I relate to this so hard and just end up getting frustrated

What is the reason you quit playing do you think? What isn't connecting for you?

Personally I believe it’s because your adding too much, it isn’t the game you fell in love with

@@taveth3595 That's the reason I don't really add too much mods. Mostly for immersion and more RPG elements like choises that matter and so.

I actually like getting everything but at the same time making the enemy super powerful. I like cheats, but not if it makes the game too easy, i counterbalance it by making the enemy ultra strong. In the end the difficulty is there, but you feel way more powerful.

@@alexis1156 This basically I hated how in Skyrim a lot of enemies were a joke even on legendary setting. I usually use mods to tweak them and making the challenging as listed in the lore. Like making ghost not affected by physical weapons only enchanted ones and making Vampires and Draugrs an actual threat if not using silver weapons. Its clear Bethesda really dumbed down Skyrim a lot and mods help fix that

I have only used one cheat mod but not on my main playthrough I used a mod to no clip to find anything out of bounds

@@kertgp8275 So true. Todd Howard has been quoted as saying if he had the ability to add features and complexity, or streamline gameplay, he would choose the latter. This is why since TES II the game world and weapon/spell options have become less and less.

I use similar mods often. When I first started modding Skyrim, the majority of my mods were added ambient noises, or tweaking horse speed etc. Minor quality of life tweaks that didn't overhaul the experience.

Agreed. I like mods that add new spells to the game that aren’t stupidly overpowered. I don’t want the game to feel super easy, I just want spells, shouts, or armor pieces to enhance roleplaying. Alternative Start is a requirement for me just because it gives me a lot more freedom when it comes to my characters history and personality.

@@alter6243 know any good spell mods I thought I found a good one but it had one op power that not only did every npc have but was even more broken because they just spam the spell and keep me in a stun lock

You have a right to Your opinion. The video is about NOT modding however. As in the title.

I only do these types of mods

You forgot CBBE which is irrefutably more important than any of the ones you mentioned

144 mods and counting 👀 I'm almost at a point where I can start a modded playthrough

I spend 30 minutes to an hour modding to play for a day and then play unmodded for weeks straight lol.

half of my storage space is just mods 💀

Yessir played so many hours ps3/ps4 now again on pc with mods after vanilla so good game

2235 mods here 🤣

Shit can't argue with that

spent a half hour looking at her chest plate 😭

Damn he’s spittin’ facts

Smh 😭😭😭😂

uthgerd the unbroken hymen

What mods add in fishing villages etc I’ve been modding Skyrim for 10 years never heard of this

@@Mkrause762 Pirates of The North SSE has a misleading name. There are no pirates, but lots of "smugglers" and such. Not compatible with The WatchTowers Reborn.

@@Quondom what about the small villages

@@Mkrause762 Hamlets of the Pale Hamlets of Winterhold Hamlets of Eastmarch Hamlets oft he Rift Hamlets of Falkreath That’s some of them. I also have: Thanedom of Audnhold Thanedom of Dungate Thanedom of Harold Hold Thanedom of Mixwater Thanedom of Tormmarch Thanedom of Toryfjord Thanedom of Treva’s Watch Thanedom of Valdnhold Thanedom of Wynstead Village of Old Hroldan Oakwood Granitehall Moon and Star Kynesgrove I probably missed some. Also, there are others I didn’t install because of conflicts. You should do a search.

Sounds like a kid that never got to play these games when they launched. Sorry you didn't get to experience the original magic.

I know! It is like Christmas morning lol

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Its like when women go shopping but… for men sitting at the computer

​@@ImNotFine44 but sitll lowkey consumerism often. like people always buying books but never reading them - kinda sad. (unless ofc you do lol).

play 1 hour then the rest is surfing mods hahha

I wanted to play that so badly. But the children voiced by adults was super awkward and broke the experience for me

Salem is good.

@@potatos_4_freechildren in games and animations/cartoons are usually voiced by adult women.

@@captainbigos9267 it's not always so obvious, though.

@@potatos_4_freeTrue. Just saying, though.

It just works

theres mods that enables achievements when using mods

The difficulty of vanilla skyrim is laughably easy. Only people who don't like any challenge in their games, or are just bad at games, could enjoy it. Unfortunately that seems to be the majority of gamers these day.

@@crazy10bears yes and you don't like anything else I've heard this about 500 times and if this really is your only problem then put it on higher difficulty

@@Dutchy4564 I don't like anything else? Wth are you even talking about? Put it on higher difficulty? That's what I'm saying, legendary is way too easy. Learn how to write coherently.

this is an actual gigachad solution

I can't mod

Thats based as fuck, holy

Yeah anyone can create their own mod right?

