now i have finished dark souls i only play Oblivions anniversary edition gold with a ton of mods it's the best game ever with best musics. NPC have their own life this game is like a new life in fantasy and complex middle age world it's awesome
Still pop onto my PS3 save on occasion to explore dungeons I've already explored and clean up my quest log. Easy 4 hour time sink LMAO (DESPITE THE RAMPANT SAVE CORRUPTION ISSUES! FUCK YOU SONY!)
The new generations CANNOT imagine the groundbreaking level of immersion Oblivion did at its time of release. Coming out of the sewers and just seeing the world open up was always a moment I'll remember. Such a great game.
I probably fit into the newer generation being born in 2003, but I started playing in 2010 because my brother let me play, I was hooked and I still play to this day. Despite it being nearly 20 years old, it’s the most beautiful game I’ve ever seen
I remember leaving the sewers and asking my friend, "what do I do now?" And he said, "whatever you want". I'll never forget the amount of awe I felt about this massive open world RPG at the tips of my fingers. I then proceeded to restart because I chose the wood elf faction and didn't realize I was 4ft tall.
You are EXACTLY correct about Oblivion's NPC's. I grew tired of Skyrim because I felt the NPCs were just background noise. I could feel no connection, even when diving into long quests. Oblivion, on the other hand, feels like a world. It took years for me to embrace this truth, but now I truly recognize the greatness of Oblivion.
@@donavan4788 I am playing modded mw morrowind and I am blown away am confused as to what happened to Bethesda they made such a great game in 2002 and then they made starfield.
@@donavan4788 I strongly recommend you just never use fast travel in your current playthrough. It may seem like a chore, but just try it, and suddenly you'll start finding all kinds of things you don't remember or that you never realized were even there. The world is so rich and packed with details that you won't regret it.
Oblivion is a wonderful game, despite its many flaws. Its like a good relationship. You see the flaws, but many of them endear the object of your affection to you. She's quirky & most definitely not for everyone. That suits me just fine.
One thing I will always say to people who'll say oblivion is bad is this; go and find somebody else that made a better open world game available to anybody with a gaming system in 2006. I won't hold my breath while they search!
@@Hoppelite Don't hold your breath. It was suppose to come out the last several years. Quite frankly I think it will destroy everything I love about original Oblivion and is a tragic mistake. A bone thrown to the "graphics is everythingt" fan boy generation.
@@greenscheme2040 I think they’ll do a great job. We’ve seen from the gameplay they’ve already shown that it retains that classic Oblivion vibe, but with better graphics and better weapon/armor/creature/clothing designs. Another major plus is changing the enemy scaling system. Oblivion had THE WORST scaling system of any RPG I’ve ever played. So to know it’ll be more like Skyrim or potentially Morrowind is wonderful. I’m optimistic. Regardless, it’s free. So we lose nothing anyways.
Oblivion helped me through a horrible time in my life. Not just was the game so freaking fun but a lot of stuff it introduced to me, surprised me at the time. Things like the open world, the npc day cycles, the races, the fact that you could loot almost everything. Sure now that I've played it for such a long time I've seen its flaws; the removal of the Jungle, Culture, and Lore was very upsetting looking back now. The Oblivion gates were really annoying cause they were around the same 10 gates...when there's like 60 gates in the game. The armors were hit and miss with some really terrible looking helmets and the leveling system is an unhinged mess. But holy crap, I still feel whimsical walking through the forests of Cyrodill; I still feel eriee when exploring the dungeons. I love the quests, I love the guilds, I love the characters. I love the setting, I love the shivering isles, I love looking for the daedric artifacts and finding ancient powerful relics to slay monsters and villains. Oblivion is my favorite game and always will be.
@@reredrumuoy It's just a concern that many of us have knowing Jeremy Soule won't be composing the new tracks. However, I like Inon Zur and his work on Fallout 4 and Starfield. I think the game's soundtrack is probably in the best hands it can be in given the circumstance, but I worry it will always leave me wondering what could have been. The soundtracks for the last three titles are iconic, and the games would not be the same without Jeremy's work. Inon Zur will definitely have his work cut out for him. I do wish him luck.
What about the lore could be upsetting? 🧐 I think it’s perfectly fine. Such a thought would never even cross my mind. Morrowind and Oblivion are the best Games from Bethesda. Skyrim was good, but very washed out.
Shivering Isles is exactly what Oblivion needed and remains one of my all time best expansion/DLCs for a game. Just a totally wacky worldspace and characters to contrast with the green european setting of base game.
Oblivion stands out so starkly to the other Elder Scrolls Games. Morrowind is like watching a Ray Harryhausen claymation film about medieval Martians, Skyrim is like an HBO Game of Thrones knock-off. Any Oblivion is like the Muppet Show with with special guest stars Patrick Stewart and Sean Bean.
It's weird to say that it's a game of thrones knock off because GOT was inferior to Skyrim and relied on tv porting character death drama to generate profit. It's similar to walking dead - the writing works because it's so easy to jerk the audience back and forth by subverting expectations. Like a pendulum, it is way easier to reach the other extreme when you're pulled back first. Morrowind has the best story of the games though. I think people think a video game means it has to be visually spectacular or it's not good. But that's what movies are for. That's why Marvel went in the shitter. It's trying too hard to appeal to visual spectacularity instead of realism and focus on gameplay loop. In conclusion: roleplaying worlds should not be treated like movies. Movies have static, linear storylines, good RPGs do not
@@amelioravictoriadionyssia3323 The divergence between the tones is what won me for one over to Elder Scrolls as my default fantasy series after Final Fantasy started losing its way. I personally prefer Oblivion of the three Elder Scrolls games we talk about because of its blend of absurdity and sincerity, but Morrowind’s commitment to a moon logic society and just expecting you to keep up is admirable too, Skyrim is a bit short on depth but it’s environmental storytelling is the best so far and makes it highly immersive. Go Morrowind if your priority is art, Go Oblivion if your priority is fun, And go Skyrim if your priority is immersion.
@@mesektet5776 I think what elder scrolls is in its essence is a reflection of the astrotheological (astrotheology means cosmic bodies are divine beings... E.g. Roman/Greek gods & planets) history of mankind. Like there are a lot of cultural similarities but it seems that the concept of like Gnosis of the world as illusion/dream is similar to eastern philosophies like Hinduism... The more you understand about elder scrolls, the more you understand about our world, and vice versa. Hermeticism is an especially important subject to dive into, especially when it comes specifically to oblivion as oblivion had the highest concentration of legitimate magical knowledge from our world, including alchemical effects being historically accurate to the recorded alchemical effects of foods and materials that are the same here.
As a young kid I grew up with Morrowind, as a pre-teen I got Oblivion and it truly did feel next-gen at the time. Skyrim was enjoyable, but didn't wow me like the previous games. Early 2000's just created some memorable games man. Wish I could play these brand new again.
