Nessa

Just like Godzilla to photo bomb.

Now we know why the war effort was stalled....

10 hours ago, Kendo 2 said:

My top instance as a vanilla race: The Companions have never heard of me even though I'm Thane in three cities (including the one they're in) and I defeated Alduin.  Bards sing about me but I'm not famous? 

Heh, you know I always assumed (stupidly) that if I tried for those idiots at a higher level with more fame the dialog would change. Right. Bethsoft. What was I thinking?

I like the references to cash. Or other stupid modern vernacular that makes no sense.

I also love playing as an elf and literally nobody but the bandits seem to even notice.

22 minutes ago, Kendo 2 said:

Especially disturbing in my game since I made the female potential spouses hot,

Well yeah, otherwise they're all trolls.

This would be extra fun while wearing an amulet of Mara.

Somehow saucers are just awesome no matter what.

This also makes me want to go watch the original Star Trek.

Anyway, looking great!

On 3/1/2021 at 9:22 PM, Kendo 2 said:

It got 92 hrs of my life (that I can never get back).

So I just checked my latest FO4 game. 102 hours. And that's just my latest one.

Why? WHY!? WHYYYYYY!? Was I not as smart as Kendo!?

It was similar with Oblivion. There was a huge mod called Integration: Stranded Light. Very deep into ES lore. I used that for the main quest instead of anything Bethsoft had. (Nothing that involved in Skyrim unfortunately!)

Switching to other games for modding is what really cemented my opinion of Bethsoft. Other studios are so much better on everything including modding. In many ways Bethsoft is stuck in the past and is quite far behind much of the industry.

I think what draws me back to Skyrim isn't even the setting (let's face it, Skyrim is just as boring as they made Cyrodiil), it's the familiarity. I know a ton about modding Bethsoft games and sometimes it's just nice to go back to something you know instead of learning new. Guess I'm stuck in the past right along with Todd.

Heh, ah Dawnguard. "Where are we going to find a Moth Priest in Skyrim?" Me: "Well... we could just cross the mountains. There's a monastery full of them just over the border." NO! On the opposite end of Skyrim for YOU!

And that's pretty much all of Dawnguard. Where are you? Great, go to the exact opposite end of the map for the next 10 second dialog and quest update!

Another one that bugs the hell out of me: those books on Solstheim. "Secrets" we were promised. My first (and only) time to do those: I get all the way to the end of the nonsense and I'm all excited. Will it be a Dwemer secret? Some dark secret about Nirn? Alessia really did bork a minotaur? Ulfric is actually an elf in disguise?? Galmar has an elf mistress? WHAT IS IT!?

No. I got no secret at all and.... a buff. A STUPID BUFF!! Apparently getting a buff drove everyone before insane.

So yeah, avoid vanilla.

Oh yeah. These days a Skyrim game for me ignores about 90% of the vanilla "quests". No, my character is not an Elf Delivery Service.

And nothing follows through. You lug a chunk of ebony ore from the fat blacksmith to RIften. Then... nothing. Here's some spare change for your trouble. Or worse still stuff like the Thieves Guild. Get rich huh? Your character risks all sorts of danger and death (or worse depending on mods ) and you are rewarded with.....   50 septims? FIFTY!?
The last time I was in that dumb guild I gutted the idiot on the spot after such a paltry payoff. (There's a mod for that. )

Yeah, she looks so "happy" to be doing it too.

One thing about the fixed LOD, you see things you've never seen before. Noticed a small tower on the horizon. Made my way up there, and it's actually the lit pillar near those Dwemer ruins up there.