Just curious

No, been way too busy the past year, and I'm kind of lazy to the point where having to figure out how to switch between Nehrim and regular modded Oblivion seamlessly is too much of a hassle for me to figure out. I'm sure it's not that hard but I have very limited time with my computer these days and I've never been good at dealing with monotonous technical installing/uninstalling and stuff.

I'll try it out oneday though.

My main reason for not having played it is that I'm still on my first Oblivion playthrough. I'm still enjoying trying out all of the stuff that's been produced over the last five years, so playing a total conversion like Nehrim is kind of low on my priority list right now.

I downloaded it quite a while ago, but haven't played it. I'm playing through some other quest mods before taking a chance on a total conversion and losing my regular oblivion game (and having to do another fcom install). My gaming has slowed down, but I will get to it eventually...though it may be a while. I have yet to see Integration through to the end.

I played the German version briefly, but have been too busy modding to play any Oblivion at all, let alone Nehrim. I recommend just trying it. It is very good - better than some of the DLC's. I'm not sure what kind of responses you're going to get from this poll. I know a lot of players have played it, but I'm not sure that will be reflected in this poll.

Yes, I play it all the time. I can't even go back to Oblivion now, even with mods. I wouldn't hesitate to say its the best RPG of the last 5 years.

The system requirements are brutal compared to oblivion. I downloaded it, but it lagged so horribly it was unplayable.

No, but I'd love to try it one day. I haven't played it because of system requirements which I probably don't meet and because I haven't had much time for playing. What I had, I spent in Blender, playing Oblivion or lurking on forums.

Form what I saw and read, Nehrim is a very good game so I'd love to try it.

I'm sure Nehrim is a very well-made total conversion but I have no interest in playing it because it replaces nearly all of Oblivion's system of leveling through skill use with Dungeons-and-Dragons-style XP leveling. I detest experience point leveling systems so I doubt that I could stomach Nehrim for more than half an hour.

No. Simply because I don't have the time or the patience.

Pseron-

Check the http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1159104-nehrim-and-mods-ii/ (near the end) for some options from BeeBee to alter that leveling scheme somewhat. Your stance seems a bit extreme.

I agree though that is one aspect of Nehrim I don't appreciate - and there are a few other areas too. But it makes up for it in giving a very fleshed out world that does not feel mod added. This is a well thought out and professional product. It has a lot of immersion.

Very much for fans of the Gothic series (especially 2&3).

Probably the thing that is most frustrating is that it does interfere with a normal Oblivion install, but there are answers for that - see the thread I post above.

Yes, I had to see what they did with the tools available.

Cons: Had to switch INI files between playing nehrim and oblivion, combat system based on vanilla oblivion so needed to be "fixed" with mods, a couple subplots seemed extraneous and even damaging to the atmosphere of the game.

Pros: EVERYTHING else. Shows you the kind of game the Oblivion developers should have made. Just the kind of atmosphere and story people remember Morrowind so fondly for.

Yes, started to play a week ago out of curiosity (+liquid water!!!)
Have Little time per day, and indeed some quests look half finished, but overall a good "mod"

I voted NO because ... well, because I've not played it. My current modded Oblivion install has a lot of life left in it. I'm already thinking on mod combos for my next run-through, however distant that might be, which likely will NOT be Nehrim. But Nehrim does look interesting. I'll likely give it a spin at some point.

No, but it's still on my list of things to do.

No I haven't. I dare not to because my current OB install is in a nice stable status quo and I'd hate to mess with it in any way.

I have it downloaded, but my current Oblivion install is too good to stop playing.

ANd thius is the first time I am gonna complete the MQ and all the guild quests, so Nehrim will have to wait. Maybe I will squeeze it in before Skyrim comes...

I tried it, but just for a couple of hours. Then I went back to Oblivion...

Installed it, but I haven't played it yet because of how angry I got when I found it was interfering with my base Oblivion install. Luckily I made a backup of my .ini file after making all my initial changes. Now that I know specifically what it's doing I've made an old-school batch file to switch the files around. I'm still a bit peeved, but I'll get to it eventually.

yeah Didn't do much for me the fact that i coulden't understand the caricters unless i read the subtaitals kinda rund the experiance for me

Agreed, 100%.

It's so good that it's probably spoiled Skyrim for me as well. I fail to see how any Elder Scrolls game of this generation or the next can possibly come close.

This is my personal experience with Nehrim:

I played it fully from the beginning to the end in about three months, and I could said that I've found it so impressive that I couldn't believe it was done on free time with no profit in mind.
There are many enjoyable moments in there... the story is great (better than Oblivion's main story by a looong run, at least... never played Morrowing so can't compare), and the base game play is about like vanilla gameplay with some interesting twists. Many weak spots can be fixed with mods, though.

The only problem is that I've felt the world a bit empty (I felt it pointless to keep playing) after the main story finale. It has a bitter feeling to it because the ending and the things you loss. (There are an expansion being work out to remedy that, though... or at least that's what I read on the Sure AI forums some time ago.) So after some lingering in Nehrim post-ending I came back to Oblivion plus mods again...

Also, the German voices were a bit of a turn down for me at first... I had to turn down the voice volume level and only read subtitles and that way I could adapt to it more quickly, and towards the middle of the game I had no more problems with the voices. In fact I grew an appreciation for them and found there was great voice acting there.

All in all it was almost 120hs of playtime which took me to follow all the main quest and a bit of world exploration from time to time.

As for the switching between the two: When installed Nehrim I lost too my Ob install... so had to rebuilt it. But now I can switch between them by renaming two folders (I do it by hand since the installation switcher didn't work for me): just rename Oblivion -> Oblivion Backup, and then Nehrim -> Oblivion in My Saves and my AppData, also having a separate install directory for both games, with Bash, OBMM, and all tools local to the games.

All answers on how to run Nehrim and Oblivion at the same time without messing up either install can be found here:

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1159104-nehrim-and-mods-ii/

..if it does not answer an questions - let me know and I will add the answer.