Thanks to you guys and your fabulous work I now find it very hard to enjoy other games. :cold:
I did play through Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 up untill the beginning of Throne of Baal at which point I lost interest when having to fight Irenicus yet a-bleeping-gain.
After that I can't work up the emthusiasm for other games and my mind keeps wandering back to Oblivion. My latest game with 400 mods which I played 1000 hours was my best and longest gaming experience ever, thanks to the talented modders of the Oblivion community.
I really miss that feeling of complete freedom in a game and every other game feels so restricted and few have the moddability of Oblivion.
The only thing keeping me back now is the work I know I must invest to created a new heaviliy modded game...

I knew you'd be back.

There is always morrowind and fallout3 too.

I hear dragon age is good - as is witcher. Nether of which give the freedom that tes gives.

Sadly, I've become the same way - I compare every game to the openness of Oblivion. Dragon Age was fun, the first time. I tried a second time, and I just lost interest. I still like first-person shooters, though - sometimes you just can't beat the feeling of shooting the crap out of someone, or blowing things up, and you can't do that in Oblivion.

Hi Psymon, I thought you'd be Master by now.



Going back to MW will be very difficult for me, since the AI and Factions of Oblivion is a quantum leap for someone like me who used to tear out his whiskers in frustration at the lack of AI in MW.
Fallout 3 is definitely an option once a GOTY version comes out and hits the bargain bins. I have vowed never to buy a game at full price again, since half the production cost for most game is just fluff and eye candy.

Well Fallout3 modding is just not as robust as Oblivion.
Mostly due to more primitive script extender and lack of wrye bash.

Plus the modders seem to me like gun freaks - they obsess on weapon stats. or at least that is what it looks like.

Myself I never played Morrowind and I think this year I'm going to give it a real go. Lack of combat and AI and all that.

If you like playing Oblivion, how much worse is modding Oblivion. Take that first step, but be aware that this may well usurp full priority in life. I'm grateful to other modders for answering my questions, but I can't tear myself away from the screen and haven't watched television or had a full conversation on the phone. I tell them I have 'obligations' but I'm really playing with my own creations.

AMEN!

I have dabbled a bit with modding, but I don't really have the talent nor the patience for it. I make a better "editor" by making suggestions for and finding bugs in existing mods.

That's a real compliment. Even the legendary Baldur's Gate 2 cannot compete with modded Oblivion.

I feel the same way. I played Dragon Age for awhile, and liked it, but my mind continually wandered back to Oblivion. Boy, I really miss the freedom to go wherever I please when I play a linear, story-driven, Bioware-style game, as wonderful as some of them are.

Modders have transformed Oblivion into the kind of game I wanted when it was released. They have worked magic on this game - and continue to do so. Right now I'm considering plunking my money down for a subscription to Fallen Earth (another open-world game) but the work onra is doing with his Tamriel heightmaps, side777 with his Side's Sailing Ships, GrandDukeAdense & Vorians' Unique Landscapes: Skingrad Outskirts and Duke Patrick's Combat Archery mod, not to mention the ongoing work upgrading existing mods I love like Martigen's, Aoikani's Underdark mod, Iliana's Elsweyr, the Deserts of Anequina and all the new mods soon to come out like brucevayne's Fearsome Magicka, Darkrder's Recaliming Sancre Tor, madmole's
Unholy Darkness and ZenshinZenrei's Oblivion Prelude: Kvatch.

Modded Oblivion is the best game around.

you also make a good tes4edit instructor.

Welcome back. Knew you couldn't stay away

I'm the same way about games these days myself. Everything gets compared to Oblivion, and I think some of my gaming friends get sick of hearing me mention it whenever the subject comes up

I must say AMEN too to everything what is stated here. I took a leave of absence from OB of about 18 months and came back about 2 months ago. I always thought it was the best game I have ever played, and this was already in round 1 when I went pretty unmodded. Now it 's even better than it ever has been. I have still unopened Crysis, Mass Effect 1 and a half-finished Neverwinter Nights 2 lying around. I just feel no desire at all to play them. I was thinking about DA:O, but I still love Oblivion just so much... It's the only game I have installed.

Now if SkyRanger-1 finds a trick how to get more dual-core usage out of the engine, then it would be total perfection.

