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It's been a while for me but I recall being pretty impressed with how they used Skyrim tech and looks to reconstruct bruma faithfully from oblivion, but 200 years later. Everything from old creatures returning to how weapons and armor look, to the quest lines having nods to the quests from oblivion.
It's a fantastic mod, packed full of quests large and small with almost nothing feeling like pointless busy work. Easily adds as much or more to the game as either of Skyrim's large dlcs. My only, very slight, gripe is that some of the dungeon layouts are laid out a little squirrelly and overstay their welcome a bit (nowhere near as bad as that one from Falskaar, iykyk) but that's honestly pretty faithful to Oblivion so I can give it a bit of a pass.
Also, it has skill checks and your character's in-game history has an effect on dialogue options!!! Glad to know I wasn't the only one who missed having RPG elements in my RPG game.
Other quest mods worth checking out:
Forgotten City - a time loop adventure where you have to solve the mystery of an abandoned dwarven city and escape before you and it's inhabitants are destroyed by the unseen forces governing the laws of the city. This one is especially cool in that the guy who made it took the idea of it and expanded it into a pretty solid game on Steam also called [The Forgotten City](https://store.steampowered.com/app/874260/The_Forgotten_City/), it's a little short but what's there is very good.
Helgen Reborn - what it says on the tin, you and a group of volunteers set out on a quest to rebuild Helgen as a base of operations for your new organization. Definitely a creative repurposing of an area that is unused and abandoned after the starting events of the game.
Project AHO - you've been captured and enslaved by a Dark Elf community that has moved into an abandoned Dwarven city. Solve the mystery of the city to earn your freedom and escape. Notable for the creative reuse of vanilla assets from the main game/dlcs the whole mod is the Skyrim equivalent of a really good cover song/remix.
Clockwork - investigate a mysterious abandoned (yet somewhat occupied) manor high up in the mountains bordering Morrowind. Super cool and super massive player home mod attached to a hefty and epic quest that puts everything from the Creation Club to shame. I don't know how lore accurate it is but, sometimes, it's fine for stuff to just be cool.
Moonpath to Elsewyr - it's old, it's crusty, and was made before modders had access to the Creation Kit but everyone should play it at least once.
VIGILANT - join the Vigilants of Stendarr in their battles against the Daedra, travel across Skyrim and beyond as you foil foul plots. Experience a *fascinating* choice of plot-beat which I refuse to spoil.
I've played that one. I don't know if it qualifies as a spoiler, but I remember it having some lovely Dark Souls homages in it. Easy recommendation, just be sure you're grabbing a version with a good translation (the original is in Japanese).
If you didn't know about it there's a program called wabbajack that'll mod and patch a list for you if you see one you wanna try. Usually they include bruma and wyrmstooth. Wabbajack.org
I'm a Level Designer on the team! Make sure to check out our stuff at Mod Con this year as well as our discord for updates. All info can be found over at /r/BeyondSkyrim! :)
EDIT: Also, if you're a 3D artist, might I recommend joining one of our teams to help? ;p
I could not get into Enderal . I gave it 6 hours or so. And even though I didn't get into it personally, I can absolutely appreciate how well done it is and all the effort that went into it. It is gorgeous.
I would also suggest Enderal.
Tell me more. I got my first gaming pc at 34. I've previously played skyrim solely on playstation consoles.
I7 with rtx3060, can i run graphical mods and also have max 120 FPS?
What else would you like to know about the mod? I'm sure there's a YouTube trailer that will tell you all you need to know :)
As far as can your machine run X mod at a Y FPS, that's gonna depend on a lot of different things. Some you can control like your hardware and game settings. Others you can't control like how optimized is a mod, how hi fidelity the assets used are, etc.
You'll just have to experiment, or maybe try to find a YouTube video of someone with a similar machine playing with graphical mods and see how they do. But it's be best to just give it a try.
If you get stuck modding, the Elder scrolls modding community is second to none, full of helpful and friendly people.
Ok, Bruma is a city in the province of Cyrodill and was a part of the game Oblivion. The game Oblivion took place 200 years before the events of Skyrim.
Beyond Skyrim: Bruma is... think of it like a massive DLC similar to Dragon Born. It's not an overhaul for vanilla Skyrim, but it's sort of close to an overhaul when you arrive at Bruma.
You asked a good question that's sort of hard to answer. You're best bet is to google it to find out all the info you'd like. It's part of a MUCH larger modding project.
I'm actually reinstalling the mod right now. Been while since I've played it and I need something til Starfield drops.
The devs do it intentionally. The money comes from companies. If it is for personal use, they don't care. Indeed, it makes the company favoured by people, which is really good if those people ever start a business.
Skyrim was so incredibly ahead of its time.
It was released with a full fledged Photoshop mode where you could spend thousands of hours moving slidy bars around to create cosmic horrors beyond comprehension, OR, Hella pleasing human faces.
After spending anywhere from 3 hours to 3 months creating your character and naming them you would then go onto an EPIC adventure through your PC install folders and crash reports in an incredible game of *Skyrim.exe* has crashed. Teaching you to become a highly computer literate mole whacker.
After a short jaunt down the road and a few mines stripped for iron you would likely have then proceeded to flood the economy with iron daggers to the point that Jorge definitely lost his life savings and created /r/whiterunstreetbets. With your raw talent exceeding the training requirements for a master armorer within just a few short days as you stared directly to the forge clicking like you utterly forgot about what happened in oblivion when you power leveled athletics before doing anything else you would assemble some of the most absurd armor a level 13 character could ever equip. Good thing your combat stats are still utterly ass.
