Recently, I finally realised a decade-long dream to play Skyrim in couch co-op alongside my favourite real-life companion. I've seen some unbelievable things along the way - heroes riding invisible steeds into battle against mammoths, a harmless rabbit on my screen that appears to my partner as a savage wolf, and civilians slowly ascending to the heavens over the plains of Whiterun before their divine tethers break and they plummet to the ground below.
If you've played any iteration of Skyrim over the years, you've probably seen things similar to those listed above, but let me tell you that playing Skyrim in split-screen (through a combination of the Skyrim Together mod and the ingenious Nucleus Co-op tool) will hurl you all the way back to the dark ages of the game's stability.
And yet, despite technical hurdles appearing as frequently and suddenly as bugged Skyrim NPCs, I felt compelled to continue playing Skyrim Together, spurred by those precious periods of technical peace when I was swept up by how well Skyrim works as a co-op game.
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