I had a childhood friend i grew up with that would bring his ps3 over and we would sit literally back to back playing Oblivion on our own consoles but played it simultaneously and would show eachother our guys and progress. He passed away 3 years ago and no3 coming back to playing this game takes me to the times me and him enjoyed together. I miss you Buddy. I really hoped to geek over Elder Scrolls 6 with you 🥲
I absolutely love Oblivion: the magic system, the physics (the good and the bad), the combat, the quests, the lore, etc. I find myself coming back to it quite often.
I got Oblivion for the first time as a gift from grandma. I wanted it so badly due to loving Skyrim. But after a while I came across the graphics and told her she didn't need to bother. She had however already bought it. But I played it anyways. Safe to say after a couple 100 hours of playing it the graphics didn't seem to bother me XD
@@henryaugustin1793 Skyrim. The atmosphere, music and simply land of Skyrim talks to me more then Oblivion. The cartoony artstyle, voice acting, weightless combat, and more dated graphics lead me to not really care to much for Oblivion in that aspect. It has far more better quality quests and especially the main quest but far worse exploration in my opinion. This is largely due to the repeating nature of all the dungeons, caves and others. That seems to be where I find the most enjoyment in Bethesda games. Exploration. Skyrim has shown me that I can play it on repeat, know every location and quest yet always enjoying myself.
skyrim has better melee combat. better graphics. better detail in the overworld. oblivion has better magic. from the mages guild to custom spells and enchantments. casting spells with same hand weapon is equipped. archery is arguably more fun because of movement. you get actual classes, attributes, and meaningful character builds. a level 1 wizard should not have the same running speed and vertical leap as a level 100 khajiiti master thief. a wood elf starting off with the same carry capacity as an orc makes no sense. it is a shame how painfully repetetive the assets get as you pointed out. at the time it was system shock, but its so outdated especially compared to skyrim. at the same time, i hate that they took so much out. comparing the older games id say that the next game will cut even more. theyll add, but also take away. definitely no more shouts. when you level up it just brings up the fo4 perk shop but there are only 3 options to upgrade. sneaky stabby, bonk bonk, and sparkle sparkle.
I think the skyblivion team is going to fix these repetitive explorations. They already have shown that a lot is changed. Also, the unique uniques are remaked, and that is for me a thing with skyrim. I think the long wait will pay off and bring alive this already fantastic game.
When I played Oblivion on PC and XBOX 360, our house was just finished and my wife and I were expecting a baby. I've played Oblivion for years on my Xbox 360. I remember walking up and down the living room with my son on my arm, Dusk at the Market playing in the background. That scene is etched in my brain. Oblivion holds a special place in my heart.
Oblivion is one of those games I just always end up returning to. It's just pure comfort to me. Oblivion, RE4(original), Dark Souls 1, Fallout NV, Halo 2, 3, and Reach, Borderlands 2, Galactic Battlegrounds, Empire at War - they've always got me when other games fail to keep me. There were times in my life where these games were literally the only ones I played, and honestly, if I had to go back to just playing those for the next 10 years or so, I think I'd be alright with that. Granted I do mod a lot, but still.
For me it's Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Warcraft 3, Morrowind, Oblivion. I played dozens of games in those times but these ones in particular I would always go back to and still consider them the best games of all time pretty much. I'd add every single Fromsoft game as well at this point, but I wanted to make a 2000's list and Fromsoft is more recent in comparison
I was 14 when Oblivion came out and I just remember so vividly watching the video review on Gamespot and then playing it. That first time coming out of the prison and seeing the mountains in the distance and then learning you can go there. That was for me so mindblowing.
It’s mad - I also have a permanent flash photo memory image of coming out and looking around like that and “wait, what, you mean - I can go *anywhere*…?!?”
same, I was 10 when it came out but i think i bought it 2 yearrs later. Started my video game addiction. Used to come home from school throw my bag in the corner and start the game until my parents had enough and put a daily 2h limit on my PC haha
Oblivion was like Minecraft for me man, blew my mind as a little kid. I used to make my uncle make characters and watch him do stupid things with spells
Elder Scrolls 3 saved me from an abusive relationship, and I'm not even joking. And Elder Scrolls 4 helped me make friends by finding people with my interests. These games have legitimately been major factors in my life at different times.
oblivion was there when I had very few friends. Oblivion was there when my parents divorced. Oblivion is the game that I associate most with the word nostalgia
Oblivion is like a girl that's a 3 or 4 in looks, but knows how to cook and clean, has a sweet personality, is great with kids, and can suck your soul out in bed (not just through her mouth). She's no looker, but you'll fall in love eventually if you spend enough time with her.
To this day I consider Shivering Isles to be the best DLC ever made for any game, but I just started Shadow of the Erdtree, and it may give Shivering Isles a run for its money. Different genres, but both DLC have something crucial in common, the most concise way I can put it is that both seem to have been made as full size games in and of themselves, almost like half sequels, rather than just add ons. I don’t know why more game companies haven’t done that in all these years.
Oblivion inspired me to achieve getting my degree, getting insanely fit and upsklling everything in my life. Amazing game and it all starts with the MUSIC
@@Elohim100Oblivion genuinely has more complex and cutting edge AI than practically all games coming out even now. Look at the bare-bones NPC AI in something like Cyberpunk compared with Oblivion.
This game was way ahead of its time. From the second I stepped out of the sewers and into the world, I knew I was in for an experience. All these years later, and it’s still one of the most memorable experiences I have had in a game to date. If I could go back and experience Oblivion for the first time again, I would.
One of the Uk Xbox magazines had criteria for RPGs/Open world post Oblivion: “shoes on a roof”. In oblivion, you can steal a person shoes and throw them up on a roof, and this was judged to be a measure of the freedom and possibility available to a player. So a review would be graphics, combat, writing, etc, shoes on a roof
My mom was so fuckin GOOOOOD at Oblivion….she played it more than me and my brothers I’m sure of. She had a battle mage Breton, everything either to the maximum or close to. If she felt like trolling , she would use this one spell that you had to touch someone for it to work but it would kill any enemy in one little tap on the shoulder. Seriously Mom put a lot of time in this game. Even my dad played around on it for a little while but he took more enjoyment in watching our shenanigans…sometimes 06 only feels like last month….im 33 now. Parents are split up. My brothers rarely come around, but I still got the memories from what now feels like a lifetime ago.
When I look back at my life and some of the things that gave me the sense of humor that I have today, the shivering Isles definitely plays a huge part in it. It was just so absurdist, and everything Sheogorath said was just icing on the cake. It was like anchorman style humor turned into a video game and I loved it. When I think of how little I get for DLC in video games nowadays, I remember how many dozens of hours I got out of the shivering isles. Best DLC I’ve ever purchased.
