So, to have the best possible Skyrim experience, I absolutely come down on the side of the original with your mods of choice installed.
This will require manhours that may not be possible, and many creators have long moved on.
Of course, it's not the only factor: the other is that the Special Edition does not yet support many mods, and all those we came to rely upon in the original have to be ported across. This is the platform that will see the most evolution in the near future. If minor appearance changes were the only factor, I'd say go for the Special Edition if you're planning on a slightly lengthy return to Skyrim, as that's where mods will now focus and there are almost certainly going to be patches. There's no way you'd ever mistake Skyrim Special Edition for a true 2016 game, but sometimes it does seem a year or two younger than it really is. On the other hand, in some scenes the original looks noticeably more drab, and the depth of field effects makes NPC conversations look a little fancier than they did. Bloom, particularly, seems overdone in some Special Edition scenes, resulting in a greater sense of contrast and detail in the original. Not from some Paul Weller Fan purism, but because the two were so similar, save for a inspecific sense that the balance of brightness and sharpness seemed more comfortable on the original. Ultimately, I came damned closed to preferring the original. I switched repeatedly between it and an unmodded Skyrim original install with Bethesda's official high-res texture pack added in, and it didn't take long to reach that perfect pitch of meaningless insanity that is deciding between two different shades of white to paint your bathroom. Lighting gets a boost, in a way that will probably prove divisive if anything, and it goes out of its way to show off a new but ultimately incidental depth of field effect in its introductory sequence. The special edition boasts various new graphical features on paper, but in practice you'll be hard pushed to notice many of them. A brand new, truly 2016 Skyrim this is not - but it might yet be.
If anything, you might find that it's a step down from your modded original Skyrim with the Bethesda high-res texture pack, and a dark return to the infuriating official interface to boot.
Play it today and you'll be lucky to feel there's been any meaningful change. Though consolefolk are revelling in a spike from fuzzy 720p to crisp-textured 1080, on PC The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition is about as transformational as wiping the toilet seat (well, depending on who exactly used it before you did).
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