Skyrim Mod: The 'Great City...' Series

[@oisinmcphillips2090]

I crawl through the dark of the nexus, fumbling, lost and blind. Suddenly, a light in the distance appears and a voice beckons.."Hello, and welcome to Brodual"

[@ROGALLYWORLD]

Oisin McPhillips ummm cringe af mate......

[@JRexRegis]

remove "to my left" and your name would actually apply to yourself.

[@scarecrow99999]

@@ROGALLYWORLD yeah but...he's not wrong, brodual is a light in the darkness of all the awful low effort mods

[@Lavourrin]

"A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON!"

[@shokoranathegoose8607]

@@Lavourrin lmao

[@xDBTYBNDTxZuricks]

It always struck me odd that some of these "grand" holds were nothing more than run down villages, the cities always felt so empty and I always wondered how such sparsely populated areas could ever hope to stand a chance against the multitudes of bandits, wizards, monsters, and vampires. Glad that there's more people trying to make the holds seem more alive.

[@the_dropbear4392]

Well lore wise the population of the cities would be in the hundreds of thousands

[@SwedishEmpire1700]

Well Bethesda needed to ship the games for console, thus having to derp things down so that PS/Xbox wouldnt catch fire when loading a real city.

[@the_dropbear4392]

@@Ty-v6v-c4r not on last gen consoles

[@the_dropbear4392]

@@Ty-v6v-c4r they were much smaller games

[@Sassmate369]

@@SwedishEmpire1700 nothing really to do with the consoles but more to do with Bethesdas shitty engine. Even my computer struggles to run mods such as these since the engine is terribly optimised.

[@N14-b1m]

When mankind discovers life in a another planet, when robots gain sentience, when man defears aging and diseases completely, when man conquers the entire galaxy...there will still be new Skyrim mods and may it never end.

[@BigOrangeLizard]

lets scratch the conquering... bad idea

[@N14-b1m]

@@BigOrangeLizard nah, the rest of us aint sissies like you. Sorry mate.

[@BigOrangeLizard]

@@N14-b1m It was just a joke man.. chill out :D

[@jorgizoran4340]

hardly

[@hansolo5912]

@@BigOrangeLizard he made a joke too Whoooosh

[@alamb245]

4:07 "usally bland streets of winter hold" Did you mean the one street in winterhold?

[@BKInbound]

well you called it, even though it took seven months

[@danh.2433]

Lol Facts lol

[@GreatSmithanon]

This mod looks like it makes skyrim look more like what it should have looked like in the first place.

[@grefsteel3989]

all upvoted mods do that to skyrim.

[@christianfreedom-seeker2025]

BINGO!!! I had the same thought!

[@danielbueno8474]

It looks like the way you look the looks of Skyrim is not looking like the way I look looks such as the look of Skyrim.

[@grefsteel3989]

@@danielbueno8474 Look.. I'm your father

[@danielbueno8474]

@@grefsteel3989 Do I Luke like a fool to you??

[@roojackaroo8517]

Wow, the changes to Winterhold are amazing, it looks like an actual important city now....simply awesome

[@atsstaaatsssatss4501]

Looks like a small village

[@BladedAngel]

You had me at, "It's only a couple of MB in size". I'm not a huge fan of the ridiculous over the top city overhauls that features tons of new meshes/textures with several GB worth of data. This mod is optimized and gets straight to the point, while also being creative. That, to me, is actually more impressive than the other overhauls.

[@BionicXAngel]

Didn't expect to see you here lmao

[@popcornfilms1]

Less is more as you say. Very well crafted

[@spacesandshark2418]

Damn, now THIS is a mod! Phenomenal work only made better by the fact that he used only vanilla assets. Really showing Bethesda how it's done.

[@MrNovember41]

I have been torn between this mod and JK's Skyrim. I love retaining the vanilla feel in my game but just enhanced a touch, both mods certainly do that to varying degrees. Great Cities really does make the towns and cities more grandiose than their vanilla versions. I love the concept behind it and how they evolve the main characteristics of the city/town rather than overhaul them (E.g. Turning Dragon Bridge into a fort or the Falkreath graveyard expansion). However a lot of it feels superfluous and empty, Solitude was especially disappointing. Interiors were pretty bland and there's not much to interact with in general. JK's Skyrim, on the other hand lacks the splendour of GC's and the additional stuff added to cities is about 50% clutter. What it does do though is fill previously barren space, add a few extra buildings and adds NPC's that feel like they belong in Skyrim. My favourite addition is the Northern Star general store in Dawnstar, a city that was desperately lacking in trade despite it supposedly being a major port. JK's Skyrim blends more naturally with the original Skyrim experience but Great Cities is more of a spectacle. It's a tough call.

