Christmas break 2011. You start Skyrim for the first time.

[@AegisAuras]

A nord’s last thoughts should be of home.

[@amal-ti2zz]

Bro, 😭

[@AegisAuras]

@@amal-ti2zz 🫂

[@john_paul]

​@AegisAuras Lord Aegis, you appear to have dropped your crown. 😭🫴🏻👑

[@RomasKalash]

A rizzler’s last thoughts should be of Ohio.

[@Shade_Tree_Mechanic]

​@@RomasKalash I was thinking the exact same thing 😭😂 . That edit was wild

[@dengua1]

I think I'm gonna cry, this one hurts too much ...

[@-pROvAK]

Yeah, this cuts deep

[@Legoliam47]

Same dude. When i saw this i just muttered fuck and clicked play

[@Markuth777]

Let us suffer together, brothers

[@ParagonPowerLLC]

What was that? Must have been the wind...

[@RobbyGeiser]

Lol all of us like damn really?? Sighs and clicks on video* Lets get emotional

[@bigmyke2008]

We didn't know how good we had it

[@krulltheskull]

I remember buying Skyrim release day during my third year of university. I made the dumbest excuses to skip tutorials and lectures. Think I even said my door had frozen shut (that one was taken well, the city was slammed with a terrible ice storm off the North Sea that year and people were literally breaking their hips walking down the main street). I skipped post-exam drinks. The best part was, everyone else was the same! We'd talk about our adventures at coffee shops between the lectures we absolutely had to go to. One guy took a solid week to leave Whiterun Hold. My then girlfriend is now my wife. We were just about to get our dog who we still hang out with every night on the couch. I have a kid. I get tired of it sometimes, but I don't think I'll ever stop playing Skyrim. Enough time goes by that I feel the call again. The impact games have on the heart and mind can never be understated. I think it's our answer to adventuring. Can't explore the Earth, can't explore the stars. Gaming fills a niche in our souls as conflicted explorers and wanderers stuck in a weird time where we can't do much of either. And Skyrim just hit that so perfectly in 2011.

[@Steelvictorian]

Respect.

[@678crazydave]

I mean some people do explore the earth

[@theherooffire007]

​@@678crazydavemost can't. :(

[@simontemplar3359]

man... so good. I remember when this game came out. I disappeared on the world as often as possible and this video makes me want to fire it up again!

[@motorcycle-man]

@@678crazydave Can you just not sometimes?

[@melonspears]

As a girl this was the first game I played for myself. Not a game that a brother or cousin owned that I watched them play. This was truly my own and my first adventure. And damn, what an introduction to gaming.

[@AJ_Deadshow]

Awesome 🔥❤️ Playing it for yourself is 1,000,000% better than watching someone else play, so I'm glad you got to experience it that way.

[@AJ_Deadshow]

(although that % might depend on how entertaining they are, if they play boring like me then it's accurate 😂)

[@paullavecchia844]

Well you started off very high .... disappointment since lol

[@jaybird0312]

That's essentially impossible to top. My condolences.

[@spiritoftheseas]

same!!

[@Pthumerian01]

This hits hard, we were so young, so much happier, we'll never get to experience this for the first time ever again... That skyrim soundtrack is seriously one of the best musical creations to ever exist.

[@tomspirktins6084]

I agree about the soundtrack, but we can experience many beautiful things for the first time.

[@MrAlternation]

Time for new experiences

[@ChrisLitton]

The musical score is nothing short of incredible. I appreciate it even more over 10 years later.

[@Sesquipedaliofobia]

Well we were certainly younger. But in my case, I was really unhappy back then. I was chronically depressed. I'm so much happier now!

[@smeech7366]

Hey, you. You're finally awake.

[@mcfarvo]

Jeremy Soule is one of the best instrumental/orchestral composers of our lifetime

[@mcflyguy161]

It's truly sad we will likely never see another game with his music ever again.

