The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim

skyrim is a glorified lewdness simulator, without mods it is nothing.

CoC is text based, right? that makes it garbage right there.

bet you use tilesets you humongous fag

Doesn't matter how it compares to another game, the combat is just terrible. There's nothing tactical or interesting about the combat, you just spam your attack until the enemy dies, and then pause the game and stuff your face full of potions/food/whatever to heal, and then repeat. It doesn't even feel good to do that, using melee feels extremely sluggish somehow like you're playing some down syndrome kid fighting niggers.

Enemies sometimes become massive damage sponges and/or kill you in 1 hit if you happened to scale your own power incorrectly, it's even worse if random encounter dragons do that because they tend to wipe out entire towns and there's nothing you can do about it. Enemies mostly just charge/shoot at you brainlessly, and sometimes dodge your arrows at lightspeed because the game RNG decided that the enemy should dodge your hit. Dungeons are filled with the same enemy over and over and there's a general lack of variety, not that it would help much since the combat is so helplessly plain that every enemy feels the same.

I think Skyrim's world is great, it's really comfy to explore and find things in. But the core gameplay and combat just does not feel good, especially in first person.

More?

I too enjoy exploring linear corridors that lead back to the entrance. Cities with 10 buildings are also great to explore.

you install enderal

Make it in an engine that isn't shit, hire competent modelers so the NPCs don't look like potatoes, fire every combat designer and hire someone that knows what they're doing so the combat doesn't suck, exterminate every last writer and their families and find talented writers.

Alternatively, admit that TES is a shit franchise and look for go play Gothic.

Miles better than Skyrimjob, but it's boring as shit classic fantasy, very well done classic fantasy, but still boring as shit.

Does anyone know when Skyrim 2 is supposed to release? I'm tired of waiting.

I will laugh my ass off if they still haven't changed engines for TES VI.

Seriously, man. That shit was way too overrated. I will give them that they made a very interest whole brand new land from scratch, crystal forest was most gorgeous, and dungeons are handcrafted and way better than Skyrim. But the story was the worst shit I ever have the misfortune to came upon it and it utterly destroys whatever good the game/mod did. Bonus points because the devs are Germans.

Look at its predecessor Nehrim (2010), themes are:

Six years later, Germany is fucking shitholestan and Enderal (2016) was released, themes are:
>Main characters tries to avert the prophesied fate to save the world, but ended up fulfilling it and kills everything in the world like fucking retards save for the ending you and your partner are the only two person surviving in a spaceship with no food/water/means to settle down and will eventually slowly die in the cold void. Even if you did not launch that magical nuke, everyone would eventually succumb to red madness and

Devs know they as a whole nation have forsaken their God, bought into liberal meme, and now they realised they are the architect of their own destruction. So they are made this game/mod realised to confess their mistakes before sticking a bratwurst into their ear and shove it out the other because they do not have guns.

Whatever potential it had has been exploited by now. As has been said a million times, mods *can't* save it, if they could they would have by now, what's needed is a whole new title. It's not so much that Skyrim is 'bad' ( inb4 shitmouth posts: We all played the fuck out of it after all) but it's 6 years old so the flaws just stack up, the combat is ropey, the levelling is weird and exploitable, the fucking Dragur are infinite, the towns are too simple, the NPCs are repetitious retards and the replay value is limited to Nord or Imp and not much else.

What *was* needed (while the game was being made) was more care and attention paid to what the game feels like after about 50 hours, by then you know its flaws and limits and from then on they stick in your mind.

Stop thinking mods will fix games, mods are like recreational drugs, they make the game tolerable for a limited time but then you realise the game/life is still shit and you need more and more.

All the good Germans died in the two world wars. What is left is the genetic garbage too weak and cowardly to fight for their country.

The lore in Elder Scrolls is actually decent.

I don't give a fuck about your multicultural empire and tranny gods. Any setting that has smart nigger unicorns as a whole race is shit. Leave it to Bethesda to find a way to fuck up something as cool as ersatz-Roman Empire.

MEh.

Morrowind was meh. Hated the entire "deepest lore"

People keep laughing at all the great ways to break the game and glitches.
Big woof, every ES game has funny bugs and glitches.
Skyrim is good enough. I'd rather play it than Morrowind

Skyrim and Oblivion are only good for porn mods.

