Wow, thanks for the suggestions. I'll definitely look into this.

Same with me. I tried playing Oblivion on my laptop with mods and it ran okay, though I felt uncomfortable hovered over my laptop after an hour or so trying to play it. It's funny how PC gamers say a controller feels unnatural and console gamers say gaming with a mouse and keyboard feels unnatural. I suppose I could try mapping a controller, though I doubt a joystick would have the same accuracy as a mouse. With some of the Skyrim quest mods I've seen, I'm willing to adapt and make the transition, lol.

Yeah that's what I was thinking, though it will probably be another 2 - 3 years before we hear an official announcement about TES VI. The problem is, the PS3 version svcks, at least for me. Mid - late game, the favorites menu starts popping up during heated battles, switching out my weapons and my weapons sheathe / unsheathe on their own. I've even brought new controllers so I know the problem is with Skyrim.

Skyrim's vanilla graphics are not too big of a deal for me. I'm mainly interested in some of the quest mods like rebuilding Helgen, minor tweak mods like better maps, menus, and that City Guard Overhaul mod since Bethesda locked out the extra guard dialog for whatever reason.

Besides console gamers who just recently started playing, I thought everyone else would have either moved on to PC by now or just shelved it since Bethesda never patched many of the bugs still on console, especially for PS3.

If the thread bothers and annoys you that much, simply ignore and skip it. Problem solved.

Also I just recently started browsing these forums again after taking a brief hiatus. I barely pay attention to sigs let alone filing them to memory.

Obviously you have never even researched all the mods available.

FTY....is saying all the fancy modded extras are "out of his needs" i.e. He has no need of them. He doesn't want them! That doesn't mean he is unaware of the vast plethora of mods available should he so choose!


Horses for courses


From the other end of the telescope......why would a console user spend even a moment reading into mods on the nexus?

But I do

I did.... read the Nexus and dreamed of the day I would have my PC... had a whole list of mod's ...compatible mods... that I downloaded the same day I hooked up the PC... When one of my friends would mention a mod, I would check it out...and "track" it. I knew exactly what I wanted... after 3 yr's of reading....researching.

Umm . . . Not all PC players think controllers feel unnatural. I've got my PC plugged in to my big screen TV and I do all my gaming with a controller. Skyrim has good caribe controller support so you don't need mapping software, but Xpadder works great for mapping keyboard/mouse movements to a controller for older games like Oblivion.

After getting fed up with the mods I was using crashing my game at about level 35-40 (6 characters in a row), I installed fresh and tried playing vanilla. It lasted until I fought Mirmulnir at the Western Watchtower. I had to start adding mods again, if only to fix the bugs.

I could play vanilla Skyrim again. I don't think I'd last long, though

Of course i haven't. Not even close. The nexus alone has literally tens of thousands mods right now and most of them needs special care and extra time to make them work with each other. It must be pretty difficult for any of us to research ALL the mods AVAILABLE. Not even a no-lifer can archive this huge feat.

I do. I play with mods on my PC and vanilla on console. I acutely enjoy both. Sorry guys, I don't agree with the "game is unplayable without mods" mentality.

Hi guys, new here. I've only recently had access to a laptop that allows me to play modded Skyrim. But I'm of the same opinion as the post above, I enjoy console as it feel like what the 'core' game should be and I get a lot of nostalgia from it.

I'm not saying that, but I can definitely say without mods, I would not have played over 2000 hours.

I wouldn't say it's "unplayable" without mods, but there were many things I found increasingly annoying about the vanilla game to the point where I could now only play vanilla occassionally and in short bursts. It's not something I could do for an extended playthrough.

I played for 4 yr's on 360...and I could again if I had a 360 still ( bit the dust and haven't replaced) I choose not to.

I haven't played vanilla Skyrim since about late 2012. Though I'm now primarily gaming on PS4 since late 2014, my PS3 is rarely used. I will jump back into it eventually.

I've played circa 12000 hours since release ( Skyrim junkie) all without mods! (Consoles)


Can you begin to imagine my potential time investment into a modded Skyrim


I would need an entire second lifetime to wring everything out of it.....let alone getting into TES 6 and all its potential mods


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DarksunTheFirst.....just leading your signature block it occurs to me.....why is the phrase "context sensitive" made "censored" by the Forum?

and now you know why people are still playing Morrowind and Oblivion...as their primary games. Depending on how good...and where TES6 is set...I'll probably play it a while then come right back to Skyrim.

Betcha won't!


TES VI is gonna be so awesome you'll just forget all its ancestors after the first few hours.


Beth have learned all the lessons they previously ignored. Listened to their loyal Forum fans and sorted out all the glitches and bugs with shiny new game engine from a very very good engine developer. The mod creators will jump on it at first release and even though its gonna be so awesome on vanilla, within six months it will have the most Fantastic third party mod development thats currently Unimaginable.


Youse ain't goin' back to nuthin'


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I'm sitting in Morrowind right now. Got some GREAT mods that make it look so beautiful and well ... the magic system. So unless Bethesda straightens that out and makes it right again, I'll very much still be in Morrowind and Oblivion

LMAO.... yeah, we can all only hope, but some of the best features from previous games were striped from The next one...so. Plus with my limited Data it would take me awhile to be able to download all the yummy mod's... so... back to Skryim til really nice ones come out... like... all the unoffical patches... Alternate Start. Because I play sooo slowly, I have not even downloaded, let alone played all the "new" quest content mod's that I am interested in.

Well...come on then girl....chop chop!


You've only got one lifetime....best get to it

4000 hours later on Skyrim and a pretty damn good PC rig ready to be set up I think I'll recreate my characters (stats and quest progress, too) on the PC and continue their story there where I have more freedom.

I know... doesn't that just svck... and work just soooo get's in my way... and the husband...and dog's...and well life!