It's one of my gaming dreams to buy a pc and mod the hell out of skyrim. I've only played on console, but I bought the legendary edition on a steam sale a few years ago for this purpose. Seeing the graphics updates, additional content, new areas online all really seem like they improve on an already fantastic experience, sort of like an expansion but more involved. But I feel like one of the main things mods do is add a reason to replay your favorite games, and I don't think I would want to mod something like Fallout 4 or Elder Scrolls 6 without really experiencing the base game vanilla first.
Dude same gaming dream here. I did a TON of research on like what I want for my PC and I was telling myself how I would buy it piece by piece and I had a plan in line but it never came to fruition. It was gonna cost me a total of around $900. The thing that first made me want to do this was Dunkey's video:
If you mean as far as hardware goes, I can't remember much of the names now. GTX force 300 or something along those lines for graphics card, I was going to have at least 16GB of RAM, as well as either Intel i5 or something from AMD whose name I forget but from what I had read it was on par with the i5 and a little bit cheaper too iirc. I looked at this site and was going to go for something in the superb-excellent range since it would be my first and I'm not the most experienced when it comes to building. I would also buy all the parts before getting a case if I stretched it out over a few months and make sure the case would be big enough if I needed to add anything or replace a piece with something bigger.
I share your dream. For Skyrim, I'd like to get the proper first-person archery setup, and for New Vegas - scarce, scary and deadly world where I would have to make my wits work to survive. I've had a pleasure of playing a half of that experience for NW before my videocard decided to rest in peace for reasons unknown. The experience was amazing, though I must admit to have used mods that'd make the game easier (like bullet time, reasoning being to simulate reflexes of a person the Courier ought to be to survive all the horrors of Nevada). One moment that stuck in my head is when, near the town you start in, you climb the mountain full of geckos to save a guy's girlfriend, only for the guy to full the player and try to kill him himself; once I realized what's going to happen - he's going to kill me with one shot - I pushed the bullet time button in, drew my trusty snubnose and shot the bastard first. It was amazing; I crave for more.
yeah definitely closer but there's still gonna be hardware limitations. Some of the super intense mods require very high end PCs to operate, so while youll be able to mod on consoles to a degree the options on PC are probably always going to be better. Plus for now I'm on PS4 not Xbox One, and I don't think Sony has agreed to mods yet.