Oblivion Review! (PS3) - The Game Collection
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- Find out in this Oblivion review if The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion stood the test of time!
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Hands down the best orchestral original soundtrack ever made for any game. Jeremy Soule is a genius.
Ulf - Chiptune Musician he also did the music for Kotor im pretty sure
WolfHeathen - Chiptune Musician Soule is the man
Wolf Heathen - Chiptune & Synthwave I was at my local game store and this idiot employee claimed Morrowind and Skyrim have excellent soundtracks but Oblivion’s is terrible.
Straight up made me dislike him with a single bad opinion. That and he wouldn’t stop talking to me. Just let he browse in peace!!!
i bought oblivion with the expansion packs for the ps3
probably spent hundreds of hours on it
imo the depth of the game was awesome
Armin Plays nice profile pic
stephen the dude system of a down
Any performance issues, bugs, etc? I'm planning to get it on PS3 but after watching the review, kinda disappointed.
DVCE P. get the expansion pack version on ps3 yes there are tiny bugs and glitches here and there but what do you expect from a game with a fucking massive open world
i am serious the expansion pack version has a FUCKING HUGE open world
I'm planning to get the GOTY edition, yes. Anyway, there is no need to swear dude, I'm just asking questions. Jeez.
wow I never had those kinda of bugs on my ps3 but I have only played the game of the year edition so maybe they had an on disc patch
the game of the year on ps3 fixes everything its much faster loading it runs better all the content is on the blue ray , no installs its a much better game , get the game of the year ps3 .
I know you wrote it a while ago but what about the 5th anniversary edition? Does it run without bugs?
I hope this includes the bug with curing Vampirisim?... that ruined my last play through.. give that one dude the items for the cure out of order and bam quest broken quest you’re stuck as a vampire.
@@nubworthycigars6682 make sure you get the eu version not usa one cause only the eu one has the fix for that because for the fix you need to change the language and the usa version only has english
I played this all the time on my PS3 when I was younger in middle school, never noticed the performance issues, it was awe inspiring made me get into fallout 3
The side quests make this game absolutely amazing. The guilds and the story are fun the first time, but don't hold up on re runs. But the side quests add so much lore to the world
Oblivion was my first TES game and man, it was a life changer, i put in the goty X360 version like 1000 hours onto it, an unforgettable experience.
Fei Wong that's me except with red dead redemption
One thing that's always bothered me about Bethesda games is the rhetoric I always hear: "If you install mods, you'll get an amazing experience" This may be true, and the mod community is full of some creative and talented people, but I feel like Bethesda leans so hard on its fan community that they just don't care about the product once it's on the shelf. Mods should be a nifty extra, not an essential element to make a multi-million selling game passable. P.S. this is no offense to you Derek. Great review, as always! :D
I never had too many problems with the PS3 version on a technical standpoint. Only thing that I really hate is the leveling system. It can get a little frustrating at times.
My wife spent a long time in Oblivion, but I wasn't really into it.
"The world definitely has some pretty landscapes but It never really felt like I was in a fantasy world. This was a little bit of a letdown to me considering the wildly alien landscapes someone could find in Morrowind" - Derek
1. Are you serious? Cyrodiil and Morrowind are two completely different landscape you silly person. That's like someone saying "I am dissatisfied because I didn't find near the same or similar landscape in the North Pole as I did in Northern Africa." WELL DUHH! you were not supposed to. Bethesda was sticking to the script when designing each landscape for each game. One trippy and alien. The other is wild and filled with multiple terrain.
2. Your obviously biased towards Morrowind and that is ok. Just don't use a game that alot of people find better than Morrowind "make it seem better" than Oblivion.
Ps. If you don't feel like your in a fantasy world when running up on Oblivion gates, fighting mythical creatures, spotting ruin, ect, your trying your hardest not to envision.
I bought this game for my xbox when i was living in Japan. English voices but everything was in Japanese, including menu's and quests, etc, and my Japanese was very basic.
I kept dying over and over again for no reason, and after a couple of weeks i had to get a girlfriend over to tell me what was happening. She tells me some message is coming up about a dream. Turns out i eventually figured out i had been bitten by a vampire and was dying because i was running around in the sunlight.
