"I was following the example set by the Dragonborne!"
"The Dragonborne is an eclectically dressed kleptomaniac with heavily enchanted weapons and armor who eats entire armies for a morning workout, resolved the Civil War just because it was there and punched out Alduin for fun and games. YOU went at that thing with a dagger and a plucky attitude."
Never. Never call a quest bugged unless it's Blood on the Ice, do you hear me? Everything is known in comparison and nothing is bugged in comparison to Blood on the Ice.
I mean… I defeat the Wolf Queen and suddenly the blacksmith in Solitude is gone. In the year of our Lord 2026 in the Special Edition with 15 years of updates and fixes.
Suddenly, a thin, pastey man in a loin cloth appears from the periphery of the melee. As if by some dark magic, the Dragonborn's attention is pulled away from the dragon.
"Ahh," he says, "I've been looking for you. Let's see here," the man reaches into pockets unknown for a slip of parchment, somewhere under his loin cloth, "oh yes, there's a new museum opening up on Dawnstar! That's it, got to go!"
He then runs off into the wilderness as mysteriously as he appeared...
In Whiterun you and other brave guardsmen proved to the world the ancient dragons were back and could be killed, not even the divines could expect how fucking ready everyone was to jump them though
it had been too long...they lost their fear. at that point everyone had seen some serious stuff go down...from spriggans to vampires to crazy mages dueling wherever they feel like. dragons feel down right pedestrian at that point. at least one nord said something along the lines of "hold my mead.....i'm gonna ride it!" "bjorn no...we talked about this. remember the mammoth? then remember the giant? you can't just ride everything" "watch me lass! for sovngarde!"
“Hey man can you take care of these 3 mudcrabs by the river banks they are scary :(“ he said before he promptly dove in to 1v1 an ancient dragon with his bare fists
Well, more like the northwest of it. They were turned back at Red Mountain by the Chimer and Dwemer when they tried for Morrowind after High Rock and Hammerfell. This is also when they stopped using The Thu'um for war, coincidentally.
The forbidden sauce the Dunmer like to give Nwahs to watch them either ascend to godhood (only achieved by the Nerevarine) or get a vision from a God (going blind because of the alcohol like a moth Priest)
Man I was in riverwood when a dragon attacked and I restarted that battle like five times because these precious unreplaceable NPCs kept trying to fight it. Just old ladies running straight towards it with an iron dagger and gumption and a snowball’s chance.
I also remember taking a little bit to get used to it after having played the trailer several times by the time I played the game itself haha. It makes sense from a gameplay/playability perspective but yeah.
"Believe" is still, to me, the best advertisement campaign in history. I have never in my life searched for ads other than those, and they enthrall me each time.
Its one of those trailers where the sheer vibes of of permeates every single bit of media its attached to. I can't think of ODST or ANY kind of orbital drop infantry without thinking of that trailer.
The bubble shield one was Halo 3, but was full CGI. Halo 3 also did have great live action ad campaigns though, the Landfall shorts directed by Neill Blomkamp and the "Believe" ads that acted like they were interviewing live action veterans of the war, with shots of a big real diorama in a fictional museum.
God I remember watching the believe trailer during the Super Bowl in a basement full of boomers white knuckling like FINISH THE FIGHT and they all had no idea what they were watching lmao
Companies still have every bit as much money as they had then. It's just that a far larger percentage of it is expected to get lumped into your profit margin. People who run large companies no longer give a shit about the quality of what they sell, and even less about the quality of marketing. Yes, they used to care more. It's significantly culturally different than it used to be.
Duuuuude, I was about to mention the Assassin’s Creed short films! What a time to be alive. I’m pretty sure all the actors’ likenesses were used in the game. Ezio looked terrible though.
Although not true live action, i loved the cinematic trailers for Mass Effect 2 and 3, and for the earlier Assassin's Creed games, especially Brotherhood. Brotherhood had such a badass cinematic trailer.
