LGR - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2018
- Time for an LGR retrospective on the fourth Elder Scrolls game! It was the first entry in the franchise for millions of players in 2006, but how well does Oblivion (and its expansions Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles) hold up twelve years later?
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uriel doesnt just trust you for no reason when he gives you the amulet. he has seen you in his dreams.
and with a face like yours thats hard to mistake
True, but it's still a very unconvincing, unsatisfying "hand wave" of an explaination.
The Hero of Kvetch is a weird one in the Elder Scrolls because the Elder Scrolls told of your return and the Oblivion Crisis (as did Alduin's Wall) but beyond that there's nothing to make you special. You're not the Nevarine or the Dragonborn, you're an ordinary person uplifted to hero of destiny because destiny says so.
Except you're not really the hero. Joffery is. He's the descendant of a long Dragonborn line, he's the one who becomes a vessel for the avatar of Akatosh and he's the one who defeats Mehrunes Dagon and saves Tamriel. You're like destiny's delivery boy, gathering up all the pieces so destiny can kick the bad guy's ass.
IIRC When Uriel was banished to oblivion by Jagar Tharn before ES:Arena he just saw it as a series of dreams and nightmares, the Hero of Kvetch was in those dreams.
Well Elder Scrolls 1: Arena was pretty nightmarish.
@@OsirisLord jeoffrey isn't the hero or the son of Uriel, Martin is
I remember when I stopped playing my character of 90 hours.
I was a Crusader of the Nine. I was the Grey Fox. I was the Prince of Madness.
I was killed by a wolf in two hits while leaving a town.
69 likes, nice.
Elder scrolls at its finest. Kill gods and moments later get killed by a rat because you ran outta stamina.
It's because you didn't abuse the broken spell system. I don't know how this game would be playable at level 20+ on max difficulty using only melee.
How's remember not to sleep more than 7 or so times.
@@buca9696 For real. Once I got access to all parts of Arcane University, I was able to craft some ridiculously OP spells that made me absolutely unstoppable.
"I get distracted and find myself joining a cult or something."
#JustElderScrollsThings
Story of my life tbh
My first thought after being visited by Lucien Lachance
Either you were ahead of your time with Memes or I am years late
Perfect comment to have 666 likes!
666 likes
By Azura, by Azura, by Azura, it's the Grand Champion! I can't believe it's you! Standing here, next to me!
Golly, you're the best !
*whips out the bow and arrow then shoots the Adoring Fan off the cliff with the epic orchestral music plays in the background*
You *dare* attack me? What'd I ever do to you!?
Right here??!
@@Kurobayashi765 nah fam, lock him in one of those oblivion torture cages
Have you heard of the high elves?
BY AZURA BY AZURA BY AZURA!
Damn too late.
ree ree reee ree reee reee reee
when 2 great channels collide
What about them?
Fargoth is the only elf worthy of praise.
20 years later:
*LGR - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim*
Ahhhhhh!!!!!
He should do a video for each version of Skyrim.
/s
watch the skies, traveler. Damn reviews could swoop down at any time.
2023, by this timing.
What is it? Dragons?
I never knew that Game of Thrones wasn't the first time the Sean Bean said the word, "Joffry."
SPOILER: And his character also dies in the game
Gypsy Queen its never really a spoiler that sean bean dies
The Sean Bean
@@hm09235nd it IS however a spoiler if Sean Bean lives.
SPOILER: He doesn't die in civilization VI! But since he is the narrator does that count?
Professor Emperor Patrick Xavier Stewart Picard VII.
Beautiful.
He forgot Jean-Luc :P
Lol!
Wait until you meet his bastard, Lord of Winterfell Sean Boromir Bean Stark
He forgot "sir" smdh.
A paper map and a full color manual... I miss the old days lol.
when you actually got shit with your game etc
I missed these days a lot when I picked up Crash Bandicoot NSane Trilogy. It didn't even have a disc just a disc shaped piece cardboard and a game code.
They still do that with new games. Well not the maps. But manuals XD
@@InAUGral Wow that's sad. Might as well not even sell a physical case if they're gonna cut corners like that.
@@morgansgaminguk2367 Well, When I got Skyrim, it came with a map, and so did rdr2. I don't think that is dying soon.
Playing as a magical stealth archer assassin? Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.
Has frostcraig spire to make spells early on.
god when you say it out loud it just sounds ridiculous
The level scaling made things weird, more often than not. I remember encountering a bandit in full glass kit, worth _far_ more than he was demanding while trying to rob me.
@Jonathon Hart Or he just stands there and giving you the judgemental stare.
Necromancer creates weakling unit and then started slashing me up with an ebony dagger lol
ESRB: murder and violence? 13 and up is good
Also ESRB: one boob that isn't even in the final product? Not good for the kiddos
Thank Christianity and specifically the fucking Puritans
Watch out for "Congregationalist". That's what Puritans usually call themselves.
I've read a book where there was a dude who literally killed a child in every family based on the fact that they were of another religion. Called "The Bible", I recommend, if you're up for some homicide, women and minority abuse and all that good stuff.
