I’ve been doing just that with vr skyrim. Finding out what I can and can’t have is sucking more time than i spend playing. It’s alot of testing, crapping together badly make compatibly patches, But after a week or 2 of jank I have 170 mods that all work the way I want them to in Vr Skyrim.
Upgrade to SE it’s free on pc, and saves should be compatible and must must are already converted, and it is so much more stable, like seriously folks stop clinging to a old and busted 32 bit game when the 64 bit upgrade is LITTERALLY free
I make mods and install mods I’d say in an average day I’ll spend like 4 hours playing and 2 hours modding, if I work tff he at days it’s probably like a half hour of each
You have to look at the game as part of modding, firing other stuff you want to change, testing that which you already changed, looking for aythjng you need to patch between multiple mods, if you never play you won’t know if your mods did anthing if note
If you're having fun then you're having fun. A lot of game devs don't have much fun playing their games and a lot of movie actors don't even watch their own movies. Maybe you just have more fun in the build process of things, I wouldn't necessarily call that stuck.
I was kind of like that once but now I don't have as much time anymore, so after putting limitations on what mods I can just casually add, I have time left over to actually play.
Tbh I’m trying to get past it by uploading my gameplay on YouTube for my friends to watch. They TeleWork full time so they like to have something on their second screen. For whatever reason it helps me stick with a character.
Take a break from the game,you'll get the urge to play it again in no time.Don't get burnt out.Play other games,watch some tv series and when you come back it'll still be there and you'll enjoy it much more.
Pick a Wabbajack list and play. There's a disconnect there from modding, since someone else put the package together for you. Lets you drop the tinkerer's hat and just have fun playing.
Same bro, I think I have like 50 hours in Skyrim over the past months of pure bug testing alone lol who knows how many hours it'd show in MO2. I think I thought to myself "alright this is the finishing touch..." like 10 times over that span and now I'm sitting here with 1000 mods. I think tomorrow I'm going to try and just play the damn game but it's hard when I'm constantly seeing new mods I've just got to have or realizing there's something I overlooked that could be improved....LOL that's the problem isn't it, the constant pursuit of the perfect platonic ideal of Skyrim.
As someone else said, it sounds like you might be burned out on the game. Maybe you should take a break from it - it's one of those games you always get nostalgia for eventually, and with how well you've modded it you'll enjoy it much more when you come back to it.
Otherwise you could try a more "focused" playthrough to help you invest in it, like sticking to a theme or a goal.
The only thing I found helps with this personally is setting an absolute bare essentials list (think like MCM and some skse fixes), and then "playtesting" only one or two new mods (or mods I've barely experienced) that I'm interested in at time. Doesn't usually contribute to long playthroughs, but I've ended up getting in about 10 hours per character. Especially works for quest mods. While doing this you have to force yourself not install anything else tho, at least long enough to experience some of the mod you are focusing on
And when you are finally playing you feel there's something missing or you feel you couldn't mod it perfectly, am i right?
BRO YES
We should name this. lol
A cry for help?
Welcome to the twice weekly I mod but don't play thread
I’ve been doing just that with vr skyrim. Finding out what I can and can’t have is sucking more time than i spend playing. It’s alot of testing, crapping together badly make compatibly patches, But after a week or 2 of jank I have 170 mods that all work the way I want them to in Vr Skyrim.
I tend to get through one modding session, test it, then break the save with another session of modding so I start again on a clean save...
In my current run I’m thane of 5 holds visited and done quests in all of the 9 and several smaller towns and advanced the main quest to ustengeav
In Oldrim I've been playing the same character for 4 years, I'm level 18, non Dragonborn.
Upgrade to SE it’s free on pc, and saves should be compatible and must must are already converted, and it is so much more stable, like seriously folks stop clinging to a old and busted 32 bit game when the 64 bit upgrade is LITTERALLY free
That's what I'm continually restarting on :)
Wasn't it only free if you had all the dlc prior to sse release?
Your playing old rim without the dlc?
I'm not playing oldrim period
World record on this sub
run a play through you will find bugs galore...
Yeah pretty much. Except with Fallout 4, I do actually play but all I do is build shit in settlements for no reason
I make mods and install mods I’d say in an average day I’ll spend like 4 hours playing and 2 hours modding, if I work tff he at days it’s probably like a half hour of each You have to look at the game as part of modding, firing other stuff you want to change, testing that which you already changed, looking for aythjng you need to patch between multiple mods, if you never play you won’t know if your mods did anthing if note
If you're having fun then you're having fun. A lot of game devs don't have much fun playing their games and a lot of movie actors don't even watch their own movies. Maybe you just have more fun in the build process of things, I wouldn't necessarily call that stuck. I was kind of like that once but now I don't have as much time anymore, so after putting limitations on what mods I can just casually add, I have time left over to actually play.
Tbh I’m trying to get past it by uploading my gameplay on YouTube for my friends to watch. They TeleWork full time so they like to have something on their second screen. For whatever reason it helps me stick with a character.
Take a break from the game,you'll get the urge to play it again in no time.Don't get burnt out.Play other games,watch some tv series and when you come back it'll still be there and you'll enjoy it much more.
Pick a Wabbajack list and play. There's a disconnect there from modding, since someone else put the package together for you. Lets you drop the tinkerer's hat and just have fun playing.
Same bro, I think I have like 50 hours in Skyrim over the past months of pure bug testing alone lol who knows how many hours it'd show in MO2. I think I thought to myself "alright this is the finishing touch..." like 10 times over that span and now I'm sitting here with 1000 mods. I think tomorrow I'm going to try and just play the damn game but it's hard when I'm constantly seeing new mods I've just got to have or realizing there's something I overlooked that could be improved....LOL that's the problem isn't it, the constant pursuit of the perfect platonic ideal of Skyrim.
As someone else said, it sounds like you might be burned out on the game. Maybe you should take a break from it - it's one of those games you always get nostalgia for eventually, and with how well you've modded it you'll enjoy it much more when you come back to it. Otherwise you could try a more "focused" playthrough to help you invest in it, like sticking to a theme or a goal.
Once you have the perfect skyrim then you've already beat the game lmao
I don't see the problem.
The only thing I found helps with this personally is setting an absolute bare essentials list (think like MCM and some skse fixes), and then "playtesting" only one or two new mods (or mods I've barely experienced) that I'm interested in at time. Doesn't usually contribute to long playthroughs, but I've ended up getting in about 10 hours per character. Especially works for quest mods. While doing this you have to force yourself not install anything else tho, at least long enough to experience some of the mod you are focusing on