prolly one of the most nostalgic games in my memory box (brain). i remember going to a LAN center lock in and they bought it a few days back when it first released and popped that b***h in the Xbox 360 which had come out like maybe half a year earlier and my brain imploded from the graphics and details (at the time). Shit looked like absolute real life, I felt like there was nothing that could be advanced further in the realm of video game graphics and we were experiencing the apex of computer/video games. Looking at the game now is like looking at an old bag of milk. thank for coming to my TED talk
Be seein' you!
why do you think so
its not even the best elder scrolls game, but whatever, glad you enjoy it
Golly, you're the best! I'm going to follow you and flee from mud crabs and get killed by a bandit and reappear later somewhere you least expect it like the top of a tower in the planes of Oblivion!
prolly one of the most nostalgic games in my memory box (brain). i remember going to a LAN center lock in and they bought it a few days back when it first released and popped that b***h in the Xbox 360 which had come out like maybe half a year earlier and my brain imploded from the graphics and details (at the time). Shit looked like absolute real life, I felt like there was nothing that could be advanced further in the realm of video game graphics and we were experiencing the apex of computer/video games. Looking at the game now is like looking at an old bag of milk. thank for coming to my TED talk
It's super nostalgic for me too, before I bought a 360 for myself I'd play my dad's copy on his ps3 before he got home from work. I remember the rule was, I was allowed to play it as long as I wanted til he got home, then I needed to GTFO. I heard his truck pull up when I was in a loading screen and the frickin game froze, I went into a panic but he was chill when I explained. Always thought it was precious how he'd always make himself in his games, his first character was an Imperial and he was upset he couldn't have a beard, then he made a Dunmer version of himself. One I think was named King Richard, after himself of course. He got himself permabanned from the mage's guild before a main quest where he needed to go through the Arcane University and it blew his mind when I bailed him out with the paint brush trick to get over the gate. Miss my old man.
I can't even imagine how much of a dull nostalgiagay you would have be to pick oblivion as your favorite game of all time. You probably think star wars is the best movie series of all time too or some shit. Grow up moron.
when I was 17 i finished school and had a gap year while I worked a labouring job. I remember on rainy days we couldn't work so I'd spend most of the time in vanilla Oblivion on the 360. thinking back, it was a heavily autistic thing to do as there really aren't that many activities in game if you're not questing however I remember waking up, going for a walk to the chapel, talking with NPCs, eating food on schedule, reading in-game books, etc.
would do stuff like this too
would usually travel along roads and stop at all of the taverns along the way to my various houses and then rp (by myself) when I got there for a bit
would do stuff like this too
would usually travel along roads and stop at all of the taverns along the way to my various houses and then rp (by myself) when I got there for a bit
This is one of the reasons I adored Knights of the Nine so much. It literally begins by starting you as a 'Pilgrim' in the Knights of the Nine faction and you must travel around the wilderness of Tamriel and pray at each of the 9 wayshrines of the Nine Divines.
It involved no combat. It involved no action. It literally just involved you walking around Tamriel and praying at altars.
I, of course, travelled by foot the entire way to each shrine and prayed. It was so humbling and so nice to be rewarded for dumb in-game RP stuff I had been doing the entire time up until now.
The scaling is absolutely easy to workaround if you simply pick major skills you don't use. You have total control over your levelling that way.
RNG diceroll combat is totally unavoidable in Morrowind without mods (I assume it is avoidable with mods, but maybe not)
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Anonymous
>choose your class skills as skills you don't intend on using
This is exactly why it's shit design. If you level up as intended even with good skills, the game breaks. The Oblivion level manager minigame is by far one of the dullest rpg systems I've ever played.
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Anonymous
>choose your class skills as skills you don't intend on using
It's not that big of a deal and gives you total control over when and how you level.
You still level up regular skills just by using them anyway. Whenever you want to level just train a few skills or practice some of your majors and sleep.
