Since you finished everything in main base game Oblivion. Are you going to 100% complete both the Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles DLC addon expansions also?
Love the looks of this run, I'm also going through a similar run in my own game of Oblivion, with the standard 100% guidelines, but I've also added at least two additional rules to the mix. "Play Yourself" and "Collector". With the first rule, I pretty much have to play myself as in I can only play as human characters. No elves, orcs, or lizard people. Just Imperial, Nord, Breton, and Redguard. Next, your birthsign is determined by your own birth date. So for example, I was born on a December, meaning that my birthsign would be the Thief. Lastly for your class, you can't make a custom class. You can only choose one of the given classes, for me I chose to be a Sorcerer given my playstyle. The second rule is that I must collect ALL multi-enchanted loot and apparel, including all unique Dremora weapons. Some of these items will only spawn at certain levels, such as "The Robe of Glib Tongues" already being able to spawn at LV 1 while "The Shortsword of the Fang" spawns at LV6. Not only that but I must also collect the unique leveled loot such as "The Robes of the Apprentice" at its highest tier it being at LV10. The only exception to this rule are the unobtainable uniques such as the Emperors Robes, Shimmerstrike, Gray Aegis and so on. If you can't get them normally in game without exploits or glitches, then you're free to ignore them.
Can't believe I was watching this back in high school and finished this series while I'm in university. It makes me real happy to see this series and this channel in general constantly there in my life, you're a legend.
Several years ago I was 18 and living on my own I worked early in the morning I was very broke and my favorite escape was oblivion and I decided to “100%” the game, I did all the quests I cleared every location and got all the achievements and a bunch of other things. It’s still one of my favorite gaming experiences I’ve done thus far. I still go back and play and it doesn’t get old
Ive been playing this game since i was 11 and now 23, glad to say that i still play and enjoy it to this day i have put countless thousands of hours into oblivion 😌
I remember having a playtime of 540 hours on a single character and completed it 100%. I play extremely slow paced and immersion is everything for me. Although I love to remember this time I can't enjoy oblivion anymore. RIP my character - Robert de Sable
I play through oblivion every year or so, i dont always 100% the game but I usually max all stats and main skills, and by max i mean natural 100 in every stat including luck.
Oblivion is my fav game of all time. I've owned 10 or so different copies from the base game to every edition there is through ps3 360 GOG and steam. I'd say I've sunk in around 10000 hours the vast majority of which come from my younger teens. I loved playing that game every day I was obsessed with it I did literally every single quest collected and stored every item in the base game and the DLC/plugins. I spent a lot of time on the UESP. I loved decorating the Skingrad home with the many artifacts I acquired. By the end of it, all my saves were utterly broken the game would take a really long time to load and crashes were a constant. I wouldn't take back those hours they were well spent
@@oliverhopkins8074 Sounds like a Chaos Techpriest explaining how the Daemonculaba works lmao. If you don't know anything about Warhammer 40k, you should totally definitely look this one up.
How many hours... Oh god. This was amazing, you've done something so impressive and it has inspired me to finish more things in my life, something I haven't been great at.
49:58 You could also use the Damage/Drain Stamina spell/Enchant effect. Oblivion has this systeme that a NPC stamina can go lower than 0, and its also used to calculate stagger, once a NPC reach -100 Stamina, they simply fall "unconcious" meaning they are Paralyzed for a couple of seconds( up to 10 iirc), and they will get up ONLY once their stamina reaches back 0/+1, meaning that unless an enemy as immunity to stagger( wich i don't recall any having it, but its been a while since i played), if you keep hitting them with the Drain/Damage Stamina, they will stay down.
One of the best videos I've ever seen. Anyone should watch it. I think it would teach a lot about: - Progression All the videos leading up to this recap. - Goal crafting & Structure A series with specific goals in mind, and a way to go about achieving them. - Marketing Doing a recap of all those videos. - Analysis & Tracking Progress Excel for the quests, gates, nirnroot map... Keeping goals in focus through all those videos is huge. Not even mentioning all the research you had to do, and the effort you had to put in to get through this challenge.
a truly inspiring series. i've been watching TH-cam since 2011 and this is by far the longest playthrough i ever stuck thru. so amazing man, been watching you for like 6 years. so proud of how far you've come. keep creating man. you're a champion
The fact that this video only has 4K views is a crime, this is such high quality content! It's so well edited, and your passion for this challenge and your character shines through. Genuinely amazing content, you're bound to blow up eventually!
Truly amazing friend! This game always has a special place in my heart as my first experience with a RPG. Never had 100% it but did spend a large portion of my life throwing away hours and hours of this game. Thank you for this experience.
Can seriously respect this. I did this myself years back, but I wasn't so restrictive on fast travel. As a rule, I generally do my first trips anywhere on foot then fast travel back. In particular, the Fighters Guild is hell without fast travel because you will be sent to opposite ends of Cyrodiil and back again a ridiculous number of times. If Oblivion had means of transport as modest as even Skyrim's carriages it'd be so much better, not to mention Morrowind's transport. But again, incredible work.
