Evaluating Skyrim DLCs and side quests

[@TheSaltFactory]

Hey man, I just want to let you know that you missed a part of the hit Skyrim questing sensation "Blood on the Ice". You see, the game tells you "Quest Completed: Blood on the Ice", BUT it actually isn't completed at all. I know, it's pretty 200 IQ stuff. Instead, if you wait around for a few days for no reason, you'll notice that the murders continue! Yes, indeed, it turns out to be another guy. If you kill him, that's the real ending. So you can obviously now see why Blood on the Ice is actually the magnum opus of quest design. It takes a lot of study of the finer points of quest design to really appreciate the subtle nuances of the murderer actually being another guy which no guards react to killing people out in the open. And the concept of a quest ending only for it to not REALLY be done is impeccable, like a fine wine, and definitely isn't really stupid. Please make sure to read the wiki article of all 30 quests you do per video to ensure no further curve balls are thrown your way, and consider reevaluating your life you big fucking idiot.

[@TheMagicalBIob]

Can I have a hug?

[@darthlmr7990]

Hey just so you know it isn't the Court Wizard in Blood on the Ice. It's Calcimo, the dude from the weird trinkets shop.

[@TheMagicalBIob]

Dude. Adding more bass doesn't make your voice sound better. It just makes your viewers have to edit their TV's sound settings to hear you without damaging their speakers.

[@nikik5567]

So uh it actually WAS NOT the court wizard in the blood on the ice quest. Congrats, the game actually fooled u.

[@TheSaltFactory]

@@TheMagicalBIob I don't add bass to my voice, I actually reduce it. I could probably tweak it some more though

[@madcat789]

I liked Dawnguard for one main reason; when killing that Snow Elf at the top of the tower, I fired off my bow: it struck him in the shoulder, and because he was near the edge of that stone railing, he was knocked back, and went down screaming. That was unintentionally cinematic and I'll always remember it.

[@santiagoramirez1099]

Did you lose the loot?

[@madcat789]

@@santiagoramirez1099 Absolutely, never got it again. Decided to leave it where he fell.

[@dylanwight5764]

@@madcat789 Get yourself a bucket and levitate

[@madcat789]

@@dylanwight5764 Its been years, I doubt his body is still down there.

[@YouTubecanfuckagoat]

@Hernando Malinche Or, consume netch jelly.

[@davemonkey26]

Remember the beginning of Morrowind, when that other prisoner wakes you up on the ship? His name was Jiub, the very same one that you found in the Soul Cairn.

[@αααααααα-ε6ν]

I thought Salt would mention that but he didn't

[@anthraxboi]

Jiub's corpse(or head at least) can be found in Kvatch during the siege as well

[@MitchJohnson0110]

@@jaster030 it's not useless because it ties into the lore. A book about how he eradicated the cliff racers can be found in Oblivion also. It started as a joke because of how many people hated the cliff racers in Morrowind. Even to this day one of the most common mods for Morrowind is to remove cliff racers from the game.

[@roughrambo1000000]

@@MitchJohnson0110 but Morrowind isn't Morrowind without The Winged Plauge

[@shadysam7161]

@@jaster030 Jiub isn't just some nobody; he was an actual saint who got rid of the Cliff Racers, ergo being canonized as one.

[@dylanbrown1032]

“Cidhna mine leads into a Dwemer ruin.” Yeah, it’s Markarth. The main city gate leads into a Dwemer ruin.

[@janedanchinova7072]

And if something doesn't lead to a dwemer ruin - it's Molag Bal, definitely

[@CIoudStriker]

@@janedanchinova7072 Or Draugr. Usually Draugr.

[@agentscott96]

@@janedanchinova7072 nah, it’s lupus

[@callmeriggy]

@@agentscott96 nah, it's patrick.

[@Kurasai56]

@@agentscott96 Its never lupus

[@letthebasscannon223]

Someone's probably already commented telling you this, but in the Frostflow quest, if you take the dad's remains and put them in the lighthouse's fire (he says he wants his remains to be burned there in his journal), you get a permanent passive 10% buff to the effectiveness of healing spells.

[@SimplyDroog]

Dit not know that. Thx

[@SIl3nZz]

this is actually so good when you play skyrim with the coop mode. 😁

[@SIl3nZz]

*mod

[@OctavioHadra]

That's quite cool, is the bonus additive or multiplicative?

[@afro4640]

@@OctavioHadra Additive, it's a percent. If it was multiplicative then all healing spells be reduced to 1/10th which isn't much of a reward.

[@greatnate6998]

I like how everyone points out the “blood on the ice” disaster of 2020 but fail to notice he missed the part of a night to remember where he is married to a Hag Raven.

[@b3at2]

Skyrim was the worst skyrim ever

[@frosksdeadteeth5163]

A night to remember is frustratingly annoyingly easy to fuck up. I mean, just miss most of it.

[@eziospaghettiauditore8369]

@@frosksdeadteeth5163 how? You wake up in the temple choose how you want to escape return a ring to a hag and then go to where Sam has been located there's nothing buggy about it aside from the usual Skyrim BS There's also no optional choices given so there's literally no way to mess it up

[@frosksdeadteeth5163]

@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 I don't know what I did wrong but I just ended up meeting him without finding out what had happened, twice! The first time was in 2012 so I don't remember. But more recently I remember only talking briefly to Ysolda in Whiterun about a ring and that was it. No goat. No hagraven. Nothing. I'm definitely gonna try again.

[@raito6689]

@@frosksdeadteeth5163 Uh... You can actually skip it most of the quest by heading straight to his dimension...

[@smolgobbo3826]

Miraak doesn't bother killing you in waking dreams because dying inside a black book just boots you back into the real world anyway.

[@ice_exia9789]

But wouldn’t be badass of the villain to kill you to get you out of the book

[@GobaGNon]

Until the final battle for some reason

[@arturravenbite1693]

@@GobaGNon you're there in your full power to kill him

[@backpug1228]

@@GobaGNon also you took back control of the allmaker stones.

[@Slender_Man_186]

@@ice_exia9789 he’s got more important s**t to do, like look badass on a dragon.

[@jacobstaude5139]

if you sleep in a bed in Solsteim you actually wake up mindlessly helping build the shrine outside i found that to be a really neat feature

[@i.k5696]

You sleep! Bah, pathetic.

[@amiablereaper]

It's actually a random shrine you haven't purified yet. Useful if you want to save a trip, just make miraak do the walking for you!

[@Pepper462]

​@@amiablereaperas somebody doing a survial playthrough thank you for this

[@SalazarXenoria]

The court wizard isn't actually the real culprit, in the Blood on the Ice quest. You missed an amulet in the Hjerim Manor, therefore, you ended up with the "bad ending" of the quest.

[@Jackraiden500]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed he missed it, I was half expecting him to pull A gotcha but no soap.

[@TheSaltFactory]

That's my bad. I got the amulet in the manor and assumed that it was just something that guy was messing around with since the quest completed when I went back to Jorleif.

[@adamthompson6669]

i still have that fggggking strange amulet in my backpack grrr even after thousands of hours still bugged :( and followed guides too on it

[@Otterly_luna]

@@TheSaltFactory Willing to change your score offically on the quest then? A 2/10 for a quest that actually rewards you for not following the quest marker is 100% not a 2/10.

