Skyrim’s Special Edition’s Textures are Even Higher Resolution than the High Resolution Pack for PC

If you’re wondering just how much effort has gone into remastering the art assets of the newly revealed The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition for PS4, Xbox One and PC, Director Todd Howard provided a few interesting tidbits during an interview on the post-show livestream.

[KiwiViper85]

Haven't played Skyrim... Might see what all the fuss is about.

[Aleithian]

It's worth it. Enjoy.

[Pongwater]

Have you played any of the Elder Scrolls games? ( I mean the main games, not including Elder Scrolls Online ). How you feel about Skyrim may hinge on how you felt about the older titles. You may think it's the best or you may find it lacking in certain areas. Depends on what you like about the series I guess. If you've never played any of them I say go for it and see what you think.

Personally I really enjoyed Skyrim and I will buy the remaster, though I felt Dark Souls was easily a better game that year and I'd put Skyrim about 3rd on my Elder Scrolls ranking list.

[Magnes]

I agree with you pongwater I loved oblivion never quite got into Skyrim, but with this upgrade I shall have another go.

[KiwiViper85]

Haven't played any ES, I always found first person games just didn't agree with my eyes, but with the new gen higher resolutions and framerates I've found a few quite enjoyable.

[InTheZoneAC]

it's been like $10 for a couple years now

[joab777]

You will be ruined though. Similar to games like Fallout, The Witcher and Dark Souls, it's hard to play games after them.

My only issue is lack of real difficulty, and consequence.

[Master of Unlocking]

Same here. Looks like I was well inspired to hold off on buying Skyrim for the PS3, as this will have better graphics, the PS4 features, and mods!!! woohoo! The last console game that had mods like on PC was Unreal Tournament III on the PS3 back in 2008!
It's so cool that Bethesda is doing it this time!

[garrettbobbyferguson]

It was a crap game back in 2011, it's a crap game now. Repetitive dungeons, quests that had ZERO impact on the world, mediocre combat, a leveling system that was garbage, enchanting that was broken, and just an ugly world which I see they've made worse with what looks to be a shit filter over everything.

[KiwiViper85]

Very insightful.

[IrisHeart]

Why even live?

[ApolloTheBoss]

Then you're in for a treat my friend, holy crap. I had the same thought when I played my first elder scrolls game which was Oblivion and was utterly blown away.

[Vegamyster]

Doesn't really say much, the Beth HD pack didn't really change anything drastically.

[ChrisW]

Yeah... Especially when compared to Workshop mods.

[Vegamyster]

Yup, most hardly affected performance too.

[k2d]

This. They may have been High Def, but they weren't high quality, and mods could give even higher def textures.

[Femto]

Pc users who own the legendary edition, or the game and all its dlc will receive the special edition for free

[Lon3wolf]

I just hope Steam put the DLC in the summer sale :D

[hirobrotagonist]

Extremely happy this is coming to PC, I really hope Bethesda put some work into serious bug fixing though even on my 1080 gtx master rig with over clocked i7 I still get random crashes

[traumadisaster]

The oc is causing the crashes. That vanilla game has rock solid stability.

[Errorist76]

Maybe don't overclock it then...in case you reall stupid enough to do that.

[hirobrotagonist]

Listen dipshits, I've been playing skyrim since day 1 on 360 and PC. I've also been building and overclocking computers for more than 15 years. Not really sure I got why I got downvotes since this game is not rock solid and never has been. Bethesda makes great games, but they are always buggy and Skyrim was one of the buggiest. Skyrim was just as buggy for me before I overclocked my cpu. It's buggy because it doesn't make use of all available ram and it doesn't use multiple CPU threads - maybe do some research before making asinine comments. I was one of the biggest members of the modding scene on the original modded Xbox for Morrowind and I hand resized texture and converted over a hundred mods from the PC to the xbox. I know a little something about modding Bethesda games and computer hardware in general. The fact that Skyrim struggles on the best graphics card in the world with a CPU overclocked to 4.4 ghz is not a great thing, this statement is a fact and not an opinion. Between console and PC, I put over 400 hours into Skyrim. Go peddle your bullshit elsewhere.

[hirobrotagonist]

You and traumadisaster both don't know a god damn thing about computers if you think overclocking a liquid cooled CPU running at -65 Celsius would cause crashes in Skyrim; which is one of the buggiest PC games ever made.

[Errorist76]

@Hiro

I assumed you overclocked your 1080. Seems I got you wrong. Still Skyrim might be buggy but I never had it crash on me either.

You should definitely watch your manners.

[Averyashimself]

@Erroist76 Why would you dare say, "Watch your manners" when you were the one being rude in the first place.

[Errorist76]

Averyashimself

You're right. I was rude. I was assuming he was just showing off. I apologize. It was a misunderstanding to begin with.

[garrettbobbyferguson]

There are various mods that allow you to circumvent the 4 GB limit that Skyrim has. Did you use any of those?

[aaron5829]

I was jumping with joy when they announced this, until i took a wooden chair to the knee...

[Ysmir6723]

4k modded textures that you can find on the nexus from grass to city textures look much better than this.

[Dragonking007]

In pretty sure they were talking about the vanilla version.

[Ysmir6723]

I dont know anyone playing unmodded skyrim since its quite disappointing vanilla.

[Rivitur]

Surely this will break all my current mods right? Will most of them even be fixed?

[starrman1985]

So you're surprised the new Remastered version has higher resolution textures than a texture pack that was released for free back in 2011?

[Forum_Pirate]

Which might matter if PC players haven't already modded in way higher resolution textures than Bethesdas HD texture pack.

[ccgr]

The first game looked great, can't imagine a higher rez version. Don't want to buy it again though...

[Petebloodyonion]

and you won't need too! The remaster version is free for pc owner of Skyrim :)

[Goldby]

legendary edition*

[GrimDragon]

If the characters look anything like the modded PC versions complete with sexy armor I'll buy it lol.

[IamTylerDurden1]

Oblivion Was more enjoyable than Skyrim. A Skyrim remaster does very little for me.

[IamTylerDurden1]

Bethesda makes so much $ yet they don't invest in proper AAA tech. Their games always run bad, even Dishonored ran poorly and they only published it. Elder Scrolls and Fallout need an entirely NEW engine. Just use Frostbite or create your own, the gamebryo engine is laughable at this point. Call it what you will, but we saw textures and performance in the 20m selling AAA Fallout 4.

I'm surprised ppl aren't crying bc Bethesda's big e3 reveal was a remaster. If another company did that ppl would riot.

[Errorist76]

Dishonored ran great...on PC that is.

[garrettbobbyferguson]

"Gamebryo engine is laughable at this point"

At this point? It's always been. Don't forget Bethesda's inability to code ladders.

http://www.ign.com/articles...

[kingdom18]

I'm more interested to see what changes they've made to the engine. Maybe it'll offer better performance with less limitations, also let's see if mods (as in those already created) will be compatible with this version. I'm sure Bethesda will want to make it as easy as possible for modders so they can port mods to consoles on Bethesda.net.

[Nathan_Hale53]

But higher than the 2k-4k textures that are super easy to install?

[ikarodemon]

Bigger isn't better! Modded textures in the old version are much much better!

[iTechHeads]

Still not worth $60. It's a remaster not a remake.

[theFAYEsorceress]

i'm so excited for this game again. i've been hoping they'd remaster it for current gen with mod support and they actually did! i can't wait~

[Igihara]

Mods have an 8k texture pack