[@davorbrijacak]

@@MrNovember41 I tried a bunch of cities and villages overhaul mods which add so much in size and buildings but they're all empty, bugged or not properly navmeshed, in comparison this looks really nice and fleshed out. I'll see where the mod will head and if there'll be ever need for other mods or this one will improve on all cities and villages.

[@MrNovember41]

@@davorbrijacak - I downloaded Atapoiah recently, the navmesh is atrocious! Instantly deleted it! A shame that most of the town/city expansions are like that!

[@Ali-vj8vi]

MrNovember41 This might be a bit late but there’s a patch on the Nexus that makes both modes compatible with each other.

[@Justin-ev8nn]

Game was released in 2011. Give Bethesda a break.

[@BladedAngel]

WHOA, the Winterhold one sold me. Vanilla: "half the city fell into the sea" BLAH BLAH BLAH, ALL I SEE IS GENERIC BURNT HOUSE THAT'S STILL FULLY LANDLOCKED!! I was expecting sliding houses on loose ground! THIS Mod, NOW THAT is what I call Immersive AF

[@shadysam7161]

Speaking of that; I'm actually making an entire overhaul of the Skyrim civilizations; starting off with minor holds, and Riften, along with some new ones, its supposed to go alongside with the TES Frontier Mod, for Winterhold; I've been making numerous Nordic Ruins, and also destroyed walls which once showed Winterhold's Strength, with numerous Rubble, cobwebs, icicles, ETC.

[@blueshit199]

Bethesda just got lazy with some of the towns

[@IIFM54]

@@shadysam7161 niccceee

[@billybonk7673]

Honestly I highly doubt the former capital of Skyrim had those generic farmhouses

[@laurent8816]

@@shadysam7161 what mods are you getting??

[@SuperMoine777]

I've always thought that Winterhold was so pitiful that it didn't even deserve to be called a Hold Capital nor hosting a jarl. Glad to see people want to take care of this cute little town ! Btw, the idea just went through my mind, but it could be super interesting to use such mods to add a town improvement system (like in Assassin's Creed 2 for Monteriggioni).

[@French408]

Winterhold in the base game is 4 buildings on a street with the College making up the rest of it.

[@matinhosmatos]

@@French408 and they're 4 little farm houses, not even 4 buildings that live up to the title of "former capital of Skyrim". Not only that, it still has the College (which according to the lore was once glorious and important, so imagine how huge and imponent Winterhold must have been back in the day)

[@umutcankoc3010]

Lvl 1 crook vanilla cities Lv 100 modded cities “That’s how modding works”

[@TheWhoamaters]

I wish Skyrim ran this well for me

[@donlad]

this mod is going to destroy my laptop 😂

[@ehawk7921]

Yes, same. Can't wait to try it though.

[@MrAustyn88]

Upgrade your PC :)

[@grefsteel3989]

lol we're talking about a more than 7 year old game. If your system can't run skyrim by now, you should just go find another job.

[@TheWhoamaters]

@@grefsteel3989 Skyrim Special Edition for one, and for 2 Bethesda can't optimize worth shit. I can max out Farcry 5 and get between 55 and 75, my pc isn't the issue

[@LittleMizCynic]

"The streets of winterhold" did you mean the street of winterhold lmao

[@matezelenka1323]

I was just about to go to sleep (it's 4am right now) and I saw brodual uploaded a new video... 5 more minutes doesn't hurt, right guys?

[@KarlHerzog]

5 30 here, no problem at all :D

[@harryjoe24424]

what I find truly amazing is not that Skyrim is still relevant but that brodual is still making mod videos on it. That takes dedication

[@kgraves119]

I feel that with the lack of citizenship in Falkreath, people tend to forget that the major secondary place of residence in Falkreath was… Helgen.

[@j.j.4708]

Y'all know what kind of mod we need? One that scales all the NPCs and the player to half size as well as any chairs, tables, fences,, doors, houses, etc. So there's more room for other mods to add MORE houses and Skyrim's towns would not look like some tiny miniature village

[@williamschaffer2858]

J.J. Think about how much bigger the mountains would be lol

[@RureLyther]

But keep a 1:1 scale for the weapons

[@kgraves119]

@williamschaffer2858 You mean… like actual mountains in real life? 😉

[@yamyeeter1185]

This modding community blows my mind, Skyrim is 8 years old and the community is still pumping out fresh mods. You guys are fucking awesome, thank you for enabling me to continue enjoying my favorite game

[@cyberninjazero5659]

I hope a video about Wintersun is coming up

[@ThorKAH]

CyberNinjaZero same

[@RachmatRL]

The author said that he is gong to release the full version at 25 January so let's wait Brodual to feature this mod

[@GrimeReaperMan]

You mean the band Wintersun?

