Evaluating Skyrim: An extremely shallow experience

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Join me as I almost constantly get let down over and over again.
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Songs:
Almost the entire Skyrim OST
Just Plains from the Wario Land: Shake It! OST
BFG Division by Mick Gordon
Trendy Game from the Link's Awakening remake OST
Get Ya Hands Up -theFunkyFr34k mash up
Snide's HQ theme from Donkey Kong 64
Lakitu Valley 2 from Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour OST
Jump Up Superstar NDC instrumental from Super Mario Odyssey OST
64th Trivia Quiz from Paper Mario OST
Groose's Theme from Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword OST
Groose Beats by Botanic Sage [BS]- / groose-beats
Chunky Train by Botanic Sage [BS]- / chunky-train
Timestamps:
00:00- Intro
01:28- Tutorial/Starting out
06:11- The Companions
22:08- Activating dragons
25:58- Dark Brotherhood
54:30- Thieves Guild
01:15:06- College of Winterhold
01:33:12- Guild reflections
01:34:29- War stuff
01:43:42- Main questline
02:02:29- Final thoughts
02:05:00- Outro
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  • @Useless22
    @Useless224 жыл бұрын

    1:51 Skip raid today, only one like each.

  • @SaraphDarklaw

    @SaraphDarklaw

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you 💕

  • @Zaylin999

    @Zaylin999

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @travaughnanderson3958

    @travaughnanderson3958

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you ily

  • @FaithfulFumoFan23

    @FaithfulFumoFan23

    4 жыл бұрын

    thanks friend

  • @liberator101

    @liberator101

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! ❤

  • @r1e234
    @r1e2348 ай бұрын

    -go to the crypt -kill a bunch of draugr -get the thing -bring it back was this the companions, college of winterhold, dark brotherhood, thieves guild, civil war on either side or main quest? trick question, it was the bards college

  • @largebeppo

    @largebeppo

    6 ай бұрын

    After hearing the guy say I can join the thieves guild even after screwing up the main quest because "you tried your best and youre proabably a good thief anyway" and seeing that the bards guild had nothing to do with playing an instrument, singing, etc. and all just fetch linear dungeon fetch quests, I was done. I knew this game wasn't for me.

  • @dolphindudelife314

    @dolphindudelife314

    6 ай бұрын

    @@largebeppo Crying over nothing like this isnt one of the best games ever made

  • @maxschmidt666

    @maxschmidt666

    6 ай бұрын

    @@dolphindudelife314 Its great that you like this game. But @largebeppo just has a point, the storytelling is not good. If you look out for a game with great written characters and deep stories, Skyrim is just not the right one. And if if you look at his answer closely, he does not say its a bad game, its just not his type of game. Same for me. Its absolutely massive but I feel its all facade made of thin paper.

  • @randomb1397

    @randomb1397

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@dolphindudelife314lol this ain't nothing. I love Skyrim (not Vanilla - even at launch I thought it was a little too boring compared to Oblivion), but most of the major plot lines are under baked and unless you have quite a high tolerance for subpar gameplay loops, the dungeons are grating and IMO rely on big overhauls to the progression and/or combat systems in order to become genuinely satisfying for anyone who has played anything a little more refined. However, I do still agree it's one of the best games ever. With mods, that is certain. Vanilla is highly debatable, and probably depends how much you will be annoyed by the very unrefined combat and major lack of any other well done gameplay elements (sneak, thievery, persuasion, choices matter) by RPG standards. I think playing Baldurs Gate 3 is the perfect example of how genre defining a lot the things Skyrim practically ignored are.

  • @pbluma

    @pbluma

    6 ай бұрын

    @@dolphindudelife314 Wasn't that even in 2012

  • @bluemutt9964
    @bluemutt9964 Жыл бұрын

    The Ebony warrior explored all of Tamriel and realized everyone has the same voice actors which made him want to die

  • @idkhahahaha

    @idkhahahaha

    Жыл бұрын

    Underrated comment

  • @dfreltzya541

    @dfreltzya541

    Жыл бұрын

    @@idkhahahaha Underrated reply

  • @yukowolfang8645

    @yukowolfang8645

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dfreltzya541 Underrated laughing fit

  • @jacobhillis4676

    @jacobhillis4676

    10 ай бұрын

    @@Prince_Virginiaunderated underrating analysis

  • @Hollow_Tim

    @Hollow_Tim

    10 ай бұрын

    But I like the voices and it’s funny and I don’t really care that much about the story so I don’t mind

  • @endymion3071
    @endymion3071 Жыл бұрын

    Dragonborn, Leader of The Thieves Guild, The Listener, Head of The Collage of Winterhold, Captain of The Companions, Thane of all Holds, General of an Army, Master of The Blades…still has to put up with guards rude remarks and pay 5 gold fines for dumb petty crimes.

  • @MrAwEsOmE145770

    @MrAwEsOmE145770

    11 ай бұрын

    Yes, but we will all boot up the game several more times after seeing this 😂

  • @dieyng

    @dieyng

    8 ай бұрын

    I mean, if you are all that, isn't it equally ridiculous that we still DO petty, dumb crimes?

  • @treylester5361

    @treylester5361

    7 ай бұрын

    "No one is above the law" lmao

  • @citizenvulpes4562

    @citizenvulpes4562

    7 ай бұрын

    @@MrAwEsOmE145770 Nah, I'm gonna start my first playthrough of morrowind.

  • @cazza710

    @cazza710

    7 ай бұрын

    @@MrAwEsOmE145770 i don't understand how people still have the mental fortitude to play this game, looking back on it it's SO ass, the only thing it's got going for it is mods, and even then i'd rather just play Fallout NV or Cyberpunk

  • @mrcombustiblelemon2902
    @mrcombustiblelemon29024 жыл бұрын

    Main character in a Bethesda game: *joins a guild* Guild master: *starts writing a will*

  • @Quadrenaro

    @Quadrenaro

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh my god... I never realized. That's some lazy writing.

  • @mrcombustiblelemon2902

    @mrcombustiblelemon2902

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Quadrenaro I don't exactly disagree, but in games that let you become the leader of each and every organization you come across, they have to do SOMETHING with the existing leaders. Death (and/or treachery) is the easiest way to let you replace the very talented person who led the organization for years and has the loyalty and support of the members.

  • @arivolden1989

    @arivolden1989

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mrcombustiblelemon2902 The problem for me is that once you do become the leader, literally no one cares or treats you differently. You still have to do all the grunt work.

  • @mrcombustiblelemon2902

    @mrcombustiblelemon2902

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@arivolden1989 except for not treating you like a criminal when you go to the guildmaster's room and ransack it for a few septims

  • @danielyoung6778

    @danielyoung6778

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mrcombustiblelemon2902 they could just make becoming leader optional and if you turn it down it goes to some other guy. Like I don't see the issue and I actively pretend someone else is the leader of every guild anyway because I find it really dumb becoming leader if more than two. High ranking member sure but when my bruiser of a Nord is supposedly now grand wizard of whatever the fuck that school was called when I'd literally only used shouts for the last 30 hours of gameplay it's super annoying to me.

  • @Shadest
    @Shadest3 жыл бұрын

    The reason guild leaders are so clueless and bad at their jobs is because people get promoted to leader after like 4 days of work

  • @mayonnaise2396

    @mayonnaise2396

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @WurrzagsMorkyMischeif

    @WurrzagsMorkyMischeif

    3 жыл бұрын

    Its good we didnt get missions to become the emperor. You would probably start out as a carrier boy then seven missions later you claim the crown

  • @mikeitkulof

    @mikeitkulof

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@WurrzagsMorkyMischeif laughs in Martin

  • @farerawei2469

    @farerawei2469

    3 жыл бұрын

    yep,Oblivion guild quests are way better.

  • @BigFatSoul

    @BigFatSoul

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or other way around maybe...))))

  • @lavenderlunacy
    @lavenderlunacy Жыл бұрын

    I just realized that every faction you join is "struggling" or "on tough times" and your role is to bring them back to glory.

  • @spartanq7781

    @spartanq7781

    Жыл бұрын

    Hell you don't even do that except for with the Thieves guild. Seriously think about it. You finish the other questlines nothing gets resolved. The companions questline is a joke that forces you to become a werewolf yet does nothing with it. If were going to be forced to be a werewolf then tell a werewolf story. It's honestly the worst faction in the entire series The others are not great either. It feels like Bethesda just did not care with Skyrim. They knew the casual dumb crowd would eat it up and buy it again and again. Sadly they're absolutely right.

  • @lavenderlunacy

    @lavenderlunacy

    Жыл бұрын

    @@spartanq7781 Bethesda is bad at story, plain and simple. All their games have good atmosphere and gameplay but the stories suck ass. I love playing fallout 4 with fun tacticool mods in downtown Boston but I could care less about Shaun.

  • @spartanq7781

    @spartanq7781

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lavenderlunacy Good gameplay what? They don't have even that.

  • @griffithdidnothingwrong7117

    @griffithdidnothingwrong7117

    Жыл бұрын

    @@spartanq7781 yea Bethesda is going to fuck up bad at elder scrolls 6, it's the last chance I'll give them and I've so little hope I'm definitely not gonna buy the game till I can see the content I'm gonna get.

  • @spartanq7781

    @spartanq7781

    Жыл бұрын

    @@griffithdidnothingwrong7117 I'm waiting on Starfield to gage some idea of what ES6 will be like. Todd claims it is going to be the kind of game he has been wanting to make for a long time. He himself does prefer Morrowind over Oblivion and Skyrim. So really his design philosophy is solely on being more accessible. My problem isn't that in fact that is a good philosophy. The problem is that their way of doing it is too just cut so many things. Ruining play styles and builds of fans of an earlier game. It has happened to Daggerfall fans,Morrowind fans and Oblivion fans. The only reason it hasn't happened to Skyrim fans is you know no ES6 over ten years later!

  • @umwha
    @umwha11 ай бұрын

    Nobody really talks about how strange it is that you can assassinate the Emperor and win the war for the Imperials

  • @killcount4750

    @killcount4750

    8 ай бұрын

    Cuz there's no problem with it nb knows it was you

  • @Bionicbutter43

    @Bionicbutter43

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@killcount4750I don't think you understand the implications of that

  • @killcount4750

    @killcount4750

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@Bionicbutter43 its giving you freedom

  • @Bionicbutter43

    @Bionicbutter43

    7 ай бұрын

    @killcount4750 if the leader of an actual empire were to die in the midst of a Civil war that would basically garentee the LOSS OF THW WAR FOR THE EMPIRE

  • @linkholder

    @linkholder

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@Bionicbutter43I mean imagine the morale damage alone. Stormcloaks would have a field day with the propaganda

  • @Nazeem2010
    @Nazeem20104 жыл бұрын

    One of the reasons this game feels shallow is that they didn't add content expanding the Cloud District in Whiterun. Do you guys get to the Cloud District very often? Oh what am I saying, of course you don't.

  • @MohitKumar-jf8lz

    @MohitKumar-jf8lz

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'll have you know there's no pussssieeeeee.

  • @jackydiehon

    @jackydiehon

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hippity Hoppity i shall make it my Property

  • @SVPD-LR-114

    @SVPD-LR-114

    4 жыл бұрын

    how the fuck are you still alive?! I killed you at least 60 times!!!

  • @backthrust1116

    @backthrust1116

    4 жыл бұрын

    The game is shallow because it has very few rpg mechanics, poor town design, and very dumbed down combat.

