TES V: Skyrim Discussion Thread

I'm still debating buying this on pc or console. I prefer gaming on my console and if I go get it on pc, my little sister (who plays Elder Scrolls like it was a Mature rated Sims Game) won't be able to play. So leaning toward console.

But playing with mods is SO TEMPTING. As if I don't get enough out of the game already lol.

 

There are something like 40,000 mods available for Oblivion.

I'm still enjoying the hell out of that 5 year old game with the mods I posted a few pages back.

Skyrim has so many new features and a much improved engine - I'm sure there will be some truly ambitious Skyrim mods.

Go for the PC version - can't your little sis use the PC, just as easily as console?

 

Well my laptop will be the only computer in the house capable of handling any decent game lol. And her record with technology tells me not to let her near my laptop.

I'm not even sure If my laptop will give me a nice graphics setting in Skyrim.

Mods vs Sister's feelings. Hmmm

I could always buy the console version AND the pc version, but she'd have to wait till I get the extra cash.

 

Your 6770M is fine. I have gamed Oblivion on Medium Settings on a Radeon X600 Pro GPU. Good times and still fun! Skyrim's Engine might not be as intense as you think and they made still looking good!

 

Go with the PC version and tell your little sister you are being a nice big brother and will give her your console copy of Oblivion.

I love console gaming, but some games that offer tons of mods like this will are just meant for the pc.

 

You can always use an Xbox USB controller with your laptop, and run an HDMI cable to your TV

 

New Dunmer Screen:



Comparison of Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim Dunmer:

 

Soooooooooooooooooo excited about this game!!! @_@

Release date?

Mr. Mysterious

 

November 11th, i.e. 11/11/11. Should be an easy one to remember.

 

November 11, 2011

EDIT: Ninja'd!

 

Really entertaining video that explains the Elder Scrolls prophecy and sums up the overall story arc since Arena: ‪Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim- Decoded: The Prophecy of Alduin's Wall‬‏ - YouTube

 

My Pentium 4 + ATI Mobility Radeon X600 (128mb) did Oblivion just fine .
Even better if i added performance mods to keep the game light enough to run on my 512mb of system memory.
But once ATI updated the drivers so it enabled "Hypermemory" or steal system memory for GPU i could not play Oblivion or Battlefield.

Im gonna do a proper Oblivion run, adding better textures, some new races and all of the unofficial bugfixes.
If that doesent conflict with eachother il add some more stuff.

 

The 20+ journalists who got to play Skyrim for 60 minutes during QuakeCon are receiving screens featuring the characters they created.

Since they only had 1 hour to play, they didn't spend very much time in the character creator:

1. Eurogamer - Khajiit (LOL he has whiskers on top of his mustache):




2. Game Informer - Andrew Reiner - Khajiit:




Comparison of the various Khajiit we've seen so far:




3. Kotaku - Orc:

interesting, looks totally different from the Orc in the previous Orc screenshot:



4. RipTen.com - Bosmer:

looks actually kind of scary! quite different from the Dunmer:




5. Destructoid - Argonian Female





6. EpicBattleAxe.com (Daniel Kayser) - Nord:




7. G4TV - another Nord :



8. GameTrailers.com - another Bosmer:




9. Jeuxvideo.fr - race not specified, but looks like a Redguard:



10. IGN - Dunmer



11. 1up - Male Argonian



12. Multiplayer.it - Female Redguard



13. Gameplanet.co.nz - Orc



14. X-play Morgan Webb - Female Argonian



15. Gamespot Maxwell McGee - Male Orc "Knuckleduster"



16. Machinima - Female Dunmer

 

Wow, the characters look very detailed, I'm so excited for Skyrim.

 

LOL somebody recreated the "Lusty Argonian Maid" from the books in photoshop using the Female Argonian head from the screenshot:

 

I'd hit it....

 

Nice! Lol. I was always amazed by the number of different books in TES and the time that must have been spent just on them.

 

AHHHHahahaha...

That one is a classic...

 

Has anything been mentioned about the voice acting? I hope it has more than what seemed like 3 voice actors unlike Oblivion.

 

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has 70 voice actors, players free to explore from start

70 voice actors compared to Oblivion's 14.

 

Pics of the character creator preset settings for all the races (this is only the presets. you'll have lots of sliders to adjust all the additional options):

Altmer: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6202/6074118384_8afd1035af_o.jpg

Breton: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6191/6073576407_1659e1df36_o.jpg

Imperial: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6088/6074105220_99f6decff8_o.jpg

Argonian: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6071/6073574801_38f1136f3f_o.jpg

Bosmer: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6079/6074112484_f35723117a_o.jpg

Dunmer: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6062/6073577701_aabf360d66_o.jpg

Khajiit: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6074/6074106684_faebd9e6ba_o.jpg

Nord: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6189/6074108510_c6269c51d6_o.jpg

Orc: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6072/6074109930_f57ec7a9ba_o.jpg

Redguard: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6066/6073571929_3f5bbe6dda_o.jpg

 

The elves look supercreepy.

