LordKnightcon

Hi everyone, I originally posted this in the Mod detective thread, but was directed out here for better advice. I played Skyrim only a little bit back when it first came out, never got through the first few hours or so, and I recently decided to go back to it when I put my new PC together. Since I have some pretty decent hardware in it now (2G 960 GTX, 8G RAM, Intel i7), it was suggested to me that I take a look at some mods to improve the experience. While I was completely blown away and delighted by the sheer amount of mods available, I'm having some difficulty narrowing things down, specifically for textures, hair, face, and body. Since I've never actually done a full play through of the game, for personal reasons I want to try and focus on mods that enhance and replace the vanilla assets as much as possible, rather than introducing too many new things that weren't there to begin with. I've already tried several different ENB's and decided that I like RealVision the best. I've also been looking a lot at: -Superior Lore-Friendly Hair -Windsong Skyrim character Overhaul -Inhabitants of Skyrim -RS Children Overhaul The problem I'm having, to point at something like Beautiful Followers, is that while that mod is amazing to look at, it's too much of a departure from how the NPC's look now. They don't look like the characters I'm familiar with. They look like porcelain dolls-- basically entirely different people. This is opposed to Inhabitants of Skyrim, where the author specifically tried to make the NPC's look as similar to their old look as possible. I'm wondering what other texture replacers might be out there that would better suit my needs, as well as any other suggestions for making the game look as incredible as possible. Ideally I'd like to stick with just the original game assets, but I'm open to any and all suggestions. Thank you in advance.

Hi everyone, I'm posting here hoping to get a few opinions on mod selection. I played Skyrim only a little bit back when it first came out, never got through the first few hours or so, and I recently decided to go back to it when I put my new PC together. Since I have some pretty decend hardware in it now (2G 960 GTX, 8G RAM, Intel i7), it was suggested to me that I take a look at some mods to enhance the experience. While I was completely blown away by the sheer size of the available mod, I'm having some difficulty narrowing things down, specifically for textures, hair, face, and body. Since I've never actually done a full play through of the game, for personal reasons I want to try and focus on mods that enhance (rather than replace) the vanilla assets as much as possible. I've already tried several different ENB's and decided that I like RealVision the best. I've also been looking a lot at: -Superior Lore-Friendly Hair -Windsong Skyrim character Overhaul -Inhabitants of Skyrim -RS Children Overhaul The problem I'm having, to point at something like Beautiful Followers, is that while that mod is amazing to look at, it's too much of a departure from how the NPC's look now. They don't look like the characters I'm familiar with. They look like porcelain dolls-- basically entirely different people. This is opposed to Inhabitants of Skyrim, where the author specifically tried to make the NPC's look as similar to their old look as possible. I'm wondering what other texture replacers might be out there that would better suit my needs, as well as any other suggestions for making the game look as incredible as possible. Ideally I'd like to stick with just the original game assets, but I'm open to any and all suggestions. Thank you in advance.