Oblivion is .old

Well .. the Oblivion storm is a little bit past now. Even though I have been given an Xbox 360 by my wife for my birthday, and a good friend of mine was kind enough to give me Oblivion for it, I still have to admit that Oblivion has more of less disappeared from my life ...
As for the mods site, I havn't had time to keep the mods site up to date as much as I wanted, but now the visitors have seriously dropped, so I'm actually looking at the next upcoming RPG's. This blog will probably no longer be updated very much, my RPG mods blogging will continue on http://rpgmods.blogspot.com !!

Expect the next major update here as soon as some serious full conversion mods are finished for Oblivion...


gr
Allan aka AxE

Beyond Oblivion

Ran into a site through a search for Oblivion cheats, called 'Beyond Oblivion'.
While it's hosted on Blogger, just like this site, don't be mistaken about the quality of the site. This is not just your average blog ..


Not only does it have a nice basic list of cheats and tweaks for Oblivion, it also has screenshots and other sections to make it into a real complete site. THe owner of the site is very active and post some news / blogs some related information at least every few days ... check out his site at this address :

Beyond Oblivion
http://elderscrolls.blogspot.com

Oblivion modder interviews

On The Oblivion Mods site there have been some new modder interviews posted, the one that I personally found the most interresting was Dejunai, the creator of the Harvest mod. It actually tells you some things about the development of the mod, who he worked with and what kind of response he got from the community. This truly shows how great the Oblivion community is at the moment.
The mod itself was also chosen as mod of the day, which you can read about here :

Mod of the day ‘Harvest Flora’

There will also be a picture gallery posted today, to show all the different flowers, herbs, plants and mushrooms that are affected by this mod, and how it looks once you have harvested them.

Stay tuned for more Oblivion mods news !

Mod of the day very popular

The mod of the day feature on the Elderscrolls Oblivion site seems to be very popular as logs are showing an increase in visitors. If you take in account the fact that the game has already been out there for more than 2 months, this is quite an accomplishment. Normally you would expect interrest to die out slowly, but this shows it's all still very much being played and interrest for the mods is still growing. I'm attributing the fact that we're now getting more traffic again to the mod of the day feature, because about 30% of the visitors are coming straight to my site without using any search engine or link from another site. The have the site bookmarked or the URL memorized and come straight to the site for the latest updates.
I will keep you all posted on the new mods as they are reviewed, here is the list of mod reviews untill now :

Latest mod of the day :		64
	Mod of the day ‘Personal museum’ Public Tuesday, 30 May 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		404
	Mod of the day 'Orcish nobility shield' Public Sunday, 28 May 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		534
	Mod of the day 'Travellers update' Public Friday, 26 May 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		717
	Mod of the day ‘Pretty Enhancements’ Public Wednesday, 24 May 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		1737
	Mod of the day 'Saddle Bags' Public Tuesday, 23 May 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		993
	Mod of the day ‘The Complete Ranger’ Public Saturday, 20 May 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		1140
	Mod of the day ‘Shady Lane’ Public Monday, 15 May 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		1295
	Mod of the day 'Zealots of the Nine' Public Wednesday, 10 May 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		1269
	Mod of the day 'Attack and hide' Public Monday, 08 May 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		1381
	Mod of the day 'The Storytellers Brother' Public Sunday, 07 May 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		1138
	Mod of the day 'Color map' Public Wednesday, 03 May 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		1679
	Mod of the day 'Illumination within' Public Tuesday, 02 May 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		1842
	Mod of the day 'Ruins of Nalcarum' Public Sunday, 30 April 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		1450
	Mod of the day 'Quality Female Textures' Public Wednesday, 26 April 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		4930
	Mod of the day ‘Bone arrows’ Public Sunday, 23 April 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		1607
	Mod of the day ‘Oblivion Overhaul’ Public Sunday, 23 April 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		2705
	Mod of the day 'Bank of Cyrodiil' Public Sunday, 23 April 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		2381
	Mod of the day ‘Total unlocker’ Public Thursday, 20 April 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		3312
	Mod of the day - Goblin war party Public Tuesday, 18 April 2006 OblivionMaster', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">		2818
	Mod of the day - Don't Close MY Gates Mod Public Monday, 17 April 2006 zoch', CAPTION, 'Edit Item', BELOW, RIGHT);" onmouseout="return nd();">

New mods

Several cool mods have been reviewed on the Elderscrolls Oblivion mods page. The daily 'mod of the day' feature, is really popular and people are really coming back to check them out. So far there have been a few funny ones like Shady Lane and Pretty Enhancements reviewed, so the users will be expecting something serious for a change. A couple of reviews on certain items would not be out of place.

