

Based on their analysis, the Skyrim Special Edition brings DirectX 11 capabilities to the game, with god ray support (aka crepuscular rays), dynamic depth of field, and new snow and water shaders. The “remastered” version of Skyrim is using the same textures as the original game.Įurogamer has confirmed this with an in-depth look at some of the assets Bethesda released to the press before its E3 show. As you can see, there’s virtually no difference at all. Rolling back to a less adept adventurer things got considerably more difficult as each checkpoint in the main quest had at least one small boss to deal with.Again, foliage and lighting are much improved, but this screen shot gives us a good comparison of ground textures, not just generated ground cover. For those that haven’t put in as much time, things will likely be much harder. There’s some fun to be had in the struggle of squaring off against enemies that are more evenly matched, but most game saves are going to have a pretty easy time with Dragonborn if they’ve spent the last year leveling a character. Though you’ll have you fair share of enemies to haggle with. So it doesn’t necessarily feel like end-game content for Skyrim, as it doesn’t feel any more difficult to complete. My main was dropping even the toughest of enemies with one or two shots from a bow, and rarely taking damage in the process. Depending on how strong of a character you take into Solstheim and the Dragonborn expansion, difficulty will vary. With Skyrim being over a year old now, adventurers have had plenty of time to level their characters to godly heights. It’s a lengthy quest, even by the main game’s highest standards and one that will introduce a slew of new sights and sounds.

The main questline for the Dragonborn content will take you to the nooks and crannies of this new island, in attempt to stop Miraak, who is enslaving the people of the island to do his bidding. This prompts you to trace their origin, and all signs point to Solstheim, where you’ll confront Miraak, the first Dragonborn. Just enter a town, and you’ll be greeted with an attempt on your life by a group of masked followers. Like the Dawnguard Expansion, the Dragonborn content won’t be hard to get started on. It appears that the fine tuning is over, and Bethesda has just released what is the best story driven expansion to date with Dragonborn.įor players that have seen all there is to see in the province of Skyrim, this new content introduces Solstheim, an island just off the coast of Morrowind. Instead, the developers have been finely tuning the Skyrim experience across all of its platforms, but the Xbox 360 version has seen things like Kinect functionality alongside the laundry list of fixes and patches since launch. Since it’s release in 2011, Bethesda Game Studios has only released a handful of new premium content to expand on the game. You would think that the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim would offer nothing but possibilities when it comes to expansion content for the massive RPG.
