Skyrim

Izo said:

Cool. Special Edition is just textures then?

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition on Steam

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The special edition is Skyrim ported onto Fallout 4's 64 bit engine. So it will have the new fancy graphics stuff they added to Fallout 4 but no new gameplay is going to be added. If you already own the Legendary edition or all the DLC on Steam you'll be getting it for free on Steam.

It should also mean less memory problems if you like mods

I snabbed the Special Edition (all expacs) for 40$ and look forward to getting the remaster for free as a result.


I checked out a bunch of 4k mods for it but none of them look right. I just tried out the build I wanted to play for the remaster for a while (bound axe/summon zombie etc orc). Definitely ready to play through this one again in an officially remastered state.

Essential mods for vets I think are deadly dragons and...... there's a few that actually add races to the game? Looked interesting.

You can get Skyrim Legendary edition for less than $20, easily nowadays.

Nirgon said:

I checked out a bunch of 4k mods for it but none of them look right. I just tried out the build I wanted to play for the remaster for a while (bound axe/summon zombie etc orc). Definitely ready to play through this one again in an officially remastered state.

Essential mods for vets I think are deadly dragons and...... there's a few that actually add races to the game? Looked interesting.

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Last time I played I had 230 mods loaded up. It took me around three days just to get everything stable enough that Skyrim wouldn't crash. That was with mostly 1k texture mods, nothing really high def thanks to the engine limitations.I am definitely looking forward to the 64 bit upgrade.

So the talk of the town is apparently whenever they (community or whoever is going to do it) are going to get the script extender working for the remaster. The guestimate is that it will take between a month or many months.

Yeah, they're still working on getting scripting into F4SE.

Enderal is pretty awesome so far. The environments are great. the only thing i dont like is needing a book for every skill up.

Going to add a +1 for the Enderal conversion. Really liking it. Beautiful, huge game that is so far significantly superior to Skyrim. Would recommend.

I picked this up last week, great game, difficulty is spot on.

I started out on Iron Path but ended up dropping to Master because I found myself cheesing the AI to get through some of the fights. Rats were 2-shotting me etc.

From what I've seen so far I'm not so sure the ratio of ball busting to fun is quite right. Definitely worth trying though (I miss some of my other mods).

Been playing this on and off for two years. Quite possibly my favorite open world game, or favorite, period. The replay value is great. Tremendous bang for your buck.

Off topic a bit, but the graphics for Oblivion were the best I'd seen up to that time. When I first left the sewers and stepped out into Cyrodiil... this old meme was precisely my impression



Not so much the weed part, but definitely the landscape

I finally tried Enderal and it reminds me very much of Gothic/Risen, however I find it really bloody hard to spot important stuff in the environment - I don't know if they overdid it with the foliage or something, but spotting an enemy unless he's hitting me in the face is almost impossible.

On PS4? Not a fucking chance if Sony's restrictions on Mods for Skyrim is the same as it is for Fallout 4.

I'm waiting for mods.

A lot of the mods are still functional. The only ones that are really broken right now are the ones that use SKSE, and you'll be waiting a long time for those, and any mod that has packed their files into a .bsa file since Bethesda changed the way .bsa files are read. Once the Creation kit releases next week the .bsa issue should be fixed for any mod that bothers to repack their files.

The SKSE dependent mods are another matter. The mod authors say it's going to be a hefty job since Skyrim SE is using a mash of old Skyrim and the new Fo4 engine. They still don't have a fully functional scripting plugin for Fallout yet so we could be waiting for a year or more on Skyrim sadly. The SkyUI author has already said he's probably not going to bother updating his mod and is offering it to anyone who wants to take it over.

Edit: Also ENB will be limited compaired to the OG Skyrim. That dev says that Bethesda has done something fucky with the new Fo4 engine that makes it impossible to implement all the features he had in OG Skyrim.