Skyrim free to play this weekend, on Steam.

[shortylickens]

And its 75% if you buy.


For those who don't know: You must run this game through Steam even if you bought it on disc or from Amazon or some other seller.

The Dragonborn and Dawnguard mods are definitely worth the money as they add new areas, new equipment, long quests, and I think a few new spells. Dawnguard adds many more vampires and the ability to voluntarily become a vampire with one click. It also has special vampire spells and abilities. Or if you decline, you can pick up some special anti-vampire spells and arms & armor.

Dragonborn adds some new shouts, some magic abilities that are permanently enabled, and a few goodies that are only found in Morrowind, on the island of Solsteim.

Hearthfire just adds the ability to make your own house, but since theres so many mods for that you may not care.
Oh, it does add the ability to adopt children. And now you can force the wife and kids to stay at home. As well as a dog, and some basic house servants. Also you can build each Daedra Shrine in the basement, for convenience.

 

[blastingcap]

I wonder how many people will attempt to play and beat Skyrim in a single weekend.

 

[norseamd]

I wonder how many people will attempt to play and beat Skyrim in a single weekend.

Dear god. You would have to spend every hour possible and not do anything in that game at all besides the main storyline and crap.

Considering I play with the Requiem mod it would be impossible for me even at 72 hours straight without any sleep or breaktimes and other crap.

 

[shortylickens]

I wonder how many people will attempt to play and beat Skyrim in a single weekend.

The main quest is only a small portion of the game content. I guess they could beat it.
Paying money would let them run around, explore, do the side quests (Brotherhood and Thieves and stuff). They would be missing out if they didnt.

 

[sweenish]

Both main stories are about 20 hours total.

Getting leveled enough to make them a cakewalk is a different story. Maybe 40 total.

At least, I have ~40 hours logged. Probably much faster, although I did exploit the crafting XP to level faster and get awesome weapons and armor early on.

 

[BSim500]

Even if I didn't own it, I would actively boycott it this weekend due to the blatantly obvious "advert" this is for the ongoing paid DLC issue:-

SkyUI 4 = Free on Nexus
SkyUI 5 = "We want you to pay for it on Steam" (even though the mod itself is still essentially a bugfix for Bethesda's laziness at not being able to produce a default non-consolized PC interface (just as Darnified UI was for Oblivion))?...

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods...i_pretty_much_one_of_the_most_essential_mods/

No thanks.