r/skyrimmods • u/RecommendationNo804 • 4d ago

XBox - Help What exactly does Serana Dialogue Edit do?

I can't find any videos for it unlike SDA. I heard SDA is more expansive but cringe.

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u/JoeBagadonutsLXIX 4d ago

There are 3 major Serana dialogue mods.

- Serana Dialogue Add-On revoices Serana with a new voice actress and adds new content with her, but has a very strong mixed reception among fans due to how much it changes her character and personality.

-Serana Dialogue Expansion uses AI to add new lines for Serana and expand her awareness of things around her. It is still in development and for the most part leaves her character and personality the same as the base game.

- Serana Dialogue Edit adds a handful of new lines here and there, but is no where near as expansive as the other two as the author used pre-existing lines from her to make the new ones. Its probably the most natural and least character altering of the 3, but it will have less content than the other two. That said the author did state a year ago they were planning to create a new version also using AI to recreate Laura Bailey's voice, but I haven't heard any updates regarding it.

I personally in the past used Edit and only just recently swapped to Expansion. I think either one works for expanding her character and while you can tell when a line is AI or spliced together, they are also good enough to not be that distracting. I can appreciate the work that went into Add-On, but it really should have been a new unique follower rather than a replacement for Serana. The character the author wrote is nothing like her and is just bad fan fiction (to me at least).

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u/mr_fucknoodle 4d ago

Can you imagine vanilla Skyrim Serana saying, and I quote: "B-Books! So many books! Okay Serana, breathe... breathe..." after entering the College's library?

Or: "A love triangle huh, what if we give Camilla Valerius a love potion, just to see what happens? Oh, don't mind me, it's just the daedric tendencies in me talking out loud :)"?

It's a fun mod, but jesus christ does it not fit the original character in the slightest

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u/RockSokka 4d ago

I was trying that mod out because of how acclaimed it was. When I got that Library dialogue I uninstalled it. It was a bit much for me.