The Elder Scrolls

[dick brain]

The fucking game let you move faster if you have a high Athletics, Speed and Armor skill.
How newest audiences can't even know this. Wtf.

Buddy we're talking about people who can't watch a thirty second video if it isn't split screened with subway surfers or Minecraft parkour.

If TESVI is anything more mentally demanding than Ass Creed or Bamham City it will be a miracle.

 

[CryptoHermit]

A man to watch: Vigawatt has some kino quest mods in Morrowind focusing on the professions the NPC describe to you when you ask after "my trade". You follow around professionals at their jobs and help them out of their troubles. He also has a Sheogorath daedric quest.
The Professionals mod

The Professionals is a small quest mod series that shines a spotlight on professions or likely professions within Elder Scrolls. These are not grand adventures, these are ordinary requests by ordinary people who want to share their profession with you. This first installment includes:

The Caravaner: You have used his services dozens of times, but you probably do not even know his name. It is Selvil Sareloth, the silt strider caravaner of Balmora. You have spent many hours with him atop his strider, and now he has a solemn favor to ask.

The Savant: Savants are people of wide learning, people who speak with authority on many subjects. But how does one become recognized as a savant? Savants undergo intense training to become as knowledgeable as they are. You are too old to become a full savant, but Raviso Andalas in Molag Mar is willing to give you some basic savant training.

The Glassmaker: St. Delyn is the patron saint of potters and glassmakers, but who are these glassmakers? Bradil Elarven is one. He needs some help around his workshop as he finishes a custom order for an annoying client.

The Monk: The people whisper that you fulfill a prophecy, the gods demand that you shoulder a great responsibility, but Thelas Vodan has one question: How are you? Mentally, spiritually. Allow Thelas to help you with the burdens of your travels by sending you on a journey in search of self discovery.

The Professionals 2

The Bookbinder: There are books in almost every house and store, but who makes these books? Merric is one such bookbinder. He is doing just fine with his current order...until you enter his shop.

The Chandler: St. Olms is the patron saint of chandlers and clerks. What is a chandler? Someone who makes and sells candles! Pellecia Aurrus runs a small candle shop in Ald'ruhn. She has a request for you, but don't tell the guards. Pellecia is interested in those Sixth House candles that burn with a red flame. Can you...get one for her?

The Medico: A Medico is a practitioner of medicine, a specialty of healing that does not use magic. Joncis Adrard studies ailments that healing magic cannot cure. His assistant quit recently and he is in need of some help with his patients.

The Trader: Tervur Braven is a trader in the bustling city of Vivec. He needs some new merchandise so his shop can stand out among his competitors. But before he can trust you to get new merchandise, he needs to see how you perform on the other side of the counter dealing with customers.

Sanity Lost - Reading Sheogorath's book, the Folium Discognitum, has cost you your sanity

Drinking and Delving - Telvanni quest mod - This one is great, it adds a Sload Necromancer as a member of House Telvanni who asks you to recover a lost Sload Relic...

 

[Nigidius the Needy]

Younger gamers can't play older games because of the old graphics and in Oblivion's case the lack of a sprint option. Bethesda needs a win now or else Microsoft will shut them down after TES: VI fails in a few years. An Oblivion remake will bring in a lot of money from console tards and normies that can't figure out how to mod. Skyblivion looks good because it's using SkyUI and the preview videos are using an ENB to make it look good. There's no way a normie could figure out how to install skse, SkyUI, an ENB, and every other mod needed.

Small correction: Preview videos of Skyblivion don‘t actually use any ENB or other visual mods. It‘s just good custom weathers. Additionally, a lot of the meshes were „split“ so they can handle more lights hitting them at the same time (similar to how the mod „Lux“ is doing it“). Inventory uses a SkyUi fork but that will be integrated into Skyblivion.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Buddy we're talking about people who can't watch a thirty second video if it isn't split screened with subway surfers or Minecraft parkour.

I watched a guy play morrowind mostly unmodded and he said "I read that spears are best used to stab" and not once did he talk about missing attacks cause he also read that you have to hold down the button. STILL people roasted him. At this point people just suffer through morrowind for the memes and the "yeah i beat that" bragging rights.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

 

[Lone Wandering Courier]

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Holy fuck, has it really been that long?

 

[TheHarbinger]

Holy fuck, has it really been that long?

