Mind that I only played Skyrim twice when I was a kid.
Once in 2011, and once in 2014. So my mind is not really fresh on that. I plan to replay it soon though.
Retrospectively, the writing for so many questlines I loved, is just absolutely garbage.
And the gameplay is fine to me, but not that great in the long term as well.
Regardless, I can't bring myself to give this anything other than a 10/10.
Playing Skyrim was one of the best gaming experiences I ever had in my life.
"Accidently" spending entire nights playing this game,
exploring the world, finding so much interesting stuff at almost every corner, getting distracted by every discovery, instead of following a certain questline?
That infinite loophole of new AND INTERESTING shit to do, while getting rewarded for EVERYTHING (Thanks Todd Howard for shooting dopamine through my brain for every single little thing I did)
Damn, that was so incredibly fun for my kid brain.
Combined with that unique atmosphere, with absolutely BEAUTIFUL music that I still listen to today?
GAWD DAYUM
To be fair, I haven't played many RPGs after Skyrim, but nothing ever came close to that feeling.
This is absolute blasphemy to say, but not even Elden Ring made me feel that way for some reason.
Despite being the absolutely better game in every regard.
And not to forget all the modding that is possible, which basically kept the game alive.
Visuals, sounds and even entire custom questlines are just really really neat.
I will probably change my mind when I finally replay it.
But for the time being, I'd love to keep that memory.
Once in 2011, and once in 2014. So my mind is not really fresh on that. I plan to replay it soon though.
Retrospectively, the writing for so many questlines I loved, is just absolutely garbage.
And the gameplay is fine to me, but not that great in the long term as well.
Regardless, I can't bring myself to give this anything other than a 10/10.
Playing Skyrim was one of the best gaming experiences I ever had in my life.
"Accidently" spending entire nights playing this game,
exploring the world, finding so much interesting stuff at almost every corner, getting distracted by every discovery, instead of following a certain questline?
That infinite loophole of new AND INTERESTING shit to do, while getting rewarded for EVERYTHING (Thanks Todd Howard for shooting dopamine through my brain for every single little thing I did)
Damn, that was so incredibly fun for my kid brain.
Combined with that unique atmosphere, with absolutely BEAUTIFUL music that I still listen to today?
GAWD DAYUM
To be fair, I haven't played many RPGs after Skyrim, but nothing ever came close to that feeling.
This is absolute blasphemy to say, but not even Elden Ring made me feel that way for some reason.
Despite being the absolutely better game in every regard.
And not to forget all the modding that is possible, which basically kept the game alive.
Visuals, sounds and even entire custom questlines are just really really neat.
I will probably change my mind when I finally replay it.
But for the time being, I'd love to keep that memory.