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I hate when fans try to excuse a company's lazy behavior. For example: (Quote from the UESP Wiki). Imperial Law is only the Shivering Isles justice system because the developers thought creating an entirely new system based on madness would have been costly in terms of engine changes. So inexplicably Sheogorath is suddenly fair, punishing theft and murder. His realm should have been CHAOS incarnate. Trials are supposed to be insane. In some cases criminals should have been rewarded, in others, they should have been punished in creative ways. Copying the justice system from tamriel is an oversight, though I'm sure many people will justify this by coming up with plausible excuses such as "Look, maybe the laws were like that because Sheogorath was about to turn into Jyggalag, and thus he became more orderly". It's a nice excuse... a very nice one. But I can't do it. I know the real reason. The Shivering Isles has 14 side quests and 17 chain quests from the Main Story. I only liked three out of the 14 side quests: Vitharn, The Great Divide and the Museum of Oddities. Everything else is *trash*. Fetch quest after fetch quest after fetch quest. Bethesda's specialty. And then there's the SI Main Quest, which was amazing. You could argue that back in 2006 Bethesda still made some considerable effort toward their main content (i.e, the Guild Quest chains such as the Dark Brotherhood, Thieves Guild, Arena [simple but fun], Mages Guild [Fun until the Voldemort clone appeared] etc. I'm not giving that merit to the Fighters Guild, because it's one of the most deplorable, lazy and stupid questlines ever written). The Knights of the Nine expansion is also pretty good and worthy of playing or replaying. But the rest ISN'T. The Shivering Isles was delivered to us as a fraction of what it could have been. The Lore is generally interesting, the Dungeons are kind of fun to conquer, the Oblivion Gates are interesting thematically and aesthetically, Vaermina's plane of nightmares is one of the most amazing in theory, but the Realm of Madness is without a doubt the best concluded idea for a setting they ever had. I find myself in a position where I acknowledge what we really got and feel happy about it, and also find myself looking at the true potential - and feeling sad for it. What would it be like if the NPCs weren't stupid but really mad? What if the demented were really intelligent and the worst psychos to ever grace the earth (sexually deranged, calculating, deceiving the player into complex ways)? What if the manics went really crazy with their imagination? What if the DLC had more side quests that were BETTER WRITTEN and way more imaginative (and mad), instead of the rushed two to four dialogue plot we got? Even the Shivering Isles MQ had room for improvement, though I admit it's a great questline (8.5/10). It's a few steps short from extraordinary (each step to the top takes a lot of extra effort), but at least it's something you can replay excited when revisiting the game. Another problem I have with the SI expansion is that there is nothing to do after you become the Madgod. There's no endgame content. An expansion in one of the few games where it's interesting to become a god deserved a huge free patch full of quests that would make you feel as one of the top tiers of the verse (the daedric princes). You also have no power by the way. Jygallag leaves you and if you don't mod your game or give yourself real power though cheats, you're the same adventurer you were. At least Bethesda made several NPCs recognize you as sheogorath, even though that's a small detail when you consider the ES Lore and how the game should have treated you. A couple of long and exciting post-game quests as a daedric god with challenges among the other gods (such as the Aedric gods or the other Princes) would have realized that potential. Gods fight their peers, and it would have been more than enough to "keep the game challenging from a gameplay perspective". But that requires passion. If the gaming industry - led by an interest in profit - would allow the devs to be more passionate about their works, these ideas would be commonplace. The devs would "feel" their games and think of ways to improve them beyond their initial scope. It's obvious these improvements have to end at some point, but I think we would be getting longer, better and way, way more interesting games. The only devs I think of now (2024) that are passionate or somewhat passionate about their works are the Indies.

Hey just wondering if anyone has managed to get hold any of the textures or meshes for items for ESO ? I know they'd be saved on some server somewhere so I thought I'd ask incase anyone managed to get into it?

