It's been too long since I've seen an oblivion thread.
Post stories, pictures, mods, the soundtrack all things related to oblivion.dont be a faggot and argue which game is betterbecause we all know it's oblivion
>daily reminder that furries were elves
Skyrim fags need not apply.
>>337083963
I love modding Oblivion and loved Oblivion generals but this is now a glimmer of a nostalgic past.
>>337083963
Oblivion is overrated trash like all TES games.
Oblivion was shit ten years ago and it's still shit today
>>337084790
>>337084817
>My taste is superior to yours
You're really sad people.
>>337084790
Yeah but the modding it got was a unique and entertaining thing indeed.
>>337085002
waifu mods do not improve the quests, story, or mechanics
>>337085086
>quests, story
Yeah they do because you can better immerse yourself in them.
Mechanic mods exist to improve that.
>>337085086
No, but the quests, story and mechanics mods do
Are there any mods that make combat more like quick skirmishes like mount and blade rather than hammering left click for an hour until the 9000 hp skeleton stops moving?
I played heavily modded oblivion ages ago, but nothing could fix the boring as fuck eternally long combat.
>>337084214
I legit never realised this about Skyrim.
>> I'm the criminal scum.
>>337085704
yeah there are mods that just scale damage alone based on a percentage
>>337085829
I suppose that's the simplest solution, but I'm sure it would feel weird as fuck with the floaty low-impact combat. Better than nothing I suppose.
>yfw you just now learn that oblivion has minotaurs
>>337085957
there's animaion and hitstop mods too that can help.
>>337086198
Stop doing that you nigger, I am not re-installing this game and spending two full days worth of time modding it AGAIN. STOP MAKING ME WANT TO DO IT
>>337083963
Baby's first RPG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpJEg6MTPzc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQsC5IEXDag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YKicBAMlBk
>>337086406
newfags first shitpost
>>337086274
here's my blog fag
demwaifus.blogspot.ca/search/label/Oblivion
though it's outdated since the community doesn't exist and I have nobody to support. a lot of cool mods have come out in the past year and a half though, people got sick of skyrim and went back to oblivion.
>>337083963
>tfw never saw the ending even to this day, because modding was so much fun
Do people still make mods for this game? is it worth reinstalling oblivion just for mods and modding?
>>337087328
yeah
>>337083963
posting mods for comfyness
>Oblivion Reloaded
>qarls texture pack III
>all natural weather
>immersive interiors
>tree and grass overhaul
>animated window and lighting system
>elven map redux
>darkuid darnified ui
>Oblivion Character Overhaul ONE POINT OH. NOT TWO POINT OH. ONE POINT OH.
COMFY
O
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F
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>>337085829
POST
MODS
>>337086506
>harvest dawn
you are the niggest of my niggas
>>337086606
Holy shit stop replying to me
>>337088125
What's wrong with Oblivion Character Overhaul 2.0?
Cheydinhal is best
It's upsetting how shit Bruma is. I really like snow-towns, but Bruma's just lame.
>>337088643
imo it just looks fucking stupid. the first one was so great because it was basically a cleaned up version that kept with the style of the original game. it essentially accomplished what vanilla attempted and failed to do
2.0 just looks weird. like sharp, unnatural anime faces weird. i cant deal with it.
>>337088686
yes
>>337088819
It's supposed to be more in line with how the races look in Morrowind and Skyrim.
Have you heard of the High Elves?
>>337089119
I don't really care, I think this looks fucking stupid and it doesn't fit in with the rest of the Oblivion aesthetic
Should I download the original QTP3 or the Redimized version?
>>337089664
I dont think it really matters at this point; it would have shown a performance difference 8 years ago but not really today
download whatever is easier to find on the nexus and has the most endorsements
>>337089664
redimized
>>337089760
it still matters.
Are there any good overhaul mods?
I wanna play it again but i dont want to dick around installing 1000 mods.
Maybe a pre modded torrent or something?
>>337089810
Is there any way to avoid getting horrible framerate with the better cities mod? I've already installed project optimization and stutter remover.
>>337090174
I've never used the first mod but make sure you replace the heap in stutter remover.
The FPS will always be bad when you're around NPCs but you can improve your FPS in a modded game by not using mods like reavwd and lowering your draw distance sliders.
>>337083963dont be a faggot and argue which game is betterbecause we all know it's A MATTER OF OPINION
>Mfw really wantd to play Oblivion
>Modded it to high hell to make it look moderatly decent
>Tanks my framerate on a 970, 8gb RAM and 4690k
>>337090289
>mfw upgrading from an 8350 to an i5-6600k this summer
I'm FINALLY going to be able to play Crysis and Oblivion at 60fps. I have been waiting literally a decade for this
I play the PS3 version
>>337090423
I doubt it but good luck.
I wish there were Musket or Flintlock mods for Oblivion... I had some for Skyrim and I liked traipsing around as a Musketeer
But of course the only firearms related mods I could find are fucking AK-47's and M16's and the pistol from Dirge of Cerberus, and fuck that shit.
>>337090394
>970
There's your problem. Driver doesn't prevents the mods from using the 0.5GB of meme-ram so the framerate drops.
>>337090289
Do you know if Immersive Interiors is compatible with Better Cities?
>>337090704
read the readme
>>337090289
>replace the heap
Thank you. It turns out, I replaced it on the file in my mods folder, but didn't on the one in the game folder.
>Install a bunch of mods
>Get 30 hours into the game
>Start getting frame drops
>Game hitching
>Look around for fixes
>Find out I installed a mod with infinite looping code
>mfw
>>337090673
The dirge mod is actually good and you can replace the model if you're savvy with nifskope. That's the only tolerable one really.
I have the most comfy oblivion.
>>337091348
Unless you replaced every animation, every armor, every song, and many sound effects as well as add and tweak many shaders. All to your tastes. No you don't.
>>337091487
Unfortunately...
Which is the comfiest player home?And why is it the Imperial City shack?
>Watching the sun rise on a green grassy hill after curing your vampirism.
I just wish the 'powerful vampire lord' wasn't a lame melvin living in a cave. I WANTED TO FIGHT THROUGH A HUGE CASTLE AND SHIT
>>337091617
Agreed. Never really even bothered with other houses. It's right outside in the game over world and it has all containers and the bed less than 15 feet from the door.
>>337091801https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFPgKeYVJgk
I still find Oblivion much more immersive and comfy than Skyrim.
>>337092267
Seriously though. Bethesda is so bad at 'cool shit'.
I'm told I'll have to defeat some all powerful vampire only to find this scrawny faggot in a copy/paste cave in his pajamas.
>>337092496
So?
Anyone with half a brain would feel that way.
>>337090783
npc mod?
>>337093395
WAC
>>337091842
>>337083963
morrowind > daggerfall > skyrim > getting raped > oblivion
>>337083963
Hope they release Skyblivion someday.
I used to love the Oblivion greentext threads
>>337093624
See >>337084871
Or not, considering you probably posted that and left like the retarded shitposter you are.
>>337093737
I wonder what happened to greentext storytellers.
>>337092595
that's nothing
>>337091617
I started with the shack, but then I moved into the Rosethorn Hall in Skingrad.
That was some next lvl comfy
>>337093838
I spent hours putting books on the shelves and shit in the display cases.
>>337084691
How do you fix this shit? I see these a lot, especially at mine and cave entrances.
>>337090479
BROTHER!!!!!!
>>337093808
Mannimarco Revisted is the best quest mod, it actually makes him into a powerful lich that has magic strong enough to one shot you.
Is there an ENBboost/ctd prevention mod like in oblivion?
>>337086506
>Harvest Dawn
>>337083963
Was I the only one who liked the Fighters Guild?
>>337098803
Bet you also like sniffing your own farts
>>337083963
Why are nearly all enemies bullet sponges regardless of difficulty? I swear
Why does this game run worse than Skyrim, Jesus.
>>337099518
That is Bethesda's version of "challenge"
>>337090174
No. That mod is simply too much for Oblivion to handle. Same with immersive interiors in certain large buildings, or anything related to tes4lodgen.
>oblivion is without a doubt my most cherished childhood game
>first ever game on my first ever console a 360 I bought with my own money
>over 600 hours of that shit, it was my life in primary school
>after exhausting pretty much everything to do in vanilla, would role play a ranger and just wander through the great forest from Chorrol to Leyawiin (sp?) over and over, clearing the wilds of beasts and outlaws alike
>Years later finally get a computer that can run oblivion respectably
>spend weeks and weeks modding oblivion to perfection
>unique landscapes
>tamriel travellers
>OOO, MMM
>heaps of other little things like bedrolls
>finally I am literally a ranger in game, with a small shack just on the outskirts of the Chorrol farmland
>have a negotiated standing contract to sell venison and pelts to the inn just north of Chorrol
>have a negotiated standing contract to supply aylied artefacts and alchemy ingredients to a particular wandering merchant
>literally mod my childhood role playing life into the game
>barely play it for more than a few weeks
I love modding this game so much, but nothing beats the world I imagined thanks to vanilla
>>337089810
Better Cities is probably the best mod for Oblivion. It's my #1 install almost every single time.
>>337100898
>About to call you an underaged faggot
>Realise even if you were 8 at release you are now 18
You're still a faggot regardless. But at least you have semi-decent taste in vidya.
>>337090687
Stop fucking adding meme to everything. It's just silly.
Is there anything like ornitocopter's Morrowind overhaul for Oblivion?
Who /nehrim/ here?
One day I'll properly mod Oblivion as well as Nehrim and give them both a good replay
>>337102414
I want to get back into it after I learn more German
What are the super most bestest mods that make the game at least 310% better?
>>337084214
>mfw i recognize all these Oblivion quests.
Funny how he doesnt compare Oblivion's superior DB questline with Skyrim's shitty one.
>>337102941
I like Maskar's overhaul. It's compatible with everything and it's more of a fixed vanilla thing than a complete reimagining like Oscuro. I also can't play without Oblivion XP anymore.
>>337103472
I'll check those out, then. Thanks man
>had it on PS3
>never beat it
>bought on steam
>never beat it
>>337103472
Is it lore-breaking though?
>>337105460
Not really, encounters it adds are various foreign raiders near the appropriate borders, variations of existing monsters or animals and some named bosses. Equipment it adds is also quite fitting, like a torch made of a welkynd stone on a stick.
>>337105808
I might try it out, looks like its way less of a mess to install/use than OOO.
Anyone wants to talk about lore? Oblivion specific if you want.
I will introduce a lore topic here, has anyone thought about the fact that Umaril's father is most likely Molag Bal.
From songs of Pelinal
>And then came the storming of White-Gold, where the Ayleids had made pact with the Aurorans of Meridia, and summoned them, and appointed the terrible and golden-hued "half-Elf" Umaril the Unfeathered as their champion… and, for the first time since his coming, it was Pelinal who was called out to battle by another, for Umaril had the blood of the 'ada and would never know death.
So he has an Ada in his blood, and first assumption for his relative is for some reason a Divine or even Meridia, even UESP article says "his Divine father".
But the book also states
>and he listed his bloodline in the Ayleidoon and spoke of his father, a god of the [previous kalpa's] World-River and taking great delight in the heavy-breathing of Pelinal who had finally bled
Now the only other Kalpa that has been refered to as "World-River" and the only King of Kalpas that we know of is Rudy-Man, Molag Bal.
This makes a lot of fucking sense. He as a half-mer is most likely product of rape, since Ada do not reproduce with morals usually and the only one who does is usually Molag Bal...with rape. It makes even more sense that during Umaril's time crazy fetishistic horrors like Flesh gardens and torture of men races became a lot more popular.
