TES games, vanilla or modded?

Post » Thu Oct 16, 2014 3:44 am

How do you enjoy these games the most, vanilla or modded?

I know it might be a bit hard to choose, since some players alternate between console, vanilla and heavily modded, but please try to choose the closest one to what you enjoyed and played the most.

Here's some quick, loose examples of how I interpret these options, if needed. You can ignore these, and make your decisions based on your own thoughts, and that is encouraged.

Vanilla, unofficial patches

This means pure vanilla game, no mods at all. Unofficial patches and fixes are okay.

Vanilla, graphical mods, added content

Completely vanilla gameplay, with only graphical changes and added content, which means new items, player homes, dungeons, locations, quests or NPCs etc. as long as the game feels like vanilla.

Few mods with minor changes to the gameplay

Minor mods, such as improved UI, balanced existing gameplay elements etc. still being closest to the original game.

Modded, with many/major changes to the gameplay

Might be a one smaller overhaul mod, or a bigger number of game changing mods. Mods like Frostfall, mods that make changes to the combat, mods that affect level scaling etc.

Heavily modded, complete overhaul mod, huge mod list etc.

For me, this would include even a one huge overhaul mod, like Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul, or Requiem. Many major changes made to the original game, so that it's starting to feel like a different game. A hardcoe real life simulator, or changes to make it more like a oldschool RPG, or a JRPG where every NPC is an anime character etc.

Extremely modded

This is for those who have downloaded most mods from the Nexus, ranging from nudity and six mods, to nvde minecraft monsters, to every NPC being a nvde Chuck Norris. Basically a Skyrim modded to being not Skyrim at all, with huge load of gameplay changes and all kinds of sick [censored]. Or no sick [censored] at all, but still being almost completely different game.

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Post » Wed Oct 15, 2014 11:28 pm

That's far from what's considered vanilla. :tongue:

Anyway, I play Morrowind with MGE (graphics enchancer, kinda like ENB for those who only know Skyrim), and handpicked (and mostly handplaced) graphic replacers with Robert's Bodies, and sounds are replaced by Oblivion and Skyrim ones. Other stuff is only unofficial plugins and code patch, and rarely I add a few more mods that add shops etc.

In Oblivion I use a couple of graphic replacers as well, most of them are for weapons, those are all replaced by anything Insanity made, and few tileset retextures, along with Darnified UI and Oblivion Character Overhaul, and Robert's Bodies for both males and females.

Skyrim's was the most modded one of all (don't have it installed atm). I don't use as much graphic replacers (as Skyrim alone is already a fairly beefy thing for this laptop to handle as it is), but there are few exceptions, like werewolf replacer. Other mods include heavy gameplay modifiers, like SkyRe, Realistic Needs and Diseases, Frostfall, Deadly Dragons and Creatures, Trade and Barter, Alternative Start, etc. There's also a bunch of mods that add extra weapons, most of them being Insanity's. And there are several edits I did on my own, and a whole bunch of house mods I made for my various characters.

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