Sean Wolfe / Business Insider
- Jokingly shown off at Bethesda's E3 conference, most people didn't think that 'Skyrim Very Special Edition' on the Amazon Echo was real.
- In fact, it's a free app available for Amazon's Alexa and Echo devices.
- The game is a sort of stripped-down, text RPG version of Skyrim.
When I first saw Bethesda director Todd Howard slyly showing off "Skyrim Very Special Edition" at E3, a voice-only version of the game with Amazon's Alexa, I thought Todd had got us again. I assumed it was another one of Bethesda's jokes where they show how self-aware they are - this time making fun of how many re-releases they gave to the nearly 10-year old game "Skyrim."
I was wrong. "Skyrim Very Special Edition" is very real, and I loaded it up on the Amazon Echo Dot to give the text-to-speech RPG game a try.
Having never used an Echo device before, I wasn't sure where to start. After setting it up and connecting my Amazon account, I thought I was ready to go.
"Alexa, play Skyrim," I sheepishly said.
"Ok - playing Skyrim Main Theme," Alexa replied, and immediately queued up the infamous Skyrim theme song.
I quickly realized that I needed to add "Skyrim Very Special Edition" to Alexa's "skills" before I could use it. There are no actual visuals to this game, and all the information is relayed to you through Alexa, so I created some Skyrim-style graphics to help illustrate what the speech-based adventure was like: