Imagine beating the main quest by only using speech dragonborn: dude seriously we could be just chill with everyone, this trip to sovngarde is bs for everyone alduin: you know what you're right, wanna hang out at the throat of the world later? I just wanna vent to you, ya know? dragonborn: absolutely bro I'm all ears
@@SpazzMaticu3 I don't know about that. Next time when you get the opportunity to talk to someone and see if stabbing them provides more resources. You will probably be able to loot them and get some money. Or you could pay someone to be your permanent life long guard (their life not yours)
once again a masterpiece. The fact you don't even have to do anything speech related to become a bard speaks volumes about the usefulness of that skill...
Literally why i never play without Ordinator, makes speech actually useful, makes alchemy actually useful for anything but money, makes smithing strong in combat by letting you make turrets. Really good mod, fully recommend.
making stenvar the dragonborn in this story is honestly so refreshing and creative, as it recontextualizes the existential crisis earlier in the video about being a passenger in someone else's tale. beautiful storywritting.
Not being able to solve any problems in skyrim without violence/wandering into a cave somewhere isn't its biggest writing problem. It's the story always being about you. You're the dragonborn, the leader of the thieves guild, the listener of the dark brotherhood, the arch-mage of the college of winterhold, and more. It would have been amazing if you could help various npcs reach these titles. Maybe choose a companion from the students in winterhold, your favorite thief, your favorite member of the dark brotherhood, and help them become the [important person] of their respective faction. Or bring an outsider in and help them rise to power. Once this is done they can no longer be your companion because they have bigger fish to fry now, save for one or two quests where you go out and clear a dungeon together "for old time's sake". Also add some fun word of mouth advertising. "who did you choose to be the listener?" etc.
The best part is that having a companion like Richard would be awesome - someone to loot and sell all the valuables while you're questing and clearing dungeons. Inventory Management has always been the worst part of Skyrim, so a follower that takes it off your hands would be amazing.
Nothing beats the fact that becoming master of the thieves guild, which takes completing a huge number of radiant quests, the thieves guild main quests, and several city-specific Thieves Guild side-quests, is an amulet that makes your speechcraft better. As if, by that point after so many hours in the game, you're ever going to need to persuade anyone ever again.
I loved the twist ending where it turned out Stenvar, the sidekick, was the dragonborn. It was very cute and promising. Richard let him go because he knew he had a destiny to fulfill
In the end, he really did level up his speech skill, but you don't need a silly little bar to fill for that. The true speechcraft is the tale you weave along the way.
Richard still absorb dragon soul in the plot so he still a dragonborn but he think that stanvar should be dragon born more than him and Richard live in peace as he dont care about Fus roh dah at all.
Reminds me of the guards that wonder who the dragonborn is, maybe they themselves might be it. And with the adventurers and travellers mod, there aren't just other adventuring groups around, but also fake dragonborn
How so? Are maybe three points in new vegas where speech gets you out of fights, and unless I’m forgetting something it wouldn’t help much outside of that for a challenge like this. Fallout 4 has the pacify perks that can get animals and people to stop fighting, but it’s far from reliable, and outright doesn’t work on higher level stuff.
@@lonestarlibrarian1853 In New Vegas, you can complete virtually all of the non-DLC quests without killing anyone. Plus, completing skill challenges in New Vegas gives you xp. Speech checks are among the most common so you get a lot of bang for your buck there.
@@lonestarlibrarian1853 not really. Look up many a true nerds No kill run, now it’s not everywhere but in Vegas there are lots of opportunities to talk your way out of a situation and talk other people into doing what you want.
@@lonestarlibrarian1853 Nah, In New Vegas you can speech your way to the top quite easily. It's almost encouraged, even. Speech checks are very frequent overall and besides avoiding battles they reward you with caps, supplies and reputation on top of that - and it also helps skip steps in many quests. Overall, speech is quite overpowered in FO:NV. Barter is useful sometimes but not as frequent, and speech is used more often to ask for better rewards on quests anyways. On FO4 Speech doesn't really exist and is instead a part of Charisma. As it is, it increases settlement size, reduces vendor prices and increases the success rate for speech checks. Unfortunately speech checks aren't as common and very rarely do people go over 6 just to get Local Leader. A charisma of 11 is needed to have 100% success rate in hard checks, and it can be reached with chems (particularly grape mentats) and equipment. Its certainly not as powerful, partly due to the different system in FO4 as reputation doesn't exist, and writing became less extensive due to the main character having voice acting, unlike previous installments.
guys, let's be real. i have to stop myself from leveling speech in FNV because it's too easy. speech playthroughs are super fun but incredibly easy, you just skip all the hard stuff.
