I'm at the end of skyrim. I did all the major faction quests (companions, dark brotherhood, winterhold mages guild, thieves guild, dawnguard). I killed that gay snow elf in the other DLC. I've explored blackroot and all the accessible caves/tombs/crypts/dwarven ruins that the game will let me. I've built all three homes and am the top bloody thane in this monopoly game. I have all the shouts I could get, all the dragon masks, all daedric artifacts, all my skills at 100. I did everything I could do in solstheim. the only thing left to do is the civil war (need to pick a side), main quest, some dumb fan made dlc shit that I don't care about, and the rest of the dragonborn dlc locked behind the main quest.
before I do all that minor gay shit, and never touch skyrim again, is there ANYTHING else I should do? I have like 3 elder scrolls, what the frick do I need 3 of them for? they don't do anything either, is there a point? I kinda want to collect a copy of every single book and put them in the library in my house, but that seems like an autistic and time consuming endeavor.
don't mention mods, I will ignore you, mods are a can of worms I will not open. I'm talking just vanilla game special edition.
Try mods
>don't mention mods, I will ignore you
kek
if it were Oblivion i'd say find the white unicorn in the forest
but skyrim didn't have one-off encounters lke that that didn't feel scripted
>didn't have one-off encounters lke that that didn't feel scripted
Yeah same with fallout 4 and slopfield
Skyrim wasn't as bad but those two were too linear
Well if anything congrats Anon. You did a lot of work and you should be proud of that.
Install 12000 porn mods and turn Whiterun into Frickfest 2024.
Install legacy of the dragonborn and experience the thrill of hoarding magic items
Stop playing Skyrim and play Enderal instead.
But in lieu of that, find and kill every NPC you can in the overworld and store them somewhere. Post pics.
I am going to play this. I have no idea what it it is, but I've been wanting to play Skyrim SE for the first time(modded) but don't want to bother before I build my new computer. Enderal looks like comfy laptop autism. I'm in
>treating a role playing game like a list of chores
moron
Playing the way anon wants to is not moronic if he is having fun he's or she's winning.
>he's or she's
Must cover all yours bases
Funny, I did the opposite- I completely ignored all side content and made a beeline straight down the main storyline, finished it quickly, and never played again.
yeah but if you do that you're missing out on like 90% of the game.
I know
I had fun
>main storyline, finished it quickly, and never played again
Damn that's actually really sad
no it's actually based lol, skyrim sucks
Shalom
meds now
Do quests for the jarls now
>skyrim assets to make a completely new game, is that right
Yeah, and a few of their own assets too. The story is more linear, the various zones require you to level up and get stronger, but the payoff for exploring is satisfying. I recommend getting the Forgotten Stories version since it has two other companion-ish characters and their sizeable storylines, and generally just runs better anyway.
>I think I'm going to play oblivion next. is it better than skyrim? is it better than morrowind? I have that too, should I just skip oblivion and play that instead?
Depends on what you actually like from TES. Oblivion has the best quests of the three -- though we're still talking about Bethesda quests here, so don't expect anything great -- but the worst world and the worst leveling system. Morrowind has the best world but the worst combat system known to mankind.
Morrowind's combat can at least be mitigated by getting a decent weapon skill level. What's really borked is sneak and pickpocket.
Godspeed, dude. You might want to try a mod that can refund your skill points if you want to try various builds. Have fun with it!
Just cave in and download a modlist (a good one because Nolvus is dogshit)
Main quest & Dragonborn is not minor shit. Dragonborn is the only DLC that's probably worth any time
>it's not minor shit
alright well I feel like it's just a single quest in a game of over 300 quests or something.
>depends on what you actually like from TES
I think I like the exploration + lore the most. the combat is pretty basic and the quests were just go here > do thing > come back > get gold not unlike typical MMO style shit. I did like the random encounters in the overworld where you're just walking along and an NPC will approach you and interact with you. my favorite was the orc who says "malicath has told me to wait here for a proper death" and you basically kill him. but that shit got stale because they repeat over and over again. why is the combat so bad and how do you make it better without resorting to mods?
how are spells in morrowind? and can I play as a non combative mage sort who uses subterfuge and trickery to get what he wants?
sounds great, yeah, but also I don't want to spend 1000 hours on skyrim.
eh, I'm not totally opposed to mods but I want to experience the vanilla game more than anything else and that's it. I'd download a mod like this but only if I was going to play other fan made content and I'm definitely not going to do that. I've put too much time into skyrim already, sitting at 524 hours and counting. frick that shit. I'm sure it's a cool mod though.
>sounds great, yeah, but also I don't want to spend 1000 hours on skyrim.
It doesn't take quite that long. I have 600 hours across at least three characters.
>how are spells in morrowind
I don't see why ti couldn't work. Any spell you know is one that you can use in enchanting, and you can craft your own spells too with the effects you've learned.
