The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Definitive Edition Pre Order Goes Up, Could Confirm E3 2016 Reveal

With the recent rumours of a Skyrim remaster being released and announced during E3 2016, some more pretty exciting news has hit the scene, with a website putting up a definitive edition of the game up for sale. A definitive edition is usually released by the initial developer with some form of an update either graphically or in the engine, and with all DLC included, which is why something like this would be a huge thing to go on. The game is due for release on November 23rd, 2016 according to the site.

[Gaming_Cousin]

crosses fingers for mods

[lxtrxi]

I can see it happening considering they managed to get Fallout 4 support for it mods.

[Randostar]

I'm pretty sure that's going to be one of the key features, mod support for consoles on release day.

[thekhurg]

Sad part is, they're charging almost full price for the PC version of the game which is sitting at a comfortable $19.99 on Steam right now.

GG Bethesda

[Kingthrash360]

I've never played it.....so day 1 for me!

[InTheZoneAC]

meh

[TheSaint]

Mods would be the only thing that would encourage me to buy. Played it to death on 360.

[crxss]

gonna pass on this. played this a lot last gen. looking for a new game thanks.

[OldGuyStillGaming]

November is going to be insanely full of must buy titles

[garrettbobbyferguson]

A remastered re-release of a 6 year old title that was downright full of mediocre at best content is a must buy?

[OldGuyStillGaming]

wow ... You must only play the absolute best AAA games every single day.

What a lucky guy you must be!

Please enlighten us with your fantastic games

[ChrisW]

First off, it's only been 5 years. Secondly, it was pretty darn good... at worst mediocre.

[AAWELLS09]

I really wanted to like this but since you don't like it than I cant which really is a bummer for me as I was genuinely looking forward to it. Will you please change your mind? I really wanna play it.

[garrettbobbyferguson]

You seem really upset that I'm calling Skyrim a trash game. If you want to see why it's trash, see my extensive comment below.

[Porcelain_Chicken]

The butthurt is real. Not sure about him but it must really annoy you that he liked the game. And so did, I'll be buying this if it turns out to be a thing. Sorry... boo hoo I guess, :/

[OldGuyStillGaming]

I don't need to read your extensive comment.. I've owned it and played the hell out of it last gen
I'll buy it again over anything you consider a top notch game

[Paytaa]

Wanna play Skyrim again so bad. Hopefully it truly does come out in November again so I literally relive one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had

[Sunny_D]

If it comes out, then I hope they made it so there are no load times. That was the downside of SKYRIM.

[Dragonking007]

I played it unpatched on ps3 surprisingly there was barely any loading screens i shit you not like max 4 seconds but most of time loaded fast but yes i do agree dont want to see loading screeens and worst part about it fallout 4 had loading screens.....

[susanto1228]

on PC with an SSD it's not an issue at all....

[Sunny_D]

@susanto

Yeah, I remember my friend playing it on his PC back in 2012. It was amazing how everything loaded in less than a second, as well as looking and performing better. But, I'd still prefer a console version.

[nitus10]

@Dragonking007

Skyrim on the PS3 had what was called the 6MB bug. Once your saves exceeded 6MB usually around 6 to 10 hours into the game the game became painfully slow when your character went in and out of doors or between events which under normal circumstances would be seamless.

What caused this annoyance was the auto-save feature, so the fix this annoyance, when you noticed slowdown was to just turned off all auto and timed saves with possibly the exception of an auto-save every 30 minutes (the game literally froze for about 10 to 20 seconds) to an hour depending what you felt comfortable with. Of course, you could manually save but if you forgot you could lose hours of progress. I don't think this was ever patched.

Other than the 6MB bug the game played fairly seamlessly with the odd slowdown in some fight scenes.

@susanto1228

It may come as a shock but you can put an SSD into a PS3 and PS4 as well and get a considerable reduction in loading times. With the PS3 you can quite easily get away with a 120GB SSD's which are fairly cheap. Unfortunately, if you want to use an SSD for your games on PC or PS4 you want a much larger capacity SSD and those are not cheap in comparison to a hard disk drive.

[Cueil]

@Sunny_D Skyrim has native support for Xbox controller

[Workshyskiver]

The amount of E3 that has been spoiled this week is beyond ridiculous.

[Forn]

Must be a lot to show at the show though ;-)

[Double_O_Revan]

I hate pre-E3 week

[_-EDMIX-_]

lol, well we won't really know just how bad it is until E3 actually is here.

[Dragonking007]

I want to agree but same time i think the amount of e3 news might overshadow these titles and is why theyre deciding to announce before e3

[S-Word]

Why remaster the worst Elder Scrolls? They could've even chose Oblivion over it. Of course we all know Morrowind would be the best choice for a remaster but you know Bethesda doesn't want to waste time on anything that would actually be good.

[Forn]

I love Norse Mythology, and I love the area that Skyrim takes place in.

