I haven't bought Skyrim in any form since Todd Howard trotted it out in a horse cart back in 2011. Why would I bother buying Bethesda's creative nadir now? More games have come and gone that do everything that Skyrim does and better, especially without the jank floating over your head.

Most people already tire of wandering around in Assasin's Creed, which are the size of a quaint village at 2 km2. Skyrim is 37 km2. Pittsburgh is 151.12 km2. And Daggerfall is 161,600 km2. So if I ever have a need of wanderlust, I think I know where to go. Especially since there's a version of it which actually fixes the outstanding bugs and issues with it.

Instead of this nth release which still has that bug where you can end up going over a rock in your free ride to Skyrim and well that's your start already grinding to a halt since Bethesda didn't program a safety or fallback in case the physics bug out.

"Hey, they're taking a while. Think we should sneak out?" or "Damn these inscrutable public roads! Alright you, we'll walk if we have to!" Perhaps not an easy thing to implement (but who am I kidding, people had put Thomas the Tank Engine in within weeks of release), they have had a decade to fix outstanding bugs, and instead we get paid mods.

And those mods aren't even the helpful quality of life mods or "prevents your game from corrupting because you took this quest" fixes.

No, LE is bad.

Its SE or nothing at all.

I am a Legendary Edition player, not sure if I would buy it though.
If it happens to work on Windows XP, or Linux, somehow.
If there's a script extender that works with it so I could use mods, I won't have much use for it otherwise.
Maybe if it was very cheap, for the creation kit.

If it was a version without CC then yes with then no, as I already have that on Steam, I also have a modded it to disable CC and not use Steam.

If I had to choose between Skyrim LE or any other 2005~2015 game, I wouldn't choose Skyrim.
But, just like others said before, the chance of it actually being here is scarce. We're talking about Bethesda. And I mean 2022 Bethesda. Fallout 76 online only singleplayer experience Bethesda. Skyrim Creation Club Bethesda.

With all respect to Bethesda devs (it's hardly their fault what became of Skyrim and Fallout series), no, I wouldn't want Skyrim LE to be sold here if GOG would need to accept all of this "just works" "content".

I think your concept has to be taken on a game-by-game basis.

For a generic RPGmaker game that doesn't really distinguish itself in any major way, I can see why it might not be brought to GOG (leaving the fact it probably wouldn't pass curation aside).

But this is SKYRIM, one of the biggest titles ever released across gaming, which still is popular over a decade later. People have rebought it on consoles, etc, I don't think it is a stretch to buy a finally DRM-free one.

I know I have been a PC version holdout. Would be an insta-buy if it came here actually DRM-free.

I'd buy it.... probably, but I doubt it will ever be released on GOG.com.

With Skyrim as Bethesda's primary title right now there is likely to be no chance for any version to show up on GOG until Elder Scrolls 6 is released. The same can be said about no Fallout 4 on GOG until Fallout 5 is released.

The bigger issue isn't Bethesda or their parent company Zenimax. Its Microsoft. The same Microsoft that has titles dating back to near the beginning of the video games industry (ex, Age of Empires) that has released none of it on GOG.com.
The same Microsoft that bought Zenimax.

If Microsoft won't release their oldest stuff, then they would never permit a title the caliber of Skyrim to be released.

It’s already a big issue here. Check out review 5 on hat in time for instance. One user complaining the vast majority of mods is only on workshop, and why would anyone use nexus when you have to do it yourself. Says it all really. If Skyrim came here the steam lot would want a one button mod installer.

I would never say never but considering the way Skyrim and Fallout 4 are currently integrated with Bethesda.net mods and Creation Club, it seems very unlikely. I love Creation Club (it got an unfair reception, IMO) and I almost exclusively use Bethesda.net mods instead of Nexusmods but yeah, if Bethesda released Skyrim and/or Fallout 4 on GOG, it'd need to be stripped down and made optional (via Galaxy) because Galaxy would be required to play them otherwise and that's something I definitely don't support on GOG. I'm all for having the option to use CC/BethNet mods via Galaxy but the base game and its DLCs need to be available without the client if it's released here and I'm afraid Bethesda, especially now that they're owned by Microtrash, would probably not spend the effort to release it that way.

would newer mods work with LE these days?

it depends on what version of the visual basic interpreter they package with it... the old LE version or the new "update" both need a specific SKSE and both have different script calls... its been a nightmare for the modding community to handle anything that needs SKSE to work.

Which do you support, spend time to dev both mods on each executable and script hooks. On the bright side each version of Skyrim will work 100% without DRM so its all on Bethesda to just release it!

Holy hell is that depressing or what. Meanwhile I'm over here thinking they should love Nexus...mandatory account, mandatory login to download, a client to download (fortunately optional), a client that's a mod manager. All of that isn't "Scheme-like" enough for their conveeenience?

I sympathize with those of you who are big into using mods in your games because Scheme has essentially ruined it for everyone for years now; Creation Club is just a cherry on top. I am glad I am not as into modding and can still access the few mods I do want on moddb and Nexus...for the time being at least.

I wiil like to see it here on Gog for sure,

LE is good. Especially if you're using integrated graphics. :P
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