It's been over a year since Skyrim Special Edition came out. What do you think of it now?

Still havent played it. Im waiting for a more stable version of skse64. I mean its Skyrim, on of my alltime favorites. But i will at least wait for skse64 beta

Have the non special version but haven't started on it yet will play it soon during my break, which version is better for first timers? Any gameplay differences other then graphics overhaul?

I enjoy more modding it than playing it. Unfortunately it's the same with every Bethesda game for me. I have no idea if the game it's good or bad. What I've played is, imho, overrated... Not bad, but... too much praised.

What I think of it? Hmmm "I still have to play that game one day... One day..."

Still a low-effort overpriced blatant rip-off that serves only the purpose of tacking on paid mods on the Elder Scrolls crowd with zero substantial improvements or additions over the original game, which includes having the exact same fucking bugs Skyrim had half a decade ago, despite easy-to-integrate community patches being available.

Still worse than Oblivion...

Special Edition is still full of bugs, that's madness(and Special Edition has way more bugs than Original). And controversial change of gamma(Original boring grey tones were worse, but now Skyrim just looks inadequately sometimes. As if some Riverwood became part of Oblivion-plane) adds some bad feelings.
So mods are almost obligatory, and console is the best friend.

Well, at least it's not Oblivion ;)

The TES games have, since Morrowind (I've played them since Daggerfall) been about the mods for me, and that still holds true here with the special edition of Skyrim. (Although mods could not save Oblivion)

Haven't played it yet, would like to, but have lot of unfinished games on psn and pc, hundreds :(

I have played both original and SE for about 50 hours. Apart from some early addon issues in the SE and really missed SKYUI till something else came along, the SE is way better. Runs better / looks better... LOVE the SE

I can't even launch it, I get a DirectX error. And too lazy to fix this, since I never beat Skyrim Legendary Edition or the previous TES.

I haven't played it yet, but honestly, I like the Special Edition because I got it for free. If I had to pay for it after buying the original, I would've lost some respect for Bethesda. Anyone who has the original should get the SE for free. It doesn't add any actual new content (from what I know), and the game is from 2011 so

I've beat TES: Legendary with 100% achievements and there is no reason for me to go back to it.

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It's good now because we can finally use (the last version of) SkyUI.

Both versions are still in my backlog. :(
Is there a community patch of some kind to fix the bugs in SSE?
What appeals to me about SSE is that I believe adding any mod will disable achievements-- which is exactly what I want. I want to play/enjoy the game without worrying about achievements.

Eh ... I wasn't super impressed with Skyrim to begin with and the Special Edition is just prettier Skyrim. I did really like the gameplay, but it could only hold up everything else for so long and at some point I was like "Why am I still playing this?"

Vanilla Skyrim is pretty bad. A crappy console port. The menus make you want to gauge your eyes out. Thank god for Skyrim UI mod. Also graphics are pretty weak for the time, you need mods upon mods to make it pretty.

So from that perspective considering how the community had to step up and fix the game and make the game that Bethesda should've made, Skyrim is a weak game.

free weekend is coming in ~40 mins so more ppl can try this game 乁( ◔ ౪◔)ㄏ
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From April 12 to April 16, players can try out Skyrim Special Edition for free on Steam and Xbox One with Xbox Live Gold.

The closest game I have played to skyrim may be fallout 3, one day soon skyrim will be free on ps plus and I will be able to play it xD

Some more good news - SKSE is in Beta now.