Status Update: August 2025
RPGs
Summer means different people having vacation at different times, so hard to group the full party. Hopefully around September things will get rolling again.
Videogames - Finished
Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
I got a Switch 2, so the first thing I did was another run of Zelda: BOTW. Only 40 hours, and not all the shrines finished yet (nor many of the secondary quests), but I got the "completed" star on the savegame, and now I can progress sporadically.
What I did was also pick up my old completed savegame, and left it nearer full completion:
I've only got to get a few more koroks to unlock the final extra shield slots, and farm two items to complete the last two armours I have not yet maxed.
I doubt that I'll ever get to 100% koroks, as it gets tiring after a while.
Videogames - Ongoing
Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom
Similar to Zelda: BOTW, I'm doing a new playthrough, although this time the completed savegame is missing a lot of content, so I expect to switch to it as soon as I catch up.
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion - Remastered
Ongoing, not many news, other than the company that did the "remaster" clearly ported everything as it is, as the same bugs from the old Game Of The Year versions are present. Thankfully, the game is so versatile that you can escape some buggy situations by checking online for the old XBox 360 GOTY tricks/solutions.
Starfield
I just purchased it, with the DLC and all. I know it's not the greatest game, but I really liked what I saw regarding immersion and lore. Maybe it reminds me of Mass Effect in the aesthetics, but whatever the reason is, I plan to toggle between Oblivion, Zelda and this title as my main long term pseudo-RPGs for a while.
My Oblivion Remastered Recommended Mods
Introduction
This is a (small) list of the plugins/mods for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered that I use. You can find many more, but I mostly want small tweaks and re-balances, so I haven't even looked at what else appeared since I began playing.
Installation Instructions
For standard mods, download the corresponding files and put them in the Content/Dev/ObvData/Data subfolder of where you installed the game. Then open the file Plugins.txt (in the same folder), and add the names of the new plugins to the list (often to the bottom).
Custom mods usually come with their step-by-step instructions.
My Mod Recommendations
- Ascension Remastered - Vanilla-Plus Loot and Balance: Fixes leveling and loot. I use the main
Ascension Remasteredplugin, andVanilla Spell Effectiveness. - Better HUD: Smaller and better organized HUD elements. I use the
Default Size (16x9)version. - NPCs Catch Fire: Adds a bit of realism.
- Permanent Doomstones: Makes Doomstones more useful. I use the
vanillaversion. - No Pickpocket Chance Cap: Caps the ability at 100%, instead of to 85%.
- Richer Vendors: Makes vendors have way more gold, to purchase your items. This one becomes more useful as you progress in the game and find better items. I use the standard version.
- Shady Sam Buys Stolen Goods and More: Useful if you play a thief, but beware that selling items to Sam does not count towards your thieving rank. It is still good to simplify getting rid of stolen items. Move to the bottom of
Plugins.txtif you enable the Richer Vendors mod too. - Skip Intro: No explanations required. I use the basic "Skip Intro Screens" version.
- Universal Achievement Unblocker: If you get stuck because of a bugged quest (e.g. Go Fish), and you need to restort to using console commands to fix it, this mod will re-enable achievements on the "tainted" savegame file.
- Weightless Alchemy and Misc. Items: I don't like having to travel home just to drop resources and other miscellaneous items, and this mod solves that. Important stuff like armour and weapons still has weight.
Status Update: May 2025
RPGs
Old-School Essentials
We continue with the first campaign. As all the party members recently had a spike of intense work (we're all in the same team), we lowered the frequency of sessions, but things should be back to normal now.
Videogames - Finished
None since the last update 😬. Although I played a lot of GTA-like titles: GTA 3, GTA: Vice City, GTA: San Andreas, Mafia and Mafia 2.
Videogames - Ongoing
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion - Remastered
Oh boy, so many memories from the past, and yet I'm enjoying it as if it was my first playthrough.
Funnily, it contains the same issues and bugs as the original, but people already came up with updated mods and fixes for everything. Here you can find the list of mods that I use.
Diablo 4
In the end, I bought the expansion heavily discounted, and I admit that it adds a decent amount of end-game content. The story advances just a few steps, but it is pleasing to watch (the 3D engine is so good and detailed) and play once or twice.
I'm now playing from time to time some of the seasons, as they at time have decent story lines (e.g. as of May, Belial has returned). Creating a new seasonal character made me try the classes I had pending, so not bad. I'm currently levelling up a werewolf-druid that goes around with another 3 companion werewolves, and it feels more of a tank than the barbarian 🤔.
Dwarf Fortress, KeeperRL, Ancient Domains of Mystery
Grouped these three, as they are in the same status: Not fully postponed, but also not actively playing them.
Earthbound
A friend recommended me to play Earthbound on the SNES "if I like Final Fantasy like titles", so I picked it up and I'm slowly starting. Such a weird beginning, but it is best to not spoil anything.
Videogames - Postponed / Discarded
Zelda BOTW and TOTK
I'm almost 100% decided to get a Nintendo Switch 2, which means I'll replay both open-world Zeldas from the beginning. So, I'll wait to have the console.
Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
The whole echoes idea is cool, but I got tired mid-way of the general gameplay. Companions have poor artificial intelligence, quite a few segments become repetitive, and while I applaud the initiative of not having Link as the main character, I got the feeling that this title is too experimental. Plus all those objects and entities you can spawn, and most of the times you'll just use over and over a tiny selection.
The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
I bought the game and prepared my guide about how to upgrade it for modern times, but at the same time I also purchased The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered, so I've decided to play Oblivion first.
Miscellaneous
I'm doing some crafts, like this wooden flower:
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Oblivion Journal Entry #04162007
Word came to me that a strange portal had been opened near Bravil. I went to the city just to find a strange 3-headed statue with a shiny light on one of its mouths.
There was a soldier guarding it, who told me that everyone who enterd, came crazy, insane...
I entered through the portal, I had to investigate further.
Inside, a strange man told me that this was a... different world. Thay may be a crazy world, or just another point of view of the reality...
I accepted to go inside, and suddenly all around me transformed into butterflies and wend away.
It indeed was a strange place... full of unknown vegetation.
And too full of new monsters, who didn't think it twice before attacking me.
Shortly after following the main road, I found to the right some ruins, and explored them.
There were more monsters inside, and some strange glowing ¿plants?
I explored the interior of the ruins and found some fantastic water-walking boots!
After leaving the ruins, I found a small house near a lake. The man living inside appeared to be insane, talking all the time about bones under the flesh, getting bones and things like that.
But he left me thinking.. what about if he was trying to say something to me related with bones? So I went to investigate the surroundings.
And found "the bone garden", more ruins with undead inhabitants.
And a dead gatekeeper...
But that's a story for another day!
Tags: Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Some pretty Oblivion images
As I can't do much this days, here you go some pretty captures from Oblivion I found somewhere. Now with the expansion out I'll probably replay the game, apart from probably migrating posts from the old blog to here.
Anyway, here's the image pack:
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