I bought TES Oblivion in 2007 right when I got my Xbox 360. No add-ons. I played the game regularly for 3 years. I recently stopped playing it completely a few months ago from being so completely and utterly bored with it that looking at it made me physically ill. Note, I never had any add-ons or expansions. I always wanted one thing though. A castle. I never could get that in vanilla oblivion though... Recently, I bought Oblivion and it's additions for my laptop. Oh boy, it's a whole new experience...

Bottom line: my laptop svcks. It doesn't svck... It's just svcks for gaming. It's not meant for it. It cost me about 400$, your standard laptop. I play other games, World of Warcraft for example, on this laptop and it runs at a steady 20-30 fps on medium graphics. Most of you know WoW's graphics are much worse than Oblivion's. When I got Oblivion at first, I expected it to run very poorly, and I had it on Very low settings for a few days. Guess what, it runs, on this crappy laptop, on ultra-high settings with no problem at all, and this is with a few mods including "Natural Environments".

It's amazing. With the add-ons like Natural Environments, darker dungeons, etc. and the official plug-ins and the Shivering Isles expansion pack, it's a whole new experience. And, after 3 long years... I finally have got a Castle. Battlethorn is truly amazing. I never got Oblivion for my laptop because I thought it wouldn't run well... But, again, I'm still amazed it runs on ultra-high settings on my 400$ wal-mart laptop. So yeah, I am incredibly happy. Through all the plug-ins, mods and Shivering Isles, I'm going to be busy for a very long time... It's like a new game.

WooHoo! I'm glad that you are enjoying the game again, and that it is playing well on your modest laptop. That's amazing!

At least you can enjoy at all on your laptop. My mac doesn't have windows on it so I can't play it. I don't want to have to get windows for it so I have to stay in the mediocre world (by comparison) of the PS3.

Not to criticize, but you can get Battlehorn for the Xbox.

I would have, but I never figured out how to connect to XBOX live and I've never bought a Hard Drive so I couldn't

Ah yes, there's the rub. A friend of mine bought Oblivion GOTY for the 360 but hasn't got a hard drive, and as he doesn't want to spend $100 on one, he can't install the expansion(s), which made him abandon the game. That's really sad.

I was thinking about getting Morrowind for my laptop. It may be a while but I've never seen the game so the idea is percolating. TES is a great game; so glad you're enjoying it again.

I have a PS3 and a laptop that will not run oblivion (I've tried).
I have the knights of the nine and Shivering isles, but none of the official plug-ins, or mods obviously.

The only plug-in I would like to play is the mage tower near Bruma one, but when I get my PC I can this and more.

Yes, Wizard's Tower is a very much worthwhile DLC. I say get it, it's great for spellmaking and enchanting without having to join the Mages' Guild. Plus, a laboratory buffing your Alchemy skill, your own indoor garden and portals to all Mages' Guild halls! How badass isn't that?

Kind of a similar story here except I stopped playing it for 3 years and played it obsessively for a couple months. My computer cost 2 grand but I screwed it up(at least I thought) my download a bit too much advlt video material and had to reinstall my OS and everything. So I thought it wouldn't run it for all that time then like two months ago I just run system requirements lab and found out it would work fun. And the rest is history... but ya I love it now with mods that completely change the game.

That and Horse Armor is the only dlc I don't have. I'm thinking about getting it for my mage character.

Don't get horse armor haha. Mage's Tower is really nice.

I recommend mage's tower as I had it when I had oblivion on Xbox.
All other buildings make their specific factions feel far greater.