how do have fun in this game? I barely made it to the tutorial dungeon and I am already bored
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how do have fun in this game? I barely made it to the tutorial dungeon and I am already bored
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>NOOOO I NEED 50 EXPLOSIONS A SECOND TO CURE MY ADHD
>WHERES MY HECKIN' COD VERITACAL GAMEPLAY
kys, you have school in 2 hours
k
coming from Elden Ring, the combat is just so dull aswell as the story and enemy variety. its fun to explore the open world but any cave or fortress just feels like collecting potions and gems and kill bandits for no reason
well millennials shat their pants over this in 2011
you can try modding but in my experience its just polishing the turd. Get perk and enchantment overhauls at least
alternatively become a coombrain like this guy
You have to install mods, especially for melle combat
>coming from Elden Ring
The fromtroony seethes over skyrim so much he has to make an embarrassing shitpost about how he sucks at skyrim
Don't expect any particularly cool or unique dungeons or caves or anything. You'll never find any cool or useful artifacts or weapons either. You've pretty much experienced the whole game
>You'll never find any cool or useful artifacts or weapons either.
Thats not true. There is unique loot like the daedric artifacts.
The problem is these divine weapons and armor are objectively worse than the crap you can craft and enchant yourself and they just become things to decorate player housing with.
Dungeons are way more rewarding than any shit I ever got from exploring in Elden Ring. The worst Skyrim dungeon is twice as good as any imp-filled catacomb. Combat is way better than "Wait for them to attack then jump-heavy." The fromsoft brainrot is real.
>Combat is way better
Hell no.
>NOOOO I NEED 50 EXPLOSIONS A SECOND TO CURE MY ADHD
You just described Skyrim anon
gets fun from about 3-5 hours in
stealth archery
>once you get strong enough you gotta watch that stupid kill cam shit every time you fire an arrow at an enemy. Every. Fricking. TIME!
Who the frick thought this was a good idea? It just slows everything right the frick down.
Its been fricking years since I've touched the game but I thought you could turn off the finishers.
Apparently you can, but only on PC. Open the command console ingame and set killmove 1 to 0. All these years I never knew. I used to frick around with them in Oblivion but in Skyrim I didn't care cause it wasn't as interesting since the spells were locked to the limited spell list you're forced down since spell crafting was cut. Or just get a mod that forces it off from the start.
you just kind of go with it if you can tolerate the gameplay and like open world games. Theres never any particularly exciting parts
bethesda games are mcdonalds of videogames. Bland but kind of convenient
Game is a little slow to start but once you get the Dragonstone and fight your first dragon it's a non-stop thrill ride to the end. Greatest game ever made.
You mod the game as base Sneedrim is dry as frick
Autistically planning out a background/personality for my characters, modding in quest mods, armor, weapons and followers best associated with this autistic background plan, and going into the world with this character I made while being fully aware that it will never able to really come to fruition, but its still fun.
How do you roleplay in Skyrim? The options seem so limited
Mostly through custom followers, new quest mods and quest alteration mods. But at the end of the day it’s mostly headcanon
How do you roleplay in D&D? The DM (at least a good one) never presents you with a telegraphed "choose option A for storyline A, choose option B for storyline B". Instead, the story mostly unfolds organically through immersing yourself in the world and doing things you think your character would do. Right at the start, think about what your character's ultimate goal is: master of all magics, thief who becomes richer than Midas, greatest swordsman who ever lived, mercenary who retires to a farm home, etc. Maybe color it with preferences and prejudices. How do they decide how to treat other characters around them? What moral code do they live by?
Sure the game's not literally going to respond to each and every one with custom npc responses or whatever, but the sim allows you to play that way. Stream your playthrough if you really need an audience to respond to your accomplishments.
You act according to the values of your character.
Do you kill innocents?
Do you kill at all?
Do you trap human souls in gems?
Do you practice magic or see it as an abomination?
Do you steal things?
Do you loot the corpses of your enemies or is it beneath you?
Do you treat everyone equally or are you more willing to hurt or steal from an elf or a half-beast?
What faction do you support and why?
Do you even want to go tell the jarl about this dragon attack? Maybe you just want to become an hermit in the woods and focus on alchemy.
The opportunities for roleplay are everywhere, they're just not served to you through a menu with boxes to check. You need to use your imagination.
