Well, hopefully it isn't an MMO. Can't stand MMOs. And anyway I refuse to pay a subscription fee for those things.
It's totally gonna' be an MMO. :P
I could have sworn there were rumors and hints about an MMO from Bethesda from quite some time ago. Apparently at the beginning of the year, court filings suggested Bethesda was working on an MMO not related to the Fallout series. ZeniMax also registered the domain elderscrollsonline, which they said was to prevent people from buying the name and trying to sell it to them later.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it's an MMO. I really hope it's not, though.
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Well, hopefully it isn't an MMO. Can't stand MMOs. And anyway I refuse to pay a subscription fee for those things.
It's totally gonna' be an MMO. :P
I could have sworn there were rumors and hints about an MMO from Bethesda from quite some time ago. Apparently at the beginning of the year, court filings suggested Bethesda was working on an MMO not related to the Fallout series. ZeniMax also registered the domain elderscrollsonline, which they said was to prevent people from buying the name and trying to sell it to them later.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it's an MMO. I really hope it's not, though.
That would be an excellent way of making me swearing off the Elder Scrolls world once and for all. With the good writers gone and the next game a MMO there would be nothing left for me in that particular franchise. Hopefully I'm wrong and we'll get another single-player TES game.
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TES games really don't need to be MMOs. That would be such a mistake. Part of the charm and atmosphere is basically running around by your lonesome and not knowing what the fuck you're going to run into. Other players would completely destroy that.
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TES games really don't need to be MMOs. That would be such a mistake. Part of the charm and atmosphere is basically running around by your lonesome and not knowing what the fuck you're going to run into. Other players would completely destroy that.
Yeah I don't want to see the next TES game be an MMO.
However, I gotta say I wouldn't mind being able to run around with a few buddies in Multi. :P
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Well, hopefully it isn't an MMO. Can't stand MMOs. And anyway I refuse to pay a subscription fee for those things.
It's totally gonna' be an MMO. :P
I could have sworn there were rumors and hints about an MMO from Bethesda from quite some time ago. Apparently at the beginning of the year, court filings suggested Bethesda was working on an MMO not related to the Fallout series. ZeniMax also registered the domain elderscrollsonline, which they said was to prevent people from buying the name and trying to sell it to them later.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it's an MMO. I really hope it's not, though.
I've heard those rumors, but deep down I still hope TES5 is a separate thing.
I think you guys are being overly dramatic, although The Witcher 2 is definitely going to be fuck-awesome. Fuck-awesome is a level beyond just regular awesome, as we all know.
I just hope these European developers learn how to do party members well. The Witcher 2 looks like it might do it right. Drakensang wasn't a bad RPG, although your party members may as well not have been in the game at all. They essentially said nothing, and you couldn't really interact with them, either. They were just combat drones for you to command and nothing more. I want some interaction, God dammit.
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I think you guys are being overly dramatic, although The Witcher 2 is definitely going to be fuck-awesome. Fuck-awesome is a level beyond just regular awesome, as we all know.
I just hope these European developers learn how to do party members well. The Witcher 2 looks like it might do it right. Drakensang wasn't a bad RPG, although your party members may as well not have been in the game at all. They essentially said nothing, and you couldn't really interact with them, either. They were just combat drones for you to command and nothing more. I want some interaction, God dammit.
Tying this back into TES, Morrowind specifically, Ive found that Thief Companion Constance to be very cool actually, one of the first mods ive installed on my new playthrough.
Given news of the plans for DA2 and what's happened to KOTOR, if TES goes MMO then western PC style RPGs will be basically done, right?
The Witcher 2.
Holding the whole genre on its shoulders.
Getting it done.
Truth be told those Eastern Europeans seem to be the last best hope for a lot of old genres.
Heh, those ex-Soviet states being 15-20 years behind everyone else in fads has proved beneficial to the rest of us. :P
i just hope the witcher 2 is not as boring as the witcher 1. it's one of those games I could not finish finish. just like oblivion and morrowind. I just get sidetracked, and then turn my character into an archer. After that I get bored and stop playing.
Given news of the plans for DA2 and what's happened to KOTOR, if TES goes MMO then western PC style RPGs will be basically done, right?
The Witcher 2.
Holding the whole genre on its shoulders.
Getting it done.
Truth be told those Eastern Europeans seem to be the last best hope for a lot of old genres.
Heh, those ex-Soviet states being 15-20 years behind everyone else in fads has proved beneficial to the rest of us. :P
i just hope the witcher 2 is not as boring as the witcher 1. it's one of those games I could not finish finish. just like oblivion and morrowind. I just get sidetracked, and then turn my character into an archer. After that I get bored and stop playing.
well if you took your ADHD medicine you wouldnt get so distracted
I thought FCOM's first time installer guide was pretty easy to follow. It's not as hard as it seemed. I think the big key is to download BOSS, which automatically sorts your load order to the best possible configuration. It works off of a master list that covers pretty much everything out there and is updated regularly.