17:01 I like to think that Richard is the one doing this thinking out loud introspection while watching his companion beat the skulls of his enemies like some kind of a philosophical bard lmao
Wouldn't it be cool if Speech affected Dragonshouts as a hidden passive, for they are a language? Either reducing the cooldown or increase the effects would be nice
@@blackshaddow5005 no ur good lol but if u ever switch to mods its really nice, just lots of quality of life things out there that make you go “I wish I thought of getting that earlier” like being able to block with magic and swords etc
“The kajiit merchant didn’t ask where Richard had found 3 complete sets of Riftan Gard armor, and that was why Richard liked dealing with the Kajiit.” That along with saying goodbye to Pringles was the funniest thing to me!!
Wow this was way more entertaining and interesting then I thought. Telling a story is so much better then just playing through the game with such a challenge.
By the nine, are you mad? May the almighty Talos show mercy to you, For you to speek such herecy. Be careful heimskr might plot against you for dishonoring the God of man. Tiber Septim: *sad Talos noises*
I respect that despite your fists not being tied to a skill and could have easily been used to fight off enemies without leveling anything up, you still stuck to the speech only challenge and made a banger video. Well done.
Speechcraft is one of the most underdeveloped skills in Elder Scrolls. I hope they do better in the next game and actually make it an option to solve problems diplomatically and trick people. Just take cues from Fallout or other games outside of Bethesda. Anyway awesome video
Honestly I did not expect the story to be so good your companion being the hero of the story and the the one doing the quests and the dragonborn was great
you just didn't have the right mods to make it fun. this video is doing everything from vanilla, which is super tiring to be honest. the best mods for a speech skill only playthrough would be, Ordinator perks, re-real estate, notice board, anyway, with using these mods within conjunction of another, you can make lots of money just using mostly speech, the real estate mod allows you to purchase any house, mine, store, farm, and make passive income on them. of course you have to start kind of small, the cheapest homes in the game are in riverwood at $3,500 a home, but most houses depending on the location can range up from $5,000 - $25,000 and you make up that money in the form of rent and then onto shops can range up from $25,000 to $65,000 and temples can range from $100,000 to $1,000,000 all depending on location and what threshold settings that can be set in the MCM menu. oh, and mines can be used to hire minors so long as they don't have any bandits within then, they can be killed and then you can hire miners, but they range up from $50 to $100 a day, but you make up for it in the ores extracted from the mines. i have done this playthrough at least a few times, because i love the idea of making your money work for you. i like it, because it reminds me of assassins creed brotherhood with their minigame to make passive income, that was very well integrated into the story and gameplay.
@@5226-p1e You would think that the developers of a role playing game might develop their game to have role-playing options in vanilla, and simply saying that there are mods that fix a thing excuses an oversight in quality. 🤔 I'm fairly certain most everyone is aware of mods now but, once upon a time, only us glorious golden gods of the pc computer box could partake of the forbidden rituals of modding games.
@@theequitableprose that's true, they have been focusing on story only from one perspective for the game, and they for whatever reason forgot to add choices into the story, that's what makes it an RPG where you are presented with multiple choices, but i guess they chose to only have the multiple choices with everything else you do in the game like the class system. but even that is set up to make it so you have the option to be good at everything, you can't just be a magic user, you can be good at your speech, but it's mostly based on player choice, so if you choose to play a certain way, you can, but you have to be your janitor and only pick and choose what to level up. recently i was thinking of only doing a mage build where every time i level up, instead of picking more magica or health or stamina, that the option to upgrade these shouldn't exist, so instead i just choose to put it into my stamina because that doesn't really effect much outside of stamina, making the game still a challenge as i level up because my pool of both health and magica always stay the same, the difference is only found within my perks chose to use. my theory is this will make it so i'm not too strong but also so i don't need to make the difficulty higher, the idea is that i always stay the same with my health and magic, but the perks will help lesson stuff like it takes less magic to cast spells when they are used so there is no need to put more magic in my pool because the perks help in that regard, i also don't want to be a spongy enemy and want to fight a little more realistic instead of tanking my way through everyone like normal. goin back to the original topic, so the RPG elements still exist just not in the story, but everything else that you can do is provided that you have the choice to do what you want to do within the confines of the game's world.
@@theequitableprose your correct, but that's also why i brought up the idea of the RPG choices outside the quests, you can still do as you wish within the games mechanics, but it's strongly based on how you would like to play your game.
You took a simple challenge run idea and turned it into a scathing evisceration of Skyrim's lackluster writing and design with a twist... and you have no idea how much I appreciate you for it.