Wintersun adds a lot to bridge the gap between headcanon and real in game things that reflect your character's identity.
turn everyone into a female, give them huge futa wieners and install 'rape on defeat' mods
it took 700 mods for me to have fun in this game
no you did not have fun, you do not have fun after you are finished with modding.
why lie
I don't lie, installing survival mods to make travelling harder was a good choice, as well as disabling quicktravel in favor of teleportation spells, the magic progression system I installed based on studying and practice was really cool, new spells, shouts, raising a whole mage tower for myself to do cool shenanigans and kidnap people was fun, as well as dragonriding, flying around with dragon aspect, better and deadlier artifacts, etc.
All in all the sandbox became really good and was only dragged down by the dungeons being linear as frick and the story being shit until you reach Solstheim.
what mods c**t
Ooof make your own list bro, it's part of the experience. I can only tell you that the Enairim mods are a good start and full conversion non modular mods like Requiem are a meme because in the end you play the game based on how other people want to play it and must plan your modlist according to that.
Frostfall is basically required for the freezing to death in Skyrim experience. Merely by having it you make Dawnguard much harder to finish
I like Hunterborn for the "nearly dying of dehydration because it takes over a day to completely dismantle your first dragon" experience
>raising a whole mage tower for myself
What mod is this specifically?
I don't know what mod he used, but "Tel Nalta" lets you grow a Telvanni Mushroom tower
Neat.
Also frick you, because now I have to install Skyrim again.
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/23845
Making travel harder can make a world of difference, but requires more modding than a lot of people think. Including bethesda. The anniversary edition launched with a bare bones survival mode. You get debuffed for not eating, drinking and sleeping and no fast travel. No fast travel in vanilla skyrim sucks so much ass, its unreal. The world is laid out in a way that requires players to fast travel to a place with a general store after every dungeon. Mods like bandolier solve this perfectly and stylishly, but without that you basically have to leave half the loot you find so that you can trudge to a vendor that will buy anything and those are only in the main cities. Without a mod like immersive travellers or something to improve small villages, you start to see all the seams of the map layout. There are no trade routes, no implied economy. Theres just the main holds, dungeons that exist only to be raided by the player and these little groups of three or four houses that the npcs insist on calling "villages". The immersion of being in a living world falls completely apart. 90% of the things that make skyrim feel alive are in places like solitude and windrun.
Sometimes you can get lucky and meet the Khajit caravans on the road, but mods to fill these up with more NPCs definitely help.
The problem is you're trying to play Skyrim like Skyrim. One of the most fun playthroughs I've had of Skyrim is adding a bunch of magic mods and playing a glass cannon character. Baseline HP but a bunch of mana, heavy focus on summons and necromancy with unlimited permeant summons. Teleport skill to evade enemies. A little creativity goes a long way, the sandbox nature of mods is what makes it all fun.
Pic related, a screenshot I took of some of my summons from that playthrough.
permanent*
I did it in 65
You alt+f4 and play Oblivion instead
Read books. Talk to everyone. Avoid radiant quests and caves unless a quest directs you there. Explore everything else. Get the haste and time stop shouts asap. Play morrowind instead.
>Play morrowind instead.
The guy is whining that the game isn't exactly like Elden Ring. You think he's going to like Morrowind?
Yes.
>modded
code patch, that's it
>modded
No, that's what 110 enchanting skill looks like.
no such gloves exist in the vanilla game
what does that have to do with it
>it's modded
>no it isn't
>these gloves don't exist in the vanilla game
>so?
>he has black gloves so this vanilla game mechanic isn't happening!
just trying to understand your reasoning here
let's see the enchantments on these gloves
Are you genuinely this dumb? You can create your own enchantment on any item of clothing. With aextravagant quality clothing + grand soul gem you can make crazy gear. Plus, the enchantments in that webm come from rings you turbo Black person.
Graphics mod. The gameplay is 100% legit. High level enchanting skill breaks the game.
Only takes about a hundred hours to get to that point.
>gameplay is legit
>can break the game using one of the skills, thus removing any challenge
>game let's you do whatever you want
>no, I want to install 500 mods which are literal cheats for a mediocre experience instead
>game let's you do whatever you want
I wouldn't go that far with TES
>Only takes about a hundred hours to get to that point
please stop talking about things you know nothing about, thanks.
he's fast!
>read books
this guy gets it. zoomers never will
the best thing about video games is reading books :^)
Books are great. Most aren’t even that long, maybe 5 minutes or so. My favorites and suggestions for newbies wanting to get into the lore are “On Oblivion” and “The Doors to Oblivion”. A sort of duology by two different authors (the latter from the apprentice of the former) and adds both clarification and wonder on how Oblivion works.
Theres a fully functional choose your own adventure book. "Adventures for nord youths" or something like that. Fun stuff.