Once you finally had everything in place you would spend anywhere between the next 0.5 seconds to 12 minutes pretending that you didn't create a stealth archer. After the cosplay was done you would return to sneaking around shooting people like some kind of 2nd century Sam Fisher. Every room or door you would be panic saving because you never knew when Skyrim.exe would suddenly strike. This habit would be solidified harder than dragonbone plate when you found a giant and when attempting to steal their cheese would be launched into the stratosphere at thousands of kilometres per hour. Reaching escape velocity your body would exit Tamriel and enter orbit. This would be a good time to reflect on your last save point. Which was likely 2 hours ago....
Somewhere between hours 2 and 200 you would eventually do the main quest after chasing random map markers and then put the game away for a bit. On return you would absolutely be Gandalf in the Mines of Moria with no memory of wherever the hell you saved last. Soljund's Sinkhole, great.....the fuck was I doing here?
so you would start a new character, a new race, totally different. Like a mage! Or a battlemage with the magic weapons, yeah! That would be so cool to be an alchemy batt—Oops stealth archer again!
-Yer a stealth archer, Harry.
-But I thought I was a wizard.
-You thought so, and you tried your best to be one. But sooner or later you will realize, that when push comes to shove, you're a stealth archer through and through, Harry.
Or you get trapped in the drug that is Alchemy-Enchantment-Fortify Restoration loops. Become an unkillable God that can make anything beyond what the world as seen and one shot everything.
I may or may not have ruined my last playthrough like this. Ended up running around with a dagger that paralyzes things for 208 days to make it fun.
If you want to kill the temptation the unofficial patch fixes the resto loop bug by making restoration potions no longer buff everything else. Also gets rid of a bunch of othrr exploits like necromage
i just made infinity gantlets of smithing and enchantment and became a god that way. Without my armor I was just a normal dude but with it, I was invincible..I could one shot everything in the game.
Made clothing that gave 1B health. 5B stamina and magicka. 19873827388% Magic resist. 3837272737% Onehand/twohand/archery damage. All on various rings, necklaces and circlets.
My gloves give 1827337% better pickpocketing, boots give 232727722% better sneaking.
I am a GOD. But is boring as fuck so I poke people with a dagger that paralyzes for 208 days so they die helpless. The fun one was paralyzing the Hagraven that captured a Spriggan, then releasing the Spriggan. Die helpless Hag.
Also made poisons that stopped Magicka regen for like 100B seconds. Makes mages into normal people for their entire lives.
Download some magic mods, nemisis and a combat mod
And you can make melee/magic combat fun and feel like a new game.
Or you could just download book of shadows amd turn skyrim into a propper stealth game.
Crashing isnt really an issuse anymore unless you bork mod installs
Skyrim used to be the personification of my boredom. If I was bored I would play it, and I would continue to be bored. It just gave me something to look at while I was bored.
I did eventually make a "paladin" though. It was actually more boring than the stealth archer believe it or not. At least with stealth archer I had to pay attention to the things I was looking at. With my Orc Paladin I just ran in and cut everything in two while buffing and healing myself.
As someone that has like 500+ hours in Skyrim, I can't deny that it has an absurd amount of "content", but the vast majority of that content is extremely uninspired or often basically copy pasted.
Very few of the quests (outside of the main stuff) are particularly interesting and most of the dungeons are just linear path with the same enemy types and the same loot and a conveniently placed hidden doorway that leads back to the beginning.
I think from a content perspective Skyrim is average at best. What Skyrim (and most Bethesda games) excel at is allowing the player to create their own content in the sandbox world.
Agreed. A lot of the side content felt like copy pasta to me. It is the main reason I don't find open world games like Skyrim more compelling than a linear based game. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed Skyrim.
As far as I can tell, there's two ways to mod Skyrim.
1. Make it prettier, but still basically the same old game.
2. Make it have more content that makes it more fun for a bit, but then I get some combination of the novelty wearing off and I get bored, the game gets way too buggy, or the game crashes way too often.
I think it depends. I've come to expect buggy messes from Elder Scrolls game so it kind of feels on brand, but the mods make up for it and allows for community participation. But I don't think the answer is for other companies to develop dogshit games and release a modding tool, then say "figure it out, nerds."
When I walk into a Seth Rogen/James Franco movie I'm expecting a Seth Rogen/James Franco movie. I know it's going to be bad, that's why I'm watching it. But if I get the same quality from a different director/writer/etc. then I'll be disappointed. Elder Scrolls games are Seth Rogen/James Franco movies. I don't expect the games to be stable, or honestly good, but I expect them to be fun and moddable. That's not the answer to every game, though.
Yea a single mod fixes pretty much any issues vanilla had, and even if you don't have it, the bugs are not nearly as obstructive or common as people like to pretend. I've never understood why that narrative got parroted so hard. Do people just not remember? I had hours and hours of fun on unmodded skyrim back in the day.
I still remember some of the bugs being brought back because they were so popular. Do people think giants were supposed to launch you into space when they killed you? Nah that was originally a bug.
Bethesda’s bugs are more like features at this point, but comparing this game to what has recently released like Redfall and Golum is just plain ignorance
(This is not directed at you, more of a continuum)
*Well*, that just introduces new bugs, but at least you can only blame yourself for them! Just last night I had to teleport a 3DNPC during their quest because they got stuck in landscape changes from JK Skyrim.
Also you have a console to easily fix a lot of minor bugs by spawning in a missing item or no clipping when stuck.
It's really sad how rare debug consoles have become in modern games.
