Why You Should Still Play Skyrim 15 Years Later

Skyrim Was Right All Along: 15 Years Later Why You Should Still Play Skyrim 15 Years Later Skyrim is Still Flawless (15 Years Later) I Still Play Skyrim After 15 Years | Here’s Why Skyrim 15 Years Later: Why We Still Can’t Leave 15 Years Later, Nothing Beats Skyrim Why Skyrim Still Feels Magical 15 Years Later The Truth About Skyrim 15 Years Later You know what blows my mind? Despite this game being 15 years old, we have only had 2 teaser videos for the sequel. No, I mean besides that, even though it is 15 years old, it is consistently found on the top 20 most played single player games. It consistently beats out newer and so-called better games week after week, month after month. Despite a horde of people declaring that it has the weakest writing and least compelling story in all of the Elder Scrolls, it just can’t stop winning. Since I’ve started this channell, I’ve been working my way through the entire game and trying to understand just how this game became such a movement, and I finally have the answer. Today, I’m going to tell you why. Let’s just start with a personal story, shall we? Just so we’re all on the same page of where this all started? I’ve been playing RPGs long before Skyrim came out. I remember having high hopes for skyrim. I’d played Oblivion, Fallout 3 and new vegas and that’s kind of what I expected here, too. And for the record, those games changed my life. It was like everything I had ever wanted was rolled up into these games, so when skyrim came out, I was super ready to have my life changed again, only that’s not what happened. In fact, I remember mostly being kind of bored, playing through all these quests that weren’t as good as their oblivion counterparts until about level 14. I kind of stalled out. I remember I got an elven dagger and then I thought “I wonder if I could take one of these guys out” and I went and soloed a giant with the dagger. Then I just stood over its corpse and thought. After it was dead, I sat for about a minute in silence. A full 60 seconds went by and I said. “Well, that’s that then” and I turned off the game and didnt play it for a few years. I almost forgot I even had it and went and replayed oblivion, fallout 3 and FNV. I tell this story for 2 reasons. First, many of us are disappointed. Disappointed in Skyrim, disappointed in the release schedule, disappointed in bethesda. I am one of those. And to tell you the truth, I was one of those before the end of 2011, so probably a lot earlier than many of you. That said, the second reason I wanted to start with that story is that, like many of you, I find it really hard to move on from this game. After a few years had gone by, Skyrim was fully into its legendary status. I remember a girl who was kind of cute, and in a very mainstream way, by the way, she wasnt some nerd. Sh esaid in public something like “I need to get home and play skyrim” now this was in middle school when i was fully in my social outcast stage. And I remember wanting to rush up to her and be like “if you like skyrim, you have to play oblivion, its better in pretty much every way and really this is exciting because skyrim really isnt all that good it just seems good because you havent ever played any RPGs but theres a whole world out there of games that can really be a powerful piece of art in your life.” I didnt say any of that of course. Instead, I went home and dug skyrim out and decided to play it again. From that moment, a few years after release until today, skyrim has been one of my top RPGs as well. When I beat other games, I find myself coming back to this one. Its a kind of game that can’t really be beaten. You just find out you’ve been playing it wrong so you start over to do it right. I guess the reason I wanted to start with this story is, I want you to know that this isn't glazing. This game has a lot of weaknesses. But as you can probably guess by my backlog on this channel, well, theres a lot of positive things to be said about this game as well. Its that mixture of irresistibility and disappointment that makes skyrim so unique in the video game world. So, let’s go ahead and get to the bulk of what I want to say today and see if we can figure out why.