u/sandraviolskyia

I been heavily modding Skyrim and making my own mods/patches since about 2013. Few months ago i wanted to play it again , but making a modpack is just too time consuming and stressful.

So i just decided to try it all vanilla (not even SkyUI), and i actually love it! It still just works. Sometimes i was feeling like playing a new game or a childhood game that i havent played for decade.

I also realized that no matter how hard we try to made a perfect modded Skyrim, it's just not possible. I had pack for 600+mods that i worked on for months, and i still found something to fix and improve. It's easier to just stop worrying and enjoy the original game.

It's also still looks good, here is some of my fav shots

Update: Never thought my post will get so much attention! Want to clarify one thing. I still love mods, mods are great! Been modding a lot of different games for more than decade now. But sometimes its just too tedious and stressful to build a good modpack and i just wanted to enjoy the game instead of building and testing it.
So if you like me forgot how vanilla feels i advice you to try it, and if you never tried mods i advice you to try them

My 100 hours almost fully vanilla playthrough. Only used few performance plugins, one hair mod (which is on pics), and a few new radio stations.

I played it all vanilla on release, but not for too long, did MQ and some side quests. Then few years later with all DLCs i did a modpack and played a lot. Now i wanted to play F4 again, but was so tired from modding Beth games so i just go full vanilla, and it was actually good.

Ofcourse there is problems like broken balance, sponge enemyes, no challenge in battle, not so much weapons and armors, crazy armor/clothing system, silly legendary system, some weird graphical and visuals, not the best UI, and radios with little amount of good songs, but it was still fun to play. If you tired from modding, i recommend to try it all vanilla, "It just works".

I finished MQ for Railroad, did some side quests that i haven't touched before, some CC content, Automaton (i love to build robots), Far Harbor MQ and some side quests. Found Vault 88 but i'm not going to build this whole Vault lol. Nuka World i don't want to do now, better left it for later modded play.