/tes/ - The Elder Scrolls Discussion

>>9068

I can give you a hand. I have plenty of mods and found several really good guides. One of them was especially good but in Spanish, but I can translate it.

It's a long one, though.

>>10381

Consider than the entire TES universe is imaginary; literally, figuratively, and in every other sense. Everything behaves the way it does because powerful entities desire it, and in a dream world thought is a tangible force.

>>10749

not sure why

wide majority of mods are wish-fulfillment, soft-porn shittery

btw, I just wanted to say I'm fucking depressed that I have NO FUCKING ES

but I've played all of the games so much that I can't possible enjoy them ever again, so all I have now is clogged up nostalgia in my chest

fuck fucking Fallout

I'm not kidding, I just listened to "Ancient Stones" and fucking cried

>>10811

alright bud, whatever you say

>>10811

I wish there were more (good) gameplay mods.

But most focus on either making the game frustratingly hard or boringly easy.

>>10804

Dragonborn and Dawnguard were quite good, as was Shivering Isles. Bethesda still have talent, they just don't always apply it

TES's real issue is lack of a good combat system. They could learn a thing or two from Durk Sills.

>>10802

only thing skyrim had over the old games is better graphics and animation. which doesn't even deserve a mention, it's just expected of a newer game.

>>10810

Honestly it's hard for me to judge accurately because I've modded my skyrim into extreme difficulty and survival autism, so I view it through rose colored lenses

>>10817

tbh I was the kind of person who would get called out as 'casual skyrim bby' and I played dragonborn before morrowind. I was intrigued by the mushroom towers, netches, redoran guards and shit and got morrowind after

>extension of the daedric theme already set forth in skyrim

Daedric theme, set forth in skyrim? What the fuck? Skyrim had daedric quests like any other elder scrolls, and Oblivion had more focus on, well, daedra and oblivion. Shivering isles was a different thing than the parts of apocrypha you see in dragonborn. I still like it a lot, despite the parts that are supposedly skyrim.

What i find funny are the orc followers. All "tough guy"/"warrior type" lines and 2 minutes in a fight they scream from their lungs "No more! I yield! I yield!" due the shitty AI

>>10477

Just modify their game files with a honey, I did that with a follower mod who was ugly as sin, I still couldn't stomach their vapid and cringy writing.

>>10498

My main issue is that followers don't really mesh with frostfall or realistic needs. They don't eat, sleep, pitch tents, cook etc. When my character needs to camp to survive, and my follower just stands around all night, that breaks immersion

Also, even with horsemen installed, I still can't get my followers to fight on horseback.

>>10808

developers far more competent than Bethesda can't do followers right. only time they are not shit is when you have absolute control over them. like those old isometric rpgs. but I digress; those sound like issues the creators of those mods should address.

>>10809

Taleworlds does alright, but then again that's because you only really use them in combat and dialogue trees. They don't follow you around town

>>9618

>they looked like this in an older game therefore you're not allowed to like it also you're a millenial because I disagree with you

>>>/tumblr/ Go back to your safe space.

>>9497

Ah, Thank you lovely sir for playing the old games.

>>9534

It's not studio quality, but it's good for mod quality. A better criticism is that it's levels are cramped and linear and lack huge open areas

>>10795

MKs designs are quite good; the huge check tufts make them look less like conventional furries and more alien

>>10773

Surprisingly no. All the current skyrim orc mods are waifu shit.

>>10786

True, I guess falmer are more like Tolkien's orcs. I'm not saying tes orcs should be mindless beasts, just that they should be frightening enough to scare away other races. Skyrim orcs are hardly uglier than the other mer. They basically look like grey humans with tusks.

>>10609

Someone should shoot this guy for his unforgivable heresy. If he's the lore writer for ESO he single handedly screwed the lore forever.

>>10784

Isn't this just some guy who does advertising? I don't think he writes lore

ESO lore is 100% garbage irregardlessly and should be completely retconned, canned, disregarded and forgotten

>>10788

Schick is the 'Head loremaster' of ESO.

Were not really sure how much of ESO's lore he is responsible for, but given the title, probably alot.

