They bounce as you ride them now and feel as if they’re in danger of falling through the world at any moment. Things did look better, but there were some caveats. This allowed me to make my way through the SE game world and pay attention to the landscape. The flagging frames per second that I experienced on day one have been replaced by a silky smooth 60 fps. Without due diligence, who was I to say which of the versions was better? So, last night, I sat down and really compared the two games.įirst, Bethesda has patched the game. I wanted to give up on Skyrim SE and even wrote a less-than-forgiving post about the game, the main gist of which was “stick with a modded version of Skyrim.” But that felt unfair. Frame rates were uneven, which didn’t justify the meager visual improvements. And the compressed audio was a mess.Īfter fumbling through the prologue, I stepped out into the vast remastered wilderness and sighed. Many were excited about the prospect of diving into a world renewed, but wound up disappointed by the product Bethesda delivered. On October 28, Bethesda released the highly anticipated Skyrim Special Edition.