Mods and modders aren't miracle workers, they can't fix the core. If the core is shit, the mods can only polish it and put sprinkles on it. To understand this, just go look at any "fixed combat" that Skyrim has; they all look and play terrible because they can't change how the game works.

umm no, sweetie

I don't think that they have anyone competent enough to make a new engine. The next TES title would probably require at least XBOX or PS4 Pro to run.

Then you get a much better map and quests at the expense of losing nearly every major mod that inproves gameplay. Plus Enderal somehow managed to have an even worse skill leveling system than vanilla Skyrim.

I enjoyed it for what it is. I only added a few minor mods and fixes.

Morrowind is the best RPG game ever made. The skill customization is boundless. It's not just the lore and environment that made Morrowind, for me what really made it great is the exploration of game mechanics and exploits. It's miles ahead of other RPG's.

Oblivion was way worse than Skyrim.

Why did they kill so much of the RPG element for the sake of making a mediocre action game? Nobody wants to follow floating objective markers around whilst hacking down damage sponges and making irrelevant decisions.

Seems like they were responding to the fans' criticism of the screwed up stats system of Oblivion, I really hate the leveling there. Also, Radiant quests and the possibility to maximize all skills make it apparent that Skyrim is intended to be played in only one playthrough, looks like Todd hates replaying a game with slightly different class. At least they tried to improve the combat with FO4.

I get the damage sponge, but people who just love exploration sandbox games do. It's not like Morrowind had much relevant decision that doesn't involve character customization either. But yeah, the joy of building an OP character in Morrowind is now gone.

All they did was remove the RNG in whether or not your attacks hitting could still "miss". Maybe that's the problem, though. They could've done a lot more and they didn't even bother.

Skyrim 2 when fellow gamers xd?

A part of it has to do with making it more accessible in my opinion, but also it could be that Todd just likes action games more than RPGs and wants that to be the direction TES takes.

They made leveling up skills easier too. You can become all classes in skyrim in one run. Some people don't like it, although for me it's a non issue.

Not really, Todd's favorite game is Ultima 7. He never really cared about the combat and RPG mechanics though, he only loved to explore the things you can do in the game and observe NPC activities. Immersion stuff.

No, it didn't.

Good joke. M&M, Wizardries, Ultimas and early Gothics shit all over Morrowind.

Wizardy barely has a story, it's not even comparable

Wrong.

You'd think they'd do something productive with that other FPS company they bought years ago.

That's just your opinion bro. None of these games has anything that makes Morrowind truly shine. They have different essence. In my opinion Gothic and Gothic 2 are huge smelly pile of shit, the combat, exploration and progression deserve to be raped to death, but that's just my opinion.

First of all, wrong, second of all, oh no, an rpg with minimal story, what a travesty.

It's no wonder you like Morrowind.

Let me guess, Gothics had shit exploration because if you went somewhere unprepared you'd get your ass handed to you.

And bad, unfixable controls on top of all that shit. No wonder why TES sells more than gothshit.

I'm not against anyone who like gothic though. It does offer a different adventure with a more refined pacing and questline/storyline. But that's not what I play mwind for.

muh atmosphere?

We only need the Toddposter, the fucker whining about Kirkbride and the thread is complete.

Again, it's no wonder you like Morrowind.

No. It's for muh sprawling open world, muh customization, and muh jumping over 10 mountains and killing dagoth ur without the special dagger if you know what you're doing.

don't make me laugh you faggot. oblivion and/or redguard was the downfall of TES

Install porn mods
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Sage

It's better for me and those who enjoyed it. I never spoke from the objective perspective.

That was Oblivion.

What whining, I can appreciate Kikebride's refined tastes in black youths and dunmeri tranny whores.

archive.is/kmaQR

LOL

Yeah, I'm sure skyrim 2 will be amazing for morrowindfags.

OP, my good man, you only need one mod: Auto-Potion.
It's a cute little mod that makes you drink Health\Magicka\Stamina potions automatically when said resource drops below 50%, with plenty of options to avoid wasting potions and all that.
Why do you need this mod?

