Skyrim

This. Though, some of the writing borders on edgy try hard fedora territory at times.

GOAT 2011

Skyrim is easily the best TES game

You people like to choke on Morrowind dick, therefore you should like Skyrim, unless you are a bunch of irrational contrarian women or something

In morrowind there's no PUSSYYYyyy~

This.

Porn. And only Porn. Otherwise it's complete shit.

Why fix perfection?

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God fucking damn it, manslayer is such a huge fucking unfunny faggot but I just can't stop watching his shit.

Shit thread.
Reported.

TODD HOWARD DID NOTHING WRONG
EVERY THING TODD SAID WAS WHAT WAS MEANT TO BE IN SKYRIM AND FO4 BUT IT'S PETE'S FAULT FOR GETTING IN THE WAY OF TODD'S VISION FOR SHECKLES
THE FUCKING REASON SKYRIM SOLD SO WELL WAS TODD'S WORK IN MORROWING it takes a while for good work to reciprocate

What the hell is this cancer

Skyrim is easily fixable with mods
Fallout 4 on the other hand can't be fixed

Its like your first day on loverslab. Loverslab only makes politically correct legal porn mods. Soon they will be removing most of them for sexism.

No.

This user is right, the engine is really fucked up. One example, if your fps counters jumps to high the game will fuck up. Other than that the characters are basically all dead, they just don't feel alive.

Mods are supposed to make it better, but even those can't fix it.

where can you go for sex mods then?

Now I don't agree with the pedo stuff, I dislike pedos myself, but I don't get why modders always try to force you to buy the game. I am sure there is a way around it.

What's so bad about loverslab? They are okay with rape and sexual violence.

satan pls…

look for some Russian mod site

technically real planes are just flying chairs that shoot missiles.

Forgotten City also works.
I don't remember last time I just talked to NPCs for 6h in any RPG.

What fucking mod is that

Also, item physics explosions, item placement reset due to cell cache fuckery, jagged edges on the water plane at low poly distant terrain, animation limitations with monsters and attacks, shadow light and light limits, script processing issues, etc.

None of which was addressed in the special edition, which is a simple exture replacer and bait for the Bethesda Storefront due to mod access exclusivity.

At this point Zenimax and Bethesda can just get fucked. No hopes whatsoever that any future TES title will be any good or even worth pirating.

nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/70219/?

That is and always will be a blatant lie. They just say that so that they can look like good little goys. In reality, Using a pirated copy versus a legit copy has no effect on mod compatibility.

It's also 64-bit.
But you can still get Special Edition mods from the Nexus. It's not worth it, though, while SKSE for Special Edition isn't released.

On point. Although Enderal itself still suffers from Skyrim's shitty combat mechanics.

I hope they bring out the Golden Sickle or whatsitcalled extra content soon.

I took it for face value. Faggots here who hate it to death are usually moeshit faggots who think VN's are video games. I played through it three times and both DLC. Never had a problem. I think I used like 6 mods? To make it harder but still balanced. Its definitely a step in a better direction then fucking Oblivion.

I have never played a tes before, so this is my first tes game and my opinion is not biased at all. And I think skyrim royally sucks.

As already pointed out, the engine is crap. You may think that the engine is good for modding, but it isn't. You need dozens of third party tools to make modding possible in the first place. And animating shit is a pain in the ass.

Everything about skyrim is bad, no idea why it is so popular. But I assume it is because we have no alternative on pc.

Cool story kid. Go back to playing Nier and Dark Shits. Your parents fucking hate you and or deserved to die.

Can I make it so warhammers knock shit off their feet? I remember having a skill that gave a chance for that at a high level, but I want all power attacks to be powerful.

This CEO guy is wasting so much time on this mod it's un-fucking-believable. At least he's honest about it being the shittiest game in existence.

I like skyrim but the guy is fucking objectively right. You need shittons of programs like SKSE or python extenders like NetImmerse Override to even customize the game properly, let alone to unfuck the numerous bugs and performance issues in the game.

I for one think it's a really fun game to get lost in for several hours but you're a fucking retard if you deny there's lots of glitches that need fixing.

You can by modifying perks to add abilities to your power attacks, depending on the weapon you use. Had once been working on a mod like that but stopped working on it half way through. Just couldn't be bothered with Skyrim anymore.

Rate my waifu.

shit. garbage. start all over.

shit taste tbh

With the time you wasted modding this garbage you could have gotten a real gf

true

Basically what I meant. Even something simple like having your swords mounted on your back (Dual Sheath Redux) needs Java tools. In other games you just drop the mod file into your mod folder and your game is ready.

But it's even bad if you ignore all of that, you get random vampire attacks that can kill important characters. You are not allowed to side with the evil guys, fuck skyrim, I want to destroy the world together with the dragons. Overall there are imo not any good characters in that game.

what's wrong with freckles you faggit?

Don't tell me that's fucking Bella's.

they do look disgusting with those freckles though

the face texture? I don't think so. I haven't had the game installed in a year or so but I think I used mature skin texture mod + whatever that other mod is called that gives you a shitton of sliders for character creation.

no way. freckles are sexy as fuck.

maybe it's not the freckles but there's something really off about her that makes her look gross, maybe the complexion

Wildcat, Combat Evolved, The Dance of Death, Mortal Enemies, Realistic AI Detection, Realistic Melee Range, and TK Dodge all go a long way toward making Skyrim actual gameplay tolerable.

and..?

I don't understand what you mean, but if redheads aren't your thing that's ok user.

i love redheads but something about this jsut looks weird

It can be made into a passable survival game, but a good RPG, no.

this
There's also Grimy's combat patcher that removes health offsets from enemies so they aren't damage sponges.

Looks like fem-Trump, eh.

You have a point. It's not the freckles though it's just the face. It sits a bit awkward on the head mesh is all. And the face's default looks like she's about to cry or something. Her lips need to be un-puckered a bit and her eyebrows need a more relaxed expression. Also her red nose. Nothing wrong with that though as the sun will do that to an adventurer without sunscreen.

Also get rid of the knife ears and shitty armor.

Ok, well thanks for the criticism.
no.
I'm not going to reinstall skyrim to fix a face though.
It's interesting to me that I could be blind to the asymmetry or weirdness of a face I created, so here's another elf I did at some point, found it in the screenshots. Does this look weird?

nice scene, face is a bit generic/hard to make out.
Also,
7/10

No, you can't fix games that are shit by design.
That's why all bethesda games are irredeemable shits.