Man i wish this got way more recognition cause this has to take so much willpower. I always play this way.. well expect the hardest difficulty part. Good job :)
Me too, at beginning I was like "but this is normal por an rpg isn't it?" because I always play like this. I devoted day after day fro Oblivion specially and made every quest, cleared all the map and found all nirnroots (for like half of them I didn't use a map but later on I needed because they were outside any route I was taking). Wasn't on higher difficulty though because I'm very bad at any videogame lol
Al though I am sad the challenge is over. It being something I looked forward to every time I saw a new episode in my Sub box for the last 4 years made this series something special to me and myself and people I showed the series to over the last 4 years some finding it to drawn out and some loving that sexy voice of yours and even more sexy beard of yours dark. Being a darkling for 7 and a half years has been rewarded by a series I will properly put on my “re-watch ones a year list.” next to Millbeeful's Katawa Shoujo series. Even though the channel has not exploded like you with all rights deserve. I think It allows for something more of a commutative way to the creator. Random finger movements aside. I thank you a lot for something truly amazing.
Wow I'm an Oblivion nerd and even this kinda of challenge would drive me insane! This is an amazing accomplishment! The algorithm just suggested this to me so hopefully you'll get even more views - you certainly deserve them for your effort. Side note: I wonder if this is even possible in Morrowind? It might be too easy with exploits and some of the OP items. Another issue is that many of the guilds and factions quests interfere with each other. I'm actually curious to experiment now that I've seen this video.
Thank you for the kind words! As for Morrowind, I foresee it being more difficult due to mutual exclusivity, but I faced the same issue in my on-going Savior of Skyrim series. There I had a system where if one quest excluded another (Imperial vs Stormcloak, Dawnguard vs Vampire, etc.), I could mark the locked quests as "uncompletable". This would then remove them from the total amount of quests I had to complete, so I could still technically complete every* quest, but the * means it's technically every *completable* quest. Probably a bit too much of a ramble, but it goes to show that it's an interesting dilemma!
Absolutely amazing! I spent 232 hours completing the Witcher 3: every quest, side quest, Witcher contract, achievement, all gear, all mutagens, every potion, bomb, decoction and max level. Maybe some other stuff too I can’t remember it all but I loved every second and seeing how much you enjoyed this has made me want to watch all 250 episodes and I can’t wait for the DLC!! Keep them coming amigo!
Hey VoicesFromTheDark, I hope you are able to read this comment! I just wanted to say I love this video and it even inspired me to do my first playthrough if Oblivion! I am looking forward to seeing the recap video for the 100% DLC and Skyrim challenges!
I completed oblivion 100% on a melee character. The best weapon in the game was a perfect amber warhammer, enchanted with drain health 100pts for 2 seconds. Fatigue was a massive part of the melee combat, so you would need to have a restore fatigue potion active at all times. 101% reflect damage also helped, but I didn't go for 100% spell resistance/reflection as i liked picking up as much stuff as i could and selling it, to see how much money i got in the end. I completed all quests (including the test quest in the Todd Test Land) and closed all 50 random gates. The oblivion gates give a boatload of money at higher levels, and also give you bloodgrass, which at 100 alchemy can be used to make powerful chameleon potions that makes the dark brotherhood and theives guild quests a cakewalk on any playstyle. Now, what's amazing, is that I actually did this challenge four times. The first time was on ps3 and my save just corrupted and the game wouldnt load after loading it, and I lost about 150 hours of my life. The second time was on my first laptop, a really shitty machine that could barely handle oblivion (i played with only textures at max and distant land on, everything else on mimimum, and grass off) but I did everything there. All quests done. All gates closed. And every location explored. When i had done all quests, i turned myself into a vampire for the extra strength, and also focused on it with the oghma infinium, so my strength was around 130ish if i remember correctly. I also enchanted all my armor with feather so my carry weight was somewhere around 1300. I'd explore a few places, loot everything until i was almost over encumbered, come back and sell all my stuff to the Wizard's Tower merchant. It actually became very lonely. It was eerie, going into all these long abandonded places with no motive other than curiosity. I used console commands to bring Ushnar's dog to cyrodiil to keep myself company. Eventually I did it all though, I explored every location in the game, and when I finished I did the vampire cure quest as my final act on that character. It ended up with about 213 hours of playtime and 6 million gold to my name. Now pure vanilla oblivion is something I can never do again. I love cryodiil, and I love exploring it, but the combat at high levels is broken as all hell. So I decided to play it modded. I'd add in a few mods to mix up the gameplay but still add in new things and quests, and consider those a part of the checklist for 100%ing. And I did 100% it again, twice. Kind of. First was Elfied the Eternal, which I did all the base game + the quests added in by OOO. I closed all 50 gates and did lots of exploring (with a mod to keep track of where i've explored) but got kind of bored by the time I was about to start SI, as I had just learned about TTW and I wanted to try that. The second modded playthough I'm still technically playing, but I took a break to play skyrim around the time Skyrim Together Reborn came out. This second modded playthough I went all out with a FCOM install, plus better cities and unique landscapes, and I've done every single quest added by those mods in the base game, plus cleared all gates. I'm halfway through SI right now on that character, and I'm 300 hours in. Oblivion is perhaps one of my favorite games of all time, the art style and the world is really magical and has captured my imagination far more than Skyrim or Morrowind has. With what you said about always taking a break from characters to try another, I completely resonate with it. When I play a game, except oblivion and Thief 2, I hyper fixate on it and think about nothing but it for a month or so until I complete it or lose interest. With Oblivion, it's always on my mind and I'm never quite so invested in it, and it strangely makes the game more magical. Anyway, I don't know why I wrote this essay, but I enjoyed the video. :D
i found your playthrough when you were already around episode 200, never got through it all, it's a lot to binge honestly haha. Glad you finally finished!
