The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

after 100% skyrim this was truly an experience had fun playing this game, some bugs were really annoying like bound bow arrows, best part mountain climbing

I can't believe it's been nearly 30 years since I became "enchanted" by the Elder Scroll gaming world. I still have all my original CD copies of all the games. I've been playing the original Skyrim, no mods or DLC plugins, for over 13 years. After completing every quest, maxing every skill level multiple times, and finding hidden treasures due to software glitches I finally decided to upgrade to the Special Edition version. Since its basically the same game with new graphics I thought I would get bored with it rather quickly; but I was wrong.
There are enough new quests, realms, characters, weapons and foes to keep me interested. When I start to get bored completing the standard quests, BOOM, there is something new. I like the "enhanced" graphics except that everything seems to be a bit to bright with a lot of orangish overtones; the original Skyrim seemed more neutral and earthy. However, I still prefer the more realistic graphics of Oblivion. Overall , it's a great upgrade that hopefully will keep me busy for another 13 years.

Still holds up as one of the best games ever and I highly recommend modding the game for replayability

Before downloading Skyrim, I was a mess — depressed, life complicated, and I kept banging my head against my crush’s fortress, getting zero response . Still got all the issues, but now I’m an Imperial soldier. Pam param pam — battle music blares, duty calls, and instead of crying, I’m shouting dragons into oblivion.

Skyrim is the second-best RPG ever, only behind Witcher 3 (and that’s because Geralt has better hair). If you want giant lizards, epic battles, and the fantasy of being a legendary warrior with way more game than me, you absolutely need to play this.

I love Skyrim. Its actual the peak of all gaming. The pinnacle. every second i spend on Skyrim is another second i spend in paradise. Its the most exquisite game to every exist and it mogs every other game that comes before and after it. Its easily the most impeccable game Ive ever been honoured with playing, the average Skyrim playing experience can only be described as flawless and sublime. Skyrim is love. Every time i open up skyrim to play more of the game its almost as if i hear a choir of angels singing in my ear, because Skyrim is life. If i wasnt blessed with knowing this immaculate masterpiece of a game graced the earth simply by existing i dont know what id do with myself. The game is simultaneously breath-taking, mind-boggling and a sensational adventure that i am no less than privileged to have encountered at least once in my measly life time. Skyrim has single-handedly lit up my meager and otherwise pitiful little life. I love skyrim. Skyrim is my GOAT. what a magnificent honour it is to experience the joy, the epic highs and lows of Skyrim gameplay. Skyrim is exquisite, Skyrim is the GOAT. Skyrim is everything. if i had to tell you anything and i had to tell you something i believe is true with my heart and soul id tell you that you wont ever experience true enlightenment without... skyrim.

A true gem—a premium game experience.
With full mod support, the replayability is endless.

Stunning visuals and breathtaking auroras steal the show.
Came for the auroras, stayed for the auroras—absolutely mesmerizing.

And the dragons? Soaring through the skies, adding to the magic.

Simply amazing.

There’s a strong feeling Bethesda might release a Skyrim Remastered, just like they did with Oblivion—and that would be fantastic.

Great game, even from the early start... the graphics, the gameplay, the weapons, the magic and the overlay of this game is unbelievable...

A "must play" game.
It's a GOTD (Game of The Decade).
What else to say? I'd compliment the game and compensate some bugs.

Um daqueles jogos que você "precisa" jogar.
Esse é o jogo da década.
O resto que eu teria pra falar seriam só elogios que compensam alguns bugs.

Skyrim isn’t perfect—its combat can feel clunky at times, and bugs occasionally surface—but these minor issues are dwarfed by the sheer ambition and beauty of what it offers. It’s a game that respects your time, rewards your curiosity, and immerses you in a world that’s hard to leave behind.

Whether it’s your first time shouting down a dragon from the mountaintop or your hundredth time crafting the perfect Daedric armor, Skyrim remains a breathtaking journey that every gamer should take.

Rating: 10/10 – An epic for the ages.

To celebrate 900 hours, I will write a review.

Yes. Get it. No matter what other game I play, I always come back to Skyrim.

