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Skyrim’s Special Edition’s Textures are Even Higher Resolution than the High Resolution Pack for PC

If you’re wondering just how much effort has gone into remastering the art assets of the newly revealed The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition for PS4, Xbox One and PC, Director Todd Howard provided a few interesting tidbits during an interview on the post-show livestream.

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KiwiViper852910d ago

Haven't played Skyrim... Might see what all the fuss is about.

Pongwater2910d ago

Have you played any of the Elder Scrolls games? ( I mean the main games, not including Elder Scrolls Online ). How you feel about Skyrim may hinge on how you felt about the older titles. You may think it's the best or you may find it lacking in certain areas. Depends on what you like about the series I guess. If you've never played any of them I say go for it and see what you think.

Personally I really enjoyed Skyrim and I will buy the remaster, though I felt Dark Souls was easily a better game that year and I'd put Skyrim about 3rd on my Elder Scrolls ranking list.

Magnes2910d ago

I agree with you pongwater I loved oblivion never quite got into Skyrim, but with this upgrade I shall have another go.

KiwiViper852909d ago

Haven't played any ES, I always found first person games just didn't agree with my eyes, but with the new gen higher resolutions and framerates I've found a few quite enjoyable.

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InTheZoneAC2910d ago

it's been like $10 for a couple years now

joab7772909d ago

You will be ruined though. Similar to games like Fallout, The Witcher and Dark Souls, it's hard to play games after them.

My only issue is lack of real difficulty, and consequence.

Master of Unlocking2909d ago

Same here. Looks like I was well inspired to hold off on buying Skyrim for the PS3, as this will have better graphics, the PS4 features, and mods!!! woohoo! The last console game that had mods like on PC was Unreal Tournament III on the PS3 back in 2008!
It's so cool that Bethesda is doing it this time!

garrettbobbyferguson2909d ago

It was a crap game back in 2011, it's a crap game now. Repetitive dungeons, quests that had ZERO impact on the world, mediocre combat, a leveling system that was garbage, enchanting that was broken, and just an ugly world which I see they've made worse with what looks to be a shit filter over everything.

ApolloTheBoss2909d ago (Edited 2909d ago )

Then you're in for a treat my friend, holy crap. I had the same thought when I played my first elder scrolls game which was Oblivion and was utterly blown away.

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Vegamyster2910d ago (Edited 2910d ago )

Doesn't really say much, the Beth HD pack didn't really change anything drastically.

ChrisW2910d ago

Yeah... Especially when compared to Workshop mods.

Vegamyster2910d ago

Yup, most hardly affected performance too.

k2d2909d ago

This. They may have been High Def, but they weren't high quality, and mods could give even higher def textures.

Femto2910d ago

Pc users who own the legendary edition, or the game and all its dlc will receive the special edition for free

Lon3wolf2910d ago

I just hope Steam put the DLC in the summer sale :D

hirobrotagonist2910d ago

Extremely happy this is coming to PC, I really hope Bethesda put some work into serious bug fixing though even on my 1080 gtx master rig with over clocked i7 I still get random crashes

traumadisaster2910d ago

The oc is causing the crashes. That vanilla game has rock solid stability.

Errorist762909d ago

Maybe don't overclock it then...in case you reall stupid enough to do that.

hirobrotagonist2909d ago

Listen dipshits, I've been playing skyrim since day 1 on 360 and PC. I've also been building and overclocking computers for more than 15 years. Not really sure I got why I got downvotes since this game is not rock solid and never has been. Bethesda makes great games, but they are always buggy and Skyrim was one of the buggiest. Skyrim was just as buggy for me before I overclocked my cpu. It's buggy because it doesn't make use of all available ram and it doesn't use multiple CPU threads - maybe do some research before making asinine comments. I was one of the biggest members of the modding scene on the original modded Xbox for Morrowind and I hand resized texture and converted over a hundred mods from the PC to the xbox. I know a little something about modding Bethesda games and computer hardware in general. The fact that Skyrim struggles on the best graphics card in the world with a CPU overclocked to 4.4 ghz is not a great thing, this statement is a fact and not an opinion. Between console and PC, I put over 400 hours into Skyrim. Go peddle your bullshit elsewhere.

hirobrotagonist2909d ago (Edited 2909d ago )

You and traumadisaster both don't know a god damn thing about computers if you think overclocking a liquid cooled CPU running at -65 Celsius would cause crashes in Skyrim; which is one of the buggiest PC games ever made.

Errorist762909d ago (Edited 2909d ago )

@Hiro

I assumed you overclocked your 1080. Seems I got you wrong. Still Skyrim might be buggy but I never had it crash on me either.

You should definitely watch your manners.

