I Played Skyrim's Release Build in 2023

It's November 11, 2011. Todd Howard has just unleashed Skyrim into the world. No patches. Release build. Take his word for it: it just works. Join me today as I play through the original release of Skyrim, but every time I encounter a glitch, bug or exploit.. my health is reduced by 5. It's going to be quite a journey...
A HUGE THANK YOU TO Nighthawk and the Team at Skyblivion for helping duct tape together a working copy of the release build of skyrim for me! And No I cannot legally distribute it to you sorry...
As Bethesda have just released starfield that has been a relatively bug free game excluding all of the exploits I felt it was important to go back in time and see if we can compare the release build of skyrim to a starfield review of sorts. Now as Todd Howard would never lie and every one of his games have the it just works seal of gameplay approval it is impossible for us to have a non perfectly balanced experience! So begone Skyrim Anniversary edition because we are going to the original!
What you have seen here today is part of a fantastic perfectly balanced gameplay series on youtube where I go from game to game and break them with wacky exploits to gain things like unlimited gold and infinite money all in a fantastic montage. If you enjoyed this then be sure to check out more. The style is similar to RT game and callmekevin in parts. A large influence on this series has come from Valefisk and The Killian Experience.
Chapters
00:00 - Skyrim Release Build
01:05 - Back Again!
03:32 - Meet Nord Nordinson
04:36 - The Glitches Begin
08:10 - Our Journey Finally Begins…
13:14 - Out into the world!
19:24 - Faendal no!
21:55 - Off to Whiterun…
24:37 - Let’s Fight a Dragon!
28:57 - Thanks, Todd
33:55 - Meet Skyrim - 480p mode
36:42 - Horse Shenanigans
39:57 - My Great Folly (which is Todd’s Fault)
41:11 - BIG FINISH
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Title: Can I Beat Skyrim's Release Build? (IMPOSSIBLE NO Glitch Challenge)
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[@thespiffingbrit]

*Todd Howard forcing the game to run at ultra low graphics so as to not make potato gamers feel left out is a 1000 IQ move*

[@thomasjefferson6528]

Love you and your content, truly the god of breaking games/real life 😅😂 much love from Canada

[@TimTime10]

Comparing low graphics on this to starfield is really amazing.

[@Nellowed]

todd the god

[@salvadormuro7346]

I want so badly for Todd to comment one day.

[@lakkakka]

How about you gift me a beef pc, it'd be at least one less potato pc. For a little while at least.

[@Gottaculat]

Funniest release bug of all time is in Skyrim, and was patched day 1. That feature, of course, is that chickens could witness your crimes, and report them to the guards. Todd Howard is truly a visionary.

[@EvilDoresh]

Chickens see what you have done. They _know_

[@hmvollbanane1259]

Are you sure it was fixed? As horses definitely still rat on

[@kir0726]

@@hmvollbanane1259 yeah it's definitely still in the game. I remember slaughtering nests of mudcrabs because they saw me murder some random imperial with a prisoner.

[@oliverv6892]

​@hmvollbanane1259 no they fixed the chickens and just the chickens

[@EvilDoresh]

@@oliverv6892 The chickens are the most integral part of the intended Skyrium experience, after all.

[@HeisenbergFam]

Cant believe Spiff recorded original Skyrim in 2011 and waited 12 years just to upload it, mad respect for patience

[@thespiffingbrit]

wait until you guys see my Roller coaster tycoon playthrough from the 90s

[@HeisenbergFam]

@@thespiffingbrit its gonna be an absolute blessing, have a good day, Yorkshire tea enjoyer

[@Jayfive276]

Clickbaitception right here.

[@kingofmemes5017]

Can't wait for the launch build chess video

[@plasmadragoon]

@@thespiffingbrit now I’m waiting for you to release your video from when chess first came out

[@drewpool4537]

The opening cutscene bug is literally caused by a 'bug'. There's a bee flying around that accidently has collision, causing the carriages to freak out and fly all over the place.

[@ShereKhan510]

Source?

[@gavinrowe6326]

@@ShereKhan510 my child good you can just google it their are hundreds of sources and video I thought my Xbox was broke or the disc was because I couldn’t get past the starting screen

[@JeanTrukas]

That's BS, this bug happens when the game run at over 60fps and the way i fixed it (at least to run the intro) was to lock my screen fps to 60... ​@@ShereKhan510

[@QuigleTheGnome]

but it is also caused by the frame rate being higher than 30 I believe

[@fangsss]

this is not true at all lmao wtf

[@anrijsc1037]

The fact there was a bug 2 seconds into the game DURING A CUTSCENE says it all. Todd, you've created a masterpiece.

[@hmvollbanane1259]

To be fair it's due to unfair circumstances as the physics engine is tied to the framerate and anything above 144 will make it go nuts (hence all the flying stuff throughout the video), so it wasn't really a glitch encountered back when it was released and could have been fixed by him simply limiting the frame rate (though I suppose that would constitute interfering with Todd's full vision)

[@KpK1Cioby]

yea cause some idiot playing the game on purpose to make a video is the most reliable person on the planet and unless the pirated game was fully repaired on day 1, my version was a lot better.

[@anrijsc1037]

@@KpK1Cioby Just like some versions of Cyberpunk were somewhat good on release doesn't mean the game overall had zero bugs lmao.

[@fabianthecownip]

@@anrijsc1037 No need to resort to hyperbole. He said better, not bug-free, and Creation Kit games work a lot better on the engine's max framerate, which is 60 fps btw (not 144) -- else the physics (tied to framerate) go all wonky.

[@vvitch-mist20]

Yeah lol. I am shocked it took this long, but I hazard this game wouldn't be beatable.

[@zorbarek]

I believe that the "glitch" counter is wrong, because I see every single one of them as features designed by Tod himself to acompany Skyrim players.

[@nemozinioux]

They're work they've planned for modders so they don't get bored too quickly!

[@omary5439]

It just works.

[@TheMegaMarshtomp]

Who are we to judge what is a glitch and what is a feature? Perhaps the game crashing is just a warning that you should take breaks every once in a while.

