Hello, it has been awhile. I was a member of the old site, registered back in 2010 back when it was f3undergound. Hadn't been really active since the end of 2012.

So let me reintroduce myself. I work for Uncle Sam and have done so for a long time. Been to the big sandbox a few times. I am a huge fan of the Fallout and  Elder Scrolls series. Been playing Fallout since the first one back in the day. Started Elder Scrolls with Oblivion. I have over 100 games in my Steam and GOG libraries combined. I have almost 1000 hours in Fallout New Vegas, so its by far number 1.

I built my rig myself, Coolermaster Storm Scout case, i5 CPU, 32 GB RAM, and GTX 780 with 6GB of VRAM. All of the Bethesda games I play, except Fallout 3, play well on it.  Heavily modded Oblivion runs fantastic on it, but Fallout 3 refuses to cooperate and wants to crash every 5 minutes.

Other than games I majored in Poli Sci in college and love history, politics, comparative theology/mythology, and Marvel Comics.

I don't really mod, other than some personal tinkering. At one point I was working on a retro mod for Oblivion but it didn't really get off the ground.

Here's some pics of the effort

Welcome back Mike, have fun here at GUN and hope to see you around the forums
Those are some nice specs you have for your computer

Thank you for the welcome!

I try to maintain my PC with pretty good parts. I'm not married and don't have kids so I am able to afford some decent upgrades every so often. Looking at getting a GTX 980 Ti with 6 GB VRAM in the future. I hope to have enough put back to buy one by Cyber Monday, which is usually when I buy parts.

Thanks for the welcome! I'll have that signature fixed ASAP. Thanks!

Welcome back to the community! That retro Oblivion mod looks really cool!

It was pretty nice. An unfinished beta but still playable. I was trying to get it to look like an old Commodore Amiga game using OBGE and ENB effects. Graphically I think that was accomplished. My main problem was the HUD. I had issues getting a custom retro font to work. SweetFX though could somewhat make up for that using simulated CRT effects. I had compiled a pretty good retro soundtrack using remastered 8 bit NES soundtracks. The last big hurdle was sound effects. I had gathered a decent library of sounds but replacing the sounds was a very tedious and time consuming process.

I may get around to finishing up the sound and graphic components one day. If I decide share the beta, GUN will be the place it is at.

Welcome back Mike i'm Mick good to meet ya pal , hope you enjoy our community and be with us

Good to meet you Mick, I look forward to getting involved with the GUN community.

mikebus wrote:

Good to meet you Mick, I look forward to getting involved with the GUN community.

Thank you Mike , it's good to hear make yourself home here we are a good family