1606

I have been playing it over the past few weeks. I first did a partial play-though with the requiem mod for the magic stuff. I do not recommend this mod unless you want a brutally hard game. I did like the magic system it had, but very little else about the mod. The real problem is the difficulty curve. For a very long time it is just ridiculous, but then it is a very short span from that difficulty to you are doing OK to you are a living god.

I am doing a melee playthrough now using SPREG which is a skill-tree replacement mod. I like it a lot. I also am using enhanced lightings and FX which makes things look really nice without dark areas being super dark. There are also a few other mods I am using, but they are small tweaks.

I am surprised how much play time I have gotten from this game. I just discovered a quest line, which seems to be pretty big which I had never run into before. Its some kind of dwemer Atheheim forge thing. In other playthroughs I had found some of these quest items shards and never knew what to do with them. This time I found the quest NPC who explained it all.

I wonder when the next ES game will come out. This one came out in 2010 and it has been a long time.

1607

I started a new playthrough on my laptop (Alienware M17x, couple of years old.) I was happy to see it runs fine at 1920x1200 with a ton of hires texture and other mods running. I played it for hundreds of hours on my 360, and loved it, haven’t found another game that scratches my open world itch the way Skyrim did, so now I’m running it with mods. And it is a brand new experience that way!

Using Mod Organizer (replaced NMM with this, very handy tool!) and the following mods:

This file was automatically generated by Mod Organizer.

+Passive Weapon Enchantment Recharging
+Pure Weather
+My Home Is Your Home - a mod for followers
+Arissa - The Wandering Rogue
+The Choice is Yours - Fewer Forced Quests - Improved Dialogue Options
+Complete Crafting Overhaul Remade
+Hearthfire multiple adoptions - Now with custom home support for kids and spouse
+Even Better Quest Objectives
+A Simple Marriage Mod
+Lanterns of Skyrim - All in One - Dawnguard Patch
+Lanterns of Skyrim - All In One
+Uncle Sheo Does Dragonborn
+Uncle Sheo does Hearthfire
+Uncle Sheo does Dawnguard
+Audio Overhaul for Skyrim 2
+Run For Your Lives
+Uncle Sheogorath
+Smart Souls
+Bounty Gold
+Falskaar - Pure Waters Patch
+Soul Gems Differ
+Glowing Ore Veins 300
+SPERG - Skyrim Perk Enhancements and Rebalanced Gameplay
+Skyrim -Community- Uncapper
+Mark Books as Read
+The Eyes Of Beauty
+Get Arrows Back
+Pure Waters
+Book Covers Skyrim
+Helgen Reborn
+ApachiiSkyHair
+Wearable Lanterns
+Unique Booze Bottles HD
-Superior Lore-Friendly Hair - HD textures
+Mrissi - A tail of troubles
+Interesting NPCs
+Improved Dragon Shouts
+Falskaar
+Hoth
+Guard Dialogue Overhaul
+Vilja in Skyrim
+Immersive Patrols
+Skyrim Immersive Creatures
+Immersive Weapons
+Immersive Armors
+A Quality World Map
+Skyrim HD - 2K Textures
+Static Mesh Improvement Mod
+SkyUI
+Clothing and Clutter Fixes
+Unofficial High Resolution Patch
*Unmanaged: HighResTexturePack03
*Unmanaged: HighResTexturePack02
*Unmanaged: HighResTexturePack01
+Unofficial Dragonborn Patch
*Unmanaged: Dragonborn
+Unofficial Hearthfire Patch
*Unmanaged: HearthFires
+Unofficial Dawnguard Patch
*Unmanaged: Dawnguard
+Unofficial Skyrim Patch

The ones that make the biggest difference in terms of the playthrough feeling new and fresh: SPERG, which really refreshes the whole perks approach, Immersive Armor, Immersive Weapons, Immersive Patrols (it is very cool seeing battles break out between Stormcloaks and Imperials, seeing one faction trying to take a fort from the other, etc.) Interesting NPCs, Pure Water and Pure Weather (tried Climates of Tamriel, but it just felt too washed out in terms of colors) and the Immersive Creatures. I’ve seen all kinds of monsters and creatures I’d never seen before. I haven’t yet jumped into Helgen Reborn or Falskaar.

But with these mods, the world looks fresh and new and beautiful, I’m running into quests and NPCs I’d never seen before, I’m battling new interesting creatures and monsters, the wide variety of interesting armors and armors are cool, and the overhauled guard dialogs results in them treating me differently depending upon where I am in the game. I’m hooked on Skyrim yet again. :)

1608

I’m guessing that Bethesda is no longer interested in making single-player games and will concentrate all of their efforts on TESO, or other on-line variants. I hope I’m wrong.

I’ve modded up a bit… SkyUI, Convenient Horses, light potions, a couple of houses. My next play through I think I’m going to try Frostfall. The game’s starting to become too easy even on Legendary difficulty.

