If I were to buy and play Oblivion, right now, with zero mods, would I have a good time?
Or is it unplayable without mods?
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The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Yeah probably
Depends what you're expecting I'd guess.
Main story is so so, some of the side quests are good, many are not. Combat is probably the weakest aspect...
Shiverling Isles is god tier DLC though and easily worth the money
Why the frick would you pay for games?
It's $3.74 bro, I spend more on indie puzzle games that last 30 minutes.
You can get it for free just as easily. Do you really feel like Bethesda deserves your money?
Good job bro. Support the devs. I'm sure its the same devs working there who made the game 19 years ago and I'm sure the company will pass on the money to them.
Bro I'm basically paying Gabe a couple bucks to save me a few minutes, it's fine. Todd can't even buy a coffee with the cut he gets.
if we followed this train of thought to its logical conclusion, we wouldn't be playing video games at all out of principle.
The devs from oblivion are long gone you cuck
as someone with disposable income for the first time in my life I don't feel inclined to pirate shit I don't want to support. I even bought skins just today. with expense money from my job for a game I don't even particularly like.
I wouldn't wanna give Bethesda money at this point, but I don't mind buying games either. If a game is worth my time it's probably also worth my money. The money spent purchasing licenses for digital games also generally seems to be worth the time I save pirating them, at least in my experience.
Only games worth playing are the ones whos asking price is fair. If I have to pirate a game then I might as well just not play it at all because its shit. Emulation doesn't count of course.
Playing it on my days off. Save and quit out every 4 hours or so, because the game can crash on you.
I never had issue with level scaling. Did about 30 oblivion gates before finishing the main quest. I have 90% spell resist and a suit for 100% chameleon.
It's a good time.
I had a bad time with combat, until I just made a high elf mage
shits op yo
wait for remake
>all the worst aspects of skyrim ruining the good game that oblivion is
I would rather play morrowind in the oblivion engine so I don't have to read speaking with npcs and actually hit things instead of watching dice rolls
THERE I SAID IT I FRICKING SAID IT
Yeah, it's fun without mods. It wouldn't have been half as popular as it was on consoles if that wasn't the case. I spent the bulk of my time with it on PC playing it unmodded.
no
The way to experience Oblivion and have fun is to put the difficulty slider on the absolute minimum and play as if you have adhd (i.e. just do what you feel like it, how you feel like, whenever. Don't really think about what to do next or the order you want to do the content or even 100% completing the game).
It's a true turn-your-brain-off experience, and can be very relaxing with the right mindset.
it's jank-kino
>leveling problem
just remember that if you make a moronic build and mess up your game because you cant kill enemies and get one shot, you can lower the difficulty slider: thats literally its purpose. to unfrick your game if you accidentally become too weak or too strong
>oblivion gates repetitive
you only need to clear 3 for the main quest plus one for each of the cities if you want their help
>speechcraft minigame
each NPC has a love, like, dislike and hate. you want to find a way to give them the biggest slice of the thing they like and the smallest of the thing they hate.
>lockpicking minigame
tap the pins a few times before trying to click them into place. if the pin shoots up quickly, dont try to click or it will reset, wait for the slow rise and click them once they reach the top but before it falls
>moronic build
game genuinely punishes you for picking the major skills you want to use
minigame
Absolutely kino. I used to talk to every NPC one after another because maxxing out their disposition took seconds (without bribe).
It's too easy to be liked in Oblivion.
I have the same question about Skyrim
You CAN enjoy your self for the first run but you'll find some aspects of the game a bit lack luster. Especially when it comes to combat. Unless you're doing something autistic like "survival and legendary mode" You'll piss through the game easily and quickly. The survivor aspects in my opinion make the game feel like an actual game instead of you just becoming level 5 and raping everything at the gate. Again though this is like first playthrough. Second playthrough you'll get the gist and make a build that's "perfect" but get bored because the only thing that scales high enough to your powerlevel is the fricking mageus whisps
Absolutely. I will repeat what I said about Oblivion: it wouldn't have been half as popular as it was on consoles if the unmodded game wasn't fun on its own. Skyrim's dungeons are pretty shallow, and I don't think the quests were quite as fun as Oblivion's, but the main quest isn't half bad. The art direction in that game is pretty great, too. It's even less of an RPG than Oblivion but is still a solid action adventure sandbox game.
