Is Skyrim redeemable with mods?

[maidenhaver]

That's true.

[Pretty Princess]

You have to play Beth games under the expectation of being GTA in fantasy settings, not RPGs

[KnightoftheWind]

The experience of a Bethesda game is not something you can find elsewhere, that's why they are popular. You don't play Skyrim for the breadth of it's mechanics or intricate quests, you play it for the journey and for how customizeable it is. Not to mention Jeremy Soule's timeless soundtrack that will never be matched. They replaced him with a literal israeli and the results speak for themselves.

[Vergil]

Brutal to think that not only will TES VI be filled with ****** ****** autism but we won't even get a Jeremy Soule soundtrack out of it because of some attention seeking BPD *****.

[Segata]

Soule / Souleless

[maidenhaver]

They used Zur for F3, then switched to Soule again for TES5. They will probably use him again for 6.

[Emphyrio]

Zur did a pretty good job on the Fallout soundtracks.

[Vergil]

Zur did a pretty good job on the Fallout soundtracks.

They're serviceable but I can't name, nor do a know a single person who could, a single memorable track from Fallout 3 on the same level as anything from Morrowind-Skyrim.

[Fuze]

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need to enact total coomer death

That would have been pretty much my repsonse, either turns it into a full coomer experience and power trip and assume the brainrot, or don't bother.
The dragonborn is essentially an isekaishit characters per essence, a blank page that is better than anyone at anything and with about half the female population lusting after him.

[rusty_shackleford]

Too many NPCs in Skyrim trust you immediately to go deliver things for them.
"Hmm, yes I made this high quality sword. Hello, random person, pls deliver it for me. Don't run off with it!! hehe~"

[Emphyrio]

Too many NPCs in Skyrim trust you immediately to go deliver things for them.
"Hmm, yes I made this high quality sword. Hello, random person, pls deliver it for me. Don't run off with it!! hehe~"

It's just Skyrim's high-trust culture. Skyran women even leave their babies outside while they go shopping.

[Oyster Sauce]

Legacy of the Dragonborn was my favorite content mod last time I played Skyrim.
It adds a museum to Solitude that you inherit. There are exhibit halls for almost everything in the game: armor sets, jewelry, unique weapons, dwemer/falmer/giant/daedric artifacts, even the player home on the upper floor lets you display wine bottles on the rack and frozen foods in the ice box. According to the mod page there are over 4500 items you can submit. Using another mod that add items? There's most likely a patch that adds a wing to the museum for it.
As you expand your collection, quests will become available and eventually you'll even start your own Explorer's Guild, which you'll need to recruit members for. You think they're just low effort followers? No sir, they also have a questline where they'll go on expeditions into ruins and need your help to explore.

There are far too many features, secrets, and additions to list here, but if you're ever going to play Skyrim again make sure you're using this mod.

[DagothGeas5]

I have been modding Skyrim to try and "make it good" in my own mind ever since it launched, and I still find it lacking. That said, modding Skyrim has become "playing Skyrim" for me, and I learned quite a bit about modeling, scripting, texturing, etcetera etcetera just out of sheer frustration with dealing with this game and all it's shortcomings on "what could have been".
I have a list of mods that I would recommend, A VERY LONG list of mods, but in all honesty, I recommend installing a mod like Vigilant ( https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/11849 ) and building the rest of the game around it with whatever feeling you are going for when imagining your Skyrim experience, treating traveling Skyrim and all its mainquests as sidequests and focusing on making your own story. I have not played through it too much, but I al recommend Beyond Reach ( https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... /mods/3008 ). In short: what do you want Skyrim to be? And then find mods that more closely align to your vision. I also then break them apart to remove woke things if there are any ("Stormcloaks are bad!" is the first warning sign of a "I am so special! Look how much I can cuss in one sentence!" mods), take apart other things, piece them together, and make my own mods, though by the time I am done I'd much rather do something else.