Bro, as i kid I probably put well over 2000 hours into Oblivion, its probably the only elder scrolls game I ever 100 percent completed, I absolutely loved that game. I remember getting the game guide from gamestop and just pouring over that book page by page to make sure i didnt miss ANYTHING. I cannot wait for Skyblivion. An Oblivion remake is LONG overdue.
I got oblivion in late 2006. Pushing 19 years later it is still my favorite game of all time and I easily have over 20 thousand hours in it. I've put thousands of hours into other elder scrolls and fallout games and big open worlds including the masterpiece of Red Dead Redemption 2. Nothing touches my soul and mystifies me with its world more than Oblivion.
3:27 I realized this myself. I was contemplating life after I graduated college and realized the idea of a bunch of sentient monkeys who are the only self aware beings in the universe(as far as we know) walking around doing evil to one another as much as good was the most absurd thing I had ever conceived of. silly games like this are one of those things that got me thinking we're like a bunch of NPCs wandering around with our set schedules and priorities blissfully unable to even perceive the greater reality or significance of our existence. Long story short, I think that was the first step I took to finding God. It just takes a little bit of humility to sit back and laugh at existence itself and realize how small our perspective truly is.
My all-time favorite game but it's really hard to go back to cause it has that same feeling as Skyrim where you get the urge to play but can't grab that same feeling we had when playing for the first time
One of my earliest memories of oblivion was when I first got the game back when my dad told me he saw his trucker trainee playing it in their truck one day and saw you could be a vampire. I thought that was awesome, so I had my parents buy the game for me (I was probably like 9 or 10), and booted it up completely taken away by just the intro music alone. Then I started the game and created my first character, a Breton, and followed Uriel Septim out of the sewers until the point of his assassination. Those events really developed my love of the mythic dawn armor, which to this day is my favorite set of fantasy armor out of any fantasy universe. I was crushed when I realized I couldn’t get it, but it took years of me searching the map high and low for a hidden chest with the bound armor spell in it and such. Anyway, I was so young when I played it and hadn’t played an RPG before that once I finally got released into the world after escaping out of the sewer grate, I was totally in awe and overwhelmed by everything. The atmosphere, the music, the freedom. I still remember how I didn’t realize fast travel was a thing until far into that play through and I had been walking to every main quest location even up until visiting cloud ruler temple for the first time, casting the basic healing spell you get the entire time not knowing what it did, just liking the sound it made and how the blue magic dust spiraled around me. I figured it must be doing something good or cool, so I kept doing it. To circle back around to the vampire bit, I did end up discovering how to be a vampire after maybe a year or two and was actually let down because of the scale of the debuffs the players suffers as a result, which is funny to think about in hindsight. Even recently I still play the game once every two or 3 years, and listen to the soundtrack all the way through at least once a week. I also purchased off of eBay the septim coin replica that came with the original collectors edition as a token of my appreciation and fondness of the game for all these years as it stands as one of my top 5 games of all time time.
Oblivion is literally where I learned to speak English as a latin american autistic kid with no friends who'd just play it literally all day. I was completely immersed. I love this game terribly, it will always be dear to me.
Cut off the intro audio but I still hear it "Behold, in darkness, a doom sweeps the land." first Elder Scrolls game I played, was 8 or 9 at the time and still love oblivion to this day.
Everyone makes fun of oblivions graphics and yeah it hasn't aged well but people don't understand that at the time the game was new, it's graphics were praised and groundbreaking. There are games that have graphically aged better despite being far below what oblivion gives you.
I remember when my older brother got Oblivion when it was new. I was 8ish at the time and I watched him play it. He also let me play as well. I was instantly hooked and I still play it to this day. Easily my favorite game of all time.
@@pendanttea421 it's good so far, really hard to figure out where you're going. Skyrim did better in direction to quests. If only Oblivion had access to the Clairvoyance spell.
@@zacharythomas8617 Huh? You take a quest from a guild or side quest (save main quest until the end) and click on that quest in the quest log and the map shows you EXACTLY where to go. Morrowind was the game where you had to find things on your own. Besides who the hell wants Skyrim's hand holding. Just wander around and explore whether you are doing a quest or not in Oblivion and you will find many wonderful surprises.
When I first got Oblivion in 2007 I played it nonstop for a few years. When I got Skyrim in 2011, I was bored of it by January, 2012. The relationship building, the humor, the atmosphere, the dungeons, guilds etc were all incredibly immersive back then. You were actually emotional watching Martin sacrifice himself. I remember coming back every once in awhile to go say hi to Martin as he stood there in his stone form. I would feel a slight pang in my heart whenever I walked by Applewatch knowing what was left inside. Seeing Jauffre and Baurus die during the great gate siege, and reloading the save numerous times trying to save them as a kid. The characters within the game actually felt like friends to an extent. That's not something I can say Skyrim ever made me feel.
Oblivion was my first Elder Scrolls game, I played it on the Xbox 360. I didn't know that you had to sleep to level up your character so I basically never leveled any of my skills. One day I'd like to play the game correctly lol
Shivering Isles felt like a return to Morrowind in ways. Cyrodil was made really straight forward and basic as a fantasy universe to get more main stream appeal as opposed to Vvardenfell's swamps, ashlands, vocanoes, and alien mushroom towers. Its like the developers were told to hold back making Oblivion but the consolation prize was "do whatever the hell you want" for the DLC.
Skyrim was my first Elder Scrolls game. i’ve played it countless upon countless times through since its release. i am kicking myself in the head for never trying oblivion until now. what a fantastic game i missed out on for so many years.
I remember being like 13 years old when the Shivering Isles came out and just being awe struck at the the scene where you're inside of a room speaking casually to Haskall the butler or whatever his name was; and then he leaves and the room flutters away into colourful butterflies revealing that it wasn't a room at all - but open skies and an alien horizon. Even now games don't even bother trying to earn your enthrallment like they did with that scene. With all our technological advancements and it doesn't matter; a DLC that can only just vote, smoke and drink beats modern AAA titles with ease. That kind of aesthetic magic is timeless, and difficult to capture. Oblivion will likely always be my favourite elder scrolls game; and not just because it was my first. The soul of Oblivion which I appreciate the coinage - that soul is special, and likely never to be seen again.
Oblivion is what got me into The Elder Scrolls at 8 years old. It's definitely a janky game in some parts but it still holds a special place in my heart that can only be rivaled by Skyrim.
It has interesting questions too with nice writing Bethesdas writing got progressively worse than it was already after Oblivion. Look at FO3 & 4 stories are absolute garb.
I remember seeing Oblivion for the first time when my brother in law was playing it. I couldn’t wait to try but when I realized that my PC couldn’t handle it because it didn’t remotely meet minimum requirements. When I found out there was an older game in the series I discovered Morrowind and played that for a long time which was a great experience. Eventually my dad got a Gerorce 7600 GS GPU in his PC and I’d go to his house and play it over there. Great game.