Waifufags are the worst disease to boil out of skyrim.

Source?

I read that as wakfu fags and was confused for a minute.

Enjoy your shit taste then? The armor design is fucking terrible and the ears look like they're broken. Flop Ears were a mistake. They're like adding puppy dog eyes except their permanent.

You don't have to. Just open the character editor in the console and make some tweaks on the face. Have you actually been going through the game thinking you have to start a new game to make/fix a new character?
Loos better. Her head matches her face and she's not about to cry for no reason. Still the flop ears are fucking gross. I'de use default or just go hue-mon.

the shit taste is yours.

The armor design is solid, it covers all the vital areas and has separate shoulder pads.
You know jack shit about things you comment on.

nigger
it is sex armor
it looks dumb
**it's not the blonde's armor if that's what you mean, that's fine but he redheads is retarded

I'm talking about the armor in
There's no defending that shit.

you have shit reading comprehension. skyrim has not been installed on my machine for at least a year. how can I use the console on a game that's not installed?

good, but I like the ears so fuck you.

that armour is bimbo armour you autistic homosexual, defending it is irrelevant.

Or flying boots or skis.

From my point of view and from the way you put it, it sounds like you reinstall the game every time you want to make a new character. Which is retarded but with the ineptitude and retardation of modders I wouldn't put it past you. Why else would you want to "fix" a face if you had no actual intention to do it?

Like I said, shit taste. We've been over why.
And again. Shit taste. Bimbo armor has always been retarded. Skimpy armor is possible because you can actually enchant in this game but bimbo armor is like waving a flag saying you gave up on this being anything but a sex simulator a long time ago. When what it should be is a sex simulator disguised as a fantasy RPG

Dunno why you're so defensive. All I'm doing is pointing out inferior taste.

NEVER

EVER

Jesus that accident is ridiculous.

High quality b8.

Rim the Sky!!!

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elf/10

which is retarded, you think I reinstall games to edit saves. If I say that it's not worth reinstalling a game, this implies it's not installed, no?

no thanks. skyrim is a vehicle for a basic 3d porn simulator and has no other value. no point discussing this.

I've seen more experienced modders do more retarded things so not really. If you've been modding for more than a week this sounds obvious. In any case mention it's not installed this time. I dunno why you'de be asking for people to rate on your shitty waifu when you don't even have the game installed to take the criticisms you asked for into effect.

I wish. At least then I could say you would be able to enchant it or something. But at this level you're better off just finding a corset and enchanting it. I know how the modder made the mesh for the armor and it's complete trash from a design perspective. Not from a protection perspective.
If pure sex is all you want you might as well watch real porn. Part of the enjoyment of modding Skyrim is that you're still playing the role of an adventurer in a fantasy land. A trashy one perhaps but there needs to be some method of disbelief. Trying to stay at least somewhat within the realm of possibility is what gives you enjoyment of the encounters you have in the game. Otherwise all you're doing is spawning in enemies to fuck you in a save environment. Haven't you ever actually role played the slightest in an RPG?

I'm going to kill your elf waifu, boy.

Not only its bland as fuck, its also made by jews.

Are you implying Skyrim is worthwhile enough as an rpg to role play in?

You're looking at the wrong porn

No but as far as sex games with a fantasy world setting go, there's nothing that beats it in quantity and variety. If there were a better fantasy game out there with as many mods don't you think I'de be playing it?

your post and OC are pleb tier.
I will save it however

he has shit taste.

Can't wait to hear you rationalize this.

why are you wasting so much time learning how to mod bethesda games?
I literally install a few texture and models, 0sex and I have all I need.
muh subjectivity.
looking through your posts, you haven't actually given reasons for disliking the redhead elf beyond the face shape. Everything else is "terrible", "broken", etc which are just synonyms for "bad".
What's wrong with elf ears? with skimpy armour? with modding a shit game into a mediocre 3d sex simulator?
I think your time spent modding a shit game has gotten your ego invested in your shit taste and you're trying to justify it. I just triggered the mental gymnastics by posting a waifu in bimbo armour.
I'm an innocent bystander here. whoa, brah, whoa.

web.archive.org/save/http://8ch.net/v/res/12497064.html
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for why?

why not? Very autistic thread. By the way, who got

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No worse than installing JP ero games tbh.
You're obviously not dedicated enough to your porn. Hence why I said you'de be better off not playing vidya porn. Don't know why you even bothered posting anything you tried to do porn mod wise if you spent so little effort and time on it. What confuses me more is that when you get a negative opinion on it you're suddenly pissed when criticism is what you wanted.

You've done no better a job really. But more inherently the outfit is pointless as armor and more importantly as functional clothing, even from a slutty perspective. A chainmail bikini might not actually function as protection but it makes a cheap attempt to look like armor. The armor in the pics I mentioned isn't even armor. It's just slut wear with brown textures and improbable and pointless chains, metal work and embroidery. More importantly it doesn't look like it can even function in a method that can even be worn without constant wardrobe malfunctions or the armor not just falling off. There's no design for practicality by any stretch. Even as sexy armor. And if you were smart you'de know all the modder did to make that armor was edit pull/stretch the mesh in a few places and call it a day. It's clear you went and looked for the first skimpy armor mod you saw and installed it on the spot. The mod is low effort and objectively shit taste. I can go on as to why if you want but I feel like this is enough.

Already said what. It's just an attribute to make the character look like they're sad except they're fixed that way. If a modder were smart he'd make the ears move based on the characters facial expressions but that's probably not going to happen because it would take effort and is probably be beyond what the games engine is capable of. Never know though. In any case elf is already shit tier. But if you have to have one you're better off not having the ears that will clip through hair more often and don't look like they're about to fall off. It's like looking at a leg bent the wrong way. If you like it fine but again, shit taste.

I think you can't handle being told how somebody told you how shit your taste is and you're trying your best to label somebody before it becomes more and more obvious. If you really have no problem with this you might want to stop posting about stuff you don't understand. You clearly spent 5 minutes modding a game and asked for opinions on your character and I pointed out your shit taste. Would you prefer I not offend your thin skin? I'm not the one posting trash.

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The picture I get from your posts is of a profoundly autistic man who assigns an actual value to devoting time spent modding games for the purpose of fapping. Almost as if it's a profession, rather than a past time.
I find this overly serious attitude misguided, like some other guy said to me and I acknowledged as true, "With the time you wasted modding this garbage you could have gotten a real gf".
The point being, that there comes a point where the effort invested produces diminishing returns. I suggest you have put too much time and effort into something which is not rewarding.