Averyashimself2909d ago

@Erroist76 Why would you dare say, "Watch your manners" when you were the one being rude in the first place.

Errorist762909d ago (Edited 2909d ago )

Averyashimself

You're right. I was rude. I was assuming he was just showing off. I apologize. It was a misunderstanding to begin with.

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garrettbobbyferguson2909d ago

There are various mods that allow you to circumvent the 4 GB limit that Skyrim has. Did you use any of those?

aaron58292910d ago

I was jumping with joy when they announced this, until i took a wooden chair to the knee...

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Days Gone Director Says Bend's Project Costs Over $250M; Says PS Co-CEO Doesn't Want 2 Zombies Games

Days Gone director claims Sony has already poured in at least a $250M in Bend's project; says Days Gone sold more than Death Stranding.

shinoff218319h ago

Well that sucks. Seems they want more online trash. I'd rather of had the sequel if it was single player

MrNinosan5h ago

What online trash games did PS Studios release last 10 years?

Notellin3h ago

The past has nothing to do with the future. This is such a terrible argument. Everyone knows about their current live service push.

_SilverHawk_1h ago

It's so tragic what happened to days gone. It is such an amazing game but bandwagoners trashed it and it underperformed in it's launch year. Days gone is the best open world zombie game released in the past five years. I was recently playing it on pc and I'm still amazed by it.

Games are very expensive to make and it seems like it's normal for a AAA game to cost over a quarter billion to make so if a quality game like days gone greatly underperforms then people shouldn't be upset when they see a lot of GAAS. I still remember a lot of bandwagoners calling days gone trash but years later it's now amazing when it's considered a failure by sony.

If a game isn't the best thing seen since hats with pockets then a lot of gamers who haven't played it automatically calls it rubbish and whoever made it should be incarcerated

Cacabunga33m ago(Edited 32m ago)

Co CEO prefers gamers to boycott.. so be it. I’ll never buy a gaas.
Just imagine buying a game you cannot replay in some years.. this shit must stop.

Days Gone did zombies in a very original way. The story was also so engaging. You actually only meet Zombie hordes later in the game. There are many more enemy groups to deal with.

-Foxtrot19h ago

It would be a shame if it was true that Hermen never gave the franchise a chance simply because he didn't like it and they already had a "Zombie" game with TLOU.

NaughtyDog are most likely moving onto a new IP next so it would have been the perfect time to do it.

ThinkThink11h ago

Here's where xbox steps in and releases state of decay 3 day and date on ps5.

Grilla4h ago

Days gone 2 was canceled before Herman was in charge. That happened like 4 years ago.

vfl5233h ago

4 years ago he was head of Playstation Studios. He would've probably had a hand in the cancelation.

Notellin3h ago

Man two seconds of research could have saved you from this comment. Amazing work Grilla you fit in with the uniformed N4G community who speaks before verifying anything that they say.

Redemption-641h ago

Maybe encourage people to buy the game at full price and not when it's heavily discounted or go on plus. If this game had sold well when it was full priced a sequel would have been in the works. They made a single-player game that most people didn't support until they dropped the price.

Cacabunga14m ago

The guy’s just a moron.. he should have stayed within game development. His choices will have a terrible impact on the brand in the long run.

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excaliburps5h ago

Yep. Kind of weird since it wasn't a sales flop, no?

I know we have to take what Ross says with a grain of salt since we're hearing just one side of the story, but even so, the game wasn't bad at all. Heck, it's my brother's favorite last-gen game from what I recall.

The amount of zombies on screen, imagine that with the PS5 and SSD? That would be insanely fun!

Grilla4h ago

Most copies were sold on sale. Not enough ppl bought it at full price. I paid 20$ for it 6 -7 months after release.

Notellin2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

Yeah we should never believe the creators side until we hear the corporate/big business side as history has shown we should always believe billion dollar corporations.

What a bootlicker statement.

P_Bomb5h ago

Well I don’t want 10 live service games, but they have no problem doing that lol. Ugh.

CrimsonWing694h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Oh great so we only get what the big wigs want… y’know, the people that really have their fingers on the pulse of what their consumers want. Faaaaantastic!

rippermcrip1h ago

Well consider they know the sales... they do know what the consumer wants.

It sold shit.

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Greetings from the newly minted CEO - Shams Jorjani

Operating under the username BigKahuna_AGS, Jorjani created a lengthy thread on the Helldivers subreddit to introduce himself to the community following his appointment as CEO in early May.

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Frostpunk 2 Dev Talks Creative Risks, Supply and Demand, and More

Game Rant speaks with Frostpunk 2 co-game director and design director Jakub Stokalski about everything 11 bit poured into the sequel.

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