[@Mysterialic]

@@GrimeReaperMan The mod author is known to name his mods on metal bands.

[@joshd8427]

CyberNinjaZero whats that?

[@Wildlander]

Thank you for another excellent video, guys. I've had my eye on this mod series for a while now, and it's wonderful to see it in action.

[@orange8427]

I'm so glad to find out this channel still uploads! I used to watch you forever ago back in my Skyrim days.

[@MrPhat0817]

That's so true the towns feel like Villages and the cities feel like towns in the game

[@dragonducke3sudbwkd968]

Hey Brodual, nice video my friend I hope you continue to give us more content like this or you could maybe do a rp playthrough of the game so that you can play with all those mods.

[@lootier3203]

Guys, you always make me want to play some more Skyrim again. Cogratulations on your great work!

[@Quintaner]

Damn, I like this. I always felt like Dawnstar, Falkreath, and Winterhold needed a little more love. Mortal I always felt was fine, it was in a swamp, there’s not really much that would be done with that in real life, but the others all had value and should have been fleshed out more. Especially winterhold, like damn, it was always unimpressive, it didn’t look like a grand city that had been destroyed, it looked like a village on a cliff

[@Outcrow]

This mod definitely deserves more endorsements.

[@Mistjeager]

Glad to see you're still at these mod vids also to see this game as fresh as ever. Might jump back in now ^^

[@Numbuh10125]

Modders really need to stop doing Bethesda's job for them.

[@chrisidore023]

Skyrim vanilla engine is like an unfinished Art canvas. The Modders and the great Artists. Brodual is the Art expert and narrator.

[@theylivewesee1674]

after 8 years this game is still interesting to watch and play

[@cross5574]

All these years and you are still going strong with skyrim mods. Keep it up man!

[@Gargantura]

Thank you Brodual for the consistencies on giving us good content, i hope you guys best of hope

[@_chonkywoofwoof]

It's feels great watching your vids again, man. I've been watching them for so long that your intro is already starting to sound nostalgic.

[@sirhenry9313]

One of my favourite mods for Immersion, so glad someone is highlighting it

[@thaumatomane]

This is the first time I have ever found an amazing mod before Brodual reviewed it! Thank you so much for continuing to make these wonderful videos :D

[@jasons5704]

I love these city and town expansion mods. All of the cities and towns in Skyrim are pathetically small even compared to oblivion and morrowind. Nice to see some expansion and I also like the mods that add villages like granite hill, great mod

[@zerosparky5996]

Now for a Prime version of this

[@craven1927]

I use this mod collection on my game, it definitely adds more to the feel of the game, making each city feel a little more unique and important. My only complaint is with Dawnstar, while the added docks are wonderful the rest of the town feels a bit too cluttered and cramped with the extra walls. But all in all nice improvements overall to the rest of the cities. For a little more immersion I highly suggest the Granite Hill mod tgat adds a town to the crossroads in Falkreath territory, theres even a cool little dungeon adventure too. Granite Hill was originally going to be put in the game, the jarl of Falkreath even mentions it in his dialog, but the developers never made it. This mod adds it in and it feels very natural to the game. That along with Aurora finally gives Falkreath hold some actual inhabitants, as the population for the entire hold in the vanilla game literally consisted of just Falkreath and a lumber mill.

[@IBBMS]

What's the fps impact of this mod? I'm using JK Skyrim (which I think does the little holds as well, idk I just started playing earlier this week after modding for a month or so).

[@craven1927]

@@IBBMS most of the time it doesn't have any affect. Every once in a while it'll drag just a bit but no more than when I go to Solitude or Whiterun. And honestly that may not have anything to do with this mod, since it uses all vanilla assets, and is probably attributed more to the texture mods tgat I'm running.

[@Katsuhi50]

after all these years i don't even really play skyrim anymore i just come here to see whats new and watch the dance at the end.

[@GRBoi1993]

Love your stuff Brodual! I often binge watch! Just downloaded these mods for Xbox 1 two days ago and I highly recommend them

[@TheBloobster]

Holy crap dude.... these videos still pulling in close to 200K views. Mad props to Brodual. But also, let's give Skyrim a little credit. Most of the comments are people talking about the garbage that it is vanilla, but I mean, here we are, still wanting to play the game 8 f'n years later... just with improvements. But there's gotta be a lot right with the core of the game in order to survive that long still with such a big following. Personally, I loved the original game, and mods just kept increasing the longevity.