  • @thenightowls2804

    @thenightowls2804

    4 жыл бұрын

    Fuck hou Nazeem

  • @warhawk9566
    @warhawk95664 жыл бұрын

    Honestly one of Skyrims big flaws is that after a while the dragons become tedious. Like when you hear a dragon roar your reaction isn't to get excited and go "OH boy a dragon!" or even get scared and go "Oh no! A dragon!" Your reaction is to sigh and say "Goddammit, I'm not in the mood for a dragon right now"

  • @jeffjokerdude1

    @jeffjokerdude1

    4 жыл бұрын

    I remember thinking one time after hearing a dragon roar, "Fuck, I don't have the carry capacity for bones and scales right now, dammit." Dragons were just a chore. I quit not too long after that.

  • @adhdasdfroflxd123

    @adhdasdfroflxd123

    4 жыл бұрын

    This is why I never do the main quest anymore

  • @periplanetamissionary

    @periplanetamissionary

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@adhdasdfroflxd123 the alternative start mod is epic if dragons are boring, just stay away from helgen and your set

  • @raaplexis2978

    @raaplexis2978

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yep. They over did the spawnrates on those fucking things. Honestly, there should have been less mounds, maybe a couple random spawns like 1 every in game week or two or something. And actually make dragons more fucking interesting fight. Even when I did my Master difficulty run (fuck legendary, that's just ball ache for ball aches safe) by the time I was like 25-30, Dragons still just became a run up and mash R1 fight.

  • @politickz6591

    @politickz6591

    4 жыл бұрын

    I like the game but dragons are so fucking annoying. They should’ve made them spawn waaaay less frequently

  • @whirl3690
    @whirl3690 Жыл бұрын

    I love how the companions will say "Well, that's taken care of, no thanks to you" even if you're wearing literal rags, I mean for all they know you're a drunk farmer

  • @whirl3690

    @whirl3690

    Жыл бұрын

    I think you said Winterhold when you mean Windhelm in reference to the Dark Brotherhood

  • @Shadethewolfy

    @Shadethewolfy

    4 ай бұрын

    They also say it even if you show up AFTER they've already killed the giant. Fucking Emil Papaccino.

  • @DubbleTee

    @DubbleTee

    4 ай бұрын

    This comment made me laugh so fkn hard... I'm in tears... "...for all they know you're a drunk farmer" Picturing your character standing there like... "I was just over here turning in 400 crops for 18 gold, what do I know about fighting a giant?"

  • @SamBram
    @SamBram Жыл бұрын

    This video making me realise that the obsession with filling my house with all the unique treasures has kept me willfully blind to how little effect you ultimately have on this game world

  • @Adam-ob1hl

    @Adam-ob1hl

    Жыл бұрын

    Is this comment about Skyrim or modern irl consumerism?

  • @SamBram

    @SamBram

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Adam-ob1hl Both, now that you point it out

  • @ponternal

    @ponternal

    Жыл бұрын

    People with funko pops do the same thing in irl

  • @kingscrub3386

    @kingscrub3386

    Жыл бұрын

    In my house, I've probably stored millions in gems and gold. There's so much money just laying about

  • @MrAwEsOmE145770

    @MrAwEsOmE145770

    11 ай бұрын

    I kinda hate how we just are gonna flat out dog this incredible game as if we weren’t eating this shit up when it came out💀 y’all fr gotta relax

  • @PierroCh5
    @PierroCh54 жыл бұрын

    "Y'all mind if I.. huh... send our newest member to the nearest nordic ruin ?" every guild leader in Skyrim.

  • @warzed6220

    @warzed6220

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well in the college of Winterhold it’s more like a class field trip. At least, that’s how I thought of it.

  • @twinkleihh9675

    @twinkleihh9675

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@warzed6220 agreed lol dude basically had the entire school up in there

  • @jamgin9890

    @jamgin9890

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@warzed6220 "The most important lesson is safety!! We wont be doing any magic yet because its dangerous!" 10 seconds later... "ok so these nordic ruins are pretty dangerous and we're going to them. ur job is to wander around without supervision."

  • @ZorotheGallade

    @ZorotheGallade

    3 жыл бұрын

    *When a new recruit who looks like a main character joins your organization* Leader: "My time has come"

  • @charlock593

    @charlock593

    3 жыл бұрын

    No no no, its like this: “Hey can we send the newest member to this Nordic ruin?” “Yeah, sure why not. I mean he could definitely do it even though our top members had previously failed.” “Ok new member, go to this cave and retrieve this item.” Oh no! The leader is dead when you come back! “Well shit, our leader is now dead and we definitely have no one else that could replace them. No one that’s had 10 years of experience. Oh, no we would never. Hey new member, I guess you’re the leader now”

  • @hpintrepid
    @hpintrepid4 жыл бұрын

    Skyrim's entire plot is best described as, "Here is the aftermath of something far more interesting and exciting you only get to hear or read about and not experience first hand. Also you are in charge now."

  • @markosimunic4770

    @markosimunic4770

    4 жыл бұрын

    "You are in charge now and nobody cares!"

  • @johnsmith-xv3dl

    @johnsmith-xv3dl

    4 жыл бұрын

    Now go clear this cave of dwemmer.

  • @Tautolonaut

    @Tautolonaut

    4 жыл бұрын

    "here is the aftermath etc' sounds like Todd's first day on the job.

  • @TheFaqvideos

    @TheFaqvideos

    4 жыл бұрын

    You are in charge but actually it's basically just a meaningless honorary title.

  • @Slaraffus2750

    @Slaraffus2750

    4 жыл бұрын

    "You are in charge now, but not really, everyone else still push you around."

  • @Spewb
    @Spewb Жыл бұрын

    My favorite bit about the thieves guild is that even if you botch planting the ring Brynjolf just goes "hmm oh well lol we're doing pretty bad so you wanna join anyway?". Not even being sent on some other errand to prove you aren't completely inept. Granted it's good in this one instance because getting a useful merchant with a cool story locked up forever is really stupid but still. My biggest gripe with this game has always been that there's no actual consequence to literally anything you do, there are never any stakes.

  • @ShivaOO7

    @ShivaOO7

    Жыл бұрын

    I'd rather it locked me out and made me press F9 than pander to the lowest common denominator. Skyrim's success is due to the fact that it's so forgiving that any meathead can succeed. I get it, but it completely misses the mark on what the classic western RPGs were going for. It was all about the interactivity with the world and its inhabitants that made up for the jank ass gameplay. Fallout 2 probably captured the essence of WRPGs the best.

  • @yourstruly5013

    @yourstruly5013

    9 ай бұрын

    There are consequences in this game , every npc and their grandmother comes after you if you kill a chicken.

  • @kanaka118446

    @kanaka118446

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@yourstruly5013that is poor gameplay mechanics and not story consequences.

  • @Shadethewolfy

    @Shadethewolfy

    4 ай бұрын

    I blame Emil Pelagiad.

  • @DubbleTee

    @DubbleTee

    4 ай бұрын

    "hmm oh well lol we're doing pretty bad so you wanna join anyway?" This fkn cracked me up lmao

  • @Biodebatable
    @Biodebatable Жыл бұрын

    I feel like having you not become the leader of the respective guild but getting an special honour/position would help a few of these questlines and guild structures, like you can join the inner circle of the companions as an equal to the longstanding members like aela, you get a position in the college which gives you access to way more resources for research into the arcane arts. This allows for the previous leaders to not have to die and/or be evil/incompetent.

  • @Golden-ek2ku
    @Golden-ek2ku4 жыл бұрын

    That's actually a rather common complaint, the world is full of people and places and systems, but you never see them interact, the assassin's don't affect the civil war, magic doesn't change the civil war, nothin

  • @JollyOldCanuck

    @JollyOldCanuck

    4 жыл бұрын

    Which is strange since the Imperial Legion has a long history of using battle-mages to augment its forces.

  • @JewTube001

    @JewTube001

    4 жыл бұрын

    there's no repercussions for anything. its almost like everything takes place in it's own nutshell.

  • @Bovium

    @Bovium

    4 жыл бұрын

    Fighting for the Empire, then assassinating the emperor 👌

  • @DarkThagan

    @DarkThagan

    4 жыл бұрын

    The game felt very post-apocalyptic to me the first time, much more so than FO. Everything seems to be in decline, almost lifeless and most of the cool stuff is tying loose ends from some better times.

  • @ysmirwulfharth4012

    @ysmirwulfharth4012

    4 жыл бұрын

    JollyOldCanuck to be fair. The legion in Skyrim during this specific Civil War consists mostly of Nords who sadly don’t trust magic anymore. You should maybe see 1 or 2 mages but not too many in Skyrim’s Civil War.But yeah overall they shouldn’t have left them out.

  • @Kylesico912x
    @Kylesico912x4 жыл бұрын

    Skyrim is a shallow game. Speaking of Shallow, Raid Shadow Legends...

  • @blankpickle6896

    @blankpickle6896

    4 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful.

  • @Shadethewolfy

    @Shadethewolfy

    4 жыл бұрын

    More like Raid _Shallow_ Legends, amirite?

  • @Wall9.

    @Wall9.

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Shadethewolfy I hate you but also love you

  • @Shadethewolfy

    @Shadethewolfy

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Wall9. Aww, thank you :P

  • @theotherbeatle707

    @theotherbeatle707

    4 жыл бұрын

    I played it for a day after seeing this video. Felt way too much like Contest of Champions but with a less engaging structure and just as pay to win. Not worth it on mobile.

  • @wulfscott6586
    @wulfscott6586 Жыл бұрын

    I always thought it was so funny that even if your the thane in every hold , defeated alduin, are the college of winter holds arch mage , villas always goes “ I’ve never heard of this guy”

  • @ajflink
    @ajflink Жыл бұрын

    Fun Fact: If you equip a pickaxe and strike/attack the ore deposit/vein, you get the ore much faster, which makes blacksmithing more practical.

  • @elite_rock_god2292

    @elite_rock_god2292

    Жыл бұрын

    ..... I hate you.... I hate tod.... I hate eveyone....😂

  • @uioppoouo

    @uioppoouo

    5 ай бұрын

    @@elite_rock_god2292you can also use the shout that makes you attack faster to mine at super speed

  • @elite_rock_god2292

    @elite_rock_god2292

    5 ай бұрын

    @@uioppoouo Wth why aint that part of the guide!? hate you. Hate everyone! 🤣

  • @knoven-

    @knoven-

    4 ай бұрын

    Yeah, but when you did that the ore vein would never respawn, and you can never get resources from it again. :/

  • @ajflink

    @ajflink

    4 ай бұрын

    @@knoven- On unpatched?

  • @thepixelshock
    @thepixelshock4 жыл бұрын

    You forgot one epic faction storyline: the Bards College. You get to... uh... retrieve stuff... from nordic ruins.

  • @saltyshrimppasta

    @saltyshrimppasta

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah they exist. The game would be better if they didn’t

  • @osmosisjones2822

    @osmosisjones2822

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hey I know a much better game.....THE WITCHER 3 ❤

  • @NeroCM

    @NeroCM

    4 жыл бұрын

    "You wanted to learn how to play an instrument? lol why? What do you mean 'why else would I join the bards college'?"

  • @JeffRatliffhome

    @JeffRatliffhome

    4 жыл бұрын

    Saving the Burning of King Olaf festival was one of my favorite parts in the game. Super satisfying.

  • @ZephyrOne832

    @ZephyrOne832

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's a thing?

  • @KiraSlith
    @KiraSlith4 жыл бұрын

    "An extremely shallow experience" >Sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends Was that Irony intentional?