So I'm editing the Fallout.ini, FalloutPrefs.ini and Fallout_default.ini and basically I have a problem. (I already marked off the .ini setting, 'read only'.) So I'm editing it to handle threads more efficiently, for better stability. Thing is, whenever I tried to save the settings, it said "This .ini file is encoded in ANSI format and has Unicode lines. To save the Unicode lines, you need to change encoding." So I changed all the .ini file's encoding as Unicode, because it was set to ANSI as default, and apparently it had Unicode encoding already. After changing the ini's to Unicode encoding, I could successfully save with no errors. So my question is, is it okay for me to change the encoding on the Fallout.ini, FalloutPrefs.ini and Fallout_default.ini to Unicode encoding from ANSI? I'm pretty sure it's much better if I do, but I'd just like confirmation. Thanks :)

Hi guys! im new to the forums but have used nexus quite a bit in the past few months. I would say im a hardcore gamer but ive only just got my first ever gaming pc! (wowzers) im enjoying this new chapter of gaming and any trade tips would be appreciated :wink: Now... im also a newbie Youtuber! I have created a channel devoted to all things gaming! I will be posting unboxings of the LootGAMING crate every month and various gameplays and clips and hopefully some "how to's" in the future. I will leave a link at the bottom of this post for you to hopefully check out! I would appreciate any feedback and interaction on my channel, obviously.. the choice is yours. Thanks for reading (if you did) Ryan (AKA iDKronix) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOf-YOqunpNjZUlHjVP3Mag

Hello, recently I've been plagued with BSOD while gaming, it started when I upgraded windows 7 to windows 10. With 10 I was able to play for hours but the BSOD would occur randomly almost everytime, startup would take about 30 mintues until I was able to use the desktop and what not if it didn't freeze first, windows update would give an error everytime I wanted to update, a nightmare, so I decided to wipe the whole harddrive and clean install windows 7 again after that all updates were done no problems along with all the drivers, so all was well and decided to start playing again and behold now there are BSOD while playing in less than 5 minutes regardless of the game.... I had 2 BSOD during surfing the internet very random but I can have my pc on the whole day without BSOD :s I'm at a complete loss, I checked the event viewer and when it BSOD there is the "Microsfot-windows-kernel-power event id 41" which according to the internet is related to drivers, psu, ram, overheating. So I did some tests -Reseted BIOS to default settings. -drivers are all up to date I made sure to update every single one and tried but the BOSD still occured -did the memtest86 and my older sticks of RAM had errors right after the first test so I removed those and tested the 2 newer ones and they passed 5 tests no errors -used intelburntest and tested from standard to maximum and all passed no problems -used intel processor diagnostic tool and passed as well -used furmark and did one hour test with maxumum settings pushing my graphics card to the limit and passed My specs are: intel core i5-4460 cpu 3.20ghz 8GB ram (had 16 GB but had to remove 2 faulty sticks) Asus GTX 970 4GB MOTHERBOARD asus z97-k My pc is custom built by me everything is new apart from the harddrive and PSU, basically the first time I did it but after checking how to do it on youtube doesn't seem anything too dificult, I installed windows 7 and all was fine, only after upgrading to windows 10 this hell started. I can't seem to fix the problem, my hardrive is having some errors with bad blocks, you think it could be the hardrive? I'm in a moment of my life where I can't afford spending money on new parts right now without knowing exactly what the problem is. I'm thinking either the PSU or the harddrive.

Hey Everyone! Whats good, name is Donna, recently getting back into forums. Just for intro purposes , I am a huge Playstation & Nintendo fan , love RPG's and Adventure , Action , Mystery. GTA is life they need an official VR version. Also, currently working at a Virtual Reality StartUP, we have an App on iOS and Android. Lets connect , discuss, and game . boom

