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.
Just let people enjoy things?
Mods are great if you want more than the original gameplay experience, but it sounds like he’s perfectly happy with the base game and is tired of you constantly pushing mods on him. I think it’s great he can enjoy Skyrim without mods. I wish I could, because I end up spending just as long modding the game as I do playing.
There’s a difference between letting people enjoy things and someone being completely unwilling to even consider trying something new for a myriad of bad reasons. Not saying this is the case here, but I see how OP could see it that way.
True, but I tend to apply that attitude towards included features. Say if he completely avoided horses like the plague then it’d be unreasonable, but adding on extra content generally doesn’t fall under the umbrella of needing to try for me.
I see a lot of how I used to be in OP. The experience with mods is arguably objectively better and he may want to share that with someone else, but that someone else has also repeatedly shown that they’re not interested. Even something reasonable to try is no longer reasonable to ask about if someone has repeatedly said no.
This is basically it, yeah.