Say, Look What I Found, Keeping up to date with mods for Oblivion Options

[Grits]

In the spirit of SubRosa's That Mod Looks Interesting thread for Skyrim, here's a place to post new mod discoveries and updates to mods for Oblivion.

I'll start with one that makes me very, very happy. Emma's Children of Cyrodiil is out on the Nexus.

[ArtemisNoir]

Funnily, I logged in to make mention of Emma's new mod, and here's a thread already. I really am late to the party...
Anyway, I installed Children of Cyrodiil yesterday, and so far I'm very impressed. The kids look and feel like a natural part of the game world, which is always a significant thing for me with mods. Overall, the models and animations are nicely done, and the VA is really quite good. In my wholly subjective opinion, I think the children from CoM looked slightly better, especially the elven ones, but I'm fairly certain that is a "feature" of the Oblivion engine itself. After all, it is only recently, in terms of modding history, that Nuska, with OCO, overcame the potato-head deformities plaguing the adults of Cyrodiil.

I was appalled, though, at the fact that already there have been several requests (in some cases, demands) for Emma to make the kids killable, and complaints because they are not. People who download children mods, with the express intent of killing them, disturb me. While I'm still uncomfortable with it, I can better understand the mods that remove the essential status from children in Skyrim, because some of them are quite irritating (Braith, I am looking at you), and they are a default part of the game. I wouldn't use those mods, but I get it a little bit more. Emma's mod, on the other hand, is something you download by choice.... I don't know, that's just sick to me.
Even worse is that Emma's own kids did the voicing, which makes it that much more unpleasant.

This post has been edited by ArtemisNoir2: Mar 16 2015, 05:51 PM

[mALX]

Funnily, I logged in to make mention of Emma's new mod, and here's a thread already. I really am late to the party...
Anyway, I installed Children of Cyrodiil yesterday, and so far I'm very impressed. The kids look and feel like a natural part of the game world, which is always a significant thing for me with mods. Overall, the models and animations are nicely done, and the VA is really quite good. In my wholly subjective opinion, I think the children from CoM looked slightly better, especially the elven ones, but I'm fairly certain that is a "feature" of the Oblivion engine itself. After all, it is only recently, in terms of modding history, that Nuska, with OCO, overcame the potato-head deformities plaguing the adults of Cyrodiil.

I was appalled, though, at the fact that already there have been several requests (in some cases, demands) for Emma to make the kids killable, and complaints because they are not. People who download children mods, with the express intent of killing them, disturb me. While I'm still uncomfortable with it, I can better understand the mods that remove the essential status from children in Skyrim, because some of them are quite irritating (Braith, I am looking at you), and they are a default part of the game. I wouldn't use those mods, but I get it a little bit more. Emma's mod, on the other hand, is something you download by choice.... I don't know, that's just sick to me.
Even worse is that Emma's own kids did the voicing, which makes it that much more unpleasant.

Good point, since it is a choice to download it, there should be no reason to want them killable - or any reason why they can't/don't just go into their own mod and unclick the essential status instead of demanding she change the mod for them - kind of makes you wonder about their motivation.

I whole-heartedly agree that in Emma using her own children's voices for that mod - it would most def freak her out to think of anyone wanting to kill those children.

But it has to make you wonder why they want to download children mods and then kill the children - I noticed RS had the same requests in her child mod overhaul.