Oblivion

Hey Sup Forums, about to start "first time" play of pic related. What mods are essential for gameplay & graphical improvements?

Played for 10 min in the past, but didn't really get into it at the time.

Have played a bunch of vanilla Skyrim tho...

The only mod I'd say you really NEED is Oblivion Character Overhaul 2 to get rid of those god-awful faces. Immersive Weapons is p good, too

Absolutely indisputably essential
>OBSE
>Unofficial Patches for base game and SI
>Darnified UI or Dark Darn, whichever you prefer

Pretty damn important for anyone
>Oblivion reloaded
>Stutter remover (OBSE plugin)
>Lowpoly grass (free performance)
>Operation optimization (more of the same)

Beginner-friendly gameplay improvements that you want unless you like getting pissed off at vanilla bullshit
>Realistic leveling OR Oblivion XP
>Oscuro's overhaul and/or Maskar's overhaul
>Vanilla combat enhanced

Textures (generally safe on any modern system)
>Quarl's redimized textures+ Bomret's SI
>Really textured normalmaps
>Improved trees and flora
>OCO v1 or v2 depending on preference

Cool things added to the game with little to no conflicts
>Unique Landscapes
>Animated window lighting system
>Better dungeons
>Weather all natural

Framerate raping, but cool mods to use at your own risk
>Better Cities
>Immersive interiors
>RAEVWB + tes4lodgen

Go to tesgeneral.com and get look at the essential section of the Oblivion guide

Is there anything good about Oblivion other than the Dark Brotherhood quests and Shivering Isles? Really can't think of any redeeming features it has. Also horse armor.

The side quests are top tier.

holy shit, the absolute madman. You have impeccable taste. I use *literally* the exact same mods and *literally* nothing else

If I was home I'd screencap my mod folder to prove it.

I can hardly think of a single uninteresting quest in the game

OOO and Maskars even add enough free roam content to fill in the gaps of vanilla Oblivion's lame exploration

good taste, saved your post for future use

Thieves Guild questline is pretty good bruh.

You could even say it's capital

Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul, unofficial OOO Shivering Isles add-on, and Not Galsiah's Character Development

>>Vanilla combat enhanced

isnt Deadly Reflex better?

no

Deadly reflex adds a lot of stuff to the point where it barely resembles oblivion anymore. Vanilla combat enhanced is just, well, a lightweight vanilla fix that mostly reduces the sponginess of everything. For a first timer, I feel like drastic changes are not welcome.

I truly envy you, first discovering that game was a wonderful summer

>not morrowind

none. the game is great as it is and no modders can make better content than professional, world-class development teams. all they can do is slap some gaudy textures on everything and fuck up game balance or stick penises on things.

All of pic related.

This mod looks neato.

Disregard base game, acquire Nehrim.

oblivion needs drastic changes. you aren't missing out on anything by playing it vanilla, because it's ass