You may remember last year that I made a thread about Morrowind, which I had started playing. Well, I'm still playing Morrowind! But I managed to get my fiance interested in western RPGs (I reckon that makes me somewhat evil), and she asked me what was a good starting point for someone who has never played western RPGs before. I think Morrowind is a bit complex for someone who has neither played western RPGs nor 3d games aside from Mario 64 before, so I recommended Oblivion.
I was installing the Game of the Year edition along with some mods, and I was wondering if anyone here besides me owns it or plays it and, if you do, what do you do with the game in terms of modding? So far I picked up the following stuff:
- Qarl's Texture Pack 3
- The unofficial patches
- Common Oblivion
- Quest Award Leveler
- Supreme Magicka
I debated installing OOO, but decided against it because from what I understand it makes the game significantly more difficult and, for someone who has never played a western RPG before, I think that's unacceptable. I also looked for a "Better Bodies" Oblivion version and found exactly one male body (which is extremely high-quality) by Robert and, like, fifty thousand female bodies. For someone used to a single "Better Bodies", this is more than a little bit annoying. Which female body replacer has the best support in terms of clothing and armor mods? I'd like to just install Robert's female body and get it over with because he is obviously an incredibly talented artist who creates amazing work, but I want to be sure the mod support is there before I do anything.
What mods do you guys use? Any suggestions to help someone that's new to the genre? I'm also considering nGCD to make the level-up process go away -- it was one of the things I disliked most about Morrowind; I used something called the Max Leveler there and I'd prefer to use that for someone new to the game -- does something like it exist in Oblivion?
On a mod creation note, I've done modding for Morrowind and, looking at Oblivion, it seems that Oblivion is such a nicer game to mod for. It just seems that so much more stuff is possible...and, with bad memories of Morrowind's very restricted scripting capabilities (that includes MWSE), that's a really nice thing. But it's more than just expanded scripting...stuff like X-Skills and Item Interchange -- these are modding tools that just weren't possible to do in Morrowind which have become possible in Oblivion, and they're incredibly awesome. Oblivion is just a more mod-able game, and I look forward to doing some modding work there eventually. (Right now I'm working on something in Morrowind that hasn't really been done in Morrowind before -- a player-owned mine.)
I was installing the Game of the Year edition along with some mods, and I was wondering if anyone here besides me owns it or plays it and, if you do, what do you do with the game in terms of modding? So far I picked up the following stuff:
- Qarl's Texture Pack 3
- The unofficial patches
- Common Oblivion
- Quest Award Leveler
- Supreme Magicka
I debated installing OOO, but decided against it because from what I understand it makes the game significantly more difficult and, for someone who has never played a western RPG before, I think that's unacceptable. I also looked for a "Better Bodies" Oblivion version and found exactly one male body (which is extremely high-quality) by Robert and, like, fifty thousand female bodies. For someone used to a single "Better Bodies", this is more than a little bit annoying. Which female body replacer has the best support in terms of clothing and armor mods? I'd like to just install Robert's female body and get it over with because he is obviously an incredibly talented artist who creates amazing work, but I want to be sure the mod support is there before I do anything.
What mods do you guys use? Any suggestions to help someone that's new to the genre? I'm also considering nGCD to make the level-up process go away -- it was one of the things I disliked most about Morrowind; I used something called the Max Leveler there and I'd prefer to use that for someone new to the game -- does something like it exist in Oblivion?
On a mod creation note, I've done modding for Morrowind and, looking at Oblivion, it seems that Oblivion is such a nicer game to mod for. It just seems that so much more stuff is possible...and, with bad memories of Morrowind's very restricted scripting capabilities (that includes MWSE), that's a really nice thing. But it's more than just expanded scripting...stuff like X-Skills and Item Interchange -- these are modding tools that just weren't possible to do in Morrowind which have become possible in Oblivion, and they're incredibly awesome. Oblivion is just a more mod-able game, and I look forward to doing some modding work there eventually. (Right now I'm working on something in Morrowind that hasn't really been done in Morrowind before -- a player-owned mine.)