[@HIIMPIEZ]

I really was expecting him to start explaining "Waking Nightmare" and then go "HA FOOLED YOU!", and continue explaining how Blood on the Ice continues if you "successfully fail"/frame the court wizard

[@connorwilcox146]

Blood on the Ice would be a great quest in a game that hasn’t spent several hundred hours conditioning you not to think and to just blindly follow quest markers. I also jailed Wulferth on my first playthrough. I think if the quest had presented more choices than just Wulferth it also would have probably done better.

[@InfanitlyGaming]

The thing is, you can literally do the thing he says “if only the game let you” you can follow the guards and arrest the court wizard, or you can talk to him before even going to the guards. There are a handful of quests that don’t hold your hand but unless you actually try to not just follow the marker you won’t find them. But as far as this review goes he would have literally had to never step foot back in windhelm again after arresting the wizard.

[@Slender_Man_186]

@@InfanitlyGaming the only other time the game gives you and unspoken option like that is when joining the Dark Brotherhood, you can attack Astrid and start a quest to destroy the brotherhood. The issue is that Astrid is a named character wearing an outfit that you’ve probably never seen up until that point, leading most to think that she’s essential.

[@samthedystopianrat1945]

@@InfanitlyGaming No, remember he travelled back in time(through his saves) because he killed the Stormcloak. He probably just travelled back to the current save, meaning the quest technically never happened

[@lucasguarda1049]

I wasn't wulferth though... He is innocent

[@DjGigLetsplay]

The quest actualy continues after a while (i think you can find another body or something) and you realize the true killer is Calixto.

[@DoggoLua]

Seems you forgot the DLC with the best quests, Hearthfire which gives you the great quests to build a home in a shitty location and adopt a useless child

[@3hited]

sounds like real life

[@zoroarkthepirate9536]

I couldn't build a shitter so we all use a bucket out in the wilderness, my vampire eyes and skin doesn't like it. And random people keep coming to my place of residence, dawnguard coming for my undead ass and a random bandit chief and his/her lackey

[@jace_519]

*2 useless children

[@looinrims]

Don’t forget the constant harassment by roving mercs bandits and couriers while each home is spitting distance away from some enemy camp

[@theirishviking9278]

@@zoroarkthepirate9536 you forgot the giant at the doorstep

[@utterlyumbral3694]

All this talk of Blood on the Ice but none about how its the most buggy quest in the game? It's infamously difficult to complete due to the game just never fuckin working

[@jesuschristonabike8878]

Exactly! It’s buggy as fuck and the presentation of each quest marker is just confusing as all hell.

[@marcusbergman6116]

It almost never bugs as long as you don't leave Windhelm during it.

[@utterlyumbral3694]

@@marcusbergman6116 Wdym? It always bugs, a miracle if you can actually get it to complete

[@marcusbergman6116]

@@utterlyumbral3694 I only had a problem with it once, and that's when I left the city during the quest.

[@utterlyumbral3694]

@@marcusbergman6116 The quest triggers are all borked up, you cant make stuff start unless you have everything perfect

[@nineiota19]

"I kid you not Dragonborn, the staff turned him into a sweetroll!" - Someone at some point, probably

[@hossdelgado626]

Funniest shit I've ever seen Dovakin

[@Slender_Man_186]

“I kid you not, he traps himself in a soul gem, funniest shit I’ve ever seen.”

[@SorowFame]

@@Slender_Man_186 I think the Dragonborn managed to do that twice, technically.

[@anonymousanonymous1338]

More about Jiub (the guy in the Cairn) he’s actually the guy who wakes you up in Morrowind. That’s commonly known. What isn’t that known is that in Oblivion, if you go into a building on the left right when you enter Kvatch, you can find a dremora wizard and the severed head of a dark elf (which is assumed to be Jiub). Oh also in blood on ic-

[@thecybersaurusrex2591]

Hold up, WHERE is this in Oblivion?? No cap thought I know almost every Easter egg in that game

[@steveo1131]

@@thecybersaurusrex2591 In Kvatch before entering the church, it's a building to your left where a dremora comes out of. Jiub's supposed head is on a barrel.

[@buncer]

I love things on the left right. Better than the center.

[@Logan_93]

It really isn't commonly known at all. I mean, clearly Salt didn't know it.

[@TeamIzlude]

"This book contains all the ancient knowledge of the world" "I'll give you 756 gold pieces"

[@TheKrislaf]

SOLD!

[@RDA000]

Elder Scrolls Pawn Stars

[@kinagrill]

So it's an Elderscroll with the RIGHT info only, and doesn't blow up your brain, or make you blind from reading it? great.

[@vladtepes8461]

It should have been 42 gold pieces.😅

[@A_328FL]

it gives you a stat boost or something for free basically

[@NiGHTSnoob]

Cleansing the 5 stones in Dragonborn is a perfect encapsulation of everything wrong with Skyrim as a whole. It's a callback to a Morrowind quest. In Morrowind you're given a book of the creation myth of the Skaal and an old cloth map, you then have to match the map to your world map as best you can to find the stones, and then recreate the part of the creation myth that is relevant to that stone by interpreting the legend and playing it out. It's absolutely brilliant and probably my favorite quest in any Bethesda developed game. It steeps you in the culture of the Skaal starting with their very theology and makes you care about them by mending the damage done to their homeland using their techniques. The following quest also makes you follow along the Skaal's legal system to find and punish a criminal the way they do it. It's a great way to make them a culture and a people that feels real and relevant to the player. In Skyrim they just put 5 markers on your map and you go around and shout at them and kill the same thing 5 times.

[@JohnSmith-rr3jt]

Then don't play the game? Don't watch videos on it. Don't bitch about it... If you don't like it fuck off lol

[@CommieApe]

The immortal Nord in Solstheim who is seeking Sovngarde with your aid is one of the coolest lore discoveries in all of Elder Scrolls. Morrowind tackles huge questions like where the Dwemer went or if Solstheim is even real whereas every subsequent game used Tamriel as a backdrop.

[@TheSynthPunk]

I found Bloodmoon to be pretty mid overall but the first few Skaal quests are definitely a highlight. It makes sense that you would need a paper map to figure it out, as all of the pilgrimage sites of the Tribunal temple are already extensively mapped out, while Solstheim is still mostly a topographical enigma in the Third Era

[@Okiny-q8b]

It ain’t that deep 😂

[@Sirfortune881]

​@user-sh7vy7xb1d correct skyrim isint that deep at all morowind was thou

[@alexyakes5557]

I personally don’t like how you covered the Dragonborn DLC there are a lot of good side quests that come out of it. You also wished that there was more of Apocratha but there are 9+ (i’m guessing since it’s been a long time) black books and dungeons that are custom made for them, and it’s a shame that you overlooked this point.

[@ramblingrenegade6346]

On top of that it's also possible to use the Bend Will shout on Miraak so he joins your side and you both fight Mora, literally something Salt was asking for. I know it isn't shoved in your face but there seems to be a lot of stuff he missed in this video because of that

[@nathaneshler4099]

Rambling Renegade that is a mod, albeit a very good one. You can’t do that in vanilla.

[@ramblingrenegade6346]

@@nathaneshler4099 Shit didn't realise it was, thanks for pointing it out

[@alexyakes5557]

ProjectiluvOP Yeah, especially if you are trying to go for the hardest enemy in the game, karstag, than it can be a bit overwhelming

[@sackettandres9457]

True

[@MaxArceus]

Awesome video. But now.. the DLC Side Quests. The reason Dragonborn's main quest is shorter, cause it has a ton of extra other stuff in it. Dawnguard has a bunch of radiant side quests, which all kinda suck. But Dragonborn has like, twenty or so sidequests, including some pretty good ones, like: "The Final Descent" "Served Cold" The other Black Book quests "Unearthed" "Deathbrand" Edit: Someone in the replies pointed out "Lost to the Ages", which is from Dawnguard, yet also a great quest worth doing.

