Skyrim Modded Shows Visuals That May Never Be Achieved By Most Current-Gen Multiplatform Titles

Watch_Dogs has finally been released and unfortunately, it’s not up to what most gamers were expecting (graphics wise). And that’s a bit disheartening – especially if this is to be considered the showcase of current-gen multiplatform titles – as Skyrim modded is more impressive than it. So, today we bring you new shots from the works of modders lost_gypsy, Unreal, Insomnia, LucidAPs, OhKay, Pfuscher, ZeroKing and YetiASX. Enjoy!

84 thoughts on “Skyrim Modded Shows Visuals That May Never Be Achieved By Most Current-Gen Multiplatform Titles”

    1. It’s been said a million times.
      ENB
      Flora Overhaul
      texture mods
      other foliage mods

      the ENB is the most important part of the equation, personally I find ConfidenceMan’s config the prettiest, check it out in ENB forums, I think he has a topic on it.

    2. You can’t really achieve the exact same looks of those screenshots on your own coz some of them modify the values of the presets of other ENB’s until it fits their tastes.

      The best thing you can do is trial and error and modify the ENB’s until you get the quality that you want. It’s easy anyways coz you can edit the values while in-game.

  1. If you look at the jump from Uncharted 1 to The last of Us, then I think its entiirley possible to surpass even this mod on current gen consoles (on PS4 at least).

    If you had told me something like the last of us would be able to run on PS3 back when PS3 launched, I would have laughed in your face.

        1. gta 5 isnt even on ps4 and it looks worse than shit on ps3.

          enjoy you gta 5 in peasant resolution

          1. the funny thing is theres more chance of it coming to PS4 than eve coming to PC. lol

          2. As said, GTA 5 was always coming to the PC, just like the rest of the GTA series but with enhancements, just like the other PC GTA games. If you want an example, look at Max Payne 3 on the PC.

            It has DX11, high resolution textures, MSAA support, Tessellation, other high end graphics options.

          3. all gta games are on pc apart from RDR that they couldnt port it.

            Rockstar leeds that ported la noire to pc was looking for pc programmers to “bring the latests R titles to pc”

            id say the bigger change is the pc version not the ps4.

          4. Oh look the game that dump all over ALL PC games in sales. If it wasn’t for peasent consoles sales PC developers would be starving by now, be grateful biooootch.

            Best regards.

          5. “If it wasn’t for peasent consoles sales PC developers would be starving by now”

            right, day z has sold 2 milions rust is close behind.

            Now go cry in the corner with your delusions.

            Face it, only gta cod and fifa sell, everything else just fails in sales and you see developers whning and studios closing down and horror games turned into action to get sales and still failing in sales.

            Thats what your precious consoles brought.

            PWND!!

        2. GTA 5 ‘is’ coming to the PC, it’s just timed delay like all the other GTA versons which came out about a year after the console releases.

        3. comments like this is why i wanna punch consoletards to the face.

          Hows that petition for wtitcher 2 going? what about that petition for bayonetta 2?

          Pwned biatch

      1. Why act like this? This website has turned into a sess pit of negativity and hateful comments. I just don’t get it.

        1. I don’t get it too. The very moment a word “console” or a name “PS3” or “PS4” in a positive sense appears in the comments, suddenly some nerdy-no-life-mad-child comes out of the blue and starts saying he is “master race ” (LOL!) and console players are “peasants”. I’m not defending cosole users in any way, just trying to understand the psycological aspects of such behaviour. I believe it’s not the right way for an adequate person to behave.
          When I first discovered this site back in 2011, I never thought it would turn into a “PC-MASTER-RACE-ELITISTS” club… It’s kinda sad when you think about it.

          1. It’s just a running joke, console users always come here to troll us with their limitless fanboy console drivel.

          2. They’re mentally ill to hate anyone who plays video games on a console. That’s about it.

            They’re also vastly ignorant and don’t understand why “Take Skyrim V and add texture pack and postprocessing” isn’t exactly next gen.

            Taking Skyrim V’s low poly terrain/models and putting large textures and some post processing on them isn’t exactly out of reach. Dragon Age Inquision and Witcher 3 already look far better than this.

