>>736263879
no
not any good with mods either

>>736263879
it's very mid without mods and the combat is unsatisfying

>>736263879
GOAT
10/10

>>736263879
needs more diversity, big yikes

>>736263879
Yep, still very good. Mods are mostly there for rebalancing or reducing some of the grind. I'd actually say if you specifically want to just play the story then the game is better modless

Saying that Skyrim, being almost 15 years old, aged poorly in the same breath as that zoomies can't play older games is retarded and contradictory.
Just in case someone wanted to bitch about it.

>>736263879
It is my favorite game of all time without mods, I have been playing games since the SNES. I own Skyrim on PS3, PS4, PC Original, PC Legendary, PC Anniversary, Switch. This is the only game I would recommend to 100% of people.

>>736263879
Every game should be played vanilla

>>736267016
I can second this, but more so I believe that modding is best as part of the post-game experience
Speaking as a KSP, Minecraft and Skyrim player.

I think it's perfectly fine without them, though your mileage will vary concerning stuff like Insta-crashing in Soul Cairn without a fix of some kind on PC at least. There's also some weird bug where the blood-skaal sword puzzle won't work if you take ages to go to Solstheim.
Other than fixing stuff like that I never bothered beyond the Random Start mod and that thing's been unsupported for years

>>736263879
Yes but might as well install a modpack, even if it's just a purely visual one.

>>736263879
It’s not good even with mods. The only thing it has going for it is the porn.
If you’re after gameplay, you’re better off playing Morrowind, New Vegas or even Fallout 4.

>>736267016
Went modless for a long time. Then I wanted a cozy canton waist house in Morrowind. Made it and thought that maybe mods were good for something after all.

>>736266821
Todd…

>>736263879
No, the gameplay is terrible.

>>736267541
No, but I used to look up to him. Starfield is shit, there are zero redeeming qualities to it. But Skyrim is still the only perfect game to have ever been made.

>>736263879
No

>>736267649
I refuse to believe you can simultaneously have the opinion that 1) Skyrim is perfect and infallible, and 2) Starfield is unredeemable dogshit.
There is a LOT of overlap between the 2 games, whether you want to believe it or not. NPC's act the same way, the stories are both retarded, the systems are lackluster, and the mechanics are dull and boring.

>>736267156
>>736267458
I forgot to type every FIRST playthrough should be vanilla

>>736263879
the only skyrim mods I need are the unofficial patch, vanilla purist's mod, and achievements enabler

>>736263879
No, once the novelty of things wear out, there are only so many thousands of draugrs you can kill before you are bored to tears.
The quests don't matter much since they all lead back to draugr tombs in some way.

>>736263879
it's excellent without mods or DLC, it's a perfect 10/10 game vanilla that only gets worse with mods, addons and DLC.

>>736263879
Yes. I played Skyrim on Xbox 360 for like nearly ten years just making random characters and stuff to play out stories. Most of them I never started the dragon quest so dragons wouldn't show up fucking with loading. Did have the DLCs but nothing further. Limitation gives you creativity.

Funny enough, a decade later when I finally got an insane gaming PC, I modded the shit out of Skyrim to make it the ultimate experience then never played it.

>>736266821
it's absolutely worth a playthrough without mods
mods only come into play when you exhausted all your options in vanilla which takes quite a few hours