Skyrim Player Fills the Streets of Whiterun with Excess Gear, Breaks Game

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As beloved as it is, even after more than a decade, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is infamous for being bug-ridden or easy to break. Even the Skryim Anniversary Edition has been known to have game breaking glitches. For some, the fact that it is a little unstable only adds to the overall charm. It's become a sort of joke now and even expected that there are mishaps within Bethesda's open-world epic, and one fan decided to almost intentionally crash the game.

Deciding that they didn't want to carry a lot of excess gear around, a user on Reddit has uploaded a clip of their Skyrim playthrough showing the street absolutely teeming with items and weapons. The video shows that the game is running at significantly lower framerates with all the extra things that need to be rendered. Amusingly, it doesn't seem to stop the NPC children from frolicking as they run through the detritus, seemingly unfazed by it. The user goes on to say that they then dumped even more items, which is apparently more than the Xbox Series X can handle, and the game ultimately locked up.

Skyrim Clip Shows Whiterun Guard Having an Especially Awful Day

For those curious about the location, the player specifically chose to drop all this gear outside Breezehome which is located in Whiterun in Skyrim. It's a very well-known location, more often than not being the first spot after leaving Riverwood that most players will encounter early on in the game. It contains the Dragonborn's first home, the Jarl who sits upon the throne in Dragonsreach, the NPC that everyone loves to hate, and is now also apparently a good place to dump a load of stuff in the streets.

There are so many glitches in Skyrim that players are more than happy to show off. Yet this is a rare instance