Posted October 10, 2012
For the Oblivion haters, I have one mod for you. OOO. Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul.
Now, I'm someone who like it the first time round. Barely played the main story in fact, but tried to find lots of sidequests. I'm not going to argue that the level scaling was... wrongly done. You're level one, and two goblins are a very tough encounter. You're level thirty, and two goblins are a nasty encounter. See the problem? That said, I still loved it.
MUST BE PLAYED WITH HEADPHONES. In fact nearly ANY FP game is better with headphones.
But back to OOO. I ran into this mod when I was getting to the stage of playing Oblivion because I played Oblivion, and enjoyment levels were definitely dragging. OOO revitalised the game for me. Whether its getting WTFPWNED at level 2 by Phantom Warriors, or the moment when you realise you can drop trolls in a single shot, it changed the experience so completely that, in some ways, I was playing a different game that happened to have the same world. It DID make a few features a bit iffy, one of these being Oblivion gates (by about level 20, these were more like casual quests than the pants-wetting experiences up against unearthly powerful foes I remembered from Vanilla), but its worth checking out.
Now, I'm someone who like it the first time round. Barely played the main story in fact, but tried to find lots of sidequests. I'm not going to argue that the level scaling was... wrongly done. You're level one, and two goblins are a very tough encounter. You're level thirty, and two goblins are a nasty encounter. See the problem? That said, I still loved it.
MUST BE PLAYED WITH HEADPHONES. In fact nearly ANY FP game is better with headphones.
But back to OOO. I ran into this mod when I was getting to the stage of playing Oblivion because I played Oblivion, and enjoyment levels were definitely dragging. OOO revitalised the game for me. Whether its getting WTFPWNED at level 2 by Phantom Warriors, or the moment when you realise you can drop trolls in a single shot, it changed the experience so completely that, in some ways, I was playing a different game that happened to have the same world. It DID make a few features a bit iffy, one of these being Oblivion gates (by about level 20, these were more like casual quests than the pants-wetting experiences up against unearthly powerful foes I remembered from Vanilla), but its worth checking out.