This is pretty awesome. 4 years is crazy, I actually wanted to try and complete Oblivion 100% with zero kills, but after seeing this I cant put that much time into it, lol. Great video!
I've always loved playing as bretons, all the way from morrowind to skyrim. Especially in skyrim because if you maxed out alteration, and took certain perks, dragons literally couldn't damage you with fire or frost. I think in Morrowind it was better than oblivion mainly because of the variety of spells in morrowind. Mages could do serious damage to you in Morrowind.
I was their the day you started your play threw! Or when you uploaded it.... I watched 60 episodes till i moved on. Finally an episode to recap half what i witnessed! 🤙
Jeg husker det så mye. Dette var en veldig morsom tid. Jeg husker jeg løp hjem fra skolen da jeg var yngre for å spille oblivion sammen med denne youtube-serien. Så flotte minner
What a wonderful look back at the journey. And what an oblivion of a journey it was, 250 episodes, from poor little mudcrabs to shaking the foundations of the realms themselves. And now we're finally on to the DLC, from something as simple as getting armor on an old nag, to facing down the gods themselves. And winning. Because it's Marina Mistfire. The single strongest champion in Nirn and beyond!
man oh man. I´m sooo looking forward to starting the DLC challenge!. I also plan on doing my own skyrim completionist run by my own rules. And oh boy I hope you pull through in skyrim the same way you did in oblivion! Keep it up Dark!
From what i remember, you can level you enchanting to the point where you can create items which together will grant you 100% camelion, worked for me. It effectively made me immortal. Mods will de-aggro immediately. You then create a ring or neclace with damage health and pickpocket said ring into their inventory. It is almost as effective as skyrims infinite fortify alchemy item, then fortify enchanting potion loop. For those how havent tried it, try it out if you want to be immortal and one shot everything on highest difficulty.
For sure, there are some wild combos you can do in this game! It's really up to the individual player to set limitations based on what they deem to be fun to use and what feels exploitative.
Woah bro I just check up on this again after like a year of not seeing it and I wondered if you ever completed it, congratulations for this man, I applaud your dedication to this series you deserve so much more subscribers. Have a good Christmas from Australia.
Loved this guide , I,ve been playing video games a while now due to a injury , I love to complete and build these characters and dealing with challenges, I appreciate this guides, thank 😊 u
i love how some humans in life struggle to find a driving force of a challenge irl so they put upon themselves those ridiculous challanges in game. (dunno if that's ur case exactly but i'm just sayin) It takes a huge ammount of self discipline and conscientiousness to bore yourself so much and youtube makes it a profitable undertaking. You earn money playing games i get to watch a ridiculously cool story that wouldn't have happened irl so THANK YOU A BUNCH for beeing who you are.
This was an amazing video and wish it was longer! You did an excellent job preparing then overcoming the obstacles. Thank you for sharing your journey =) I wish there were mods to reduce the need for quicksaves to complete these or to add flavor/utility to things to make it more advantages to acquire them other than completionist reasons. Like removing quick travel except through specific ways like only if you have bought the house in that city can you add a waypoint to travel between houses. Then have the skill books all be in fixed locations near the unique monsters that have added abilities to better defend these desired items. Add a Nern Root tracking spell that either points you in the direction of the nearest one or has any in the area shine brighter.
Having put hundreds of hours into Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim back on console when they came out, I absolutely loved them. Then after building my first PC near the end of 2013 I put even more hundreds of hours into modded Morrowind and Skyrim, but not Oblivion. It just never felt as good to mod as the others even though it held most of my hours on console. Seeing this video with the minimal mod list(and spreadsheets, glorious spreadsheets!) has inspired me to give it another go on PC. Maybe even on the hardest difficulty.
Nice challenge and good video. I set about doing a 100 skill/stat (including luck) challenge years ago. It died once I broke the back of the challenge and reached the easy to control grinding of the end stage. But the save still exists and so do the hand written logs of skills and levels that I was keeping. Maybe I'll pick this back up and give it a final push. All I really need is a several hundred episode series to watch while I do it.
all of these crazy challenges seem to start in winter what an amazing season, to be able to drive people to the brink of insanity only to find some outlet for them to pour it into
absolute mad lad.. I love how broken the game gets when you max the athletics skill and I deeply missed that in Skyrim despite it having any business being there..
