Thread 725522871

Skyrim.
14 years ago.

What were (You) doing on 11/11/11?
I stayed up all night to play the game on Low Settings 800x600 resolution.

So many hours bro maybe it's time to install again. Also, I think I've bought it three times since 360

>>725522871 (OP)
I saw all teh memes and knew I had to play.
This was before I was regularly browsing the 'chon and back then I only came to /b/, so I was shielded from /v/ propaganda.
a few days after it released I was a junior in high school playing it in my room.
I remember just messing around jumping from iceberg to iceberg when my girlfriend came into my room (My mom knew i didnt like visitors to my inner sanctum so i dont know why she let her in) gf says "lets drive around and hang out"~. I was kinda annoyed because i didnt know what she wanted to do and i was busy testing my skills. I went anyway and turns out she wanted to get down but i couldnt get hard so we drove back home and i went back to laughing at the cinematic greatsword kills.

I was playing New Super Mario Bros Wii instead like a frickin boss

>>725522871 (OP)
>I stayed up all night to play the game on Low Settings 800x600 resolution.
good morning sir

I was 15 at the time, came home to find my pre-ordered copy that my older sibling picked up for me while I was at school. Spent the entire weekend holed up in my room as I played the game on the 360.

>>725522871 (OP)
I was watching somebody else play it on twitch, thought it looked like shit and lost my interest until I bought it in 2014 to try it out and somewhat enjoyed it

I was rocking a Phenom II X4 and a Radeon HD 6850 so I ran it ok

Arguing on the adventure quest worlds forums on which game would be better, Skyrim or skyward sword

I rarely use my long-term memory recall so it's atrophied. I don't remember 2011.

>>725522871 (OP)
probably playing Dragon's Dogma
i think i tried skyrim in 2012 and got really bored

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZNbabKjKpA

>>725524189
fucking this
i can't play skyrim without 100+ mods

>>725524121
Oh shit I was probably using backlogged back then so I can check

>>725522871 (OP)
>What were (You) doing on 11/11/11?
Playing Skyrim on xbox 360
Next day I party chatted with a friend with us both playing Skyrim. Later we played Battlefield 3 too. Great times.

>>725524363
Here this is what I was doing instead of playing Skyrim. I was playing DMC3 and Skyward Sword

>>725522871 (OP)
>What were (You) doing on 11/11/11?
Getting an epic gamer sleep for school the next morning like a boss before cancer tore the family I grew up with to shreds

>>725522871 (OP)
I was going to play it on my first break home from college, but I wound up playing the sims 4 instead.
I played it for the first time ever last month.

>>725523997
I was so hyped about Skyrim that I built a poorfag rig for it

>one of those Sempron processors that you could change in the bios to unlock a second core
>Radeon 5570
>500gb HDD
>4GM RAM (??)

Im so old... jaded and bitter

>>725522871 (OP)
I was playing modded Oblivion at the time on a shitty laptop

>>725525078
Have you tried drinking a lot?

>>725525694
I always over do it and end up poisoning myself

>>725525773
Same. Hasn't stopped me yet though. Cheers mate

>>725522871 (OP)
sounds about right. played that game like crazy

Idk if I was finished with it by then, iirc it leaked a week before release. I played a ton but got burned out quick

>>725524302
It's even boring as hell with mods. I can't play it for more than 2-3 hours in one session. I now understand why it's nothing but porn mods.

>>725522871 (OP)
Playing Pokemon White, getting ready to play Mario Kart 7 and Mario 3D Land, I didn't get Skyrim until May 2012, I got a new laptop a few months before was my first steam game

>>725525846
Haha i have to stay away
The few hours of fun isnt worth the awful hangovers that last a full day

I played it for a few hours and got bored. If it goes on a really huge sale I'll give it another shot.
I like immersive open world RPGS on paper, but in practice there's usually something I dont like about it.
Skyrim has bad combat and requires too many mods, KCD2 crosses the line from immersive to cumbersome and has a really bad UI, Fallouts dreary wastelands bore me, Minecraft lacks too much of goal besides build for nobody, Necesse still feels unfinished, Dragons Dogma 2 is too much of a downgrade over 1, etc. etc.
Enshrouded is the only one I've played that captured me after a bit of controller reconfiguring. I put it down since EA but I've still got my eye on it and am looking forward to the full release.

