Oblivion

[ezze]

In a whim I bought Oblivion 5th anniversary edition. Do anyone played the next elder scroll? Any suggestion to enjoy it?

[SquireNed]

Get an unleveling mod. I love it that way.

[ezze]

I was thinking to start with "Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul" and "Francesco's Leveled Creatures and Items" to solve the -world will level you with you-- issue.

Does anyone know a level-up system mod? Possibly similar to my yalsm in concept?

[Okulo]

Oblivion gets a lot of flak for not being Morrowind, but it does RPGs pretty well. The quests are very interesting (There's a quest in Skingrad that has an elf that thinks he's being followed around, for example). Guilds are stories told in acts. I like the Mages Guild story, and apparently the Dark Brotherhood is good too, but I haven't finished that one myself. Generally, the world of Oblivion holds up better than Skyrim - but that's low-hanging fruit.

With the following mods it becomes a genuinely great experience:

Crowded Roads Revisited - Spawns various NPCs with outfit and everything to travel from town to town.

Unique Landscapes - Gives a good portion of Cyrodiil an overhaul and makes the landscape more interesting.

Open Cities Reborn - Redesigns the cities and puts them in the worldspace.

Crowded Cities for Open Cities Reborn - Adds NPCs to the open cities so it feels busier.

Dynamic Map - Detects mods such as Open Cities Reborn and Unique Landscapes and fixes your in-game map appropriately.

Alternative Start: Arrive By Ship - So you don't have to go through the long and arduous tutorial.

Better Dungeons - Replaces many of the original dungeons.

Fransesco's Creatures and Items - Adds a whole bunch of new gear and monsters to the world.

Realistic Fatigue - Caps your fatigue as you carry more stuff and/or lose health. Zero fatigue means you'll fall down. Low fatigue also gives you a small change to trip and fall and watching your hero ragdoll off a tall cliff is kinda funny.

Realistic Leveling - Overhauls the leveling system, which is probably what you want. Also very configurable.

DarNified UI - Makes the UI more PC-friendly. More information on-screen and stuff. Pretty configurable through an in-game tab.

Don't forget to apply the unofficial patches.

[ezze]

I cannot find --Crowded Cities for Open Cities Reborn--... I downloaded the rest however.

Besides... Okulo, you do not mention Oscuro Overhaul. Did you try it?

[Sslaxx]

You may also want the Oblivion Character Overhaul - http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/44676/?

[Okulo]

I cannot find --Crowded Cities for Open Cities Reborn--... I downloaded the rest however.

http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/36736/

There you go.

Besides... Okulo, you do not mention Oscuro Overhaul. Did you try it?

Then I'd have to muck around with FCOM, which I did a couple of years ago and that gave me a total headache. I then settled for just MMM.

You may also want the Oblivion Character Overhaul - http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/44676

Damn! That actually doesn't look half bad! ...what's the catch?

[ezze]

Ok, my first experience was suboptimal... The game is very bright, realistic leveling complained about a missing ini file, some fonts were almost unreadable and the world was plenty of missing assets markers... oh, the game crashed after a little while. I guess I will try again.

[Okulo]

Might wanna turn off HDR if you have it on. This was when HDR was new and really, really cool. Also, are you using Wrye Bash to install everything?

[ezze]

Disable HDR, I will try.

I used wrye bash, yes. But I am quite confused, wrye bash installs mods made from BAIN and it uses a directory called mopy and there are omod files, someone mentions a nnn... some mods have a "wizards" other have a "install" and there is plenty of other unexplained actions... AAAHHH