            But then you just prove how ignorant and hateful mustards are.

          3. No they are mentally ill because they have developed affections for a piece of plastic and damage control for a corperation that doesnt give a flying crap about them.

            Thats you derpo.

          4. aahahahahh sonys e3 sucked hard, they didnt show anything good, they had less games than ms and the order was a gloryfied cutscene your pathetic sony overlords failed.

            What about mustards? YOU created mustards because the previous insult “master race” failed as well, who creates insults to piss of pc gamers? YOU console fanboys.

            pwned again derpo.

          5. It is not a mental illness, just a bit of sour taste in our mouths since consoles tend to draw PC games back. Developers just want to farm money with the least effort possible. This is why they aim consoles instead of pc.

            In brief it is all about numbers. Yet stupid console players compare an open world RPG with Dragon Age and Witcher 3… they are not the same at all, DAI and W3 is carefully built around scenes, packed with a whole lot of restrictions,(and details, low res for consoles, high res for pc) but the 3 year old Skyrim is very different from the base.
            Keep crying when somebody tells you the truth. PC IS superior in terms of performance thus HAS superior graphics… not to mention the ability to scale at desktop what is out of question for consoles.

          6. Why preach things that everyone already knows? It’s completely pointless. It’s almost funny how I mention the negativity and hateful comments here and it’s immediately followed up by the very people who are responsible for it.

          7. I was just trying to make a point… and don’t tell me indirectly that I made a hateful comment, dude that is just wrong. And read the first sentence of my previous comment again pls…
            I think there are people who have a reason to be pissed off, since pc is freakin’ expensive. Why is that so hard to understand that after spending a fortune on your machine it is sad and annoying to see your favorite titles being nerfed down to console level, many times badly ported and still some console players blindly spraying comments like yaay console… I have payed 3 times more money for a gaming rig and doing it every 4 year, so may I have a smile on my face when I see comments like this peasantdelusions:D I mean you can call it hatred but for me it was just hilarious to see this blunt approach, and I’m sure it was intended to be comedic…

          8. Ok. At least now I see the reason why. I guess I just get sick of seeing the arguing all the time. I can usually tell when an article will be full of people name calling before I even read it just by the title alone. I guess I’m just different and that I may never fully understand it. It’s weird as I’ll see an article and think “oh that’s cool” and when I get into the comments I’m like THEE only one that thought that lol. I love gaming and feel that people have started to find the smallest things to not like a game. Don’t you think so to?

            Today is E3 and I’m pretty stoked. Have fun.

          9. I guess you are right about people arguing about stupid things, but then you should avoid reading basically any public forum:D standards go up with age (if u’re lucky), but going down on the other side with increasing publicity(new money farm)… this is how it is, I don’t like it either, but I try to take things less seriously and laugh about these arguments. Not every time of course, ‘cos I can write pretty sharp comments if I see the decay of quality gaming.. anyways keep hope alive:) have fun u too!

          10. yeah i remember when each sequel came years later and it was on a new engine, however on consoles games were milked, just lke the tomb raider and syphon filter games on psx.

            Then it lead to endless dlc, mandatrory mp and dumbing down games, the way gamign is today, is just horrible all the good things come from indies.

          11. Not all good things come from indies, be more optimistic, there will always be good games no matter the trends! And to be politically correct it is not only the consoles what deteriorate the quality of games, but the general trends of increasing publicity and oddly the easier to use game developing software too. It is a huge and rapidly growing market with a lot of money to farm… bastards I say, not the blindfolded yaay console guys but the industry itself..
            Even though “keep dreaming peasant” was the comment of the year for me too, we shouldn’t get too cocky on people at all:) free speech man:D try reasoning and take big breaths or breasts whatever suits u the best:P

          12. I agree witht the trends of the industry as jim sterling said some people in the industry believe that only cod and f2p and candy crash exist and all games should be like them. What i cant agree is regarding good games. Take a look at the last bioshock, tomb raider and max payne, they betray everything their franchises stand for and its a major middle finger to the fans, yet they are rated well.