It's funny how, as you pointed out, Skyrim is marketed as a game where you can play the way you want (and implicitly, be immensely rewarded that way, no matter what) but playing it in styles (such as speech-focused builds) that RPGs should and often *do* acknowledge reveals the contrary.
@@M4x_P0w3r if your playing a speech only run your not KILLING anything at all if theirs an enemy you run away and unlike skyrim NEARLY EVERY ENEMY YOU TALK TO lets you talk your way out of fighting them so fallout is the best example of speech only class dummy
The say Stenvar went on to save the world or something like that. Killed some world devourer? Either way, he showed up on the steps of Richard's home, and now happily lives in the basement saying words that bend time and space when he's not doing work for the gods. Richard was happy about this, because he had one thing that Stenvar could trust his friend for. A really expensive house.
I think technically you could have progressed through some of the greybeards stuff without leveling up anything, Dont think shouts have a skill tree, and they are called shouts, Your yelling things at things, Is that not technically speech? Dragon speech maybe, But still speech. Or are you saving that for "Can you beat Skyrim by simply yelling at things?"
To be fair, if you were running the Ordinator perk revamp mod, Speechcraft actually has some combat options - it has an entire branch dedicated to shouts and a branch for doing bard-y things that has busking at the start, and AE buffs, control and damage at the other. Combine that with one of the mods that expands on the Bard's College and it would make for an interesting playthrough concept.
@@Janoha17 Yeah, most do. But the bard path is less common. It's kinda neat too, starts with performing for money, has buffs, debuffs and eventually AE damage.
I would love to see you revisit this with the Ordinator perk overhaul mod, it actually makes the speech skill useful, including having speech level with dragon shouts and having the ability to legitimately use the skills you get at the bards college to play an instrument for money and small trinkets and being able to use your music to force enemies to uncontrollably dance instead of fighting you.
In a game as broad as Skyrim you could’ve never expected a deep and meaningful speech system, not only does that NOT appeal to the normie crowd (30+ million sales thank you very much) but also that would cost a lot more development money. And even effort, which is terrifying. Now, buy the Supreme Dragoncuck re-triple-release of Skyrim coming out this Christmas on your digital fridge.
I enjoy the thought of a traveling merchant with a super bodyguard going around Skyrim making absurd amounts of wealth. Then later parting ways when the merchant can live out his dream and the super bodyguard must complete his destiny. Perhaps one day they reunite and have some mead recounting tales of their adventures together?
This is properly funny. Sat pissing myself at the thought of you (Stenvar) ending the lives of 350 wizards just to sell their robes and how long that might have taken.
imagine being that thalmor agent and having to explain to your superior how a man you were tasked to bring in for questioning fucking DIED by a mudcrab XD
I've been subbed since the Sims 4 video and made a point of watching every single video immediately after. You're THAT good at making these. Keep it up!
Honestly as the end approached I thought this was going to take a twist and be like "Aha! I said by only using speech and by absorbing this dragon's soul I have gained the power of the voice!" but I still liked the way it ended
I love the commentary on the game. It's a wonder how it got to be so popular sometimes, with it's award-winning roleplaying and totally-useful-definitely-not-worthless skills and perks. I particularly like how there are virtually no persuasion checks in the entire game, and like 4 of those are impossible to ever succeed at - even with 100 speech and relevant perks... I'd personally love to see more Skyrim videos if possible too.
@@GamesOnHardMode: I personally think that they've never been able to write a good roleplaying game, but Fallout 4 and Skyrim showed us few who did pay attention how little they care while Fallout 76 cemented how bad they are at writing stories to the general public.
What an amazing video. A neat challenge with tons of game play packed into one video and edited into an entertaining format, with an amazing script with tons of little references. One of the best made videos on RUclips I've seen in a long time
I’ve never seen anything from you before this was suggested, but MAN was that entertaining to watch! I loved how Strenvar was the Dragonborn of your story
i forgot i'd watched this back in the day and already liked it. watched it again. it's very entertaining. especially liked the nominative determinism and guildford references even though it made me feel shamefully middle class that i got them.
"Skyrim is a roleplaying game, a game that allows players to play however they want and be rewarded thusly...so long as it involves some form of violence or crime"
What a great video. Really compelling script writing, good story and the occasional rant about the game being pretty shallow in terms of interacting with the world. Super well done, got yourself at least one more sub.
There is absolutely no way you don’t have more than 100k subs, it’s a crime by how high effort these are and extremely enjoyable. I hope you blow up soon and would love to see more, made me laugh very hard
I literally subbed because you said it's good for your numbers and we get nothing. That's the best pitch I ever heard. The commentary is just first class. When you talked about the petition to ban fox hunting I sprayed my sparkling water all over the bed
You have a criminally low number of subscribers. This video is funnier than most challenge runs I've seen from channels with 100 times more subs. Great stuff.