[@MLPDethDealr32]

Not only is Served Cold a great side quest, it also has a tie in to the Dark Brotherhood Questline. If you've already completed To Kill an Empire before doing Served Cold, the Morag Tong are sent to assassinate your character.

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

Which one is Lost to the Ages connected to, Dawnguard or Dragonborn? I wanna say Dawnguard cus it's on the mainland but I'm not sure.

[@TheNobleStar9075]

@@gratuitouslurking8610 Dawnguard

[@dionl4292]

Is "Lost to the Ages" the one about Etherium?

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

@@dionl4292 Yeah, it's the one connected to the Aetherium Wars book.

[@samurai-butterfly7393]

in the forsworn conspiracy, you can actually save that woman if youre fast enough. he creeps on her slowly with a knife drawn, and its so hard to notice unless you actually pay attention, which is why people usually figure this out on playthrough 2+ she gives you an amulet and has a small amount of dialogue as well

[@valor1omega]

I remember that, first time I seen it happen I reloaded the game, quickly drew the bow and thanks to slow of time skill with the bow I put an arrow in his head saving her.

[@emirhanfidan2018]

Also side note, it was actually the empire who invaded the reach. And im I the only one who thinks that the stormcloaks are hypocryts considering that they want freedom from the empire while wanting reach under their control and not allowing the people there to continue with their religion

[@kfg452]

You can actually shoot out the sun. The vampire ending is actually different than the human one in dawnguard.

[@adeptustacticus3112]

Not really. You still kill harkon, you still get auriels bow. The only difference is you wipe out the dawnguard after and get vampire themed radiant quests. The dlc is probably my favorite part of the game but it's still pretty weak in some parts.

[@eyoshinthemaximum]

@@adeptustacticus3112 you don’t even have to blot out the sun with your arrows, you can just not and still do the radiant quests

[@OcelotSF]

@Nav I, but still believe that Vampires one is the best

[@ogmistawhite1489]

@Nav I i had to pacify those venders to get those spells as a vampire. Worth

[@ogmistawhite1489]

@Nav I I completely agree. I was just on a quest to get all the spells

[@filipvadas7602]

A few things: 1.If you choose to side with the Vampires you'll learn that the reason the Moth Pruest was in Skyrim was because Harkon actually had his court spread rumors of an Elder Scroll being found in Skyrim 2. The Dragonborn DLC actually has quite a few side quests like the other Black Books, The Deathbrand treasure hunt, hidden bosses all over Solstheim as well as the Ebony Warrior who seeks you out and challenges you at level 80, acting as sort of an epilogue boss. A title he kinda deserves as he's easily one of the toughest enemies in the game

[@MTay02]

The death brand armor is literally better than dragon scale armor when you wear the full set. And with light armor skill of 100

[@amiablereaper]

Yeah Dragonborn has JUICY sidequests. My favorite is the one in raven rock mine for the fact that it gives you a totally unique sword with a totally unique enchantment, and then gives you a couple of puzzles and a boss fight that you can solve *using that sword*. Also off-topic it's fun to start in solstheim with mods and try to fight off all those draugr at level 1

[@takkarsasori8961]

2. "Sneezes in Marked for death"

[@WalterTheWalrus]

Ngl first time I saw the EW, guy didn’t even turn around before getting a dragonbone dagger to the neck.

[@Tony_Regime]

I'm a little surprised that the Pale Lady, Missing in Action, Unfathomable Depths, Forbidden Legend and The Whispering Door quests weren't included in this video

[@victorcharles27]

100 likes 👍

[@DOOMZILLA2-f3b]

And the Cursed Tribe

[@MarshalEastwood]

Everyone taking about how he didn't complete blood on the ice but no one talking about how he called Mara a daedra.

[@bonkazonk4020]

Ikr it pissed me off

[@docbrown3405]

Eh. Canonically they're kinda the same thing, but yeah albeit incorrect.

[@aubreyh1930]

He is. Just the most powerful kind

[@bonkazonk4020]

@@docbrown3405 Mara isn't technically daedric, rather Aedric

[@owenjames8575]

@@aubreyh1930 he? The wife of akatosh/lorkhan? The mother goddess of the empire? The divine that is presented exclusively as female?

[@AuXiiLia]

I think a highlight of the Dragonborn DLC were some of the unique bosses such as Karstaag and the 3 dragon priests that have different abilities to the standard ones you find in Skyrim. Also, the Ebony Warrior.

[@bebo2629]

Doesn't the Ebony Warrior just in the Legendary Edition?

[@ghosttoast8610]

Tomte the legendary edition comes with the dlc🌚

[@bebo2629]

@@ghosttoast8610 I know but the legendary edition still has gameplay changes that exist without the DLC.

[@SynchronizorVideos]

Yeah, I got a huge kick out of exploring Solstheim and getting involved in all the side quests and characters there. Learning about the Skall, Helping bring Raven Rock back to life, hunting pirate treasure, funding a dig site, finding all the Black Books, playing with new alchemy ingredients & smithing materials, messing with Thalmor some more, etc. Even the dungeons were pretty cool. While they did tend to use familiar art assets, they usually involved some new mechanics & puzzles. Nothing groundbreaking, but enough to be interesting. Plus, hearing some of the Morrowind soundtrack incorporated rang my nostalgia bell pretty good.

[@alekseykhranitel9410]

There’s so much of this that you took the “face value” ending that was technically the wrong ending or legitimately the one ending and take it as shallow rather than than checking the dialogue options and asking questions rather than jump to conclusions

[@PumpkinsAmongUs]

Love can be cruel sometimes, but calling Mara a Daedric Goddess is a bit harsh

[@terryjones2467]

I thought all of the gods were daedra of some sort. Am I wrong?

[@umbradens6129]

@@terryjones2467 its complicated She is an Aedra which is similar to the deadra but with a lot of lore difference. She is connected to the world while the others are outsiders

[@Noob4745]

@@terryjones2467 Very wrong

[@Noob4745]

@@terryjones2467 But if you got time, i'll sugest you eatch Fudged Muppet, it's a the elder scrolls lore channel

[@terryjones2467]

@@Noob4745 oh I have, it's just been a while.. love Fudge Muppet. Still though Daedra, Aedra, they all come from the Daedric realms don't they? They are just separated by their motivations towards humanity. Except Talos. Yeah I probably do need to catch up on my lore lol. Maybe when Elder Scrolls 6 comes out.. if that ever happens

[@stephenmoore6252]

I ALSO LEFT THE LEXICON!!! I thought I was the only idiot who ever did this. I assumed the quest was glitched and came back years later and grabbed it at random, finally allowing me to continue the quest.

[@KiomonDuck]

Become a clepto and you'll never leave anything behind.

[@brandoncarlson1565]

I picked it up only because the first time I got that quest i got from septimus by chance after running into the frozen wastes after breaking out of the winterhold jail.

[@nielslach9343]

I once left the elder scroll where you activate it after you've gone through that cave with big glowing mushrooms leading to it despawning and breaking both the main questline and the dawnguard questline

Even having played it several times over, I still forget to grab the lexicon every other playthrough. It's great 😁

[@Cms7899]

Nope, I'm actually pretty sure that most people forget it in their first playthrough, but once you realize this, you make sure not to make that same time consuming mistake again.