[@Shade_Tree_Mechanic]

Agreed. I'd also like to mention Inon Zur and Michael Giacchino

[@ArturShield5]

@@Shade_Tree_Mechanic Zur is dog poop in comparison to Soule, typical that some Israeli is taking a true huwite American's place after he was falsely accused and lost his job

[@Omega-EP]

How about Nobuo Uematsu?

[@angryfilmgamer570]

Wow, 13 years have past. Yet, i still remember this feeling as clear as day

[@comradelemon6928]

post launch and launch day remember it really well, the hype, and the gameplay and then the mods i find this game to be very therapuatic also reminds me a lot of the times where i was 13 playing skyrim in my uncles bedroom while at my grandmas every saturday :/ i miss those days

[@RepugnanciaDulzona]

Back to when my dad and grandparents used to be alive. Life changes so much in just a decade

[@XJ275]

my condolences' brother, take care of yourself they are watching down, proud of you, friend.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Time is the only resource. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed. In time, all points converge, hope’s strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)

[@RepugnanciaDulzona]

@@XJ275 thank you brother

[@amal-ti2zz]

Yeah, this makes me realize the same; I've had family members die and others go to jail during the span.

[@Archer-gw7nt]

Stay strong friend and never take anything for granted

[@bobbobbins4877]

Bethesda really captured lightning in a bottle when they made Skyrim. Even they haven't been able to recapture that magic. You just had to be there.

[@cascadesequence7307]

I agree. When I boot up Skyrim I am just in that world. I haven't found another game like it.

[@Pthumerian01]

Truest thing I've ever read

[@perturbatorya9451]

sadly i don't have hopes for TES VI, highly doubt that bethesda could capture magic from oblivion and skyrim again

[@derekonxbox]

Skyrim was truly a masterpiece of its time, no game from Bethesda has ever quite given me the feeling of when i first played it, although Fallout 4 when i first started playing came close (but was still very far out from the bar set by Skyrim)

[@jacobwagner8984]

To be fair Morrowind and Oblivion were just as good when they came out. They'd do better to full scale remake them than slap ES VI in our faces and create another Starfield travesty. Bethesda lost their creative magic. Fallout 3 was god tier too. They turned over a new leaf into something worse. I wish for 6 they'd bring the whole band back together

[@josiahbjertness1083]

Ow. this one hurts.

[@stevewithgloves]

A lot, yes. It hits really close to shared experiences between a lot of us...

[@youngbenkenobi]

I was 19, my older brother and I went to the video game store despite the heavy snow and ice on the ground. Just getting there was it's own questline. We got there right before they closed and got one of the last copies, brought it home in time for the next round of snow to start falling. The first look at this game had us completely hooked. We stayed up til 5am playing it and talking more than we had in months before that. I sorely miss that moment, we haven't talked like that in a long time.

[@timelessadventurer]

Isn’t it amazing what a great game can do?!

[@YouTubecontent998]

Damn bro, you two should schedule time for a replay of the game!

[@bigiron1990]

I miss my older brother. Games were how we bonded. We have a 7 year age gap. Now that we are both well into adulthood and he has a child, I can relate. I would give so much just to be a little boy in my big bros room again playing games.

[@YouTubecontent998]

Christmas break from school is a void no vacation later in life can fill. There's just something so special about it

[@LuminousSanguine]

On that faithful day we all would fall in love with a game that would help us through the darkest of times

[@yeoldebanjo5470]

Obama's second term?

[@densefire8]

@@yeoldebanjo5470 oh please when obama left the white house we had low gas($2.25) and grocery prices, historically high oil production(8.1k barrels a day), record job growth(got my first real job), low unemployment, affordable housing(bought my first house 128k), low inflation(1.3%), and good video games(Witcher 3). Lets not forget obama was handed a recession and a housing market crash. All things considered it was NOT the darkest of times.

[@yeoldebanjo5470]

@@densefire8 relax, cupcake. It was a joke.

