Skywind is coming to Nexus Mods

[logan1710]

In response to post #35945440.

ModderMatt wrote: Whats the deal with " SkyBLIVION " ??? is that mod ever going to be released?

Skyblivion and Skywind are not strictly related. The projects only share a website.
Is up to the Skyblivion team when and how to make an announcement about it. Edited March 26, 2016 by logan1710

[scrollsdoctor]

I look forward to playing this especially with fully voices NPCs I think that improves the overall feel of such a game

[ghostwalkr]

** makes a mental note to pull out my Morrowwind disc from storage **

 

This is great news. Thank you Nexus..

[jc3893]

Im way more hyped for this than anything on the horizon for video games cant imagine how much work you guys have done so far keep up the amazing work and take ur time im happy waiting as long as it takes but man is waiting hard.

[jc3893]

In response to post #35832025. #35918580, #35931870, #35942615, #35981770 are all replies on the same post.

chazo136 wrote: Do I have to own the PC version of Morrowind or would the Xbox version suffice?

logan1710 wrote: It's ok, you will be agreeing however that you own a copy of morrowind in one way or another (old xbox/pc version or on steam/GOG).

trepmaws wrote: Yes, you need to own a copy of Morrowind on PC for this to work, as well as Skyrim. It's in the mod's coding to require a legal PC copy of Morrowind, so it's not sufficient to own the XBox version.

ApostasyPlague wrote: I'd advise getting a PC copy if you dont have one anyway. Morrowind is love.

logan1710 wrote: No @trepmaws. This has been changed in the last months.
As I said above, it's not necessary anymore owning a copy of Morrowind on PC, since the mod does not require anymore assets from that game.

Upon installation you will be agreeing however that you own a copy of morrowind for xbox/pc and/or steam/GOG.

But I quote @ApostasyPlague

Either way its 10 bucks on steam or amazon just buy it and wont have no worries

[jc3893]

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gx240 wrote: Yet another mod that's going to be ruined by terrible amateur voice acting. There are few things that can kill immersion in an otherwise sublime RPG like finding yourself suddenly listening to stilted and overacted lines recorded by some guy in his basement. (And it's even worse when they try to do accents.)

I'm really disappointed because I was looking forward to playing this until now. For the life of me I have never been able to figure out how this happens, but for some reason a lot of modders and mod teams really can't listen to their own voice acting objectively and realize how atrocious it is.

SikSikSikki wrote: It's not easy finding professional voice actors that will work for free. Skywind does still have a certain standard for quality, though, that you seemed to have overlooked. Sure, not every single voice is going to win an award, but most of it sounds pretty damn good regardless.

Besides, it's not like the TESRenewal team woke up one day and thought to themselves "Man, we better make this perfect for gx240", and it's stupid to say this entire thing sucks because of one comparatively small aspect that isn't perfect.

Rhyme17 wrote: ruined huh

guess you couldn't possibly turn off the voices or replace the files with blanks yourself

gx240 wrote: "Besides, it's not like the TESRenewal team woke up one day and thought to themselves "Man, we better make this perfect for gx240"

Wow, SikSikSikki, you sure raised a great point there! I guess no one should ever be allowed to critique any work under any circumstances, because if anyone ever criticizes anything you can say "Hey, they didn't make it just for you."

What a genius you are! You should go write letters to everyone who reviews restaurants and tell them "They didn't create that recipe just for you, therefore you're not allowed to evaluate the quality of the food." You should demand a stop to movie reviews as well. Why don't you go over to IMDB and RottenTomatoes and tell everyone that they shouldn't be allowed to review anything. It'll keep you busy at least.

"It's not easy finding professional voice actors that will work for free."

Obviously. I never said it was.

"Skywind does still have a certain standard for quality, though, that you seemed to have overlooked."

And that is the exact same thing that every modder says right before delivering the aforementioned cringe-inducing experience. Find me a mod creator who says "I have no standard for quality."

Stiubhard wrote: I do know what you mean though...the voice for Patsy the Messenger in the Skyrim Helgen Rebuilt mod is awful...the worst Scottish accent since groundkeeper Willie, and although it is only a small part to kickstart the modit really did detract for me.

Elagabalaus wrote: I understand your point, but still, it's a great goal they set for themselves even with all the limitations set upon them. I bet some of the volunteers even donated some of their own money to see this come to life. At least give them the credit they deserve. You can't s#*! on hard work because of one fault. Anyways, I'm excited for this, looks better than TES:O tbh, lmao.

webyan wrote: Are you volunteering for some great professional voice acting? I never knew that free mods carried the expectation of paid work behind them.

Any kind of voice acting will be an upgrade to Morrowind regardless, all I remember from that game is reading through walls of text. Which you can achieve by muting voice sound.

It would be too much to ask to just wait and see how the product will actually turn out, though, so I completely understand your point...

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Bah

beggarmaster2000 wrote: they turned down my offer helping out with audio quality.
reply was under qualified, not serious and demanded personal information

MotionBlurr wrote: same here. Ive been a dj for 10 years and with countless hours behind producing mixes, leveling audio, and mastering.... you think i would have enough experience.