I'd probably download that all-in-one pack, but I already downloaded all the damn files I need. I spent all day, ALL DAY, yesterday downloading and installing mods. My current mod folder is 4GB. And then last night I discovered I actually fucked up by installing the wrong OOO files (I downloaded something called 1.32 full, which was actually only a patch, 1.33 patch, and then the latest beta patch). When I started the game up, I noticed a ton of yellow boxes with exclamation points in them.
Now I'm re-downloading Oblivion through Steam so I can start the whole process again! I think I'll skip the, uh, shameful mods this time (most of them anyway!) to reduce the chance of conflicts.
Speaking of conflicts, some of the mods I tried to install seemed to conflict with the unofficial Shivering Isles patch. Mods like Animated Window Lighting System or the Underdark mod kept asking me if I wanted to overwrite files that were installed due to the unofficial patch. I think Open Better Cities also had this problem. I may not try to install that one this time. But do I really need the unofficial patches?
Currently, my main mods are FCOM using OOO, Francesco's, Mart's, and Warcry; Deadly Reflex Combat Moves; a number of companion mods - an army of females because I can't seem to find any good male ones; Better Cities 4.6; Unique Landscapes Compilation; Natural Environments; Alternative Start; Tamriel NPCs Revamped; Tamriel Travelers; Glenvar Castle; DarNified UI; Ren's Beauty Pack; Animated Window Lighting System; Clocks of Cyrodiil; and Let the People Drink. I also have Symphony of Violence, but I don't know if those new sounds will overwrite or conflict with Deadly Reflex Combat Moves.
Hopefully those will work well together. Does anyone have any other recommendations I might have missed?
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you know unless you delete the data folder in your common/obilvion directory then deleting/redownloading oblivion won't get rid of the mods.
I actually had to uninstall Oblivion in Steam manually by deleting all the folders. Steam was being goofy and wasn't deleting jack shit last night. I'd go to Delete Local Files, but then nothing would happen and Oblivion would stay marked as installed in my library.
This time, though, I'm going to back up my Data folder so I don't have to re-download the whole game if I fuck up.
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you know unless you delete the data folder in your common/obilvion directory then deleting/redownloading oblivion won't get rid of the mods.
I actually had to uninstall Oblivion in Steam manually by deleting all the folders. Steam was being goofy and wasn't deleting jack shit last night. I'd go to Delete Local Files, but then nothing would happen and Oblivion would stay marked as installed in my library.
This time, though, I'm going to back up my Data folder so I don't have to re-download the whole game if I fuck up.
sometime steam takes a while to do it if your harddrive is being used by something else even if you dont know what it is.
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MongerI got the ham stink.Dallas, TXRegistered Userregular
I thought FCOM's first time installer guide was pretty easy to follow. It's not as hard as it seemed. I think the big key is to download BOSS, which automatically sorts your load order to the best possible configuration. It works off of a master list that covers pretty much everything out there and is updated regularly.
I'd probably download that all-in-one pack, but I already downloaded all the damn files I need. I spent all day, ALL DAY, yesterday downloading and installing mods. My current mod folder is 4GB. And then last night I discovered I actually fucked up by installing the wrong OOO files (I downloaded something called 1.32 full, which was actually only a patch, 1.33 patch, and then the latest beta patch). When I started the game up, I noticed a ton of yellow boxes with exclamation points in them.
Now I'm re-downloading Oblivion through Steam so I can start the whole process again! I think I'll skip the, uh, shameful mods this time (most of them anyway!) to reduce the chance of conflicts.
Speaking of conflicts, some of the mods I tried to install seemed to conflict with the unofficial Shivering Isles patch. Mods like Animated Window Lighting System or the Underdark mod kept asking me if I wanted to overwrite files that were installed due to the unofficial patch. I think Open Better Cities also had this problem. I may not try to install that one this time. But do I really need the unofficial patches?
Currently, my main mods are FCOM using OOO, Francesco's, Mart's, and Warcry; Deadly Reflex Combat Moves; a number of companion mods - an army of females because I can't seem to find any good male ones; Better Cities 4.6; Unique Landscapes Compilation; Natural Environments; Alternative Start; Tamriel NPCs Revamped; Tamriel Travelers; Glenvar Castle; DarNified UI; Ren's Beauty Pack; Animated Window Lighting System; Clocks of Cyrodiil; and Let the People Drink. I also have Symphony of Violence, but I don't know if those new sounds will overwrite or conflict with Deadly Reflex Combat Moves.
Hopefully those will work well together. Does anyone have any other recommendations I might have missed?