Imagine Umaril, a half-mer who despite trying to act all highborn and merish like his Ayleid brothers is corrupted to core, so he decides to serve Meridia, the enantiomorphic opposite of Molag Bal and lady of light to prove to himself and others that he is not just a monster...but ultimately despite looking the part of the champion of light his actions and his soul was tainted and corrupted and he knows that, he is a rape-child with the biggest divine inferiority complex.
>>337106958
Now imagine Pelinal Whitestrake comes by and he goes crazy...
There are rumors that he came out of CHIM fucking el Adabal, the holy jewel of Ayleid kings that is supposedly connected to Auri-El himself. This champion can kills thousands of mages and warriors solo and he is better than Umaril at everything.
Now imagine there are rumors that this guy is actually of Divine origin, not bastard child of The Prince of Rape but fucking incarnation of Lorkhan and Akatosh unified into one...
And now imagine that this man is champion of the dirty human slaves.
Pelinal is everything Umaril wishes he could be and he is leading rebellion that spells doom for his race, more than that, Pelinal is so powerful that his rebellion can actually be successful.
Considering all of this Umaril and Pelinal are perfect enemies for each other.
I can talk a bit about Pelinal too.
>>337084031
>people acting like Khajiit being mer is some deep lore
>>337093808
Mannimarco is the worst offender.
He is an Altmer that has lived for most of the existence of civilization on Mundus.
He is a wizard that knows secrets of plane creaton, Psijic arts, true Mysticism and shadow magic.
He invented and re-invented Necromancy as we know it to the point that Arkay, a fucking Divine had to change the way souls and soulgems work to try and fuck up Mannimarco but Mannimarco found a way to make it work in his favor.
Most importantly he actually managed to take part in one of the biggest reality/time fucks of all time and broke himself into shards, one of said shards became an actual God and a permanent celestial object, the Revenants Moon, that for ever helps all of Necromancers ever and directly fucks with Arkay.
And how do they make one of the aspects of that fuck look? A fucking Altmer in generic robes.
Not to mention that using Mannimarco in that questline itself was a shit idea, it should have been an aspiring new Necromancer that wishes to walk in the steps of Mannimarco.
>want to replay oblivion
>installing the metric fuckton of overhauls takes forever
Sometimes I wish modders weren't little faggots and got so anal about people bundling their work without their permission so I could just download something like MGSO.
>>337095393
The problem with that mod is that while it gets the aesthetics and feel better, it gets the lore all wrong.
Generally speaking the level of Necromancy at which Mannimarco is equates to more than just super giant rituals. Mannimarco is at the level where he doesn't do big rituals to do the almost impossible, he is changing reality and rules of existence to allow for literally impossible.
>>337108315
Why doesn't someone just fucking bundle them anyway?
What are modders going to do about it? It's not like mods are legally bound in any way.
Is there a list of say, 10 mods that are necessary for Oblivion?
By the looks of this thread it's, Better Cities, Better faces and Immersive Interiors.
>>337108654
Better world or some shit; forgot the name.
Basically it makes the game not a bunch of flatland and instead ups the tree count and adds hills, mountains lakes and biomes that actually look different. The swamp isn't a slightly different mainland anymore.
>>337091801
>And it is said that he emerged into the world like a Padomaic, that is, borne by Sithis and all the forces of change therein. Still others, like Fifd of New Teed, say that beneath the Pelinal's star-armor was a chest that gaped open to show no heart, only a red rage shaped diamond-fashion, singing like a mindless dragon, and that this was proof that he was a myth-echo, and that where he trod were shapes of the first urging. Pelinal cared for none of this and killed any who would speak god-logic, except for fair Perrif, who he said, "enacts, rather than talks, as language without exertion is dead witness." When those soldiers who heard him say this stared blankly, he laughed and swung his sword, running into the rain of Kyne to slaughter their Ayleid captives, screaming, "O Aka, for our shared madness I do this! I watch you watching me watching back! Umaril dares call us out, for that is how we made him!" [And it was during] these fits of anger and nonsense that Pelinal would fall into the Madness, where whole swaths of lands were devoured in divine rampage to become Void, and Alessia would have to pray to the Gods for their succor, and they would reach down as one mind and soothe the Whitestrake until he no longer had the will to kill the earth in whole. And Garid of the men-of-ge once saw such a Madness from afar and maneuvered, after it had abated, to drink together with Pelinal, and he asked what such an affliction felt like, to which Pelinal could only answer, "Like when the dream no longer needs its dreamer."
