Best, most noteworthy or otherwise interesting Skyrim moment?

[happyninja42]

My favorite was playing as my Greybeard/Priest of Akatosh pacifist character. I wanted to try a different run where I didn't kill things, much like my Thief/Garrett playthrough. So I did a little game lore research, and found that the lore of Elder Scrolls, has the priests of Akatosh (at least I think that was the deity, I forget at this point), were pacifists. It was the god of death and life, and his priests wouldn't kill living things. They would however, smite the fuck out of undead, because their god despised them. The priestly order even had a martial arm or warriors, who were sworn to defend the priests out in the world. So I got myself a companion and was like "Ok, this is my Sword Brother from the Order, I'm set."

I proceeded to focus entirely on Alteration, Illusion, Restoration and Shouts. I would buff my companion with the Alteration spell that would give him a health boost, and also prevent him from running if his health was low, and then Illusion to debuff the enemy, and toss heals to keep him alive. I'd crowd control with Fus Ro Dah if the squad attacking us was too large, and just let him take them out.

My shining moment however, was one of those wonderful organic moments in the game that you can't plan. It was nightfall, and we were wandering around as the sky darkened, near this little mining village, nestled in a mountain side. As we drew near, the sound of a dragon split the night sky, and it proceeded to start attacking the villagers, now leaving the tavern to go to bed. I rushed in, hearing their screams, and began tossing heals spells left and right, and tossing the buff spell that prevented them from fleeing in terror. The dragon circled, occasionally landing, and the villagers would attack him. They were chipping away at him during landings, when out of the shadows came a vampire attack squad, aimed right at me (Thanks Dawnguard DLC! xD). So now I had a dragon AND vampires, attacking this village. I ran around, healing and buffing villagers like a madman, and turning my Shout on the vampires every time it recharged, to toss them back and keep them out of the fight. Eventually, the dragon landed and stayed on the ground, and the villagers, emboldened by my spell, leaped on the dragon as a mob, screaming out "kill the dragon! tear it down!" and curbstomped the dragon to death. They were mob stomping it so hard, it didn't get a chance to attack again, as they kept staggering it. Finally, it lifted it's head to the sky, letting out a final jet of flame as it's dying breath, then collapsed in a heap before the empowered villagers. Hot from their bloodlust on slaying a dragon with their bare hands, they made short work of the vampires. All the while, I'm darting around, playing buff/support/crowd control, and ended the fight without a single villager dying. I couldn't use the Restoration based undead fighting spells, as my skill wasn't high enough,and I hadn't triggered that content yet, but it wasn't necessary with 15ish villagers all attacking at once.

It was a hectic 15-20 minutes of gameplay, but one of the most personally satisfying moments for me in the game.

 

[Godhead]

I had a friend playing Skyrim on my old computer a couple of years before I sold it to him, and he decided to go full console command mode. After about half an hour of him trying to glitch his way through the Whiterun walls, only to find it to be a giant graphical hole, since there's nothing there (tack on another ten minutes of him complaining about how Whiterun doesn't actually load until you enter the city gates to load the area is stupid). Afterwards he enters the Tavern, to have Sinmir the Breaker stand from where he was sitting and exclaim to noone in particular "I am Sinmir the Breaker", and then promptly sat down and started drinking ale. As he went outside he decided that it was a good time to turn on god mode and kill every non-essential npc.

After around ten minutes of frolicking with a gay smile on his face whetting his ax hither and thither with the blood of slain innocents, he came upon an old crotchety woman (I believe it was the wife of the old Silvermane or whatever their name was) and smote her righteously for committing the crime of not being the player. Her dead body then started rising in the air as if ascending into the next plane of existence and then immediately caused the game to crash to desktop. He didn't play on Skyrim for awhile after that.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

I always played stealthy/Assassin characters, and once you get high up in stealth you can have a lot of fun.

