Skyrim is worse than Oblivion in every way

[Metro]

But... again... you aren't going to run into money shortage anyway. Of course I'm assuming you all kill shit in dungeons and don't just E-LARP friendly alchemist vendor.

 

[RK47]

But... again... you aren't going to run into money shortage anyway.

The thing about scaled leveling, you hardly found anything worthwhile to buy anyway. You need to level up to buy anything of value from the store. Check the stores at level 1, no rare ores. All irons, mostly steel. Hence, I never do those 'crafting' in Vanilla Skyrim. The difficulty didn't need it. It was too easy. Combat to level, ignore crafting. Maximize effective combat perks - ignore Speechcraft etc.

This approach doesn't work in Requiem mod - the mod's dungeons aren't really a walk in the park at low level.
Bleak barrows (the first Draughr ruins outside Riverwood) was do-able at level 2 in Vanilla, not so in Requiem for a survivor from Helgen. Not to mention the merchants are simply cut-throat on the selling prices. Expect to only get less than 20% of the item value when you sell without perks.

 

[Kitako]

are there any good quest mods for this shit yet

I don't have the game installed for months, but Interesting NPCs had some fairly interesting quests. And npcs.

 

[G.O.D]

Ulfric is portrayed as a xenophobic douche who can't even tolerate the existence of other races in Skyrim. Aryan Nord purity enforced by his stormtrooperscloaks.

Meanwhile he is perfectly fine with the Dragonborn joining the Stormcloaks while being a Altmer or Breton or something other non native, which makes no sense at all.

Also, Bethesda missed some great opportunities in some instances. If they would have adopted the faction system of New Vegas, they could have done so many neat things story wise.
For example, when i first did the "Forsworn Conspiracy" quest, is was briefly under the impression you could actually do quests for them by aiding them. But alas.
This would require the player to be a Breton to make any sense though.
So disappointing.

 

[Xeon]

There is Falskaar. Some people are saying its as big as an official expansion dlc. Did not fully play it but did watch some of it on YT.

Fully voiced and a similar quest mechanic as an official dlc with radiant fitch quests, kill that guy, retrieve that item and a some side and a main quests.

 

[Lhynn]

Any Mods turning off the Cliff Racers Random Dragons? Dragons should be unique beats and encounters with them rare and challenging; Its one of the rare things which Bioware made right in DAO. Also for being sandboxy Skirim is on huge rails when the quests goes; returned as Wampire to Dawnguard Fort and noone even coommented not to mention attacked my hero for being Undead Monster what a from Morrowind.

There is a mod to make all quests optional, being able to turn them down or changing the results of some of them, and it still doesnt fix the fact that quest implementation in skrim was done poorly.
There is another mod that modifies dragons completly and lets you determine how strong, how smart and how rare they are. Both of them are ranked fairly high at the nexus.

Still, beth sucks at making anything but a huge map full of stuff, it falls on modders or other devs to actually make the game good. Whomever was responsible for making morrowind probably left the boat or sold his soul a long time ago.

 

[G.O.D]

Any Mods turning off the Cliff Racers Random Dragons? Dragons should be unique beats and encounters with them rare and challenging; Its one of the rare things which Bioware made right in DAO. Also for being sandboxy Skirim is on huge rails when the quests goes; returned as Wampire to Dawnguard Fort and noone even coommented not to mention attacked my hero for being Undead Monster what a from Morrowind.

Whomever was responsible for making morrowind probably left the boat or sold his soul a long time ago.

Ah, that must have been Ken Rolsten.

 

[Lhynn]

Any Mods turning off the Cliff Racers Random Dragons? Dragons should be unique beats and encounters with them rare and challenging; Its one of the rare things which Bioware made right in DAO. Also for being sandboxy Skirim is on huge rails when the quests goes; returned as Wampire to Dawnguard Fort and noone even coommented not to mention attacked my hero for being Undead Monster what a from Morrowind.

