

This list becomes cluttered and somewhat painful to navigate later on in the game, but it’s very useful for ensuring that you never spend too much time away from the action and fiddling in a menu. From here you can easily map any of your amassed weapons, spells or powers to the left and right triggers by pressing the associated button (you can press any button to map a power to the “Power” button). Instead, you earmark items in your inventory as “favorites” to add them to a master list that can be called up at any time with a press of the D-pad. Mapping various weapons, spells and items to the D-pad is a thing of the past now. The biggest saving grace of the new menu system, however, is Favorites.

It’s still not perfect some filters would be nice, and perhaps a “Drop All” option to complement the returning “Take All” option. Tying all of this together is a revamped menu system that responds quickly and is easy to navigate, even as you build up a massive inventory further along into the game. Skyrim effectively creates an impression that there’s a world that exists around you and without you. Maybe a flame spell and a healing spell? Or two healing spells? Or a fire & ice elemental combo? Any combination you can think of will work if it’s a weapon or spell in your inventory, it can be mapped to a trigger. The left and right triggers control your left and right hands, no matter what you choose to stuff into them.

More precisely, how you interact with things in it that you’re going to kill. The most obvious enhancement Skyrim brings to the Elder Scrolls universe is how you interact with it. Some elements of the game feel their age - but Skyrim is a modern classic that’s well worth your time if you’ve somehow missed it. While the game has since released on many new platforms, its core remains the same, warts and all. Today, Skyrim is available not only for its original launch platforms (PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360) but also Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and VR headsets. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a very, very big game, perhaps the biggest in terms of the actual square footage it covers.