I remember sneaking into a cave that I can't remember the name of, it's a cave along the northern coast with lots of water in it (basically a pirate's cove). I managed to sneak through the whole place, murdering guys stealthily as I did. This included some great scenes:
-Shooting a guy in the neck with an arrow right in front of a guy sitting on a chair, and then slitting chair guy's throat before he had time to sound the alarm.
-Hitting a guy with an arrow sniper shot, and then his body fell off the ledge into the water before his buddies could see him.
-Using noisemaker arrows (mod) to lure a guy into a trap
-And for the cherry on top,Killing the pirate leader in his sleep, then making off with the loot.

Good times, I murdered the entire bandit crew like some kind of Viking Ninja. Fus Ro Dah!

 

[Recusant]

Moments that best impressed us? Well, for me, Skyrim was a uniquely frustrating game; it showed that the makers had learned all the right lessons about what made Oblivion a lousy game, and fixed (or at least lessened) nearly all of them, but that they had also learned all the wrong lessons about what kept Oblivion from being a good game, and dialed them up. At one point, a dozen or so hours in, I found myself wondering, as a longstanding Elder Scrolls fan, what the series' lore could possibly have done to deserve such mutilation, when I stumbled into Blackreach. And I stopped. Just stopped, and looked around in wonder. It's the one part of the game I can unreservedly and with no qualifications say I liked; the one part of the subsequent games that I can honestly say I felt caught the spirit of, and perhaps even improved on Daggerfall. It was glorious.

Then I walked out, and was attacked by a dragon who responded to my presence by flying backwards into a mountain, crashing into the ground, and spinning like a rotary drill.

But while it lasted...

 

[FruitBird]

for me it's the quest with the daedric lord in Whiterun tavern. Just trying to puzzle out wtf I did before I passed out was hilarious. Especially the last part. Are we allowed spoilers in here OP?

Probably best to avoid them so as to encourage people who may not have played it to try the game, but I've played that quest and it's possibly one of the funniest moments in Skyrim. It's basically, "The Hangover: Tamriel edition"

 

[FruitBird]

I'd have to go with the first time I played it with mods on. My three favorites were, in no particular order, (1) exploding chickens, (2) giving all the mudcrabs top hats and monocles, and (3) playing the Dexter sound clip "Surprise, Muthaf***a!" after every sneak attack.

Oh, and (4) replacing "Fus ro dah" with "Good DAY sir!"

Please tell me the name of the "Good day, sir!" Mod. Is it in the steam work shop?

 

[SoreWristed]

Are we allowed seconds? Because i want to ask a kind of question here.

At some point i found a small mountain path leading up, and having nothing particularly interesting to do, i started following it until i reached a dragon shrine on top of a mountain. I'm sure most of you will know which one im referring to, since i then found it on another character when horsing my way over a mountain, and accidentally landing on top of said dragon.

Anyway, dragon leaps off, and starts flying around the mountain, staying well out of reach. So i'm taking potshots at it with my bow, until suddenly it seems to flinch in midair while it's coming straight towards me. It seems he's taken an arrow where it hurts, and crash lands on the small area. It chrashes into the ground, reshuffling the textures to actually show the impact and takes a few seconds to get up and realise where i am. I kill it, dragon soul thing, rest you know.

So, has anyone ever taken a dragon down in a same manner? Is it scripted there, because i can't seem to recreate it? Can it happen anywhere else? Was i dreaming, or on some form of hallucinations?

 

[Glongpre]

I was playing an assassin and I was going through that cave that has a sunken ship in it. The cave is by Solitude, on the northern coast. I was making my way through it, and it is a small thing, but I was able to snipe a bandit of the walkway from a fair distance, and he tumbled over the edge into the water. No one was the wiser

I was playing a different assassin character and I decided to put the difficulty way down so I would get more unique kill animations. I was going through a bandit stronghold, and I was kinda stuck in a weird spot where I was sure if I moved the bandit would see me, and he was just chilling against the wall. So I decide what the hell, and I jumped the railing and sprinted at him and I got the animation where you run your sword through them I remained undetected. The bandit leader was also in the next room. I sneaked attacked but she was still alive so I power attacked and regular attacked and got another unique animation. I felt like a badass assassin. Good times.