It works absolutely fine. If you find managing your character tedious RPGs probably aren't really your speed anyway, zoomy
2 years ago
Anonymous
>RNG diceroll combat is totally unavoidable in Morrowind without mods >unavoidable
have you tried playing the game for longer than 5 minutes
2 years ago
Anonymous
>The scaling is absolutely easy to workaround if you simply pick major skills you don't use.
wow that totally makes up for shit quest rewards and extremely boring loot tables, and totally makes the already easy combat somehow better by making it even easier. you are a fricking idiot. obliviongays have zero fricking clue what good design is, either that or they just prefer eating shit.
>choose your class skills as skills you don't intend on using
It's not that big of a deal and gives you total control over when and how you level.
You still level up regular skills just by using them anyway. Whenever you want to level just train a few skills or practice some of your majors and sleep.
It works absolutely fine. If you find managing your character tedious RPGs probably aren't really your speed anyway, zoomy
>obliviongay telling others that rpgs are too complex for others >literally 5 minutes ago was complaining about dice rolls
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA god fricking damn you morons are fricking hilarious
2 years ago
Anonymous
TLDR
2 years ago
Anonymous
>also complains about a 3 sentence post being too long
yeah, rpgs are too complex for you, obliviongay. stick with your shit dumbed down console trash.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>literally 5 minutes ago was complaining about dice rolls
What's complicated about diceroll combat, lol? It's just stupid and moronic. There is nothing realistic or compelling about it and it is not challenging whatsoever.
It's literally just taking control away from the player and making every swing some moronic gamble outwith your control.
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Anonymous
>There is nothing realistic or compelling about it and it is not challenging whatsoever
huh... just like oblivion. except oblivion wastes your time with overly bloated enemy HP and is thus 100 times worse. also all the content outside of combat is way fricking worse than morrowind's as well, except the stealth gameplay which even then is also crippled by the scaling.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>It's literally just taking control away from the player and making every swing some moronic gamble outwith your control
so every rpg ever
2 years ago
Anonymous
>making every swing some moronic gamble outwith your control.
Way to oust yourself as a child who doesn't understand how an RPG actually works
2 years ago
Anonymous
RPGs are a terrible genre whose tenets existed because of technological limitations and have no place in modern game design
I was annoyed there wasn't anything after the main questline, even a just a couple of casual optional quests or different receptions by the Lords in the various cities
like Ocato's last line to you is that the two of you will have to work together to keep the Empire together, and then that's it
I would've liked at least some in-game difference since you're told you're assisting the Chancellor reign in the place of the Emperor
would do stuff like this too
would usually travel along roads and stop at all of the taverns along the way to my various houses and then rp (by myself) when I got there for a bit
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This is one of the reasons I adored Knights of the Nine so much. It literally begins by starting you as a 'Pilgrim' in the Knights of the Nine faction and you must travel around the wilderness of Tamriel and pray at each of the 9 wayshrines of the Nine Divines.
It involved no combat. It involved no action. It literally just involved you walking around Tamriel and praying at altars.
I, of course, travelled by foot the entire way to each shrine and prayed. It was so humbling and so nice to be rewarded for dumb in-game RP stuff I had been doing the entire time up until now.
Solo role playing in a game is one of my favorite things about oblivion. NOTHING gets me as immersed as this game. Morrowind is old school jank, and Skyrim is very arcady. But oblivion is in the perfect spot. It's also just a beautiful game with beautiful music and a world I'd like to live in.
when I was 17 i finished school and had a gap year while I worked a labouring job. I remember on rainy days we couldn't work so I'd spend most of the time in vanilla Oblivion on the 360. thinking back, it was a heavily autistic thing to do as there really aren't that many activities in game if you're not questing however I remember waking up, going for a walk to the chapel, talking with NPCs, eating food on schedule, reading in-game books, etc.
it was comfy
You guys might like Kingdom Come: Deliverance
For some reason it really gave me big Oblivion vibes without the fantasy element. As for roleplaying, some quests massively involve, all the way down to following sleep and eating schedules. The monk infiltration quest in particular stands out. I spent like 8 hours just save-scumming and seeing all the different outcomes in that one quest.