[@Roadvoice]

Proof of that is that they're all still present in Skyrim, Fallout 4/76 and Starfield

[@sausage5774]

@@TheMegaMarshtompohhh that’s just beautiful!!! The thought of Todd watching out for me like the benevolent man he is… I’ve made up my mind I must purchase Skyrim once more HHHHAAAAZZZZAHAHAHAHZHZHHA

[@Spidoc]

this is the closest thing to a normal play through of skyrim i’ve ever seen him do

[@MrPrideHyde]

You mean him not doing the fortify restoration loop? 😅

[@user-vn3bi2uq3j]

I played Skyrim on launch night in 2011 on ps3. That, was Todd’s TRUE vision for Skyrim.

[@merakimelodies8931]

And that alone, my friend-it is the pure, undiluted, unadulterated, uncut dru…I mean game…that Todman intended!

[@marystone860]

I remember that, Oh GOD, LOL!

[@SereglothIV]

That moment when you write down the bucket glitch not working as a glitch proves that Todd is the superior being and convinced us that they're not bugs, they're features that just work.

[@IzaacChristian-bx3bq]

This comment confused me

[@JtheBOSS]

@@IzaacChristian-bx3bqcan you not read?

[@IzaacChristian-bx3bq]

I can read I just don’t follow Y’know?@@JtheBOSS

[@mrfoxycracker4836]

@@JtheBOSS probably not, considering he replied to a KZbin comment.

[@farrel_ra]

​@@IzaacChristian-bx3bqthat means, the bucket exploit is actually considered a feature.. since this version of game doesn't have it!

[@camwyn256]

I predict a negative amount of bugs, that's how perfect this game is

[@jasonsweeney890]

it just works

[@thespiffingbrit]

I see so your predicting I run into 3.2 billion bugs thus causing and integer overflow making it actually -3.2 billion bugs.

[@Vanta_Blue]

@@thespiffingbrit No, no. 9.6 billion bugs, hitting stack overflow twice.

[@ianashmore9910]

I predict a negative health pool.

[@robertandersch9277]

Yes definitely not because of an integer overload

[@Xan4591]

I'll never forget my favorite Skyrim glitch. It wasn't release build, but I think it was the patch before the DLC. I started a new game and went for a dragonless Skyrim for as long as I could (I got to lv40 and finished almost every faction quest). I was riding up to that very same altar at the end of the video because I wanted to see if the Dragon was there. The screen shook like a dragon took off as I got close. Then a dead horse shot out of a nearby wall at me. No dragon, though, so I took the treasure and ran.

[@prettypyrenees]

This is obviously intentional symbolism explicitly placed there by God Hodd Toward. The shaking symbolizes the beginning of the apocalypse. The dead horse is obviously referring to the first horseman, which is the catalyst for the end times. Since skyrim is partially about apocalypse, I say it fits perfectly, just as Hodd Toward intended.

[@shakeyjohnson1171]

Version 1.03: the only dragon encounters you could ever get were the static ones on the map. Terrible times for shout users.

[@SobeCrunkMonster]

@prettypyrenees trying hard there much?

[@prettypyrenees]

@@SobeCrunkMonster trying hard to have fun, unlike some people

[@EvilDoresh]

Ah, _finally_ playing Skyrim how it was _meant_ to be played. And man, that opening had me in stitches. Imaging playing this at release date and going through that "bumpy" opening ride.

[@tehgerbil]

That was the moment I knew I was playing Oblivion with an HD graphics mod. Later on, I realised someone had destroyed the levelling system. Shortly after that, I stealth archer killed a dragon and gave up all hope on this game being any good, lmao.

[@EvilDoresh]

@@tehgerbil And Oblivion was just a stripped-down Morrowind without all the interesting flora and fauna.

[@tehgerbil]

@@EvilDoresh yeah, Oblivion really wasn't a deep experience. The storytelling also became a lot worse in oblivion, which carried over to Skyrim. I didn't even give one shit about the main quest in Skyrim. Not that I did oblivions before I max levelled anyway.

[@ArtisChronicles]

I'd argue it's a bit more realistic, if not over exaggerated.

[@EvilDoresh]

@@ArtisChronicles The physics of Skyrim might be more cartoony than the real world

[@theicedevil]

The cart ride bug is literally a bug, as in the bees in the game collide into the carts and cause them to havoc.

[@qryvein]

it partially was also due to them had forgotten to reactivate navmesh what allowed the carts to be shot into the sky by the smallest rock. you can get that glitch back if you disable navmesh btw.

[@justadoodontheinternet]

Beesics

[@spicydeath82]

@@qryvein you can also get that bug if the guards or the prisoners are wearing any armor that is not original, or if the frame rate is over 60 fps.

[@livingglowstick1337]

The bee bug was patched in development way before it was released the guy who patches it spent weeks trying to figure out what's happening

[@terry2295]

Also it's literally havoc as in Havoc Physics.

[@Cragmortis]

Imagine waiting years for the next elder scrolls to come out. Finally seeing it released and playing the opening scene. Finding out that you cannot continue because your cart keeps flipping over and you can't finish the cutscene.

[@thespiffingbrit]

POV You booked a day off of work in 2011 and all you got was depression

[@slimeylimey1839]

Yeah, kind of surprised he made it through the opening cut scene on the first try, took me at least 20 the last time I tried playing

[@lbgstzockt8493]

Isn't it caused by having a too high framerate? I remember reading something about that

[@Eskeletor_210]

Everytime I start a new save it happens to me. The gates to Helgen are closed

[@Fun4luve]

@@lbgstzockt8493 I thought it was something with a bee.

