Skyrim is unmoddable. I tried playing it last weekend, and you people are delusional. This game cannot be saved.
For all the fan-fare it receives, Requiem is essentially a de-leveling mod, sorta like Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul mod for Oblivion. While that's nice and all, de-leveling the world does nothing to address the multitude of Skyrim's flaws.
Obviously mods can't fix crappy writing, or animations, but I was hoping I could at least fix combat, like I did in Fallout 3 and New Vegas. This too proved impossible. I tried or read about pretty much every mod out there. Duel, Wildcat, Combat evolved, ultimate combat, duke patrick's heavy weapons, etc, etc. Requiem also has some in-built combat enhancements.
All of these mods pretty much try to introduce incentives to do timed blocking (instead of just holding block up), and to introduce stamina costs to combat actions, to prevent the default vanilla button mashing. The problem is it all miserably fails. Stamina costs fail because you can just increase stamina as you level up, and there are other ways to use up less of it, so in the end, it becomes irrelevant. Timed blocking fails because the game does not support it at all. The default enemy attack animations and damage application happens so fast for 1-handed weapons (especially smaller ones like daggers), that it is impossible to parry in time just by watching the enemy. As soon as you see them start the attack, they've already hit you. One guy made a mode to slow down the animations, and it works for 1h axes and swords to some degree, but not for other weapons.
