In some cases, people have put in near full on expansion levels of new content into these sorts of games, along with the usual quality of life improvements, or other modifications.
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Here are some examples
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1. If you want to elevate the mostly dull and taciturn company of original game followers like Lydia, there are many fully voiced community made followers who provide great immersive dialogue and commentary on virtualy every situation. Possibly the most popular of all, is
Inigo.
That character alone, improves the entire experience. He has over 7.000 lines, almost a book worth, of dialogue.
2. Speaking of full expansion level behemots of projects, there is one in the works called Beyond Skyrim. It adds 7 entire provinces besides Skyrim itself, making the game idk like 4-5 times larger, all with their own storylines, quests, hours of new music, and many hundreds of fully voiced characters. It's still WIP, but one or two of the provinces are already downloadable and playable on
Xbox.
3. A complete redo and extension of the game's main-quest, factions and characters will be out in 2021, and also available on Xbos. It also adds many new fully voiced characters, dynamic followers, friendship & romance options. Cherry on top, the developers of this mod promise 99% compability with others mods. Meaning you can virtualy add whatever else you like on top of all that, like Inigo.
There is also a mod that just adds over 200 lore friendly, fully voiced npc's with interesting dialogue, all over Skyrim, dozens of which have their own individual quests and can become your followers. I wanted to put this on top, however for some weird reason, the guy who made it, recently removed the Xbox port. Dunno why "taking a break" means deleting all mods, but eh, who knows what's going on. If it ever returns to Xbox, definitly recommend taking a shot.
Here's one of the earliest examples from 2012.
Remember. If you ever decide to download mods, always scroll down and look if they got any dependencies you also need to download.
Okay, we're through. Sorry for the long nerdy text. Nerd out.