400 hours of work, 100 unique characters, and 50 working quests: One Skyrim fan's year-long journey to recreate the RPG in Age of Empires 2 is almost over
One Skyrim superfan has been working to recreate the iconic fantasy RPG within another all-time classic, Age of Empires 2, for a year now, and is finally nearing the finish line after some 400 hours of work.
Over on the Skyrim subreddit, user Grouchy_Bluejay4511 – a throwaway account, they say, preferring to go by their AOE2 name Bubbabaelor – recently shared an update on their massive project. "I remade all of Skyrim in AOE2," they casually announced – specifically Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition on Steam – complete with some impressive screenshots to prove it.
In Reddit replies, Bubbabaelor explained that the mod "has 50+ quests, 100 unique characters, and you can play as one of the Holds vying for control of Skyrim." Their plan is to polish off the remaining bugs this week before soon uploading the mod map to the AOE2 Steam workshop for others to download. I reached out to talk through the mod's creation, and this mega project is even more impressive than I thought.
Bubbabaelor says their journey to recreate Skyrim actually started with a similar, but incomplete quest from another player. "It actually goes back a bit... before they came out with the definitive edition of AOE2 there was the HD version on Steam," they begin. "Lots of people were making maps on HD of different books, movies, and of course originals. You had Game of Thrones Overhaul, Siraak's [Lord of the Rings], and Brendan's Warhammer, etc.
"So there was this guy Zarko who had a Skyrim map, but it was totally unfinished and it really bugged me," they add. "So last year around this time I started working on my Skyrim map. My map is all my own original work, but was inspired by Zarko's start." Altogether, they've been working on this recreation
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