Speedrunner plays “Skyrim” through in 72 minutes

You can invest hundreds of hours of gaming time in Bethesda’s ten-year-old role-playing game milestone “Skyrim”. But there are also gamers who can finish the epic in little more than an hour without cheating or taking advantage of bugs: A so-called speedrunner now played “Skyrim” through with a new trick in just 72 minutes. World record!

Speedrunners are gamers who make it their business to finish games as quickly as possible and set records. Some exploit errors in the game or rely on computer support in order to reach the goal faster. One speaks here of tool-assisted speed runs. Others dispense with aids and only use the options provided by the game: Here one speaks of “glitchless” speed runs. The new “Skyrim” record belongs to the latter category. According to “PC Games”, little had happened in the best times last year – until Speedrunners came across a new trick that shortened the playing time. During a quest, you take advantage of a security guard who, under certain circumstances, throws the player into jail and thus saves him walking, which takes around a minute. To set up the best times. The world record was set by the speedrunner “nucular” from the USA, who finished “Skyrim” in 72 minutes and 15 seconds, while his German rival “TODDs_Telemedien” raced through the game only slightly slower with 73 minutes and 32 seconds. On YouTube, the professionals present how much timing and precision there is behind such services. “Skyrim” is already ten years old, but still has a loyal fan base and is still cultivated by the developers. Just recently – see trailer – they released the “Anniversary Edition”, the most extensive version of the role-playing game to date, which, in addition to pimped graphics and a few other improvements, also contains hundreds of community-developed mods, quests and other content.

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