Why Skyrim Is A Masterpiece - Retrospective Analysis

This video was dormant for like 4 months, but now it has gained over 13,000 views in just a few weeks! I really appreciate it guys! Working on the next video as of typing this!

This is my 10yo son's favorite game. He plays as a khajit. So far, he's pickpocketed at least 300 NPCs and robbed entire towns blind. It's a little concerning, lol

"Skyrim is the most perfect, imperfect, video game ever made." I think that's the absolute best description of Skyrim I've ever heard. 😂

I love Skyrim. It got me through the hardest times in my life. When I was going through severe depression and suicidal ideation, Skyrim was there. When i was living with my abusive stepfather, Skyrim was there to help me escape him, even just for a few hours. I know it sounds melodramatic but Skyrim has saved my life.

I'd rather have the NPCs say their random dialogue as you pass by than being dead silent. It's what makes Skyrim feel alive. Sure their lines can get repetitive but it adds that charm.

I was making my way to whiterun, and defeated some necromancers with some help from a hunter who spawned to kill a fugitive who stole from him, I set up camp because I was playing survival mode, so i could use soul trap on them to improve my own necromancy, and the hunter just came over and hung out at my camp, and he kept asking me if i needed anything, at my own camp i set up and he just came over to, truly a skyrim experience

I agree man. I was 17 almost 18 when Skyrim dropped. It was mind blowing. It’s still gorgeous 11 years later. That’s how kind blowing it was and is

It's weird for me to hear Skyrim talked about like it's some old classic because I feel like I never really stopped playing it. It came out when I was 15 and I played it practically nonstop for almost two years. Since then I feel like I've always had a character on the back burner that I hop into for at least a few months out of the year. It's like my favorite old, worn out shirt that I refuse to get rid of. I only played Morrowind for the first time in 2021 and it made me realize just how much Skyrim didn't do, and I recognize all its flaws but I'll always love it.

So, through some exploits and spell crafting in Oblivion, one of my friends and I essentially dropped a nuke on the Imperial City, wiping out every npc on the streets. About an hour later, I’m walking down a street and I see a guard with his head chopped off. Another one walks by the body and tells him that the captain will have his head if he doesn’t get to work, and then just walks off.

Skyrim is one of those iconic games, it was just made so well

While the NPC’s trauma dumping and stopping to speak to you may not be realistic, as an older gamer (at the ripe old age of 32), I think I appreciate them not wasting my time making me “earn” them telling me deeper stuff. Mostly cuz I only get an hour or so at a time to play when I sit down for a sesh

The music, atmosphere, and voice acting are such a comfort to me. I think for me the vibe of Skyrim was one of the biggest things that kept me coming back. Being able to wonder around in that world and hear the sounds and music is really the soul of the Skyrim experience. I remember long nights playing Skyrim with the music on full blast as a kid. And feeling that is one of the main reasons I go back still to this day. To just absorb that world and escape to Skyrim

Now this, this is a work of art

One blessing they added in Dragonborn was adding "Companion's Insight" in the Winds of Change Black Book. You no longer have to worry about killing your own followers with a 2 handed sweep or an area effect spell.

Paarthurnax ˝dilemma˝ could be also seen as game/developers testing you in terms of ˝will you do the wrong thing to achieve perfection?˝... You have to do every quest, be on top of every guild, have every artifact... its in your gamer blood and also in dragonborn blood (Paarthurnax said himself that dragons have in blood need for influence and power). Only by killing him u can achieve 100%. Will you overcome this urge same as Paarthurnax had to?

I think the fact that the Blades are so obsessed with killing Parthunax that they quit helping you until you do it really soured my opinion of them in game. No matter what kind of save i was going for, i would never side with them. The dragonbane sword and the bonus damage to dragons were the only things worth getting there anyway (the sword can be taken without stealing if you run ahead of them and take it before they get too far into the final room).

My favorite game of all time. This game came out during one of the most difficult times in my life. It was my escape during that time, and cause of that I kept my sanity. I don’t care for the flaws, it’s a masterpiece and I love it for every pro and con. I still play to this day. And I forever will.

Stealth Archer is probably the most common build people use because you can survive and raise your levels fast. The main issue I have is the skill tree system really puts a brake on people who want to go with Magic based builds, because they are abysmally weak early in the game...and making one mistake with Magic use when in a city can have every guard on your back. Gets especially bad when you hit Dawnguard and run into random spawning vampires as soon as you enter a city. You almost have to get some melee skills just to survive long enough to start building a mage. You can make a Light Armor/One Handed/Archer character and use it through the whole base game. Never been able to manage that with a pure Magic build.

Awesome video. Been getting myself excited to come back to Skyrim again. Been listening to the E3 demos and interviews at work, the weather is getting colder, and I'm getting those nostalgic feelings again from when I was a kid waiting for November 11, running through the woods that October pretending I was the Dragonborn. There will never be excitement for a game like there was for Skyrim. It was truly the most satisfyingly agonizing wait for a game, and I will cherish that magical feeling forever.

I feel like you’re the first person I’ve seen who has opinions on Skyrim that really resonate with me. You have put into words so many things that I feel go unacknowledged when people talk about Skyrim, and I can’t express how much I appreciate that. Thank you for what you do!