This particularly stings me because I have a story. My brother and I LOVED this game, this was our first TES game, A friend brought it over and the rest was history. ANYWAYS, one night my brother and I (at the time I was 14 I believe, and my brother going on 16) wanted to rent the game super badly. Our parents wouldn't give us a ride up there for reasons I cannot remember. So, we decided to walk to movie gallery, no big deal right? Heh. It was the middle of winter, in one of the most harshest winters on record (the city we lived in literally froze, even grass was slippery) it was like -40 out or so, terrible. That was all fine though, because we'd be able to play Oblivion! :D. We finally got to movie gallery, a 2 mile walk, only to find out the rating had been changed from T to M, and they wouldn't allow us to rent it. We were incredibly pissed LMAO
2006 was a wild time.
*Facepalm of doom*. Has rating boards ever been anything but whiny old goons and religious nuts? I cant ever draw to mind a game where having an age rating actually helped out...maybe South Park, since at first glance one might think it is for kids because cartoon, but...
The hours i spent just jumping as i walked in order to fill up stats....good times
I once hit sneak and auto-run to get to level 100 sneak before even leaving the starting cell. It took a few hours, but...
Don't forget constantly casting "3% fire weakness to self for 1 second" spells.
Used to do it with block as well could get that up pretty quick still can in skyrim
Did this in Morrowind as well, lol. Just to get acrobatics and athletics up you run for everything and jump while you run! lmao
I played this so much in secondary school (high school) my character spent more time outside than I did..
"A towering central tower in the center" what a beautifully symmetrical statement
I started the TES with Oblivion when I was 7 in 2014 while playing with my stepdad. He died a couple months ago and I found the scratched up disc for the Xbox in his game case. I just started playing it again just as I saw this video and I did the tradition whenever I started a new game of joining the Dark Brotherhood. Thank you man. You reignited my love for this series after he died. Thank you.
:(
May your stepdad RIP he has great taste in games man
Joining the DB immediately every time you start a new game? Who's the designated sacrifice?
@@spacejesus6581 Glarthir.
Pain shared is pain divided. Eight and One, outlander.
Really liked shivering isles. I particularly remember that quest where you mess with a party of adventurers.
Oblivion had some fantastic quests. Like that one you mentioned, or where everyone gets locked into a house for "treasure" and you then have to start murdering everyone. Dark Brotherhood questline is also one among the best. A lot of skyrims quests kinda pale in comparison to that sadly. Though then again oblivions Guild quests were quite disconnected from the world.
Sheogorath is the greatest Daedric Prince ever, no, the greatest character ever.
btw: Sheogorath and Colin Moriarty..... same guy...... they connect the two universes, in my own game theory. We know that Uncle Sheo can polymorph, so...
"Ah! Good, good! No more barking at all hours, and chewing up my slippers. You used the hemlock, then? Damned good idea! I... Um... We're not talking about Barbas, are we? Clavicus Vile's... dog? Oohh... awkward."
The only quest I remembered was the one where a depressed elf wanted you to kill him. That was some deep shit...
Lol that quest was funny af
Shivering Isles is my favorite expansion in the series. I think it is universally loved, even if a lot of people have mixed feelings about the base game itself.
*By Azura! By Azura! By Azura! It's the Grand Champion! I can't believe it's you! Standing here, next to me!*
*....Standing here, molesting me.* ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
themurmeli88 touch here? Right here?
He he he he he
I found the bloom to be kinda charming it made the forest seem magical
Yeah, when the game came out, the bloom effect was new and incredible. I remember playing Twilight Princess and being blown away.
Nowadays tho, we're used to it.
Same
"You are too _pretty_ to worship in this place!"
*(slow camera turn, awkward silence)*
Me (in my best Droopy Dog voice): "...If you say so..."
Imagine Droopy walking through an Oblivion Gate and saying 'Hello all you happy Daedra.' (Little do they know he's about to kill them all.)
@@rileywilliams9799 Personally, I'd've made a Khajiit character who looks like Snagglepuss, and spent the whole playthrough doing impressions. You really have to make your _own_ fun in Bethesda games.
I really need to play this and Skyrim. I have them both. I just need 34 instead of 24 hours in a day.
Just quit your job, problem solved.
I only recently played Skyrim.I liked it overall. I really have to give Oblivion a look. The lush vegetation of Oblivion looks much better than Skyrims depressing gray minced meat with freezer burn color scheme!
RA how nice to see you here :D
puschelhörnchen Oblivion has a weirder leveling system than Skyrim, so watch out for that. Monsters scale to your level so if your level 20 then your going to encounter level 20 monsters in an area that previously had level 1 monsters
@@Vondracar 😁
Gotta say, the Dark Brotherhood's quest in this game was really good.
I always really liked the part where they invaded Angel Island.
Dark Brotherhood/Mages Guild and Fighters guild are all more interesting than the Skyrim versions
I replay this questline every time I replay Oblivion. It’s so much fun and aged well. Hahahahaha. And Shadowmere forever. The most loyal stead.
It was the only actually good one, yes
I think what I found interesting about it was the presented lore of the "purification", it was super interesting and the plot was sickly good.
Also probs for being able to take mother's head and use it as a decoration ohohohoho
"Who's laughing now?"
