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Is it Worth Upgrading to Skyrim Special Edition



Improved lighting, textures, and shorter loading times, Peter details Skyrim Special Edition and lets us know if it’s worth the price tag.

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  1. definately worth it. the ps3 couldnt really handle this game. i enjoyed it on ps3 but you would get pretty frequent lag and annoying crashes. on ps4 i've had minimal lag and zero crashes and the graphics seem like a pretty significant improvement to me

  2. It is better because the Game Runs better for me atleast, i got 100 Mods, and it runs really Good i didnt got the Sickest Rig on Earth but i got Graphic Mods and a Enb and it Runs about 50-60 Fps for me, also when i Played the Normal Version i allways had Problems with Modding it i dont know why, but with the new Version everything works out like it should.
    that was the Main thing, the Second one is because Skyrim is a Good Game and i dont care to Buy it again for better Peformance and Graphic. But i buyd it when it was Cheap, so thats also a other thing, i never Pay full Price for something lol.

  3. Im debating on if I should buy the old skyrim (already have the special edition) because of all the better mods for the older edition

  4. "Which is a drop in the bucket compared to the 150 hours I spent on the original Skyrim on PC."

    God damn younger me had to have put nearly 5,000 hours in Xbox 360 Skyrim between Christmas 2011 and around June 2018

  5. I have a different opinion, honestly…SE totally looks like it's worth getting especially for PC as I personally cannot get the enbs and graphic heavy mods to work for my game, neither do I have the ability to fix all the bugs with mods as they are to heavy on the whole, installation difficulty, and I most of all cannot install fnis because I dunno how to install it period, none of the YouTube videos showing how to do so are useful as they are half a dozen years outdated, making SE the ultimate option, as it forces all the modders in the nexus or at least the ones whom matter, to switch to the fixed platform and redo their work, which will get vortex to function with their tutorials of installation.
    There are some tutorials that use vortex but, they are just too difficult as I do not have my files organized exactly the same.
    I was at a point where I'd have to hire someone to do the modding for me, but I cannot afford anything so…SE, I got it from a site that cheapens the price and is perfectly legal.
    My opinion is, SE is the ultimate way to play skyrim, now as for mods, I never went passed 100, I made it a point to never do so as organizing them on the nexus was difficult and vortex has it worse if your mods are installed from any other platform like steam workshop or some random mod site from a random author who simply can't get on board with competition, I think currently, SE is the best for that crisis as there are very few mods in comparison to the original edition, about 2/8 in comparison which means the talented authors can avoid wrestling with millions of other talents and finally show their work in the nexus without fear of having to battle other talent and endorsed mods to get on the front page

  6. DO WE STILL NEED TO SEE POPUP LEVEL PROGRESS BARS IN THE MIDDLE OF FUCKING COMBAT LIKE A FUCKING AOL BROWSER POPUP FROM FUCKING 1997? F U C K O F F B E T H E S D A

  7. Is this game free to play solo after I buy it or do I have to pay a monthly or yearly fee ?…by the way I will on the Xbox one, thank you for posting.

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