I was looking for a proper Oblivion review and I have found it after a VERY extensive search. Subscribed!
I'm in the mood for a long RPG and I'm going for Elder Scrolls but I can't decide which one should I play: Skyrim VR (PS4) or Oblivion Gmae Of The Year (PS3). I scratched Oblivion for a couple hours some years ago and didn't notice any performance issues or bugs. Which one should I play in your opinion?
Oblivion begins hundreds of years after Morrowind? Try six.
Yep, I goofed.
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I added an annotation to the video. Thanks again for the heads-up. :)
*+ SuperDerek RPGs thanks for ur review, I got the game today in 2017 for ps3 the game of the year edition, gonna play it for the firs ttime, I have 100% completed on skyrim, subbed to ur channel*
How the f is Uriel Septim still alive in the opening of Oblivion if it took place hundreds of years after Morrowind? And how is it still the third era?
I have Oblivion on PS3, and I never ran into any issues.
I hear the GOTY version had some extra patches the other version never got. Also my PS3 is an older, PS2 compatible model, not sure if that might have an effect.
I love this game and I only experienced it on PS3. Initially I didn't know you can fast travel immediately, I thought you had to discover locations first like in Skyrim. I do agree with all the criticisms you made but I love the game regardless. I couldn't get into Skyrim but Oblivion sucked me in immediately.
I have one question for you Derek.
What exactly does this game have a spot in the game collection? This review seemed to highlight criticisms more than praise.
Oblivion takes place 3 years after the end of Morrowinds last dlc, not hundreds of years after.
Yep. Wish I could fix that. Unfortunately the video came out hundreds of years ago and it's out of my hands. -_-
Nice video! I just bought it for my PS3!
I play on ps3 and i think its great!
I played on PS3 with like, five characters for a total play time of 800 or more hours. Really nice and fun, I really like to watch hostile factions fights.
Last year, I purchased the gog version, that I wil try someday when I get a new computer. With and without mods, of course, because I really like to play the games the way they were made and with the improvements from the community.
this game definitely still holds up still plau it to this day I think you've been abit harsh here
It's not a bad game, but it's really poor compared to Morrowind. I love it so much, and yet the level scaling makes it 100x worse than it could have been.
I must have passed this review by before. But I'm more interested in this type of game since your Fallout New Vegas review. The more I learn about the genre the more I love it
Oblivion is set 6 years after Morrowind not hundreds of years after, but other than that, good review
I’m playing oblivion on ps3 in 2021 for the first time after playing morrowind on original Xbox and then Skyrim on ps3. Oblivion is super awesome and fits right in between the other two. 🤙
Cyrodiil is the nice core of Tamriel. It's supposed to be highly hospitable to human life, and it resembles Italy and to an extent, France.
what the FUCK are you cracking on about???
Just play Oblivion and tell me that it doesn't resemble France to some degree, what with the wine and the Gothic cathedrals.
I still think the oblivion has the best side quests in the whole series (and yes better than morrowind and skyrim imo).
I played Oblivion quite a bit on PS3 with almost no problem whatsoever. Although it may be better on other platforms, it is definitely worth getting the game of the year edition on PS3.
David Alvarez how is the performance, thinking of getting it tommorow
I have Oblivion for PC. The terrain loading at weird times is also evident on PC. At best, It would load at like 50 meter diameter. If you tried to scale the terrain loading to be larger, the frame rate would slow down to a crawl. Other than this, I had no problem with Oblivion. I never used any mods on it and it plays fine. I've spent hours on this game and I love it!
If I remember correctly, The PS3 version came out months after the 360 version so they probably made the PS3 version include the fixes they put in updates on the 360. Even fully patched the game is very buggy. That's just how many bethesda games are unfortunately. Still the PS3 version had some new issues they should have patched anyway.
As I've come to understand it, the game was ported by a third-party developer, and wasn't optimized very well. The process introduced new bugs which weren't ever really addressed, but apparently many were fixed in the GOTY release, which I don't have unfortunately.
Great review. Hope to see more of your game collection.
