I Made Skyrim SPOOKY With 12 Mods! (Halloween Special)

[@pseudo3857]

Some additional old gems that also work for a more vanilla-style modlist: "Evil Dead Trees" swaps some trees for dead ones around necromantic / daedric places and works with any tree mod. If you don't wanna turn the entire game into dark fantasy style then this one is great as it only does it where it fits the atmosphere the most. "Beast Skeletons" replaces some skeletons with those of orcs, argonians, and khajiit for the extra variety and immersion. In vanilla, they're all human after all. "Daedric Voices" makes the daedric princes talk to you when using their artifacts Also all of SlimeSire's dungeons are extremely well made. They're scripted and very expansive. Really spoky, yet lore-friendly. They don't get enough recognition.

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

These are amazing additions for sure, bummer I didn't include any of these! So cool, thank you

[@ratshinx6797]

Tip if you want the crows, by default they are pretty darn loud but they get their own volume slider in your audio settings so be sure to adjust it to your liking.

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

That's a great tip, thanks for sharing :) they can get annoying xD

[@tobybll]

I can recommend "It beats for her" to everyone! its a short but very capturing quest! It truly went under my skin

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Right?! It's very nice quest to do with a cup of tea and just really immersing yourself in the game and follow the notes and the journal.

[@tobybll]

@@BardsCollegeGraduate yeah! The end had me like " D: "

[@Anska5126]

What a cute little mod!! Quite a few nice little halloween mods. I'm a fan of those Falkreath ones but I think I'm still an advocate for that Woodcutter's Wife Ghost one I'm a writer myself so I've experimented with horror before, it's a challenging subject to get right but with some practice and experience you can really make experienced players run for the hills. I found the most effective solution was to make things that can't be solved by just whacking them with any old plain basic weapon. It's surprising how many people default to "If I can hit it I can kill it". But I took it a step further and added a Life Drain effect to all forms of contact which means if you do try to whack them with any old plain basic weapon it's going to hurt quite bad when parts of your soul start getting ripped out of your body. Which in turn leads to higher chances of panicking, making bad choices and ultimately dying. My other ingredient for good horror is escalation. Things get stale after you've seen the same thing a few times and you start getting used to it, the magic wears off and people start thinking rationally again which is not good for me trying to kill off all my players. So let's keep making everything worse. Found that my Wraiths always attack you in straight, predictable lines? Good!! How about this Higher Wraith that can command other lesser wraiths like the one you just faced that's vastly more intelligent and can parry your attacks. You killed the ghost with magic instead of trying to hit it with basic weapons and getting your soul ripped out? Good!! How about an undead that keep coming back to life even after you keep ripping it to shreds so you have no choice but to run away while it chases you and tries to eat you. Oh you found that out also!! Great. I'll wait for a bit to let you feel safe then throw and entire stranded ship full of undead at you in a Zombie survival horror kind of fashion right out of the blue. And of course They're going to use Swarm tactics. You might have a super powerful one hit weapon but it's still only 1 attack, that won't save you from 100 In order for Horror to work you have to keep people on their toes, build the right atmosphere like "Why are there only small fry enemies and none of their usual group leaders?". Have things stay still until they get closer then quickly duck behind cover and vanish before you get there so you never got a good look at what it is you saw moving. Let it have full mobility and intelligence so the usual player hunter is now the hunted, Let it pick up weapons and learn so it can adapt quickly, pick you off and use your allies and their weapons against you. Let the threat be hard to kill and require a long thought out plan to defeat rather then just bonk it over the head with a big stick to make the usual "brave" players scream and run and cry. But also allow hope to prevail. If you add no light at the end of the tunnel then what do players have to motivate themselves to try again instead of just never returning? And make the reward worth it also. With hope comes bravery, with bravery comes an opportunity to throw something new at them and shatter it all over again as an ever evolving constant threat that just won't go away by leaving it. And if they do leave and run away make it do bad things like attack a town and massacre it, make it head along a path to somewhere the player cares about and add consequences if they fail to stop it in time and crush all their hope and morale Ehehehe sorry, I kinda ended up ranting again. But yeah horror can be a fun thing to experiment with and highly rewarding if done right. But it's also easy to get wrong by letting things go stale and putting no effort *Cough cough Hollywood and big company Game devs*. A lot of what I wrote above came off the top of my head at that exact moment but I still wouldn't release it, not without refining it further and testing it on myself to make sure it works. If I can scare myself knowing things will be alright and knowing all the ways through then it WILL scare everyone else a lot before they figure it all out and eventually prevail But yeah, sorry I wasn't around for the last video. I missed tuning in but I had the kids to take care of all week. It's good to be back and watch your videos again. take care!! I hope to see you in the next video Bard!! Btw, can you actually play any instruments irl? Can you actually be a proper bard irl? My great grandmother taught me piano and folk dances *She ran her own dance and music club* from a very young age which meant it was little 6yo me back in 2004-5 back when I had short hair dancing with women twice my height and helping play the music. Just wondering if you had any similar experiences