So you fucking realize how terrible combat is once you stop opening the menu every 10 seconds to down yet another potion.
Once you realize that HP potions act as "Fortify Health" in that they extend the amount of HP you can spend in a fight, you'll see that the entire combat of Skyrim is just this: Can you deal enough damage to remove all HP from your enemy before he can do the same to you?
If you can't, bring more potions and that will increase the amount of time you have to kill the other guy.

There's nothing to do with Skyrim's combat that isn't swinging your butterknife in someone's face to see their HP go down and hope that it lowers faster than yours do. There's no parries, no timed blocks, NO FUCKING DODGES, no dirty tricks, no melee stances and stamina management is a fucking joke, worse than Oblivion which was already horrible.

The most advanced tactic in melee combat for Skyrim is to hold your shield infinitely until the AI tards out and attacks you, at which point they'll recoil, be briefly stunned and give you time for a few free attacks. Once they recover, deploy the shield and repeat until they are dead. SUCH AMAZING TECHNIQUE!

This is for melee combat, ranged is even worse since there's no locational damage, no extra arrows with utility or even extra elemental damage and enemies can pinpoint your location the minute an arrow lands on them. It becomes a game about killing them before they can reach you or exploiting the fact that the AI can't jump to cheese them out.

Magic is an entire different chapter. It's better but also worse than Oblivion and Morrowind, and yet it's still fucking shit, especially the new Ward spells that are so useless you might as well just /kill yourself if you ever use one.

There's no fixing Skyrim, it never was intended to be a deep and complex game with an hard combat system to grasp and learn.
It's a trek across the mountains where you kill giants and dragons for fun and not chalenge and you can't fix that.

Also this: Say whatever you want about Oblivion, at least it wasn't this bad. There was still some fun to be had there, there were at least some decent RPG mechanics and stats to use.

Unarmed was viable and interesting since it dealt Stamina Damage. Not only you reduced your oponent's damage, you could eventually make them trip and fall. And since it was faster, bob&weaving was also far easier.

Blade and Blunt were mostly the same, Blades being a bit faster but hitting for a bit less, but there was a game of managing your stamina, not spamming your attacks, not just running around all the time and timing when you attacked to maximize the damage done with the stamina you were spending while in Skyrim, Stamina is just a Special Meter.

You could make some fun poisons\spells to drain Agility and make your oponent stagger or trip more often, something you had to take into account as well for you, and magic was still freeform. It's not great and neither was Morrowind in how spell progression worked, but at least it was unique instead of treating your spells like a new weapon you buy.

You could at least influence the system a bit better, especially with the Illusion Spells, and magical protection was far more simple but at least it worked unlike Wards and you had far more utility than just a nav marker, or boosting atributes with Restoration.

Oblivion was a bad RPG but at least it tried to be an RPG, Skyrim just gave up and became a walking simulator for dudebros.

Nice! Now the only one left is the Toddposter.

Ted posting close enough?

I can close an eye, but just this time.

No it's not.

Because Bethesda can't make a good action game, so they make Action RPGs instead. RPGs are a fucking travesty.

In this case you're absolutely right. At its core, Skyrim is mechanically built to be shit and that's why to this day modding it is mainly limited to the superficial. Skyrim looks great when modded but never truly plays great. Oblivion's core was healthy and capable of being modified to its core and so despite Skyrim being out of the box in better shape than Oblivion, Oblivion was the only one that plays like a great game when modified.

What's a good enb for looking at pretty girls, pretty colors, and not being too resource heavy? I got a mod so that power attacks knockdown. It's fun.

Step 1: Get Morrowind
Step 2: Get OpenMW
Step 3: Get Skyrim Home Of The Nords
Step 4: Help complete Step 2 and 3's projects

It's only good for porn mods and graphics modding but honestly in the end it's not even worth it. My dick gets hard for Argonians but the time and effort it takes to mod Skyrim is huge and most of the time it ends up incredibly unstable because Gamebryo is a piece of hot dog shit and it'll crash frequently. At that point I'd rather just look up porn instead.

Better question: what mod is that girl from?

Is openMW more stable than regular morrowind. I am sick and tired of all the crashes.

OpenMW is more stable and runs much better than vanilla Morrowind, yes. It's still not fully complete but it's done enough that you won't notice anything missing unless you scrutinize every minor detail possible.

