Wikinger wrote:Well, Skyrim is to be at the ready and there is no incentive anymore to create new stuff for oblivion, unless you wanna still using the Files for Skyrim.
By the way. So far as there are people who are talented enough to create such things, they have their own ideas. And aslong you wanna get your wishes complied, you should think about to hire, to pay somebody for his work and the time that he spends.
I haven't been keeping up with the development of Skyrim because I think like Oblivion in pre-production a lot of information coming out at the moment is hype and promises that may not even pan out so I can't get myself excited about it really. I'm going to wait until the game is out and decide then. Besides it may not even be released on 11:11:11. Oblivion was delayed several months past the posted release date and even then many promised things weren't finished or even in the game. It was left up to modders to finish the game as it should have been. I know they were under time restrictions from Microsoft and probably other pressure, but the vanilla game would be a distant memory if not for modders who've kept the game alive. Just my opinion.
I do feel though that as Morrowind is still being modded, although I don't follow the progress of it anymore, Oblivion will modding will still continue, but what these mods will be is anyone's guess...or maybe not. I heard there's a team getting together to try and make a large scale mod that adds things like real medieval style clothing, crafting and other "realism" features. I wish them luck because besides WAC, it would be the only thing that would keep me interested and if it would work well with WAC, even better.
Look, there are a few people, including me, who tried to do some more medieval stuff for Oblivion. But while we are waiting for voluntary help, people more likley to do some Manga-Porn-Lolita-Bullshit Stuff for Oblivion. So there must be enough unemployment japanese programmers which could do this, if we paid them.
Damn, if the government wouldn't rape me by all these taxes i had enough money to hire people who could do this.
I totally agree, but I would make a bet, and I think I would win that bet, that many of the first mods that come out for Skyrim are those type of mods, and they will flood the modding scene like they are now. Also, if you had said that anywhere else you would have been howled down and told the usual "don't like it, don't download it" stock comment which is fair enough to a point, except I believe every side has the right to an opinion, but some don't.
Then, even if you or someone else were able to pay the Asian modders to do something more medieval or even a little closer to the base game, I think it would be unlikely to happen as a lot of it is cultural, even aside from Anime etc. Medieval times as many of us from non Asian cultures see it would be a foreign concept as Asian history and culture is so different than European history. That's how I see it anyway.
While I agree that since it's a single player game anyone can play it they way it suits them, it saddens me to see the type of "Manga-Porn-Lolita-Bullshit Stuff" and other extreme hard core porn that seems to be popular at the moment. Things you won't see even on the main mod site...thank goodness. Personally, I can't stand Anime/Manga and some of the other weirder stuff, but it has a huge following. I just don't get the attraction, but that's me. Anyone is welcome to disagree of course.
I'am already working on some concepts to do Medieval stuff, including Warhammer and Witcher II inspired armors, for Skyrim. You know, finding resource models, textures and such things.
I hope you do because I'll be one who will be interested. Depending on how different the editor is for Skyrim I may even give it a try myself. I've lost the enthusiasm, at the moment anyway, to do anything more for Oblivion except personal stuff. Skyrim may just be a good incentive to learn a few new things that I don't have an interest in now if it turns out to be the game everyone hopes for.