vram1974 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I see the mods locked a recent topic about the proliferation of female followers in the hot files. And I get why he did that but I do think it's an interesting topic so allow me to present my thoughts. Yes, there does seem to be an overload of attractive female followers and yes people are upvoting these to the hot files. It's not a huge surprise though. Making a follower is literally the easiest modding a person can do, especially if you keep the vanilla scripting and just add your favorite ADEC, CBBE, 7Base etc body and whatever snazzy clothing you like with a customized pretty face. And let's be honest, if you have a choice between looking at a vanilla Skyrim face and a face like Hikari you're going to choose the latter every. single. time. A better question might be why are so few people making good storyline followers? Simple answer? It's hard. Yes, it takes work. But those who have invested significant time and energy have greatly enriched the Skyrim modding community. Rigmor of Bruma, uploaded last April, might just be the first "feminist" follower mod ever done for Skyrim. The story is about her and not you and there are no attempts to make her sexy, skimpy: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/53068/? Rigmor of Bruma is a stand alone, custom voiced follower for Skyrim, she is a no messing, cynical, traumatized character of very few words. Rigmor does not want to talk, she does not want to marry you, she is not interested in your quests or your ego. She does not wash, she does not shave (only her head) she is a no messing two handed berserk warrior in the true sense, battle scars et al. Whenever silly anime/sexy followers in the hot files annoy you, remember that great mods like this also exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notmyhome Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 People really need to learn how to block categories and/or authors. Only female follower mod I see is that Cicero with altered voice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boombro Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Rigmor of Bruma, uploaded last April, might just be the first "feminist" follower mod ever done for Skyrimmmmm... no. She was first uploaded 2014. There was many female followers who don't have skimpy armors before her, easily in the first two years of Skyrim. So they were mostly covered. Also making custom voiced followers is really hard work. You must now scripting, quest making and be a good writer let not forget looking for the fitting voice actor. Let not forgot they are hard to maintain and update. Let face it, if all those ladies were custom voiced with their own jokes. How many of them will be good? How many of them will be praised of great pun delivery, many original lines and creativity in quests? Well written scripts that work and quest don't bug on the player? Not all of them, I tell you. And she is a feminist because she has no skimpy armor on? Let me see her try to swim in the sea of ghost with a steel bikini, fights with high heels while balancing a big hair bun on her head. Can she? Of course not. Only select few can and those are among the elite. When they die, they get their own sovngarde with black jack and male strippers. They don't need a full armor to show their skills in battle. They show their skin that is scar free, because they know it won't get wondered. That is what it means having mad skillz. They are the feminists, not her. If women modded Skyrim more then men the follower page will have shirtless men and others loincloths. The textures page will have body replacers that make all men body builders with all kinds of chest hair, also with an add on that enables male bouncing butts. There are mods of this kind already of course (not the male bouncing butts.) but not as much a females. If people get annoyed by that, they should just block the modder and adult mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenryr3001 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 INIGO is no eyecandy follower and he's been here since 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vram1974 Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 Boombro do you even know the plot of Rigmor? I never said it was the first non-skimpy follower ever. But it's the first follower mod where YOU are not the storyline. YOU are her follower. yeah, there are great non-skimpy followers with custom voices. 1. Inigo2. Vilja3. Sofia4. Hoth5. Valfar6. Mrissi (the best!) And more I forget now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KawaiiAF Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I have no problems with a sexy, beautiful follower if she's a good character otherwise. ...But if they're wearing the skimpiest armor, for their sake it's best they don't come to battle with me. Tbh I'd rather have more NPCs that you can get involved with, quest-wise. So far the only NPCs I'm even remotely close to and care about are Farkas, Vilkas, and Aela. I'll take your word for it and download this character and see how I like her; have you got any more recommendations? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vram1974 Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 I have no problems with a sexy, beautiful follower if she's a good character otherwise. ...But if they're wearing the skimpiest armor, for their sake it's best they don't come to battle with me. Tbh I'd rather have more NPCs that you can get involved with, quest-wise. So far the only NPCs I'm even remotely close to and care about are Farkas, Vilkas, and Aela. I'll take your word for it and download this character and see how I like her; have you got any more recommendations? Thanks! yes you will fall in love with Mrissi. she's good to use on a new character because she takes you all over Skyrim in her quest. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/34794/? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KawaiiAF Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I have no problems with a sexy, beautiful follower if she's a good character otherwise. ...But if they're wearing the skimpiest armor, for their sake it's best they don't come to battle with me. Tbh I'd rather have more NPCs that you can get involved with, quest-wise. So far the only NPCs I'm even remotely close to and care about are Farkas, Vilkas, and Aela. I'll take your word for it and download this character and see how I like her; have you got any more recommendations? Thanks! yes you will fall in love with Mrissi. she's good to use on a new character because she takes you all over Skyrim in her quest. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/34794/? Ahh, I'll wait til I get Dawnguard to download her! Looks cool. Thank you :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noortje Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 This is not an interesting subject at all. Either you like something or you don't. Don't like it? Don't use it. Don't go bashing them because it's not to your taste. It's really not hard, use some common sense and decency.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vram1974 Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 It's interesting in the sense that attractive female followers do dominate the hot files section. Since they're mainly just the flavour of the week I tend to agree with OP in the banned thread. But my point, which people seem to have understood, is that there are some great non-skimpy followers which modders have put tremendous effort into that can be found if you dig below the surface. Because after all, the hot files represent much of the superficial stuff (latest texture, latest Japanime follower, latest home mod). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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