I have 81 hours in a single start, my high elf Omsty Nudd, who I started back in 2013. I keep Skyrim installed with a handful of mods, and play now and then. One day I’ll finish the main quest. It is my gaming comfort food.
How do you decide on which mods to install? Aren’t there almost infinite choices by this point? Why choose one over another? I’d have a tough time just deciding between all those choices.
what is it, anyways? RTS?
Requiem that @KristiGaines mentioned is a total overhaul. I haven’t tried it. Here’s my minimal mod install.
https://i.imgur.com/NkyzHY9.png
I’d say the unofficial patch, immersive HUD and SkyUI are pretty essential. The others there are cosmetic or QOL stuff. It’s too easy to fall down the mod rabbit hole. Don’t forget to eventually play the game.
Nonsense. Skyrim choice is not contingent on janky and weightless melee combat. Not suggesting Skyrim should be Dark Souls, because we already have that. But if they game the combat some weight, physics, tactics, and made it deadly for players not equipped well enough, god game. Each to their own though.
As a mage on Expert, I die all the time. One shot from an archer with a high level bow / arrow can drop me.
Don’t get me started on those 20 yard power attacks.
Talking explicitly about melee execution. The reason I cited Dark Souls is that is the first game I ever played where realistic melee was so damn fun. I mean if you are going to have “action” melee, and not just MMO type attacks with hitpoint bubbles, it should be good right? Add that to all the other fabulous qualities you listed that Skyrim excels at and you’ve evolved.
Explore the Illusion spells. They will get you closer to this. I remember reading a blog or posts by a guy who focused on Illusion spells at the exclusion of all other spells or abilities. It was interesting.
Ok. I mean, there are PLENTY of opportunities in Skyrim for you to be the bad guy and murder / steal. Or lead a thieves guild… or an assassin’s guild… Sorry if your type of banditry in involves diplomacy. The bandits in Skyrim very rarely take captives.
Which reminds me, the whole “chosen one” Dragonborn stuff? Skyrim will you skip that, too.
I stand by my claim.
Rock and to your question… I tend to grab a single, good mod that makes the game very hard. Requiem is a serious overhaul that makes Skyrim a lot harder (esp early on).
I tend to then go with a mod that fits my game play idea --Alternative start for example. You can fashion Skyrim (and for that matter Fallout 4) into a better game with mods. Now Fallout 4 has survival mode which doesn’t just make you have to eat/sleep/drink but makes the combat a LOT more deadly.
A few days ago, I completed the Forsworn Conspiracy in Markath. I´d never done this before, and ended up releasing a bunch of people, that went rampaging through the city. There must have been 15-20 people figthing each other in different places in the city, at the same time. I´ve never seen that before!
That’s cool! I’m still running into new things even after 100’s of hours played.
I posted in the other Skyrim thread, but I started playing again back in November, still playing and on my third play through. In my original play through on the XBOX 360 (yikes) my SO and I did a lot of the content (factions, civil war, main quest); my current play through I’m doing Legacy of the Dragonborn (my only DLC sized mod) and plan on Dragonborn (official DLC. I finished a slightly modded Dawnguard in my last run.)
Ironically, in this latest game I’m trying to do a stealthy archer but so far it’s been hard. The weather/ENB/lighting mods I’m using make the nights and dungeons pretty dark. I need a light source to see, and that makes stealth difficult - but I still can’t one shot anything even when I manage to get some shots off from stealth. I’m using another mod that makes all the mobs my level or higher which all but mandates using poison (making draugr difficult.) Tempted to start over to try a more effective build, but I’ll stick it out to see if I can “fix” my character.
For the animation issues mentioned up thread - there are mods for that: XPMSSE and FNIS are the foundation for animation and physics mods. ((I don’t use them (yet, anyway), but seen them in action on YouTube and they look pretty good.))
And I’ll plug Inigo again. He’s not a follower so much as a companion.
Edit: For those new to modding or even Skyrim, /r/skyrimmods/ has proven invaluable for me. It’s still quite active (and with TES 6 a good 3-5 years out, will probably remain so!)
Not playing. Haven’t played in a long while.
Although Skyrim was the first Elder Scrolls game where I made multiple characters to focus on different parts of the game.
I actually started hating the idea of doing all the faction/quild quests on a single character because it doesn’t make sense to be the Master of the Mage Guild, Fighters Guild, Thieves Guild, etc simultaneous when you can’t spec your character across all those disciplines.
So I made fresh characters to run through those guild chains from the start of the game so the characters are appropriately skilled. Then I retired them after finishing all the guild quests. Character done.
I used to be an adventurer like you folks, then I got an arrow to the knee.
I have it installed, and between the original version and Skyrim Special edition, I have over 1000 hours played. It has been months since I have played it though. I have several characters at various levels. I wanted to do the vampire stuff by joining them since I have never done that, however, It just doesn’t hold my interest anymore. I play with a bunch of mods, and I am hoping one day Ill be motivated enough to do the vampire side, but for now, I have other games that are of more interest to me.
I am a bit skeptical about the next ES games, whenever that comes out. It should have been a day 1 purchase for me, but with all the shenanigans that bethesda has pulled, its definitely in a wait and see camp.
So I joined the conpanions, got one kill quest from them, now its time to meet them under the underforge and choose. I chose to pass on their offer.
Is that it for the Companions? I can’t seem to get any more quests from them. I ask because the first time I chose yes, transformed, and went on with the quest line. The dialog though says this is only to enter the inner circle. Do they stop giving out quests now as well?
Yes, you have to become a werewolf to continue with them.
And there is an out after that.
Yeah, Dawnguard spoilers:
So I guess I didn’t know what exactly I was investigating there, as the vampire princess was a big surprise. She seems nice enough. So I finally escort her back to the castle, we go in, and I’m like, “well, maybe they are nice vampires, or noble vampires, or something, maybe they are misunderstood.”
Nope! Dead bodies everywhere, dead people being eaten at the table, gross shit everywhere. The Vampire King is like “Oh, come join us!” I’m like “Pass, gross monster”. Then he tries to convince me by turning into an even MORE evil looking monster. “See! See! Look how cool you can be!”
Nope, death to Vampires, motherfucker.
So yeah. I like the Companion hall and characters a lot. But I don’t want no curses.
Vampire Princess is a wonderful companion, though.
I knooooooow. She doesn’t appear to count in the follower limit so we were rolling hard at 4 deep at one point, plus Elemental so 5. That’s an almost full 80s RPG party!
I dragged her along for a week of gametime or so before I felt bad and escorted her home finally. To… you know. Dammit! Should have just kept her forever.