How do YOU play Skyrim?

[Scarlett]

So I was wondering how people actually play their skyrim.

 

Do you actually go through and get into the higher levels of Skyrim doing the quests and such, or do you find yourself remaking characters and barely even getting past level 1 as you play around with mods and such? Or maybe something completely different

[darklycan1304]

i have 2 plug in lists thanks to mod organiser, 1 for playing in general (im at the 255 plugin limit on that on xD) that i play for fun and immersion, whilst my other load order is for...other mods

[JBloggz]

I think we had this thread a month ago...

 

Basically, I either do it for screenshotty stories or testing out every major spell pack in the game for some hilarities. Character hasn't really gone past level 10.

[Scarlett]

i have 2 plug in lists thanks to mod organiser, 1 for playing in general (im at the 255 plugin limit on that on xD) that i play for fun and immersion, whilst my other load order is for...other mods

 

Woah woah woah come back here, let me caress you in my arms...

 

I made a post about this, how exactly do you get two different lists?

[darklycan1304]

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1334/?
it lets you create profiles for load orders, the only issue is setting it up at first and t doesnt tell you how many plug ins it has. Also you have to either load up MO (mod organiser) each time you want to play OR create a shortcut linked to the load order

[TomahawkChop]

1% story

99% screenshots 

[dashipper]

Most of the time I end up creating new characters at around level 15-20, usually to try out a new mod or something like that.  In 1000 played hours (and another couple hundred spent in 3ds max), I've only finished the main quest chain once, and that wasn't until around hour 850, and with the exception of the thieves guild, I've never finished the side-faction quest chains more than once either (and even with the thieves guild I never have restored them to their former glory).  It gets even worse when I find a new armor I like and I spend a few hours reworking the meshes to fit my character.

 

Right now I'm working on a new game on master, will bump it up to legendary later.  Already level 20 and I feel like I haven't done anything yet, but this time I've disabled fast travel and I'm not using carriages or the like to get around at all.  Since this play through is with the Demonica body and I'm loving it (and taking the time to convert some things to fit it), I have a feeling it's going to be a long-term keeper.  Never quite felt as relaxed and satisfied with skyrim as I do right now with this play through.

[dje34]

Tested approximately every SexLab mod on LL forums during 3 months, barely reached lvl 10, then bought Skyrim Legendary Edition and now playing for real to 'test' the 'new' things from HF, DB and DG DLCs, my main char is lvl 45 but I'm planning on doing 2 new games with different body replacers thanks to MO and making a deviant story, involving these characters, with screenshots. Only problem is ENB, only Not An ENB is working pretty cool with my not high end PC.

[Cynical Misanthrope]

Right now I don't pkay Skyrim at all. No matter how much mods I add to the game, after a while I end up bored with it. However, when I played, I did for the story, rp and exploration.

I certanly do not take shit loads of screenshots and post it online. To me it's pointless, and screams "attention whore". I have maybe in total taken 3 screenshots that later got lost.

Not that I care anyway.

 

Most mods I use, adss more "realistic" aspects to the game, but also things that change the vanilla core to the better. Like Frostfall, RnD, SkyRe, ReProccer and shit loads of animations for different actions. But also more weapons, armor etc etc. I never use fast travel, instead I walk, or use horses/carriages. I also used a few SexLabs mods, but after while I got bored with them too.

[Jarka Ruus]

So I was wondering how people actually play their skyrim.

 

Do you actually go through and get into the higher levels of Skyrim doing the quests and such, or do you find yourself remaking characters and barely even getting past level 1 as you play around with mods and such? Or maybe something completely different

Ideally I'd like to play the game, though after the first playthrough I'm still in the process of building the perfect character. A one year and a half long-drawn-out process.

Basically I haven't played any of the dlcs yet

I think I leveled my first character up to level 50-55, before using the Oghma Infinium glitch to max it out (up to Vanilla cap). Though by that time I had gone through all the most important quests.