I'm so glad to have fee fi fo fucked around and found out about this channel. I accept your business proposition and subscribe to this channel, although I would argue the premise that I receive nothing as now I wont miss out on these hilarious videos.
Great to see a fun challenge run executed so well. I hadn't realised Speech had been reduced *that* badly :P You created a great story with Richard Rich and Stenvar Protagson, perfect moral ending :D
Imagine beating the main quest by only using speech
dragonborn: dude seriously we could be just chill with everyone, this trip to sovngarde is bs for everyone
alduin: you know what you're right, wanna hang out at the throat of the world later? I just wanna vent to you, ya know?
dragonborn: absolutely bro I'm all ears
"Absolutely bro I'm all ears"
>The dragonborn is a Khajit
fallout new vegas final bosses be like
the good ending
Well, shouts _are_ dragon speech. So in a way you were using speech to beat Alduin.
@@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149 you are technically right
Turns out, being able to talk to people really well is pretty overshadowed by just being able to stab people
not irl though. which is why i wish retorik was better in this game.
@@SpazzMaticu3 I don't know about that. Next time when you get the opportunity to talk to someone and see if stabbing them provides more resources. You will probably be able to loot them and get some money. Or you could pay someone to be your permanent life long guard (their life not yours)
@@arminkuburas1696 yeah but in an rpg setting extreme violence is always a faster and more effective solution
@@Sogmabolz tell me you know nothing about rpgs beyond Bethesda railroaded choose your own adventure books without telling me
Bethesda’s entire philosophy with their new games
once again a masterpiece. The fact you don't even have to do anything speech related to become a bard speaks volumes about the usefulness of that skill...
Even worse is that even focusing entirely on the skill still wasn't enough to make it through most of the skill checks
Or about how shit Bethesda is at making RPGs
Literally why i never play without Ordinator, makes speech actually useful, makes alchemy actually useful for anything but money, makes smithing strong in combat by letting you make turrets. Really good mod, fully recommend.
@@Dadki12345
i agree, Ordinator is a great perk mod.
You don't have to use any magic to become the Arch-Mage either. Noticing a trend here...
making stenvar the dragonborn in this story is honestly so refreshing and creative, as it recontextualizes the existential crisis earlier in the video about being a passenger in someone else's tale. beautiful storywritting.
Not being able to solve any problems in skyrim without violence/wandering into a cave somewhere isn't its biggest writing problem. It's the story always being about you. You're the dragonborn, the leader of the thieves guild, the listener of the dark brotherhood, the arch-mage of the college of winterhold, and more.
It would have been amazing if you could help various npcs reach these titles. Maybe choose a companion from the students in winterhold, your favorite thief, your favorite member of the dark brotherhood, and help them become the [important person] of their respective faction. Or bring an outsider in and help them rise to power. Once this is done they can no longer be your companion because they have bigger fish to fry now, save for one or two quests where you go out and clear a dungeon together "for old time's sake".
Also add some fun word of mouth advertising. "who did you choose to be the listener?" etc.
@@nathonizamboni875You're talking about Cyberpunk
Richard can now spread Stenvar's tale all over Tamriel in his bardly career.
The best part is that having a companion like Richard would be awesome - someone to loot and sell all the valuables while you're questing and clearing dungeons. Inventory Management has always been the worst part of Skyrim, so a follower that takes it off your hands would be amazing.
"They were impostors, but there's nothing funny about that. Among assorted-"
Incredible writing
Underrated comment. When I heard him saying it I flipped. Twas smooth.
"Among assorted-"
AMONG ASS? SUS
The way he just barely laughs saying it, he was so proud of himself (as he should be)
Speech 100
14:36
Nothing beats the fact that becoming master of the thieves guild, which takes completing a huge number of radiant quests, the thieves guild main quests, and several city-specific Thieves Guild side-quests, is an amulet that makes your speechcraft better. As if, by that point after so many hours in the game, you're ever going to need to persuade anyone ever again.
It’s always the first question I do in a play through because of that
theives guild has better rewards for speechcraft then the bards college
I loved the twist ending where it turned out Stenvar, the sidekick, was the dragonborn. It was very cute and promising. Richard let him go because he knew he had a destiny to fulfill
In the end, he really did level up his speech skill, but you don't need a silly little bar to fill for that. The true speechcraft is the tale you weave along the way.
Richard still absorb dragon soul in the plot so he still a dragonborn but he think that stanvar should be dragon born more than him and Richard live in peace as he dont care about Fus roh dah at all.