If you don't like armour that doesn't make sense, that's fine. I'm telling you that my investment in this game is not to a degree that I expect anything but minor titillation from it, nor should I expect more.

To me, they indicate the exotic in a tame way. Not too outlandish, but definitely non-human. I don't see that they produce a sad expression. Maybe if they were lower.

Well we could confine this to just skyrim, but I think the debate here is better focused on which is better for us discerning alpha males of superior taste - the perfect, immersive RPG experience, or an actual gf? I contend that the evidence is stacked in my favour here because I unistalled this piece of shit game over a year ago after fapping once to the redhead elf and haven't looked back. My t-level has raised, I've got a gf and I get my dick wet on a regular basis.

So, back on topic, here's a few mods i think are pretty neat:
SkyrimSouls - Unpaused Game Menus - makes the pause menus, such as accessing inventories, containers and merchants etc. not pause the world around you, like dark souls, hence the name

Blowing in the Wind - makes signs blow in the wind, simple but effective for muh immersion

Public Executions - Makes public executions happen more than that one time in solitude, pretty cool stuff.

Sinking Bodies - What is says on the tin

More Tavern Idles - See above

Quick Loot - Makes the loot menu like Fallout 4's, much more convenient, faster and looks smoother

Lip Sync Bug Fix - Once again, self explanitory

Opening Scene Overhaul - Makes the opening scene not boring shit, and fixes the dragon timing among other things, I highly recommend trying this at least once.

Path of Sorcery - Unborings magic, makes it viable and adds new, interesting perks to the tree

These are just a few that add immersion, and some general fixes, really helps out

By the way, if you like skyrim modding check out brodual, they make pretty decent content and highlight quality mods, not shit like mxr

Even with DLC. I was gifted a Skyrim copy on Steam and I pirated all three DLCs without problems.

I'm so glad everyone is playing the game. Make sure you've bought the Special Edition too. And don't forget to buy the latest mods from the Bethesda store!

Hey, Todd, people are still laughing at you.

Oh boy is this another one of xilandro's mods that he blueballs everyone with for months on end then just completely stops all development of and deletes all traces of it that he's teased?
I sure do love those.

nigger, reddit is sucking his dick.

Tell me more, user.

no mods can fix this shitty ass game. the main problem imo is the combat and the lack of an RPG system. i have NEVER seen a mod that brought back morrowind's combat or added a proper RPG system.
if you are autistic and want some innawoods mod, Frostfall is alright.

Reddit sucks everyone's dick, they don't count.

If they have money, they do count. What good is Holla Forums's little boycott if the rest of the world buys it?

these are pretty fuckin impressive, especially seeing the shit tier weapon and vehicle mods that tried to replicate stuff like this

No. Objectively no.
Every single suggestion that actually "just works" in this thread is essentially "sure, if you turn it into a whole different game".

You can install a fuckton of mods that turns your game into one of the best porn games ever with some of the best graphics, animation and gameplay to it.
But it's no longer Skyrim now, is it? The story barely matters, the combat and magic are still the same, the enemies, dungeons, etc. You just ignore those because there's another pair of tits waiting to be suckled and keep you busy.
By the way, Bethesda is fucking pissed about this, they did made modding animations harder for Skyrim because of this shit
Must suck to know people only apreciate your game for it's porn-potential

You can also install a truckload of mods for Survival so the weather actually matters, the cooking isn't so fucking pointless, hunting and camping are present, traveling becomes an adventure, not a click on the map, etc.
But in the end, you're just filling the very large void between what usually happens in the game. You'll visit a town and get a quest from a boring NPC to retrieve something from a crypt, you'll have a fucking blast traveling there, camping and braving the elements and when you arrive there's still Draugs and boring combat and everything else that is shit.

The thing about Skyrim (and it applies to Fallout 3 and 4 as well) is that they aren't a game about your character, it's about you. If you keep this in mind, you'll notice very easily and very often that the game barely acknowledges the presence of your character, like he isn't even in the world, but it does a far better job at acknowledging your presence, the player. You'll do things that are cool and fun for you, even if they make no sense for your character and the world exists for you, the player, to explore and see, not for your character to be a part of.
And because of this, every single mechanic in the world suffers greatly because there's no need for depth, that's not the point. Why have a detailed magic system the character can grow around when the player just wants to cast fireballs? Why have different combat styles and maneuvers your character can be built around when the player just wants to chop heads off?

This is why the usual faggots that say "at least it's better than Oblivion" are fucking faggots, because Oblivion at least was still about aknowledging your character as a part of the game and the mockery they made out of Fame\Infamy, changing it to "do X quests in the world so the Jarl sells you a house" or the relationship with NPCs, changed from 0-100 and influenced with Speechcraft, quests, race, bartering, charm and Fame\Infamy to a simple 0-4 var, that just cements how much the game stopped being about roleplaying a character and became about the player goofing off.

I think that everyone can very well agree that the game was so bad at being an RPG that even Oblivion beats in spades, but some faggots still like to argue that "at least it was a better action game!"

So here's the best way to explain why the game is absolutely terrible and even worse as "action game" as well to the point that not even mods can fix it:
1-Get auto-potion mod
2-Get 50 health potions
3-Pick a fight with a Bandit Boss or any mob that's 15+ levels than you
4-See how little you can influence the fight compared to how much effect those potions have.

Because melee combat is fundamentally "hold Block until NPC attacks, creating an opening you can Powerattack safely" with the only variant being "he's so weak you don't even need that opening" and after you notice this, every fight becomes about exploiting the retarded melee AI because there's nothing else, no guard breaks, no kicks, no dodges, nothing that either you or the AI can do to add some variance.
In the end, it's an atrition fight between your health bar, their damage and vice-versa and if you have auto-potion mods, effectively extending your max HP by the value of all the potions you use, you'll notice that you can win any fight by cheesing the AI and just "having more HP, lol"

Now compare this with Oblivion, where Agility controlled the stagger rate and you could Drain Agility to make your oponent stagger from most blows, where Blocking was mostly about conserving Stamina so the openings you add were more effective, where more Strength meant more damage so you could have a crappier sword and still win or even resist magick with Willpower and where your skill with your weapon changed the cost of stamina and even made it detiorate slower.

Fucking this. I've spent so many goddamn hours in Skyrim with so many different lewd/survival/other mod setups, and in the end it's all just veneer over a game world that's completely fucking empty.