  • @thepublixbandit7032

    @thepublixbandit7032

    4 жыл бұрын

    It was

  • @Yessir470

    @Yessir470

    4 жыл бұрын

    If i was him i would do the same thing regardless of the irony.. Money talks

  • @rallo9635

    @rallo9635

    4 жыл бұрын

    KYB Bro he has to get paid somehow. Like I get where you’re coming from but KZread pays like shit and it’s almost impossible to make any significant amount of money without sponsors

  • @d105uino2

    @d105uino2

    4 жыл бұрын

    @KYB you got some bad experience with garages?

  • @naucs_

    @naucs_

    4 жыл бұрын

    i actually thought it was a joke at first

  • @AlliSinned
    @AlliSinned Жыл бұрын

    I think Joseph Anderson said it best when he said Skyrim is like a shallow but very wide puddle. It may be very basic fun to splash around in it, but there’s still so much to play with.

  • @benrobinson375

    @benrobinson375

    Жыл бұрын

    You could say the about Elder Scrolls games in general, although the depth of the puddle varies. Combat might suck, and there are many mundane quests, but oh you can do so much.

  • @joshf2218

    @joshf2218

    8 ай бұрын

    It’s really not that shallow. In fact it’s incredibly deep in the experience it offers, which is what video games are about. Offering an experience.

  • @ktk44man

    @ktk44man

    6 ай бұрын

    ​​@@joshf2218if Skyrim is incredibly deep to you please play any other game that calls itself an RPG. There are games called "immersive sims" that offer largely linear experiences that manage to have depth that Skyrim cant even get close to offer. Elder scrolls games literally lose depth with each release. Skyrim is the least deep game in it's own series. Skyrim is definitely mindless fun but outside of exploiting potions i dont know how you could get any "depth" out of this game at all. Bethesda design is as surface level as it gets

  • @joshf2218

    @joshf2218

    6 ай бұрын

    @@ktk44man I am playing Kingdom Come Deliverance right now and I stand by what I said.

  • @Orange_Swirl

    @Orange_Swirl

    6 ай бұрын

    Scrutinizing Skyrim more, I'd say Skyrim isn't typically very deep in its main narrative, side quests and how it presents either. Its skill tree system, however, does provide you with the ability to build your character however you please. And its exploration and world design are decent, as its original soundtrack. I'd say Skyrim is more deep than people give it credit for, but ultimately its story isn't winning any awards, and in a game that calls itself an RPG, having a general mediocre story and quests and mediocre presentation and reactivity didn't do it any favors.

  • @Willzb-xk4ew
    @Willzb-xk4ew Жыл бұрын

    Delphine sees a dragon resurrect another dragon Also delphine: its gotta be the thalmor

  • @thomaskirkness-little5809
    @thomaskirkness-little58093 жыл бұрын

    I still think the thieves' guild had bad luck because they discussed all their plans directly under the town's well where everybody could hear them. Then they hired a mute and things turned around.

  • @vassalofthenight9945

    @vassalofthenight9945

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is canon in my head now

  • @RJManette

    @RJManette

    2 жыл бұрын

    Probably coulda picked a better spot for the guild hall honestly

  • @Leaguminati
    @Leaguminati4 жыл бұрын

    I extremely agree with the Dark Brotherhood summary. Oblivion's was dark and sadistic and fucked up. This one barely took itself seriously, was predictable and seemed to just want to play up the big murder of the Emperor like a movie rather than just give you insight and immersion into the sick underworld of paid assassins who revel in the kill.

  • @hunterfogleman7443

    @hunterfogleman7443

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jacob Myers I wouldn’t describe oblivion’s dark brotherhood as dark and sadistic. I felt like it was more cheesy than anything. The killing of Lucian Lachance was definitely an emotional moment, as he was one of the best voiced characters. I was hardly shocked by anything in the questline.

  • @gregoryadams9025

    @gregoryadams9025

    4 жыл бұрын

    Festus's pin cushion of a body takes issue with that.

  • @goodbyejeffery

    @goodbyejeffery

    4 жыл бұрын

    Definitely, while I still think it's good in Skyrim, Oblivion's was much better. Finding out that you had been the one unknowingly killing off members of the Black Hand was a pretty big shock.

  • @Leaguminati

    @Leaguminati

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@hunterfogleman7443 Well, that's on you. I think reading the journal of the traitor with his mothers rotted head on a plate was pretty dark. But, that's your opinion. I found it dark, sadistic, and excellent, you didn't.

  • @Leaguminati

    @Leaguminati

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@gregoryadams9025 I'm not saying Skyrim's Dark Brotherhood didn't have its moments, but I was absolutely enthralled by Oblivion's Dark Brotherhood. Not so much with Skyrim. I still liked it, but it definitely felt like most sequels do. Underwhelming. Although, killing The Emperor is pretty fucking awesome and that whole interaction was great. So, like I said, I didn't dislike it. I just liked Oblivion's better.

  • @marysherrill6918
    @marysherrill6918 Жыл бұрын

    One of the dumbest things in the game was at the beginning all of the prisoners have their hands tied in front. Ulfric could easily remove that gag and shout his way free. There is a loose stone on the wall above where the King's cousin is giving her speech. You can tip it over on her.

  • @jordank4889

    @jordank4889

    6 ай бұрын

    Only good criticism I've seen in a sea of comments of people expecting too much

  • @shilohshush530

    @shilohshush530

    5 ай бұрын

    Nah ong bethesda put bare minimum amount of effort into literally of skyrim features

  • @shilohshush530

    @shilohshush530

    5 ай бұрын

    Combat, quest design, dungeon crawling, dialogue, skill trees. Literally all of it is the minimum level of quality. Its all 'passable' but lacks depth

  • @coryjohnson2486
    @coryjohnson2486 Жыл бұрын

    The game was AMAZING to play like HALF of my first play through. It was so cool having such a massive open world, and it was super cool to discover all of these locations and random things. Then, after you get to the halfway point, you start to realize that the quests are just boring rehashes of previous quests (just dressed up differently). While I did replay it once or twice, there wasn’t really much replay value. Boring, repetitive fetch quests and your choices having no meaning on the world around you ended up making the game very, very shallow. That first half of my first play through was MAGICAL tho- I will say that!

  • @SAMSARALIVEEEEEE

    @SAMSARALIVEEEEEE

    Жыл бұрын

    I’m at that point right now and it feels so sad to me, i thought the game would only get better as my character got stronger and with better gear but it’s the complete opposite. It feels like i’ve discovered everything substantial in this game and there’s still 200 hours of ”content“ left

  • @TheGreatestJediOfAllTime

    @TheGreatestJediOfAllTime

    7 ай бұрын

    @@SAMSARALIVEEEEEEdid you add 600 mods?

  • @scrittle

    @scrittle

    5 ай бұрын

    @@TheGreatestJediOfAllTime The critics here discuss the main game just like the video critiques. I could download a mod that turns all dragons into Thomas the Tank Engine but I'm limited to an XBOX 360, therefore I can only judge the game for vanilla. Besides, nobody here is bashing Modded Skyrim, just vanilla.

  • @zoltanormosi5617
    @zoltanormosi56173 жыл бұрын

    Thieves Guild in Oblivion: - Jobs?! We are thieves not accountants! Go rob a house! Thieves Guild in Skyrim: - Here, complete these 40 radiant jobs.

  • @symphonyofaria

    @symphonyofaria

    3 жыл бұрын

    God fuck those radiant jobs. I literally sat in front of the dude and quick loaded anytime he gave me a job for a hold I already completed

  • @AadetTube

    @AadetTube

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol one of those radiant quests is to forge numbers in ledgers. Roleplaying as an accountant!

  • @27Bayleefs

    @27Bayleefs

    3 жыл бұрын

    Have to agree. I loved Skyrim had a blast when I did my "completionist run" where I did every quest and DLC. But after that there is nothing else. You go to replay it and nothing changes. And the guild quests are boring. I mean let's look at the Thieves guild. You earn you rank doing jobs, you don't just join them and get to do everything you do small jobs earning their trust, you build a rep among them, and then you meet the leader. In Skyrim you join them and they send you automatically on a job that the top members can't beat, you are the golden boy right from the get go. That's my problem with Skyrim, you are treated as a living god in the world, while in Oblivion you earn those ranks and treasure.

  • @bentspoon2879

    @bentspoon2879

    3 жыл бұрын

    I hate radiant jobs in Bethesda games

  • @kenorta56

    @kenorta56

    3 жыл бұрын

    i liked them

  • @kidfox3971
    @kidfox39714 жыл бұрын

    You forgot to mention: They say the Falmer Eyes are the ultimate treasure that will set someone up for life, and they sell for 10,000 gold. You can barely buy a house with that.

  • @sed8181

    @sed8181

    4 жыл бұрын

    Kid Fox they don’t sell for 10k either. Their value is 2500 each. Your speech skill determines how close you can sell it for.

  • @tidescent

    @tidescent

    4 жыл бұрын

    I actually don't have a problem with that. Just because an item is worth a ton of money doesn't mean your local pawn shop is willing or even able to give you what it's worth. I feel the same about Daedric Items. No shopkeep should be able to give me anything close to what they're worth, precisely because they're legendary items crafted by the gods themselves.

  • @tidescent

    @tidescent

    4 жыл бұрын

    It would be cool if there were dialogue to trade treasures and powerful artifacts with the more affluent citizens of Skyrim, such as Maven Blackbriar, the Yarls, or the nobles that hang around Elisif's court.

  • @contentlocked99

    @contentlocked99

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@tidescent Reminds me of the top fence in oblivion sort of. Except it's just an npc who buys stolen goods and doesn't have a lot of depth to it. That's a dismal recurring theme with bethesda games. Lot of interesting content with very little depth... The dark brotherhood in oblivion, blowing up megaton in fallout 3, going into falkreath? blackburrow? whatever the dwemer city is. Those are memorable things from their games.

  • @bartolbusic2447

    @bartolbusic2447

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@contentlocked99 holy shit... blackreach is hands down the best part of skyrim, gotta agree with you

  • @ladymari1
    @ladymari1 Жыл бұрын

    1:28:07 "Temporary Argonian Sits-On-Ground" made me absolutely lose it

  • @GhostOfSnuffles
    @GhostOfSnuffles6 ай бұрын

    Salt in 2020 "I feel like they're done releasing content updates for Skyrim" Todd in 2023 "Did someone say paid mods?"

  • @JJJBunney001

    @JJJBunney001

    6 ай бұрын

    They did that like 5 years ago first so it's not exactly new

  • @ggwp638BC
    @ggwp638BC4 жыл бұрын

    Considering the pattern in Skyrim's sidequests, it's quite surprising you didn't end up as High King of Skyrim by the end of the Civil War questline.

  • @Randleray

    @Randleray

    4 жыл бұрын

    Its because you had done to much work and would be under-ranked as highking...

  • @Uaene

    @Uaene

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Randleray wooosh

  • @Randleray

    @Randleray

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Uaene lol, you utterly messed up, pls try again.

  • @terminator572

    @terminator572

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Uaene Stop this Reddit nonsense.

  • @trinidaddy

    @trinidaddy

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Uaene I think you are the one who is whooshed you absolute vegetable

  • @lovelydovy660
    @lovelydovy6604 жыл бұрын

    I always hated how they make u the leader of EVERYTHING. It makes no sense. They're like" congratulations! U R the leader! "& then u leave & never go back. & I just wonder who's running the place.

  • @MikeVoss

    @MikeVoss

    4 жыл бұрын

    So Oblivion too. But I guess in that game they do give you little reasons to go back.

