Sirenroot

[Fear2288]

If you haven’t played it yet - do it.

If you haven’t even heard of it - check it out and play it.

This is such a well made experience from start to finish - the Ayleid ruins are hauntingly beautiful, the music is great, the atmosphere remains mysterious and a little spooky throughout, the voice acting is top notch, the unique mechanics are pretty cool (brief cutscenes, climbing, water level manipulation, controlling other NPCs, choices affecting characters’ fates, etc), and the various puzzles are the right level of challenging.

It won’t be everyone’s cup of tea. If you prefer fighting through hordes of enemies and taking on powerful bosses to obtain OP gear - you’ll probably get bored by it.

But if you like more thoughtful, slower-paced, puzzle-driven mystery stories/quests you’re doing yourself a disservice if you haven’t tried Sirenroot yet.

Play it, and if you like it go to Nexus and endorse it and leave a positive comment for Everglaid (who also gave us great immersive animation mods like EVG Animated Traversal and EVG Clamber)

[Fear2288]

Rez Elwin a écrit :

Fear2288 a écrit :

I think anything released via the Creation Club (2017 - 2021) actually is considered “canon”.

Everything released through the CC was apparently commissioned by BGS. They contacted these people, asked them if they would like to contribute to it, and then supposedly told them “we’d like you to make X”.

I don’t know how specific they were about it, but regardless it needed to go before BGS who then had to give their stamp of approval.

The Creations system works differently though as the mod maker can make whatever they want and then submit an application for it to be sold for money. As long as it meets the necessary requirements concerning its functionality, originality, quality, and appropriateness (no nudity/sex, or violence/gore and vulgarity greater than the base game) it can get approved.

I wonder who reviewed it, some things like Umbra should not exist. Despite being in previous games, Umbra was destroyed during the events of Umbriel, a canon novel.

They just changed it from Umbra being destroyed to it being PRESUMED destroyed - but it wasn’t.

Honestly, the only reason anyone made a stink over the retcon was because it was a CC mod.

Those who were/are outspokenly anti-CC jumped on ANY reason to disparage, invalidate, and insult the content in the hopes of convincing people not to buy it or not to like it. It’s their way of “fighting” against paid mods because they sincerely fear that one day free mods will no longer be a thing.

If the creation had never been made and they brought back Umbra in TESVI with the same half-assed “oh you THOUGHT it was destroyed? Guess again” explanation no one would’ve batted an eye.

You saw the same thing happen with Creations’ initial paid content - which I believe was commissioned as well - specifically the arquebus.

They made a stink over such a weapon being not lore-friendly, and dismissed the very real fact that cannons (historically the precursor to first handheld firearms) have appeared on artwork and 3D models of Redguard ships created by BGS as well as appearing in card artwork in TES: Legends.

Funnily, these are likely the same people who think mods like Glenmoril are great and have no issues using the firearms introduced in it.