The combat is shit, but the combat in Oblivion is shit too, so you should feel at home.
I tried to but the tutorial is major ass and the game is eurojank. I don't know what it is about European games always having convoluted systems and clunky combat with too many unnecessary mechanics but kingdom come just didn't do it for me. The insane amount of cutscenes and the fact that the main character is so boring just failed to capture me.
Oblivion combat is simple, it's like CS:source combat, it does all that it needs and is fun.
That's fair enough. You literally start as a giant moron and have to spend hours getting him to king status. The tutorial is way too long as well. I love medieval shit though so I stuck through it and it's one of my favorite games. The character and story gets really good about 1/5 of the way through.
It is janky af, but idk when you played it. I played it after all the DLCs came out and they stopped updating, and it was MASSIVELY less buggy than release from what I can tell.
>Livin' In Oblivion
Anyone else remember the old blog by that name about a guy trying to role play as an NPC, avoiding adventure and making a living as an alchemist? It was pretty comfy, shame it just petered out and stopped. He did another one for Skyrim which was shorter but actually had a conclusion
Yes, OP here. That's why I used the phrase as the subject for this thread.
Chris Livingstone, PC Gamer. It's still up if you're interested in rereading.
He did a Skyrim one too, but it's way easier to live in Skyrim as an NPC so it wasn't as legendary.
Same. I have a lot of family born in Edinburgh but I'm in Canada so all I've known are ugly Midwest suburbs. Meanwhile my cousin doesn't even need a car license to get around because everything is in walking distance. I'm really jealous.
Lol, I'm from Glasgow. I'll happily swap identities with you if you want and go live in Canada. You can come here. The novelty will wear off very quickly and you'll be stuck in a boring little island full of dysgenic mutants with Yugoslavian tier regional tribalisms.
Hah I mean it's Canada, you hear of /misc/ b***hing that only small towns have white people but they're all small minded cromagnon Neanderthals from Ukraine who don't care to screw someone over in a small town where everybody knows each other.
Weather is cold as shit, literally the same climate as Siberia. And then wait for the only 2 weeks of decent weather.
Economy is shit, always 25% lower than America despite us being no different. And we have a brain drain.
But we could not talk shit about where we live for hours.
>only small towns have white people
Europe isn't any different. The white people are just worse in every single measurable way and far nastier than any in North America. They're also, generally, incredibly stupid to the point you would swear they have some form of mental moronation.
its so shit, I remember bethesda via fo3 and tried it after hearing 3 called oblivion with guns and I was stunned this shitshow was the same studio at the time.
Reminder that the Great War could have been averted had Jauffre just let you take the Amulet with you to Kvatch >Jauffre doesn't lose the Amulet to the Mythic Dawn >Martin is not delayed getting appointed to the throne >The Dragonfires are able to be lit before the barriers are fully weakened >Martin does not sacrifice himself >The Septim dynasty remains intact >The provinces do not become unstable >The Thalmor do not rise to power
Thanks Jauffre
I think at the time it was definitely way less risky to keep at Amulet at the priory instead of potentially hand delivering it to fricking Dagon at the site of the largest incursion from Oblivion in recorded history
It's just comfy. I know that Skyrim more diversity in environments but when you're playing Skyrim and exploring everything it's miserable seeing all the snow, swamps and gloomy forest biomes. Cyrodil just feels nice.
I also like how it gives off the shrek vibe of fantasy where it's a bit silly.
Weapons degrading was interesting, having to spam repair hammers and having spells like disintegrate was cool. I liked all the guild quests better than Skyrim.
The ayelid ruins were fricking gay. I can't wait for Skyblivion to be released in 2055
Replaying it recently made this realization hit me like a fricking truck, but thinking back on my first playthroughs of it I spent so much time just riding from Leyawiin to Bruma/Anvil to Cheydihal, or doing dumb shit like collecting every key I could find to dump in my house into a big pile or drawing every alchemy ingredient onto real note cards with their effects. I just wanted to live like an NPC.
