Skyrim Special Edition was just announced and I’m about to drop a major review on all the hype over it. But before I do, I want to open up a thread in our forums to discuss things.
Most of the time when a huge publisher announces a new release, the community assumes that it’s going to be a massive overhaul. That it’s going to get nerfed in terms of difficulty. That the sheer size of it will make some of our favourite things impossible to play. While we could imagine that Skyrim Special Edition is going to be a huge addition to our beloved game, that’s probably not the case.
Instead, I think we need to examine what’s going to be in the game and when we’ll see it. Let’s start with the endgame.
Endgame time
One of the most common complaints about Skyrim is that the endgame is broken. After a few hours of playing, you’re rewarded with an achievement for reaching level cap. Then you’re broken out of that achievement, have to wait till tomorrow and have to do a grind run to get the next achievement. Most people also agree that the enemies are extremely easy at that point.
Skyrim Special Edition will be releasing in November of 2017. In terms of time, it will be more like Morrowind than Skyrim. In the official press release the press said “a more advanced and more rewarding” endgame than Skyrim. “More advanced” makes sense if we look at the numbers of people willing to pay $60 for this game and it’s $120 equivalent.
These numbers tell us two things: the market is willing to pay $60 for the game and that the endgame has to be changed. The majority of the game has to be played so that the players are able to spend money to progress and get better equipment. We also know that you’ll want a better endgame than Morrowind’s, so it makes sense that this was pushed back until 2017.
If we look at the game in September of 2016, the game was still almost two years away. From my own experience, I can see that it might be possible to play the game up to the endgame within the first few months of the game’s release. If that’s the case then it doesn’t
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