Difference between Legendary edition and Regular Skyrim with all DLCs?

[kamyk]

Does buying legendary give you anything you wouldn't get by just buying the dlcs separately?

[Big Boom Boom]

No. In fact if you own the base game + all DLC separately like I do it automatically said you own TES V: Skyrim Legendary Edition

[Caenis Snow]

Wow... I didn't know that. Neat. I just checked on mine.

[gnewna]

Nope, but it's usually better value unless you already own one of the two larger DLC.

[kamyk]

Was just curious because someone got me Skyrim as a gift but couldn't afford Legendary, and I didn't know whether I ought to buy the DLCs as I can afford them, or if I'd be missing out on something without Legendary.

So now that I know, here are some related questions. Do any of the DLCs require me to start a new game, or can I just keep playing as I get them, and what order should I get them in? Or should I just wait for another sale and get Legendary so I get them all at once?

[kamyk]

Bump

[Hanomaly]

Originally posted by kamyk:

So now that I know, here are some related questions. Do any of the DLCs require me to start a new game, or can I just keep playing as I get them, and what order should I get them in? Or should I just wait for another sale and get Legendary so I get them all at once?

You can add it all the DLC mid play through, to the best of my knowledge.

Proper load order is

Skyrim.esm
Update.esm
Dawnguard.esm
Hearthfires.em
Dragonborn.em

Which i believe is their actual official release date order too, so that makes it easy enough.

[MageThis]

Don't forget the patches.

[Ultra Smurf]

Legendary gives you all the DLC's. Its usually cheaper to buy that than the DLC's individually; however you will not receive a extra copy of Skyrim (unless you haven't got one).

[kamyk]

Thank you :)

[Rocket]

just dont use mods or else youll break your game. free mods especially.

[kamyk]

Actually I'm already using quite a number of them but I'm not too concerned about it. I'm pretty mod savvy. Been using mods for different games since the early 90's, I've even made several.

[Kaiser]

Originally posted by Emperor Hurr Durr II:

just dont use mods or else youll break your game. free mods especially.

Ignore him.

[OBobSaget12]

First of all, mods will not break your game (in fact, it makes them 30x better) and second of all, the Legendary edition doesen't add anything but offers a rather sizable discount of around 20 bucks if i'm not mistaken.

[Silegna]

Originally posted by StickyMcFingers:

First of all, mods will not break your game (in fact, it makes them 30x better) and second of all, the Legendary edition doesen't add anything but offers a rather sizable discount of around 20 bucks if i'm not mistaken.

In fact, the unofficial patches are pretty much mandatory.

[gnewna]

Some mods can break your game (always read the descriptions and at least the first page or two of comments carefully and especially check for compatibility issues with other mods you want to use) and bad modding practices (not using a proper mod manager, not setting your load order correctly - mainly through use of LOOT with some manual fine tuning in some cases - and worst of all removing mods mid-game and trying to continue with that save) probably will either break it or at the very least produce weird bugs.

THAT SAID, good modding practice and a good choice of mods (ones that suit how you want to play the game, and are compatible) can massively enhance your experience with Skyrim - even if you're not after gameplay/graphic changes there are mods which can make the game much more stable and memory-efficient. This forum has a lot of resources for how to get your head around good modding practice (sounds like the OP has a lot of experience which is good, but if you haven't modded Skyrim in particular, or a Beth game in general, before there's some things it's worth knowing ,e.g. the fact that most mods can't be safely removed and so on, which may be different to other games (I haven't modded a whole lot of non-Beth games, but the ones I have the mods tend to be a lot more flexible in terms of stuff like removing them, load order not really being a thing, etc).)

There's also two really good sets of videos on YouTube by Gopher, one is a beginner's guide to modding Skyrim, the other (which if you're more comfortable with the whole setup is definitely worth checking out) is a series on Mod Organiser which IMO is way better than Nexus Mod Manager - although either is infinitely better than trying to keep load order straight with the bog standard Data Files option on the Skyrim default launcher.