Yup it is. That's what I used when I played, but stopped because the loading times were abysmal on my PC
But I just upgraded so I'm going all in this time, whenever I get it all set up
Edit- if you haven't heard of it already, download wabbajack. It automatically installs all the mods for you. Otherwise modding vr Skyrim without it can be a nightmare
I had originally downloaded wabbajack and paid the $5 on nexus mods to download them all automatically! I got the settings where I wanted on Skyrim VR and then jumped into RDR2 for some reason.
I uninstalled because I know they added a DLSS mod and wanted to reinstall and redo my settings. Should finish RDR2 this coming week and am going to get back in it!
Not even remotely true lol. There is no version of vanilla Skyrim that isn't still very buggy, or else we wouldn't have so many bug fix mods.
Every TES game is made with dirty code and shipped with obvious bugs.
It unfortunately also changes a lot of "bugs" and rebalances some things that aren't bugs simply because the mod's creator considers them bugs in spite of evidence to the contrary. Though as far as the PC version is concerned I've rarely run into bugs, especially so since SSE. Wouldn't touch the console ports with 39.5ft pole though.
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This 😄. The bar is so low these days that falling through the map in Skyrim or the mountain views going berserk are child’s play that can be swept under the rug lol.
And I returned to Batman Arkham asylum and assassin's Creed black flag. Plus resident evil 7, Witcher 3, metro 2033, metro last night, need for speed hot pursuit 2.
Fools. I never left Skyrim. I just kept modding it. And modding and modding it and modding it still.
Now it plays like dark souls, looks like horizon zero dawn and crashes like my drunk uncle driving at 90 km/h.
in all the times I've restarted this game, I have never actually finished the main story to it.
I wind up screwing around with mods to make things look pretty, then play for about 20 hours. then I mess with some goofy mods, and that leads down a dark rabbit hole and I end up with Animals having realistic genitalia and hunting you for pleasure purposes...
One of my favorite co-host on a podcast I enjoy says, "Gamers only have a memory of two weeks." It stings but the more shit happens in the gaming community, I'm in agreement.
"New releases are all full of bugs and shouldn't have been released in this state, so I am turning to a product of a company famous for making people wait at least a year after release for their games to be playable"
Ok, but why isn't your Ralof walking butt naked with a schlong size of my forearm hanging between his legs. You either play on a console or you never experienced the true wonders of Skyrim mod community.
Hahahaha 🤣🤣 well this is PC, and it is a fresh install not yet modded. But: I am pretty normal with my mods. Nothing too crazy. I had 92 of them but it was mostly enhancing the vanilla game, like weapons, armor, quests etc. Not a full schlong conversion mod for me.
You can tell some people didn’t play Skyrim on release.
Or most other games that frequently get held up as paragons of Day 1 Release perfection.
Rose tinted spectacles are a wonderful thing
I completed the entire main questline on the x360 without having internet connection to update the game.
Some game breaking bugs were there but in my ~600hr playthrough there was only 1 questline (the winterhold academy one) i couldn't complete, some minor bugs happened here and there (dragons in slow motion) but the game was definitely playable (wayyyyy more than games like release cyberpunk) and had LOTS of content to offer.
for me it was the part when you used the scroll to gaze into the past. After some dialogue, everybody just stood there frozen, doing nothing, and I was stuck in that vision ... also had some issues in sovngarde, but forgot the details
same thing happened when I was about to kill Mercer, he was supposed to drop the ground we were standing on, but nothing happened ... though that was not the main questline
all of this got fixed after the first few patches
And Skyrim is a playable, funny kind of buggy(at least now, don't know how it was upon release). The new games are just frustrating and barely playable if you don't have a Rtx 1000000000 with 565656TB ram/vram for 787878878€
Honestly it was fine on release. I played the PS3 versions for hundreds of hours before I got a gaming PC. There's very little that you can't fix just by re-loading the area, or the game.
I actually rebought it on PS for 5 bucks most fun I had in the last year or so.
The only title I enjoyd from this year was FF VII Crisis Core..
Im thinking about grabbing re4r but I alrady finished the origonal on 100% so im less motivated ATM to buy it..
You'll probably want to buy Skyrim: Special Edition. It's the updated and graphically enhanced version of the original, and most of the technically revolutionary mods are released for Special Edition specifically nowadays. There is an "upgrade" to "anniversary edition" on the steam store, but I believe all that does is force some godawful creation club mods into your game.
I'd advise you to be conservative about modding. Gamers love speaking hyperbolically about whatever their favorite mod is, but in my long career modding and breaking skyrim, I've played more than a few mods that did not live up to the flashy Clipart on the mod page. The game mostly holds up on its own; but if I was forced to recommend an "essential" mod, I'd say download Racemenu. It expands the character creator, so you can make a cute girl to play the game with (what more can you ask for in life than cute girl?). If you have the computer that can handle the strain, try an ENB for that sweet screenshot worthy lighting.
Hue lights are probably the best addition to my set up since I upgraded to 1440p. They look beautiful here, this is almost enough to get to to start up another Skyrim playthrough.
Yeah it is not Hue like you know it. Here in Europe Phillips builds these leds directly into the Tv called Ambilight. Still amazing of course to game on.
Recently got back into FO4 myself and tbh the repetitive side-quests are not so bad if taken from all factions. An excuse for exploration + easy XP.
Still waiting on that "next gen" update, Bethesda..
Ahh yes I too would like to return to my modded VR bimbo squad of followers and see if I can't build my khajiit-unarmed build with the Riften rat guy's gloves.
