Skyrim: The Best Open World Game Ever Made!
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Skyrim: The best open world ever made!
It's a giant sandbox full to the brim with dangerous foes and hilarious glitches! There's so much to explore! But there's more to it than that.
Let me tell you why i think Skyrim is the best open world game ever made.
*contains spoilers pertaining to the Thieves Guild quest line at 1:45
#skyrim
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"The Gods gave you two hands and you use them both to leave a comment. I can respect that"
Eh, maybe NOT the BEST open world game, but it's my favorite.
@@Marinanor definitely not the best, its a buggy mess but same itll always be my favorite game
I type with two fingers at most.
I used to be a youtuber like you, but then I took a strike to the channel.
You never stop playing Skyrim, you just take a break.
I stopped years ago and wont play again
Lifes too short
@@treaceeames4697 I’m just getting the platinum again on the PS5 and then I probably won’t play it again lol but coming back to it really brings back nostalgia
@@treaceeames4697 too short for what? Doing what you like? Gtfoh
So true. Unlike these tools I’ve beaten it 3x and took a very long break from gaming in general while we welcomed our first born. She’s 3 yo now and I’m finally getting back into the world of Skyrim for a 4th go to see if I missed anything interesting or just to relive that nostalgia. It truly is a master class in world buying for a video game.
@@007Dirtysouth, I took a couple of years off from playing Skyrim, and gaming in general, and I started playing Skyrim again last year after buying the anniversary edition, and I’m having a blast just exploring everything there is to explore. I love doing “wonder what happens if I do this?”, lol. I’ve found so much stuff I missed when I was playing solely focused on doing quests to beat the game. I’m level 90 and I just got around to going to Whiterun to start the main quest, lol. I just bought a laptop PC, an MSI Raider GE76, because I want to play Skyrim modded, and there’s a lot more mods for PC than PS4. I also bought Oblivion and Morrowind for the PC, but I’m having trouble getting my Xbox controller set up to work for Oblivion, and I’m having trouble getting it set up for mod installation, because I suck at understanding technology. I asked my oldest daughter to help me, but she says she doesn’t know how either. I think she’s just waiting for my frustration to be high enough that I give up and just give the laptop to her, lol. If I could learn how to use the mouse to play the games, I would be set. However, this is the first PC I’ve used in many, many years, like almost 2 decades, so I feel like I’m trying to read Chinese when I look at the keyboard. I downloaded NorthernUI for controller support for Oblivion, and it’s not working, and I can’t figure out why, since the Northern UI is showing up in the Oblivion data files. I’m more eager to play Oblivion than the other 2 actually, because I watched my daughter play it when she was younger, and I could see why she loved it so much. She played Oblivion after beating Skyrim. And I’m really curious to play Morrowind too. I want to see what some of the characters in Skyrim looked like in the previous 2 versions. For now though, unless I get some technological epiphany, I’m stuck with a really expensive paperweight. I should have known better than to buy it, knowing I don’t have anyone to help me learn how to use it. Oh well, you live and learn. I guess my daughter will be taking it to college.
It just is. Back in 2011, november 11th I think; it took me about 30-45 minutes of playing the game for the first time before I had a realization. I was walking up the mountainside, on the road from Riverwood to Bleak Falls Barrow, and I just had a moment where I thought, felt; that this was the best game I had ever played. I’m more convinced than ever that I’ll never get to experience that level of enthusiasm again.
Agreed I think the world is what makes Skyrim so damn good other Bethesda games have better stories but the world is perfect
My favorite thing about this game to me is that no matter how much you have done, there's always something new somehow
You're climbing a mountain and, as if scripted, "aurora" hits you with its chorals right at the peak, you are compelled to stop and watch the scenery, the sky is filled with auroras, you look down and witness the vastness of the land that awaits to be discovered, moved by the view and music you almost shed a tear, once the music fades you continue your journey, that moment of serenity forever in your memory. That is skyrim at its absolute best, and few games can compete with that.
I started playing Skyrim recently and just got my first aurora after defeating my first random dragon attack, it was magical 😭
It is such an immersive world that gives you more freedom than pretty much any other game, and the mods just opened up more and more of the potential.
