What motivates you to keep playing skyrim?

[Drezz]

What motivates you to keep playing skyrim?

 

 A world without modding or a plain vanilla skyrim?

 

It is a very serious question, when i started playing skyrim, i thought it was the best game ever..

After hours upon hours of questing, looting and pillaging, conquering dragons, getting married, participating in the whiterun space program, i began to think to myself..what in the hell is there to do after all this? what can i do to prolonge the ultimate skyrim experience without mods? So, i'm asking you all, would you really continue playing skyrim without mods? 

 

i'm talking about barebones skyrim, vanilla completely. I already know that many are going to say that playing without mods is not any fun, with the abundance of debauchery and sexualized modding experiences we have here to play with, mods like sexlab, defeat, devious devices, the sex slave mods, the abundance of mutiple follower mods, the multiple home mods, the list goes on and on... the actual ability to create and expand and share ideas upon a world that has become so massive..

 

 This is my opinion, i think that if there was no loverslab, if there was no nexus, if there was not any of the multiple skyrim modding blogs, communities, whatever it is you would like to call it, if this was all gone, from the countless forums, and conversations i've seen while playing this game, i think if all this was gone tomorrow, i dont have a doubt that people would build it all up again, and continue to expand on there "ultimate skyrim experience". thoughts? 

 

[Guest Comrade DR. MAHUJ DIK]

the game is great, but time pass and things become previsible...

But mods, mod never changes...

[Drezz]

the game is great, but time pass and things become previsible...

But mods, mod never changes...

 

definately agreed.

[Rebel Marauder]

If the game was just pure vanilla without any mods I think Skyrim would be dropped completely, were it not for mods and the awesome people who create them Skyrim would have fallen by the wayside a long time ago, it's communities like this one and the nexus which have helped to prolong the life of the game way past it's vanilla playable date, heck Fallout 4 without mods lasted less than a week for me before I came back to Skyrim, so that tells us (well me at least) that modding has severely changed my/our gaming especially on Bethesda games.

[Drezz]

If the game was just pure vanilla without any mods I think Skyrim would be dropped completely, were it not for mods and the awesome people who create them Skyrim would have fallen by the wayside a long time ago, it's communities like this one and the nexus which have helped to prolong the life of the game way past it's vanilla playable date, heck Fallout 4 without mods lasted less than a week for me before I came back to Skyrim, so that tells us (well me at least) that modding has severely changed my/our gaming especially on Bethesda games.

 

Agreed on that, i highly believe that modders make this game exciting and i don't think that i could ever play it vanilla again, i know people that actually play it straight vanilla, but hey.. more power to them, if that's there thing then go for it.

[Guest]

sex mods and hot girls mods...

[ThatSeasonsGal]

I use my 360 to play vanilla Skyrim when my internet crashes. Really only doing it to find any quests I may have missed at some point and explore for any locations I haven't visited.

 

Mods make it much better overall

[Guest Comrade DR. MAHUJ DIK]

theres another way, that involves mods an allow a endless gameplay (sadly I lost my character that used this method when my pc was formatted and I forgot toput the saves on the backup ).

Make an roleplaying character with an almost impossible or endless objective. My "eternal character" was a powerhungry dragonborn witch hat wanted to claim her rightfull place. 9by the lore the ruby throne belongs to dragonborns and even if a dinasty falls the next heir is the nest dragonborn, this was broken 3 times, once when alexia heirs were killed and manimarco broke the the veil between oblivion and mundus, once before talos (yes I call the trio talos) took the throne and when martin sacrified himself.

By the lore your character is the rightful heir, but politics gotta be politics (AKA beth fucked the lore and only noticied when the game was released and too late to fix).

So my charcter finished all DLCs, and several quest mos looking for power, won the civil war sidding with the empire, beacme the "thane of Skyrim" (all the holds). assassinated Ulfric beacuse he knew too much and couldnt be controlled, entralled elisif with illusion magic, started and army, kept seeking power evn if it was probaly the most powerfull caster in tamriel (and maybe Nirn) (uncapper FTW), messed with the talmor (they stood on her way) and was going to seize tje underworld with piracy and skooma, before scouting bruma, morrowind and high rock (beyond skyrim).

[Laura]

I keep playing because of the mods. (mostly LL mods)

And i just started a new game after installing an enb.

 

 

[spoonsinger]

Why am I still playing?(*), the naive certainty that at some point it will be stable within the context of the game I want.

 

 

(*) erm - not entirely sure that 'playing' is the correct phrase. What is the phrase for a self inflicted constant cycle of disappointment and minimal elation backed with ominous dread?

[Rebel Marauder]

Why am I still playing?(*), the naive certainty that at some point it will be stable within the context of the game I want.

 

 

(*) erm - not entirely sure that 'playing' is the correct phrase. What is the phrase for a self inflicted constant cycle of disappointment and minimal elation backed with ominous dread?

 

Some would call that Marriage lol

 

I understand what your getting at with Skyrim and being stable though it definitely has it's moments, however thanks to Bethesda stable is one thing it'll not likely be for a long time if ever honestly

[Kaz Aanh]

My waifu

[Guest ...failure]

My waifu

 

 

[NickNozownik]

Mods, mods and even more mods. Stuff that greatly expands pretty much everything. And some LL mods on top of that. The only thing that I enjoy doing in vanilla game is creating total chaos with fear/frenzy spells, creating ugly characters and playing as unarmed naked bum.

Unfortunately this gets dull and uninteresting after 20 minutes. Without mods this game would be completely dead to me.

[Guest ...failure]

Well, I say because I enjoy it more than any other game.

Skyrim has it's own charm +Mods

[swords and sandals]

There's no doubt that mods are the main thing that keeps me coming back to it. I can't really imagine playing it vanilla again now, and there have been periods when I've gone to other games only to be drawn back by an update to a favourite mod. There's more to it than that, though. If you look at a site like gamefaqs, the xbox 360 Skyrim board is much busier than the PC one. There are no mods on consoles, yet people still play it, and still discuss it. They talk about the lore, the mythology, the geography, the history of the in-game world. If the setting tickles your fancy it's a great playground to run around in. And there's also the blank character that can be whatever you want him/her to be. Even without mods, if you use a little imagination there's a lot of variety in how you can approach the game. When you throw mods on top of that as well, I can't think of any other game that can be so many different games, all in one.

[ticketo4]

Poking around inside the game engine with SKSE and C++.

[Laura]

The fact that i keep finding new things even after i played multiple hundreds of hours.

That, and the mods here.

 

 

[Millicent Bystander]

The fact that i keep finding new things even after i played multiple hundreds of hours.

That, and the mods here.

 

 

I agree, I Pre-ordered the PS3 version, played that finished, got the expansions but the game was so messed I couldn't play it, 10 min loading screens hurt me, eventually I re-bought it all on steam and started playing again.

only now, almost 5 years later did I discover a hidden chest on the slopes above the exit for the Forge outside whiterun.

 

what brought me back was the nude mod followed almost a year later by my discovery of Loverslab

[fartyes]

Boobs.

[Guest ...failure]

Boobs.

 

Aaand ?

 

[The Martian]

Nothing right now, but Elina could

[Texdi]

a-pvp

[Guest]

i came from console a year and a half ago.

 

so i guess for you guys its like doing drugs

and youve grown a tolerance but me holy

shit- its like dipping my toes in the ocean

[Millicent Bystander]

I did the same beginning of last year, it was super crazy