10:19 SHE JUST SAID ’BE SEEING YOU‘ I played so much oblivion but I never knew there is a The Prisoner reference in that game! How amazing is that? Än amazing game paired with one of the greatest television series ever!
I have to admit this was the first game of Elder scrolls I’ve ever played. It is also my favorite, even if it might not be the best. I would very much like to try to play sky oblivion, but I don’t know how.
I just bought an Xbox Series X, and the first game I put into it was my old copy of Oblivion 360 Game of the Year edition. I loved it the same as I always have, and now it runs even better! I don't care if it's 18 years old, I still amazed my 8 and 10 yo kids by climbing way up into the mountains on the western map edge and letting them watch the sunrise, and then telling them, "if you can see it from here...I can go there".
Love this game, been playing every year since, sometimes several times in a year. Going all the way back to 2005. Deep immersion Beautiful graphics and terrain models Number of quests along with main story deliver hundreds of hours of play The FPV elements deepen the feeling of being an active participant in the world I was traveling Was a great game at times of release and has stood the test of time
I'm hoping that the Oblivion remaster is real. I'd love to play through it again. The only real complaint I have that I'd hope would be addressed is the lack of NPCs in towns. Last I tried to play it felt so empty it was immersion breaking. The imperial city is the main one. It needs to be packed and feel lived in. Edit: more voice actors too.
Oblivion has always been my true fave game ever made and I always play it wetherits on the xbox360 or the ps3 or the pc and I enjoy playing Skyrim but I also love playing Morrowid. Morrowind was before Oblivion and then it was Skyrim. If the players of Skyrim wish to get into the gameplay history of what made skyrim what it is id recomend you to play Morrowind then Oblivion and then back to Skyrim. Both Morrowind and Oblivion have many deep seeded hidden places and eastereggs. A lttle fact - everyone always reffers to skrim jumping.....it originated from Oblivion as the skill Acrobatics meant that you litterally had to jump like a nutter alll over the place in order to level you're Acrobatics up and it also helped get up huge steep mountains and another old trick to leveling up you're Sneaking skill was to do it right at the start before the emporor gets killed, where you would do this is when you're first seperated fromthe emporor and his gaurds so go through the door and loot the skeleton and chest and go forward till you see the zombie fighting 3 rats so go fourth to activate them and then quickly sneak you're butt up the path and hide behind the pillar in the very far left of the room till the ras run from the zombie to the door and the zombie cases the rats to kill them at the door and it says put so loop around the right side of the room till you get to the smallcorner net to the zombie while sneaking the then face the corner and procede to walk into the wall in the corner and within 2 to 3 hours you're full fledged in sneaking and this will help you right from the start after eiting the start! special glass helmet called fin gleam helmet in the sea near anvil is special as it gives you ( water breathing-night eye-detect life ) right in the early game so goto anvil city head to the small island at anvil and face the sea and quickly hea into the sea in the daytime an find a skeleton with the helmet and grab it ad here you go you now have a really handy light helmet that is going to e handy for lot of you're eploits inthe game. If this was any help to you please give this comment a cheecky Thumbs up so it goes to the top for otheres to see and use this advice specially the new players starting this game.
I was a 12 year old kid when Oblivion came out and I was reading about it in a gaming magazine. I read the article about the game like 200 times, I couldn't believe something like that was possible. It had a screenshot from the game(taken right outside the Imperial City in Weye) and under it it said "You see those mountains in the background? You can simply walk to them." I saved up money for half a year for it. I refused to spend money on anything, no pokemon cards, no ice cream after school. Finally after half a year I saved up the equivalent of $50 and my dad took me to a store and I bought it. I'd wake up in early morning just to play the game until 11 pm when it was bedtime. I'd run home from school as fast as possible so I can turn on my PC and play it. I must have played it for 1,000 hours. I never played anything like it before. I couldn't believe that this game was real. My grades did get worse in school but it was worth it. I miss being a kid.
Oblivion is really a game where you can laugh your ass of in every given moment and then write a philosophical essay. It really is incredible how the whole game doesn't take itself seriously yet is suprisingly profound. This game is the most personal expirience of all the TES games in my opinion, even though I could argue Morrowind is better. I have a feeling that if Oblivion was a book that it would become classic literature.
Oblivion started my videogame addiction as a little boy. It was just so unbelievable at that time to go into such an immersive world where you could basicly do what you want, be who you want to be and actually see it on screen and not in some kind of pen and paper type of game.
The game was going to be a lot better. There was a main developer that in old threads talked about how Cyrodill the game is set in was going to look alien like, like Morrowind before it. But Todd Howard watched movie Lord of the Rings and changed everything.
Good for Todd. I love the Tolkein-like setting. You have Morrowind for the weird setting and Oblivion's own Shimmering Isles as well so something for everyone. So glad Cyrodiil looks so beautiful and vibrant and green. Thank goodness they didn't weird it up for the sake of weirdness.
You just sumarized everthing I've been thinking of Oblivion. I always found it's humor and wackiness charming, especially combined with clunky gameplay mechanics and bugs. On the other hand it tends to be very profound and philosophical at times. Especially with it's soundtrack.
I have tried SO HARD to get into Oblivion but I just can’t do it. Love Skyrim and Morrowind, but I’ve put in hours and hours into Oblivion over multiple attempts and I’ve just never really enjoyed it. The story never really clicked with me, there’s little to no role playing, and the dialogue isn’t anything to write home about. But that’s fine, right? Skyrim didn’t excel at any of that either, what carried that game for me was the exploration, the combat, and the progression. The cycle of dopamine. But in Oblivion enemy scaling is broken, so unless you google how to optimally level you’ll have to constantly turn down the difficulty or else feel like you’re either not getting stronger at all, or god forbid getting WEAKER. So even just playing to experience the progression is a no go. So if I’m not playing for the combat/progression, and I’m not playing for the story/dialogue, why am I playing? Exploration? It’s 99% forest and plains, and I can fast travel anywhere from the jump. I’m sorry man, I just can’t figure it out. I feel like I’m missing something obvious, and if anyone has any tips or ideas please let me know! Edit: I’m hoping Skyblivion helps, since at the very least scaling will be fixed. Shame that Shivering Isles won’t be released at launch, though understandably, as I’ve heard that’s some of the best Oblivion has to offer.
