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LP: It's Oblivion Baby! Oblivion!

oldmanpaco

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Three years ago I had a dream. That dream was to be Archmage of the Mages's Guild, GrandMaster of the Fighters Guild, and Champion of the Arena. I achieved that dream and shortly there after hit lvl 10. Shortly after that I uninstalled Oblivion and have not touched it since.

Well Today I'm going to see if three years can make a difference in a crappy game. I'm going to see if 19 gigs of added content can keep my attention. I'm going to see if 190 active plugins and another 40 or so merged plugins can work together in harmony.

And your all coming with me for this fun ride. Or not. Whatever.

Lets light this candle:

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Not Picards best moment. Can't even master his own dreams.. sad really.

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Neat.

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oldmanpaco

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We are on a ship headed to Cyrdiil or Cyradill or whatever the province is called.

Anyway here is Paco:
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This is the method used to generate the characters:
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Sign - Since I plan on nuking stuff I went with mage.
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Specialization - I chose magic because I like to blow stuff up.
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Blade and Destruction for offense, Alteration and Heavy Armor for defense, Armorer for convenience, Conjuration so I don't actually have to fight, and restoration for healing.
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Not everyone can be a Gangsta of Love.
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Added feature to assign your starting equipment. I feel like the mercenary type.
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We will just start in the capital.
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I think I'll pass on the diseases. Way to 3rd worldish.
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To bed we go:
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piydek

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If the player has a good sense of humour and does understand major points of this game's utter shittiness, this could be a pants-pissing fest.
 

oldmanpaco

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Ok we are now at the Imperial City docks. In a rain storm. Yeah.
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My nifty belongings bag from my background choices:
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Lets see what there is to do:
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You know who else had a dream.. Martin Luther King. We all know how that ended. What else is there to do:

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Awesomeness thy name is free Horse Armor.

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And finally it looks like poor Giskard got his panties all up in a bundle:
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Here is Paco standing in the rain in his crappy Iron Armor:
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Next update we kill something.
 

Luzur

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Beth got lazy with those notes and keys that gets delivered from out of the blue to your inventory, in Daggerfall you could read that a messenger boy arrived with the stuff.
 

Jaqen

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Oblivion, i think, can be good with mods. However, the sheer amount of mods needed to make it ok/good practically turns it into another game.
 

Panthera

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Luzur said:
Beth got lazy with those notes and keys that gets delivered from out of the blue to your inventory, in Daggerfall you could read that a messenger boy arrived with the stuff.

They need to bring back the zombiegram.
 

oldmanpaco

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Major_Boobage said:
What mods are you using.

The heart of this build (as the oblivion kids call it) is the Holy FCOM. For those that don't know FCOM is a mod that combines OOO, Frans, Warcry, and MMM. Basically all the leveled list, monsters, equipment, npc, venders, quest related dungeons, and wild life are modified by these mods to make the game harder. They also cap the abilities/equipment of mobs so you don't see things like god-like bandits roaming the forests or lvl 50 guards.

I also have an XP mod, city mods, landscape mods, texture replacers, magic balancing mods, a combat mod, a dialog mod, vender mods, and a bunch content mods.
 

oldmanpaco

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Jaqen said:
Oblivion, i think, can be good with mods. However, the sheer amount of mods needed to make it ok/good practically turns it into another game.

The original game sucks monkey balls. We want it to be another game.
 

octavius

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Jaqen said:
Oblivion, i think, can be good with mods. However, the sheer amount of mods needed to make it ok/good practically turns it into another game.

It took me 400 mods + dozens of graphics replacers and several months of tweaking to get the game more or less perfect. And it did become one of the most immersive gaming experiences in my 25+ years of computer gaming.

But to get the most for the least effort, install just OOO, Windfall and a Quarl's Texture
Replacer. Windfall is a *huge* and extremely well made quest mod that has more content than most full games.
 

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I remember using OOO, a colour map mod, BTmod with DarkUI/DarN configs and Qarl's Texture Pack 3.
 

piydek

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octavius said:
Jaqen said:
Oblivion, i think, can be good with mods. However, the sheer amount of mods needed to make it ok/good practically turns it into another game.

It took me 400 mods + dozens of graphics replacers and several months of tweaking to get the game more or less perfect. And it did become one of the most immersive gaming experiences in my 25+ years of computer gaming.

Perfect? :lol: All of these mods don't take Oblivion to the level of unmodded Morrowind. It makes Oblivion merely playable. Just about. It's still completely pointless without some form and degree of LARPing.
 
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BlitzKitchen

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piydek said:
octavius said:
Jaqen said:
Oblivion, i think, can be good with mods. However, the sheer amount of mods needed to make it ok/good practically turns it into another game.

It took me 400 mods + dozens of graphics replacers and several months of tweaking to get the game more or less perfect. And it did become one of the most immersive gaming experiences in my 25+ years of computer gaming.

Perfect? :lol: All of these mods don't take Oblivion to the level of unmodded Morrowind. It makes Oblivion merely playable. Just about. It's still completely pointless without some form and degree of LARPing.

Bah. Unmodded Morrowind is overrated. Granted, Morrowind would much more enjoyable with the same effort into mods and tweaking. But modded Oblivion is certainly better than stock Morrowind.
 

piydek

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BlitzKitchen said:
Bah. Unmodded Morrowind is overrated.

Excuse me, did i say Morrowind is good or that i rate it good? I said Oblivion is shittier. There are degrees of shittiness. Oblivion is the mother of unholy shits.

BlitzKitchen said:
But modded Oblivion is certainly better than stock Morrowind.

No. Stock Morrowind still has its only redeeming quality - good atmosphere and art direction in which it's cool to hike in. Modded Oblivion still doesn't have it, while mods make it just quite tolerable enough. However, both games, unmodded or modded, are impossible to play (as RPGs, adventures, strategies or action games).
 

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