Skyrim: The Best Open World Game Ever Made!

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You never stop playing Skyrim, you just take a break.

My favorite thing about this game to me is that no matter how much you have done, there's always something new somehow

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

My char is 42nd level and hasn't been to see the Jarl of Whiterun yet. He's got three modded castles, a farm, a wife and 2 kids, a robot horse and a number of cottages. For all the mods and upgraded graphics from talented modders and creation club, there's always another space to dream of filling with something. And I think for me, as I wander the ice caps looking at the astonishing borealis, its this factor, 'I want a shack here. A tower...' and if someone hasn't modded one already I can use Creation Kit to make one. It took me a while to figure out I could ignore the civil war quest and also, refuse to become dragon-born and keep the stone in my pack, all 25lbs of it, to protect Skyrim from dragons. Because as long as I don't become dragonborn in a quest for personal power, the dragons never seem to bother anyone. I get the feeling Alduin is summoning dragons from the grave to hunt down the dragonborn, and if he doesn't take the bait, Alduin doesn't resurrect them. I avoid the daedric quests apart from Meridia's quest, and don't follow through the thieves guild or the dark brotherhood. Yet there's a ton of stuff available, and The Notice Board, OBIS and the mods that spawn tons of extra monsters, suck as those reiklings, make a simple ride from the house to town interesting. There's also mods to smarten up combat, turn it into an activity where range and timing are important. The repeating voices suck, and the glitches are sometimes there. Though there's a big patch for those and it really does iron out a vast amount of problems. An occasional mammoth in the sky or a hovering lamp post can be put down to skooma. LOL. One regret, is that it's a lonely game. I so much want to have a friend to fill the follower position, and a text/voice chat where some rp can be done. The programmed followers can only do so much to negate the feeling of solitude. For me, the dark, gritty land of Skyrim beats all other games, and seems to be in the same flavour of act 5 of Diablo 2, Harrogath. D2 was my main game in those days.

I have hundreds of hours in Skyrim, I've seen lands never thought possible. Personally I like to use a mod that starts me off as a vampire because I LOVE the vampires and their powers in this game. My only problem with Skyrim is that, while it feels alive, I subconsciously always know what makes it feel alive, I know what scripted events will happen, I know and mostly expect friends to die just to get inheritance. So it makes friends all that much more valuable in game, the combat can feel boring and the sense of tension is never there. The modding community is really cool, but, the game is getting too old, and it's cracks that we're once just visible, are now bleeding. The atmosphere is always incredible and the scenery is just amazing. Often times it feels like that's it's only redeeming factor, the musical score (aside from the battle music) is unlike anything I've heard before, it invokes adventure and endless curiosity, and always sets the mood perfectly. The songs Secunda, king's peace, tundra, and especially far horizon from the OST are the most memorable and beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. I could say the enitre OST, but these are just some of my favourites. Skyrim is a game that can truly take you out of the real world and suck you into it's own, and not many games can do that anymore.

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.

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. 😅

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.

Still playing/modding it until this day and will probably never stop. Greatest game of all time!

This is the best game ever. It has so many diverse environments and creatures. 10/10 game.

This game is just magical. I literally can't help but revisit it every few years.