than we have on the consoles

the mods, just blow anything we have on our consoles away.

creature packs
armor packs
weapon packs
home packs
texture packs
dungeon packs
lands added

Seriously, it's like we have a peewee game and the pc people are playing a big boys game.

i wish i would of bought a better PC and bought it for the PC. skyrim on console is extremely vanilla, compared to the endless mods and additions that keep being created. And they will continue creating even more cool stuff, a year, even 2 years from now, and the game will still be fun and fresh.


after watching videos of mods, and stuff, it's like being left out, and watching the great game from the sidelines.

I feel the same, but hey, it's still a great game. There will also be more dlc to look forward to.

i feel you ,my friend has it on pc,he talks and i get jealous,lol.

I cant afford a pc, and i don't have the necessary space in my room really... sad face

Yea I can see how this is going to turn out... Console/PC flame war... it's really not all it's cracked up to be as you make it sound, speaking as someone who owns both versions.

That's the way it's always been, since Morrowind. The TES modding community really is amazing.

Buying a TES game on consoles is madness. It's like paying for a low quality demo.

Mods are great fun, but they can also become the focus of and dominate your gaming time. With Oblivion I went so mod crazy that I spent more time browsing and testing mods than I did actually playing the game.

There are still mods being made for Oblivion

And the new DLCs allow new mods, like there are some pretty cool replacers for the Vampire Lord form And the crossbow animations and mechanics allows some cool new weapons, like this http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=104468371


That's half the fun of it for me, really. And it just got started for Skyrim since TES5Edit was released

i thought gaming PC's were really expensive... that the only real thing stopping me from getting it for the PC
how much does a PC that will run the majority of the mods out there cost?

I know, right? Insanely I spent more time trying to get some mods to work, than actually playing the game. A good way to get around this is to just tell yourself enough is enough and stop trying to install more mods no matter how much better you think it will make the game. I still think the PC is vastly superior despite the strong feeling to overmod.

I know what you mean. I actually loved that about Oblivion. I stopped viewing it as an open-world RPG (which in it's vanilla state, it wasn't particularly good as) and instead viewed it as a base or platform for modding.

It would probably be cheaper than you imagine. A top of the line gaming PC is quite expensive, but any game released for the Xbox is not going to require anything remotely close to top of the line. A budget rig would do the trick.

I can't afford top end machines, so I tend to peg my system capabilities to the consoles. I may miss out on a few PC exclusive titles, but a machine that can do anything a console can do can handle most games.

Looking back at Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim they are all decent games in their own way. Each of them have strengths and weaknesses, however they also serve as this perfect platform to build on and that's where the modders comes in. it can be total overhauls or small changes.

However the danger with mods besides bloated save games and such is the time spent to get all mods on your list to work. Running close to 90 mods and it ain't fun when one of them is updated and starts conflicting with one of the others.... However when stuff works it does make the game pretty much awesome.

It is, but after a while you end up spending more time modding the hell out of the game than actually playing it. OP, while you envy us PC users I sometime envy you console users who are able to enjoy the game as it is, in its vanilla form. I'm so addicted that I wouldn't ever play a vanilla SK anymore.

I have both a fairly new pc and a fairly new xbox. The pc was somewhat expensive, purchased from Dell itself, an Intel I.7 with all the latest at the time of purchase. I tried playing on the pc, and enjoyed it, but like the xbox better, because with the pc it is too easy to put in the mods, the cheats, the commands, etc.

Besides, I rather play on xbox which is hooked up with HDMI cables to the HD TV, which has a 42 inch screen and with a fiber optic cable hook up to a surround sound system made for the xbox. I like it better, and the looks are just fantistic and the sounds unbelievable. An arrow "shooshing" through the air. A spells "effects" still echoing in the air. Not to mention that when a dragon swoops down, it is like the whole room is shaking. lol

I play on PC and I never mod my games unless they absolutly need to be modded. I can say, my Skyrim is completely mod free and forever will be.

Playing Skyrim without mods is like eating apple pie without ice cream. It's still good, but that ice cream makes it so much better.

I have one rule when it comes to modding my games, always play it a lot before adding mods. I do need to know how the vanilla game worked, because how can I know if I a mod is an improvement if I don't know that part. I spent about 60-70 hours in vanilla skyrim before the first mods was installed. it allowed me to see what I felt was working and what needed a change. But now that I have mods, I doubt I could simplly remove all of them and go back to Vanilla, I do love my modded game too much to do such a thing

Haha, so true. Modding can be a beautiful burden (100 pts on self)

If you don't use a mod manager and install mods manually you'll soon be able to tell just from the files and locations whether they will conflict or not. Some mod managers (*cough* NMM) cause more problems than the mods do.

I indeed did play the game in its vanilla form for 50+ hours or so, long enough to understand its mechanics using a random grunt with no backstory whatsoever. When I felt ready to play with my main character, first thing I did was browsing the Nexus

It's also fattening and not good for you.

What if it was low-fat ice cream?

I've kind of said the same thing about Skjyrim without Hearthfire, only I used blueberry pie. Once you're aware of how good blueberry pie a la mode is, you just don't see the point in eating it plain.

I don't intend to get Skyrim on PC, because I don't like playing games with a keyboard. Nothing breaks immersion like having to hunt and peck for the right key.

As far as mods go, my first exposure to them was a Youtube video of some sick bastard using a Fallout one to slaughter Little Lamplight. So needless to say, I didn't have a very high opinion of them. I now know that there are some good ones out there that genuinely improve the game, but I don't think the enhancements they provide are worth the hassle of playing hunt and peck on a keyboard. If I can get the DLC I want on PS3, I will happily do so, and return to Skyrim for more fun. If not, I will declare it to be 45 bucks and 450 hours well spent, and move on to another game

You can use a PS3 or Xbox controller with the computer, all you have to do is plug it in a USB port and there you go, Skyrim on PC with a controller. Games aren't really hunt and peck anyways, if you ever have played a PC game you would understand that it's not like typing, especially if you have a gaming mouse.