[Just Checking]

I'm in a cycle of "Create character-get to about level 10 or 15-have idea for new character/playstyle-never touch previous character again".  I'd say that sums up how I play Skyrim pretty well, with a few different mods on each one depending on what I actually want to do with a character.  I recently played with screenshots because I liked the idea of doing little stories with them, as I've seen around here, but was put off because I was worried my potatotop graphics, almost completely vanilla character appearances and inability to use hi-res texture replacers, or even some of the nicer ENBs wouldn't hold up with all the really nice looking games people have running.

 

So now I'm back in the rotating character cycle.  I've done the civil war maybe three times, two of those was to test the civil war overhaul.  I've done the mage's quests a couple times, assassins once and never even got halfway through the other factions.  Never done the actual main quests with dragons and such.  How many years has it been and I have yet to actually play the whole point of the game?

[TacomancerX]

normally... make a Vampire/Werewolf to about lv 10-20 and add a new mod/change a mod, break save, start again.

[pinky6225]

So I was wondering how people actually play their skyrim.

 

Do you actually go through and get into the higher levels of Skyrim doing the quests and such, or do you find yourself remaking characters and barely even getting past level 1 as you play around with mods and such? Or maybe something completely different

 

Generally get to about level 40-50 and then something is updated or something new is particularly appealing and i have to start a new game to get it all to work again.

 

[Lucy in the Sky]

I played skyrim from the day it was launched to about... mmmm... end of 2012....

 

For example... I have never played through the Dawn Guard campaign, nor Dragonborn... even though I bought those DLCs.  I just stopped finding the Combat System of this game appealing.

 

Nowadays I only think of Skyrim as a "Screenshot generator".

 

 

 

[afa]

I test mods, that's about it.

 

Highest level character at 50s to 60s to test out method of leveling and enchanting/alchemy

Never fought a dragon through quest before, spawn a few to test a few things.

Furthest ever gotten in quest line is the golden claw

Did first two Civil War quest to test a civil war related mod

 

Why I do this?

We don't ask these kind of questions here!

[Origamiboy]

I spend most of my time making mods and less of it actually playing the game which annoys me because i have ocd and i want my game to be my idea of perfection so ill spend days at a time just modding and not even playing for more than to test it. When i actually play it for real then i play vanilla but end up readding all of the mods anyways because vanilla skyrim sucks balls sometimes...

[DukeLeos]

I've always had a hard time not remaking and starting over in video games. Some so I can get a better look and some for the simple reason that I love the story SO much I don't want it to end. Yet in Skyrim all the mods I have/get makes that way more fun. I get to about lvl 20 or so (tops) and just start over. Some times not even to change anything... XD I beat the game only once and might have put um.... 2-3k hours in it... maybe more. I had the same problem with Morrowind. At this point... I have a few girls that I freaking love and want to get to the late game with... but we will see. So far... not going so well.

 

As of right now. I have only one at lv 4 as I just started everything over so I can use mod organizer.

If I ever felt that the "game" was not appealing to me anymore I would not play. Skyrim has to be more then a wallpaper maker to me or its not worth my time.

[Ashra XIII]

I've been playing Skyrim since it launched, and modding as soon as there was stuff worth adding to the game. I have easily over 1200 hours played, but have never finished the main quest. I think I've finished the mage and companions guilds, but neither of the others (though I'll probably never finish the thieves guild since I never want to give up the unbreakable lockpick). I bought all the DLC but have never finished any of it (hardly even began Dragonborn), and it seems rather unlikely I'll ever muster the staying power to do any of it.

 

Around October of last year I discovered Lovers Lab and of course it changed my Skyrim life forever! I've sexed up my game to the max, and am often involved with testing mods before they release, so I end up starting and restarting games, rarely if ever making it to level 20. I almost never take screenshots though, because honestly I don't really get into showing everyone what a perv I am. 

 

Now and again I get a little tired of just testing things and having to restart my game when it becomes crashy and unplayable due to updating and changing out mods (even Mod Organizer can't help after awhile) and want to just sit down and play. I'm in one of those moods now, in fact, but even during those times I don't tend to get very far because I keep finding other stuff I want to do or try or an update to one of the mods I am using is released and things get unstable....

 

I'm a lost cause.

