Game News Skyrim: 30 facts you didn’t know regarding the latest Elder Scrolls
Published on 08/20/2022 at 12:30
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was released a little over ten years ago. Even following all this time, players continue to explore Skyrim far and wide. While waiting for news of the highly anticipated sixth installment of the license, the editorial staff invites you to discover 30 anecdotes and secrets regarding Skyrim.
A vast and rich universe
After Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind and Oblivion,
the fifth installment in the saga The Elder Scrolls
released in the year of grace 2011. Fruit of a long preparation on the part of Bethesda, Skyrim has everything to delight its players who have waited for it for five long years. The new action-adventure RPG immerses its followers in a vast open-world, where they can complete a multitude of quests, embodying the last Dragonborn, also called Dovahkiin. Beyond the main and side quests, players are free to invent a life and forge an identity, or simply enjoy discovering every corner of the map. Skyrim is an immersive world, inspired by Norse mythology. It’s packed with so many details and surprises that it’s hard to know everything regarding Skyrim even following years of traversing it from one end of the map to the other. If you have the eye, you will be able to spot many details, and in particular a whole bunch of small easter eggs with references to other famous video game licenses, but not only.
The Dragonborn Victory
Since its release, almost eleven years ago, Skyrim has managed to establish itself in a sustainable way in the video game landscape. The Elder Scrolls V has conquered players thanks to its immensely rich universe, its epic adventure. This success is also due to the great freedom that the game has left to players, in terms of in-game actions, but also by letting them appropriate it, as evidenced by the diverse and varied mods that can be found on Skyrim. . This fifth installment of The Elder Scrolls is also the biggest success of the saga, with more than 30 million copies sold in 2016, which allows it to climb into the top 20 best-selling video games in the world. . If the original release of Skyrim took place in 2011 on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, the arrival of new generation consoles such as the PS4 or the Nintendo Switch gave it the opportunity to offer new releases, increasing even more the sales figure. It only remains to know if its successor, The Elder Scrolls VI, will obtain the same success, or even, if it will be able to do better than Skyrim. This sixth opus was announced in 2018 and we may have to wait a few more years before getting a glimpse of it.