[@hypehog6529]

quick list of bugs that you may have missed or perhaps chose not to count (just for fun): @ 5:21 the horses in the background begin to jump around @ 6:13 your head clips through the headsman's block @ 9:53 the stormcloak searching the barrel is floating and falls after exiting the animation @ 12:30 the quicksave makes your hammer flash for some reason @ 12:40 the bear begins to jump around @ 13:29 lighting or volumetric fog bug @ 13:31 to 13:52 the ui crosshair bugs out, overlapping undetected sneaking and standing crosshairs @ 14:40 minor visual glitch. alvor's leg clipping thru his apron. only including this because I think they fixed it in a later patch @ 17:40 sb does notice the arrow in him, but does not mention that it is floating around a foot away from his model lol @ 27:08 Irileth and whiterun guard clip into each other a little @ 28:35 You can't really hear it but I'm willing to bet 1 million gold that the fadeOut interrupted bjorlam's line @ 28:39 its very quick but its possible the birds have stopped moving in the distance @ 31:18 solitude guard looks stuck facing the wall. i don't think he's supposed to be there but that's a guess. @ 34:41 the old woman isn't actually holding the broom during sweeping animation @ 36:26 the whiterun horse's spawnpoint is not where it is supposed to stand, forcing it to move and awkwardly spin once loaded @ 40:14 something very strange is happening with the lighting in this room great video btw

[@xCCflierx]

So a list of intended features 😂

[@nikolairomanow485]

Weird way to spell features

[@oatmeal3795]

yea lmao it wouldve been better if he counted bugs like this (if noticed) and didn't penalize himself 14 times for the SAME glitch LMFAO

[@just_bladeok2041]

surprisingly less features in this game then i remember

[@hallucy2215]

this is why u turn on vsync and not act like you know how to configure game settings, play it the way its intended

[@calboku]

to this day, skyrim 1.0 is the only ver i've played. i had a 360 and my parents wouldn't let me connect it to the internet. this actually brings back memories lol

[@TheGam3Br3akeR]

yeah u can get 1.0 on console not for pc tho this version is 1.1

[@tarvest]

I knew it would be bad but I didn't expect it to immediately break the moment the game had anything at all to render. Truly brilliant.

[@infernaldaedra]

It's less than ideal hardware for a 2011 build of a game.

[@dertyp3463]

it's amazing that the glitches start even before the actual game does. those are some sick lowrider carriages ngl

[@King_Sad_Boy]

people forget how bad skyrim actually was on launch.

[@MrAwEsOmE145770]

Honestly. The game does work Idgaf what anyone says

[@yungcorvax4955]

well the cart thing isnt a real bug, it is the cart hitting a bee that is why it flips around and stuff

[@swaghettimemeballs4420]

I remember playing this 12 years ago, found a bandit with a dragon priest mask, even remember which one! (Krosis) Killed him, looted the mask, and wondered wtf i'd just gotten my hands on. It's only years later i learned that it belonged to an entire questline. Now here's the real question: *HOW IN ALDUIN'S NAME DID A BANDIT KILL A DRAGON PRIEST?!*

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

By an arrow to the knee ;P LOL

[@arthropodqueen]

he just uhhh found it, laying around. it's fine. don't worry about it.

[@jamieholland742]

Wouldn’t surprise me if a bandit finds the beacon that thing is found in the most random places

[@ifanthanese]

Without mods the original Skyrim NPCs would loot dead bodies. So if the dragon priest died and the Bandit found him then there you go

[@Cantread807]

Sounds like a feature to me 🤘

[@strawberyyicecreamdream216]

I remember how actually epic this felt the first time in 2011. I legit jumped when the Greybeards did the "DOVA! KIN!".

[@Ashbrash1998]

Same, I remember being so confused and like "tf was that?"

[@mayanightstar]

Skyrim was released shortly before I was diagnosed with cancer as a high schooler. I played so much of this in the hospital, this brings back some real nostalgia.

[@nakedsnake_]

I hope you're well, Skyrim does cure cancer after all

[@JamaalDaGreatest]

Did you die

[@liltjaymusti8600]

I think so @@JamaalDaGreatest

[@tripxez8478]

RIP

[@sumayaahmmed5715]

😂he didn't die maybe. Be positive guys

[@nightfallguild]

It's not really a glitch, but I always found funny that you learn that the dragon who attacked Helgen is Alduin late in the main questline unless you had the subtitle turn on and the game spoil you this big reveal right at the start of the game.

[@rareoddish]

It doesn't help that the loading screen when you're starting a new game has the poem about Alduin, with the big scaly bastard sitting on a word wall silently screaming at you lmao.

[@barahng]

I almost always play games with subtitles (especially RPGs) because my OCD requires me to reload a save and listen to the sentence again if i I think I missed part of it. So that definitely would have happened to me.

[@Chris_Sizemore]

If it is your first playthrough finding out the dragon's name means nothing. It isn't until you actually run into the lore bits about Alduin that the name means anything. And it isn't until you talk to Parthanax that the irony of Alduin interrupting your execution starts to sink in.

[@GelatinCoffee]

the only reason i knew that dragon's name my first time was because of all the hype of the story of the game, i didn't hear the name of that dragon until i got to sovenguard to battle it with those ghosts or whatever they are

[@kl7360]

@@Chris_Sizemore You mean the lore bits that came into the series 2 games before Skyrim?

[@FreakGene]

Those intro crashes weren't bugs, its just there is a 50/50 chance that when Alduin lands on the tower and startles the executioner, he stumbles forward and still executes you. Resulting in such a brutal death that it just removes you from the game.

[@nobodynever4326]

In my first playthrough, all nervous and really wanting to play this legendary game, Alduin got stuck in the beginning scene. Right above the mountain he flies over. He just stood there, in the air, waiting, watching. I had no idea that Todd wanted it this way obviously so I waited for over 10 minutes for anything to happen until the game finally just shut down

[@jakesegdirb]

I remember when I first bought Skyrim I couldn’t even get past the opening cutscene because my character kept falling through the wagon and dying lmao. 10/10 Skyrim experience!

[@diebomb1]

Starfield is out and spiff is playing day one Skyrim

[@luminem57]

If I may, only unholy coffee drinkers live in the present.

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

What is Starfield

[@monkeyman4856]

And Skyrim is still the better game

[@froztrollbru]

@@LavaCreeperPeople I think it's a fallout 76 DLC, wouldn't recommend.