What a waste of time

LMAO was thinking the same thing when he said that shit smh

Most cut content mods are terrible

@@DirtyGeorge When unfinished or unpolished yeah. If finished and polished, no.

KZfaqrs aren't the sharpest ppl 😂

I agree with this statement 100%

Could have just installed the unofficial patch and installed a mod that re enables achievements mod. Vanilla Skyrim is a buggy mess. As I’m typing this he said Skyrim is a carefully balanced and polished game. It’s very far from that with out the unofficial patch that fixes the game the devs are too lazy to do.

@@yonker1337 I actually did. When I was finishing the Dawnguard DLC I installed the Unofficial Patch to get the Ancient Falmer Crown and I was able to obtain it after slaying Vyrthur, however many of Skyrim‘s most enjoyable glitches were taken out, which I didn’t like and since I was using the Ebony Blade at the time I noticed as soon as I installed that mod the blade became so slow to swing it was miserable. I sacrificed the crown and went with unmodded Skyrim for another year.

@@yonker1337the weapons are actually pretty balanced ignoring resto-loop and creation club and I’ve only encountered one bug that ruins my experience that I didn’t force onto the game myself.

I agree with an exception of SkyUI. SkyUI imho should be given as an alternative to ugly and non-functional UI.

You want “fast travel”? Your horse is gonna fly 😜 I literally had that happen this weekend, where the horse dropped at least 20 feet out of the sky when the new location scene loaded.

Lol exactly skyrim is probably the most lazily made AAA game made but these people won't stop glazing.

There are some mods that shouldn’t have been made since an established character gets changed drastically, looking at how the sassy Goth princess Serana ends up a drunk buffoon, that changed was unnecessary or warranted. Not mention the voice doesn’t do justice to Laura Bailey at all. Someone should delete that mod completely.

​@whitewolf3051 Dawg, what are you talking about?

There is one mod that I *wish* that Bethesda would patch in as an update, the “wear circlet with hood” mod. This would be useful when making mages in the Switch version of Skyrim, especially a mage character like Roshank Redemption’s Stormbringer.

i forgot that my modded map was a mod until I layed eyes on the vanilla map on youtube. Going anywhere would be as hard as a treasure hunt

avarti used to make good content, now he has become a troll basically

​@@darthmadara7984I actually had the same thing with looking at base Skyrim ui because I have been using skyui so long that I forget that it was a mod and not part of the regular game.

Lol Requiem is literally an entirely different experience totally divorced from skyrim. Might as well be a different game

lmao real shit he lost his mine

Unmodded is the new modded :D at this point most folk have probably played the same shit modded more times than vanilla

@@topiheimola69 true lol

What do you want a cookie? If you don't want to play then don't. Some of us will though.

@@GrimGianni no one cares

Exactly, I don't know why he said "mods distort the lore" with such conviction. There so many mods that if you want pure Skyrim theme / TES Lore faithfulness you can have them.

​@@lawinaabraham3073Because they weren't a part of the original vision or scope for the game. The Elder Scrolls is a series of games. What it did from a lore perspective was actually ingenious. The game was designed to both reward long time fans with little nods to various bits of lore from previous games that would only catch your interest if you had actually played previous games, AND to inspire curiosity from new players. A lot of events and lore mechanics are just barely explained, and I suspect it's done that way on purpose. Not only because of budget and time constraints, but because the writers wanted people to discuss and look up things that they might be curious about. Take the Dwemer, for example. How many people new to the series played Skyrim, and heard about the Dwemer and about how they had disappeared, and decided on a whim to search online and play previous games not only to try and figure out what happened to them, but what they even look like in the first place? When dealing with lore and world building on an already established IP, *_restraint_* in how much information you give the player/reader is often just as important as the little details. You need to leave room for players/readers to ask questions and come up with their own theories. Discussion is what keeps worlds like these alive, and the heart of discussion in fantasy is a mixture of ignorance and curiosity.