 

[Rayce Archer]

I always played stealthy/Assassin characters, and once you get high up in stealth you can have a lot of fun.

I remember sneaking into a cave that I can't remember the name of, it's a cave along the northern coast with lots of water in it (basically a pirate's cove). I managed to sneak through the whole place, murdering guys stealthily as I did. This included some great scenes:
-Shooting a guy in the neck with an arrow right in front of a guy sitting on a chair, and then slitting chair guy's throat before he had time to sound the alarm.
-Hitting a guy with an arrow sniper shot, and then his body fell off the ledge into the water before his buddies could see him.
-Using noisemaker arrows (mod) to lure a guy into a trap
-And for the cherry on top,Killing the pirate leader in his sleep, then making off with the loot.

Good times, I murdered the entire bandit crew like some kind of Viking Ninja. Fus Ro Dah!

That seems like a weird mod since regular arrows already draw attention with their impacts. There's already a shout for it too. And a spell, unless they took noise out for Skyrim (not sure right now).

 

[Chester Rabbit]

I wouldn't say mine is funny or anything but it's the thing that sticks out the most in my mind when I remember my none stop time with Skyrim. It's when i discovered the Falmor as a stealth character.

But to be more specific, I am talking about after I had found my first cave I had sort of found myself in this cluster.

Over every tall rock it seemed like there was a cave entrance and then I found it THE CAVE. This thing was massive and oh my god trying to get through it undiscovered by the Falmor and the Dwarven machinery was one of the most nerve racking experiences of my gaming life.

The cave was just so massive and uuugh the Falmer just creep me right out and trying to get by the unnoticed. Well like I said it was one hell of a nerve racking experience.

I hold a lot of animosity towards Skyrim these days once the illusion wore off but if there is one thing I still look back on and can still get that tingling sensation of nostalgia and joy from it's that.

EDIT: one thing that might have added to the experience was that I had this music playing while roaming the caves of the Falmer.

 

[Lilani]

I really love maxing out stealth and hiding in plain sight while bandits are walking around me like "I could have swore I heard something..." It gets to a point where all you have to do is squat and you basically turn invisible, even when standing in the middle of a room.

 

[Saetha]

Almost all of mine relate to dragon skeletons in someway. I know that, for some odd reason, dragons kept spawning whenever I visited the College of Winterhold, and the corpses weren't despawning very quickly either. Eventually there ended up being about eight or ten dragon skeletons just lying in the courtyard, all the Winterhold mages calmly going about their day, phasing straight through old dragon bones. Two of them were caught in the doorway to Winterhold proper, and whenever you closed the door, they'd start clipping through it and jangling all about. Two dragon corpses, just flailing randomly around the College... Well, I thought it was pretty funny.

Another was when I tried to use a revive dead spell on a dragon corpse. The game didn't like that, apparently - I guess Bethesda didn't want us running around summoning scaly dragon companions from the dead. Except... casting revive dead on dragon corpse can do something - it actually blasts the dragon skeleton across the map. I discovered that on a mountaintop the first time I tried it, and sent some poor frost dragon's bones sailing out over Whiterun. On the upside, figured out a way to clear all those dragon corpses out of the College.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

I always played stealthy/Assassin characters, and once you get high up in stealth you can have a lot of fun.

I remember sneaking into a cave that I can't remember the name of, it's a cave along the northern coast with lots of water in it (basically a pirate's cove). I managed to sneak through the whole place, murdering guys stealthily as I did. This included some great scenes:
-Shooting a guy in the neck with an arrow right in front of a guy sitting on a chair, and then slitting chair guy's throat before he had time to sound the alarm.
-Hitting a guy with an arrow sniper shot, and then his body fell off the ledge into the water before his buddies could see him.
-Using noisemaker arrows (mod) to lure a guy into a trap
-And for the cherry on top,Killing the pirate leader in his sleep, then making off with the loot.

Good times, I murdered the entire bandit crew like some kind of Viking Ninja. Fus Ro Dah!