Over the years of killed a lot of my criticism of this game through replays. >if you join the thieves guild you shouldn't be able to join mages guild
This one criticism I used to parrot is moronic because if you were a thief it would make sense to learn magic and have a wider breadth of experience and network of people and if you were a mage what would it hurt to join the thieves guild, gain more contacts, have a knowledge of dubious mages and all it cost you is a shitty mages stuff you can make in spades. The fighters guild is the one that should hard bar you considering they won't let you join if you have infamy unless you have a 100 fame, a fighter is less likely to deal with mages or thieves than a mage will with a thief because mages often aren't concerned with the moral validity of the acquisition of materials and thieves need to have some kind of logical way that's not connected to a moral system when they come across cursed items or need magic I fo. It's the one criticism I look at now from rpg gays that instantly outs them as people that don't play rpgs
To be honest I don't see why the Fighter's Guild would have a huge problem with convicted criminals and past ne'erdowells joining their ranks as long as they know how to swing a sword.
A lot of their members are former soliders and mercenaries so they've all likely gotten into a bit of trouble with the law from time to time.
Never heard that take before. It's really bizarre.
Especially because my absolute most favourite thing to do was to be in the dark brotherhood while joining the mages guild. So while I was a college student with debt trying to make ends meet I'd take hit jobs to pay for my education. And then once my character was in the university he would also be this bad ass spy/agent/assassin and I would pretend it was an anime.
I still think it'd be a great standalone game tbh.
>gay Nord Vikings any day
They got surprisingly old surprisingly quickly. I can kinda see why Scandinavian women hate their own men so much and are so desperate for brown and black dick by this point.
I legit still have Viking fatigue due to Skyrim and I completely NOPED out of shows like Vikings and games like AC: Valhalla.
oblivion was my first elder scrolls game, I played it on the 360 when I was young and I loved the game but funny enough I never replayed it since it came out on the 360 till this year.
It was actually pretty good and I sunk a good bit of hours into despite already playing skyrim 50 times. Only thing that really sucked about it was the lack of modding since I like to play as hot women like I do in skyrim
>Only thing that really sucked about it was the lack of modding since I like to play as hot women like I do in skyrim
I'm an incel who hates women so I don't care for hot women in my games.
The sandbox fundamentals for this game should be studied in and out. I would say that Beth games would be even stronger if they went more of an immersive sim route instead of a statistical rpg route
I always did wish there was a VN element where I could settle down and marry a towns girl, but that would mean a better artyle. I wish oblivion had a generic anime art style honestly. Any of the shovel wear would have been fine. And from there introduce more life some stuff.
I wish enjoy games like I was a kid again, I had a long playthru where I was an orc beggar who just stole food in the imperial city market and hid them in a hollowed out stump, I probably had over 50 hours of this and never made past level 10
LMFAO me too. I never cared about being the chosen godlike hero, I fricking loved being a broke ass begger thief or back alley murderer. Oblivion is the only game you can really roleplay as anything
I feel like it probably wouldn't hold up well. The quests are amazing, they're the best of any Elder Scrolls game imo. Skyrim really fell flat with the quests in comparison.
The game still has the best soundtrack ever in an open world game though. Suck my 6.5 inch wiener if you disagree.
>Huge amounts of mods, including massive overhauls of every single system and facet of the game >Nobody is able to make the character models not look like shit
What the frick, is it in engine limitation or do people just like the potato heads? I know there are some mods that """fix""" it but they're barely a bandaid.
Why would people play modded Oblivion instead of modded Skyrim? Genuine question. I like vanilla Oblivion more than vanilla Skyrim, but never got into modding them. Seems like there would be a lot more to do with mods in Skyrim is why I ask.
The frick you on about? https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/44676
This works just fine.
Why would people play modded Oblivion instead of modded Skyrim? Genuine question. I like vanilla Oblivion more than vanilla Skyrim, but never got into modding them. Seems like there would be a lot more to do with mods in Skyrim is why I ask.