It goes Daggerfall > Morrowind > Skyrim > Oblivion > Arena for me. This game I bought day one with the collector's edition for PC. Installed it onto my laptop and it crashed. I had to install something called Oldblivion to get it to run, which basically stripped all the pretty stuff away leaving you with an unmodded, flawed game. I later got a job and built a PC to run the game. Let's just say by then there were some good mods and it fixed all those issues you brought up.
Overall I did enjoy the game. I only played the Main Quest, Dark Brotherhood and Thieves' Guild quest lines. Sounds like you enjoyed those too! I didn't like a lot of the level design. It always made me feel like rushing through everything until I found something worth spending my time with. My first quest was getting stuck in some Dunmer's painting with these gorilla-looking monsters everywhere. I believe they were trolls. Very cool, but I panicked cause I couldn't hurt the damn things until I brought the difficulty down.
I'm surprised you reviewed this plain jane, vanilla! I guess it's the more universal experience. I'm glad I modded it and avoided the real Oblivion experience. I wouldn't have played it without those mods. Looking good, by the way, Derek! Keep up these awesome reviews. :)
I play the GOTY edition on PS3 and it works fine for me.
I just spied Suikoden II behind you on the game shelf!! That's an episode I can't wait to see
You're in luck, I'm planning on covering some Suikoden this summer along with some friends. :)
Btw annotations aren't working for me. You should add your patreon link in the description!
Alright, maybe I'll do that from now on, thanks :)
+SuperDerek RPGs can you do the fallout series or skyrim
SuperDerek RPGs Kalinka malinka
Fair review! I never actually finished Oblivion, but I did play Skyrim to completion.
Great video! I completed all the factions and story lines on the GOTY edition for PS3 and I really didn't experience many bugs that ruined the game. The Xbox 360 version is definitely better, same with Skyrim, but it is still a passable and enjoyable experience on PS3. In other words, if that is your only way to play then don't let that be a reason to not play it. I love Oblivion but you're right about it never really feeling like a fantasy world, especially after the awesome world of Morrowind.
Thanks Sam! And I do agree with you on that point. I guess what I meant when I said to avoid the PS3 version at all costs was more like, "at all costs, excepting that it prevent you from playing the game at all..." But that doesn't roll off the tongue quite as easily. xD
I felt more immersed in oblivion with the expansions than I did with skyrim
I love this game and I've played it pretty extensively on my old laptop. I'm thinking of getting this for PS3 but it's hard to get past the fact that I need to do EVERYTHING all over again lol
I'm only 15 years old and I've played skyrim but I want to play this 2006 classic.
Nice review,This game is huge and brilliant.The story is well crafted and keeps the player interested at all times.
Absolutely amazing game. Loved the crap out of it, played of the xbox. Still playing Skyrim to get my fix as I don't own Oblivion anymore.
Good review... The magical design genious of Morrowind was gone, but there were a lot of technical improvements.
The music of this game just...so good. The UI though always drove me mad. Still a great game.
I like when you give rough prices on the games man.
Completely agree with all your criticisms but I still totally love it. I've only played the 360 version though. Lol
Overall agree. when you first enter the world you get overwhelmed with what is possible but once you get into it content is rather repetitive and mundane. Plus the changes they made to streamline the series really hurt the game overall as it felt like the game was hand-holding you the entire time.
People tend to look at these games with really think rose-tinted glasses or are remembering the game with all the player mods installed. I personally think Bethesda relies too heavily on use created content as they release a bare bones game and let the players fill it with content while Bethesda gets the praise.
Then there was Bethesda trying to charge for player mods on Steam but that's a story for another day.
Very good video, good pacing and a balance of what's good and bad.
Favorite game of all time. You just have to look past a lot of quirks and if can't that's understandable
It's a crime that this was not tidied up and re released for PS4 with trophies. It could be easily done by a company like Bethesda. Bethesda really don't care about their fans.
He says pick up a copy of Shivering Isles like there's just a standalone Oblivion on Steam (which I don't think there is), plus, if you are getting Oblivion on Steam, get the GOTY Deluxe, it has all of the dlc, for just $5 more than the regular GOTY.
Oh thank god I bought the GOTY version yesterday, I ended up putting down the base version and going from Half price books and going to the gamestop across the street.
