If you read my review, you’ll know that it’s already established itself as one of the best and brightest games of 2021. For those of you who look at Skyrim and think the modding community is just like any other one, bear in mind that The Forgotten City started life as a Skyrim mod before eventually launching as a standalone game last month. If you’re wondering who Arthmoor is, they’re the person behind Skyrim’s beloved - nay, legendary - Alternate Start mod, a fanmade alteration that helped kickstart the scene in earnest. What cost, you ask? Well, in case you hadn’t heard, world-renowned Skyrim modder Arthmoor is removing their mods from Nexus before the new policy is activated. Collections are a cool feature, but an ultimately unnecessary one - given the immense cost of their implementation, it would be better for everyone if the entire concept was ditched. If they want, they can download mods individually and apply them as needed. Really, though, they can just uninstall the collection, innit. You don’t want an author deleting their mod and all of a sudden a million players aren’t able to access their save anymore.

Basically, Mod A might be compatible with Mod B, but only because of Mod C - messing around with individual parts of a mod collection can break the whole thing. Essentially, mod authors will no longer be able to remove their creations from the site - they can ensure they don’t crop up from internal searches, but if they’ve been added to a group of mods known as a ‘collection,’ they will remain available to download via said collection so as not to compromise coherence among the mods included.

Last week, Nexus Mods announced it would be implementing a new policy change in the near future. Related: The Forgotten City's Dialogue Tree Boss Fights Are The Future Of Fallout Speech Checks Skyrim is a good game - although it wouldn’t have enjoyed half as much longevity without the tireless work of modders dedicated to proving just how good it can be. It’s easy to see this quality of endurance as something derived from, well… quality. Ten years on, Bethesda’s behemoth RPG has repeatedly reared its head across just about every form of hardware under the Sun, from smart fridges to every machine from the last three console generations. It’s hard to write about Skyrim in 2021 without making some sort of joke about how it’s been ported to just about everything short of a pregnancy test - actually, wait, Skyrim is playable on pregnancy tests now.

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