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In the years since, Skyrim has been released and re-released many times, on every conceivable platform. “Arrow to the knee” jokes became de rigueur and hacky almost overnight, and at this point might have horse-shoed back around to being funny again. There are many examples of unrelated games or videos that cut to black fading back up into the opening of Skyrim, in a kind of sub-genre of rickroll. Does it hold up now? Kind of. It’s a really fun, ambitious RPG, with faults – but if the faults didn’t exist maybe it wouldn’t have been as popular as it was.