Example of mods that, to me, enhance the game's experience, particularly reactivity to your actions which is, in vanilla, mostly absent on many things:

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--Simply Knock https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/14098 and its fix https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/24297

--Skyrim Reputation https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/52416 (I use the old version, linking this one as it says it fixes things so it might be better)

--Guard Dialogue Overhaul https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/22075

--The reaction and dialogue things from jayserpa https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... user files (if using his Daedra Lines Expansion mod, be aware that he adds female dremora and mocked people that want them out. I made a mod that removes them from the game and stuck it in his comment section for anyone that wants it.)

--Campfire https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/667

--Any mods from ElSopa (example https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/24511 ) and Rudy (example https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/19365 )

--Any mods from 4thunknown if one likes (I personally use them for the assets, example https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/47080 )

--Skooma as it was in Morrowind https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/50444

--Any mods from Mihail that deal with immersion, like adding small rats to Riften, restoring artwork concepts, etcetera https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... user files

--Capital Cities, any of these, this is an example depicting Windhelm (I personally use this one and Whiterun) https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/42990

--Cities of the North, any of these, pick and choose but be mindful of the conflict with using multiple mods that edit the same place, this one is Morthal for an example https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/34168
Also recommend his Bears of the North https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/47541

--This modder also does a series called "The Great City of ---" and also enhances plenty of locations that are, in the lore, described as major and the sites of battles, but are a spit of land and two houses with three people, two of which are travelers from afar or something https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... user files

--Your Choices Matter - A Dark Brotherhood Expansion https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/46871

--Special Perks from Questing https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/29402


--Immersive College of Winterhold https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/17004
Immersive Fort Dawnguard https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/40436

--Undeath - Classical Lichdom (I am unsure about this SSE version, I know a bit of the original one and, though buggy, it adds lore books from the old games and an expanded area of the sewers below Solitude and the College that add to making those places feel horrific) https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/40802

--There is a mod that fixes the Thieves Guild dialogue to have actual choices and not make you look like an idiot, also fixing repeating dialogues and adding proper progression and reactions but I can't remember what it was, I highly recommend that one too.

--I don't recall if I use this one or something else, probably something else, but I recommend something to change the actor's animations when they are injuried like EVG Conditional Idles https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/34006

--Animation in Ashstorm https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/82333

--Relationship Dialogue Overhaul https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... /mods/1187 (possibly needs this, I am not sure https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/44601 )

--I am currently testing Sacrosanct - Vampires of Skyrim https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... /mods/3928 and for now it seems like a cool thing

--Enhanced Blood Texture https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... /mods/2357

--This one allows you to sell criminals off for bounties and knock people unconcious to then move them around in sacks (which also show on your shoulders, and is quite handy to move people out of the way without shouting at them, you can also gag people and bind them PERMANENTLY to a location using in-game animations and assets) but has a lot of requirements for sex and stuff that I had a very hard time installing. It is quite the addition for bounty hunting, but I highly recommend anything else if someone knows something better (WARNING NSFW site and obnoxious ads that I recall) https://www.loverslab.com/files/file/286-sexlab-defeat/

--Sneak Tools (I think I use the old version, but am unsure) https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... /mods/1863

--Something for Red Eagle, though unsure if it was Red Eagle Remade https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/24643 or Red Eagle Reborn https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/43042 (also recommend something to make Olaf One-Eye actually one eyed and unique compared to him being just your usual cookie-cut draugr number 7.)

--Violens - A Killmove Mod https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/668

--Footprints https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... /mods/3808

--I have not tried it yet, but I plan to Pilgrim - A Religion Overhaul https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/54099

--Immersive World Encounters https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/18330

--Any mods from DylanJames https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... user files (sounds, immersion)

--Not sure if it was Inconsequential NPCs https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/36334 or Citizens of Tamriel https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/29069 but I use a mod that adds simple townsfolk and guards with their dialogue and the likes, much like Faction - Pit Fighter https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/22513 (unsure if this one is better or not, I am rather careful when they "rework" an old mod these days https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/42340 )

--I think I also have Children of the North https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/78283 to make the NPCs more like their vanilla counterparts, but less like the Fallout 3 model-ports that they are.

