How next gen is it?

Just got to riverwood so far, looks awesome, the depth of field effect is the good one where it focuses on what your looking at, and the view distance is crazy, I see all the mountains in full textures at any distance unlike the old version which showed distant mountains to be really low res. Also no performance issues so far, a Bethesda game actually runs on a Sony console for once lol, at least its holding its 30fps limit just fine, no slow downs or stutters at all.

Can't say much beyond that, I only completed the intro quest so far :3

Nice! How are the mods?

And the loading time?Has it Improved?

I really just want to know if it plays worse and worse as you go on. I'm still rather raw over how badly it ran on PS3.

PS4 uses standard PC architecture same as Xbox One so I doubt you will see the ever degrading performance issues that PS3 had.

Fallout 4 suffers from ever-degrading performance on PS4 -- it doesn't become completely unplayable like Fallout 3/New Vegas/Skyrim did on PS3, but it performs noticeably worse at hour 250 compared to hour 1, especially if you're playing with all of the contents of the Season Pass installed -- so I'm just a little weary of Skyrim on PS4 regardless of the new architecture. Assuming reviews don't come out warning people away, I plan to pick it up next week. I'm going to spend the weekend looking at footage and reading impressions.

It wasn't just the PS3 that had issues. After that housing dlc the game became almost a lottery in certain places on the 360. I remember I couldn't travel on foot from Falkreath to Riverwood because the game would almost always crash as i got to the 3 standing stones. Another particularly nasty place was walking from Whiterun to the farm where Cicero hung about.

I'm ignoring them until I get my platinum for this game, its sad achivements are disabled when you use them but I guess I understand why.

That will be more down to MS and Sony. After all, using any form of mod to garner achievements is still considered a violation of their ToS. I know not all mods help with achievements, but I'm sure both MS and Sony wouldn't want to trawl through countless mods just to make sure and keep rechecking them. Safer for you this way too. Because if your account shows an achievement(s) were obtained in an unrealistic time frame or many time consuming ones close together, MS will ban your ass. They're notorious for that.

1) Game is beautiful looking, depth of field also benefits detail in NPC characters

2) Loading Mods is easy as pie. Trying to use the non cheat ones, Chesko has two super ones up!

3) Loading times mega better, will need to keep track as the save file grows however

All in all this promises to be the game experience we PS3 players never really got to have. Still not like new of course, as everything story and location wise seems to be as before, no new discoveries yet, and none expected....

Better looking than Witcher 3? Did they add open cities? Witcher 3 complete edition is $50 and Skyrim Special Edition is $60 so...

I don't see anyone saying that the remaster of Skyrim looks better than Witcher 3. Also, it is a remaster, not a remake, so of course there won't be "open cities". The base game is the same.

So far I am about to do the first quest and the game looks really pretty on the PS4.

Finally playing and... I'm happy... boy oh boy am I happy.