Skyrim

Elaborate. What mods do you have, on which you wasted fuckton of time configuring/installing them and was it worth it?

I had a great time with vanilla Skyrim
On xbox

I hope you're a girl, otherwise that's unacceptable.

I can't be bothered posting a list of my mods, I've spend an age modding it and yes it was worth it.

My list of mods is way better than yours, but im to busy having fun playing, so I wont post them.

I was playing dota, now I'm going to play Grim Dawn.
The list has 200+ mods on it, screen only fits 31 at a time.

Depends what for.
I've tried my absolute hardest finding millions of mods to help change everysingle combat mechanic feel to the game from being shit to being fun.
But I don't think I got too close to fun.
I turned it from being a left mouse spam fest to a really awkward experience I could probably find better in another game.
Games like New Vegas is easy to deal with because all you really have to do is change a few numbers and congrats, game is fun again. But because Skyrim is a mostly-melee focused game, it was probably doomed from the start.
Graphics can look fantastic, but depends on when your computer wants it to stop.
Haven't touched sex mods but so far the quality of them look better then the upcoming Mass Effect.
And finally quest mods, some are shit and voiced by teenagers, some are okay, haven't touched many of them.
I can't see myself going back to it.

Sidearm's npc replacers are pretty neat. His elves aren't the best, though. What's a good anime elf replacer?

pick one

I'm not gonna say Enderal, but

ENDERAL

Fuck!

I wana touch fluffy tail

Does that fox have feathers?

It is not possible to take the bring out of skyrim. You can sort of mitigate it a little bit, but the game can only be changed so much. Bethesda games were honestly not very moddable to begin with compared to other games.

Do you suck dicks?

No
They don't change the fundamental issues with the game, and what you'll really be doing is spending several days modding skyrim, making sure it works, trying to fix issues followed by an hour or two of game time before you get bored of it

Depends on what you want out of the game OP. You can turn Skyrim into a multitude of things, but there's a few core aspects that are always going to be boring no matter what you do. Namely the storytelling and combat, the lack of a proper narrative doesn't bother me much, so I mod games appropriately to make different playthroughs fun and interesting.

You can turn it into the best open world survival crafting simulator on the market, since nobody else has managed to make an actual game out of that idea. That's what a lot of people do.

You can turn it into a weeb porn game if that's your thing, given enough dedication.

You can turn it into something akin to a proper RPG with perk overhauls and enough quest mods. You kind of just need to go nuts, dig through the nexus and other sites to find what scratches whatever itch you want. Lately I've been doing a playthrough with Sacrosanct, a vampire overhaul, and a lot of graphical tweeks to make the game a fun as fuck vampire simulator. Sneaking around, drinking blood, seducing townsfolk, raising hell, and decorating my spooky house with corpses and shit. Been a pretty big blast for the last ten or so hours.

It's a great way to learn about 3D modelling and texture mapping.
I'm serious, skills like that are highly employable. Of course you shouldn't put all your horse pussy models on your portfolio.

Step 1. Download an overhaul mod. SPERG, Ordinator, PerMa, whatever.
Step 2. Decide on the means you want to employ to bypass the game's combat system: Sneaking, Conjuration, or cheat weapons (e.g. gatling gun mod).
Step 3. Have fun for a while.
Step 4. Eventually some part of the game will start to grate on you, you'll decide another method would work better, and you'll start over with a new character and new mods.
Repeat forever.

depends on what you call worth it

Can you create a perfect game by modding it?
definite no

Modded, it can be a really enjoyable experience. You can cast hundreds of spells and fuck women of any proportion. You can get the perfect aesthetic that you want. You can add as many NPCs as you want. Most modded skyrim games of normalfags end up looking like shit, if you're not one of those retards then you're gonna have fun as long as you can take enjoyment out of TES setting.

What is a perfect aesthetic?

Mods like the Dark Souls Combat Overhaul make melee slightly less shit because it allows you and NPCs moves like side- and backsteps, rolling, proper blocking, proper powerattacks, etc but the most fun you can get out of it is using it as a Sexgame tbh

What? Never heard of this. Fuck, now i need to try it.

No. Skyrim is shit, no matter what you do. No amount of mods can fix the awfulness that was intentionally baked into the game.
You can't create a good game by modding it, much less a perfect one.
Why do you type like a faggot, OP?

