The open world that changed everything (right?)

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The open world that changed everything (right?)

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Is that really already ten years?  Skyrim has left a deep mark on our gaming biographies.

Is that really already ten years? Skyrim has left a deep mark on our gaming biographies.

Skyrim. It’s a name like Donnerhall, you can practically hear the “Fus Ro Dah” echoing through the gorges. Skyrim may not have been a flawless game (and it hasn’t been to this day), but it made gaming history.

Because Skyrim was legendary successful: Bethesda’s open-world role-playing game had already sold over 30 million times in November 2016, and today an average of around 20,000 Steam Dragonborns wander through (probably heavily modded) the edge of the sky at the same time.

IIn the live podcast for Skyrim’s tenth birthday, we discuss the reasons for the success – or whether Skyrim left you cold.

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Because of course there are misconducts that Skyrim can be accused of. At the same time, even Ann-Kathrin likes the world of Skyrim as a non-open-world fan, so Bethesda must have done something right.

Micha and Géraldine are lost anyway, they have always liked Skyrim, but for different reasons. And Micha’s Skyrim relationship even started on the wrong foot (ha!), Because at the time he was desperate to test the role-playing game.

Of course that is nothing compared to the feud between Lydia and Shadow Mane.

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