I’ve heard whispers and now I’ve heard shouts. Bethesda has put a date on their release of the strongly desired Creation Kit. They announced that it will be up for grabs January, 2012. For those of you who don’t know what this is, the Creation Kit is the engine Bethesda used to create The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Which means when it’s released, the modding community will explode once more, just as it did for Oblivion: the previous game in the Elder Scrolls series.
Personally I can’t wait to see what the community can create this time around. The mods of Oblivion were unbelievable in number and innovation. Not to down talk Bethesda at all, but some of these mods really improved the game in infinite ways and others were just plain old fun.
No matter what you want with mods, whether it be a brand new suit of armor to gloat to your non responsive, AI friends, a new sword to slice and dice your way through some dungeons, or an overhaul to make all the trees look prettier; you can be sure that the community will have it covered as soon as the Creation Kit is released.
Lastly, if you’re an owner of a PC version of Skyrim and are interested in mods I highly recommend the Nexus Website for Skyrim. I will provide a link below. The Nexus sites are a collection of free online databases for Modders. Each is dedicated to a certain game (i.e. Oblivion, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Dragon Age, and Skyrim) and makes it easy to browse, rate, and download thousands of mods created by the community. If you don’t have a login then I advise you to do so. It takes a few seconds and only requires a few fields, username, password, email, etc. After that you’ll be all set to start modding. The site offers a nice “How To” guide for newcomers and has also released a beta version of a download manager which I can see becoming incredibly useful later on when the number of mods can be a bit overwhelming.
Happy Modding!
