Why It's Impossible To Play Skyrim Now.

I first played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim when I was eleven years old. Is it time to say goodbye?

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[borginburkes]

I’ve played it to death over the years since I was 12. I’m 22 now. I’m at the point now where I know every cave, every NPC, and every side quest.

[sketch_]

I just got married and found out my wife had never played it. Watching her discover the game for herself for the first time is truly wonderful

[LetoChrist]

You can always role play and never run out of quests. I've been playing over 10 years now and still to this day I am still finding stuff and making up adventure to keep it alive. They've never made a game like it since.

[TTRPGSarvis]

I think I've somehow reached the opposite point. I can't stop playing Skyrim because of how familiar it is to me. It's been a part of my life for 12 years now. The fact that I've seen everything there is to see makes me feel relaxed and at ease. Kind of like home.

[aleccope]

Oblivion was my Skyrim. After not playing it for about 8 years, I picked it up and started to play. Felt good again.

[MonolithTMA]

I was 42 when Skyrim came out, and I still have and scratch that itch from time to time. For both Fallout and Elder Scrolls, it's wandering around the vast worlds that keep me coming back. That and the mods.

[williambailey]

Being older makes you realise how the ebony warrior felt, there really doesn't feel like there is anything else left to do in Skyrim.

Edit: yes I know about mods.

[corm]

I still find joy in games such as Skyrim at the age of 48 you don't have to be a kid to enjoy them you just need to be a kid at heart . As you age being a kid as heart is to me extremely important because it gives you a way to escape the real world and it helps relieve the stresses of the everyday adult world that we all live in.

[SketchySkullKnight]

I genuinely cannot explain why, but Skyrim is enveloped in this intense sense of melancholy and wonder that has faded but never dissipated. I went through a very difficult childhood, and I still remember first hearing from a friend at school about this new game called Skyrim. I bugged him for stories from his playthrough and lore of the series until my mother was finally able to get it for me. I was presented with the biggest and most open world I had ever seen, and I was immediately hooked. I spent literally thousands of hours during my childhood playing Skyrim, and it became a quirk of my personality that I was obsessed with The Elder Scrolls. Any time things got too hard for me, I had a pair of headphones and a controller that immediately allowed me to escape to a world in which I, and the actions I took, actually meant something. I even met my best friend because of Skyrim, and we shared stories, lore, and gameplay until we lost touch with one another. Now when I play, I get this strange feeling of both longing for the past, and being thankful that this game allowed me to escape it. Even the music makes me feel something in my soul. For this, I will forever love Skyrim.

[TheSlamWizard]

I’m always gonna go back to Skyrim. I don’t think it can ever really leave my life after giving me so much freedom during the worst times.

[rosebliss]

I feel now that I'm older (26) I'm able to fully comprehend and understand emotions of characters better then when I first played Skyrim in 2011. I'm more inclined to listen to what every npc says and how they feel, I never skip through dialogue. Skyrim to me feels like an old book from my childhood that even as I age, I am able to enjoy the story for different details I didn't fully get to appreciate when I was younger.

[emrek]

Arena was my Skyrim. Having 3D skeletons that moved and fought based on limb bones was truly amazing. Especially when all other games were 2D arcade scrollers or blocky 3D shooters like the original Doom and Castle Wolfenstien.

[vikimseruh]

I am 60 and I have only been playing Elder Scrolls V since 2018. I have mods installed that give it the look and feel I want which is wonderful. This time around I am a treasure hunter. I explore every inch of the lands and have found even to this day things I had missed. Just doing the quest is not enough, you have to explore everything. To me that is what Skyrim is all about. I have talked to NPCs and then the next time I talk to them something new is there in what they say. I hear so many say, "I beat Skyrim" and I laugh. You don't beat Skyrim, you explore it and finish quest if you want too. I got interested in this because of Shirley Curry watching her play in her 80's and thinking "Wow, this looks fun to play". Thanks to her, I am now a forever Skyrim fan.

[acetown]

I played about 10-20 hours of skyrim when it launched in 2011, I had just graduated highschool then. Now I"m 30, and just picked it up again for the first time since then, and I'm very much enjoying it! Although I can see how folks who have played it a lot over the last decade+ would start to burn out. You've seen and done it all. I'm hoping Starfield can pull a lot of us back into that "first" time feeling just like Skyrim did in 2011. Child or not, a good enough game can still get me lost in its world.

[saakers]

Maybe YOU'RE not a child anymore; I was 26 years old when Skyrim released and I loved and obsessed over ever minute of it.
Getting my rig ready to start a full VR playthrough in a few months.
If you're unable to enjoy things you once loved, there's a good chance it's depression, not "growing up"

[riftbandit]

Thankfully I wasn't able to fully mod Skyrim until 2020, despite having played it since release, so It's still rocking and fresh for me.

[kage]

I became a blacksmith irl thanks to Skyrim. This game made my childhood, gave me my passion for fantasy and created my dreams, that came true. After more then 4K hours and 1K iron daggers, I can say for sure that this game was, and still will be, best part of my life.

[darkaks]

You poor soul ... Forevermore lost to the True World ... We shall all weep for your passing ~

[bg]

I'm 39 and I still play Skyrim in VR. It's a Whole different experience in VR. We often move away from our childhood interests as we get into our early adult years. Interest usually return in your 30s sometime. You're still quite young. You'll see

[captaintuna]

I’ll never get tired of Skyrim, the lore and fantasy and all is just so rich and interesting to me.