I love Oblivion. Of course I played it on 360. But endless hours were spent on it. I like how you pointed out how bland the dungeons were because at the time I never noticed it
Morrowind is pretty much the only reason I regret never buying an XBox system, from what I gather it's Oblivion minus all the things I hated about Oblivion. The leveling system was so damn stupid
Good review! Oblivion was my first Elder Scrolls and man was it great! I do agree about the setting though, Cyrodill was very plain looking and not as diverse as Skyrim was for example. Thankfully for me though my copy of the PS3 version never really gave me issues
The dark brotherhood were my favourite missions
I disagree, I have many, many hours logged on the PS3 version. It’s been mostly bug free and I haven’t experienced any crashes. Besides, glitches in Oblivion are one of the things that make it so endearing.
Ps4?
Lambdaxian my mistake, meant PS3 of course
Never got a chance to play this until now. Only thing that sucks is I'm playing it on my ps4 through psnow. Hopefully it's doesn't start glitching out because it's most likely the ps3 version.
Lol, I only played the game of the year edition on PS3. I liked it enough to pick up Skyrim on PS3, which was even buggier!
I might buy them on PC down the road, because I've recently installed and modded Morrowind on my laptop. Modding makes a lot of difference in these games. Once I buy a new PC I might actually finish these games.
Is this worth playing after playing Morrowind and Skyrim, Derek? There doesn't seem to be any huge draw for me, especially as I would not be playing it on a PC.
+SilverMongooseVideos Nah probably not.
My brother loved this one. Im more of a jrpg guy myself
One of the greatest games of all time! Especially if you mod it :)
Music is amazing, gameplay is awesome, one of best games ever made, but play it on Xbox one and series X never on Ps
I got the goty edition of it from gamestop and when i put the 2nd disk in to download the dlc it said that the data was downloaded somewhere else. :(
if i dont have a PC should i get it for xbox? does the DLC work on xbox one????
Just get the game of the year edition for Xbox and you're good
lol ill remember when i have old pc just watch your video, can't effort to buy games, is so nostalgia lol
I played a ton of Oblivion on PS3 and never ran into the issues you did. I think your copy was messed up.
+LakesideAmusementPro Disc is completely clean. Someone else mentioned not having problems either, but they were playing the GOTY release in a PAL region. Do you know which version you were playing by chance?
+SuperDerek RPGs I played the US vanilla release. I never had any issues like you did with yours. I eventually picked up the GOTY edition and it ran really good too.
is it true that the game lags if you have too many mods? I don't know what's worse: the bugs or the lag
Not sure about lagging, but I do know too many mods will result in instability, and probably crashing if there are incompatibilities.
ok thanks! I don't know much about pc gaming ^^
played this game 350hours the most ive put in a single player game.. more than skyrim, fallout 3, Red Dead and Witcher 3
Have played 53 hours so far and no bugs yet
Morrowind doesn't take place 100s of years before Oblivon
Yep, I goofed.
Could you possibly review one of the Borderlands games, or are they not RPG enough for the channel?
+Clashman The Third I'm honestly not sure. I'll look into 'em. I actually know a guy who worked on the first title, designed a lot of the guns and stuff. :)
Wow, those glitches were spectacular. Kinda sad I missed watching them manifest live.
This video pretty much sums up my feelings about Oblivion. "Got a problem? There's a mod for that!"
+SeafoamSmiles They were pretty outstanding. That glitch with the legion guard putting around on his invisible scooter was priceless! I think it really deserves some custom sound effects.
Still, one of my favorite moments of the playthrough was ensuring that Seafoam made his way back to the ocean, whilst dodging attacks from Will-o'-the-wisps. :)
SuperDerek RPGs You did good by him **sniff**.
Just grabbed this classic for 10 bucks. One of my favourite games of all time, it's been too long!
The PS3 Version is not worth it even if you can stand all the bugs because it's IMPOSSIBLE to complete every quest in that Version. The Cure Vamp Quest can not be completed.
If you're new to the game and you try that Quest, you'll spend around like 1 or 2 hours on a quest that can't be finished.
+VyseOfLegends9001 Lucky me, I got kicked out of the Mage's guild for stealing a horse and couldn't be bothered to gather flowers, so I couldn't even begin the cure quest xD
I have it on PS3 and have pretty much never run into a bug.