@@zeropolicy7456 You should make a difference between the vision the dev had for skyrim and the Elder scroll universe's lore as a whole. Even if you convince yourself that the characters were purposely made blend so you can go play arena and Daggerfall, which lore they deviate from in the first place, mod represent a different avenue to experience the lore. Besides Even if the lack of explanation and exploration was planned, that only direct people to Fudgemuppet, EpicNate and Wikis. Remember they are also competing with other excellent modern games. I am not opposed to remakes of older games if they wanted us to know the lore this badly

@@darthmadara7984 You're talking about characters, not lore. I won't ever disagree that Skyrim's characters are terribly boring and poorly written. They are very much cookie cutter cardboard cutouts of what good fantasy characters should be. But the discussion of lore is entirely different. Having lore spoon-fed to the player via NPC dialogue or books is bad design, and it's why most lore mods are terrible. Lore and world building in general should be evident in nearly every aspect of the setting. From environmental design, to combat mechanics, to character actions and motivations. Some of it should be explained plainly, but that doesn't mean all, most, or even half of it should. Let's look at reality for a moment. When you pass a Hispanic person on the street, do they turn to you and start spouting exposition about day of the dead festivals or the current state of the Mexican government? No. Of course not. That would be absolutely ridiculous for people to discuss cultural history in average conversation. In truth, you can infer what their culture is like through their food, language, behaviour, and art. You don't need to have someone Hispanic plainly tell you what their culture is, you can get a feel for it just by being around them and seeing how they live their lives and interact with others. Switching back to fantasy, and specifically TES, you shouldn't hamfist lore or lore-adjacent aspects of your world building down the players throat. You need to give them the opportunity to seek out the answers themselves instead of having books or NPCs tell them everything. We know the Dwemer were technologically advanced because we can see it in how they designed their cities, weapons, and automatons. You don't need a book to tell you that. Likewise, you know that Nords are hardy people because of the environment that they flourish in. It stands to reason that they would be naturally resistant to cold, and that war would be very much a part of their cultural identity simply because of where their cities are located and how exposed their villages are to the elements and nature. Mods that add lore, tend to do it in a very boring and direct way. Telling the player things instead of showing them in subtle ways. And it takes out the mystery of the series. It kills the urge to go out and seek out more info on your own, when you have a mod that imports ESO lore into your game and tells you of events and history in books or dialogue. There are a couple good lore mods out there, but all of them have a problem with subtlety, which is very important if you're trying to increase how immersive your experience with the game is.

@@zeropolicy7456 your point is well taken but nobody should sacrifice their fun for the sake of some originsl vision of one game in a vast poorly explore universe. I focused on characters because of the insight they can provide if written well though let me address your comment on Hispanics.Agreed with what you said but also every conversation with them is not teaching you to say ola como estas or gracias. Every new game assumes you haven't played the last so instead of using the few lines of dialogues expanding on existing lore, they will be spent asking and answering questions like who is Hercine, who is Talos, what is the aldmeri dominion. That is fine for the casuals who have long forgotten about skyrim but we need more I applaud thatyou would play ESO or the older titles to get your fix but for others it is morrowind oblivion skyrim youtube wiki and mods. It is not the perfect solutionbut ESO isn't either as it spits on established lore often enough. The perfect solution would have been a well fleshed out base game and more frequent new games but since we can't have that then hey!

somebody made a mod with that one spell lol! These creatures seem to always lose fights to other baddies when I see them

@@darthmadara7984 yep ik!

If you enjoy that the great! Sounds utterly dreadful to me personally lol. I played vanilla Skyrim easily over 2000 hours and loved every minute of it. I do believe that mods add soooooo much life to the game though. You don’t have to use all those crazy over the top cheat mods or anything. Just stick to lore friendly ones and enhance what’s there

I cant play without grass and tree mods anymore, it makes the game so so much gorgeous.

I'm but as someone who live in a place like skyrim I would like a more lushing view in my escapism

White run tundra and the obnoxious pop in and horrendous LOD without mods are unbearable

I also did 100% Skyrim. I mean 100% of quests and discovering MOST of locations (with a few on Solstheim left undiscovered). Legendary difficulty and using all skills what lead to leveling up almost all of them to 100 (some made legendary a few times). It took me 1,5 year as I was recording it as a video series posting 1-hour video every week. I ended with episode 79. Skyrim is a huge game and I don't need other mods adding quests making it completely different game.

Ordinator in theory adds quite a few new mechanics. But still, there's Vokrii

@@chadreliongaming9783 I haven't heard of Vokrii, sounds interesting. Ordinator's drasticness I don't mind too much since it makes so many things more fun. Especially Shock and Frost destruction.

@@Rewwgh well, Vokrii is more of "Vanilla+" type of mod, but gives few nice things like triple duration of beneficial potions or sun spells dealing damage to everyone. It's from the same creator, so both are very well made

I love Ordinator, but it changes things quite a bit. The most “vanilla plus” perk mod is Adamant.