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Dang Anska you do have a knack for writing horror I see! It's a really hard genre to do right, me thinks. Rarely I come across masterful horror storytelling! On the topic of being a bard, I do sing and play guitar - not the best, but not the worst either haha. And your great grandmother sounds like an awesome woman! That's so cool.

[@newedenatmospheres8404]

This was a great vid to make, love your themes. Cozy and now Halloween. You're fantastic

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Thank you so much! :D It's so fun to do themed videos, even so when they're cozy or festive.

[@justsurfin5013]

Thanks for covering this. Will be a fun diversion.

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

My pleasure!

[@theanthem195]

took the time to make the perfect spooky modlist. on behalf of us festive modders, ty fellow hard worker

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

[@chahinebourenane6291]

your channel have grown rapidly! congratulation.

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

It has! Been trying to really focus on it since summer :D Thank you so much!

[@chahinebourenane6291]

@@BardsCollegeGraduate you are most welcome, i really liké your vidéos (:

[@Rockmanbalboa]

clockwork is awesome

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

I'm in awe, can't believe I never tried it before even though I read a lot good about it! It's epic honestly.

[@Rockmanbalboa]

@@BardsCollegeGraduate Indeed, I felt the same when I first played it, I loved the whole mistery

[@fiskkeranen]

Oletko sinä mahdollisesti suomalainen kun englanti kuulostaisi sen malliselta?

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

kyllä vain :D

[@FordPrefect42-f1c]

Dear Bards College Graduate, How do I stop playing Baldur's Gate 3? I want to go back into Skyrim and try the mods you've suggested (especially the JaySerpa ones) but i can't! I'm doing my 3rd playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 and idk how to stop. Sincerely, Concerned Gamer PS. I romance Astarion on my Dark Urge, nana nana He's mine. :D

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Ahh that's why Astarion keeps rejecting me, cuz he's yours! xD (But I do like him as a friend a lot!) I suggest you just keep playing it, there has to be a point where it doesn't consume your life anymore 😅😅 and then you can get to Skyrim :)

[@FordPrefect42-f1c]

@@BardsCollegeGraduate 😂 oh man, but that rejection from Astarion must sting... "It's not you, it's me. I have standards." Burrrrrn 😂 need some ointment for that 😂 Well, ok, I'm sure if I keep playing BG3 I'll get to a point where I can go back to Skyrim... I mean... The mods for BG3 aren't up to the Skyrim modding community.............yet. hehehehehe oh man they're ramping up though.

[@PowerfulRift]

Sp🎃🎃ky

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

👻 boo!

[@koopliss]

Does anyone know which ENB/lighting was used for this video?

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

I do! Rudy ENB with Cathedral Weathers.

[@ds23dec2k15]

Are you really a person or just beautiful sounding AI

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Thank you - I'm really a person xD

[@zogkuma]

For a more silly playthrough for Halloween, you can also have the "Spooky Scary Skeletons" remix play whenever skeletons come after you.

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Ohh haha I love such silly mods, that's a great pick :D

[@215Days]

I've played Clockworks some time back then in 2016 or so, it was a fantastic mod and most surely it still is today. My only critique is that I don't like how it mixes up with Silent Hill inspired horror (not because I don't like SH but because of what I will say later) and some kind of home-building with Dwemer automatons, although the way the author did it is still fantastic, it's just the very obvious similarity to Silent Hill that bothers me. Still, I heavily recommend it for everyone, play it!

