Why Serana Dialogue Addon Is My Favorite Mod in Anything, Ever
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- Опубліковано 5 кві 2024
- Local Weirdo goes on a 20-minute tangent about a Skyrim Mod. But it's Serana, so it's fine.
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SDA Website:
sites.google.com/view/martimiusmods
Nexus Page (Skyrim Special Edition):
nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/32161
The Patreon is accessible through the Nexus page and the site. Scroll down to the "Credits" section to learn more about the Team, and for the VA's website. Go show them some appreciation!
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The Serana fanart used for the thumbnail was made by Siyi Huang on Artstation. I do not own Skyrim, nor its characters. I just really like the game... as well as the mods made by fans.
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My Current Mod List (in case you want to try other mods featured in this video - give them some love, too!):
SDA & SDA Patch Hub (As seen in Video)
Refined Volkihars SSE - The Fangs Update (This was the face model for Serana I used in this video)
PC Head Tracking & PC Head Tracking w/ Lucina (Voiced by the same VA as in SDA!!!)
Inigo (Another great Follower!)
Lucien Flavius (Another great Follower!)
Summermyst Enchantments of Skyrim
Address Library for SKSE Plugins
All Couriers Are Dogs (cuuuute!)
ApachiiSkyHair
Apocalypse 9.45.0
Auriel's Bow HD
Bards Reborn: Student of Song
Better Dialogue Controls
CBBE (There's a SFW Version if you're wondering)
Call your Horse
Bodyslide and Outfit Studio
Mysticism - A Magic Overhaul
My Home is Your Home
Immersive Fort Dawnguard
I'm Glad You're Here
Faster Shadowmere
Castle Volkihar Rebuilt
Cloaks of Skyrim
Campfire
Collecting the Edda
Expressive Facial Animations
Expressive Facegen Morphs
Happy Little Trees
Fores New Idles (FNIS)
Improved Meeko
Improved Eyes Skyrim
JaySUS Swords All in one
Loading Screens w/ Extra Sarcasm
Moon and Stars - Sky Overhaul SSE
The Great Cities Collection
Triss Armor Retextured
Windsong Immersive Character Overhaul
XP32 Maximum Skeleton Special Extended
Your Own Thoughts
Unofficial SSE Patch
Skyrim Unbound Reborn
RaceMenu
Old Spice Whistle Sneak Attack
No to Nocturnal
Nemesis Unlimited Behavior Engine
Queen of the Damned
PapyrusUtil AE SE - Scripting Utility Functions
Pretty Jump Animations
Sky_UI_5_2_SE
Sarcastic Player Dialogue
SKSE 64
Skyland AIO 1k
Simply Bigger Trees SE
Pretty Jump Animations
Sky_UI_5_2_SE
Sarcastic Player Dialogue
SKSE 64
Skyland AIO 1k
Simply Bigger Trees SE
what I'm really excited about with this mod is the patch with the Vigilant mod, having serana kill molag ball with the bard dagger is exactly the kind of dramatic irony I'm waiting for, it feel like the logical end to her character arc
That would be cool!
"I don't like ash, it's routh and iritating. And it gets everywhere !"
Serana - 4E201, during her first visit to Solstheim.
Inigo left and went back to prison after hearing Serana sing.
Not everyone should be an opera singer. When a follower doesn't sing like an angel, i really don't mind. Doesn't that make it I M M E R S I V E?
@@falloutrains2641 tell that to inigo.
Best quote "who ever said that you should never cry over slipped milk clearly never slipped milk "
I'm also of the "adventuring party" bent, and prefer the group feeling to solo RPGs. I particularly like using SDA with Inigo, Lucien, Viljia, Auri, and IDF-Lydia (with all of the relevant patches) since most of those followers have various levels of banter with each other, and it really gives me the "Dragon Age: Origins/D&D Party" vibe I prefer. You can do this with some newer follower mods too, like Remial, Xelzaz, and Redcap, I just like the writing for the older followers more personally.
This was definitely a mod I couldn’t live without, it made everything new for me, especially starting the main quest before becoming Dragonborn, I love this mod 😊
I love that you put the dragon age inquisition Sara was never tavern song in the video
WE MUST SAVE MY FAMILY!
Great review, I agree 100%.
WE MUST SAVE MY FAMILY!
Oh hai Steve
@@chriscormac231......
Gary...
I'll be right back
harkon asking serana if she has the scroll when you can clearly see serana carrying the scroll is such a dick move
This is an amazing review of the mod. I'd love to see more!