People who are saying Skyrim is a good sexgame are either stupid, delusional, both or haven't actually played it. It looks great in screenshots and it sounds great in theory but the reality is that what you get is janky as fuck animations that snap into place and don't always fit together, bad dialogue, mods that are about being a submissive boyhole and the worst thing of all is that you still need to play Skyrim and often the sex mods have some sort of progression as well that requires you to not just interact with Skyrim but to actually play it like a game. You can remove all combat with cheat weapons etc. which can help it but you still need to navigate the world and see and deal with all the janky ass shit in the game. You can't make Skyrim a good "sex game" because the "game" part of it will always be Skyrim at core and Skyrim is shit. If you remove the game part with teleporting, god mode etc. you're better off looking at the screenshots people post because it's pretty much the same thing with MUCH less time dealing with the game.

You haven't tried osex, didn't you? Sexrim is already a thing of the past.

Never heard of this one,
Huh, looks actually somewhat interesting, though like I said in my previous post.
Still looks really fucking awkward.
Honestly may reinstall just to try it.

Who knew.

THE SKYRIM EXPERIENCE

I stand by what I said.

That still looks awful.

That's literally me.

one of the problems so many mods miss when it comes to a sex mod, is that it shouldn't just be "select npc, fuck, press F to change positions, press E to bukkake", it should be ingrained into the AI and progress naturally, NPCs should be going around in the background and romancing each other, then going into buildings or alleys to shag, NPCs should have various traits that make it easier to harder to get them in bed, like a gold digger that will fuck for expensive gifts, or the hopeless romantic waiting for the right one that drops her panties for some poetry and the words "i love you", a whore that straight up fucks for gold, etc
then give sex various buffs/debuffs, or have the sex sequence randomly fail because RNG pushes an event after checking the player's charisma or other stats, so the hopeless romantic might kick the player out of bed because his low charisma triggered a bad line of dialog, then the player has to walk around limply because he's blueballed and needs to fuck a whore or wait it out. There's far more potential that isn't being utilized.

I like Skyrim in all aspects except combat-related

My only complaints are the lack of dialog options and small ass world/cities

Take those away from any Elder Scrolls and what's the difference?

It's only about seven screenshots. That would need only two posts tops to make. Apply yourself.

You're telling me you like the shitty samey dungeons, the quest marker hunts, limited perks and character building and the buggy as fuck engine and mechanics?

Take what away? Combat, open world and dialogue? Yeah you're right, there isn't much difference between two things when you take pretty much everything out of them.

Falls under small world

Same as Oblivion (a far worse game)

95% of perks are combat-related

Pretty much, you said that if you take all the combat away and just leave the sex, it's bad because it's still Skyrim. Then Morrowind must be bad too because in it's core it's really similar to Skyrim.

Between Oblivion and Skyrim? Not much besides a better aesthetic style in Skyrim. Between Skyrim and Morrowind? Well, there's the factions that actually mean something, actual unique loot giving meaning to exploration and questing, the presence of level scaling, how much character building matters, a main plot that doesn't suck, the amount of options in terms of skills, equipment, and spells, the dungeon design, and I can go on and on. The differences between Daggerfall and Skyrim are even greater in some ways.

Morrowind is one of my favorite games and most of the stuff you listed falls under small world, shit combat, or lack of dialoge.

Skyrim's too biggest problems are the shit combat, and shit quests. Those are the two things mods can't fix. If you fix those, the game would be fine but some retard in the thread is pretending the game's issues is inherent to the game somehow and could never be fixed. By that logic, Morrowind is ass too.

Is that supposed to be a rebuttal? So what? What did he mean by this?

No they don't, unless you apply the broadest and vaguest of definitions of world, combat, and dialogue.

how do i add perfect anime waifus into skyrim

no

/thread

nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/6557/ is good outfit

If you take all combat out of Morrowind you'll at least have a good lore and story to experience. Skyrim has none of those. If you take all combat out of SKyrim all you're left with is shit story and a buggy as fuck engine with a bad world.

Tell me, what does a RPG that has bad gameplay and a bad story have left? A world (that you don't even say is big or good) that you can walk around in? You keep listing the things you don't like about Skyrim, things that are massive parts of the experience and make the foundation of the game, yet you still imply that you think it's a good game. Why don't you list any of the things you think are good? Or are you one of the people the first image in talks about who thinks just being in a shit virtual world is enough for a game.

And how does 95% of the perks being combat focused excuse the fact that the charcter building in Skyrim is shit?
Fucking listen to yourself man. What the fuck is wrong with you?