I've done builds that focus on conjuration and buffing myself, but there,s also chameleon and poison and armor/weapon disintegration, and there's spells to fatigue enemies and drain/damage their strength so any hits they so land on you do frick all.
If you don't want a weapon skill then conjured weapons still do decent damage.
I'd at the very least suggest looking up quest mods, there are some really good ones out there, they're like whole ass expansion packs
>I think I like the exploration + lore the most.
Then you'll probably like Morrowind: it's the most rewarding for exploration because the world is jampacked with little details and the lack of level-scaling doesn't make it feel like it's bending over backwards to make you important. Also the most alien world and the one with the smallest gap between how it's portrayed in the lore and how it is in game.
>why is the combat so bad and how do you make it better without resorting to mods?
It's a combination of dice rolls and percentage to hit checks on top of checking if hit boxes interact. So you swing you sword and there's a check to see if you actually hit your target, then a dice roll to see if you actually did any damage. It's best mitigated by making sure you only use weapons you've got skills in and have high stamina, or using magic instead which has a roll to see if you fail to cast instead that is much less frustrating.
very informative, thanks anon.
>I kinda want to collect a copy of every single book and put them in the library in my house, but that seems like an autistic and time consuming endeavor.
Yeah, it's great.
Agreed. I have like ten different spell mods and a graphics mod to make spell tomes glow. Getting them all in a library is well worth the effort.
>some kinda fan made expansion
dlc sized quest mod + new faction
very fun if you like hoarding artifacts and putting them an a display
Legacy of the Dragonboard basically adds a museum to Skyrim that has over 4000 unique displays for items throughout the game. Basically its just a lore-friendly place to collect and look at everything in the game. If you're absolutely against mods then this one just adds a space for you to look at and hold all the unique collectibles in the game and you can ignore the rest of the mod.
>special edition.
>mods picked by Todd himself for their "quality"
>literally every mod
>Courier: "I've been looking for you, got something to deliver, your hands only."
>Open letter
>"Aaaaah somebody help!!! Necromancers are raising an army of undead at Pisshollow Rock southwest of Falkreach!!!"
>No spell crafting
>New spells are either trivial garbage or overpowered trash
>Pick up a quest that gives me atronach forge recipe for a new conjuration spell
>"Oh snap they made the forge actually useful!"
>At the end of the quest I'm just handed the new spells
>Still haven't fixed the thieves guild radiant quest bugs
TES6 is going to be dogshit
I'm so dumb it took me like 3 of those creation club quests before I realized there was no voice acting
All of their "stories" are told through notes and journals
>"29 Morningstar, I'm gonna wait at this statue for the Dragonborn to show up and help me, I hope no crazy cultists come and AAIIIIIEEEE"
alright, alright. now let's talk about this right here. hopes? fears? expectations? will it be better than starfield? will it release before 2030? will it just be skyrim 2 or fallout 5 but TES?
Anyone that has any hope for TES6 is genuinely delusional after seeing how Bethesda responded to Starfield criticism. If Bethesda releases a good game before then or if they even release a press statement saying something like, "We hear you, fans, and we want to do better," then that would be a whole other story. But now? People that have any hope for TESVI are the primary cause of why games have gotten so bad, because they just refuse to learn.
I'm cautiously optimistic that given how even normies have woken up to how shit and shallow their games have been, they might actually try and make TES6 something to actually be excited for, more likely it'll just be the same old shit though. honestly best we can hope for is Skyrim 2, meaning a fairly shallow base game but is really easy to mod which will give it a legacy. FO4 and Starfield were so painful for modders the modding community is a fraction of Skyrims even after 10 years
I would agree, but the response to the criticism has been for Bethesda to double down and tell individual fans that they are wrong for not having fun. That is not the action of a company that wants to change.
Haha yes just like Pokémon amirite?
get ChatGPT conversion mod
get VR immersive mod
Put VR headset on
Quit your job, plug PC into stolen electric outlet, sleep on the street, never take headset off
>get ChatGPT conversion mod
If that thing if somewhat simulates relationships it would ruin my life.
It's still being worked on, but that's the idea behind it, yeah. There are a couple of followers with chatgpt or similar llm integration, but I believe most are behind paywalls for the AI stuff. A couple people over on /vg/ have used them and said they're just okay right now, but getting better.
>is there ANYTHING else I should do?
I like collecting flawless gems and putting them in display cases. I dont know about the DLC houses, but the only vanilla house with enough display cases is the one with windhelm
Develop your own little arsenal of alchemy knowledge, instead of just googling you experiment and see if figure out the best poisons and etc
since the day i decided to start picking random shit and trying it out, i never play without abusing something deathbell + river betty + other damage ingredient
This dude:
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/The_Ebony_Warrior
>Playing Skyrim unmodded
why would you ever
People cant follow simple guides to install mods.
But there are modlists now. You don't even have to follow a guide, just click one button.
Mod the game and frick every married woman.
You got Restoration to 100? … was it worth it?