[@gwsmith4]

I always really enjoyed the Dawnguard DLC. As someone that always did the companions' quest line, it felt nice to have Lord Harkon directly point out the fact that you're a werewolf, (if you haven't been cured when you return Serena) and even throw some shade. It made the final boss fight 10 times more enjoyable for me for when I inevitably transformed into a werewolf and fought him that way, (even if I did have to reload because Isran walked in on me transformed and decided to try and fight me) because It always felt like it gave me something to prove.

[@FyoCoutch187]

Has the oghma infinium a book of infinate wisdom. Sells it to random shopkeeper for 700 gold

[@db5094]

"infinite wisdom" = like 5 levels of experience and that's it

[@OKCoolRancher]

@@db5094 unless you use the glitch to level up as much as you want

[@metetural9140]

@@OKCoolRancher they patched it like 7 years ago

[@robertwallach1828]

The Oghma Infinium is one of my favorite artifacts. Nothing wrong with practicality, those five levels in each of one of the 3 skill sections goes a long way.

[@db5094]

@@robertwallach1828 fair enough

[@quigonjinn6941]

In the "Blood on the Ice" quest the murderer actually isn't the court wizard but Calixto who owns that museum of antiques. If you confront the court wizard before talking to the steward you'll realize it isn't him but someone else. After you patrol the streets at night, Calixto will attack a female in which you slay him and the quest ends.

[@Lazypackmule]

He also has a journal in his shop that explains his actual motivations

[@DemonLordSparda]

Well the guy who runs this channel is pretty stupid. I'm just quoting him from the first quest review.

[@asrulahmad5862]

@@DemonLordSparda agreed in terms of the stupid (VERY)

[@ProDTeach]

=gasp=

[@Anomalyy666]

Yeah I knew when I fucked up with the mages WTF reaction. Not a good feeling putting am innocent behind bars

[@davidschulberg8584]

That Ralof cameo in Rise in the East nearly made me spit out my drink

[@kronosbach5263]

Rise in the East is the only quest on the list I didn't know about, which is cool

[@Slender_Man_186]

I find so many f**king bandits that look like Ralof clones.

[@deadtempleknight.6332]

A thing to take note of, Dawnguard is longer if you consider the main questline, yes, but Dragonborn adds in a whole ''new'' map, with side quests and plenty of new things to explore.

[@reaganeidemiller7132]

Quality over quantity though, Dawnguard has the best few NPCs in the entire game, some of the best added mechanics, and a new plane.

[@Lolpy.]

@@reaganeidemiller7132 Doesn’t Dragonborn have new plane? Apocrypha?

[@toasterproductions3733]

@@reaganeidemiller7132 dragonborn has plenty of quality tho. anxd it adds a lot for people who wanna roleplay

[@reaganeidemiller7132]

@@toasterproductions3733 it's good, but it just has a lot less going on. It's a really good daedra quest, but unlike Dawnguard the main questline it offers doesn't really have characters as interesting or memorable

[@wasienka]

@@reaganeidemiller7132 You're talking as if Neloth didn't exist.

[@chrsuppe]

I kind of expexted "The Atherium Wars" to be here, but maybe i just remember it to be much better than it actually is... I remember really loving that quest for how interesting it was lore wise.

[@smileyn7377]

But gameplay wise it is still go there, kill that, get something.

[@chrsuppe]

@@smileyn7377 That's true, but it was exciting to locate and explore all the dwemer ruins in search of the Atherium crystals and finally finding the Atherium Forge. I just really love the dwemer lore and dungeons in the Elder Scrolls series.

[@tankedwarthog6424]

The only real reward for that quest though is the atherim crown the staff sucks and while the shield has it's uses it is for a very specific play style, where the crown can be used by any play style

[@tankedwarthog6424]

And the quest is good in the first dungeon but all the rest of the locations kind of suck luckily two of the shards can be easly obtained

[@db5094]

For me I got so bored by it I only did it on my first play through.it was literally watch a utube vid find the locations get blue things get item you don't need

[@carneus]

Actually Miraak's cultists are pretty weird. You never see them again on Solstheim except for like one enslaved working on building the temple of Miraak? Also I think the game is pretty clear that Miraak has had no direct contact with the island (or the rest of Nirn) since he entered Apocrypha so these letters telling cultists to find the false dragonborn literally can't be from Miraak.

[@irishONgaming]

You’ve made an hour long video that is pretty interesting and I enjoyed it. However due to one thing in the first 5 minutes the comment section and discussion shall be forever overshadowed. Being a KZbinr must be fun!

[@Sl1mch1ckens]

People love any chance to flex their nerd intelligence, yes that quest has a different end but loads of people would of played and got the ending he did so its accurate to use in a review. Shame the other 55 mins will be ignored just so people can feel like a smart guy.

[@Lakefront_Khan]

@@Sl1mch1ckens It's not "flexing" it's reading a book that's missing half the pages and saying it's a bad book.

[@eagle0114]

Reminds me of how his criticism of Skyrim in his previous video was somehow obsolete because of a sponsor. Basically, "haha bad sponsor. Lalala I can't hear you, there's nothing wrong with the game."

[@VashdaCrash]

@@Lakefront_Khan c'mon, books don't bug and bar you for reading in the middle of the story, nor you can "read it wrong" in a way that you miss some of its context.

[@Sl1mch1ckens]

@@Lakefront_Khan not really an accurate comparison, a book is a 100% set story if you want to make a book comparison its more like 2 people reading a choose your own adventure book and one of them reviewing it, not everyone would choose the same things much like quests in games. Thats like saying i cant review the witcher because i have only gotten one of the possible ending same with red dead, seems a tad silly,

[@mckenzielannigan4305]

why does it feel like a theme where Bethesda's DLC always outperforms the vanilla content

[@vogonp4287]

I don't know, but every Bethesda game that I have played except for Morrowind had dlc content that was better than the main content.

[@nick15684]

@Ralis Sedarys Yeah, that's actually true. If I spend $20 on a DLC I expect to get an *entire third* of the original game's value worth of new content. Not just a couple of weapons, or some armor. Bethesda actually does a really good job at that, and the pricing of the DLC usually feels fair because of it.

[@Kris-ok2eu]

@@vogonp4287 pretty sure at least in fallout 4’s case is that it wasn’t written by Emil Pagliarulo and I think it was the same for Skyrim although I could be wrong. The difference in quality between FO4’s vanilla story writing to Far Harbour was genuinely monumental.

[@michac.8283]

It's not bloated

[@samtilden4452]

They get time to hear mistakes and figure how to not make them again, then they make new mistakes. Rinse and repeat

[@JaeshaunDT]

reminded me of this one time during Hircines hunt quest where instead of going to the grotto, the dude who turns into a werewolf decided to run around the skyrim in beast form drawing aggro from every living thing. i could see the quest marker just moving around the map and it wasn't like he was fighting them, he was just running at full sprint with infinite stamina while shit chased him. it was simultaneously both hilarious and infuriating because i could not stop this guy for shit. i even turned into to werewolf at one point to try and keep up with this dude. took a console command to put him down.

[@chesterstevens8870]

You selling the Oghma Infinium gave me an aneurism. EDIT: seeing all the content for Dragonborn you skipped sent me into an alcoholic depressive spiral, and now I need a liver transplant.

