Oh yes this feels so good! I've just trimmed down my mod list from over 150 to 100. I'm now going through and anolyzing those 100 with intentions of getting my list down to 50 or less.

I got rid of OOO overhaul and put in TIE which is smaller yet somehow way more deadly (I've tried this overhaul before and it thoroughly thrashed my behind). I'm trimming down my graphics list to just a touch of improvements here and there.

I think I'm doing this in honor of my new character Dar. Who managed to sputter when she popped into the world, "Well my my isn't this place full of busy." I took the hint!

Pfft, I play on the Ps3, can't get more Vanilla than that ;3

*Looks at thread title, looks at 360 version of Oblivion, looks back to thread title*

*Raises eyebrow*

*Reads Berret's post*

Yeah, you really can't. You PS3 gamers can't even get the DLCs like Frostcrag Spire or Fighter's Stronghold can you.

Okay okay and I was SO proud of this achievement darn it!!! I concede. It's not as Vanilla as 360 or PS3. Does it help I only have 2 of the DLC's?? LOL

Seriously, I have an xbox who I play the other title on so I do get the no mod thing

Only the Isles and Knights of the nine

Been playing that way for...A lot!

Hah, well, Freewitch, cutting down on mods must have been hard! I should know, my Morrowind is modded to no end with self made mods, and a few other ones, usually I go, "Oh, I'm going to delete..." Nope end up downloading like 20 more mods and making several more.

My last game was as vanilla as it is possible for me to get. I used two mods in that game: the Chase Camera Mod and an uncapper mod. I play in 3rd person and Oblivion's 3rd person camera makes me physically ill. I literally cannot play the game without this mod. The uncapper mod was in there because I like my characters to be as unique as possible and letting a few selected skills and attributes rise above 100 lets me avoid any semblance of a jack-of-all-trades character while still having the satisfaction of seeing my character advance in levels.

I've been paring my games down this way for awhile. The game before that included those two mods, the Less Fog Underwater mod, Enhanced Vegetation, Realistic Leveling and Progress, two clothing mods and a race mod. At the time I thought that was as lean and stripped down as I could possibly get.

I doubt I will ever again put myself through what I went my through with my last game though. It was frankly a painful experience. I'm glad I did it, though. It was interesting to see the game approximately the way I saw it in March, 2006 and the way console players still see it today but I'm certain I couldn't do it again.

Uh oh Pseron, I think you got me beat. I don't think I could go that light. There's just some things I HAVE to have. Get Wet, Camp Site, etc etc. Hopefully though I can toss enough out to get to a very bare minimum that *I* can live with. It's kind of exciting ... and a bit scary LOL

I've been using a lot of mods but my latest playthroughs were mostly vanilla, I've been using some minor mods like Natural faces, Horse commands but nothing that would change the game too much. I actually liked it more as I did before with a bunch of mods.

I know the feeling exactly. It was scary for me too. I honestly didn't know if I could do it. The word 'trepidation' comes to mind.

This probably sounds like an exaggeration. But the thing is, I've been modding since the early days of Morrowind. I live with a a veteran Morrowind modder too. So modding has always been important to me. I used to say that I didn't play Morrowind, I played mods.

Some of my Morrowind games ran over 500 mods, mashed and merged together, constantly being changed to suit different games and characters. In truth, I spent way, way too much time doing this. The amount of time I spent modding Morrowind was unhealthy. I had no life during that period. I was lost to modding for a good year and a half. I told myself that being addicted to modding was better than being addicted to drugs. Which it was, I suppose, but it was still an addiction.

This is probably one of the reasons why I have cut back on mods in recent years. While I'm much more mentally healthy these days (at least I think I am *nervous laughter*), in the back of my mind I always worry that the old modding "demon" will consume my life.

So I feel as though I know exactly what you mean when you talk about 'freeing' yourself. I do feel freer now than I did when I was making and downloading hundreds of mods. While I miss the excitement of finding some new gem or making something myself that I think is really cool, I also enjoy the spontaneity of just jumping into a game without spending days or weeks preparing a mod list beforehand. I am discovering more and more the power of imagination to do many of the things I used to rely on mods to do for me. My pal Renee Gade has been my guide in showing me how to do this.