[Taskmaster]

85% playing

15% screen archery

 

I like capturing images, because I enjoy going back to look at them to get inspired on where I want to take my character next. Whether that's change armors, weapons, personality quirks, ENB, whatever. I have a blast posting pictures of my character on the forums here too, and looking at everyone else's, because it provides the same thing; to get inspired on where I want to advance my character next.

 

A picture is worth a thousand words.

 

To whomever said taking screens of your character and game is attention whoring, that's a byproduct, but that's not the intent for people like myself and many others. Just posting on a forum in general can be misconstrued as attention whoring. With that said, it's a good feeling to know if others share in the idea of where your character is going or not, and it's a treat seeing it from others. If it wasn't for participating on screen archery with others on this site, my character(s) would probably just be boring and uninspired because creativity from one source(yourself) is not enough. I hope my own images have inspired others the same.

 

I've played through the mage's guild once on vanilla(lightly modded).

Dark brotherhood once on a different character.

And lastly, the thieves guild three times on my current character that I can't seem to stop playing(and reinventing).

 

I end up restarting on the changing of heavy scripts, key updates to essential shit, or when my game gets bogged down. I think the highest level I've had a character go before starting anew is around level 45 or 48.

[RunicGray]

Similar to others, I use Mod Organizer for two main setup at the minute - one is my main game, which has the main quest finished and will do the DLCs. She's not massively high-leveled for it, maybe around 25? The other save is for "other" interests ;D. I'm using that to do some other factions like Thieves Guild and probably Dark Brotherhood.

[nutluck]

So I was wondering how people actually play their skyrim.

 

Do you actually go through and get into the higher levels of Skyrim doing the quests and such, or do you find yourself remaking characters and barely even getting past level 1 as you play around with mods and such? Or maybe something completely different

 

Both, My first try and I hashed the game and barely made my 20's before I broke skyrim. My next time I got to my 50's with one character. Since then i redid skyrim again and right now I am just playing around testing mods. Once a few mods I really like are finished with there current versions like Defeat I will do another long term serious play thru, until then I am having fun mod testing basically.

[Guest IAmTheOneWhoKnocks]

i have 2 plug in lists thanks to mod organiser, 1 for playing in general (im at the 255 plugin limit on that on xD) that i play for fun and immersion, whilst my other load order is for...other mods

 

Same here, I've got a clean immersive load setup and a sexy set up using MO. I also use different lists to separate characters

[TalMaheRa]

It used to be that I played Skyrim.  Think up a character, play through the game according to the narrative I'd planned for that character, rinse, repeat.  2k+ hours spent this way.  Even went the "Do absolutely everything there is to do in the game" route with my test Breton.  She got triple digits before I had to semi-retire her, 138 I think.

 

Nowadays I find myself playing in Skyrim.  Do this or that quest, maybe a whole chain (College is short and sweet, it sees a lot of love.) Test mods and their updates, wait for my install to FUBAR, rinse, repeat.  Since I jumped on the MO bandwagon, though, this process is not only less likely to ruin my install, but I feel confident enough to test mods that I would be hesitant about before.

[GodSmack]

2 different save files

 

1. I pretty much beat a quest line like guilds  or war and if my skyrim save isnt destroyed by scripts i make my dragonborn pretty get married kids, etc then never touch the save file again, kinda like a and they lived happily ever after thing

 

2. "stuff happens" ;D

[ianmagus]

Got to around level 78 with my original character from the first day the game came out, an Argonian Archer/Dual-Wield character.  Spent so much time over the years trying out different mods that somewhere along the line I corrupted my saves, so I just recently started over at the beginning of the year.  Basically playing the same character again (level 84 thanks to being able to reset skills with Legendary mode), but with more emphasis on Restoration, Alteration and Illusion magic since I downloaded the Auto-Cast mod.  Never played through Dawnguard or Dragonborn before even though I had the DLC, so I'm doing things a bit differently.  Much to my surprise, even after playing the game since 2011, there are STILL caves and inns I'm finding for the first time that I hadn't discovered in my previous playthrough.  My mods list is almost always capped at 255, but I have around 100 mods just dedicated to custom NPCs and NPC reskins, so I've been deleting the custom NPCs I don't care for when I want to try something new.