[@seankrkovich2869]

I mean who wants to read in a video game? Seemed pretty reasonable to me. Edit: this is a joke.

[@cgijokerman5787]

@@seankrkovich2869 um... Most rpgs require reading if they have good dialogue writing options.

[@sitzreihe15]

@@seankrkovich2869 the Oghma Infinium is an effect book, and a powerful one too lol

[@nuclearpugg]

@@mr.orange3173 That's actually torture

[@MrRys]

@@cgijokerman5787 so not Skyrim's case then?

[@rumpunched6277]

Awwww you didn’t put Habd’s remains in the lighthouse fire. It gives you a decent okay-ish perk but it’s still novelty.

[@yourehereforthatarentyou]

what does it do? ive never known about this

[@ehdollet9641]

@@yourehereforthatarentyou Gives you a 15% bonus to restoration magic I think

[@KoryLunaa]

widepeepoSad

[@FricknA]

@@ehdollet9641 I think it gives a 10% bonus to healing spells.

[@TheReZisTLust]

@Giovanni Messe 10% is pretty good if you have other%

[@Ellisepha]

36:37 The best thing is, if you actually go back to Fort Dawnguard with Serana before bringing her back to Harkon, Isran's like "Oh yeah, do what she says, sure."

[@jeremycarnes1656]

She refused to enter the fort on my play through.

[@Ellisepha]

@@jeremycarnes1656 Yeah, that's normal. But you can still tell Iskan before going to Harkon.

[@jeremycarnes1656]

@@Ellisepha I didn't even think to try.

[@SilverRagaire]

The Dragonborn: Huh, I guess the Wizard was just a Necromancer. Ight... Calixto: Yeeeeeee, he’s totally the murderer...

[@SamButler22]

In the Sanguine quest, the lady you get a ring off was actually my wife. She was totally cool with my drunk ass going off to marry someone else apparently.

[@yourehereforthatarentyou]

the way you put it "my drunk ass" is making me laugh super hard rn

[@antdowd918]

You the protagonist, what she gonna do? Remember you? Poor Skyrim, always on the cusp of reality simulation but every time falling into the uncanny valley.

[@trashcant69]

Lmao Ysolda is actually a drug dealer

[@SamButler22]

@@antdowd918 I mean I got expelled from Hogwarts when someone died in the crossfire of a dragon attack in their courtyard

[@SamButler22]

@@trashcant69 why you think I married her?

[@cameronpower7814]

There are no words to explain the hollow feeling I am left with every time I hear Salt give a better quest than anything in the game he's reviewing.

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

He didn't tho

[@Hank..]

"I honestly thought I wasn't going to be able to bring myself to jump into Skyrim again" thats what everyone says... before returning to Skyrim for the 100th time

[@salamanderthebullfrog6586]

Skyrim, also known as Todd Howard’s Wacky Dragon Adventure

[@KiomonDuck]

Skyrim also known as Bathesdas last great work before the fall.

[@FriskyD.]

I prefer referring to it as The Containment of Reanu Kheeves

[@joshuanorris5860]

And oblivion re-skin :p

[@joshuanorris5860]

@@KiomonDuck meh i thought skyrim was phoned in. Oblivion came out years before and is just as good imo so i give that title to oblivion :P Its splitting hairs though because your mostly right. :)

[@KiomonDuck]

@@joshuanorris5860 all Bethesda games up to Fallout 4 are just ok or just good. I like FO3 - FO4 and all the Bathesda games between.

[@rabbithaze9707]

I think it's funny how much of Dawnguard just assumes you'll choose to be a vampire lord. Like the dialogue you mentioned about leaving Serana, and like. you find out the moth priest is in skyrim cause Harkon put out a false lead about a Scroll being found which lead the Priests there as part of his evil scheme, etc.

[@orionp2227]

I've honestly never chose the vampires side before

[@Slender_Man_186]

@@orionp2227 mainly because being a vampire sucks. Wearing a hood or even a full face covering helmet doesn’t protect you from the sun, feeding makes you weaker (why?), if you go too long without feeding guards automatically attack you, going even longer without feeding leads to the sun becoming lethal, it makes your character look ugly, and the vampire lord form looks even uglier and is worse than the Werewolf form.

[@xeibei4804]

@@Slender_Man_186 going without feeding makes you stronger but when you feed you get more inmune against the sun thats why.

[@Slender_Man_186]

@@xeibei4804 yeah that’s still stupid and makes no sense, why would becoming more powerful also make you weaker to the sun? That’s the exact opposite of what should happen. That wasn’t even the point I was making, I was pointing out that being starving making you stronger makes no sense, idk about you but I feel a lot more energized when I have a decent meal in me, and I certainly don’t feel vastly stronger when I’m on the verge of starving to death.

[@anna-flora999]

@@Slender_Man_186 you need blood to cling to your humanity (or equivalent for other species). drinking blood is a sort of Bandaid for the curse. You're less Vampiric the more blood is in your system. If you don't drink blood, the curse of vampirism has no counterweight and grows stronger. I honestly doubt that not drinking blood would actually kill you at all, it would just turn you feral after a long enough time

[@ronakino]

Whenever I’m suppose to command the dragon to fight, I literally put down the controller and grab a snack. The dragon will fight without any input on the player’s part. It is a cutscene.

[@Potatezone]

If you just press the land command, it takes you straight to the top. Why did I learn three parts of a shout to have a shitty elevator ride?

[@ristiannarussell8116]

@@Potatezone you can use it to ride any dragon around now & its hilarious to watch enemies turn on each other.

[@ebonslayer3321]

Honestly, I never minded the whole riding dragons. I never expected much out of it simply because I had repeatedly proven that these beasts are simply inferior to me in every way, shape, and form. If I smashed the strongest dragon that ever existed, what will some random dragon I find do that my uber enchanted toy sword can't?

[@theworksproject13]

Jiub, the guy in the soul cairn that killed all of the cliff racers, is the same character that wakes you up in the beginning of morrowind before you make your character

[@fuckerikbockenstette]

How could he miss this. He also doesn’t know you can permanently reanimate any person? Complaining there isn’t enough summons? Dude you can have nazeem with daedric armor smh

[@Marci.B]

He also doesn't seem to recognise Neloth. For someone praising Morrowind he seems to be paying zero attention to the stuff from that game lmao

[@fuckerikbockenstette]

@@Marci.B I said in another comment he didn’t recognize divath like wtf

[@Mazaroth]

I got a reason why he doesn't recognize the stuff, and it's because skyrim just luls your mind into this receptive state, just mindlessly droning over its content because it's just so fucking boring.

[@MisterBones2910]

@Stinko De mayo That is unless it's a setup for going to the Cairn in ES6 and meeting Jiub again to get the rest of his memoirs.

[@96keyblade]

42:50 It's great listening to him analyze and come to conclusions the game outright tells the player, such as here with Valerica also being a Daughter of Coldharbour.

[@fumbleweeddumblecock2360]

Calling Mara a daedric god triggered me more than Todd Howard's approach to game design.

[@Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1024]

In reality they might as well all be aedra and daedra it's arbitrary some daedra are better than some aedra

[@realkingofantarctica]

One time I was doing the White Phial quest, and at the very beginning of the cave when I got through the ice part and was heading to the first doorway, I did one of those cinematic executions on a draugr, and the game did this glitch where I sunk through the entire level and dropped into the final room with the word wall. That was probably the most convenient glitch I've had in a Bethesda game.