[@densefire8]

@ sorry might have had too much coffee this afternoon

[@SigandGibbs]

@@densefire8 And there are too many nazis running wild online these days

[@WombatGod]

I was 11 in 2011. I thought Skyrim for some reason was a futuristic shooter like Halo (I was 11, give me a break). I asked for it for Christmas and my mom gave it to me the first day of winter break. for 3 weeks, I played and played. That feeling I experienced stepping out in the fantastical land is one I have been searching for ever since and never quite again in a video game.

[@dlm9090]

I don't think you'll ever find it. A game may exceed Skyrim, but nothing could come close to playing this at 11. In my day, it was A Link to the Past or Chrono Trigger. I can only imagine the impact Skyrim would've had on me.

[@theherooffire007]

Elden Ring comes close, as does the Witcher 3,but neither of them are Skyrim. They're their own things.

[@WombatGod]

@theherooffire007 I love both Elden Ring and Witcher 3. I will say, the scope and absolute detail of The Lands Between is unmatched.

[@grandfathernurgle2840]

I was 16 It was a game that I will remember forever; it truly was a special game. I still love and play games, but I don't think any future game will replicate that feeling for me.

[@RobertJones-ku4fg]

Try Kingdom Come: Deliverance ! You'll have that feeling again, trust me

[@OhShiverMeTimbers]

Me and my brother set up two tv's, an xbox 360 and a ps3, and two big, comfy chairs and gamed all through the night into the next day. For that night, it was a co-op game, and we were a team. Now we live 500 miles apart and use online gaming to keep in touch. I hope you're faring well, Dragonborn. The world is cold, and its seasons are harsh, but we've come a long way.

[@Shermoose]

Wow bro that sounds amazing.

[@silentravenfilms]

I want to live here forever.

[@Larkouille]

Skyrim came at the right moment in my life, I was depressed af because I was getting bullied both physycally and mentally online and IRL; Dad was an alcoholic, Mom was a total mess of meds ... it was tough times for a 12/13y old kid like me. But then Skyrim.. It was an escape, I could play all day and night and never get bored, it was an escape from reality tand o this day listening to "Street of Whiterun" feels like I'm home quite litteraly, a peaceful home...

[@sierratangoandras]

Aww sorry to hear that. 😕 I hope you are doing ok now!

[@Larkouille]

@sierratangoandras Tried to kms a few times since then but we're still there and trying my best heh

[@CafeFunguzz]

@@Larkouille Stay strong Dragonborn - life can be really shitty sometimes - good that you are still here 🙏

[@YaboyLD77]

This is literally amazing seeing all the stories of how people came to play this game, and it just feels great to reflect and connect to strangers

[@Sockpoppet]

...unaware of how this game will consume your life for the next several years😆

[@dat_man_sam9823]

The mods...

[@lilpuddin1560]

Damn man we all lived the same life. Simpler times.

[@124Nightwing]

I skipped school by calling in fake sick so that I could play my brother's copy while he was in class. First time I ever got to play the game and I still stand by that decision, lol.

[@erikmclennan3934]

I was a depressed early 20s bum in 2011 but Skyrim really got me through a rough spot.......11/11/11 will always be in my heart.

[@Hackberryofficer]

we all want to go back, back to talk to someone again and relive one of the most happiest times of our lives. I miss you.

[@Rockvillianisme]

Forgot how long loading times were back then… 1 hour sheesh 😮😅

[@Khainite]

This one is pain. I was there. I got Skyrim on 11/11/11 right when it was released. I played it a lot on 360 then I got it on Steam several years later, modded the fuck out of it and played it a lot more. But there is that rock solid nostalgia playing base game Skyrim back when I was 17 in 2011 that still hits like a truck when I think back. I probably did play it over Christmas break from school. Holy shit take me back.

[@HansMayer-je9xp]

same here

[@ChickyNugg]

ps360 era was definitely peak and I am 33 years old and miss those days. Maybe it's because I miss spending these moments with friends, maybe it's because I miss the days my mom was alive....

[@MackMcLane]

My buddy and I both got copies of Skyrim and COD. He came over with his TV. Before we began a legendary gaming night we went to the store and got every kind of junk food we could think of and tons of beer. 😂Played games all night. Wonderful memory.