  • @TuIdiota

    @TuIdiota

    4 жыл бұрын

    I agree it’s dumb, but all of the guilds do at least have a de facto leader or group of leaders for when you’re not there: college of winterhold has Tolfdir, companions have the circle, thieves guild has brynjolf, and the dark brotherhood has nazir

  • @valesmonda22

    @valesmonda22

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TuIdiota What you are saying is completely true, which means there is no point in becoming leader of every guild given there is better people suited for that. That's just for gratification purposes. i did enjoy the thief guild quest line, i think is the only one that gets the point of become sorta leader.

  • @danielyoung6778

    @danielyoung6778

    4 жыл бұрын

    There should be an option where when you get offered you can turn them down or the game looks at your stats and bases the ending on if your character is actually strong enough to justify it. Who wants to be leader of everything honestly beyond people who play for some weird power fantasy.

  • @SwedishEmpire1700

    @SwedishEmpire1700

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not to mention most guild quests are forced up yer bum as soon as you even get near the location, NPC literally run you down (yes ive checked it, they will chase you around) to bumbreach you with their quest.

  • @starhalv2427
    @starhalv2427 Жыл бұрын

    I think the main problem with Skyrim is that you're THE GREAT AND MIGHTY CHOSEN ONE for every faction and their mothers.

  • @cyber1ifeconnor

    @cyber1ifeconnor

    Жыл бұрын

    theres a reason for that lmfao... look up "The Dragon born is Shore"

  • @starhalv2427

    @starhalv2427

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cyber1ifeconnor oh yeah, because it explains exactly why he can speak with a corpse of old lady as the first person in 99999 years. I have no problem with him being the dragonborn, a chosen one capable of killing dragons. It's the fact there is not a single storyline where he's just a person; where he's mundane and relatable.

  • @garythecyclingnerd6219
    @garythecyclingnerd6219 Жыл бұрын

    Totalbuscuit once said “Skyrim is a game as wide as the ocean, with the depth of a puddle” and he was so right.

  • @CALISUPERSPORT

    @CALISUPERSPORT

    Жыл бұрын

    Not even close. Totalbiscuit and Salt Factory are just hypercritical.

  • @garythecyclingnerd6219

    @garythecyclingnerd6219

    Жыл бұрын

    @@CALISUPERSPORT Nah, it’s true for Skyrim. Shallow game mechanics, shallow quests/story telling, reused story arcs, and more. It’s honestly a shame because the greater Elder Scrolls lore is fantastic and they’ve made brilliant quests in Morrowind and Oblivion.

  • @isheetfromaswhole3657

    @isheetfromaswhole3657

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@DanN-nv7kgI've played the game 3 times and I don't remember fetching a single thing. 😅

  • @180treehousegang8

    @180treehousegang8

    8 ай бұрын

    @@isheetfromaswhole3657 then you didn't play the game 3 times your first quest is LITERALLY FETCHING A DRAGONSTONE TABLET FOR FARENGAR; every quest is this, you just don't even realize it.

  • @nightcritterz

    @nightcritterz

    7 ай бұрын

    personally I find splashing in a puddle to be pretty fun. idk, sometimes I don't want to think that hard, I just want to enjoy immersing in the world and doing bs quests that let me explore. its a 13 year old game and when it was new, it hit, and with mods and SE, it still can be fun.

  • @ramymedh
    @ramymedh3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine making a couple pizza deliveries so the pizzashop decides to make you the owner, that's basically Skyrim.

  • @gkdunch

    @gkdunch

    3 жыл бұрын

    more like bethesda games in general

  • @benlev3375

    @benlev3375

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fallout New Vegas doesn't have this issue. You pretty much only lead the battle of Hoover Dam for a faction of your choosing. Every organization in the game treats you as an outsider/savage until you gain enough karma at their side and you very rarely are allowed to join them like the Brotherhood, or work for them. You don't change your entire occupation from courier to lead cannibal at White Glove Society, boss of the Omertas or leader of the Boomers.

  • @azinurrachmanmaulana628

    @azinurrachmanmaulana628

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@benlev3375 Yeah, but then again Bethesda didn't make New Vegas.

  • @eagle0114

    @eagle0114

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@azinurrachmanmaulana628 Too bad that the engine they provided was the gamefetus

  • @horsenuggets1018

    @horsenuggets1018

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dark Brotherhood: the manager becomes so jealous of you she gets Papa John to try and kill you but they instead burn down the restaurant

  • @mushymcmushington7176
    @mushymcmushington71764 жыл бұрын

    "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" was originally going to be called "The Adventures of the Most Important Person in the World: Messiah Emperor Leader Chosen-One of Everything", but it was kind of a mouthful.

  • @SuperNeospace

    @SuperNeospace

    4 жыл бұрын

    And yet on legendary I still get one shot by bandits sometimes.

  • @orionl7406

    @orionl7406

    4 жыл бұрын

    dooby boody i think thats only due to archers and their bow + arrow doing 3x damage

  • @SuperNeospace

    @SuperNeospace

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@orionl7406 Nah bandit chiefs be one tapping me alll the time. Even with armor cap. It's fine, I don't wanna play the game if I can't die. Plus I've added mods to increase difficulty, deadly dragons on insane with 600% health. It takes an eternity to kill fkin dragons. And they do massive dmg. Even with master enchanted gear, magic res cap, armor cap and potions that heal for 500hp. Thunderbolt that does like 800dmg when dual casted, at 0 cost. It still takes me 15 minutes to kill 1 dragon. And it'll take me like 4 tries lmao. Still, the original comments point isn't valid. Stories are inherently about special people. There are billions of stories of people doing normal things, the ones that are told are of jesus, of the messiah, of emperor's. Special people who did special things. Every elder scrolls character is inherently going to be a Jesus character, because that's the point. If you wanna role play as a Joe schmo who hunts all day just to meet ends meat, and never does anything special. The game gives you the liberty to do that too, I have several characters that never join a guild, and spend their entire playthrough hunting, dungeon diving and nothing else. Eventually I retire the playthrough and in my head I say, "They met their end like hundreds before them, without name or story." In my head many of my characters are the dead adventurers you find in Skyrim. They're people who reached for something they couldn't attain because they weren't special enough, sadly.

  • @GreenEyedDazzler

    @GreenEyedDazzler

    4 жыл бұрын

    TrickZ Retz I love you

  • @SuperNeospace

    @SuperNeospace

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TrickZ_Retz No that's not true. You always were the hero god king. Whether they (NPC's) know it or not, is something completely different. And within an hour is dependent on who you are. My first playthrough I didn't become the dragon born for days. It was off to the side quests to start. What's the current Morrowind main quest glitchless speedrun? Oh 31 fuckin minutes that means you can become savior god king in 31 minutes. So idk what your gripe is, in both games becoming god king has to do with your personal pacing.

  • @joeivo911
    @joeivo9118 ай бұрын

    After playing Starfield I feel Skyrim’s writing is amazing.

  • @SaltedPlacenta

    @SaltedPlacenta

    7 ай бұрын

    A monkey with a typewriter could produce more thought provoking dialogue than starfield

  • @tucomeslculo

    @tucomeslculo

    13 күн бұрын

    I don't think you played Starfield if you have this opinion

  • @joeivo911

    @joeivo911

    12 күн бұрын

    @@tucomeslculo I played for 200 hrs. Didn’t like it. I will try it again with the dlc

  • @Ralwor
    @Ralwor Жыл бұрын

    11:00 It was literally an afterthought: Bethesda patched "Ledgendary" stat resets after people complained that the game had a level cap. The level cap was patched out and the Legendary system was injected.

  • @Shadethewolfy

    @Shadethewolfy

    4 ай бұрын

    which is weird, because Morrowind and Oblivion also had a level cap :/

  • @user-ev5fp7mk7i

    @user-ev5fp7mk7i

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@Shadethewolfy Morrowind and Oblivion had a different levelling system entirely that used attributes instead of perks. The amount you could raise per level was determined by how many skills you raised prior to levelling up, meaning it was still possible to max out all attributes even with the level cap. Skyrim, on the other hand, uses perks points for its levelling, and the amount of perk points you get per level is always fixed at one point. Since there are far more than 81 possible perks, it is impossible to max out your character.

  • @Shadethewolfy

    @Shadethewolfy

    Ай бұрын

    @@user-ev5fp7mk7i Right, right. Yeah, you're right there.

  • @TheStoneyJackson
    @TheStoneyJackson4 жыл бұрын

    The audible sigh before he has to promote Raid is priceless

  • @Ecliptor.

    @Ecliptor.

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, just skip the ad and let em have that dough tbh.

  • @JoseSilva-ht8es

    @JoseSilva-ht8es

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Ecliptor. if everyone 'skips' the ad, raid will stop sponsoring salt, since hes not making them any money. Edit: you support salt by clicking his link in the discription and installing the game through there. ofc if you install by the app store, raid won't know who was the youtuber that sent you, thus that is why there is a link in every sponsored youtubers discription. That's why if everyone skips salts 'ad', raid will know to stop sponsoring him, cause no-one used his link...

  • @diego2fuego869

    @diego2fuego869

    4 жыл бұрын

    meatwad sevenup how tf they gonna know

  • @theccarbiter

    @theccarbiter

    4 жыл бұрын

    I laughed so hard when he transitioned into it

  • @UltaFlame

    @UltaFlame

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@diego2fuego869 youtube tracks what portion of each video is watched - youtubers can tell when you skip the end card, for example

  • @HiddenGhul
    @HiddenGhul3 жыл бұрын

    When you said the speech system sucks I honestly struggled to even remember there was one

  • @haruhirogrimgar6047

    @haruhirogrimgar6047

    3 жыл бұрын

    I just remember them taking out Oblivion's Speech system and nothing else.

  • @EmperorSigismund

    @EmperorSigismund

    3 жыл бұрын

    Skyrim's speech system only exists as a meme.

  • @iwams1

    @iwams1

    3 жыл бұрын

    This just shows how much you played the game, bot.

  • @theotherbeatle707

    @theotherbeatle707

    3 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely love the skill-based speech system for Oblivion. That and the lockpicking were so addicting and challenging I had to unpick every door or talk to every person just to see how fast I could do it

  • @falcononpc9845

    @falcononpc9845

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@iwams1 Show's how shitty and forgettable the speech system is, idiot. Almost non-existent.

  • @MCLefka
    @MCLefka5 ай бұрын

    What broke me on Skyrim was second 100% playthrough, in that there is basically no replay value. If you 100% the game(do all quests, collect all the named legendary weapons etc) there is 0 reason to do it again. Choices make no difference. Siding with one faction or the other doesnt really matter. While skyrim is great on a surface level, if you look even half an inch deeper you can see just how bare bones the game really is.

  • @buuf456
    @buuf456 Жыл бұрын

    I like Skyrim derpy stuff. Watching village fighting dragon is so much fun. Some drunkard from tavern rushes at beast with war cry "never should have come here"

  • @zizara4215
    @zizara42154 жыл бұрын

    The nightingale section of the thieves guild drove me mad for how little sense it makes and how little you get out of it - sure, let me just trade my literal god soul for an eternity of service and the ability to be a little bit sneakier.

  • @wumbosaurus9121

    @wumbosaurus9121

    4 жыл бұрын

    You get sum fukin sick armour out of it though

  • @MorganYou

    @MorganYou

    4 жыл бұрын

    To be fair, that's pretty much every daedra interaction in skyrim. Minus the extra sneakiness

  • @AaronTheWolfos

    @AaronTheWolfos

    4 жыл бұрын

    Akatosh has the DB's soul on lockdown though. Daedra can say that they own your soul but at the end of the day you are still Akatosh's.