[@TurKlack]

What bothered me the most about skyrim, is that every cave, every building outside the towns, every hole in the ground and every dwemer ruin on the map was a big fuckoff dungeon. After the 10th or so dungeon I was already tired of all the others that I knew are coming. I really wish caves were at best just a few corridors and maybe a bigger room at the end, or maybe just one big room. I really wish the Dwemer Ruins would actually look like Factories and Cities of the ancient dwarves. I just wish I didn't have to slog my way through half or one hour of dungeon corridors for every dungeon I find, just to reach the end that gives me more loot than I need and a fucking shortcut to the beginning of the dungeon.

[@GlaceonOfHearts]

39:54 "maybe they'll run into a bear trap" Honestly, if you're me, YES. I never remember to check the goddamn ground for bear traps in Skyrim, EVER. They get me EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

[@thurenv]

22:04 You can get a perk if you burn the remains atop of the lighthouse, i think in his diary it tells that that place was calming or something like that 45:12 Jiub is the first NPC you look at the begining of Morrowind, he is the guy who ask your name. Nice video, Skyrim DLC´s are the best part of it, speceally Dragonborn with "future nostalgia" if you player the Bloodmoon DLC of Morrowind

[@StupidNSimplesns]

It's weird how he didn't mention Jiub's other appearances

[@BGMFkr]

Love your videos dude. One of the few creators that i binge watch.

[@gigabytetech5509]

When you announced you were doing skyrim dlc i got really excited.... Just finished the video and Its really well done cant wait for the next.

[@jwalton1915]

Blood on the ice is literally one of the few actual good quests in Skyrim. Your outcome with it here is a testament to how Skyrim conditions a linear approach in the player though.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Except that this guy makes these mistakes in his videos all the goddamn time.

[@jwalton1915]

@@fuzzydunlop7928 Like I say I think it's more telling of the game, rather than the individual on this one. But I get the feeling you just don't like this guy. 🤷‍♂️

[@beepmoo8771]

@@fuzzydunlop7928 why did you reply to multiple comments saying the same thing? Did you seriously get so mad over one (albeit glaring and kinda stupid) mistake in the video that you felt the need to let everyone in the comment section know about it? Are you okay?

[@c-puff]

Beepmoo lol ikr?

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

@@beepmoo8771 It takes seconds to write a comment. You don’t have to be mad or even particularly driven to do it repeatedly - I said it, because it’s true. Dude’s lazy as fuck with his writing. There, I said it again. He makes the same mistake repeatedly, I make the same criticism repeatedly. Denoting bitterness is just a way to delegitimize the criticism, despite the fact that it’s valid criticism. People can say it doesn’t bother them and that’s fine but taking issue with my point or the frequency I choose to impart it (perhaps I’m choosing to engage multiple people in the same discussions, because otherwise I wouldn’t be having this conversation with as many people, nor getting the diversity of feedback) like I’m somehow out of line is ridiculous. I’m not just copy-pasting the same comment, I’m communicating the same point and in doing so engaging different people. I guess we’re supposed to stick to some fucking unwritten decorum on this website now? “Can only make a given point once per comment per video only.” What is that bullshit? lol

[@gabrielarkangelo]

36:25 I only figured that out after a few replays.. the reason why they make you walk there is because they want to show the progress of the Fort. Sometimes when you return there during the first few quests.. you will notice that they made changes to the place. But after all these changes are made, they will let you fast travel to the actuall Fort. Could be one or two times.. I don't recall. And also, of course, that vampire attack.

[@Lazypackmule]

"Daedric goddess of love, Mara" uh

[@Clash_In_Saff]

Its a meta commentary satire on how all divinity is from the same source

[@short0811]

“AnOTheR HanD ToUChEs tHe StOnE!”

[@andrewsnyder9301]

@@short0811 That's Meridia. And it's beacon.

[@short0811]

@@andrewsnyder9301 haha damnit I stand corrected! Thanks man!

[@royalenigma434]

@@short0811 Dont you mean "ANOTHER HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON" Blowing out your eardrums and making you turn the volume down to prevent hearing loss

[@gandalftheserb]

Miraak was actualy almost killed by another Dragonpriest when Hermaus Mora came and made a deal with Miraak and saved him by taking the injured near death Miraak to his realm. The battle between Miraak and the other Dragonpriest lasted for days and both of them were so powerful that their battle actualy tore a whole part of land off of Morrowind and that chunk of land that was torn off became Solstihem. The story is very cool and I recommend reading it

[@eldridgecharles1313]

Despite many people not liking this game, this is still my favorite RPG of all time so far, and I'm glad to see you doing more videos on it.

[@3hited]

I think most people do like skyrim. It's just that once you start analyzing the game you see that there isn't much complexity, but because the world is so big and has so much to do it seems complex. Skyrim definitely is a good game

[@abot4029]

@@3hited Agreed. I can't stand Skyrim, but that's only because of the thousands of hours I've put into it.

[@dbehnia2351]

3hit Thats cause people want to complain and fail to realize what the game does well. Skyrim has incredible world building, immersion, environmental design, exploration and diversity, replay ability, and charecter choice. It does these things better than most modern games on the market but few actually praise these things because shitting on Skyrim is fun nowadays.

[@DiscardatRandom]

I can’t have fun in this game without 100+ mods

[@TacoBellFire]

Kinda wished you would’ve talked about Hearthfire a bit, I know it’s not quest based but fits really well in Skyrim

[@akai4942]

It's just The Sims in skyrim, but times worse

[@terryjones2467]

I liked it

[@Mr._Anderpson]

There is a mod which allows you to clear and rebuild a mine just south of the manor you build northeast of Morthal. It added a touch of realism. Dragonborn builds manor, opens mine and fishery, a settlement springs up where the swamps and tundra meet. I like to add that along with a meadery mod. It allows the player to imagine they're challenging the status quo of families like the Black-briars and SIlverbloods. As usual, modders take a janky Bethesda game & make it sparkle.

[@Sathtana]

@@Mr._Anderpson What's it called?

[@Mr._Anderpson]

@@Sathtana Windstad Mine. I combined that mine with the Honeystrand Meadery mod. There is also a similar mod for a large farming manor outside Whiterun, but the Hearthfire manor near Whiterun is a bit too close to "The Hideaway", which is a Hearthfire compatible cave which you can turn into a home. That's great for Frostfall, having a nice, warm cave to use on the border of the Pale.

[@pg3384]

One of my favorite things about Serana is that in the first quest that you meet her and need to bring her to the island castle (and maybe other quests, I don't remember), if you tell her that you want to part ways or you ask her to remain still, she says "where will you go? I'm staying with you" or something like that. Ask her again and keep asking her, she'll say something like "nice try" or just a "no" I don't remember.

[@Mrhappyface52]

Basically Bethesda just saying "nah she's essential to this linear quest" I wish they could've added an optional ending to the quest where you tell her to make the journey on her own to her home. (I mean the only thing she seems to remember after being awoken from her sarcophagus is her home) If the player dares to make this choice, this'll mar the relationship between the Dragonborn and Serana in the form of Serana being a lot more abrasive and showing more disdain towards you. Disadvantages could be her refusing to transmute anymore elven arrows to Sun or blood hollow arrows, not changing you into a vampire lord, refuse to elucidate her backstory, etc.

