Behold the Skyrim Online Mod

[Arakasi]

I always thought that Skyrim, Fallout 3, etc, would make good Co-op games, or perhaps games in which you can follow your friend or go on your own adventure, occasionally meeting up and trading or killing eachother.
Something like that, but an MMO? Hell no. I get dominated enough on TF2.

 

[Conza]

Behold the Skyrim Online Mod

Bethesda might not be making an Elder Scrolls MMO, but that won't stop fans from doing so.

One question that keeps reverberating through the halls of Skyrim as you play is: wouldn't this game be great to play with friends? I personally do not have a reason to make Skyrim massively multiplayer - even when I play an MMO, I mostly play solo - but there is something interesting about putting persistence and living personalities behind all those NPCs you meet. A mod author has made the first steps of turning Bethesda's open world single-player game into an online multiplayer masterpiece - complete with naked avatars.


The mod is far from complete. It looks buggy as hell and animations of players logged in to the server are non-existent. On the other hand, simply having characters move around and face a certain direction in a client running this mod is an achievement.

Now, I'm not positive if this mod is a good thing, but it certainly shows some ingenuity. Being able to enter an online mode where you can see other people logged into a server is pretty dang cool, even if the the game Bethesda wrote didn't include any kind of multiplayer at all. If someone can make this mod without the benefits of the Creation Kit, can you imagine what kinds of things we'll see when it drops in January [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114495-Skyrim-Creation-Kit-Out-in-January-Goodbye-Backwards-Dragons]?

But honestly, I'm not sure that I would want multiplayer clogging up my Skyrim What do you guys think? Would you download a multiplayer mod? Should Bethesda include multiplayer in their Elder Scroll games or is singleplayer enough for you?

Source: VG247 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=abs_yGod5MQ]

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I dislike MMOs, but I love Skyrim, and I do also like Co-op.

With that in mind, this could be great, however, I am curious to know how they'll account for the enemies in skyrim, will they all be as strong as the strongest/first player that attacks them? Or will some sort of hybrid system work, so a lvl 10 attacks a wolf, its set to lvl 10, but then when a lvl 15 attacks it too, it becomes a lvl 20 or something? That stuff I think would be hardest to work out.

Otherwise, with the infinite questing system, it has potential to work pretty well, not that any of my fellow Skyrim friends would be into it mind you.

 

[Awexsome]

MMO doesn't always go well with everything but there's a simple formula to go by.

RPG + Co-op = Better RPG.

There is pretty much no RPG that I can think of that would be made worse by including co-op. Some that might not change at all, but absolutely none that would be made worse. Even more linear RPG's that go for storytelling more than exploration can be that much more fun if you can just have a friend take over one of the characters in your party for battles and enjoy the story together.

 

[Pompey71]

Just needs a 3-4 player Co-Op with home-run servers and it'll be a winner

 

[Combustion Kevin]

Please make this for Fallout 3... My life would be complete, ahaha. An MMO... terrible idea, but co-op would be amazing. Imagine having a useful companion.

you mean, a compagnion with a sense of survival?

I'm in!

 

[Eiv]

I would kill for a co-op option. Was discussing this recently with a friend of mine and we really see it as the next step towards Elder Scrolls perfection.

 

[SpaceBat]

Playing the game with a friend sounds interesting and fun, but it is impractical for so many reasons that it probably just isn't worth it.

 

[Aureliano]

Well, kudos to that modder for figuring out how to do it. Impressive achievement.

Would I play it? Hell no. It'll probably be a while before I even try Ennui Simulator 5 (sorry, I meant Elder Scrolls 5) again even without having to deal with other real humans in my game.

If I really want to run around a frozen forest shooting things with a bow and arrow while other people in robes who can't spell hurl ill-thought-out racist or heterosexist epithets at me, I'll just raid a klan meeting in the woods.

 

[Aureliano]

Edit: Double post.

 

[Flizzick]

Maybe if it was set up so people could play in a private local server

 

[Danpascooch]

MMO with character controlled time-slowing mechanism does not mix.

They could go the other direction and make that shout speed the character up, relatively it'd be the exact same thing as slowing everything else down. I mean, it'd be harder to control, so it wouldn't be quite the same, but it's better than disabling it all together

 

[trouble_gum]

Judging from this video? No, Skyrim does not need silly people crowding up the gate to Whiterun or running around and slamming into NPCs.

50+ Redguard standing, blocking the way into city gates. "Riften's closed. Due to dragon AIDS."

Calling it now.

Dragging myself back on-topic: I think my reaction is a resounding "Ehh." It -sounds- like a nice idea, but in practice...probably not so much. At least not without some serious tweaks to game mechanics and, as others have said; a thousand Dovahkiin would be fairly silly.

 

[Krowded]

Yes, yes and yes. I want a multiplayer option. Not MMO style though, just plain co-op. Me and four or five of my friends running around in Skyrim would be grat.

 

[Souplex]

I would love some good ol' local co-op skyrim.

 

[Gali]

The ability to see other players in cities and invite them for some coop-action would be great, like in Fable 2 (though not something like gamertags, I'd like to see the real player model). But Skyrim as an MMO? That's too much for me.

Anyway, nice idea. I hope this will be developed further.

 

[Fearzone]

That was hot but it was "Don't play LMFAO at an execution" that made my morning, and also Sky Jump.

With most of my RPGs (except JRPGs) being MMOs, Skyrim does feel lonely at times. I think just being able to log in with others, kind of like Demon's Souls but they are actually there, with a chat function, and that's it, would be pretty cool. Breezehome might be busy, but I can handle the tradeoff. You don't need any parties or multiplayer instances.

Would be interesting to see if a mod community could turn a single player game into an MMO. And I don't mean Starcraft Universe because that is a different game. This is the beginning of a noble attempt which gets my whole-hearted support.

 

[Jyggalag]

This is a great milestone,(Morrowind modders attempted multiplayer as well) but I only want coop in Skyrim, and only one or two others with me, if any at all. What I'd like to see is a LAN multiplayer mod where one player can enter another player's world, or better yet two players can enter world #3 so they don't ruin each other's games and can still have fun doing what they want.

 

[Hijax]

Skyrim as an MMO is a terribad idea. Skyrim as a co-op game, played with a good friend, however, could work very well.

Although i am a little bit hazy on the details of friends completing quests in your game

 

[JaceArveduin]

Please make this for Fallout 3... My life would be complete, ahaha. An MMO... terrible idea, but co-op would be amazing. Imagine having a useful companion.

Play New Vegas and get Boone as a companion, you'll never get a kill again XD