Previous players will only get the stuff they sort of forgot about, and that feeling of joy from obtaining or experiencing something new is dulled. While nostalgia is a powerful selling point, the promise of getting ‘something new’ when you play a game is also a serious consideration. For some, that might be a reason to avoid Skyrim SE. This is all journey, all discovery (both literal and personal), so you need to accept that the rewards will come, even if you need to wait 50 or so hours. To do so with Skyrim SE, however, is to miss the point of the game. That’s the danger with a remaster like this - you can easily ignore the journey because you already know that the destination is so damn lovely. Even then, death came quickly and frequently to me because I tried to rush through tried to act bolder than I should have. Having spent several hundred hours with the original version, it’s a strange thing to go back to the beginning and not lose your training wheels for a good 20-30 hours. In some instances, I actually found this quite frustrating - not because I wasn’t instantly rewarded, but because I knew how it felt to be higher level in this game. We’ve grown even more accustomed to becoming the biggest, baddest dude in the galaxy / city / land after only a few hours of play, but Skyrim demands that you forge your legend inch by inch. Skyrim’s rewards are perhaps a little more understated by today’s standards.
The best Skyrim companions: Which are the best followers to join you on your quest? The graphical boost and improved load times and draw distance will not impress you. Special Edition doesn’t offer anything in the way of ‘new stuff’, unless you missed out on all the DLC first time round. Chances are you’ve played it more recently, and you’ve already modded the hell out of it. In fact, if you’re a PC player unrestricted by the console cycle, then this game most definitely isn’t for you.
Does it look better than the PC version with any of the high-end visual mods in play? No. The visual overhaul for this Special Edition is good enough to let the game pass in 2016, and it probably makes the experience appear ‘as good as you remember it being in 2011’, even with the rosiest-tinted of spectacles on your nose. Even The Witcher 3’s magnificent landscape - which is certainly better looking - can’t match that sense of magic you get from Skyrim. That inviting otherworldliness, which is at once fantastical and familiar, has been often imitated yet never bettered. Is this game worth buying if you played the game for 200 hours back in 2011? Yes, it really is, because the sheer joy of existing within Skyrim’s world remains unsurpassed.
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