That seems like a weird mod since regular arrows already draw attention with their impacts. There's already a shout for it too. And a spell, unless they took noise out for Skyrim (not sure right now).

The mod actually adds a lot of cool stuff, including:
-Water arrows that can put out fires (ala "Thief")
-Rope arrows that can create ropes you can climb up ledges with (though admittedly they're pretty hit and miss for how often they work)
-They actually create a distraction effect (a small light show), so they're a little more direct than the arrows in the vanilla game.
-It makes stealth kills context sensitive (at least against human enemies). Basically you don't have to actually swing at them, if you successfully sneak up on an enemy and are armed with something that can 1-hit kill them in stealth, you just push a button and instant slit throat.

Fun little mod.

 

[Lilani]

Oh, and (4) replacing "Fus ro dah" with "Good DAY sir!"

Are...are we talking the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory "good day sir?"

 

[Bob_McMillan]

I'm kinda sad I have pretty much nothing to contribute to this thread, even though I have played 30+ hours of Skyrim.

 

[Wasted]

I most be the only person left alive that found Skyrim to be absolutely boring. I tried my best to at least play through it once but in the 3 or 4 times I picked up the game I couldn't get more than a few hours in. Modding the game heavily only helped a little.

I feel the same way about New Vegas, but I adored FO3 (and beat it at least 4 times) which I am told is worse in every way.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

I most be the only person left alive that found Skyrim to be absolutely boring. I tried my best to at least play through it once but in the 3 or 4 times I picked up the game I couldn't get more than a few hours in. Modding the game heavily only helped a little.

I feel the same way about New Vegas, but I adored FO3 (and beat it at least 4 times) which I am told is worse in every way.

Honestly, when I first played Skyrim I was pretty bored by it too. What really made me enjoy it was:
-Play as a Stealth character. I found playing as a stealth character to be much more satisfying, and you really feel a palpable sense of progression as your sneak skill improves.
-Play with the "a new beginning" mod, which lets you start the game in a wide variety of locations instead of having to do the "captured prisoner, dragon attacks the village" opening again and again. This segways into...
-Imagination. Let's face it: the Skyrim story stinks. This is pretty much one of those games where you have to make up your own story about who your character is and then use that to have fun, and sort of build the world around it. For example, I did one game where I started in the woods, no items, no weapons, no money, just the clothes on my back (started there via the 'new beginning' mod). I made up a story that I was an assassin betrayed by the criminal elements I worked for, and then left for dead in the woods. Now I'm back to get revenge on all of them (so basically an excuse to sneak into forts and murder bandits) working my way up from pickpocketing and stealing from houses just to buy an iron dagger, to creeping into bandit camps and stealthily murdering everyone, to eventually becoming the baddest Assassin ever, and taking over the Dark Brotherhood and murdering the Emperor. Oh and somewhere along the way I'll kill some Dragons and save the world

 

[Ihrgoth]

Best Skyrim moment ever was I was showing the game to my little brother for the first time. I stepped out of the town to go do a quest and a dragon attacked. So the first thing he saw was a dragon attack. It was epic.

 

[Zydrate]

for me it's the quest with the daedric lord in Whiterun tavern. Just trying to puzzle out wtf I did before I passed out was hilarious. Especially the last part. Are we allowed spoilers in here OP?

Probably best to avoid them so as to encourage people who may not have played it to try the game, but I've played that quest and it's possibly one of the funniest moments in Skyrim. It's basically, "The Hangover: Tamriel edition"

I vaguely regret skipping through most of that quest. Since I tend to discover that quest when I have money or high skillsets, so one speech check or a bribe, you can skip several 'steps' of that quest.

 

[ThePreyApproaches]

For me it's always that moment when the merry pack of armored bounty hunters decides to teach you a lesson for stealing a few potatoes from an old woman. And you're always underleveled when you have to face them, so wild running around and AI exploiting ensue. These thugs do not level scale like the other enemies in the game, so encountering them on lower levels can be a lingering death sentence. I guess that's one way of punishing the player for exploiting the easy stealth mechanic and stealing everything that's not part of the scenery.