Forever more mods for Oblivion

The modding community is now going at full speed .. everybody seems to have got the hang of the tools now, and more and more of the bigger projects are turning up finished now. Now even if it doesn't seem to make sense having to load up mods to 'fix the game balance', it does provide more long term gameplay. Oblivion's auto level system of the enemies is just applied too indiscriminate, IMHO they should have left some bigger challenges in the game for later levels.
It would have been nice if becoming an arena champion would only be possible for high level fighter types. Also, you can cheat the system by never sleeping, so you only gain in skills but not in levels. So that more or less explains the need for game balancing mods.
On another note, check out these cool oblivion movies

My other projects

Well, not only am I administrator of the biggest Oblivion mods site out there, but I also have some new projects planned.
I basically started a big RPG mods network, based on 1 portal site (RPG Mods with various subsites.

At the moment I have sites planned (under construction but you can take a look) for the following upcoming big RPG games :

Neverwinter Nights 2 mods
Gothic 3 mods

So stay tuned for lots of action from our team. You also may want to take a look at my older site, which is about old games (like Elder Scrolls Arena and Daggerfall).
It's known as : AxE's Retro games. You will find retro games playable online (your highscore saved on the site) and also game downloads and a little forum. Pay me a visit some time .. you won't regret it (site requires firefox).

Oblivion movies

The (by now well known) Oblivion Mods site has various cool movies about Oblivion available for viewing.
They cover glitches or funny stuff in the game and are well worth a look :

http://oblivion.rpg-mods.com/movies/index.php

(The item dupe is especially funky :)

Oblivion sites

I just ran into a new blogspot which is dedicated to game mods in general, but currently they are focusing only on Oblivion, have a peek at http://zoch-mods.blogspot.com
It's regularly updated with new mods info, so keep an eye on it.

3 'Official' mods released so far

There are now a total of 3 official mods available from Bethesda (at the obliviondownloads.com site).
Horse Armor Pack (6.2 MB) DLC1
$1.99

Orrery (18 MB) DLC2
$1.89

Wizard's Tower (17.6 MB) DLC3
$1.89

The last one seems the most interresting, 'The Wizards Tower' : Located high in the Jeral Mountains of Cyrodiil away from prying eyes, this add-on makes the Wizard's Tower, Frostcrag Spire, become available. Packed with numerous useful enhancements, this structure will prove invaluable to magic-oriented characters.
Of course, if you prefer free mods, there are now over 1000 available on the web.. to save yourself the trouble of going through all of these I recommend visiting www.elderscrolls-oblivion.com where they have made a selection of only the best mods (over 200 at the moment).

Oblivion mod developers interviewed

Just a quick post here to notify you of some cool interviews of Oblivion mod developers. Some early concept art is shown and even some screenshots are available for some of it.
Check it out over at Oblivion Mod developer interviews
Enjoy the goods, and stay tuned for more Oblivion related news !!

Almost 100 mods for Oblivion

The number of mods for this great game is ever rising, yesterday the counter hit 65, and it just keeps on going faster as more and more people get used to the editor. I have not had time to delve into the editor myself, but I have some ideas for some questmods already. At the moment all my time is being spent playing the game and of course download mods for Oblivion.

The best mods so far have to be the portable bed & tent, the underground layer and the color map mod. The color map uses the same map, but with some color added to it, so it looks a little green and yellow instead of dirty brown / orange all over. I also really like the unicorn mod, allows you to ride unicorns in the game instead of the normal boring white horses. You will still have to earn enough gold to pay for it though, and horses ain't cheap in this game !

Most of the other mods are small stuff that's either a blatant cheat, or minor updates to the game interface.