What's a good ENB for looking at waifus? Is UUNP just CBBE with more "sliders"?

actually has some less sliders but its good if you like to have a slimmer form to the bodies
and better costumes

What makes it better for slim bodies? Do they not look the same if you copy the slider values?

nah, max sliders on uunp are slimmer/smaller than max on cbbe while minimum sliders on cbbe doesn't go as slim as uunp. cbbe if you want big tits and thicc hips and uunp if you want thin and trim

I had to go do something, and while doing that I think I understand where the misunderstanding is. When someone says the core of Skyrim is shit, they don't mean the conceptual core. They mean the technical core, the thing you can't change with mods, is shit.

However, I still have an issue with your argument. You say that if you could fix the things that you can't fix, the game would be good. That applies to every single game that exists. Of course a game would be good if you could mod everything bad in it into something good. Using that logic, the very idea of the "core" of a game being shit has no meaning.

That isn't true at all, as you can type any value into the sliders and use it, both cbbe and uunp. There's no real max or min for any of them. The actual difference between cbbe and uunp are what base bodies they use. However, from what I understand, uunp simply has a higher polycount than cbbe, so unless there's an outfit you really really want that's only for cbbe, it's better to go with uunp.

That's what I figured it was, but my cbbe costumes work perfectly fine on uunp.

The problem comes with skin textures. Skin textures made for cbbe-based bodies don't line up correctly on unp-based bodies, and vice-versa. This only really applies to nude bodies and outfits that leave the hips and/or nipples bare, but it exists. However, I've also had issues with slidersets for one completely refusing to work correctly with the other. Things like the body underneath the armor changing but no the armor itself, nothing changing at all, etc. You'll also run into issues if you want to use presets, as presets made for one probably won't show up for the other.

Alrighty, thanks for the info.

If those are the Mila overalls, I'm pretty sure a UUNP version exists.

I had geunine fun with Requiem overhaul

do of it what you will

Some people had "fun" with vanilla skyrim, fallout 4 and no man's sky. Can't say that they are tasteful people.

Is this speed and stability guide outdated? How should I set my settings?

nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50214/?

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I beat the guilds, I beat the main quest, and I beat the two expansions. Some of the lore is still there, but yes, it is an empty game. If you put more then 100 hours into this game, stop. As for all those fucking neo Holla Forums cons out there, go back to your weebshit and visual novels. You fucking losers.

absolute madman

i had more fun with war thunder. war thunder also has good graphics whereas world of tanks is meme graphics.

Do it; mod it

I've tried with this fucking game, I really did, but modding turned out to be a waste of time. Don't do it user, move on.

I loved this game when I was far more casual and also heavily depressed. Skyrim was there at the right time and carried me through that bout of depression. Most fun I had with Skyrim was when I turned it into a hardcore survival game. Played an Argonian who was shipwrecked in the North of the province and had to make it from there. Got to land after a few minutes of icy water and found a fellow Argonian at his camp. Sat by his fire, sold some of the few worthwhile items left on board and went off into the world.

It only lasted about ten hours. Skyrim at its core is fundamentally boring, broken and bad. The combat sucks, the AI sucks, the voice acting sucks, the animation sucks, the choices suck, the world sucks. It is all shallow and underwhelming. Maybe one day we will get a TES or a game much like it with good combat, good stealth, good magic, good RPG elements, good animations, good choices and consequences, an engaging world and general good programming/polish. Not anytime soon though.

Kek

The better question - what are some good modern games that can replace skyrim?

Only Witcher 3 and Dragon's Dogma come to mind.

I dunno, does it have physically based rendering yet? Or does it need some Frankenstein's monster setup with a script extender and whatnot for that?

spare me

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I don't think anyone implied that.

It is, but it can be frustrating.

Im enjoying skyrim special edition. I no longer give a shit if its bad i have like 120 mods installed stutter here or there but overall im enjoying it. I love the atmosphere the graphic got so good in this when i was climbing some mountain i was staring at scenery for solid minute. Combat is really bad as archer i can just hide on rock or walk around some trash and kill anything on lvl 1 but i dont care. Im casual. This time i dont give a shit. No game has such relaxing graphic modded.

But there's no climbing mod for skyrim. Oblivion does have a few.

Im using bugs and badly coded mountains.

You never played video games, user. I did this shit since morrowind.

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autistically mashing spacebar to climb the Jerall glacier is one of my dearest moments in vidya.

