Probably due to mods, Taw. And mods mean PC version.
And PC version means either yarrharr or GabeN.
No, dude. Those effing graphics. I've never played an open-world game with graphics that good.
Also, according to Wikipedia, I'd need a Windows machine anyway.
I also don't think I have that much RAM. Or hard drive space. Or that good a video card.
Apart from the water and the snow (and obviously lots of the armor and shit), that's almost entirely vanilla graphics on ~medium to medium-high. It really was gorgeous for the time, and it's held up surprisingly well. The sort of thing you can get with a super-computer and the right ENBs and associated stuff is downright scary.
Silly FD
You can soul Trap dead critters!
Not without any empty gems you can't.
Seriously, that bow is the best thing I ever enchanted. Soul trap for one second on hit means approximately ten fucktillion charges, the Black Star means instant refill whenever I need it, and mods+being a sneaky sneak means that most of what I hit dies instantly anyways (if I can reach a sleeping dragon, I can one-shot it with a dagger -- the tradeoff is that I
also die in 1-3 hits from anything leveled appropriately). But yeah, I still don't bother using most enchanted weapons because I don't want to need to swap to bow every six guys to grab another soul.
1. All hail glorious leader Gabe Newell.
2. Elder Scrolls VI is rumored 1st quarter 2016.
Skyrim seems perfectly designed to prevent players from actually doing anything in the game.
That entire screenshot montage looked a lot like you doing a bunch of things in the game...
This is the train of thought:
1. Okay, I just spend an hour sorting shit, crafting, and dumping everything nonessential into the appropriate containers. Time to get my vampire kill on!
2. Oooh, is that a deer?
3. Stop right there, criminal scum!
4-6: Why isn't it dying normally? Oh for fuck's sa-
7: Oh hey, more of your buddies to chase!
8: HOW DARE YOU AMBUSH ME FROM YOUR HIGHLY VISIBLE STRONGHOLD!
10: Boom, headshot!
11: What's hitting me this ti- oh.
12-??: Killkillkill FUS FUS FUS RO DAH
??: Why are these crossbows in German?
??+1: Oh hey, who are those dudes, and why are they walking away with my stuff?
??+2: German efficiency has mangled my aaaarm!
??+3: Mistakes, made, &c.
??+4: Advance in another direction!
??+5: Whoa, bro, you've got a small animal on your face. Lemme take care of that for you.
??+6: I STILL GIGGLE EVERY TIME! Two for one!
??+7: ♫Corpse pile, corpse pile, I'mma make a corpse pile♩
??+8: Some of the corpses are still walking around.
??+9: Your foot is stuck in the ground. And you're still too heavy to lift, fatty.
??+10: Pile with your dead buddies who ate too much lead!
??+11: Oh hey, what's that red do- OMGIGOTTASHOOTIT
??+12: Arrows y u do dis
??+13: NUMBER GET!
??+14: I'm king of the castl-
??+15: Oh. Right. Corpses don't let you stand on them. Shit. What was I doing again?
The really beautiful part is that you're right. Except that if you actually want to ever get anything done, you need to resist that urge to follow every shiny thing you see. Nothing that I killed there was a challenge, and none of it had worthwhile loot.
I still laughed the entire time and had to burn spells and potions to carry ~500 weight of loot back to carefully sort in my house.