[@shadden_x]

Couldnt agree more.. although bethesda could have put in more effort in some aspects, skyrim came out a LONG time ago, and already using a flawed engine. And it still manages to captivate us to this day, vanilla or not. Also, making mods isnt a solution to every problem, as many seem to believe here, some are just undoable

[@GuttfraNorge5605]

The dragon bridge part was really nice, because in eso ( takes place 2,000 years before skyrim) dragon bridge is just a military camp

[@ricardochavez6391]

I would've been fine waiting two years for bethesda to just to add this and realistic behaviour

[@lordreptilestormblade1749]

I live in Morthal and I'm glad how this mod gave us a little more power with the walls and drawbridge, plus the gates.

[@Purplepentapus_]

I've been missing these mod showcases, you guys always find the best mods

[@SCdreamdrawer]

I am over the moon excited about Winterhold in this mod series! Moon is a hint as to the instant I got so excited. I mean, just LOOK AT AZURA over there being all picturesque.

[@pododododoehoh]

I remeber hearing about winterhold all the time in skyrim and about its grand college and history and was so excited to finally find it as the last hold for me to see. I was completely convinced this was some little attachment village by the city and spent ages looking round tjr mountains and valley for the actual city. Wasn't until I started the college of winterhold quest line I finally realised that was literally it. 3 generic houses.

[@izare1296]

I hardly ever play Skyrim anymore but I just like watching you videos.

[@Donovels]

Finally a Brodual video... I download these mods without thinking

[@MurakumoVance]

I've heard your voice over the years narrating all of these Skyrim videos, & I never thought to mention how utterly familiar your voice sounded. Then it hit me! You sound exactly like "Peter" from The Chronicles of Narnia, the Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe! Matter of fact, if you used all of your mods to portray a Narnia based Machinima, you'd not only be spot on convincing, but I'm sure the special or short, would do very well! Idk if you've considered voice acting, but you should!

[@christianfreedom-seeker2025]

I'm impressed! His cities make more sense too from a lore perspective as well.

[@realkarfixer8208]

These are top notch and have gotten a place in my Load Order. Well Done!

[@EzekielDeLaCroix]

"... A work in progress collection of mods..." >NPCs literally trying to walk through walls

[@chipsk8361]

I was literally just looking at these on Nexus, and then this came up in my sub box. I'm taking it as a sign.

[@mehrdadparthian874]

i so much more like Brodual than MXR , while both of em are very good mod reviewers and are focused on different sides of skyrim , Brodual's voice is so soothing to me :) love you bro, thanks for the good work !

[@stoneodin2288]

Can’t play Skyrim without this mod now

[@throwoffacliffbrothermandude]

these videos are how i relax

[@captainkuijt]

YOM-TAH!

[@gandalftheblue8795]

Broduals voice is like some soothing ASMR type shit

[@CtrlAltPhreak]

Downloaded this just now. Looks like a great mod. Thanks for another quality video.

[@CtrlAltPhreak]

Just after posting this, I tried it out. Super awesome. It breathes new life into the game. I can't wait to see more by that author.

[@lukearnedos3376]

Yo Brodual, a really great Skyrim mod called Wintersun - Faiths of Skyrim came out a few weeks ago. It’s made by Enai Siaion, the same guy who made Ordinator and Apocalypse, and it lets you worship one of 48 dieties for character benefits. There are a lot of features in it, and a guide would be really helpful seeing as nobody else on KZbin has really noticed it yet.

[@phairecouchpotato3912]

Wow! even after all these years Skyrim is still one of my favorite games!

[@LoremasterYnTaris]

The mod that we didn't know we needed... but now we can't live without.

[@connornicholas8628]

These are awesome!

[@DankManDanny]

Objects don't even look out of place either, looks great!

[@giornogiovanna2162]

Even without the mods, Skyrim is already in my top 5 the best game i've ever played

[@paddington2063]

Your snow is SO sparkly

[@Ajay-dy3xw]

Oh my god. The possibilities of what Skyrim could've become if Bethesda had more budget and creative concept artists!

[@molagbal7933]

The channel is alive! Yaaaaaaaaay

[@matninja123]

Wow. It has been a while since I was impressed by a skyrim mod.

[@asxiv]

3:59 that lady "stumbling into new ruins" lol

[@shadowranger5907]

This is nice to see and honestly as I saw in another comment I agree if a cave of Falmer of bandits wanted to they could easily overtake any capital they wanted to

[@zanderrose]

I'm starting a new playthrough with these mods and so far I like them a lot better than Expanded Towns and Cities which were my go-to for so long

[@Evoken111]

This is so great, these cities fit so well.

