By Craig Pearson on February 9th, 2012 at 8:49 am.
I’m mesmerised by this hefty chunk of Peter Jackson-esque machinima, using Skyrim and some mods. There’s thankfully no story: just a set up of 500 Draugr, 200 skeletons, 500 Dwarven Warriors, and a dragon all lined up to beat the undead hell out of each other, for a movie that’ll go down in history as The Great Battle of Skyrim. It’s well-shot, nicely edited, and has lots and lots of kapwow. Video herein.
Popcorn ready? Good set it to 720p, switch your phone to silent and turn the lights off.
Via GameSpy.
09/02/2012 at 08:56 Williz says:
Skelletowned
09/02/2012 at 10:12 Raiyan 1.0 says:
Bit of a sensory overload – they should definitely skeletone it down a bit.
09/02/2012 at 10:19 ThinkAndGrowWitcher says:
Is this a real battle, or were they just pre-tendon?
09/02/2012 at 11:07 Captain Hijinx says:
Make no bones about it, this is awesome!
09/02/2012 at 12:05 marcusfell says:
The ending was kinda dragon though.
09/02/2012 at 12:22 Zanchito says:
The story is certainly draugr by the action.
09/02/2012 at 12:38 lamontagne says:
I think this has got legs, could definitely be fleshed out into something more meaty though.
09/02/2012 at 12:47 OtioseNexus says:
I felt the story got dwarfed by the action, that kinda thing dwemer head in.
09/02/2012 at 16:15 Coccyx says:
I can’t help but scroll my eyes whenever I scry (im) an ‘epic’ video like this. Truly an ‘arrowing tale.
09/02/2012 at 17:40 zaphod42 says:
I liked the video at first, but it seemed to dragon
09/02/2012 at 18:25 Dammokles says:
They could have made it a little more humerus. It has a tendoncy to make videos better.
09/02/2012 at 18:41 Droopy The Dog says:
So much action going on at once, I almost didn’t khajiit all.
11/02/2012 at 23:54 olver says:
Gave me a boner.
09/02/2012 at 09:00 Maja Playa says:
At least my computer didn’t crash watching it.
10/02/2012 at 08:56 Chalky says:
If this was REALLY skyrim, all the people would be instantly killed when trying to walk over that giant pile of bones!
09/02/2012 at 09:01 JuJuCam says:
Makes me wish Mount and Blade were this pretty.
09/02/2012 at 09:11 Creaturemagic says:
Yeah, I like MnB alot more than Skyrim ,and the battles are much bigger with better style, strategy and awesomeness, shame an MnB short-film would look pretty mediocre because of the Graphics.
09/02/2012 at 09:01 Fishburn says:
This one is a thousand times more interesting and worthy of a newspost:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwEuf9fZ1sA&lc=hMrg73TH6bNM0QosoxcBX7jo-velP4dOBT7OxuTdAb0&feature=inbox
09/02/2012 at 09:06 DeepSleeper says:
Speaking of “Worth a News Post”, so is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYOFLqItuW4
09/02/2012 at 09:37 Lokai says:
That was quite interesting, but I still think the video they posted was pretty damn fun.
09/02/2012 at 09:41 Ross Angus says:
Thanks for that, DeepSleeper. Really interesting video.
09/02/2012 at 09:55 TheBigBookOfTerror says:
Holy crap, Bethesda really need to implement those spears, the flail and those water effects. There is one mod out already (pure waters) that does something similar with the water but it doesn’t look as great as that… yet. The dragon mount will surely end up as a DLC. The dark dungeons looked great too. Very cool of them to show this stuff off. That the Elder Scrolls team really embrace the mod capabilites of their games is one of the main selling points of Skyrim and previous Elder Scrolls. I love the vanilla games, and then a few months after the release the fun really starts.
Oh and that battle video is fantastic.
09/02/2012 at 11:19 boywithumbrella says:
curse you, GEMA! >_<"
09/02/2012 at 12:14 cafe says:
Same here -_- I cant watch any of the new mod videos :(
09/02/2012 at 09:02 Discosauce says:
Impressive.
Did the Wilhelm scream make an appearance in Skyrim proper, or just this video?
