How Skyrim's 5 Cities Always Should've Been! (LOREGASM) — Skyrim Mods: The Great Cities — LE/SE/PS4

Hiiii yall! Ready to check out these seriously amazing city overhaul mods?! I can't believe I've never once tried these Great City mods out before, and now I'm hooked. Mods that overhaul cities or places in Skyrim are my favourite :D now the problem is, I can't choose between all the overhauls... time to find some patches 👀

I want to know what you guys think, especially of the Winterhold overhaul! Because that one keeps living rent free on my head. Such a gorgeous city now, words can't really describe how I feel about it. It's just so grandiose, and feels like a different game altogether. Wish there was more to do, in addition to the College quests..!

Corrections to video: at 4.15 I say The Great City of Winterhold version 4.2, but it's actually 4.0.2! And at 10:30 I say I "tlc'd" my way on the balcony, but of course, I tcl'd instead. (Toggled collusion via console to noclip on it.) 😅 Sorry!

(brb, introducing skyrim to my grandma)

MOD LINKS:

The Great City of Winterhold

The Great City of Solitude

The Great City Of Falkreath

The Great City Of Morthal

The Great City Of Dawnstar

Mod Author: archinatic/soldierofwar

🎵 MUSIC by Adrian Von Ziegler
Album: For The Pack
Tracks: Primal Bonds, The Gate to Avalon, Wayfarer, Elfenreigen

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
0:51 - Winterhold lore
1:57 - The Great City of Winterhold
4:48 - Vanilla Solitude & disclaimer
5:13 - The Great City of Solitude
6:51 - Vanilla Morthal
7:14 - The Great City of Morthal
8:51 - Vanilla Falkreath
9:16 - The Great City of Falkreath
11:48 - Vanilla Dawnstar
12:23 - The Great City of Dawnstar
13:27 - Summary + performance
14:29 - A word on installation
14:59 - Favourites
15:22 - Outro

🖱 RIG + TECH SPECS:
RTX2080, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, 32 gigs RAM
OBS for recording, Adobe Premiere for editing, MO2 mod manager
Monitor 144hz 2560 x 1440

#skyrim #skyrimspecialedition #skyrimmods

[HeavyBurns]

The recent update to the Great Cities Winterhold looks super impressive! Awesome video once again

[TheTSS]

For those who want to know, there is a mod that merges Cities of the North, JK Skyrim and The Great Cities, the mod is called The Great Cities of JK's North.

[Blackread]

Archinatic's smaller towns and villages are also worth taking a look at. They get rid of the generic farmhouses, giving the places unique architecture instead.

[sourxpill]

Your mod reviews just have a certain something that other's don't. They're really calming and atmospheric.

[younggunpark]

Your videos have made me want to play Skyrim again. Thanks for the descriptions of the mods. And I enjoyed listening to your stories. I can't wait to start exploring again.
I feel you add a lot of charm to the community, something about your accent and the ways you approach the details.

[SenorGermaine]

I liked the inclusion of the winterhold lore, if you started making lore videos I’d be here for it.

[carltongannett]

The mods that expand/improve the cities and towns in a lore friendly way are my favorite. Skyrim should be more populated than it is. Vanilla game seems to me like there are 10 bandits for every 1 citizen. Even if you explained that many of the people are off fighting in the civil war there should be lots of vacant homes of soldiers.

[stuartmcnaughton]

I don't deliberately avoid Falkreath, but it's so far out of the way in the corner of the map, and there is so much to do in the more accessible parts of the map that somehow my visits to Falkreath always end up being very few and very far between.

[emreerdogdu]

I totally agree with you on Morthal. This city gives so much serenity.

[brucemooney]

Riften is my favourite city but the Falkreath Hold is by far my favourite one to wander in, alas for my frames!!

[austinbrown]

Love the video editing and also yes to the smaller settlements

[nex]

Still can't believe you're uploading more frequently again, so glad! :D
Looks awesome, even the older reworks like JK's always helped to convey a more lively atmosphere and bring in some fresh air to locations we have grown too familiar with.
Will give this a shot aswell, thank you!

[majorgear]

I use a hodgepodge of city mods. Great cities, CotN, Winterhold Restored, Capital Whiterun and Capital Windhelm, a few Arthmor Cities, Enhanced Solitude, and many smaller ones.

It was a lot of work to put together and patch, but it looks and works great now.

[wolfwilkopter]

Funny, i just watched Febrith's Video of that Winterhold Mod...and now i get an even bigger package presented, nice one!
Well done. :)

[BrandiUntzGamingChannel]

Great video! Loved the editing. Glad to see the showcase of overhaul. Makes me want to consider using it on a future play through.

[mikewang]

Great video! Looking forward to more Skyrim mods reviews :)

[serz]

Now... I want to play Skyrim. For the twentieth time, let's goooo

[bergamotemcdonald]

Very nice video ! I love the hard work on capturing all of these visuals. Also, I really appreciate the calming and chill vibe of the video, the musics are good and your tone and pace really pleasant to listen to. It was a really good moment watching your video 'even if I'm using these mods for a long time aha), your graphics are beautiful and it was just the right amount of cozyness to feel at home in the game again. Thank you !

[EldritchMage]

Solitudes arch always bothered me I’m so glad it was fixed

[noncompulsoryl]

Great overview! I'm really enjoying your uploads and I was already thinking, before you mentioned it at the end, that a lot of work went into this. Good stuff.