generalnutt

I've used Enhanced Mighty Dragons (along with Enhanced Enemy AI, and Enhanced Flora and Fauna) for a long time and are core mods for me. The mods were updated to for unofficial patches2.0. I wasn't satisfied with DD, or DCO so this was a nice option for me. For anyone who hasn't tried Enhanced Mighty Dragons, don't run into the first dragon as fast as you can unless you have a death wish. As for the personal battles, wish this thread could just keep on topic. I love STEP forums for solid reviews, and good advice.

I have seen both the video's you mentioned for AOS, and I have played with AOS, since almost it's release. The video's are not a good way to judge this mod, they do not give the same experience as using the mod in game. They tell you about the mod, but they can not make you experience it.

Well not all :) . I had a play through going very heavily modded. for level 1-10 ILS were frequent, CTD say once every couple hours on average. I was going to toast the set up when safety load came along. I installed it and 15 levels later (level 25), not a single ILS, CTD about the same, maybe a bit less. I did see some artifacts on the menu screen but only after running skyrim for 8 hours with only a couple restarts due to CTD, I think my box was crying for over heating. Certainly not a balanced test for sure, but didn't corrupt my save in ten levels.

Ah the vic 20 with the expanded 16k memory, I would never run out of memory ever again! Plugging in the head set of the phone into modem to dial up a RPG BBS. Games weren't down loaded, they came on paper, and you programed them in, modded on the fly, before you ever played them. TPUG anyone, naw didn't think so?

I've tried this now, not easy for a beginner like me. The directions could be a little easier to follow. But it does look nice once I got it to work.

Sennheirsers would be great for skyrim in particular, because their mid and high range is just exceptional. I owned a pair of HD 555's for years and they were easily the best pair of headphones I have ever used. A flaw in the senheisers, at least in my model, is that base pretty much doesn't exist. For movies in particular, sounds that aught to be impactful and full sound a bit light and empty. The low range, like for a bassoon or cello are wonderful, but it is not great for movies. Also, for about the same price you can get a decent pair of headphones with gaming features, like positional audio.  Skyrim is almost exclusively mid range sounds, at least to me ear, and nearest I can tell doesn't have much support for positional audo, so I think a pair of senns would be a great fit for our game in particular. While I agree with this, I have to say I have never heard good bass out of headphones, I think it may be inherent in the design. To that fact I have never heard good mid priced speakers do bass well. All to often people relate distorted bass or volume to being loud. Bass is as much felt, as it is heard. Like a punch in the chest, vibrations in your bones, the air rattling in your lungs. I played bass in bands for more than a decade, making this nothing more than biased opinion. Â

They are comfortable enough, to forget you're using them, like a good mod. I have walked away from the computer frequently forgetting they're on and had them ripped off my head. To their credit they still look brand spanking new. They were not cheap, (think I payed about 130 Canadian) but well worth it. I used to break 30-50 dollar head phones in a couple months, and they never sounded a tenth this good. Maybe it would have been cheaper to wear diapers while playing skyrim, but in the long term I think I saved money, and rashes. But back to AOS, some mods add things that aren't in the game in the name of immersion, but for me, that breaks immersion more that adds to it. AOS just changes what is there. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against all other sound mods, I love the bow, crossbow, and horse step sound replacers, they didn't add something, they just made what was there better. That's how AOS is for me, only it's huge in scope. That mod that adds wood peckers, and other perching birds, has sounds added. If I hear the wood pecker I look for it, shoot it, and eat the feathers. This is all good in my strange little mind. Sound mods that add chatter from people that aren't there, to pick their pocket, or sounds in the forest of creatures, I can't hunt, breaks immersion for me. I don't mean immersion in the sense of after a cabbage stew, sweet roll, and ale, I need my character to find a book, stool and bucket, immersion, but rather pulling my mind away from the environment I'm in. Sorry for the ramble.

I've used this mod for about 30 Hours, and don't think I would play without it. From making dragons sound more terrifying and spiders creeper to having arrows whip past your head. I play with sennheiser headphones, so I don't know if that makes a difference, but the video reviews don't reflect the true feel this mod adds.