[@Inurendo88]

I love what the author did with winterhold specifically. Honestly, I cant play without it.

[@RinrinFran]

Gon' watch this while Lord Sinitar's vids aren't out yet (MXR,Brodual and SInitar ftw)

[@xsael8501]

fevir is good aswell

[@Jinzu.]

The epic nate too he makes such good videos

[@gabrielfouts8226]

Always good to see Brodual upload 😊

[@luciusavenus8715]

Great to hear from you again!!

[@OneOnOne1162]

I actually installed a city mod for every city and one which changes every minor town back when I started playing and modding Skyrim a few years ago. This looks really awesome too though, especially Solitude. I wish I could combine this mod with the others.

[@rainmanslim4611]

I hope these are compatible with civil war overhauls.

[@prylancelot]

THIS IS AMAZING -

[@schleepy6362]

I downloaded this mod on the PS4, and my jaw actually dropped when visiting Winterhold for the first time. The ruins on the side of that cliff were probably the coolest thing I've seen from a mod yet. Well... a *PS4* mod, anyway :/

[@joelromero6074]

Did you by chance have a issue in winterhold that prevented the NPCs from walking the main Street like a invisible wall?

[@schleepy6362]

@@joelromero6074 I do have that issue in Dawnstar, haven't noticed it in Winterhold yet. NPCs might be doing that because city mods usually screw with their AI, they have a hard time navigating around new objects. So they just stand around forever. I don't really know a fix for it, except to awkwardly shove NPCs forward till they get where they need to be XD

[@joelromero6074]

@@schleepy6362 thanks for the reply and info. I'll just switch to jk's Skyrim then, as I found no fix. Jk's works perfectly fine, even with Immersive citizens.

[@bigblue6917]

I have long thought it could do with something like this.

[@Spacefrisian]

The only Solitude altering mod on the Xbox that doesnt make the game crash 2 steps in....But it looks great. Cant wait to see whats more in stor for this series.

[@Nereda715]

8 years later... What a game 👏

[@romanminaster5180]

**I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK**

[@Eclispestar]

Dude some of this looks great. I like what they did to Winterhold. But if you want a fun mod to check. Expanded Solitude is great. I love the idea of a dock town. I now enjoy shopping trips from the Dragon born Museum.

[@rodache7200]

you are back... FINALLY

[@raiwolf3606]

Brodual keeping my favorite game alive. Thanks

[@F0RCEFI3LD]

Absolutely georgeous!

[@johan.ohgren]

Sweet, why can't I ever start up Skyrim without adding new mods??

[@hhjk377]

I wish there were some city overhauls like this for XBO that didn't turn the consoles into a hot brick every time I moved around a city. 'Dawn Of' series seems closest to stable, but still gets tons of inventory crashes for outside vendors when trading, like Eorland in Whiterun. Oh well. Daydreams of money enough for a PC are better than nothing.

[@kycutch1234]

hhjk377 this is on xbox

[@hhjk377]

@@kycutch1234 Yeah I know. Unfortunately I can also tell by how much is added that even suggesting that my Xbox should try to handle it would cause it to have a stroke.

[@brittlespy9083]

get a pc

[@callmenorman631]

Tbh a pc capable of running oldrim isn’t that exspensive and as long as you have the ram for it and don’t try to do 4K graphics you could run a mod like this.

[@SwedishEmpire1700]

Well, Sell that console and start saving, and you'll get there in no time

[@Bryizard]

Damn you're still doing these Props to you

[@pyrogothica3906]

I have the ones currently up on xbox and I have to say I'm in love with this series of mods! It really adds to skyrim in a not only lore friendly but but it just brings a whole other level of aesthetics to the table. My only complaint is that winterhold doesn't come with the windhelm style architecture 8n the console version, I really think that's something the mod dev should consider as it adds to winterholds atmosphere soooo much, and really just refreshes the entire settlement

[@axeldornelles5292]

Missed you, Nate!

[@Anxiou5Panda]

How I wish there's a better Civil War Overhaul to compliment this great mod. Thanks a lot Brodual! :D

[@fargothbosmer2059]

8 years on... brodual staying loyal to skyrim

[@alvinkertanegara2871]

This give a big difference to the game. Now, this is a city, it's protected by the wall. Especially Jarl's house, it suppossed to be looked restricted, and protected.

[@Duprizus]

Wow, I can't believe this channel still exists

[@samyakroy4210]

By the way I love you guys. You give me exactly the mod I'm always looking for. You guys are awesome!

[@m33tballa]

Major lols when youre showcasing winterhold and an npc gets stuck trying to path through a stone arch