Creepy Skyrim Serial Killer Keeps Heads on Shelves

[kael013]

Meh. I've seen better stuff in horror films but this is still very good. The guy gets props for all that effort, must've been a pain to get the bodies to behave themselves. That was a good choice of setting, too; the Solitude house's lighting really sells the creepy factor.

Also, judging by all the comments about how this guy is messed up and needs to be killed I get the feeling that y'all have some problems of your own.

 

[RaNDM G]

Skyrim is now well-recognized as the pinnacle in open-ended and emergent gameplay.

Oh for...

Let's try that again...

Skyrim is now well-recognized as the pinnacle in a good example of open-ended and emergent gameplay.

There. Now doesn't that read more like a news article and less like fanboy fuelled overstatement?

Not an overstatement when it's the truth.

 

[punipunipyo]

WHY Lydia? WHY~ you bastard!~

Some one should tell this guy about the nude mod.

 

[Therumancer]

Creepy Skyrim Serial Killer Keeps Heads on Shelves

One player brought the decapitation perk to its logical conclusion.

Skyrim is now well-recognized as the pinnacle in open-ended and emergent gameplay. The designers at Bethesda have provided a fantasy sandbox where players are generally able to do whatever they wish. While some players have scoffed at not being able to murder children - and installed mods which allowed such "pedo-cide" - one player decided to turn the creep-factor up to eleven without any apparent mods. The one-handed or two-handed weapon perk decapitation performs the killing blow by cutting off the victim's head. YouTube poster "Symixable" created a video of his house which he just happened to decorate with the bodies and heads of the women he has killed in Skyrim.


The video tour of Symixable's house in what looks like Solitude (I haven't gotten there yet in my game, let me know if I'm wrong) is downright disturbing. The music certainly adds to the horror ambiance to make you feel nervous just hearing it, but I think the fact that the women are all devoid of clothing is what really puts this video into freaky serial-killer territory. Like that guy who watches the Buffalo Bill scene in Silence of the Lambs a little too often, I fear for Symixable's sanity.

I respect that a player can play any role in Skyrim, even that of a deviant killer. I just don't want this guy anywhere near me, in game or not.

Source: YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHvx0l_tVEw&feature=player_embedded]

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Hmmm, well you do realize the game kind of encourages stuff like this?

Mild spoilers below:



While I haven't used it there is a weapon called "the ebony blade" which has had it's nature changed from other games. Basically what you need to do with it is kill NPCs that have become your friends by you finishing quests and such for them, followers and such also seem to count. I tend to notice that just about every girl there is one I recognize from a quest, so the guy probably figured "if I'm going to claim the most powerful weapon in the game at it's full power, I might as well go full out with the psycho-killer thing".

I mean if you have Namira's ring you already lured some guy back to a dungeon and then murdered and ate him...


I'd probably consider 95% of the people who play Skyrim to have done similarly messed up things, it's just most aren't taking the time to carry the bodies around and arrange them in a residence. He's just put a little bit more time into it, probably just to make that video to get lulz from horror movie fans.

 

[Azure-Supernova]

Right, this is totally okay. But none of that child killing though, that's just immoral.

Hah!
I fucking called it!

Spoiler

This game lets you decapitate innocent people and carry their heads with you to store in your home where your thane (Edit: Housecarl) is honour-bound to stay with the faces of their dead friends and relatives watching them from the walls to which you have crudely nailed their heads with arrows, but when you complain that there being immortal characters in the game feels odd and artificial the answer is "You can't have the option to kill children. That's just disturbing."

I think if anything all you've done is incriminated yourself...

 

[Jonluw]

Hah!

we fucking c[small]al[/small]led it!

Spoiler: Splier cIick to veins

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I th[small]in[/small]k iif [small]any[/small]thing [small]all[/small] you've done is i[small]ncri[/small]min[small]ate[/small]d yourself...

have we?

 

[praus]

Skyrim is now well-recognized as the pinnacle in open-ended and emergent gameplay.