-The key thing is to do mod installs in stages. Install Oblivion with unofficial patches, then check to make sure it works. Then install OOO and check to make sure it works. Then do the rest of the FCOM install and make sure it works. Something will undoubtedly go wrong, and you don't want to notice it after you have that many gigabytes of data spread across that many modules.
-Symphony of Violence works fine with Deadly Reflex.
-I still recommend Race Balancing Project. In addition to fixing a lot of dumbness with birthsigns, starting attributes, and intelligence/willpower function, the full version doubles as a hair and eye mod compilation. It even has an NPC diversity plugin specifically dedicated to distributing all the custom hair and eyes to the TNR faces, within TNR's design philosophy.
-Still highly recommend Realistic Leveling, SPAM, or Oblivion XP as a leveling mod, depending on how you want the game to play. Unless you really like vanilla leveling. Which you don't. Because it's awful.
-All Natural is superior to (yet includes) Natural Environments.
-I use Supreme Magicka to compliment Deadly Reflex. I assume it's FCOM compatible, but I have no idea.
welp keep getting crashes to desktop (i assume?) before the game even loads, a window called Oblivion opens and then closes immediately
probably gonna give up on this FCOM dealio and just get a bunch of other mods
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MongerI got the ham stink.Dallas, TXRegistered Userregular
edited August 2010
The instant crash thing is a lot of times due to something getting messed up in oblivion.ini. You might try deleting that file (documents/my games/oblivion) first to see if it helps. Issues with oblivion.ini persist after reinstalls, too, just so you know.
And Wrye Bash is pretty important. It allows your mods to not override each other's changes. For example, multiple mods can all at items to the same merchant's inventory, rather than only the last of them loaded.
i gave up on fcom, think i'll just stick with Francesco's leveled items and creatures and realistic junk (it seemed like the coolest of the mods that were combined) and probably Supreme Magicka.
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I've been playing Oblivion for the last two days. Impressions;
Magic is haxxor. I can either spend three minutes beating someone to death with my giant hammer (while they pound on me) or I can throw one DOT spell at them and laugh while they melt.
Oh Dear Sweet Jebus why didn't I figure out there was fast travel sooner? So much of my life wasted.
this francesco's leveled creatures and items mod is coolness if it is the one that made everything more difficult than when i first played oblivion
every fight is actually tough! hope my roguemage is as fun as i think its gonna be... i just keep imagining crazy scenarios in which i get away with magic or something, like i pull a crazy heist and as the guards catch me i get away with water walking and some kind of speed boost, haha
also i took conjuration to describe myself as the "one man army"
I've been playing Oblivion for the last two days. Impressions;
Magic is haxxor. I can either spend three minutes beating someone to death with my giant hammer (while they pound on me) or I can throw one DOT spell at them and laugh while they melt.
Oh Dear Sweet Jebus why didn't I figure out there was fast travel sooner? So much of my life wasted.
How many goddamn Mage Guilds are there?
If you want broken, enchant 5 wearable items with chameleon 20% [the highest you can enchant]
You are invisible, and people completely ignore you even as you punch them in the face.
You kidding? They're fun, once you've played through the game a few times and you just want to have ridiculous fun.. *bam* "where are you?" *bam* *argh!*
Have you never played a game on god mode after completing it?
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It's totally gonna' be an MMO. :P
I could have sworn there were rumors and hints about an MMO from Bethesda from quite some time ago. Apparently at the beginning of the year, court filings suggested Bethesda was working on an MMO not related to the Fallout series. ZeniMax also registered the domain elderscrollsonline, which they said was to prevent people from buying the name and trying to sell it to them later.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it's an MMO. I really hope it's not, though.
PSN: Threeve703
Yeah I don't want to see the next TES game be an MMO.
However, I gotta say I wouldn't mind being able to run around with a few buddies in Multi. :P
It's going to be an MMO.
I've always wanted TES multiplayer, but I mean like... 4 people. Maybe 8. And huge dungeons.
(Please do not gift. My game bank is already full.)
I've heard those rumors, but deep down I still hope TES5 is a separate thing.
(Please do not gift. My game bank is already full.)
Holding the whole genre on its shoulders.
Getting it done.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Truth be told those Eastern Europeans seem to be the last best hope for a lot of old genres.
Heh, those ex-Soviet states being 15-20 years behind everyone else in fads has proved beneficial to the rest of us. :P
Fixed.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
I just hope these European developers learn how to do party members well. The Witcher 2 looks like it might do it right. Drakensang wasn't a bad RPG, although your party members may as well not have been in the game at all. They essentially said nothing, and you couldn't really interact with them, either. They were just combat drones for you to command and nothing more. I want some interaction, God dammit.