I just discovered your channel, great video i was hooked from start until finish my mind is crazy today so this was great to watch to take some focus of the darkness
Its awesome to see people still playing these games! Oblivion was my first Bethesda game so it will always have a soft spot in my heart! Also have you checked out Enderal or Nehrim? They are mods for TES4 & 5 which essentially turn both games into completely new games! Highly recommend if you haven't checked them out!
As a kid the first elder scrolls game i played was morrowind and boy howdy that game DOESNT hold your hand! Oblivion really got me interested in elder scrolls great game, crazy lore, and best of all Bethesda glitches lol
Alright, time to play some Oblivion again, you have inspired me Dark! And since there is nothing much to do irl, why not eh ? Also, looking forward for the DLC! Keep the great work a stay safe.
I never comment on anything, after binging your series over the last couple of months! All I have to say is RIP Apprentina, I laughed so hard when she jumped off the cathedral.
I first played the game when it was released. Then I played it again a couple of years later trying to do what you have done keeping score of the skill advances manually. It was painful. I started again last year but left it. never thought of mods that help. Congrats for the achievement.
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This video has been a long time in the making, enjoy the 50 minute recap of our Champion of Cyrodiil series! 🔥🔥🔥
I remember playing oblivion playing as a khajiit nightblade searching for his ancestors and it was awesome series dark
Since you finished everything in main base game Oblivion. Are you going to 100% complete both the Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles DLC addon expansions also?
@@johnsimpson3419 Correct! That's what I'm now doing in the Champion of DLC Challenge 😊
I know I am quite off topic but do anyone know of a good site to watch new series online?
Love the looks of this run, I'm also going through a similar run in my own game of Oblivion, with the standard 100% guidelines, but I've also added at least two additional rules to the mix. "Play Yourself" and "Collector".
With the first rule, I pretty much have to play myself as in I can only play as human characters. No elves, orcs, or lizard people. Just Imperial, Nord, Breton, and Redguard. Next, your birthsign is determined by your own birth date. So for example, I was born on a December, meaning that my birthsign would be the Thief. Lastly for your class, you can't make a custom class. You can only choose one of the given classes, for me I chose to be a Sorcerer given my playstyle.
The second rule is that I must collect ALL multi-enchanted loot and apparel, including all unique Dremora weapons. Some of these items will only spawn at certain levels, such as "The Robe of Glib Tongues" already being able to spawn at LV 1 while "The Shortsword of the Fang" spawns at LV6. Not only that but I must also collect the unique leveled loot such as "The Robes of the Apprentice" at its highest tier it being at LV10. The only exception to this rule are the unobtainable uniques such as the Emperors Robes, Shimmerstrike, Gray Aegis and so on. If you can't get them normally in game without exploits or glitches, then you're free to ignore them.
Can't believe I was watching this back in high school and finished this series while I'm in university. It makes me real happy to see this series and this channel in general constantly there in my life, you're a legend.
It's been a ride, thanks for being along for it!
You did it by having equal amounts godlike willpower and complete insanity.
And amazing support 🔥💪
You really do need that to do the things Dark did lol
Sheogorath would be proud
AND CHEESE!
Takes after Unlce Sheo I see
Several years ago I was 18 and living on my own I worked early in the morning I was very broke and my favorite escape was oblivion and I decided to “100%” the game, I did all the quests I cleared every location and got all the achievements and a bunch of other things. It’s still one of my favorite gaming experiences I’ve done thus far. I still go back and play and it doesn’t get old
Happy to hear you had that experience!
Same
Ive been playing this game since i was 11 and now 23, glad to say that i still play and enjoy it to this day i have put countless thousands of hours into oblivion 😌
He is the embodiment of "Completing all quests before completing the story"
Yes 😂
"I fought mud crabs more dangerous than you" gets a completely new meaning 🤣
I remember having a playtime of 540 hours on a single character and completed it 100%. I play extremely slow paced and immersion is everything for me. Although I love to remember this time I can't enjoy oblivion anymore. RIP my character - Robert de Sable
That's impressive!
I play through oblivion every year or so, i dont always 100% the game but I usually max all stats and main skills, and by max i mean natural 100 in every stat including luck.
It's funny that your character is named Robert de Sable, bc my current character that I'm trying to FC the game on is named Salahaddin lol
what race and class did you make him?
@@IAreSmeegooI couldn’t stand that mega grind. I ain’t autistic enough.
This is awesome. It looks so professionally done, your time spend on it definitely shines through.
Thank you, Deina 💜
This is, hands down, your most professional video.
Oblivion is my fav game of all time. I've owned 10 or so different copies from the base game to every edition there is through ps3 360 GOG and steam. I'd say I've sunk in around 10000 hours the vast majority of which come from my younger teens. I loved playing that game every day I was obsessed with it I did literally every single quest collected and stored every item in the base game and the DLC/plugins. I spent a lot of time on the UESP. I loved decorating the Skingrad home with the many artifacts I acquired. By the end of it, all my saves were utterly broken the game would take a really long time to load and crashes were a constant. I wouldn't take back those hours they were well spent
It's great that the game allows for such completion 💜
you are the son todd howard wishes he had
16 times the children
It just births
@@oliverhopkins8074 Sounds like a Chaos Techpriest explaining how the Daemonculaba works lmao.
