Skyrim's 13 years old.
I don't think getting asked if I get to the cloud district very often for the 1000th time is more immersive/reactive than the different MW greetings based on faction rep/personality stat.
No but having people not stand in the same space 24 hours a day while you steal their entire shop's stock one inch behind their back is a bonus.
I guarantee any and all work gone into Skywind could have been put to better use by improving Morrowind, or OpenMW, instead.
And I'm sure everyone is playing the original, not ultra-giga-definitive-ultimate-GOTY x13 edition, right.
I want to see actual stats, because I see so many people claiming this but I don't think the older people here understand how rare it is for a zoomer to care about any RPGs, even streamlined AAA ones, those are still too boring for them. To Gen Z, especially since COVID, gaming is a social activity akin to going to the mall together and just shooting the shit. Just like the gaming, the main attraction isn't what you're doing/where you're at but the social interaction that comes with it.
It depends on how we define the word "zoomer". Older ones (born 97-99) were within the target audience for Skyrim upon its initial release, as were a few more years' worth with the Special Edition release in 2016. A lot of our stereotypes about zoomers now primarily apply to those born in the late 2000s that are currently at high school age, but the term was really coined by older millennials about 7-8 years ago to describe high schoolers that are now in their early-mid 20s.
The zoomers I am referring to in my post are in their early-mid 20s. I just wish there was data for this, because of low sample size (~1000 people I would've talked to about games in this demographic, only 2 have mentioned Skyrim and one of them is a close friend who only talks about it because of how much he despises that game compared to Morrowind), it's entirely possible I somehow avoided every Skyrim player in existence.
My impression is that most of the zoomers in their early 20s have played Skyrim or know a fair amount about it via. meme/gamer culture. No metrics/data as you said, just my impression. I see people on youtube or whatever talk about it and they'll be younger than me (29).
Yup, unfortunately no demographics information, that's something I'd be very interested in. The only talk of Skyrim I've seen is online which leads me to believe talking to people irl leads to a more social/multiplayer bias in terms of gaming.
The most common definition of Generation Z indicates those born from 1995 through 2009, meaning the oldest turned 16 years old in 2011 and were certainly old enough to have played Skyrim at release, as high-schoolers. Of course, that also means the youngest of Generation Z turned 14 years old last year and would be unlikely to have ever played Skyrim; this conception of 'generations' was developed by American marketeers in the post-WWII era and generally doesn't mean much of substance. The 'Baby Boom' is the only generation based on some objective reality, since there actually was a sharp rise in American fertility rates starting at the end of WWII which eventually terminated about 20 years later. There's no valid rationale for dividing people into these generational cohorts, which misleadingly presents each generation as a monolithic bloc, exaggerates differences between these groups, and presents changes as occurring abruptly at the arbitrarily-chosen generational dividing lines.
It is certainly extremely common, and anecdotally, quite a few have played Oblivion too (not as many, of course, but a lot more common than you might expect).
There's not really a clear enough delineation for that to matter; youngest millennials are far closer to zoomers, while the oldest are in their early 40s. If you're suggesting that borderline zoomers and 40-somethings have more in common than 29 year olds and 25 year olds, you'd be attaching way too much to what is ultimately a reductive, simplistic term.
As a zoomer I can confirm that portion of us that play games beyond the mainstream FIFA/COD. The type of people who have steam accounts, bring gaming laptops to school, will certainly be familiar with Skyrim if no other RPGS
There was not a single one of these people in my highschool, other than the very small weeb crowd who would play smash bros but they were an isolated tribe of fags