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Oh okay, I know nothing of Silent Hill so can't say! But you're right - everyone should play it! :D

[@SandGentleman]

The opening to Clockwork spooked me so bad when I first tried it out! I literally couldn't believe I was getting scared while playing *Skyrim* ... That has never happened before, or since.

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

For real, Skyrim plus horror such a good combo! And really hard to execute, so props to the author!

[@anthonym840]

Its incredible. Lol it was seemless too. Lore wise, it felt apart of the game.

[@joelsousa5364]

Still makes my skin crawl.

[@inkyGhosty]

The editing of these videos just keeps getting better and better. Spooky!

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

So glad to hear that, thank you!! 🎃💚

[@charderothelupe]

My favorite time of the year! 💀 Great video as always, thank you!

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Yay! 🎃🎃 thanks for watching!!

[@perkwunos2499]

Clockwork is a great Mod. One of my all time favourite Quest Mods along with the Forgotten City. Thank you for the Video & that Lovely Voice.

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

I really need to get on the Forgotten City! Heard so much good about it. My pleasure, thank you for watching :)

[@_alux_689]

I liked Halloween until I grew up. Now I’m an adult, and nothing is the same anymore.

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

the same feeling is still there somewhere, just gotta know where to look 🎃

[@MshaingPump]

You and heavy burns are my favorite skyrim mod youtubers

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

awww THANK YOU

[@DEERVISHH]

I always wanted to Solve The House Of Horrors without serving Molag, Thanks! Now to see if it works with SDA...

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Right?! Now the quest is really satisfying to do! :D

[@DEERVISHH]

@@BardsCollegeGraduate I'm surprised its not in the base game

[@APOLLOPATRIOT]

My favorite thing about Halloween is Resident Evil and I simp for my Ada Wong ❤ 🤣🗿🗿🗿

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Leon 😩

[@APOLLOPATRIOT]

​@@BardsCollegeGraduate yeah dat Ada Wong action from Resident Evil 6 ❤

[@sanminjoon6427]

Reletable

[@MLPDethDealr32]

Current Horror mods in my load order: Clockwork House of Horrors Quest Expansion Vampire Lords and beasts Vigilant Molag bals Inferno Darkend Shadows of Meresis Dead Trees and driftwoods The Marshlands Ancient Forest of Falkreath Aboslute Arachnophobia Arachnid Brutality 5x Faster Spiders Neurotoxic spider Venom Grey Children and Weeping Stalkers Cannibal Draugr on Solsthiem Damaged Skeletons draugr Improvements and Upgrades Bogmorts ghosts and souls Wraiths and Spectres Wormpies Hagravens

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Yoo that's VERY spooky now!!

[@SViktorA]

Ты бесподобна!!! С уважением!!!!

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

💚

[@vishnukamihin1910]

R u Kidding Me? OH. GodDamNed... This is F*ucking Great😃 😋 Tasteful, Every single thing is a Great Work also Creativity 🎨Specially The Sharp Details and Informations waS Very Crazysly Explained!!! GooD Luck 🤞😎 & Don't Forget to Keep Up Maa friend with Keep Loving THiS!! ❤😮👍 (The Way of Skyrim Modding) I'll Give Yor Channel Five Stars! 😍🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

💚💚💚 you're so sweet! Thank you so much!

[@jrj5893]

I finally cracked and got some (more) of your showcased mods, as well as a few related ones - the Flying Crows SSE looks like it'll go well with Birds and Flocks SE, which will probably wind up making me jump out of my skin like the first few (dozen) times I approached that word wall in Bleak Falls Barrow, so yaye? Also got the Vampire Armor Expansion to go with the clothes. I was debating back and forth over that floating magical objects mod you showcased in your magic video, but I think that Immersive Candlelight works better for me, so thank you for mentioning it!

