I've yet to try dac0da myself but it looks fun and less insane compared to vicn's crazy fanfiction mods(...) I wonder if someone made a mod that replaces the Dark Souls armor and weapons with more "Skyrim friendly" equipment?
My first time playing VICN's trilogy is what really made me love the Elder Scrolls lore, and every major update of his work that added new stuff for me to look at just gave me a fuller appreciation for the setting. It's a hell of an interpretation, of course, but mixing the aesthetics of the Soulsbornekiroring franchise and re-interpreting similar themes and scenarios inside the Elder Scrolls universe is... It's just sublime, peak kino for my tastes and what I think a good mod should be. Very inspirational! I can only hope to be so grossly incandescent.
Every time I play through
Pelinal's memories and slaughtering the Aurorans, getting ambushed by Laza, cutting through the legions of Order, finally going against Molag Bal, teaching ancano to forgive... Coming back to Nirn to meet Lalanoah and Brand, or tearing apart the chick traders to save Lalanoah, and always being doomed to fail... that made me understand what 'Doom Driven' is supposed to mean in the lore. , it's all such a lovely experience the entire way through. It's the best fever dream in a game I've ever had, and it's from the demented mind of some jap! Frankly, it's not even nearly as psychotic as Kirkbride's weirder stuff. That is, In my opinion, for the better, which I think you'd agree.
Anyway, in my book, any mod that gives me a more fulsome appreciation for the entirety of the game series is an automatic S tier, especially if it can convey the crazy lore aspects at the same time. But, maybe I'm easily impressed.
Only vaguely related but it's something that makes me laugh whenever I remember it, my favorite heavy armor mod is the Northern God armor, and it's always tickled me pink how both Vicn (a jap) and 4thunknown (a russki) arrived to the same conclusion that "okay, the Faraam set is obviously Talos related". Isn't something about that charming? Anyway, I've only found stuff adjusting everything in the VICN trilogy to have better textures, but no remeshes to lessen the obvious soulskirobornering aspect. Then again, that's another of my favorite series and it's never bothered me in the first place. So, maybe I need to look harder?
I'm really looking forward to dac0da. I'm a little scared of Kirkbride's nonsense being directly used by VICN, but I have faith it'll be sick to run through anyway.