  • @MisterMoray

    @MisterMoray

    4 жыл бұрын

    I dunno, Shadowcloak of Nocturnal is pretty broken with a dagger build.

  • @joneaeaeeaeh9325

    @joneaeaeeaeh9325

    4 жыл бұрын

    If you dont complete it fully the skeleton key is an unbreakable lockpick.

  • @MegaMoxie
    @MegaMoxie4 жыл бұрын

    “The best way to avoid a tornado is to run directly at it in a display of dominance.” I finally understand why storm chasers exist

  • @PEARLSTOTHEPLAYERS

    @PEARLSTOTHEPLAYERS

    4 жыл бұрын

    and they're absolute chads for asserting dominance against those pussy ass tornadoes

  • @babyboomer6272

    @babyboomer6272

    4 жыл бұрын

    HELL YEA MY NIGGA!!!

  • @goodbyejeffery

    @goodbyejeffery

    4 жыл бұрын

    I was in one of the worst parts of a Hurricane Michael, a category 5 when it hit Florida last October. I can confirm that the 200mph winds stopped when I just went outside and t-posed.

  • @Nightweaver1

    @Nightweaver1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Make sure you T-pose as well.

  • @cynicaltheastrocreep4504

    @cynicaltheastrocreep4504

    4 жыл бұрын

    He should make one of these for fallout new Vegas (as good as I remember?)

  • @ChrissieBear
    @ChrissieBear Жыл бұрын

    The Glenmoril Witches were actually NPCs in Morrowind, and weren't just enemies. Sad that in Skyrim they were just enemies.

  • @TheGreatestJediOfAllTime

    @TheGreatestJediOfAllTime

    7 ай бұрын

    You never get to talk to like enemy type characters in bethesda games, ever since fallout 3 every encounter with an enemy ends up with you just killing them. No persuasion to settle things peacefully, no branching paths with different outcomes.

  • @scrittle

    @scrittle

    5 ай бұрын

    The one exemption is the witch lady you marry in the sanguine rose daedra quest, but you kill her too. A fine quest, however it felt far too "lol so random".

  • @Biodebatable
    @Biodebatable Жыл бұрын

    If the thieves guild ultimate heist happened in like the palace of kings/ the blue palace, instead of yet another cavern, I would be totally okay with it's storyline. The companions needed way more meat to them, the fighter's guild vs Blackwood company shows that a merc guild can be interesting. You could've had a traitor selling info to the silverhand about certain quests that the inner circle members were taking, picking off a few only for you to intervene as an unknown tagalong on one.

  • @readuth1488
    @readuth14883 жыл бұрын

    The entire Skyrim community is just like "This game is awful, 10/10" (Edit): Not to say there's anything wrong with that, I love this game, but this video brings up a lot of valid points.

  • @EP_mc

    @EP_mc

    3 жыл бұрын

    🎯

  • @waterfilledglass

    @waterfilledglass

    3 жыл бұрын

    This kind of content reminds me of how fun fishing is on runescape

  • @smoovy211

    @smoovy211

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@waterfilledglass ...

  • @sadierift1201

    @sadierift1201

    3 жыл бұрын

    hahahahahahahahhahahahXD

  • @yourfriendlyneighbourhoodl6206

    @yourfriendlyneighbourhoodl6206

    3 жыл бұрын

    -_- Well not really, this video is full of contradictions

  • @louiscipher2939
    @louiscipher29393 жыл бұрын

    Playing Skyrim feels like enlisting in the U.S. Navy and becoming a 4 star Admiral straight out of boot camp.

  • @henryviiifake8244

    @henryviiifake8244

    3 жыл бұрын

    Except _you_ are the US Navy.

  • @fariszakimy

    @fariszakimy

    3 жыл бұрын

    One day you're learning the layout of the ship, next day that same ship is yours to control

  • @swishfish8858

    @swishfish8858

    3 жыл бұрын

    That would be super awesome if it meant anything. Instead it's essentially the end of your career. It's more like enlisting, becoming a four-star Admiral right out of bootcamp, and then going on inactive duty for a few weeks before ultimately retiring. Like how cool would it be if you could, say, summon mages or assassins to help you in combat? Or get special persuasion options in dialog based on the faction you now control? Or had some extra sidequests to help restore each faction to its former glory? And this might be ambitious, but what if you could only join one faction at a time and you could take part in some kind of power struggle between the other factions? Just, if Bethesda is gonna make it that easy to become a guild leader, at least make it an early part of the guild experience, not its endgame for god's sake.

  • @bailechuind6194

    @bailechuind6194

    3 жыл бұрын

    i remember like 5 battles where youre literally a warm body.......you dont even have to let them know your the dragonborn....

  • @michellamoureuxm

    @michellamoureuxm

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you wanna see what happens when that happens. Check out Mr Ballens military mistakes 4. It's a fuckin treat

  • @jesush7662
    @jesush76627 ай бұрын

    Yes it is shallow. And yet, I'm playing it this year again. MODS AND ALL!!!!!

  • @scrittle

    @scrittle

    5 ай бұрын

    Honestly, no. Oblivion mods can't compare to Skyrim's. Morrowind I don't know, but its mods aren't as innovative either.

  • @anon1963

    @anon1963

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@carringtondalemods make skyrim the best tho

  • @OzzyOsbourneFan999
    @OzzyOsbourneFan999 Жыл бұрын

    In regards to the Thieves Guild radiant quests. 5 in each city for mechants and becoming the leader. But then if you ACTUALLY wanna do all the guild has to do you have to do 125 to unlock all the trophies on the shelf and finally a safe near the desk. You could also spice it up with the well loved "No Stone Unturned" quest as it is somewhat part of the guild's quests.

  • @Dmobley9901
    @Dmobley99014 жыл бұрын

    Maven Black Briar: If you cross me, I'll call the Dark Brotherhood. Me, arch-mage of the college of Winterhold, Harbinger of Companions, upcoming member of the Thieves Guild, Thane of most of the holds in Skyrim, AND the Listener/somewhat leader of the very guild she's trying to threaten me with: Ok. Seriously, in my opinion the most irritating part of Skyrim is that you can literally be the most capable, the most respected, and the most influential person in the entire country, and yet people are still like "Who the fuck are you and why should I care?" Maven Black Briar? More like Maybe Bitch Fry-her.

  • @Shadethewolfy

    @Shadethewolfy

    4 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if there's a mod that actually addresses that. I mean, it's cool if there is, but it kind of also sucks if there is. Cause that's yet another thing the fans had to create to make Skyrim more tolerable for those gamers who prefer the way Morrowind did guild interractions. Hell, I think Oblivion did it too?

  • @Nelafix

    @Nelafix

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Shadethewolfy there's a reputation mod out there.

  • @Shadethewolfy

    @Shadethewolfy

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Nelafix I will need to look into this.

  • @thomaskirkness-little5809

    @thomaskirkness-little5809

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Hey, you're that person who saved the entire world! Can you get my shopping for me?"

  • @trey6555

    @trey6555

    4 жыл бұрын

    i mean, the only people that know you are in the dark brotherhood is the dark brotherhood

  • @HolyApplebutter
    @HolyApplebutter3 жыл бұрын

    One detail I love about the Daedric Skyrim quests is how each one seems to claim ownership over your soul in some way. So I imagine the moment the Dragonborn dies all the Daedric gods immediately dogpile him like Black Friday shoppers.

  • @jennacarlson9763

    @jennacarlson9763

    2 жыл бұрын

    True

  • @Xyphyri

    @Xyphyri

    2 жыл бұрын

    I always figured they’d each take a dragon soul or two and call it a day

  • @bucketofdicks4096

    @bucketofdicks4096

    2 жыл бұрын

    They'd be disappointed. As Dragonborn, your soul is a piece of Akatosh himself. The Daedra would have no claim.

  • @therandomartist3201

    @therandomartist3201

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bucketofdicks4096 yeah, it’s presented in a theory that since you are a bit of him, he claims you and what being would try to fight him, a dragon of time. None, that’s the answer. Personally I like the idea that the dragonborn can walk between all the realms he or she belongs to and therefore belongs to no one, having artifacts and powers from all these godly beings making him or her strong enough to resist any single pull of a god.

  • @user-et8vm9cc3t

    @user-et8vm9cc3t

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bucketofdicks4096 Indeed. Not even Sithis. Which I find a bit odd since you can do all of these quests, "serve" all of these gods and do all that nefarious shit but you (or rather, your soul) suffers no consequence somehow.

  • @calibursatsujin3112
    @calibursatsujin31126 ай бұрын

    ‘I think I took a weird path’ no you didn’t, the giant just dies if you aren’t on a high enough difficulty

  • @omnibusprimephd7914
    @omnibusprimephd7914 Жыл бұрын

    My first ever playthrough of this I ended up doing the golden claw quest on my way to whiterun, which gives you the stone ofc. So when farengar asked me to go get the stone I was like "oh you mean this one?" And it felt so weird

  • @dajjukunrama5695

    @dajjukunrama5695

    9 ай бұрын

    Lol antifa degenerate from America

  • @jordank4889

    @jordank4889

    6 ай бұрын

    I'm playing skyrim for the first time and did the same thing just recently. I thought it was neat, whats weird about it?

  • @jankonecny9557
    @jankonecny95574 жыл бұрын

    "werewolf" in my language is "vlkodlak" -- when I met Kodlak first time in in the game, I immediately knew, that that guy was a werewolf :D

  • @HansLandaNaranja

    @HansLandaNaranja

    4 жыл бұрын

    I've heard that many of the companions' names mean werewolf in different slavic languages lol.

  • @thephantomoftheparadise5666

    @thephantomoftheparadise5666

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bethesda wasn't being very subtle with the naming I guess.

  • @ragelimit3500

    @ragelimit3500

    4 жыл бұрын

    Vilkas also means wolf so that was suspicious as hell then I played

  • @unsweeteneddoll

    @unsweeteneddoll

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@thephantomoftheparadise5666 Bethesda naming is absolutely wild. They tried to give scandinavian sounding names to nords in Oblivion. One woman is named "skjorta" which is literally just the Swedish word for "shirt."

  • @thephantomoftheparadise5666

    @thephantomoftheparadise5666

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@unsweeteneddoll It's like they don't know what the internet is or something. They could have easily found names if they had put in any effort.

  • @rachels1778
    @rachels17783 жыл бұрын

    My first time doing the Dark Brotherhood quest I actually activated it by accident. I thought Grelod was such a bitch I killed her without Aventus even asking, when the letter came I was SO SCARED

  • @I_Cunt_Spell

    @I_Cunt_Spell

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @katlowell8519

    @katlowell8519

    2 жыл бұрын

    SAME, I was just trolling riften and figured a lord of the flies style orphanage was better than whatever she was peddling

  • @tagreenroyd

    @tagreenroyd

    2 жыл бұрын

    And then I got angry and ended Astrid.

  • @BasileosHerodou

    @BasileosHerodou

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tagreenroyd based

  • @GhostLink92

    @GhostLink92

    2 жыл бұрын

    ...you can skip meeting Aventus?

  • @protojager
    @protojager13 күн бұрын

    Honestly i like the opening of the Dark Brotherhood, Astrid didn't care who you killed, it was a test to see if you would kill on command.

  • @xxXXRAPXXxx
    @xxXXRAPXXxx Жыл бұрын

    I always KEK my sides out when i remember people saying in reviews of Skyrim that it is "THE BEST, MOST IN DEPTH RPG EVER MADE" MY FUCKING SIDES.