            You have to dig through overrated reviews to find the real jems.

          13. surprised u haven’t mentioned “sim city” the smallest city building game ever, and the second biggest ripoff of the decade, new “thief”…

            Despite its flaws SC4 is still the best game made in the genreso far, and the same goes for ThiefGold and SS2 just to mention a few of my loved ones. Maybe it is time they raped Blood too. Painkiller too had surprised me back then and still consider it N1 in “grinder” fps games

            But to give you a positive example of new games(ok not that new) for me there was a game I didn’t like at all for the first try, but after diving in to it, with a CRT+reasonably low brightness Doom3 turned out to be the BEST horror fps for me! I think it is nearly perfect!(hard mode low brightness! damn I could only play thief during night, and still had to darken the room to reach the lowest possible gamma+brightness:D)

            So u can tell the situation hurts me too real bad…i wish i could do something about it, to support quality gaming, to make it feasible again.

          14. you dont even know what master race is.

            Master race is a meme a joke, it was created by yantzee when he played witcher 2 and his lapto couldnt run it past low settings and it had no tutorials so he drew a picutre of the aryan race and a peaseant and he said the game is optimized for pc master race so console peaseants dont ruin it for them.

            Meaning it demands a powerfull pc and someone who knows alot about gaming and its not made for casual console gamers.

            The console fanboys took the “master race” joke and used it as an insult, so pc gamers embraced the joke and said “silence peaseant” but ofcourse the clueless consoletards didnt get it so after their joke backfired they call pc gamers the “mustard race”

            You get it now? The consoletards are clueless pathetic and jealous and they downrighte hate pc gaming and pc gamers.

            Why would i have any respect for people that choose to be ignorant on a subject yet think they got the right to bash it and disscredit it with missconceptions not to mention not even knowing wtf they talking about, eg the master race thing or upgrade every year bs.

        2. They’re mentally ill to hate anyone who plays video games on a console. That’s about it.

          They’re also vastly ignorant and don’t understand why “Take Skyrim V and add texture pack and postprocessing” isn’t exactly next gen.

          1. you are mentally ill and you call everyone like that who doesnt have the same opinion as you. You belong to a insane asylum.

          1. Im a PC Gamer and I don’t act like that. Are you saying this is the way it should be?

        3. Hasn’t this site always been like this? Every article that even slightly mention the word “console” will get these unnecessary snarky comment about how terrible the console is. I mean, i don’t go around making fun of people with cheap walmart headphones just because i own a $200 Seihensser.

        4. no the entire internet is filled with sony f@gboys are the ones who fill the entire internet with their nonsense. Those peaseants can go and chop their own balls off for all i care.

          1. Jesus man, You’re just not capable of acting like an adult even once in awhile. Assuming you are one.

          2. What i said is a fact, i act the way people treat me, if they go around posting the bs that xtreme derp acts, thats how i am gonna treat them.

            If not they can go f themselfs. Its the sony fanboys who go everywhere posting nonsense not “Xbots” not “pc mustard race” not “nitendogs”

      2. Taking Skyrim V’s low poly terrain/models and putting large textures and some post processing on them isn’t exactly out of reach. Dragon Age Inquision and Witcher 3 already look far better than this.

        But then you just prove how ignorant and hateful mustards are.

        1. lol “mustard” race? you console fanboys created the “master race” and it backfired since we embraced the joke, so now you go to pathetic nonsense like “mustard race” pff what jokers you consoletards are.

    1. I wonder can modders make the animations (simple things like run cycles) look better too because as it stands, Uncharted 1 still beats Skyrim’s standard stiff animations lol. Other devs will catch up to Uncharted 2 in another 10 years.
      If you don’t know what I’m talking about, forget it, textures and HDR is the most important thing in a game only.

    2. Not really the jump wasnt that high uncharted 3 has better graphics than the last of us, the last of us is a blurry mess with awful ligthing. Ps3 was quite powerfull, they just didnt know how to utilize its weird achitecture, now both consoles are weak and they know their architecture. Since they cant hit 1080p with decent graphics.

      Crysis from 2007 still destroys the last of us.

