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£18 for some Skyrim DLC in 2022

Hard pass from me then.

Why do I know I’ll end up getting this

Obviously ended up buying the anniversary upgrade for the Switch

Now rather than playing a game, I’ve spent a hour this morning planning out a character in terms of perks, armour to enchant, weapons etc

Sounds like I’ll need to wait for a patch first though, sounds like it gets a bit choppy in some areas and crashes if you have survival mode on (I probably won’t).

May I recommend the stealth archer build? It's going to be huge in 2022.

In a way planning your character kinds of ruins Skyrim, as does having played so many hours of it. Of course I still love playing it, even just exploring the world but once you’ve figured out the mechanics and how to best optimise your damage output that’s part of what you strive for with a new save, you want to absolutely wreck enemies with ease rather than just going with the flow, enjoying immersing yourself back in the world.

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:May I recommend the stealth archer build? It's going to be huge in 2022.

Stealth Archer

Started my Anniversary Edition run of Skyrim on the Switch yesterday afternoon, thought I’d leave it on Legendary difficulty and got absolutely battered so turned it down a couple of notches while I get my character a little more sorted think this will tide my Switch over nicely till Pokémon comes out, it was either this or do another run of Sword and I really didn’t want to even start to burn myself out on Pokémon so close to the release of the new ones.

Performance wise it’s solid, had one crash to do with one of the new content quests and it does run poorly in the hold’s of Falkreath and Riften. Hopefully it can get these performance issues patched out, they’re obviously never going to sort the almost inherent performance problems that nearly always seem to crop up when your houses are full of random stuff you’ve acquired over Skyrim.

I really don’t know what makes Skyrim so compelling to me though, when it doesn’t excel in that many areas really. The various quest lines are solid, the combat is solid, the graphics are good but nothing amazing , the music is solid outside of a few great pieces, the perk system is solid but at least very open to the point where you can almost completely change play style if you want.

Edit, seems like they’ve sorted the bulk of the performance issues out at least, survival mode also seems fixed. Huh, Bethesda actually sorting problems!