  • @austinbevis4266
    @austinbevis42662 жыл бұрын

    I remember killing the emperor and felt like it was going to have a game altering impact, but it did absolutely nothing outside of the dark brotherhood story line.

  • @elite_rock_god2292

    @elite_rock_god2292

    Жыл бұрын

    So stupid. In reality this changes EVERYTHING in like all The questslines yet in The game it dont end up to jackshit. Its dumb

  • @thesteelrodent1796

    @thesteelrodent1796

    Жыл бұрын

    @Dyl it's not like you see a single sign of that rebellion unless you mod the hell out of the game

  • @shida5320

    @shida5320

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thesteelrodent1796 ngl mods kept this game going for me. without mods, i don't think i'd play skyrim

  • @-Coded

    @-Coded

    Жыл бұрын

    Same, but then I remembered playing Fallout 3 and Oblivion and realized this isn't a CDPR, BioWare, or Interplay game. Skyrim and Fallout 4 can be pretty fun when you plummet your expectations for an RPG experience while playing.

  • @-Coded

    @-Coded

    Жыл бұрын

    @DillsyYourDaddy67 "radiant ai" "16x the detail" "your choices matter"

  • @danielrogers7378
    @danielrogers73784 жыл бұрын

    I always found it annoying that you can literally become the head of both organizations that Maven invokes to keep people in line and she still treats you like crap.

  • @conanthefan101

    @conanthefan101

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ikr, which is why I killed her and then the people around me even started clapping

  • @danielrogers7378

    @danielrogers7378

    4 жыл бұрын

    ConanTheFan wait is she not essential?

  • @conanthefan101

    @conanthefan101

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@danielrogers7378 apparently not or perhaps she is until you haven't finished her quest

  • @toasterproductions3733

    @toasterproductions3733

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@conanthefan101 maybe you have a mod cause she is in fact essential

  • @vvaveave

    @vvaveave

    4 жыл бұрын

    in character for her to be honest lmao

  • @gregorynewsome9711
    @gregorynewsome97117 ай бұрын

    When he said he thought we was done receiving content for Skyrim. Bethesda is never done with this beaten horse

  • @EliteValor1003
    @EliteValor10032 ай бұрын

    Salt: "Im pretty sure Skyrim has finished getting updates" 2024: "If only you knew" lol

  • @mikevandooyeweert2092
    @mikevandooyeweert20922 жыл бұрын

    I still think it's weird that you become a bard at the bard's college by doing fetch quests, without ever learning to play an instrument.

  • @soon_to_emerge

    @soon_to_emerge

    2 жыл бұрын

    It would be nice if at the very least we could become some music historian and unlock a big collection of songs and stories to collect through all of Skyrim.

  • @keaganmon6272

    @keaganmon6272

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@soon_to_emerge or add a music mini game

  • @bigbloo9322

    @bigbloo9322

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@keaganmon6272 that would have been an awesome thing to add to the anniversary edition, or just in the cc in general, cus an addition like that will be treated the way fishing did lmao.

  • @-megawolf-805

    @-megawolf-805

    2 жыл бұрын

    I really get the impression that there was supposed to be more the the bard's college, and that there were supposed to be playable instruments, but the devs just ran out of time.

  • @dumplingdisaster9860

    @dumplingdisaster9860

    2 жыл бұрын

    I wish they’d made a dragon shout for a dragonborn bard. It would have been DO REI ME

  • @Damian-vo8wf
    @Damian-vo8wf4 жыл бұрын

    They are really doing anything to push that 10 minute mark in videos these days.

  • @averyjackblack7420

    @averyjackblack7420

    4 жыл бұрын

    I know, they're getting desperate

  • @soumyadeepbanerjee964

    @soumyadeepbanerjee964

    4 жыл бұрын

    XD

  • @nhall129

    @nhall129

    4 жыл бұрын

    Seriously, now theyre even trying to do detailed analysis to hit the 10 min mark Talk about lazy

  • @kingdavey90

    @kingdavey90

    4 жыл бұрын

    For real, this video could have easily been 9 minutes, but he stretched it.

  • @clutchracing2624

    @clutchracing2624

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@AFatOcelot bro, sarcasm..... learn some..

  • @gordonneverdies
    @gordonneverdies9 ай бұрын

    Fighting the Blackwater Company in Oblivion was epic. And the final quest for the Thieves Guild... Oh man. It was very immersive. Escaping with the Boots of Springheel Jack was so memorable.

  • @have_a_good_day420

    @have_a_good_day420

    8 ай бұрын

    Oblivion is such a goated game

  • @louisminati

    @louisminati

    5 ай бұрын

    Remember going in the painting a fighting a bunch of trolls? Or the quest where you had to go off the map find a hidden dungeon ? Where were moments like this?

  • @scrittle

    @scrittle

    5 ай бұрын

    @@louisminati Dude the painting was my favourite quest! To be fair, Skyrim does have great quests too, unfortunately you need to go out of your way to find them.

  • @lc4n333

    @lc4n333

    4 ай бұрын

    Oblivion still sucks at scaling enemies but the guild quests are the best, even compare to Morrowind.

  • @evelynsahoe8896
    @evelynsahoe88967 ай бұрын

    In New Vegas killing Mr. House gives you the option to take his place and wield a robot army akin to the separatists in Star Wars. Killing the Emperor of Skyrim gives you gold and some radiant guard dialogue talking about his death/rise of the brotherhood... doesn't lock you out of joining the Legion or effect the Civil War whatsoever. All of Skyrim's stories and quests operate in their own bubble with almost no connection or reactivity weaved between them.

  • @Deoxys_Used_Mimic
    @Deoxys_Used_Mimic4 жыл бұрын

    Saying RAID: Shadow Legends is the 3rd highest ranked in the Google Store is like saying cancer is the 3rd most efficient way to die.

  • @javierdieguez1801

    @javierdieguez1801

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol x10000

  • @Oldentide

    @Oldentide

    4 жыл бұрын

    Chinese rating farms my dude, I can assure you 90 percent of those ratings were bought.

  • @lll9107

    @lll9107

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dude, just download Raid. JUST. DO. IT.

  • @FervantTwo8

    @FervantTwo8

    4 жыл бұрын

    I k on now people who’ve died. From cancer and I laughed anyway it’s funny when you do it right 😂

  • @jeromembeche8907

    @jeromembeche8907

    4 жыл бұрын

    Read between the lines ...

  • @alexcducati76
    @alexcducati763 жыл бұрын

    “She walks with the speed of two snails pushing three snails” - I died.

  • @ericwalsh2954
    @ericwalsh2954 Жыл бұрын

    One thing I found that made skyrim feel deeper as a new gamer but shallow as I matured, was that all the locations are accessible. You could walk through a dungeon and just hit a point you can't pass because you never started a quest, or worse finish it and then have to come back 10 mins later and find one item in one chest

  • @Shadethewolfy

    @Shadethewolfy

    4 ай бұрын

    While in Morrowind, because every quest item in the game is manually placed in the world (well, with the exception of one: The Bone-Biter Bow is carried by the Wraith at the end of the Caverns but the wraith is set to always spawn anyway) you can, if you're willing to venture into high-level areas, completely sequence break a LOT of the quests. If you enter some dungeons early enough, the enemies will even be different because you haven't triggered the quests that spawn them (with the exception of the Wraith of Suul Senipul, of course. And I assume the Ash Vampire that holds Sunder.)| Morrowind sequence breaking is WILD.

  • @ZergrushEddie
    @ZergrushEddie4 ай бұрын

    I never liked the early decision between running with the Stormcloaks or the Legion. Firstly, if you are not familiar with the other games/lore you will have no idea what the hell a Legion is but Stormcloaks are rebels so you get the idea quickly. Secondly, the choice is not between The Man and The Rebels; the choice is between "we literally just tried to kill you after acknowledging that you were innocent" and "hey, remember us from the back of the execution cart?" I know the choice is completely unimportant but I always felt that going the Legion at the beginning is so breathtakingly dumb, like the Dragonborn is just going to be asking Hadvar "is it my turn on the block yet?"

  • @Mir0v0i

    @Mir0v0i

    Ай бұрын

    It's dumb, and, like most things in Skyrim, it doesn't matter in the least, as you can join whatever side afterwards that you wish

  • @CharlesOwens04
    @CharlesOwens043 жыл бұрын

    The difference between Morrowind and Skyrim's approaches to player freedom is basically thus: *Morrowind* Player: I kill Vivec Game: Huh. Alright, here's what happens... *Skyrim* Player: I kill Ulfric Game: NO, you CAN'T kill Ulfric! I have a whole story about him and you have to care about it!

  • @someguyinahotdogsuit9641

    @someguyinahotdogsuit9641

    3 жыл бұрын

    The best part of killing vivec is that theres still a way around doing the main quest, albeit it's kinda cheese anyway. But still, you could still do it. Which makes it feel as open as table top. Which is a good thing.

  • @grease6921

    @grease6921

    3 жыл бұрын

    That’s what I loved about Fallout New Vegas: you could literally just kill anyone you want, and the game adapted and changed according to what you did. It made the role playing feel so much more free

  • @AdamOwenBrowning

    @AdamOwenBrowning

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@grease6921 You have a lot more freedom in making people expendable, but Fallout: New Vegas is rendered unable to end if you kill "anyone you want" with some NPCs like Yes Man respawning. This is why "Kill Everyone" runs/speedruns done for New Vegas tally up the number of kills, or the number of kills on named, non-essential characters. Because you cannot kill everyone and complete the game.

  • @SaSPonchICo

    @SaSPonchICo

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AdamOwenBrowning iirc Yes Man is the only NPC who is essential, but you still can kill his bodies. He just has an in game explanation to why he respawns so it's less cheese than typical essential tag stuff. Were there more NPCs in NV that are impossible to kill?

  • @psychodrummer1567

    @psychodrummer1567

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SaSPonchICo I think he referred to children.

  • @theowinters6314
    @theowinters63144 жыл бұрын

    I still love the fact that I managed to do the whole mages guild quest line without ever actually casting a single spell. Yep, totally earned being Arch-mage there.

  • @simonshephard3834

    @simonshephard3834

    4 жыл бұрын

    Did you do it the Ymfah way, or you cast spells to get through certain areas.(like the fire/frost barriers?)

  • @theowinters6314

    @theowinters6314

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@simonshephard3834 If a spell was 100% needed, I stuck to using staffs. By the time the quest line was done, the stat screen still said I never cast a spell.

  • @simonshephard3834

    @simonshephard3834

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@theowinters6314 Well, just want to recommend ymfah's no spell college run(no using or even learning spell or staves what so ever except for Staff of Magnus.) kzread.info/dash/bejne/amiE1619hsWah7w.html

  • @danielyoung6778

    @danielyoung6778

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same my big bruiser of a Nord just wandered in and hacked everything to death without any spell beyond plot necessary ones that I actually didn't even know I had. I was laughing when they suggested my guy get the job and it's the greatest proof that these guild quests always making you the leader is an absolute joke.

  • @eljesser3418

    @eljesser3418

    4 жыл бұрын

    You should really check out morrowind's mage guilds it was the longest quest line i have ever had. First you need high enough skill in certain skills to rank up in the guild. Second is the near 50-75 quest you have to complete. Last of all if i remember right you have a very hard challenge at the end when you become guildmaster

  • @riemaennchen
    @riemaennchen10 ай бұрын

    Ordinator Perks is one of my Must Have Mods for Skyrim. I wouldn't even think about starting it without that Mod.