Take Spell Research. Awesome mod, makes you actually work to get new spells instead of buying books. But what's the point? You get a new spell that will let you kill Draugr better/faster. Requiem is a neat gameplay difficulty overhaul, but in Skyrim terms that just means "you need to spend more time getting ready to kill Draugr."

Skyrim is a fucking empty, pointless game and so is Fallout 4. Mods will only sustain your interest until you get to the point where you actually need to go out and experience the game's content, at which point that old emptiness just comes oozing back.

New Vegas is the only exception because, like you said, the game treats you like a fucking character and not The Player. Doing different quests/faction paths/SPECIAL builds actually fucking matters in how you experience the core content of the game.

I've probably posted some variation of this rant in every Skyrim/Bethesda thread I post in. And the worst thing is that normalfags will eat it up because "muh open world!"

That's because skyrim is action rpg. Action rpg games don't suppose to have roleplaying elements in them. Its like first person diablo.

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Jesus.

Hi! I'm Arx Fatalis and I am going to conjure a fireball inside your ass because I am full of RPG elements that heavily influence the game and I'm an awesome action RPG.

Greetings! I'm Dark Messiah of Might and Magick and I'm going to literally kick your ass because I'm an action RPG filled with roleplaying elements in it.

Salutations! I'm Deus Ex, the first one of course, and I'm about to take you down (non-lethaly of course) because I'm actually an action RPG and I'm filled with roleplaying elements.

Hello! I'm Diablo 2, an action RPG that had a fair share amount of roleplaying elements to it. Just because I kinda railroaded you a lot doesn't actually mean you weren't playing the role of your character as you saw fit and according to his own story.

You haven't even seen yet the

Can we just ban skyrim threads already?

Why? Just leave it be. Skyrim isn't a half bad game, you're just joining the hate bandwagon that is the Holla Forums hive mind. Like any good Elder Scrolls game, mods just improve what is already good.

but what is already good about it?

It's not our fault Skyrim is shit. Reminder that Daggerfall is the only good Elder Scrolls game.

Nothing

Diverse skyrim is the best mod. Finally a strong redguard woman can fight for her sisters of skyrim.

☑ shitty graphics
☑ shitty combat
☑ shitty magic
☑ shitty alchemy
☑ shitty dungeons
☑ shitty abilities
☑ shitty weapon roster
☑ shitty plot
☑ shitty side quests
☑ bullshit performance
☑ bullshit amount of bugs
☑ bullshit enemy level scaling
☑ DOES NOT FEATURE DRAGONS

The quests aren't half bad, and there's plenty of them to keep a player busy for a while. The armor, thankfully, had been simplified so you didn't have to run around collecting a stupid left shin guard to match your right shin guard so a zombie wouldn't one hit you because you didn't cover yourself head to toe in armor. The crafting system stayed the same, so that's a plus. Everything else either got simplified for it's own good, or just kept the same. Oblivion had way too much over complicated shit. This isn't Baulders Gate

What kind of cuck actually wanted niggers in this game? It's supposed to be a fantasy game.

If you like to press the left mouse button thats cool, but try to understand that Skyrim offers nothing besides that, and there are some people who aren't as easily amused as you are.

Diverse is code word for no productive straight adjusted white man.

In an ordinary fantasy game, niggers would be orks. They decided not to use that trope for once and use straight up niggers as niggers.

Being a nigger is pretty cool though.
t. just follow the damn train CJ

This. I like fantasy because I can fantasize about a world without niggers and jews. Why the fuck would you want to specifically include those two awful things in a world where imagination is the limit?

Faggot

Now, I'll have to look for this one.

Wasn't the creator of this shit the faggot who lost his mind and deleted all his mods to campaign for Hillary Clinton last year?

faggot

you used the le t. mme eme wrong btw lol

The closest I've come to making it playable was turning it into a survival hunting sim, a SOULS LIKE EXPERIENCE with rape instead of death or a straight up porn game. Problem with Skyrim is the base game is fucking shit to begin with, there isn't really anything that interesting to explore and the combat is utter crap no matter how many mods you slap on it to make it better. Once you burn a few hours or fapped to your loli character getting fucked to death by wolfs you quickly realize just how shallow the game really is before uninstalling it for a few months just to do it all over again. Just boot up a borru or skyrim.jpn.org and be done with it; play a better game or play it purely for the porn mods and lewd questlines.

fuck off that was one of the worst parts about it, severely limited fashion choices, not that there was much to begin with.

This game is pure fucking cancer now, and so are the people who still play it.

It's better, but it's not necessarily good. Daggerfall also has issues, but they are mostly negligible.

Mixed bag. Some are very generic and stupid, others do show some originality put into them, especially those that branch a bit.
The serial murderer in "this is the grey city!!1!" might be one of the best.
However, most of them are pretty much very linear stories that just color the exploration of a nearby cave so you have some context this time instead of just bashing heads and collecting pocket change.

Okay, I get that Morrowind might get a bit grating, like assembling Lego's and missing a color. But was it really necessary to fuse pants and shirts together into the same slot and removing a second ring? Seriously?
Why aren't there belts, backpacks or underwear??

There was no crafting in previous TES games, save for alchemy and spellcraft, the first being changed and the second removed. Really have no idea what you're getting at.
Especially considering how alchemy became about checking a wiki beforehand so you could make invisibility potions at lvl1 or how cooking\smithing is essentially "enjoy having 2/3 of your inventory filled with crafting materials because every single recipe is missing a single item in it's list", which was especially shitty for cooking.
Oh and enchanting was "spam the most expensive enchantment to grind" and that was it.

Brain damage detected. Oblivion was piss easy to understand, especially since very few things actually mattered as much as Morrowind.
You had no craft, repair was just having hammers and only 2 extra slots for your inventory, pants and a second ring. Is that too complicated for you, or did the Stats with a detailed description over what they do (protip: they are mostly negligible) confuse you?

Redguards aren't niggers, they are a mix between arabian and asian culture. Basically sand samurais.

reminder that Oblivion is best TES game.

Yes they are. The vast majority of them begin and end with "go to location X, fetch Macguffin Y that's guarded by Z and bring it back to me for a reward".

And most of them are palette swaps.

In what universe is less player agency ever a good thing in a game that prides itself on exploration and customization?

No, it didn't. They lobotomized enchanting and Alchemy, removed spellcrafting and added in a hilariously broken smithing skill.

Damnable lies and slander. There were literally dozens of changes that did fuck all except remove flavor and agency from the game while simultaneously making it easier for the mentally retarded to play.

