Evenin' all

Evenin', Thorndog.

I'd just like to take this opportunity to say how glad I am that there's no canine equivalent of Khajiit in TES

*nods head in greeting* Sir Thornsalot.

The Khajiit are probably glad, too!

That would be lame. Though this one would totally make an Anubis character

Suddenly I've become very spiky



The thought occurs that we shouldn't say things like that one the internet. You never know who's reading this...

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Jan 18 2017, 09:15 PM

Ah, yes! Beware of the canine SJW's!

Wonh wonh

Barking mad, the lot of 'em

Though I was more thinking about developers. All it takes is one to think an idea sounds cool, and before you know some game or other is being bastardised to wedge the idea into it

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Jan 18 2017, 09:20 PM

We're all mad here.

But the locals have nothing on where you're from

That would go over about as well as a voiced protagonist.

Now, what game do I recall people making an issue of a voiced protagonist...

I despise it, but the female voice actor is leagues ahead of the male. All that will soon be solved, though, when I install mods that eliminate the voice, and change the conversation configurations to a real style.

Now if only they could do something about the appalling main story...

There are times when I wonder if Bethesda's motivation behind providing a modding tool for their games was to make it easier for PC gamers to call them on their past mistakes when they announce a new game. By the time they release a new TES or Fallout, most of those still playing the old one have modded it to such an extent, with many mods having been used for so long that they become the norm.

By the Nine, I hope that isn't the case. If it is, they need to hire people who are capable of having original ideas.



I think I might ignore it for a while. Maybe save the Minutemen, and just hang out with those peeps.

What would they do with original ideas? Take a look at where they're taking the TES games. There's a definite push towards dumbing down for more mainstream appeal, and the more comfortable their PC fanbase is with modding, the more they'll be able to get away with because "mods will fix that".

The closest I've got was in this mod for Oblivion. It wasn't a playable character, though, and all I did was rig the creature to the Minotaur skeleton, so it could be used as a monster. The mesh was by Mighty Joe Young, made as a static, so it took quite a bit of re-working. The end result was just what was needed for this context.

I can't remember what other bits of mine were in there. There were a huge number of contributors, and some parts were modelled by one person, rigged by another, and scripted by a third.