Well no, did you see the video ? Stenvar is the one who absorbed the dragon's soul.
Reminds me of the guards that wonder who the dragonborn is, maybe they themselves might be it.
And with the adventurers and travellers mod, there aren't just other adventuring groups around, but also fake dragonborn
The problem with trying this challenge in, say, Fallout New Vegas, is that in that game such approach is not only viable, it's optimal.
How so? Are maybe three points in new vegas where speech gets you out of fights, and unless I’m forgetting something it wouldn’t help much outside of that for a challenge like this. Fallout 4 has the pacify perks that can get animals and people to stop fighting, but it’s far from reliable, and outright doesn’t work on higher level stuff.
@@lonestarlibrarian1853 In New Vegas, you can complete virtually all of the non-DLC quests without killing anyone. Plus, completing skill challenges in New Vegas gives you xp. Speech checks are among the most common so you get a lot of bang for your buck there.
@@lonestarlibrarian1853 not really. Look up many a true nerds No kill run, now it’s not everywhere but in Vegas there are lots of opportunities to talk your way out of a situation and talk other people into doing what you want.
@@lonestarlibrarian1853 Nah, In New Vegas you can speech your way to the top quite easily. It's almost encouraged, even. Speech checks are very frequent overall and besides avoiding battles they reward you with caps, supplies and reputation on top of that - and it also helps skip steps in many quests. Overall, speech is quite overpowered in FO:NV. Barter is useful sometimes but not as frequent, and speech is used more often to ask for better rewards on quests anyways.
On FO4 Speech doesn't really exist and is instead a part of Charisma. As it is, it increases settlement size, reduces vendor prices and increases the success rate for speech checks. Unfortunately speech checks aren't as common and very rarely do people go over 6 just to get Local Leader. A charisma of 11 is needed to have 100% success rate in hard checks, and it can be reached with chems (particularly grape mentats) and equipment. Its certainly not as powerful, partly due to the different system in FO4 as reputation doesn't exist, and writing became less extensive due to the main character having voice acting, unlike previous installments.
guys, let's be real. i have to stop myself from leveling speech in FNV because it's too easy. speech playthroughs are super fun but incredibly easy, you just skip all the hard stuff.
17:01 I like to think that Richard is the one doing this thinking out loud introspection while watching his companion beat the skulls of his enemies like some kind of a philosophical bard lmao
This comment is canon.
Wouldn't it be cool if Speech affected Dragonshouts as a hidden passive, for they are a language? Either reducing the cooldown or increase the effects would be nice
Ordinator: am I a joke to you
Adamant: Am I a joke to you?
Yeah I'm using ordinator and another mod, I want to do like this and spec all into speech and see what happens.
@@f16airforce @Syrakusa Sry i play vanilla, so i didn't know there is a mod for that. Should be part of the basegame anyway
@@blackshaddow5005 no ur good lol but if u ever switch to mods its really nice, just lots of quality of life things out there that make you go “I wish I thought of getting that earlier” like being able to block with magic and swords etc
“The kajiit merchant didn’t ask where Richard had found 3 complete sets of Riftan Gard armor, and that was why Richard liked dealing with the Kajiit.”
That along with saying goodbye to Pringles was the funniest thing to me!!
Came for the funny Skyrim challenge run, stayed for the existential crisis.
Wow this was way more entertaining and interesting then I thought. Telling a story is so much better then just playing through the game with such a challenge.
“By the eight divines - imagine what this is going to do to the economy.”
Aaaaaaaand subscribed.
By the nine, are you mad?
May the almighty Talos show mercy to you,
For you to speek such herecy.
Be careful heimskr might plot against you for dishonoring the God of man.
Tiber Septim: *sad Talos noises*
There are 9 divines
You literally meet talos in sovngarde
I respect that despite your fists not being tied to a skill and could have easily been used to fight off enemies without leveling anything up, you still stuck to the speech only challenge and made a banger video. Well done.
Roses are Red
I’m happy you’re back
Richard pilfers
He does not attack.
Speech increased to 120
Speechcraft is one of the most underdeveloped skills in Elder Scrolls. I hope they do better in the next game and actually make it an option to solve problems diplomatically and trick people. Just take cues from Fallout or other games outside of Bethesda.
Anyway awesome video
Just play knights of the old Republic 1+2. So much better games
@@remote24 Those games are fine but I like my glitchy fantasy games
The Beyond Skyrim project seems to be going in that direction based on the Bruma prerelease
just download the Ordinator mod and stop bitching about this.
Speech is pretty useful in Morrowind to be honest.
This had me laughing so hard! The dry humor and deadpan voice was better than most standup comedians. Well done. Very well done.
