PsalmLove

Thanks to everyone who's been contributing to this thread =] I'm currently up and running with the bare essentials of mods. Of course like the other mod-crazy folk here I'll eventually add more once I've gotten my feet properly wet with the vanilla edition... I'm just getting a bit overwhelmed with WyreBash so I've only been using the installer part of it. Also overwhelming are the leveling guides, the leveling in vanilla Oblivion seems a bit clunky and unnatural.

I've been looking at OOO myself. Should I play the vanilla first before installing? Or is it worth installing from the get-go?

Hi! I'm in the same boat as you, and I've created a small thread which has gotten some great advice so far. Check out my thread to see if any of your questions are answered. Hope I was able to help :)

I am reading your post and I want to email you cake. Currently downloading Enhanced Water & Enhanced Veg. I hope I'm not getting ahead of myself as you say. I don't want to change the game too much, just give it enough oomph to start with. So far I have the following: Official Patch Unofficial Patch Unofficial Official Mods Patch Unofficial Patch Supplementals Unofficial SI Patch Wrye Bash BOSS OBMM Script Extender Graphics Extender Stutter Remover Streamline Fast Exit 2 DarNified UI Improved Facial Textures Corean Hair Facial Textures by Enayla All Natural Again, thanks for your input. Your detailed posts are always appreciated. I'm currently reading TES:POSItive in order to get started off on the right foot. Hope someone links to and develops this thread into something that can help other newbies like me =]

@Jager, thanks, I was looking at that. I wonder how it'll work with All Natural. @LFact, I figured as much - while browsing through the mod lists I saw OMOD only mods and I was wondering how I would go about installing them.

Thanks for the additional suggestions! I like the hair and face mods Any suggested texture mods for the environment / architecture? Cheers =]

Wow, thanks for the fast and informative replies. Special thanks Smooth for the solid, well-written words of advice. I now have a set of starter mods I can use to gain a firm foothold in my Oblivion experience. I already have BOSS, the Unofficial Patches, and OBMM. I'll uninstall that and get Wyre Bash as per your recommendation. I was also looking at DarNified UI & OBGE. With patches, tweaks, and functionality taken care of, I'm looking to make everything pretty and immersive graphics-wise (and that's mostly straightforward). What I might need help navigating are the gameplay tweaks. I'm considering installing one of the 'overhauls'. So far I am looking at OOO but I'm worried that might change the gaming experience too much, unless that is the goal and it is for the better. This is why PC gaming holds a special place with me; aside from the great community, the ability to mod an otherwise vanilla game into something close to exactly what you want is something the console purists will never realize. Not to mention the occasional complexity of getting something to just run on your system without crashing, drives the shall we say, 'crass' and immature people away and attracts the more thoughtful, mature gamers. Thanks again, I'll pop back in if I have any more questions. Kudos all around :)

Hey guys, Long time Morrowind fan, newbie Oblivion player. With the trailer for Skyrim recently being revealed, I decided to finally dust off Oblivion, which has been sitting in my Steam folder for a while. I've never played Oblivion before, mostly because when it first came out my system wasn't able to handle it. Now that I have an OC'd Core i7, 6gb of RAM, and a triple monitor Eyefinity setup, I thought it was time to give it a proper try. I'd like to skip the pain of the vanilla edition and jump right into a modded world. So far, after reading pages and pages of lists and recommendations, I've become more confused about which I should install first in order to have a decent base to start with. Most of the lists I've found are pretty old as well, from 2009 and early 2010. With 2011 here and Skyrim on the horizon at the end of this year, I was hoping to get a more up-to-date list. I'm looking for essential mods, mainly focusing on core stability and game tweaks, and also immersive mods, both graphical and gameplay-wise. Give me a shortlist of the mods you'd think a newbie MUST have in order to make his first experience with Oblivion a good one. I hope you can help me, with a few suggestions and what they essentially do, I'd appreciate it a lot =] Thanks!