 

I probably should play Oblivian first LOL

 

Some Skyrim gameplay footage

Come, watch 20 minutes of Skyrim gameplay | Joystiq

Looks great, except that it seems they are using the same leveling system that is in Oblivion, where you improve each skill by using it. I'm sure it's greatly improved compared to Oblivion, if not hopefully someone makes a mod to fix the leveling system, like the OblivionXP mod.

 

Syrim and Diablo 3 should take care of me for the next year and a half.

 

For some reason, I'm having a difficult time getting pumped for this game . I usually love jumping on the hype bandwagons.

Guess I'll fire up Oblivion and see if I can get back into the open world/adventure genre (it's been a few years). Can anybody recommend me a couple good Oblivion mods or link me to a good resource to download mods? Thanks!

 

Here are some of the mods that I found to be essential (I would not go back to playing Oblivion without these)

All listed mods can be found on

the Elder Scrolls Nexus: The Elder Scrolls Nexus - Oblivion mods and community
the Engineering Guild: http://www.theengineeringguild.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?17-The-Elder-Scrolls-Forum
Planet Elder Scrolls: Planet Elder Scrolls - Maps, News, Oblivion, Cheats, Downloads
Bethsoft Official Mods Forum: Oblivion Mods - Bethesda Softworks Forums

Essential mods that do not change gameplay...

• 4GB patch
• CraftyBits - HIGHLY RECOMMEND - improves crafting system over 9000%
• OBGEv2
• ENBSeries Shaders
• Qarl's Hi Res Texture Pack
• Natural Environments
• Ambient Town Sounds
• Illumination Within
• Elaborate Eyes
• Tamriel NPCs Revamped (finally all the NPCs will no longer be ugly)
• Ren's Beauty Pack
• Bananasplit's Better Cities
• Unique Landscapes
• Oblivion Stereo Sound Overhaul
• Atmospheric Oblivion
• Symphony of Violence
• Oblivion Crash Prevention System
• Oblivion Stutter Remover
• Vampire Aging Disabled
• Windows Lighting System
• COBL Races

Essential Mod Utilities

• OBSE
• BOSS
• OBMM
• Wyre Bash
• COBL

Essential Mods That Affect Gameplay (improve balance or otherwise affect gameplay)

• Duke Patrick's SCA Combat Archery
• Duke Patrick's Basic Hypothermia
• Duke Patricks Melee Combat - massive improvement to melee combat
• Deadly Reflex
• Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul
• Martigen's Monster Mod
• Francesco's
• FCOM (this allows you to combine OOO, MMM, Fran's and Warcry)
• COBL Real Hunger
• COBL Real Thirst
• COBL Real Sleep Extended
• Thievery
• Ashes to Ashes (adds a lot more to the experience of playing vampire, or hunting vampires - new quests, animations and vampire system)
• The Necromancer (adds 2 joinable Necromancer factions with lots of quests)
• Oblivifall Losing My Religion (adds 9 new factions - the followers of each of the Nine Divines become different factions with quests and reputation system)
• Oblivifall Let's Talk (adds a lot more interesting dialogue with NPCs
• Myths and Legends (adds 14 legendary artifacts with quests to find them)
• Shadowcrest Vineyard (cool player house near Skingrad with quests)
• Fighter's Guild Contracts (adds lots of new Fighter's Guild quests)
• Lore Dialogue 300 (adds massive amount of extra dialogue for NPCs)
• Enhanced Economy

Fun Magic Mods

• Less Annoying Magic Experience (L.A.M.E.)
• Supreme Magicka
• Midas Magic (I don't think this one works together with the other two, but SM and LAME work fine together)
• Duke Patricks Combat Magic - massive improvement to magic system
• Advanced Magecraft (adds new ways of using material components for spells and better enchanting system)

 

I would hardly call every single one of those "essential"...if I were you, I'd start with just a handful of major mods.

My recommendations:

Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul (OOO): really improves the level scaling system. Makes some areas absolutely deadly to a level 1, and also makes sure you won't be fighting common street bandits wearing Daedric armor later in the game. Also adds some other fun stuff.

Open Cities: adds the interior cells of cities to the main outdoor Cyrodiil world space. Instead of loading a new cell on "using" a city gate, it actually opens and you can walk right in. Will hit your framerate slightly in and near cities, but if you already run Oblivion smoothly, it won't give you any trouble. It's pretty cool being chased by a lion or something and running to the nearest city gate and watching the guards and citizens pour out to kill it.

Qarl's Texture Pack 3: greatly improves the quality of a lot of Oblivion's textures without changing them beyond recognition. Well worth the huge download.

Animated Window Lighting System (AWLS): makes exterior windows light up at night, either by turning them all on at a specific time, or making them come on staggered for a more realistic effect. Chapels look beautiful at night with the stained glass all lit up. Also adds smoke coming out of chimneys, especially in northern cities like Bruma. It doesn't change anything major, but it makes more of a difference than you'd think.

 

How hard is it to install these?

 

which mods specifically do you want to install?

the best way to do it is to research all the mods you find interesting, and if they include one or more of the "overhaul" mods like OOO/MMM/FCOM/Warcry/Francesco's, etc., then post the steps of your installation plan here to get feedback from some Oblivion Mod experts:

Oblivion Mods - Bethesda Softworks Forums

This is the best place to get advice regarding mods.