Honestly I did not expect the story to be so good your companion being the hero of the story and the the one doing the quests and the dragonborn was great
you're weirdly the most wholesome skyrim youtuber I've ever seen. Subscribed.
Imagine if Tim Cain discovered this channel, recommended it and wished you play one of his games
I tried a speech only run a few years back, ended up being very short because I got sick of it. Now I remember why
you just didn't have the right mods to make it fun.
this video is doing everything from vanilla, which is super tiring to be honest.
the best mods for a speech skill only playthrough would be, Ordinator perks, re-real estate, notice board, anyway, with using these mods within conjunction of another, you can make lots of money just using mostly speech, the real estate mod allows you to purchase any house, mine, store, farm, and make passive income on them.
of course you have to start kind of small, the cheapest homes in the game are in riverwood at $3,500 a home, but most houses depending on the location can range up from $5,000 - $25,000 and you make up that money in the form of rent and then onto shops can range up from $25,000 to $65,000 and temples can range from $100,000 to $1,000,000 all depending on location and what threshold settings that can be set in the MCM menu. oh, and mines can be used to hire minors so long as they don't have any bandits within then, they can be killed and then you can hire miners, but they range up from $50 to $100 a day, but you make up for it in the ores extracted from the mines.
i have done this playthrough at least a few times, because i love the idea of making your money work for you.
i like it, because it reminds me of assassins creed brotherhood with their minigame to make passive income, that was very well integrated into the story and gameplay.
@@5226-p1e You would think that the developers of a role playing game might develop their game to have role-playing options in vanilla, and simply saying that there are mods that fix a thing excuses an oversight in quality. 🤔
I'm fairly certain most everyone is aware of mods now but, once upon a time, only us glorious golden gods of the pc computer box could partake of the forbidden rituals of modding games.
@@theequitableprose
that's true, they have been focusing on story only from one perspective for the game, and they for whatever reason forgot to add choices into the story, that's what makes it an RPG where you are presented with multiple choices, but i guess they chose to only have the multiple choices with everything else you do in the game like the class system.
but even that is set up to make it so you have the option to be good at everything, you can't just be a magic user, you can be good at your speech, but it's mostly based on player choice, so if you choose to play a certain way, you can, but you have to be your janitor and only pick and choose what to level up.
recently i was thinking of only doing a mage build where every time i level up, instead of picking more magica or health or stamina, that the option to upgrade these shouldn't exist, so instead i just choose to put it into my stamina because that doesn't really effect much outside of stamina, making the game still a challenge as i level up because my pool of both health and magica always stay the same, the difference is only found within my perks chose to use.
my theory is this will make it so i'm not too strong but also so i don't need to make the difficulty higher, the idea is that i always stay the same with my health and magic, but the perks will help lesson stuff like it takes less magic to cast spells when they are used so there is no need to put more magic in my pool because the perks help in that regard, i also don't want to be a spongy enemy and want to fight a little more realistic instead of tanking my way through everyone like normal.
goin back to the original topic, so the RPG elements still exist just not in the story, but everything else that you can do is provided that you have the choice to do what you want to do within the confines of the game's world.
@@5226-p1e that was a magnificent response. Still, the role playing you are selling me is from the player, not the game.
@@theequitableprose
your correct, but that's also why i brought up the idea of the RPG choices outside the quests, you can still do as you wish within the games mechanics, but it's strongly based on how you would like to play your game.
You took a simple challenge run idea and turned it into a scathing evisceration of Skyrim's lackluster writing and design with a twist... and you have no idea how much I appreciate you for it.
It's funny how, as you pointed out, Skyrim is marketed as a game where you can play the way you want (and implicitly, be immensely rewarded that way, no matter what) but playing it in styles (such as speech-focused builds) that RPGs should and often *do* acknowledge reveals the contrary.
What rpgs are there that have characters that only use speech related skills as a serious playstyle?
@@M4x_P0w3r
The entire fallout series?
@@thegames4565 And when you need to kill stuff?
@@M4x_P0w3r if your playing a speech only run your not KILLING anything at all if theirs an enemy you run away and unlike skyrim NEARLY EVERY ENEMY YOU TALK TO lets you talk your way out of fighting them so fallout is the best example of speech only class dummy
The say Stenvar went on to save the world or something like that. Killed some world devourer? Either way, he showed up on the steps of Richard's home, and now happily lives in the basement saying words that bend time and space when he's not doing work for the gods. Richard was happy about this, because he had one thing that Stenvar could trust his friend for. A really expensive house.
hahahah
Tim Cain brought me here. It did not disappoint. This is top notch work!