-Todd Howard
mariopikaman1 yes I was in the chess club - Todd Howard
People who didn't buy Fallout 76.
@@basshead. That'll be me.
"Who's laughing now?"
He said right as he was about to lop his hand off with a chainsaw.
Man, people WISH we could go back to the days of horse armor.
The dark brotherhood in Oblivion is one best questlines I've ever seen in a game.
Why
@@johncastillo2194 because of how the plot twist plays, and the moral questions that are raised by that.
Witcher 3 Wild Hunt will change your mind.
Horse armour doesnt seem so bad when compared to modern dlc practices.
Yes it does
It was the first to start us down the rabbit hole though, soooooo sin for that.
But yes, in retrospect it was not that bad, showing kinda how far we have fallen with the whole DLC nonsense.
Nothing wrong with expansions, but DLC just feels eh...
Yeah but that was the start. BTW good luck trying to explain nowadays the difference between DLC and Expansion
Horse armor dlc wasn't bad as people made it out to be. Most players expected it to be free. But at the time it was new and players didn't know what to think.
who needs horse armor when my char has speed up to SONIC 2 LMAO!
*Have you heard of the High Elves?*
Yes....
BLAGH
What's going on with you? 😬
Oatsie hello!
*eats poisoned apple*
Y'know, Shivering Isles was SUCH a different, surreal experience. It was almost an entirely different game. I'd love to see a video dedicated to your perspective on it.
This video was great, and your peerlessly handsome character was great LOL.
Oh man. The shivering isles remains my favorite expansion of ANY game. I spent at least as much time there as I did in the rest of the game.
@@dejavuman22 Hey there! (Yep, still alive lol). Glad to hear from someone else who loved it. :) Y'know, I got into the city and I honestly didn't get too much further, even though it was so fascinating.
The thing that bugs me is, my late dad just got it for me on a whim one day when we were out shopping. Like "Hey you think that'd be fun? Alright go ahead." I was really excited about it when it came out, watching reviews and stuff.
That whole "butterfly dome" thing was crazy awesome.
I kinda feel like I owe it to him to finally go through and finish it one of these days, just out of appreciation for that memory. Now that I got the super-duper-everything version of Oblivion from GoG, I hope I get to soon. :)
That's probably the best opening to an oblivion review I've ever seen.
Willburger
I'm in love with you, and I send this message to you with hopes that you feel the same. Forever yours, Drummle.
This is so weird. I just saw your Morrowind review and wondered when you'd be doing Oblivion.... BY THE NINE DIVINES
ASSAULT! ASSAULT!
Jack Mcloan SKYRIM FOR THE NORDS
BY THE GLORY OF TALOS
@@benn454 I'll see to it that you're thrown in jail!
The aldmeri dominion shall rule tamriel!
*A SALT!* *A SALT!*
Whoa has it been that much time that Oblivion is now retro :’)
It's been long enough for Skyrim, if you ask me.
Rena Ami Akai The criterion for retro-ness is pretty arbitrary; though for this old guy, the term is properly applied to things that came before the 486-era.
well if this is retro then command and conquer generals and generals zero hour must be on its way soon then!
It's been over 10 years. I played it when I was 8 and I'm now 20. That's pretty old to me.
@@waltherstolzing9719 agreed!
I still remember the genuine terror and unease I felt when I first entered an Oblivion gate. I was so freaked out, I put off doing that first gate for ages- when I returned, the game had scaled with my level, and there dinosaurs, which all jump scared the hell out of me lmao.
Oblivion & flip phones. That puts things into perspective.
All hail Sir Professor Emperor Patrick Xavier Stewart Picard VII!
You forgot the "Sir" ...
Intrinia Studios He also forgot Gurney...
That's CAPTAIN Sir Professor Emperor Patrick Xavier Stewart Picard VII
I prefer Emperor Urethra Rectum VII
I was eating when he said that. Big mistake.
Hahaha, I loved the Havok physics. I spend days wandering around knocking things off shelves in real life, to pretend I was living in Oblivion.
You may want to talk to these guys for a job interview: th-cam.com/channels/F1Zvatfad118agJFTXGtCQ.html?&ab_channel=LaFaveBros
i literally had a spell just to make stuff jump. a 1 damage lightining spell with the maximum area possible. it was called "shocking popcorn". i loved it, everything in a 20 meter radius jumped a little bit with each cast. sometimes i'd just go into my armory in my house where i laid all my weapons on display and start spamming it to create a tornado with all the crap that was there.
My cat does that too.
Not even two seconds into watching this review made me install oblivion onto my computer once again.
get them sweet mods while you're at it
@@jamesmccloud7535 *chuckles in loverslab*
Memes and jokes aside, Oblivion is one of the greatest experiences I ever had with a game. It's, to me, one of the best crafted video games ever made. Skyrim, while still amazing, never gave me as much fun as Oblivion.
It's still fun to play. Also, there's something about its rich color pallette that sets it apart from both Skyrim and Morrowind, both of which are sort of washed out or mostly monochromatic. Journeying through the lush green grass surrounded by swaying, brightly colored flowers, a glowing sunrise and a huge, flaming interdimensional gate in the distance is still a mesmerising experience! Not to mention imaginative side-quests and one of the best Elder Scrolls DLC's: Shivering Isles.