Whomever was responsible for making morrowind probably left the boat or sold his soul a long time ago.

Ah, that must have been Ken Rolsten.

*Rolston
And i bet he not only left the boat but sold his soul. have you played kingdoms of amalur? (sorry, couldnt come up with any insulting name for the game with such short notice)

 

[G.O.D]

Any Mods turning off the Cliff Racers Random Dragons? Dragons should be unique beats and encounters with them rare and challenging; Its one of the rare things which Bioware made right in DAO. Also for being sandboxy Skirim is on huge rails when the quests goes; returned as Wampire to Dawnguard Fort and noone even coommented not to mention attacked my hero for being Undead Monster what a from Morrowind.

Whomever was responsible for making morrowind probably left the boat or sold his soul a long time ago.

Ah, that must have been Ken Rolsten.

*Rolston
And i bet he not only left the boat but sold his soul. have you played kingdoms of amalur? (sorry, couldnt come up with any insulting name for the game with such short notice)

Right, Rolston.
Well yeah, concidering the transition from MW to Oblivion, that's selling out.

No didn't play Amalur. Not interrested.

 

[Lhynn]

No didn't play Amalur. Not interrested.

Yeah, no one was.

 

[Caim]

What was Amalur's "thing" that would make it sell like hotcakes according to EA? I sort of missed out on the hype.

 

[Lhynn]

What was Amalur's "thing" that would make it sell like hotcakes according to EA? I sort of missed out on the hype.

No idea, single player wow? Skyrim but more pointless? a game youll never finish playing! because you wont bother.

 

[DraQ]

Any Mods turning off the Cliff Racers Random Dragons? Dragons should be unique beats and encounters with them rare and challenging; Its one of the rare things which Bioware made right in DAO.

Get Mighty Dragons.
Lowers dragon frequency, gives them individual names, abilities and combat styles. Configurable in many aspects including difficulty and frequency of dragon attacks.

Personally I recommend piling it on top of Requiem, but there *will* be rape.

Also for being sandboxy Skirim is on huge rails when the quests goes; returned as Wampire to Dawnguard Fort and noone even coommented not to mention attacked my hero for being Undead Monster what a from Morrowind.

Yes, it's massive , but you don't play Skyrim for quests.

Question: does follower actually consume potions? I've been debating to hand over healing potions to my followers.

They do.

I'm also puzzled why blacksmiths and enchanters can't upgrade items for you.

I guess they tried to make the crafting skills useful. One step forward, two steps back.

This approach doesn't work in Requiem mod - the mod's dungeons aren't really a walk in the park at low level.

This.

Bleak barrows (the first Draughr ruins outside Riverwood) was do-able at level 2 in Vanilla, not so in Requiem for a survivor from Helgen.

That heavily depends on your build, but even if doable it's going to be pretty fucking hardcore.

No didn't play Amalur. Not interrested.

Yeah, no one was.

Well done, good sir. Well done.

 

[Delterius]

Tropical Cyrodiil

I am no botanist, but I am fairly certain that palm trees cannot grow horizontally.

wat

Caim I haven't noticed any of those in the screenshots, but I do know of 'palm trees' growing 'on the horizontal'.

Fairly certain it doesn't work this way:
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Indeed it doesn't.

 

[Metro]

Requiem.

I probably should have tried that this first go but, ah well. Is that on Steam Workshop? I'm too lazy to do it manually. Maybe if I ever do a second playthrough.

Fake/real edit: Hmmm, looks like it's not as easy as installing through Workshop and you have to add some other mods/extenders/whatever. Also also looks like you need Dawnguard to use the latest version.

 

[Delterius]

Fake/real edit: Hmmm, looks like it's not as easy as installing through Workshop and you have to add some other mods/extenders/whatever. Also also looks like you need Dawnguard to use the latest version.

Yep. But if you want to make things automatic, you should just use the Nexus mod manager.