If you rode the short bus to school, maybe. Oblivion shit on a lot of things that Morrowind did right and Skyrim continued the trend. Not that there weren't improvements here and there (light affecting stealth, speechcraft and mercantile being combined, gradual vampirism, etc.) but by and large Oblivion and Skyrim are JUST-tier compared to the older games.

two options:
1. enderal
2. uninstall and play Morrowind.

I wish there was a pack to get my game looking like that.

I don't want to fuck with 100 different body and hair mod combinations.

man jaw/ 10

People do shit like this with New Vegas yet you can't find one gun mod for Skyrim that's not dogshit.

if you want that girl you need seranaholic + seranaholic customizer

Just the fact that I need 2 seperate mods just for Serana makes me not even want to bother.

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Which is exactly why you don't treat cancer by encouraging healthy cell growth, but by cutting out the tumor and poisoning all the remaining tissue to make sure it's gone.

That's some fine kikery over there.

This must have been made satirically when skyrim did the paid mods shit. Come to think of it, they cancelled and didn't follow through with it right?

iirc that was when people started abusing the lack of vetting

reminded me of the Mohammed mod, it was some good shit

well seranaholic is the mod that makes her look pretty. That customizer is entirely optional, well it adds nude skins so it was necessary for me but if you are not a pervert like me you can just skip it.

It was actually a mod stolen specifically to make a "funny joke" about paid mods, the actual creator makes all sorts of mods just like it and is generally not liked well among the rest of the modding community.

waaait what the fuck is that shit? They actually sell mods now?

How fucking new are you? Get the fuck out, go back to reddit, facebook, where ever you came. Just get out and stay there.

Fucking trash mod.

aha okay

You completely missed that glorious shit show.
Honestly I don't think Valve was completely in the wrong in this. Not a lot of modders are but some of them are very talented and I wouldn't mind at all for them to receive payment from their hard work. But then you have mods that are fucking garbage being put up for like 50 dollars and stolen mods being sold. Steam already can't keep their shit together with Greenlight so I don't know what the hell they were thinking when they tried doing this.

No you're fucking retarded, you don't even know. This was years ago. Its obvious to anyone here that you are new as fuck.

Well, to be fair, it's not just "muh Skyrim mods" but there was a whole shitstorm when paid mods were a thing.

Paid mods aren't even a new thing, mind, TF2 has been doing paid mods for years. All those hats and some of those guns? People in the community made those, and now Valve sells them and pays the people who made them. The hat economy is built on mods. Being reactive and thinking that paid mods can absolutely never work is wrong. But the way that Bethesda wanted to do it, keep 55% of the profits, pay Valve 30%, and THEN pay 15% to the modder… That's definitely not the way to do it. I'm sure there's some cockdumps in the Philippines who would gladly do it for that $0.15 per dollar. But the way it SHOULD have been worked out was 30/30/40, with 40% going to the modder.

That said, putting a paywall in a mod community (which they claimed didn't exist) that was originally free was a bad move. And we learned which modders couldn't be trusted. The SkyUI guy for example, he was the first mod to take down all free versions and put up only a for-pay version of his mod.

Ain't that lovely, a mod that most of the community relies upon, and he was the first one to put his shit behind the iron paywall.

Nigger, I didn't play it back then and I never visit skyrim/tes threads. I heard about it, but from what I heard it was immediately removed by valve again, didn't knew people actually released shit.

you are the only one bitching.

Oh also, Tripwire. The Community Weapons packs for KF1 were all mods. All of the skins for KF2 are user-generated content.

Back in 1995, Doom introduced the first paid mods in the form of the Master Level pack of DOOM II. It featured something like 60 new levels, all made by people in the community. That was not made by id Software.

Like I said, paid mods ain't new, it's just Bethesda's kikery that was the new variable.

Calm down Dr.Autismo.

Oh so you just missed the thousands of threads that we had? I don't even know why I go on this site anymore., feels like when cuckchan was dying.

Cause where the fuck else are you going to go?

Gensokyo I suppose right, user?

Maybe you should leave if the mere thought of someone possibly being new to this site tickles your autism that much, this isn't 2008 4cuck Holla Forums. I came to this site back in 2014 when the mass exodus happened and I still think you are being completely retarded.

Been dead since 2014, kikechan is cuckchan tier.
THANKS MARK

I've spent a decent amount of time on modding but I'm just stating facts. If your defense is me being an autistic virgin then I request you look where you are.

Spend more time here. I spend an average time modding and getting my game to work but if you're going you act condescending for only minorly playing porn vidya and devoting time to a hobby you genuinely enjoy then you're retarded, The subject material here is porn mods. And I'm criticizing it as inferior. If you wanna hold it as autiscially devoted that doesn't help your case.

To you maybe. When I call out the inferior taste you're the one who gets all defensive about it. Get over it.

Google a sad dog. Unless you see lopped ears as anything other than sad then congrats. But what else emotion are you going to get out of them? Seriously explain your side from this that counters mine. Rather than just saying otherwise.

Then stop posting about this topic. Obviously you have no opinion worth sharing. Especially with a gf. Your opinion of porn is not worth even sharing. Fuck off or offer substantial credentials.

Gonna have to reinstall Skyrim

moddb.com/mods/skyrim-anime-overhaul
This exists. I downloaded the 25gb 2.0 version out of curiosity, and found out the archive just contains an entire Skyrim install folder, minus only the exe required to play the game. Two kickers: it has BOSS instead of LOOT (this "overhaul" was first released last year, with the 2.0 version being released earlier this year), and, while it has Mod Organizer installed, 90% of all the mods are installed in the Data folder.

Brodual's a mod spotlight youtube channel, not an actual modder.

The thing is, with your examples of paid modding that have worked, said mods were heavily curated by the devs and distributed in a way that was seamless with official content. Bethesda's version wasn't bad just because of the profit split. The entire system was poorly designed and was intruding into a community that works best without paywalls or monetary incentive.

Yeah with porn mods.

What the fuck is this? The videos just have a bunch of landscapes and the occasional moeblob. I almost want to download it just to see how far the madness goes.

Fuck it, I'm gonna do it. My current mod setup is a half-baked STEP abortion anyway.

It's gonna be just like one of my mongolian cave paintings.

Shit taste.

Best way to make Skyrim enjoyable
I really wish I could find the mod list and the enb I was using for this screenshot again, it's really old and I forgot what I was using.

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Sorry, here I fixed it for you.

Why install Skyrim for anything else?