[@sierratangoandras]

🥲

[@mitchmcginn4250]

2011, 9th Grade, and I just got back home from freezing my Freshman JV player ass off at football practice in the second round of district playoffs. I came home that evening to find Skyrim sitting on my desk. I still remember the first hours playing this game as a Nord warrior wielding an Iron Greatsword like a highland claymore. With all the stress I had as a highschool freshman and JV player on my highschool football team, this game took me away from all of that for a little while each time I started it up. Good days when such a legendary game was new.

[@joshofthenorth]

Thanks for sharing man. Those first few hours playing were something else. I wish I could go back and play it again for the first time

[@Everest3000]

Damn, I remember being grounded on the release day of Skyrim and was just stuck watching my brother play. Until I was able to play it for myself a week later, I was just amazed and it felt like another world to me. It felt like home.

[@kaizenborntowin]

The first play through is always the best.

[@Alexwill-g8h]

what a time in gaming and also in life...for some reason, I never felt the guilt as I would nowadays for wasting a day away like this...

[@kinddeswaldes6501]

Feel ya, the guilty pleasures aren't enjoyable at all nowadays...

[@BrogenNine]

This one cuts deep. Was 14 in Nov 2011 when I bought the game for the first time. 27 now and in such a different place in life it's strange to think about how fast the time passes and how much things seem to change in the blink of an eye. Wish I could go back to those carefree days sometimes.

[@ExtraordinaryFate]

Skyrim is the only game I go back for a replay of every year. I started on Xbox 360, and now I mod it on PC, but I still do the same quests in the same order. Such a great game, and I'll always defend it

[@jackzillakroll1815]

This is definitely one of those 'take me back' moments. Early 2010's, 2010 - 2013, was peak years of life and happiness for me. Life was good, I was happy, not a care in the world. Then since 2014 it's just been one giant downward spiral :P

[@thanevakarian9762]

Don’t give up

[@jackzillakroll1815]

@ :)

[@vincedeltoro5609]

For me it was my small grey-blue bedroom in my parents house. Cozy blankets on my twin sized bed. The sound and smell of my mother cooking. One standing lamp for moody lighting. A window behind me, it was winter...foggy and grey outside with the smell of firewood burning. A small flat screen I had saved up for to play Skyrim on my PS3.

[@LivinLaVidaLokaa]

I’m a 33 yr old woman and I hope to give this to both of my boys, who are now 1 and 3. What a cozy family setting.

[@sierratangoandras]

Your description teleported me there, aww man. 🥲

[@reid.b2926]

Slowly I am reclaiming the tranquility I felt in this moment

[@ripoutmypancreas5105]

My heart is troubled seeing this, it will never be the same.

[@DMIwriter]

I was 17 in 2011. I had played Oblivion at a friend's house back in 2007 and fell in love with the world. I bought my own copy and sunk hundreds of hours into it. Then, Skyrim was announced. Me and 2 of my friends pre-ordered it at Gamestop and spent the time before midnight on release day buying a horde of food and snacks and setting up 3 TVs with 3 Xbox 360s in my friend's basement. We picked up the games at midnight, installed the day one patch, and then spent the next 25 hours playing together.

[@metaatlas7]

I don’t even remember how I got Skyrim into my hands, but I do remember, just like this video, playing it on beautiful winter evenings, finding an escape from everything. Skyrim and Fable II will always hold profound nostalgic magic for me.

[@hughjass8430]

11:11:11! A date I'll never forget. My company had closed its door afew weeks before and made everyone redundant. The recession was biting, jobs were non existent. I ended up hibernating that winter with my freshly built gaming pc. I've bought many games in my life but mostly remember nothing about them. I can remember travelling 20 miles to a game and music high street chain shop (now long gone) and hoping they'd have a copy of Skyrim. There was only afew left. I felt like a kid on Xmas morning. I was 28! I lived and breathed Skyrim that winter and only came up for air around February. Probably the greatest game experience I've had. It was like being back in those times of the annual LOTR releases in the early 2000s, but this time you were the protagonist.

