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If you loved it back in the day, haven't played it in over a decade, and are itching to try it again, I'd give it a spin.

Graphically its mostly big steps forward with a couple steps back. Things like architecture textures and Oblivion Gates got a major glow-up, while the forest landscapes took a bit of a hit; the individual models are excellent, but the duller weather effects and lack of tall grass too often make the Great Forest feel like a scattering of tree models plopped onto a featureless brown-grey landscape as opposed to a vibrant, living place (though there are occasionally moments where the landscape looks drop-dead gorgeous).

Leveling is the biggest improvement. You get a flat amount of attribute points per level up, so gone are the days of grinding skills and counter-intuitively avoiding your majors for max attribute bonuses. Skills that were a nightmare to level in OG have been overhauled for the better: Magic schools and Mercantile now level based on casting cost / item value, which speeds things along considerably.

Combat's mostly the same, with some slight improvements. The most welcome improvement is that enemies are no longer damage sponges, which means archery doesn't become completely useless from the midgame onward. The ridiculous amount of staggering that enemies inflicted on the player has also been cleaned up (I'd just recently played the OG and lordy did that drive me nuts). Weapon classes have new animations and unique skills, which is a mixed bag.

Ultimately, you'll probably walk away with the same impression most people did: you'll love the things you used to love, hate the bugs that still haven't been fixed, be briefly reminded of all the boring shit you'd forgotten before you forget about it again, realize that the memes Mandela Effect'd you over Sheogorath's obsession with cheese that doesn't actually exist, and admit to yourself that maybe you'd been a wee bit too hard on Skyrim.