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

@@froztrollbru oh

[@adammanning8882]

On the release build of Skyrim on PS3 I killed a dragon, absorbed its soul, then somehow the skeleton ended up in Whiterun on the path between the blacksmith and market. It never despawned, so the rest of my playthrough NPCs pathed around, and there was no moveable object heavy enough to shove it to the side. Ahh, memories

[@oldcat1790]

The best part is, it never was completely fixed by official patches. There is only a mod fixing it.

[@NYKevin100]

​@@oldcat1790Even the mods don't really "fix" the bug. They just sort of recognize when the bug has happened and do the scripting equivalent of "open the console, click the dragon, and type disable and markfordelete." (Which, incidentally, is the standard way of getting rid of almost any unwanted object in the game - but I wouldn't recommend doing markfordelete on random objects unless you know what you're doing, because some quests break if you delete a ref they want to interact with. Disable is *usually* fine, unless it's an NPC who has to participate in some cutscene, because then that cutscene will probably break.)

[@Shammer1]

Same

[@ngotemna8875]

​@@oldcat1790 Still waiting for the official Patch that let's me finish the final thieves guild quest. I still don't know what happens to Brinjolf. Surely he gives us back the skeleton key and we're friends again, right? Right?

[@humanoidshrek5524]

did u ever try the firebolt spell?

[@greenpepperpasta]

Funny thing is, some of these bugs are still there after over 10 years. It crashed during the execution scene when I played for the first time in 2022.

[@Ramza0]

God I remember playing this and not understanding how an open world game worked because I hadn't really played one before, man they were good, simpler times

[@eleanorgreywolfe5142]

This nostalgic. Pretty similar experience, got the game at midnight release, got home all excited to play and the game crashes in like 5 minutes. Truly the most perfectly balanced game ever made, thank you Todd.

[@GeorgeMonet]

Making it 5 minutes into the game before a crash was pretty good.

[@bibsp3556]

I had like 200 hours before I hit something game breaking. It just worked.

[@oldcat1790]

I recall my PC could barely run the release build of Skyrim back then. I was getting regular stutters until I found and installed a mod improving performance. Todd was teaching players how to mod from the day one, it's amazing.

[@ArteAlen]

i had a ps3 version. had literlally 0 bugs for few first days. its crazy how glitched this game can be.. @@bibsp3556

[@ngotemna8875]

​@@oldcat1790 You joke, but without the community patching stuff for free a lot of Bethesda games would be unplayable. In my first playthrough it was impossible for me to finish the thieves guild AND the sequence were you travel back in time to learn Dragon Rend. I had to put in console commands to force the respective quests into completion. The best part was when i looked this up people agreed that it is an extremely common occurence that both of those quests bug out. .......why, Todd?

[@Suzuki_Hiakura]

I heard from a friend that they had the day one release on console and how it was extremely difficult due to all the bugs... they even stated how there was a bear in solitude that was invincible and would constantly kill them and every NPC.

[@King_Sad_Boy]

yeah people really forget just how bad skyrim was on launch. I had a couple friends that kept crashing on the opening carraige ride on ps3 until the first patch came out.

[@GelatinCoffee]

i had a friend who couldn't play because the executioner spawned in dead every time so they would just stand around looking at this guy laying down ready to get beheaded without anything ever happening, and since he didn't die my friend wouldn't get called over and kicked down to spawn alduin and start the game

[@blitzie66]

@@GelatinCoffeeit wasn’t launch build but early into the 360 lifespan but i had the horses in the carriage just absolutely freak the hell out like four or five times it was funny at first but then it persisted

[@ethereal_sad]

Todd Howard is the greatest human being ever conceived

[@Sonics1DiscordKitten]

​@@blitzie66c F c fry

[@yayvey]

30:48 I know this bug well on Fallout 3. I had to beat that game without fast travelling because of it. Funny how "Survival Mode" exists in all of their titles now despite their games not being designed for on-map long distance travel. All their QA uses fast travel and I really felt it while beating FO3.

[@bradleymayfield9801]

I was just sipping on mi cuppa while watching your Skyrim content and had a wonderful idea. Beating Skyrim Charity edition, only using items you are given by NPC’s. Also love your content, please keep uploading your my favourite content creator 👍👍

[@Gormfeld]

When you said "We're going to play Skyrim in the most Skyrim was possible" I %100 expected you to follow that up with "stealth archer".

[@FirstLast-wk3kc]

Lol, understandable

[@tehgerbil]

Every character ends up as a stealth archer anyway, in the end, no matter what you try to play.

[@FirstLast-wk3kc]

@@tehgerbil not if you hate archery

[@ArtisChronicles]

​@@tehgerbil how wrong you are. I just let a follower fight everything

[@GangstaFred_528-CASH]

Thats meta NOW. When I first played Skyrim not having much gaming experience I went with two-handed

[@NYKevin100]

41:42 - Rare sighting of the non-destroyed Hall of the Vigilant. If Dawnguard is installed, the hall is destroyed when the player reaches level 10, which in practice is usually _before_ the player actually reaches this location in the first place. Presumably, Spiffing Brit isn't using any DLC, since this is supposed to be "Todd's uncompromised vision," but I'm pretty sure Nord Nordinson is not at level 10 yet anyway.

[@stormbornapostle5188]

They should have held off destroying it until you start the first actual Dawnguard quest. Having one of a very few Restoration trainers die is bullshit, even if they add a new one later.

[@FlushedNoob]

I only have the version without DLC on my ps3 so I see it all the time haha

[@jazzyj7834]

Lol, if you use Alternate Start - Live Another Life, you can actually start a new character as a Vigilant and you spawn into the hall. In fact, in my hundreds of hours of skyrim, I don't recall ever seeing the destroyed hall. It's only ever been in it's pre-destroyed state.