Have you ever wondered who was behind the mask? I mean all these people go around, and make all these mods and such. I have to laugh at times at how ridiculous some of them really are. But, still it made me laugh. Don’t get me wrong I love modders. Love, Love modders. Don’t start sending hate mail for just posing the question. And, I know first hand modding is hard work. However, we go to such lengths for the outside, never giving rise to the question who is behind that gorgeous mask that we have just created. Fought to get the load order just right. Spend hours upon hours making preparations for the game. Making the armors just right for some unknown A.I. that is supposed to represent us. But, never giving a thought to who is wearing our gorgeous mask or body that we have just created? Many, games make you import from the previous game. Do, you ever wonder why they do that. It is a Many-fold question? Example: D. A.O. now this is by no means an assault on the makers of this game at all. It is just an example. 1. For the codex of events we import. --- However, did our choices really matter? It states in files of D.A.O. Alistair is immortal. So, if he is immortal he cannot be killed. So, do you think the creators are really going to kill off their star pupil after all the dough they laid out to make him in the first place? I say no. 2. Now in Origins if you kill Zevran or Liliana they seem to magically appear in the following game alive and kicking. Same, goes for them as well. They are immortal. So, if they seemed to followed you into the next game. Alistair, even if you killed him is somewhere in the mix as well. Why, do you say that… It is because, they are all a family. They are lovers, and friends as well. Even Loghain follows as well. ‘Because why? Why do you say that?? He is immortal as well. 3. I can tell you for a fact bodies mean nothing to them. It is just a shell. A man can play a girl, and a girl can play a man. A girl can play dog even. It is so simple.. If you can turn on your T.V. you can figure this out. 4. So, who are you really crushing on? Or, who are they really hating? It is pointless. Because, the fix has already been put in from the start. 5. So when there is this big ta do over man on man it could very well be man and woman behind that manly mask. 6. I have seen wars over the internet about him making such and such gay. And, this and that. However, they never once think? Hey, who is behind that mask? You, see the joke is really on the player. That is why when you ask them if it matters or was it an insult over making this person or that person gay. Ninety percent sure they will come back and say. It does not matter to me… Just like with Cassandra in Dragon's three. Why, does it not matter to them. Because, they know the fix is already in. Ever wondered why they move like they move. Hands on hips are a flirt move. Etc. etc. They talk with their eyes. [They use transference.] And, most games use the same recipe just different frosting. Ever wonder how they know what you have done when no one is around to have seen you do it. Not even the squirrels saw you do it. It is because, it is One of the main characters who report everything that you have done. Every action, movement, and, such. There are so many more gaming secrets I could share but, I leave something left for you to figure out.

Hey, I'm relatively new to PC gaming and want to buy my first computer to run Fallout on as my others have been potatoes. I've been looking around and this seems to be the best for my budget which is a maximum of $1000. The computer is a ASUS K501UW-AB78. You can find it on Amazon. Let me know what you guys think and whether or not It's worth it. The computer, which has a Nvidia GTX 960m, can run Skyrim, Fallout 3, and NV at ultra settings 60fps, but Fallout 4 at ultra settings 30fps. I want to download alot of mods and I'm not sure if this will work, I'd like to have a GTX 980m but I don't know. PS. A laptop is a must, no big computers. Sorry if this is inconvenient. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DT49XN8/ref=psdc_565108_t3_B015PYYDMQ

The gaming world has always been about having fun and doing what YOU want to do. This topic is dedicated to something I wanted to get off my back for a LONG time so that I can move on and start enjoying gaming more. Let me begin this discussion with this simple note... This is NOT for people who hate drama. This is for people who feel left out, lost, angry, fearful and so many emotions that we as a mortal race are suppose to feel. Let me explain by an example: When a man or woman is born she feels happy... blissful... like nothing could happen to him or her. As that person gets older they see more of what the world has to offer: Fun, Excitement, Sadness, Loss, Happiness, etc... Then the younger sibling comes along. That person feels (Depending on what they think or what they fear) like they will be forgotten... old fashioned. The same concept applies to gamers that have a hard time accepting reality. To quote a certain character: "All those with power... are afraid to loose it" This quote applies to real life.

Hello, I'm getting upgrades to my current build. https://pcpartpicker.com/user/wazero/saved/wrWJxr and will be upgrading my pc to this https://pcpartpicker.com/list/M3WrBP I just want to know if my build will be enough for modding as right now on my 8320 I can't hit a solid 60 fps in diamond city in fallout 4. and I have issues running skyrim se(and soon to be modded skyrim classic) Out doors. Will this pc be enough as my budget for upgrades is 300$ and I know the only other cpu in my price range is the i5-7500 but in most games they do about the same in performance.

