What makes something a classic? The answer is complicated, but staying power is always a factor. In the relatively new and constantly changing space of video games, anything that people keep playing for years and years has the makings of a classic. In 2024, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is still frequently played and widely discussed, which marks it out as a classic for a 2011 single-player game, and no one's ever gotten over that sense of fun and adventure it brought with it.

Of course, a game that stays popular for a decade will generate new memes all the time, especially after people got over "fus ro dah" and "I took an arrow in the knee" jokes 13 years ago. When people are always playing the classic game, there's always new content to joke about, whether that be game glitches or character design. Even in 2024, there's a brave new world of Skyrim memes out there, and we've collected the best below.