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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)

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Let's Play

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This is the first part of my playthrough of Skyrim, played through the Special Edition version on PC.

As the follow-up to three great games by Bethesda Softworks, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim had a lot to live up to. And live up to them it did. Although it's not my favorite Elder Scrolls game--an honor that goes to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion--that doesn't mean that I don't like it.

Skyrim plays like the last three Elder Scrolls games (Daggerfall, Morrowind, and Oblivion) in that they're First-Person Action RPGs (Role-Playing Game) that use the You-Are-What-You-Play system, or Final Fantasy II's/the SaGa series' learn-by-doing system with just slightly more customization than what Oblivion does/did.

Original Skyrim looked so gray and washed-out which makes sense when you consider that Skyrim takes place in a frozen wasteland that Todd Howard considers more interesting than Oblivion's setting. Personally, I disagree. Oblivion's setting and menu graphics make me think of Ancient Greece, or at least the Imperial City does, and that's a very underused setting compared to the European Medieval Fantasy setting that most RPGs use.

Skyrim's soundtrack was composed by Jeremy Soule, the man who composed the soundtracks for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and once again, he nails it! The music in Skyrim really sets the mood to make you want to explore a winter wonderland facing the fantasy version of the Holocaust, and for anyone out there who thinks I'm being insensitive to past atrocities in human history, I'm not, that's literally what the Thalmor are is Fantasy Nazis.

Graphics-wise, Skyrim looks great no matter which version of it you play, but the Special Edition adds some much needed color and a few other bells and whistles that make it look better than 'Oldrim' as I've heard it called now.

Although Skyrim isn't my favorite Elder Scrolls game, as I've said before, it's certainly fun for me and an absolute joy to play, even if it's gameplay depth is a mudpuddle compared to the bathtub that is Dark Souls' gameplay.

Overall, I would rate this game as the number of Nords that get beheaded during any given playthrough of Skyrim over the insane amount of paypigs DSP has throwing their money at him everyday.

*EDIT* Don't watch this video. Turns out that I really need to work on my settings in both Streamlabs OBS and Sony Vegas Pro 17 before I record anything and hopefully changing them will have it all settled. I'm going to keep this video up to show, at least later, on far I'll have come, or rather, as of this writing, how far I will go.

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