Well I think I lost Lydia for good. I dismissed her as a follower in Blackreach, right outside Sinderion's field lab, and it kind of glitched like she was partially clipped in the ground. She never showed up in Breezehome. I went back to look for her but didn't find her. Any ideas? I haven't seen a casket for her show up in the Whiterun catacombs so I guess that means she isn't dead. I'm sure I was away from Whiterun and Blackreach long enough for everything to reset since I did all the Dragonborn stuff without coming back to Skyrim.

 

The first thing I'd check is see if she went to a different house. When you have multiple houses Skyrim can get weird about which one a housecarl or spouse goes to. Other than that this looks like something you will just have to load a previous save or live with. The wiki page here Skyrim:Lydia - The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages (UESP) lists as one of the known bugs that she will sometimes stay in place when dismissed. If that happened and she fell through the level geometry she's gone.

A bit of an extreme fix, but there is a mod scene for the switch version Mods at Skyrim - Nintendo Switch Nexus - Mods and Community. I haven't really looked into it myself as it requires a modded switch and isn't as simple as modding the p.c. version. With the right mod you can do pretty much anything with followers, even spawning multiples in the game world.

 

Thanks!

I decided to go back to Blackreach one more time and look for her. And I found her! She was just standing in one of the Great Lifts. Not sure why she never activated it to return to Skyrim.

 

Anyone know if there's any chance Bethesda will port over Morrowind and/or Oblivion? I would love to play them on Switch!

 

Porting over Morrowind will be tough, especially since Bethesda has never fixed the bloating save file issue that will eventually kill your game. After about 100 hours. I don't see it getting ported over, just due to the lack of profit. I mean, they just gave it away for free on Bethesda.net for PC players. So, there clearly is a lack of market there.

Oblivion? Maybe. Doubtful, but more likely than Morrowind. These games all have major issues that make them tough to run even on PC these days. Tough to run without mods fixing them. FO3 is included here. Bethesda never fixes their games. No, they leave that to modders.

So, are these games likely to come out on Switch? Not likely, but who knows? You're more likely to get Skyrim SE 2 through 100 before it, though.

 

OK thanks.

I do have a PC now, so maybe I will try to play them on that. How hard is it to run them on a lower end system running Win10?

 

Well, it's now a lot easier thanks to mods. Open MW puts Morrowind in an entirely different engine. Thus, fixing most of Morrowind's problems, right off the back. Plus, it has great mod support after that. Oblivion is much easier to get to run, if, and only if, you have the Game of the Year Deluxe Edition. Not just the Game of the Year Edition, but the complete edition. As all the mods that there are to fix it, and get it to work, require all the extra horse armor DLC. But, it's not impossible. I only have the GOTY edition, and I have gotten it to work on a windows 10 computer. It's not as good as if it was the complete edition, but it works fine.

Fallout 3 requires a lot of work. Especially, if like me, you have the DVD version. I had to disable Windows Live, since that is a service that no longer exists. (Had to do the same with Oblivion, as I have the DVD version of that as well.) I disabled Vats, because that just caused more issues, then it was worth. Download the script extender. Download the 4 GB unofficial patch. Download a bunch of other mods to fix it.

But they all can be ran on a windows 10 PC. it just takes a lot of work. (Unless you have some high end 10+ core CPU, you'll be fine.)

I don't see any of them being runable without mods, though.

Edit: However, the easiest way to play Fallout 3 today, would be to also own Fallout NV, then download the Tale of Two Wasteland mod, which combines Fallout 3 and Fallout NV, into the same game. It ports FO3 into FO NV's much better, updated engine. Along with all the perks and ironside aiming, and what not, that comes with it.

Story wise, is you start out in FO3, then when you finish, instead of "Dying" at the end, you instead take an underground train to NV.

And of course NV scales to your level, so there is nothing to worry about it being too easy. This works with any PC version of NV, and any PC version of FO3, as long as you have both, with all the DLC.

 

Yeah, there's no point in replaying Fo3 as a standalone. TTW on a FNV exe is the best way on Win 10. Also because script extender for FNV is more expansive than for Fo3 and it comes with possibility of using plugins like Anti-Crash or memory allocation.


Frankly, those games should never be played on consoles anyway.

 

The hole keeps getting bigger.

 

Yep. I have been spoiled.

 

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Anybody who owns the Switch version, can you download Bethesda approved mods like on the PS4 and Xbone versions?

 

Unfortunately, no. Mods were never supported in any way for the Switch. So the Creation Club content is completely unavailable on the system. The best you can do is get similar content from the mod scene and mod it yourself. It's not a straightforward process though. See here for details Skyrim NX Toolkit. This also means that the upcoming super special edition ( or whatever they're calling it ) content will not be available on Switch unless it's rereleased on the platform.

 

Only in a Bethesda game would you have to restart the game once to fix one bug, then immediately restart it again to fix another bug. Seems like every 3 or so hours on the Switch the music stops working, happened twice tonight. Also had a weird thing of the sneak eye popping up when I wasn't sneaking. Still, I'm having a great time playing Skyrim like it's the first time all over again. Had a sobbing breakdown at work about my missing cat today, and though talking to Narfi certainly didn't help, the rest of the game was fantastic to escape into for awhile. I definitely miss mods, there's been quite a few times I've thought about how much I wish I had one moe or another installed, but it's sort of nostalgic all the same playing like I did the first time in Christmas 2011

 

That's a great video. It hits all the memes you could think of after a decade. It also makes the point that's often overlooked when talking about the constant re-releases, it still sells. Such longevity for a single player game really is exceptional. Skyrim has to be one of the most highly replayed single player games in history. I know for me the only game that comes close is Civilization 4. It's an instant classic that'll be remembered for decades.

 

I like how Skyrim got re-released, and nobody even cared.   Yes, you too can now play Skyrim: More Broken Edition. Now with even more bugs and glitches than ever before! But, they've made it even worse this time. This time, it will break your game even if you do not upgrade to the More Broken Edition. Unless of course you're like me, and haven't updated your Skyrim version since they started the Creation Club.

But, yea, I kind of expected there to be some kind of discussion going on here about it. When the SE came out, there was lots of it, and then again with each other release. But, nope, it's dead in here. Great job, Bethesda, you really do know how to milk a product until death, don't you?  

 

So I'm getting back to this game after about a decade since I last played. Is the Anniversary edition DLC worth it? I've already got the Special Edition (got it for free on Steam when it first released).

 

Not really, it's all a bunch of useless bloat ware that you can find better versions of on Nexus in the form of mods. Most of which is best off being removed from the game, rather than actually being used. It's just the Special Edition, except now with even more bugs, really.