Finally got around to playing W3. Not hardcore so playing at easiest level. If earns wimp label, so be it. Game is easily the most satisfactory I've ever played. IMHO, got Skyrim totally whipped...which, a year ago, I'd have said was impossible. Up to level 22. No complaints as yet. Has set bar really high for the competing gaming companies. Be very interesting to see what the next iteration of ES looks like. Far as I'm concerned there's nothing else currently out there that competes with W3...but then I freely admit that I've not played everything. FREX, my daughter has quit W3 in the middle and refocused on the various Assassins Creed games. Well, time will tell. Happy gaming y'all.

Hello everyone! I started a new show in which i will review mods, probably do lets plays of interesting quest mods for exemple and other Skyrim related stuff. Here is the Link to my first videoreview: The second episode is currently being uploaded! p.s: do consider that its my first video so the overall quality isnt that of a pro youtuber. Im still learning the basics of video editing and narating. so be gentle :tongue: Ikari

Hello Nexus Community! I've been afraid of posting here for a long time, but everyone seems so nice and helpful, and I'd really like some input about my computer and Skyrim setup. I'm not very computer savvy, so I have a lot of questions and would appreciate some help and suggestions. I apologize if I'm rambly, as I'm trying to be as thorough as possible. I'm having trouble with my modded Skyrim, of course. I've been playing the game for about three years and modding it for the last year and a half to two years I'd say. I have SKSE, SkyUI, ENBoost, and OneTweak installed. I use MO, LOOT, FNIS, TES5Edit, and Wrye Bash. Like anyone, I've got a handful of texture packs, but I use 1K textures whenever available. I'm also aware I have a couple of script heavy mods. I've already cut back quite a bit so I'm not sure what else I can live without. I supposedly had a gaming computer built/bought more or less specifically for Skyrim after I bought it. These are my specs. Windows 7 + Service Pack 1 Intel® Core i3 CPU 530 @ 2.93GHz 2.93GHz 16.0 G RAM NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Are they low, medium, or high? I know I should probably definitely upgrade my graphics card but I spent my "me" money buying Minecraft the other day. :tongue: *shakes fist at Gopher* My general problems are: -Crashing straight to desktop with no warning after some time of play (can be anywhere from ten minutes to an hour) -Lots of stuttering (indoors and outdoors, pretty much every few minutes of play) -Low FPS (anywhere from 10 - 30 without ENB, drops considerably with ENB enabled obviously) The game is playable if I'm patient but I feel like there's something I'm missing? Or am I just deluding myself after watching videos of others playing with mods + textures + etc and boasting 30 - 40 FPS? Do I need to seriously consider getting a new computer/graphics card/something else along those lines to improve my Skyrim/gaming experience? Active Mods Skyrim.INI SkyrimPrefs.INI SKSE.INI (I know there's another suggested line for the SKSE file, but from what I can tell it only effects war paint, and since I don't use any custom ones, it just makes the vanilla ones butt ugly. Correct me if I'm wrong, please.)

Hey Everyone, This is my first ever forum post so I would just like to start off by apologising for any conventions that I may have missed in posting this query. I am currently developing a Fallout 3 quest mod using the GECK and I am unsure as to how to go about setting up a protectron pod with a protectron inside it that you can activate from a terminal. I have set both the pod and the generic protectron it contains and the terminal as a presistant reference in the GECK and have set the terminals 'Link Ref' to be the generic protectron (Id = "genericPodProtectron "). When I activate the unit in the terminal the protectron turns on but the pod dosn't open to allow it to leave, nor does it seem to be moving around inside the pod(except for some sort of turning from side to side animation). I would greatly appreciate anyones assistance who can help me with this matter! :) Kind regards, rawd123.