Yes, an endless world of plastic mannequin NPCs and 3 different voice actors. An ankle-deep ocean spanning miles. A house of cards held together with duct tape strung up by one Nord.
Nah there is plenty of games that offer more freedom. Try Minecraft for example
Don't get me wrong, I love Skyrim, but I think its greatest strengths are the game map, music, visuals and background lore (to some extent). There is cohesion in the artstyle and the overall design and presentation of the game. The story has some of the best quests I have played (Forsworn Conspiracy, A Night to Remember for example), but unfortunately, even more of them are boring fetch quests, so it's quite unequal.
Guild quests are more boring than in Oblivion. Daedra quests are better integrated to the world, though. Thieves Guild is probably the only good faction storyline. Main quest has amazing moments, but it is short and the downs are quite boring.
true. cant wait for hammerfell/high rock
divinity 2 gives more freedom
More freedom how?
Skyrim has a special place in my heart from my childhood but it is barely an entry level rpg that only got a lot of people started on the road of open world rpg games.
Once you play nearly any other rpg and realise how much sway and control you have over the story and your character in those games Skyrim starts to fall off.
Even oblivion and morrowind had reasons to replay as a different character or role because there was a class system.
Skyrim doesn't take the roleplayung part of itself seriously so what you are left with is uninspired quests and flat combat.
There is nothing like this game. And mods just make this a game you may never grow tired of. Its insane how much impact skyrim has made over the years. A precious gem of one kind.
I returned to playing Skyrim after many years, first spent not hours but days on gathering mods, finding fixes, patches, combo-patches, fixes for fixes... and when I eventually started playing it I was bored in 5 minutes and quite shocked how utterly obsolete it looks and feels even with 500 mods. And I uninstalled in 2 hours.
@@bdleo300 no man that only means you took a break😅.
@@bdleo300i needed to know what games can satisfy you lol skyrim with 500 mods is better than most new games today
@@darianemaydeleon2229he’s pathetic
I have put well over 12,000 hours into skyrim 9000 of those in vanilla skyrim without mods and I can totally agree that skyrim is an amazing open world game and honestly has so much replayability its crazy.
then you get the mod that lets your character have sex with the npcs,
then you are on that quest where you meet the ghost girl and you screw the ghost girl (because the game does not distinguish between the corporeal and the incorporeal).
I used to play all the old first and third person shooter games. And then there was Skyrim. I've got thousands of hours in the game and still find it fun and relaxing. Yes, relaxing! It's live my second home and really the only game I play for significant periods of time. Also, love the modding community. It's great to find new things to do and get.
Ya I'm still going strong. The perk mods or really any of enaisiaion's stuff really add a lot of replay value. Interesting perks make for interesting playstyles, and it keeps the experience fresh.
The modding community deserves all the love in the world. They are the real heroes of this story.
I remember when Skyrim was first announced and as a kid who both played Morrowind and Oblivion, nothing excited me more back then. Morrowind will still always be my favorite in the series just because it does not care if you make the most OP character in history, but Skyrim still holds a place in my heart, and it was nice to see Dwemer Ruins and Neloth return to the franchise. And I love how all the cities in Skyrim are less urban than Oblivions and Morrowinds, which I think actually enhances the fact that this is a very sparsely populated land.
Morrowind was epic. It's my second favorite behind the original. Nothing will ever top the first month of playing Arena. Hell. The first time seeing the world outside the opening dungeon. Daggerfall was incredible because it took everything great about Arena and 10X it. But Morrowind was when things approached true mastery. Oblivion never ran right. Skyrim was complete mastery. Also where I started modding literally everything. Had it looking 4k before 4k existed. Can't wait for 6
@@HerrinSchadenfreude I can tolerate Oblivion if I mod it so the combat leveling isn't so atrocious and it crashes every 5 minutes.
This is the best game ever. It has so many diverse environments and creatures. 10/10 game.
It wasn't best back in 2011. it certainly is nowhere near the best today... after playing Witcher3, RDR2, KC Deliverance, and even Fallout 4, Skyrim simply looks obsolete beyond repair even with 1000 mods.
@@bdleo300I respect your opinion, but it’s still the best game ever.
