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Skyrim. I'll play it one day I swear.
Honestly it's worth it if you're down for mods. It felt like an insult when it came out, it was like call of duty wearing morrowind's skin, but since then it's become a pretty robust modding community and Legacy of the Dragonborn is miles above anything in the base game.
Modded skyrim is one of my favorite games, vanilla skyrim is just... meh.
Modding Skyrim is one of my favorite games.
Load game. Load mods. Break game. Repeat until pretty. Finish 10 hours later. Play for 2 hours and drop game.
10 hours? I've been at this for over a week (of total time spread across 6 weeks).
Starting 3 years ago, it only took me about 3 years to mod it to perfection — which was another exercise in patience I guess.
I nuked mine when I made the switch to Linux 😂
I know the Wabbajack scene is pretty big for Skyrim, is there any big mod pack you would recommend? Skyrim is also an embarrassing blind spot for me (played enough of Morrowind and Oblivion back in the day so never got around to it) but after all the hundreds of hours I've spent modding Fallout: NV, Cyberpunk and STALKER Anomaly I am not sure I want to dive headfirst into another multi month mod project.
I could not for the life of me get wabbajack to work, but I did get steam tinker launcher to work out of the box and used nexus to put together asking related to LotDB
I've been enjoying Nordic Souls as a Wabbajack pack. It's got gameplay adjustments that do change the difficulty curve but is closer to the base game in difficulty than many of the other prominent mod packs. It also has a smaller footprint (~100GB maybe?) as compared to some others. Skyrim feels more modern and fresh, for sure.
I downloaded it on a whim after I used Wabbajack/Nexus Premium for some Fallout New Vegas modding (went with Viva NV). I wanted to get full value from that premium sub lol.
Edit: I will say that I don't think Nordic Souls includes Legacy of the Dragonborn, so I'd look into that and choose another pack if desired.
Thank you, Nordic Souls does look pretty great. I'll jot that down for the future!
Not worth it
I completely agree, if you need to heavily mod Skyrim for it to be good, is it even Skyrim any more? Grossly overrated on release in my opinion
Having played literally 0 TES games in my entire life, I do own some sort of Skyrim enhanced edition in my Steam library. I share your promise. Haven't got close to play it yet.
Yep, same.