Elder Scrolls 4

**Slyspy** · 10-09-2007, 00:39

Elder Scrolls 4 is Oblivion. Pretty but ultimately soulless. I became a bit of a mod call girl in an attempt to alter the game to something more interesting (and to improve the graphics even further).

I just can't stand the voice acting: only a few voices, all badly done. It became really grating and was the biggest turn off for me. I found myself missing the more traditional text boxes.

I still have it installed and sometimes load it up, only to quit within minutes.

**screwtype** · 10-17-2007, 14:35

Originally Posted by Slyspy

I just can't stand the voice acting: only a few voices, all badly done. It became really grating and was the biggest turn off for me. I found myself missing the more traditional text boxes.

I still have it installed and sometimes load it up, only to quit within minutes.

That's funny, I had exactly the same problem with the previous game. The voice acting was so irritating that after a while I tried really hard not to bump into other characters in order not to have to hear it.

"What do you want, outlander?" To get right away from you!

I heard this had been fixed in Oblivion but apparently it wasn't.

My other major grips with Morrowwind was the really awful UI. I can hardly believe anyone put up with it, and I've heard the UI for Oblivion is worse still!

IMO It's amazing what gamers will put up with...

**Magraev** · 10-19-2007, 07:26

Here are my experiences for those interested.

It turns out that MMM and OOO don't go well together (without downloading something else and setting that up...). So I went for OOO and some other smaller mods like unofficial patch (conflicts with OOO but I don't care anymore), Stealth overhaul (seems to make my regular hotkeys mixed up), Elven map (can't remember the name - but if you use it you have to change your oblivion.ini to make it work, found out after some swearing at the screan that RTFM works), Phinix dark UI (no real problems with this one actually!) and a time scale changer to make the days longer. And I also added the FREE Fighters Stronghold from Bethesda (free until sunday that is).

The game in itself is beautiful, and a lot of fun. The mods should expand on this and I think they probably do. I'd reccomend only using a few mods though or you will drown. The fact that the hotkeys from Stealth overhaul 1)don't work half the time and 2) disrupt the regular hotkeys makes me want to remove that one. Only it's fun to shoot enemies from where they can't see me

Maybe I'll reinstall and only use OOO and a couple of new mods like Fighters Stronhold. I fear that my repeated modding makes the game unstable. Haven't had any ctd's yet, but it gives me an error each time I exit.

**Xiahou** · 10-19-2007, 07:56

OMG, they made a combat mod that adds mounted combat?? I may have to install Oblivion again.

**Kekvit Irae** · 10-19-2007, 08:09

Yep, Deadly Reflex, a mod that also adds decapitation, wrist slicing (Jedi-style), and slicing someone in half.

**Xiahou** · 10-19-2007, 08:16

Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae

Yep, Deadly Reflex, a mod that also adds decapitation, wrist slicing (Jedi-style), and slicing someone in half.

There is no part of that I don't like.

Any idea if it works with OOO?

The streamline mod also sounds interesting, if it works half as good as they say it does.

**Kekvit Irae** · 10-19-2007, 10:06

Originally Posted by Xiahou

There is no part of that I don't like.

Any idea if it works with OOO?

The streamline mod also sounds interesting, if it works half as good as they say it does.

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8273

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-This mod should be compatible with basicly almost anything - BUT YOU REALLY REALLY NEED TO LOAD IT LAST.

I use this mod myself with FCOM (OOO, Frans, MMM, Warcry, Bob´s Armory),
and ~80 others.

**Mouzafphaerre** · 10-19-2007, 10:44

Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae

Yep, Deadly Reflex, a mod that also adds decapitation, wrist slicing (Jedi-style), and slicing someone in half.

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Delicious!

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**ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88** · 10-19-2007, 13:55

Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre

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Delicious!

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gotta get that mod

**Slyspy** · 10-20-2007, 00:39

Originally Posted by screwtype

That's funny, I had exactly the same problem with the previous game. The voice acting was so irritating that after a while I tried really hard not to bump into other characters in order not to have to hear it.

"What do you want, outlander?" To get right away from you!

I heard this had been fixed in Oblivion but apparently it wasn't.

My other major grips with Morrowwind was the really awful UI. I can hardly believe anyone put up with it, and I've heard the UI for Oblivion is worse still!

IMO It's amazing what gamers will put up with...

Ah, but in Morrowind the voice was just garnish. It was merely a standard greeting for that kind of character. Actual conversations were in text. In Oblivion the whole of every conversation is in voice. You cannot avoid it! Just think on that, and then think about what this means for the "Radiant AI" NPC conversations!

**caravel** · 10-20-2007, 12:04

I gave Morrowind all of about 1 day before uninstalling it and wouldn't bother with any of their newer games after that "experience". Irritating clone characters that all say the same annoying things, a horrible UI and quite possibly the worst combat system I've yet seen, all contributed to this. Having to ask everyone the same lengthy questions then read through the equally lengthy replies while wondering if any of them would reply with anything different was also very frustrating.

**AggonyDuck** · 10-21-2007, 02:17

Originally Posted by Cambyses II

I gave Morrowind all of about 1 day before uninstalling it and wouldn't bother with any of their newer games after that "experience". Irritating clone characters that all say the same annoying things, a horrible UI and quite possibly the worst combat system I've yet seen, all contributed to this. Having to ask everyone the same lengthy questions then read through the equally lengthy replies while wondering if any of them would reply with anything different was also very frustrating.

Well the best part in Morrowind was the exploration and the environment, which did make up for the faults you stated. Also the main quest was pretty engaging once you actually got going.