PROBABLY BECAUSE BEHTESDA IS TOO FUCKING LAZY TO SHOW OFF THE ROADS IN THE VANILLA MAP

Even asking that makes me assume you're retarded.

T-thanks Todd.

I've put so many hours into trying to mod it into a decent game, but just when you think you have all your gameplay balanced perfectly, you get 12 levels in and realize it's become a cakewalk/impossible due to retarded scaling.
Tried SkyRe, Perma, all sorts of combat mods, enemy mods, Ordinator, Sperg, Requiem, and every combination of those.
I really tried to fill in the lacking role-playing with better gameplay, but it fails. Skyrim is not a role-playing game, and unfortunately it can't even be a good action game or survival simulator.
Play Dark Souls/Dogma if you want fantasy action. Play Morrowind/Daggerfall for actual role-playing. Just my two cents.

What? Are you serious?

Vampire the Masquerade, Fallout 2 and Arkanum can be defined as role playing games. Morrowind and Dagger are basically stat-grinding faggotry rather than they have true roleplaying elements at their core.

I think this is the best way to mod it honestly. No bow and arrow hunting simulator can be created with better depth. But it doesn't complement swallowness of the rest of the game.

African swallowness or European swallowness?

I run 128 mods. Totally worth it.

Where do you get the good mods? Shota, loli, tentacles, slaves, interesting things? Loverslab is normalfag trash.

I've seen one tentacle mod that was decent but it was pretty limited in scope. Surely someone who speaks moon knows the way into the gook mod promised land.

I'll see if I can find some way to get a list…

lolicon.legacywaste.org/
for loli mod stuff

otherwise I get everything else from
nexusmods.com/skyrim/?

Loverslab has all of those. There's the estrus mods for tentacles, though they're limited. There's a shit ton of various slave mods for sexlab on there. I'm not sure exactly what you'd qualify as "interesting things", though.

Honestly, I haven't heard or seen anything about any large porn modding community in Japan for Skyrim. There's a lot of outfits and waifus, but either no one outside of Japan talks about their porn mods, or they just aren't interested in Skyrim for that.

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Japs make assets and, sometimes, animations that they try to hide from the whitepiggu. When some site is found, they often move away to another. Happens a lot with Illusion games too.
Of course, they do leech from western mods, mainly the scripted stuff. Hell, some japs even charge for western mods, that's how fucked up it is.
Japs with good enough PCs is a very niche thing, so the modding community is even smaller.

List of relevant mods without including compatibility patches or the bashed patch, etc.

Convenient Horses
Skyrim Immersive Creatures
Female Facial Animation
Fores New Idles in Skyrim - FNIS
No Spinning Death Animation
SIZE DOES MATTER - NPCs do not rescale shrink resize
XP32 Maximum Skeleton - XPMS
Immersive Armors
Sounds of Skyrim - Civilization
Sounds of Skyrim - The Dungeons
Sounds of Skyrim - The Wilds
Safety Load - SafetyLoad 1_2
Weapons and Armor Fixes Remade
Auto Harvest 2
Hearthfire Cheat Chests
Expanded Towns and Cities
Cloaks of Skyrim
Improved NPC Clothing
Duel - Combat Realism - Duel Combat Realism 8
Extensible Follower Framework
VVE - Vanilla Voice Expansion (Formerly MFVM)
Vivid Landscapes - All in One - Vivid Landscapes - All in One - BSA Archive - Better Performance
Mrissi - A tail of troubles - Mrissi 1_3_1 Followers
Sofia - The Funny Fully Voiced Follower - Sofia Follower v.2.4 (BSA) Followers
Alternate Start - Live Another Life
Dragon Soul Relinquishment
High Level Enemies - High Level Enemies Gameplay effects and changes
High Level Enemies - High Level Enemies - Increased max Resists
High Level Enemies - High Level Enemies - Raised Ability Caps
Improved Dragon Shouts
Move it Dammit for NPC Companions and Followers
Predator Vision - Vampire Werewolf and Khajiit
Realistic Ragdolls and Force - Realistic Force
Run For Your Lives - Run For Your Lives Gameplay effects and changes
Skyrim -Community- Uncapper
SPERG - Skyrim Perk Enhancements and Rebalanced Gameplay
Stones of Barenziah Quest Markers
When Vampires Attack
ApachiiSkyHair
Oblivion Hair Pack Fixed now with NPCEditor Support
Dual Sheath Redux
Guard Dialogue Overhaul
Relationship Dialogue Overhaul
Enhanced Camera
Immersive Potions
Magic - Gameplay
Balanced Magic
Apocalypse - Magic of Skyrim
Better Sorting
Brawl Bugs Patch
RaceCompatibility for Skyrim and Dawnguard
Better Falskaar and Wyrmstooth Map With Roads
DIMONIZED UNP female body - UNP BASE Skinny body
Immersive Roads
Static Mesh Improvement Mod - SMIM
Falskaar - Falskaar V1_2_1final New lands
Marriable Serana
Skykids - Children_of_the_Sky_-_Gear
Skykids - Female Facial Animation
Tiny Serana
Better Vampires
Complete Crafting Overhaul Remade
Moonlight Tales - Werewolf and Werebear Overhaul
ShowRaceMenu Precache Killer
SPERG 4.0 - EFF 4.0 Compatibility Patch - SPERGEFFCP Patches 10/23/2016 9:18:16 AM 10/23/2016 9:09:13 AM 1000147322 0.20 / 0.20 LordNecris
Unofficial High Resolution Patch
Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch
The Forgotten City
The Paarthurnax Dilemma
BETTER LEVELING PerMa SkyRe SPERG Skyrim Unleashed Skyrim Skills Redesigned Elys Community Uncapper - Better Leveling 4.0 - SPERG Skills and leveling
A Quality World Map and Solstheim Map - With Roads
Better Dialogue Controls
SkyUI
Enhanced Blood Textures
Glowing Ore Veins
The Skyrim Distance Overhaul LOD Improvement
Immersive Weapons
Stronger Daedric Artifacts

