What Was Skyrim Like at Launch?

[psychic_dream]

I first tried it around 2018, and I played it—may Allah forgive me for uttering this word—unmodded. I’ve never been obsessed with graphics, and honestly, it looked fine for a game from 2011, even if the gameplay felt a bit rough.

Lately, I’ve often thought about how playing Skyrim on launch day must have felt. Did it truly feel like a religious experience? What was it that made the anticipation so intense before launch? Was it just the hype of being the first major Elder Scrolls game since Oblivion in 2006, or was there something more to it?

[Norfleet]

Well, you don't have to imagine it. I'm pretty sure the torrent of the original 1.0 Skyrim release still exists, so you can download that and experience unpatched launch day Skyrim yourself.

[Vergil]

Like sucking and ******* hot horny birches while on x

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I was not following the hype to its release. I think I first became aware of it because of youtube let's plays like GopherVids. So then I decided to get that Xbox 360 that came bundled with Skyrim to try it. I remembered that I thought it was sufficiently fun and played it nonstop for a week or two, ofcourse as a stealth archer since that gives you the most optionality and one shotting people is much more fun than having to deal with the lackluster flamethrower channeling or melee combat. Then I eventually forgot about it and didn't revisit until a few years later on PC with mods. The game was fun but I never thought it was the end-all-be-all that I read about online years later.

[rusty_shackleford]

I remember playing it for a couple hours, telling my friend the game feels lifeless and sterile then uninstalling.

[rusty_shackleford]

I remember playing it for a couple hours, telling my friend the game feels lifeless and sterile then uninstalling.

Coincidentally I just remembered playing FO76, being in an NPC settlement and an NPC walked past commenting on the type of weapon I was using. For me, the minor details add so much more to a game than !!EXCITING SYSTEMS!!
I think Skyrim has a handful of lines for specific, unique weapons(why would random NPCs even know what the weapon is…?)

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I remember playing it for a couple hours, telling my friend the game feels lifeless and sterile then uninstalling.

Coincidentally I just remembered playing FO76, being in an NPC settlement and an NPC walked past commenting on the type of weapon I was using. For me, the minor details add so much more to a game than !!EXCITING SYSTEMS!!
I think Skyrim has a handful of lines for specific, unique weapons(why would random NPCs even know what the weapon is…?)

People come back into the town after a hard day's work at the sawmill, sit down as the inn to eat and drink with their neighbors and talk. Occasionally some merchants or couriers come into get a bite to eat too and talk about what they have seen. "I saw an orc on the road. He had a jagged axe".

[Oyster Sauce]

we were all jaded by then

[Vergil]

I remember playing it for a couple hours, telling my friend the game feels lifeless and sterile then uninstalling.

Coincidentally I just remembered playing FO76, being in an NPC settlement and an NPC walked past commenting on the type of weapon I was using. For me, the minor details add so much more to a game than !!EXCITING SYSTEMS!!
I think Skyrim has a handful of lines for specific, unique weapons(why would random NPCs even know what the weapon is…?)

This can't be serious

[Irenaeus]

Really ********, you get to kill a Dragon at level 1 within 30 minutes of the tutorial. I stopped playing right there.

[Oyster Sauce]

I remember playing it for a couple hours, telling my friend the game feels lifeless and sterile then uninstalling.

Coincidentally I just remembered playing FO76, being in an NPC settlement and an NPC walked past commenting on the type of weapon I was using. For me, the minor details add so much more to a game than !!EXCITING SYSTEMS!!
I think Skyrim has a handful of lines for specific, unique weapons(why would random NPCs even know what the weapon is…?)

[Vergil]

Ppssstt hail sithis

[Decline]

I didn't play Skyrim at all simply because I made the mistake to play Oblivion when it came out in 2006.

[1998]

My very first Steam game, I feel dirty about it.

[asf]

at launch it was like now, ie. ****

[Roguey]

Casuals were fellating it nonstop. Sales were so huge that it took it years to go on sale.

[rusty_shackleford]

I remember playing it for a couple hours, telling my friend the game feels lifeless and sterile then uninstalling.

Coincidentally I just remembered playing FO76, being in an NPC settlement and an NPC walked past commenting on the type of weapon I was using. For me, the minor details add so much more to a game than !!EXCITING SYSTEMS!!
I think Skyrim has a handful of lines for specific, unique weapons(why would random NPCs even know what the weapon is…?)