I'd sooner play with a stick and some mud than vanilla Oblivion.
Ain't nothing better than a stick and some mud.
You will have a good time as long as you look up how the leveling system works
Give me a quick rundown.
What should I NOT do?
Just play it blind and like the other anon said if it's too hard use the difficulty slider because it's a build-unfrick slider and doesn't change anything else like tactics or rewards.
The loot is all randomized except for quest loot, and ALL of it is leveled to your current state. Don't bother exploring for fun if you hope to find unique interesting things.
Yeah if you don't do the punching thing get an enchanted or silver weapon quick to deal with ghosts
anon why are you pretending the elder scrolls iv oblivion is a hard game
the entire football team at my high school played that game
It's not hard, but there can be dumb shit that sneaks up on you as the game progresses. Beginners might frick up with ghost enemies too.
that's part of the fun! it makes the ghosts scary. there's no sense in suggesting a brand new player grind out unarmed or beeline straight to a silver sword
>level system
its complicated but if you actually want to understand it
dont pick all your major skills as things you do often and make sure to train your lesser skills during each level
>why?
every 10? major skill ups, you gain an overall level
every levelup, you can select 3 of your attributes to increase. the amount they are increased by is determinant on how many skills you leveled that are governed by that attribute
(so for example if you want to give a +5 to strength when you level you need to have leveled skills that are governed by the strength attribute 10 times)
therefore, the 'optimal' way to level is to level up enough of your skills to increase your 3 desired attributes by 5/5/5 BEFORE leveling your major skills 10 times
most people experienced this frickery as kids because they picked sneak as a major skill then trained their sneak to 100 by putting a rubber band on their Xbox 360 controller so their character will sneak next to a sleeping or unaware NPC and returned to find a horribly borked character
You will have a good time as long as you don't look up how the leveling system works
Oblivion is much more fun if you don't look behind the curtain
Although actually I would say leveled special loot is a bigger issue, if you're open to some very light modding get one of the mods that makes unique quest rewards level up with you instead of being locked to the level you got them at
shit always crashes even with fixes. i'm just going to wait for skyblivion
I played it vanilla in 2008 and had a good time. If you were to go into it now, it would probably feel very, very dated.
vanilla oblivion is actually really fun. I played everything but the main story quest on that fricking game on the ps3 if you can even imagine that. I'm sure mods make the game even more fun. Do not expect anything deep mechanically but as a role playing game where you pretend to be a character it delivers.
>jump around all the time can jump higher eventually jump off water
>run around all the time can run faster
>punch things a lot develop the ability to punch ghosts
it's a real dumb fun game.
I made the mistake of doing morrowblivion. I mean I played both sure but I just couldn't care about morrowind and it just killed my fun.
Oblivion modding scene is and has always been bad. There is no good mods except UI and skip intro.
One that always caught eye but not enough to get me to actually install it was Deadly Reflex, some sort of combat overhaul mod.
Unlike Skyrim its actually something you can play and have fun with without any mods.
Be warned though, its still very much a game in transition torwards the more casual friendly model Skyrim ultimately became so dont set your epxectations too high.
Nah it's the worst elder scrolls
i have thousands of hours in it and never modded it at all if that helps
You sound like my little brother. He's run it about a dozen times on Xbox 360 with all the DLCs. His copy of the Prima Strategy Guide is well loved.
it's a genuinely entertaining little fantasy game that you can absolutely just frick around in.
god i wish that were me
>oblivion without mods
I did that once, beat the game, I'll never do that shit ever again. Modded Oblivion is more fun than modded Skyrim imo.
no
stop giving todd money for leather jackets
pirate
It would be real neat if Betehsda's IPs got good games again in the future, but I am at least grateful for the handful of fun games they made in the 2000s.
Unlike Skyrim it supported 144hz out of the box without exploding which is cool
What are some good Oblivion mods? I'm thinking about installing Jungles of Cyrodiil and better face textures.
It will be fun at first but, unless you plan your leveling, will become almost unplayable with the bullshit level scaling.
As long as there aren't any cliff racers, it can't be that bad.
You think you know but you don't. It isn't just shitters coping; any reasonable build that isn't exploiting broken mechanics or based completely around avoiding combat will become pure suffering around level 15 and straight up unplayable past 25.
FYI get the deluxe version that comes with all the DLC you cant buy and add it later