  • @Osafune2
    @Osafune29 ай бұрын

    Playing Skyrim in 2011 blew my mind. Playing it in 2023 makes me realise just how bad the writing is, not that the game is completely without merit. They focus so much on a big, beautiful world to explore and forget to make any quest or faction motivations make sense or any decisions have any consequence

  • @FrostyMac
    @FrostyMac3 жыл бұрын

    the issue with Skyrim’s guilds is Todd Howard’s game design philosophy of trying to make the player feel as powerful as possible as quickly as possible. that’s why you become the guild leader so quickly, and it’s why every guild has some kind of supernatural spiritual destiny shit. the stories are rushed in order to make you leader and force gods and magic into places they shouldn’t be, creating an environment where no questline can have its own personality, or storylines that fit

  • @inderet4118

    @inderet4118

    3 жыл бұрын

    Playing the skyrim guild quests gave me a taste of what living with impostor syndrome is like

  • @Donnerbalken28

    @Donnerbalken28

    3 жыл бұрын

    It also produces a weird mental whiplash as a sideeffect. Like, i can leave Helgen, go to Whiterun, haven't even killed my first Dragon yet, take the carriage to Winterhold because i want to be a mage. 2 hours later, your scrawny little scrub PC who has just reached Level 10 and dies when that Bandit over there looks at him funny is made the Archmage of the College for no particular reason other than that your predeccessor suddenly died and your superiors, who by all accounts would have a much more rightful claim to that position, eat the biggest humblepie in the cosmos. It just doesn't make any sense, even when you take all the sidecontent into account. It makes roleplaying as anything but a sellsword completely impossible (oh, the irony). The biggest tragedy about Skyrim to me is that the really interesting stuff is hidden away, almost as if the developers were a bit ashamed of it or bullied by someone to make it less accessible.

  • @NiSE_Rafter

    @NiSE_Rafter

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well thieves guild at least makes you do all those city influence quests so at least it takes a bit of time so it feels like you've done a decent amount for them. Dark brotherhood, nightingale, and especially College of Winterhold though definitely just plopped the titlee into your lap. Like hello? I don't even have enough magika to cast an expert level spell why am I the fancy archmage? The only magic that was required was the atronach to enter. Pew pew or hack and slash for the rest works just fine.

  • @andrerossel8394

    @andrerossel8394

    2 жыл бұрын

    it actually make sense. its a mind breaker all that stuff you have to do on oblivion to figure it out how to be powerful on a world when usually monster are stronger than you.

  • @jonasvogel3672

    @jonasvogel3672

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's also what makes this game so appealing to many, because this design allows for a really effortless gameplay loop. There is no struggle (unless you choose to up the difficulty which makes everyone hit harder and yourself hit less hard), at any moment you can just press on without having to give a shit about HOW you wanna play. You just do whatever you want, and you'll succeed. It's incredibly convenient and you really don't ever alienate the broader audience, because you can still enjoy it as long as you turn off your brain. It's basically the sitcom of gaming. You just sit there and relax. It's just a product that isn't meant for players to truly engage with, and that sucks for those who would love to have more depth in a game that has so much potential.

  • @TheguyfromJurassicpark3
    @TheguyfromJurassicpark34 жыл бұрын

    I remember someone named Eirid sent hired thugs after me. So after I killed them I went on my longest witch hunt ever to find this person. After three days of searching I made my way to winterhold and to my surprise it turns out that Eirid is a little girl. A little fucking girl sent hired thugs after me because I stole three peices of gold from her parents inn ten in game days ago. Then when I confront her, what does she say "There's not many people left in Winterhold, so I only have Assur to play with, and sometimes he's mean." The rain of hell fire that went down on that village that night can only be compared to the anger that Serana probably felt when I gave Harkon that bow.

  • @ryphish4924

    @ryphish4924

    4 жыл бұрын

    I would've went back to the parents inn and just ended them

  • @proudpapaprick

    @proudpapaprick

    4 жыл бұрын

    Makes you wish you could burn buildings down.

  • @jayhumphreys1912

    @jayhumphreys1912

    4 жыл бұрын

    Derrick Parham ju

  • @newnamesameperson397

    @newnamesameperson397

    4 жыл бұрын

    Killable children mod exists so you know

  • @margaretthatcher8246

    @margaretthatcher8246

    4 жыл бұрын

    Always fun killing the kids parents then adopting them, killing their pets and telling them to do chores for the rest of their lives while I prance aroud the house with their parents as undead thralls.

  • @marekcarlisle6937
    @marekcarlisle69377 ай бұрын

    the salt factory has become my favorite bedtime listen. i've watched/listened to this video over a dozen times now, along with all other of this content.

  • @Lucky13Ravens
    @Lucky13Ravens4 ай бұрын

    With the Dark Bortherhood. There were multiple times where 'Kill Astrid the pretender.' is the intelligent and logical tuing to do. 1. When you become listener and she sends you out again. No pretender, I answer to the Night Mother not you. 2. When she tells you to X Cicero. Haha no traitor, thanks for the confirmation you are in fact an enemy of the Brotherhood.

  • @hideousruin
    @hideousruin2 жыл бұрын

    I get so effing ønnoyed with how rude people are to the Dragonborn even after they know who you are. You can be high level and wearing top tier armor and wielding obviously enchanted weapons and be capable of killing the entire city you're in - and the village drunk will still talk to you like you're a scrub in rags wielding a pointy stick. Now that's what I call immersion.

  • @MysteriumArcanum

    @MysteriumArcanum

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hell, IIRC The Companions still treat you like crap even after you become the Harbinger.

  • @Lavmdmv09

    @Lavmdmv09

    2 жыл бұрын

    I love the mod that fixes this. By far made the entire game SO much better. Sad someone had to create a mod for this though

  • @ackthegreat6697

    @ackthegreat6697

    2 жыл бұрын

    "ønnoyed"

  • @lgk9589

    @lgk9589

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Lavmdmv09 whats the name?

  • @rpfp4838

    @rpfp4838

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lgk9589 reputation

  • @benjaf1058
    @benjaf10584 жыл бұрын

    I like the goofy Dark Brotherhood. It’s almost symbolic of how much they’ve fallen out of relevancy to the point where even the members don’t take what they do seriously

  • @gptechnologiesmangalore6909

    @gptechnologiesmangalore6909

    4 жыл бұрын

    Skyrims dark brotherhood shows how from ashes they reach back to thier glory From ashes to glory

  • @HalfInsaneOutdoorGuy

    @HalfInsaneOutdoorGuy

    4 жыл бұрын

    until you talk to them...

  • @ZorotheGallade

    @ZorotheGallade

    4 жыл бұрын

    DANNY DE VITO as Babette

  • @OhNightfall

    @OhNightfall

    3 жыл бұрын

    It’s a metaphor for Bethesda

  • @jacksmith3148

    @jacksmith3148

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think that's actually just Bethesda writing being dogshit. You can see it in the individual characters, like Babette using her vampire powers to seduce men to kill them (which also justifies it because they're pedophiles... even though her magical vampire powers make them into pedophiles in the first place) or the fact that no Argonians are born in October anymore apparently. Plus it can't be too dark or it'd be morally grey, or even make the player feel like a bad guy! No no, you have to target bad guys yourself and be a bunch of happy jokers so you don't feel bad about being an evil assassin. The Dark Brotherhood only ever killed bandit leaders and slave traders, right?

  • @diamondhamster4320
    @diamondhamster43209 ай бұрын

    Oblivion is 100 times dumbed down Morrowind. Skyrim is 100 times dumbed down Oblivion. So, math checks out.

  • @joshuakim5240
    @joshuakim5240 Жыл бұрын

    There's one thing that, the more that i think about it, really goes to highlight how shoddily and lazily written Skyrim is as a story: Alduin and the dragons have zero effect on anything other than a couple of throwaway lines. Nearly every quest goes the same way to the point where if the dragons were removed, very little would actually change. Surprisingly little, in fact. Hell, Alduin is such an inconsequential threat that ignoring him is generally considered to be the most entertaining way to play the game because he neither does, says, nor interacts with anything of any relevance. Fighting him is also weird because the whole point is to prevent him from eating the world, but he didn't even want to do that until the player teams up with his brother to beat him into getting salty enough to finally try so he's actually not doing what everyone wants him to not do. In other words, Alduin is of no threat. And that could have been a VERY interesting story premise. What if Alduin was a morally grey character who refused to eat the world for its proper reset all those millennia ago due to, i don't know, loving the world he inhabited and thinking that it didn't deserve to be erased? What if he was resurrecting the dragons to just revive his extinct race with no plans of domination, and a twist of the main story would be that a huge chunk of people's assumptions about him were just plain wrong? Imagine if there was some kind of stagnation going on due to the world not having been reset for too long, and that the story was about forcing Alduin to do his fated job or else Tamriel would stagnate and rot to the point where another kalpa cycle couldn't happen. Initially this stagnation would be blamed as part of Alduin's return, only to later find out that Alduin is actually the cure to this but said cure is existence itself being reset as Alduin's lore foretells. What if Paarthurnax throughout his countless years of meditation realized that Alduin was needed for Tamriel to be reborn properly for the new cycle to flourish, and the player's path could choose either fighting a soul-starved Alduin like in the current game, or fighting Paarthurnaax whose hopped up on tons of souls? The story would be about sacrifice for the next generation or clinging to one's current deteriorating condition at the expense of the next generation, and the player would have tons of reason to cling not go with the big reset due to accruing money, power, property, family, and prestige but knows that having it is just feeding into the deterioration of a world that is way long-overdue for cycling. Even Alduin's own character would reflect this dilemma, as him being the ruler of the Dragon Cult made him very clingy and obsessed with preserving the era he created at the expense of those under him. He'd still be kind of an asshole, but the kind that player characters who hoard things would logically be as a bit of a meta reflection. It would be cool if choosing to force Alduin to eat and reset the world would just end the playthrough, but siding with him not to do that would allow endless playing, but with things deteriorated much further.

  • @teph1256
    @teph12564 жыл бұрын

    I wish you had options with the guilds. Like siding with the silver hands rather than the werewolves

  • @jeremydussault5984

    @jeremydussault5984

    4 жыл бұрын

    Would be cool, it would be sorta like the conflict of the dawnguard dlc where it's hunters Vs vampires

  • @JohnSmith-kb4re

    @JohnSmith-kb4re

    4 жыл бұрын

    that would require new vegas level of writing, you can't expect a small indie company like bethesda to be on the same level as the mega corporation that is obsidian

  • @hunterfogleman7443

    @hunterfogleman7443

    4 жыл бұрын

    John Smith pssh hardly, I’d hardly consider Bethesda “a small indie company”. This isn’t 2003, this is 2019 and Bethesda came a long way from making games like morrowind. Now they make games like fallout 76.

  • @Retrah22

    @Retrah22

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@hunterfogleman7443 wooosh

  • @clunk42

    @clunk42

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Retrah22 He got the joke. He was expanding upon it saying that Morrowind is far better than Fallout 76.

  • @vahlen5281
    @vahlen52814 жыл бұрын

    Todd: "We want to remove aspects we do not deem necessary instead of adding new features" _Proceeds to give pickpocket its own skill tree, furthermore keeps speech as a skill despite it having literally no value in the game while acrobatics, athletics, signs, classes, spellcrafting and attributes are scrapped._

  • @dudejo

    @dudejo

    4 жыл бұрын

    at least Speech lets you make more money than normal. Lockpicking is the truly useless skill. Even master-level locks can be opened without ever investing in the tree.