Dear Todd. I hope you new games will have Misc. Quests as part of Mains quest. Because I still not even finished main quest in TES 2 Daggerfall (Fans remaster vesion on Unity with bug fixes and more), TES 3 Morrowind, TES 4 Oblivion (Not remaster version). I wish new TES or Fallout games will be open world like TES 2 Daggerfall. In modern day I belive what it's posible make worlds like TES 2 Daggerfall without making draw distance and PC perfomance low. I enjoyed Starfield, but problem Starfield not loading screens what taking 3 - 10 seconds, no. Main problem of Starfield it's main storyline what stuck in "Find and Bring", just like as first DLC "Find and Bring" or "Find and Rescue". But Misq. quest become much more interesting. On example quest with miners on Mars or working on coproration. But I missed time when you become head of guild/faction. And compiering with lates games of TES or Fallout, Starfield was been overloaded by scripted triggers of events. What maked some quest unavaible to process. In TES 3 I haved only one bug what blocked to finish quest with ashlanders prophety without console commands. (It's was nutshell to find quest ID and stages numbers). So, back to TES series. The Skyrim world able give good impression on first two times. But after second walktrough... Game is become boring. Yes, there some quest I didn't completed. But it's because they are or to hidded or typical with lack of emotions in dialogs. I want see in next Todds games next mechanics and other cool stuff:

1. Free building without pre-scripted places like in TES 5 Hearthfire.

2. Dinamic economy what will base on player actions.

3. Retrun to back for NPC recognizing of you by complicted different quest of factions or guild.

4. NEED MORE SHEOGARTH QUEST PRICE THE MADNES AND PLEASURE! LONG LIFE TO THE SLAANESH!!!!
[h3]5. Sheogart in TES 4 Oblivion (Not remaster version) was more charismatic and interesting then in TES 5.

6. STOP MAKING EVERYONE ESSENTIAL! IT'S ANNOYING! Because if you can't complite quest, you can't kill NPC. Plust it's making funny and realistical as in TES 3. Funny because: "With this character's death, the threads of prophecy have been severed. You may load a saved game, or persist in this doomed world that you have created."

I do recommend this to others. There are many more quests than in the original game and you can get a dwarven horse!. Excellent game.

I took an arrow to the knee in 2011. It's 2025. I'm still limping.

Skyrim Special Edition is the game that keeps on giving. And by “giving,” I mean crash reports, cheese wheels, and dragons that moonwalk into the sky like they just remembered they left the oven on.

I set out to complete the main quest. Got distracted. 100 hours later, I'm married to a blacksmith, own 12 houses, accidentally shouted a chicken into orbit, and adopted two kids who won't stop asking for sweet rolls. Alduin can wait, I'm busy collecting cabbages.

The graphics are prettier, the bugs are shinier, and the guards still don't respect me even though I'm literally the Archmage of Winterhold, Leader of the Companions, Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, and I once defeated a Daedric Prince with a fork.

Mods? Oh, mods. My Skyrim now has Macho Man Randy Savage dragons, Thomas the Tank Engine replacing horses, and every time I shout, it plays the Windows XP startup sound. Immersion 10/10.

Would I recommend it?
Only if you're ready to lose 10 years of your life and develop a passionate hatred for mudcrabs.

Final Score: 87 cheese wheels out of a mammoth's behind.

Greatest game of all time but we aren't ready for that conversation

Played about 300 hours on console, 2000+ hours on a "unofficial" copy, and over 4000+ hours on Special Edition. It's an okay game I guess.

This game introduced me to gaming and I can't think of a better place to start, as may be evident I've enjoyed this game for a long time, there is always new things to find and discover. If I were to recommend any game it would be this, and maybe elden ring, but this game is a beautiful masterpiece of game play, from bugs to nearly infinite quest there isn't a part I don't adore

The G.O.A.T

Legit the best RPG experience ever
For me it is THE best RPG example ever
Deserves every single penny

This game is still running strong in the modding community. Anyone that has not played this game, somehow, I suggest trying this out.

It's a great game with satisfying combat
But a lot of bad things...
-bugs in menus
-painful Inventory/quests diary
-carry weight limit is frustrating
-mobs difficulty is sometimes random (can encounter a dgn where you OS everyone and suddenly some mobs OS you as full life with an animation)
-weird perk system (i'm lvl 27 and i dont have enough perk points to put in smithing/alchemy/lockpicking)

Having played Skyrim back in the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 era, it is not my favorite Elder Scrolls game. I prefer Morrowind and Oblivion, especially for their role-playing elements and story writing. However, when it comes to gameplay, exploration, and dungeons, I have always preferred Skyrim in that regard. I never played most of the DLCs back then, so it was a fresh experience for me this time, and I really loved most of the DLCs. This is perhaps the last truly good game Bethesda created (Skyrim and Fallout 4 and yes they are not the best writing or story but yet amazing experience). I am happy I revisited the game again after the release of the Oblivion remaster, and I hope Morrowind receives the same remake treatment. The Special Edition is the ultimate way to play the game, and I totally recommend it.