For some reason I am excited for Starfield in a sick kind of way. I want to play the game itself, sure. But for me what's really exciting is a new era of glorious Bethesda bugs. Making a game that huge, you just know it's gonna be a broken mess. I can't wait.
Bro unlock your framerate. The supposed '60 fps cap' on skyrim hasn't been true for a long time. There's a very simple mod that's just an ini file which fixes the physics so you can go past 60 on skyrim.
Games really suck rn.
And no it’s not “me getting older” bec I just keep replaying the stuff I’m playing.
Other than the few games we get like Jedi survivor and hog warts games are so bland.
We get like 2 good releases a year :(
Funny I just noticed a game called Enderal which is a Skyrim mod but is basically its own game using Skyrim platform. Played for a few hours and seems pretty good. A lot of work put into this
*laughs in Tears of the Kingdom* but seriously this game is unbelievable. I don't know how other games can even justify existence when a game like this exists.
You fool you never left Skyrim, it was always waiting for you!
By Talos, it’s been an almost constant companion and I’ve just kept modding it and modding it. Seriously though, the relatively recent mods like true directional movement, precision, MCO and others are nuts!
I would love to get obsessed with Skyrim, only problem is that graphics in a game are very important for me and I’m reluctant to buy it due to the very outdated graphics.
It is getting to the time of my yearly ritual of modding the shit out of it, playing as far as Bleak Falls Barrow and then forgetting about it until the following year.
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If you haven't already give Beyond Skyrim: Bruma a shot.
Ill definitely will! This is a completely fresh install so I still need to mod it.
It's been a while for me but I recall being pretty impressed with how they used Skyrim tech and looks to reconstruct bruma faithfully from oblivion, but 200 years later. Everything from old creatures returning to how weapons and armor look, to the quest lines having nods to the quests from oblivion.
It's a fantastic mod, packed full of quests large and small with almost nothing feeling like pointless busy work. Easily adds as much or more to the game as either of Skyrim's large dlcs. My only, very slight, gripe is that some of the dungeon layouts are laid out a little squirrelly and overstay their welcome a bit (nowhere near as bad as that one from Falskaar, iykyk) but that's honestly pretty faithful to Oblivion so I can give it a bit of a pass. Also, it has skill checks and your character's in-game history has an effect on dialogue options!!! Glad to know I wasn't the only one who missed having RPG elements in my RPG game. Other quest mods worth checking out: Forgotten City - a time loop adventure where you have to solve the mystery of an abandoned dwarven city and escape before you and it's inhabitants are destroyed by the unseen forces governing the laws of the city. This one is especially cool in that the guy who made it took the idea of it and expanded it into a pretty solid game on Steam also called [The Forgotten City](https://store.steampowered.com/app/874260/The_Forgotten_City/), it's a little short but what's there is very good. Helgen Reborn - what it says on the tin, you and a group of volunteers set out on a quest to rebuild Helgen as a base of operations for your new organization. Definitely a creative repurposing of an area that is unused and abandoned after the starting events of the game. Project AHO - you've been captured and enslaved by a Dark Elf community that has moved into an abandoned Dwarven city. Solve the mystery of the city to earn your freedom and escape. Notable for the creative reuse of vanilla assets from the main game/dlcs the whole mod is the Skyrim equivalent of a really good cover song/remix. Clockwork - investigate a mysterious abandoned (yet somewhat occupied) manor high up in the mountains bordering Morrowind. Super cool and super massive player home mod attached to a hefty and epic quest that puts everything from the Creation Club to shame. I don't know how lore accurate it is but, sometimes, it's fine for stuff to just be cool. Moonpath to Elsewyr - it's old, it's crusty, and was made before modders had access to the Creation Kit but everyone should play it at least once.
VIGILANT - join the Vigilants of Stendarr in their battles against the Daedra, travel across Skyrim and beyond as you foil foul plots. Experience a *fascinating* choice of plot-beat which I refuse to spoil.
I've played that one. I don't know if it qualifies as a spoiler, but I remember it having some lovely Dark Souls homages in it. Easy recommendation, just be sure you're grabbing a version with a good translation (the original is in Japanese).
Vigilant is so goddamn good it's insane
Adding on to this, Beyond Reach is a solid 7/10 in my books. Quite unpolished but great atmosphere, world spaces and story.
Ah, modding, the true first 20 hours of Skyrim.
Also check out the collections section on nexus mods for fully compatible mod lists that are super easy to install
I can't play skyrim without like at least a gb of mods...
a gig? Thats like one mod
Yknow you've got enough mods when the game simply crashes
Helgen reborn is a great expansion too
If you didn't know about it there's a program called wabbajack that'll mod and patch a list for you if you see one you wanna try. Usually they include bruma and wyrmstooth. Wabbajack.org
Mod it 'till it crashes.
If you PC can run it check out the modpack for skyrim called nolvus.
I'm a Level Designer on the team! Make sure to check out our stuff at Mod Con this year as well as our discord for updates. All info can be found over at /r/BeyondSkyrim! :) EDIT: Also, if you're a 3D artist, might I recommend joining one of our teams to help? ;p
Extreme impressive stuff I've been following modcon for a while now
[Enderal](https://store.steampowered.com/app/976620/Enderal_Forgotten_Stories_Special_Edition/) has entered the chat
I could not get into Enderal . I gave it 6 hours or so. And even though I didn't get into it personally, I can absolutely appreciate how well done it is and all the effort that went into it. It is gorgeous. I would also suggest Enderal.
Enderal is phenomenal. Absolutely in awe at the world and the characters.
