An Elder Scrolls speedrunner finished Skyrim in only 1 hour and 12 Minutes.
As first spotted by TheGamer, this ridiculous feat was accomplished by Nucular — a well-known figure within the Elder Scrolls speedrunning scene. What’s particularly interesting about this record is Nucular did not take advantage of any glitches in Skyrim, so no going out of bounds or duplicating items. Nucular held the glitchless Skyrim speedrun world record before this too, yet managed to shave two minutes off completion their own completion time with this new run.
Watch Nucular’s trailblazing Skyrim record-setting run for yourself below. I guarantee that you’ve never seen Bethesda’s seminal open-world RPG quite like this.
Somehow this is even more impressive than Pokémon Shining Pearl getting blitzed in less than an hour. Probably because of how massive Skyrim is. After all, it’s on our best western RPGs list of all time for good reason.
Skyrim recently celebrated its 10th anniversary with a new version that nearly broke a bunch of existing mods. Updated ports are likely all we will get from the series for a while since Elder Scrolls 6 is still a long way off. Better pick up an Xbox Series X|S or gaming PC if you want to play that one too.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
[mm-video type=video id=01ff36p66k1krdh2xx7n playlist_id=none player_id=none image=https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/video/thumbnail/mmplus/01ff36p66k1krdh2xx7n/01ff36p66k1krdh2xx7n-76ddf1d64797ac5740f41bc9295356ea.jpg]
[listicle id=1096607]