Oh shit... I've done it...

Oblivion is installed, and I have all the official expansions and plugins

Shit be hectiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicccccccc

I haven't played Oblivion for ages. I get bored with it too quickly. I've been playing Fallout3 a bit though. The VATS system is fun.

I never played Oblivion with expansions... did you get the Depth of Field MOD? It is cool, I'd like to use something like that in our game.

Too bad oblivion isn't multi Need to find some games that we can vent out on when we meet up, but I don't want to end up just playing games all weekend (need some project time as well).

I've been playing Supreme Commander a fair bit.
Serious Sam was always a great game to LAN, was a lot of fun.

Need to find some games that we can vent out on when we meet up

Actually come to think of it, maybe we could be really geeky and hit up a basic introductory D&D game? That's if either of you are interested. I've wanted to try it out for ages but never had the chance.

If so, would you mind DM'ing (Eugene), and would you need some basic info on what we were thinking of playing.

Again this is only if you guys are interested.

I've been modding the fuxor out of Oblivion for the past 2 days.
Part of the appeal to me is that I can customize it pretty well

I've got all the expansions and stuff, as well as some unofficial things which just add to the awesome.
I guess you need a bit of patience with it until you find your groove. But once you are in that groove, oh boy is it rad.


Anyway- as for LAN'ings, I have Age of Empires 3?
I also believe Unreal Tournament is somewhat fun in multiplayer

I'll just bring some games over and we can look through them.

Most of my games are iso's anyway.

I have Heroes of Might & Magic 5, which is fun.

I haven't played any games for a while. I only have old stuff now such as Doom2 etc.

Eugene, you'll have to show me how you mod oblivion. It'll give me an idea when coding the game. Like you said, you don't want to be editing text files. What I'm hoping for is to move as much content creation as possible over to other programs via the use of existing file formats.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Oblivion MODS are their own .mod files, which you can just import directly to oblivion via a MOD manager.

I've been playing DDO now, after finding out they are going to be making it free to play. AWESOME stuff. It's actually pretty good.

The control system in DDO is actually a brilliant example of how I'd like our game to control, movement wise etc. I'll show you sometime.

Also playing DDO gave me an idea for 'Detect Traps / Hidden Objects'. You still put points into your Detect Traps / Spot skills (it is D&D afterall) but when you do detect a trap, you get an alert that says 'You get a feeling that there is danger nearby' or something like that, then you use your search skill and it rolls to detect the hidden object.
I think this is better than say, you walk down a corridor and suddenly a red highlighted area appears to tell you there is a trap there.

Perhaps we could have more subtle notifications, like the outsides of the screen begin to glow red or something.