--Skyrim 3D Trees and Plants https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/12371

--Realistic Water Two https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... /mods/2182

--Volcanic Tundra - Heat Wave Effects https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/13749

--Unique Grasses and Groundcovers - Nature and Landscape Enhancement https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/42370

--Many mods by WSkeever like Use Telekinesis on Traps https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/59350

--Director's Tools https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/61996 (to remove glitchy Skyrim adding strange effects to the feet or eyes of the player character at random.)

There are a lot more, but I can't recall at the moment, hope it is of use! To install any of these, I recommend manually doing so and then use Vortex for those that are packaged with "options", then use something like LOOT to automatically sort through the Load Order instead of doing what I used to do and do it manually, which is incredibly annoying and as effective as one can be with their memory of every single change every single mod makes, comparing it to the ENTIRE list, while also being able to tell which mod is which even though the modder named it something like "CWF - BNDKS".

[Vergil]

I have not played through it too much, but I al recommend Beyond Reach

I'll recommend this one as well. Probably the only major new lands/big story mod that actually captivated me and had me care about the setting and characters it introduced.

[aweigh]

only basic mods i think Skyrim needs are:

- mod to disable automatic health/mana regen (Skyrim has automatic regeneration enabled by default and it's incredibly dumb. Beth at least had the sense to turn this into a perk for FO4).

- mod to make fast traveling consume food (last time i used a mod called Fast Travel Rations).

- mod to make health potions heal over time instead of instantly.

Possible "core" mods that I think majorly improve modern Beth gameplay:

- iNeeds, or any mod or combination of mods which achieve a "survival"-style mod. Beth games seem tailor made for this but rarely actually implement it, or when they do implement it like in FO4 it's ******** and needs mods to fix it. For skyrim last time I used iNeeds plus some other mod which also added or improved how the game's diseases worked.

aesthetic stuff i used last time i played:

- CACO, some mod that changed melee animations and made them look slightly better
- TK hitstop, mod that adds a subtle and configurable hitstop effect when ur weapon connects with something
- A.I. upscaled texture packs, forget which one I used. Just the game's default textures upscaled to a slightly higher resolution using A.I.

my "mod list" is pretty light because it's not really possible to fundamentally change a Bethesda game into playing so differently that it goes from something you hate to something you love, unless we're talking about a complete Total Conversion like Enderal or something like that. I think Skyrim's pretty fun tbh, but I also don't consider Beth games to be "true RPGs" so... my expectations are different.

[ERYFKRAD]

So what's a good alternative to Requiem?

[maidenhaver]

Oblivion on steam deck with northernUI installed.

[WaterMage]

AS an action game? Yes. As an RPG? No,.

[gerey]

I'm still mildly miffed that someguy2000 never completed his planned series of "Skyrim is for the Nords" mods.

[Vergil]

To be fair it's a lot harder to spark notes copy a Cormac McCarthy novel with a weird red haired boy pederasty sub plot in Skyrims setting.

[maidenhaver]

Somebody drank all the /lit/

[Tweed]

It all depends on which mods you use. Heh heh...boobs...heh...

[pokafox]

The only first-person game with good combat that I remember though was Condemned, an old horror game.

Dark Messiah M&M

[Red7]

Skyrim is redeemable. Oblivion isn't.

Oblivion is at least something that can be mildly amusing due to its dialogue and mechanics, and there's Shivering Isles that's actually more than decent. Skyrim is a chore.

thats not how chore looks like unless u vergil
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[Vergil]

Very masculine hands.

[Red7]

Very masculine hands.

where is your forearm pic?

[Vergil]

Very masculine hands.

where is your forearm pic?

Ask your mother

[LemonDemonGirl]

Skyrim was fine in the first place?

[Lich]

Skyrim was fine in the first place?

No.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I liked the mods that expand the cities and towns, and add additional hamlets and houses across the land. Also the mod that adds lanternposts along roads. Lastly, the civil war mod that spawns skirmishes happening out in the field. Makes the world feel more alive.