Started 2024 with a new Skyrim save. Honestly the game has bugs, less now than before, but still it doesn't matter. This is the best game ever made. The music is incredible, but more importantly no game is even remotely close to all the places to see, people to meet, stuff to level up, endless missions that varies from saving oprhans, slaying dragons, crafting potions, become a vampire, fight a civil war, use a bow, an axe, a spear, big sword, small sword, become a mage, shout in the language of dragons, persuade people, craft stuff, enchant stuff, sneak attack, brawl your way through, the list just goes on and the choise is yours. Nothing is close to this game.
11 years later the amazing soundtrack is still stuck in my head sometimes.
Great video, right on point.
Skyrim is a once in a lifetime game. The modding community is awesome, you can basically play a new Skyrim on every play through.
Tes 6 has some big shoes to fill.
Still playing/modding it until this day and will probably never stop. Greatest game of all time!
modded skyrim is the best game ever made, change my mind
This game is just magical. I literally can't help but revisit it every few years.
My only problem with Skyrim is that I have spent approx. 1200 hours in it getting EVERY achievement (collectively across multiple platforms, editions and characters) and the only reason I stopped going back to it (eventually) was because I wasn’t playing anything else. I fell behind on so many games that I am still catching up on now, not to mention the more than 900 consecutive days playing Elder Scrolls Online over the course of another three years probably didn’t help. 😅
Been playing this game since I was 9 years old. It's been such a huge part of my life.
Currently playing the anniversary edition on switch. I just bought both the console and the game, and oh my gosh it's so amazing being able to play my favorite game anywhere I want. The creation club mods are actually really dope!
I love the Survival mod they added with Creation Club. It'll be hard to turn that one off.
Yeah, I'm going to get around to giving the Switch version a try at some point.
@@prestonocron I recommend it! It's not really any more or less buggy than you'd see on say the Xbox or PlayStation. Looks just as good too.
You don't get access to mods, I'm not sure it'll even let you buy creation club stuff, I had to buy n download the whole anniversary bundle to get them.
I still love it though, Skyrim is simply the best
If you had bought a Steam Deck, you could use your Steam license and play modded Skyrim on the go ^^
However... it's a great game on all platforms.
What is that flag?
Somehow I had never played this game until a few weeks ago. Downloaded the Anniversary Edition, so I got all the added goodies, and have been loving it.
Skyrim is all about freedom. Do anything, go anywhere. You aren't limited by level or anything, nor are you confined to a particular play style
The dialogue is so charming I love it so much
2:50 I SAW THEM, THEY HAVE CURVED SWORDS I SAW THEM!!!
This lacks another fundamental aspect: you can LITERALLY mold the game into exactly how you want it via mods. The amount of mods available can make this game an instant-favorite to ANYONE. And multiplies the replayability by 1000. I play a different Skyrim every time I come back to it. Never get tired.
For some of us, modding itself is the game now.
@@AzraelAlpha so OP. I swear if TESVI doesn't allow decentralized modding and instead only allows mods through creation club, that would be THE biggest let down of the decade in regards to gaming.
Heck, can you imagine playing an Elder Scrolls game in vanilla? As good as it may be, it'll lose 90% of its replayability and in 3-4 years we'll be done with it.
@@theantil7 omg absolutely zased bro, I FREAKING LOVE GMOD TOO!!!
I love flip-flopping between striking out with a conviction to walk everywhere only to stumble out of a complex cave system to say, “Oh hell no, I’m fast traveling back!”
Great games are transportive. The frame of television or monitor disappears. The room you’re in doesn’t exist anymore. When we’re invested we become the Bat, scream down a Los Santos highway, or get engrossed in hunting Jazbay grapes.
When we return to the real world, the game experience has worked into our psyches. We see a building and expect an R1 to appear where we might grapnel boost. We resist the urge to carjack a Mustang at a stoplight. And we pick wild flowers when walking the dog just to hear that satisfying “snip!”
We also ask our wife, “Need something?” When she gives us a task we say, “I am sworn to carry your burdens.”
I freaking love video games.
