Skyrim modding in 2015 still not as good as oblivion modding in 2010?

[YngvieMalmsteen]

Not sure if anyone else agrees with me, and i'm wondering if this is because of papyrus or the new generation of people playing skyrim that just want to flood the nexus with free cheat armor/weapons, anime hairstyles, and boob mods, but wheres the really well made, awesome mods like FCOM for skyrim? wheres all the crapton of lore expansion type material that there is for oblivion?

 

Also thinking that maybe oblivion is just a better setting to mod upon. Cyrodiil is the 'melting pot' of tamriel meaning you can expand on any lore you want to in the elder scrolls and there is a section of the map that will be fitting to put it in. Also regardless of vanilla game content for both games, oblivion map size is plain larger which means more space to cram in mod content.

 

Maybe someone can prove me wrong? Every time i try to make a 200 .esp long load order in skyrim (not including being flooded with little armor mods and the like since i dont use those, only if its a substantial enough amount of stuff and is added to levelled lists) its crash or bug city, whereas with oblivion i'm running a 197 active and 271 total .esp load order and it runs great and plays great, without lots of bugs and is a lot of fun. sure it crashes as often as up to every 30 minutes but usually i can get an hour or two in before a crash, sometimes more, and it doesn't matter anyways since i get a streamsave after every fight and also every 5 minutes. never had a crash in almost 70 hours on my save so far that has set me back progress wise much more than a minute of gameplay, even though its probably crashed a good deal of times, and i have fast travel disabled on my save too so i walk everywhere (well , i use tamriel transportation network for paid fast travel between nearby settlements but anvil to chorrol requires multiple stops and at least almost 1k gold spent). not enough to make it annoying though. Anyways, trying to mod skyrim like you can mod oblivion seems impossible. and it makes me sad. i know oblivion has had more time to mature but i know that the majority of great oblivion mods today were already out at least by 2010 which oblivion would have been as old in 2010 as skyrim is now in 2015 so..

 

 

Maybe i'm missing the point with skyrim modding. It seems like the most impressive thing with skyrim modding so far is what people can do with the graphics, so maybe since i only have a 560 ti i can't really enjoy that part fully and it seems not as good to me...maybe the extreme graphics immersion you can get with modding makes up for the lack of gameplay immersion mods that oblivion has....well, there are a lot of cool gameplay immersion mods for skyrim, some even moreso than oblivion ones, but they all rely on papyrus which is so slow and buggy..

Edited April 14, 2015 by YngvieMalmsteen

[BigBizkit]

Don't know what you're doing but my load order is full of well made awesome mods.

[DoctorKaizeld]

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oblivion map size is plain larger which means more space to cram in mod content.

yes and oblivion was quite empty as well.

 

either way im with BigBizkit, you're just not looking enough on the site. there are a lot of good well balanced mods on the Nexus.

[Mattiewagg]

  On 4/12/2015 at 5:06 AM, qwertyzeldar said:

 

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oblivion map size is plain larger which means more space to cram in mod content.

yes and oblivion was quite empty as well.

 

either way im with BigBizkit, you're just not looking enough on the site. there are a lot of good well balanced mods on the Nexus.

 

I'd say there are a lot of great mods on the site, but I'd call Skyrim far emptier and more boring than Oblivion or its landscape ever was.

[Rabbit1251]

  On 4/12/2015 at 5:35 AM, Matthiaswagg said:

 

  On 4/12/2015 at 5:06 AM, qwertyzeldar said:

 

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oblivion map size is plain larger which means more space to cram in mod content.

yes and oblivion was quite empty as well.

 

either way im with BigBizkit, you're just not looking enough on the site. there are a lot of good well balanced mods on the Nexus.

 

I'd say there are a lot of great mods on the site, but I'd call Skyrim far emptier and more boring than Oblivion or its landscape ever was.

 

I would have to agree with this.

 

 

Rabbit

[Oubliette]

  On 4/12/2015 at 5:38 AM, Rabbit 51 said:

 

  On 4/12/2015 at 5:35 AM, Matthiaswagg said:

 

  On 4/12/2015 at 5:06 AM, qwertyzeldar said:

 

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oblivion map size is plain larger which means more space to cram in mod content.

yes and oblivion was quite empty as well.

 

either way im with BigBizkit, you're just not looking enough on the site. there are a lot of good well balanced mods on the Nexus.

 

I'd say there are a lot of great mods on the site, but I'd call Skyrim far emptier and more boring than Oblivion or its landscape ever was.

 

I would have to agree with this.

 

 

Rabbit

 

 

I would have to disagree with this.

[DoctorKaizeld]

skyrim is just cramped... not boring.

[Boombro]

No, skyrim is more advanced, or has more mods. There are armor mods that are not skimpy, more house mods, quests mods that have impact and heavily scripted game play mods.

We also know how to make it stable.

The only thing I'm missing however, is a tent with cell. I would really like one.

[BigBizkit]

tent with cell exists.

 

I think it is called camping of the northern ranger. you can set up a tent and then "go inside".

[Jokerine]

  On 4/12/2015 at 3:30 AM, YngvieMalmsteen said:

flood the nexus with free cheat armor/weapons, anime hairstyles, and boob mods

 

This kind of comment always infuriates me. Some people make these kind of mods, and then obviously that is all there is to it - ALL MODS EVER are like that. Really? Why even bother actually making mods without cheat weapons, anime and boobs if users won't even bother looking for them once they slip from the recent files list on the front page? :pinch: