We're rarely brought to tears by displays of holiday-themed lighting strewn across the face of a residential building. Then again, most holiday lights aren't synchronized to the totally radical theme to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Fortunately, some are -- like the one seen in the video above.
Synchronized Skyrim light show knows the reason for the season
by Griffin McElroy 
on Dec 27th 2011 3:45PM
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We're rarely brought to tears by displays of holiday-themed lighting strewn across the face of a residential building. Then again, most holiday lights aren't synchronized to the totally radical theme to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Fortunately, some are -- like the one seen in the video above.
Reader Comments (38)
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 3:57PM DarkSonata said
instant nerdgasm
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 4:01PM CptKillaGunz said
Home of the Dragonborn deserves no less!
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 4:05PM eat it said
I never played this game but I feel like I've spent 100 hours reading about here on Joystiq.
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 4:09PM Vic Fontaine said
@eat it
Yeah I've never seen such a broken game get so much praise/fanfare ever. Still waiting for my PS3 patch btw, starting to think it's never coming.
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Yeah I've never seen such a broken game get so much praise/fanfare ever. Still waiting for my PS3 patch btw, starting to think it's never coming.
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 4:21PM Zoot Suit Jedi Grammar Hammer En said
@Vic Fontaine
You should take a look at the Battlefield 3 articles.
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You should take a look at the Battlefield 3 articles.
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 4:30PM Mmmmz said
@Vic Fontaine
I don't consider it broken. I play on PC, fine there outside the occasional CTD. My friends play it on PS3 and they have occasional glitches but not the other plagues people talk about. YMMV but the game is anything but broken. Just quite glitchy, but it's a freaking huge game.
They could have delayed the PS3 version but people would be raging, THEY CAN PATCH IT LATER!!! GIVE IT TO US NAO!!!!! ELEVEN!!!
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I don't consider it broken. I play on PC, fine there outside the occasional CTD. My friends play it on PS3 and they have occasional glitches but not the other plagues people talk about. YMMV but the game is anything but broken. Just quite glitchy, but it's a freaking huge game.
They could have delayed the PS3 version but people would be raging, THEY CAN PATCH IT LATER!!! GIVE IT TO US NAO!!!!! ELEVEN!!!
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 4:37PM (Unverified) said
@eat it
You spend hundreds of hours on the internets?
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You spend hundreds of hours on the internets?
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 5:53PM Handbone said
@Vic Fontaine
Sure Skyrim has bugs. But they can easily be forgiven by the sheer mass of the world that they have created, and with the amount of stuff you can do. Games like Battlefield and Call of Duty of a set story line and follow a path. Games like that shouldn't have bugs since everyone's experience is practically the same. As with Skyrim, everyone's experience is different.
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Sure Skyrim has bugs. But they can easily be forgiven by the sheer mass of the world that they have created, and with the amount of stuff you can do. Games like Battlefield and Call of Duty of a set story line and follow a path. Games like that shouldn't have bugs since everyone's experience is practically the same. As with Skyrim, everyone's experience is different.
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 4:06PM Vic Fontaine said
Nobody on earth would see this and know what it is, no matter how farmiliar with ES. I don't see the appeal, they should have made a lightdragon fight a lightgiant or something.
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 4:28PM DarkSonata said
@Vic Fontaine or maybe you could put a recording and play it all day long with the lights :P
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Posted: Dec 27th 2011 4:20PM ShadowOp814 said
This is awesome, this person must work as a gaffer or some lighting technician at a theater. Totally awesome. All ya'll haters can go kiss a dragon.
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 4:20PM Zoot Suit Jedi Grammar Hammer En said
Amazing. Very well choreographed. Can't wait to get home and play more of this incredible game.
Sorry if you got it for PS3.
Sorry if you got it for PS3.
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 4:23PM Vic Fontaine said
@Zoot Suit Jedi Grammar Hammer En
Don't need an apology man, I either need a fix or a refund.
Anyways, lesson learned: No more buying Bethesda products until thoroughly researching whether or not they actually function. It's a sad day when I have to look up whether a video game with so much hype will actually function.
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Don't need an apology man, I either need a fix or a refund.
