By Craig Pearson on March 13th, 2013 at 7:00 pm.
Winter Summer is coming. Hmm. It doesn’t have the quite the same power as “Winter”, does it? Shorts and flip-flops are hardly solemn. Basically, if you’re a season that encourages Cliff Richard songs, then you’re definitely not scarily atmospheric. You are lacking in portent. Which means that this impressive tropical overhaul of Skyrim might change the tone of the game. The dragon shouts will be a bit less gruff and a bit more “Fus Ro Ice-Cream!”. Instead of the aggressive mammoths, they might be frolicking in the meltwater, squirting each other with trunkfuls of water and grabbing tails. My magical renaming software is suggesting “Far Cryrim” as a suitable alternative, because Tropical Skyrim Overhaul is too boring for such a sunny delight.
Everything is a bit more summery. The sky is a cloudless blue, there are a palm trees where there was once hardy foliage, snow is now moss. It’s not just a few shader tweaks: it’s a complete re-imagining of the world, replacing tundra with desert, glaciers are now cliffs, and even the animals have been swapped out. Apes for trolls. Pandas for bears? This sounds gloriously mad. In fact, you might say it’s blooming looming lovely.
Via the Reddit.
13/03/2013 at 19:06 FurryLippedSquid says:
“Shorts and flip-flops are hardly solemn”
Yeah, lets see you say that after you’ve seen my Dad wear them.
*involuntary shudder*
14/03/2013 at 11:34 Jackie-Rojas says:
my roomate’s mother-in-law makes $75/hr on the computer. She has been laid off for 6 months but last month her paycheck was $19669 just working on the computer for a few hours. Here’s the site to read more… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diP-o_JxysA
13/03/2013 at 19:07 Vjaas says:
Holy bananas!
13/03/2013 at 19:17 scatterlogical says:
And pineapples. And coconuts.
13/03/2013 at 20:53 Mirqy says:
…sultanas
14/03/2013 at 01:06 Scumbag says:
You put the lime in the coconut…
13/03/2013 at 19:11 scatterlogical says:
Farsky?
Cryrim?
13/03/2013 at 19:14 darkChozo says:
Skyrim with guns without guns.
Or, with the proper mods, Skyrim with guns without guns with guns.
13/03/2013 at 19:15 GameCat says:
I’m Cryim about how disappointing that game is.
Skyrim of course.
13/03/2013 at 19:21 scatterlogical says:
Oh balls, I thought I was so clever. then I actually bothered to read the article.
Beaten to the punch.
13/03/2013 at 20:36 Droopy The Dog says:
That said I rather like “Farsky”
13/03/2013 at 19:12 HadToLogin says:
Finally all those naked mods won’t look so out of place.
13/03/2013 at 19:33 TWChristine says:
This is quite neat! And all the more reason for me to brag about the mods I’ve heard about to the people at work that play it on PS3.. Not sure if I’m going to bother downloading it though, I’ve waited all this time for a game set in the Nord home land, and as it is, every time I uninstall a mod, all the dragons seem to lose their textures and just become giant purple gummy bears.
And I hope it wasn’t just me that thought the guy opened with “What’s going on everyone? It’s Anal Flux here..”
13/03/2013 at 19:44 InternetBatman says:
I would like someone to recreate Skyrim in the Just Cause 2 engine.
13/03/2013 at 19:50 scatterlogical says:
Man, that would be awesome. That JC2 engine is such a nice bit of tech.
And you could have PROPER ride-able dragons in it too! With jet engines on em. And missiles!
13/03/2013 at 21:55 phuzz says:
I used to be an adventurer like you, until some guy surfed a 747 into my house then grappled a car and ran me over whilst chucking grenades like confetti.
15/03/2013 at 03:27 Geen says:
…Suddenly, I have some respect for the guards. I mean, if he’s still alive, he must be one hell of a badass.
13/03/2013 at 19:51 Blackcompany says:
Going to try this eventualy. Hoping it will lead to an Elsweyr mod.