Such a great game! Sure it wasn't perfect but the scale of the world and the impact - wow!
ive played 3 es games and here are my thoughts on them.
morrowind- too serious/hardcore . still did not complete the main quest.
skyrim-too casual for me. i was shocked when i finished the main quest soo fast.yes you can ramp up the difficulty but i played all 3 normal difficulty.
oblivion-just fucking right. its main and side quests keep you engaged but its glitch/feature is so funny and kinda reminds you to not take yourself seriously ..
i mean skyrim is basically the same engine as oblivion but oblivion feels varied weird and funny whereas in skyrim its glitch and its ai is just annoying im really not sure why.
to bad they couldn't get the game to run at native 720P on console. hell even the xbox1 backwards compatible still doesn't run at 30fps due to technical issues :(
So easy to get sucked in for far too many hours in that game.
Wait, there was a 2D Oblivion for phones of the pre-smart generation? Man, I want to see a video about that!
*Have you heard anything about the other provinces*
**cough**
*bye*
*hello*
**both walk back the way they just came from**
My favourite is when they glitch out and bend backwards and come at you looking like a demented crab thing. Scared the shit outta me the first time I played
Apparently, they have rocks for brains.
6:45
Rat used "Sneak Attack"
it was not very effective...
Hello
Breton trash
Indeed
Goodbye
Goodbye
*looks at player*
Oh, its you... HI...
*you have the hands of a healer*
@@SeasoningTheObese That was hilarious😂😂
@@SeasoningTheObese*septim, you Breton trash
My brother an I have been greeting each other with "Oh, its you...Hi..." for years now.
[S N O R T]
Stop! You violated the law! Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence.
Then pay with your blood!
You violated my mother!
Eat steel, pig! ACAB!
Joseph Grant You ruined my wife
@@JoeOG lets get to bashing butts
One of the funnest play throughts on this was one where I actually finished the Main Quest real early, was good being able to just go through a Post-Oblivion Cyrodil doing the side Quests in an otherwise peaceful land where everyone was happy the "Oblivion crisis was over". Has a real different vibe to it
“In an act that had sever detrimental effects on the property value of Cyrodil...”
That might be the best thing I’ve heard all week.
What about the next line though? "Firey zits on the face of Satan"
Have you heard any news from the other provinces?
They say syndicates of wizards have led a boycott of Imperial goods in the land of the Altmer
Kyle Hurd Farewell.
The Trash Man Hello!... By...
The Kvatch Oblivion Gate has been closed! Don't you understand what that means? We can beat the bastards!
Not much.
Funny story: back in 2006 i was going to buy oblivion on Xbox 360 and was looking at it for a a little while and was saving up for it when the rating change happened i remember looking at the package and saying are you serious when i saw the rating had been changed from T to M i was 14 at the time.
Someone gave me Oblivion as a gift when I was 13. My mom really didn't care unless people actually started fucking.
My mom didn't care enough lol I remember how addicted a became right away Holy shit. Really life changing
It's probably because the ERSB review testers finally stumbled upon the Argonian Maid text books for the first time after the T rating was already released. They panicked and the Mature rating was put on after that.
TODDDDDD!!!
@@PIKL_Creep omg I'm 14 and my dad gave me this as a Christmas gift *I DIDNT KNOW THEY HAVE THAT IN THIS GAME*
The guilds in Oblivion were awesome and I actually liked the Oblivion realm, always good loot.
Reflect damage - on every piece of armour, win a fight by standing there and getting hit, heh.
"Wafts, I say!"
I laughed more than I should at that.
The entrance to the shivering isles will always stick with me along with going all over the place to cure vamprism. oblivion carved its way to my heart and i still play this from time to time. thanks for doing most of the elder scrolls now LGR!
Jeremy Soule will always be my favorite video game soundtrack composer.
I love his stuff in Guild Wars. Soule, Wise, and Kirkhope are the holy trinity of game composers.
Nerevar Rising from Morrowind is an absolute masterpiece. It feels like it's telling the story of the game you're about to play when you get to the menu.
+LPNP I agree with your choices, though mine would be a quadity because mine also includes Frank Klepacki (Look up Universe at War: Earth Assault and Supreme Commander OST, Prepare for Oblivion + Risk Relief and Victory are great songs from those games)
Icewind Dale
You all forgot koji Kondo though
What do you call the Emperor of Tamriel's nose ring?
A Septim piercing.
ohohohoohhoh hahahahahaa, my anus is cramping because i'm shitting so hard when i fall victim to the laughter
Oh god
You cleaver basterd
He tried it.
As a body piercer such as myself.. I appreciated this greatly lol
Your player char kinda looks like rowan atkison.
You're not wrong! He certainly resembles the caricature of Atkinson from the Mr Bean cartoon
My only big gripe with Oblivion is how Cyrodiil was depicted. Everything else about the game I loved but once I got to actually reading the old lore (which I get is super old) I feel like there were some missed opportunities.
