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Hm. I just mentioned something related in the chat a few days ago. Tolkien elves are just... too good? I mean, they're DESIGNED to be better at pretty much everything, better warriors, better looks, better physique, better lifespan, better morals, etc. I find kinda eerie the constant hints of their superiority over other races. Its like at every point that a human/dwarf/hobbit does something, an elf does the same thing, but better. Except walking into Mordor of course. Bethesda wen't exactly the opposite road. They made the elfish race's ancestors a bunch of crazy xenophobic bastards, and the modern elves a bunch of not so crazy but still pretty much xenophobic bastards. And I like it. I wouldn't have it other way.

It was a meteorite shower. Not a single meteorite. There were many explosions around besides the big blast that damaged the city.

Imagine what is right wing for the rest of the world. Then divide it in two parts. The left part of the right wing is what USA considers "left", the right part of the right wing is what USA considers "right". To the rest of the world looks like its between very right wing, or a little less right wing.

One more big DLC, then FO4 announcement in a few months.

Mind = blown.

I demand juicy details. The juicier the better.

In this case, its more about the nostalgia of the thing I guess.

For me it would be enough for them to outsource the writing to Obsidian. Not just story, also NPCs and backstory (so you could actually HAVE a backstory for a change instead of "A and B happened, now you must kill C" ). Then let the artists and level designers of Beth to do their thing with the landscape. And the companion wheel. Can't understand why they didn't "import" that one from New Vegas.

Deus Ex Human Revolution is pretty nice. You could try to play Mount & Blade in first person too :P

I think that turn based RPGs were a byproduct of an age where you just couldn't simulate the complex actions that RPG systems required in real time. Thus, turn based mechanics in this day and age sounds pretty bad to me (like Cyberpunk from CDProject). That said, I liked what I saw from the Wasteland 2 video. Looks like it has a well done and interesting environment. While I probably won't enjoy the combat I could see myself enjoying everything else the game has to offer :D

Nothing. I was going to navmesh my mod but no one seems to know how to copy a navmesh from one .esp to another. Anyway, right now Im far from home, far from Skyrim and even far from a PC with Windows on it. @pickel, a recommendation (gathered from my little experience with quest design), draw a diagram of your quest stages like a flow chart, it will help to sort things out before you mess up with the editor, which isnt the nicest thing on earth so better to not to have to fiddle with it too much.

Meh. Looks pretty standard for me. I've seen more craziness from Invader Zim. Though now I know why there are so many pony memes around, they sure give a flood of material for them in the show!

OMIGOSH! Thats it! The mudcrab holds the secret of EVERYTHING!!! Maybe reading an elder scroll will turn you blind, but placing the mounted mud crab will turn you sterile, blind AND tell your girlfriend about that time on the club with your friends.

Meh. It looks like filler. I'm more into lore-expanding expansions than "Hey, look at this new feature" or "Hey! This evil and unrelated menace popped out just yesterday and you need to kill it!" content. Though to be fair, there are ways that kind of content can be stirred up to expand the lore of the main game (ala Shivering Isles, totally unrelated thing but very enlightening about one of the main things in Oblivion, the Daedra Princes). BUT I dont see this DLC heading that way thus I don't care about it... Unless making a house can explain some things surrounding Akatosh, Alduin and the Dragonborns that is.

Skyrim doesn't uses a video for menu backgrounds. It renders a scene.

Or something like that lol I have this house upgrade mod (link on muh sig!) that needs to be navmeshed. I have two versions that differ slightly (one uses dialogue for buying the upgrade, the other one uses a simple script attached to an activator), their interior cell modifications are exactly the same. So, there is a way so I don't have to navmesh both versions separately? It's not much work to do them by hand two times but I'd like the mod to be consistent.

^^^ This. No five tenets Astrid? Then die. You're not DB. Cicero was the only true Dark Brotherhood member before the Dragonborn showed up, so he deserved to live along those that followed the Dragonborn. I played the role of the guy which his sole purpose was to bring back the DB that was once powerful in the 3rd era. So that kind of fanaticism that Cicero showed was exactly what he needed for the "reborn" DB. If not for Cicero, the DB would have ceased to exist right there.

Of course dude. Any asset you take from other game would be stol... ehm... "ported" material. Do you see any "Gothic 3 OST in Skyirim" mod 'round here? Pretty much everything that is copyrighted, not in public domain, not for free use or distributed without author's consent will be considered something to be taken down.

