Re: Maigrets Skyrim Album

[Maigrets]

I actually like the Dark Elves, my issue is with the fact that Bethesda (even after excellent mods) manages to make the elven races look more Neanderthal than a supposedly highly evolved race of high intelligence should imho.

Oblivion's character creation put me off more than Dark Elves.... Unmodded anyway and then it wasn't easy, at least until recently when Nuska released the Oblivion Character Overhaul and changed all the ugliness. It's an awesome mod, but it makes one wonder why Bethesda couldn't do it if one modder could.....much like many other mods for all their games really.

In Skyrim I use Ethereal Elven Overhaul also by Nuska and that at least makes them look a little less Neanderthal....it gets rid of the caveman brow ridges for the most part.

I don't necessarily think Elves in the TES games should look like LOTR Elves as that probably wouldn't fit the theme, but most Elves are usually portrayed in most games and literature as beautiful and more intelligent and evolved than other races. Of course you have evil elves and devolved variants but usually they are still intelligent, if not pleasant to look at. After all, even the lowest of Elven races are usually magic users and that requires a good degree of intelligence.

Bethesda makes them more common and even inferior to everything else, except for High Elves, and especially in Skyrim where none of the races are really different to others, except in appearance. In retrospect I think they should have named them anything but Elves and created completely new races, OR just stayed with their racial names, eg Dunmer, Altmer etc, instead of calling them Elves at all. Orcs in TES are Elves, or used to be, but if you didn't know that they could be a totally different race.

I'm not that interested in the Lore and history of the TES universe so perhaps there's a good reason for it, but there are a lot of games that have Elves so just changing their appearance and characteristics and still calling them Elves is not very creative really. But, that's just me.

[MasterAub]

Interesting character

Hahahaha, very odd character indeed, something is wrong with the nose and the picture makes him having a disproportionate head vs body. He is like a cross between Marylin Manson and Tom Cruise...
Elves in TES have always been a nightmare to make them look "cool"

[Maigrets]

Interesting character

Hahahaha, very odd character indeed, something is wrong with the nose and the picture makes him having a disproportionate head vs body. He is like a cross between Marylin Manson and Tom Cruise...
Elves in TES have always been a nightmare to make them look "cool"

I didn't notice anything wrong with his nose, but maybe it's the angle I took the shot. I do agree though, all the Elf characters I've tried all look a bit mutated. He's very thin as well which does look a bit strange. I don't mind him looking like Marilyn Manson, but Tom Cruise...no (not a fan). .

He's going to keep his clothes on from now on...so people don't laugh at him. Just wait until he learns some cool spells, then they won't be laughing.

[Fessels]

Just wait until he learns some cool spells, then they won't be laughing.

Oh Oh.

[Maigrets]

OK....here's a better shot of Salamander in some new gear and I haven't changed his looks. I think he's rather good looking for a Dark Elf...

And just a shot of the trio. Inigo is getting a BIG update soon so I'm looking forward to that although I imagine it will requuire starting over since there's a lot more dialogue and other things added. I can't play without my blue feline friend or my canine buddy.

Inigo: They say you look weird, my friend.
Salamander: Yes, well they will burn for their insolence!
Garm: Woof!!!!

[Fessels]

LoL

But the second screenshot looks really...really good.

[Maigrets]

LoL

But the second screenshot looks really...really good.

Yeah, I like the second shot as well. My game looks really nice at the moment. I think it's a combination of the SweetFX preset I'm using and Dynavision which gives it a nice colour palette and just a light DOF.

[Fessels]

Good to see that Dynavision works for you...if it was not causing save game bloat ( Which i think Gopher fixed. ) then the DoF was not always working as intended.

[Maigrets]

Good to see that Dynavision works for you...if it was not causing save game bloat ( Which i think Gopher fixed. ) then the DoF was not always working as intended.

I'm pretty sure I read that Gopher did fix it and my saves don't seem to be growing faster than they should be. Actually I don't always notice the DOF, but when I'm standing on a hill overlooking a nice view I see it's there, but I also have it set to SOFT so it's not overpowering.

I have read in several places that the Imaginator causes save bloat, but again it never seemed to do it to me, and I've had it installed for ages over a number of characters. It's still installed and I'm using the MCM addon now so I don't need to summon the NPC, but I'm not actually using any settings at the moment.

[Ailsa]

I think that Salamander is one of the better looking Dark Elves I have seen Without the Ethereal Elven Overhaul I would probably not have played any of the Elven races more than once.

I must actually use Imaginator more (I have the MCM menu for it) but I am not very patient about playing with settings - at the moment I just want to vent my irritation with life by killing lots of things in game

[Fessels]

at the moment I just want to vent my irritation with life by killing lots of things in game

LoL Aren't games great.