So is this guy the Loremaster for all of the Elder Scrolls games or just Online, sounds like more of a PR role than anything else. if they wanted a loremaster I'm sure they could have hired better.

the only meme here is Elder Scrolls Online, is the game any good from any angle, I've been wanting to try but MMOs suck, Hero Engine sucks, ESO story sucks, and Skyrim sucks.

>>10704

>You know what I'd like? If at high levels you'd get more enemies thrown at you

Bioware used to do that in their rpg games and the fights would get tedious really quickly even with massive screen clearing D&D spells available. Maybe if it was just for random npc clusters, while quest spawns stayed static.

>>10712

>massive screen clearing D&D spells

man we need those in TES. best part of being a high-level mage is spells that let's you just instantly massacre all the scrubs. like you can just picture your character going "Man get this weak shit out of here." while doing a backhand motion and just wiping out everything in front of him. makes you feel like a boss.

>>10718

Dragon's Dogma sorcerers were really an example of good concept but flawed execution. For a class that's so squishy and vulnerable, they are in sore need of some "don't fucking touch me" spells, like teleportation, mirror images, barriers, whatever. It's the only vocation I did not have a good time at all trying to solo, I got tired of being smacked around by everything while i try to fire off a spell.

It would be pretty nice if the guilds actually behaved like fucking guilds instead of faggy after-school clubs. Like, if you take a few random sidequests to murk bandits or whatever in a particular town, the local Fighters Guild should get on your ass in some way for stealing their business. If you go around robbing houses in a town, the local Thieves Guild chapter should try to coerce you into joining them or try to steal the shit you stole for themselves, or something. If you're going to put "guild" in the name, make it something more than a lame questline.

>>10690

I mostly play female characters after completing my first playthrough. I didn't used to when I was younger, because I thought it was weird. But as I've gotten older, I've found it easier to roleplay as a female.

To elaborate: When I play a male character, I almost always inevitably slip back into behaving how I would behave myself, or worse, just playing as if it was a game. When I play a female character, on the other hand, the character menu, dialogue, and so on are all enough to leave a constant reminder of the divide between player and character, making it easier to play whatever role is present.

That being said, I usually play stealth or magic based characters as a girl, with the claymore coming out later in the game at high levels.

>>10690

Constantly keep an eye out for creepy men. I really wish their was a realistic sexism mod that makes you fend of amorous men, and would bar you from certain professions but open up others. IMO skyrim's "politically correct utopia" is less immersive than Mount and Blades gritty sexism.

Hell, I grew up playing metroid as samus, so it doesn't strike me as weird.

wow I sound like gamerghazi in this post

>>10750

obligatory

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>>10750

>Mount and Blade

>Gritty sexism

>Start with a battle's worth of renown less than a man

>Require 2 battles worth of renown to become noble lady

>Lose like -3 affection with lords for being a chick

>Still end up sole ruler of the entire land

>Have 1 less str at char creation, but have 1 more int, the most important party leading stat

>Men get Cha for some reason, and it's shit because of how OP renown is

>Also gain the unique ability to marry a male lord and have two armies

Please let the 'Mount and Blade isn't a Thalmor power-trip' meme die.

>>10754

Most Thalmors don't even know what M&B even is because they only play fetcher art games. If Bethesda put a sex differential in TESVI, Thalmors would chimp out hard.

>>10723

To be fair we really haven't seen much of the Bosmer in the first place. Bethesda seems uniquely uninterested in writing about them or showing off their culture in games. Nearly every Bosmer character is thoroughly assimilated to whatever province they're in.

>>10725

>tfw no jungles in cyrodiil

>tfw no significant distinction between colovians and nibenese

>>10727

I figured that Cyrodiil's original climate and terrain would have extrapolated well into a lore-friendly game based on the Climate of japan.

Imagine if the Imperial arboretum had a few plum trees, and a gust of wind showers a fantasy-roman Guard with tiny pink leaves while mysterious flute-and-lute music set the tone.

>>10759

Stop anon, my muatra can only get so hard

>>10692

Being attacked by an essential because he magically sensed you're a vampire, thus fucking your whole playthrough.

