I hope that turns out to be true. I was hoping for backward compatibility for Skyrim but this is even better. And it makes so much sense, I’m sure lots of people will rebuy it especially if it contains all DLC.
So I’ve been meaning to return to Skyrim after enjoying the HELL out of Elder Scrolls Online of late, but lost the list of mods I’d been using since I last visited two years ago. Tank GOD for Mod Organizer, as it listed which mods were associated with my latest save file, and was able to redownload most of them (some had been replaced with newer versions, but most of them were still available). 40+ mods later, I was back in business. I forgot how much I’d missed my Breton warrior mage with his modded Dawnbreaker sword.
DeepT
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I have been playing this recently. I was not using a lot of mods. One was requiem, however I have given up on that mod because of its total bullshit difficulty. The mod creators really have no clue about game balance or “fun”. Let me put it this way, I have a mage with like 95 destruction and who is focused on fire. I can one shot large groups of enemies, like those undead lords (which were such a PITA early on). Then there are things like Dragon Priests and true vampires. I can not kill a dragon priest. I mean even if I turn off the combat AI so they do not move or attack, I can not kill them. They must have like 10,000hp and regenerate at like 100hp/sec.
Then there the these super vampire types (some vampires are weak, I guess these are the dawnguard vampires I am talking about). They also have zillions of HP and regenerate. And get this… they summon Dragon Priest ghosts to fight.
I really have no idea how you are ever supposed to fight them.
Anyway, I started over with a stealth character and removed all the requium stuff and put in a mod called SPEG. This is a skill tree replacement mod which I really like. I also have another mod I can’t remember its name which just adds a bunch of new spells to the game.
It is amazing how many 100s of hours of fun I have gotten out of skyrim. It is also an interesting contrast of Fallout 4 in which I lost interest very quickly. I blame that on the completely uninteresting, ultra generic, and repetitive world design. Oh the writing totally sucked too.
Bateau
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Light/holy magic, with Sunburst you can one or two shot the dragonpriests.
Reports saying it’s called “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - The Definitive Edition” and it will be available on Nov 23rd.
ES IV? Thought this was V
How can I ever trust you again?
You can’t. Soon, with infinite scroll, you’ll never know what to believe.
No, this is the Skyrim thread, not the Star Citizen one. ;)
I just got back into this as well. Had completed it before any of the DLC released, and have now finished most of that. Went through it all pretty much mod-free. Only used SKY-UI, a house mod, and a couple minor graphics mods. What are some good campaign/quest mods? I’ve already tried Moon and Star, which was nice, but short.
JeffL
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I was a huge Skyrim fan. Easily one of my top games in 30 years of computer gaming. Spent about a year playing it and after finishing all main quests just wandering around the countryside. I felt if I could just get a new Skyrim every couple of years I’d be good.
Was not a fan of Witcher 1 or 2. So I would have jumped on this.
And now I’m obsessed with W3. And I fear going back to Skyrim would be pretty disappointing. I wish any resources on this had been put against Skyrim 2 (even though it’s likely different resources )
Is Witcher 3 sufficiently Skyrimmy?
More story telling and characters, not as open in terms of making your own character (though he’s very customizable). A little closer to Mass Effect in terms of presentation, but very Skyrim in that the world is vast and there is a LOT to explore, both in terms of RPG content (weapons, upgrades, armor, potions, etc.) and story (side quests, more information in a given story beat than you may get if you hadn’t looked around a little, etc.). It’s a much more specialized “role-playing” game than Skyrim. You are playing a role, and can play that role however you see fit. But ONLY that role.
There were literally quests that had kind of awful outcomes because I just followed the “do this, now this, now report back” bread crumb list instead of paying attention and asking around, and thinking for myself. That’s definitely an amazing thing, and a vast improvement over how Skyrim plays out (from an RPG point of view).
JeffL
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At first I thought not. What I loved about Skyrim was that I could go and do anything I wanted as any character I imagined myself to be. When I first started playing W3 it threw me that I was a character who was predefined. And when I first started playing in the small open in area, I saw question marks on the map that displayed where interesting stuff was and so I’d just go from question mark and thus no feeling of exploration.
Then I turned off the question marks and started exploring the way I would in Skyrim. Much better. But then I also discovered that what looked like the standard throwaway side quest - e.g. thieves stole my stuff and my horse! I’ll pay you to retrieve them! - had a twist. A decision that was not at all black and white. Surprising me and making me decide what kind of Geralt I was going to be. And then I discovered the entire huge world was filled with such encounters. With characters who were hard to label, multidimensional. That decisions I may have forgotten had significant impact in the future.
The world itself is so much more “realistic”. I came across what appeared to be a former battlefield and thought cool, loot! as I looted the first dead soldiers I came across. Then I realized: this is a very large field filled with dead soldiers. This is what you find in a world torn apart by war. It was sombering.
This is an open world RPG crafted by people who care and want to tell a story in every little item placed in the world. I used to use the lighthouse side story in Skyrim as an example of why I loved it so. In hindsight, in perspective of Witcher 3, it feels simplistic.
I will always love Skyrim for the hundreds of hours of exploring fun it gave me, but W3 is an entirely deeper, more complex , more adult open world RPG.
But there’s no Macho Man Randy Savage dragon mod for The Witcher 3.
I’ll have to get W3 once I upgrade. Not sure my current rig (i7 920, GTX770) would sufficiently handle it. Thanks!
Oh crap, I forgot that was even a thing. I just cracked up remembering trying that out.