Let me start by saying that i am not too knowledagble on this topic, and only know superficial information about it. So here i am, humbled and asking for your help. My PC specs are as my profile shows, Asus H81M-D motherboard, 8GBs of RAM, a GTX-650 and a 4th gen 3.7GHz i3. I really think that my processor is causing a bottleneck in my system and causing a performance decrease. I can play games like Project CARS, and GTA V and Crysis 3 with 60FPS, but only after tweaking the settings a bit. The real problem though are in Fallout 4, Far Cry 3, Need For Speed Rivals and Advanced Warfare. Especially Fallout 4. I can actually manage to get it to 60, but it drops down to 30 and the like when in dense areas and in certain situations. I've tried almost everything, as a matter of fact my game looks so horrible in the effort of gaining frames right now. As in, i'm playing at half the resolution of my monitor, and i've modded the game and done things that would help. Yet i still get lag and framerate drops. Well honestly i don't even know my components well. I don't exactly know how my video card compares to other products out there, and same with the rest. Do i have a system that's sufficient for the games i play? Or is there something wrong? Because i think this PC is not optimized properly. Are there things you guys could point out to me that i should do? Thanks guys.

I'm going to apologize straightforward for how long this became. It was a rant I typed up on wordpad(no spellcheck sorry) and I kinda just went with it. SO A FOREWARNING TO ALL THIS IS EXTREMELY LONG. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT DON'T READ AND KEEP GOING ABOUT YOUR DAY. DO NOT WRITE COMMENTS ABOUT LENGTH UNLESS IS CONSTRUCTIVE OR I'VE VIOLATED FORUM POLICY. Pardon me if I my grammar isn't on par but I had a strong urge to write a rant(something I've never done before as I hate writing). I've been reading a lot of forums in the internet, from steam, nexus, and various game forums. The topic, sense of entitlement that most gamers and in general, most people in society have. Then I look at some of the counter arguements to these issues and I want to break these down a bit. First, "well, they're just generalizing the whole population and that isn't fair. I'm different because of x y z." The hole in this arguement already begins when you try to distance yourself from "said group" even though you clearly interact and could very well define yourself within it. This is a key point, they feel that as long as they aren't causing the direct issue they're not part of the problem. This couldn't be further from the truth. Playing ignorant to an issue is no way to solve it and if enough people are saying something is wrong, something is wrong! standing by idly is only allowing the problem to grow. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not telling you to attack every troll, whiner, or griefer you meet, but I'm willing to bet you have a friend who's attitude online is far from desirable. Just taking the 5 minutes to tell him to chill out when they get out of line could make all the difference. Think about it, they're more likely to listen to someone close than some a**hole like me writing an rant and if everyone were to do this, the effect could be tremendous. Done on beating on that and onto the next point. Another arguement that comes up is "The video game companies treat us like crap and never listen to us!", perfectly understandable. These large companies seem like ominous gods to us mere mortals. Releasing whatever they craft on their large mountains and only if many sacrifices of hard earned money are given. Yes, businesses have become a bit disconnected from their markets and I don't want this to slip into a debate on what they can do better. This article is a self reflection of gamers mentallity and not business trespasses. Many decisions companies make generally are in the best interest of their customers, granted with intention to increase profits. This logic cannot be argued. Happy customers = Increased Profits. Obviously if you really like something and it brings you joy, you'll pay money for it. Hence why we continue to buy games like Battlefield, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft expansions, Tropico, Company of Heroes, Civilation and many others. Here we complain that they feed us the same game over and over "Stop tricking me into paying you for the same product!". Okay, so yes the games are very similar to their predecessor but the developers could never win here. We loved what made game A great, right? They can't keep this game out forever though, because we'll complain about new graphics, items and other bulls***. We cry about needing a new "fix" and then they release game B. well, game B has everything we loved in game A, a couple additional feature and better graphics. Now we're complaining the game is unoriginal. Okay, the game company mess up, huge blunder, try again. They release game C. This contains very few of game A's and B's features and more additional content. "What is this now. "This isn't what I bought game A for, why did you change it so much it's literally a totally different game!" And so they never stood a chance as I BELIEVE us as gamers never truelly understand what we want. EA was questioned about why they wouldn't release Bad Company 3 despite past success. Their response was they couldn't figure out what people liked about the previous titles. I believe the most ignorant thing I've read was this statement "Video game developers need to stop appealing to the broad market and focus on us dedicated players, that'll fix a lot of issues." I can't even comprehend how small minded thinking this is. First off, dedication does not equal quality player. Second, this clearly demonstrates a entitled mindset. Third, in order to appeal to your small market the company would need to significantly downsize. This means decreased profits and the snowball effect begins. Small profits leads to employee downsizing, stock values decrease and many investors lose money and now tons of people are out of the job. Developers, marketters, secretaries, customer service, server technicians, IT workers, factory workers(since there's less demand for product) and i'm sure all this reverbs through our economy as a whole. "Sorry we could'n't cater directly to you, let us ruin quite a few peoples' lives so we may be better at YOUR service." I'm going to end this long ass whatever the f*** it is rant with this last issue, Free to Play. This has probably got to be the craziest debate at the moment. I think the issue is we have a single expectation of what Free to Play is. We must remember that nothing good in life is truelly free. We don't get full meal samples, high quality items from donations, tons of money from welfare, or full games without a catch. Pay to play should always have a clear advantage for content and gameplay, no trickery here. Free to players need to realise that they're not contributing to the game and this is regardless if they could be a future customer(another arguement). You are given a sample and it's up to you whether you want to make the full purchase or move on. No one forces you to play and it's ridiculous to expect the developers to give you more content, keeping you from subscribing and benefitting them. If you truelly want free to play, build your own game and stop trolling developers for their hard work. Im going to end this here since this is long enough but one final note. We may think that this feeling of entitlement is societies issue as a whole but who's to say we can't set the standard and show the world that it was gamers who made a substantial change in the way we function. End Rant Feel free to provide constructive criticism of my ideals, my grammar and punctuation(as I hate writing but need to improve this ability) or anything that is relevant to the rant. I want to see how others feel and engage in nonhostile debate. Thank you!

