Looking for Mod Recommendations

[Mexay]

So I'm planning to re-install Skyrim after I've upgraded my GPU and finished a playthrough on PS4.

 

The only thing is, I have so many issues with things I don't like about original unmodded Skyrim.

 

 

I love the game as a whole, but it's animations are terrible, the difficulty settings are straight up bad and many major quest lines (e.g. Mages) are boring.

 

 

I'm looking for a list of mods that might improve some of my gripes with the game. Here's a list of what I'd love to see:

 

 

 

Combat Animations - The current animations are clunky, and floaty with characters 'skating' around), for reference, I don't intend on playing female characters, so would prefer no feminine animation packs

Difficulty - The difficulty settings are more or less "deal less damage and take more" or the opposite. That's boring. I love games like Dark Souls, where difficulty isn't based on damage, but attacks and strategy

Progression - Sometimes I feel progression is slow. I'd love a really great perk mod, but also want to be able to obtain additional perk points outside of just levelling.

Reasons to Progress - I'd love a system that limits use (not finding) of equipment. For example like Runescape or other games, needing specific levels to use certain gear. But also a system that is rewarding.

Better Magic - Magic is boring, but I love magic. I'd love a way to "fast cast" specific spells or bind them to keys. Additionally more spells and a more balanced system.

More NPCs - I feel like there's not enough NPCs in places, especially the big cities and some of the colleges (e.g. Winterhold)

Better Rewards - I'd love better, more balanced rewards. Things like more gold, actual experience for skills, etc.

More Quests - I'd really love some interesting, well made quests with good rewards.

Better Races - I'd really love if all races felt unique

Better Faces - Holy s***, everyone is so ugly! I'd love it if the faces were a bit nicer, but also not necessarily making *everyone* beautiful. There should be diversity.

Mark/Recall - I want to disable Fast Travel, so this is important

Better Followers - Generally I'd like more customisation of my followers and the ability to have 2 or 3 that wont fight each other every 2 seconds.

More Creatures - I'd really love more creatures, but only ones that actually fit the Lore and the game, so they should be more or less graphically consistent

More GREEN - Skyrim is a bit too grey for me to play for the 5th time. I'd love it if it looked a little more like a Winter timberland than a desolate snowscape.

Better Shouts - Shouts are neat, but I only ever end up using 2 or 3. I'd love a reason to actually use them and not have to pause every 3 seconds to do so.

More Interesting Stealth - From Sneak to Pickpocket, I'd love a more interesting Sneak system that is actually rewarding, more backstabs, more tools, but I'd like to actually be actually useful.

More Interesting Dungeons - I find the dungeons to be a little boring, they all feel the same. I'd love if dungeons kept me on my toes.

Better Dragons - Dragons are boring. They're either too easy or take years to kill. I'd love each 'level' of dragon to be harder, but not take forever to kill. More interesting.

Better "End-game" - once you hit around level 30 or 50, things get too easy. I'd love for Enemies to scale, but not necessarily always. Maybe even in just certain areas?

Better Vampires, Werewolves, etc - I'd love if they were more complex, better systems, etc.

Better Factions - I would really like it if the factions interacted with the world more.

Better Combat - Aside from the difficulty, combat is a little boring. It's all just who can hit who harder. I'd really like if the "special moves" actually played a part

Better Merchants - It always annoyed me that merchants had basically no gold and I'd have to sell my things for a quarter of the cost. I'd love a mod that 1) Gave merchants more useful things and 2) Gave them better things to sell

More Balanced Weapons - I always found the weapons to be poorly balanced. I'd like to see actual trade-offs between weapon sets, both influenced by perks and by the weapons themselves.

 

 

I think that's generally everything that I'm looking for. I'd seriously appreciate any help or suggestions regarding these, or even any general suggestions on how to get the most out of my next playthrough!

 

 

Thanks :smile:

Edited February 25, 2018 by Mexay

[leonardo2]

So I'm planning to re-install Skyrim after I've upgraded my GPU and finished a playthrough on PS4.

 

The only thing is, I have so many issues with original Skyrim.

Then why not switch to SSE and SSE is a lot more stable than SLE, being a 64-bit game along with DX11 doesn't make it worse than SLE. That's what I suggest you to do. :smile:

[Mexay]

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So I'm planning to re-install Skyrim after I've upgraded my GPU and finished a playthrough on PS4.

 

The only thing is, I have so many issues with original Skyrim.

Then why not switch to SSE and SSE is a lot more stable than SLE, being a 64-bit game along with DX11 doesn't make it worse than SLE. That's what I suggest you to do. :smile:

 

 

I mean "things I don't like about the game". I can run it just fine. I figured that was clear given the title and rest of the post, but I'll go ahead and edit it. Thanks though

Edited February 25, 2018 by Mexay

[TerraMcCloud]

For a dragon mod I personally enjoy Elemental Dragons, it adds lots of new dragon types that have various new abilities, they are really tough to kill.

 

As for a mark and recall spell mod, let me point you to my personal favorite mark and recall mod here. Note that if you plan to use a mod that disables fast travel, you'll need to use a console command to make the spell work with fast travel disabled.