Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and general Elder Scrolls discussion

As for Skyrim Remastered, I can confirm that SKSE will definitely NOT work right away. In fact, it will need to be completely rebuilt from scratch for the new Skyrim, since it will use a different (kind of) engine. According to the authors, that will take from a few weeks to a few months. In that period of time, no mods relying on SKSE will work. After that, mod authors will still likely need to update their mods to work with the new SKSE, and that will take a greatly varying amount of time. It might take some days for some mods, but for some others it will probably take a huuuuge amount of time, to the point that it is not sure that they will ever be updated for the new Skyrim. Unfortunately, among these there is The One Mod for Skyrim, aka SkyUI.

So, as information is right now, it would seem that Skyrim Remastered will not be superior to a heavily modded Skyrim for at least a fairly long time. It might reach its full potential eventually, but it might not as well. For example, playing without SkyUI is NOT an option, at least for me.

Quoting and answering you both.

Personally, I could play without an ENB if there was something to be gained by that, *and* if I didn't need to suffer the shitty shadows because of that.

However, what I wouldn't be able to play without is: Frostfall. Most definitely. #1 mod ever made for Skyrim, for me. And there are many other wonderful mods, like Wet and Cold, No Snow under the Roof, Deadly Dragons, and so many others.

Sadly though, even though SkyUI by itself would be among the first mods in order of relevance, its real importance lies in the MCM menu. And the fact that so many of the most important mods make heavy use of that makes it pretty much take the #0 spot in the ranking.

No SkyUI is a very hard thing to take. No MCM is right down a deal breaker.

Skyrim, loved playing as a Nord. Generally in RPGs I play as an elf if they have that class, but I hate the elves in the Elder Scrolls world. They're far too uppity for my tastes plus in the game, they're butt ugly. When major plus of Skyrim was the Dwemer areas. I love dwarven cities and architecture in games for the most part.

I did a very bad thing.........about a year ago.