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Top Five Skyrim Mods of the Week - March 17

This week we fire a Portal gun, ride a giant spider, and desperately flee from a pack of lions. Also: more exploding chickens.

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This week's show is for you players who love wandering through the open world and finding adventure along the way. Only here, adventure is actually packs of roaming lions and a full-blown civil war. Also, there's a Portal gun. And bear mounts. Enjoy!

Download this week's mods:

Portal Gun in Skyrim Alpha v1 by zOmbi880
Steam Workshop Link

Mike's Mystical Mounts by Mike
Steam Workshop Link or Skyrim Nexus Link

Prides of Skyrim by Frank the Fish
Steam Workshop Link or Skyrim Nexus Link

Dynavision - Dynamic Depth of Field by Gopher and MyGoodEye
Skyrim Nexus Link

Warzones - Civil Unrest by MyGoodEye
Skyrim Nexus Link

Catch up on previous episodes:

March 10
March 3
February 25

Know of any great mods you'd like to see featured on the show? Tell us about them in the comments!

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@Gryphes2k I am a Muslim, and i am finding this preety offensive. Also enjoy being racist!!!

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@Gryphes2k: You are desperately trying to sound civil and educated about what you are talking about to the point you sound like a complete ignorant stereotypical fool.

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@Ruler-of-nation expressing the truth is sometimes considered as offensive. so I would rather abstain from it in here.

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@gibbg LOL...a reaper invasion on Skyrim? That could never hap-I AM ASSUMING CONTROL-

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@Gryphes2k And what's wrong with being a Muslim??

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If only I had a decent rig. Would have gotten it for pc instead.

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It's great that the PC gets mods for Skyrim, but there are only a handful of mods actually worth downloading. The rest are just gimmicks. I loved the idea of Dynavision, but in practice I was very disappointed. It looks very unnatural and distracting the way it jumps suddenly in and out of focus.

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omg .. this guys's voice makes my ears bleed!

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I hear the crying of poor console fan boys :'( LMAO

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I'm so glad I got a PC that can run this game.

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Skyrim is still a talking topic. Sad it didn't win at BAFTA though.

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@zaxrider Very original..

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"... anything is possible when you're a Dovahkiin. I'm on a bear."

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@sarimrocks It's still being developed. if you noticed it's in Alpha atm.

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Who's gonne be the next victim of this chicken mayhem? A troll I suspect? Bet it'll take more then 10 of the explosive things...

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That portal mod should be loyal to the Portal game, not some cheap teleportation device.

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Oh My! yes, yes, yes, and YES! I love exploding chickens please continue to use them:-)!!!

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Is that from Heavy Rain's Soundtrack at about 6:00? Great show guys!

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The Portal gun... in a fantasy-based game? Knowing how people think, next I'm expecting to see the omni-tool from you know where.

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LMAO! The exploding chickens get me every time. There are some really awesome mods in this episode though!

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That mammoth went down after 80 chickens! Epic victory!

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Now that's some kick-ass amazing purely awesome gorgeous chicken exploding. I wonder what will you blow up next week.

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@danielmbg My toes and ass hair don't want to.

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I know GS is running out of articles to write about but I guess at least they're getting modders some exposure.

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PC FTW

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@iPostMaReviews The mounting one was cool, who doesn't want to ride a dragon?

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I will continue to be unimpressed with this segment until the GIANT BREASTED NAKED ANIME GIRL mods are shown.

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Epic music made this more epic!!!

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Annnnnnnd more stupid mods. There ARE serious and better mods out there, GS...

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lets see, 10 + 70 = 80!!!!

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Skyrim PC is the only way to play this game. The modders have pretty much taken a fantastic game and have made it easily the best game I have ever played.

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I decided to not get Skyrim for the home console. Going to get Skyrim for PC instead.

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@jwhdavison Projectile chickens, love it. Ba-Gawwwk! As it flies from your bow, lol.

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Just amazing. :D

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@vishisluv7 your fuse idea is genius! We should totally try that. We're hoping to encourage the development of more advanced weaponized chickens in future also. Perhaps projectile chickens.

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I like these videos. The one that's impressed me most so far is the warzones mod. Looks awesome. Damn un-moddable Xbox version!!

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@shaunmc Ah, thanks for the explanation about the dragon. I suppose if they cannot be made to fly it isn't really a dragon mount anyway. Anyone know why this can't be done? Must be a technical roadblock because I expect riding a flying dragon was what many of us first hoped for. These modders really deserve to be spotlighted for their hard work, good work Shaun and Co. Is it possible to spawn a big pool of the flammable oil on the ground? It's used in sewers and dungeons. You could make a nice "fuse" leading to the chickens, who would be standing in a big pool of oil, haha.

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Wish there was mod support for consoles

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:lol: thanks again GS. another great show

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@Evillab7 Holy crap, that Bleach sword pack is awesome, I'm so installing that! Nice video series, there's so many mods out there it's hard to find good/interesting ones.

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For anyone wondering why we didn't show the dragon mount, it's because they're so big that the camera can't always be far enough back. Camera too close = invisible dragon :(

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I was thinking about building a Trident that can turn you into a Mermaid when you get into water. I just work to much and don't have the skills down so I could do it fast.

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@jesuschristmonk Oh you can crash the game with explosions, haven't done it with Skyrim yet but I did it with Fallout 3 when I killed like 200 Stockholms at once with the MIRV.

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1. I can't believe you didn't ride the dragon! Every person watching must have thought "Ride the damn dragon! it's right there!". 2. I love the series. The exploding chickens lined up in marching order, lol. They should tweak the chicken mod with a detonator. Good show this week. Also, any chance of a 1080p version? Even on 720 it's fairly blurry. Don't listen to the angry trolls, this series is really entertaining.

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@LonelyHippie27 For that mod Dragons don't fly so it kind of defeats the whole purpose

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Edited By jesuschristmonk

Can you kill your game with chickens? Or in other words: How many chickens does it take to crash you guys' computer? :D

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