These Skyrim Modded Screenshots Give Us A Glimpse At What The Next Elder Scrolls Game May Look Like

ENBSeries members electricsheep26354, Gionight, kaffeekranz, LucidAPs, saltr, Unreal, WoodsOfYpres and YetiASX have shared the following screenshots, thus giving us a glimpse at what the next Elder Scrolls game may look like.

[randomass171]

Dang, those are quite pretty. It'd be awesome if the followup looked like this. :)

[Magicite]

Too bad default NPC models are ugly as hell.

[randomass171]

Yeah I know what you mean. I've been playing Oblivion on a friend's 360 and the NPCs are very unsightly.

[Bimkoblerutso]

To be perfectly honest, I don't like the modded models either.

I wish there were some modded models that preserved the game's context, but more often than not it's just...waifu overload.

[randomass171]

Not sure what you mean. The style in these modded characters seems more western than eastern.

[kingdom18]

@Bimkoblerutso

Look up the XCE mod on Nexus, cleans up the NPC's quite a bit imo without over doing it.

[on_line_forever]

what i hate about Skyrim is the game play in 3rd person i cant play it for that reason

i hope they make game play very good in the next Skyrim title .

for example look to kingdom of amalur game play its really good .

[nitus10]

"what i hate about Skyrim is the game play in 3rd person i cant play it for that reason"

What you have said is just wrong. You can play Skyrim and also Oblivion in either first or third person perspective (the default is "first"). In fact you can switch almost instantaneously between both perspectives.

I personally prefer third person especially when fighting, however it is also very useful to switch to first person when examining things or in narrow pathways when the chance of a rear attacks is minimal.

[threefootwang]

Elder Scroll games were MEANT to be played in first person. Nuff said.

[Godmars290]

* After mods are introduced.

[MysticStrummer]

They need to improve AI more than graphics imo, along with their bug control measures.

[ATi_Elite]

Hopefully you have the ELITE Superior version of Skyrim (The PC version of course) because if you do then here is a nice little mod that makes the NPC and Enemy A.i. a whole lot more challenging.

http://erkeilmods.altervist...

or cherry pick from one of these

http://www.nexusmods.com/sk...

many of these mods can work in combination to make Skyrim A.I. and Dragon A.i very BRUTAL!

Enjoy

[MysticStrummer]

Yeah I know there are many cool mods for ES games, but I was talking about Bethesda improving some things themselves.

I see the headline and look at the improved character models, then picture those nice looking NPCs acting every bit as boneheaded as they usually do in the default version of these games.

Thanks though. : )

[AndrewLB]

MysticStrummer- Regardless of how much time and effort Bethesda or any developer puts into a game, the modding community will ALWAYS figure out ways to improve upon it. Considering the size and scope of these Elder Scrolls games, I'm amazed that even with their fairly large development team that they're able to release games of this caliber so frequently.

[clmstr]

It's truly awesome to witness how the Skyrim modding community pushes that old-ass engine to its limits.

[F4sterTh4nFTL]

Engines are irrelevant when when you basically have PCs equivalent to 90s supercomputers running these games, muscling through any poor optimizations in the code.

[duplissi]

90s? try early 2000s super computers. My current computer is more powerful than all of the top 500 super computers in the world from 2004.

I think you underestimate moores law.

[AndrewLB]

Hehe. Yea. I can't get over what they've been able to squeeze out of ancient DirectX 9.

[Moncole]

You will be really disappointed if you expect it to look like this.

[Eldyraen]

I sort of agree but I expect the next ES game to have a lot of textures/models more on par with modded Skyrim level than vanilla except better in many regards.

Sort of like the SMIM mod on steroids as will help lesson some of the ugly, blocky polygon counts on some things which really stood out (rocks are still the most standout and stupid looking part of Skyrim imo as modding their mesh basically would require a huge overhaul of their placement in the world and everything they affect--grass mods can help hide them though at least from a distance).

The lighting/weather/etc system should be better as well which will make a huge difference since Skyrim's default lighting was rather me "meh" (but still pretty nice for its time just under utilized/optomized for PC--having the option to enable so much through ini helped a lot but think of what it could had been like if the entire game was actually designed with those options being activated in mind--would help solve some of the more annoying ENB quirks for one, especially if you consider earlier ENB versions).

However as all of these screenshots are heavilty modded in several ways (ENB, models, textures, lighting, etc) I don't really expect the next ES game to look quite as good consistantly but at its best it should be achievable (sort of how under different weathers Watch Dogs looks fantastic). There will be some things though which 'fix' a lot of ES's worst aspects though as a few more polygons here and there go a long way in making things look better and texture increases will be a must anyways by time the new ES game rolls around (I would like 1k, 2k, 4k texture resolutions for PC being pretty standard depending on the object).

[AndrewLB]

Why? Look at modded Oblivion and then vanilla Skyrim. Last I checked, Skyrim blows any version of Oblivion away.

Expect the same to happen with Elder Scrolls VI: "omitted".

You'll just have to wait to know the name of what's being worked on.

[Patrick_pk44]

The developers will never create a good looking Elder Scrolls game, and that is what the modding community is for.

[DragonKnight]

It will never look like that. Bethesda is more interested in the community fixing their games for them than putting that kind of effort in themselves.

[Venemox]

western devs are absolutely terrible at making female faces.

[voodoochild346]

I think Japanese developers are so used to the decades of making their male characters look feminine, making an actual female is a piece of cake.

[ATi_Elite]

So if Next Gen (PS4/XB1) Elder's Scroll achieves this level of graphics then I can't wait to see what FANTASTIC GRAPHICS the MODDERS achieve on the PC.

Mods really prolong the life of a game, Hell I still play GTAIV PC because of the ICE Mod and MP Mods and will play Skyrim for like a long time especially when the Morrowind on Skyrim mod is complete.

[Old_Prodigy]

Am I the only one that thought the pic was of Namine?

[Codewow]

As long as spells and effects that deal with particles get an upgrade I will be happy. I enjoy World of Warcraft with spell quality on ultra just because it's awesome to see such a detailed spell. (Which is now kinda out of date and old, so they could use some retouching)

[DealWithIt]

Now that TES Online fiasco is behind us, I am dying to see TES6

[Burnin]

still on my 1st playthrough because of Nexus :D

[ninjahunter]

Probably not, every elder scrolls game ive touched has always been stylized very uniquely

[feraldrgn]

My GT 545 weeps :(
Those modders are doing a damn good job.