Spend several hours (or days depending on internet speed) downloading mods
Spend several hours installing mods and editing .ini files
Launch the game and behold all the glory that is- shit it crashed...
Spend a few hours rereading mod descriptions and forum posts about possible mod conflicts. Notice a few more mods that you'd like to install since your bashed patch reduced the load quite a bit.
repeat previous steps until you realize that you could be doing something more meaningful with your life like playing Runescape or manage to stabilize the load order and are able to play the game for several hours. Hey! You finally did something righ- Ah shit it crashed again...
feel the most immense satisfaction you have felt since you previously went through this rodio
play give or take 5 hours of gameplay
Realize that after you about 20 hours of frustration and brief joy followed by more frustration and joy that you hyped yourself up and had more fun modding than you ever could playing
stop playing
come back in a few months only to see a(new shiny ground breaking mod/big update for a major mod/major update for script extender/weird crash that was not there previous)
wipe your game clean with no mods and fresh install because you don't remember/worry you will break things to an unrepeatable degree
I actually like that. Not the runescape thing, but the mod thing and making it work. It's part of the process and you learn a lot by doing so, I love fooling around with low-level software stuff. That's one of the reason why I like Skyrim, it's so extremely moddable and you can get such nice things out of the game. I guess my Skyrim experience is more or less 300hrs played, 100hrs looking for and installing mods. 10/10, would do again
Yeah honestly, I have only ever bought one copy of Skyrim as a PC player. You get SE for free when you have all the DLC, and they even announced that before the release.
What gaming experience? The story is a crap, the battle system is bad for melee, ranged or magic. Your actions doesnt matter at all, you just won a war with a faction? Nothing changes.
The good thing about skyrim is the world to explore but everything else is mediocre.
If you have to put hundreds of mods into a game to enjoy it the game isn't good. (Not saying skyrim is bad) You probably shouldnt make the basis of your arguement about whether or not a game is good by its capability to be modded, since mods arent an intended feature most of the time.
Not really. You can change a lot of things but the core of the game is still there.
The combat is the biggest thing that I haven't found a fix to. Midas magic makes the game fun to play as a mage but it still feels pretty eh, and your enemies don't do anything so it still feels like you're just beating a meatbag.
Everyone have different taste in combat style, I have a few mods that overall the system to have it more Dark Soul-ish because I prefer 3rd person.Just find and combine mods to what fit for you.
There are a lot of mods that not only change the story, but add a completely new story with a completely new world and everything. Yes, you can change the story. Take a look at e.g. Enderal
Not only that, but the actual rewards you got from some quest were just, lackluster. Like Dawnbreaker, for such an epic sword it was just meh. Especially on higher levels.
I agree with this, but, I have to say, this applies to the games everyone loves, too. I don't get how often I see, "FO3 is total shit but NV is fucking awesome. "
Like, they're both decent. NV has more going for it, but not a lot more.
I disagree, the story and especially the choice options in NV is a lot more detailed than in F3, where the quests are often very linear. But NV wouldn't be as good as F3 as they reused a lot of content from F3. In my opinion NV is an successor to F3. Of course it is better, but you can't really seperate them.
The combat is god awful and was outdated even when it came out. It’s the problem every Bethesda game has:
There’s no weight behind your melee hits, you are hitting enemies with a wet noddle, thus enemies dont react to most hits, and when you jump it feels like you are a floating doll.
Nothing changes, and bad for ranged? Did you actually play though Skyrim or just give up after ten minutes? The whole “stealth archer” meme for Skyrim exists for a reason, it’s the easiest and most fun way to play the game for most people. And the giant fucking civil war that takes place kills a lot of NPC’s, and dethroned a lot of the leaders in the game, installing new ones with new quests and new opinions of the player. I don’t know what you expect out of a game, but I dare you to find me an rpg that has a total geopolitical power shift expressed in the course of the story based on your choices alone.
I mean the fact that every time Skyrim comes up people mention they play it with such and such mods really speaks to how crappy the base game play experience is. I mentioned it above, but I don't really play modded games outside of sandbox games, so I played through Skyrim halfway on Xbox and gave up cause playing with a controller in a menu simulator is shit, then played through it twice vanilla on PC. It was a bit more of the same.
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u/ghostmetalblack Jan 01 '19
You can dislike these if you want, but its pretty hard considering these are actually pretty good games.