A very well-made, exciting quest! The story, characters and dialogues are sophisticated, complex and entertaining. Some of the voice actors (especially the one for Sentalus) are extraordinarily good. I really enjoyed playing, despite a couple of known technical issues/conflicts. A special thumb up for the very nice and surprising ending!
Alright, now that I've done being a fool and forgoing common sense by looking at the guide, it's best I do a brief round-up of this mod.
It can be summed up in one work; sublime.
Seriously, I'd consider myself a connoisseur of quests (seeing as all my free time is dedicated to some RPG or another), and this is the highest-quality player-made quest line I have ever seen in regards to TES.
So many other quest lines have a load of Mary-Sue characters, hold your hand over the entire thing, and don't give you any choice or ability to Role-Play your way through them. This transcends the formula that so many addons follow.
It encourages the player to THINK about the quest, the dialogue, text, and the context of the quest. The decision to forgo quest markers was brilliant- you have to utilize your knowledge of the game world and your capabilities to advance. It promotes common sense and logic from the player, instead of blind obedience to the interface. This need to think makes the quests an actual challenge, instead of an enemy spam-fest.
The choices you make are ones that are realistic, instead of the overdone tropes of "Good and Evil"- which means will you make to an end? Are you going to be pragmatic or idealistic? Are you going to wish this reward or that? REALISTIC choices like this are the ones that make you pause and think, not the overdone ones on morality.
All the literature was great, the story was fun and engaging, and the quests kept me going for around five or so hours, which I think is a fantastic job. The voice acting is brilliant and appropriate, as well. Whoever voiced Skydrall deserves a medal. I loved the poignant touch towards the end, and the player witnessing the camp slowly crumble away over the course of the mod. Great concept there, along with great execution.
I think all modders who want to make an Oblivion addon should consider looking over this- it is a great mod, and a great way to design any quest line; intelligent, engaging, and above all- FUN.
No criticisms from me, for once. Congrats on the job. I'm praying you release another mod in the future.
i tell you too... that's not the only mod where it happens to me but some of the voiced characters reproduce the sound file, while other remain silent, havind their voyce files... someone know why?
Yes, yes, yes. This has definitely been worth downloading. I'm already getting such a different feeling from this. It's realistic. Your logical choices are actually CHOICES. And the environment of the game seems to affect them as well... on the first quest, I let the arena rigger live, but he chased me outside and got beaten down by guards anyway!
I like that you put emphasis on the dialogue and took out quest markers. One thing that I suggest is allowing some dialogue to be read/heard again... I found myself wanting to review what was said to me, though I figured things out from memory surprisingly well.
Exellent work! I am really under great impression. Quests are well thought and immersive. I differ with Timberwolftrass2005 on "quests that felt not mercenary enought" since there are many kinds of mercenaries and the "philosophy" of being mercenary is to choose to serv ...or work for yourself. On troubleshooting: -I also suffered from bug that prevent teleportation -whenever I try to enter Forgotten Halls (either by doors or COC) CTD occurs (seriously have no idea what's the reason- it's annoying since I had to learn what happened behind those closed doors from CS, and missed the sword) - Samyaza won't follow nor fight hunters Still this mod got to my top 5, and when 0._ will change in 1.0 its getting my vote for file of the month. And I really hope for meeting again with Cardok, Xhaferi, Skydrall and rest of the pack. And becoming acquaintance of Thane Karensius. Even if only for a moment. Keep up the great work!
This mod is by far my favorite Quest mod. I had no problems until the last quest where you are supposed to be teleported (I wasn't) but other than that. Love the diversity, love the quests, love the challenge and LOVE the sword. Fantastic. good luck getting this finished.
The Northern Front - Endorsements (12 comments)
The story, characters and dialogues are sophisticated, complex and entertaining. Some of the voice actors (especially the one for Sentalus) are extraordinarily good.
I really enjoyed playing, despite a couple of known technical issues/conflicts. A special thumb up for the very nice and surprising ending!
Woops. Didn't mean to remove my endorsement. XD
Alright, now that I've done being a fool and forgoing common sense by looking at the guide, it's best I do a brief round-up of this mod.
It can be summed up in one work; sublime.
Seriously, I'd consider myself a connoisseur of quests (seeing as all my free time is dedicated to some RPG or another), and this is the highest-quality player-made quest line I have ever seen in regards to TES.
So many other quest lines have a load of Mary-Sue characters, hold your hand over the entire thing, and don't give you any choice or ability to Role-Play your way through them. This transcends the formula that so many addons follow.
It encourages the player to THINK about the quest, the dialogue, text, and the context of the quest. The decision to forgo quest markers was brilliant- you have to utilize your knowledge of the game world and your capabilities to advance. It promotes common sense and logic from the player, instead of blind obedience to the interface. This need to think makes the quests an actual challenge, instead of an enemy spam-fest.
The choices you make are ones that are realistic, instead of the overdone tropes of "Good and Evil"- which means will you make to an end? Are you going to be pragmatic or idealistic? Are you going to wish this reward or that? REALISTIC choices like this are the ones that make you pause and think, not the overdone ones on morality.
All the literature was great, the story was fun and engaging, and the quests kept me going for around five or so hours, which I think is a fantastic job. The voice acting is brilliant and appropriate, as well. Whoever voiced Skydrall deserves a medal. I loved the poignant touch towards the end, and the player witnessing the camp slowly crumble away over the course of the mod. Great concept there, along with great execution.
I think all modders who want to make an Oblivion addon should consider looking over this- it is a great mod, and a great way to design any quest line; intelligent, engaging, and above all- FUN.
No criticisms from me, for once. Congrats on the job. I'm praying you release another mod in the future.
REAlly funny! at last a mod with true choices...
i tell you too... that's not the only mod where it happens to me but some of the voiced characters reproduce the sound file, while other remain silent, havind their voyce files... someone know why?
Yes, yes, yes. This has definitely been worth downloading.
I'm already getting such a different feeling from this. It's realistic. Your logical choices are actually CHOICES. And the environment of the game seems to affect them as well... on the first quest, I let the arena rigger live, but he chased me outside and got beaten down by guards anyway!
I like that you put emphasis on the dialogue and took out quest markers.
One thing that I suggest is allowing some dialogue to be read/heard again... I found myself wanting to review what was said to me, though I figured things out from memory surprisingly well.
Really nice quest mod, very well integrated into the game!
Exellent work! I am really under great impression. Quests are well thought and immersive. I differ with Timberwolftrass2005 on "quests that felt not mercenary enought" since there are many kinds of mercenaries and the "philosophy" of being mercenary is to choose to serv ...or work for yourself.
On troubleshooting:
-I also suffered from bug that prevent teleportation
-whenever I try to enter Forgotten Halls (either by doors or COC) CTD occurs (seriously have no idea what's the reason- it's annoying since I had to learn what happened behind those closed doors from CS, and missed the sword)
- Samyaza won't follow nor fight hunters
Still this mod got to my top 5, and when 0._ will change in 1.0 its getting my vote for file of the month.
And I really hope for meeting again with Cardok, Xhaferi, Skydrall and rest of the pack.
And becoming acquaintance of Thane Karensius. Even if only for a moment.
Keep up the great work!
Good work on an other take for quests!
finally a quest mod with multible solutions! great work, this should get far more endorsements!
This mod is by far my favorite Quest mod. I had no problems until the last quest where you are supposed to be teleported (I wasn't) but other than that. Love the diversity, love the quests, love the challenge and LOVE the sword. Fantastic. good luck getting this finished.