09/02/2012 at 13:49 roryok says:
just this video I think. but kudos to them for including it.
09/02/2012 at 09:05 RogB says:
2:48 – HADOUKEN, HADOUKEN, HADOUKEN
typical ryu player.
09/02/2012 at 09:09 Creaturemagic says:
I wasn’t very impressed by Skyrim itself, but being a LOTR Fan, I really did like this :)
09/02/2012 at 09:24 Was Neurotic says:
What is this, the start of the ‘Meh Skyrim’ backlash? :D
09/02/2012 at 11:35 Unaco says:
I don’t think there is much plot to it… It’s just large numbers of Undead/Draugr vs large numbers of Dwemer. Haven’t seen much else about this though, so maybe the creator will make it part of this ‘backlash’.
09/02/2012 at 09:39 googoogjoob says:
this would be way more impressive if the ai were actually geared towards this sort of thing
watching 500 men press at each other to try to get to the front line while the front line attacks at regular intervals is not interesting, no matter how good the editing, soundtrack, etc is, so the best parts are the single combat parts
09/02/2012 at 12:50 Shortwave says:
Why was I impressed then? >.<
09/02/2012 at 09:53 Text_Fish says:
Mission complete. Reward: 1 pewter amulet of minor weilding.
09/02/2012 at 10:38 sneetch says:
The evil general is currently writing a post on the Skyrim forums entitled “OMG! REsistences WTF?!”
09/02/2012 at 13:03 Jubaal says:
Hah nice one
09/02/2012 at 10:39 Astalnar says:
Does anyone know what is that greatsword that the “hero” is wielding called?
I have never seen it and neither do I find it in wikia.
09/02/2012 at 10:57 Text_Fish says:
It’s only available on consoles to people who own any Final Fantasy game and/or have a small penis. :(
09/02/2012 at 11:44 Unaco says:
@Astalnar
I believe it’s a modded sword… is taken from Darksiders. War’s Sword from that game/series.
09/02/2012 at 12:49 Shortwave says:
Wait, why do they need a small penis? Oh, I get it.. Nevermind..
09/02/2012 at 15:31 Unaco says:
@Shortwave…
You get it? Really? Could you explain it… ‘cos I’m failing to see the connection between small penis’, consoles and FF games. And after typing that sentence, I’m sure there are 101 jokes that could be made from it.
09/02/2012 at 15:47 Urthman says:
It’s only available on consoles
That’s pretty much a nonsense phrase when discussing a Bethesda PC game.
There might actually be more big crazy sword mods for Oblivion than there are boob mods.
09/02/2012 at 10:47 Jody Macgregor says:
This pisses all over The Super Mes.
09/02/2012 at 11:48 DrGonzo says:
The first person shots work well in Gangster No. 1 though.
09/02/2012 at 12:20 PoulWrist says:
I like how this shows the game capable of handling hundreds of NPCs, but ingame you storm a city and it’s you and these 8 other guys and it’s all “FOR HONOR AND GLORY” and you conquer a kingdom, you and 8 other guys.
09/02/2012 at 12:48 Shortwave says:
Can you imagine a command system where you could like, have advanced control over an army that size? It must happen, it will happen.. I cannot freakin’ wait.
Then THEN, coop/multiplayer implementation and PVP… OMFG.
09/02/2012 at 12:44 viewtifuljon says:
Tamriel: Total War? SOMEONE MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
09/02/2012 at 12:47 Shortwave says:
Well, I have to say it..
I have the weirdest boner right now.
That was freakin’ amazing…
I am so glad to own a high end gaming PC in 2012.
Watching this video just transformed me into a bigger geek than I already was.
I’ve never been a -huge- fan of rpg, but the things being done with this game are simply amazing.
I am taken away with how awesome that was.. Brilliant… That is art.
09/02/2012 at 15:12 Roshin says:
Epic, but a bit too long and the ending was rather abrupt. Bonus points for putting the Wilhelm scream in there, though.
09/02/2012 at 23:34 Papageno says:
Damn, I wanted to be the first to note the Wilhelm scream!
Pretty cool vid.