The thing about Skyrim is... I get it, it's a glitchy crapshow at its best, and an unplayable clustertruck at its worst. And I won't deny that modding it out of the box makes it a million times more palatable to the general audience. But here's the thing: I *still* manage to enjoy it in all its raw, vanilla glitchy glory even without the ability to mod it on the Switch. Even though I've encountered several gamebreaking bugs in my Switch playthrough that almost made me quit the game entirely. That's because I appreciate the game for what it is without all the bells and whistles. On the PC, I have modded Skyrim to the nines (hah, the Nines), customized it to near perfection, and I *still* keep going back to the Switch version for two major reasons: 1) the portability (which has nothing to do with Skyrim's own merits, fair enough), and 2) the simplicity of the vanilla gameplay. Sometimes you just don't want all that excess goop that gets stuck to the bottom of your shoe when you mod a game to oblivion (hah, Oblivion). Sometimes you just wanna get on a horse and go fill out the map, or dive into a few dungeons or raid a couple of bandit forts without Thomas the Train Engines swooping down from the skies. Sometimes you don't want to marry Serana, sometimes you just want to have her along as a wacky companion on your quest to find floor-swimmers and floating objects and teleporting bards. Sometimes you don't want to be OP with nearly-broken cheat mods, free player homes, and summonable dragon mounts at level 1. Mods like that kind of take the charm out of the whole experience, bugs and all. Don't believe me that playing it vanilla can be just as entertaining, if not more so than modding? Go watch [Vinesauce Vinny's](https://youtu.be/_09vATdJq1U) playthrough of it on the Switch on YouTube. Or heck, even just the [highlights](https://youtu.be/QYC7CBuMBOg). Anyway, my point is that Skyrim has so much to offer right out of the box. If glitches aren't your thing, fair enough. I don't have a problem with installing unofficial bugfixes and patches. If you're really spoiled to modern graphics (ugh) then go for the graphics mods, sure. But stop right there if you've never played the game vanilla before, because it really does have a lot to offer on its own. The *quests*. The *characters*. The *story*. The *lore*. The *world* and endless *exploration* there is to be had. Eat all that up *first*, and if it's still not enough, *then* toss on all the mods. I love my Skyrim mods. I really do. But I'm a fan of the game because of the *game*, not the mods. Those are just icing on the cake.