The Imperial City sounded more like a fusion of Constantinople, Ankor Wat, and Tenochtitlan than Rome-in-a-wheel, most of the province was a steamy jungle full of floating towns and rice plantations, and the divide between the Colovian and Nibenese Imperials was much more stark with the former being more like Teutonic Highlander Slavs and the latter like Byzantines with a south-east Asian flair with tattoos, silks, and exotic piercings. I get it that much of this had officially changed or outright retconned in-universe, but this sounds a lot more interesting and fun to explore than another standard medieval setting we got, with some touches to not make it too familiar.
Pretty much sums all of bethesda lore. They can never do it justice.
The cancelled psp spin off based on oblivion had really cool looking places.
It does not even maky sense that Cyrodiil would be a jungle. The Imperials in Morrowind had a roman culture. Also in Arena Cyrodiil was not a jungle. It would have also destroyed the hole world of Tamrial. Half of Tamriel would be a jungle and next to that jungle would be the frosty north of Skyrim and at the same time a big desert. The culture of the Altmer, Dunmer , Akaviri and Kahjit is already based on Asian culture. And no Imperial in Morrowind ever looked like that. And with the Shivering Isles we got an amazing new zone that was stranger that everything we saw in Morrowind and the other games. The contrast between the "normal" medieval Cyrodiil and the mad Shivering Isles was what made it so interesting for me. For me the universe feels way bigger with Cyrodiil not being a jungle like so many other places in Tamriel.
The problem i have with this game is how the gameplay never aged well but yes i know its the best es game but i just cant get myself interested in this mabye one day mabye idk
Oblivion is by no means the best Elder Scrolls. That still belongs to Morrowind.
The irony of the horse armor debacle is that cosmetic DLC is the type of DLC accepted most readily these days, with others being seen as content creators withheld from the original release.
Well the only true dlc was the shivering isles
That has a lot to do with how many instances exist where content was discovered on-disk or in the install files for DLC released later on. While most developers insisted that it was either meant to cut down on the file sizes for planned DLC or just ideas that couldn't be completed in time for the scheduled release, enough examples exist of fully playable content existing that could easily be modded in that most people refused to accept those explanations. This has caused a massive distrust towards developers, and people have begun to accept the "games as a service" approach. Cosmetics are the safest and easiest way to add new content to a game, as the "pay to win" approach of adding new items that clearly overshadow the base game items can easily cause a fanbase shitstorm. It's all kind of awful and makes DLC kind of useless as a concept unless the developers go the extra mile and create something more like the expansion packs of old.
The cosmetic thing only really applies to multiplayer games. It's still unforgivable in single player games.
I feel CD Projket Red is the only ones that do DLC correctly... Speaking of course about the Witcher 3 expansions.
@@razr6302 yeah the witcher 3 is awesome I was just so pre-occupied the last few years I couldn't play it i just started it yesterday and.....it's just as good as everyone says
Dang! When I first saw the scene after the dungeon for the first time, I thought there was no way graphics would ever get any better....
Skyrim video some day? I'm not even asking soon but some day, I can hope. Thanks LGR for awesome stuff.
I'd love a skyrim review
Wait what?! An LGR game review?! No way! I miss these so darn much. Despite my love for recent & era specific hardware & the videos of such items that Clint creates, it's his video game reviews that got me subscribed & kept me coming back. Seeing as Clint has changed direction of his channel with the main focus being on hardware, I found myself looking to satisfy that big box pc game review videos elsewhere. I honestly haven't paid any attention to this channel in over 8 months so its a BLAST for me to see this video! Oh how I love how Clint reviews games.
What other channels satisfy that itch?
4:24
To be fair, you are the one from his dreams. So that's why he trusts you so quickly and fully. I'm sure you just wanted to make a funny joke but within the context of the character it makes total sense he would act that way.
you are also like the only option he has at that moment.
those guys where busy fighting the mythic dawn, he knew he was going to die and waiting for the others to finsih their job before handing off the amulet would have ended with it being lost.
I like how GoT's Joffre made a "toasty" pop-up during the Sean Bean bit xD
I remember reading in a game magazine article about this back in the day that they had to retool the AI because they introduced a hunger mechanic, but it was breaking quests because guards would eat a certain prisoner for example, or others would die. Kind of a neat problem to have 🤷♂️
I just officially became “old”.
But I’m still young at heart.
Welcome, brother. We have been expecting you.
What's the official age for becoming old? I suspect I've passed it, as I got Oblivion when i at the time I got my first job.
mca mac That’s not old. I worked at a Babbages in the 90s and remember the day Daggerfall came out. I also remember how buggy it was and since this was before wide spread internet use we had a patch disk we had to eventually hand out to people to make it playable.
*proceeds to list the shortcommings of Oblivion*
"Yeah, but the gras wafts."
"Listen..."