So, what are peoples thoughts on Destiny? I am level 23 Hunter as of writing this and have played a fair amount of both the story and crucible modes. It is very repetitive. There are basically only two story missions types: kill this or scan/interact with this. The didn't even go to the trouble of recording different lines so when you accept mini sidequest missions in the games free roam 'Patrol' area you will often just hear the same lines. Each planet has one or two sidequest boss battles and they all follow the same basic formula of 'go here and fight three waves of enemies while the door is opened. Go fight one mini bosses, then go fight the main boss. Profit.' Some times it is 'kill these three enemies to open the door' or there might not be any mini boss but other than that they are the same. All the boss aren't even different, they are just bigger versions of a regular enemy. Having other players randomly populate areas you are in (I think the maximum is 16) is pretty cool and novel but they rarely don't make a difference to you. You will usually just pass each other without any kind of recognition, each of to do their task. Finding people in game to play with and join your Fireteam is very hard so you will generally have to rely on people you already know and that are a similar level to you to help you do hard missions. The Crucible can be pretty fun. Higher level people don't really have any real advantage in terms of damage but they might have unlocked more of their classes abilities and so there is a slight advantage there but it can be easily overcome if you are better at FPS. Some of the classes abilities are very OP and very infuriating if you don't have a similarly OP super ability. I was a Hunter and the Gunslinger is useless in Crucible. The Golden Gun depends entirely on your precision aiming in close quarters and you only get three shots. Maybe if it made you resistant to damage it might be better but as it is it is useless. On the other-hand the Hunter Bladedancer will annihilate you. Their super is a timed knife attack that makes them run faster, teleport around, and chain knife strikes. If there are a group of enemies reasonably close together they have no chance of stopping you. The only gun you can really use as a primary is your AR. The key to victory is being able to do as much damage in a short amount of time and the other primarys (single shot, burst fire, revolver) don't do enough damage to overcome their slow rates of fire. You can still get kills with them but it is just harder to do. I feel like the FOV isnt wide enough. There was many a time in Crucible where I watch players literally run straight past each other and once you get close to an enemy you pretty much start blindly firing and hiting, just hoping to shoot the other guy. It looks pretty great. I rarely just stop and look at scenery in games but there were a few time while on Venus that I just stopped to look at something but sometimes the artsyle doesn't seem particularly original. The Hive base on moon looks exactly like the Locust underground in GoW. Some of the armor looks just like stuff you would find in Halo (I honestly saw a Titan with armor exactly like Halo EVA armor) Some of the songs in the soundtrack sound like they were made for Halo but used in Halo, but maybe it is just me. It is the same composer so I guess it can is somewhat understandable but they could of been In Halo and I wouldn't of know the difference. I'm probably not expressing my feelings very well and I always recommend playing a game your self to form your own opinions. If I had to give it a score I would give it a 7 or 8 out of 10. It is just to repetitive and too much like other games (Some Halo, some Borderlands, I think some Mass Effect, some of the art style is remarkably similar to GoW) that it is only really unique in that it is a mash up of different games. It has no real character of its own.