Modding oblivion is such cancerous ass that the effort will never make the outcome worth it. Vanilla is the only way to play. Because all the mods rely on the physical disk version and for some FRICKING Black person reason steam uses a different version that makes mods not compatible.
That shit you posted "works", but still looks like crap. Additionally, it breaks easily if you have any mods that touch, change, or add any NPCs period.
I've heard others say the same.
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Golly, you're the best! I'm going to follow you and flee from mud crabs and get killed by a bandit and reappear later somewhere you least expect it like the top of a tower in the planes of Oblivion!
prolly one of the most nostalgic games in my memory box (brain). i remember going to a LAN center lock in and they bought it a few days back when it first released and popped that b***h in the Xbox 360 which had come out like maybe half a year earlier and my brain imploded from the graphics and details (at the time). Shit looked like absolute real life, I felt like there was nothing that could be advanced further in the realm of video game graphics and we were experiencing the apex of computer/video games. Looking at the game now is like looking at an old bag of milk. thank for coming to my TED talk
It's super nostalgic for me too, before I bought a 360 for myself I'd play my dad's copy on his ps3 before he got home from work. I remember the rule was, I was allowed to play it as long as I wanted til he got home, then I needed to GTFO. I heard his truck pull up when I was in a loading screen and the frickin game froze, I went into a panic but he was chill when I explained. Always thought it was precious how he'd always make himself in his games, his first character was an Imperial and he was upset he couldn't have a beard, then he made a Dunmer version of himself. One I think was named King Richard, after himself of course. He got himself permabanned from the mage's guild before a main quest where he needed to go through the Arcane University and it blew his mind when I bailed him out with the paint brush trick to get over the gate. Miss my old man.
why do you think so
its not even the best elder scrolls game, but whatever, glad you enjoy it
Nothing I'd like to talk about
I can't even imagine how much of a dull nostalgiagay you would have be to pick oblivion as your favorite game of all time. You probably think star wars is the best movie series of all time too or some shit. Grow up moron.
what is YOUR favourite game nignog
Are you sure?
when I was 17 i finished school and had a gap year while I worked a labouring job. I remember on rainy days we couldn't work so I'd spend most of the time in vanilla Oblivion on the 360. thinking back, it was a heavily autistic thing to do as there really aren't that many activities in game if you're not questing however I remember waking up, going for a walk to the chapel, talking with NPCs, eating food on schedule, reading in-game books, etc.
it was comfy
would do stuff like this too
would usually travel along roads and stop at all of the taverns along the way to my various houses and then rp (by myself) when I got there for a bit
This is one of the reasons I adored Knights of the Nine so much. It literally begins by starting you as a 'Pilgrim' in the Knights of the Nine faction and you must travel around the wilderness of Tamriel and pray at each of the 9 wayshrines of the Nine Divines.
It involved no combat. It involved no action. It literally just involved you walking around Tamriel and praying at altars.
I, of course, travelled by foot the entire way to each shrine and prayed. It was so humbling and so nice to be rewarded for dumb in-game RP stuff I had been doing the entire time up until now.
you should play morrowind
>rng diceroll combat
Yeah, no thanks...
oblivion's scaling is a hundred times worse
The scaling is absolutely easy to workaround if you simply pick major skills you don't use. You have total control over your levelling that way.
RNG diceroll combat is totally unavoidable in Morrowind without mods (I assume it is avoidable with mods, but maybe not)
>choose your class skills as skills you don't intend on using
This is exactly why it's shit design. If you level up as intended even with good skills, the game breaks. The Oblivion level manager minigame is by far one of the dullest rpg systems I've ever played.
>choose your class skills as skills you don't intend on using
It's not that big of a deal and gives you total control over when and how you level.
You still level up regular skills just by using them anyway. Whenever you want to level just train a few skills or practice some of your majors and sleep.