1609

I’m hoping Bethesda will see TESO as a great big failure and get back to where the series works best: as a highly immersive single player experience.

(also, Bethesda didn’t develop TESO, so they’ve probably been working on a new Elder Scrolls and/or Fallout game this whole time…I hope I’m NOT wrong.)

1610

I know they are working on a new Fallout game. However, are there two teams or just one team? If it is one team, that means they have not even started on the next ES game, which means it will be a LONG TIME until we see the next one. It has already been 4 years…

1611

It’s been three years. The game came out on Nov 11, 2011. I know one could make that mistake considering this thread was started a month later. After all, “Do you still play Skyrim?” doesn’t seem like a sensible question about an epic EPG that came out a month ago, which is why I thought this was a joke thread and didn’t click on it for a few months. So yes, the game recently had its 3 year anniversary.

1613

Redguard was actually the first ES game by Todd Howard and his core team, which then inherited Morrowind and all the subsequent games. So it was a key game by the team in control of the franchise. The main reason it’s not available and around is because it’s a technical mess to run on modern computers (was 3dfx voodoo native too). Maybe someday. Until ESO, it was the only game set in the 2nd age.

1614

ESO was developed by a new affiliated company, not the Bethesda Softworks teams that did Skyrim, Fallout 3, Oblivion, Morrowind, etc.

1615

I still fire up Skyrim a few hours per week. The mod community keeps it fresh, while the base game is sufficiently familiar to be some kind of comfort food.

1616

Yeah, after playing for hundreds of hours on the 360, just did a new install of the Steam “everything” version on my laptop, modded out with all kinds of sound and graphics and follower and NPC and house and creature and armor mods (and more) and it feels like a new game. I’m seeing things I never saw in my hundreds of hours of exploring every nook and cranny on the 360.

1617

I just beat Skyrim myself. Loaded up ~350 mods (only results in 239 .esps, so I’m not over the limit or anything). Basically STEP + REGS packs (city overhauls and such) + recommended quests from TESGeneral not already in REGS + things from the Skyrim Revisited LE guide that caught my eye (and didn’t require massive fixing to work with STEP/REGS) + Vividian ENB.

The city overhauls from JK were somewhat crushing on my system, combined with the ENB and the fact I have only a 2GB video card. Playable, but annoying. I was a bit disappointed and was about to start turning stuff off. I managed to free up enough space on my SSD to move the whole 45GB monster over there, and the difference is night and day. While I still only get 32-45fps, the lag while trying to load textures/meshes is nearly gone and it is pretty much a game-changer. Turning off occlusion rendering in the ENB gains even more FPS if I start dropping below 30. Now I feel I could add even MORE stuff (or up the texture quality on some things…)

My sons claims there is actually a game to be played, and that installing mods isn’t the game itself. I personally have my doubts, but might have to see what he’s babbling about.

1618

Indeed, I find that seeking out new mods can be like walking Skyrim (I almost never fast travel. as exploring the world IS the game for me) and finding something odd sticking up from the ground and then finding something very cool. So I find myself googling and reading articles and saying, yeah yeah yeah seen that tried that not interested WHOA! THAT looks COOL! ;)

1619

I didn’t know that, thanks. I’m still thinking that the ultimate corporate owner of the IP won’t want to dilute TESO by making a single-player game that competes with the online version. Again, hope I’m wrong.

1620

Still playing. This is my single-player MMO… it’s how I played WoW, LOTRO and UO before that…mainly solo. I do miss the occasional group, but the amount and quality of content in this game is unbelievable. I’m at Lvl 83, legendary difficulty, and I haven’t even started the civil war stuff. And I’m not “gaming” the game to level, other than resetting a few skills at 100 since I know I can level them up again.

I do have to admit that I’ve kept my magic, armor and weapon skills maxed out. I did the specialization and roleplaying road early on, but now I’ve embraced my inner BON3D00D from early UO. I’m a magic and axe-wielding tank with enchanted dragon armor, who can still down them from a distance with my bow.

1621

An Xbox One/PS4 HD version of Skyrim is rumored to be one of the announcements from Bethesda during their pre-E3 briefing.

1622

Gods, I want that so bad. That will be my third purchase of the game, and I’m happy about every single one of them!

1623

If you have the PC version, why?

1624

Maybe he only has the console version; bought it, then later got the edition that had all the DLC, and this will be his third time buying it?

1625

Because I use a laptop, and find it a hassle to connect it to my TV to play games on the television. And I REALLY like playing games on the tv, especially since that kinda automatically involves my GF, which is nice as well. I also have to remove a chromecast, since all 3 HDMI ports are taken otherwise.

Its also pretty nice to have my laptop beside me to check out stuff, when playing games on the TV. I’m weird that way, I know :-)

1626

Razgon has a PC that plays Hearts of Iron IV which has higher PC specs than Skyrim, and Skyrim has been on sale on Steam for much less than any console version. I don’t understand why he wouldn’t have the PC version.

Edit: Ah. You posted your reason. OK. Got it.