I've played Skyrim a heck of a lot since I was like 7 in 2011. I know everything about the game and even became known as the "Skyrim guy" in my highschool. But I gotta say, I don't think its the best open world game, but it is a great one. Only reason I say so is because when it comes to terms in story lines, you don't have much choice in the endings. It will always play out the same way. But damnit if Skyrim isn't fun
What's the best open world game then
@@shishupal720 Gotta go with games from the Fallout Series or Dragon Age Series. You have lots of ways to approach a given challenge with choice as to how you want that challenge to play out, while also offering multiple endings depending on your choices. Dragon Age is so in depth that your choices and actions have consequences in the sequel games too.
@@Ser_Locke The only open world Dragon Age game is Inquisition and they really didn't balance the size of the map with the amount of content, so I don't think that can even compete tbh
@@Jane-oz7pp ah right, an oversight on my part. Regardless I thoroughly enjoy the Dragon Age series
Same age lol, big part of my childhood.
It’s probably not the best open world game, but it’s definitely my favourite.
So true, though as far as the impassable mountains are concerned all you need is one of Skyrim's horses. They must be crossbred with mountain goats as riding them lets you just climb right over them.
Best ambience of any game the world just feels amazing to walk through and explore
My favorite thing to do in every playthrough is to get my favorite Khajiit to leave the college to go on adventures with me and then become a werewolf
I still discover new weapons and caves I have never been to. I genuinely have never been anywhere in the Reach other than for Bad Dragon Wall. So much stuff
Playing my billionth walkthrough right now. Still love it.
It's weird, I can't recall rocket science happening outside of giant camps on PS3, yet everything loves to fly on PC years later.
Yes, I am a Skyrim addict. I have over 3000 hrs. played. My favorite game of all time! FUS ROH DAH!!!
I have a feeling that this comment section will be swarmed by Oblivion trolls.
i can't even put into words how amazing this game is
5:17 unless you have a horse 🤠
great video, i just got back into skyrim and am totally into the whole survival elements they added, really gives new life to this game!
Same here!! I just started last weekend and the survival mode definitely feeds my immersive rpg thirst lol
Survival mode has made the game just about perfect as far as I'm concerned. It's exactly as the game should be.
How refreshing to see a positive Skyrim video for once! The game might not have the best writing or the best coding, but it is undeniably the best open-world sandbox RPG ever made. Absolute immersion whether you're playing as a legendary hero or a wandering drunkard on an extended pub crawl.
Honestly I've owned like 6 different copies of skyrim between the XBOX 360, PS3, XBOX One and PC 😅
Yeah, same, and my ps3 disc got cracked and i went straight out and bought another copy.
"it's free real estate." - Todd
I got the ps3 version with the dlc, xbox 360 with the dlc, and xbox one special edition which i uograded to anniversary edition. Currently on a vampire playthrough
Your a rich man sir
Im playing this game 10 years. Fuckin love it
Just found your channel and you deserve more subscribers
which is why i subbed
Awesome, thanks very much!
How do u only have 174 subs ? 🤔 I was watching the vid and thought u would have atleast 500k , great video keep it up !!
500k would be nice! Maybe one day. Thanks very much!
Probably my favorite game almost solely because of its open world. There is almost zero competition against Skyrim for a better open world. I’ve played so many open world games and even the best of the best can’t even fathom of approaching Skyrim’s level of open world depth.
What you're saying is so true and something that I feel not enough people appreciate.
THATS RIGHT IT IS...!!!!
I'VE BERN DOVAHKIIN,SINCE The 1st one!!!
As far as I know, this game is the single thing which allows you to almost add ANYTHING to your inventory or just move them around, humiliate corpses(!)of your enemies after death, use magic, summon stuff and creatures, it has its own set of constantly changing vanilla weathers, beautiful horizons of nature and more important of all: Freedom.
You do questlines in the order you prefer. You can even ignore some if you wish to play an specified character. You can become a werewolf or vampire and so much more than said can be done if you mod the game correctly.
I *was* going to skip over this, but...then I saw Riverwood, and I thought, *why not* 🤔
I'm glad I watched it.
I never stop coming back that soundtrack wow👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Hey bro, you deserve a sub so here you go bro, make more content like this and your bound to get big
Awsome, thanks very much!