Don't use creation club. It brakes game and your mods.

Best role playing adventure game ever. I never felt immersed to that game, now I am pretty in love with this. I have blast even though I sometimes forget to save my game almost every time. The story and plot is excellent for an old game of this category. There so many stuff to upgrade and forge and also learn and also the skill tree is massive that I am feeling overwhelmed by it. This game got 10 out 10 and truly a masterpiece.

Gothic 3, Fallout 3 and Skyrim were the first RPGs I have played in my life and Skyrim sticked with me the most. I played this game for a half a decade until I became bored with it. And it wasn’t even fault of this game itself, I simply came across games that are much better and enjoyable for me, thus making me feel no remorse of letting Skyrim go. Nevertheless, this game still means something special for me, and I sometimes return to the province of Skyrim.
I shall start with the things I adore about Skyrim. The open world is one of the greatest of all time and I absolutely love exploring it even to this day. Sometimes dungeons can get a bit repetitive, but I still consider them an improvement compared to Oblivion or Fallout 3. The music and atmosphere during your time in Skyrim is simply the best part of the game. I often listen to Jeremy Soule’s soundtrack and it’s one of my all-time favourites.
However, Skyrim unfortunately has many mediocre aspects. Skyrim’s main storyline is not bad, but not great either. It’s just okay. The most iconic moment is probably the intro of the game, which was memed into oblivion, but I think it is really well executed. You are introduced to the most important gameplay aspects quite authentically and then you are free to roam the northern lands of Tamriel. But the rest of the main story is just about going somewhere, killing somebody, finding something and bringing it to somebody and hey there is a dragon and you have to kill it for some reason and you are a dragonborn, how unexpected plot twist and you go somewhere AGAIN, the Greybeards send you to find something AGAIN and this cycle repeats itself until the end of the game without any complexity whatsoever. I know that quest design largely depends on this backbone of going somewhere, killing something and finding something, but the important part is to create more layers to these quests, to make them more complex and deeper, to make them feel like, you know, stories. But main questline of this game just feels like very long fetch quest. Characters you meet are uninteresting and one-dimensional without depth and unique personality except one, who is literally friendly dragon with interest in philosophy (Paarthurnax the goat). Alduin fails as antagonist, for he lacks sophisticated motivation. He’s just another generic antagonist who wants to destroy the world because of some prophecy. Such an uninspiring plot. The sense of urgency is an illusion, but I don’t consider it a downgrade, because then you wouldn’t be able to do the side questing, and it is generally a problem of almost all open world games including those which are considered the best of the best. The ending itself left me with mixed feelings. On the one hand, the atmosphere in Sovngarde is extremely powerful, but on the other hand, the final fight with Alduin was so underwhelming. And my problems with the ending don’t stop here. End titles and outro? Nowhere. Any meaningful reward for saving the world aside from receiving thanks from Tsun? Don’t you even bother with expecting something like that.
The combat it okay, but nothing special, RPG mechanics are streamlined compared to Morrowind and Oblivion, but still passable. Smithing, alchemy and enchanting are quite well designed system but are poorly balanced, which doesn’t make them bad though. Is there actually something really bad in this game?
The side content in this game is the worst Bethesda has ever made. Even Fallout 4 had better quest design and that’s saying a lot. Factions’ questlines are such a downgrade from Oblivion’s. The only side questline which I consider somewhat good is The Dark Brotherhood, which starts quite strong. But God, Astrid’s motivations are just plainly stupid and a result of lazy writing to justify you becoming the leader of the Black hand. And by the way, murdering the literal emperor of Tamriel has literally no consequences. Zero effect on the world besides occasionally listening to guards commenting the death of the emperor. Other factions are just boring with 0 relatable and authentic characters. I mean, Cicero from the DB questline is quite an idiot, but there is a justification for him becoming an idiot, which makes him at least a bit relatable. He is also probably the only character in the base game aside from Paarthurnax (and maybe Balgruuf) which I consider pretty good. Other side quests are just as uninspiring without any creative vision and complexity, meaningful choices (or any choices at all) as faction questlines. The only two good side quests I remember are The Mind of Madness (Sheogorath) and A Night to Remember (Sanguine). That’s it.