[Maigrets]

at the moment I just want to vent my irritation with life by killing lots of things in game

LoL Aren't games great.

And think of the advantage action gamers will have if a zombie apocalypse happens.........all that practice will pay off, but don't forget you'll still need head shots.

[Maigrets]

A giant herds his mammoths. On a foggy day we headed to Kynesgrove to see about a woman about a dragon and passed by the thermal springs on the way.


The Hall of the Vigilants is ablaze. Not that I care very much since they keep sending their people to kill me, but death by vampires can't be pleasant.


Passing Dragon Bridge on the way to Solitude.


Meet my new mount. I'm very pleased with this mod. It's compatible with Convenient Horses so he has all the functions from it and he will fight if I let him just run with me instead of being ridden.

[Ailsa]

I had him for a while and think he is superb however I still prefer to walk/run everywhere for some strange reason

[Fessels]

I still prefer to walk/run everywhere for some strange reason

I always do that to, when Horse Combat got introduced i tried it out for a while but even then i just did not seem to really like it.

@ Maigrets

The Sabre cat mount looks really cool...do you get a lot of bad looks from Inigo.

[MasterAub]

OK....here's a better shot of Salamander in some new gear and I haven't changed his looks. I think he's rather good looking for a Dark Elf...

He looks way better on your last shots...especially for a dark elf. Now I'am starting to be afraid...In fact that could be so cool if one of your friend could join your game as a foe or as a friend. I am not talking about a MMO

[Maigrets]

I had him for a while and think he is superb however I still prefer to walk/run everywhere for some strange reason

So do I, nothing strange about it really. I always have a horse, or some kind of mount for novelty reasons I guess, since with the mods I use riding becomes a chore when you have to quick dismount so often to kill something or avoid being killed. In Oblivion they used to say to be safe stay on the roads which was a load of crap, and in Skyrim it's where all the bandits and wolves etc hang out waiting for someone to pass by.

At the moment I have my mount and Inigo's in follow mode so they just trail along behind until I want them, plus they are good for storage.

Fessels wrote:
I always do that to, when Horse Combat got introduced i tried it out for a while but even then i just did not seem to really like it.

@ Maigrets

The Sabre cat mount looks really cool...do you get a lot of bad looks from Inigo.

Horse combat was totally useless and I'd forgotten it even existed until you mentioned it. Inigo doesn't mind the Sabrecat since it has helped us out a few times when we were inundated by goblins and other large groups of enemies.

MasterAub wrote:
He looks way better on your last shots...especially for a dark elf. Now I'am starting to be afraid...In fact that could be so cool if one of your friend could join your game as a foe or as a friend. I am not talking about a MMO

It would be amazing actually if these games had a limited co-op function so friends could play together, but definitely not like a MMO. Speaking of which...I've watched a few videos and read about TES Online, but it does nothing for me. It doesn't even feel like the TES universe and if it weren't for the names of places and races etc, it would be just like any other MMO. Doesn't grab my interest at all.

[Fessels]

Horse combat was totally useless and I'd forgotten it even existed until you mentioned it.

LoL.

Inigo doesn't mind the Sabrecat since it has helped us out a few times when we were inundated by goblins and other large groups of enemies.

Good.

It would be amazing actually if these games had a limited co-op function so friends could play together, but definitely not like a MMO. Speaking of which...I've watched a few videos and read about TES Online, but it does nothing for me. It doesn't even feel like the TES universe and if it weren't for the names of places and races etc, it would be just like any other MMO. Doesn't grab my interest at all.

Exactly how i think about it as well.

[Maigrets]

So I decided to make another Skyrim character so I can just mess around in game, raiding dungeons and exploring etc. Changed a few mods, the main one being Dance of Death which I replaced with VioLens, which seems to work a lot better and also shows the killcams in 1st person. Also using a different SweetFX preset which looks very realistic with no fps loss.

I have to find out how to fix my shadows which are flickering and jagged looking again for some reason, but in general with all the "helper" mods (ENBoost, SSME etc) the game seems stable so far although I haven't done much yet and just reached level 7.

I also used LOOT instead of BOSS which is now outdated. LOOT seems to place mods in what looks like odd places, but seems to work very well and I imagine also contributes to stability.

Active Mod Files:

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Anyway, the character is Magenta, Nord warrior, named after my Dark Souls 2 character...and because I couldn't think of a new name I liked once I was in character creation. It looks a bit flat but it just started to rain so the lighting isn't very bright.

[Fessels]

LoL now lets see how long i can continue to hold out.

But Magenta has a intense look on that screenshot. So LOOT has now officially replaced BOSS...i keep an eye on Nexus but i have not visited the Beth forums in quit a long time?