[@sahilxtnt]

THIS IS SO NOSTALGIC 😭😭😭

[@TheresOnlyOneJosh]

By the time Skyrim came out, I was a senior in college. I had completed my capstone for my major and was able to coast the rest of the semester just playing this game. Such a fun time.

[@emese_p]

I was 19 in 2011. I love it, especially the music and sounds dearly to this day. Not so long after finishing the game, we sold the PS and I've played on PC since then. The only good loving being constantly with me since 2011 is my heart dog, Peggy. She is turning 17 in April 2025. She is well, but I've been seeing her aging and it breaks my heart. In 2011, she was 3 years old, but she slept next to me on the couch everyday I've played. Even when Peggy will be gone, Skyrim will be our game we explored together

[@sierratangoandras]

😥🥲

[@kudjo24]

Getting a little too specific lol, in 2011 I was a very poor college student in a dorm running a cracked version of Skyrim that could just barely handle my laptop, something like 98C temps from my CPU with a little fan I added to the vent to keep it from going nuclear. Kept the room a little warm, since the dorms were like prison blocks lol very cold usually, and I remember it did snow a lot that year. Played late into the night with the snow, cold, Junior mints and hot chocolate lol, so strange how you end up missing even the hardest of times because you treasured a simple game that much which was the highlight of a long day.

[@CxnstantineII]

Crazy how the soundtrack instantly takes you to Tamriel, Jeremy Soule is a genius

[@KeWDu]

I was here once. My much older brother asked for Skyrim for Christmas 2011, I had never heard of the Elder Scrolls before since I was only 11 and hadn’t been introduced to any other RPGs. I was amazed by the overall look of the game, and especially the soundtrack. Watched him play through to traveling to Riverwood before we put it down for the day. It wasn’t long before I was asking him if I could play too and since I could have my own save on the PS3 that worked out great. 100s of hours and 13 years later I still can’t get this game out of my head. Even when I’m taking a break from it for months or over a year, I still think about it and just how special it is. Even through the phases where I mod the hell out of it and think, “What was Bethesda thinking/doing when making this mechanic, location, etc.” when really they did exactly what they needed to at the time. I’m thankful that the game has lived on in popularity all this time because I can’t see myself ever forgetting about it.

[@meetrasurrik6982]

I was 15 when this game came out and I got it on the day it released, I remember staying up all night in my room to play it. It was my first proper experiance playing an elder scrolls game and owning one, sure I had played Oblivion years earlier but I was much younger then and I did not really appreciate it as much plus it was on my brother's console in his room. Skyrim was a magical experiance for me

[@blakeandcamp]

I was a sophomore in college living in my first apartment when Skyrim came out in 2011. To this day I have still never been as immersed in a game as I was when I first played Skyrim. The atmosphere and music in Skyrim was just on a completely different level from anything I had ever played up to that point. Even now it's a game I can revisit at any time and have a great time with it. There's just something so magical about it.

[@WastedCarnage]

My poor little heart.

[@l.j.hgroenewoud559]

Amazing. A Nostalgia crept over me like I haven't in a while. That first menu screen.

[@lynic-0091]

13 years.... dude. what.... 13 YEARS?!?!?

[@wujekbandzior]

Once you play Skyrim, you can’t escape the thought of it when the first snow falls.

[@aliozan4409]

That title is enough to make a man cry... So much happened and we grew up, but that yearning for simpler, more innocent times grew with us. We may be wiser now but we just want to feel that genuine innocence and sense of cheerful wonder we had when we first played Skyrim in a calm winter night by ourselves without life's responsibilities crushing us.

[@magicka56]

My birthday is on the 27th of November. This came out while I was in High School and was one of the greatest releases of my life. What a perfect early gift.