Book writing in Skyrim is criminally underrated. Amazing short stories and very well thought-out lore. Definitely recommend.
>Avoid radiant quests and caves unless a quest directs you there.
i think thats kind of weird advice. it can be pretty soulful and immersive to roleplay as like a mercenary or explorer, to go into dungeons and clear them out for loot
nah, the way loot works basically means dungeons are worthless in skyrim and they are very repetitive and poorly designed anyways. you are severely crippling your potential enjoyment of the game by entering caves. you will not miss a single unique dungeon or quest if you avoid random dungeons entirely. the only good random dungeons are not presented as caves.
>you will not miss a single unique dungeon or quest if you avoid random dungeons entirely.
not true. theres a handful of dungeons that are actually unique and not tied to a specific quest. one that comes to mind is the "fake" draugr dungeon thats actually run by a necromancer trapping adventurers looking for loot. not only is the premise unique, but the dungeon itself is way more complex than probably any other draugr dungeon and uses level pieces i dont think ive seen anywhere else.
Smoke a fat blunt, put on a VR headset and immerse yourself. After installing some coomer mods
The gameplay is barebones at best. Skyrim is mostly a construction set for people to make their own fun with mods. If you're not autistic enough for that, it's kinda shit.
It's a modding platform, don't bother playing vanilla even on your first time. It's like a 5/10 game at best vanilla.
any mods you recommend for a first time ?
Skyrim is best played vanilla. Mods are for coomers.
Hi Todd
>all characters occupy same game world
>have them all join custom guild over time
>skills dont give xp and are capped based on level
>tons of additional radiant/mod quests
>unleveled world
fun time
Mods
No stealth anything
Join only one guild and roleplay
>how do have fun in this game?
Delete it and play Morrowind instead
At least you are sane. Whenever I see people that claim to enjoy vanilla Skyrim I cannot help but think they are either inexperienced with video games or something is wrong with them.
give yourself a lobotomy so that you're at around the same level of brain function as the masses who enjoyed it
>get through intro (which is lengthy and needlessly gay)
>run straight to halted stream camp, north of whiterun
>get transmute spell
>LOL figure out what you have to do to use it dumbass
>get a metric frick ton of iron ore, transmute it into gold
>level up that speechcraft + blacksmithing
>make bank
>buy breezehome
>get all upgrades for breezehome
>live that good life up in the cloud district which you should get up to very often or at least often enough to get that b***h ass court wizard to sell you more spells
>max out smithing
>max out enchanting
>make best weapons and armor in the game
>make yourself invincible
>get mad bank selling shit tier armor with incredible enchants
>get a hot nord wife
>cheat on her with a dunmer
>no regrets
>move to a new city
>rinse
>repeat
>???
>profit
>selling shit tier armor with incredible enchants
Too much weight. Alchemy is how you really break the economy.
>(which is lengthy and needlessly gay)
And this is already a filter. If you can't immerse yourself with this intro and get in the right mood with it, why would you play an RPG?
You need imagination to make the most of Skyrim. NPCs wouldn't understand
People that say this install hundreds of mods and just pose models for hours on end like a little girl playing with dolls. This is the dark truth they don't want you to know.
I say this and most of my playing time is vanilla
quality post
you have to mod it
https://www.loverslab.com/files/file/4318-pah-and-you-get-a-slave/
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/30174
I'm sorry zoomie, too much Fortnite fried your feel good receptors. At the end of the day, you actually needed a cap... fr... fr...
The opening section of the game is a chore and no one likes it.
You've really got to make your own fun though.
I spent most of my time in the game wandering from town to town and cleaning every vendor of their coins and alchemy ingredients to brew more potions to clean out more vendors of coins.
>The opening section of the game is a chore and no one likes it.
it literally filtered 98+% of players.
go to the tavern and enjoy the atmosphere
>that shitty mod follower
kys
I love the little room for rent in the whiterun tavern, the one with the balcony that opens up over the bar. Very comfy and I hate how almost every other tavern in the game is the same copy pasted building.
>I hate how almost every other tavern in the game is the same copy pasted building.
Welcome to Bethesda post Oblivion where it becomes cheaper and cheaper in development and you'll see thing like small shelves on a desk are desks made smaller along with the textures or 3 tier shelf purposefully clipped in the ground to make it 2 despite the fact the floor is uneven thus breaking the illusion they were trying to convey.
People who can't get past copy-paste design must hate games, because asset economy is literally the foundation that all games are based on. Pretty much the only games that don't extensively rely on it are movie games that are more so about cinematic experience than gameplay design.
