Skyrim! Because all the really good stuff never actually leaves.
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This is already controversial, but it sounds like a good deal for creators who are making truly high quality mods.
And given some statements made in regards to fallout 4 getting a massive update itself, probably there too.
You gotta love Bethesda's long term commitment to their games. Sure it's obviously easy money for them. Way easier than actually making another game. But not everyone wants to move on to the shiny new thing every year. I'm sure we've all had a game we'd play forever if we didn't eventually run out of content. Now we don't have to run out of content.
It would feel weird if there weren't any new bugs.
Frankly, I'm surprised anyone even still uses vanilla outfits.
That touches on a problem I've noticed with people doing YouTube essays on various aspects of Skyrim, but using footage of heavily-modded games. One guide to the Daedric Princes I watched recently used footage of Daedric shrines from a mod, which lead to the issue that a bunch of the shrines did not match any in-game depictions of the Daedric Prince they were supposedly representing.
That tells me that either these video essayists are just swiping other people's footage, or they have their own games so heavily modded that they've lost track of what is and isn't part of a mod anymore—assuming they ever bothered to play the vanilla game in the first place.
I have issues with the idea of any game being evaluated based on its viability as a mod platform rather than its actual merits as a game, to say nothing of the business model. I know if I were in the game making business, I wouldn't feel right knowing people were paying me money for the privilege of playing other people's content that they made for free.
Yeah, because now you can charge people money for the privilege of playing other people's content that they are also now selling, AND get a piece of the money that those other people get as well.
It's like if Steam charged you a one-time fee to use it. Or Apple... wait, that's called buying an iPhone, n/m.
Plus you don't have to rush patches because other people will make the (unofficial) patches for you, and pay you to do it!
The funny thing is that absent mods, the whacky lore is the main thing Elder Scrolls has going for it, and I don't know if Skyrim would have been as popular among the masses if it was more like Morrowind in the world-building department.
It's like if Steam charged you a one-time fee to use it. Or Apple... wait, that's called buying an iPhone, n/m.
Plus you don't have to rush patches because other people will make the (unofficial) patches for you, and pay you to do it!
The funny thing is that absent mods, the whacky lore is the main thing Elder Scrolls has going for it, and I don't know if Skyrim would have been as popular among the masses if it was more like Morrowind in the world-building department.
I mean, it's also a 12 year old game. There's been plenty of time for the world to both play and finish the vanilla experience.
And with no offense to pocket: most game devs do not care how you play the game, so long as you paid for it. Except the fun pimps, they seem to take great joy in going "Nooooo, you're playing it wroooooong" and then patching out behaviors that made stuff more random, exploitable and unpredictable.
And with no offense to pocket: most game devs do not care how you play the game, so long as you paid for it. Except the fun pimps, they seem to take great joy in going "Nooooo, you're playing it wroooooong" and then patching out behaviors that made stuff more random, exploitable and unpredictable.
Not really Skyrim, but since the Elder Scrolls general thread it looks like was lot somewhere in the board resets, I figured I might as well post it here. I scratch-built a mage tower (though it's more of a three floor fort) in ESO end of last year, and finally got around to putting together a gallery. I should do a video tour at some point but don't know when that will be.
Apparently not only is this year ESO's 10th anniversary, it's also the entire franchise's 30th.
They drew the khajjit a hell of a lot better than the game engine does...
Just about everyone does.
Like, remember how everyone was complaining about the Lion King remake, how everyone was modeled and rendered so realistically they were utterly incapable of emoting? That's the Khajiit in a nutshell. Designed by someone who was so sure just making them look exactly like a real cat from the neck up was the right thing to do in a game where the humans are also made to be realistic.
Like, remember how everyone was complaining about the Lion King remake, how everyone was modeled and rendered so realistically they were utterly incapable of emoting? That's the Khajiit in a nutshell. Designed by someone who was so sure just making them look exactly like a real cat from the neck up was the right thing to do in a game where the humans are also made to be realistic.