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The Oblivion Bookbinding Mod

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the labour-of-love dept.

Via GameSetWatch, an article on the Guilded Lilies site interviewing a unique Oblivion modder. Phoenix Amon has taken on the task of rebinding every book in Oblivion, as well as spell-checking the documents within. From the article: "Q: How much time do you spend modding, and do you enjoy it more than playing games? A: I spend more time modding than playing recently, but I enjoy both a lot. I wouldn't have bought Oblivion if it hadn't been moddable, but that's because I knew from experience that I don't like a lot of Bethesda's game design choices. It's not a deciding factor for all games."

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  1. Re:Wow... by cinnamoninja · · Score: 4, Informative

    Perhaps he will next go in and create new patterns and quilting for all of the bedding in the game. :::yikes::: Glad I'm not stuck next to him during a long flight.

    She, actually.

    And she's really quite cool about it. She didn't think she had the talent to come up with some huge level quest mod, so she picked a small thing that bugged her and is going to fix it. Here are pictures of the books so far.

    Also, she's got a couple guys to help her incorporate grammer and spelling fixes for the books. If only the original designers would put so much thought into the little details...

  2. Re:One of the best morrowind mods was like this by irc.goatse.cx+troll · · Score: 2, Informative
    This however does raise a question, what could be done with a game that is fully open and modders do not have to spend the first few months trying to decipher cryptic files?


    Capture The Flag.
    Team Fortress
    Rocket Arena

    To name a few of the more notable things that happened. Yes, like usual I'm refering to quake, which embraced and really founded the modding revolution you hint about. Really, its not even that uncommon in major FPS titles now, not sure why the other genres havn't caught up.
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    Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx
  3. Re:Wow... by Durinthal · · Score: 3, Informative

    Maybe he can give all of the ale bottles unique, detailed bap designs?

    Well, some other people have already gotten close to that.