Bethesdas current gen actions can have a negative effect on them next gen

[lestatdark]

Mummelmann said:

lestatdark said:

Mummelmann said:
Mods are a lifesaver, the very first one I got was a UI rework, the entire game (Skyrim) was suddenly worth twice as much with something that simple! I expect to see some crazy community mods within the next 3-4 years for Skyrim, lending the game longevity beyond most titles after such a long time.

Improved UI and Better Sorting mods changed the way I played the game entirely. I can't play the Vanilla version anymore because it just feels like it's a clumsy mess that has no sense whatsoever, especially with the Keyboard interface. 

Some of the most recent and good work that mods are putting out are city enhancing mods and climate mods. Combined with the extra effects mods, and the game looks like it almost leaps a generation.

Yeah, I use some visual mods as well. The game has fairly low system req's as is, so I load quite a few before the rig takes a bow. The default texture work in Skyrim is pretty horrible no matter the settings and I remember being somewhat disappointed by the visuals. It clearly shows just how much consoles are stalling PC development this late in the generation. The biggest improvement over Oblivion is the character models but they still have a very long way to go. Lucky for us, there are good mods for that too!

Xenius Character Enhancement has already improved them a lot . There's enough mods to improve on every area of the game, which is quite amazing as I recall that it took almost two years before a decent overall texture mod was available for Oblivion, and this was with the toolkit available since the game launched. 

And yes, it's fairly low on sys reqs. My laptop can easily run almost 100 mods at Ultra and still get playable FPS. It's probably one of the saving graces of the Gamebryo engine, to be fair. As buggy as it might be, at least this recent version has some decent optimization.