      1. Exactly this. “Bu bub ubu teh OPTIMIZATIONZ!!!”
        Crysis’ visuals are impeccable on the last-gen consoles.

        1. the r3tarded sony c3m gobblers are impressed at the uncharted 3 teaser, as if a super detailed face was not shown in 2006 with crysis as if downgrades do not exist, as if ps4 will get that kind of detail on everythign on 1080p 60 fps, if naughty dog was capable of that then every console manufacturer and every publisher would hire them to improve graphics on every game.

  2. Nice textures and postprocessing, still can’t hide the low-poly terrain and models though. Dragon Age Inquision and Witcher 3 already look far better than this.

    1. Is this guy mentally retarded ? He commented almost the same thing in all of his comments 0_0

      1. yeah its his thing copy and pasting the same nonesne all over, you can make diffirent commments and he will reply to all your comment with the same comment, completly out of context because he cant take the fact people have diffirent opinions than him.

  3. Why are most these always compressed to hell? They look like somebody took a screenshot with a camera.

    1. it actually has an unlock framerate and is above that, in fact once you finished the game it gives you the option to lock it at 30 fps. Learn your facts before posting, and also about that comment of Crysis 3, if you know about more of PC games you would know Crysis 1 modded is far superior and stunning looking than Crysis 3, you noob.

      1. Actually, no. Crysis 1 may look more impressive because of all the vegetation and it’s open-world nature but Crysis 3 is far more “superior and stunning” because it uses CryEngine 3 which has DX 11 features that can never be achieved with Crysis 1.

        If a modder recreated a Crysis 1 map using CryEngine 3, it’ll definitely look more amazing

        1. The environment of Crysis 3 is much less dynamic they cut this type of environment since Crysis 2, in Crysis 1 you can practically teardown a whole town.

          This was the main problem with Crysis 3 & 2, and why people hate it. They took the dynamism of the first one, Crysis 1 was actually a sandbox game, Crytek then created a corridor shooter with 3 and 2.

          1. But that’s game design and they did that to cut off the needed resources because Crysis 2 and 3 was made for consoles and not for PC anymore. Just like I said if someone recreated maps of Crysis 1 on CryEngine 3 it will be more amazing because of the added DX 11 features that will never be available to Crysis 1

  4. It’s static and small, what exactly can you do in that game other than have special powers? You can’t drive anything, you can’t see inside the cars, it looks nowhere near as real as Watch Dogs or the Skyrim mods

  5. Lol another clickbait title.

    The author doesn’t bother to explain that the mods are practically useless for when you actually PLAY the game. Because guess what? The mods are inconsistent. One area would look amazing, one would look out of place, another would be filled with odd bugs.

    Did I mention it’s unplayable too?

    It seems that people only mod Skyrim to take pretty screenshots today, but not actually play them. Understood that it is a passion, but don’t try and pass it off as an actual playable mod.

  6. Tired of these stupid mods they only show screenshots with no gameplay and no framerate indicator. Must be getting like 20 fps on a GTX680.

    1. you are wrong, i have getting 45-50 fps on gtx660ti with heavly moded skyrim (nearyl 250 mods and real enb)

      1. I can read better than you probably. What is it that you’re so mad about, besides being an egghead with no life?

      2. Who’s the moron now? Go look at Uncharted 4’s new trailer it crushes this mod. Also almost all the highest rated games are console only. You PC peasants claim to be the superior race, yet only have sub par exclusive games.

        1. Uncharted is not a “multiplatform” game, so p*ss off and learn to read console troll.

          “Most Current-Gen Multiplatform Titles”

          PC peasant? LOL, coming from a console user that’s funny with a cheap box toaster.

  7. cant tell if bullshot that doesnt represnt ingame visuals or ingame screenshots with jagies all over the place. Anyway this can be done on crysis 2 on pc, just so you know. Ps the order has very selective detail, many blurry objects in the background consoles require you to tone down stuff to get good perfomance because they are weak, those are the facts.

  8. It isnt? I have raw screenshot and it’s basically the same. The pictures on this article are compressed to nothing.

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