>>725522871 (OP)
I was in my sophomore year of HS and I was lying on the living room couch sick with pneumonia, my cousins had the game for the 360 and I got to play it a bit on thanksgiving. Wouldn't actually get Skyrim until xmas and after I had upgraded my PC.

I was about to graduate high school and wasnt even aware 4chan existed yet.
I was new to PC gaming in general and all my gaming "news" came from a torrent site and when i saw a medieval fantasy open world RPG i was imediately interested.

I remember playing it on low and 800x600 because it ran like shit on my pc, but still, exploring Skyrim for the first time with no spoilers or guides or anything like that was an amazing experience. Its why i always say Bethesda games are 9/10 on your first playthrough but eventually fall back into a 6/10 once you really how sallow everything really is.

>>725526812
>wasnt even aware 4chan existed yet.
lucky. you didn't get to see gore spam during your formative years.

>>725522871 (OP)
I pre-ordered it just because the trailer and played it to death on my 360 until it RROD'd. Great times. A few years ago I bought it on PC and spent a month configuring my modpack until I got everything right, basically vanilla but with survival and difficulty mods. And coomer mods of course like a true gentleman.

>>725526506
>Minecraft lacks too much of goal besides build for nobody
I think I probably spent most of my time playing minecraft with my friends on a server we ran, building with other people is what made it truly fun.

>>725522871 (OP)
Pirated it.
Was under wrong impression it's proper game and not walking sim theme park with half baked combat system. After patching it myself finally finished main quest, then got filtered by more bugs. Then waited for legendary edition with patches and dlc, downloaded it, finished and noticed how boring and hollow this game is.
Only thing skyrim is good for is modding because it's bad game in every aspect exept atmosphere.

>>725525009
I remember playing skyrim for the first time on my radeon 3230 laptop + 2gb of ram and having fun with it. If i remember correctly I run skyrim in 1366x768 res with medium setting because the only vidyaport that i have back then was ps3

>>725522871 (OP)
I didn't play it back then because I didn't have a computer and didn't want to put up with the console version. I'm actually on my first playthrough right now though

>>725522871 (OP)
I was shitposting here on /v/. Board was still pretty good in 2011.

>>725522871 (OP)
I still have the box standing nead my pc. The map was so good man.

>>725528362
>was still pretty good in 2011
Maybe I'm just nostalgic for my teenage years at this point, but I really do want to go back to the early 2010s board culture.

>>725522871 (OP)
I was in my senior year of college. I didn't play it until winter break. Then I played it nonstop until the spring semester started.

>>725528438
It's not you, things have gotten worse year after year.

>>725528362
>>725528438
Gamergate and later the 2016 election did irreparable damage to /v/s board culture. This was a completely different board back then before everything became about culture war and politics

>>725522871 (OP)
>What were (You) doing on 11/11/11?
Probably playing skyrim, but it might have been a few days later when I got the game. Played it on the 360, certainly sunk a shitload of time into it. Played a restoration/one-handed build, which was unfortunate in hindsight given how mechanically bland a way to play that is without even the engagement of timing blocking and shield bashing, rather just spamming healing spells and basic attacks. But I was an idiot kid back then, so I had a fun time of it anyway.

>>725524591
Cancer had already gotten my mother around the start of 2011, so Skyrim made a pretty great game for 12 year old me to get my mind off the real world.