Also the Xbox 360 was known to be a pretty buggy mess, since it was released a year earlier. The PS3 version didn't have any patches because it was released a year later.
Also I played the standard edition, and based on one of your comments I have also played it on the same, similar, version of the PS3. I got my PS3 on the day of release here in Europe.
I never finished this game. The stronger I got, the more outclassed by the enemies I was. Even with permanent 100% Invisibility on crafted Items. Yes, no one could attack me. But it still took ages to kill any kind of enemy. Over 5 min. to kill a random group of trolls, is ridiculous.
Cheap ass, sewer Bandits wearing all sorts of high end glass and ebony armor and weapons.
Why even care about an Deadra attack? The sewer Bandits will rekt them!
Player Level 5, fight against Umbra = easy
Player Level 25, fight against Umbra = tgm
After playing Oblivion on the 360, feeling like the hours I spent were so empty, I decided I wouldn't even think about another Bethesda game ever again. I'm basically sticking to JRPGs - they feel meaningful. ;-)
Know what I love about the Elder Scrolls? Set hundreds of years after Morrowind, yet absolutely no technological advancement at all.
My favorite Elder Scrolls by far.
Cheers but I only got a ps3 and PS4 so gonna have to get the ps3 game of the year edition
Not to be a console fanboy but the Xbox 360 was the better port of this. The PS3 felt like a rush job.
No. Go google why the GOTY PS3 was the superior version on console. Better draw distance, resolution, frame rate, load times, ect.
I think Bethesda saw the cpu and ram setup and spewed everywhere.
I used to love this game, but I think Skyrim ruined it for me. Going into Oblivion gets gets boring and the level-up system is so bass-ackwards. Either you play the game naturally and end up with an underpowered character, or you learn how the system works, game it, and inevitably build an overpowered character.
I bought the PS3 version of Oblivion several months ago and after enjoying the hell out of Skyrim I thought I'd love this one too. The only thing I've really enjoyed so far are the relatively short load times. Otherwise, it has been a rather bland experience. This review reaffirms my feelings and is well done. I might try and go back to Oblivion just to finish it off, but if I don't I probably won't feel like I've missed much.
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barny15 the side quests and guild quests are what made oblivion equal to skyrim, skyrim had a better story tho
That is SO unfair that the PS3 version didn't get any updates. That such total bullcrap.
Agreed 100%.
i felt the same with skyrim... without mods it feels empty and boring. i dont know why people hype the hell out of bethesda games.
its amazing without.mods not like skyrim
Such a shame to see a ps3 game like this that was never patched up.
Whats the opening music?? O.O
Do you mean my theme song? Or the Oblivion theme? :)
The theme song..
Oblivion would be really great if it weren't for that awful leveling/scaling system.
there must be something wrong with your copy as I put hundreds of hours into oblivion on PS3 and NEVER ran into any bugs or glitches that severe, apart from sometimes being unable to complete the vampirism cure questline the game ran like a dream for me and ran better than the 360 version which I played for nearly 100 hours on my brothers 360 :P it loaded faster, I had less pop in, the graphics looked sharper and I could rife a horse without it saying 'loading area' every 30 seconds :P oblivion on PS3 kicked ass, skyrim on the other hand... xD
+Thomasshorrock Yea my copy of oblivion on ps3 runs really good too (I have PAL ver). Strange
+Rarexpl1 PAL format here too :P mine was the goty edition ported by ubisoft :P
+Thomasshorrock That's so bizarre! Were you playing a different edition by chance? I've been playing the standard release for this review. :)
+SuperDerek RPGs my copies a game of the year edition which was ported by ubisoft :P
Well shit, I only ever played on the PS3
This fucking game turns my PS3 into a brick every five minutes, I just can't play it.
"Install a lot of mods and have a blast" more like have a lot of crashes lol. You really need to be extra careful when installing mods on an Elder Scrolls game.
Oblivion is definitely my least favorite entry in the Elder Scrolls Series. DaggerFall and Morrowind are the Best. Arena is just a mess but they had to start somewhere and Skyrim is just way too streamlined but mods on PC help a lot.
