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1. #SKYRIM ALTERNATE START MOD#
2. #SKYRIM ALTERNATE START MODS#
3. #SKYRIM ALTERNATE START PC#
4. #SKYRIM ALTERNATE START PLUS#

Rather than being a person who happens to find themselves involved in events due to circumstance, you almost immediately (after the first couple of main story quests) become the single most important person in the universe. It enforces this sense of urgency in its main story that doesn’t seem to go away. The intro and the opening story beats of Skyrim forces the character to pick sides and rushes them through its open and explorative world in a ludicrously fast pace. The Elder Scrolls series does this very well for the most part, but there is a problem Skyrim suffers from that breaks my roleplaying immersion. The most important aspect of RPGs is the role playing the ability to look through the eyes of a character and commit to actions as that character. Alternate Start completely fixes this problem by simply allowing you to bypass the shitty default intro, but it also does more. This being the explorative and immersive RPG nature of what the Elder Scrolls franchise is known for. Now this topic has been done to the death on the internet, but the point I want to hammer in is that Skyrim’s intro does not adequately represent or compliment the game design and tone the game exemplifies. The deliberate arrangement of its content, including its structure, its systems, and its narrative, in support of the game’s experiential goals. I use the term exposition as defined in a GDC talk by Greg Kasavin – in it he describes the working definition of exposition as: I helped co-write a video for a colleague on the site recently, and in that video I bring up the term exposition. It’s no secret that many don’t people enjoy Skyrim’s intro, and my main problem with the game’s opening is its awful exposition.

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Plus skipping that poorly paced intro is something I’ve always wanted.

#SKYRIM ALTERNATE START MOD#

Overall, this is a good mod for those who want to re-roll a new character but don’t want to play through the starting tutorial, or want more immersion for role-playing. What start you choose will also change your starting inventory and how difficult the game could be in the first few levels. There are many more options, as well as the option to do the default Skyrim intro. There are multiple ways to start a new game, ranging from choosing a faction to join, choosing a side in the civil war, being a property owner, or my favorite: a lore appropriate starting location based on your chosen race. Alternate Start essentially lets you to choose how you start a new game in Skyrim, allowing you to bypass the horrid opening scene of Skyrim’s default intro. However, one mod has quickly become my favorite and solves a few problems I have always had with Skyrim, and that is the problems relating to main quest urgency and the “Special Snowflake Syndrome” that permeates the game’s main story.īefore I get ahead of myself, I want to talk about the mod itself, which is called Alternate Start.

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So while I must say that Skyrim with expansion packs and mods is a much more enjoyable experience, it does not fix certain problems and critiques I have of the final product. I have modded the crap out of my Skyrim game, but it has not changed my own personal dogma about modding: that mods may enhance a game’s experience, but ultimately cannot fix issues that are inherent in a game’s systems and engine. I’ve only had a console experience with this game, which until only recently with Skyrim: Special Edition has not had mod support.

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The Elder Scrolls Skyrim was released more than 5 years ago, and I have only recently gotten my hands on it for PC a few months ago. Skyrim’s intro is bad and this mod fixes it – thank goodness!