Skyrim was released in November of 2011. Elder Scrolls VI was announced at 2018 E3 in June. But it was obvious that the announcement was nothing more than a placeholder trailer with nothing to show beyond them simply saying that they were "making the game". In 2023 during an FTC hearing Microsoft said that the next Elder Scrolls game was more than five years from launch. Which was also an "optimistic" projection.

Based on what we've seen of Fallout 76 and Starfield. And how poorly Microsoft has been handling their developers post mergers. I would not put much hope in the next Elder Scrolls or Fallout games being anything other than mediocre if not offensively terrible. With release dates still closer to a decade away than releasing in the next year or two.

The hype is dead. The franchises probably next. Xbox probably even before then.

 

[Übertroon]

Just let the people making Elder Scrolls Online make the sequel.
The MMO is a mid RPG, but at least they're productive and seem to care more about lore and just writing in general compared to the people behind Fallout 4 and Starfield.

Been playing a bit more ESO and I wish the content wasn't so reliant on just FOMO factor.
Like the only reward worth anything is the motifs, style pages, and event rewards, and they want you to grind those events and dungeons to get those rewards. I guess it's one way to keep the game feel alive. The current event has so many people around that a dragon world boss goes down in like 10 aeconds

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

seem to care more about lore and just writing in general compared to the people behind Fallout 4 and Starfield.

You know, despite the...questionable moments, they do seem to add more flavor to the game lore wise than Bethesda has done. Not much more but a noticeable amount. I wonder if they would've added Sky Whales if they made Skyrim.

Been playing a bit more ESO and I wish the content wasn't so reliant on just FOMO factor.

I mean it's an MMO, that's not surprising. Does it do more than other MMOs? FOMO is sadly a part of this generation of online games.

 

[Übertroon]

I mean it's an MMO, that's not surprising. Does it do more than other MMOs? FOMO is sadly a part of this generation of online games.

I would say it does more than the other big ones.
FF14 probably is the least reliant on FOMO. 99% of the content is never retired, and what outfits that are temporary will eventually be permanently available in the store.
SWTOR is also not that reliant on FOMO. Events always rerun and bring with them all the old unlocks. Store has sales, but always has everything available. A bit more lopsided when it comes to in game content vs store content.
I haven't played Guild Wars 2 since it launched, but I think it's in the same ballpark.
The only one of the big ones that has gotten worse than ESO is WoW.
WoW wasn't too bad until Cataclysm nuked 90% of the old content.
A lot of
"Who is this guy?"
"Oh, he's from the Mists of Pandaria legendary gear storyline. They removed that entire storyline 5 years ago"
Their playerbase riots whenever the devs toy with the idea of bringing back old rewards from temporary events so this is both the fault of devs and a shitty playerbase.

 

[CryptoHermit]

Posting mods for Morrowind:
RuffinVangarr has made a quest mod for Hammerfell "Ansei Warrior" armour. He's a been a Tamriel Rebuilt contributor for a while and his focus is on new amour designs, his Imperial Battlemage armour designs are INSANE imo. He's also a big dungeon quest called The Devil's Doorstep , I like him a lot because he did a lot of work on Investigations at Tel Eurus which an awesome mod focused on Telvanni nonsense where they invite Sload to a research pact on Dwemer stuff with predictable results. He's got a Xitter.




Starwind has had another big content mod released with more questlines for factions such as the Hutts, Sith and Republic with a future mod focusing on the Mandolorians and Selkath hinted at. Starwind : The Next Generation
Quoted from mod page:

The Content
Aside from the new character creation options, this mod adds an insane amount of content. Even with cheats, this mod takes a very long time to complete. The basic shape of the additions are that every planet has at least one or two new things, Sandriver finally has a real "plot" that makes sense, and Taris is now a "full" planet with extensive quest content and a brand-new Sith questline to rival the vanilla main quest.
SW: NG adds the following to Starwind, the Total Conversion for Morrowind:

61 new quests to Taris, including a new beach area
25+ new quests for Tatooine (lost count)
A full-length Sith questline for Taris
A Hutt questline for Taris
A Hutt questline for Tatooine
A Republic questline for Tatooine
A Zillows questline
Fleshes out the Czerka quests on Tatooine
A Hunter's Lodge on Kashyyyk
Miscellaneous quests and new interactions spread all across the galaxy.