If you don't know anything about Warhammer 40k, you should totally definitely look this one up.
I think Todd wants you to beat the game using each default class on a different purchased copy of oblivion.
Todd Howard has 4 billion sons, because we are all children of Todd
I remember watching my brother playing Oblivion and later me playing while he watched. Only good memories
The effort put into this is mind blowing! Makes me want to start playing Oblivion again. Thank you for creating this!!
That's the effect I wanted to have, so glad to hear it! 😊
50mins exactly for the video length is weirdly satisfying
How many hours... Oh god. This was amazing, you've done something so impressive and it has inspired me to finish more things in my life, something I haven't been great at.
If it can have that effect on someone, I'm really glad!
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49:58 You could also use the Damage/Drain Stamina spell/Enchant effect.
Oblivion has this systeme that a NPC stamina can go lower than 0, and its also used to calculate stagger, once a NPC reach -100 Stamina, they simply fall "unconcious" meaning they are Paralyzed for a couple of seconds( up to 10 iirc), and they will get up ONLY once their stamina reaches back 0/+1, meaning that unless an enemy as immunity to stagger( wich i don't recall any having it, but its been a while since i played), if you keep hitting them with the Drain/Damage Stamina, they will stay down.
One of the best videos I've ever seen. Anyone should watch it. I think it would teach a lot about:
- Progression
All the videos leading up to this recap.
- Goal crafting & Structure
A series with specific goals in mind, and a way to go about achieving them.
- Marketing
Doing a recap of all those videos.
- Analysis & Tracking Progress
Excel for the quests, gates, nirnroot map... Keeping goals in focus through all those videos is huge.
Not even mentioning all the research you had to do, and the effort you had to put in to get through this challenge.
I just found your channel in my recommended videos, this is a great achievement - looks like I've got 252 videos to watch now 🙂
Enjoy, Christopher! Glad to know the video is reaching out to those interested! 😊
This is one of the greatest videos in elder scrolls history.
a truly inspiring series. i've been watching TH-cam since 2011 and this is by far the longest playthrough i ever stuck thru. so amazing man, been watching you for like 6 years. so proud of how far you've come. keep creating man. you're a champion
... of Cyrodiil 🔥 Thanks for the support!
This is awesome
You should try Lefave Bros Oblivion play through
You deserve every bit of exposure you get, and at least about 500% more for the effort you put in every single video you upload
💜💜💜
The fact that this video only has 4K views is a crime, this is such high quality content! It's so well edited, and your passion for this challenge and your character shines through. Genuinely amazing content, you're bound to blow up eventually!
That means a lot, Michael! I put love into the video, so I'm glad it shows 😊
@Spooky Jondog It seems to be gaining more traction these last few weeks, so that's fun! 😁
@@VoicesFromTheDarka year later, from a year later this is still criminally slept on
Truly amazing friend! This game always has a special place in my heart as my first experience with a RPG. Never had 100% it but did spend a large portion of my life throwing away hours and hours of this game. Thank you for this experience.
I'm sharing this with all my friends.
Can seriously respect this. I did this myself years back, but I wasn't so restrictive on fast travel.
As a rule, I generally do my first trips anywhere on foot then fast travel back. In particular, the Fighters Guild is hell without fast travel because you will be sent to opposite ends of Cyrodiil and back again a ridiculous number of times. If Oblivion had means of transport as modest as even Skyrim's carriages it'd be so much better, not to mention Morrowind's transport.
But again, incredible work.
Man i wish this got way more recognition cause this has to take so much willpower. I always play this way.. well expect the hardest difficulty part. Good job :)
The video seems to be getting more views lately, so it seems it's being shared around 😊
Me too, at beginning I was like "but this is normal por an rpg isn't it?" because I always play like this. I devoted day after day fro Oblivion specially and made every quest, cleared all the map and found all nirnroots (for like half of them I didn't use a map but later on I needed because they were outside any route I was taking). Wasn't on higher difficulty though because I'm very bad at any videogame lol
Al though I am sad the challenge is over. It being something I looked forward to every time I saw a new episode in my Sub box for the last 4 years made this series something special to me and myself and people I showed the series to over the last 4 years some finding it to drawn out and some loving that sexy voice of yours and even more sexy beard of yours dark. Being a darkling for 7 and a half years has been rewarded by a series I will properly put on my “re-watch ones a year list.” next to
Millbeeful's Katawa Shoujo series. Even though the channel has not exploded like you with all rights deserve. I think It allows for something more of a commutative way to the creator. Random finger movements aside. I thank you a lot for something truly amazing.
Thank you for being a part of the journey, Cymo, and for sharing it with others 💜
You put so much work into that series, honestly so excited to see what you do next.