I'm not long into the video, but it's very well made so far! Love videos about the Dawnguard DLC, it honestly felt more like the main quest than the actual main quest
It's a cool mod and the voice actor does a good job, In my opinion however it screws with my head that it's not Laura Bailey. I've been hearing this woman's voice in video games since I was in junior high between Rayne in ..Well Bloodrayne, Kait from Gears, and several others. That's just me though
We will be watching your career with great interest
I love SDA but I personally prefer Improved Follower Dialogue - Lydia. With that mod, Lydia is my favourite follower in modded Skyrim. While SDA has more content, I personally feel like Lydia is better written. My main problem is how Serana falls head over heels for you immediately while you actually have to prove yourself to Lydia who is a bit skeptical about your feats. While it may seem like her character progresses too fast too, going on a few sidequests and not immediately skipping to the main quests makes her character more interesting. But SDA will always have a place in my heart and my load order which it will nver leave.
Great video! Would love to see more!
great mod review, and lol that ending was hilarious
I am gonna be honest this video is really great and I am glad I found your channel I am really looking forward to the stuff you will do in the future as Subsriber no.2
Thank you so much! I appreciate it.
Ok, just for adding that bit from Sword Art Abridged, you get a sub XD. That always made me laugh, that one just glitching out " WE MUST SAVE MY FAMILY!!" XD
The second I found this mod on Xbox I fell in love, well fell in love again, before I played Dawnguard for the first time about 5 or 6 years ago I basically never touched any of the companions in Skyrim, I preferred just being a solo character that was self reliant, but when I was able to have Serana as a companion, she definitely felt different than say Cosnach, Lydia or Jenassa, she had depth to her as a character that wasn't there with any other companion, she was amazing.
This mod is easily a 100/10, the VA's voice is beautiful and the quality of the voice work is impeccable too, I found a visual overhaul mod for Serana called "Anima Nera - Serkethetyt's Serana Overhaul" that gave her such a good compliment to the mod (In my opinion at least), with a small little detail of having a facial scar that the mod implies is thanks to Molag Bal, giving a hint that what Molag Bal wasn't only mental, but physical.
I wish I saw this video sooner, but UA-cam seems to have given quite a few people this video to see via recommended.
The face change for serana in this video makes her look like she wouldn't be out of place on a 50s sitcom or sabrina
Great video, informative and hilarius! 🙂😂. I'm currently in a new Skyrim gameplay and I'll be sure to check this mod out 😉
"I always wondered why she never had anything to say about this quest in particular in the base game" -- Because Bugthesda could never cook this good, like modders do.
I still regret always playing through the DLCs after the main quest when I played Skyrim. I missed out on so much dialogue with Serena because she joined me so late.
I'm so happy that this mod uses a real VA and not AI. It feels genuine and emotional.
I have to agree in that the house of horrors quest is masterfully directed and becomes an entirely different beast with this mod. I was roleplaying as a paladin, since the game doesn't provide enough avenues to role play properly, I had to make my own fun with a set of self imposed rules. On this one, the paladin was a follower of Miridia, so the rules where. Never to kill an innocent, never work for other deadra, never ignore the undead and hunt them down there where I found them. With all this, when I did this quest with Serana I was trying to find a way to not kill the follower of stendar. I was blocking, parrying, dodging. And during all this I was hearing her screams. I didn't struggle for very long, I made a choice. And as penance I forsake that character from using weapons again.
I have yet to play my game with this Serana mod installed but I will soon. Btw for anyone wanting to see better stories in Skyrim, I recommend installing the Vigilant quest mod.
Its a quest mod related to Molag Bal and the Alessian Order, extremely well written and lore friendly. Honestly it puts Bethesda writing to shame. Also Serana SDA next update will give her content related to Vigilant, and knowing how the story in Vigilant goes, anyone who is a Serana fan and uses SDA will definitely enjoy playing through Vigilant with her, I am sure.
Since seeing the title of this video I was dreading it features Neural Network voices. Glad to be proven wrong.
And I'm glad that somebody did Serana justice. Compared to other companions in vanilla Skyrim (to be after Lydia I stopped trying, but I heard there is at least one fan favorite) Serana was a breath of fresh... dusty, tomb.. air.
Well, DLC made her much more interesting than most of the main story characters combined.
But on my subsequent playthrough I realized how much is she lacking as a regular companion outside the context of seeing her in this DLC for the first time. I grew to despise her just as she despises Skyrim's weather. And caves. Outdoors. Nights, days. After the main storyline ends she goes back to being a soulless husk that is Skyrim companion NPC.
