I spend more time tweaking my mods

[kevanlol]

Than I do actually playing.

Anyone else?

[Triratna]

Same.

X_X

You have no idea how hard it was to convert skyrim voice actor to oblivion. Good thing it works.

[Ghoulz]

I was playing the game, till like sometime in June, then I was always adding/cleaning, and editing to my tastes, and never got back to playing normally yet. Just never satisfied it seems.

Been spending alot of time manually adding races/equipment to a couple esps to save up room, FOR MORE junk! Plus I hate extra clutter I don't use. Now im going through a nightmare cleaning out Apachii Goddess store and just adding what I like to another esp.

[kevanlol]

Every time I finally get my "new project" working, I find something new and shiny that I must have!

Arrgh!

I need to disconnect myself from the internet.... it is the only way to stop it!

[Guest GingerTom]

I'm the originator of that problem--I even do it in my sleep.

(It would be so nice to just play the game again.)

Do you all remember when you could just start a game at the beginning, go through to the middle and finish at the end?

[EnchantedSharkfin]

I was in the same situation but finally i got everything perfect...now the only problem is that i'm mod-addicted and every now and then i'm like "Oooh!Gotta have that one too!" lol

[Kodiak]

Same here. I'd spend hours screwing with shit and testing it, it got to the point where I never actually played a character to play it. One of the main reasons I didnt bother reinstalling.

[Uriel]

Every time you start a new game:

1) you encouter something you don't like in it.

2) you find&install a mod to fix this.

3) you continue playing and find another thing you don't like.

4) One more mod...

5) you broke your game already(bugs, incompatibility, incompleteness from installed mods)? if no goto step 1

6) clean install, sandbox mode engaged.

[Guest GingerTom]

Too true. Don't like that mod so I'll remove it then maybe start over--and sometimes you have to start over---all so true.

I originally said on this site some time back that I had started Oblivion over and over hundreds of times. Sad, isn't it. (So it's not just me?)

I promise myself each time that this will be the last start over: On my birthday I said this is the one--then I found 'Lovers'. (I have now started over 10 times at a guess as I found a new loversmod that I though would go better with everything else.)

I need a break from 'my' reality.

I'm looking at getting some of those old games from GOG.com that you don't mod--I don't think I've actually played a game thru in years now that I think of it. Not since modding came along...

[EnchantedSharkfin]

Aw come on people,it seems that i'm the only one in this thread that is doing fine. xP Maybe you should do what i do,most of the times i pick mods that don't need to overwrite files (plus if i have any doubts i read any comments about the mod first to make sure it's not bugged as hell).

I'd try to cheer you up with a couple of funny screenshots of mine but my old ones got overwritten. +_+

[Guest GingerTom]

Thanks Kevanlol.

I'm not alone.

[Mavado]

I've been trying to cut down on the number of mods I have loaded, as I've read it can slow down the game, that, and I hate the fact that in 90% of all weapon and armor mods, the contents are in some random place in the world and I have to follow some included directions or screen shot to find them, It's like some sort of easter egg hunt.

In my latest re-install, I didn't install any custom weapons or armor except replacers and my own custom Items mod, The solution to both problems was to integrate all downloaded weapons and armor into my own custom Items ESM, and change all their file paths to my mods items folder which is rather tedious, so I've slowly been adding them when I see fit, Every item is then easily obtainable within a chest in testing hall or simply given to companions.

[shedidwhat]

Mavado "It's like some sort of easter egg hunt"

and thats the problem we love the hunt

and worried we are gone miss that one perfect mod

I bought Oblivion GOTY for the xbox today

just so i could play and finish it

cant see the forrest for the trees

cant play the game for the mods

we may be Modoholics

Time Spent Online: 3 Days, 11 Hours, 34 Minutes, 22 Seconds

holy crap Triratna, almost 2 weeks

[gregathit]

LOL!!! On buying oblivion on the xbox so you "play" rather than mod

Personally, I play through a game noting things I want to change and then when I finish my play through I go find the mods or make them to effect the changes that I made note of. So I don't get burnt out I generally do this while playing playing another game(s). Play one day on one game, mod on another.

Depending on the extent of changes I make it may take playing several games before I finish modding to have that game ready to finally play. As long as you are enjoying yourself.......why not

[Guest GingerTom]

As long as you are enjoying yourself.......why not

I believe that Oblivion mods were created to punish me for my past sins.

[Eiries]

I spend a lot of time tweaking things out of the game, but I enjoy it a lot. There's a wonderful feeling of satisfaction once everything is working properly and you're content with it.

Then I take a few screenshots. Then I go tweak something else.

[The Mad God]

-Downloading Mods

-Installing Mods

-Trying to get mods to work

-making tweaks

-Rage at my screen from CTD's

-tries to fix CTD's or other issues

And then finally!

-play the game

That's how it boils down for me.

[Tobbe27]

I always finish a game first, because I feel that mods (even ones that fix bad things) make the game... well it's silly, I know, but the playthrough feels less "pure" otherwise.

[Glugg]

Lol, I know exactly what the OP means. I logged hundreds of hours in vanilla Oblivion before getting into mods. By that point, I'd already done most of what there was to do in the game, so I basically just started using it as a giant mod playground and screenshot studio. I made literally dozens of characters to try out new races, hair, armor/clothes, etc., and spent most of my time in-game hunting for good locations and trying to decide on which poses to use.

I guess the good thing about Skyrim is that I can use mods while I still have lots of the game left to explore.

[labrat]

Oblivion. 90% mod 10% play.

Skyrim. 10% mod 90% play.

Fallout3. 50/50

Skyrim is more or less on hold atm as I've explored it all and need the CS to play with, and cannot be arsed with the MQ.

Oblivion is totally explored, so I just use it as a mod playground.

Fallout3, still got the dlc to do and the MQ to finish one day. The MQ story is much better (mostly) than Ob or Sky I have to say, and makes a nice backdrop while I just explore, I love the scale of FO3, it feels much more real than Oblivion or Skyrim. The challenge of modding FO3 is fun. Like when learning to mod Oblivion after Morrowind, familiar but different.

[Guest GingerTom]

I've done the Main Quest of Oblivion (it never worked right for me so I did a lot of ~.)

But I've put on and taken off so many mods and started over so many times that I estimate that I've done no more than 1/2 of the vanilla quests.

And I've almost never completed any of the added mod quests. Many of them have been installed/uninstalled but never even started--highest I've gotten is to level 5--then I've started over for some reason: New mod or new mod messed everything up.

Discovered 'Lovers' and started over--at the moment it's on hold while I do some real life things. (I 'compose' music.)

(I didn't start playing Oblivion until a year after it came out so I've been 'modded' every step of the way.)

It's the game you can never finish...

[Mavado]

I played through the vanilla campaign once, and considering the sheer scope of the game world, I was surprised at how short the campaign was. I really hated how for the final battle I was reduced to being it's spectator.

Lately, I've been world building; creating my own continents, towns, dungeons etc.