. I've never done that with any other game
I like your grin while watching it i have 6k hours in skyrim and I still play it I smile when watching cool stuff i've never seen b4 like videos or stuff that is new to me in game play. Either your a great actor or really enjoy the game or the video cause hard to fake smile for like 5 min and have it look genuine. Since I believe the ladder I'm gonna stick with that. I finished your video I was right you played it and like i said I had this for just about 2 years and 6k hours but never lost my life it but alot of free time but im still living so I don't owe her 20 bucks.
This game came out during my freshmen year. Still havent beat everything!! 😂 Awesome react guys keep em up!! 3:54 he's not lying i skipped school more than a few times to play this! 😂 It's very addicting and still has a great following and still has mods being made to this day!!
Fortunately my daughter was a teenager and gone a lot in 2011. I played all day every day. I still cooked and those kinds of things but i lived most of my life in skyrim. I don't play as much now, but i do still play. My oldest grandsons are now playing, though they prefer fortnite (they're 11 and 9yo). In 2021 and 2022, i ended up in hospital on life support twice. My son in law was always telling me i had to get out and back to skyrim. I'm a 60yo grandmother and i love skyrim and my Xbox. Lol. It's real, baby! I won't say it ruined my life. It has enhanced it by allowing me to do things in game that i can't physically do in real life anymore. (Though I'm a lover, not a fighter, i do enjoy the fights. Lol) But yes, it's a very addicting game. 😊 Btw, when my oldest grandson was a baby, I would get him to sleep by taking a horse out to the countryside or just taking a walk and the music and scenery would put him right to sleep. I'd also read him stories from the game, get him to sleep and put to bed and go right back to playing. Lol
Here I am 13 years later. I've played the original, got the DLC, played the legendary edition, the special edition, and the anniversary edition. I started playing a modded version on PC, never looked back. This game has been a staple in my gaming library across 2 consoles and a gaming pc, and every couple of months, I start a new playthrough. This game is like the ultimate power fantasy and it earned its player base.
Hours upon Hours playing, you got into exploring the old tombs, trying to puzzle your way out and I have had jump frights because a dragon came out of nowhere and scared me so hard I sprinted straight into a couple of bandits, got them after my ass and vaulted myself over a fence into a hagraven. Luckily I got out of that one, but I could hear the bloody murder she and the bandits dealt to one another, with the dragon roaring in the background. Ah the good ol' days.😆 Of course you being a deciding factor in the war and dealing with certain questlines I chose not to fulfill the blades's final request as I still feel mad as hell for them asking that specific thing. Those that know, know what I am referring to. Also archery & sneaking was so broken.
I grew up with elder scrolls. Especially Morrowind and oblivion. I saw the trailer at release and everyday for two weeks I went to every game store in town including Walmart to purchase it. They were sold out for the two weeks until I got lucky and bought the last one GameStop had. 12 years later I still play this game (now in moderation)
When I discovered Skyrim I played all night and went to school and couldn't even pay attention to the teacher, I just wanted to go home and continue exploring the game world.
Elder Scrolls lore is addictive.....I read and played the games so much I can speak and read Dov now. I missed a whole month of life back in 2015 and *modding* nearly broke my brain lol.
Im from germany and it was immediately a hit here and its still amongst the 10 best games of all times. Bought it on day one and played for 3 months 8 hours per day. Ive visited every cave, every corner of the map and when i was done i restarted as a new character. And after that i bought all DLCs and installed tons of mods. Its 12 years old but i still do a playthrough once per year because i just love how well its made. 900+ hours ingame....Games like these are maybe a reason why i never married and never got children. I need the money for great hardware.
This was the game that turned me into a gamer. I would spend *hours* skulking through caves and tombs, and just exploring to see what was around the next hill. I did not lose my job over it...however, I ended up buying the game specifically *because* of my job, because I would come home frustrated and angry, and hopping on Skyrim to kill bandits and face off with dragons was an amazing stress-buster. Furthermore, this was the game that got me writing fanfiction. I am a writer anyway, but I'd always focused on original stories before; but I found my Dovahkiin endearing enough to actually start a story of her adventures. Which I enjoyed enough that I am currently in the process of filing the serial numbers off it so it's an original story that can be published!
I got this game like one year after it came out. Was the first game for the playtstation 3 for me and kind of a big thing cause it was age restricted to 16 years and I was 15 :D I played like 750 hours with several characters and even now it's simply a joy to start the old thing again and to get lost in the wonders of this world...
In total, I've got somewhere around 1800 hours. not proud but damn was it fun. got tears in my eyes watching this trailer again especially seeing that big simile on your face in the beginning of the trailer
The Live action trailer is great too. Oh by the way. At one point this was a Game of Thrones game. Then Bethesda said "nah". People also named their kid's Dovahkin.