Tying this back into TES, Morrowind specifically, Ive found that Thief Companion Constance to be very cool actually, one of the first mods ive installed on my new playthrough.
well if you took your ADHD medicine you wouldnt get so distracted
all these sites redirect me to more fucking sites
is there somebody who has done something cool like combining everything i need for FCOM into one neat little packaged rar
I think someone posted an all-in-one fcom torrent several pages back.
It's an omod so you use the oblivion mod manager to install it and don't have to do any of the other crazy stuff.
Entirely unimpressed, but at least its finally done..Time to delete it and move on to another in the log
thanks!
I'd probably download that all-in-one pack, but I already downloaded all the damn files I need. I spent all day, ALL DAY, yesterday downloading and installing mods. My current mod folder is 4GB. And then last night I discovered I actually fucked up by installing the wrong OOO files (I downloaded something called 1.32 full, which was actually only a patch, 1.33 patch, and then the latest beta patch). When I started the game up, I noticed a ton of yellow boxes with exclamation points in them.
Now I'm re-downloading Oblivion through Steam so I can start the whole process again! I think I'll skip the, uh, shameful mods this time (most of them anyway!) to reduce the chance of conflicts.
Speaking of conflicts, some of the mods I tried to install seemed to conflict with the unofficial Shivering Isles patch. Mods like Animated Window Lighting System or the Underdark mod kept asking me if I wanted to overwrite files that were installed due to the unofficial patch. I think Open Better Cities also had this problem. I may not try to install that one this time. But do I really need the unofficial patches?
Currently, my main mods are FCOM using OOO, Francesco's, Mart's, and Warcry; Deadly Reflex Combat Moves; a number of companion mods - an army of females because I can't seem to find any good male ones; Better Cities 4.6; Unique Landscapes Compilation; Natural Environments; Alternative Start; Tamriel NPCs Revamped; Tamriel Travelers; Glenvar Castle; DarNified UI; Ren's Beauty Pack; Animated Window Lighting System; Clocks of Cyrodiil; and Let the People Drink. I also have Symphony of Violence, but I don't know if those new sounds will overwrite or conflict with Deadly Reflex Combat Moves.
Hopefully those will work well together. Does anyone have any other recommendations I might have missed?
I actually had to uninstall Oblivion in Steam manually by deleting all the folders. Steam was being goofy and wasn't deleting jack shit last night. I'd go to Delete Local Files, but then nothing would happen and Oblivion would stay marked as installed in my library.
This time, though, I'm going to back up my Data folder so I don't have to re-download the whole game if I fuck up.
sometime steam takes a while to do it if your harddrive is being used by something else even if you dont know what it is.
-Symphony of Violence works fine with Deadly Reflex.
-I still recommend Race Balancing Project. In addition to fixing a lot of dumbness with birthsigns, starting attributes, and intelligence/willpower function, the full version doubles as a hair and eye mod compilation. It even has an NPC diversity plugin specifically dedicated to distributing all the custom hair and eyes to the TNR faces, within TNR's design philosophy.
-Still highly recommend Realistic Leveling, SPAM, or Oblivion XP as a leveling mod, depending on how you want the game to play. Unless you really like vanilla leveling. Which you don't. Because it's awful.
-All Natural is superior to (yet includes) Natural Environments.
-I use Supreme Magicka to compliment Deadly Reflex. I assume it's FCOM compatible, but I have no idea.
-This website for all your texture and lod needs.
-There's like a hundred little mods I recommend, but it's been long enough since I've messed with Oblivion that I'm having trouble remembering them.
-Mouse Cast is awesome.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
any idea how important that thing is?
probably gonna give up on this FCOM dealio and just get a bunch of other mods
And Wrye Bash is pretty important. It allows your mods to not override each other's changes. For example, multiple mods can all at items to the same merchant's inventory, rather than only the last of them loaded.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
And by 'cool kids,' I mean 'Monger.'
All the Monger use TIE.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Magic is haxxor. I can either spend three minutes beating someone to death with my giant hammer (while they pound on me) or I can throw one DOT spell at them and laugh while they melt.
Oh Dear Sweet Jebus why didn't I figure out there was fast travel sooner? So much of my life wasted.
How many goddamn Mage Guilds are there?
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Also there are a buttload of mods you NEED to use (unless you're on the Xbox of course).
My recent favorite is the global damage increaser, so you can actually kill something with melee.
every fight is actually tough! hope my roguemage is as fun as i think its gonna be... i just keep imagining crazy scenarios in which i get away with magic or something, like i pull a crazy heist and as the guards catch me i get away with water walking and some kind of speed boost, haha
also i took conjuration to describe myself as the "one man army"
If you want broken, enchant 5 wearable items with chameleon 20% [the highest you can enchant]
You are invisible, and people completely ignore you even as you punch them in the face.
You kidding? They're fun, once you've played through the game a few times and you just want to have ridiculous fun.. *bam* "where are you?" *bam* *argh!*
Have you never played a game on god mode after completing it?
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