I think technically you could have progressed through some of the greybeards stuff without leveling up anything, Dont think shouts have a skill tree, and they are called shouts, Your yelling things at things, Is that not technically speech? Dragon speech maybe, But still speech. Or are you saving that for "Can you beat Skyrim by simply yelling at things?"
That's too 'main character' for this kind of build 😂 Stenvar was the true dragonborn.
To be fair, if you were running the Ordinator perk revamp mod, Speechcraft actually has some combat options - it has an entire branch dedicated to shouts and a branch for doing bard-y things that has busking at the start, and AE buffs, control and damage at the other. Combine that with one of the mods that expands on the Bard's College and it would make for an interesting playthrough concept.
@@Schadrach42 Every Perk Overhaul mod I've seen adds a Shout branch to the Speech perk tree.
@@Janoha17 Yeah, most do. But the bard path is less common. It's kinda neat too, starts with performing for money, has buffs, debuffs and eventually AE damage.
"subscribe and you'll get absolutely nothing" you sure are convincing, good sir, I'll gladly follow you everywhere
I would love to see you revisit this with the Ordinator perk overhaul mod, it actually makes the speech skill useful, including having speech level with dragon shouts and having the ability to legitimately use the skills you get at the bards college to play an instrument for money and small trinkets and being able to use your music to force enemies to uncontrollably dance instead of fighting you.
That sounds like a mod that I need to have.
In a game as broad as Skyrim you could’ve never expected a deep and meaningful speech system, not only does that NOT appeal to the normie crowd (30+ million sales thank you very much) but also that would cost a lot more development money. And even effort, which is terrifying. Now, buy the Supreme Dragoncuck re-triple-release of Skyrim coming out this Christmas on your digital fridge.
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I gotta look into that. Speech level influencing shouts is brilliant.
that seems like it would be missing the point a little though. this video is about Skyrim not about things you could do to Skyrim to make it less bad
@@Graknorke nah, it would be nice to have it for contrast, along side with this video
"They were imposters but there's nothing funny about that."
*proceeds to forcefully insert the phonemes of "among us" right into next sentence*
"These mercenaries had fee fi fo fucked around and were about to fee fi fo find out"
😂🤣😭
14:46 The imposter joke leading into the "among as-orted" joke was top teir and i didn't see anyone else mention it, so well done 😂
The return we've been waiting for 🙏
The pin-point accurate portrayal of Guildford High St has instantly earned you a new sub.
I did not expect this to resonate with so many people.
Oh I’m so happy you’re not dead, I love your content, sometimes I listen to your videos as I sleep, your voice is just super calming.
I enjoy the thought of a traveling merchant with a super bodyguard going around Skyrim making absurd amounts of wealth.
Then later parting ways when the merchant can live out his dream and the super bodyguard must complete his destiny.
Perhaps one day they reunite and have some mead recounting tales of their adventures together?
Welcome back! Skyrim's such a fun game. Fun to see you playing it!
Speech level 100 -
“ Cold as a tango ice blast, but not nearly as sweet ”
This had GOT to be my favorite "can you beat skyrim" video Ive ever seen
"Fee Fi Fo Fucked Around" and "Fee Fi Fo Find Out" was chefs kiss
15:22 Hark! 'Tis Mambo the Fifth
I'm dead
This is properly funny. Sat pissing myself at the thought of you (Stenvar) ending the lives of 350 wizards just to sell their robes and how long that might have taken.
your comedy and delivery of jokes is very well done, as well as the challenged themselves! I love seeing people do challenge runs of games
imagine being that thalmor agent and having to explain to your superior how a man you were tasked to bring in for questioning fucking DIED by a mudcrab XD
The hidden "amongus" @14:44 was a masterclass in wordplay, leveling his speech up to 200 instantly.
The subtler jokes were what I loved most about this video.
I've been subbed since the Sims 4 video and made a point of watching every single video immediately after. You're THAT good at making these. Keep it up!
Honestly as the end approached I thought this was going to take a twist and be like "Aha! I said by only using speech and by absorbing this dragon's soul I have gained the power of the voice!" but I still liked the way it ended
"Richard was now dressed for the job he wanted: owning of property"
After much consideration, I have decided that this is my favorite video of yours so far. Superb!
I love the commentary on the game. It's a wonder how it got to be so popular sometimes, with it's award-winning roleplaying and totally-useful-definitely-not-worthless skills and perks.
I particularly like how there are virtually no persuasion checks in the entire game, and like 4 of those are impossible to ever succeed at - even with 100 speech and relevant perks...
I'd personally love to see more Skyrim videos if possible too.