No I think you are right. Nostalgia is often misused as an explanation of why people like old games, when oftentimes they are as good or better than modern ones, but Oblivion, at its core a quite juvenile experience, and i think it's hard to enjoy today, at least as an adult, without having played it while younger. The guild quest lines, the part of the game that seems to be the most lauded, work as sort of entertaining roller coaster rides that take the player through some twist and turns and send them on some fun quests, but nothing more. And as you said, there is no depth in combat, narrative or exploration and the roleplaying is almost nonexistent. I think the video author explained the pull of the game quite well though, it's dumb, absurd fun and oftentimes funny, but for me personally even that gets old rather quickly. I also don't really get the hype for projects like Skyblivion or Skywind etc. I mean, as far as I understand it, it's the same game but without the aesthetic qualities and gameplay quirks that made it what it is. Better graphics sure, but blander also. They just seam quite devoid of character and pointless.
whenever i play oblivion i kind of view it as a day dream. nothing is polished and it's all a little goofy like the narrator said. the animations are choppy the spell casting looks weird and the quests dont really make sense. the main story is a drag but exploring towns and grinding guild quests are what involve the roleplaying aspect for me. skyrim feels like im watching a movie sort of, everything makes logical sense and is well sorted, its missing the messy mystical aspect that oblivion gave me (played skyrim first). it took me a good while to get into the game but when i finally "got it" oblivion will forever be my favorite. food for thought
This, Warhammer and the tv show Legend of the Seeker is what got me into high fantasy as a genre. I still play Oblivion on and off nowadays, though not as much as I used to. And, I never flip the intro tutorial. So many memories!
One of my favorite bits of Oblivion is that, you aren't the chosen one. You are just a guy, and not just a guy, a prisoner. You just happen to be in the cell that the blades are using by chance, and frankly you have no real reason to do what the Emperor tells you. It is the call to adventure, you aren't a chosen one, you aren't someone destined for greatness. You just happen to be there and are the right man for the time. It is a good game overall, fun, varied environments and interesting mechanics. I would love to see a remaster someday, be it Skyblivion or an official remaster. As the games visuals (especially character models) have aged a bit.
In Oblivion you are in a way the Chosen one but you aren't something overly special, just a person who was placed into your circumstances by the gods, becoming the Hero of Kvatch and one of the most influential protagonists of the whole series. the whole reason the empire didn't fall completely is because of the Hero of Kvatch.
The level scaling makes it nearly unplayable in actual reality. One of the worst game design decisions of all time, a decision so bad the very idea of massive overhaul mods was created as a result of it. Oblivion did not ever get talked about without OOO back in the day. No revisionism will change that. Oblivion is a horrendous game without it.
Leveling is just fine. Learn it and it is your friend. You get 5 training sessions per level and use them at every level. Endurance is your friend; the most important attribute in the game. Max it each time and it maxes your health points greatly. Strength is next in importance. Reflect spells and reflect physical damage and constant strength enchantments do wonders too. No revisions needed. It works beautifully.
the only good thing about time flying by so fast is that we're getting close to the release of skyblivion now. i can't believe it. i loved oblivion and it was so easy for me back then to get properly immersed in it... skyrim didn't quite do that. i was always longing to re-experience oblivion, but a better version of it ... the opening shot of this video alone, man. i love the atmosphere, the mood, the colours, the music - you just want to exist in there and explore that beautiful and mysterious world. in the past 13 years i have only played a small number of games. i tried some other rpgs but they just weren't for me. i _need_ oblivion 2.0 ....
I'm still a 14 yo kid when I first played Oblivion. The banishing the haunted house on Anvil and making it yours is a great quest. Also the Pirate Cove home was sick.
Oblivion was my first taste of Bethesda games. I spent so much time playing that game and absolutely loved it and its story. Skyrim didn’t make me feel quite the same. Oblivion was superior IMO
I went to the midnight release of Skyrim when I was 18. Put HOURS into that game. Now at age 31, I still find myself wanting to go back and play oblivion more so than Skyrim. It truly is one of the greatest games that has ever been made, of any generation or time period.
This game holds a special place for me, as it does for many. I spent so many hours in this game in my teen years I was completely obsessed and immersed in that world. The game was so far ahead of its time and unlike any other game I had ever played at the time. One of the best games ever made hands down
I remember growing up spending all day in 4th grade thinking about different characters to create only to get home and make another bow assassin and listen to Lucien's sweet sweet voice... every. single. day.
Man i just put another like 30-50 hours into oblivion last December its the only game as old as it is that keeps me coming back and picking it back up for a bit every so often
For many of us, Oblivion is the little piece of home we never lost.
@@Letyourcolorsblendwithmine Still own my Xbox 360 copy.
I still have the map on my wall!
now i have finished dark souls i only play Oblivions anniversary edition gold with a ton of mods it's the best game ever with best musics. NPC have their own life this game is like a new life in fantasy and complex middle age world it's awesome
Marduk?
Still pop onto my PS3 save on occasion to explore dungeons I've already explored and clean up my quest log.
Easy 4 hour time sink LMAO (DESPITE THE RAMPANT SAVE CORRUPTION ISSUES! FUCK YOU SONY!)
The new generations CANNOT imagine the groundbreaking level of immersion Oblivion did at its time of release. Coming out of the sewers and just seeing the world open up was always a moment I'll remember. Such a great game.
Just started playing
I am amazed how nowadays games can t replicate this feeling
(I am quite late, i am 26)😂
I probably fit into the newer generation being born in 2003, but I started playing in 2010 because my brother let me play, I was hooked and I still play to this day. Despite it being nearly 20 years old, it’s the most beautiful game I’ve ever seen
That was Skyrim for me. I've never played Oblivion.
Well… Morrowind. Nuff said.
I remember leaving the sewers and asking my friend, "what do I do now?" And he said, "whatever you want". I'll never forget the amount of awe I felt about this massive open world RPG at the tips of my fingers.
I then proceeded to restart because I chose the wood elf faction and didn't realize I was 4ft tall.
That music will NEVER get old
Yesss it's so good
still is my ring tone
Jeremy Soules Elder Scrolls music is a cut above other game music imo. He wrote really inspired soundtracks for all three games.
Agreed.
Oblivion’s OST is literally my childhood encapsulated, whenever I hear it I instantly get goosebumps and feel at peace. I love oblivion ❤️
This game got me thru my parents' divorce as a kid. As the hero of kvatch I couldn't be bothered with their toxic problems
Same dude same
"not even the storm could wake you."
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wow...
bro, same.
That’s awesome
Same here ngl played this during a rough part in my child hood and carried on with me through my childhood. Great game honestly
It just works.
Sometimes it jerks
Like an arrow to the knee!
@@azariasthelastTake care.
Hey hoddtoward!!
@@Shockazulu12 hey my dude
You are EXACTLY correct about Oblivion's NPC's. I grew tired of Skyrim because I felt the NPCs were just background noise. I could feel no connection, even when diving into long quests. Oblivion, on the other hand, feels like a world. It took years for me to embrace this truth, but now I truly recognize the greatness of Oblivion.
Yeah, Skyrim maybe a better game but oblivion is a better rpg.
i just started playing oblivion again a couple days ago and wow they really took the details in that game seriously i love it
@@donavan4788 I am playing modded mw morrowind and I am blown away am confused as to what happened to Bethesda they made such a great game in 2002 and then they made starfield.
@@donavan4788 But the game never takes itself too seriously and that's one of the reasons I go back to it again and again.