Serana was a great Dawnguard main plot character, but she is only marginally better than your average Skyrim companion character and that fail is on Bethesda. Their games usually don't end when the story ends and they didn't design their companions well enough to be around them all the time.
There is little voiced dialogue and not a lot of companion writing in Baldur's Gate 2 all in all, but the voice talent and direction is so good, their response "barks" become their characterization over the course the game. You hear them over and over again, but you don't grow to despise them, they become part of your long term memory over one or two or several long playthroughs.
If somebody did Serana right, it sounds awesome! Not that I can stand the dullness of Skyrim gameplay anymore.
Can't wait for the vigilant update!
I do like this mod, though I'm so used to the original voice actor that Serana sounds like she went from a mature woman to a seductive young woman, which is fine but JUST noticeable.
You've made a strategic mistake by putting "Sera was never" in the background. I was seriously considering downloading this mod before I start the Dawnguard DLC in my current playthrough of Skyrim, but alas, now I HAVE to spend 200 more hours in DAI. This is your fault!😅
As impressive as SDA is on paper it didn't really resonate with me in-game. Just don't seem like Serana but someone headcanon of what they wanted Serana to be. Vanilla Serana barely open up and is recluse, SDA makes her into the opposite and for me that's not Serana. It's not an expansion to her character but a complete overhaul.
I feel the same way.
Hard agree. If it was any other vampire or original character follower, it would be great
But at it's fundamental core, the characterization goes in the complete opposite direction of who Serana is as we see through the Dawnguard DLC. I just can't reconcile that, and unfortunately, I can't enjoy the mod--no matter how many times I reinstall and give it a shot
Serena is quite possibly the best character that Bethesda has ever created.
I might be in the minority here, but I'm not a big fan of the SDA mod. I love Kirsten Unger's voice acting, just not how Serana was written. In some ways, she's worse than the OG version with Laura Bailey. She develops a really weird romantic obsession with the Dragonborn character (which is the main appeal of the mod, let's be honest) in a really inauthentic way. I found her desperation to be kinda icky tbh. It seems that they took the original version and made her into a "vampire wifu with daddy issues" archetype. It almost feels like a mockery of the original version, it's frankly embarrassing. However, I do appreciate some of the additonal dialogue outside of the Dawngaurd quest. Overall, I think the modders did a decent job at fleshing out her character more, but some parts of her character (particularly the romance) were a bit forced. I feel that they could have introduced the romance option until after Dawngaurd quest was completed, as this would feel more natural compared to "hey let's forget about saving the world for a minute and fuck at this sacred glade because I'm horny." Just gross.
Subbed.
I had basically the same experience with this mod and god… let’s just say I love vampires way more now.
What a wonderful video! In truth, I almost wish Skyrim was a bit smaller, so this sort of thing could have been the norm in the actual game. I'd take a smaller game, if the world itself felt more involved and the characters were more dynamic.
SDA literally dragged me back to skyrim
The Dragonborn's soul is going to delete Molag Bal from the gian't dream.
I switch up secondary follower mods from time to time but sda has a permanent spot on the load order.
SDA banter with inigo and auri is so funny, i hope my favorite follower lucien also can banter with SDA in the future!
My only real gripe is the pacing of the romance, it feels far to fast and I’m a fan of slow burn romances.
The narrative dissonance of walking into sad and desolate Soul Cairn and having her confess to you is a bit off though. I'd rather that forced dialogue be moved somewhere after you get out of there, like in her mother's laboratory.
Good video, but i have to ask: Why SDA instead of any of the other follower mods available on the Nexus? Is it just because it's Serana? Also, if you haven't tried the others, you definitely should. For example, SDA and Auri have conversations, and theres plenty others that'll talk to eachother.
Not gonna lie, I still have yet to try some of them out. There's a lot of good mods.
Is this 4.1 version because I used 2.8
Ive probably spent more time with Serana in Skyrim than any other character in a game XD
Ayt does she interact with Sa'achil the Khaajit
I just wonder, how her lines (especially the romance options) would conflict with Amorous Adventures.
hmm wait.. no Seranaholic?
Amorous Adventures quest totally disable for Serana.
Depends of version AA it will be automatically or needs to download a patch.
Check out serana expanded
I downloaded SDA because my vanilla Serana kept bugging out after the Dawnguard storyline and wouldn’t follow me out of Fort Dawnguard. If Bethesda didn’t want her to wind up being my spouse, they shoulda fixed more of their bugs…
If I could figure out how to turn off Serana resurrecting corpses I would use her more. I find it intensely annoying.
