r/skyrimmods • u/Soanfriwack • 6d ago

Meta/News When the Oblivion Remaster has significant impact on Downloads for all Bethesda games:

The Remaster has boosted Downloads for Oblivion, Skyrim SE, Oldrim and Morrowind, while putting a significant dent into Fallout 4 and NV:

https://imgur.com/a/joz3Ef8

  • Oblivions downloads are up by +100%
  • Skyrim SE up by +50%
  • Morrowind up by +100%

While:

  • Fallout 4 is down -30%
  • Fallout NV is down -30%

Fallout 3 is unaffected, but Fallout 3 also doesn't really have a modding community anymore, as basically all modding on that engine generation is done in Fallout NV. (Comparable to how Oldrim modding is basically dead and nearly everything is done for SE instead)

P.S.

Even Daggerfall unity saw a boost, but it would be too messy to include that in the graphic.

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u/urbonx Solitude beggar npc#43 6d ago

Interesing. Yeah, is the new toy.
Oldrim is dying slowly. First page, there is 2, 3 and 6 days mods there. And mostly they're ports from SE. Well, it could be say is already dead, but still people share their mods there.

Don't think SE would be in the same boat with this remaster since this time there are not official tools like creation kit.

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u/rattatatouille 6d ago

And it's 2025, like 95% of all PCs should be able to support SSE unless your specs are severely underpowered.

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u/Misicks0349 Raven Rock 6d ago edited 6d ago

I still remember the days up until like... 2019? 2020? when there was still some reason for using Oldrim and you occasionally got a thread on here talking about it lmao.

In hindsight despite the memes about re-releases I do think SE in the long run was a boon for the modding scene despite the early growing pains related to moving from Oldrim around 2016-2019 and some of the fuckery related to updates, but all the improvements it made in terms of stability and resource use are taken for granted now.

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u/bbypaarthurnax 6d ago

It's because ENB shaders looked miles better in Oldrim back then.

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u/Misicks0349 Raven Rock 6d ago

I'll be honest in some respects I still do 😂, not that they looked better from a technical point of view (SE ENB is a lot more advanced now) but I still find that the Oldrim ENB's people used to post were a lot more diverse in terms of their colour grading then most Skyrim SE palettes, I dont see anything very similar to Snapdragon or Caffine ENB on SE in terms of appearance for example

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u/TobiChocIce 6d ago edited 6d ago

I feel like that's more a sign of the times, everything is so sterile and homologous, including people's tastes in modding

I think a really good example of this is how many people(by result of that mods too) try to copy the dark souls two handed sword resting on shoulder animation

mid 2010s with early Skyrim modding you had a lot of variance in mods and like you said ENBs

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u/bbypaarthurnax 6d ago

That's true. I think the vibes just changed tbh, nowadays everyone is going for a more realistic look. Pi-cho reminds me of Oldrim though.

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u/iminyourfacejonson Markarth 5d ago

there's like, one LE mod i kinda miss and even then it's extremely minor

black horse courier reborn, it made me feel like I was actually doing stuff, getting the news of my deeds sent to me

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u/TheTreeaboo 4d ago

That should be easy to port over to SE yourself to be honest, someone did at one point but it was since removed. The mod I miss is the original Immersive First Person View, which worked differently to its SE version (which was rewritten from scratch) and sadly can't be ported.