[JamesBroski]

Yea, remastering Morrowind would be too long and expensive for them. Quick cash grab with Skyrim Definitive (PC) edition

[Dragonking007]

Dont think its just pc modded up port the game had problems since its outdated engine could fix loading times clanky animations and more engaging gameplay that mods cant fix up due to the in game engine

[SunnyZ]

You should check out SKYWIND then.
They are remaking morrowind using the skyrim engine.

They are making amazing progress, looks fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/use...

[SavageFlamingo]

Why do you consider it the worst?

[garrettbobbyferguson]

I can tell you some of my reasons as to why I think it's in general a bad game

-Combat is bland and consists of nothing but stare forward and slash
-Your actions have no effect on the world, you become the head mage of the college? Oh hey, you should go study at that place, I hear they're accepting newbies
-AI were brain dead at times, you could shoot an enemy NPC in the eye with an arrow and he'd dismiss it five seconds later, your follower would constantly get themself killed in some manner
-Dungeons had zero consistency (fresh fruits and burning torches) and were generally copy and pasted assets of each other, all concluding with a boring fight and a switch at the end which brought you right back to the beginning
-Skill trees were tremendously simplified from previous games
-The main story was boring and anti climactic, at one point I didn't care about even completing it
-Exploring wasn't fun because the environments were generally all the same, everywhere, the few unique environments such as the ancient dwarf ruins were copy and pasted everywhere. I got lost at times because everything looked the same
-Crafting and enchanting was broken, I was able to craft weapons that did hundreds of damage
-The game is just downright ugly
-Radiant AI
-Bugs and glitches galore, I remember I had to advance several quests via console because a character wouldn't spawn, or a person I was supposed to kill didn't trigger the next step of the quest
-Stealth was buggy and wonky, somewhere where you thought you'd be perfectly hidden an enemy NPC could easily see you. Other places where they should know you're there they were completely oblivious of your presence

That's off the top of my head. It's been a long time since I regretted playing that game.

[Dan_scruggs]

Worst is a term relative to you. If you look at player base, sales, mod support, and community contribution it's the most popular one by a mile. Several miles in fact.

[souldestroyer14]

That's because it's the most streamlined elder scrolls game. Bethesda made it in a way that it appeals to a broader audience. I liked skyrim but I had a much better time with Oblivion.

[_-EDMIX-_]

More popular.....

[TheTwelve]

Amen. Talk about a remaster nobody asked for.

[LamerTamer]

Oblivion sucked, it was the worst. Those annoying gates popping up constantly that were all the same was SO damn repetitive.

Skyrim had dragons, and some of the battles were epic, especially when attacked by two.

[nitus10]

The reason why Oblivion sucked for many players was the fact that the leveling system was unusual in the way that as your main level went up so did the levels of all the enemies which meant that you could be a level 20 mage or fighter with relatively low secondary attributes going up against enemies that had much higher stats, weapons and armour.

The only way to fix this imbalance was at the start of the game change all your preferred attributes to secondary attributes while attributes you did not care much for became your primary attributes, however, you still needed to level up but very slowly. This way you could have a level 10 character with many desired attributes up near or at 100.

Yes I am well aware of the difficulty slider which IMHO is basically a cheat although as in the case of Skyrim once you can craft and double buff your weapons and armor (dragon or daedric) there aren't many enemies that can present a challenge so making the game more difficult is much more satisfying.

I definitely agree about the two dragon attack, the first time it happened to me was a real WTF moment.

[nitus10]

I could be wrong but I think more people have logged more hours on Skyrim than Morrowind and Oblivion put together. I do agree that a remaster of Morrowind (only came out for Windows and XBox) would probably be a better choice than Skyrim or Oblivion although I wouldn't say no to all three and there goes my social life.

[souldestroyer14]

I like Oblivion more too but to remaster that game would be a lot more work. Skyrim is basically already on xb1 that's where they started working on fallout. It's the same engine so it should be pretty easy.

[garrettbobbyferguson]

Why remaster the worst one? Because it's baby's first Elder Scrolls game.

[Cueil]

if we are going to throw wishes out there I want a Daggerfall remake... with no cuts

[IIFloodyII]

Morrowind would require so much more work, it would pretty much have to be completely remade from scratch. And it would also likely sell less than a Skyrim remaster would, so yeah, I can see why they went with Skyrim.

Would definitely buy a Morrowind remake, though.

[MorbidPorpoise]

Checkout Skywind.

[ChiefofLoliPolice]

Oblivion is good but garbage compared to Skyrim. Hush up!

[Pogmathoin]

I want this and I do not want it..... Bethesda ruining my life with great joy! What do I do??

[Zeref]

I want mods and multiplayer.

[Dragonking007]

I can see a 3 or 4 player co op in skyrim would be amazing

[LamerTamer]

They have an online ES game, play that. Leave Skyrim alone, every game doesn't need online jammed in, especially if they did it would fill the game with bugs and glitches.

[Livecustoms]

Hyped boii

[zodiac909]

WHY couldn't they remaster Oblivion or Morrowind though!?

[Christopher]

Probably easier to do Skyrim since it used a more recent version of their game engine while Oblivian and Morrowind are developed for older, pre-x86 64-bit engines.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Gaming is still a business. Skyrim was more popular.