>>725522871 (OP)
I got it from a game store in the city I was working in at the time, fucking everyone in there was lined up at the till with a copy of Skyrim, and even the guy at the counter was super excited to get home and play it
I remember being very disappointed that classes and such were gone and thought the tutorial bit was shit, but stopped caring the moment you finally were given freedom to do whatever.
I really loved that first playthrough until the half way point, where I noticed how everything was shallow and gutted, barely being an RPG.
Fucking amazing atmosphere and music though.

>>725528660
>>725528723
I remember 2011 being rather rough at points on /v/, but I can also remember that the internet hadn't been fully homogenized yet.
>culture war and politics
The weird thing is that it feels like the political and culture war angle hasn't even moved in a decade. It's still all the same arguments and bickering with no actual resolution or evolution.

>>725528831
I'm sorry Anon. My grandmother had gotten cancer in early 2011 too and died the following year.

>>725528926
>The weird thing is that it feels like the political and culture war angle hasn't even moved in a decade.
It hasn't. We've been in the same establishment vs MAGA bullshit since Trump first got on the campaign trail in 2015, an entire decade ago.

>>725522871 (OP)
skyrim release was the last midnight release i ever attended, I went to EBGAMES with my friend a couple hours early and we slammed beers in his car. I had the next day off and played until like 6am. It's one of my fondest memorys of my youth

>>725529094
>midnight release
I tend to think that I'm bit too young to have ever done one, what were they even like?

Not even mods save this garbage

>>725522871 (OP)
All my normie peers were playing it but I didn't until around 2016. I think I was playing Valkyrie Profile around that time.

>>725529094
Neko in space

>>725529180
It was just a big line of nerds hanging out, employee's would come out every now and then and hand out merch. It was fun

>>725522871 (OP)
>What were (You) doing on 11/11/11?
Not playing this shitslop, that's for sure.

>>725528926
Thanks anon, sorry for your loss as well. For what it's worth, I think experiencing things like that pushes you to learn a certain sobriety about the subject. Skyrim may not hold up so well as a game, but there are certainly worse distractions.

>>725529538
I agree Skyrim is pretty bad, but
>slop
Fuck off with your overused, meaningless buzzword.

>>725522871 (OP)
the most bland and boring game ever

>>725522871 (OP)
i drank 4 monsters, got heart palpitations and went to bed at 7am
bought a 6990 with university bursary and academical excellence money to play at glorious 1080p 60fps ultra
i blu tack'd the map to my wall

>>725529583
I can't say if I learned anything or not, I was already a rather cynical and morose bastard as a teenager. Honestly I think the other games I was playing at the time; KSP, Sims 3, Minecraft did more to distract me than Skyrim did.

>>725529607
I wouldn't say its bad, but the occasional instances good game design feel wasted on a rather shallow and mediocre whole.

>>725529723
>i drank 4 monsters, got heart palpitations
I did this once but it was 800mg of caffeine pills and I was studying for my mathematical methods course

Watching youtuber play it while dreaming of getting it one day. My parents never bought me anything digital. We had a trash pc and that's it
I was playing lotro those days

>>725522871 (OP)
>What were (You) doing on 11/11/11?
Partying, drinking and fucking my girlfriend.

Are there any light helmets that would fit this?

>>725522871 (OP)
>What were (You) doing on 11/11/11?
probably getting high

is there any good up-to-date guide to modding skyrim? I'm very familiar with the act of modding the game but it's been 10+ years since I last did that and I'm sure the landscape of mods has changed dramatically since then

>>725522871 (OP)
Playing Skyrim and funposting here, nothing has changed.

>>725522871 (OP)
I was getting disappointed, Todd lied again and I fell for it

>>725522871 (OP)
I played it on the PS3 and was so blown away with it I didn't notice how bad the port actually was.

>>725532437
Thanks, I was looking for this image

I went right to he store after school to pick up my preorder and spent every waking moment of that weekend playing. I loved oblivion and I couldn't contain my anticipation it was all I could think about that day. I still remember that opening with hadvar and ralof, going to bleakfalls barrow, taking the 10k steps and getting stomped by that frost troll. It was a magical time.
Like others in the thread I passed up on female attention for the sake of the game. Today I'm a 30yo virgin. Thank you Todd.