[@infernaldaedra]

Yes it's actually pretty rare I got lucky enough that on my last playthrough AI saw it again. The Vigilant of Stendarr were horribly underutilized as a faction in Skyrim :(

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Yeah, I wish it would happen later. At least until you start Dawnguard AND have visited the place. Because it simply being destroyed lacks all meaning and context. If you went there and met the people and afterwards it gets hit by vampires the impact is much bigger. It gives the player a reason for revenge.

[@Hirokuro_Asura]

15:25 this reminded me how during my very first time playing TES V I've managed to bug this quest line out by taking both the original and fake letters from the both guys and introducing them one after another to Camilla, meanwhile stealing the just introduced one from her. Because of this I was able to take both of the guys as followers and they both had positive attitude towards my character lol Sven however ended up being a sacrifice to daedra lord... But no one cares, let's be honest.😅

[@wod5203]

Who or what is a Sven?

[@Hirokuro_Asura]

@@wod5203 Sven was the other guy (bard, a shitty one).

[@shirtstillithurts2814]

The release build feels like a community theater performance of Skyrim.

[@ram_scg7825]

Praise Todd Howard. May he deliver ESO6 in time for my child to enjoy it in her late 40s. (She's 5)

[@chrislastname9682]

I mean, it's a possibility. That gives Todd enough time to sell Starfield to us 6 times, so it tracks.

[@chefbreccia2642]

Well come on, surely she-- (Bethesda is bought out) Her 40's you say?

[@ReaperCH90]

Maybe your grandchildren

[@TheNinjaNiky]

Don't forget now only for Microsoft users😂

[@trollloloololooo]

yess the elder scrolls online 6 😍

[@bubba200874426]

The executioner doesn't lop off your head if Alduin doesn't show. The game just sits there with the executioner holding the axe at low ready forever.

[@ThornyPickled]

I remember this, just sat there waiting for like 10 minutes wondering wtf I do

[@SirJorb]

You can install a mod called "The Dragonborn Dies" if you want to him to cut your head off, though

[@MinnowTF]

@@SirJorb it’s actually called Immersive Headsman SE

[@Ceber300]

The executioner becomes overwhelmed with guilt after killing the first guy and can't bring himself to do it again

[@williamspaulding6968]

YES I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS CHANNEL SO MUCH..please don't ever stop.

[@Zittylol]

much better than the lost game who's name if forget...already one minute and I had a laugh just like the 1 bug you already found....LOL tanks again for the LOL.

[@Rebelzize]

😂Happy to have helped you get this working. Time well spent

[@PlutopianSociety]

I love how the moment you gain control of your character, the game crashed. Todd is a master of foreshadowing.

[@infernaldaedra]

Unpatched games tend to run best on older hardware tbh

[@titop.5228]

Ah, Skyrim the way Todd toddtended it to be played. I'll never forget my PS3 save that corrupted the first time Todd sent 3 dragons to keep me company on a long walk.

[@xRandomSarahx]

The Todd edits at 11:57 cracked me up 😂 I do love a perfectly balanced Skyrim video!

[@thetoasterinyourbathtub1086]

Got Skyrim when it first released. The luxury of the Internet at that time for me wasn't a possibility due to how far out I lived. I put hundreds of hours into the release build of Skyrim without even knowing game updates existed. 😅

[@blakeamazing12]

I love the part where he says "it's nordin' time" and then nords all over the place

[@IncredibleFlyinSquid]

This is rather interesting to watch as I've only just delved into the world of Skyrim mods a couple weeks ago, including my first experience with the Unofficial Patch and my jaw hit the floor when I saw how stable the game was performing.

[@ILoveKetchup402]

Even in the current version of Skyrim the cart still bugs out at the start sometimes, as well as a glitch I've encountered where every single entity, enemies and townspeople, start floating in the air, which inconveniently even when they're barely half an inch above the ground makes it so that you can't talk to them or mount your horse. Great game

[@Steve-xo5pq]

Are you playing with mods? The carriage ride works fine in vanilla with the current build. There are a LOT of mods that mess up the opening scene. It's so bad that i can't play without a way to skip it (ie alternate start or Realm of Lorkhan)

[@AhRisla]

That carriage freak out is because you spawn at the same time a bee or butterfly spawns there

[@bradchambers5886]

Why did they not spawn on flowers? Seems like the obvious spawn point for them...

[@smpk9667]

No its because when the game goes over 60fps the physics bug out, thats why the horses are floating when he turns on the potato graphics.

[@MrKzynix]

Ah, the butterfly effect.

[@AhRisla]

@@smpk9667 not correct. It happens on PlayStation and xbox Old Gen, and on the 360, which was capped at 30

[@hivemind8817]

@@AhRisla no, on pc the frame rate wasn't capped so it could go over 60 and it causes abunch of extra bugs to appear related to physics. I remember this becasue I had to download Riva Tuner to cap the framerate after that almost everything is fixed. Its also pretty clear that's what it is becasue he even mentions how he lowered the graphics to improve performance right before that he shows the horse.

[@OG_Casual_Tryhard]

You can actually get to delphine using the plate glitch, it just takes patience, good aim, and multiple plates cause they get launched into oblivion occasionally.

[@alexstewart9592]

Don't be ridiculous - Oblivion is a different game, and using the plate glitch in Skyrim doesn't cause extra plates to appear in Oblivion even if you are running both at the same time.

[@Valay0r]

@@alexstewart9592 once i found a flying plate in Oblivion 😯

[@dannydumlet]

@@Valay0r You too!!?

[@hellraiser217]

@@Valay0r I read potato plate. Now... Now I must find a way to clip a potato through a plate and launch it into space.