When the fuck all this shit will be compatible with 64bit special edition?

Nice lead for the loli stuff, but it's still pointless in a vanilla normalfag world. estrus is shit. As far as I can tell the best you can do sex modding this game is getting decent screenshots of 3d anime girls with a lot of effort, and if you guys are pointing me to Nexus after I say this I don't have much hope.

There was some other rapey/loli mod board that had a Skyrim section but it was filled with trash too.

Where are my cattlegirls, playing as an eldritch horror, bad ends to enemy eldritch horrors, quest lines that mind break girls and so on? Snuff, guro? All I can do is make pretty models and be a skooma whore.

Good point. These are for the normal version of the game with all addons. Not the special edition.

allthefallen has loli stuff for many games, mainly Skyrim and FO NV I think.

when SKSE comes out or shortly thereafter

you will never rape monstergirls after defeating them in battleyou will never be raped by monstergirls on the off-chance you lose
there is no mod that turns every npc into a loliloli mods are hard to come by and decensors are almost always out-dated
why even live?

guess so. my version of the game world has loli npcs mixed in with the normal npc mobs. a lot of new armors, weapons, and new mobs. umm… a shitload of new magic spells and customized combat difficulty. perk overhaul for standard leveling and overhaul for werewolves and vampire perks.

I should point out that getting all this shit to work together nicely takes quite a bit of research and reading. You have to use tools like LOOT for load order sorting then manually tweaking the load order. And using Wrye Bash to make a patch to fix leveled list conflicts.

there's also a bunch of compatibility patches for various things to make them work together nicely.

I once spent a little over 100 hours modding skyrim. I got 268 mods to work well together with only 2 known CTD causes. The only times the game would CTD was when there were a lot of npcs on the screen at once, or when I went between the inventory menu and game too quickly. the game still sucked

my lolis are all decensored and work fine. random mobs are lolis.

I have also spent many hours fucking with mods. I have no idea how many. But yeah, a shitload.

Maybe you should just stop being filthy pedophiles?

No thanks.

actually, I just have a height fetish. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edgy 12-year-old chad/10
The light is particularly awful.

Hello newfriend . Notice 8ch is different from 4ch. Hope you get along

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What fucking armor is that?

This makes me believe you never browsed 4chan. The only difference is 8ch you don't get banned for posting nude pics.

Nah, it makes me think he hasn't been on here in a while or just came back from /svidya/. Only 7 months ago this place was LEAGUES better than 4chan in every possible way.

I know this have been said many times, but jus install the "true winter pack" this is not the realname, but it has cold,wet,starvation, freezing to death,spoiled/frozenfood, camping (cozy as fuck), tents, lanterns, campfires etc. If you like that kindof shit. It's really good.

If you want better combat, that's not gonna happen.

loverslab.com
there skyrim is a good game now

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Porn mods can't save it, lad.

Never give up, user. If you let the filthy immigrants dictate what you can and cannot do you will become pretty much the online equivalent of an Eurocuck… and no one likes eurocucks.