"IT WAFTS, I SAY!"
shooting a civ and fast travel as far away as you can
after a few hours of playtime (if you have not broken the law again)
then you might be approached by a gaurd that followed you throughout the whole map
and it always happens at the most inconvenient of times
well is not like that doesn't happen in skyrim i remember fighting a dragon near the atornach stone when i suddnely i get aproached by a lady telling me that she escapedsome bandits while the raogn is full force attacking me and for some goddamn reason ic ant cancel that conversation it's like
lady: hey i jsut escaped some bandits, need help being directed to the enarest city
me: literally absorbing a dragon's breath attack: i don't have time for that no..
lady: ohh but you got to help me...., oyu see there were these slave drivers
me *raise shield and eats another flame breath*: seriously ma'am we're gonna get roasted alvie
Lady: it doesn't matter you ahve to listen to my rpoblem first, women have rights blah blahh and those filthy men must face consquences for looking at me funny
me: ohhh lord........ not one of this entitled "victimized" feminists, Layd I AM FIGHTING A DRAGON RIGHT NOW, AND IF YOU DONT WANT TO GET KILLED JUST RUN AND LEAVE US ALONE!!
lady: uggh you men are all pigs
*lady goes away and i'm in massively low health making me waste pots"
Dragon: uhhh that was weird
me: i know man
Dark elf: take this and dont lsoe it i will com eback for it later
me: wtf???? first this lady and now you, i'm fighting a giant fire breathing lizard here *takess a bucnh more breath damage* LET US HAVE SOME privacy!!!
Dragon: uhhhh ...i...i dont feel comfortable with this conversation *flies away*
Me: noooo!!! my dragon soul!! -.-!!!!
Anon 24 I know I’m a year in the future but WHAT
*STOP! YOU VIOLATED THE LAW!*
One of the best things about Oblivion Gates were the Storm Atronachs. I loved how when you killed one all the stones it was made of fell to the ground and became separate physics assets you could pick up and throw. Watching one of these monsters die, fall down and tumble down a slope in bits was so satisfying.
Another great video.
But one thing... The realms of oblivion are not randomly generated. Instead they are randomly *selected* from a list of seven. ;)
Pluto28 wait what???
There is a thin line between ethereal and vaselined lens in that bloom effect.
Chill out with the "vaseilined lens". I only have one pair of underpants for the day.
Just found out that the modding community is still going strong, downloaded a bunch of upgraded content and replaying this gem. Thx for the review/reminder 👾
"Towering central tower in the center,"
A true wordsmith you are, sir.
"A flawed game to be sure, but a welcome one!"
Was... was that a subtle prequelmeme reference?
Can't resist a tried and true prequel meme
@@LGR General Prequelquoti! You are a bold one.
@@LGR Hello there!
@@RickEmc2 General Kenobi
Kurt Yarish Oh i don't think so
Heh, I'm actually playing it now... 113 hours in.
Skyrim was my first entry into the series, even though I'm a very old PC gamer.... never really got into Elder Scrolls until quite recently.
Since exchange rates and a crappy economy right now are preventing me from upgrading my 6yr old PC, I decided to go the opposite direction and play an older prequel to some of my favorite games.... which got me to Oblivion. :P
I decided to go in without reading anything previously, so I didn't actually know Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine were expansions... xD I finished Knights of the Nine and am right in the middle of Shivering Isles right now. And I started those after leaving just a few level specific sidequests and the main storyline alone.
But it goes well with the way I play anyways... both Fallout 3 onwards and Skyrim I pretty much did every single sidequest before finishing them.
You didn't put up the main gripe I have after getting used to how Skyrim plays.... the damn picklocking thing. Not that in Skyrim it's particularly great, but goddamn the thing can get in your nerves in Oblivion... like I said, I'm a completionist, so it's save and load time everytime I find a locked chest. That can get to your nerves fast when you get into one of those mines, dungeons or whatever with tons of locked stuff that just have some crap in them. :P
It also has a sort of wonky balance and progression... I do remember in Skyrim and Fallout 3 onwards that after reaching a certain level you're pretty much God. You sneeze close to enemies and they go flying (particularly in Skyrim xD ), but on Oblivion, goddamn, I'm the freaking master of both Fighter's Guild and Mages Guild and then comes a freaking Mountain Lion and mauls me as if I was a rat or something. :P
I do get that Bethesda tried to level things up with the expansions though... those boots from Knights of the Nine that makes you a friend to all animals is just awesome... Woodland Grace was it?
I also put everything on carrying weight around because I knew that would be a thing from other Bethesda games, and yet it still didn't do much... making multiple trips to lug around loot for your base of operations to sell it out later in cities.
But gripes aside, I'm really glad I went this way. It of course looks very dated nowadays, but I'm still enjoying it plenty. And it continues being a problem to explain why I like it... there just seems to be a big divide between gamers that likes this sort of game, and games that just can't stand it. My circle of gamer friends in particular has almost no one that likes the Bethesda style.... oh well.
It's unfortunate that your friends aren't into Bethesda titles, I remember being at a friend's house when Oblivion was fresh and showing off my archery prowess by hitting small objects out of draw distance lol. The lock picking in Oblivion is the only version of the activity that I ever truly enjoyed in a game, so much so that I bought a lock pick set irl and some padlocks from home Depot to practice. Also, something that I feel gets overlooked a lot in elder scrolls games is the truly captivating lore, traveling around cyrodiil collecting every book I hadn't yet read was one of the most enthralling time wasters in a game outside of MMOs.
"I once dug a pit and filled it with clouds....or was it clowns.... it doesn't matter, it didn't slow him down. But it really began to smell! Must have been clowns. Clouds don't smell, they taste of butter. And tears."
