Am I the only one who keeps feeling the pull of Skyrim?

[ric999]

Doesn’t matter how many times I’ve explored every inch of this game, there’s always something that pulls me back. Maybe it’s the nostalgia, maybe it’s the mods, or maybe it’s just the fact that no other game quite feels the same.

Anyone else constantly getting sucked back into Skyrim, or is it just me?
 

[Gameplayer]

Far from it, that is quite ridiculous to say so.

 

Especially on a game modification forum, haha.

As a mod author myself I keep tweaking things, mostly outfit mods, and sometimes I put so much work into something I post it up.

Although I have converted over so many outfits, usually I am working on an update.  In fact just last night, I saw how my characters dragonplate gauntlets bent at the elbow and I thought you know it would look better if I removed the upper arm weight paints and filled in the missing section with forarm weight paint.

You know what I did just that and now the dragonbone does not bend like its a piece of fabric in fact it behaves exactly how a solid piece of material should behave!

An then I realized, now I have to do this with every single gauntlet made of metal or bone.

AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH.

 

My current chracter is level 56 an I'm using Ordinator and a bunch of difficulty mods.

Playing a Nord with Imperious Races right, and I just slay everything with my Two Handed Sword in 1 to 3 hits.  Heck if I charge up to them I usually kill them in one blow, even a few dragons.  I opened up High Level Enemies Redux and realized that at level 60 there really are no more entries to keep Skyrim's monsters/bandits leveling up with me ><

I've made Heavy Armor legendary twice and Two Handed once, and now these skills are about capped again, plus I have a nice pile of perk points all of them earned.

 

So I am already looking at starting my next character and I am rushing the Alduin quest line to completion.

Just sat through the peace conference between Ulfric and Tulius for the first time actually.

Couldnt help but think....

I know this is fanfic but if it were me, I would have had options to arrange the player to threaten Elwin and the Altmere Dominion.  Afterall at this point in the game the player is already a child of a god, being the Dragonborn.  Who is to say that the Dragonborn is not the biggest threat in the entire realm?

We all know that the Dragonborn is already tasked with saving all of reality and our souls as we know it.

Compared to that the Alt Dominion is just a smelly old turd.

[jfraser]

i have never actually finished the main quest - i keep getting distracted by mods. so i am far from done with the game. it has even managed to get me to dust off my mods and start working on them again. XD

[belegost]

On 2/16/2025 at 1:18 PM, ric999 said:

Anyone else constantly getting sucked back into Skyrim, or is it just me

 

looks at playtime well into a 5 digit number

 

Nah. I can quit whenever I want!

[Guest]

3 hours ago, belegost said:

 

Nah. I can quit whenever I want!

Classic!  

Quote from Airplane the movie with a twist... Looks like I picked a fine day to stop playing Skyrim!      

[Count Chocula]

On 2/18/2025 at 10:31 PM, jfraser said:

i have never actually finished the main quest - i keep getting distracted by mods. so i am far from done with the game. it has even managed to get me to dust off my mods and start working on them again. XD

I've finished it a few times, but, yeah, it's pretty rare that I do the main quest. Sometimes I never even bother to go to High Hrothgar.