Playing Dead Rising: Off the Record apparantly

>>725522871 (OP)
I went to the release and while waiting in line made a life long friend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpvM9uwOcUc

Hard to believe it's been 14years without a new entry

>>725522871 (OP)
>What were (You) doing on 11/11/11?
i have never actually finished it, but i remember very well the night it came out
>got the ps3 version. most of my mates got it apart from one who got MW3 collectors edition who we joked about making walk home out of shame.
>mind the first mate that was at the front of the queue shouting back to is "it comes with a fucking map !!". and having an argument at opposite ends of the store that the map also came with oblivion but he was trying to tell us the material was different.
>my local youth club got it but no one played it there because it was a single player game
>one of my mates that didn't get it that night was told he could get it in the morning. when he got there it was all sold out and he had a mad argument with his folks while on skype.
>blacksmithing was THE thing people were grinding purely for the good armor. remember sitting up at like 4am with a mate discussing the best way to grind it.
>was the first game that made me realize i needed a HD Tv as i couldn't read quest text on my old CRT tv.
it was the last time i waited outside of a store for the midnight release. nothing really since then got everyone together in the same way gaming wise. literally have not played it since that time outside of benchmarking the pc i got a year later. it was fun at the time but never had any calling to go back to it. especially compared to other bethesda games. i think i grew out of long open world games shortly after in favor of fighting games and multiplayer stuff.

>>725534004
It makes sense when you realize what kind of tards Bethesda are

Playing it on my Penitum 4 630, and also shitposting on /v/.
FUCK.

>>725536904
Wait, sorry. I upgraded to E5700 that summer. So yeah.

always loving this game

https://youtu.be/LAWULGDD8LA

i was 20, probably drinking beer, i was not into video games at the time just ffxiv

https://youtu.be/aQ3wZbpCmfw?&t=506
KILL THE WOLF YEAH WOOOOOAHHOOOHOOHO

>>725532350
which defeat mod is better? The Odefeat and all its Omods or SL defeat?

>>725522871 (OP)
I got it on release day for 360, my mother had made some kind of cheesey wrap for dinner, I took it downstairs and booted it up and scalded the shit out of my mouth while watching the intro. I only really firmly remember seeing the intro prior to character creation from that day in particular.

>>725540948
Sl defeat baka edition imo

>>725522871 (OP)
that was a good year

>>725522871 (OP)
Played the game. Had fun.

>>725522871 (OP)
>Skyrim released on my birthday
Neat.
Never played it tho.

>>725526051
Have you tried playing it...on weed?

>>725543890
Weed doesn't change your taste in games.

Don't you think its weird that the guy spamming CP does it in threads CRITICIZING moderation and never in these abhorrent bethesda spam threads?
>but its shitty game's birthday!
And so what? You've been playing a shit casual game that everyone else moved on from for over a decade. It's pathetic lol

>>725544270
Anon I hate to be the bearer of bad news but a ton of people still play this shit.

I was hyping my highschool senior class all year for its release and I told everyone including the teachers I would disappear for a whole month to play it, skipping a classes and tests.

I actually did it and when I returned to school people treated me like a legend for actually doing so.

It's still a highlight of my teenage years.

To give some perspective. I was a long haired metal head that skated. Now I'm bald with 2 kids and my free time is spend thinking about post curriculum activities for my kids.

I bet that es6 will not release before my oldest is himself a high school senior.

>>725544501
When I say "everyone else" I'm referring to everyone who can at least put one foot over the threshold of what's considered human. The only person I have EVER met off the internet that likes bethesda games was unironically 400lb stoner that lived in a trailer that was getting cucked by his girlfriend. All he'd play was "good ass RPGs" to cool off at 2AM in the morning after his GF's son went to bed. He would literally play Fallout 76 with his stoner buddies on his phones hotspot wifi. These games are for utterly broken cattle. No one that isn't a total bum is playing this stuff, and the threads reflect that. Every single one of these threads is total trash.

