Oblivion community dead in 5 months

[Deleted1754360User]

*sigh* i love oblivion to death but,oblivion modding has stopped.many famous mods stopped getting updated.what little hope there was for oblivion living on was killed by skyrim.i am really exited for skyrim.however i am fairly certain it will kill the oblivion modding community and its playerbase..why make oblivion mods,when you can make skyrim mods,right? well there will be some little amount of people (no more then 100?) that will make oblivion mods but,im saying farewell to oblivion.i know this topic might anger you.i DIDN'T make it to piss anyone off.i made it so you can remember all the fun times you had with oblivion and post them in the comments...

[MarkInMKUK]

You've forgotten Morrowind, where there are STILL modders working a decade or so after it was released, and five years after it's successor came out. Oblivion won't die.

[GreatLucifer]

I for one, have no plans towards Skyrim whatsoever at the moment....

 

I will continue to do what I do, oblivious to the outside world ;)

[badbeans]

Some people find games boring once played through one time. Some people find it boring after the fifth time and so on. But others like me see many ways to play a game like oblivion. So we never get tired of oblivion. but for those people that get bored easily they make a new game so that when the one day comes when the never bored players get bored they can latch on to another game and treasure it just the way oblivion was. :thumbsup:

[David Brasher]

There is the possibility that Skyrim might flop and Oblivion might remain the most popular Elder Scrolls game. This could happen if:

 

(1) The game has such ungodly system specs that nobody can play it with a decent framerate until the next generation of computers is invented and put on the market.

(2) The game is dumbed-down into an arcade slash-em-up so that people are content to beat it once and then move on.

(3) The game has certain characteristic like excessive gore, porn, undesirable plot devices, game mechanics, or setting elements that make it less attractive to a large enough body of gamers and causes the game to suffer a lack of popularity.

(4) The modding system is so terrible and hard to use that few people make any Skyrim mods.

 

But like MarkInMKUK said, there are still people playing and modding Morrowind, even though it was supposedly made obsolete by Oblivion.

[nosisab]

I couldn't disagree more, Oblivion is one those games I can put aside for a time while getting into novelties... but always come back soon or later and feel it enjoying.

 

I have been playing it with so many different builds that seems like I'm playing a somewhat alike but different game every time... sometimes I just like wandering Cyrodiil easy rider ... wearing Crusader boots so I don't need to smash every poor wolf or bear in the way :)

[ub3rman123]

This is exactly what people said New Vegas would do to Fallout 3. Have a poke over at the dead site that is Fallout 3 Nexus. It's only got 11,246 files with more still added every day.

[Deleted1754360User]

thank you for your comments....but im afraid that even IF skyrim turns out to be dissapointing its not like the oblivion community will keep modding that mutch.so many people stopped modding...and skyrim looks very fun,with mechanics such as TRUE dual wielding.....both hands acting seperately and you being able to choose a spell and a sword or two spells or two swords...its pretty mutch IMPOSSIBLE to add that to oblivion's engine..

[ub3rman123]

I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about there. Doom 'n' gloom? Probably not.

[Balakirev]

*sigh* i love oblivion to death but,oblivion modding has stopped.many famous mods stopped getting updated.what little hope there was for oblivion living on was killed by skyrim.i am really exited for skyrim.however i am fairly certain it will kill the oblivion modding community and its playerbase..why make oblivion mods,when you can make skyrim mods,right?

 

So, if I understand you correctly, you're not really saying Oblivion mods have stopped being updated and made. Because, after all, anybody can check the lists for many "famous" mods over time, and note that the last year has seen major updates in several, such as Supreme Magicka, Oblivion War Cry, and Wrye Bash, as well as many new major and minor mods (and translations) every day. Would you accept a list of major mods that have come into existence over the last year, alone? No. What you really want is us to stop being interested in Oblivion. That's the bottom line. You're not telling us the way things are. You're trying to convince us to make them that way.

 

It won't work. Even if we all miraculously and suddenly thought Oblivion wasn't worth it, it wouldn't make your Skyrim craving one bit more realistic. :D You can sit around waiting for a game whose enormous value is exactly the same as the enormous value of every other game a year or more before its release: PR built out of statements subject to change, and player desires to wish these things into reality. But no game ever fulfills these dream castles, and modded Oblivion remains a thrill for all of us who prefer fact to fiction.

 

and skyrim looks very fun,with mechanics such as TRUE dual wielding.....both hands acting seperately and you being able to choose a spell and a sword or two spells or two swords...its pretty mutch IMPOSSIBLE to add that to oblivion's engine..

 

Two things are wrong with this. First, a good sized Danish Renaissance palace could be built out of all the promises made for games that are left out of the finished result. Second, maybe, just maybe, wielding two weapons isn't a game breaker for most of us, who prefer not to trade away the wealth we have for the vapor we don't. Hell, I still like things about Morrowind that can't be modded into Oblivion, so I play both games.

 

Meanwhile, by all means, keep trying to get the rest of us to think white is black, that the mods are there and being updated, and that we don't enjoy what we do. ;)