Anyone playing Oblivion, elder scrolls?

[biotech]

The game is so massivly open ended, you can just pour hours of your life into it, which of course wont make you popular with your family.

My machine dosnt show the graphics off to their full potential, but I have seen it looks real nice to people with state of the art machines.

[A2597]

lets see...

Oblivion + Unique Landscapes + Quarls Texturepack 3 + FCOM Convergance + No Psycic Gaurds + Lock Bash + Natural Enviroments + Real Lights + Realistic Flora

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kickass.
Stock game is ok, but mods fix everything thats wrong with it!

[IRML]

lost all my oblivion savegames in my hard disk crash last year, what a nightmare

it probably saved my life though because I was so addicted to it

[IRML]

Originally Posted by A2597

lets see...

Oblivion + Unique Landscapes + Quarls Texturepack 3 + FCOM Convergance + No Psycic Gaurds + Lock Bash + Natural Enviroments + Real Lights + Realistic Flora

=

kickass.
Stock game is ok, but mods fix everything thats wrong with it!

if you don't mind, can you explain what all those mods actually do, I'm interested in anything that would make this amazing game look even nicer

[biotech]

I imagine the no psychic guards bit gets rid of the fact you can do a sucsessful robbery of a place with noone seeing you, then suddenly a guard just knows you have stolen goods on you.

Lock bash sounds like smashing a lock instead of picking it, which would be handy, although I like magicing them open.

[backstept]

The Elder Scrolls Nexus - Oblivion mods? You betcha! is a site with a ton of good oblivion mods and plugins
one of my favorite mods is really simple. it removes that annoying glow/shine/halo from enchanted clothing and armor

Knights of the Nine, and Shivering Isles are great expansions too
Oblivion is definitely in my top 5 of all time

[spudmonkey]

I was playing it on the 360, right up until I splashed out on a Wii... Will probably go back to it soon. I did most of the main story first before leveling up too much, which made the end a lot, lot easier

[Nutsy]

God its been a couple of years since i finished that game... And yeah its massive put so many hours. I Just cant see myself playing it through again... But any mods that make it look even nicer is always a plus oblivion was my first venture into elder scroles. That game makes me hope theres going to be another

[Annihilator]

played it when it was new, and i had the brand-new-PC of my cousin here fore testing. It was kinda addictive, but it had - and still has some major flaws that destroyed the overal experience for me.

first of all i was leveling to fast, turning the storyline incredible hard, because the bad guys always on your level, but the good guys - and those which you should protect will stay at there low level forever. (that city-guard, at the first city you have to recapture, was unkillable, but after a few times going down, he was running around and fighting in underwear...)

The grafical detail of the enviroment was great - but the missing variation of GFX of the spells was kinda lame. every fire spell was a fireball, every ice spell was a snowball or white cloud....
i ve found a spell called "Thunderstorm" pretty early in the game, and leveld up to finally use it - and then it looked exactly like the first lightning-bolt skill i got at lvl2.

last but not least, poor AI and combat system...

[A2597]

lets see...
Quarls TP3 increases the texture resolution to up to 8 times their normal size...looks insanely good.

FCOM combines Franchecos leveled loot, Combat, Obscuros Oblivion Overhaul, and Morts Monster Madness...those pretty much change EVERYTHING about oblivion. No more monsters that level up with you, no more stupid skeletons carrying brand spanking new axes (Now carrying rusty ones!) hundreds of news monsters, which fit right in with the game. everything from sheep to rabbits to giants to new trolls, new skeletons, new ghost...lots and lots...

natural enviroments changes the light filters and skyboxes, looks AWESOME. I've sat and watched a virtual sunset because it was so breathtaking. I kid you not.

No Psychic gaurds was already explained...

Unique Landscapes adds some AWESOME parts to the world...waterfalls, beaches, fun fun fun...

oh yea, lock bash is for warrior/barbarian types...lets you bash any lock with a two handed weapon, based on weapon skill. Much fun for those of us that play conan type charectors.

Real lights makes every light source in the game a real...lightsource. there are tonns of FAKE lights in the game , this fixes them.

realistic flaura/harvest flora mod has visible signs of the stuff you harvest. pick a flower, watch it disapear in game, and grow back over the next month or so.

I forgot Alive Waters, although Morts Monster pack kinda does that...