>>725544812
cool story bro

>>725544812
>everyone who can at least put one foot over the threshold of what's considered human
And you define that as....what, exactly?

>>725523376
Do zoomers really have erectile dysfunction by the time they are teenagers? Or was she just fat and ugly

>>725544913
>And you define that as....what, exactly?
People who can answer the Gamer's Dilemma correctly.

>>725544913
Don't give him attention.

>>725545008
Which is?

>>725544898
Bro it keeps happening, look at >>725544797
Its the same exact kind of retarded normalfag bum.

>>725545132
you're barking up the wrong tree my man

>>725545071
The Gamer’s Dilemma consists of three intuitively plausible but conflicting assertions: (i) Virtual murder is morally permissible. (ii) Virtual child molestation is morally forbidden. (iii) There is no relevant moral difference between virtual murder and virtual child molestation in computer games.

>>725522871 (OP)
Picked it up after school and played for an hour or so on my 360, got bored, then went over to my friends house to play MW3 all night

>>725522871 (OP)
>on 11/11/11
I was 14 years old. I should have killed myself then and there.

The only reason i liked this game as a 12 year old is that i was also reading my first fantasy book (hobbit) and i associated the game with Tolkien story writing. No surprise that i have never finished the game on my old save file.
It's tricky though, because i remember being very nostalgic for the game at some point in my teenage years. The great trick of this game is that its ambience gives the illusion of world building while it's not even shallow.
Also the quest marker are just the embodiment of what one of bethesda story writers said paraphrased: they've been making games for casual players for a long time, approximatively since oblivion.

>>725545217
Okay. But that's not a question to answer.
You said there would be a question that needed answering. What is the question?

>morrowind 2003
>oblivion 2007
>skyrim 2011
>...
what is bethesda even doing right now?

>>725545404
You've probably figured this out by now given the sudden silence but he's making this shit up as he goes along.

>>725545217
>retard is also a Kantian

>>725545404
>What is the question?
That is the question. What do you mean? Surely you can answer this simple ethical dilemma. You people will happily squabble over "greymane or battleborn" for 15+ years.

>>725522871 (OP)
>What were (You) doing on 11/11/11?
went to school, bought Skyrim on the way home, played Skyrim

>>725522871 (OP)
I put it into my Xbox 360 and made an albino argonian mage. It was the coolest shit but also he was a mage so he was dogshit

>>725546224
That's a statement, not a question. You know what you're doing.

>>725545883
Hoping to jew people out of their money with re-releases since TES6 and a new engine for it would take too much work.

>>725522871 (OP)
>i3 2100, HD 5850
>1080pUltra in the 50s
Was building the rig in anticipation for BF3, Skyrim was a nice title but TW2 easily takes the cake for that year. 5850 was heavily discounted that year, it was less than $100 bucks, and the funny thing was it was much faster than the newer replacement rehash (HD 6000 series, they were built for power and DX11 efficiency), so the 5850 was actually faster than a 6870, the older GTX 460 was on par to a 560, with the 560Ti being slightly faster and these were $200 cards. So imagine paying for less than half price for a more powerful AMD card and on par to latest Nvidia series at the time.

>>725524189
How can you get bored of Skyrim but not DD?
That's just baffling. DD is the most boring ugly slop I've played

Shitposting on /v/ with picrel in the background while pirating the game. The hype around this game was insane back then.

>>725546621
Well that's funny because Skyrim is the most boring ugly slop I've played.