Thanks, now I have another mod to download. No I don't have a problem, I can stop anytime I want!
Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh what am I saying? Of course you don't.
Shes the best vanilla follower as far as dialogue etc.... but inigo,gore, sachil etc... are all better imo. She talks about being a alchemist alot of stuff doesn't fit the darker nature if the family.
so glad i got my custom convo in money well spent for sda lol
"There is a platonic route you can take, but I could never bring myself to do it cause I'm a massive SIMP"
Yup, that's me. Great video btw, glad I found your channel ♥
It's an insanely good mod! You did a great job spotlighting it. Everyone should have this as a mandatory part of their load order!
You still use FNIS 😬
Might be great for some, but IMO it just doesn't fit, plus you're missing out on Laura Bailey
I can see it took a lot of work but I just prefer a lore friendly experience for my game. She was a bit too corny and horny/ out of character for me.
Really glad to see this mod getting some love! It was literally one of the top reasons why I decided to buy Skyrim on Steam so I could get into playing with mods, because I was so excited that someone expanded on Serana's character in such an interesting way. After playing the mod and romancing her, I was not disappointed. I do get some of the valid criticisms, but at the end of the day I think the writer and voice actor did justice to one of the most (if not THE most) compelling characters in Skyrim.
I don't know....this version of Serana sounds a bit stilted and unnatural. Like the voice actor is pushing herself to speak in a certain way this is unnatural to her. It might be the dialogue itself, it looks like it was written more to be read, rather than spoken out loud.
she sounds like an actor on a theater stage
I dislike this mod so much. I am a Fan of the character Serana that we are first introduced to in the game, (not talking about looks, mods for body model changes don't bother me much its the character personality I like and their voice) voiced by Laura Bailey. That Serana as portrayed in the game is not some naive lustful female which is what this mod makes her out to be.
This mod is fine if you are using lovers lab mods and really don't care about the character of Serana. I use LL mods for some of my characters and with females that don't have a great deal of backstory about them, like Aela or Lydia for example. For my male Nord warrior that selects Serana, even with the LL mods, her acting completely out of character where one minute she is behaving one way then next minute she is acting so different breaks the immersion, especially since out of character I know Serana doesn't act anything like that.
With other not so fleshed out characters like Lydia for example, I could fantasize that cause they never put much into her characters personality to say how'd she'd be on a number of things.
With Serana the line she gives you about a vampire girl very early in the Dawnguard storyline an as you learn more about her later as you speak with her, it is easy to learn that she is not like that. This mod makes her out to be more like a teenage girl starving for sex. I saw this mod when it came out real early where it only added dialogue on top of Laura Bailey's original Dialogue, and then the mod really did a great injustice by completely removing Laura Bailey's dialogue all together by replacing all Serana's voice dialogue to match that of the actress that plays her for this mod. No thanks.
IF you are a Fan of the original Serana voice acted by Laura bailey with the original characters personality then you will want to avoid this mod cause it completely changes Serana.
You will know this if you have played the Dawnguard DLC as much as I have.
However, If you are bored of Dawnguard and Serana and looking to make them into something completely new then I guess this is a mod for you.
People that don’t like SDA just like boring ass vanilla written characters. All the mods that overhaul or expand characters are the best type of mods in this game
I hate her cause she's making fun of Inigo
The few minutes of conversation I've seen through your video already far surpasses any NPC dialog I've heard in Skyrim, though to be fair, I did play it mostly around the time of release and found it... lukewarm.
Wait is this voice actor Azula from Avatar?? I didn't really notice until she started tryin to flirt and I was like wait is that azula?!
no, serana's original voice actress is laura bailey, at timestamp 4:29 the new VA is credited.
Grey delisle griffin does azula from atla.
I really enjoyed this fresh take on Serana's character, and the Dawnguard adventures! After that, Serana became a little clingy for my taste though.
Someone who was funny and mysterious is now desperately fawning over me, asking daily if I remember the two things we've done together. Serana is not real, but my guilt is. Go platonic unless you want to pity date Serana, which kills her for me :|
I miss Laura Bailey and your Serana looks like a possessed doll. Cool mod idea but in the modern day I think AI and a Laura Bailey voice mod would work way better
I didn't like this mod. It turned Serana from constantly whining about everything to being a lot more "slutty", if you will.
Thank you, she talks like she is just a walking dtf invite lol
So breaking the Seranacharacter for simps ^^
the work in this mod is great, but I dont like it. I played it :D They should stay on the character
Go out touch some grass
I think you need to touch some grass, no need to be rude.
Sarana is overrated.