Bro some guy recently uploaded a 20 hrs retrospective of skyrim hahhaah, that bit about getting to the inn from blizzard and hearing Jeremy Soule and feel physical relief is very on point, I've felt it, I'm very sad that I will never experience Skyrim for the first time again November-December 2011 was a magical time, earlier that year i graduated from university, got a job and couldn't wait to come home to play skyrim till 2 am what a time it was
That 20 hour video is fantastic if you haven’t watched it, I’m sure you’ve got a few minutes spare.
@@shutit8949 yeah i'm on 6-th hour of part 1 i think, a lot of cool info there, very detailed, he's done his homework 100%
Link or channel name, please?
@@AzraelAlpha PatricianTV@Patrician
@@Mrfailstandstil Thanks!
First played this in 2011. It was my one and only playthrough lasting 110 hours.last night....it was time for a new character. It will be interesting to see how my enjoyment and style differs from the crappy gamer of 13 years ago. Needless to say that this time....I'm doing all i can. I'm gonna take all that this amazing world can offer me.
Skyrim is the only game which I want to enter the world myself, wield a war axe in my hand and a fire spell on the other. While I explore and wander the gorgeous world and feel the aliveness of the landscape, with a voice that could tremble the bones of anyone in my path. And just glaze at the beautiful night sky while sitting at the throat of the world with an old and ancient dragon beside me. This game holds a magic in its entirety, the world, the music, the quests, the characters. Words don’t carry enough value to explain Skyrim. I don’t care whether anyone else share the same view as me. But regardless for me personally, every game that I’ve ever played just seems meaningless in front of Skyrim
You know a game is good when your coworker says they just want to go home, turn on the xbox and play some skyrim. The music, the interface, the endless random encounters and hidden lore.
This gane genuinely has a soul
Great video Tom, thanks to Andrew for sharing your channel. Absolutely love Skyrim, still try to fire it up on my old XBOX360 when I get a chance
Thanks for watching!
Got this recommended, and might i say, you've earned yourself a sub!
love your sense of humour!
Awesome! Thank you!
They don't make em like this anymore. This and RDR2 are absolute masterpieces and will likely never be beaten
I vividly Remember My first activity out in the over world. And that was being a kid, thinking "well everyone keeps telling me you can do whatever you want", so I punched the Chicken. my Brother and I we were weak with the towns reaction. My brother "And this is why you were on the block"
Good times :'>
Thank god someone respects Skyrim
Mods just make the game replayable. I enjoyed the first time playing Skyrim in 2013 on X box 360. Now on Series X returning to it I have to have mods to make it feel like a new game.
Tho you have to note that Skyrim without mods isn't a bearable game, i can't bear just the fact that i can jump while sprinting, Bethesda relays a lot on the modding community
Nope the game itself is great, mods just enhance what’s their.
@@elric5371 i agree the game is a piece of art that i love, and when i say art i talk about the freedom and different options we can have, i love this kind of games
But really it feels Bethesda relays a lot of the modding community, we need to mod it to fix certain things
They designed areas to be reached via Whirlwind Sprint or bringing things to you with Telekinesis. There is 0 need for sprint jumping in Skyrim.
@@JustinQuinn623 so you mean it's on purpose?
1:30 i don't like shoplifting from merchants but I make sure to rip off everything I possibly can from her shop. Even the girls dresses and random pairs of fine boots
Best open world by far in gaming history
You can resurrect someone who left you in their will and get paid twice.
I'm playing again after 8 years. So many things I've forgotten. BEST REVISIT EVER!! Many quests I'm seeing for the first time ever and they are great.
For me TES IV Oblivion was way more mystical than Skyrim
#1 reason I love the elder scrolls series is because the lord of the rings soon as I watched the movie as a kid I NEEDED TO BE IN THAT WORLD so when I seen Skyrim videos and modded Skyrim videos on old RUclips I got this game and fell and love and never left since.
Hands down, the best game ever made for me personally, nothing gives the same feeling of belonging to a world like skyrim does, even though no real players are present.
I'm playing right now! This game is like comfort food.
Correction best game ever made in existence of this world
Shut up preston those bloody settlements need to learn to fend for them selves!!!
Very well written video essay, and I don’t say this often.
Thanks very much!
Skyrim on its own is buggy because the devs didn't delete their unfinished work.