[@katie7748]

You share a birthday with a classmate and childhood friend of mine. We lost touch when I switched schools but I think of her often, even now. The way her house smelled. How cozy it was. Playing together (mostly Barbies and American Girl dolls...this was the 90s lol). I've tried looking her up, but, like me, she either uses an alias or simply doesn't exist online. Maybe she left the country. Idk. But every November in particular, I remember Elizabeth.

[@jacobwagner8984]

I have purchased this game 3 separate times. Once on 360, once on the One, and once on PC. I've played it so many times, I've explored every nook and cranny. I have lots and lots of fond memories of playing this game. When I try to go back and replay it, it just doesn't hit the same. I've tried adding mods to make it feel fresh, but it just doesn't do it. Nothing can bring back that feeling of wonder and awe while playing it, except the music. The music stores all the memories, the music reminds me of those times and bring my mind back to that feeling. It's the last standing feeling of playing that game in its prime. I'm not sure a new Elder Scrolls even if epic would ever bring that level of joy again. Something about having nothing else to do in college so I could just get completely, fully, and utterly sucked into this world for hours and hours at a time. RIP Skyrim, you were a treat to the world. I hope I hear this music in my later years and it still invokes these feelings.

[@Raymonddurann]

I've made such beautiful memories playing Bethesda games, I just can't wait to find the next game or next adventure in life that will make me feel that way again. All my life I have been ridiculed by playing games from my family, they will never understand the beautiful times I've made playing these beautiful games. Thank you so much for a chunk of my childhood.

[@Palindrome842]

What an incredible feeling of nostalgia. Overpowering even. Takes me back to a place I miss and haven’t seen for a while. Thanks for this, OP.

[@Kuhtlass]

Magical. Seems warm and inviting - cuddle up in them covers and play until the sun rises.

[@CaballeroJRC]

This is perfect bro

[@neerkoli]

"I wish there was a way to know you are in the good old days before you have actually left them." How true Andy, how true!

[@CamillasChoice]

Last year I released an original song called "Skyrim Eyes" on Skyrim's birthday, 11/11... Just because the love for a game has never been as profound as this 😻

[@sparkalightnow]

for many of us this was the home away from our chaotic household

[@streakingclothed]

As an early birthday present, my parents let me stay up late on November 10th, get Skyrim at the midnight release at my local gamestop, and call in sick to school on 11/11. I had sunken hundreds of hours into Oblivion, Fallout 3 and new vegas. There are few times in my life that i look back on more fondly than skyrim’s release. Uncovering everything for the first time, having those discussions with my friends over xbox live as we played, all taking our own paths in the game. Great times.

[@cameronthorby5799]

I never thought a "1 hour" video on YT could get me so well.

[@sauteedmushroomgaming]

This hit so hard.

[@KathrynB621]

Damn! This made me cry. Skyrim is my all time favorite game.

[@GanitineX]

Skyrim didn't just influence the course of my life, it basically shaped the direction of it, from my freshman year in high school onwards. Kind of wild when I stop and think about it.

[@BibBubDude]

Man. I can distinctly remember getting Skyrim. I had the choice of getting one of my games early for Christmas. I was in high school. I had to choose between either black ops 1 or 2 (I can’t remember which one it was that was coming out at the time) or Skyrim. And I chose Skyrim. I remember being in Xbox live party chats with my friends as they were playing the new COD. I remember being slightly jealous, but at the same time I didn’t care because I was so LOST in the world of Skyrim. I remember for thanksgiving break just playing it all day and all night. Was such a good time.

[@sierratangoandras]

What a decision was made that day! 😱I'm glad you chose Skyrim!

[@akiwaru02]

You forgot mom and dad yelling at each others in the background 😂

[@V1lkas]

this hurt me even more than "you fell asleep with minecraft open on a cool 2012 mid-summer night" :(

[@alexsebastian69]

This got an immediate like. this is literally what I'm planning to do starting next month LOL

[@dhvale9478]

I first played Skyrim 9 years ago today (13 November 2015) and I felt like I was so late to the game. I'm not much of a gamer, never have been but I feel like Skyrim is perfect for anyone. You can get as involved or uninvolved as you like. I've clocked countless hours over multiple saves and even though I've explored the entirety of the map, completed storylines and nothing surprises me anymore, there is a comfort in Skyrim that is just unmatched. I'm sure like every Skyrim/Elder Scrolls fan, I'm looking forward to ES6 whenever in the distant future it may be released. I hope it's excellent. I hope it's all it's being made out to be. But, Skyrim will always have a legacy entirely of its own.

