The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition Arrives November 11 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 November 2021 / 3,377 Views
Bethesda Softworks is celebrating the 10th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim with the release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition on November 11, 2021 for the Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC.
You can upgrade the Special Edition to the Anniversary Edition and it has a free next-generation upgrade from the PS4 and Xbox One to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Here is an overview of the Anniversary Edition:
Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim celebrates 10 years of adventuring in stunning detail. The Anniversary Edition includes a decade worth of content: the critically acclaimed core game and add-ons of Skyrim Special Edition, plus over 500 unique pieces of content from Creation Club such as quests, dungeons, bosses, weapons, spells. With Creations and Mods, there’s a lot more to discover.
Included Content:
- Creation Club – The Anniversary Edition and Upgrade includes over 500 unique pieces of content from Creation Club, including quests, dungeons, bosses, weapons, spells, and more. With Creations, there is a lot more to discover.
- Dragonborn – With this official add-on for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, journey off the coast of Morrowind, to the island of Solstheim. Encounter new towns, dungeons, and quests, as you traverse the ash wastes and glacial valleys of this new land. Become more powerful with shouts that bend the will of your enemies and even tame dragons. Your fate, and the fate of Solstheim, hangs in the balance as you face off against your deadliest adversary—the first Dragonborn.
- Dawnguard – The Vampire Lord Harkon has returned to power. By using the Elder Scrolls, he seeks to do the unthinkable—to end the sun itself. Will you join the ancient order of the Dawnguard and stop him? Or will you become a Vampire Lord? In Dawnguard, the ultimate choice will be yours.
- Hearthfire – With this official add-on to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, you can purchase land and build your own home from the ground up – from a simple one-room cottage to a sprawling compound complete with an armory, alchemy laboratory, stable, garden, and more. Use all-new tools like the drafting table and carpenter’s workbench to transform quarried stone, clay, and sawn logs into structures and furnishings. Even transform your house into a home by adopting children.
You can read more details on the game here.
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This makes me happier than it realistically should. I should be bored of this game, but noooooope! Here we are, round three! Let's do this!
I am still a bit confused. Can you upgrade Special edition to Anniversary edition, for free, or do you pay? If so, how much?
Special edition is getting a free upgrade to next-gen version, and also getting fishing, survival mode and Saints and Seducers content for free.
Anniversary edition is a paid upgrade that adds 500 items of content from the creator club. Pricing hasn't been announced yet.
Thank you, and thank God, for I am keeping my money and I have at last defeated Todd Howard
I want Elder Scrolls 6 you cowards!
There's no point releasing this year because most gamers cant find an xbox for sale. They will release it when there's a bigger xbox base.
Dear god please make it stop
Best news all day, good thing I skipped it on ps4, will get it on my ps5.
Just when I was thinking they weren't going to port it to the Series X and PS5...
A lot of games will be ported, its easy money.
With that said I'm happy with that, no one is forced to upgrade but options are great to have.
You’re kidding…….
They'll likely do this again in 5 years, 10 is too long for them to wait.
Which IP has been milked more, Skyrim or RE4..
Re4 has been released like 10 times. All I remember from skyrim is special edition release and the switch version
What timing, i've been trying to get my hands on skyrim special edition.
bethesda being bethesda at its finest haha!
so wait ps5 ps4 still gets upgrade mind u bethesda is owned by microsoft,
but hellblade senuas sacrifice didnt get the same treatment on ps5 despite it releasing 1st on ps4 and ninja theory is also owned by microsoft hmmm....
So wait, is it coming with 500+ mods for you to choose from, or is it just "hey, we've still got creation club, come on over!"?. They make that part so confusing, because PC and last gen consoles had access to creation club afaik, so this wouldn't make any difference to advertise it as some big bonus, not unless the mods are pre-installed.
It's free upgrade because SKYRIM will be 10 years old. What's there to complain about?
How much for the upgrade?
Darn. I hate it when they don't tell us how much it costs. I hope it's not TOO much because I already bought all the creation club stuff on PS4 and while I'd be happy paying a bulk 25 bucks for the new content, I'd hade to either have to re-buy everything on PS5 or buy all the stuff that's not on PS4 (I think the PS4 version of Creation club only has like half of what's on Xbox)
Of course its better to not tell us the cost, this way, they can research the market, see what people think and how much would they pay. Always a smart business move.
Announcing that they hired some people to finally fix the many game breaking bugs still present 10 years after is what I was expecting... I can't care less about even more useless payable stuffs in the creation club.
Is this a joke? It's not April is it?
Just a graphics update?
Why not Overhaul Morrowind, Oblivion and package them all together and do something different?
Don't understand what you're saying. They're doing a free next-gen update and an anniversary edition that comes with some creation club content. It's a very small project and of course there will be people who are glad to get a PS5/XSX version of Skyrim. "Why not do a multi-year project instead?"
This is like Insomniac releasing the next-gen update for Ratchet & Clank (2016) and someone saying "Ugh, why don't you remake the first 3 games from scratch instead?"
Just get them from the store, these get constant sales, and are in 4K native and look great for its age.
I'm sure you have an xbox if you love bethesda games.
Its already in 4K on consoles, do you google?
Some people are never happy. You get a great game updated for next gen for free, and you're complaining. If this was Nintendo you'd have to buy a new version and pay full price for it.
Oh and in case you dont know, those games are already in 4k native on xbox, and if you're than interested in Bethesda games then I'm sure you already have an xbox.
Oh FFS
Fallout 3 is in 4K native and looks great on xbox, morrowind is also 4K but is just too old, it would need a full remake, far too outdated compared to todays open world games.
Fable 2 and 3 are also in native 4K on xbox.
Halo is also xbox enhanced, not sure if 3 and reach are 4k but I think it is.
The games that really needs 4K is Alan wake and max payne 3, those look way better on PC due to resolution eliminating jaggies.
That's a completely different job. Sounds like this is mostly a next gen patch.
There's already an oblivion remaster, on xbox its 4k native.
Just be happy this is releasing on PS, because Microsoft owns bethesda now, so PS gamers should just take what they can. I assume you dont have an xbox as you asked for an Oblivion remaster.
That would be nice, but would not be free that's for sure. I honestly am happy with just 4K resolution on old games, its enough to smooth the jagged edges.
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