Current Events > who keeps buying skyrim enough for bethesda to endlessly re-rerelease it?

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which one of you done this? you cant keep getting away with this
bethesda are a one game wonder now

I bought SSE on Xbox, but that at least had mod support. I have no plans to buy Anniversary edition though.

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But it has fishing now

millions of people who have new consoles or haven't played it in years

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trappedunderice posted...

But it has fishing now

there was probably a fishing mod within the first month of the initial release a decade ago
for free

bought it on the 360, X1, and pc.

thankfully i have enough self control to not spend anymore money on it

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I bought my first one, the complete edition for 360 some time later because it vanished, then the version I have now.

Said version gets the upgrade for free.

yeah boi

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me. plan to buy the new one too. i dont care

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Full confession. I bought it 3 times.

PS3 version
Then the PC version because PS3 sucks
Then the Enhanced edition

And that's not including gifts for others

So I can't throw stones. If I owned a Switch I'd be dying for an actual game to play on it too

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The same type of people who keeping buying the latest re re re re re re release of GTA

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My fucking dumbass friend, Dylan.

He's put thousands of hours into vanilla Skyrim and is super excited for the next re-release because of the fishing.

The game is almost unplayable without mods imo, but this mother fucker has countless 100% save files.

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The fishing is a free creation club item you don't even need to buy the re-release good God.

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DocDelicious posted...

My fucking dumbass friend, Dylan.

He's put thousands of hours into vanilla Skyrim and is super excited for the next re-release because of the fishing.

The game is almost unplayable without mods imo, but this mother fucker has countless 100% save files.

I will genuinely never understand the mindset of someone who plays Skyrim on PC to an extensive degree (so more than their first time or whatever) and refuses to mod in any capacity. Not even bug fixes. And then, like your friend, get excited about getting content ten years after they could have downloaded something better themselves.

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FurryPhilosifer posted...

The fishing is a free creation club item you don't even need to buy the re-release good God.

But she's got a new hat!

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People give Bethesda shit but Nintendo have been basically remaking the same games for decades now, and their remasters are some of the worst and most expensive in the industry, yet everyone laps them up.

Funkydog posted...

get excited about getting content ten years after they could have downloaded something better themselves.

It genuinely baffles me.

I introduced him to Ultimate Skyrim a while ago and he stopped playing because "it doesn't feel like Skyrim". I was floored, it makes Skyrim into an actual RPG and this bitch hated it.

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I have the first version on 360 that I beat in 2012.

Have they added so much since then? Cause I would consider buying it again since it's almost been 10 years.

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ScarfForLife posted...

I have the first version on 360 that I beat in 2012.

Have they added so much since then? Cause I would consider buying it again since it's almost been 10 years.

Nah. If you're a console-only player, the Xbox One version and PS4 version have mod support, but the PS4 mods are seriously gimped. There's creation club content, but in terms of some kind of significant new content like Dawnguard or Dragonborn, there's nothing.

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Kloe_Rinz posted...

there was probably a fishing mod within the first month of the initial release a decade ago
for free

Not everyone plays on PC

DocDelicious posted...

It genuinely baffles me.

I introduced him to Ultimate Skyrim a while ago and he stopped playing because "it doesn't feel like Skyrim". I was floored, it makes Skyrim into an actual RPG and this bitch hated it.

To be fair, Requiem (which Ultimate uses) does make it not really Skyrim anymore, so I can sort of see why people might not actually like the delevelled word etc. Personally I love it, and maybe once I get a good enough computer will use Ultimate as well.

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FurryPhilosifer posted...

Nah. If you're a console-only player, the Xbox One version and PS4 version have mod support, but the PS4 mods are seriously gimped. There's creation club content, but in terms of some kind of significant new content like Dawnguard or Dragonborn, there's nothing.

Yeah I have Xbox One so that's what I would theoretically get it on. I imagine the graphics are quite a bit better. Not sure I wanna pay full price if not much has changed though.

Then again, it's been so long it would almost be a new game for me.

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Bought it once on PC. No need to buy any other version.

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I have the Skyrim SE on ps4, man oh man do the mods suck ass. I refuse to buy anything from that shit creation club, sony not allowing external assets to be used for modding just makes me want to get a pc.

I never played Skyrim.

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Fwiw I'm getting my first laptop later this month. I'll have to get Skyrim again because then I can finally play on PC, and therefore do some big tiddy and other sexy outfit mods. :'( Sorry you all. Also if ps5 has its own trophy list I'll triple platinum it. I'm surprised I haven't imported a Jp copy for their trophies yet. >.>

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I feel like Skyrim gets a lot of shit for the rerelease but RE4 is the true offender.

