Needless to say, hardcore players who haven’t stopped playing the overall game since’11 will most likely have found a lot of the secret and hidden gems the overall game provides, however for the more casual gamer like myself, running into these secrets just gave me an even fuller appreciation to one of the finest games of the decade.

Yes, as it happens, the developers threw in a number of easter eggs, secret codes, and locations which are only being explored now. With increased than 100 hours of vanilla gameplay (i.e., main quest line + ‘official’side quests), Skyrim without mods or DLC’s was already expansive, and that has been just the quests they told us about. And that’s not including most of the amazing and intricate mods you can download online. It’s not merely that the vanilla game plus DLC’s (Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn) take up a little over 22GB of HDD space, but in addition because most, if not absolutely all, of the vanilla game’s secrets, are still being unearthed almost 10 years on. Now, almost 10 years as a result of its release, and regarding other immersive franchises like Fallout and Red Dead Redemption (my personal favorites), and it’s still one of the most expansive games of all time. When it came out in 2009, The Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim was regarded as being one of the most massive, extremely intricate, and highly immersive games of all time.

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