>>725522871 (OP)
>i3 2100, HD 5850
>1080pUltra in the 50s
Was building the rig in anticipation for BF3, Skyrim was a nice title but TW2 easily takes the cake for that year. 5850 was heavily discounted that year, it was less than $100 bucks, and the funny thing was it was much faster than the newer replacement rehash (HD 6000 series, they were built for power and DX11 efficiency), so the 5850 was actually faster than a new 6850/6870, and the older GTX 460. It was on par to a 560, with the 560Ti being slightly faster and these were $200 cards. So imagine paying for less than half price for a more powerful AMD card and on par to latest Nvidia series at the time.

>>725546630
>The hype around this game was insane back then.
why though? did people really expect a masterpiece after oblivion and fallout 3? was it marketing?

>>725522871 (OP)
I played on ps3

>>725546825
People actually liked Oblivion and yes there was a lot of advertising involved

>>725546224
>No question
*yawn*

>>725546410
>That's a statement, not a question.
di·lem·ma
/dəˈlemə,dīˈlemə/
a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones.

>>725547102
A dillema is not a question either.
It's cute that you don't know the difference.

>>725547102
Didn't ask. Where's the question? Did you get banned from /a/?

>>725547325
You're the one who labeled it as a question. My original statement is >>725545008

This is classic bethesiloid squirming. CLASSIC. Its like a bot running a script.

>>725546491
>muh engine
Retard spotted!

>>725524187
That isnt how that works. Its all this short form BS and constant entertainment that is killing our attention and recall

>>725547454
>retard is using words incorrectly again
It's cute that you don't know English, Rajeesh.

>>725547357
>Did you get banned from /a/?
Nope, I refuse to use it until they fire the entire current staff, as it has been ruined by boring normalfag retards such as yourself beyond all recovery. To take part in it would be the same as being complicit in its current state.

>>725547454
Sorry, I only answer questions. Try asking again.

>>725547598
>EXECUTE CANNED RACISM ROUTINE

>>725527039
Why wouldnt you mod the face?

>>725547649
I don't want you to answer me.
I was making a statement, I thought you understood the difference? Seems like I was mistaken.

>>725547626
>Nope, I refuse to use it
AHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
THIS FAGGOT WAS SO ANNOYING EVEN /a/ COULDN'T STAND HIM

>>725547658
>using a name is racist
Cute cope.

>>725545008
>>725545008
>>725547102
>contradicting himself already

>>725532437
Same I stopped after the first grey beards meeting, tried out the werewolf and quit. I remember being so disappointed on 11 11 11 because I loved oblivion and morrowind. I never understood the appeal of skyrim. Then about 2 years ago I really got into modding, and now its my favorite game

>>725547921
Not putting on a good show today, abib

Why do /a/'s rejects come to /v/?

>>725546703
Sandy Bridge was insane too. Strong IPC compared to the first gen. Hyper Threading.
3.1Ghz 2C + 4T. Imagine a fucking Core i3 absolutely destroying first gen Core i5's. It destoryed the Phenom 955 x4. Even the successors, the FX series, even the FX 8350 couldn't touch it, a fucking Core i3 LMAO.

Sandy Bridge had strong IPC, which games favor more than core count, and the actual FX cores are fake modules, they aren't real cores. So the FX4350, 6350, 8350 don't actually have real 4/6/8 cores count. Plus their IPC fucking sucks. Bulldozer was a fucking joke. AMD Ryzen was their savior and that really made Intel shook, after reigning supreme with their 2nd to 6th gen lineups. Especially when the Pentium G6400 starts getting 4T and HT, an $80 "i3".

With Zen and Ryzen series, and even their lowest G equivalent series, with the Athlon 200GE getting 2C + 4T AND Vega iGPU/APU @ fucking $50, Intel was shook, especially with their shitty 7th gen. That's whe. They finally decided to actuslly break out of the tick-tock shit up the cores count and cut prices to complete with Zen, with the 8th gen Intel now getting 4/6/8cores with i3/i5/i7 lines.