It works absolutely fine. If you find managing your character tedious RPGs probably aren't really your speed anyway, zoomy
>RNG diceroll combat is totally unavoidable in Morrowind without mods
>unavoidable
have you tried playing the game for longer than 5 minutes
>The scaling is absolutely easy to workaround if you simply pick major skills you don't use.
wow that totally makes up for shit quest rewards and extremely boring loot tables, and totally makes the already easy combat somehow better by making it even easier. you are a fricking idiot. obliviongays have zero fricking clue what good design is, either that or they just prefer eating shit.
>obliviongay telling others that rpgs are too complex for others
>literally 5 minutes ago was complaining about dice rolls
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA god fricking damn you morons are fricking hilarious
TLDR
>also complains about a 3 sentence post being too long
yeah, rpgs are too complex for you, obliviongay. stick with your shit dumbed down console trash.
>literally 5 minutes ago was complaining about dice rolls
What's complicated about diceroll combat, lol? It's just stupid and moronic. There is nothing realistic or compelling about it and it is not challenging whatsoever.
It's literally just taking control away from the player and making every swing some moronic gamble outwith your control.
>There is nothing realistic or compelling about it and it is not challenging whatsoever
huh... just like oblivion. except oblivion wastes your time with overly bloated enemy HP and is thus 100 times worse. also all the content outside of combat is way fricking worse than morrowind's as well, except the stealth gameplay which even then is also crippled by the scaling.
>It's literally just taking control away from the player and making every swing some moronic gamble outwith your control
so every rpg ever
>making every swing some moronic gamble outwith your control.
Way to oust yourself as a child who doesn't understand how an RPG actually works
RPGs are a terrible genre whose tenets existed because of technological limitations and have no place in modern game design
that's some incredible cope
>RPGs are bad
great, now exit the thread
i would if it didnt look 20 years old
looks better than fricking oblivion
I was annoyed there wasn't anything after the main questline, even a just a couple of casual optional quests or different receptions by the Lords in the various cities
like Ocato's last line to you is that the two of you will have to work together to keep the Empire together, and then that's it
I would've liked at least some in-game difference since you're told you're assisting the Chancellor reign in the place of the Emperor
You were actually supposed to be able to join the Elder Council and serve as Chancellor, apparently.
Shame they cut it...
i mean considering what we got im not mad but how great it would've been to get this and the skooma breaking bad questline setup damn
Solo role playing in a game is one of my favorite things about oblivion. NOTHING gets me as immersed as this game. Morrowind is old school jank, and Skyrim is very arcady. But oblivion is in the perfect spot. It's also just a beautiful game with beautiful music and a world I'd like to live in.
You guys might like Kingdom Come: Deliverance
For some reason it really gave me big Oblivion vibes without the fantasy element. As for roleplaying, some quests massively involve, all the way down to following sleep and eating schedules. The monk infiltration quest in particular stands out. I spent like 8 hours just save-scumming and seeing all the different outcomes in that one quest.
The combat is shit, but the combat in Oblivion is shit too, so you should feel at home.
I tried to but the tutorial is major ass and the game is eurojank. I don't know what it is about European games always having convoluted systems and clunky combat with too many unnecessary mechanics but kingdom come just didn't do it for me. The insane amount of cutscenes and the fact that the main character is so boring just failed to capture me.
Oblivion combat is simple, it's like CS:source combat, it does all that it needs and is fun.
That's fair enough. You literally start as a giant moron and have to spend hours getting him to king status. The tutorial is way too long as well. I love medieval shit though so I stuck through it and it's one of my favorite games. The character and story gets really good about 1/5 of the way through.
It is janky af, but idk when you played it. I played it after all the DLCs came out and they stopped updating, and it was MASSIVELY less buggy than release from what I can tell.
>Livin' In Oblivion
Anyone else remember the old blog by that name about a guy trying to role play as an NPC, avoiding adventure and making a living as an alchemist? It was pretty comfy, shame it just petered out and stopped. He did another one for Skyrim which was shorter but actually had a conclusion
Yes, OP here. That's why I used the phrase as the subject for this thread.
Chris Livingstone, PC Gamer. It's still up if you're interested in rereading.
