In the years since,Skyrimhas been released and re-released many times, on every conceivable platform.

Does it hold up now?

The two major factions you’ll encounter later on!

A screenshot from the opening of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, showing the  blond Stormcloak rebel tied up in the back of a cart. A test banner reading ‘GOTY Revisited’ in pink is superimposed on the image

A hamlet where you run into a man who’s pining for a girl.

Like any good open-world RPG, Skyrim knows to pack a few good vistas in at the start.

The jank is still there too, of course.

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There’s enough ordinary in there.

The one thing you’re able to’t deny about Skryim is its impact.

Todd’s “see that mountain?

Shooting magic lightning at an enemy in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

I don’tknow, but I feel like that properly started with Skyrim.

The NPCs all voiced by the same half dozen people.

The arrows to knees.

The skill screen in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, where different abilities are represented as constellations

The deep dungeons and the climbable mountains.

And we all played it because it really is a fun time.

Giants who make cheese.

An evening vista in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, at golden hour, showing the plains town of Whiterun, surrounded by windmills

People saying the world “jarl” a lot.

We came for the dragons in the trailer, but we stayed for the everything else.

A vista in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim showing a blue cloudy sky, pine forest in the foreground, and a snowy mountain in the distance