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Yay!! :D I was thinking the same thing with Immersive Candlelight, it's like the other mod but just a super lite version of it, and more functional. Glad you cracked :)

[@Nibiro_ChaosModder]

30th October died my best friend. My cat(( I dnt celebrate this day. Like for you, Dear) Nice Gothic video)

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

:(

[@gennavandella]

This reminds me of bramble 😮 i love Halloween soo much ❤ soon I'll be able to play like you 😍

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Halloween's the best

[@APOLLOPATRIOT]

Great stuff Finnish woman 👋 take your time with stuff and have a very God blessed day 🗿💯

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

You too!! 🎃💚

[@abyssinsin]

you kinda sound like sypha from castlevania

[@Alistoteles]

Spooky month it's also for modding!. Thank you Bard for not forget my pumpkin fellas 🎃🎃🎃

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

yes it is! I 🎃 pumpkins!

[@markblaze4909]

the halloween overhaul mod froze my new game in forest. maybe a ram issue i dunno i do have a lot of mods, but i can not use it. it was it for sure. works without it just fine.

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

aw I'm sorry to hear that

[@BlackwellElric]

Great job as usual! :D I love SPOOPY things so It's the best month to me and not because it's the month of my birthday anymore (the 30s are dangerously close ;w;) . I remember when I played WoW, I used to do the Halloween event with all of my characters. Btw, I'll probably get some hate but... I got 2 Headless Horseman's Mounts from the dungeon for some reason 🙃

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

WoW Halloween event is the best

[@BlackwellElric]

I had to delete it because I couldn't even sell it. My friends still hate me because of that xDDDD @@BardsCollegeGraduate

[@wanax]

Thank you, for another fun video - and for not trying to jump on the Starfield starship to nowhere. ;)

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

My pleasure! Skyrim always comes first, I have yet to even try Starfield, although I'm definitely looking forward to it!

[@wanax]

@@BardsCollegeGraduate Sadly I have. Bad news: Starfield is deeply mediocre. Good News: It probably won't divert many modders away from Skyrim. Bad: This doesn't bode well for Elder Scrolls VI. Good: The BeyondSkyrim teams and other modders will have given us a better game than Bethesda by that time anyway.

[@N7CapriX]

Amazing video in time of halloween. "creepy" 😳 :).

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Thank you! Creepy crawlies all around 🎃

[@Jules-69lol]

I plan on getting a pimp suit for a halloween costume someday, just gotta get friends (much harder than getting a nice pimp suit) The candle is amazing, i was thinking of getting a mod to replace candlelight with a warmer light For more horror, I recommend Mihail's Slenderman mod. I absolutely despised it for a lot of reasons and will never play it again but objectively it's a great little quest mod

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

SLENDERMAN?! 😳 I'm gonna check that out right now XD

[@Jules-69lol]

@@BardsCollegeGraduate good luck heh. Prepare yourself for some heavy shit, heavier than you can imagine

[@ems7448]

I was going to mention this one as well... pretty scary and actually kind of disturbing. Great for Halloween!

[@MatheOliveira]

Okay, I'll reinstall Skyrim but just this time.

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Just this time I promise

[@mhamad3ntar26]

You should be a follower in a Skyrim mod 🌚🌚

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

someday... someday maybe! xD

[@keanu786]

How did you mod ur character to look like that omg😮

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

ks hairdos smphdt, unp body, kala's eyes, expressive facegen morphs :D

[@dorvrith]

awesome :) I love that candlelight mod

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Same, it's so lovely, kind of a hidden gem!

[@4and20blackbirds]

do you have a video about all the mods you use to make the characters look that way? they have really pretty faces!

[@dans5662]

The Vicn Trilogy quest expansions is great too.

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

So I've heard! Definitely need to get on 'em. I'm kind of slow playing all these acclaimed quest mods xD

[@dans5662]

@@BardsCollegeGraduate as am I. Mainly because I thought it would take a million patches to get all my assets to carry over, texture, npc's,grass, lighting,fire,trees, but not so.. only a couple things and they were good to go.

[@ahilahmed9128]

favourite mod channel for sure

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

[@edux54]

my comment to please the algorithm

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

thank you for commenting 🎃

[@1ucky1ux]

👻👻👻 Great, spooky video! 👻👻👻

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

👻👻👻thaaankkyyoouuuuu /spooky voice

[@StSomber]

SPOOKY MONTH!