@@donavan4788 I strongly recommend you just never use fast travel in your current playthrough. It may seem like a chore, but just try it, and suddenly you'll start finding all kinds of things you don't remember or that you never realized were even there. The world is so rich and packed with details that you won't regret it.
Oblivion is a wonderful game, despite its many flaws. Its like a good relationship. You see the flaws, but many of them endear the object of your affection to you. She's quirky & most definitely not for everyone. That suits me just fine.
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absolutely right
One thing I will always say to people who'll say oblivion is bad is this; go and find somebody else that made a better open world game available to anybody with a gaming system in 2006. I won't hold my breath while they search!
@lfcmike12 How big open world? If not too big then Sly 2 and 3 are better open world experiences than Oblivion imo.
Oblivion gives the best head. Nuff said.
Appreciate the Skyblivion mention so early on. Fantastic video otherwise too, the original game was a work of ART
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@@kamrdpencil2183tomorrow bro
@@kamrdpencil2183 2025. They already confirmed this
@@Hoppelite Don't hold your breath. It was suppose to come out the last several years. Quite frankly I think it will destroy everything I love about original Oblivion and is a tragic mistake. A bone thrown to the "graphics is everythingt" fan boy generation.
@@greenscheme2040 I think they’ll do a great job. We’ve seen from the gameplay they’ve already shown that it retains that classic Oblivion vibe, but with better graphics and better weapon/armor/creature/clothing designs. Another major plus is changing the enemy scaling system. Oblivion had THE WORST scaling system of any RPG I’ve ever played. So to know it’ll be more like Skyrim or potentially Morrowind is wonderful. I’m optimistic. Regardless, it’s free. So we lose nothing anyways.
I hope you come back and make more vids!
Oblivion helped me through a horrible time in my life. Not just was the game so freaking fun but a lot of stuff it introduced to me, surprised me at the time. Things like the open world, the npc day cycles, the races, the fact that you could loot almost everything. Sure now that I've played it for such a long time I've seen its flaws; the removal of the Jungle, Culture, and Lore was very upsetting looking back now. The Oblivion gates were really annoying cause they were around the same 10 gates...when there's like 60 gates in the game. The armors were hit and miss with some really terrible looking helmets and the leveling system is an unhinged mess.
But holy crap, I still feel whimsical walking through the forests of Cyrodill; I still feel eriee when exploring the dungeons. I love the quests, I love the guilds, I love the characters. I love the setting, I love the shivering isles, I love looking for the daedric artifacts and finding ancient powerful relics to slay monsters and villains. Oblivion is my favorite game and always will be.
morrowind was my first and will always be my favorite elder scrolls game, but oblivion just feels so cozy to me
People always forget the music. Without the music you wouldn't feel half of it. TES VI will make that very obvious, unfortunately.
@@iAnasaziWhy would TES 6 not have great music?
@@reredrumuoy It's just a concern that many of us have knowing Jeremy Soule won't be composing the new tracks. However, I like Inon Zur and his work on Fallout 4 and Starfield. I think the game's soundtrack is probably in the best hands it can be in given the circumstance, but I worry it will always leave me wondering what could have been. The soundtracks for the last three titles are iconic, and the games would not be the same without Jeremy's work. Inon Zur will definitely have his work cut out for him. I do wish him luck.
What about the lore could be upsetting? 🧐
I think it’s perfectly fine.
Such a thought would never even cross my mind.
Morrowind and Oblivion are the best Games from Bethesda. Skyrim was good, but very washed out.
Shivering Isles is exactly what Oblivion needed and remains one of my all time best expansion/DLCs for a game. Just a totally wacky worldspace and characters to contrast with the green european setting of base game.
I don't know why, but I can't stand Shivering Isles. I've just never been able to enjoy it.
🎉😢😅
I actually can't remember any other dlc i've played that made me feel so much elation exploring it like Shivering Isles did.
@@dovahkiin7253I agree. I played through it maybe twice, and never played through it again on any of my Oblivion play throughs
@@dovahkiin7253 You're not alone. I find it far too "quirky."
Oblivion stands out so starkly to the other Elder Scrolls Games.
Morrowind is like watching a Ray Harryhausen claymation film about medieval Martians,
Skyrim is like an HBO Game of Thrones knock-off.
Any Oblivion is like the Muppet Show with with special guest stars Patrick Stewart and Sean Bean.
It's weird to say that it's a game of thrones knock off because GOT was inferior to Skyrim and relied on tv porting character death drama to generate profit. It's similar to walking dead - the writing works because it's so easy to jerk the audience back and forth by subverting expectations. Like a pendulum, it is way easier to reach the other extreme when you're pulled back first.
Morrowind has the best story of the games though. I think people think a video game means it has to be visually spectacular or it's not good. But that's what movies are for. That's why Marvel went in the shitter. It's trying too hard to appeal to visual spectacularity instead of realism and focus on gameplay loop.
In conclusion: roleplaying worlds should not be treated like movies.
Movies have static, linear storylines, good RPGs do not
@@amelioravictoriadionyssia3323 The divergence between the tones is what won me for one over to Elder Scrolls as my default fantasy series after Final Fantasy started losing its way.
I personally prefer Oblivion of the three Elder Scrolls games we talk about because of its blend of absurdity and sincerity, but Morrowind’s commitment to a moon logic society and just expecting you to keep up is admirable too, Skyrim is a bit short on depth but it’s environmental storytelling is the best so far and makes it highly immersive.
Go Morrowind if your priority is art,
Go Oblivion if your priority is fun,
And go Skyrim if your priority is immersion.
@@mesektet5776 I think what elder scrolls is in its essence is a reflection of the astrotheological (astrotheology means cosmic bodies are divine beings... E.g. Roman/Greek gods & planets) history of mankind. Like there are a lot of cultural similarities but it seems that the concept of like Gnosis of the world as illusion/dream is similar to eastern philosophies like Hinduism... The more you understand about elder scrolls, the more you understand about our world, and vice versa.
Hermeticism is an especially important subject to dive into, especially when it comes specifically to oblivion as oblivion had the highest concentration of legitimate magical knowledge from our world, including alchemical effects being historically accurate to the recorded alchemical effects of foods and materials that are the same here.
YES SDFHGJDSH IT IS THE MUPPETS!!
For me Oblivion is Austin Powers, while the other TES games are James Bond.
As a young kid I grew up with Morrowind, as a pre-teen I got Oblivion and it truly did feel next-gen at the time. Skyrim was enjoyable, but didn't wow me like the previous games. Early 2000's just created some memorable games man. Wish I could play these brand new again.
We might be the same age, because I had exactly the same experience
Oblivion / morrowind were engrossing complicated novels - Skyrim was an action movie
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@@billfordbreezy Incomplete action movie relying on fan fics (aka mods).