Edit: So I went to get Morrowloot and a WTF encounters mod that doesn't depend on SkyRe (I'm moving to Requiem) and both files are now hidden. Damn.

 

[Manjuice Nutella]

Requiem.

I probably should have tried that this first go but, ah well. Is that on Steam Workshop? I'm too lazy to do it manually.

Are you possibly willing to download this one mod that's not on Nexus and altruistically share it somewhere for some poor thirdworlders fighting the good fight, privately or not?

 

[Metro]

Probably not since I don't have any file hosting accounts and I'm too lazy to make one for this one thing.

 

[Commissar Draco]

There was a period where I was getting dragon attacks every other time I traveled but haven't seen one in a while. At level 35ish now and I've killed about five(?) and saw another two but they were pretty far away. Also -- not that the Civil War plot line matters -- I was pretty surprised they didn't try to balance things with gray morality. Ulfric is portrayed as a xenophobic douche who can't even tolerate the existence of other races in Skyrim. Aryan Nord purity enforced by his stormtrooperscloaks.

Visit Thalmor run places for the other side of story; the Dominion Elves are the real nazis in IV Era; Also all races aside from Orcs and Imperials are racist, xenophobic and hate everyone else in Elder Scrolls. As to poor oppressed Joos Dark elves remember how they treated you in Morrowind You N'wah! And I bet Tiber Septim was giant prick too all heroes are monsters in some way; they just focus their dark side on enemy and got remembered for good they did for their people since the enemy got frequently vanished in the process and can't write history. (Pelinal Whitestrake). In civil war both sides are shady and have some valid cause even when I take Empire side more often the persecution of Talos Worship and Thalmor do get on my nerves so their agents have tendency to ''disappear'' after meeting special Vth Legion Vexilatio ''Draco''... Skyrim is dangerous place after all.

Edit found mod adding special necklaces which got rid of Dragon and Wampires raids on cities.

 

[CrisGer]

Not having read ALL of this thread...and having studied and played and made mods for the last three of this series, yes i agree, Skyrim is a step back. Oblvoin remains superior even in graphics, the lighting in interiors in Skyrim is totally the worst I have ever seen in a RPG or any 3D world for that matter, stark, ugly and boring. Storywise also bad, and the setting is grim, and boring as well. Too bad, as i had hopes for it. I am about to release a mega mod for Oblvion that adds a new city, 50 cells of new content, over 100 custom fully scripted NPCs, a new tavern and 100 books of lore and back story about new characters, took two years and so OB is still alive. I will help with mods and any advice anyone needs..and will catch up as i have time. Buried in work and study...but happy to have found a nice niche here, a fun forum and site, thanks and hi to all.
/wave

 

[Night Goat]

As bad as the Stormcloaks are, the Empire seems worse. The first appearance of the Empire has them trying to execute the protagonist, without any sort of trial, for allegedly trying to cross a border. That seems a little extreme. Then, after being rescued by contrived coincidence, you go inside the keep and see torture devices and the bodies of prisoners left to die in cages. You would have to be pretty fucked up to think that's acceptable.

 

[RK47]

Beth is just bad at setting up protagonist entry.
Thing is, it can be easily fixed by letting the player choose what kind of background he wanted to lead.

 

[Metro]

I sided with the Empire because Tullius is voiced by Michael Hogan aka Col. Tigh!

 

[Commissar Draco]

I sided with Empire after visiting Reach hating Joos Elves and other furrfags and scalies like dirt is one thing this is old school species favoritism but doing the same to fellow Nedes is . Besides I never sided with any local factions against teh Emprah in any TES game, Didn't do this for ''opressed by Empire'' Ash Joos in Morrownind won't do this for Half of snowfags. Can't wait to play as Orc in TES Orsinium though. Those are the people who got Commissar full respect.

 

[abnaxus]

Vladimir Kulich was wasted on a lame twat like Ulfric Stormcloak.