It works on linux right? I had issues where the windows version would not display the cursor correctly right in fullscreen mode.

Works fine on Linux.

No it didn`t, it was designed to be as simple and streamlined as an RPG can be, it was made on simply THE WORST engine out there and the community is as bad as it gets, the type that can`t even name another RPG besides skyrim.

Ironically the only use of this game is porn mods, it hilariously beats everything there is and was in the market right now.

What's fundamentally flawed in Skyrim:

Aspects that will forever be subpar:
>Sandbox aspect (lack of truly dynamic events, NPCs are FAR more stationary than in Oblivion, long etc.)

What can be improved:

Sum-up: You can turn the game into a shallow modern sandbox game with pretty graphics, some housing development options, "realism" options for survival and a shit load of content.
You can't make it a good RPG because all the necessary aspects of an RPG are fucked.
You can't turn it into a proper action game due to severe limitations of the engine fork being used. At most, you can improve it to the point where player skills matter; then again, the AI will be forever dumb and boring with severe pathfinding issues.
You can't turn it into a proper sandbox (like Kenshi, to mention a modern example) due to technical limitations mainly related to how the game handles cells and NPCs (an on-going problem since Oblivion days).

There is nothing else to it… well, besides turning it into a mediocre porn game/waifu maker.

Alternatives:

You can't really fix it with mods.
People have tried.
After playing both games years later I believe Dark Souls and or Witcher 2 deserved GOTY 2011.
But they didn't because they're not the elder scrolls series.
One a japanese spiritual successor to a PS3 exclusive and other the direct sequel to a polish PC game nobody played because they were too busy enjoying Mass Effect 1 in 2006 as EA wasn't the shitsucking publisher behind Bioware yet.

I played Skyrim many times.
Bought all the DLC.
Got the special edition for free because of it and got 100% of the achievements.

First thing you do to make it a better game is to hold off on becoming the dragonborn for as long as possible.
Dragon fights are ironically the worst part of that game.
They become simply an annoyance.

The dragon shouts make you far too overpowered much like using most augs in DE:HR, another 2011 game.

A problem you can't change is that much like the combat, the puzzles in the game aren't difficult as well.

One of the saddest facts is how many quests aren't open ended.
You can join the stormcloaks, empire or broker a deal between the two.
You can join the vampires or the dawnguard.
and you can decide who wins Camilla heart, Sven or Faendal.

You don't get to join the Silver Hand in exterminating the Warewolves.
You don't get to destroy the Thieves Guild.

You actually get to destroy the Dark Brotherhood but it isn't as eventful as joining it.

The cities are too small.
The caves and such are so incredibly copy and paste.
You just fight Draugr over and over and over and over.
Some desks are just bookcases clipped into the ground.

One thing that sticks out to me is that there are chandeliers, they are a light source suspended by chains and you can not move them.

I feel like they could have tried more and they didn't because they knew they didn't have to, and they were right.

I have mods to overhaul combat, graphics and added player made story mods and gameplay, changed how loot works and made it so the pointers are toggable and all quests text got reworked so you can figure out where to go by reading the journal.
Actually makes it a fun game especially with timed blocks/cripple effects and an overhauled perk tree

The player made story mods are usually the best since most give a shit about the lore and push the shitty engine to its limits. Base skyrim is trash but mods make it an entirely new game using the framework jewthesda built made by actual niggas who play games. Still waiting for a faggot to make mods that replace all the guilds in skyrim with new questlines, locations and voiceacting

Witcher 2 is the weakest of the 3 Witcher games. It had abysmal combat and mechanics that I wished for the rhythm combat of the first game, and only had its story going for it (as long as you played with best girl Roche)

The entire elder scrolls series is trash. The writing is mostly bad, the combat is consistently terrible. Animations are basic.

The only reason the series was able to get to the point it's at now is because of Morrowind which is the best of the worst.

Though, the normalfags who play Skyrim so much that it got re-released a half dozen times, have none of this recollection. I have no idea what the appeal of Skyrim was or is. I suppose it's the pinnacle of mediocrity? Maybe it's dragons? Or maybe it was the Fus-Roh-Doh meme's.

If they improve the combat system in their next installment that would be great. If they make their world somehow feel alive, even better. If the other parts of the world feel more significant (like being a vampire) that'd be stellar.