I know, custom design is expensive, but you forget that Beth isn't licencing the content to one single dude, they have more than 8 million customers. The licence of the content may cost such ammount, but Beth isnt targeting a single customer. The profit margins are waaaaay bigger than that. That's something we all should notice when talking about pricing. If Skyrim costs 60 usd to 70usd at launch (depending on edition/and/or platform) and gave me almost 200hs of content, you surely cant expect i'm willing to spend 1/3 of that for 1/10 of equivalent content. When 'I paid the 70 usd for Skyrim I paid for the content, along the engine, the middeware, etc. When i'm paying for a DLC, i'm paying for EXTRA things that have such developments already given. Me too. Remember that Bethesda Softworks (publisher) denied a bonus for obsidian because New Vegas didnt reached 85 (or it was 90?) points in Metacritic, it reached 84 if im not mistaken. While to me it looks like an overall better game than FO3 (though to be fair, you have to transform an isometric RPG into a 1rst person RPG first for such thing to happen, which is something Bethesda Games Studios did first with FO3).

Try to be a coder with a tight time limit for a project, you suddenly feel it should be illegal. Or do you think that all of Beth team are 3D artists? You don't make 20hs of gameplay by making textures and meshes alone. Hell, you could make 20hs of gameplay with clever scripting and good writing alone.

No, i'm actually trying to get a Computer Science (Computing Licentiate specifically) degree and be a software developer, and I still think it should be priced 15 USD at most.

That whole "We never said we were going to release Dawnguard for PC/PS3!" issue was a very cheap shot to get Dawnguard appear on search engines again... Anyway, not going to get it for now. Haven't played Skyrim in a while and this DLC doesn't tempts me to play it again, besides, price is a lil bit higher than i expected.

Au contraire to what FMod said, 1Gb GTX 560 Ti may play Skyrim on HD pack pretty well BUT it stutters (i have one and only official HQ texture DLC, maxes out vRAM easily). So 1Gb+ is a must, I'd choose the GTX670 instead of the GTX570 anyway. Its faster, cooler, and requires less power to work. Having 2Gb+ of vRAM is more future proof. Today you might use 1,5Gb for some games (Skyrim, BF3, etc) and be happy, but mid 2013 2Gb vRAM might fall short, who knows (well, im pretty sure that you will need 2Gb to play nicely, a bit more to use higher settings) . So you might want to go the 3Gb uber kill AMD way IF the price is reasonable. Remember than today you can find lots of 512x512 and 256x256 textures on videogames, with a few 1k/2k on the most detailed things BUT the day 1k becomes the bare minimum resolution for most textures (that means way more common 2k and 4k textures), possibly happening with next gen consoles launch, then we will need much, much more vRAM for nice stutter-free gameplay.

Exactly. I wasn't joking when i said i assume they're jerks. No no, i'm not saying they can't make the rules, I've already said they can do whatever they want. My point is not trying to negate their right to say no, I'm not questioning the morality of the issue. They are allowed to say we cant just because. Thus you cant say its moot because of what you've said. My complain goes more to the "ethical" side, that they're not telling us the full story and possibly don't even try to open up for porting assets between games. My point stands until either they open up their content a little or they show us some evidence that they actually can't allow us to do such thing (like, "See the elven armors? We can't share that because [insert company] was contracted to do it so while we can use it, you cant" ) and/or they tried to but something happened in the middle . I'd be set with an explanation of the situation instead of saying "cuz legal stuff" and leaving us to imagine/assume the rest. I dont know, like showing us the kind of outsourcing they do, maybe pointing to some specific thing they cant share, maybe its some licence of some middleware that its screwing up things, maybe it has to do something with ZeniMax owning the whole thing, any more specific lead would be great. Of course this kind of information tends to be located strictly inside the company, whereas I can't legally force them to tell me, they could be nice about it, specially knowing the kind of modding community their titles enjoy. See, here is where i disagree (not in the facts but rather on the interpretation). I dont see that very supportive=making few demands. I see it more like making few demands=being less annoying. Supportive=letting us use the CK. And there it ends their supportiveness for me. Lack of (relatively) bad attitudes doesnt looks like supportiveness to me. Supportiveness is the CK wiki, the official CK videos, some of the devs answering forum posts (and that's supportiveness of those particular ppl rather than the entire company) , the CK itself, but lack of demands isn't supportiveness to me, it's just not being a dck. And even some of those things are questionably attributable to Beth as a company. Who knows how much of the official modding tutorials/wiki/CK features are made by some developer in their spare time and not because is part of their job and thus, not part of what Beth as a whole is doing for the modder community?

Yes, it is our place as customers. It is my place to say what things I dont like from their product and to say that it weights in wheter I'll buy it or not. It doesnt means they have to comply, I never said they're obligated, but you're pretty wrong in thinking that i can't say anything at all about it, I can actually say whatever I want about it, wheter you or them like it or not. The fact that we don't know about that is a byproduct of people like you who think they can't say anything, and worse, try to shut up people who do know they can try to do something about it. As they can do whatever they want with their product, wheter I like it or not, I can choose to buy or not buy their products and voice around the whos and whys demanding whatever I want, wheter they like it or not. That IS a right. I'm not obliged to shut up nor buy their stuff, you neither even if you sadly choose not to exercise that right.