Discovering the MAGIC of Skyrim in 2025

[@magni319]

I remember when Skyrim was released and I talked to a friend (who doesn't really play RPGs) about it for hours, about various activities and things I encountered and how much stuff you can do and how it all feels realistic (yeah, 2011, I know). Then he asked: but what's the story about? And I literally said: "I don't know, there's a dragon or something" xD

[@papertowels9162]

Tiggle, all I need you to promise me is that when you get big, please don't become a clickbait tuber

[@TiggleMeTimbers]

I appreciate the confidence! I promise I will only ever make videos that I feel are worth watching! :D

[@thatoneguy7357]

Skyrim was one of those games I though I wouldn’t enjoy until I actually started it because it came free with my ps+. Now I’ve clocked roughly 500hrs on the game and Im still playing

[@Noobgamer0325]

Don't forget to sleep at an inn or in a bed you own for the well rested bonus. It provides a 20% increase to experience gained!

[@allthenamesiwantedweretaken]

Oh... the joy and pure _wonder_ of playing Skyrim for the first time. I first played Skyrim back in 2012, and wish for the days I could explore Ustengrav for the first time to return, or replay the Dragonborn expansion blind again. Honestly, I haven't felt the same wonder and wow from any other game than when I first played and learned about the grander world of The Elder Scrolls.

[@itskhro]

Ive gotten to around 1500 hours and every now and then I discover something new, different dialogue, an interaction, etc... You've seemingly not even discovered the other *land mass* from a dlc. You'll have so much fun.

[@arikira5492]

Another thing that makes this game so amazing is the visuals and score. Jeremy Souls music is always so nostalgic and gut wrenchingingly good, and while Skyrims graphics aren't nearly as good as more modern games, there's this living beauty there that makes the game feel truly alive in a way no other game has really captured. Skyrims greatest strength is truly the vibes, and the vibes are immaculate

[@anpeace_]

I too had a surprising feeling in my pants when first meeting Nocturnal at 12 years old. Not sure if it is the same feeling you described in the video tho. Jokes aside, great vid! I am surprised rn because it felt like I watched a 30+ min video in terms of content. Amazing work! Hope you do another for the DLCs 😊❤

[@TraciGilmore-w4b]

Awesome video, as always! Your videos just keep getting better!

[@Shad0w5carab]

On that last point about the game not being raunchy… that’s what mods are for

[@jamestaylor3805]

13 years later I have found my favorite playstyle playthrough. The Dibellan Merchant(speech) and Artisan(all three craft skills) with Illusion/Alteration mastery. Just enough perks for the roguish quuckhands and extra pockets.

[@jamestaylor3805]

A female character with the Lover's Insight and other gender based bonuses makes you the dangerous femme fatale seductress, and the Restoration bumping bonuses and powers becomes quite involved and fun.

[@tyalisanathois2723]

Have fun with the Dark Brotherhood. I would recommand to play Oblivion next. The system is a bit rough, but there is ways around. In my first playthrough of Oblivion, I shelved the main quest from the very beginning, prefering to check each faction, organization and secret society before... I did the Dark Brotherhood last... and considered the game done at the end. Doing anything after that was like trying to make the unecessary sequel. I made a few other perso after that, but only played one a good amount of time, and never ended the main questline in the end. I enjoyed the Dark Brotherhood a lot in Skyrim too, but it never made me feel the same way... I ended up finishing Skyrim main quest alright. It is still my favorite faction though.

[@Urbosaaaa]

Wonderful video man!

[@mrsmissy2669]

I am not a gamer and have been playing skyrim for thousands of hours. I tried other games and still always come back to skyrim, my original love. Currently I have two games going, the vanilla version of skyrim and the special anniversary addition. Sadly, I don't have much hope for the next Elder Scrolls game if it ever comes out. Bethesda has moved on to ai generated worlds that frankly are not interesting to me.

[@TiggleMeTimbers]

@@mrsmissy2669 Yeah, nothing beats that hand crafted world. I'm sure it's a lot of work for the developers, but those hard hours pay off big time in the final product!

