» Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:19 am
Something I've noticed that might not prove anything, but is interesting: every time I check the 3 subforums that I am most interested in: MW mods, OBL mods, & F3 mods the forum with the most members by far is The Elder Scrolls one. MW usually has double the members than F3, and OBL has far more than that, maybe four times as many.
It doesn't prove anything as such, but it suggests to me that the modding community for Elder Scrolls is the most vibrant and has gamers coming back over and over again. There's something about the world of Tamriel that seems to really capture the heart. I'm not dissing F3, it's a spectacularly beautiful realistic game; but I have some doubts that 5 years after release it will have as high a percentage of its gamers still re-playing it. They will have moved on to its sequels.
I have noticed that I have far fewer mods running on F3 than my Elder Scrolls games. Maybe that's because the F3 environment was so well built it doesn't need that many enhancements, but maybe it's also because if I had to choose between living in Tamriel or the war-battered Wasteland, Tamriel wins hands down every time.