Up until the end of last year, I had only used two or three very small mods, but I followed these steps to install all the mods listed above, posted my install plan in the Oblivion Mods forum, got a lot of helpful advice and then a few hours later I was playing a brand new, very awesome game.

As I mentioned in my post, they are "essential" for me only - in other words, I would never be able to go back to playing Oblivion without them.

As far as OOO and other overhaul mods goes, I would advise Jaydizz to consider these carefully, as the installation order is very important. If he later plans to install FCOM (which includes the most popular overhauls), you have to do it in a certain order, so it's not easy to, for example, install OOO now and then later decide to add Martigen's Monster Mod or Francesco's. It's easier to install them all at once in the proper install order using FCOM and Wrye Bash.

 

I want Oblivion to look like this, How do I get Oblivion to look like this? - Bethesda Softworks Forums if it's not too hard. I'm quite active on the Bethesda forums.

 

Not hard at all. They're all available in OMOD format for the Oblivion Mod Manager, IIRC. I think Oscuro's has its own standalone installer too, but it's been a while. And the AWLS has an optional feature (the staggered lights on/off) that requires Oblivion Script Extender, but you can still install it in the "simple" mode (all lights on/off at the same time) with just OBMM.

 

Are you familiar with the mods installed by whoever took those screens?

In the third screen (ScreenShot30.jpg), I can tell you I see OBGEv2, Liquid Water, probably ENBseries Shaders, as well as Qarl's Texture Pack 3, Bananasplit's Better Cities and possibly Unique Landscapes.

the other screens seem to be using various settings in OBGE to manipulate the post processing shaders, but they all have Qarl's Texture Pack 3 and likely Unique Landscapes, perhaps Natural Environments as well.

 

So what kind of programs do I need to install and use these mods?

 

You quoted the guy who told you heh, but I can see how it might have been a bit unclear.

Oblivion mod manager at The Elder Scrolls Nexus - Mods and community

 

EDIT: Alright I just installed Oblivion Mod manager.

 

i dont really get why someone hasent made an "Complete" mod for oblivion... Like with all the good graphical mods, as an exe file to just run, it would make things a heck of a lot easier...

 

You will also need OBSE in order to install OBGEv2, Liquid Water and the ENBSeries shaders.

I would suggest to make a list of all the mods you want to install, read the appropriate [RELz] threads for each mod and then before installing anything, post the intended steps of your complete installation plan in the Bethesda Oblivion Mods forum. You will get excellent advice and feedback in that forum.

 

Hey guys, do you think my GT 555m with a FH res and an i5 will be able to play this natively with medium settings at a decent fps rate?

 

Bah, I'd never recommend anyone mod with Oblivion Mod Manager anymore. If you haven't started yet, I strongly suggest you use Wrye Bash. It takes about 10 minutes longer to learn and is a much more powerful tool. Unlike OBMM, with Wrye Bash if you find that installing a mod messes up your game, you can simply uninstall and the game will revert to exactly how it was before. It even reinstalls files from mods which you overwrote with a newly-installed mod. Wrye Bash is the way to go and you'll need it anyway if you plan to use some of the major overhauls like FCOM.

 

The specs haven't been released yet, although it's likely you will be just fine at medium-high settings at 1080p, as Skyrim is not likely to be much more demanding than most other 2010-2011 games, and it is confirmed that Skyrim will make use of some DX11 optimization features.

What kind of frame rate do you get from Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas and Oblivion?

I have the AMD 5830m, which is ranked significantly lower than the 555m on notebookcheck.net, and I'm hoping I will get playable frame rates at 1080p, with most settings maxed. I'm able to get around 50 fps for New Vegas (with water settings dialed down) and FO3 and I get constant 60fps for Oblivion. For FO3 and FNV, however, I have to reduce some of the water settings.

 

N-N-NEW SCREENSHOTS

 

those northern lights thingy looks kinda cool

 

Yeah the Aurora Borealis were a magical touch. Without them the night sky scene would have been empty and generic.

I really think Bethesda nailed snow and mountains for Skyrim, never seen any other game do these landscapes so well.

 

Damn those northern Lights look great! This game just seems more and more awesome by the moment!

 

Are these PC screens? They definitely look better than what I've seen so far. Last screenshot is pretty awesome!

 

Man, I can't wait for this. Playing the Witcher games got me on an RPG kick and I'm looking forward to playing a battlemage sort of dude.

 

So, Who wants to get me this for my Bday? 11/11/11!

 

Here are the only PC screens released to date:


1. 3000x984
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8613775/Skyrim/PCscreens/NorthernCoastAuroraPanorama01.jpg

2. 3580x1000
http://oyster.ignimgs.com/ve3d/images/08/65/86535_CompositeMountain.jpg

3. 1600x900
http://elderscrolls.net/img/skyrim/screenshots/sk_43.jpg

 

Wow, I might consider buying a kepler mGPU just for Skyrim

Mr. Mysterious