I bought it on switch because portable Skyrim seems like witchcraft

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i've bought it 3 times! first back when it released on the xbox (whichever console that was). then on pc when i got one that could play it. then about 6 months ago i bought the VR version.

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I'm a dummy that did

PS3 CE with guide
PS3 Legendary edition (guide too)
PS4 SSE
PC


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I just wish they'd make the next logical leap and re-release at least Fallout 3 as well on all platforms.

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For as many people who say Skyrim "isn't a real RPG" there are many more who simply enjoy playing the game. Ten years on the game still draws large numbers of people.

It's just a shame that when ES6 releases in 2028 that'll it'll be filled with cash shop cosmetics, an emphasis on a 'building mode' and yet still no fix for the goofy physics engine that causes items to fall through tables or explode like a tornado went through the room.

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Isn't the Anniversary edition a free upgrade for people who own the Special Edition?

It was probably just meant to be an easy way for them to get used to next gen hardware.

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GTA V and Skyrim look great for many years to come.

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It's the Resident Evil 4 of games... or something.

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I bought the PS4 version of but that's mostly because the inner circle of my 360 disc was crumbling and I knew that copy wouldn't last long.

I'm more at fault for rebuying Rockstar games. :( A part of it is still me worrying about my older versions eventually becoming unplayable though.

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DuneMan posted...

For as many people who say Skyrim "isn't a real RPG" there are many more who simply enjoy playing the game. Ten years on the game still draws large numbers of people.

It's just a shame that when ES6 releases in 2028 that'll it'll be filled with cash shop cosmetics, an emphasis on a 'building mode' and yet still no fix for the goofy physics engine that causes items to fall through tables or explode like a tornado went through the room.

personally i play it for the mods. things like the tornado bit you mentioned are fixed if you're willing to download a few of them. plus there are very few games that have such an expansive modding scene as skyrim. and hopefully with the recent changes nexus made we'll see it grow even more, now that they're better able to implement mod packs

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Darmik posted...

Isn't the Anniversary edition a free upgrade for people who own the Special Edition?

It was probably just meant to be an easy way for them to get used to next gen hardware.

The anniversary edition is just the current game bundled with creation club stuff. However the special edition is getting a free next gen upgrade at the same time. It's a mess of terminology.

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The selling point of the Anniversary Edition is that it has all current and as-of-yet unreleased Creations bundled with it; the free Special Edition upgrade supposedly contains Fishing along with what are generally considered to be the two best Creations (Survival Mode and Saints and Seducers).

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Does it though? I thought it was only 2-3 CC items. Survival Mode, Saints and Seducers(which includes Rare Curios) and something else. When they mention 500 pieces of content they're probably listing every piece of armor, every alchemy ingredient, every weapon, every enemy, etc. It's like when they said there would be 16x times the detail in Fallout 76 but parse the language and it was referring to 'distant objects', i.e. stuff near the horizon.

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I own:

Skyrim on PS3
Skyrim on PS4
Skyrim SE on PS4
Skyrim SE on PC

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Not me

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Just bought it for the first time on my Series X. Played it for 15 minutes and thought it was trash.

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Im ready the septadip bby

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Probably the same guy who keeps buying GTAV too.

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I never bought Skyrim

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DuneMan posted...

Does it though? I thought it was only 2-3 CC items. Survival Mode, Saints and Seducers(which includes Rare Curios) and something else.

That's what's supposedly in the free next-gen update for people who already own the Special Edition. The 'something else' is Fishing.

When they mention 500 pieces of content they're probably listing every piece of armor, every alchemy ingredient, every weapon, every enemy, etc. It's like when they said there would be 16x times the detail in Fallout 76 but parse the language and it was referring to 'distant objects', i.e. stuff near the horizon.

I can practically guarantee that's what they're doing: counting everything from 'Stendarr's Hammer' to 'Redwort Flower' to 'So-and-So's Journal' among the '500 pieces of CC Content.' Somewhere in their official marketing they stated that the Anniversary Ed. will contain 48 existing Creations (haven't counted them all up, but that sounds about right) plus 26 unreleased Creations (which would roughly be the amount they would have released if they'd stayed on schedule going into the first quarter of 2020, which is when the CC went on indefinite hiatus).

The problem is that they're going out of their way to sound self-important with the whole '500 Pieces of Creation Club' thing, when in reality they're just being needlessly confusing, especially when a third release of this game in 10 years going to be a tough sell to a lot of people.

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anyone that plays heavily modded skyrim knows that script/engine limits are a shit, even in EE with script extender + clean load order and installation. I have to pick and choose like 6 of my best (script heavy) mods because of memory limits otherwise crashes are constant after a while. if they fix this in the new one then hell yeah ill drop more money on this shit >_>

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