So my cousin was lookin' for a good old hack n slash, Medieval game, and I recommended him Oblivion. I figure he'll do the Vanilla story, but what are the essential mods? I remember stuff like OOO & Qarls texture pack. To be clear, I just want things that improve the game, not like tons of new side quests / areas, but overall enhancements to what is there.
MMM is something I'd recommend. And probably some UI mod which makes it more suitable for higher resolutions.
Every single one of these: http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1116976-the-unique-landscapes-project/ Make the landscapes so much more interesting and unique.
It's modular - you can pick and choose which parts of the landscape you wish to use, but there are a few parts of the landscape that have been unaltered or are still getting worked on. Just download and install the finished parts (all of the one's that have been released), it does not feel unfinished.
On top of Qarl's huge texture pack, mostly graphics mods: Enhanced Water 2.0 Natural Environments 2.1 Initial Glow Custom Race Fix - for playthrough with a custom race Darnified UI VA's Better Gold Water Reflection Blur Natural Faces Vagabond's Real Katanas
Hmm, thanks for that, the Katanas are amazing.... Natural Faces might conflict with OOO & MMM perhaps, though. Better gold? Nice. Enhanced Water & Natural Enviroments...dunno, I mean with Quarls, those are kinda redundant, as his includes those.
Natural faces does not conflict. Here's some that I have found. Just don't make the same mistake I made, and have to reinstall because you installed over 120 mods. The Unofficial Oblivion Patch: http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=OblivionMods.Detail&id=1417 The Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch: http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=OblivionMods.Detail&id=2754 Visual Enchantments: http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=OblivionMods.Detail&id=4903 Qarl's Harvest: http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=OblivionMods.Detail&id=2144 Realistic Flora: http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=OblivionMods.Detail&id=2217 Unique Landscapes Compilation: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=19370 The rest of these I'm about to list will need the Oblivion Script Extender: http://obse.silverlock.org/ Midas Magic: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=9562 Deadly Reflex: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8273
It seems that a good number of decent enhancing mods have been mentioned so I'd like to chip in and recommend Mount & Blade and the more recent Mount & Blade: Warband They're hack and slash, however some element of skill is involved in this, but its no harder or easier than Oblivion There's also online multiplayer in the updated Warband game and the singleplayer is like a sandbox, where you control how you conquer and what you do So if you can, I recommend getting him to try it out http://www.taleworlds.com/ http://www.mountandbladewarband.com/ HyBrId
Yeah, played Mount & Blade to Death, lol, hundreds of hours. Weird, after installing MMM & Compat with OOO, enemies sometimes turn green... Also, there are big orange / black boxes which I can tell are lighting errors...ugh, way to lazy to sift through them again. Oh well, I'll just write down the good ones and tell em.
