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Quote from: TESV Timeline

4E ?? — Red Mountain erupts; Vvardenfell is destroyed.

I find this to be a subtle "fuck you" to the people who really liked the setting and hoped for perhaps more games set there in the future.

Not really. Stuff like this is why I loved the lore of TES games btw: If you read the books in Morrowind you could tell this would happen. Vivec used his power to stop the moon, and it's outright said his power is all that stops it resuming it's former crash-into-the-city-and-nuke-Vvardenfell velocity. When he lost his godhood his power eventually waned until the moon couldn't be held aloft any more, the impact is what caused Red Mountain to erupt.

In fact, if you read enough you soon realise both Vvardenfell's destruction AND the entire plot of Oblivion are the Nerevarine's fault. Destroying the heart weakened the barriers between Oblivion and Nirn, which combined with the emporer's death was enough to break them completely. And by destroying the heart which broke his pact with some of the Daedra by ending his power so they could again walk freely without consequence...

You know what, the Nerevarine was kind of a dick.

Unless the availability of contraceptives has dropped sharply in the last five years, I've never bought that "Contraception should be more available" argument.

Quite frankly, contraception was very available for me as a teenage boy. The school was handing out condoms like they were chocolates (well, some of them were chocolate flavoured...). If I were actually having sex at the time it would have been wonderful but that's life for you xD

At 16 we were all given C-Cards which let us get up to like 30 condoms a month from the majority of clinics...

In Morrowind I found it possible and fun to play as a pure mage. Admittedly it made it very hard to start, but mages should be harder to start with...and it was expensive. The whole "spells cost money to learn" thing in Morrowind, whilst it makes sense (you're paying to be taught how to cast the spell) it is a tad frustrating when your broke at the start. Of course the economy soon gets fucked up and you become a god unto the tax payer, but hey selling artefacts in Tribunal would do that...

I would have liked more consequences for spell failure, like if you fail to summon a Dremora they might still be summoned but turn on you or if you fail a fire spell it exploded at you, but hey I like a challenge like that. After it was modded into Oblivion I found that there's something satisfying hilarious about finding yourself so out of your depth as to risk summoning something you aren't at all capable of, on the off-chance it saves your hide, only for it to join forces with your enemy and kill you...then turn on the enemy after you're dead xD

Then again I'm fundementally *not* a min-maxer. I like to play as a completely broke build, my favourite playthrough of Morrowind was actually with an orc that used only magic ^^ And if I find something makes the game completely unbalanced, like maxed out in magnitude drain magicka on self  1 second (which instantly replenished your magicka) then I usually avoid that thing...

Oblivion's entire enemy levelling system was fundamentally broken though...

You know I've never had a problem with the animations in TES games :S They've always looked fine for a free-roam FPS-RPG of their generation to me...

I mean, when people judge Morrowind and Oblivion's graphics now they forget they were practically the Crysis of their times, a torturous ring of fire to put your computer through to prove your fealty to the gods of gaming...the retailers where I first got the game were *warning* everybody who bought the PC version that their computer probably would die a horrible fps-lag death trying to play it.

No spell making sucks though -.- I mean, first they strip and simplify Morrowind's (imao) amazing Enchantment system in Oblivion, then they outright cut Spellmaking? What about custom enchantments, I wonder if that is cut too...

*sigh* With any luck a Skyrim Script Extender will fix these xD

Looking through my current mod selection, the non-graphical ones I consider vital (since I have a tonne of "holy shit hi-res mods". I have 3GB of VRAM and I aim to use it all!):

Realistic Battle And Dynamic Combat: http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34921
Now, I'm the first to cry "Too FPS" with some mods. I think New Vegas should be predominantly an RPG, so stats should play a vital role (i.e if you have a low guns skill you shouldn't be able to hit shit). That being said, this rebalances weapon DT/DRs to something sensible, so if someone is wearing Power Armour a BB-Gun is not going to bring them down just because you're damned persistent. It basically makes the way the numbers get crunched feel more Fallout 1/2.

FO1TAG: http://newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35347
Restores the Fallout 1/2 style of Tagging skills, where they rise by 2 points instead of 1 when you level them up. It just feels better and makes tagged vs non-tagged skills still relevant after five levels.

Logical Reputation Shifts: http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34944
Makes it so if you shoot one dude to death that faction doesn't vilify you for life. Now you have to be a bit more of a dick to make everybody hate you.

Project Nevada: http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=40040
Worth it just for the sprinting and bullet-time alone, and the toggleable stealth boys are neat too. Since sprinting and bullet time eat up your action points like delicious chocolate I consider this not-too-FPS.

Radio New Vegas: The Secret Stash: http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=37029
Adds 80 more songs to the radio, all of which keep the amazing 50s theme. I love old jazz

WME - Weapon Mod Expansion: http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=37576
There are a lot of competing mods for Weapon Mod tweaks, this is the one I tend towards.

Also:
Missing "Inventory is a Backpack" from Oblivion, I made a custom mod that drastically lowers the amount you can carry (from 150 + Strength*10) to just Strength*15, and then added a rucksack that you have to drop and open but can carry infinite weight (largely because I haven't figured out how to limit the amount you can put in it). It basically forces you to think ahead as to what you're gonna take out of your inventory before-hand, since you can't access it in combat. When I can figure out things like not making it a bag of holding I may release it...but there may be a mod out there that already does this that I missed.

It's a co-op game through and through and like Left 4 Dead in that so long as you're playing it with mates it's guaranteed hilarity will ensue ^^

So long as it's not owned by Rupert Murdoc you can usually rely on it with slight suspicion. Daily Mail, News of the World and The Sun though...Russel Howard does a good job of summing it up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbWiysSqKRA