[quote]ha you got me interested ! :)
Um...
Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul 1.31
Qarl's Texture Pack 3
Darnified UI
...and a bunch of other texture, quest and location mods that I'll have to go back and check out to make sure. My Oblivion directory current stands at something like 14GB (the stock install is 6GB or so...) so I've got a lot of mods all crowbarred in together.
But those three up there are the essential essentials. Darnified fixes all of the horrible console UI bits. OOO fixes the 'everything levels up with you' flaw, and QTP fixes the blurry repeating textures.
Yeah, I loaded OOO and a few others and that really did make the game playable...but I thought...what I am playing here? Basically a game engine and some textures that some lazy-a$$ed, profit driven corporation crapped together, and then the community had to bust their collective a$$es to make it decent. Not to mention the hassle of ensuring compatibility of all the mods and updating everything, etc. All those idiot pay-for-download contents annoyed me as well.
So I refused to play it further on the principal of it all. Screw Bethesda.
P.S. I always thought Bethesda should have given Oscuro public thanks, paid him for the code, then released an 'Oblivion For Sentient Beings' edition featuring his mods and the best of the rest. Then I would have played it.