One time when my parents were away I played Skyrim for an entire week and forgot to go to school. Luckily that was year 11 so it didn’t really matter all that much but still
back in the day when i got into the game , i literally stayed up a few days playing and i didn't want to stop, i will never play that game again though
In total a crossed all releases on three different platforms I believe I hold a cumulative play time in Skyrim and somewhere around 14,000 to 17,000 hours. This game came out when I was in junior high and most of that playtime was during high school, but I can certainly say that it does consume a life.
Me and my friend and I used to stay up for 48 hours straight playing skyrim and chatting it got so bad one of my friends got his stuff locked up and they caught him at 4AM trying to pry open the safe his dad kept the game in.
As a huge fan of skyrim I have missed the Thanksgiving and Christmas it came out and still to this day I play this game ,remember me and my buddy would miss so much school to play it ahhh good times
We got laptops at school the year this was released. Every student downloaded skyrim on it and played at the lessons even though that was totally prohibited. In one of the classes some student that was actually doing what they were supposed to do, tried to get the teachers attention. When the teacher finally noticed, he passed one of my friends and noticed he was gaming and was like "Hey turn that off!". 15 minutes later we hear the teachers keyboard clacking louder than before. We asked him what he was doing with a grin on our faces, and he turned his laptop towards us in shame. He was playing Skyrim as well lol
Yeah this game has without a doubt had a major impact on my life lol. Probably have 1500 hours in it over all editions of the game, and that's not counting the hundreds of hours I've spent modding it
Skyrim came out on my eighteenth birthday. I had sixty bucks and a choice between hitting up a strip club, or getting the game. Easiest damn choice of my life, I still ain't ever hit up a strip club.
My brother got this game Christmas 2012 or 2011 when we were teenagers and I gave it a try and I got so into it I used my dad's debit card to buy a dlc for it without his permission he yelled at me and smacked me upside the head one saturday night I spent all day and night playing it one time I got into an argument with my dad my brother and grandparents about skipping dinner just to keep playing it and he spanked me and slapped my ass silly
Been playing for 12 years and modding the game for 9 for me its been a new adventure it seems every single time. Just reinstalled theee weeks ago with a mod list that makes new players salivate. 😂
3:50 "There is no way" Meanwhile, Larian Studios posted "Request for special leave" form. So yeah, there is good amount of games that make people take vacation specifically to play certain game. Skyrim was one of them. I'm not big fan of Skyrim (while played good amount of Morrowind), but still spend >100 hours
It was released on my birthday, just kno I missed alot of classes in college for this game. Energy drinks, ramen noodles and cheese wedges are what kept me alive in those dark times.
I started gaming late, I discovered Skyrim 3 years ago and it became MY game. I can spend 12 hours on it, luckily my partner understands and feeds me when it happens 😂
I have played it 3 time with over 2500 hours played the last time i played it was a heavily modded version still an amazing game!!! .. its trueeeee smh.. the world so huge and free to do whatever you want there are so many hidden quest its just crazyyy!
the games that got me in trouble in school was mass effect trilogy and civilization V. I lost two days straight on civilization V., it made me develop a game playing system which is never play above two hours coz the game ain't running away!!!
Fun fact, Bethesda was contacted by the publishing company that put out Game of Thrones to do an open world tie in. They were already working on Skyrim, so they passed.
I also use mod to give my character money (that where the developers get you to be addicted to the game). I told myself "I work to get real money, am not going to burn time doing side missions to get game money". so once I start the game I search for money mod n gift myself $1B, so no side missions for me, especially in mass effect 2 n 3 where you have go to different planet in search of minerals for upgrade of weapons etc. Man I don't have time for that!!!
I played Skyrim on it's release date in 2011 and although I loved the game I haven't played it since. I've just finish Elder Scrolls Oblivion again and Skyrim is up next.
Beware! Introducing someone to Skyrim carries a heavy price. Be warned. Housework. Homework. Making food. These foolish things fall at the feet of the power of the Elder Scrolls! 😂
Thousands of hours... Thousands of mods... And then fallout 4 and Skyrim se happened. My gaming laptop was not made to handle games that need a NASA level CPU just to play at 60 fps with 1000+ mods lol.
It was never that bad when I played Skyrim. But one thing that did happen, is I kept encountering a glitch very late in the game, that prevented me from being able to complete quests, because I was supposed to talk to a certain NPC, and the game wouldn't let me interact with him/her.
Literally played this game 18 hours ago day for over six months straight. Coming from someone who has struggled with addiction…. I assure you, this game was drug.
CONFESSION! - I play on PC + with 100's of mods from The Nexus and others, I have passed 8500 hours and counting. Add Fallot 4 (4000 hrs) and Witcher 3 (2000 hrs), both still being played. As for social life? mmm..
Till this day, after the game had been released for 12 years, people are still playing it. Mods are still being created and made for this game, and believe it or not, they even modded the combat system into that of Elden Rings and the likes, I kid you not. The graphics had been modded to such high quality that you can't even differentiate it from real life. Like literally a screen shot from Skyrim look like an actual woods that you might go hiking in. Why I know? Because I was still playing it recently until my save file broke from having too many mods last year.
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