Skyrim Fan Reimagines It As '90s RPG

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It's weird to say it out loud, but Skyrim is 13 years old. We can debate about whether that makes it retro or just pull out our grey hairs in frustration, the point is that Skyrim is getting on a bit. But one fan decided to turn the clock back even further and imagine what it'd look like if we were celebrating its 27th birthday this year instead.

Obviously, there are '90s Elder Scrolls games already - Arena, Daggerfall, Battlespire, and Redguard. So we don't have to imagine what the series would look like 30 years ago. Instead, Pertrinax has reimagined Skyrim itself as a classic RPG, as we see Daggerfall-inspired UI in place of the slicker, more modern style, with 2D pixelated sprites swinging their weapons in all their janky might.

The khajiit were much more humanoid in Daggerfall (and straight-up human in Arena). They had fur and tails like the cat people of more modern Elder Scrolls games, but completely humanoid faces - imagine a khajiit with Ulfric's head. Unsettling, to say the least.

The video starts like any good Skyrim clip, with Ralof waking us up on our way to Helgen. Instead of the simple and to-the-point subtitles, his words come to life via styilised dialogue boxes.

After waking up dazed, confused, and face-to-face with the nord of all nords, we see a whole host of different iconic Skyrim scenes:

And lastly, a giant's camp, where the player is pelted off into the sky. See you in Starfield, bud.

This isn't the only Bethesda game Pertinax has reimagined as a '90s RPG. Shortly after their Skyrim video, they uploaded one for Fallout: New Vegas as well.

It's not like the classic, isometric Fallout games, though. Instead, it takes inspiration from those first-person dungeon crawlers of yesteryear, as we see the