Knowing the kind of skimpy armors I design for male, I certainly couldn't be considered neither prude nor square, but after taking a curious glance (users keep asking that I convert my armors to a non-Nexus mod) at another Skyrim modding website yesterday, I started wondering where us Nexus people draw the line? How much do we authorize ourselves to trespass our real-life morality when playing or modding a game? I remember the years when I had to play Oblivion 3 times before ever joining the Dark Brotherhood because the idea of murder appalled me even in a game (incidentally, at least in Oblivion we were given a reason why murder was called on some NPCs - in Skyrim, we don't). I even played Skyrim twice (ok on PS3) before I used skimpy stuff - yeah, that may sound prude, I agree, but it was damn cold out there before Tropical Skyrim was released!.. And I started designing skimpy armors for males as a joke, because it felt unfair that (as in real life, mind you) revealing the female body seems to be commonly praised while revealing the male one can still be frowned upon. But what I saw there, on that other website, really troubled me. You may think I'm over-reacting to what was just a superficial overview and sure, I have some admiration for the animators' skills (and I do play the DB quests now - still somewhat reluctantly :blush:), but I could never caution, excuse or support anything that advertises rape, torture or slavery. I absolutely don't mind mods like SoS or ASX if you're an adult player, to me they do not reflect anything else but natural and sane human needs, but that's as far as I'll go - I don't even get close to the Vanilla torture racks, don't know how they work and don't want to know. A little while back, an animation mod was uploaded on the Nexus which let PC and NPC kiss - ok, it had to go because the original author withdrew his initial implicit permission - but that mod was truly cute and sweet. It made me want to learn animation just to do that: be able to shake hands, hug, cuddle, pat your dog, anything friendly. I suppose there may be some sweet mods on that other website but I'm never downloading from there, just because of these keywords in their search engine: rape, torture, slavery. So I was wondering where do we draw the line between real life and gaming behaviors? It seems commonly admitted that killing every NPC in sight in a game does not make us potential mass-murderers in real life. But on the other hand, racist jokes are punished by Law in my country and I support that - who could say that there is no racist background in a racist joker? And is there such a fundamental difference between a joke and a game? Anyway, after that little Internet incursion last night, I guess I know where my lines are. Where do you guys draw yours? Not judging or lecturing here, I swear (I'm sure lots of users could frown at my own mods - or call me dumb for my DB reluctance) - just honest, simple, human concern I'd like to share with you guys... Hoamaii @ Admins: if I have broken any Nexus good behavior rule I may have misunderstood in this post, I apologize in advance - please let me know and delete this thread.