Animations, frame rate, etc can follow, but they've already established that they care about graphics more than anything and will devote all of their resources to higher resolution ultra HD 4k ultra surround sound textures.

and shit, a more imaginative magic system.

No, it had not.
The combat is shit at its core and cannot be salvaged.

If you wanted to start a mod thread, you should have just started a mod thread.

Elder Scrolls in entry level/pleb RPG series. It's like Macs when it comes to computers. People that are stupid adore it but can't enjoy or understand anything else. Arx > Morrowind.

How do I increase spawns to match my big party size without having every wench/cow/dragon come in groups of 5?

Give me your mod list nigger. I'm curious how much it changes the game.

200 mods nigger, go hot files on nexus and top 100 then see alternatives and mix/match until you find your favorite.
Shit like simolion keep vanilla combat but spice it up + ordinator perk overhaul is a good start. There are bigger overhauls that completely change combat though
If you're stuck using the special ed there isnt a script extender yet so no amazing mods for it right now but they got some decent shit

If you want quest mods then try forgotten city, Sun&moon, rigmor of bruma, Clockwork and beyond skyrim: bruma (massive mod adds bruma+ local area and quality voice acting)
And you can try trainwiz shit which everyone loves but are really clunky, full of bugs and Trainwiz is a bit of a cunt

It was a first-person hack-and slash written by hacks for teenagers. It had no potential. You'd have to completely re-do it from the ground up.

I remember buying it when it first came out for my 360 and had I blast. I was 16 at the time though

fuck off Todd, no ones making your games for you faggot.

Disagree.

There's nothing wrong with the story. Better than Oblivions. And to me more interesting than Morrowinds.

The AI in all ES games was nothing to write home about. I'm tired of Morrowfags constantly ejaculating all over Morrowind like it's some masterpiece. It's not.
"Everything is a dream, n'wah! That's so deep duuude!" is the opinion of a retard that's easily impressed by novelty and thinks.
The only thing I liked about Morrowind was the conversation/topic system.

IT IS SHIT. Period.

Played it once, never want to play it again.

Boundless customization? You have a mountain you want to sell me there, friendo?

what did he mean by this?

The Elder Scrolls series is mostly shit, Morrowind was the best game in the series… not a masterpiece. Skyrim is total fucking garbage, I pirated it years ago and uninstalled after an hour.

Why is this thread still open? First answer already covered everything there is to say.

Nepotistic retards
Cannibalizes more talented companies with shady practices
The CEO isn't allowed to be involved in banking anymore.

3 levels of cancer

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Every penny I've ever had on the fanmade voice acting in every mod being utter hack dogshit or cringey tryhard art students.

I don't mind if the actual acting is shit, what really takes me out of it is if the recording sounds like they did it from a laptop microphone in another room.

You play Morrowind instead

or you could play an even better RPG like wizardry or ultima

We need a crossover of modders and ASMR artists. Their high quality mics and angelic voices will save story mods.

or you could play nihongo vidya

Scrutinize which details?

I asked this last Skyrim mod thread but can someone give me a concise list of essential oblivion mods that don't change the game too drastically? Im looking for graphics mods, QoL, and bug fixers. I already have FOV slider and leveling mod installed.

True, but the same goes for all western countries plus japland.

Also, skyrim is shit and the op is a retarded b8er.

you are retarded beyond down syndrome. morrowind was a sandbox with no roleplaying at all, just walking road sign npcs.

Are you retarded? w3's combat is retarded helicopter dance shit and had writing dumbed down to skyrim-level for single-iq kids like you. also w1's combat was pure shit with its click-wait-click bullshit.

NEVER EVER

;_;

Stirk is out and it's pretty good.

But it's not the entirety of Cyrodill.

This is true but I believe what made Enderal better was that it had the one thing Skyrim lacks; Heart in world building

The problem with Skyrim is the world fucking sucks. Slap on as many mods as you want; it won't change the linear hallways and mmo fetch quests

Well just wait another 30 odd years.

retards like you shouldn't even touch the game

cap remover mods

I'd prefer linear hallways to Daggerfall's autistic labyrinth. Fetch quests is fine too, as long as the location of target item is definite.