Look up the tamriel rebuilt mod! A whole new morrowind
I had a childhood friend i grew up with that would bring his ps3 over and we would sit literally back to back playing Oblivion on our own consoles but played it simultaneously and would show eachother our guys and progress. He passed away 3 years ago and no3 coming back to playing this game takes me to the times me and him enjoyed together. I miss you Buddy. I really hoped to geek over Elder Scrolls 6 with you 🥲
I absolutely love Oblivion: the magic system, the physics (the good and the bad), the combat, the quests, the lore, etc.
I find myself coming back to it quite often.
I got Oblivion for the first time as a gift from grandma. I wanted it so badly due to loving Skyrim. But after a while I came across the graphics and told her she didn't need to bother. She had however already bought it. But I played it anyways. Safe to say after a couple 100 hours of playing it the graphics didn't seem to bother me XD
After playing both oblivion and skyrim, which one do you like better?
@@henryaugustin1793 Skyrim.
The atmosphere, music and simply land of Skyrim talks to me more then Oblivion.
The cartoony artstyle, voice acting, weightless combat, and more dated graphics lead me to not really care to much for Oblivion in that aspect. It has far more better quality quests and especially the main quest but far worse exploration in my opinion. This is largely due to the repeating nature of all the dungeons, caves and others. That seems to be where I find the most enjoyment in Bethesda games. Exploration.
Skyrim has shown me that I can play it on repeat, know every location and quest yet always enjoying myself.
Im the Real Overlord
skyrim has better melee combat. better graphics. better detail in the overworld.
oblivion has better magic. from the mages guild to custom spells and enchantments. casting spells with same hand weapon is equipped. archery is arguably more fun because of movement. you get actual classes, attributes, and meaningful character builds.
a level 1 wizard should not have the same running speed and vertical leap as a level 100 khajiiti master thief. a wood elf starting off with the same carry capacity as an orc makes no sense.
it is a shame how painfully repetetive the assets get as you pointed out. at the time it was system shock, but its so outdated especially compared to skyrim. at the same time, i hate that they took so much out. comparing the older games id say that the next game will cut even more. theyll add, but also take away.
definitely no more shouts. when you level up it just brings up the fo4 perk shop but there are only 3 options to upgrade. sneaky stabby, bonk bonk, and sparkle sparkle.
I think the skyblivion team is going to fix these repetitive explorations. They already have shown that a lot is changed. Also, the unique uniques are remaked, and that is for me a thing with skyrim.
I think the long wait will pay off and bring alive this already fantastic game.
When I played Oblivion on PC and XBOX 360, our house was just finished and my wife and I were expecting a baby. I've played Oblivion for years on my Xbox 360. I remember walking up and down the living room with my son on my arm, Dusk at the Market playing in the background. That scene is etched in my brain.
Oblivion holds a special place in my heart.
Oblivion is one of those games I just always end up returning to. It's just pure comfort to me. Oblivion, RE4(original), Dark Souls 1, Fallout NV, Halo 2, 3, and Reach, Borderlands 2, Galactic Battlegrounds, Empire at War - they've always got me when other games fail to keep me. There were times in my life where these games were literally the only ones I played, and honestly, if I had to go back to just playing those for the next 10 years or so, I think I'd be alright with that. Granted I do mod a lot, but still.
For me it's Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Warcraft 3, Morrowind, Oblivion. I played dozens of games in those times but these ones in particular I would always go back to and still consider them the best games of all time pretty much. I'd add every single Fromsoft game as well at this point, but I wanted to make a 2000's list and Fromsoft is more recent in comparison
For me it is Oblivion, Morrowind and Civ III.
I was 14 when Oblivion came out and I just remember so vividly watching the video review on Gamespot and then playing it. That first time coming out of the prison and seeing the mountains in the distance and then learning you can go there. That was for me so mindblowing.
I had the exact same experience coming out of the prison! Such a vivid memory from childhood.
It’s mad - I also have a permanent flash photo memory image of coming out and looking around like that and “wait, what, you mean - I can go *anywhere*…?!?”
same, I was 10 when it came out but i think i bought it 2 yearrs later. Started my video game addiction. Used to come home from school throw my bag in the corner and start the game until my parents had enough and put a daily 2h limit on my PC haha
Can't wait for you to make a video detailing why the Duke of Mania and the Duchess of Dementia are idiots and why Sheogorath is actually a genius
Deadass
Thats up for dispute?
Oblivion was like Minecraft for me man, blew my mind as a little kid. I used to make my uncle make characters and watch him do stupid things with spells
Elder Scrolls 3 saved me from an abusive relationship, and I'm not even joking. And Elder Scrolls 4 helped me make friends by finding people with my interests. These games have legitimately been major factors in my life at different times.
oblivion was there when I had very few friends. Oblivion was there when my parents divorced. Oblivion is the game that I associate most with the word nostalgia
I was about 12 when i first played the brush of death quest. To this day i think its the most creative questdesign there is.
I played Oblivion for the first time, maybe 2 years ago. Tried to play in the past, but this time, I committed and loved every second!
It is of legal age now.
Oblivion is like a girl that's a 3 or 4 in looks, but knows how to cook and clean, has a sweet personality, is great with kids, and can suck your soul out in bed (not just through her mouth). She's no looker, but you'll fall in love eventually if you spend enough time with her.
That hole in the center of the CD is lookin pretty good right about now
Does that mean we won´t start in prison this time?
There’s no laws against the Hero of Kvatch, Batman
It can now legally take those "graphics" mods
To this day I consider Shivering Isles to be the best DLC ever made for any game, but I just started Shadow of the Erdtree, and it may give Shivering Isles a run for its money. Different genres, but both DLC have something crucial in common, the most concise way I can put it is that both seem to have been made as full size games in and of themselves, almost like half sequels, rather than just add ons. I don’t know why more game companies haven’t done that in all these years.
Brood War
Oblivion inspired me to achieve getting my degree, getting insanely fit and upsklling everything in my life. Amazing game and it all starts with the MUSIC
Oblivions radiant AI is mostly hilarious but theres been a few exchanges ive seen that were actually really impactful
I once saw a comment saying that this game is basically just Monty Python, and it's the best to describe the A.I in this game haha
Everyone memes the AI but considering it was 2006 and hundreds of people are given entire unique schedules was massive
you move like a pregnant cow
@@Elohim100Oblivion genuinely has more complex and cutting edge AI than practically all games coming out even now. Look at the bare-bones NPC AI in something like Cyberpunk compared with Oblivion.
This game was way ahead of its time. From the second I stepped out of the sewers and into the world, I knew I was in for an experience.
All these years later, and it’s still one of the most memorable experiences I have had in a game to date.
If I could go back and experience Oblivion for the first time again, I would.