[@Mrhappyface52]

And hell maybe unlock a secret ending where Harkon gets what he wanted and fulfills the prophecy

[@MahDryBread]

"The Sun" broke me

[@eyoshinthemaximum]

Hello Bread

[@Neoplasie1900]

And it would actually have been cool. I don't know how others see it, but I'm so tired of the "They won't look for me in the most obvious of places"-trope.

[@nicholasmclester3701]

do a skyrim challenge !

[@MrRemicas]

I mean, in Elder Scrolls the Sun is a big hole in the sky...

[@primorock8141]

Complete Skyrim with an Lv. 1 Eevee

[@kly8105]

I never bought any DLC for Skyrim, I'm pleasantly surprised to see some of them are much better than the original content. thanks.

[@sweetssandbox3526]

In particular if you played Morrowind back in the day, Dragonborn is a great nostalgia trip to Solstheim.

[@AFlyingSwive]

the only let down for me was house building sim, because I never bothered

[@oliverlow2474]

Hidden throughout the Soul Cairn, there actually are a few spell tomes that teach you to summon the purple skeleton creatures that you encounter there, with the highest level one being on par with the best summonable creatures from the base game. Somewhere in Apocrypha, there’s also a tome to let you conjure the seeker creatures as well.

[@LordZahe]

You’ve been making very long, high effort videos very consistently lately, KOTOR, Stalker, and now more Skyrim in the span of like a month. Fucking awesome. Keep up the good work

[@GlitchyKittenCrew]

29:03 I love how when you are trying to explain the quest and are talking to a npc a dragon just randomly starts attacking. Good stuff

[@nobody2996]

The Skyrim experience ina nutshell.

[@ulrickguiliman4810]

Question. There were two dragons that were fighting giants near whiterun. After I made one unable to fly with enough fireballs. It suddenly died, devoured the soul and had to kill the giants. I chased it down after I saw it nearby. Was there something I missed that got one dragon to die after I damaged it enough?

[@archbldxd]

i frickin' cracked when Neloth opened an invisible door and you went "WHAT?"

[@laiauntaecalwell4003]

Funnily enough in the dawnguard quest for the girl who needed the dwemer artifact. It’s literally just a few meters down the river it wasn’t that hard to find.

[@Punisher9419]

I don't have very high expectations for the next Elder Scrolls installment. I hope I am pleasantly surprised though.

[@ItsBearD]

With the amount of time passing since we’ve heard ANYTHING I’m really hoping they don’t wanna fuck this up. Maybe Bethesda is afraid to give us another FO76. A man can dream...

[@AbstractTraitorHero]

If nothing else it'll hopefully look pretty....they have to do at least that.

[@Punisher9419]

@@AbstractTraitorHero I would rather it looked shit but had really good gameplay and story. Moders always do a better job of graphics then anyone in the industry ever could.

[@huguesdepayen1]

Corey Graham if they mess up elder scrolls 6 it honestly might cause them to go under.

[@ItsBearD]

Federal Bureau of Investigations I’m hoping they are thinking the same. Let’s hope it’s more of a modern Oblivion then Skyrim. If they go down the trend of dumbing down the exploration like in Skyrim it’s gonna kill it.

[@FrostedRaptor]

There are more black books you’re supposed to find before finishing the full Dragonborn dlc that adds more of apocrypha to the game.

[@adamgray1753]

And some of the most OP spells and abilities in the entire game too.

[@dwaynezilla]

"Also it probably helps that Laura Bailey voiced her" Me too, man. Me too, haha.

[@adaptorperish1322]

dwaynezilla Same here, I just love her voice. Why wouldn’t anyone give her a bigger role?

[@n7grey]

Sad Endings Abby from TLOU2, she’s amazing in it

[@rjtalley628]

I really don’t want to say it but there was actually more to blood on the ice and the other ending is cooler.

[@Novaerian]

I was checking the comments before I said the same, good job at getting to it first

[@ryanowens2357]

I was litterally coming here to say that

[@Velociraptorhunter]

the Amulet of Necromancy spoiler: it was not the wizzard XD

[@Otterly_luna]

@@garfieldgamer3682 This goes to show how willing some people are at "Just following the quest marker". Even if they dislike the system they still do it without thinking "Could I do this quest differently?" in games such as The Witcher 3 or Skyrim.

[@archivehans]

@@garfieldgamer3682 Is it his fault when the game only does this for like 3 quests?

[@darthskarr8975]

If I'm not mistaken, there was cut content where you had the option to use the Bend Will shout on Miraak several times (between 3 and 5) to make him your servant instead of killing him, making him a new follower whilst incuring Mora's wrath.

[@NestedQuantifier]

Nope, that's a mod.

[@darthskarr8975]

@@NestedQuantifier What I remember was that it was cut content restored by a mod.

[@MoonlitMike]

@@darthskarr8975 me too

[@Mrhappyface52]

​@@darthskarr8975Stupid young naive me didn't know what a mod was and tried to do this alternative ending......I shouted at Miraak for 2 fucking hours with nothing happening.

[@Waldens002]

I just discovered the Skyrim analysis yesterday. Needless to say this is incredible timing

[@Gizmomaster]

1:01:08 I like how Serana just sits down in that chair while your in dialogue and stares at you. It’s sorta creepy sure but comforting in a way to know she’s entranced by the Dragonborn’s mere words.

[@devinm524]

Knight-Paladin Gelebor 47:16 has to be the most NPC' of NPC's ever created "My race was all but wiped out by the Nords, my brother betrayed my religion, and the rest of my kin was tricked into mutilation by the Dwarves... guess I'll just wait here in this dark secret cave till someone helpful comes along."

[@crossbones116]

And we can't forget the cream of the crop: The lovely -paid mods- micro-DLC of the Creation Club!

[@KiomonDuck]

A few are good dlcs. I like the backpack and survival setting as well as the houses you could get.

[@Sl1mch1ckens]

@@KiomonDuck the backpacks is good but 8/10 because it just floats on your back, which just annoys me on a visual level.

[@KiomonDuck]

@@Sl1mch1ckens I use first person. And it helps with immersion and realism kinda.

[@Sl1mch1ckens]

@@KiomonDuck so do i mostly but sometimes i switch to 3rd if im walking around town or running across whiterun and it just looks bad.

[@KiomonDuck]

@@Sl1mch1ckens if you have arrows on your back it covers the space between.

[@DaviddeBergerac]

"But Todd sunk his gigantic, meaty--" Me: Gasp "Hooks"

[@horsenuggets1018]

With 16 times the detail

[@JeskaiEye]

CLAWWWWS

[@raikuFA]

What did you say, punk?

[@HeyImLucious]

God I wish that were me....

[@VintsonVidya]

Oh shit you here too?

[@AniGaAG]

Cultist: "I shall not fall!" Serana: "Unh!" Cultist: "I shall not fall!" Serana: "Oof!"

[@0Wayland]

The original video on Skyrim was great, didn't expect you to return to this game.

[@KiomonDuck]

Who can ever really leave it? I've been playing it for 9 years and am still enjoying the buggy dumpster fire with 10 voice actors and more content then most current gen games.

[@wolfox7776]

Skyrim is an odd game in that sense. Because while a tad shallow (or more than just a tad at times), it's hard to not enjoy the game.

[@ethan1937]

kiomon Indeed, skyrim is a weird game. At this point every flaw is as clear as day, but I still consistently play it bc I end up having fun

[@gptechnologiesmangalore6909]

Skyrim is an ..... Beautiful art and magnim opus just like oblivion fallout 4 and abomination 76 and by this todd howard should be proud with his children Fun fact: todd howard has a child named jake howard

[@KiomonDuck]

@Matt Mercer's Stunt Double I agreed with you in my 1st response. But as a long time fan of Skyrim and Tes it would be a lie to say that Skyrim isn't a big buggy dumpster fire that we all love and will probably play even after we are old and put in care homes.