Skyrim is definitely my favorite game but I don't think it's inherently the best open world game. If you are sticking in the same realm of things I would say Fallout 2 or Morrowind takes that cake. I've personally played Morrowind a good bit and I love the diversity of everything and how much it goes into the roleplaying aspect of things. Not only that but the world, albeit being not quite as big as skyrims, never feels all that empty except in the places where it's really needing to feel as such like in the ashlands where it's literally volcanic waste, and even then there is still stuff scattered about. The limitations of the engine do shine a bit more on the game. I find the dialogue more entertaining to sit through since it's reading, more information can be relayed that way too. Overall the systems are deeper and have more synergy than skyrims and works better with the world crafted around it. Morrowind is feels unique in the best of ways compared to skyrim which is very fun to play but the gameplay loop isn't deep enough to warrant actually thinking about it unlike morrowind. Everything was downgraded or simplified over time which isn't inherently bad either. A shallow game can be just as fun and it most certainly is. In the end it's still shallow though. I love skyrim with all my heart, but it's not the best.
I think you missed the whole joke of the video.
@@xtron1234 Well if it was a joke then my bad. I simply like ernest discussion about things I really like. The video didn't feel like a joke and I felt like a decent or cordial response is nice to have when presenting opinion. Even if it is a joke it still opens the opportunity to discuss it and honestly I will take every chance to talk about TES that I can get.
@@shezarrine Thanks for your comment! While the video is a bit tongue in cheek my thoughts on Skyrim are sincere and i think the game is very special. The title of the video was more to spark a bit of debate and see how others felt about open worlds. So detailed response like yours are greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I’ve added so many expansion dlc sized mods +creation club content the game just never ends like ever it’s amazing !!! I’m barely level 17 and 115 hours in with so many quest and dlc and new lands to explore its wild
2022 Still, Skyrim is a fantastic game..... Only other games that match it ar Fallout 4 and GTA5....
all of that and 1000's of mods adding to it
Once you start, you're trapped and it will never end. 😅
I agree. The best open world. Doesn't look like it's getting any challenges either.
Beautiful video Tom!
Skyrim is the best game ever made
in all seriousness I was going through Skyrim videos as usual saw this and clicked on it, and I was 2 minutes in already loving the video, its made so well and then I see how many subs you have. you deserve a lot more I can tell This channel will go places I absolutely love the content. keep on pumping it outs its great man, you definitely got a new subscriber.
Awesome! That's really kind! Thanks very much!
THEY GOT CURVED SWORDS (LONG PAUSE) CURVED SWORDS
For me, the only game that comes anywhere near is Kingdoms of Amalur.
Skyrim VR (Modded OFC) is peak video gaming.
Is it on oculus
When i get round to getting VR it will be the first thing I try!
The absolute best way to play the game
Skyrim is the only game that would make me walk to location rather fast travel
i never leave skyrim i just take very long breaks
As a kid I thought magic was stupid, I still do as an adult so because of that I never played it. But for what the game offers I finally started playing it… it’s not bad the mods nowadays help tremendously.
Sweet rolls
I love playing in God Mode now. You can stand there and get pounded and then kill them.
This gamevis still epic today!!!
With mods even on xbox, Skyrim is one of the best video games ever. Vanilla Skyrim though gets surpassed by Witcher 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2 most would agree.
Morrowind has better rpg elements (although a bit outdated but still playapble imo) and Oblivion is more random which is why i like it more than Skyrim (which is a legendary game too ofc)
I just got a new PC with a 3090, and im still playing Skyrim. I mean yeah, its modded to shit, but still plays great
I loved Tears of the Kingdom and Breath for the same reason i absolutely love Skyrim, the complete and absolute freedom of exploration these games gives. I really hate when a game doesn't allows me to explore at my pace because levelled zones. I disliked Odyssey for this.
Wounded knee guards 😂😂
Hey,
Great Presentation
I just wonder which version of the game you present in this video ?
Thank you!
Most of it is the PS5 version. But there are some clips, mostly the ones containing glitches and bugs that are from the original PS3 version.
I cant STOP PLAYING IT
Thank you!! A much welcomed pick-me-up after the release of "A Quick Analysis"
It's simple and easy for the reason of our return to Skyrim...
SKYRIM BELONGS TO THE NORDS!!
I hate how much times I have played it and never 100% it