[@dominic.h.3363]

I have several gripes with the "use skills to get better at them" mechanic: If you play at a difficulty level where it's crucial for you to avoid damage, you'll never level any armor skills. And you will forever stay squishy. Avoiding damage is a metric that isn't easily tracked, so it does not result in any skill you can allocate points to (though it could, since combat states, the number of enemies during each combat, damage taken during an encounter, are all easily tracked, and could be rewarded). Sure, you could recommend me to spend all my money at a trainer to compensate for this, but that's not addressing the issue. Why is intimidation a speechcraft skill? I need seventy speechcraft so my barbarian can intimidate better and then I have to hear incessant comments from guards how they've heard about my honeyed words and that I can't barter with them like with one of those damned shopkeepers? "Hear ye, hear ye, Conan the diplomat has arrived! Fear his words, for they are convincing! Oh, and he can also one-shot you with his weapon mastery I guess." Why do trade skills contribute to my character level? Why do I need to have mastery of a spellcasting discipline so my enchanted weapon would lose its charge slower while having the same magnitude effect on each it just the same? There are many many issues with this system, which essentially boil down to the same complaint: the game incentivizes you to become a jack-of-all-trades, and penalizes you for restricted specialization, instead of rewarding deep specialization, for roleplaying a conventional class. It absolutely does not "hit the nail on the head."

[@jasonhymes3382]

How is that an issue? You chose to play a character that never gets hit. In my mind thats a plus. If you play a character that squishy it only adds to the gameplay experience as you are now more concerned with being directly confronted in combat as a sneaky guy. It makes perfect sense. As for your other gripes its actually for in game lore reasons. Conjuration being the magic of souls and such forth. This is like wondering why your one handed weapons skill doesn't make you a good smith.

[@dominic.h.3363]

@@jasonhymes3382 How is it a problem that damage increases with level but your damage mitigation doesn't? How is it not evident? Lore reason that intimidation is speech? Why would a grizzled warrior with a hulking frame and a trail of corpses need to "sweet-talk" anyone into compliance? Intimidation should come from sheer presence and reputation, not verbal finesse. If you are running your mouth to success, you are convincing, not intimidating. A towering warrior covered in battle scars, wielding a weapon that looks like it could split a horse in half (lengthwise), doesn't need to explain why you should comply. Their presence alone sends the message loud and clear: I dare you to defy me. Conjuration is one magic discipline out of five, that doesn't answer the question why weapon charges deplete faster and your weapon skill vs. smithing comparison doesn't make sense. None of your counters does...

[@Awol991]

Wrong on the combat. It is not just stand and hack. You have block, attack and power attack. They have block, attack and power attack. You manage your stamina to power attack, and you use your block to absorb their power attacks. You can use your power attack or other abilities to break their block and stun them and get an opportunity to hack away. You can dodge their power attacks. You can run and dodge and take the opportunity to regain stamina and magica or heal yourself. You can dodge incoming spell effects (ice dagger) and take cover from flames.

[@Awol991]

That said if the play setting is to easy, you can stand and hack anything, including a dragon. If the play setting is not to easy you are going to have to bring friends, plural, to pretty much every combat and manage your magicka, health and stamina over the combat, switch from aggressive to recovery modes multiple times.

[@dr3nch_g0d52]

Skyrim has amazing looking weapons and armors

[@Badazzgamer43]

100s of hours pah i have 1000s just not on a single character lol between legendary edition and special edition i have 8k hours with 4k in on both versons.

[@Daisieheart]

Favorite build?

[@Badazzgamer43]

@@Daisieheart Probably heavy armored destruction warrior thu'um master. So the skills invest in are heavy armor one handed two handed smithing block destruction and depending on how im feeling for my build enchanting alteration or restoration. even on my more extreem characters where i auto level to my highest natruly achived level. I dont realy ever utilize stealth. my highest level ive natruly achived is 312.

[@Daisieheart]

@Badazzgamer43 thanks for sharing. When I was younger, I loved stealth archery, but now I find myself loving more of a paladin style build with one hand restoration and heavy armor. I guess I just got bored of the stealth archer and turned to the complete opposite 😹

[@Badazzgamer43]

@@Daisieheart Yeah i find stealth just to dishonorable and cowerdly Dispite what nords will tell u there is honor in magic a strong mind is just as valuble as a strong body. Even tsune says there is honor in magic. and u can find past arch mages in sovngarde. also i realy only play as nord. sence the dragonborn is cannonicly a nord male. We all have our own versons of him or her obivasly but the cannon dipiction is nord male in studded armor.

[@FranciscoPd7]

how did you make your fov to look like that?

[@TiggleMeTimbers]

@@FranciscoPd7 Open up the console in-game and type "fov 110"

[@FranciscoPd7]

@@TiggleMeTimbers thank you! great video btw

[@francisco646]

You haven’t played Oblivion or Morrowind yet? Time to work on your next video. Fo’ shiggle, my Tiggle.

[@TiggleMeTimbers]

@francisco646 I actually found a physical copy of Oblivion at a thrift store many years ago. Time to pop in the disc and get to work!

