Looking Back at 2012 Controversies

Kotaku's article on The Year in Controversy is excellent. Forgot about so many things.

The Creation Kit Consumes

Decided my first shareable attempt at a voiced follower is going to be based on the guy who does the Skyrim Mod Sanctuary videos, Gopher. Last month I discovered he's done many "Let's Play" videos that I found very entertaining. Ultimately they provided the motivation to get back into the CK so I could make a custom-voiced follower based on Deck16's teachings.

Last night I put the finishing touches on my first incarnation of Gopher. The voice files are pretty sparse but all of the standard vanilla follower functionality is there and voiced. I've added a few combat noises and other basics. So I'm happy with it as a proof-of-concept. Now I need more sounds. Lots more. Thankfully Gopher is rather prolific... part 3 of his newest series came out this morning, in fact.

My plans for this project will be both learning and tribute. I'm hoping there are other Gopher fans out there who will point me to samples that I can incorporate plus give me ideas for how to add the follower to the world. This in turn will help overcome my laziness and figure out the ins-and-outs of quests.

I'm also writing this to be as compatible with other mods as possible. For instance, UFO specifically states it's compatible with, "Any mod that does not modify DialogueFollower quest/script." Unfortunately this is exactly what Deck16 does in his tutorial. So I learned how to make my own quest and am writing a supplement to Deck16's work.

With the upswing in mod'ing I decided to create a different blog to house all my prattle and discovery. I've always kept notes and observations in one place. It's too difficult to keep track of my WordPad notes now. *lol* I might even have stuff other people might find helpful. Well maybe.

Gamers Are Bigoted, Petulant Children

Getting through some of the content that I've been missing. The Feedbackula - Sexism special was pretty exceptional. Some of the comments were incredibly backward but, ultimately, not too surprising. You'd think the Information Age would stem some of the stupidity tide.

Purchasing Dawnguard and Hearthfire for half-price during the Black Friday Steam sale has turned out to be the bad idea I knew it was. These foul creations are largely at fault for my lack of posting lately since my free time has been spent either in Azeroth or Skyrim. And now I've even got the Creation Kit opened again with plans to finally get a voiced follower written. *sigh*

Oh and hey! How come I didn't know about the F2P Marvel universe MMO possibly being released?

And what?! THQ just filed for bankruptcy!?! *head explodes*

That Was a Whole Month

Keep forgetting to get back here to write about some of my adventures. Had to laugh when I realized my last post was about trying the revamped F2P SW:TOR. I got another eMail about more Cartel Coins being thrown my way.

I still don't know what you can buy with them. The F2P details made my head swim so I wanted to just try it, get in there and see what it was like. Then I remembered I hadn't even finished the client download!

I had left it up for hours over-night but it wasn't able to finish. Couldn't afford the band-width during the day then I never went back to resume. *lol* Thinking that this is all a lost cause. Maybe it will finish today and I'll be able to log in tomorrow. See what the Christmas things are. Get annoyed at the F2P limitations. Then get my 30+gb of hard drive space when I uninstall it permanently...