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Topics: Skyrim, The Elder Scrolls, Bethesda
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is not a gooner game, but a bizarre graphical glitch has us second-guessing that analysis.
Bethesda is probably the only gaming studio in existence that can get away with a lack of polish in its games. Glitches and bugs are all too common and yet we let it slide because nine times out of ten they’re usually quite funny. The giants blasting you off into space in Skyrim are a perfect example.
There are limits to a Bethesda fan’s patience though, such as the dreadful launch of Fallout 76.
We’re here to talk about Skyrim though as a new glitch has been found for gooners to have a field day with.
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This comes from Reddit user Liejukana who accidentally stripped one of the in-game NPCs of their underwear, exposing the dark secret beneath.
They said they were in Serpent's Bluff Ruins and “dragged the upper floor forsworn's body down the stairs into the room where the hagraven.”
While dragging the corpse, which is a completely normal thing to do of course, the body apparently “just stopped rendering.” What followed was a headless character model that also didn’t have hands, and while the clothes had vanished so did the undergarments, which can’t be unequipped in the vanilla version of the game.
It’s worth pointing out this was on the Nintendo Switch version of the game which probably explains why he acted up so much.
Still though it’s a bizarre glitch and I don’t know enough about game development to explain why it happened. I do, however, think it’s incredibly funny that the body ended up looking like a life-size Barbie/Ken doll, nothing there at the front. Liejukana did explain though that upon flipping the body around there was a butt.
As you’d expect the comments section was filled with gooners making fun of the ordeal, some accusing the player of doing it on purpose. “Oh no! My steak is too juicy, my lobster too buttery!” is one such example.
One of the more tame comments read: “They actually have a butt? Yeah right. As if that would happen and you'd take a pic and then post that pic to prove it here. Yeah right.”
Just goes to show that any game can be a gooner game when you dig deep enough, though I’m sure Skyrim players are going to be completely normal and not try to replicate this glitch in their own game.