He did a Skyrim one too, but it's way easier to live in Skyrim as an NPC so it wasn't as legendary.
I wish I lived someplace with brick and stone buildings I wish my grandparents never came to greater mexico
Same. I have a lot of family born in Edinburgh but I'm in Canada so all I've known are ugly Midwest suburbs. Meanwhile my cousin doesn't even need a car license to get around because everything is in walking distance. I'm really jealous.
Lol, I'm from Glasgow. I'll happily swap identities with you if you want and go live in Canada. You can come here. The novelty will wear off very quickly and you'll be stuck in a boring little island full of dysgenic mutants with Yugoslavian tier regional tribalisms.
Hah I mean it's Canada, you hear of /misc/ b***hing that only small towns have white people but they're all small minded cromagnon Neanderthals from Ukraine who don't care to screw someone over in a small town where everybody knows each other.
Weather is cold as shit, literally the same climate as Siberia. And then wait for the only 2 weeks of decent weather.
Economy is shit, always 25% lower than America despite us being no different. And we have a brain drain.
But we could not talk shit about where we live for hours.
>only small towns have white people
Europe isn't any different. The white people are just worse in every single measurable way and far nastier than any in North America. They're also, generally, incredibly stupid to the point you would swear they have some form of mental moronation.
move to africa then
I don't need to, half of Africa is already here.
its so shit, I remember bethesda via fo3 and tried it after hearing 3 called oblivion with guns and I was stunned this shitshow was the same studio at the time.
Reminder that the Great War could have been averted had Jauffre just let you take the Amulet with you to Kvatch
>Jauffre doesn't lose the Amulet to the Mythic Dawn
>Martin is not delayed getting appointed to the throne
>The Dragonfires are able to be lit before the barriers are fully weakened
>Martin does not sacrifice himself
>The Septim dynasty remains intact
>The provinces do not become unstable
>The Thalmor do not rise to power
Thanks Jauffre
Jauffre had autism. Also he liked little boys.
but there are no children in Oblivion
That's because Jauffre killed and raped them all
>but there are no children in Oblivion
Jauffre... he...
I think at the time it was definitely way less risky to keep at Amulet at the priory instead of potentially hand delivering it to fricking Dagon at the site of the largest incursion from Oblivion in recorded history
threads over, morrowindgays came to sperg like they always do
It's just comfy. I know that Skyrim more diversity in environments but when you're playing Skyrim and exploring everything it's miserable seeing all the snow, swamps and gloomy forest biomes. Cyrodil just feels nice.
I also like how it gives off the shrek vibe of fantasy where it's a bit silly.
Weapons degrading was interesting, having to spam repair hammers and having spells like disintegrate was cool. I liked all the guild quests better than Skyrim.
The ayelid ruins were fricking gay. I can't wait for Skyblivion to be released in 2055
I feel an immense paradox of how just wandering around the world in Oblivion feels amazing but actually exploring dungeons or gates sucked.
Replaying it recently made this realization hit me like a fricking truck, but thinking back on my first playthroughs of it I spent so much time just riding from Leyawiin to Bruma/Anvil to Cheydihal, or doing dumb shit like collecting every key I could find to dump in my house into a big pile or drawing every alchemy ingredient onto real note cards with their effects. I just wanted to live like an NPC.
how do I get this to work on my steam deck? my character walks to slowly everywhere.
I just wanna be comfy bros.
Over the years of killed a lot of my criticism of this game through replays.
>if you join the thieves guild you shouldn't be able to join mages guild
This one criticism I used to parrot is moronic because if you were a thief it would make sense to learn magic and have a wider breadth of experience and network of people and if you were a mage what would it hurt to join the thieves guild, gain more contacts, have a knowledge of dubious mages and all it cost you is a shitty mages stuff you can make in spades. The fighters guild is the one that should hard bar you considering they won't let you join if you have infamy unless you have a 100 fame, a fighter is less likely to deal with mages or thieves than a mage will with a thief because mages often aren't concerned with the moral validity of the acquisition of materials and thieves need to have some kind of logical way that's not connected to a moral system when they come across cursed items or need magic I fo. It's the one criticism I look at now from rpg gays that instantly outs them as people that don't play rpgs
To be honest I don't see why the Fighter's Guild would have a huge problem with convicted criminals and past ne'erdowells joining their ranks as long as they know how to swing a sword.