Oh for...

Let's try that again...

Skyrim is now well-recognized as the pinnacle in a good example of open-ended and emergent gameplay.

There. Now doesn't that read more like a news article and less like fanboy fuelled overstatement?

I'll agree there is a certain amount of personal opinion involved in deciding if this game is the pinnacle of this type of game play but only a bit. Pinnacle in this sense simply means it's the best of it's kind. I think it's arguable that Skyrim is the best of it's kind. What other games are like it right now? I think only the other Bethesda games qualify and it's better then them.

 

[SidingWithTheEnemy]

I honestly hope the guy who made this video gets run over by a bus. Soon.

I don't care if it's "just a video game". It's super fucked up and the title of the video cinches it.

Wishing someone's death because of how they play their videogame is "super fucked up" as well. Hope you don't get overrun the bus, too.

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Anyway, I think this one is an artist. It's not my kind of art, its pretty disgusting, but that's debatable. At least I have a something to do when they don't fix the stupid patch 1.2 which ruined my playing experience. Copycat murdering anyone?

 

[Eggsnham]

This is less disturbing than a child being killed in a dragon attack.
Not to mention children dying because of careless fireballs from the player.

That's just sick.

They're virtual people.

I really thought my sarcasm was obvious in my post, but I may need to hone my skills.

At the risk of misinterpreting sarcasm again; it's probably my fault. In my defense, it is hard to detect over the internet.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Hunh... I wonder how many people saw this and thought maybe the police should pay this man a visit.

though really, you shouldnt put this on the web. this is not going to help once fox news sees this.

 

[knight steel]

Wow now that is creeeeeeeeepy i think it's the music that does it without it this would probably lose it creepiness by half.

Hmmm if any thing it reminds me of the butchers side quest in Windhelm [?] were a serial killer is murdering woman and you have to find him and stop him as quickly as possible.

 

[Jfswift]

Maybe we should run background checks before selling games to certain people >.>

 

[Sean Deli]

"Violent games made me do it" is of course utter bullcrap.

However persistent attraction to graphical violence, among other things manifested by repeated attraction to violence in interactive media, may be a good sign that the person is not alright.

Innocent until proven guilty, and all that - but noone can stop you personally from being extra careful around such a guy. There are 7 billion people in the world, you won't get much lonelier if you exclude one guy from your christmas card list.

Also, some people like to play the "Imma dangerous and crazy!" card because they think it's badass, so it's fun to throw it back with "Well, that sounds like a cause for genuine concern. Maybe next time I think I hear a woman's scream from inside your house, I should make an anonymous call to police instead of writing it off as a bad dream it most certainly is?"

 

[Mausthemighty]

We live in a world where people watch movies like Hostel, the Human Caterpillar and Saw. Where the bodies of deceased people are part of an exposition for amusement purposes. Where players of Skyrim go out of their way to kill children in-game or fill a whole cabinet with human heads. My faith in humanity decreases by the minute...

 

[SenseOfTumour]

WE also live in a world where kids of 5 run around after each other making gun shapes with their hands and yelling bang.

We have done pretty much since guns were part of society, and before then I imagine it was kids running around with sticks 'swordfighting'.

Violent games are just evolution of yelling 'bang' and watching your friend fall over.

The capacity for violence is in us all, letting it out in a safe and virtual environment is fine I think.

As for the state of mind of the player who made the video, I'm gonna put my chips on the idea that he'd find it interesting and amusing to recreate the concept of serial killing in a game not designed for it, but open enough to allow it.

I don't think it means we need to send the police around to check for heads in the freezer

 

[Elf Defiler Korgan]

Wish you could have a pet skeever.

 

[AnarchistFish]

I think the creepiest part of the video is the name.

^^
yeah, it's much creepier that they're actually friendly characters instead of random enemies

 

[dancinginfernal]

My Oblivion Imperial City house was full of skulls and ribcages I collected from around the province.

Fuck yeah.