[@PascalSWE]

@@alexstewart9592 Actually all the objects spawned with the arrow exploit in oblivion comes from future skyrim play throughs

[@Vegbuh]

I bought this game on Xbox360 just days after my classmate went into the city to get his collectors edition. He returened with a big box, skyrim logo and all. Inside were a shout wall with Alduin perched on top, the game, map and some other do-dads. The hype was real, and i eventually mustered up enough money (I was 16-17 at the time, 1st year in upper-secondary school and no money on my own. This was an investment in whatever money i had left over from birthday savings and pocket change lying about). To load up for the first time, and enter a new Elder Scrolls game after sinking countless of hours into Oblivion was intense! I am soon to be 30, i do not feel that same rush from starting a new game and having those defining moments that i'll remember forever when i boot up a game years later. Skyrim might be one of those last games i had one of these moments. Running through a burning Helgen, swoshing through initial main quest and barely surviving my first dragon outside Whiterun. Racking up quests and going heavily into smithing to become an armor mogul, selling my exquisite crafts all over Skyrim. It was a bit more tedious than the duplicating glitch on Xbox in Oblivion, but i was soon stacked with gold. To be enrolled into the Blades, going into the sewers to meet Esbern (this was the first and only time i met a game-breaking glitch, forcing me to eventually restart the entire game). I remember reacting with awe on the tiny detail of him opening the slit in the door to check me out before opening the door. It was so cool to see such a detail\mechanic in the game, its such a small thing but I remember that moment and thinking it was so cool for some reason. I delved deep into the caves and ruins, eventually becoming an unkillable Daedric armored murder machine "only" 150 hours after start. Finally entering Sovngard and defeating Alduin to become the ultimate Dragonborn! The DLCs that eventually followed was also top notch, they brought such new and big content that qualified for a new game to fully "immerse" myself into it. Bethesda and Todd Howard have been terrible lately (Fallout 76 and Starfield), and the outlook of future games are bleak if the latest games are any indication of where the bar for quality lies. But my personal experience of Skyrim, having grown up during the early 2000s, in total had me really enjoying Skyrim even in its unrefined form. Chalk it up to my dying childish\youthfull imagination and ease of getting immersed into a fantasy world. But I never experienced anything that broke my spirits, bugwise, in Skyrim (except meeting Esbern, the mute sewer dweller that never opened his door completely fucking up my first playthrough). I eventually bought it on PC and modded it to high heaven. On both Xbox360 and PC i might have finished it 4-5 times and lord knows the amount of hours i sunk into it, I loved TES Oblivion, Fallout 3, New Vegas and Skyrim to bits. Fallout 4 also struck home to me, although that game really brought the buggy legacy of Bethesda to light (atleast for me) and i got thoroughly frustrated by the amounts of crashes and issues that game had (and still has to this day). Thank you Skryim. You gave us some top quality memes, probably made the foundation for 50% of Spiffing Brits content and might hold the record of most re-releases ever! (I have to admit i bought the base game twice for Xbox and PC, then the special edition again for PC).

[@justaplayer_8392]

Fun fact about that sleeping dragon is you can actually sneak up on it and jump on top of it and if your sneak skill is high enough youll have enough time and damage to instantly kill it with a sneak attack because it doesn't register having seen you until it has flown away.

[@SalemJonker-wx9sz]

There's most definitely going to be 0 "hidden features" in this game. It is truly, perfectly balanced

[@himsayhimdo]

I'm hospital recovering after surgery so laughing actually hurts but the game starting to glitch out right at the beginning is killing me.

[@obi-wankenobi1750]

“It hurts so good”

[@randot6675]

The dragon riding was what broke me I didn't even know that was a thing

[@JoshGolus]

This is jus the tale of the Shezarine's power waxing and waning in tandem with reality breaking around him due to the dragons, the anchors of time, being displaced from Aetherius and thus causing cataclysmic ripples in reality

[@marystone860]

Also the Dragon Break didn't help, lol! It's how we can have Mannimarco, God of Necromancers, and the mortal one that who's ASS the Hero of Kavatch kicks, at the same time, lol!

[@ussxrequin]

Thank you Todd Howard for making the game. Thank you Todd Howard's team for helping Todd Howard make the game. Thank you Spiff for creating videos I love. Thank you Queen of England for living long. Thank you Yorkshire Gold tea for being in my cup. Thank you cup for holding my tea. Thank you hand for holding my cup of tea.

[@ChapuleTaylor]

Here's a man who practices gratitude

[@DemianX6x6x6X]

ill never forget, sitting at a friends place back in 2011 and starting skyrim up the first time...the excitement was through the roof

[@TheKazragore]

I remember the day I first played. Was also at a friend's place. I think I was in Helgen's basement when my friend's brother announced that the trailer for The Hobbit had come out, so we dropped everything to watch it. Turns out Skyrim was the better product as I now have around 3000 hours in it across Legendary and Special editions.

[@nuts_fattening]

@@TheKazragore comparing a movie to a game? XD

[@Astraeus..]

First time I started the wagon transporting me was what went through the roof, or at least it would have if there was a roof overhead. Instead it just hit a couple weird bumps and then launched itself straight into the stratosphere...

[@TheKazragore]

@@nuts_fattening They're both audio-visual media, aren't they? :P

[@gojifan4001]

@@Astraeus.. ah truly Todd Howard original Invision of Skyrim

[@griff7774]

The carrage bouncing at the beginning was a bee. A literal bee that has immovible object attached to it.

[@bigslappy823]

Who would win? One of the most iconic video game intros of all time or one buzzy boy?

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I think they patched the bee later on, but the kart ride is still incredibly glitchy. I have to play that part at 30 fps or everything freaks out. Luckily I've made a save right before character creation. That way I can skip the cutscene and go directly into mutating in front of the guards.

[@griff7774]

@HappyBeezerStudios to bee fair he said he's playing it on the earliest edition

[@stefan.5987]

Todd never fails to amaze us, simply a great man with "just working" games. 😂😅👍

[@legoman06524]

Watching this made me think "Hold on, shouldn't it be more unstable?" Then I remembered... I first played Skyrim on PS3. Now that release was "Perfectly Balanced"

[@masonfurlow1453]

Same. Every time I tried to play on ps3 I just fell through the ground lmaooo

[@Wildcat2017]

You got the "elusive" do a barrel roll Skyrim opening on your first boot of the game? Impressive and instills confidence in this challenge.