Stay tuned! 😁
TH-cam recommended me the video. Yeah I think I found my next back ground noise/series to watch for the next 16 years!
I was actually here for the start of this series! Back when i got oblivion in 2016. You helped me love it so thank you
Wow I'm an Oblivion nerd and even this kinda of challenge would drive me insane! This is an amazing accomplishment! The algorithm just suggested this to me so hopefully you'll get even more views - you certainly deserve them for your effort.
Side note: I wonder if this is even possible in Morrowind? It might be too easy with exploits and some of the OP items. Another issue is that many of the guilds and factions quests interfere with each other. I'm actually curious to experiment now that I've seen this video.
Thank you for the kind words!
As for Morrowind, I foresee it being more difficult due to mutual exclusivity, but I faced the same issue in my on-going Savior of Skyrim series. There I had a system where if one quest excluded another (Imperial vs Stormcloak, Dawnguard vs Vampire, etc.), I could mark the locked quests as "uncompletable". This would then remove them from the total amount of quests I had to complete, so I could still technically complete every* quest, but the * means it's technically every *completable* quest.
Probably a bit too much of a ramble, but it goes to show that it's an interesting dilemma!
Absolutely amazing! I spent 232 hours completing the Witcher 3: every quest, side quest, Witcher contract, achievement, all gear, all mutagens, every potion, bomb, decoction and max level. Maybe some other stuff too I can’t remember it all but I loved every second and seeing how much you enjoyed this has made me want to watch all 250 episodes and I can’t wait for the DLC!! Keep them coming amigo!
Hey VoicesFromTheDark, I hope you are able to read this comment!
I just wanted to say I love this video and it even inspired me to do my first playthrough if Oblivion! I am looking forward to seeing the recap video for the 100% DLC and Skyrim challenges!
I completed oblivion 100% on a melee character. The best weapon in the game was a perfect amber warhammer, enchanted with drain health 100pts for 2 seconds. Fatigue was a massive part of the melee combat, so you would need to have a restore fatigue potion active at all times. 101% reflect damage also helped, but I didn't go for 100% spell resistance/reflection as i liked picking up as much stuff as i could and selling it, to see how much money i got in the end. I completed all quests (including the test quest in the Todd Test Land) and closed all 50 random gates. The oblivion gates give a boatload of money at higher levels, and also give you bloodgrass, which at 100 alchemy can be used to make powerful chameleon potions that makes the dark brotherhood and theives guild quests a cakewalk on any playstyle.
Now, what's amazing, is that I actually did this challenge four times. The first time was on ps3 and my save just corrupted and the game wouldnt load after loading it, and I lost about 150 hours of my life. The second time was on my first laptop, a really shitty machine that could barely handle oblivion (i played with only textures at max and distant land on, everything else on mimimum, and grass off) but I did everything there. All quests done. All gates closed. And every location explored. When i had done all quests, i turned myself into a vampire for the extra strength, and also focused on it with the oghma infinium, so my strength was around 130ish if i remember correctly. I also enchanted all my armor with feather so my carry weight was somewhere around 1300. I'd explore a few places, loot everything until i was almost over encumbered, come back and sell all my stuff to the Wizard's Tower merchant. It actually became very lonely. It was eerie, going into all these long abandonded places with no motive other than curiosity. I used console commands to bring Ushnar's dog to cyrodiil to keep myself company. Eventually I did it all though, I explored every location in the game, and when I finished I did the vampire cure quest as my final act on that character. It ended up with about 213 hours of playtime and 6 million gold to my name.
Now pure vanilla oblivion is something I can never do again. I love cryodiil, and I love exploring it, but the combat at high levels is broken as all hell. So I decided to play it modded. I'd add in a few mods to mix up the gameplay but still add in new things and quests, and consider those a part of the checklist for 100%ing. And I did 100% it again, twice. Kind of. First was Elfied the Eternal, which I did all the base game + the quests added in by OOO. I closed all 50 gates and did lots of exploring (with a mod to keep track of where i've explored) but got kind of bored by the time I was about to start SI, as I had just learned about TTW and I wanted to try that.
The second modded playthough I'm still technically playing, but I took a break to play skyrim around the time Skyrim Together Reborn came out. This second modded playthough I went all out with a FCOM install, plus better cities and unique landscapes, and I've done every single quest added by those mods in the base game, plus cleared all gates. I'm halfway through SI right now on that character, and I'm 300 hours in.
Oblivion is perhaps one of my favorite games of all time, the art style and the world is really magical and has captured my imagination far more than Skyrim or Morrowind has. With what you said about always taking a break from characters to try another, I completely resonate with it. When I play a game, except oblivion and Thief 2, I hyper fixate on it and think about nothing but it for a month or so until I complete it or lose interest. With Oblivion, it's always on my mind and I'm never quite so invested in it, and it strangely makes the game more magical. Anyway, I don't know why I wrote this essay, but I enjoyed the video. :D
i found your playthrough when you were already around episode 200, never got through it all, it's a lot to binge honestly haha. Glad you finally finished!
That's understandable! Thanks!