Summary:
Technical state (8/10)
Narrative (5/10)
Gameplay (7/10)
Art style/graphics (9/10)
World and level design (9/10)
Soundtrack (10/10)
Atmosphere and immersion (9/10)
Innovation (7/10)

Final score: 8/10
I can recommend this game even with its flaws. If you enjoy wandering through fantasy world, you can spend dozens of hours in this game without remorse. But if you are looking for a good story, compelling characters and complex RPG systems, then you should play games from Larian Studios, CD Projekt Red, Obsidian entertainment or older BioWare titles. DLCs are not taken in mind in this review, but they will probably receive their own reviews.

Excelente como RPG mesmo sem nenhum mod o jogo é muito extenso, mesmo apos ter feito todas as conquistas tem muita quest pra fazer, e mais além possuí um mundo vivo e rico de histórias.

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Thats Fkg Good
☑ Good
☐ Normal
☐ Meh
☐ Bad
☐ Get The Money Back

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You Forget What Reality is
☐ Work of Art
☑ Beautiful
☐ Normal
☐ Bad
☐ Pixels

---{ Audio }---
☐ Beethoven
☐ Very Good
☑ Good
☐ Its Ok
☐ Bad
☐ I'm Now Deaf

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Dark Souls
☐ Hard
☑ Significant Brain Usage
☐ Normal
☐ Easy
☐ Just Press 'W'

---{ World }---
☑ You Never Get Tired
☐ Full of Things to do
☐ There Could Be More Things
☐ Repetitive
☐ Empty Like a Desert
☐ Linear Game

---{ Story }---
☐ It'll Replace Your Life
☐ Lovely
☑ Good
☐ Normal
☐ Some Lore
☐ No Story

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long Enough For a Cup of Tea
☐ 5h-10h
☐ 10h-20h
☐ 20h-50h
☑ 50h-100h
☐ To Infinity And Beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's Free
☐ Worth The Price
☑ If It's On Sale
☐ If u Have Some Spare Money Left
☐ Not Recommended
☐ Just Go Play Poker

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never Heard Of
☐ You Won't Even Notice
☐ Minor Bugs
☐ Can Get Annoying
☐ Cyberpunk 2077
☐ These Bugs Have a Game

---{ DLC }---
☐ Its a Second Game
☐ Good
☐ Its Ok
☐ Bad
☐ Skins
☑ Don't Have

---{ Final Decision }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☑ Game of The Year

Skyrim is a timeless masterpiece and will always be a top tier game

Loved this game from the beginning. Great story with lots of content to be played.

please bless your self and buy this amazing game and download mods too, the mods make this already great game 100x better

I'm not paying for Creation Club content just so I can play with mods.
Stop trying to earn money with the modding community and relaunching the same game with the same problems that needs a "Essential Mod Pack" to fix all the issues.

At least give me Morrowind Remake

AND ALSO STOP UPDATING THE FUCKING GAME

Doing a playthrough on Nolvus right now, and this game is just so amazing and its modability is insane

I love everything about this game. I have been playing for years and each game I play has a whole new feel to it. There is not a single thing I dislike about the game and the way it plays or how it comes to each ending.

A game that never ceases to draw me back in every couple months even after all these years.

I see that mods are keeping this game alive and well. I suggest Vicn's dlc mods such as Vigilant, Kitty Tail's magic and Animated Wings Ultimate. (These are my favourite among many others)

Play this game again new...over and over, thanks to Bethesda for being so supportive of mods. Good time.

I've been playing the Elder Scrolls games for many years now. This one is my favorite one. I've added a lot of extra stuff to it, of which makes it even better to play. Vortex mods has like 35,000 mods to chose from. Never finished it and most likely never will until I stop adding to it.

Love this Game to death.

And if it, when it does. Get a Remastered version. I pray, I do hope and pray. To be able to afford a high end machine when that day does arrive.

As is 1188 hours on STEAM! not counting OG Skyrim on the Xbox 360 (9000+ hours there... over 15 years)

This game with love from the Modding Community is truly the one game I will say. PLAY THIS BEFORE YOU DIE. 100% this game, do all the side missions, every nook and cranny. Get mods, more mods, Side Characters, Followers, expansions, extra DLC sized mods. But what you can get and do more.

