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[Wastelander92]

What are your memories with this game?

 

[Evil Calvin]

Can't believe it's been 14 years and they still have not come out with a sequel.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Played it recently.

Still holds up really well.

Stealth archer build.

 

[Mr Moose]

I still play it sometimes.

 

[AJUMP23]

Meeting a giant in the world and running like crazy was fun. Then going up the mountain I knew what I was going to meet, but it was still great.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Stealth archer build.

 

[Mownoc]

Skyrim was less than 7 years old when TES6 was announced. So the time between the announcement and now is longer than the time between Skyrim launch and the TES6 announcement lol.

Almost as much time between now and Skyrim as between Skyrim and Daggerfall.

Played around 500 hours of Skyrim across all platforms. My most played singleplayer game by a landslide. Second is probably persona 5 if you combine it with Royal at around 180 hours.

 

[Chuck Berry]

 

[Saber]

Not good memories I'm afraid. Can't recount the huge amount of times this damn thing crashed, soecially at the end of the Dragonborn DLC.
The game only became fun when I installed mods (at insistence of my brother). Completelly transformed the game.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

One of the best games, ever. Soundtrack is easily GOAT.

 

[HRK69]

What are your memories with this game?

Uninstalling it so I could play something that's not mind-numbingly boring.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

I didn't even knew about it.

Am stealth player so made it eventually by itself.

 

[PeteBull]

Played it recently.

Still holds up really well.

Stealth archer build.

Yup it does, played it again few months ago in full 4k60 no mods, it still looks good enough and is tons of fun, highly recommended for ppl who are western rpg fan(atics) like myself

 

[adamsapple]

I used to be a gaffer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

 

[Portugeezer]

Iconic game during an iconic era in gaming.

11/11/11

 

[E-Cat]

It will have been 3 generations after Skyrim at a minimum when TES VI comes out

 

[Humdinger]

I remember walking up the trail to High Hrothgar at night. After making the long journey, I came around a bend and saw the castle in the distance, framed by a full moon and a night sky full of stars. The snow and high elevation made it feel magical.

I played hundreds of hours of Skyrim, and I remember many moments, but that was one of my favorites.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Stealth archer build.

On VR then...

 

[Mengy]

I played Skyrim for hundreds of hours, its my favorite Elder Scrolls game, but man I've not even booted it up in probably over a decade now. I really need to install it and play through it again, I'm sure it holds up very well even today.


Crazy that we haven't gotten a new TES game in 14 freaking years.

 

[GudOlRub]

Walking throughout Skyrim at night during heavy rainfall, it suddenly stops, the sky clears to reveal a beautiful aurora borealis and From Past to Present begins playing...

I swear sometimes playing this game feels like taking relaxing drugs.

I'm dreading to find out what The Elder Scrolls will sound like without Jeremy Soule... and with Inon Zur at the helm of all people. All other faults aside I honestly believe one of the big reasons Starfield's exploration didn't feel more enjoyable is because the soundtrack is quite mediocre.

 

[R6Rider]

Tainted Grail is the closest we've gotten to a sequel since.

 

[Sooner]

What are your memories with this game?

That I played it, thought it was okay and then I moved on to other games.

Ah, good times.

 

[DaciaJC]

Vanilla Skyrim is the definition of mediocre apart from Soule's outstanding musical score. Mods elevate the game to true greatness.

 

[Fess]

It still plays so well. It's up on my top 10 all-time list. VR version with some immersion and interaction mods takes it to the next level.

 

[roosnam1980]

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Playing it this morning, coincidentally!

 

[Northeastmonk]

I waited in line for 3 hours to get this and that big strategy guide. That place was packed. I wonder if we will ever see lines in retail ever again. At first it was a huge step up from Oblivion. The giant was so cool to see and so were the dragons. I also have to wonder if we will ever share the same type of excitement. Maybe with TES6, but times have sure changed.

 

[Oberstein]

I remember some great cosplays.

 

[alienator]

i had just completed demon souls and then i hopped into skyrim, finding out i could not play these mediocre western ideas of RPG stuff ever again. But to be fair, Demon sould ruined a lot of other rpg's for me afterwards, not just skyrim =)

 

[Thurible]

Time really moves too fast. I remember when it first released. Skyrim and Skyward Sword was my jam for 2011. Got over 120 hours in according to my steam logs.