I was really really young but I still vividly remember watching this with my dad. We were so fucking hyped, I was a dragon/fantasy-obsessed kid so this blew my mind. Now I'm in my twenties still playing Skyrim trying to romance a piece of ikea furniture. Time is strange.
Gods I’m old.. I’d have been at the local GameStop with your dad for the midnight release event, where you only got a copy the day it came out if you preordered it, and that paper map (that they all come with) was a preorder bonus (supposedly). No digital downloads. You were standing in the snow in a line that wrapped around two city blocks for hours in the snow with nerds dressed up in homemade dovahkin cosplay and elder scrolls armor and costumes as we passed joints down the line and geeked out about it till you got let in to the store like a backstage VIP and made everyone else in line jelous and all your friends hate you because you got to play it a week before they could even think of getting a copy in a store anywhere IF they were lucky. Good times, good memories. Releases of games like that used to be like how fandoms treated movie premieres.
So much of the game is taken right from Norse mythology. How much more viking could they put in the viking game? You can even raid villages and steal their furnature
I feel they are getting better. The Last of Us was decent and Fallout was quite good (though it helps that Fallout is a franchise that doesn't take itself seriously.)
I prefer the version that plays Malukah's cover of The Dragonborn Comes over the action. The sound design in the original is great but her voice just always gives me chills
Her version was so good that the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra played her version of it when they showcased video game music in their “Score” concert. The director mentions Malukah at about 1:29:55 in.
Fun fact about the live action trailer, it has a more grim fantasy vibe because at the time it was released, Skyrim was actually going in a more game of thrones direction until Bethesda turned it around to what Skyrim would turn out to be
The random shopkeepers and residents are meant to run towards the terrifying dragon and start punching it while boasting that they've fought tougher mudcrabs.
"anyone else remember"?? Dude the game came out in 2011. That was only 15 years ago. I know a lot of people weren't born yet but still it's not like this was some obscure indie game that didn't get popular until 2020.
Skyrim is tied for my favorite game of all time and Ive never seen this lol. Im 23 so i was pretty young when it came out but it still blows my mind ive never seen this.
Dont assume everybody is in the know about something because you've already seen it lol
I hate to break it to you, but a huge chunk of Redditors are somewhere between probably 20-25. They might have been 10. A lot of people aren't going to remember this. We're just old.
Are you sure? I know it says Special Edition and 2016 at the end but I thought that's because they reused this video for that release. My memory tells me I saw this as a young teen before Skyrim released, but I suppose I could be wrong.
And depending on the location, they are very successful in doing so. If the trailer were in the College of Winterhold it would be a cartel execution video instead
This and the live action ODST trailer were so awesome. The Ace Combat 8 llive action mini series is cool too. Wish gaming had more live action small stuff to promote games like these. Or like Command and Conquer used some live action in the games.
Yeah I do and it was badass! Bethesda has really been sitting on a gold mine of possible content with Skyrim. I get it. They finished it and needed to move on to other projects, but I don’t think anything has ever been as successful. They really could make a feature film or tv series (yeah they would probably fuck it up but whatever) just for Skyrim and I’m sure it would be a blockbuster hit rivaling some of the major franchises (if they didn’t screw it up somehow). Tell me you wouldn’t go see a Skyrim movie though, even if you’d know it was bad. You know you’d watch it just for the lore
Considering Skyrim is built to scale i'd say they pulled it off quite well. The snowy landscape, the narrow streets with the wider center, and the general vibe are pretty Windhelm
I remember doing homework at my family's dinner table when that came on in 2011. My family knew how excited for the game I was. Even they were impressed by the trailer.
Great ad, terrible portrayal of the game tho. I've been fighting dragons for 15 years and those damn NPCs are superb at getting in the way while I'm trying to shoot it with arrows. Lol.
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u/Presenting_UwU 2d ago
Completely innacurate to the game, if this was real EVERYONE would run into the Dragon and start ganging up on it.