A lot of their members are former soliders and mercenaries so they've all likely gotten into a bit of trouble with the law from time to time.
Never heard that take before. It's really bizarre.
Especially because my absolute most favourite thing to do was to be in the dark brotherhood while joining the mages guild. So while I was a college student with debt trying to make ends meet I'd take hit jobs to pay for my education. And then once my character was in the university he would also be this bad ass spy/agent/assassin and I would pretend it was an anime.
I still think it'd be a great standalone game tbh.
It's one of the complaints I see morrowind fsgs bring up constantly
I prefer Skyrim in every aspect but Cyrodiil is peak comfy. I'll take lush greens of European medieval fantasy over those gay Nord Vikings any day
>gay Nord Vikings any day
They got surprisingly old surprisingly quickly. I can kinda see why Scandinavian women hate their own men so much and are so desperate for brown and black dick by this point.
I legit still have Viking fatigue due to Skyrim and I completely NOPED out of shows like Vikings and games like AC: Valhalla.
oblivion was my first elder scrolls game, I played it on the 360 when I was young and I loved the game but funny enough I never replayed it since it came out on the 360 till this year.
It was actually pretty good and I sunk a good bit of hours into despite already playing skyrim 50 times. Only thing that really sucked about it was the lack of modding since I like to play as hot women like I do in skyrim
>Only thing that really sucked about it was the lack of modding since I like to play as hot women like I do in skyrim
I'm an incel who hates women so I don't care for hot women in my games.
Have you heard any news from the other provinces?
None that I care to talk about
The sandbox fundamentals for this game should be studied in and out. I would say that Beth games would be even stronger if they went more of an immersive sim route instead of a statistical rpg route
I always did wish there was a VN element where I could settle down and marry a towns girl, but that would mean a better artyle. I wish oblivion had a generic anime art style honestly. Any of the shovel wear would have been fine. And from there introduce more life some stuff.
I wish enjoy games like I was a kid again, I had a long playthru where I was an orc beggar who just stole food in the imperial city market and hid them in a hollowed out stump, I probably had over 50 hours of this and never made past level 10
Thanks for this window into the minds of Oblivion likers
LMFAO me too. I never cared about being the chosen godlike hero, I fricking loved being a broke ass begger thief or back alley murderer. Oblivion is the only game you can really roleplay as anything
I feel like it probably wouldn't hold up well. The quests are amazing, they're the best of any Elder Scrolls game imo. Skyrim really fell flat with the quests in comparison.
The game still has the best soundtrack ever in an open world game though. Suck my 6.5 inch wiener if you disagree.
>Huge amounts of mods, including massive overhauls of every single system and facet of the game
>Nobody is able to make the character models not look like shit
What the frick, is it in engine limitation or do people just like the potato heads? I know there are some mods that """fix""" it but they're barely a bandaid.
Why would people play modded Oblivion instead of modded Skyrim? Genuine question. I like vanilla Oblivion more than vanilla Skyrim, but never got into modding them. Seems like there would be a lot more to do with mods in Skyrim is why I ask.
The frick you on about? https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/44676
This works just fine.
Modding oblivion is such cancerous ass that the effort will never make the outcome worth it. Vanilla is the only way to play. Because all the mods rely on the physical disk version and for some FRICKING Black person reason steam uses a different version that makes mods not compatible.
>Vanilla is the only way to play
Unofficial patch and 4GB mod are pretty much mandatory for oblivion to run smoothly on modern hardware.
That shit you posted "works", but still looks like crap. Additionally, it breaks easily if you have any mods that touch, change, or add any NPCs period.
Anvil is the best city