[@Gibby34340]

Skyrim is like Battlefield 3 and 4. They don't have bugs, they have "features". 😂

[@eoforwic2121]

I think we need a Spiff video of surviving 100 days in release build without dying

[@Nyxo1000]

What a clean transition such a good work!

[@a-blivvy-yus]

So I was watching the video, minding my own business, when KZbin decided to do its thing and post an ad. And the ad popped up the words "it just works" on screen, while advertising for a body wash or something (I couldn't really pay attention through the laughter while I skipped the rest of the ad). I feel like that alone makes this video worth watching. The fact that it's awesome is just an added bonus.

[@weeb3244]

Unless it wasn't in the base release, you could've gotten into the basement by exploiting follower pathing; giving faendal a lockpick and pushing him against the wardrobe entrance would cause him to unlock the door. Granted I also don't quite remember if it's possible to see the locked portion

[@weeb3244]

@@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5 so true, so real

[@larryflynt-jk1ze]

Nice Alt account mate🤣🤣@@weeb3244

[@SupramanRambled]

​@@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5don't think that build is supported in the latest systems, mate.

[@TheActualJae]

Funny how watching this really puts Starfield into perspective.

[@sandythethird2292]

Yeh..... Bethesda somehow managed to make a game much less appealing than release Skyrim. Amazing isn't it.

[@butof]

haha funi starfield bad

[@_Jay_Maker_]

@@butofI mean, it is. I've played it for hours just to make sure my impressions were correct. And yes, it is bad. Terrible, in fact. It's nowhere near as fun, interesting, imaginative or grippingly, brutally violent as either Skyrim or Fallout. It's a step back in nearly everything _except_ bugs.

[@FOH999]

@@_Jay_Maker_ It's weird im rarely on YT and haven't watch anyone review starfield and ive loved it. Different strokes I guess. Why do you people speak as if your opinions are facts? It's odd. Sorry you didn't like a videogame. They really all ought to be made to your specs or else they are FACTUALLY BAD.

[@msihcs8171]

@@sandythethird2292 I greatly enjoy Starfield, but it just doesn't have the wow factor that Skyrim did, possibly because other games compete and often beat Starfield on graphics, modders have already put out some packs to bring the graphics to present day quality. Nothing can beat the 2011 first launch, that cart ride was like nothing else in gaming at the time. I have yet to CTD in Starfield though so it's doing a lot better there, everything's set to Ultra quality and it runs just fine (I did build my gaming PC a little less than a year ago so that probably helps.)

[@casvandijck9338]

A Nord not siding with the Stormcloaks in the intro while claiming to be a true son of Skyrim is the most Spiffing British thing I've seen in quite a while.

[@zerotollarance2243]

Everytime I see a livestream that I did not finish, Get pushed I think back to your breaking KZbin series. Here I am just another number for tea

[@johnderoy916]

When the axe trap made him disappear - man that was the funniest bit of the game for a long time !!!!

[@LnmHive]

That happened to me but it was a draugr that got sent to oblivion

[@Oblithian]

This feature lead to many game reloads as an errant companion decided they wanted to walk onto obvious trap after I just walked around it.

[@HadesImmortalArmy]

all elder scrolls games since morrowind have a glitch like this somewhere, because the traps have a set damage value and a "force". without the character model having a backup code to define perimeters for "minimum space", this causes you to clip through the "resisting" wall that the trap pushes you against. Although in morrowind this glitch was hard to find in olbivion it was rather easy to come across, walking on the top of dungeon maps was rather fun ^^.

[@amei653]

Ah yes my favourite quote from Skyrim. "Do you get to the Cloud District very often? Oh, what am I saying, of course you don't."

[@genzo454]

I myself am more a fan of "A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON"

[@dharusiokay9426]

His wide is so lovely, too. "Looking for my husband? Look in the Jarls backside, this is where my husband is most of the time"

[@SparkSovereign]

Fun fact; he also voiced Masayoshi Shido in Persona 5! Dude's got a talent for slime.

[@jimmyb.5356]

@@genzo454 the sheer amount of memes from this quote.... sigh.. such memories

[@marystone860]

@@genzo454 I swear, whoever did Meredith in Dragon Age 2, is the one who does Meredia in Skyrim! 🤣 I'm like:' It's not my fault your house went to s%#@, because your followers s%#@, lol!"

[@hoodiegal]

Ah, yes, this brings me back to the first time I played skyrim and thought "I'm gonna play it without any mods to start with, just to get the "vanilla experience". During the intro sequence my cart flipped over and the game got stuck due to the game not capping my framerate correctly. This happened twice. I literally had to install a mod to cap the framerate before I could even get to the character creator. 11/10, it just works.

[@KryptosGames6680]

You calling Alduin a naughty dragon made me laugh so hard xD oh quality content right there 😂

[@hammerhead1011]

When it first released, I got it on Xbox. I constantly got stuck in loading screens causing me to dashboard and reload earlier saves. This video really took me back to the broken mess that was OG Skyrim

[@ari-sl3to]

oh god i know,nostalgic

[@JohnDoe-dr9ff]

Forsworn Conspiracy…lost hours of gameplay thanks to that quest locking you permanently in the prison in Solitude. Ah the memories.

[@lukey666lukey]

man I remember having my first ever save get corrupted because I had too many items on the floor 😢

[@Zappygunshot]

My bet is that Spiff never has to lower his hp at all, because every unexpected feature of the game that _some people_ might label as bugs, glitches or exploits, are clearly intentional game mechanics that Todd in his infinite wisdom wanted people to use to their fullest extent.

[@Ericmor]

It was really long since i laughed this hard with an KZbin Video. Thanks Spiffing Britt and thanks Todd.

[@tepomroy]

The workaround is to go rescue Esbern and bring him back to the inn. Delphine should appear in the bar area. They will stand around a while and eventually glitch into the basement and have a conversation. Ultimately you'll get the quest to find Skyhaven temple and won't need her to open the false cabinet door.

