Oblivion Mods for a new player?

citizen059

I have a quick question regarding Oblivion mods...does anyone have suggestions on current "must have" mods for a new player?

One of my co-workers is getting a new video card and plans to buy Oblivion; I haven't had it installed on my system at home for some time and I'm out of the loop on the mod community right now.

Specifically, I'm wondering if there are some good graphical & performance enhancing mods that anyone can recommend...I don't think we should get into altering the core gameplay until he's at least experienced standard Oblivion. :P

Machismo

Beautiful faces is a good one. Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul is a fantastic content upgrade.
Finally, Unique Landscapes is so frickin awesome. Little locales with incredible vision and beauty.

TychoCelchuuu

http://aelius28.googlepages.com/home

You want the "performance enhancements" category.

TVs_Frank

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

http://aelius28.googlepages.com/home

You want the "performance enhancements" category.

I especially recommend the low poly grass mod. It dramatically enhances the frame rate on my computer and looks just as good, if not better.

AlejandroDaJ

A cursory glance at that list didn't really answer this question of mine:

Morrowind had some cool spells like Levitate and, unless my memory is wrong, spells allowing for massive jumping. Oblivion had none of this. As near as I could tell in my last playthrough, Oblivions' spells consisted of Buff X, Shoot Flaming/Zapping/Freezing Orb Y, and Summon Z.

Are there any Oblivion mods that bring back Levitate and add other, more interesting spells?

TychoCelchuuu

Yeah but I can't exactly track them all down for you. Just search the Oblivion Mods forum for "levitate" etc, or for magic mods. There are a ton that add stuff like that.