Super PolyPixel - This is a pretty neat find! YouTube channel SaioTV has some of the best Skyrim mods that I have seen to date. I’ve never actually had the opportunity to play the game on PC, since I have it for Xbox 360, but since I’ve been seeing these neat mods recently I’ve been dying to want to test them out. See the other video in the article.
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
Replaying Skyrim after 13 years is a reminder of the progress made in western RPGs over the last decade, but also what's been lost.
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
I can never go back to Skyrim on consoles... Mods literally MAKE this game. The people are no longer ugly, I have really nice looking trees and grass, much better snow, footprints, new sounds for every environment, 90+ songs added to the OST, can kill anyone in game, can set my killcam chances, have tons of new homes, as well as new dragons, etc.
I could go on and on, as I have over 70 mods and counting currently installed on my copy. However, it's just safe to say that this game is much much much better with the PC community making free mods. :]
Once you play skyrim modded... Vanilla will never be the same. I'm a big Bethesda fan, but after recently buying a PC. I will only buy pc versions from Bethesda due to the mods.
Isn't there some rumor about 2 more DLC packs coming out post Dragonborn/Dawnguard? I've seen on some sites there's talk of 2 more expansions then the game is 100% done with Bethesda; I know part of it has to be true with the 1.9 patch and I'm assuming 2.0 is when the new stuff comes out. If anyone can confirm I'd appreciate it.