This is pretty awesome. 4 years is crazy, I actually wanted to try and complete Oblivion 100% with zero kills, but after seeing this I cant put that much time into it, lol. Great video!
that young tiny dark in the beginning is adorable :}
Baby Dark 👶
I've always loved playing as bretons, all the way from morrowind to skyrim. Especially in skyrim because if you maxed out alteration, and took certain perks, dragons literally couldn't damage you with fire or frost. I think in Morrowind it was better than oblivion mainly because of the variety of spells in morrowind. Mages could do serious damage to you in Morrowind.
You'd think this video would make me want to play Oblivion, but for some reason it really makes me want to play Morrowind.
I almost cried at the end.
Tks for all the hard work and let's continue on this magical adventure.
Hugs from Brazil!
Thanks for the hugs, Bianca 💜
4 years on one save file is a feat I don’t think I could ever do, what a great video!
What an amazing video. Criminally underviewed. Kudos my man. Kudos.
I was their the day you started your play threw! Or when you uploaded it.... I watched 60 episodes till i moved on. Finally an episode to recap half what i witnessed! 🤙
Enjoy! 😁
I'm gonna replay skyrim thanks for the encouragement
i didn't watch the series, but watch this was so satisfactory. Bless to you my friend, bless
❤️
The most gorgeous and passionate video documentary I’ve ever watched thank you for this journey 😎👍
You're welcome! 😊
This video is FANTASTIC. Congratulations and well done!
Thank you, I appreciate it 😊
Only took about half a year with breaks to get though, one of the most entertaining playthroughs ive ever watched! 🎉
I don't know who you are, I don't know where you came from, but bless this video and for once - youtube recommendations.
wow really underrated video. great job and thank you for the content, i was really entertained
Thank you, Kurt! Glad to hear you liked it!
This channel needs way more attention like that series is just mind blowing
I appreciate that! 🔥😊
Jeg husker det så mye. Dette var en veldig morsom tid. Jeg husker jeg løp hjem fra skolen da jeg var yngre for å spille oblivion sammen med denne youtube-serien. Så flotte minner
Og jeg husker at jeg fikk fine kommentarer fra deg 😊
Huge video!! Huuge, finally came in my recommendations 🎉 Oblivion with some Morrowind music? Im sold ❤
What a wonderful look back at the journey. And what an oblivion of a journey it was, 250 episodes, from poor little mudcrabs to shaking the foundations of the realms themselves. And now we're finally on to the DLC, from something as simple as getting armor on an old nag, to facing down the gods themselves. And winning. Because it's Marina Mistfire. The single strongest champion in Nirn and beyond!
Oh yeah! 🔥
man oh man. I´m sooo looking forward to starting the DLC challenge!. I also plan on doing my own skyrim completionist run by my own rules. And oh boy I hope you pull through in skyrim the same way you did in oblivion! Keep it up Dark!
I wish you good luck on that! 😁
@@VoicesFromTheDark Thanks I will need it :D
From what i remember, you can level you enchanting to the point where you can create items which together will grant you 100% camelion, worked for me. It effectively made me immortal. Mods will de-aggro immediately. You then create a ring or neclace with damage health and pickpocket said ring into their inventory. It is almost as effective as skyrims infinite fortify alchemy item, then fortify enchanting potion loop. For those how havent tried it, try it out if you want to be immortal and one shot everything on highest difficulty.
For sure, there are some wild combos you can do in this game! It's really up to the individual player to set limitations based on what they deem to be fun to use and what feels exploitative.
What a beautiful video, Oblivion was my first real Rpg. To see such a dedication towards it… 😢 Good Job Mate 😸
I just want to say that I think it's cool that you 100% this game that's a lot of hard work and dedication
Geez it’s been a long time I hate to see it go I will miss it a lot but you did it idk how you do it love you dark
Good thing the story will continue as we do DLC 🔥
This whole channel is just so underrated
You are too kind! 💜 Enjoy your stay :D
Woah bro I just check up on this again after like a year of not seeing it and I wondered if you ever completed it, congratulations for this man, I applaud your dedication to this series you deserve so much more subscribers. Have a good Christmas from Australia.
Sorry for the late response, but thanks for the support, Josh!
I’m astonished! I can’t wait for you to start the dlcs!
They'll be coming real soon 😁
Loved this guide , I,ve been playing video games a while now due to a injury , I love to complete and build these characters and dealing with challenges, I appreciate this guides, thank 😊 u
You are very welcome! 😊
what a great video, congratulatulations for the odisey
Watched this while grinding in starfield, What a great video!
i love how some humans in life struggle to find a driving force of a challenge irl so they put upon themselves those ridiculous challanges in game. (dunno if that's ur case exactly but i'm just sayin) It takes a huge ammount of self discipline and conscientiousness to bore yourself so much and youtube makes it a profitable undertaking. You earn money playing games i get to watch a ridiculously cool story that wouldn't have happened irl so THANK YOU A BUNCH for beeing who you are.