Odd, Holla Forums didn't attach my other image.

Don't know why my browser named it that. It's off my steam page. What the hell is even that? Adware? Malwarebytes comes up clean.

I appreciate it. I was initially gonna take the dive, but came to the conclusion, for some reason, I would have difficulty recovering my skyrim install to it's usual state and deleted the archive.

I just dunked ~15GB of mods for this thing. It's still extracting, looks to be about 49GB of pure anime.

Did you grab the fixed load order file, as well? I don't know if it will actually do anything, but I doubt it can hurt.

Don't get me started on porn mod names. When you've searched high and low for shit on Oblivion you find the names to be batshit insane because the community is so small nobody gives a fuck.

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how

So… do I post the mod list for user's Surreal RPGmaker Skyrim yet?

Jesus how shit is your rig? I've installed the largest Oblivion files out there and none of them even took near 30 minutes. The most one took was 10 because it was nothing but texture and mesh files.

Hey, turns out it was still in my recycle bin, so I can give it a try.

Just threw up some "unexpected error" box, deleted all the tempfiles, froze up for a bit, then acted like I never attempted to extract.

Trying a second time, because who needs to sleep when there are heavily compressed waifus waiting for me

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Also it might have been because I had another instance of 7zip open because I realized halfway through that I needed to torrent Hearthfire for this shit to work

Run some deeper diagnostics and scans user. Your computer shouldn't be having these issues. Maybe check your AV?

Maybe? I've never had this issue but it's probably peculiar to your rig.

I've had 7zip give me shit before for bad archives, but it hasn't crashed.

No idea. I know that number of files makes more of a difference than overall size, and at about 25 percent of the way through this extract I'm already at over 7000 files.

It didn't exactly crash, just threw a generic error, froze for about 30 seconds (probably while deleting temp files), and went back to normal.

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Yeah, this thing is definitely taking a while to extract. It's not just his PC. It's around 50 gb uncompressed, and there are tens of thousands of files. It's been going for almost ten minutes, with an estimated remaining time of 25 minutes.

And given that many mods use other mods as a base
Mod Y needs mod X to fully function which means you need to buy mod X even if you dont need it for any other mods
To make mod Y standalone the mod maker will have to effort into doing his own version what mod X does different enough that the maker of mod X doesnt shit his pants and cry rape over mod Y maker stealing his mod and by extension his money

Yup, it's about 95,000 files all told. Just successfully extracted it to a separate folder, now I'll copy it into my Skyrim folder.

if this fuckhuge mod doesnt let you rape and enslave loli argonians throw it in the trash

Looking like there's over 100k files in this thing.

Good night user learn to shoot.

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oh boy

Honestly I have no idea how lewd this modpack is supposed to be. I mean, the homepage for it is nsfwgaming.wixsite.com/adultgamingandmods, so who the fuck knows

You must have downloaded a different version than the one I did. The one hosted by moddb is v1. There's a mega link in the mod summary that's for v2.

Are you ready for incredible amounts of Uncanny Valley character models, terrible Japanese voice acting, and katanas fucking everywhere?

This is v2, I used the mega link and the archive says it's v2.

You'd better fucking believe it.

Yeah, I got confused. I've got the same amount of files. I was expecting more, since it hit 80k about halfway through extraction.

Looking over the ESPs being copied in as they go.

This might actually be amazing.

The description mentions he replaced Khajiits with a new race, and I think that's what the Elin are for.

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Elin can have cat ears, as far as I'm aware.

I'm gonna have to go to sleep and do this tomorrow. Explorer is telling me that it's gonna take nearly another hour to copy the files over.

They are more like a cross between Arabs, Turks and/or Mongols. Too Semitic to be seen as part Nip.

Good luck user, it just finished copying over on my end. Now to fire up MO and see if I can get this to work.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

*AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*

also, you get greeted by a naked loli the literal second you fire up the game.

this was a mistake

OK, I'm genuinely intrigued. Please post more screenshots. I want to see the opening carriage ride.

but thats the elin race head. do all the other races look like that?

Is this what passes off as monstergirls these days?

Is there a just works way to either customize followers or make custom followers?

This uses Live Another Life, so no opening carriage ride. I decided to start as one of the "Sky Children."

You can call me Shinji,

Fuck, that's darker than the game. Let me take another shot once I actually start the game,

I decided to start at the inn in Whiterun.

I spawn naked, and bald. Did I mention naked?

My main issue is that you can't get through any dungeons unless you play as a battlemage. Though fun, sometimes I just want to be a whore in the kingdom of Sentinal, following Berenziah's footsteps. It have lots of potential, but modding wasn't that big back then.

There's supposed to be a [vanilla start] option, unless your modpack get rid of it.

I can't tell through the lighting if you're a Ken doll or not. Exactly how fucked up is your shit right now?

Extremely.

Also, the mod author wasn't kidding when he said all male NPCs are now female. Of course, their voices are still the same.

I wish it would just be left behind in time, but Bethesda keeps finding ways to bring it back into the normalfag-infested spotlight. There's been 3 major releases, with a 4th (Switch) in the works, What really bothers me is that Bethesda puts barely any passion into these releases, not that I expect any developer to do so these days, but with them treating Skyrim like their ace-in-the-hole RPG to end all RPG's, you'd expect them to really test the shit out of the same game before releasing it with multiple bugs on multiple platforms, and yet, people still eat this shit up.

I don't know jack about making mods, but if I were to hypothetically have all the knowledge and tools needed to tweak the game, here's how I'd do it.

1) Bolster RPG elements to make this game feel like an RPG. The combat is clunky, but at level 1, you can overpower something far more powerful than you if you play your cards right. Problem is, this is true of almost any encounter in the game. Limits need to be set on what the player can and can't use and wear at specific levels; I think the vanilla perk system works well with magic, but it's somewhat flawed with everything else.

2)Remove voices.
I'd like to see something like this as a mod. In my opinion, it would make the game a lot comfier. Some of the dialogue needs to be pruned out of the game, anyway (i.e. "flavour" dialogue you hear from guards regarding your status with certain guilds).

3)Make the civil war visible
There's already a mod out there that does this, but omitting any evidence of a civil war prior to your involvement really castrates the immersiveness of a game that's supposed to take place during a time of civil war.

2D was not meant to exist in a 3D world

Honestly, this anime pack is pretty shit. Barely changes anything gameplaywise, and the only lewd parts are the all-female NPC cast and the universal use of CBBE/HDT bodies/armor. What good are jiggling tits and bare twats if you can't do anything with them?

just download 0sex and fuck everything

And now I remember why I stopped giving a shit about even modding this.