That reminds me I should probably play the enhanced version my friend gifted me recently with the dlc I never got to. Being a vampire sucks (no pun intended) in Skyrim with having to sneak around and drink blood every now and then or immediately get aggroed by every npc. Also, you become weak in sunlight, I hope the vampire dlc actually makes a build based on it viable.

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

i had just completed demon souls and then i hopped into skyrim, finding out i could not play these mediocre western ideas of RPG stuff ever again. But to be fair, Demon sould ruined a lot of other rpg's for me afterwards, not just skyrim =)

These two games are not remotely similar or in the same genre. I am baffled when people refer to Souls games as RPGs, even moreso when I see comparisons like this to Elder Scrolls. What!

 

[Diseased Yak]

One of my favorite games of all time, easily have over 1000 hours in it across platforms over the years. Perhaps it's time for another run!

 

[Pasta la Vista]

14 years later, still a broken piece of shit

 

[Fake]

Time for another remaster.

 

[ComputerBlue]

Crazy it has been so long without another game in the series.

I love this game, one of my all-time favorites, the atmosphere is perfect for me, and the music, how great is the fucking music. In fact, since they've parted ways with Jeremy because of some BS me two claims, I'm certain the next game won't be nearly as good without his genius giving us ear candy, in which case I probably won't even bother with it because the music in ESO was meh.

 

[stn]

As soon as I finish 100%'ing Oblivion Remastered, this is next on my list. I beat it on the 360 years ago, but now I have the most recent Anniversary Edition, so I'm looking forward to the new content and beating the game again. Its been long enough that I forgot basically everything that happened.

 

[keefged4]

never heard of it

 

[PlayStaytion]

The generous uncle who says it's never too late.

 

[forsakkenSoul]

I just checked it in my Steam library, last time I played it was back in 2016, and I put a little over 250 hours into it. An absolute masterpiece.

 

[TintoConCasera]

never heard of it

 

[keefged4]

Pls don't shoot todd I've bought Skyrim about 7 times now isn't that enough

 

[Mengy]

Vanilla Skyrim is the definition of mediocre apart from Soule's outstanding musical score. Mods elevate the game to true greatness.

I've only ever played it vanilla with no mods. If I reinstall and do a new playthrough I'll have to try some mods out as well.

 

[Aesius]

I had just moved in with my gf (now wife) when this released. My post-college internship had also just ended, so I was freshly unemployed. I remember getting up with her while she got ready for work and anxiously waiting for her to leave so I could start playing without any distractions.

After playing for what felt like 30 minutes, I heard her key unlocking the front door and thought she was must have forgotten something. Nope, it was 5:30 p.m. and she was home from work. An entire day had passed. And there I was, still sitting in the exact same spot in front of the TV where I had been when she left ~10 hours earlier.

I started taking my job search a little more seriously the next day...

 

[MidGenRefresh]

 

[Gp1]

Time for the annual mod installation of Skyrim.

1 weeks installing mods. 5 hours of gameplay. And it's really impressive to see how far they went with that engine

I've probably clocked close to 500 hours between Legendary, Special and the Anniversary edition.

 

[DaciaJC]

I've only ever played it vanilla with no mods. If I reinstall and do a new playthrough I'll have to try some mods out as well.

I would highly recommend it, even if it's just super simple stuff like fleshing out the skill trees with Ordinator or sprucing up mesh quality, etc. Just a handful of mods can go a long way, but at the end of the day the sky(rim)'s the limit.

 

[AJUMP23]

Sale if you are interested.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

All I remember was something about some guys knee? I was too busy playing Battlefield 3 at the time so never found out about what happened the guys knee.

 

[John Marston]

About 500 hours played and so many great memories.
Even with the bugs and crashes.

Like a cheating girlfriend you keep on forgiving because she's still so damn adorable.

 

[TheloniusFabdul]

I remember coming home from a really bad day at work to find my roommate had installed it on my computer.

I ended up playing it all night, even though the graphics card on my PC was shit.
It ran at like 20 fps and the dragon fire wouldn't render properly, lol.

Probably one of my favourite games of all time.