I'm not saying they need to make 100% unique items, but stuff like that just comes off as lazy. Any bar outside of a gated city is the same one. A little variety would be nice. Even Oblivion put more effort into that with different classes of inn you'd come across which all used the same assets and interiors found throughout the game.
And the price Oblivion paid was generic dungeons and overworld.
>You have to like copy pasted levels or you don't actually enjoy video games
You are such a fricking moron.
Any sport, board game, multiplayer game, roguelike, strategy game is all "copy-paste". These are all games that rely much more so on their gameplay than any main narrative. If you don't like these games, maybe you're not really into games.
I notice you didnt say RPGs brainlet
I get what you're saying but smart re-utilization of assets like that is very soulful.
install a mod
when you get bored again, install another
>mod the game
>intro starts bugging out with all kinds of weird shit happening
>force myself to keep going
>enter the first city and give up
the game is literally terrible and only the porn mods are somewhat good.
Install bunch of sex mods, npc beautifiers/replacers, body mods, and graphical mods and you'll have the best porn game ever made.
so the game is terrible but you can fap to it is what I gathered from this thread
yes, except it's not a very good fap unless you are a furry
not true, its pretty decent with
I played vanilla skyrim frim beginning to end and found it enjoyable but never bothered to install mods. Can you actually frick any npc or follower and see dicks and boobs with some of them?
you can do anything!
Allowed by script extender.
Do as others say and play modded. The game has aged considerably, the balance is very poor, and many mechanics are really boring to get.
Which mods?
https://dragonbornsfate.github.io/index.html
You will also need this, Bethesda released a new version and you need to rollback to the previous one to work (last file)
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/57618?tab=files
>https://dragonbornsfate.github.io/index.html
What is this horrifying font? I can't read shit on this website.
>how do have fun in this game?
install the coom mods
>start up a mage playthrough for the first time
>things go pretty smoothly at first
>destruction magic damage starts to nosedive as I level up even with perks
>as in I can spam my strongest spells and the enemy’s HP bar doesn’t even budge
>started using a bow just because arrows do consistently more damage than fireballs and lightning
Did I frick something up? I knew magic in Skyrim scales bad but I didn’t think it would be THIS bad. I don’t have any magic mods installed.
You've pretty much got to invest in the dual cast and stagger perks if you want to be a destruction mage.
Then you can just keep enemies stunlocked while you chip away at them.
And there are always your conjured weapons.
Spell damage literally just doesn't scale at all. You're fricked
you NEED magic mods
try Mysticism or Odin, both are good don't use at same time
I would get a magic mod, something simple like magickaplus will give you damage scaling on your spells when you level magicka.
Destruction and Alteration suffer heavily in base Skyrim. Restoration and Conjuring don't need much help, but Des and Alt need mods.
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/15541
install porn mods for hours
jack off
uninstall the game
>how do have fun in this game?
You need an imagination to love Skyrim like we do.
>You need an imagination to love Skyrim like we do.
Funny, on the games release and years afterward it was rightly lampooned as being the most braindead RPG ever created. It's simplification of the genre is by far the most despised example in all of video game history. It was the Call of Duty of RPGs, with a dragon in the first five minutes, then again in another five minutes, constant magic explosions and fire streams coming out of your hand basically the entire game, funny to see people defend it as being a "slow, thoughtful RPG"
>on the games release and years afterward it was rightly lampooned as being the most braindead RPG ever created
you dont fit in
>simplification of the genre
you havent played rpgs from before or jus tplayed the le harcore rpgs released before it.
>dragon in the first five minutes, then again in another five minutes
what is bad about that?
>constant magic explosions and fire streams coming out of your hand basically the entire game
why would that be bad even if it happened, not every character is a mage.
>funny to see people defend it as being a "slow, thoughtful RPG"
it is and it filtered you.
skyrim isn't fun unless you're modding it aggressively, that's the appeal. story sucks. gameplay sucks.
I have 200 mods installed
i have 600
futa rape
tell me more
You don't have fun in video games. You post OHNONONONONO JUST and politics on Ganker for 8 hours a day
its not fun
woooo walk around empty land and mash m1 on bandit 352
maybe i do magic and hold mouse 1 on bandit 456 later
Name 1 fun game, I know you won't
lego star wars
You don’t, it’s not fun it’s just a 400 hour timesink for people with nothing better to do
Spend hours installing mods, get bored 10 minuets in and then delete everything. Repeat in a few months.
its a boring game anon, i never understood the hype about it either, just quit and dont waste your time on this garbage
Is there any coomer mods for PS4? I bought it on a bargain bin the other day and I'm having fun after playing it 10 years ago
basically play the game like this
>can’t play skyrim cause of update fricking with skse
there goes my weekend
Are they just randomly patching shit just to piss off modders at this point?
pretty much, it wasn’t even a useful update either. the major part of the update was removing the mannequins moving around.
