Bethesda has finally revealed “The Elder Scrolls V; Skyrim“. For the occasion, Game Informer set up a “Skyrim Hub” full of screenshots, videos and interviews. On the menu this time : vast and frozen landscapes, a dual hands combat system, a streamlined interface, a redesigned game engine, new AI behaviors and atmospheric lighting. Even the game editor and mods are…
I am still maintaining it when I get a chance. I spent up to 250 hours of game play so far without touching the Main Quest other than to get the amulet of kings. All thanks to the many mods I have been enjoying so far. With recent updates (especially the latest MMM), the list reached the maximum number of…
This is the fourth time I have had this happen to me in game – enough to think it is a trend. If your game suddenly crashes in an area that you believe should be working (either because you visited it before or because it doesn’t have anything new that you have not already encountered), try this simple step before…
After weeks of more or less peaceful gameplay, I entered an area of intense fighting which turned out to be also prone to crashes. The area in question was the underground city from the Vampire questline in Origin of the Mages Guild. The crashes are apparently the result of that mod combined with StarX Vanilla Vampire Revisited and possibly other…
Dark path to the Nine Divines
Some oddities I found on my way… Something familiar about this… Belly ache A very clumsy gardener worked here Bloodbath Oh my God… is that a … deer ?! Oblivion – The Musical A long way from home And in case you are wondering, I did NOT stage any of this. They are just random occurrences..
Lore in Oblivion refers to the background story of civilizations, gods and heroes of Tamriel, spanning over millennia. Mods try to enrich the Lore, complete it and in many cases, simply ignore it and focus on improving the game itself. Modder giskard (via the renamed Engineeing Guild) has been working on expanding on the Lore with several extraordinarily detailed mods…
News from corepc, creator of the indispensable Tamriel Travelers. The good news is that the travelers are now roaming the Shivering Isles ! The bad news is that, due to pressure from real life, corepc announced he will be retiring soon from Oblivion mods. Hopefully, this will be temporary as his contribution to Oblivion has been immense. I simply wouldn’t…
It is possible to run Oblivion with 150+ mods and no crash to really speak of (except when I don’t let my game breathe and try to push it too fast). I know for a fact Oblivion is very sensitive to system bottlenecks. Meaning that you have to think about anything that may get in the way of Oblivion running…
The latest issue I had to troubleshoot is worth mentioning. Returning from the Shivering Isles, I noticed that vendors in Cyrodiil were no longer aware of Living Economy rules. They were back to an infinite supply of gold. At first, I blamed the recent install of both Creeper and Tamriel Travelers SI edition, but running the game without these mods…