I built mine in Jan/Feb last year with not a whole lot of knowledge of anything PC gaming. I looked at parts reviews but didn't actually check out other people's PC's until after I bought all the parts and built it. Curious to see what other people are using with Fallout 4 around the corner. I'm using an Asus X79 Deluxe motherboard with an Intel I7 4930K CPU at 3.4Ghz. I've optimized the fans but haven't done any overclocking on the CPU. Using an EVGA GTX780 that came Superclocked. I've played around a little bit with overclocking and then just left it as right now it's hooked up to a TV not a monitor. 32Gb of RAM. A bit more than needed I know but this is also my main PC so I do Music and Video editing.I forget the name but the PSU is a 1000 watt Bronze certified power supply. Might upgrade that if anything. Was looking at possibly doubling up the graphics cards but after looking into it, no games I play make good use of two 780s right now. What are you guys running and what are you thinking of upgrading if anything in the near future? I'm looking at possibly a power supply but mainly a nice monitor as well as a nice mouse and keyboard. Using regular wireless Logitech ones now.

Hey guys. Made a tutorial video for manually installing and adding into NMM SKSE, the newest version. Link below. Installing SKSE v1.7.3

hello everyone, im announcing now that I am making a game called Gladiuswift. Gladuiswift is a fast paced, First person shooter role play game. The game focuses around a civilian which you give a name, which is struggling to survive in the vast lands of Avhanius. Usuallyn a very pretty land is now crawling with sick people, the bubonic plague has struck and humanity is slowly falling into chaos, with the 4 different clans not really helping out by having a war. Meanwhile the civilian tries to find his destiny, he tries to survive. His father who died tells him there is something in Mythic empire that is destined for him. Now the civilian has to figure out how to get to the Mythic empire without being killed, by the plague or archers. Experience the world from the eyes of the civilian, make choices that could wage war or stop it, make friend, get married or lose friends and kill people. The choice is yours, the world is yours, the consequences are yours and this throne might be yours. I came to this disscusion for you to spread the word so that I get help, currently im only one person making up the whole team. I figured Skyrim has some pretty neat modmakers, so they might be able to help. Theres even some money involved in it. I do however know how much time and effort it takes to make a game. However I am dedicated and willing to make this happen, I have already finished five types of armors. 20 static meshes. 3 buildings and 5 NPCs. if you are interisted in helping out, please visit the website to find out about what available jobs are there and how to apply> http://drawesome1223.wix.com/admen-blog I hope youre enjoying your day, and thank you for taking the time to read this ;

Hello all, So I was going through my Facebook, when I stumbled across the Wikileaks page..On the page was an article about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. Now, I'm sure there are skeptics out there that believe such things as Wikileaks are ridiculous and are not avid followers of Wikileaks..And I don't wish to debate about the credibility of such groups, however, they often vouch for citizens right to both online, and physical freedom. Which is not always a bad thing as online and physical freedom is something i believe in. Regardless, on to the topic. On the page was a link to a youtube video to a user named Tarmack, who covers some of the topics in the TPP. I promise it's not a dry and boring video, He is playing some games while he talks about it :blush:.. Link can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DIJVetzaHs&feature=share Now, while watching this I couldn't help but think of the Nexus community immediately. Being a on/off modder and very integrated in gaming myself, I thought it necessary as I hadn't seen a topic regarding it anywhere. Many of the things in the TPP seems to (to me anyways) cover several topics that do in fact have an effect on mods and the modding community. I encourage you to all view the video and give me some feedback on the topic, do you think this is fair as not only a consumer but as an active hobbiest, or someone who is employed in the industry? We as gamers and as modders, should stay up-to-date on politics just as much as our games. You never know when your freedom to mod may just be stripped from right underneath you. And who wants to be put in prison for just doing what they love, something innocent like modding even? I know I sure don't. Gaming is not integral to real life. But one small right taken today, could be all of them tomorrow. :confused: Feel free to leave any comments, feedback on the topic below!

Hello; I need help creating a mod, well not the mod it self but its textures. I'm rather new at modding and need help creating custom textures and meshes if that is all. but i would love if someone could make a Mole Rat texture with a backpack on it I will give credit to who ever makes it.... I really just need the help. Thank you

Question: How do you mod games? What programs do you use? Any useful information on this subject (videos, pages, etc)? Not nessecarily Skyrim, but games in general. Please share master modders of Nexus.