Ingame TES will never be this epic.
>>337108742
>>337108742
I think it's Unique Landscapes
>>337108654
>Better Cities, Immersive Interiors.
The former rapes framerate and it's not really fit for a normal playthrough. The latter is less troublesome, but still acts up in some larger interiors.
If I were to pick 10 essentials
>OBSE with some plugins
>Unofficial patch
>DarnUI or Dark Darn
>Quarl's redimized textures
>Oblivion reloaded
>OCO v1 or v2 depending on preference
>Unique Landscapes
>Weather All Natural
>A big overhaul of your choice (Oscuro, Maskar or some more complicated combination of mods)
>A levelling mod of your choice (realistic leveling, oblivion xp or simply that thing giving you all +5s on level up)
>>337109192
>>337108930
Thanks
>>337108361
I'm not too familiar with the lore but that kind of sounds like CHIM
>>337106958
>>337107487
Cum on, no one wants to talk dem lores?
Here, have Sheogorath sitting on Lorkhan.
By the way have you ever considered that Sithis shaped hole is the holy in creation after Lorkhan's heart was ripped out?
And that Sheogorath was born out of Sithis shaped hole?
And that Jyggalag was transformed into Sheo through madness?
So most likely Daedric Princes transformed Jyggalag by throwing him through Lorkhans heart shaped hole and inducing Lorkhanic madness into him.
>>337109387
That's below CHIM. CHIM is the highest level of conscioussness that one can achieve while still inside of Aurbis.
The only rival to power that CHIM grants to a fragment of dream is Numidium, which is in a sense reverse CHIM to some degree.
CHIM is egotistical and about individuality, Numidium is collective of souls
CHIM is about accepting reality as everything and accepting that everything is YOU, Numidium is about denying literally everything in a bitchfit
CHIM is part of the way Aurbis and existence works, Numidium is unnatural and synthetic brass super deity.
What Mannimarco does is casual reality warping and Aurbis modification that Psijic monks, Shadow mages, even Telvanni and first orders of the Empire like Marukhati selective did back in the day.
Also if you are not familiar with lore and something confuses you, ask away, I am in a mood to share my opinions on TES lore and share sources if you want.
Why were the Dark Brotherhood quests in Oblivion so much better than the ones in Skyrim?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY41Q1FYokQ
>>337109843
Better characters, that house murder quest, also you got a lot of good stuff from doing their story scenarios.
>>337109771
Is there anywhere online I can read about the entire lore?
>>337109843
There isn't actually a real answer to that.
Writers/Quest designers of Oblivion and Skyrim DB questline are Emil and Kuhlmann.
I guess it just turned out better in Oblivion.
>>337090394
>spend a month modding oblivion
>play it for a few hours
>computer fries and i lose all data.
I still have not played oblivions dlcs.
>>337110056
Here is beginners guide, though it is a bit outdated
>http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1112211-how-to-become-a-lore-buff/
Here is the only Wikia you will ever need, never use others
>http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page
Here is the resource where you can read all the books and Out of Game texts
>http://www.imperial-library.info/
Go to /tg/ for weekend TES lore discussions
Go to /r/teslore for the more popular TES lore community, though it is more cancerous actual writers and devs like Michael Kirkbride...well mostly Michael Kirkbride write there
Anything else?
>>337110252
Has anyone wrote an novels are real world books?
>>337110252
Thanks, I'll check it out later.
Is Sithis the most powerful and oldest being? It seems like he's been around before the Nine even existed and can take anyone's soul if they are murdered in his name.