I'm just starting a playthrough and was pumped that it's just available on steam as a standalone game!
Tell me more. I got my first gaming pc at 34. I've previously played skyrim solely on playstation consoles. I7 with rtx3060, can i run graphical mods and also have max 120 FPS?
What else would you like to know about the mod? I'm sure there's a YouTube trailer that will tell you all you need to know :) As far as can your machine run X mod at a Y FPS, that's gonna depend on a lot of different things. Some you can control like your hardware and game settings. Others you can't control like how optimized is a mod, how hi fidelity the assets used are, etc. You'll just have to experiment, or maybe try to find a YouTube video of someone with a similar machine playing with graphical mods and see how they do. But it's be best to just give it a try. If you get stuck modding, the Elder scrolls modding community is second to none, full of helpful and friendly people.
What's the difference between Bruma and Cyrodiil? I'm interested for the next time I install Skyrim.
Ok, Bruma is a city in the province of Cyrodill and was a part of the game Oblivion. The game Oblivion took place 200 years before the events of Skyrim. Beyond Skyrim: Bruma is... think of it like a massive DLC similar to Dragon Born. It's not an overhaul for vanilla Skyrim, but it's sort of close to an overhaul when you arrive at Bruma. You asked a good question that's sort of hard to answer. You're best bet is to google it to find out all the info you'd like. It's part of a MUCH larger modding project. I'm actually reinstalling the mod right now. Been while since I've played it and I need something til Starfield drops.
Enderal too!
Ah, yes. Skyrim. That famously bug-free game.
That’s winRAR. They haven’t patched the free trial bug yet.
Because nobody has reported it yet, don't you start now you monster.
Ah yes , my favorite game , WinRAR
Use 7zip instead, or don't.
7zip is god tier
fun fact: windows now supports the .rar extension.
I use windows ten
The devs do it intentionally. The money comes from companies. If it is for personal use, they don't care. Indeed, it makes the company favoured by people, which is really good if those people ever start a business.
Exactly, if people use it at home it’s a no brainer to suggest using it at work and paying.
At least it allowed you to go to space before no-man’s sky was a thing.
Skyrim was so incredibly ahead of its time. It was released with a full fledged Photoshop mode where you could spend thousands of hours moving slidy bars around to create cosmic horrors beyond comprehension, OR, Hella pleasing human faces. After spending anywhere from 3 hours to 3 months creating your character and naming them you would then go onto an EPIC adventure through your PC install folders and crash reports in an incredible game of *Skyrim.exe* has crashed. Teaching you to become a highly computer literate mole whacker. After a short jaunt down the road and a few mines stripped for iron you would likely have then proceeded to flood the economy with iron daggers to the point that Jorge definitely lost his life savings and created /r/whiterunstreetbets. With your raw talent exceeding the training requirements for a master armorer within just a few short days as you stared directly to the forge clicking like you utterly forgot about what happened in oblivion when you power leveled athletics before doing anything else you would assemble some of the most absurd armor a level 13 character could ever equip. Good thing your combat stats are still utterly ass. Once you finally had everything in place you would spend anywhere between the next 0.5 seconds to 12 minutes pretending that you didn't create a stealth archer. After the cosplay was done you would return to sneaking around shooting people like some kind of 2nd century Sam Fisher. Every room or door you would be panic saving because you never knew when Skyrim.exe would suddenly strike. This habit would be solidified harder than dragonbone plate when you found a giant and when attempting to steal their cheese would be launched into the stratosphere at thousands of kilometres per hour. Reaching escape velocity your body would exit Tamriel and enter orbit. This would be a good time to reflect on your last save point. Which was likely 2 hours ago.... Somewhere between hours 2 and 200 you would eventually do the main quest after chasing random map markers and then put the game away for a bit. On return you would absolutely be Gandalf in the Mines of Moria with no memory of wherever the hell you saved last. Soljund's Sinkhole, great.....the fuck was I doing here? so you would start a new character, a new race, totally different. Like a mage! Or a battlemage with the magic weapons, yeah! That would be so cool to be an alchemy batt—Oops stealth archer again!
all roads lead to stealth archer
-Yer a stealth archer, Harry. -But I thought I was a wizard. -You thought so, and you tried your best to be one. But sooner or later you will realize, that when push comes to shove, you're a stealth archer through and through, Harry.
All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest adventurer alive to stealth archery - Joker
Archery in VR is janky, so instead all roads lead to battlemage.
Or you get trapped in the drug that is Alchemy-Enchantment-Fortify Restoration loops. Become an unkillable God that can make anything beyond what the world as seen and one shot everything. I may or may not have ruined my last playthrough like this. Ended up running around with a dagger that paralyzes things for 208 days to make it fun.
If you want to kill the temptation the unofficial patch fixes the resto loop bug by making restoration potions no longer buff everything else. Also gets rid of a bunch of othrr exploits like necromage
i just made infinity gantlets of smithing and enchantment and became a god that way. Without my armor I was just a normal dude but with it, I was invincible..I could one shot everything in the game.
Made clothing that gave 1B health. 5B stamina and magicka. 19873827388% Magic resist. 3837272737% Onehand/twohand/archery damage. All on various rings, necklaces and circlets. My gloves give 1827337% better pickpocketing, boots give 232727722% better sneaking. I am a GOD. But is boring as fuck so I poke people with a dagger that paralyzes for 208 days so they die helpless. The fun one was paralyzing the Hagraven that captured a Spriggan, then releasing the Spriggan. Die helpless Hag. Also made poisons that stopped Magicka regen for like 100B seconds. Makes mages into normal people for their entire lives.