[@AaronSaysSKOL]

Let's be honest. We all forgot to grab the Lexicon.

[@pantsuchan968]

Every damn time

[@harutouchan6575]

A NEWWWW HAAAANDDDDDD.......

[@BigBangAttack-mt6pz]

Not even once for me, I just hate black reach that much

[@eziospaghettiauditore8369]

I didn't. It's on your quest log

[@seanbaby1060]

I couldn’t find it for about a hour so I had to look it up, the arrow on the map didn’t help at all💀

[@BryanWagner]

"Blood on the ice? YOU BLEW IT!!!" - Adam Sandler

[@NostalgiaVivec]

You called Mara the daedric god of love. Shes an aedra or a divine

[@akai4942]

I thought he said Aedric

[@jessediaz307]

Who cares

[@Frost_Anima]

I'm so happy that you did this. I just really appreciate your videos from pure entertainment value.

[@nick0875]

35:28 This is quite an escalation, rescue a girl from imprisonment and suddenly she wants you to meet her parents. Lady slow down, we haven't even gone on a date yet.

[@Otterly_luna]

Blood on Ice has 2 endings though and you got the wrong one for following "what the game tells you to do" and not thinking yourself. In the ending you got another random female NPC dies and you go back to the Necromancer and is like "I was wrong". This girl can even be your spouse if you live in Windhelm.

[@claretravels783]

small note~ Mara isn't Daedric, she's Aedric. I know you don't care. But my fingers had been itching since the Blood on the Ice thing and the Elder Scrolls nut in me could not be suppressed any longer, sorry lmao

[@HickoryDickory86]

Same. 😂

[@blazingnomad]

I'm sorry, the Elder scrolls did what to you?

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

This guy doesn’t do any fact-checking. He shits out an hour+ video and expects quantity to carry him over instead of quality. It’s lazy shit.

[@claretravels783]

@@blazingnomad I had to read that back a few times before I got it but WHOOPS haha

[@SahiPie]

Fuzzy Dunlop Make videos yourself. I would love to watch the content you put out. I’m sure I can rely on you to wiki check everything in all aspects of every game you do a video on. Looking forward to it. 👍🏽

[@marcdecock7946]

I imagine some lead designers sitting around the table and coming to the conclusion: what this game lacks is some more quests and dungeons...

[@salamandersaladman7831]

Lost to the ages is a criminally unknown and underrated quest

[@SharkyMcSnarkface]

Aetherial Crown all the way. Especially when you download a mod to make the crown more crown-y.

[@ХристоМартунковграфЛозенски]

@@SharkyMcSnarkface Ah, the "Twin Stone Power" crown. How to become a master necromancer with your very own skeleton army.

[@takkarsasori8961]

ya know with the crown if you activate a power stone with the crown on than immediantly take off the crown you can get a second power stone without the crown, than put on the crown to go get a third. S k y r i m

[@bingbotswana388]

Fun Fact: In Morrowind you actually meet Jiub as he is the other prisoner on the boat with you at the very start of the game.

[@wildmoose3979]

Serana not being marriable is the worst part of dawnguard.

[@Coleymoon]

Good thing there’s mods :)

[@dustinsterling3248]

@@Coleymoon *cries in console*

[@spottiercamp8183]

It would be good for roleplaying reasons and would actually make sense

[@SamWh1t3]

@@dustinsterling3248 we have mods on console now too?

[@dustinsterling3248]

Yea but a very limited selection

[@amduil8168]

When you do blood on the ice you can either report the wizard right away like you did or you can go and question him and he will give you more information about the amulet. No worries though, i made the same mistake the first time i did the quest and the problem is that its believable that the quest would be just that with how bad the writing is most of the time in this game.

[@KiomonDuck]

I made the mistake of keeping the amulet and had it for an entire save.

[@Troll_vs.]

Finally someone who isnt acting like he ruined their life because he missed one thing

[@knavenformed9436]

It has been years since I did the quest and I remind selecting the other dude before getting to know more about the amulet, then I felt really bad since I thought the amulet would be enchanted if I did the other dude first. Well it felt bad but in the end did not matter at all since I did the Imperial questline so nothing really was lost. Edit: Now that I think of it I had the amulet and I think I found a more qrotesque dude so I must have done it correctly, I was just bummed out by not getting a cool necromancer amulet lol

[@KiomonDuck]

@Matt Mercer's Stunt Double if you don't get rid of the amulet asap and forget to remove it it'll be quest item locked into your inventory. You can also place it into the inventory of the next girl that is killed. After that though you can't remove it on ps4/xbox.

[@captaindorgengoa1041]

When you said that there was no way the court wizard could be the culprit in the blood on the ice quest I honestly thought it was a set up for a but actually joke.... then when you moved on to the next quest I realized you were serious. I've seen some honest mistakes made over the years but getting a bad end and going yep this sucks is pretty up there. The biggest problem is that this is such a famous quest that literally everyone who played Skyrim knows the solution to, I don't think people are going to let you forget about this anytime soon.

[@nokachi3339]

That quest is also one of the most bug ridden. Honestly the quest sucks. Turns out it was... another guy, you thought it was this guy, but it was actually... someone else

[@blob22201]

@@nokachi3339 tbh I thought it was quite clever, there were a few clues pointing to calixto, him being at the murder scene, he is really desperate to buy the amulet off you even though he says it belongs to the court mage and is crucial evidence as well as having embalming equipment on his shelf.

[@nokachi3339]

@@blob22201 maybe I'm just too stupid than, but when it was revealed to be him it just felt like some dude.

[@dathunderman4]

@@nokachi3339 he could’ve still double checked the wiki to make sure

[@reaperthegrim5654]

@@dathunderman4 I don't think Salt checks the wiki for anything, his reviews seem to be based on his blind playthroughs.

[@Tenchua917]

23:54 This editing caught me off guard lmao, you can be a heavy meme-r if you want to salt, you have potential.

[@benjaf1058]

I’m going to take a shot for “bLoOd oN ThE iCe” comment I read

[@eagle0114]

Hope you got a spare liver on ya.

[@horsenuggets1018]

@@eagle0114 as long as he's still got a third of it left

[@CupidySam]

You still alive?

[@UrsaFrank]

@@eagle0114 Nevermind his liver, what about his wallet. The amount of booze he would need would break the bank of a millionare

[@WikiHL]

*Bena has died of Cirrhosis*

[@Terry_OC]

your content is the best for relaxing :)

[@LadyDoomsinger]

One detail I like, is that if you complete some of the side quests - such as Rise in the East or Laid To Rest - BEFORE going to the Thalmor Embassy, you will find the quest givers at the Party, and can convince them to cause the distraction for you instead of the random guy you just met outside (who presumably is there as a default option, if you haven't made any friends before this quest). I would actually have enjoyed it, if failing to make friends before the Thalmor Embassy had actual consequences, making the quest much harder to complete; perhaps you had to cause your own distraction (using Persuasion to make the servant cry or something), sneak out from the party WITHOUT a distraction, or actually resort to violence and fight your way through from the start. But I guess Todd really doesn't like choices and consequences.

[@KankaWasTaken]

Your bravety and passion shall be rewarded with my like and dearest thanks