Who knows, if Skyrim Remaster does HUGE numbers, they could remaster all of them.

[Dragonking007]

Those games would need more than just remastered would need heavy retouching

[kevnb]

It's just the PC version of the most popular game in the series. It makes the most business sense in more ways than one.

[LamerTamer]

'Cause Oblivion sucked.

[Asuka]

Would really like to see a Morrowind Remastered using the fallout 4 engine instead, but i know how people love them some skyrim.

[_-EDMIX-_]

WOW! That is closer to a remake then a remaster. Sounds very costly.

[KillerPwned]

Well I never bought the add ons so if this also includes mods on consoles which I imagine it should since Fallout 4 has got them and its hugely successful why not Skyrim on consoles.

The mods were insane for this game and are a must have.

[susanto1228]

Game already made 1.3 billion guess they are trying to get 2 billion good for Bethesda

[Steptoe]

Great. I never got to play Skyrim. Looking forward to this. Can't wait.

[JCOLE13195]

Lemme just tell you that you're in for a real treat! Hope you got plenty of hours to spare.

[Antifan]

Prepare to lose your life. Skyrim will consume all of it.

[Steptoe]

Thanks for the warning guys but this is a game i'll make time for. Wish they wouldn't tell us so early though. Now i have to wait and i haven't got time for that. :)

[altx0012]

No one's asking for a remaster of Skyrim? I'll remember that this November when sales are thru the roof. It's the worst ES game? Anyone who thinks that should stop playing games of any kind, because you clearly have had a seizure.

[MAULxx]

Please be real.

[LamerTamer]

I hate how all game releases pile up for the holidays. Why can't any of these come out in summer?

[TFSoul]

It would be great if they came out in summer, but in terms of early profit and launch sales, it's smarter near Christmas because parents and everybody are going to buy the game for someone as a gift, ON TOP of the pre-orders and non-holiday related sales.

[opinionated]

Was kinda hoping for the next one 😞

[Germany7]

Skyrim 2?
I want Skyrim 2 and Red Dead Redemption 2.

[opinionated]

The next elder scrolls wherever that may be. Another red dead would be nice too.

[IIFloodyII]

Probably still a good few years off, Bethesda Game Studios is quite small (especially so for the games they make) and they've not finished with Fallout 4 DLC yet.

[Jon61586]

You know I'm tired of seeing all these remaster of games released last gen seems like a huge waist of time and resources. I mean a remaster should be from two maybe three generations ago like a remastered metal gear solid or Driver 1 and 2. Maybe even reviving older franchises. Road Rash Desert Strike streets of rage Gradius etc. But these remaster are getting out of hand.

[souldestroyer14]

That's more like a remake. A remaster is usually just upgraded framerate resolution textures and lighting.

[hirobrotagonist]

Crosses finger for PC release and bug fixes...

[OLSKOOLGAM3REGARDLES]

Aaaaaaaaagh, sweeeeeet if true

[Ra3v3r]

Might be wrong but did they not rebuild Skyrim to get to grips with the new consoles so they could make Fallout 4. Explains why it was made, and who doesn't want more Skyrim (obviously some folk)?

[NeedleEye]

If this is indeed true, then I assume there will be PSVR support? Without mods or VR support there is really no point in making this.

[IIFloodyII]

£50 for a 5 year old game, I'll pass.

[Master of Unlocking]

Are those people crazy? They're actually shelling out money to preorder a game that hasn't been confirmed and could just about end up as being a rumor proven false?!
I swear, some merchants will stop at nothing to make cash and run away with it. And the poor peeps who forked out 40£/60$ will only have their eyes to cry if/when it is announced there was never gonna be a TES V Skyrim definitive edition...
...LOL, I guess.

[spoonard]

Will it have mod support? My guess is no.

[UncertainCategory]

It would be cool to see some substantial changes to the game. There were numerous things that were cut from the game prior to its release, such as a more robust Civil War and College of Winterhold questlines. Would be neat to see those revisited and give the PC players reason to come back.

[Khaotic]

I missed this game and mass effect 3 last gen because at the time of their release I was in a spot where I couldn't game much. I want this so bad

[brianunfried]

I would rather have a Fallout 3 remaster. I've been burned out on the "Swords and Sorcery" genre for quite a long time.

[suli12345]

I was about to Jump into skyrim for the first time in my life today, do i play it or wait for the remaster? I'm thinking of waiting for the remaster to release

[CoDsuperstar]

the game has so much mod support on the PC that this only makes sense if your a console-only player. looking at steam stats right now skyrim still averages 30K active players.

[GamePeace]

After the shame that was Skyrim compared to previous Elder Scrolls, I'm rather careful with Bethesda products.

[showtimefolks]

If it's just a straight up port of pc version than not interested. I hope they put some effort into and make valueable improvements

Improve the AI
improve the combat
Just to name few

[saad1993]

You know what I'd rather have? An Elder Scrolls VI.

[NarfleGarthok]

I loved how awesome this game looked on PC, with mods. They made the game look amazing! It's awesome that us console gamers will get a taste of that.