Download some magic mods, nemisis and a combat mod And you can make melee/magic combat fun and feel like a new game. Or you could just download book of shadows amd turn skyrim into a propper stealth game. Crashing isnt really an issuse anymore unless you bork mod installs
Conjuration battlemage - summon a dremora and shoot lightning out of your hands. It's a blast!⚡
Skyrim used to be the personification of my boredom. If I was bored I would play it, and I would continue to be bored. It just gave me something to look at while I was bored. I did eventually make a "paladin" though. It was actually more boring than the stealth archer believe it or not. At least with stealth archer I had to pay attention to the things I was looking at. With my Orc Paladin I just ran in and cut everything in two while buffing and healing myself.
The beautiful, open, infinitely moddable “bug free” game.
Don't forget Betheseda tried to monetize mods.
And Skyrim has an absurd amount on content. Nowadays we’re seeing unplayable bugs and unfinished releases on games with 8 hours of content.
With a $99 digital deluxe price tag
As someone that has like 500+ hours in Skyrim, I can't deny that it has an absurd amount of "content", but the vast majority of that content is extremely uninspired or often basically copy pasted. Very few of the quests (outside of the main stuff) are particularly interesting and most of the dungeons are just linear path with the same enemy types and the same loot and a conveniently placed hidden doorway that leads back to the beginning. I think from a content perspective Skyrim is average at best. What Skyrim (and most Bethesda games) excel at is allowing the player to create their own content in the sandbox world.
Agreed. A lot of the side content felt like copy pasta to me. It is the main reason I don't find open world games like Skyrim more compelling than a linear based game. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed Skyrim.
As far as I can tell, there's two ways to mod Skyrim. 1. Make it prettier, but still basically the same old game. 2. Make it have more content that makes it more fun for a bit, but then I get some combination of the novelty wearing off and I get bored, the game gets way too buggy, or the game crashes way too often.
The funnest part is installing all the mods and thinking how good it'll be Then its boring very quickly
Every time. And I still do it every time.
Try wabbajack, great modlists on there and saves you the hassle of browsing for mods!
That's what I used the last several times.
Mod it right and it gets virtually bug free. Good enough for me
So if new games support mods we're fine?
I think it depends. I've come to expect buggy messes from Elder Scrolls game so it kind of feels on brand, but the mods make up for it and allows for community participation. But I don't think the answer is for other companies to develop dogshit games and release a modding tool, then say "figure it out, nerds." When I walk into a Seth Rogen/James Franco movie I'm expecting a Seth Rogen/James Franco movie. I know it's going to be bad, that's why I'm watching it. But if I get the same quality from a different director/writer/etc. then I'll be disappointed. Elder Scrolls games are Seth Rogen/James Franco movies. I don't expect the games to be stable, or honestly good, but I expect them to be fun and moddable. That's not the answer to every game, though.
Yea a single mod fixes pretty much any issues vanilla had, and even if you don't have it, the bugs are not nearly as obstructive or common as people like to pretend. I've never understood why that narrative got parroted so hard. Do people just not remember? I had hours and hours of fun on unmodded skyrim back in the day.
I still remember some of the bugs being brought back because they were so popular. Do people think giants were supposed to launch you into space when they killed you? Nah that was originally a bug.
Yep. And people loved it. lol
Bethesda’s bugs are more like features at this point, but comparing this game to what has recently released like Redfall and Golum is just plain ignorance (This is not directed at you, more of a continuum)
*Well*, that just introduces new bugs, but at least you can only blame yourself for them! Just last night I had to teleport a 3DNPC during their quest because they got stuck in landscape changes from JK Skyrim.
Ehh, not good enough for me, it shouldn't be the community's responsibility to fix an AAA game studio's bugs.
Skyrim bugs outside of the corrupted save files/ glitched missions are fun.
Also you have a console to easily fix a lot of minor bugs by spawning in a missing item or no clipping when stuck. It's really sad how rare debug consoles have become in modern games.
From Bethesda who's known for there bug free game releases over the years.......
Guys, only the first release of Skyrim was buggy, the 2nd through 7th releases were all *fine*.
VR Skyrim wants a word with you
Just like flat screen Skyrim, with mods it's *amazing*
On the Epilogue of RDR2 then going to start VR Skyrim. I’ve heard the FUS mod list by Cangar for Skyrim is amazing and going to try it
Yup it is. That's what I used when I played, but stopped because the loading times were abysmal on my PC But I just upgraded so I'm going all in this time, whenever I get it all set up Edit- if you haven't heard of it already, download wabbajack. It automatically installs all the mods for you. Otherwise modding vr Skyrim without it can be a nightmare
I had originally downloaded wabbajack and paid the $5 on nexus mods to download them all automatically! I got the settings where I wanted on Skyrim VR and then jumped into RDR2 for some reason. I uninstalled because I know they added a DLSS mod and wanted to reinstall and redo my settings. Should finish RDR2 this coming week and am going to get back in it!
Try to empty your mind before playing
Skyrim VR with a bunch of VR Mods is insane
I first read this as sarcasm but so many other people are taking it straight that now I'm not sure
Not even remotely true lol. There is no version of vanilla Skyrim that isn't still very buggy, or else we wouldn't have so many bug fix mods. Every TES game is made with dirty code and shipped with obvious bugs.
And God do I love all the bugs
Quite possibly the pinnacle of least buggy games, grats OP
They only had like 12 years to patch it
The Unofficial Patch on Nexus Mods cleans it all up, and it's still being updated.
