At 10/31/16 05:15 AM, Dean wrote: Anyone here played the Special Edition enough to have an opinion on it? I was going to install it and give it a go the other day but the Steam reviews aren't great. I get that this game is a much bigger deal on consoles with the inclusion of modding etc. but from what I've read there are a lot of people suggesting it's more of a step back on PC than a step forward.
Not sure what I was even expecting from this on PC, just thought it would give me a reason to get back into Skyrim.
With the backlash they may as well have not bothered releasing this (free, optional) version on PC at all.
The main issues I'm seeing are that the built-in mod manager is garb, if it's anything like Fallout 4 on xbone then I agree, but PC has the added benefit of that being completely optional. The other complaint is the graphics, It does look different rather than just the same style with higher detail so fair enough I guess, changes are never never universally well received especially when it's a purely subjective aesthetic change. Personally I've always thought Skyrim was an ass-ugly game and this edition looks like a big improvement.
It doesn't look like a new release but that's not the point, no one should have expected it to look like the highest quality mods already out. Mods disabling achievements is dumb in Fallout 4 too but that doesn't make the difference between a positive and negative review.
It looks alright, it's a big performance improvement (able to handle way more objects, better draw distance). The one big issue is that it doesn't work with all the old mods by default - only an issue if you already have the original version heavily modded and ready to play, and if you give it a fucking minute modders will port their stuff over anyway.
I never use the word entitled but these people are lacking any perspective, we had to wait months for Fallout mods to launch on xbox and then wait for a decent selection to build, and PS4 ended up not getting them at all. The people whining here are power users who've had the best skyrim experience for years, they're complaining about an optional update that wasn't made for them. Any reaction beyond "oh, okay" is kind of ridiculous.
I could yell at Todd Howard all day for being satan but seriously, there is nothing here to complain about. You'd think they've aggressively phased out the old version when you listen to the negative reviews. People are dumb.