I'm totally for killable essentials, just not my best pal Caius attacking me on sight because I smell funny.

>>10752

Probably looked into your soulless eyes and realized you were a bugchasing bloodsucking faggot.

INB4 I WAS WEARING FULL HELM

Implying anyone trusts people in those to not be vampires, implying you weren't at a loss to stop him from finding out, you dumb fuck.

>Be you

>Boot up Dawnguard DLC in a world where Bethesda does things properlyç

>there's an alternate route to joining the Volkihar which doesn't require going through the Dawnguard, because it's specially stupid that if you're already a vampire, you'd show up at the HQ of the Anti-Vampire KKK.

>Dawnguard Weapons are made out of fucking SILVER, because it's canon that SILVER does TWICE AS MUCH DAMAGE to undead creatures.

>the Mace "light of Day" from Morrowind Makes a comeback.

>Hammers are stupid weapons to kill vampires with, my man Isran has a very fast runed danwguard claymore sword.

>Volkihar Vampires have a hard-on for ice magick

>they have a unique minor power that looks like the afflicted's vomit-spewing attack but it's actually a frostbite spell that does less HP damage but much more Stamina damage.

>Volkihar vampires ambush the player by leaping out of piles of snow and blocks of ice, much like how rieklings do.

>Their armor is insipired by Soul Reaver instead of Castlevania, so they are an aesthetic pairing with the armor that appears on their Vampire lord form.

>Volkihar Castle is hidden inside a glacier, and through a grotto, sort of like how the Sky Haven temple is. It's also surrounded by shipwrecks with the skeletons of ships hulls poking out of the water, maybe some whale bones here and there too.

>Volkihar Vampires can summon Barnacle-crusted, seaweed-draped, scurvy-having Pirate skeletons with actual cutlasses.

>Blood Magick in Vampire Lord form isn't a glowing red orb like an illusion spell. it's an actual orb textured like blood and can do shit like make people's heads explode and whatnot.

>Serana isn't the chick from Underworld, instead she's a demure lady-in-the-wateresque character who is encased in a magical block of ice and not a stone coffin, She has long wavy hair the color of dark seaweed.

>Instead of being a spoiled brat, she acts like a proper modest lady with a killer streak.

>>10756

Bethesda,hire this guy

>>10756

I'm pretty easily satisfied. Like, if you give me a winged bat-monster to play with, I expect to be able to fly. That's not an unreasonable request, right? Just that tidbit of common sense would have made vampires worth it.

>>9227

Glad you like it.

They way I envisioned it, House Sadras would currently be a patriarchal family in the vein of the Corleone family. Their modus operandi around Morrowind would be sweetly reminiscent of Mafia families but with a strong presence of honor in their acts. They have no problem bullying people into compliance but they prefer to use actual violence as a last resort, specially to preserve their public image.

They'd be strong supporters of the Reclamations and their main figures would be strong supporters and financiers of the New Temple. although devout to the religious ritual, they are a bit dismissive of the faith itself, being more pragmatic towards religion as a whole than dogmatic as the Indoril would be.

On a military level, they're mostly dependent of the Redoran and support Redoran troops as morrowind's standing armies. However their support would amount to buying out the loyalty of Redoran soldiers and officers.

Their own army is rather small, and they cultivate Telvanni traditions through the use of a specialized force of battlemages focused on Illusion and conjuration. These elite guards are garrisoned at Narsis but can be found patrolling the bordering regions with cyrodiil and Argonia. Since 4E they carry black soulgems which they often fill with the souls of outlaws, escaped slaves and others.

Maybe they sell some of these filled soul gems to their Telvanni allies, or maybe they're working on a new type of ghostfence, who knows?

>>9228

fuck im spelling like shit tonight, very sleepy.

Good thread right here.

Another interesting theory I heard is that Sadras was a minor house within Redoran and after the Red Year they replaced Hlaalu as a puppet house of Redoran.

By the way, what are the houses/guilds in the lowest row? I recognize all above as Indoril, Dagoth, Redoran, Telvanni, Hlaalu and Dres but those below don't ring a bell.

This is still a thing.