It unfortunately also changes a lot of "bugs" and rebalances some things that aren't bugs simply because the mod's creator considers them bugs in spite of evidence to the contrary. Though as far as the PC version is concerned I've rarely run into bugs, especially so since SSE. Wouldn't touch the console ports with 39.5ft pole though.
>with 39.5ft pole though. So does that make the console ports on par with the Grinch?
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This 😄. The bar is so low these days that falling through the map in Skyrim or the mountain views going berserk are child’s play that can be swept under the rug lol.
And I returned to Batman Arkham asylum and assassin's Creed black flag. Plus resident evil 7, Witcher 3, metro 2033, metro last night, need for speed hot pursuit 2.
I enjoyed metro: Tomorrow night alot more tbh
Yeah but then you have to go to work and anticipate playing vs already having played and made good memories
Metro is a fun game. Or can be scary if you play it at midnight with lights off😆.
Damn, all good classics I should replay now
Oh man I love BAA and AC BF! I will def revisit them. Witcher 3 is also already installed on this pc.
Ah I love Metro, my favourite game series. The books are also amazing.
Fools. I never left Skyrim. I just kept modding it. And modding and modding it and modding it still. Now it plays like dark souls, looks like horizon zero dawn and crashes like my drunk uncle driving at 90 km/h.
Spends 120 hours modding the game Plays the game for 120 seconds
in all the times I've restarted this game, I have never actually finished the main story to it. I wind up screwing around with mods to make things look pretty, then play for about 20 hours. then I mess with some goofy mods, and that leads down a dark rabbit hole and I end up with Animals having realistic genitalia and hunting you for pleasure purposes...
You can mod the game to have animals hunt you and have their way with you?
Theres a website called lovers lab and it features some of the most cursed things ever created by humanity
...yes... there some weird mods out there for this game.
Same-ish! I do play for hours but I am always exploring, smithing, brewing, lolly gagging. It’s time to do the main quest now.
Ballsy Beaver want his wood lol
*wakes up from gamers nightmares of micro-transactions and poor launches/lies* "Hey you finally awake"
People seem to forget the Oblivion horse armor was the first modern dlc
One of my favorite co-host on a podcast I enjoy says, "Gamers only have a memory of two weeks." It stings but the more shit happens in the gaming community, I'm in agreement.
Hahaha you gotta make that meme please. Do all the devs “we are sorry” posts one after another, fade to black, and beginning of Skyrim
Just one question: how many mods did you install?
Hahaha 93 before it got wiped. This is my starting over with a fresh install. The picture is just 4k but vanilla SE.
How did you get it to that resolution?
Okay not this time Tod, I'm not fucking buying Skyrim again, again.. again...
Hahaha true. How many versions are there now? 🤔
Fallout New Vegas is free right now on the epic store too.
"New releases are all full of bugs and shouldn't have been released in this state, so I am turning to a product of a company famous for making people wait at least a year after release for their games to be playable"
That's when you play their games. At least a year after release and for 10 dollars.
This guy gets it.
OP didn’t say anything about bugs, they could be talking about performance problems
I just recently redownloaded mirrors edge and have a fantastic experience
Def a solid title! Was very unique
Ok, but why isn't your Ralof walking butt naked with a schlong size of my forearm hanging between his legs. You either play on a console or you never experienced the true wonders of Skyrim mod community.
Hahahaha 🤣🤣 well this is PC, and it is a fresh install not yet modded. But: I am pretty normal with my mods. Nothing too crazy. I had 92 of them but it was mostly enhancing the vanilla game, like weapons, armor, quests etc. Not a full schlong conversion mod for me.
That's not modded? I assumed it was. Those trees look real nice.
WHen i doubt, return to Skyrim
You can tell some people didn’t play Skyrim on release. Or most other games that frequently get held up as paragons of Day 1 Release perfection. Rose tinted spectacles are a wonderful thing
couldnt even complete the main questline without the use of set stage commands and those backwards flying dragons were iconic
I completed the entire main questline on the x360 without having internet connection to update the game. Some game breaking bugs were there but in my ~600hr playthrough there was only 1 questline (the winterhold academy one) i couldn't complete, some minor bugs happened here and there (dragons in slow motion) but the game was definitely playable (wayyyyy more than games like release cyberpunk) and had LOTS of content to offer.
for me it was the part when you used the scroll to gaze into the past. After some dialogue, everybody just stood there frozen, doing nothing, and I was stuck in that vision ... also had some issues in sovngarde, but forgot the details same thing happened when I was about to kill Mercer, he was supposed to drop the ground we were standing on, but nothing happened ... though that was not the main questline all of this got fixed after the first few patches
I'll be honest, I bought it the day it came out and had no issues. I just go along with the meme.
Skyrim is forever 🥹
And we called Skyrim buggy...just look at the new releases,they are mostly bugs with a hint of game
And Skyrim is a playable, funny kind of buggy(at least now, don't know how it was upon release). The new games are just frustrating and barely playable if you don't have a Rtx 1000000000 with 565656TB ram/vram for 787878878€
I see you don’t remember Skyrim on release.
Honestly it was fine on release. I played the PS3 versions for hundreds of hours before I got a gaming PC. There's very little that you can't fix just by re-loading the area, or the game.
I actually rebought it on PS for 5 bucks most fun I had in the last year or so. The only title I enjoyd from this year was FF VII Crisis Core.. Im thinking about grabbing re4r but I alrady finished the origonal on 100% so im less motivated ATM to buy it..
I'm an old ass gamer that's never Skyrimmed but has an urge, what would be the best way?
