Never played Oblivion - Mod Recommendations

[tyreil829]

i would play without mods frist time then try with mods then see what you think:

 

about mod picking its all about tastle i could list a lot of mods well i am now hehe:

 

Dwemer Skyship adds a new home for you to use it does have some bugs i would wait untill the mod has been fixed but it is able to be downloaded

 

Jack 0 Blades Fable set adds a set of clothes and a sword for you to find the imprael Palace its from the game Fable and its quite useful in the long run

 

1st Alch Girlsadds 3 girl followers for you to hire or take with you anywhere they all are useful and never back down from a fight! and never ending uselfulness they add new spells potions and new abilitys for you find and use

 

Daedric Lord Armor this will add a Morrowind like verion of there armor you have to do a quest for it but it is well worth it

 

Chocolate Elves one race i used before and it was quite good if you get this i doubt you be dispointed

 

Exnems Underwear body replaceri move between HGEC and this mod its for some armors and for mens or womans tastes its up to you if you want to use

 

Female Eyecandy (Exnems) Rogue Armor this needs Exnems underwear replacer but there is a HGEC version somewhere its quite a good looking armor suits a rogue easily!

 

Female Eyecandy (Exnems) Wardrobe adds 2 sets of armor the Amazon light armor set and a set of clothes for you aswell they are in dungeons so you have to look around for them the readme that comes with it does help

 

Rogue and Scoudeal Clothes another set of clothes quite good looking it suits Sonia

 

only them so far i am going to hunt around the nexus for something else

 

Sheppard

[octavius243]

The most useful mods for a first-time player are those that correct bugs and design flaws.

You should get:

Unofficial Oblivion Patch

 

Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch is using SI

 

Unofficial Official Mods Patch if using any of the official mods.

 

Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul to correct most of the design flaws (mainly the leveled scaling) and it also adds more content than most other mods put together.

 

 

The following are also nice mods:

 

DarkUI'd DarN to get a much better looking and useful user interface.

 

Unique Landscapes makes the exterior world more varied and more interesting to explore.

[endgamecutter]

its probably better to stick with unmodded for a bit, although i HIGHLY recommend you get operation optimization and streamline to improve the FPS. trust me, on my computer atleast, which is supposed to be great, lags like hell with this game, not enough to break the game, but enough to make it hard to use companion mods or high particl effect stuff (surprisingly not midas magic). once your willing to use mods, i recommend Sadran as a race mod (http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16998), as well as MALEVOLENT (yes, its in caps) if you do the main quest, so you can have atleast one quest that really lets you pick an alignment for your character (mostly you're forced to be good in oblivion) as well as Servant of the Dawn if you intend to be evil.

[dezdimona]

Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul to correct most of the design flaws (mainly the leveled scaling) and it also adds more content than most other mods put together

 

that mod changes the game play in Oblivion.For someone just starting I would not recommend using it till he's played vanilla first!

[Khet]

I would highly recommend playing through the main quest on Vanilla. Not because of reasons others will tell you (figure out what you do/don't like) but because the game developers spent their time making the game. You should play through at least the focus of the game (main quest) how they originally intended it and THEN start modding. Nothing irks me more than someone who just picks up Oblivion (or any other game for that matter) and before they even play for half an hour they're already downloading and installing mods.

 

after that though, there are tons of good choices out there. I personally recommend FCOM (I think a link was provided above, no?) and while it's a pain to install it's ultimately worth it. In terms of quest mods I would recommend The Lost Spires, Blood & Mud, Malevolent and as a shameless plug, my own mod which is currently in beta, Evanore Island

 

Beyond that, there's a few environment mods but it's hard to tell you which one to get as they're all very well done and suit each persona differently.

 

Streamline 3.0 is an Optimization mod that'll smooth out your framerate, however, when you first start using it your FPS MIGHT be lower than before (with more stuttering) but just keep playing and things will eventually return to normal, and then smooth out even more. Without Streamline I can't play Oblivion on my laptop due to stuttering and low FPS, even with everything cranked way down. With it, I can play on Medium graphics with minimal stuttering.

 

There's also some body mods out there such as Fantasy Figures, Robert's, Exnem's and maybe a couple others. Again, it's hard which one to recommend to use as they each tailor to different tastes but I THINK either FF or Exnem has the most armor/clothing available.

[octavius243]

I would highly recommend playing through the main quest on Vanilla. Not because of reasons others will tell you (figure out what you do/don't like) but because the game developers spent their time making the game. You should play through at least the focus of the game (main quest) how they originally intended it and THEN start modding. Nothing irks me more than someone who just picks up Oblivion (or any other game for that matter) and before they even play for half an hour they're already downloading and installing mods.

 

Isn't the general consensus, in the gaming community as a whole, that Oblivion is flawed?

That certainly was my impression before I played it.

 

Personally I never played vanilla Oblivion, since the level scaling was such a huge turn-off for me. I mean, what's the point in exploring an open ended game world when enemies are aøways scaled to your own level? If Oblivion wasn't moddable I personally would never play it in the first place. Why not benefit from the lessons learnt by others and use the mods that were created as a result of these lessons?

Why play a bugged and flawed game, if you can get mods that fix the bugs and flaws?

And why should you care what the game developers think? They (or rather their superiors) are mostly in it for the money. What ultimately matters is what game *you*, as the player wants.

[Khet]

I would highly recommend playing through the main quest on Vanilla. Not because of reasons others will tell you (figure out what you do/don't like) but because the game developers spent their time making the game. You should play through at least the focus of the game (main quest) how they originally intended it and THEN start modding. Nothing irks me more than someone who just picks up Oblivion (or any other game for that matter) and before they even play for half an hour they're already downloading and installing mods.

 

Isn't the general consensus, in the gaming community as a whole, that Oblivion is flawed?

That certainly was my impression before I played it.

 

Personally I never played vanilla Oblivion, since the level scaling was such a huge turn-off for me. I mean, what's the point in exploring an open ended game world when enemies are aøways scaled to your own level? If Oblivion wasn't moddable I personally would never play it in the first place. Why not benefit from the lessons learnt by others and use the mods that were created as a result of these lessons?

Why play a bugged and flawed game, if you can get mods that fix the bugs and flaws?

And why should you care what the game developers think? They (or rather their superiors) are mostly in it for the money. What ultimately matters is what game *you*, as the player wants.

 

 

 

 

I never said don't mod Oblivion at all, I'm just saying play through the main quest once without mods. That takes what? Maybe two, three days at the most if you don't muck around with other stuff? Yes the game has some 'flaws' but if you had developed a game, spent years making it only to learn that everyone who bought it completely slaughtered your work before even seeing what you've done to it, well, I'm sure you wouldn't be happy.

 

While I can't have the claim of working for a giant corporation with top of the line tech for game making, I've made a couple little arcade style games alone, and even those take a lot of time to figure out how to do and get working. It shouldn't matter if a game is flawed or not, it's a sign of respect for the developers of the game. But, that's one thing this world is seriously lacking, respect.