[@tyalisanathois2723]

As much as I love Oblivion, I don't enjoy the leveling system. You need to calculate every skill you level up in to not fall behind the ennemies leveling. If I remember, you need to put as main skills not skill you want to use, but skills you can easily control the progression of. The reason is that you level up after a number of main skill level up, and the increase of characteristic can go from 1 to 5 in a single characteristic, the 1 to 5 different in each depending on what skills (primary or secondary) were leveled up (each skill is linked to one of the characterstic). I calculated on my first main perso, for the second, I used the console to compensate so I did not need to be mindful of every little action. Next time, I will use a mod that change the levelling system.

[@ziggyzaug]

You should try PoE2 I’ve been playing it nonstop the builds make d2 look like child’s play

[@TiggleMeTimbers]

@@ziggyzaug I'll have to check it out! I've always been a fan of Diablo-style games

[@ziggyzaug]

@ it’s been my life for the past week it’s in early access right now so it’s 39 dollars but if you wait for it to fully release it’s free

[@TiggleMeTimbers]

@@ziggyzaug Wouldn't normally be too much, but I've got a Steam Deck on the way, and that thing cost some serious dosh! 😭

[@ziggyzaug]

@ ohhh steam deck that’s quite the purchase

[@TiggleMeTimbers]

@@ziggyzaug yep! Once POE2 rolls around to my library, I'll let you know. I'll need someone to show me the ropes!

[@georgianbay9589]

I currently have like 200-300 hours into 1 character :/

[@Wierie_]

Now add some mods until you hit 30 fps. Jk lol, great vid

[@TiggleMeTimbers]

@@Wierie_ Modded to Oblivion, you could say

[@joshuabillings5108]

I'd argue that Skyrim is more of an rpg than Witcher 3. W3, you're Geralt. That's it, that's all that's who you are. In Skyrim, you're whoever you want to be. Don't get me wrong. Witcher 3 is better written and much deeper.

[@TiggleMeTimbers]

@@joshuabillings5108 Fair enough. I suppose I meant more in terms of character building and choices in dialogue. Both great games, just in different ways

[@ziggyzaug]

Tiggle

[@GenocideLv]

16:30 the self inserting BS of cyberpunk is why i dont play it. Its like with those animes that know perfectly well what their loner audience is like, and dont try to hide it

[@TiggleMeTimbers]

@GenocideLv I agree. I don't mind a little bit here and there when it's tasteful. It's sad, because CDPR has shown they actually CAN be tasteful, like in the Witcher 3.

[@Scholl3-n3j]

Massive?

[@kam6576]

W Skyrim

[@Z3333RO]

Calling New Vegas a Bethesda game is rude. Any REAL Fallout game for that matter. 🤣

[@number51oco]

I appreciate the effort in making this video, but I stopped watching at 3 and a half minutes. You got some very important points very wrong. No dodging????? LOL depending on your build dodging is a critically important skill. No attack combos????? If you are not doing more than one thing when you are attacking, you are attacking very wrong. I will write off those mistakes to you being VERY new at the game. The thing is, if you are so new at this game that you don't even know the obvious things I just mentioned, why are you making a video about it? I really hope no one is passing up playing this great game because of all the misinformation in this video.

[@davidbeer5015]

.. maybe I’m misunderstanding your point, but to me it sounds like compared to modern games with a dedicated dodge button/mechanic and different button presses for fancy and stronger attacks?

[@number51oco]

@@davidbeer5015 Dodge, and attack combos are available to players of Skyrim. If you can't handle pushing more than one button, maybe games are something you should avoid.

[@davidbeer5015]

@number51oco You can step away to dodge. But the dodge is not a mechanic with a button or reward like in games like Souls-likes and other action titles. And yes, you can do more things besides press attack, like blocking, magicka, shouts. But it’s not like a chain you put together for something specific. Each action is pretty much their own thing. I feel like that was what he was getting as he’s seen backing away from a swing in the footage as he says “there’s no dodge,” but maybe that’s just me.

[@number51oco]

@@davidbeer5015 You are correct. If you are going to succeed at higher levels, you will need to dodge, the fact that there is no "dodge button" makes this game much more interesting than just a button masher. Doing more than just hitting the attack button is the only way to kill advanced enemies at higher levels. If someone wants to play a little kids button mashing game, they have thousands of them to choose from. Skyrim is one of the very few games that require advanced thought combined with an actual strategy.

[@bigdmc8577]

You a damm Liar....not spoiled