This game as it is out the box... is Rough. But then... Creation Kit. DLC content. Modding community. GET THIS GAME.

This is my favorite game of all time purely in the hours I've played. I have nearly 100 hours on steam, over 12 days on xbox one, and I 100% the game on original release xbox 360. Best game OAT

i understand that skyrim has been released 8 trillion times within its life span, however as my first time actually playing the game on the latest patches and with all dlc i cannot recommend it enough. i have had an absolute blast playing through this!

Simply a wonderful game to sit down, kick your feet up, and play, plus modding the game is also pretty fun to do too!

I remember the first time I played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
It was November 12th, 2011. I was seventeen, my soul hungry for adventure, my heart still unaware of the weight nostalgia would one day carry.
That day, my father gave me a gift.
A simple disc. A steel-gray case for my old Xbox 360.
But it wasn’t just a game.
It was the beginning of something.
It was Skyrim.

I installed it, turned on the console, and it was as if the real world faded away.
I spent every hour of that day lost in the snowy wilds of Tamriel.
The frozen forests, the ancient ruins, the music that stitched itself into my memory forever.
I wasn’t playing it. I was living it.

And then came so many new characters. So many different paths. Endless journeys with no destination, just the world breathing around me.
I knew every mountain pass, every secret cave, every hidden shout carved into ancient stone.
And without any guide—when the internet was still slow and rare—I learned every word, every legend, every dragon’s name.
It was my world.
It was home.

Every now and then, my father would sit beside me.
He’d watch the screen in silence.
He came from an era of simple, brutal games like Contra and Galaga, so to him, this felt like stepping into another world.
I still remember the one time I handed him the controller and asked him to climb a mountain.
He struggled, he laughed, and eventually sent my character tumbling down the cliffside.
He wasn’t made for this world, but he loved seeing me live inside it.
It was my refuge.
It was our small bridge.

And now, fourteen years later, I go back.
The world has changed. I have changed. I’m thirty-one now.
And he... he’s no longer here.

Yet every time I boot up Skyrim, it feels like opening a window into the past.
The graphics are older now, the framerate a little rougher, but the heart remains untouched.
Every dragon’s roar, every gust of wind through the pines, every haunting melody speaks a language only the soul remembers.
It’s the voice of youth.
It’s the whisper of my father laughing as my character tumbled off a cliff.

Skyrim isn’t just a game.
It’s a time machine.
It’s a second chance to touch, even for a moment, what we thought we had lost.

And as the auroras dance across the northern sky, I remain there.
Controller in hand...
And a tear I cannot tell—whether it’s sorrow or gratitude.

This is an absolute masterpiece, the atmosphere, the asthetics and the amount of attention this game has gotten is beautiful. I would recommend, and Id let a 13 year old play this because there are certain parts of the game that are relatively dark. However, if you stay away from the dark brotherhood quests I would recommend this to a 12 year old.

"I used to be an adventurer like you until I took an arrow to the knee"

With a combined time of over 9k hours between consoles, versions, and different Steam accounts I've played this on. I cannot recommend this game. Here are my reasons. Keep in mind my view may be a bit more extreme then others as I've been playing Elderscrolls games for a while. (Since Daggerfall or such)

Going back to older games like Morrowind and Oblivion. Lets take a look at magic for a moment. In magic alone for Morrowind there are 6 schools. Those being. Illusion, Conjuration, Alteration, Destruction, Mysticism and restoration. In Oblivion there is the same plus Alchemy, while not a casting magical class I would say its a universal skill as it benefits everyone from mages to assassins to warriors. So I wouldn't class Alchemy as a magical skill persay.

In skyrim they have 5. Why remove the one when it had so much potential, sure some of the spells melded into other schools but there is always potential with diversity and more extremes in different types of spells.

Beside that in previous titles, certain weapons only did damage to certain enemies. Best example of this is in Oblivion, Ghost, Spirits and Wraiths are among few creatures that are only affected by Silver or enchanted weapons or spells. While a small detail for someone who may play a warrior it would make it so you have to understand the location you're headed too or simply carry a silver weapon at all times or branch out and get a enchanted weapon and maintain its level of enchantment. I personally love little details like this which Skyrim is sorely lacking.