Hmm... every time I go back and play through Baldur's Gate (at least twice a year), I feel the same way about Oblivion XD In the end, I can't compare them. Likewise, Dragon Age is a completely different experience. Oblivion offers fantastic freedom, and BG and DA offer fantastic role-playing. I play and love both, but if I had to be stranded on a desert island with one series, it'd be Baldur's Gate. People make mods for it too, you know 4

[EDIT] Now, maybe I should go make a "Damn you modders!" thread at Spellhold Studios... *runs off to pester Mistress Elysia about updating Fade*

Especially Baldur's Gate 1 is improved dramatically by Sword Coast Stratagems and The NPC Project. BG2 is still playable without mods, but is of course improved by them. Widescreen mod is essential for both, though.
I usually hang around the Gibberlings3 forum in the BG community. Except for aVENGER most of the Spellhold modders are too "munchkin" for my taste.

I know the feeling.


I just finished BG1 again and am going to start BG2 again next, with mods for the first time.

The mods I'm using:

1PP
Ascension
Aurora's Shoes
Banter Pack
BG2 Tweak Pack
BG2 Fix Pack
BG2 Quest Pack
Baldur's Gate Mini Quests and Encounters
Fading Promises
IEP Extended Banter
Restored ToB Heads
Tales of the Deep Gardens
Unfinished Business
Widescreen Mod


Here's hoping the game will be stable.


Can't wait to release Kragenir's Death Quest V2. I'll finally be free! :bolt:

Welcome to my world guys, I have felt this way for 30 years.
For every 100 Mortal combat games there was only one "Karate champ" game.
For every 1000 Packman games there was only one Battle Zone game!


All my friends think I am a "gamer", but in reality I hate most games.
Most are too "game-ish" for me and lack the immersion and realism I have found in Modded Oblivion.

Thank you Bethesda for allowing us to sculpt our own virtual playgrounds!

Even if it means you are barraged with complaints about your so called "flaws".

It is a very rare artist that allows others to "advlterate" their art!

Tried in the past a lot of games, especially in the early 3D first experiences in the 90s years; tried some Neverwinter Night series (the first was the best I think); but when I tied TES IV, I never come back or out to any other game.

Don't get me started on the NWN. What the bleep is up with those camera angels? You control one friggin' character, so why those assed camera angles when it would have been easier, better and more immersive to see the world from your character's POV? I understand there is much great stuff made by modders, though, so I may try it again some say.

As a geeky teenager I read all the D&D books and modules and wanted to play them. My friends wanted to play other RPGs, so after playing the first NWN I was pleased to see modders had made mods of most of those early classic Gygax D&D modules.

I played through everyone with inner geeky teen joy.

I burnt myself on that game though and could never play it again (or even try the sequel) but it was using mods with it (first time using mods on any game) that made me think of finding mods for this game.

Now as a diversion I've been playing Call of Cthulhu also be bethesda - and for a game from the late 90s - it is a total blast. Linear? yeah, but very immersive. Your character is a neurotic mess with all kinds of phobias and a history of being in an asylum. When he freaks out it is great and just looking at the deep ones too long or at a statue of the cthulhu and he starts getting paranoid and has full blow hallucinations. The shaders with the warped out visions - tunnel visions, vertigo, warped reality melting. Very cool stuff.

Also I installed a hack for it that has what in this game is a ~tcl command and you can see early versions of what became the structure of later games like morrowind and oblivion.

Highly recommend.

Actually Call of Cthulhu DCotE was developed by Headfirst Productions, and was only published by Bethesda.

And was released in 2006.

Indeed. The graphics were a bit outdated when it was released but late 90s? It does have Bloom!


I'm getting Shivering Isles soon because I still haven't bought it (I know, blasphemy) and once I do there'll be even more mods that I'll be able to use. Oh the horror!

Ohh I stand corrected - ha - wonder where I got that idea from?

Well then in that case - it is far less impressive. Actually could be a lot better then.

You may want to try the http://frua.rosedragon.org/faq/ FRUA, or Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures is a construction set based on the classic Gold Box Games. If you want party based, turn based AD&D with turn based combat I can highly recommend giving it a try. Thehttp://frua.isgreat.org/index.phpafter 17 years

I also can't stay away from Oblivion. I keep trying to move onto other games. Dragon Age and Fallout 3 grabbed me for a while, but eventually you just get that itch to play Oblivion. There's a lot of excitement involved in looking for new mods to outfit your games with. It's been three years that I've been playing this game now, and I'm still not bored with it. You guys never cease to inspire awe with each new creation. :touched:

Hell, not even the infamously addictive World of Warcraft could capture my attention long enough to keep me away from modded Oblivion!