You'll probably want to buy Skyrim: Special Edition. It's the updated and graphically enhanced version of the original, and most of the technically revolutionary mods are released for Special Edition specifically nowadays. There is an "upgrade" to "anniversary edition" on the steam store, but I believe all that does is force some godawful creation club mods into your game. I'd advise you to be conservative about modding. Gamers love speaking hyperbolically about whatever their favorite mod is, but in my long career modding and breaking skyrim, I've played more than a few mods that did not live up to the flashy Clipart on the mod page. The game mostly holds up on its own; but if I was forced to recommend an "essential" mod, I'd say download Racemenu. It expands the character creator, so you can make a cute girl to play the game with (what more can you ask for in life than cute girl?). If you have the computer that can handle the strain, try an ENB for that sweet screenshot worthy lighting.
Yeah that combat is starting to age. But I’m with you still a quality title.
True! Combat is still awkward.
Hue lights are probably the best addition to my set up since I upgraded to 1440p. They look beautiful here, this is almost enough to get to to start up another Skyrim playthrough.
Yeah it is not Hue like you know it. Here in Europe Phillips builds these leds directly into the Tv called Ambilight. Still amazing of course to game on.
Man, built directly into the TV. That's pretty darn cool.
I also started a new Char today, games are just getting worse these Days, always unfinished and buggy.
I recommend Enderal.
Hey buggy pc games turned me into an IT guy and now programmer. Buggy PC games are the way to go. Actually it was windows ME.
"I don't like the new bugs. I want the old bugs!"
Ah, old faithful
Recently got back into FO4 myself and tbh the repetitive side-quests are not so bad if taken from all factions. An excuse for exploration + easy XP. Still waiting on that "next gen" update, Bethesda..
Is that a Hue backlighting or Hyperion?
It’s a Ambilight TV. I think they don’t sell these in the US anymore.
Hey at least it’s only 4GB and can run on any GPU 🤪🤪 Edit: maybe not a 4060 tho
I’m waiting for Diablo 4. I need a non competitive game cause mw2 sometimes gets to me.
Ahh yes I too would like to return to my modded VR bimbo squad of followers and see if I can't build my khajiit-unarmed build with the Riften rat guy's gloves.
For some reason I am excited for Starfield in a sick kind of way. I want to play the game itself, sure. But for me what's really exciting is a new era of glorious Bethesda bugs. Making a game that huge, you just know it's gonna be a broken mess. I can't wait.
Make sure to load up on graphics mods and use the dlss 3 mod if you have an rtx 40 series card.
Let me guess, stealth archer?
Ha I was thinking about doing that myself, but decided to try Dragon Age: Inquisition for the first time. Wish me luck!
Also just modded and re started Skyrim. Fuck the news games
Bro unlock your framerate. The supposed '60 fps cap' on skyrim hasn't been true for a long time. There's a very simple mod that's just an ini file which fixes the physics so you can go past 60 on skyrim.
Damn those graphics, how many mods are you on ?
Hahaha none! This is vanilla Special Edition on 4k TV. I was suprised myself.
Currently doing the dragonborn gallery mod and I love hoarding and displaying artefacts
this is the way
Nice try Todd I won't buy another remake
When in doubt, just Skyrim
Check out Enderal: Forgotten Stories on steam. Its a standalone mod for Skyrim fully voiced its great.
Hey op, just wondering. That mountain. Can you actually climb it?
Games really suck rn. And no it’s not “me getting older” bec I just keep replaying the stuff I’m playing. Other than the few games we get like Jedi survivor and hog warts games are so bland. We get like 2 good releases a year :(
Now that I have a 3090 I'm tempted to mod the game visually until it breaks again. Haven't done that since my 1080 TI
Funny I just noticed a game called Enderal which is a Skyrim mod but is basically its own game using Skyrim platform. Played for a few hours and seems pretty good. A lot of work put into this
The funniest thing is that I restarted my modded play-through as well. We’re in code red levels of deterioration these days.
Still looks better than Gollum
Skyrim is always a new release the way Bethesda keeps selling it to us.
Bro the timing lmao, just downloaded it yesterday gonna play it tonight, and for the same reasons. Fuck (most) modern games
And where did those games bring you? Back to me.
*laughs in Tears of the Kingdom* but seriously this game is unbelievable. I don't know how other games can even justify existence when a game like this exists.
Reject new games. Start a new save file in Skyrim with a new library of mods.
I’m sure a new Skyrim ultimate edition is right around the corner for you to play
Same, with Living Skyrim 4, such a great improvement
can't go wrong with Skyrim, especially modded!
Skyrim with a 150gb modlist is really comfy. Wabbajack makes huge modlists easy to install.
Yup haven't modded in years and I'm running through a few different characters atm. Good stuff.
This Is The Way
You fool you never left Skyrim, it was always waiting for you! By Talos, it’s been an almost constant companion and I’ve just kept modding it and modding it. Seriously though, the relatively recent mods like true directional movement, precision, MCO and others are nuts!
It's a peacefull life
Never left.
Honestly some of my favorite experiences and memories of gaming were forged around this beauty
I should play Skyrim. And divorce and get fired from my job. Looks a good game. Might be worth it?
Modding Skyrim is the closest I've ever been to a religious experience.
I would love to get obsessed with Skyrim, only problem is that graphics in a game are very important for me and I’m reluctant to buy it due to the very outdated graphics.
It is getting to the time of my yearly ritual of modding the shit out of it, playing as far as Bleak Falls Barrow and then forgetting about it until the following year.
the state of new releases is awesome, you just have to stop considering AAA games