@@CaptainEffort For me 'Ordinator' has always been a few steps too far. It changes game too much for my taste and I never convinced myself to this mod even though I tried.

I suck at it, and with Vortex, even a stoner like myself can get a solid mod list in 2024. I only bricked one save so far. A patch for Ordinator that Vortex recommended. . . other than that. It's pretty fool proof these days with auto loot. So long as you READ descriptions and avoid obvious conflicts.

Funny the uploader is urging not to mod the 1 out of 2 games that you can mod

I have an opposite opinion :-) Loop is the worst thing in the game. I did the loop once and no more. For me they take away fun of gradual character development. Maybe for some time it is fun to shot a dragon with one swing of a fork, but even on legendary difficulty the game becomes too easy at the end without those exploits.

But the thing is that we have all experienced it. It is not like those who use mods are missing out on anything. We fulfill whatever the desire is and if said desire is a vanilla playthrough then so be it but to never mod as a matter of principle is harsh

i can't believe I could not keep the red ninroots I worked so hard to get

@@darthmadara7984 I don't remember too clearly as I never specifically tried it, but I believe MGP allows you to at least grow regular Nirnroots by yourself... I know Jarrin Root, tomatoes and apple trees work.

lmao I have to try chat gpt mod day seen so many people talking about it

Pure mage is just unfeasible in Skyrim

illusion spells are ignored for a reason. Those spells only work on low level stuff

@@darthmadara7984 double casting

@@Mkrause762 really! Damn! People keep saying double casting is useless

@@Mkrause762 Pure mage is decent and good, but magicka and the lack of "cc" makes it a chore sometimes.

Exactly because once you get finished with all the main quests like for guilds and the story it starts to feel empty so having more quest to do makes sure that you will always have something to do after you're done with all the main quests.

"the core gameplay is good enough". Strongly disagree.

@@lawinaabraham3073 that’s what’s great about mods. You can tweak the gameplay to whatever you see fit.

I have addressed this issue by staying forever with last SE version without updating. No updates, no problems. All mods work.

@@SkyrimExplorer yes, but like I said, not everyone knows how to manage that. Many mod users rely heavily upon mod management software such as vortex due to their limited understanding of how to edit files. Telling them to only run version XYZ of a game can be rather daunting to them. For this matter, modding's greatest drawback is, and will always be, the end user.

That's not a legitimate Pacifist playthrough. Pacifism includes companions and other animals. Your companions cannot attack anyone, nor can you incite them or anyone/thing else to attack anyone. If your companion attacks someone, you've attacked someone by association. If you enrage an enemy to attack someone, you've attacked someone. You have to avoid conflict at all times or your run is considered illegitimate. You also have to get rid of mods, vanilla only. Those are the rules. Technically, vanilla Skyrim is not beatable through a legitimate pacifist run. It was not coded into vanilla Skyrim to be an option.

@@spankyjeffro5320 🤓

...and its game-breaking bugs 🙂

​@@SkyrimExplorerspecial edition doesn't have any "game-breaking" bugs to my knowledge

@@stephentarantino1313Your knowledge is incomplete 🙂

@@SkyrimExplorer then please enlightening me your majesty. Lol

@@stephentarantino1313 Listen, I'm not a majesty. I'm just explaining to you that Skyrim Special Edition still has game-breaking bugs. SE is not different from LE as for bugs in the game. Unofficial Patch has a few thousand fixes to the game in its log and even after those a few thousand fixes I still encounter bugs. Without a patch I couldn't continue thieves guild questline because suddenly Delvin stopped registering my quests and I couldn't get another special job in next city. That's one bug I have encountered after just a few dozen hours of playing without the patch. Before and after I've been playing only with this patch. I know other people's problems when they were not able to start Lost to the Ages quest or couldn't get into the Volkihar Castle with Serana or couldn't loot Miraak after fight because he was falling through the ground. So if you think that SE has no game-breaking bugs, you are just wrong.

Finally. This video is purely nostalgia driven.

This is a perfect example of oversaturation. You've become so addicted to your mods that you can't appreciate simpler things anymore. You've lost your sense of appreciation. Much like how a drug addict doesn't get any satisfaction from natural dopamine releases.

@@red-kh3jz This is a perfect example of nostalgia fogged lenses. You become so fixated on the feeling you had when playing Skyrim back in the day gave you you can't see how unobjectively bad vanilla Skyrim is.

I always mod Skyrim lol. It’s a great game