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Finally here 🎃🎉

[@blake_ridarion]

spookyyy 👻

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

👻👻 tis the season!

[@pauldunlop1660]

Great showcase, Skyrim has never looked better, spookier or more fun. I'll definitely down load the Crows, Falkreath hauntings and Vampire clothing mods and not just for Halloween.

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Great to hear, I'll probably keep some too, some creepiness fits well in Skyrim no matter what season!

[@keanu786]

I wish u would do one on music mods aswell

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Point taken! 🙏

[@keanu786]

thanks for paying attention to my comments. other youtubers would rarely do that so thanks. again what a perfect voice

[@anthonym840]

Theres another mod thats called identity crisis thats also a bit of a spooky element for this year. Focuses a short darker Sheogorath type of quest in an asylum. U also get a nice player home out of it as well.

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

I definitely need to play Identity Crisis, thanks for the suggestion! Seems super cool.

[@wod5203]

Crows is a must-have mod in my list since I found out about it. I have always had a fascination with the 'little black eagles', and having ravens where I live now is big plus! Another great video!

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Oh yeah, they amp up the dark atmosphere a lot! I love crows too, and thank you!!

[@keishikura]

RIGHT. I had forgotten to set up season's ambiance in my game 😅 thanks a lot

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

>:D perfect, now get to it!! Skyrim needs to be spooky! 🎃

[@mushroomcrepes4780]

I'm making a Halloween modlist for this weekend, thanks for these recs! 🎃

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Yeesss I LOVE that!! Have fun, and happy Halloween! 🎃🎃

[@rightherepatriot]

Much appreciated as always! ❤

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

[@snowy5628]

Thanks for another great video! (Dont need to watch to know) 😊

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Hehe, my pleasure and thank YOU! 🎃

[@urbonx]

That intro goes hard 🔥🔥🔥🔥 spooky season is the best

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

yoo thank you urbonx!!

[@lzkids3431]

what is the voice mod you used in opening video?

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Just added some reversed reverb to my voice in FL Studio and such :D

[@spyrakdota]

the intro was chillsssss💀

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

😎😎

[@vanyakalinka8305]

You always find the most interesting mods.

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Thank you Vanyakalinka 🙏

[@Seer_Of_The_Woodlands]

10/10 !

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

[@ArtyCollectz]

Chilling yet beautiful opening.

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Thank you Arty!! :D

[@wanderingbufoon]

Where's my fellow spookey scary skeleton enjoyers at??

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Shivers down your spine!! 🎃

[@Jules-69lol]

I used to have the doot doot mod but traded it for the Daggerfall skeleton sound mod

[@gudmundurThor96Nr2]

Does this work on the steam deck?

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Absolutely no clue, sorry!

[@ronw1985]

It doesn't seem to matter what topic you make a video about, because so far they've all been interesting. I am convinced that even a video about "Grass in Skyrim" would be good because of your charm and the selection of suitable mods. Hopefully you'll stay with us and Skyrim for a long time. And at some point TES VI will also be released. The only question is whether this will happen in our lifetime or not. If not, then my ghost will haunt the lands of Skyrim forever.

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Thank you! A grass video has been suggested to me many times, so don't be surprised if that one appears one day 😅 I'll definitely plan on sticking around as long as I can - definitely want to be here for the next Elder Scrolls :) (whenever and if that comes out xD)

[@chadwarden8664]

Here we go again 👻😱🎃

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

Here wee goo🎃

[@dont.tread187]

1. The witch hat is totally you 2. Love the floating candle replacer thingy 3. How dare Astarion reject you!! (pretty sure he plays for the other team) 🤣

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

[@dont.tread187]

@@BardsCollegeGraduate the biggest regrets are always the shots not taken

[@Yojimbro71]

FYI…… Halloween decorations automatically make your game NOT SCARY AT ALL.😂

[@BardsCollegeGraduate]

I object! I have a small pumpkin on my desk and that has been making everything spookier! Same applies to Skyrim. 🎃🎃