Same shit on Xbox
Gave a literal-nothing patch that broke USSEP and thus a bunch of other mods right on the cusp of my Khajiit playthrough which I’ve been waiting for months to do
Best of all they refuse to expand mod space on XSX Skyrim because it would “break our mods” lol
>Gave a literal-nothing patch that broke USSEP
I hope it didn't break USSEP too bad, because I'm still running an old version from before they decided to make CCSurvival Mode mandatory. If they seriously broke USSEP, forcing me to update, then I'm getting rid of USSEP, it's becoming more of a pain in the ass than it's worth.
if you were on AE you can just restore the old version of the exe
also set appmanifest_489830.acf to read only apparently prevents the updates from going through if you accidentally launch it
it's quite possibly one of the worst games of all time
Honestly the base game is mediocre. Maybe worth for one playthrough. What keeps everyone coming back is mods. If you know what you're doing you can customize Skyrim into anything you want with mods. Infinite potential and possibility. That's the real draw of the game for me and what keeps me coming back over a decade years later. I'm running almost 900 mods and while I do get the occasional crash it's very stable. Those 900 mods have transformed the game into my ideal fantasy life simulator. I just hit 50 hours on a new save and I'm having a blast.
I remember playing this game for the first time. I'd bought it but put it off because I was too busy playing Modern Warfare 3 and Gears 3 and other things. I think one night I thought I'd turn it on at about 10:30, and was still playing it at like 3am in the morning. Great time.
Looking back though, the game is alright, it was much better than Oblivion in terms of levelling and the stuff you could do. However, after sinking about 70-80 hours into it I got bored, never finished the main questline. Think I got up to the part where I went to some Sky Temple and dropped it shortly after.
Why'd they make magic so shit?
I am searching for this answer too. Anytime I install skyrim I see the brown shit color palate and shit ass magic and I just re-install Oblivion and play that for another few hundred hours instead
>replaying skyrim with the purpose of finally doing the vast majority of content
>realize i remember basically nothing about dawnguard when i start it
>finish it
>"yeah that was alright"
>2 days later already forgotten the majority of what i did
how does bethesda do it?
Maybe don't have Alzheimer?
i remember the soul cairn and the forgotten vale. they were fun. i just dont remember any of the hows and whys i was even there. the story was very rushed.
daddy wanted to kill the sun, you can only stop him with the mcguffin bow, you only learn this from using 3 elder scrolls or something but you dont know that until mommy tells you. you learn all this crap from mary sue vampire lady
story is the same no matter who you pick, if you pick vampires you get the added quest of killing all the dawnguard, that's like the only difference
heck if i remember anything right though
t. played through it again like 5 months ago
Buy Kingdom Come Deliverance instead
Illusion magic, also known as "fix this shit by downloading a mod or two."
behead whoever decided illusion should be based on level
you jam it so full of mods that it's almost unrecognisable as the same game, or play an actual good game instead
Best game ever made. If you don't like it, you're not fully human. Simple as.
Serious question: have you ever played any other RPG in your life?
Frick with npcs
>how do have fun in this game? I barely made it to the tutorial dungeon and I am already bored
Lots and lots of sexfrick mods to distract you from the fact that the game is about as fun as an Excel sheet.
That's the neat part, you don't.
The Amorous mod makes the Dragonborn a character who cucks a lot of people and have more than multiple 'lover's because of it. But since I installed that mod a while ago, it would seem that it would break the saved game if I were to remove it.
>Become a 'bard' after joining the College of Solitude
>can't play any instrument
Small indie studio please understand I would've reworked the Bard's College as the de-facto Thieves Guild questline, since generic "guild" factions are shit fantasy writing compared to diegetic factions like Winterhold and the Companions.
Should I really give a powerful weapon like the Wabbajack to the Jarl of Ravencrone? It seems a crazy weapon to give to anyone, but if I don't. I can't get the daughter.
>quest mods where you have to give some nobody a legendary artifact
>jarl "of" ravencrone
Black person what are you doing
having amorous adventure mod telling me to do this or can't continue that quest line.
I downloaded Skyrim today and installed HPL.
Any other essential mod?
Requiem
i dont know what hpl is.
skyrim updated yesterday so id wait a few days for all the mods to get properly updated.
This is your City of Light, City of Magic tonight
>original is just the city's center
holy soul
too bad this is a skyrim thread.
Well?