That looks fun as fuck

You can get so fucking autistic with Morrowind you don't wanna know.

Skyrim might be shit but by god do the sex mods make it an A++ fap game.

what's wrong with her face, it's like she was kicked by a horse or something

Any mods that fixes/reworks the god awful combat?

That shit is fun for roughly 5 minutes before it stops being fun and you start realizing that there's only so many mudhuts you can jump over. I guess I shouldn't expect anything less from an easily entertained Morrokiddie.

Just max out the weapon or magic skill. Combat is only like 10% of the game anyway.

Beyond the jumping itself, the fun lies in attempting to develop your character into that mighty of a being though. Even more so without internet guides. You can raise your intelligent to an indefinite number with alchemy and create really sick potions out of it. Very, very few games have this kind of fun.

How would I change "PowerAttackTypeSide [KYWD:000914E7]" into a default attack or standing power attack?

Porn.

And after that more porn
You can't polish Skyrim to be good, the problems are just to deep. Oblivion on the other hand…

She was dicked by a horse or something

Install some depraved as fuck porn mods and just jack off. It's the only fun to be had from skyrimjob.

I feel like that with the Atelier games and how much you can just break the game by synthesizing over and over

I like that Elder scrolls server that we've got up and going.

I just wish there was a central mod repository that enables new players to servers to auto download them to make sure everyone is compatible.

Enderal was utter fucking shit though.

And to show I'm not just dicking around, I will say that it did at least add some pretty new areas like the deserts, valleys and forests, but that's about it for me.

I hate it when they tease shit like this but never release it. Also is Bruma any good in terms of just wandering about and looking at the sights and are there any good hunting mods in this crap fest or something that expands the game's number of fauna/monsters and alchemy ingredients?

Holy shit what the fuck. What's the point of even having magic if you can't regain mana without all these really awkward ways of doing so?

End your life.

No mods can fix it, but a few small changes could do some serious good.
Bring back Morrowwind's durability system and related smithing stuff
Make spells more varied and items have on use effects
Add in climbing

Harvest Flora
The Unofficial patches
and I'm still looking for a mod that fixes the leveled lists that's not OOO
I don't change graphix, but a pretty renowned UI mod was called Darnified or something like that.

Take a look at this retard.

This guys. Co-Op multi player is the way to go.

I like the spellcrafting system though, I will say that. Still don't understand why people consider this the best one though. It has plenty of flaws. Combat is awkward, magic regain is awkward, dungeons are small and most of the time have nothing worth entering the dungeon for, and after a while you start to notice you keep seeing the same buildings over and over. I honestly don't understand why people enjoy Morrowind so much. Someone explain.

Most Skyrim mods out there are debatable so you should experiment for yourself, but this one is definitely essential.

I like requiem builds. Take a look at the ultimate skyrim modlist (you can make skyrim roguelike if youre into that sort of thing) Add in some combat overhauls to introduce timed blocking, improve ai, and increase lethality. That plus some bits from the sands of time project and skyrim becomes a scary place.

The only way to enjoy this shit heap for me is to turn it into a part smut, part hunting/survival simulator because there is nothing else to enjoy. Quests simply aren't that interesting, dungeons all feel and look the same, combat is an utter drag and the perks are all boring modifiers.
Least I can turn it into a feral loli sim that gets impregnated by wolves and tries to rape and pillage bandits and travelers for a few hours before I drop it and forget I even have it installed.

Good thing you're not the arbiter of good taste, now is it?

Any porn mod packs or at least somewhere to start?

loverslab HDT Vagina

Christ, that screenshot looks hideous.
By completely redoing it from the ground up.

See, if this was posted on Holla Forums the mods would delete it in minutes. really goes to show the superiority of a heavy hand.

Reported for C&D

you mean D&C? or C&C?

Ohhh, first you conquer, then you divide.

Flood posts, nice try ShareBlue. Bump to the top.

Go fuck yourself.
You're not the boss of anyone, let alone of your little limp dick or your gaping anus.

had like 300+ mods before i gave up on this piece of shit i really wanted to like it but its just shit

try uninstall.exe, user. It's the best mod for skyrim out there.

He has a point though. CoC is to different game play wise to compare and has entirely different fetishes.