>>725522871 (OP)
my earliest memory of skyrim is it running on my shitty laptop and having to get a family member to do the tutorial and bleak falls barrow for me because i couldnt figure out what to do
i remember my dad praising the combat how you can have a shield in either hand or dual wield, then i played mount and blade warband like a year or two later and laughed at how shallow skyrims combat is

Talos Stormcrown

>>725522871 (OP)
I was workin nights in 2011.
>I hated the night shift.

>>725548005
>EXECUTE CANNED RACISM ROUTINE
My bad though, that line of backlinks was supposed to be
>>725547737
>>725545008
>>725547102

Anyway, you've contradicted yourself twice so I win.

>>725548121
>he's so mad he doesn't know who he's replying to anymore
Cute :3

>>725548121
>twice
Thrice, he cried about being called an indian name and then did the same thing.

>>725548205
>inspect element

>>725522871 (OP)
This game was the gateway drug for me becoming a a Fromsoft cultist

>>725548246
>Makes up things to be upset about in his head
Schizo's are cute when they're mad.

>>725544270
>>725544812
>>725545217
Hi anon, what anime is this? I need to know what to call you if you're going to be one of our dedicated shitposters.

https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/filename/1677818940039689.webm/

>>725548549
Boku no Pico

>>725548603
CLASSIC MEME XD

>>725522871 (OP)
I was at uni. Then i pirated skyrim and played it. I was happy that i pirated it, because the game was shit, just as i expected after seeing 2011's E3. The worst thing about it was that it came with no creation kit. I could not understand the level of hype people had for this game, nor the reason for such hype. I hated the memes, it was like no elder scrolls games existed before and skyrim was the first game of the new franchise.

idk playing on my 3ds probably

>>725527039
>configuring my modpack until I got everything right
>coomer mods
>basically vanilla but with survival and difficulty mods
Fucking kill yourself. You are a swine, and not a gentleman.

>>725522871 (OP)
Unironically, had sex. My gf was a fan of Oblivion, so I gifted her Skyrim collector's edition and we fucked like rabbits that day.

>>725531352
Nope. Your only options would be circlets, or mage/college hoods.

>>725549005
nice

>>725544812
>it bases its judgement on its direct experience
>number of direct experiences - one.
>is a weeb
>is an american
Please fuck off.

it leaked early so i was already resting comfy at this point being already a few days into my playthrough

>>725546953
I wish they would rather spend that marketing money on making a good game, but i guess even shit sells if you sink in a lot of money to market it.

>>725547626
Oh, so you are such a degenerate that even that cesspit rejected you.

>>725522871 (OP)
On 11/11/11, hot off the heels of New Vegas, I made a character, made it to whiterun, got bored, quit and went back to New Vegas
In all the years thereafter I never made it past whiterun. If I launch the game and try to play, I am immediately filled with a terrible type of ennui and shut it off immediately.
When I think back to Skyrim all that comes to mind are the NPCs with horrible voice acting, the movement which feels stiff, the combat which feels weightless and impactless and its washed out color palette where everything is covered in some sort of dirt

In all my life I have never actually made it past the first dungeon, the one with the claw

I have nothing else to add. I have never understood the appeal of Skyrim. And as for modding, the "sprinkles on a turd" metaphor is apt. The best way to play Skyrim is not to play it at all

>>725523338
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hhwSCa-RKl0

>>725545217
Posing this to normalfags is like asking a robot to divide by zero.

>>725550558
Stop samefagging you fucking loser. This shit is why you got banned from /a/.

>>725550660
Huh?

first time I saw the title I thought it was pronounced ski-rim. then I heard the correct name on some tv show and thought "well that sounds a lot better".
I don't rememer much of 2011, it was a dead year. I had just retured home from college and I was doing nothing all day every day. rarely gamed, I only had a ps2 and an old pc that couldn't run hitman blood money. sometimes I'd borrow a friend's gamecube. listened to some music, watched a lot of tv, actually that winter I was probably watching game of thrones.
eventually I played the game like three years later on a 360. didn't like it but I put 200 hours in it out of completionism. I still don't see the appeal.