Keep trying. It's not that hard.

user…

Turn it into a faux-rpg adventure game maybe?

Then again, it'd be a whole lot more work than Skyrim is really worth investing.

But user, it already is a faux RPG adventure game.

I mean emphasize on what it's trying to be instead of pretending it's still an rpg.

Why is that a surprise?

I know logically it's almost certainly either a mesh or animation, because it crashes the second it tries to actually load the model when you equip it. Which means I fucked up when installing one of the three or four animation systems needed, or the cbbe batch model creator but… fuck it. I don't care that much.

serana was raped by her dad, which is why you couldn't marry her.

its beyond repair

Let me remind you all that dwarves are literal jews of the fantasy worlds and they are all homosexuals.

Daggerfall Unity

This really just makes me wish for a proper Daggerfall remaster.

dat image

will never happen, daggerfall's map is the size of the UK.

Really? You got a source on that? Skyrim seems to be a gay, happy, redditish game, why would they put something dark like that into it.

Either way, there are mods out there to fix it.

so is your mom

Add isabella

her dad raped serana to summon molag bal and this turned them into pure blooded vampires.

molag bal raped serana, killed her then turned her into a vampire and brought her back. same with the rest of her family.

I knew this game was caner. Happy it is broken so badly on console.

They say that because of the nature of installs when a mod fucks up and it's a pirated version, it's a lot harder to help somebody through the process of what they fucked up than if they had a steam version to which you can just navigate to the steam folders. Though the no pedo shit is stupid as fuck when bestiality flies fine

just abiding by laws, cp will get your website shut down but no one gives a fuck about beastiality if you keep it to yourself.

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Explain why furries have infected every community on the planet with their cancer then. No one is keeping that shit to themselves anymore.

Yeah I get that but I didn't think like not real CP/ animated shit unless you lived in canada would be trotting the danger zone

Depends on the local laws. There are places where even written stories are considered cp. Thoughtcrimes. Pathetic.

Because the internet isn't held to the same restrictions as real life which is why cancer is both widespread and spreads so quickly on online communities. I bet many friends you've had over the years were closet furfags.

I don't have faggots for friends though. In my day even begin suspected of begin a faggot was enough to get your ass beaten behind the gym. I'm not even that old. This cancer is widespread among mainly those that grew apart from me and picked it up in college and the generation coming up behind me.

I wonder how many girls / women let their dogs take their first time because they were horny and wanted to experience it.

you can bypass it but you have to manually change shit, there was this mod that lets you have sex with npc's by talking to them and for some reason you can do straight shota, I usually play as a woman. it's not that exciting.

Can I get a sauce for that mod?

no, you need to look for yourself, there was website but i cant remember it. i have thousands of bookmarks and every browser has shit bookmarks.

The keyword here is "closet" furfag user. The point is that you don't know.

I know what begin in the closet means I'm not stupid. I'd also know if one of the 4 or 5 people I consider friends was a furfag. Most things can't be hidden once you've known someone for 20+ years. Now the people I call acquaintances sure, a lot of them are openly faggots or give off that vibe so furfaggorty would just be expected.

Skyrim is a sandbox FPS.

there's also the bandit girl who got raped for weeks/months on end by the bandits who killed her parents and captured her, one night she slit their throats in their sleep and ran the fuck out and then joined the thieves' guild

only 2 grimdark stuff in skyrim, and only 2 characters with any depth to them in the entire game

So you mean to tell me that you know every fetish of those 5 friends of yours?

that would be rape revenge, progressive lefties, sjw's and feminists love that shit. Just look at some movies, like… idk what they are all called but there are dozens of movies like that out there loved by reddit.

she's not "I was raped and I'm a stronk independent womyn", she's "my parents were killed and I was abducted and raped i.e. enslaved then I decided to take life into my own hands but I'm actually scared and insecure on the inside and this is just a facade that I am forced to put on"

tl;dr she is /r9k/ incarnate

unfortunately you cannot marry her (without mods)

Porting it to OpenMW.

she has trust issues but if you choose the right dialogue options she eventually opens up to you a little about her story

elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Sapphire_(Character)

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Hes an ugly, dumb mongrel yet I still enjoy his videos.

okay now I remember her. I think I actually raped her unless I am confusing her with someone else. I do have some rape mods installed like sexlab defeat.

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How many filters do you think are over this image?

Damn what a gay

Get rid of the whorish makeup to be honest

I think it's more to do with her looking like she has facial nerve paralysis. The makeup doesn't help though.

Okay, see when you said "I want to join the bad guys" I figured you meant the Thalmor, Silverhand or help Mirrak, but you want to help the bad guy who's entire plan is just "eat the entire universe"? What sort of quest-line are you expecting from that besides a dragon devouring you followed by 'game over' screen?

Being king of the dragons?

Alduin is already king of the dragons. To take his place you'd need to kill him, and then he wouldn't be able to eat everything. If you really want to help Alduin, the best thing you could do is kill yourself. Jump off a cliff then turn the game off.

I'm pretty sure, by some technicality, that title belongs to Akatosh.

Interestingly enough, Alduin can only be killed in Sovngarde, where Shor (who is Lorkhan/Akatosh) to devour his soul and not you. Just realized that all the souls Alduin devoured will also go into Lorkhan. Guess it was another plot by him to collect souls. Wonder what he needs them for.

Alduin is a shard of Akatosh you donkey.

So is the Dragonborn.

Soldiers for the war at the end/beginning of the kalpa.

Guess makes sense to have everybody fighting, be it each other in the civil war or dragons. Not only gives then a good honorable death which leads them to Sovngarde, it also weeds out the meek and the cowards from the harvest.

I can't remember the place but I was really surprised that they bother to have her cower when I stumbled on a statue of that daedric prince. Serana was really very frustrating; after cookie-cutter characters with the same lines and even same voices she was genuinely interesting. I had more fun in a bit of dlc than I did the rest of the fucking game.

Who said you couldn't just kill them and assume power?

Your stomach isn't big enough to contain the universe, no matter how much of a big dick dragonslayer you are.

Because in the end you're still just a shard while Akatosh/Lorkhan is the whole rest. And you can't kill Alduin unless you're in Sovngarde. So there's no way you could absorb his soul.

Wouldn't surprise me if in canon, you never made it out of Sovngarde and instead assumed your place on Shor's throne as the chosen avatar.