Going on to story, the story and choices with in Skyrim are complete assblasting hot garbage in comparison to Oblivion or Morrowind. While all 3 games start you as a prisoner yes there is a slow fame you get in Morrowind and Oblivion will people may or may not know you based on actions and things you've done. However in Skyrim you could be the leader of all guilds, the Savior of the world and no one really seems to know or care. At the same time Oblivion is a perfect example of my next point, the oblivion gates open Kvatch is seiged and razed. Not only do you hear about it in the streets but when you save it people remark on it as well. As the story progresses gossip changes and ideas form. Even minor political changes elsewhere in the world you can hear remarks on.

Compared to Skyrim, you have Dragons. Aka flying t-rexes that breath fire (among other elements) that are in the world of Jarl Balgruuf "Burning cities and slaughtering his people" and yet people seem more concerned about the rumour of a thieves guild in Riften compared to the VERY REAL dragons that at least in my experience can be seen attacking towns, camps and cities.

The over all quest line is garbage as well just feels uninspired and the blades stronghold you go to which I felt should have felt more magical and mystical felt dull and played down a lot.

That said by no means are Oblivion and Morrowind perfect but even in Oblivion you had the ability to make your own spells, where did that go in Skyrim? Why can't you?

My closing statement will be, I understand to alot of people this was their first step into the Elderscrolls universe and welcome to it and I am happy so many are so passionate about the game. That said I cannot say I love this game, does it have its good moments and epic scenes? Absolutely. However, that is not overshadowed by a plethora of gimmicks and moeny grabs made by Bethesda, the sheer level of glitches still in the game today. An argument could be made about the modders fixing these but if a modder who is unpaid could fix it why couldn't the multi-million dollar company fix it? Also alot of peoples strong argument for loving this game is the mods and modding community. I will say this again as my friends I'm sure are tired of hearing it. If its the mods that make the game for you its not the game you love but the engine it runs in.

Over all out of 5 I'd say a 2.5/5 closer to a 3 but I can't give it a three with confidence.

This is the 7th version of this game that I've bought and I regret it about as much as I did the first 5 times. TES6 waiting room

The Mods are endless and the game play just as diverse. Play you must.

Play base game - Play DLC and complete it - Start modding: this is the cycle of a Skyrim player

Had the game for a while, never really bothered to play it. Went the entire game punching things to death and then finally fisted Alduin into oblivion. Good game 10/10

NOTE: Bethesda, Do us people a service and stop updating this F**king game... please

games bloody brilliant, especially with mods... but not when the game updates and breaks your 300+ hour save.

This isn't just game, Its a journey everyone should have, even after almost 14 years it one of the best game experience I ever have

Skyrim is a hard game for me to rate overall as it is a game that I have gone back and forth about in my brain for a while at least since I beat FNV and started playing other RPGs. On one hand, it has excellent exploration, neat loot, endless questing and beautiful world despite its age. However on the other hand, it is an incredibly shallow RPG with some really boring main and faction quests, no real consequences in most cases, too few memorable characters, ancient movement system, mediocre combat and incredibly buggy and broken.
For vanilla, I honestly rate the game as a 5/10. It is outclassed by a LOT of RPGs after it and even in its own series. I loved the game back when I was 10 and hadnt experienced a game like that at that age. But personally, the base game has aged poorly and cannot really stand on its own for ME personally.

However, with modding, the game is easily a 9/10. ALL of these problems can be addressed with mods and, in my opinion, essential when revisiting Skyrim and I would highly recommend patches and fixes for new players. Of course the base is still there but the modding community has completely changed the game for the better. Modding saved this game for me and why I actually love and recommend this game. Commentary from my new followers, new interesting quests, fun combat, vastly improved UI and everything else in-between. Skyrim is truly the most expandable game I have ever played and I have gotten hours of entertainment playing with community created content. It is truly one of a kind. Pls play this game with mods, there really is nothing like playing a modded game of Skyrim.

Vanilla: 5/10 Modded: 9/10

Recommended mods: Interesting NPCs, IFD-Lydia, Remiel, Inigo, Lucien, Valhalla Combat, Forgotten City, Beyond Reach, True Directional Movement, Amazing Follower Tweeks and Missives. Visual and gameplay mod overhaul are great as well though there are LOT of these mods so pick whatever mods within your PCs specs and enjoyment if you want to overhaul certain systems.

good game to relax and rp