Top narrating sir, Guilford and fox hunting bit had me in stitches xD
Bless this absolute Demi-god I didn't even remember speech was a skill in game
Bethesda forgot too.
@@GamesOnHardMode: I personally think that they've never been able to write a good roleplaying game, but Fallout 4 and Skyrim showed us few who did pay attention how little they care while Fallout 76 cemented how bad they are at writing stories to the general public.
Subscribed a few minutes in, I love when I come across someone truly witty!
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Good video mate. You did a great job at prodding at skyrim's weaknesses without being whiny about it. Well done!
What an amazing video. A neat challenge with tons of game play packed into one video and edited into an entertaining format, with an amazing script with tons of little references. One of the best made videos on RUclips I've seen in a long time
I’ve never seen anything from you before this was suggested, but MAN was that entertaining to watch! I loved how Strenvar was the Dragonborn of your story
07:17 made me subscribe! This video was absolutely brilliant!
I love your vids man, glad to see another one up pop-up in my feed
I accept your business proposition!
Speech skill decreased*
If you accept brynjolf’s job, if you literally just wait you’ll fail the quest but he’ll still let you into the thieves guild for some reason
i forgot i'd watched this back in the day and already liked it. watched it again. it's very entertaining.
especially liked the nominative determinism and guildford references even though it made me feel shamefully middle class that i got them.
Silly videos like this are important when it feels like the world is on fire sometimes. Thanks for making it
the giant encampment bit had me in fucking tears at work! thank you!
This was SOOOOO GOOD.
One of the best Skyrim stories I've ever heard.
What a lovely critique/story of a Speech playthrough in Skyrim :D
Pringles is a great name for a Horse.
also I love how you’re pointing out the repetitiveness of Skyrim in a backwards sort of way, it’s hilarious
I loved every part of this video, but Stenvar being the dragonborn was the best, what a twist 💕
Damn, I didn't think I would here Guildford Highstreets get mentioned in any video but here I am on a Skyrim video.
This is actually incredible. I hope Richard has some more adventures in the future.
Your ‘please subscribe’ sales pitch got me ngl
can you do more of these with only using one skill, make a whole series. the story telling in this is sooo good! keep it up
"Skyrim is a roleplaying game, a game that allows players to play however they want and be rewarded thusly...so long as it involves some form of violence or crime"
Challenge set aside, the script for the video is phenomenal!
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“Reeling from almost fatal embarrassment” 😂😂😂
What a great video. Really compelling script writing, good story and the occasional rant about the game being pretty shallow in terms of interacting with the world. Super well done, got yourself at least one more sub.
I love how you eventually become a side character in Stenvarr's Dragonborn Hero story. Damn, speech could've been so cool...
There is absolutely no way you don’t have more than 100k subs, it’s a crime by how high effort these are and extremely enjoyable. I hope you blow up soon and would love to see more, made me laugh very hard
best skyrim lets play I ever watched!
Roleplaying as the manager of the dragonborn aka Stenvar
0:32 relatable 😅
Very much so
I literally subbed because you said it's good for your numbers and we get nothing. That's the best pitch I ever heard. The commentary is just first class. When you talked about the petition to ban fox hunting I sprayed my sparkling water all over the bed
You have a criminally low number of subscribers. This video is funnier than most challenge runs I've seen from channels with 100 times more subs. Great stuff.
Oh man that ending, I was invested and rewarded. subbed, your doing good work
Awesome story!!! Wonderful game playing!! Loved this!!!
Tim Cain led me here and boy I'm glad I checked this out.
I love this idea for a video. Hopefully Starfield will help produce more like these
Honestly, I'm sold, I get nothing and your number get bigger? win-win.
Welcome back
First video I watch from you, I'll check the rest out, Funny stuff.
The return of the king
Amazing work documenting the life of this Richard fellow. He sounds like a good lad.
Such an epic tale! Your narration is fantastic, and as such, I have subbed for more content. :D
Incredible skyrim video bro great job
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Number 2 comment. Sorry man the first spot was taken.
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They were posted by the same guy
5:36 I’m actually weeping that’s so accurate
That was very enjoyable, as always! Hopefully the next video will come sooner than 8 months :)
See you in 3 years 😉
@@GamesOnHardMode You Are Tearing Me Apart, Lisa!
I'm so glad to have fee fi fo fucked around and found out about this channel. I accept your business proposition and subscribe to this channel, although I would argue the premise that I receive nothing as now I wont miss out on these hilarious videos.
Great to see a fun challenge run executed so well. I hadn't realised Speech had been reduced *that* badly :P
You created a great story with Richard Rich and Stenvar Protagson, perfect moral ending :D
This is really well made, subbed