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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose. Play any type of character you can imagine, and do whatever you want; the legendary freedom of choice, storytelling, and adventure of The Elder Scrolls is realized like never before.
Details
- Released
- November 10, 2011
- Developer
- Bethesda Game Studios
- Genres
- Action · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure · Open world
- Publisher
- Bethesda Softworks
How it plays
Time to beat · 28 player times (IGDB)
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Reviews
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim hit hard and so effectively that we lost our minds over it. Is Bethesda's new product a sure candidate for the title of game of the year? We answer this question in the review.
I’ve always considered The Elder Scrolls series to have a great soundtrack, but Skyrim’s thundering music is probably my favorite of the series. The feeling you get when you walk into a town to pick up something from the blacksmith, hear the roar of a dragon and the panic of the villagers, then pull out your mace (any other weapon is for babies, except maybe warhammers) as the dragon fighting music starts playing is one I’ll never get tired of. Bethesda did bump up the quality of their voice actors by hiring more than triple the amount they had in Oblivion (pretty sure they had less than 20 gu...
For the RPG fan it's a can't miss, for those that aren't fans yet, you soon will be.
The most important feature, though, is the portability added with the Switch version. Skyrim is less a game and more a portal to a whole other dimension begging you to unlock all of its stories and experiences. The more you explore and discover, the more you appreciate just how incredibly grand the game is. Any additional time you can spend sneaking in dungeon crawls while at work, carrying out Dark Brotherhood assassinations at family dinners, and crafting new equipment when you probably should be sleeping is the best addition to enhance the experience. I’m overjoyed that Bethesda has been…
Skyrim is easily one of the strongest and best examples of the Western RPG, and it further establishes Bethesda's reputation as one of the most talented and creative forces in the gaming industry.
Outside of the aforementioned talking points, there isn’t much else to review. It’s Skyrim. It’s been around for years and if you love it you’ll love it on the Switch. If you don’t like it, you probably won’t like it on the switch. To me, this might very well be the way I play Skyrim from now on because it’s so easy to put down when my daughter or wife need me and pick it right back up once my free time starts rolling in again. So yes, if you’re a Nintendo Switch owner...
The Empire of Tamriel is on the edge. The High King of Skyrim has been murdered. Alliances form as claims to the throne are made. In the midst of this conflict, a far more dangerous, ancient evil is awakened. Dragons, long lost to the passages of the Elder Scrolls, have returned to Tamriel. The future of Skyrim, even the Empire itself, hangs in the balance.
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Of course, Skyrim is grander than the sum of its parts, and almost anyone would find themselves lost in this game for hours on end. But it’s not prefect, and the rough edges do begin to grate after a while.
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Skyrim is a majestic and magical place where it feels just about anything is possible. So many changing scenes and various missions give the player a reason to play for hours on end. There’s always something to do, whether it’s sticking to the main mission of trying to find out why so many dragons have come back to destroy Skyrim, or any other objective that leads you to some cavern to locate a lost artifact. The simplest of tasks can change into something you would never have expected. Like playing a simple drinking game in a cavern and ending being the guinea pig of some ancient demon. A tas...
As you can see, I can’t complain about Skyrim for too long without starting to compliment it again. It’s an excited, engaging, epic tale with you at the centre. There are a number of complaints, a few bugs and the odd crash, but nothing that can’t be fixed with a couple of patches and a legion of obsessed modders. The menu system may not be designed with the PC in mind but the superior graphics and community easily makes the PC version of Skyrim the version to get. I may have hated Obli...