[@almurray2000]

This is a beautiful video. It's evocative. Well done and thankyou.

[@remonfelix6511]

I cannot watch this right now.. I don't want to cry tonight

[@zoinksscoob5077]

13 years later and I haven't played Skyrim, might have to make this my reality.

[@magicalpj]

Bro . . . the nostalgia hits HARD here 🥲

[@subna-x5n]

I remember my brother playing this when i was younger i sat next to him and watched for hours now hes 25 almost 26 then i played it at 10 now im almost 18 nostalgia hits hard man.

[@glebpetropavlovskiy8175]

Broken tendons, 4 packs of e-sigs and a controller. God damn, winter never felt colder

[@KarlAlbertNg]

Wow, that brought me back. It was cold and snowy too. Man, I remember looking forward to 11.11, even told my brother about it a few months prior. Time sure flies huh?

[@ThematicCraft]

This title perfectly describes my first experience with this amazing game. What a perfect time of year for this game. Thank you for this wonderful video. God bless you 💙

[@yerapotatoharry]

this is so specific lmao I love it

[@numb3r5ev3n]

There was no Christmas break for me. I had to suffer Skyrim withdrawal all through work during the first few weeks after it was released.

[@shultz3134]

Incredible game I hope anyone who worked on it over the years before it released feels proud of what they made

[@scrutch666]

Oddly this brings so many cool memories back. Life was good back then .

[@CharlottieFae]

my heart. one day i will find a love and curiosity as dear as the things i felt during playing Skyrim, oh my..

[@Omega-EP]

6:00 Ah hell. Here cometh the tears.

[@Channel13Horror]

Perfection.

[@thrash6453]

Man I remember skipping school on release day and playing the whole weekend. Wish I could go back to 2011 and relive skyrim for the first time, a much simpler time

[@croaker8814]

Since then 2011 has become nostalgic?!

[@john_paul]

It was 25 years ago... 😮‍💨 We need to realize the past is behind us. 😢👴❤

[@Wadiyatalkinabeet_]

I was 7-8 in 2011. I’m about to turn 21. Time flies

[@katie7748]

​@@Wadiyatalkinabeet_ In 2011, I was in my early 20s. I'm now fast approaching a birthday that most would consider "pushing 40," myself included. I don't wanna. It's weird. In my head, I'm 25, maybe pushing 30. In reality, I'm old enough to have teenagers. Which, incidentally, I do. It's weird, man. It's weird. A blessing, but still weird.

[@liamc1277]

I didn't know it then, but those were the best days of my life

[@malcomf7991]

You know what your mom would say to you, when you awake the next day, finally.

[@aphexmid6241]

This vibe is insane. I remember skipping basketball practice and staying in to play skyrim 😭 take me back man

[@s3_build]

Man this hit home.

[@manhuntruler2]

I believe once 2011-2012 hit, gaming started to change forever. Amazing and evolution times

[@willpoweramv]

I love how specific this is

[@RedSighted]

Alright this one hits close to home. I've long had a fascination with nostalgia, it's a lot like chasing that dragon that you know you'll never reach. It's always felt to me like a desperate want to be back in that time, state of mind, feeling etc. again. Maybe one day, or in the next life, we will find a way to finally harness that feeling. As for now, safe travels wanderer.

[@sierratangoandras]

So well said. 🥲

[@iReviewer1486]

Damn this one hits deep. Much simpler times

[@bluefields8]

I remember living with my girlfriend, at that time, in our first apartment and playing this game when it first came out on PS3. It was such a magical game. It will always hold a special place in my heart, unlike my ex-girlfriend 😆