(Keep in mind, I AM NOT ASKING for ADVICE or for HELP, I'm just stating what my dilemma is with a specific game, in spite of how many times some people feel modding will fix almost all issues, sharing a story of my own, and seeing if anyone else has similar issues)
Alright so, keeping in mind, there's a little bit of a dilemma: No matter how good modding can get, no matter how skilled or dedicated modders are, the fact of the matter is this, there is a limitation to how many compatible mods you can run at once. So if the vanilla game, is extremely different from what you're happy with, it might even be possible, that you cannot run enough compatible mods at once to satisfy yourself. That is, if it would require so many combined mods together to reform the games core mechanics, that no combination of compatible mods can satisfy you. Okay so moving on with that in mind, I'll be making a poll here, to try to investigate what types of mods most people use for the three most recent TES games, Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim.
Personally... I've been... TRYING to get into Skyrim but... I've basically been having countless problems with mod compatibility. It's all way too complex to make an essay about here, but just for example, a mod that makes stamina actually important, and important for MAGES as well, conflicts with a mod that adds acrobatics and athletics to Skyrim. And like just about everyone else, I also like using mods that add interesting new lands, or to be able to get a break from a monotonous environment almost entirely revolving around snow, and things that remind me of snowy places IRL. I have to run about 159 mods at the very least, to about 215 mods at the highest in order to even begin with making Skyrim play the way I wish it did... And I'll take a quick look at the NMM... Lets see here.
Anyways... In short... I've just been having, HUGE compatibility issues, to the point where, sometimes I try to play Skyrim, but then the game won't even start up, because of mod conflicts. I guess that personally, I'm so unhappy with the core mechanics of the game that it's possible no amount of combined mods will ever satisfy me, because it would require changing the core mechanics of the game so much, that the mods required would almost certainly conflict.
But this isn't an asking for advice thread, no this is a question thread. And I know that no matter how talented Skyrim's modders are, that the game is just so wildly different in core mechanics from prior games, that it's nigh impossible, to make Skyrim as character skill reliant as some earlier games for example- and sometimes a mod that makes Skyrim more of a character stat based game, will CONFLICT with another mod that does the same thing, limiting just how much you can mod Skyrim to overhaul it's core game mechanics.
I guess I'll try again later, though the past week or perhaps even month, I've been trying to get all the mods I wanted running, but each time the game crashes, which makes me afraid sometimes that what I want requires changing the vanilla game so profoundly, that it's not realistically feasible. I even tried out Requiem- which is an extremely well made totally amazing mod, but sadly, it seems to conflict with OTHER mods, that have things I feel I need to enjoy the game.
And look, I know Skyrim had a lot of professional effort put into it, especially with the level design, and art style- and that these two things were quite well done, the factions in Skyrim imo are much better than Oblivion's factions at least (in Skyrim you could at least make enemies of potential allies from joining factions unlike Oblivion), and even in a tiny way I think Skyrim's Factions did things Morrowind's factions never did, the Stormcloaks vs Imperial Legion thing, even though I still think Morrowind all in all was the best faction wise.
Though the game mechanics are just so... Wildly different from the game mechanics of prior TES games, that I can't even enjoy playing the game, unless I have countless game mechanic changing overhauls running at once, to the point where I sometimes fear, I might never be able to run enough mods at once to satisfy me due to compatibility issues. While I know I've mainly mentioned Skyrim, this thread isn't exclusively or even MAINLY about Skyrim- it's about every TES game with mods, mod compatibility issues, and if you ever had problems enjoying a specific game because of that, and how it happened.
Has something like this ever happened TO YOU? In Skyrim? Or in Oblivion? Or maybe even Morrowind? Where you felt you needed so many combined mods just to enjoy the game, that they were never compatible, and then you just got frustrated? Are you worried about the upcoming TES game ending up this way? And how do you feel such a thing can be prevented in the future?