Anyways, lesson learned: No more buying Bethesda products until thoroughly researching whether or not they actually function. It's a sad day when I have to look up whether a video game with so much hype will actually function.
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 4:34PM Zoot Suit Jedi Grammar Hammer En said
@Vic Fontaine
Fair enough. Hell, I waited until patch 1.3 before I felt comfortable enought that it wasn't going to break my game; and I still wasn't all that comfortable. It is still a great game though.
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Fair enough. Hell, I waited until patch 1.3 before I felt comfortable enought that it wasn't going to break my game; and I still wasn't all that comfortable. It is still a great game though.
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 4:33PM Ainwaith said
[insert comment here] but then I took an arrow to the knee
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 7:38PM (Unverified) said
@Ainwaith
I use to hunt dragons, but then I took an arrow in the knee.
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I use to hunt dragons, but then I took an arrow in the knee.
Posted: Dec 28th 2011 10:12AM GuitarHero666 said
@Ainwaith I used to took arrows to knee, until someone stole my sweetroll.
MY SWEETROLL!
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MY SWEETROLL!
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 4:33PM JoeTheBeast16 said
I agree Vic Fontaine, i don't understand how skyrim could have won so many game of the year awards when it is a broken game on ps3.
Whether it works well on other systems or not, which i've heard complaints about drop in framerate and freezes on both other systems, so it isn't like it's flawless on the other two.
My brother also has it for ps3 and has played it ALOT more then i have, and the only problem he's had was occasional drop in framerate after long sessions, but the fact that some people can't even play it anymore due to too large of save files, you'd think that all of those websites/gaming journalism companies would have taken that into consideration before giving it game of the year.
Aside from the problems i've had with it, i'd rank it in the top 10 games of the year for me, but i definately wouldn't say it's game of the year.
Whether it works well on other systems or not, which i've heard complaints about drop in framerate and freezes on both other systems, so it isn't like it's flawless on the other two.
My brother also has it for ps3 and has played it ALOT more then i have, and the only problem he's had was occasional drop in framerate after long sessions, but the fact that some people can't even play it anymore due to too large of save files, you'd think that all of those websites/gaming journalism companies would have taken that into consideration before giving it game of the year.
Aside from the problems i've had with it, i'd rank it in the top 10 games of the year for me, but i definately wouldn't say it's game of the year.
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 4:38PM MrAlex said
I love this game, but I don't really see the point of using this music with christmas lights. Really starting to get sick of everyone referencing skyrim unnecessarily, it's like portal all over again.
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 4:46PM TheDudimus said
What a Dovahkiin
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 5:03PM LaughingTarget said
All it needs is an outdoor speaker system blasting that song instead of over the radio.
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 5:43PM jrobington said
Love this!! If I wasn't too busy playing Skyrim I would have done this to my place.... Ok maybe not but kudos to these peeps!
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 5:44PM kentuckyfried said
I still prefer the LMFAO Halloween light show, but since this's the Skyrim theme, I'm ok with it.
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 5:45PM Reservoir said
I think that if I heard that song on the street I would look up to the sky searching for a dragon.
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 5:45PM Masondelapp said
My face just lit up with enjoyment. (Not a pun.)
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 5:52PM Nobledevil Gaming Optimist said
NOTY
(Nerd of the Year)
(Nerd of the Year)
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 6:52PM (Unverified) said
In our language he is Dovahkiin.....Santa Born!
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 6:57PM benheckendorn said
I used to hang up that many Christmas lights, then I took 36 years to the knee.
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 7:17PM JonahStein said
More than amazing. More than words... can... (droooool)
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 7:37PM (Unverified) said
This game is my game of the year for the ps3, without a doubt is a very rich experience.
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 9:13PM CraszyAsce said
FUS RO DAH!!!
Posted: Dec 27th 2011 10:26PM WoodenAtari2600 said
Pure unadulterated awsomeness. The owner deserves at least plus 10 alteration.
Posted: Dec 28th 2011 8:52AM TheRedComet said
That song.... Seriously may be the greatest title screen song EVER.
Posted: Dec 28th 2011 12:39PM pluupy said
Ugh fake. It's just a video of someone flicking the lights, finely remixed with the music placed on top of the video. What does Christmas or the light decorations have to do with Skyrim anyway?
