Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoSkyrim is my most played game ever, but honestly a vast majority of that playtime was not spent on the main storyline at all. The game is best when you’re doing side quests and just exploring the world (and modding of course, it has a massive modding community, literally half of all mods on nexus are for Skyrim). The main quest is fine, but it’s nothing special. It’s your run-of-the-mill “you’re the savour of the world” type thing. But the thieves guild and dark brotherhood are both a lot of fun, the civil war is really fun too, and there’s just so much care put into the environment. Go check out random caves and camps and pay close attention to your surroundings, and you’ll see so many stories there that never get explicitly told. Environmental story telling is Skyrim’s strong suit for sure.
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 week ago
Oh im not finished. I actually did not mod and I may restart with mods.
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I’d recommend finishing a playthrough unmodded first just to get the vanilla experience, but definitely replay it modded. Alternate Start, A Quality World Map, SkyUI, Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch, and many graphics and texture mods. Plus mods that add new quests, new areas, new weapons and armour, perks, followers, anything you can think of. Plus tons of goofy mods. It’s a modder’s dream.
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 week ago
Yeah but like I don't even have the unofficial patch and I have definitely felt the lack of quality of life like with horses. Right now I have a save and plenty of games and im extremely slow. So who knows were I will go.
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Fair enough. Modded Skyrim is a very deep rabbit hole. I hope you enjoy it.