The Story

When I started let's playing Morrowind, the plan always was to work my way through most of the Elder Scrolls titles, with the exception of Arena.
For Oblivion, I knew I didn't have the fondest memories of the game for a couple of reasons:

• It came so soon after Morrowind I expected a game with everything I love about Morrowind but prettier.
• later on, I was disappointed with the modding scene.

I have since realised that the fault was my own: Never expect anything of a game, especially a sequel. As for the modding scene, it was mostly that the Morrowind modding community had matured while Oblivion modding community was younger.

To make sure I would enjoy the game, I added gameplay mods: Druid and ranger, as well as difficulty mods (Obsurio and Maskar overhalls and Economy enhanced) and OblivionXP to have something completely novel. I didn't use graphic mods because it had been a long time since I had played Oblivion and didn't feel I needed the novelty of graphic replacers.

I was originally streaming on YouTube: I had started on YouTube and felt it was fair to keep the weekly livestream where it had been. At least until one Saturday YouTube was experiencing some technical difficulties and I was forced to take the stream to Twitch... where it stayed.

My Dryad has become a bit of a cliché: a sneaky archer in light armour, but in my defense, this is the first time I played such a character and I feel I had enough handicaps to make up for the overpowered build.

The videos

Full playlist on YouTube

The modlist and some thoughts

Overhauls and patches

Oscuro’s Oblivion Overhaul
COBL
UOP Vampire aging and face fix
Unofficial Oblivion patch
Unofficial Shivering Isles patch
Oblivion Citadel door fix
Arrows weight nothing
Maskar’s Oblivion Overhaul

NPCs

Tamriel travellers
Capucines Character Expansion

Official DLCs + unofficial patches

Shivering Isles
Thieves Den
Mehrunes Razor
Horse Armor
Orrery
Spell tomes
Frostcrag
Knights of the Nine

NPCs

Robert’s male body replacer v5
Oblivion Character Overhaul
Vilja
Stoker Wolff
Personality idles
EVE body replacer
EVE armour replacer

UI

Skill perk description
Darnified

Factions, dungeons and quests

Better dungeons

Creatures

Alive Waters
Mifune-San
Fenrir the wolf

Gear and loot

Immersive weapons
Hot coffee and tea
Bone arrows
Wyverex’s runes
Golden arrow archer
DM ranger armor

Sounds and vista

Sounds of Cyrodiil
Natural habitat
Natural vegetation
Natural weather

Gameplay

Double tap dodge
Enhanced economy
Gather ye rosebuds
KeyChain
Oblivion XP
Auto update levelled items and spells
Real hunger
Shadow Ranger redux
Druid mod
Ayleid Arcane Archer
Call mount
Camping
Alternative beginnings