  • @JS-po8oc

    @JS-po8oc

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dudejo Honestly though, after mid game money isn't an issue. I've got over 30k gold by level 35 with no speech options filled.

  • @dudejo

    @dudejo

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@JS-po8oc Higher Speech will let you max out every household?

  • @Frendlu

    @Frendlu

    4 жыл бұрын

    It just works!!!!

  • @akurra1844

    @akurra1844

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dudejo is that really an entertaining thing tho?

  • @reddeaddude2187
    @reddeaddude2187 Жыл бұрын

    Let's be honest, without Jeremy this game wouldn't have any Soule.

  • @spartanq7781

    @spartanq7781

    Жыл бұрын

    I see what you did there.

  • @sealogic4552

    @sealogic4552

    Жыл бұрын

    Jeremy kicks ass in everything he touches. He’s real underrated imo

  • @TheIronMelon

    @TheIronMelon

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sealogic4552 he's also a creep apparently

  • @ninjafrog6966

    @ninjafrog6966

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TheIronMelon and is there actually any evidence of that?

  • @zk0rned

    @zk0rned

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ninjafrog6966 Probably not lol

  • @MNFMogador
    @MNFMogador8 ай бұрын

    "Wide as the ocean, deep as a puddle." Bethesda's motto.

  • @sum1221
    @sum12214 жыл бұрын

    2:39 Main Quest Intro 7:24-8:42 Companions 8:43-12:49 Skill System 12:50 Companions Continued 23:19 Main Quest Whiterun 27:08 Dark Brotherhood 55:41 Thieves Guild 1:16:13 College of Winterhold 1:35:40 Imperial/Stormcloak War 1:44:58 Main Quest High Hrothgar+

  • @filipeg165

    @filipeg165

    4 жыл бұрын

    You only forgot 0:46 The mobile game promotion nobody should play.

  • @sum1221

    @sum1221

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@filipeg165 I was thinking of that but I was like meh

  • @baddragonite

    @baddragonite

    4 жыл бұрын

    Where are all the Raid shill moments?

  • @user-qn4xu4tq7n

    @user-qn4xu4tq7n

    4 жыл бұрын

    Chapter select

  • @OggyTheTiger

    @OggyTheTiger

    4 жыл бұрын

    1:46:45 Delphine stripping

  • @adamm5463
    @adamm54633 жыл бұрын

    Grelod actually has 1 health, so will die in one punch, and even if you’re standing when you kill her you won’t get a bounty, meaning you can run into the orphanage, bare fist 1 punch her (which usually activates a WWE-esque killcam) in front of everyone and walk out Scott free

  • @yukowolfang8645

    @yukowolfang8645

    3 жыл бұрын

    Suplexing her then reviving her in front of the children, only to nut her and throw her again is a golden experience

  • @ishikawa7077

    @ishikawa7077

    3 жыл бұрын

    When I figured this out, it was over, I spent too much time reloading the save into the orphanage just to slam her through the floor

  • @hopelessly.lavenderly

    @hopelessly.lavenderly

    3 жыл бұрын

    10/10 quest

  • @micahjones1451

    @micahjones1451

    3 жыл бұрын

    Excuse me while I go see this on a new character. I have never seen this.

  • @thedipermontshow

    @thedipermontshow

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the info bro.

  • @diorflowers9893
    @diorflowers9893 Жыл бұрын

    When I was a kid I was so hyped to experience Skyrim, I had my fun for a decent chunk of time. But I was 11, now I’m 23 and it just doesn’t hit the same.

  • @OrangeNash
    @OrangeNash9 ай бұрын

    The laziness and lack of love for the game you notice here - you predicted Starfield! Though Starfield possibly suffers it even more.

  • @reeven1721
    @reeven17213 жыл бұрын

    26:44 "When you return to Whiterun a noise can be heard in the distance:" "Do you get to the Cloud District very often? Oh, what am I saying, of course you don't."

  • @Marv1089

    @Marv1089

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’ll have you know that there’s no PUSSIIEEEEEEEE

  • @beancheesedip8337

    @beancheesedip8337

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Do you... hear that?" Lydia asked cautiously, turning her head and peering into the endless horizon. The Dragonborn stared blankly, for that was all he could do. Lydia turned back, shaking her head. "Must've been the wind," she muttered. "We're quite literally in a different dimension. There's nothing." The Dragonborn continued to stare, his gaze unflinching. They began trekking forth again, but were overtaken by a wave of fear and nausea. Lydia knew then what they were dealing with, but horror had gripped her heart and she was unable to act. From the shadows, they heard their final words, "You ever tried mercenary work? It might suit you."

  • @marcusgabriel8365

    @marcusgabriel8365

    3 жыл бұрын

    “They call me Jarl Balgruuf, cause I’ll be B A L L I N”

  • @TheSignatureK

    @TheSignatureK

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Are you looking for my husband Nazeem? Check the Jarl's backside..." More like check the upstairs room of The Drunken Huntsman at night. Your husband's cheating on you... with a man.

  • @Edax_Royeaux

    @Edax_Royeaux

    3 жыл бұрын

    I met the voice actor who said that line in Skyrim at Anime Expo, he said it became his most famous piece of voice acting and the hatred for his character was biblical, with whole mods dedicated to killing that guy.

  • @anthonyray1071
    @anthonyray10714 жыл бұрын

    I always assumed Astrid was actually talking about the Dragonborn when she tells you there's a contract on one person in the room. Until you join the Dark Brotherhood you'll periodically be attacked by a Brotherhood assassin, so we know there already is a contract. It would be a perfect introduction and explain why it didn't matter who died if all 3 options were the wrong choice.

  • @alexanderdesturion4346

    @alexanderdesturion4346

    4 жыл бұрын

    I always knew about the assasins coming after you, but never thought about Astrid scene in this way... It really adds weight to it. She says something like - "You got one thing right - I give you an order and you kill. Everything else doesn't matter." And it really doesn't.

  • @clairetellkamp6253

    @clairetellkamp6253

    3 жыл бұрын

    Their has been an analysis of this by Camelworks. The person with the contract was you, but you cancelled your own contract by killing Greta, who also had a contract on her.

  • @IIKnucklesII

    @IIKnucklesII

    3 жыл бұрын

    Highly recommend the Camelworks video

  • @dantehoffstead9320

    @dantehoffstead9320

    3 жыл бұрын

    The contract could have been for Astrid, when you kill her she says “well done” if you kill her instead she says “well done” in her dying breath.

  • @Venus-ur7dy

    @Venus-ur7dy

    3 жыл бұрын

    It kinda always bothered me how that’s never brought up. Personally I think it would’ve been much more impactful if the assassins that attack you were actually relevant to the plot in some way. Not directly, cause they’re dead, but they could’ve been friends with other members or the brotherhood. And you killed them. Just that alone could create animosity, especially once it’s revealed that you are the listener. “This random person whose killed some of our own is to be our leader?? Outrageous.” There could be a branching path (and actual branching path and not the garbage choice we ended up with) where on one hand you never gain the trust of your guild mates and are forced to flee and help destroy them. Or you can eventual endear yourself to them to the point where they develop a begrudging respect towards you..... and god I just wish the quests in this game made more sense and were better.

  • @charmicarmicat2981
    @charmicarmicat2981 Жыл бұрын

    I will never forget how disappointed I was when I booted up this game for the first time and there was no athletics, acrobatics, or hand to hand.

  • @lodxwn6794
    @lodxwn67947 ай бұрын

    Bro idk why but I rewatch/relisten to your videos all the time. Really good stuff!

  • @mav8535
    @mav85354 жыл бұрын

    Out of protest i will never ever instal, play or even talk about raid shadow legends. Ffs, they spend more on ads than on the development of their game, which should tell you enough.

  • @charmedrools1

    @charmedrools1

    4 жыл бұрын

    how do you know that if you've never played

  • @BewegteBilderrahmen

    @BewegteBilderrahmen

    4 жыл бұрын

    Any mobile game that has enough of a budget to put up constant ads, or even sponsor people consistently is either the literal second coming of christ or whale hunting trash, and I don't think any churches approved of raid yet

  • @c.jarmstrong3111

    @c.jarmstrong3111

    4 жыл бұрын

    The ads are working by osmosis given how many players the game has

  • @BewegteBilderrahmen

    @BewegteBilderrahmen

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@c.jarmstrong3111 They lie about active members, and player retention is overall pretty bad. What they're really after is whales and people "giving it a try" with a "starter bundle" that is deceptively and deceitfully marketed as cheap.

  • @c.jarmstrong3111

    @c.jarmstrong3111

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@BewegteBilderrahmen fuck it man I don't play the game, but I'm not going to get mad at it for the ads. I'm just happy people are getting paid

  • @xrogaan
    @xrogaan4 жыл бұрын

    *"And now I'm a member of the imperial legion."* Didn't you kill the emperor?

  • @LucyKaida

    @LucyKaida

    4 жыл бұрын

    welcome to skyrim

  • @willsword8100

    @willsword8100

    4 жыл бұрын

    Where ita all made up and the quests dont matter...

  • @JohnJohnson-ev9qn

    @JohnJohnson-ev9qn

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@willsword8100 without quests skyrim is basically nothing so... and yeah its a game, the point is?

  • @willsword8100

    @willsword8100

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@JohnJohnson-ev9qn The point is, i was making reference to the tagline of "Whose Line is it Anyway" The Show where it's all made up and the points don't matter. Granted should worded it better. To that end there are a few discrepancies in Skyrim regarding quests like in the Vein of the original comment, being that you could do the whole dark brotherhood questline, kill Tidas Mede II and Still join the legion.

  • @JohnJohnson-ev9qn

    @JohnJohnson-ev9qn

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@willsword8100 ah my bad, ive watched the show so it went right over my head, my bad man haha

  • @LadyAmalthea0615
    @LadyAmalthea06157 ай бұрын

    I keep coming back to Skyrim because of its mods. There are some really good quest, story and companion mods for Skyrim that can turn it into a completely diffrent game every time you play.

  • @pan.syrinx
    @pan.syrinx2 жыл бұрын

    If I play a character committed to being the best Assassin, all of my targets killed without any witnesses, the best arcane assassin Dark Brotherhood has ever seen, and a town guard in east bumfuck says "Hey... I know you... Hail Sithis.." Completely ruins the whole dynamic, and now I have to kill him because he knows too much

  • @iitsbigboat

    @iitsbigboat

    Жыл бұрын

    “hey…i know you…hail sithis” i’m cryin bruh 😭😭

  • @SorowFame

    @SorowFame

    Жыл бұрын

    Honestly sounds like a good roleplaying idea. Kill any dumbass guard who inexplicably knows your secrets to keep people from knowing too much.

  • @the_last_ballad

    @the_last_ballad

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, to be fair, Astrid had to gather assassination missions without the direct call the Night Mother gives, so she had to have been using a information network of some kind. The problem is, the Night Mother Ritual isn't exactly something you brandy about, and while you can have contacts with criminal types(Devin, Blackbreir) to cover inquiries that way, who would a citizen go to first if they found out a neighbor was performing an assassination ritual? Probably the guards. So having a contact in various city guards makes sense, and it's not like the Brotherhood is afraid of talking about their killings. The real reason you should kill them is their lack of descreetness.

  • @andpoo7759

    @andpoo7759

    Жыл бұрын

    @@the_last_ballad Ah yes random head canon to make up for Bethesda incompetence. My favorite part of all recent Bethesda games.

  • @ShivaOO7

    @ShivaOO7

    Жыл бұрын

    Every NPC in Bethesda games is loose lipped.

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