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I would recomend that you play the game without mods, and after discovering points of the game that you would like to improve, you could start to download some mods.

 

There are a lot of mods, but for a beginner, some aesthetical/minimal changes would do.

 

Unofficial Skyrim Patch

SkyUI

A Quality World Map

Skyrim HD - 2K Textures (If you can run it)

ApachiiSkyHair (Yes, this mod has a lot of beautiful but lore-friendly hair for males and females)

UFO - Ultimate Follower Overhaul (This mod is an exception for the rule of "minimal changes". It improves the follower system a LOT and it is a MUST HAVE)

WATER - Water And Terrain Enhancement Redux

Static Mesh Improvement

Skyrim Flora Overhaul

Realistic Lighting With Customization (This one has two options: a hardcore lighting experience [Very dark at night, blizzards destroy your visibility, etc] and a more friendly experience, that only improves the appearance of the lights, without making the game harder or easier)

XCE - Xenius Character Enhancement (This improves the look of your character and the look of the NPCs while staying faithful to the vanilla look. It includes: Better facial textures, better eyes, etc)

And if you don't like the Realistic Lighting with Customization, there is the:

Project Reality - Climates Of Tamriel (Project Nevada is the "rival" of Project Reality [There's a Project Reality for Falllout])

 

Most of these only improves the graphics, because, for a beginner, mods that alter more fundamental aspects of the game aren't recommended.

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This is my own personal opinion, but god I wish I could erase my memory and start a totally new game with the following, as I've played around 100+ hours at this point with the following load order minus mods I've noted as new and would have loved it better this way. o.o Note, to even come close to installing all of these you'd have to allocate a couple hours to reading each and every page of each and every mod to ensure your also downloading all the other required files - using Nexus Mod Manager to install all of them (aside from EMB anyway that I remember.). so point being.. don't actually try for all of it at once, perhaps even do a simple play through getting a good feel of Skyrim without actually delving to deep and then just peek inside a few mods that sound interesting and add them as you go to start a new game if it really seems to be your cup of tea.

 

No real spoilers, but about 40 mods so it's a long post if I hadn't hidden it ;)

 

One important thing incase you don't read anything else..

 

Esbern with voice fix

Get it, period. Don't ask, just install it and move on. x.x When the hell .. are they going to ever fix that. Ungh.. just ngahhhh' .. Anyhow..

 

 

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My first playthrough was completely vanilla and it was also chock full of bugs. I hated pulling out the console to fix things on a regular basis just enough to progress through the story. The unofficial skyrim patch is supposed to fix a lot of stuff maybe even that voice fix? There are some things that simply can't be fixed though like radiant quests conflicting with story quests so you have to find some guy in a cave somewhere and when you get there you discover only an empty chair with a quest marker over it. I am fairly certain that beth just doesn't care to fix anything they only want to keep adding DLC and let the unofficial skyrim patch crew sort it out for them. I bet the bugs in the greedbox version of the game are next to none? My only major complaints are too many dragons, those annoying fish that can barely hurt you but your follower will get all OCD on you trying to kill any fish in the entire country while a dragon lighting a fire under your arse and don't ever try to get anywhere near a stream or cross a stream with a follower and don't ever try to go billygoat with the mountains your follower can't keep up they will get lost and never come back without console intervention. Why there had to be so many high mountains and OCD fish is beyond me.

 

The game took a long long time to play all the way through and go completionist with it but if you forget all the side stuff it can be done in a short time. I think a lot of people eventually do the side quests though just to have something to do in the game when they are bored of main quest or doing their own thing. Once you get all the way through you kinda don't want to do it again for a while and that is where the modding bug bites you! I plan on playing all the way through again but this time with mods and improvements and fixes because I don't want to go through that whole experience again looking and working exactly the same that would be boring.

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You'll definitely want all the bug fixes you can find. Bugs really ruin the experience, especially the first one. I remember my first playthrough was severely hampered by all the bugs. Half the puzzles I faced, I wasn't sure whether they really were puzzles or yet another annoying bug. Do yourself a huge favor and install the Unofficial Patch at least.
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I'm with Psiberzerker - try a clean vanilla run and figure out what you want to change before you start adding mods you're not even sure you want. I played most of the game without mods and even now only use a few, because while the game has plenty of shortcomings there not a lot that's genuinely wrong with it.

 

I mean, some people say SkyUI is essential, and they probably have a point, but I still use the vanilla UI and have no plans to change it - it was annoying at first but I got used to it and right now it's pretty much the last thing I'm concerned about.

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As a refugee from Oblivon (still love the game, but it crashed big-time on me and requires a re-install with all my mods), I went hog-wild with mods during my second play-through, after playing the game vanilla once. That was a mistake and I've since pared things down to just a few that fix things that are broken.

 

My suggestion is to avoid any mods that alter game-play. The vanilla game is still great and you really need to fully experience it before you decide what mods you want. There are a couple that I think are must-haves, though.

 

Unofficial Skyrim Patch

SkyUI

 

Together, these two will solve a lot of the problems with the vanilla (fully-patched) game, and SkyUI is heads and shoulders above the clunky interface for the PC that Bethesda gave us. I can't imagine ever going back to that. Also, make sure you have Skyrim patched to the latest update. That's not a mod, but it really does fix a lot of issue that people have written mods to fix.

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