Quote Originally Posted by SturmChurro View Post
We can thank ESO, and Starfield for that. Todd gave an interview recently, even citing both. It's funny, I still remember playing ES (Oblivion, Skyrim) on a really bad laptop back in the day, in bed, like when I was 17. Literally covered up with a blanket. Put tons of hours into them like that (offline, so they didn't even count on Steam). That laptop also had what I consider the best modlist I've ever used even. I was always too lazy to manually port mods to Special Edition, and similarly, I haven't even updated the game or upgraded to the 'Anniversary Edition' on Steam, because I don't want to break more mods.

Coincidentally, I did the same for FFXIV around 2017, when I was having RL issues. This laptop was so bad, that I would get hit by mechanics trying to do dungeons, at no fault of my own. It was so laggy, but I wanted to play FFXIV. Many of my early classes back in late HW, were leveled this way. That laptop was awful. The funny thing was, at the time, I had just built a PC, but I couldn't use it, because the place I was at didn't have grounded outlets, so it would blow up my desktop (literally) if I tried to turn it on.
Skyrim modding is its own saga unto itself. The Special Edition was worth it just for 64bit support and stability, but yeah alot of mods never got ported and self porting is time consuming and still tends to break. Everytime I play I usually spend 2-3 days setting up and testing mods before actually playing.