I never bothered with lockpicking in Oblivion, i usually just capped alteration and used a custom open door spell i made at the Mages university. I remember you could force locks (auto attempt), but it ate up all your lockpicks easily if your skill was low.
@@Ichinin couldn't you get around that with the skeleton key? I could be wrong but you could just spam auto attempt since it never broke haha
Michael Frost That worked too. But i prefer magick so...
Funny thing: I always played a Battlemage in MW and Oblivion, and when i started playing ESO, i did it again and i could go level at zones +10 levels above my rank (I remember being a lvl 37 in a 50 zone). Then they level scaled ESO and all the pros of BattleMages went out the window :P
I was a bored teenager once and I asked my brother if he had any PC games I might be interested in. He gave me a copy of Oblivion. I was amazed, never had I played a game like this or knew of anything Elder Scrolls related. I got hooked... I fondly remember enabling no clip mode every time I entered an Oblivion gate and floating to the top of every central tower. Seriously the gates popping up annoyed the hell out of me. It was cool when the area surrounding the gate changed mood, but I took it as a sign to run the opposite direction! 🤣 Good times
Oblivion
The one game in which leveling up is bad for you
I always hated the meta involved in handling Oblivion's level scaling. The reason things can absolutely own you as you level up is because the game assumes an essentially perfect level curve for the player, wherein they get the maximum points available every level and put them in to stats optimal for specific play styles. The enemies themselves are balanced with this in mind, which is the precise reason that, for a casual play-through of the game, it's almost better to never level up at all despite the limitations this places on you in terms of the equipment you can find in-game. It really is a case where building a class that emphasizes the skills you intend to use actually cripples you rather than helps you, and is the single biggest flaw the game has.
All that said, Oblivion is nevertheless the Elder Scrolls game I prefer when I just want to pick one up and explore around. As much as it was criticized for feeling generic in comparison to Morrowind, I found the vibrancy of the world and its inhabitants to be very captivating, the perfect fantasy explore-'em-up for anyone who just wants to grab a sword or bow and go fight some goblins.
Fortunately there's re-balance mods, like ones that make the monster curve more like Morrowind: Certain places always contain tougher baddies than others. This way you can still be level 20 and NOT be coming across bandits in full Daedric gear.
...Which is like...if they're in such fancy armor that's worth so much, why are they still bandits attacking random travelers? XD
Oblivion is the game where you make your class skills all tthat you *DON'T USE*, and then train everything else.
It's a very silly game.
The only thing worse than Bloom is Depth of Field. Nothing like smearing Vaseline all over your screen everywhere except directly where the game wants you to look.
I never understood that. Just because I'm not directly looking at something doesn't mean I want it to look like a foggy window.
Same. I hate it.
Bloom is actually essential. It's an important post processing effect that makes your image pop and makes it more vibrant. Too much bloom is usually the problem. It's very easy to overdo it.
There some graphics overhauls that make things a lot better check out nexus mods think its in the top 5 mods
I like depth of field, it's more realistic. It's not the direction you aren't looking directly at, it's your focal distance.
Try this (in real life):
Stand/sit in front of a window looking outside, hold up a piece of paper with some small writing about a foot away from your face, close one eye and focus on something outside. No matter how close that paper is to where you're looking, whilever you're vision is focused on the outside, the paper is blurry and unreadable. (Unless the text is so massive you can still read it blurry!)
If you now focus on the piece of paper instead, you'll notice the outside has gone blurry.
You'll also notice that when you alternate focusing between the two, that each time there is a significant delay as the one gradaully becomes less blurry, and you can feel the lense of your eye having to refocus to the new distance.
It's not about direction, it's about depth. Just like the name suggests. So I prefer it, being able to focus at all distances feels very unrealistic.
i remember playing this game by accident and falling in love with it when my friends took me to an internet cafe to try and get me into DOTA which i didn't really get into and ended up playing this instead and actually got all my friends into it too shortly after that lol
I still remember when I walked out of the sewer into Tamriel, I was amazing at how bright and beautiful it was.
I still play it on the daily! Man even just listening to the soundtrack is more enyoable, than playing most games!
Turituriturituriiiiiii
Oblivions insane blooms just adds to the experience IMO it adds character to the game, a colorful painted look that is unique to the game and to the era.
I always thought the bloom fits Oblivion. One of the few games that actually benefit from it. Gives everything such an ethereal quality. Honestly, go to some Ayleid ruins, crank up Wings of Kynareth and tell me you actually want to turn off that bloom.
I'm so happy you're almost to a million subs Clint! You've more than earned it!
2:07 I can never hear this without hearing that famous Star Trek: NG intro speech by Jean Luc Picard in my head.
I really need to play this game. I remember when it came out and my friend swore by it for a time, but never really had the opportunity to try it since I always had "more productive" things to do than play games when I was younger (at least I did according to my parents. like watching beach movies from the 1960s).
I don't know what it is about games from ~1999 to around 2006-2008, but they still seem really impressive to me somehow graphically speaking. There's just something about the way they look that makes a lot of small things stand out and seem a lot more impressive and noticeable than more modern games. I'm not sure if it's nostalgia or some sort of conservation of detail thing.