>>337110056
>>337110252
Also here is general meme-tasticobscure trivia for TES lore
>Existence is a dream-like universe
>Pelinal is a cyborg from future
>Khajiit are actually elves
>Water is tied to memory
>Nerevarine was a scam
>Stars and Sun are holes in reality
>Akatosh and Lorkhan are two sides of the same being
>You meet Talos in Morrowind in a pub
>You meet Talos in Oblivion in the chappel
>You also most likely meet Talos in Skryim in Whiterun
>Dwemer had a giant telepathic network
>Orcs and Malacath are metaphysically shit
>Talos in universe did not exist until Daggerfall's ending.
>There might have been a person who mantled Sheogorath before Champion of Cyrodiil, Arden-Sul
>Jubal-Sul has eliminated cliffracers solo
>Generally anyone with a last name Sul is a badass
>Hjalti was called Talos (Storm Crown) because Wulfharth literally followed him as a giant ash storm cloud.
>Wulfharth was also a zombie/lich at that point basically.
>Talos is three people
A lot of these are half truths but still...
>>337110394
There are two Elder Scrolls books, Infernal City and Lord of Souls.
They are okay but their most interesting part comes in new lore for Argonians.
Generally TES books are all ingame and at this point TES book wordcount is larger than many fantasy series including LOTR trilogy.
>>337110865
I know about Wulf in Ghostgate in Morrowind but when do you see him in Oblivion? Is he the ranting prophet in the Crusader quest?
>>337110438
Here is how heirarchy of existence goes as far as we know.
Anu, Padomay and Nir existed in the same universe, it's not know what that universe was other than that it had 12 worlds of "creation", doesn't really matter.
Padomay is jelly of Nir having hots for Anu, he maims her, Anu kills Padomay, he goes into PTSD mode. He goes into sensory coma in "The Sun".
In his mind a dream is created, his "Soul" and avatar of self is Anui-El, memory of Padomay and the poisonous carrier of trauma in the dream is Sithis, memory of Nir and 12 world of creation echo in the dream.
Conflict of Anui-El and Sithis echo through everything and produces existence on it's every level.
Akatosh and Lorkhan are the highest level of their conflict and were originally one being, existence of Space/Time in form of Akatosh+Lorkhan gave possibility for birth of other Et'Ada (Ada means spirit, Et'Ada means original spirit, Aedra and Daedra).
By the way when I speak of Akatosh and Lorkhan I don't mean them as the way we know them now, because many events will change what they are in future.
Sithis poisons Akatosh+Lorkhan with memory of Nir and makes him feel like he is trapped in the dream, this being divides into two identities God of Time(in future AkaTusk, Auri-El, Akatosh) and Trickster God (Shezzar, Shor, Lorkhan).
Trickster God finds out partial or whole truth about existence and decides to create Nirn according to the memories of Nir, the Grey maybe in which through mortality someone might find true freedom and escape from eternal prison. Solution being CHIM, Amaranth etc.
That's basically how I see, I can elaborate and give sources for different parts if you want.
>>337111058
Yeah, Prophet is most likely avatar of Talos especially since he is the one who personally gives you blessing of Talos and claims that this is the final weapon that will kill Umaril. Then when you ask Knights of the Nine about the prophet after he disappears they are like
>I didn't see anything m8, you sure you are not hallucinating
in the same fashion people treat you when you try to find Wulf in Ghost gate again.
In Skyrim it's debatable but Heimskr that is preaching "From the Many Headed Talos" is actually...well the writer of this book and it's an ancient text. Even in ESO (I know ESO is shit but still, it's nice they acknowledge this) they refer to texts written in future and call Heimskr a classic in a very
>wink wink, nudge nudge, time travel Talos get it?
way
>>337110438
Also the higher you go the more abstract a being becomes
Sithis and Anui-El are more like fundamental blocks of reality, hard to define them as beings.
Strongest Et'Ada like Lorkhan and Akatosh are so fragmented that even though their power is almost limitless they too can affect the world only slowly and over time.
Surprisingly lower tier beings like weaker Ada and strongest wizard have a lot more displayable power.
...and then we get Numidium which is cheat mode both power and powerdisplay wise.