Noooooooo Skyrim is the best Elder Scrolls game, imo.
Good review. Man, I forgot how poorly Oblivion ran on the PS3 - it's criminal that Bethesda never even tried to fix it. I suppose it was the dawn of the patch era, but still... Did performance degrade even further the more you played, or was it consistently bollocks from the start?
+Michael Connell It was gradual. I've even heard that if the save file exceeds 10MB your game just stops working outright. There were some MAJOR problems later on that I actually wasn't recording for that made the game look like the apocalypse was occurring. Like, even more-so than when the apocalypse actually WAS occurring in-game. It's somewhere in my playthrough on my streaming channel... but I honestly can't be bothered to watch through my 60-hour playthrough to find it again xD
Cool game.
Poor glutoy :(
+chutoy May he rest in Elmer's. :(
This is the worst Elder Scrolls made. The next gen graphics and the huge open world fantasy setting of the game was why it was so successful. It was the first huge next gen open world game at that time, and it looked amazing. It was breathtaking and it blew me away when I played it on my 360. There's no doubt it completely made us blind to all the ridiculous flaws that the game has.
Besides graphics and combat, it was a huge downgrade from Morrowind.
Gabriel Lorenzana and Skyrim was a huge downgrade from both!
Too late already picked up the GOTY edition for the 3.
I've heard that the GOTY edition may not be plagued with bugs, so I'd give it a shot first, your mileage may vary. :)
+SuperDerek RPGs I don't deny its prob a lot better on the 360 but I'm kind of already up and running now. Do you know if Fallout 3 and New Vegas are the same way with being under par as opposed to the 360 versions?
Not to my knowledge. I'm primarily a PS3 kind of guy, and never ran into any major issues on any of the Fallout releases, or Skyrim. I think this time we were just kind of left out in the cold because Bethesda didn't handle the port of Oblivion directly. They outsourced it to some other company who, I'm guessing didn't bother to port the patches... :-\
+SuperDerek RPGs That's a shame. I really never got into Oblivion back in the day cause I was spoiled with Fallout 3 on my 360 and just for some reason couldn't see the charm everyone was hooked on. Loved Skyrim though when that came out and I haven't really touched my 360 in years. I've always been a Sony fan though. PS2 will always still be my favorite system. I'm trying to try a whole lot of games on my 3 cause I got so many exclusives I wanted to try out. I just kinda figured a few days ago "Ya know what I don't think I was being very fair to Oblivion my first attempt." So I picked it up yesterday and I have by no means gotten far at all in it but I'm having a good time with it and I don't know why I was so critical of it in the past. Sorry I ramble like an old fart.
lol no worries. I'd still give Oblivion GOTY a shot, I've heard from lots of people who say the glitches I encountered weren't representative of their experience.
The battle -system in Oblivion is bad. I have heard that the world in the Elder Scrolls Morrowind is bigger than England!
nice review man! I'd have to say this is one of the most boring(est) RPGs of all time. At the time it seemed promise a lot and had that nice 2006 bloom enhanced graphics but dig into the game and its hell lifeless and insipid.
Theres only like 4 voice actors for all characters.
All the faces look ugly.
Technically good, even beautiful music but its dull video game music which pales next to the Japanese maestro's.
Boring plot involving the daft looking 'martin' voiced by sean bean!
The graphics have aged badly
No horse armor? Fuck that, thumbs down, you didn't get the full experience! No surprise from Super Noob, though. Guy wouldn't know a real RPG if it utterly wasted 90 hours of his life from start to finish. And I almost puked when I saw what you decided to display on your shelf in the background. You're not worthy. I like those figures, though. The person who gave you those is cool.
Derek sycophants, fight me.
+Jimmy Hapa (Import Gaming FTW!)
+SuperDerek RPGs Great review Derek . I wanna know if u ever gonna make a Xenogears or XenoBlade Chronicles review :)
+ReviewPrick YouAreGay Yep! Just need to get a copy of Xenosaga 3 and I think I'm ready to start tackling that massive "series". :)
SuperDerek RPGs Good stuff ,man , i can't wait !
+SuperDerek RPGs The only thing I'll ever change is my gender, just so we can finally be together in matrimony.