He’s 19, 4 years younger than me. I played Vanilla when it released and started modding when I was 15. He still plays Skyrim now from time to time and honestly, he knows it better than I do. Does glitches, has full ebony armor, etc. Anyway, I’ve been doing some Xbox modding recently and he has this stupid mentality that mods are “retarded” and ruin the feel of the game, and that the flaws of vanilla are what make it good. Even when I’ve said, “Well you gotta run out of content, so what then? Why not mod?” And his response is essentially just, “It’s not made by Bethesda therefore it’s bad, and it’s not canon so it’s equally bad. Every mod doesn’t fit in Skyrim”. I’ve tried showing him the Inigo mod and explained how much better he is than vanilla followers but he just won’t have it.

I am at a loss. He is missing out on HUNDREDS of new content.

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    Can I ask exactly why is it bothering you so much that he doesn’t want to play his game the same way you play it?

    Some people are just don’t get bored with having the same content over and over. There is plenty of people just playing games vanilla over and over again, even the first gen pokemon ones.

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      1 year ago

      Can I ask exactly why is it bothering you so much that he doesn’t want to play his game the same way you play it?

      Bingo

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      Mainly because I feel like he IS missing out. And frankly, his arguments AGAINST mods just don’t make any sense. If he just said, “I enjoy vanilla and that’s all that matters”, then sure. But he was legitimately making arguments against mods.