[@Mrwassabee]

Never miss a skyrim playthrough by spiff

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

NPC

[@Mrwassabee]

I am nowhere as smart as some of these NPC's

[@SupramanRambled]

Spiff moaning from the orgasmic experience of reexperiencing the release build is just quality gaming content right here.

[@shonewarrior2178]

Bro wtf

[@I_enjoy_some_things]

?

[@lego_minifig]

Just as Todd intended…

[@nicholashernandez4611]

3:01 This opening is our first touch of realism. Wagon trips, even when the skies are filled with dragons and the elements attack us from a different dimension, are notoriously bumpy. Absolutely a feature, not a bug.

[@LeonardoIV]

Getting the executioners ax is busted that would have been funny af😂 love the video🤙

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

I still remember playing it once and walking out of Windhelm via a side door, and looking behind me, all of the buildings had their lower half cut off, so all the upper halves of them were floating in the air. I never encountered it going through the main door.

[@Mike_W78]

I have played this so many times and seen so many glitches and yet somehow never seen the opening cart glitch. Love that it cant still give us awesome experiences even 12 years later.

[@Spiker985Studios]

It was because the physics of the cart was tied to the framerate. So 30 fps was fine (as that's the target for consoles) and 60 was (generally) fine as that was the target for pc But anything higher, and you get bouncy bouncy carts

[@JerGol]

My guy Faendal is a bloody incredible first follower. Once he's joined you, you can trade with him and take back all the gold you've paid him for training your archery, and he can take it to level 50, which is insane that early in the game.

[@_moy_4940]

Amazing video love all your Skyrim vids

[@voidbinary]

The moment I heard release version of Skyrim, I'm thinking immediately about the bug where a Giant can swing you so high, you about to breach into Sovngarde. Wonderful times.

[@randomperson4989]

isnt that in the current version?

[@supremeniij2784]

Not a bug but ok

[@jeremiah1293]

@@randomperson4989that’s absolutely still in the current version

[@infernaldaedra]

@@acethemechanic2653 it's like rocket jumping, Minecraft creeper, Ermac. The bug was so good that the developers took one look at it and said. this stays.

[@Fettman89]

That's the Skyrim Space Program lol

[@laser8389]

Todd Howard absolutely created the most game of all time

[@FreyaCatherineMusic]

It is a very game indeed

[@janjan1759]

Definitely one of the games of all time

[@nicholashernandez4611]

Since the first copy of this game, it has always been the most enjoyable unplayable day 1 game of all time. Amazing in all the best and worst ways.

[@6n100-ent]

I remember playing for the first time and thinking this game is funny cause I walked in the whiterun inn and instantly dying when colliding with a pot, I was 8 and this was the best thing ever

[@gabrieltorres5]

I can't believe you almost forgot about the AWD horse that can climb 80° incline terrain! It's Todd's greatest feature!

[@vigi_5192]

I love how the game immediately starts bugging out, this is gonna be good one.

[@SeanLaMontagne]

I remember playing with my cousins on release. I don't remember it being this buggy, we had a ton of fun.

[@90texas]

Right off the bat, with the wagons spinning around all wonkey, I remember this on my Xbox 360 😂

[@bryan23361]

Nothing will ever beat the first time walking out of Helgen Keep, and having the continent of Skyrim at your fingertips. Truly one of the greatest memories I have ever made

[@brunosouza3326]

Uhhmmm actschually, skyrim is a province 🤓

[@xembones]

​@@brunosouza3326Skyrim belongs to the nords😤

[@jayesgazebo]

@@xembones It's still not a continent tho...

[@YouSeeMeTrolling]

@@jayesgazebo who cares mate it's fiction

[@MrHendrikje]

About to be replaced by the memory of leaving Helgen Keep having all of TES at your finger tips Well.. "About" as in... when Skyrim Beyond is finished...

[@dascandy]

I remember playing this in late 2011 on my desktop with a brand new video card and a SSD. It worked really well on Windows 7 then. Something tells me some of the crashes are not Bethesda but newer Windows acting weirdly. I had it on max settings & didn't see much loading screens.

[@mathiassvendsen9788]

So what you’re saying is we need to also praise Bill Gates for the magnificent experience that is release Skyrim?

[@dascandy]

@@mathiassvendsen9788 I don't think Bill Gates had much to do with Windows at that time.

[@mathiassvendsen9788]

@@dascandy that’s what Godd Howard wants you to think, so he can hog all the glory for himself. It just works.

[@SuperLarrythompson]

Except those bugs were present on console.... too.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@SuperLarrythompsonXbox runs Windows as well. Playstation runs some kind of BSD

[@Haru-spicy]

calling it now, zero bugs, flawless masterpiece

[@idanchen4934]

0:08 - I have this on my xbox360, and the best part, it has the now removed quest that allows you to "remove" Whiteruns Jarl before you got to the point in the main quest line.

[@hithere5005]

I’ve experienced many many bugs in Skyrim but somehow despite going through the intro so many times I have never once experienced any intro bugs. Honestly I feel like I’m missing out at this point.

[@ericb3157]

reminds me of "doug doug" and his silly mod that made things spawn if he said their names: -person in chat "do you still allow swearing on your channel of have you BANNED IT?" -Doug reads that aloud... -mod program: "spawning BANDITS." yes, this happened during the intro, so he had to restart AGAIN.

[@thomasparsons9866]

The only time I experienced an intro is from modded Skyrim on PC. My 360 version never glitched or crashed during the intro.

[@The_slightly_indecent_one]

Sounds like you have never really modded your game. Intro bugs become common after just a few mods.

[@ImaplanetJupiteeeerr]

​@@ericb3157Hahaha i need to go and rewatch it again xDDD

[@foxstudios9643]

I forgot how balanced the official release of Skyrim is, it’s exactly like a seesaw!

[@tylerjones4303]

I remember being so angry about the crashes but eventually figured out all the auto saves were causing it, so my first real play through was with zero auto saves. Came back to haunt me a few times on accidental deaths😅

[@5Davideo]

"We're going to make the most Skyrim-y character ever. We're making a -" "Stealth archer!" "- Nord Barbarian." "Aw."