This was an amazing video and wish it was longer! You did an excellent job preparing then overcoming the obstacles. Thank you for sharing your journey =)
I wish there were mods to reduce the need for quicksaves to complete these or to add flavor/utility to things to make it more advantages to acquire them other than completionist reasons. Like removing quick travel except through specific ways like only if you have bought the house in that city can you add a waypoint to travel between houses. Then have the skill books all be in fixed locations near the unique monsters that have added abilities to better defend these desired items. Add a Nern Root tracking spell that either points you in the direction of the nearest one or has any in the area shine brighter.
Haha "how do you measure compleation in massive rpg!?"
*Runescape completionist cape (t) requirents has entered the chat*
I wish more games did stuff like that!
This deserves alot more attention. Seriously impressive!
Thank you, Tanner!
By far the most amazing and greatest TH-camr.
Thank you, Chris! 😁
Having put hundreds of hours into Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim back on console when they came out, I absolutely loved them. Then after building my first PC near the end of 2013 I put even more hundreds of hours into modded Morrowind and Skyrim, but not Oblivion. It just never felt as good to mod as the others even though it held most of my hours on console.
Seeing this video with the minimal mod list(and spreadsheets, glorious spreadsheets!) has inspired me to give it another go on PC. Maybe even on the hardest difficulty.
I'm so glad to hear that, hope you enjoy!
You've done it. You've become the Elder Scroll
An amazing journey, with an amazing recap ^^ I hope it gets some traction!
Can't wait for the DLC's ^o^
Thank you, Maron! 😁💜
Nice challenge and good video. I set about doing a 100 skill/stat (including luck) challenge years ago. It died once I broke the back of the challenge and reached the easy to control grinding of the end stage. But the save still exists and so do the hand written logs of skills and levels that I was keeping. Maybe I'll pick this back up and give it a final push. All I really need is a several hundred episode series to watch while I do it.
I'm gonna have to like comment and subscribe because 4 years? You fucking madlad.
Welcome! 🥳
all of these crazy challenges seem to start in winter
what an amazing season, to be able to drive people to the brink of insanity only to find some outlet for them to pour it into
You have a good point 😅
This is one of the most impressive feats in gaming I've ever seen. You are quite the dude, bro.
As supportive as always, Jessa 💜
Yay! DLC play-through coming. Good, as I never played those quests. Hype!
Hype! Lots of new content for me to do also!
i wish i had the wit to engage in that project! Amazing work and great video!
i am mostly impressed at how you comitted to efficient leveling/not doing level-ups. it saps a lot of fun out of the game for me
absolute mad lad.. I love how broken the game gets when you max the athletics skill and I deeply missed that in Skyrim despite it having any business being there..
Oblivion lets you break it in some fun ways!
I just discovered your channel, great video i was hooked from start until finish my mind is crazy today so this was great to watch to take some focus of the darkness
Super happy to hear that! Hope you're doing better now.
Its awesome to see people still playing these games! Oblivion was my first Bethesda game so it will always have a soft spot in my heart! Also have you checked out Enderal or Nehrim? They are mods for TES4 & 5 which essentially turn both games into completely new games! Highly recommend if you haven't checked them out!
this took you 4 years!? im gonna be doing some serious oblivion playthrough when i move to my new city, Kudos to you!
As a kid the first elder scrolls game i played was morrowind and boy howdy that game DOESNT hold your hand! Oblivion really got me interested in elder scrolls great game, crazy lore, and best of all Bethesda glitches lol
Morrowind is for sure a challenge for the inexperienced! 😳
how epic was that intro.. perfect timing with the lighting :D
Thank you!
Last year i 100% the game without fast travel, love the game to the damn ground
this vid deserves more recognition bruh nice workkkkk
Thank you!
Watching stuff like this harkens days back when you did Godfather and F.E.A.R. It is crazy how much you've grown.
Alright, time to play some Oblivion again, you have inspired me Dark! And since there is nothing much to do irl, why not eh ? Also, looking forward for the DLC! Keep the great work a stay safe.
Good luck on your journey! 😁
This was such an awesome series! I enjoyed it a lot :)
I am glad you did 💜🔥
Really impressive run. Gets me wanting to play Oblivion again!
Amazing narration, very well done!
Dark, you truly are, the Champion.
... of Cyrodiil 🔥
I used pen and paper to log my skill ups in Morrowind. I still have those notebooks decades later.
I never comment on anything, after binging your series over the last couple of months! All I have to say is RIP Apprentina, I laughed so hard when she jumped off the cathedral.
This is such a well made video man! Loved it and love oblivion…. My first RPG as well
I first played the game when it was released. Then I played it again a couple of years later trying to do what you have done keeping score of the skill advances manually. It was painful. I started again last year but left it. never thought of mods that help. Congrats for the achievement.
Thank you! And yeah, the efficient leveling is a game in and of itself...
Great video!! Can't wait for the DLC!
Coming very soon 🔥
In the end actually impressive the amount of content there was in this game. Repetitive for some part but still quite a filled world.
Oblivion is one of those things that just sends shivers down my spine. It's not even a good game. But it's so special.