Generic dialogue for a single faction
https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Settlers_(Was ... )/Dialogue

Dialogue file for a single CAMP ally, these aren't companions
https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Sofia_Daguerre/Dialogue

[wndrbr]

I got burned by Oblivion and Fo3, so I purposely didn't play skyrim on release. Only gave it a shot in 2014 or so, after getting tired of hearing all the raving.

[Rienen]

I attended a midnight release for it, less due to hype and more due to a lack of social life and a general apathy toward work. A good number of people were there who were psyched to get home and play, though. Gameplay-wise, I remember enjoying it but being frustrated by its lack of QoL improvements. Namely, multiple scripted events bugged out (tutorial choice of who to travel with didn't trigger, leading to them staring at each other, and the Companion's fight against the giant was over before I got there). Not to mention caves and houses STILL required ******* loading screens. Which apparently is a just a ******* staple of their games, at this point.

I do remember no-lifing the game for a few days before a bug locked my main quest progression. And since it was so early, there was no console command I could find to bypass it. I ended up dropping it out of frustration.

[ArcaneLurker]

For me, I was hyped because I was comparing the reveals to Fallout, Oblivion & Morrowind, which I enjoyed a lot at the time.
I enjoyed the game for many hours in my first playthrough, focusing on the side quests, although even then, I realised the main story was total trash and not worth finishing.

At school though, my friend called it Skyrimjob. He preferred other kinds of games.

[methoxetamine]

I was being a good goyim and was in the military at the time and I was in basic training when it came out, and it's the main reason I bought a PS3 as soon as I was able to. I had a lot of fun with it but it was the first game I had played in quite a while at that point and it was a nice escape from my hellish life at the time. I was disappointed with the lack of spell creation and the weaker questlines compared to Oblivion but it was still fun. I've never re-played it since then and never touched it on PC or modded it at all, and I probably never will. I just have no interest and I despise Bethesda

[TKVNC]

It was ok. Normies shouting Fus Roh Dah was not ok though.

[MrTwinkls]

Skyrim memes were everywhere to the point it became irritating.

[Tweed]

I was apathetic, but I bought it anyway. I remember the bug where dragons would never, ever ******* land or attack. They'd just follow you around, making sure you could never fast travel anywhere.

[cpmartins]

Incredibly laggy, especially Markarth, until an user fixed their ******* terrible programing by shifting one bit on the executable file.
This is not a joke. I mean the post, because beshitarded is indeed a joke.

[dagal]

Don't remember. I do remember some of the bugs though, because they were never fixed, like the neverending combat music. But I'm the next Skyrim release will take care of that...

I do remember Oblivion though, it was an awesome experience for its time, and lived up to my hype. Once on a forum I posted that Oblivion was going to devour Gothic 3, before any of the two games have launched. Since most were fans of the Gothic series back then, they roasted me for talking **** without knowing. Still sad Gothic had to die that way, though.

[Roguey]

Skyrim memes were everywhere to the point it became irritating.

Ugh the obsession with "arrow in the knee"

[NotAI]

I remember playing it for a couple hours, telling my friend the game feels lifeless and sterile then uninstalling.

This. But played it maybe 10-15 hours and got half through. Then got bored.

The problem is that nothing is connected or correlated to anything, - no quest has any bearing to any other quest. There is no real interesting loot to find. No point in exploring. Crafted the best gear early on and

Edit. Like my typos are uncorrelated. Hence boring.

[psychic_dream]

While this isn’t necessarily about Skyrim, and considering how badly Starfield flopped, damaging Bethesda’s image even among normies, what do you think the future looks like for The Elder Scrolls VI?

It’s been seven years since the announcement trailer, and it’s probably safe to assume that big chunks of the game have been scrapped and reworked by now. Do you think they’re still planning to set it in Hammerfell, or has that changed?

What are your hopes for the game? Do you believe TES VI flopping as hard will finally make Bethesda go under? Or is that off the table now that they are basically being propped up by Microsoft? And realistically, when do you think it will finally release?

[maidenhaver]

While this isn’t necessarily about Skyrim, and considering how badly Starfield flopped, damaging Bethesda’s image even among normies, what do you think the future looks like for The Elder Scrolls VI?

Sheeeeit

They won't get that right, either. TES has wandered so far out of weird fantasy, from the direction it was going in Battlespire and PGE 1, that Redguards will be depicted as Musa of Mali, instead of cajun and carribbean weirdos. Fantasy was more American, before the lotr movies. I resented the races getting anglicized accents, because I knew what that meant for the lore.