Utterly Mad

Quote from: ajwilli1 on April 28, 2015, 11:48:23 pm

****... what have I done. I downloaded Skyrim, now I have almost every camping/immersion mod.

I downloaded about 12 mods now, Frostfall, Realistic Needs and Diseases, SkyUI, Enhanced First Person Camera, Wet & Cold, Wonders of Weather, Foot Prints, Sounds of Skyrim, Immersive Patrols, Organized Bandits In Skyrim, Hunterborn, Cloaks of Skyrim.

The game went from an 'okay' RPG with a really poorly executed story, to my new favorite game. After I beat most of the main quest I'm looking at downloading the Illegal Fighting mod, those two DLC-sized quest mods, and the Airship mod. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY GOOD MODS FOR THIS GAME!?

Oblivion has better mods, a better story, but the game play falls flat. Unless you get OOO and Simple needs. And they just broke so much stuff in Skyrim, like enchanting, and they flat out removed spell making in Skyrim, which makes being a mage over level 30 almost impossible in that game. Seriously though, oblivions mod community is 10 years old and still going, some really great mods.

Yeah I know, I was stuck playing with Oblivion mods while everyone was enjoying Frostfall and all that. And I've played with both Simple Needs and Simple Hygiene. You wanna know how that turned out?

Cool transition to story time mode...

I went into a dungeon with little food and water since it was the beginning of the game (its that ruin you see right as soon as you leave the sewer), my guy needed to take a dump and I found out you need toilet paper to "relieve thine self in the bushes". So before heading into the ruins I crap myself, had a large stink trail that I didn't notice because I haven't left first person yet, so I was attempting to sneak up on the group when they caught a whiff of my soiled Argonian trousers and came running at me.

When you crap yourself you run slower, your stamina doesn't regenerate as fast, and it spawns more hostile animals since you smell like a lizard house. So I was barely clinging onto life, swinging madly at the three wolves and two bandits that wanted to "Make a fine pair of boots out of you lizard." After the hellish battle of Brown Pants Ridge, I bathed in the river near the ruins and headed in. I fought my way through, found some toilet paper and food.

I noticed I was running low on water, but thought I'd be quick enough to get through the dungeon, I've played this game like 5 times it won't take long right? Right? Well it did take long and I fed and satiated myself through zombie meat and dungeon water. I thought my Argonian traits would've protected me, they didn't. I contracted Bone Break Fever... twice.

So sickly, soiling myself when I ran out of paper... again, and smelling like the back end of a horses ass. I finally clawed my way out, killing and looting what was left of that necromancer. I decide that a inn isn't too far away and was just up the hill. I could take a Argonian Warrior sized crap, get a bath, and sleep tight for the night.

I was wrong. Cue me getting lost in the woods, crapping myself again (SERIOUSLY WHY DO I HAVE TO CRAP ALMOST EVERY 10 MINS... it might be because I kept eating raw meat), its now dark and I'm cold, damp, hungry, tired, and dying of thirst.

I black out in the middle of the woods from exhuastion, I wake up to five wolves, a minotaur, and a bear surround me. My character craps his pants once last time for good reason as he's torn to shreds.


I learned that I need to actually prep for an adventure when using "HARD-CORE SURVIVAL MODS", or else you'll be the most miserable lizard person around.

I'm hoping to have a similar experience in Skyrim, but without all the parts where "Interior CrocodileAligator" craps himself like he guzzled down a jar of laxative laced prunes.

Quote from: Perigrin on April 28, 2015, 11:54:45 pm

Oblivion has better mods, a better story, but the game play falls flat. Unless you get OOO and Simple needs. And they just broke so much stuff in Skyrim, like enchanting, and they flat out removed spell making in Skyrim, which makes being a mage over level 30 almost impossible in that game. Seriously though, oblivions mod community is 10 years old and still going, some really great mods.

I started replaying Oblivion a couple days ago, and I can say that the one thing Oblivion has on Skyrim is the quests. Oooh my god, these quests. After months of playing nothing but Kill Dragur, Acquire Currency simulator, playing the kind of quests Oblivion gives you is a breath of fresh air. They range from quests like grabbing rings of weight from the bottom of wells to sniffing out cults in the woods to finding the owner of a particular vintage of wine.

The atmosphere of the game is different-in-a-good-way too, and while the gameplay is kinda wonky (and don't get me started on the character's faces), I'd have to say Oblivion has more charm than Skyrim does.

Same reasons why I'm actually a bigger fan of Oblivion then Skyrim. Hell I can go back and play Oblivion in full vanilla mode, where as with Skyrim I'd have to have some mods on from players that actually know how to make an interesting game.