elder scrolls 5 skyrim special edition ps4

Maybe the idea is that it all just works already, but there’s a lot of quality of life stuff that could have been improved. Most remasters do not really go overboard in trying to add much new content, as that’s not really the point of remasters, but boy, does it not really feel like Bethesda put much effort into any positive changes other than the visuals. It has all the DLC, which is nice, but if you’ve played it, the same problem remains. This is some of the disappointment with the update, that it just does not add anything new. I’m just not sure I have another 50-100 hours in me for one more round of stuff I’ve done so many times already. I may return to this newest playthrough eventually, but I have played Skyrim at least a little bit every year since its release, and even as a big fan, it’s getting a somewhat tiresome. There’s so much else out right now that I wanted to get back to Titanfall 2 or Battlefield 1 or even The Division’s new update.

That speaks to the quality of the game, of course, that I’d played it this much to begin with, but once I got deeper into this remaster, I found my attention wavering.

After slogging through the Companions’ storyline, I tried to go way off course and start doing more obscure questlines, because I’ve done all this a half dozen times before. I was excited to start another playthrough, but once I got going, I realized just how much I’d played this game, and how I’d memorized so many of these quests by now. So while things like fog effects or bonus plant life are nice, this is kind of an odd remaster of a game that already looked pretty great to start with, but because of the tech, it’s obviously not going to reach present day standards.Īnd, past how it looks, for many, this is a game that people have played quite a lot of over the last five years, and I’m not sure merely the jump to new consoles is enough for many to pick it up again. Terrain can be blocky, foliage is improved, but still less than what we see in most games today, and Bethesda’s character models are as icky as they’ve ever been.

As a remaster, it will obviously not compare to The Witcher 3 or Dragon Age: Inquisition or even Bethesda’s own Fallout 4.

Elder scrolls 5 skyrim special edition ps4