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Ok i seriously can't name all of them

http://wiki.step-project.com/STEP:2.2.8

Most of my mods are the core ones from this guide

You two make Lord Dagon so proud! Greet the new day!

I don't own this one on PC so I don't follow the graphics mods, but I would think that people employ graphic mods more often to change the style of the appearance than the flat out quality. The color of Skyrim in most regions can be rather bland, so I would personally be tempted to use a mod that makes it just a tad more colorful. Otherwise, I agree with you: there isn't much to touch up on (as far as graphics are concerned…)

Dawn is breaking!

Yeah, when Skyrim's color pallette consist of five different shades of white and gray. Someone wants to add something to it.

Skyrim tends to give me seasonal affective disorder.

Oh look white snow

Oh look gray woods

Oh look the Rift refreshing to my eyes

No more gray, more white.

So sick and tired of gray and white.

Better than Oblivion's super colourful cartoony crap.

It's not cartoony. It was watercolored. But it was definetely a lot better than gray gray gray and oh look gray.

Oblivion was the outdated version of Witcher 2. Not cartoony.

I have the two high res texture packs running on high setting. But yeah any other graphics mod slow the game down for me.

I run Ultra setting, Realvision ENB, heaps of texture mods, Lush trees and grass, heaps of graphics mods EVERYTHING

I want to make Skyrim look as best as it can

Exactly, way better than grey grey grey GASP A BROWN.

The only Graphical mod I have installed is http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50753/?, it makes the game less bland and more fantasyish, giving the much needed color to the world. After I installed the mod my enjoyment for the game went up like crazy.

Besides that, I saw no reason to install anything else, game's already good looking as it is.

lol.

I know that brown shouldn't exist.

Personally I still don't think Oblivion looks cartoony, http://oi40.tinypic.com/2ugzcye.jpg

I don't use any graphic mods, I love Skyrim's vanilla look. While some complain about the dull colors, I think they look good and fit the harsh, snowy environment of Skyrim.

colorful =/= unrealistic. Just look at photos in any garden or travel magazine; they are way more colorful than Oblivion, and they are depictions of the real world, albeit a selected part of it and in clear weather.

but I also think desaturation =/= dull. It depends on which atmosphere you want.

When this "dull vs unnatural" discussion was up last time, I googled some screenshots of vanilla Skyrim and Oblivion and found the lighting is slightly unrealistic in both of them; they have a turquoise-ish tint, with Oblivion more to the green and Skyrim more to the blue. I also realized Oblivion isn't as colorful as it is made out to be.

Terms like "realistic" are very much subjective and a totally overused word in the context of video games. And some people notice and appreciate graphical details more than others.

I think it is fair to say that vanilla Skyrim looks pretty good out of the box. The character models and faces are 5 million times better than Oblivion, the landscapes are equal to better, IMO. OB was good in that respect. The climate in Skyrim is vastly different than in Cyrodiil, so the color palette Bethesda chose for Skyrim is a pretty fitting one. I personally liked Oblivion colors more, but I like the winter less than the summer, so there you go. I think Bethesda made overall very good choices.

Now for the gamers so inclined, you can finetune the graphics really any way you want, and the engine is quite tolerant in what you can load up and still have a stable and well-running game. So kudos for that.

I for once notice the SMIM changes a lot, I think it really makes a stunning difference and has become "essential" for me. Outside of that, I just have the official Hi-Res DLC's plus Unofficial Patch for that. I have the WATER mod and I also have Skyrim Flora Overhaul, plus Phinix Natural ENB. That's about it. I started loading up on all sorts of extra HD textures and stuff for weapons, clutter, potions, cothing but came to the conclusion it strains my system too much for mostly marginal gain in visual enhancement. Of course, a strictly personal opinion. If I had to settle on only something, I would not let go of SMIM and Phinix ENB.

I use 100+ high res texture/mesh packs, SMIM, aMidianborn, etc, etc. I also switch between various ENBs every few weeks.

The one thing I'll never be entirely happy with is distant views. It gets a lot better with ugrids 7 or higher, but otherwise the LOD meshes (even with mods) are pretty bad. I'm generally happier blurring them with distant DoF, though I wish it wasn't the only option.

One of these days I'll make a throwaway character with ugrids 9 or 11, and just play until save corruption or I get sick of the bizarre behavior that resutls.

An interesting point of view Sir. Less is more.

I would agree for the most part.

However, for these eyes, Skyrim needs textures.

You know. To dot the 'i's and cross the 't's' for all those unfinished blobs.

I use the 2K lite texture packs. Baseline. Free.

Then to add detail:

Static Mesh Improvement Mod - SMIM

Skyrim HD - 2K Textures

aMidianBorn Landscape

And an occasional switch between ENB's

I guess I don't stay around carefully gazing the environment and every single small thing everywhere as much as you do. Hence why I hardly notice a difference with and without SMIM.

I recently installed a mod that lowers the texture of rain, snow, and falling leaves. Honestly, they look exactly alike. Heck I don't even have the High texture download installed, and it still looks pretty great.

Maybe we're just not that picky, the lighting mod that I use only changes the lighting, but the texture is the same.

I've never been picky. I put gameplay ahead of graphics

Likewise ,or else I would have not spend thousands of hours into http://lh3.ggpht.com/_1jrbqlAuJDk/S8egX9I8-ZI/AAAAAAAAAB0/yuUbi-jcKJ8/image%5B9%5D.png%3Fimgmax%3D800, gods that game is one of the deepest game that I've ever laid my hands on.

I'm not trying to argue with you, but http://static-4.nexusmods.com/15/mods/110/images/8655-1-1331537164.jpg.

One of the things that I really missed in my first 100-ish hours of Skyrim were those moments where you just suddenly stop, look around, and pause for a moment because of the beauty of the view. It took ENB and a lot of textures to remedy that.

But I still love (and occasionally play) nethack, so it depends on the game and it's context. If I can have great graphics, that just adds to the experience, but if they're not available, I enjoy it for what it offers.

I bought Skyrim about a month after its release. I had never played any TES games or fantasy RPGs before. My initial impression was that the graphics were a bit dull and dated but the game world felt alive and so much fun to explore.

Graphics mods help bring the game closer to current standards. I would not be still playing this game without enhanced graphics. Improving the visuals, sounds and gameplay with all the great mods made by the community has become a pastime in itself.

When the game was released I was shocked how low resolution the game's textures were. My modded Oblivion looked better and was more immersive. Only after I widened FOV, installed HD textures and a ENB mod (to get things like better depth of field effects) the game finally looked good and became immersive.

I know what you mean, but the only thing i need for that is this simple, old, not FPS consuming http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/648/? mod. Skyrim is cartoony (has colors other than grey and brown), it's just hidden under the realism filter (grey tint)

I run Skyri at Ultra since my computer can do it.

I also use the RealVision mod since I wanted to try it out. I fear I can never go back now. It changes the game totally. The experience becomes totally different. But I also fear it might make me dumber to not imagine the trees (now when I can actually see them and so on)...

Still, one of the best games ever made is Ultima VII pt1&pt2. And they are low-fi.