Must-have Oblivion mods.

[blankedboy]

I've got both of them, and I've been messing about in the Shivering Isles a bit, that's some awesome stuff that's around there.

So far I'll be getting Deadly Reflex and OBSE, any other suggestions?

[sub]Blade and Blunt are the only two weapon skills? Preposterous...[/sub]

I can't make any. Again, I play relatively mod-less (Actually, aside from a class pack, I really don't use them at all)

[sub]And marksman. Bear in mind that you don't have secondary skills anymore, though. Also, magic doesn't fail anymore.[/sub]

[sub]What was so bad about the Morrowind magic system?
And yeah, Marksman too... but my fulla's hopeless with Marksman...[/sub]

Ugh, can we stop talking in subscript? It's annoying me xD

 

[Naheal]

[sub]What was so bad about the Morrowind magic system?
And yeah, Marksman too... but my fulla's hopeless with Marksman...[/sub]

Ugh, can we stop talking in subscript? It's annoying me xD

It wasn't so much that magic sucked, it was that you had to sheathe your weapon in order to use magic. That's no longer the case now, making hybrid casters not only potentially powerful, but incredibly more viable than they were before.

Also, I found a sort of distaste for the tie between magic success and current fatigue level. If I remember correctly, the only thing that fatigue affects with magic anymore is potency.

 

[Gigano]

Akatosh Mount (rideable/flyable dragon mounts), BTmod (vastly improved interface), and The Lost Spires (new quest line and dungeon types) would be my must-have recommendations. Natural Environments and Lost Paladins of the Divines is a good addition too.

 

[Sark]

OOO or FCOM if you are feeling frisky.

Deadly Reflexes
Midas Magic
Supreme Magicka

 

[Somebloke]

I have Morrowind on Oblivion on my PC and I got them through steam - no matter what I do I cannot retexture the games. It seems the texture folder is non-existent so the guides online have brought me to dead ends. Did you get your games through Steam and do you know how to mod it? I'm very sorry to ask such a noob question, maybe you can't mod steam games which makes me a sad panda

I had that problem with Steamed Oblivion, which seemed to prefer .bsa content to individual files, contrary to what you would expect.
I'm sure there's a proper way to change that, but I wound up working around the problem, by extracting all the data from the archives and renaming them (...so that Oblivion, upon failing to find the .bsa files, resorts to load its stuff from the "Meshes", "Textures", etc directories instead).

If you decide to go down this path, you'll need a tool such as BSA Commander and quite a bit of free hard disk space.

 

[SuperCombustion]

Get Ancient Towers by Williesea, a definate must have... on second thought get EVERYTHING by Williesea...

 

[Crayzor]

I'd reccommend Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul. It changes the scaling of enemies, which means the leveling system becomes much less annoying, as you don't have to try and maximise your levelling points to keep up with the enemies getting stronger. It also adds lots more items to the game.

 

[znix]

Could you point interested souls in the direction of where we might pick up the argonoid mod?

See, here's the thing... Some would consider Argonoids, and other many other offerings from the Japanese side of the Mod scene, as, in the bluntest terms possible... child porn...

That's most of the reason you won't find Argonoids on TESN, and half of the reasons I would rather not give you the direct links on The Escapist.

Instead, I would suggest asking the fine folks on a certain image board that I am forbidden from mentioning by name. I'm sure you've heard of it.

I'm guessing it's the place with a four leaf clover?

I'll check there, but how can it be considered child porn unless it has children engaging in graphic sexual activity? If it's just "small" or "overly cute" characters that happen to have some kind of nudity attached, who cares? I have a load of pictures of myself in my mom's photo albums, wearing nothing more than nature intended

Perhaps that kind of thing makes some people uncomfortable, but I don't see how nudity can be worse than shooting someone's brains out or graphically ripping people in two, seeing entrails and guts spill out, as more recent games have.

It's like most people condone or encourage imaginary violence but run into a brick wall when it comes to dealing with nudity. Case in point the hilarious and very sad debacle over the nipple slip (which wasn't even visible) when Ms Jackson performed on stage a while back.

Anyway.....