Also, I kinda like the excessive bloom...
The graphics are still good thats true, but the game didnt really age well. You will enjoy it if you didn't play any newer RPGs in my opinion
This game took up a huge amount of my middle school and high school years and still remains one of my favorites, I can't even count how many days I stayed up playing this game for up to 12 hours straight and even to this day I still play it on the xbox one and still manage to get lost in the game for 10 hours. It hasn't aged the greatest as the other guy said but it still holds up really well and I have gotten way more enjoyment out of it than Skyrim as just an unmodded game where as Skyrim I've had to take up modding to make it more interesting. I whole heartedly recommend giving it a try.
I bought and played it again about two months ago, mid 2019. It's still an awesome game. The Shivering Isles Expansion remains one of the greatest Expansions ever made (equal to Blood and Wine from TW3 in detail, and larger in scale perhaps), and the main quest itself is still very entrancing. Not only that, but its combat is up to this day really impressive. I still don't know many games that feel this satisfying in combat, certainly not Skyrim.
Can't believe this video is 4 years old now. Feels like it came out just yesterday.
Finally got around to watching this. Very good overview/review, LGR!
I'm one of those weirdos that liked what people see as the weaknesses of Morrowind. The wiki dialogue, while leading to incredible repetitiveness, in the other direction allowed for all of Vivec and Dagoth Ur's great writing. The dice roll combat made it feel like a roleplaying experience where you grew more powerful (tired point, I know). And other things, but my brain isn't firing on all cylinders because it's Saturday morning and I drank last night. Suffice it to say, I love Morrowind. Painted rosy by some nostalgia, even if when I was 7 I really only used cheats and killed NPCs. The amount I enjoy it as an adult though drives home for me that it isn't a fully nostalgia based admiration and it is a game I genuinely enjoy for those reasons.
Hey, just realized I have the T rated version. I wish I'd been a more organized child and kept everything organized and intact.
Yeah I found it amusing after awhile how the NPCS were more information dispensing machines than actual people. Nobody in real life talks like but I found it so very quaint. I never had a problem with the grow more powerful by playing aspect either. I remember dying by a rat at the beginning of the game because I was using a weapon I wasn't skilled in. That was just a learning experience.
I started playing Oblivion again and remembered how much I liked the transportation network in Morrowind, too. Not to even mention the levitate spells and teleporting spells which I'm sorely missing in Oblivion.
Sam
I also liked the transportation system in Morrowind. In most games, when you need to go from point A to point B, you just fast travel from a map to the closest point of it and walk the rest of the way.
In Morrowind though, slowly learning all the Silt Strider and boat routes, as well as the mages guild and spell teleportation destinations somehow didn't feel like an unnecessary hassle but like a navigational skill that you earned yourself, with a lot of time saved as your reward.
Why walk when you can ride?
I FUCKING LOVE MORROWIND SO MUCH
This videos thumbnail made my day.
I was actually given that coin from the collector's edition after someone I knew found it randomly in a field. I had no idea it was from that.
the Dark Brother hood was one of the greatest video game experiences of my life, especially because I murdered someone randomly and slept and was asked to join, I had no idea what was going on I felt so OG joining them.
It’s the one “guild” quest line I started and then finished immediately!!! I loved sneaking around and doing little one shot missions. Then once you found out there was a twist, it just got better!
Didn't expect this review to drop out this soon.
I still have my rated T copy lying around somewhere since I bought mine day one of launch, thankfully my PC was good enough to run it on medium settings so I had a blast playing the game with little to no issues. I also vividly remember the "controversy" and reading an article from a developers admonishing it and endorsing PC players to unlock the boobs (yes, that was the controversy, female models could "unequip" the bra model and let their puppies hang free). Ah, those were the days...
You didn't get your sweet collectors stuff?? Something... something... canvas bag!!!
Heh, Bethesda jokes
I am really looking forward to your Skyrim full review. Your game reviews are the best.
Awesome, was on the fence about replaying this again, and I get this in my inbox. Back to Cyrodiil it is then. Cheers Clint!
Please do Neverwinter Nights :)
Sadly I don't own that one. Worth getting I take it?
2006 Bloom and Horse Armor 2011 Grey and brown with dragons 2018 Empty open worlds and loot boxes
I love how you mentioned the collectors edition and that pocketbook and coin, because since I got it when it first came out I've lost every bit of that collectors edition except the coin and pocketbook which I have tucked away nice and safe.
Nice! LL "Your are too pretty" scene was hilarious. Even nowadays, this game is a true masterpiece, and Jeremy soule music is just gorgeous!
Shivering Isles was so great as far as expansions go..possibly my favorite of all time.
It's not Mask of the Betrayer, but Shivering Isles is one of the best expansion packs.
I still occasionally listen to the soundtrack. Just something soothing about it.
Hey man I’m new to this channel and you know what this is probably the first channel on TH-cam I’ve ever actually enjoyed to listen to while I play my games so I would like to thank you and ask you to keep up the good work remember to stay excellent and party on dude
Thank you, hope you continue to enjoy
there truly is something magical about this game