 

[GratsTheat783]

I've never really felt inspired to finish Morrowind's DLCs in any of my playthroughs. I started Solstheim on my latest character (who's now gone because of a hard drive failure), but my character's main stats were already maxed out (I only had Illusion, Mysticism and Repair to get up which would have been really boring) and it just seemed really tedious. Are they worth it or not?

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Just let the people making Elder Scrolls Online make the sequel.
The MMO is a mid RPG, but at least they're productive and seem to care more about lore and just writing in general compared to the people behind Fallout 4 and Starfield.

Been playing a bit more ESO and I wish the content wasn't so reliant on just FOMO factor.
Like the only reward worth anything is the motifs, style pages, and event rewards, and they want you to grind those events and dungeons to get those rewards. I guess it's one way to keep the game feel alive. The current event has so many people around that a dragon world boss goes down in like 10 aeconds

Same vibes from F76. It may be shit, but it seemingly has a ton of super interesting and straight-up alien yet oddly true to fallout kind of enemies. More focus on fun than "good", granted the next TES will fail at both

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

I've never really felt inspired to finish Morrowind's DLCs in any of my playthroughs. I started Solstheim on my latest character (who's now gone because of a hard drive failure), but my character's main stats were already maxed out (I only had Illusion, Mysticism and Repair to get up which would have been really boring) and it just seemed really tedious. Are they worth it or not?

Don't blame you for not wanting to finish the DLC, IMO they're not as good as the base game and tend to drag. When it's at it's best the DLC tends to be worth it.

 

[CryptoHermit]

I've never really felt inspired to finish Morrowind's DLCs in any of my playthroughs. I started Solstheim on my latest character (who's now gone because of a hard drive failure), but my character's main stats were already maxed out (I only had Illusion, Mysticism and Repair to get up which would have been really boring) and it just seemed really tedious. Are they worth it or not?

Bloodmoon was kinda meh but I always complete Tribunal for my catharsis for my character. I complete Tribunal when I'm done with a character for good.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

Starwind

Oh I remember that mod, I can't remember the last time I played it but it was a nice time. Until my drive nearly exploded but eh, details. I'll probably play it again some time with as many good addons as possible.

 

[Problematic User Forever]

I'm laughing my ass off that the Oblivion remake was, once again, a complete dud.

It feels like people have been falling for this for like...three years now? When did that leak first happen?

 

[Übertroon]

I'm laughing my ass off that the Oblivion remake was, once again, a complete dud.

It feels like people have been falling for this for like...three years now? When did that leak first happen?

In the FTC lawsuit against Microsoft's aquisition of Activision Blizzard, it was revealed in documents presented in discovery several projects Microsoft had in the pipeline, among them a Fallout 3 and Oblivion remaster for modern systems.
Of course the documentary said nothing about how far along the projects were. It could very well be they were just being considered, or perhaps they began actual development and discovered 300 indian code monkeys were not up to the task.

 

[Problematic User Forever]

In the FTC lawsuit against Microsoft's aquisition of Activision Blizzard, it was revealed in documents presented in discovery several projects Microsoft had in the pipeline, among them a Fallout 3 and Oblivion remaster for modern systems.
Of course the documentary said nothing about how far along the projects were. It could very well be they were just being considered, or perhaps they began actual development and discovered 300 indian code monkeys were not up to the task.

That's what I'm talking about.

IIRC the documents made it sound like an Oblivion and Fallout 3 remake should have been released 3-5 years ago, and we haven't even gotten an official word about it. And official word from a Microsoft that has had Fable and Perfect Dark and Contraband announced for like half a decade now.

Console babies need to learn to watch a youtube video that's longer than 10 minutes and build a fucking PC and just play Oblivion. (or even Skyblivion if/when it comes out)

 

[Man at Arms]

Small correction: Preview videos of Skyblivion don‘t actually use any ENB or other visual mods. It‘s just good custom weathers. Additionally, a lot of the meshes were „split“ so they can handle more lights hitting them at the same time (similar to how the mod „Lux“ is doing it“). Inventory uses a SkyUi fork but that will be integrated into Skyblivion.

The funniest thing is you kiddos think skyblivion or skywind will actually be like the originals.
Hate to break it to you, they won't, they're in skyrims engine using Skyrim mechanics. You'll be playing Skyrim with a Morrowind/oblivion aesthetic, maybe a few extra spells but that's it.