Stop spewing bullshit. In cuckchan you can get banned for posting 2D loli. Here we often have loli threads, hell, people have posted underage models without getting hammered (as long as they aren't overly provocative, of course).
You can get banned here for flood posting lewds, even if they are spoilered lewds.

wasn't it common knowledge that mark is a newfag from 2013?

I wouldn't know, but trying to argue against my statement based on the whether the board owner is a newfag or not seems kind of pointless, the community is the relevant part, specially in a board with so little moderation.

I haven't been on 4chan since 2014. Is it really that bad here, now?

user you have no idea just how far 4chan has fallen since we left.

why even post in the thread if you don't want to contribute?

Is that the cloud district i've heard so much about?

MEh. It's alright I guess.
I had fun with it and wasted more time on it than on many games some faggots here would consdier "bestest game ever"

BTW OP, you posted a flawed question. There is no such a thing as a perfect game, thus, no amount of modding can make a game perfect.

you may consider lurking for some time greater than what you have already done.

You're a faggot.

Lets just mod morrowind into the greatest porn game ever.

nigger, get some reading comprehension

Plebeians and casuals are too busy jerking eachother off over Skywind, while the OpenMW forum gets a couple of posts a week.

I mean it is basically just going to be a text game if you actually mod morrowind tbh. Will still be a better game that skyrim

Is there a challenge to complete skyrim vanilla? Just wondering. Because its really hard for my brain to actually complete this shitty game's quests and look into lore i liked since morrowind.

Or like a challenge where you select only 5-10 combat/gameplay related mods and install nothing more, and then try to complete the game with them.

Complete? If you're talking main quest I would say it's pretty shit.

I only completed winterhold college and dark brotherhood, and all the daedra quests. Those are the only things i completed in that god damned game. I wonder if there's more.

Companions are short people tell, don't they?

Wont lie, I kind of liked dawnguard for being a dawnguard. I had fun with it

So addons is what i should be focusing on then?

Skyrim is the slot machine of video games. Sit by yourself accomplishing small meaningless goals, while enjoying the flashy lights. That or the game is just training to make people into dogs. Fetch, fetch, fetch, fetch, fetch, fetch, fetch.

now i understand why nobody uses the insult "fetcher" in that game

Double nigger, get some arguments to back your claim.
Pro-tip: "Fun" is not an argument.

daily reminder that vivec is a representation of the duality of mer and is both male and female, chimer and dunmer.

What's the best Skyrim porn mod with the cutest girls?

Bethesda game modders are the absolute trash of the modding community, the largest cancer ever to grace the scene. They all need to die in a fire.

How many threads have we had about this subject?
They seems to be a daily occurence and the same happens on cuckchan with the answer always being:
NO
Why are you faggots still replying to this retarded Bethcuck fucking asshole?
It seems obvious that he wants to eat trash.

There's Legacy of the Dragonborn, which basically lets you donate the unique artifacts to be museum displays and sets up other displays depending on different quest lines you've beaten and such. You can make completing the museum your challenge. Unfortunately, it has several mods that add some artifacts and quests built in, so the game isn't going to be quite vanilla. It also has a few quests of its own, one of which is quite shitty, lore-wise.

I think the way the game is intended to be played is finishing maybe 2 or 3 of the main faction questlines like thieves guild and companions. Finish the war. Beat the main storyline. The end.

Make a new character and do the expansions. The end again.

What? You could maybe say this for Dawnguard, but Dragonborn is clearly intended to coincide with the main quest.

how do you know?

There was an add on I really liked with making the dawnguard fortress cleaned up, adding in a palisade with refugees, and adding more npc dawnguard members. Was really more of a visual thing but adds to it a lot imho.

I liked the aspect of how you were able to go around and upgrade your tech with the dawnguard, such as getting better crossbows, finding old relics and bringing them back to the hold, running around with armoured trolls to help you fight.

Lots of rather neat ideas that could easily be modded in to expand on some of the concepts. One I think would to be able to have dawnguard outposts spawned in, help restart the vigilents (really an interesting concept that got no screen time aside from some random npcs. Makes huge sense lore wise as well after the whole oblivion gate crisis but I think part of it is that the whole Mu dedric artifacts quests conflict really heavily.)

Heck I even enjoy the story and characters in dawnguard, easily one of the better DLCs they had, but still falls short in a lot of regards by being skyrim. Still I enjoy playing it everytime I go through at least.