Skyrim Special Edition Coming 28 October

acctingman · October 29, 2016, 10:27:52 PM

I've never played any of the Witcher series.

Recommend a noob to start with 1 first? (for story purposes)

Rayfer · October 30, 2016, 06:27:58 AM

Interesting article about this upgrade....the good and the bad, at least according to Rock/Paper/Shotgun.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/10/28/skyrim-special-edition-pc-changes/

JasonPratt · October 30, 2016, 10:41:35 AM

Quote from: acctingman on October 29, 2016, 10:27:52 PM
I've never played any of the Witcher series.

Recommend a noob to start with 1 first? (for story purposes)

I did, and will do, and I don't regret that choice; though of course I can't have an evaluation based on experience in hindsight.

That said, Witchy1 has some problems in its polish, including some weird graphic glitches, one of which I had to go into my NVidia control panel to tweak for settings unique to that game. (The sun shone transparently through the terrain.)

mirth · October 30, 2016, 10:43:58 AM

Quote from: acctingman on October 29, 2016, 10:27:52 PM
I've never played any of the Witcher series.

Recommend a noob to start with 1 first? (for story purposes)

Start with the first one because you can buy it for next to nothing. You could jump into the third without knowing the story and you'd be fine.

Nefaro · October 30, 2016, 12:58:27 PM

Quote from: Rayfer on October 30, 2016, 06:27:58 AM
Interesting article about this upgrade....the good and the bad, at least according to Rock/Paper/Shotgun.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/10/28/skyrim-special-edition-pc-changes/

Quote from: article
Ultimately, I came damned closed to preferring the original. Not from some Paul Weller Fan purism, but because the two were so similar, save for a inspecific sense that the balance of brightness and sharpness seemed more comfortable on the original. Bloom, particularly, seems overdone in some Special Edition scenes, resulting in a greater sense of contrast and detail in the original.

In other words, they just did this edition to benefit the Console crowd.

Dropping in the Hi-Res pack as standard, and upping the accursed Depth Of Field and Bloom? Blech.

-budd- · October 30, 2016, 01:17:58 PM

down the road the move to 64 bit will pay off once the modders get going. I didnt put much time into the original, but have noticed the bloominess :) in the remaster.

solops · October 31, 2016, 10:17:51 AM

My son, who has spent about half of his 18 years playing Skyrim (or so it seems), tells me to ignore the Special Edition and play modded standard edition. I have both and Oblivion. I played the heck out of Morrowind, but I just have not been able to get into its successors, even though they are better looking.

Kushan · October 31, 2016, 02:18:39 PM

Quote from: -budd- on October 30, 2016, 01:17:58 PM
down the road the move to 64 bit will pay off once the modders get going. I didnt put much time into the original, but have noticed the bloominess :) in the remaster.

The need for 64-bit and its ability to use more RAM kinda went out the window with the script extender memory patch. I went from going right on and over the old 3.5GB RAM limit down to ~500-600MB with it. Was already running a heavily modded game, I went all out after that I never got even close to the limit again.

My greatest fear about the SE was that they would update the scripting to the same format as FO4, which would have broken everything as far as mods and make converting mods a restart from the ground up. From what I've been reading/watching on YouTube, sounds like that's not what they did. With Tyranny on the horizon (only a few weeks left to go) going to be awhile before I jump into the SE in either case.

Ian C · October 31, 2016, 04:33:14 PM

Just a heads-up: if you have been upgraded to the Special Edition, the original Skyrim no longer shows on your games list.
I'm assuming that we can't install both versions, which sucks, since my partner plays it on the second family PC we have that has only 4GB RAM.

Fixed.

Myrmidon · October 31, 2016, 04:49:30 PM

I've got both versions installed on Steam right now. I'm still playing the older version until more MODs come out, but I've had no problem running both.

Ian C · October 31, 2016, 05:25:53 PM

Quote from: Myrmidon on October 31, 2016, 04:49:30 PM
I've got both versions installed on Steam right now. I'm still playing the older version until more MODs come out, but I've had no problem running both.

Figured how to install it.
It doesn't appear in your games lit, so you have to go to the store page, select Skyrim then click 'play' and it installs the old version.
Fixed.

JasonPratt · October 31, 2016, 08:18:00 PM

That's weird; I'm sure I saw both (uninstalled) on my games list... {checking}

Yep. The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim and below that the special edition.

What led me to look for it earlier, was that after it unlocked I saw it at the top of my quick-list.

Ian C · November 01, 2016, 04:34:04 AM

Quote from: JasonPratt on October 31, 2016, 08:18:00 PM
That's weird; I'm sure I saw both (uninstalled) on my games list... {checking}

Yep. The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim and below that the special edition.

What led me to look for it earlier, was that after it unlocked I saw it at the top of my quick-list.

Mystery solved.
It had been added to Favourites so it wasn't appearing on the main list.