Uhm.. Hi.

[Alithinos]

Hello there fellow Nexusers!

I'm not exactly a newbie,I'm actually a member of the Nexus since 2009,but never until now I had written an introduction thread here,so I thought of doing that right now. :P

I joined the Nexus after I became a PC gamer and bought the Oblivion GOTY for PC. I had previously played the game on xbox360 and had one of these consoles,but unfortunately I was an early adopter and my console got RROD three times in total,and the last one was after the warranty time had passed so Microsoft wouldn't replace my console any more. At that time I was very much frustrated as you can understand since this was the first console I ever owned to die,and mind you I'm playing video games and own consoles since the NES era. I joined PC gaming in 2008,after I had finally bought a PC.

And one of my first games was Oblivion,because I loved it so much in 360,and still hadn't played The shivering isles and Knights of the Nine. When I visited the local shop that sold games I was surprised to see that it had the xbox360 GOTY version at 75 euros and the Shivering Isles disc 25 alone,while the PC GOTY version was just 25 euros. For the price I'd get just the expansion for the xbox360,I could get the expansion plus the game for PC.

So soon after I've completed the extra content I started looking in the internet for more info about the game and I found the Nexus. I downloaded and tried some small mods and liked them,and soon I decided to become a member so I can download the larger mods! But for very long I missed the forums. At a point I even downloaded the Elder Scrolls Construction Set and started reading tutorials and making some of my own small mods. :) But I didn't ever actually published any of them anywhere,there would probably be out mods that would do the same kind of things and perhaps better than I did.

The modding community and the Nexus made me always keep Oblivion installed to my hard drive. So from times and times I kept coming for more mods and re-visiting Cyrodill to try them out.

 

Later on Skyrim came out and I was determined to spend more time in mod making and decided to publish some of my mods. I did some early on but they were simple stuff,like sculpting the faces of some NPCs to look like characters known from other games. I've also started a project that was editing the behavior of animals later on,to make them interact more realistic. But unfortunately at a point some financial problems made me have to move on to another place,and there I didn't had internet for a few months,and of course all these real life issues made me spend less time in playing and modding.

Now things are better though,and I have some more time to spend,but by the time I came back newer mods of the same kind had came out and they were worked more than mine,and the comments pages of my mods were full of messages regarding abandonment. :sad:

 

The mods have fixed a lot of things for my games,and gave them more play value. So thank you all guys for doing what you have done and making our experiences with the games better and longer! :thumbsup:

 

Now except from the positive things that modding introduced to me,there are some negative aspects too that I got into because of my engage in modding games. You see by spending time on seeing how mods change a game,and how I can mod and if I want to create a game from scratch,made me know well better how a game is made and works. And the reason I name that to be a negative aspect is because now it's harder for me to enjoy a game. It is harder to suspend my disbelief and get immersed in a game now. When I play something for the first time I often notice things that could be better or different,and having the knowledge of how a game is made,instead of finding 2 enemies and thinking as a simple player should think e.g. "Oh two enemies! I must kill them to survive!" I'm thinking things from another perspective,I think things like "Oh,the developer placed 2 of these types of enemies here for me". A part of the magic has been ruined for me now that I know how things are made. Not that there are not games I get myself immersed in,it's just that the games that does that are numerically fewer and the game designers and directors have to be really good in making the game so my mind isn't distracted from things like noticing the LOD textures loading in the distance and instead of having my mission in my mind,to think "LOD textures loading should be pushed further away.."

Of course my experience in game/mod making is still quite limited,but what happened to me even with this tiny bit of experience makes me wonder if professional game developers can still enjoy games as players do.

 

Now an introduction thread wouldn't be quite introductory without some personal info,would it ?

Well I'm a gamer since I was 7 years old and now I am 25. 18 years in gaming. In my life I owned many consoles including Atari 2600,NES,SNES,Gameboy Color,Atari Jaguar,N64,Dreamcast,xbox,gamecube,xbox360, and a Wii. I never had a Playstation,mostly because I never got used in to the controller design SONY keeps since PS1. I joined PC gaming quite late at 2008. For me it was an eye opening experience and since then PC is my primary gaming platform,and I predict it will stay like that for the future. I wanted to become a game designer since very early in my life,but unfortunately programming looked like some kind of alien language to me lol! :P I'm more of a theoretic kind of guy,it is easier for me to learn how to speak a new language and memorize historic events than do maths. Even though I don't know s**t about programming I often write some ideas of original gameplay mechanics and stories that come to my mind on notepad texts.

My job is to carry coffins and flowers or whatever on funerals. I wear a costume and do funerals. Not the job of my dreams,but in case you are in some serious financial problems and your country has 30% unemployment rate like mine, (Greece) then finding a job of any kind is still an achievement and you are considered lucky.

I've been an amateur sound engineer too,with a budget home studio that can be used to record good quality voice overs. But I'm not sure of my voice acting talent... haha.

I also enjoy writing stories. I could be of help for a project that requires some story writing,but it seems quest mods are not popular at all for some reason. :mellow:

That's all for now. Glad I find you Nexus!

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Edited January 16, 2013 by Alithinos

[AnotherAverageName]

Well, hello and welcome! :D