Eh just make him your bitch or something.

Enderal can't fix the shitty gameplay though

Akatosh? No.
Alduin? You can kill him, but how are you going to subjugate all the dragons? Alduin could do it because he was normally unkillable and was able to resurrect them. The dragons have no reason to bow down to you.

Yes, not even intrested but over the years things become known. Then again my friends aren't total degenerates so maybe this just isn't a big deal like it is for the pozzed generations.

other than being scared shitless of having their souls eaten?

fucking why? I would never confess my fetishes to anyone. though I am a degenerate so maybe that's why

:^)

You engine is shit, Todd.
Stop rebranding Gamebryo every five years!

Autism. Massive doses of it. Adding whatever mod which increase player needs, actions and content.

You also have to be highly autistic to think you can polish a turd. You can definitely improve the gameplay but thanks to the horrible engine capabilities for modding it can only go so far. I'de love to see Skryim built from the ground up to work more like Morrowind but just saying that makes me think of how much shit you would have to do alter, change and produce to get it in working order. The best you can do I think quality wise is turn the game isn't a sex simulator with mediocre gameplay. And it's only mediocre after the mods. At least then there's an element that can make up for just about anything. You're right though. After a certain point you can get so obsessed with adding mods and making sure they all are compatible that suddenly 2 months have passed and you're renaming mesh files and going into blender to fix minor tweaks and everything is held together by duct tape that only you know how to fix and manage.

Polishing a turd is the wrong analogy; it's more like people are taking a turd (Skyrim), composting it (breaking it down into individual components and then reassembling those components) and then using it grow flowers (a new experience).

Having spent 200 hours modding Oblivion and Skyrim alike I can safely say that the game simply can't be broken down by adding mods. The base gameplay is just to fundamentally flawed to the point where it would need a complete makeover from the ground up to fix. Overhauls rarely if ever come close to doing this. Much less so on a Bethesda title.

Why fix what's already perfect?

put zelda in it

I spent 90 hours on skyrim before I gave up. As said in this thread a few times already, the game is just fundamentally flawed and can't be fixed.

Good job getting a shit thread to almost 300 replies then.

So what exactly would you do to fix the combat mechanics of Skyrim?

I always find it an interesting topic, because TES is a first person RPG series at heart and therefore the combat can't really involve that big a set of combos or really fun moves like in Xenoblade. You could make it more like Dark Messiah, but I feel like at this point that physics-based sword combat is that game's own fingerprint and it can border on gimmicky if you're not careful about designing it

Personally, I'm indifferent to TES' combat. It works alright in Morrowind because your stats play a very significant role, it's absolutely horrid in Oblivion because of the damage responses and sponge enemies, and in Skyrim it's just okay because you and the enemies clearly suffer from staggering effects and your weapons feel like they have weight - the main drawback here being that your stats don't mean much to the weight AND the combat outcome is supposed to be 1:1 to your input, meaning they can't really spice it up with special moves.

I like making everything more of a glass cannon, instead of the retarded multipliers Bethesda uses, going up in difficulty should give boosts to both, your damage and the enemies damage
Having everything do 3x the damage it should normally do while your damage is lowered to 25% is fucking retarded.

Make it deadlier and faster, give enemies specialized strengths and weaknesses and give everyone a bigger toolbox that rewards specialization. Of course, this also requires fixing pretty much everything else in the game so it's not so much as "fix" as "what Bethesda could have done but didn't".

Get rid of Bethesda's fucktarded level scaling in place of just putting higher level enemies in higher level later areas of the game and vice versa for lowe level areas so that when you do level up and increase skill it actually means something and gives a sense of achievement.

Also I'd like to see inventory weight play more of a role in gameplay than just being the barrier line for how much shit you can carry kind of like Stalker. Carrying a lot of stuff should reduce your overall stamina regeneration and speed also reducing your overall effectiveness in combat.

Different classes of weapons should also be more well defined in their roles as well with warhammers being great at fucking people up in armor, swords great at thrusting and cutting into enemies, axes as a general mix of the two, and spears being sole thrusting weapons but have the benefit of being able to attack further away.

Also reintroduce Morrowind's dice roll system but instead of being hit vs miss chance change it into an overall damage scale chance. The lower your levels are the lower the damage done will be and the higher your levels are the higher damage will be done. Basically a determination between good form and weapon skill and poor weapon skill and form. An animation to go along would help.

Fist person combat is really hard to do properly, DM did it right by being versatile with the physics (however the levels tended to turn into fun meat grinders with you being the trigger).

One thing that FPS ARPGs never do properly is to combine different aspects from other ARPG games. Grabs, punching, stances, kicking properly (for fucks sake), a quick key for throwing weapons, spears, proper mounted combat, not-boiling down weapons into 2-5 broad and bland types, not being lazy with the animations, weather, mud, rain.

I don't mean to say that hyper-realism in the combat would fix things, but more attention to detail and frustrations everyone has had with shit combat that the TES series has given should be made note of. Why more attention to detail? Because the combat is RIGHT THERE in your face. You're going to pay attention to it for 99% of the game. This was my biggest gripe in these games and always has been. How much more dynamic would combat be if you could walk into raid a bandit tower like a prepared, well-armed adventurer instead of a LARPING SCP reject? If you could hit things and have them react?

How about pushing that berserking Orc bandit into that muddy ditch and slow him down? How about picking up that wolf attacking you for no reason (another shit part of the game) and throwing him off a cliff / into his buddies / into a fire. How about magic not look like fucking ass and take some cues from the weebs and actually make it look… magical, not some bible-era parlor tricks?

Or at least make it clear your character is fucking up with differet animations for different skill levels.

YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY, DON'T YOU, TRAINWIZ???

One of the greatest crimes that Bethesda did in Skyrim was gutting magic, especially the non-combat applications. Granted, this already happened to an extent in Oblivion but holy shit did it get worse in a hurry when they removed spellcrafting and actually managed to make it more boring to use on top of that. I can think of half a dozen things off the top of my head that they could have done to make it more interesting and that mods have been doing for five and a half years now but they didn't do any of it.

See though, I doubt they are stupid enough to really think their shit combat is really great and not a boring slap fight. I they gutted magic because they realized it would outclass any melee / ranged interaction whatsoever. It was already like this in Morrowind, making your own bs spells was so fun it hid the fact the combat hadn't evolved since Daggerfall, it still hasn't. Butchering birth signs was also a shit move, lets not forget the rushed nature of everything Bethshitta does, Civil War anyone?