13/03/2013 at 20:36 Bluefox says:
There’s already an Elsweyr mod – a couple of them, in fact.
I particularly like using Moonpath to Elsweyr, as it not only sets up a quest line, but it actually does something with the Khajiit trade caravan that wanders around Skyrim.
As for this mod – it’s funny, I could have sworn there was a “winter” mod for Oblivion that did the exact opposite for Cyrodiil. Cliffs became glaciers, snowy versions of all the animals, etc. Modders never seem to be happy with what’s provided – gods bless ‘em!
13/03/2013 at 20:37 Droopy The Dog says:
I think TES modders just aren’t happy with only 1 of anything.
13/03/2013 at 21:22 RedViv says:
One superboob nude mod! Two superboob nude mods! Three superboob nude mods! Ah ah ah ah!
13/03/2013 at 20:20 R00l says:
Hey, one of the few non SimCity stories! Look at them expand their horizons…
14/03/2013 at 00:47 wearedevo says:
Pipe down, Riccitiello.
13/03/2013 at 20:25 KwisatzHaderach says:
Mr. Pearson, it’s called global warming (which is a component of climate change). That the climate changes is inevitable, out of the question, and needs no proof. Just how it will change is subject to debate.
There you go, i could contribute even as the last person under the sun who hasn’t even touched the Skyrim.
13/03/2013 at 20:38 Koozer says:
Ooooh, that’s proper pretty.
13/03/2013 at 21:04 MOKKA says:
‘Summer is coming’ Judging from the huge heaps of snow that fell from the sky yesterday I’d say: ‘Summer got buried under huge heaps of snow so it will be cold and dark forever’ (sorry I was hoping for something creative to come out of brain there, sadly all what came out was rather generic, also this sentence is way to long).
13/03/2013 at 21:27 RedViv says:
On that sentiment: Lucky that Skyrim has a largely Nord population. The Forsworn are mostly Breton, and properly enough only appear in the warm area of the province. If there were to ever fall a snowflake on the heads of their chieftains, I think this rebellion would likely immediately shut down.
13/03/2013 at 21:06 Shadram says:
It used to be cold like Iceland, but then it took a global warming to the tundra.
(Terrible comment, needs work. Don’t post.)
13/03/2013 at 21:38 Bluerps says:
You’re right, this is rather lovely.
13/03/2013 at 22:54 derf says:
Does this mod radically overhaul the user interface?
14/03/2013 at 00:13 Somerled says:
That YouTube video has a HUD.
14/03/2013 at 01:07 golem09 says:
I was perfectly happy with not touching skyrim until my Oculus Consumer version is in the house.
DAMN.
Now I’m thinking about ordering that dev kit.
14/03/2013 at 01:09 Tetracell says:
Too bad no one ever did this for Oblivion. Provided that I’m remembering correctly and Cyrodiil was described as a jungle type deal in older lore stuff. If not – still too bad. Would’ve been better than Fantasy Medieval Landscape #25
14/03/2013 at 07:15 FloorBelow says:
Yup.
“It is the largest region of the continent, and most is endless jungle. Its center, the grassland of the Nibenay Valley, is enclosed by an equatorial rain forest and broken up by rivers. As one travels south along these rivers, the more subtropical it becomes, until finally the land gives way to the swamps of Argonia and the placid waters of the Topal Bay.”
And culturally it used to be a really cool mix of Renaissance Italy (especially Venice) and imperial China.
14/03/2013 at 07:17 c-Row says:
Sounds like the YouTube comment section.
14/03/2013 at 09:19 bstard says:
The main questline is to learn spanish and help out El Presidente on his humanity saving plan to grow more “tabacco”!
14/03/2013 at 12:18 brulleks says:
Skyrim: Global Warming.
Edit: Damn, should learn to read the title properly…
14/03/2013 at 13:55 analydilatedcorporatestyle says:
Was the players character smerking tabs like? Puffin his smerk all ower he was!