>>725522871 (OP)
I was probably busy playing Dark Souls, realistically

I was 16 and I played MW3 on the xbox with friends eating Doritos and mtn dew for XP. I didn't play skyrim until the summer of 2012 and I played that game for months. I played the entire summer, from 7AM-3PM is when the xbox would freeze so I would call it a night. I poured 1000s of hours in the 360 copy alone. So much so that I sluffed school to play skyrim when the summer was over. The next year I got a gaming PC which lead me into installing fetish mods that broke me. Instead of dating I was edging while I played skyrim nonstop to 2019.

Todd's magnum opus stole my youth and sent me to the depths of neetdom. If I never played skyrim I my life would have been different, I would be married have a six figure job but now I neet for a year, wagecuck for a year in this cycle of playing my fetish modded skyrim, and fallout 4 to spice it up.

>>725549110
Thanks, but why does light have so little options, while heavy gets all the cool shit. Even the few good ones, have heavy counterparts, or are locked behind the Thieves Guild.

>>725522871 (OP)
>spend months spamming this awful shit
>even go so far as stickying threads about it
>150 replies after 10 hours
>1/3 of the thread is crying about an anime poster
Hope it was worth it, abib.

>>725546825
>did people really expect a masterpiece after two extremely popular and beloved games?
How old are you?

I remember being in the car like last month and https://youtu.be/iqkQRgGdAPo came on the radio. Crazy to think of the impact Skyrim still has even today.

>>725522871 (OP)
I went to the midnight launch with a friend who bought the 360 version and then watched him play. I said the textures looked like shit and he got butt.ad and fanboy defended it. Then the news came out that the 360 version launched with a texture bug, and that's when I realized that Bethesdrones would literally defend a visibly broken game.

I pirated it but my mom got me it for Christmas and told me so I deleted it and had to wait.

>>725546621
Maybe he likes good combat.

>>725522871 (OP)
I grew up in a wealthy family. They’re broke now, but it was a wild childhood. I played skyrim on release in my dads home theater with 7.2 surround sound and a 100” projector screen in big leather recliners with cup holders. I’d just get really stoned and play for hours. It will never be matched, makes me think about killing myself pretty much every day.

>>725553742
Oh well. At least they're still alive. All my family are dead

>>725553835
I’m sorry to hear that bro.

>>725528723
The real problem was 2011-2012 reddit immigrants. Given that you're trying to blame 2016 tourists, you're likely one of those reddit immigrants.

Pirated it and got bored within a few hours. Shit game.

>>725528723
>>725553893
/v/ was just all ragebait back then lamenting consolisation and casualisation. it was worse back then than it is now.

>>725552541
>why
because Todd and Bethesda are retards who cannot even get a pair of gloves (clothing, not armor) into a game and for it to fit with other clothing (not armor) items. The answer is in the same vein as "why does the player have only one ring slot?" - because fuck the player, thats why.
And so you have to resort to mods. Now, if you still want vanilla-ish, and have access to creation kit, and can fiddle with it a bit, you can get the hoods from hooded robes - black, blue, green, red (my favourite), yellow - by separating them from the hooded robes (because that item is a composite of two armor models - robe and hood), so simply unticking robe and creating a new formID (and entering new name and new editor name) will get you a hood that you can equip and will fit (sometimes with clipping, sometimes without) pretty much anything.
Or just get a mod. I did it the hard way as soon as CK became available for skyrim. Once you throwl through it, you will see just how much shit Todd and Co. fucked up and could've fixed, but 11/11/11 was THE date. Fucking hate them.

>>725522871 (OP)
>What were (You) doing on 11/11/11?
Bought the game on CD, got home excited to play, but got greeted with a day 1 patch that took over 12 hours to download. I got up at 5 in the morning next day and skipped school playing the game.

it was the best looking game in 2011