Bleako wrote: You can critique the quality of the voice overs however you want gx240, but you should also have realistic expectations. The Skywind team do not have the necessary funding to record professional-level audio nor do they have a large selection of voice actors to choose from, and this is also the case for the vast majority of other mods out there (even in other games.)

This is a massive project entirely developed by volunteers. They have quality standards for sure, but there's a limit to what they can do, and you should manage your expectations accordingly instead of wasting time saying the obvious. Stick to retail games if you can't enjoy volunteer voice work.

Rioplats wrote: Since they're taking lines from external volunteers, the core team can objectively select and filter out acceptable voice performances. Did you watch the video? The ones they sampled, at least, for the video, have been very decent.
They can always retconn it afterwards if people don't like a certain voice. I'm sure they won't take offence.

DragomirTheSlav wrote: Which voices are you referring to, gx240? The strain to get the audio and acting quality as good as possible in a volounteer project is very big. Many of them already do a better job than many Skyrim voice actors. Just listen to Farengar.

DragomirTheSlav wrote: Skyrim voice acting:

Skywind voice acting:

AlixIsAXenomorph wrote: Idk but I thought the one guy that did the dunmer that was shown first was really good.

NumberOneAsian wrote: i LOVE bad voice acting its pretty funny. why do people care so much about immersion?

numeriku wrote: "It's not easy finding professional voice actors that will work for free."

A few from 3DNPCs that had great quality mics and voice acting were turned down.

*shrugs* Their loss.

Regardless, as long as Bethesda does not randomly decide to turn on this project and obliterate it, it will be one of the greatest achievements in modding ever.
Good luck to all those involved!

Torchfield wrote: 'Atrocious'? As though I would let atrocious voice acting through. Is this a direct insult to my team and myself? I'm taking it that way.

Listen Gary (or whoever you are) - our voice acting is of a remarkably high calibre. With very few exceptions, the ones who make it through our gantlet of sound quality checks have superb audio quality, and if there's issues with the delivery it's the lines themselves - not our actors. On that point, if we'd have had the resources I would have loved to have rewritten the lines to sound more 'natural' when spoken. Alas, we were limited in that regard.

I'm really disappointed in you, gx240, because I like showing off our talented team's efforts - seeing them get recognition for their hard work. And it is work. For the life of me, I have never been able to understand how people like you exist, but for some reason it seems a lot of 'fans' can't look at their behavior objectively and see how petulant they are.

LonesomeRenn wrote: I have no idea what you're basing this on, just from the small clips in the video posted here i'd say the voice acting is already better than half of that in skyrim's.

taerkalith wrote: @motionblurr,

Hi, I didnt see your application post but feel free to PM me on tesrenewal with it and we may be able to get you hooked up with SFX if you'd be interested. In terms of music however, we already have a very well known composer within the modding community doing our mastering and helping with mixing individual tracks. In short, the position is already filled for music and it is best if a single individual does that sort of thing due to how mastering works, but don't think we don't appreciate your application. Let me know, take care!

shinji72 wrote: Having listen to the voice acting in the video... really can't understand what you're complaining about. Do you expect to have a team of Leonardo DiCaprio Oscar winners to dub this mod?

danpilaf wrote: first of all, you should listen to these ACTUAL voice samples from Morrowind

and then listen to these PRACTICE lines from Skywind

and THEN tell me how this is "terrible amateur voice acting", how the original Morrowind voice actors NEVER overacted their lines or NEVER had terrible fake accents or NEVER recorded dialogue for 40 different characters in the same game(sarcasm). You just assume a team of people automatically praise each others' voice acting instead of critiquing it and trying to make it actually sound as good/better than the original game. Not to mention Skywind is a multinational group with real, bonafide regional accents, and professional industry experience(including some voice acting).

But I'm sure you love hearing the same boring Arnold Schwarzenegger impression spewing out of every single npc in Skyrim.

cheers

beggarmaster2000 wrote: Dude, you banned me over there. Scary charity organization

For one what voices have been shown have been spot on with the feel of the game couldnt ask for much better from a free game thats a hell of a lot bigger of a project than probly 90 percent of most aaa games that have millions to blow on it i mean im sure there will be some that arent great but your just making assumption bad mouthing a team thats basically dedicating a big part of their lives for our lazy asses that just want to play it. Ive barely dabbled in some programming for games and its downright frustrating i want to learn soo bad but its gonna take a lotta time and dedication im sure the team would be happy to accept constructive criticism but ur just being an ass two completely different things bra.

[GorrWarrior]

I'm just grateful that those people spent so much time creating this....I ain't bishing about a thang!!! Can't wait to play it!!

[DragonRiderOmaga]

In response to post #35924175.

magicrealm wrote: In how many years ....

now seriously, without a realistic release date this is ......nothing to hope for.
same with the oblivion project, which i would really like to play with my skyrim character and lydia.

agreed though i like to play it with my dragons

[bamablues88]

I am absolutely gushing with excitement for this to come out!

 

[Shahiko]

This is by far the biggest mod I have ever seen o.o