May 25, 2013 12:11 AM EDT
First play through I played a dark elf assassin with no mods installed (I play PC, just didn't have a powerful enough one at the time), and I HATED followers (traps, sneak failures, etc.). This play through I have a much better machine and am running a battlemage who uses 2 handed to close in combat and have quite a few increased difficulty mods installed , so I wanted to give followers another try, and I will say with a few mods they can be super fun!
-UFO: ultimate follower overhaul, let's you have up to 15 followers and gives you group commands in the form of new shouts (super useful)
-also a mod (forgot the name) that gives followers a perk that makes it impossible for them to trigger traps.
If you have a pc and want to try to use followers, I cannot recommend those 2 mods enough!