I played Skyrim back when it was released - on PS3 - and then got it again on PS3 when Legendary Edition came out for the DLC, and was also gifted vanilla on PC but could never play it due to not having a good enough PC. I put Special Edition on my wishlist, and when it went on sale I bought it. I decided to approach the game fresh (as much as I could) and play it as if I was playing it for the first time. The Anniversary Edition content was genuinely new for me, so I had to experience that for the first time, but the stuff I'd already done on PS3 I decided to roleplay a little and not speed through it. So I dug in and played for over 100 hours, going through all the major quests - including DLC - and doing everything I could, clearing out my quest journal. And I gotta say, even with all the memes about the game, Skyrim is genuinely a good game. I installed a bunch of QOL mods but nothing that added significantly new content, so it was pretty close to the unmodded version. It's the perfect game for just chilling and playing something when you want to play a game but don't know what to play or you don't want to get deep into something; I have a bunch of games that are really good games but I don't want to play them because I just want to hop into the game and play without rooting myself into their systems, but also the "pick up and play" games I do have don't have the right energy to chill out in - shooters and the like. Skyrim's relaxed and calm enough but just surface level in what you're getting yourself involved in that it hits the perfect intersection of these two vibes for me to enjoy it.