If theres mods that fix bugs or things like that, download those for sure. I don't know what the current mods are, but if theres some unofficial patch mod, download that immediately.

Ill speak on behalf on the minority I guess. I was able to play 5 hours last night with no bugs or crashes of any kind (I really never had these issues on regular skyrim either). I also think it looks really great. I know It is possible to get a better looking graphic experience on OG skyrim but honestly, I was never able to. Every mod I tried did not sit well with me. All the combinations and guides I followed resulted in unfavorable results. It's kinda like the character creators in Elder Scrolls themselves: You can spend hours upon hours fine tuning every last detail of your character but when you're all done and take a step back, it's a hideous monster that looks like every part of the face came from another person. The Special Edition adds new graphical features that really sparse it up while not going overboard like I usually do. I know you guys really hate the "works for me" comment but when the majority of people are bagging on the game, I think it's important to state that if you're not super into graphic mods or UI mods, the Special Edition on PC looks really good. If only bugs like the horse at the beginning weren't so wide spread and present in theses games. However, I do think Brad's argument (that these games will never be free of these kind of bugs) during FO4 game of the year deliberations is true. The games are just way to big and to open to ever be bug free.

My game straight up and crashed when I was about to go inside Helgen to get my handcuffs cut.

Will have to wait this one, as usual. Apparently the unofficial patch is ready to go for the game, but I want to know more about the Bethesda mod thing or just go back into using nexus mods when the game is stable.

I think this is even less acceptable because it is a remaster for a 5 year old game. This is just bad.

The faces just aren't clean enough in Vanilla Skyrim for me.

What do you mean, they look fine!

So I started the game, and got these weird artifacts bouncing on everything, on top of it running like junk. It's straight up unacceptable that a slightly touched-up remaster of a 5-year-old game runs this poorly.

As much as I hate flippant comments like this...you're probably right

Really, that's how I feel every year w/ Brad and his arguments. It always feels like he just keeps repeating the same thing over and over again until the person arguing against him on some things just gives up. I'm mainly thinking of his Dota and Destiny arguments in regards to that though. It's quite frustrating to listen.

To be on topic, that's to be expected w/ a Bethesda game. Nice to see people are finally not letting it slide anymore...

Yeah, I'm having a lot of fun starting Skyrim over again but my performance is really unacceptable. Every 20-30 minutes the game starts jittering around like crazy, dropping tons of frames and also my inputs lag 1 to 2 seconds. I have to open a menu or load into a new area to try to fix it, and that only works probably 30% of the time. Mostly I have to stand around and wait for it to pass. I'm running a 1070 with an i5-6500 3.2GHz cpu, there's really no reason for this to be happening.

It looks considerably better than the previous console versions.

@shivoa: I hadn't actually thought of that. No mods it is!

Played for 2 hours on PS4, no issues at all. Looks much better than in screen shots too. Didn't try any mods though, as all the ones up for PS4 look very lame. Like, stupid waste of time mods. Mostly just cheats.

This. Also had this feeling with Fallout 4.

(The fact that I started playing that right after I finished Witcher 3 didn't help).