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[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

but that's the game!

you reinstall the game after a few years
boot it up
think to yourself "hmm, this really needs mods"
you spend 2-5 hours scrolling through nexus
then another hour or 2 fixing load order, conflicts, etc.
then you boot it up again
"hell yeah, this is rad now!"
never launch it again
then uninstall it a month later

9/10

[–] wolfinthewoods@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

I spent years doing that with Morrowind before I wised up. I actually download OpenMW recently just to take a look, and had the most "been there, done that" feeling ever from playing a game. I gave up on Bethesda after Skyrim and never looked back, and my gaming life became all the better for it.

[–] isleofdia@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

roughly the experience i've had every time I've tried to get back into modded Skyrim years after spending untold hours with modded 32-bit Skyrim. Wabbajack's automated modlists are the only reason I attempt to try, and when i initially start a game, my reactions are 1) I don't recognize anything in this game now wtf and 2) damn, my mid-spec laptop from half a decade back just isn't good enough.

Skyrim modding is honestly too labyrinthine in posdible scope for me now to do much manual adding and tinkering