One of the Uk Xbox magazines had criteria for RPGs/Open world post Oblivion: “shoes on a roof”. In oblivion, you can steal a person shoes and throw them up on a roof, and this was judged to be a measure of the freedom and possibility available to a player. So a review would be graphics, combat, writing, etc, shoes on a roof
Skyblivion is my most anticipated game of 2025, can't wait to get lost in oblivion again.
cant wait
And 2026
And 2027…
My mom was so fuckin GOOOOOD at Oblivion….she played it more than me and my brothers I’m sure of. She had a battle mage Breton, everything either to the maximum or close to. If she felt like trolling , she would use this one spell that you had to touch someone for it to work but it would kill any enemy in one little tap on the shoulder. Seriously Mom put a lot of time in this game. Even my dad played around on it for a little while but he took more enjoyment in watching our shenanigans…sometimes 06 only feels like last month….im 33 now. Parents are split up. My brothers rarely come around, but I still got the memories from what now feels like a lifetime ago.
That sounds so cool man. You should play it with your mom again. If you can, get her old save file up. Trust me, she'd love it.
I'll not forget the colours of the setting sun like I had not seen before in a game. It was a gem and thank you for this reminder! ❤
Always love seeing appreciation for Oblivion. It was and still is one of my favorite RPGs of all time, and I consider it a comfort game.
When I look back at my life and some of the things that gave me the sense of humor that I have today, the shivering Isles definitely plays a huge part in it. It was just so absurdist, and everything Sheogorath said was just icing on the cake. It was like anchorman style humor turned into a video game and I loved it. When I think of how little I get for DLC in video games nowadays, I remember how many dozens of hours I got out of the shivering isles. Best DLC I’ve ever purchased.
Sheogoroth always made me laugh….
“I’m mad, MAD I tell you mmwahahahahahaha. Utterly insane” (proceeds to stand completely still).
The absolute mad lad.
Oblivion started it all for me back in 2006, now it's basically 2025 and I'm making my own let's play of Skyrim.. Man how the times have passed.
Bro, as i kid I probably put well over 2000 hours into Oblivion, its probably the only elder scrolls game I ever 100 percent completed, I absolutely loved that game. I remember getting the game guide from gamestop and just pouring over that book page by page to make sure i didnt miss ANYTHING. I cannot wait for Skyblivion. An Oblivion remake is LONG overdue.
I love how immersive the Oblivion Sidequests are. And also the great funny moments. "Whodunnit" quest is just too damn funny hehe
There's something special about the main story of Oblivion: We are not the hero. We just help the hero to save the world.
I got oblivion in late 2006.
Pushing 19 years later it is still my favorite game of all time and I easily have over 20 thousand hours in it.
I've put thousands of hours into other elder scrolls and fallout games and big open worlds including the masterpiece of Red Dead Redemption 2.
Nothing touches my soul and mystifies me with its world more than Oblivion.
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I realized this myself. I was contemplating life after I graduated college and realized the idea of a bunch of sentient monkeys who are the only self aware beings in the universe(as far as we know) walking around doing evil to one another as much as good was the most absurd thing I had ever conceived of. silly games like this are one of those things that got me thinking we're like a bunch of NPCs wandering around with our set schedules and priorities blissfully unable to even perceive the greater reality or significance of our existence. Long story short, I think that was the first step I took to finding God. It just takes a little bit of humility to sit back and laugh at existence itself and realize how small our perspective truly is.
Surprisingly based take hidden in the comments of a
If video games made you "find" God, I think you should do some more soul-searching. God and life cannot be summed up by "Radiant AI"...
@@ZeroOdyssey think you may have missed the point.
Everytime I see an Oblivion video I get the urge to replay it, then I remember the annoying levelling system and change my mind.
It's honestly not that bad. What bothers me is the shitty immersion with ein of the mill bandits wearing daedric armor. That really blows.
Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul. You could do a playthrough with just that, should fix the levelling issue
There's a lot of simple mods that fix that.
Nothing will fix the fact that the graphics are literally paper thin.
Adapt to the leveling system :(
It is worth it
My all-time favorite game but it's really hard to go back to cause it has that same feeling as Skyrim where you get the urge to play but can't grab that same feeling we had when playing for the first time
Try playing this game called Eastshade!!! oblivion without violence
@@teleportingpotatoe ??? why would you want it without the violence
Same thing happens with drugs bro. Once you realize video games are artificial unearned dopamine you realize it’s the same as heroin
But I know. It’s sad
@@otpays8552 Better not be watching TV shows or Movies then yourself because they do the exact same thing.
One of my earliest memories of oblivion was when I first got the game back when my dad told me he saw his trucker trainee playing it in their truck one day and saw you could be a vampire. I thought that was awesome, so I had my parents buy the game for me (I was probably like 9 or 10), and booted it up completely taken away by just the intro music alone. Then I started the game and created my first character, a Breton, and followed Uriel Septim out of the sewers until the point of his assassination. Those events really developed my love of the mythic dawn armor, which to this day is my favorite set of fantasy armor out of any fantasy universe. I was crushed when I realized I couldn’t get it, but it took years of me searching the map high and low for a hidden chest with the bound armor spell in it and such.
Anyway, I was so young when I played it and hadn’t played an RPG before that once I finally got released into the world after escaping out of the sewer grate, I was totally in awe and overwhelmed by everything. The atmosphere, the music, the freedom. I still remember how I didn’t realize fast travel was a thing until far into that play through and I had been walking to every main quest location even up until visiting cloud ruler temple for the first time, casting the basic healing spell you get the entire time not knowing what it did, just liking the sound it made and how the blue magic dust spiraled around me. I figured it must be doing something good or cool, so I kept doing it.
To circle back around to the vampire bit, I did end up discovering how to be a vampire after maybe a year or two and was actually let down because of the scale of the debuffs the players suffers as a result, which is funny to think about in hindsight.
Even recently I still play the game once every two or 3 years, and listen to the soundtrack all the way through at least once a week. I also purchased off of eBay the septim coin replica that came with the original collectors edition as a token of my appreciation and fondness of the game for all these years as it stands as one of my top 5 games of all time time.
I still play this game often on my Xbox Series X. just a fun game in general to me. my first game in the Elder Scrolls series was Oblivion
Oblivion looks splendid with the auto-hdr from the Series X
It doesn't add a whole lot to your presentation but, Mankor Cameron was portrayed by Terence Stamp - another excellent famous actor.
Great video!
Thanks, did not know that. "Billy Budd" gone bad.
Oblivion is literally where I learned to speak English as a latin american autistic kid with no friends who'd just play it literally all day.
I was completely immersed. I love this game terribly, it will always be dear to me.
Cut off the intro audio but I still hear it "Behold, in darkness, a doom sweeps the land." first Elder Scrolls game I played, was 8 or 9 at the time and still love oblivion to this day.
Everyone makes fun of oblivions graphics and yeah it hasn't aged well but people don't understand that at the time the game was new, it's graphics were praised and groundbreaking. There are games that have graphically aged better despite being far below what oblivion gives you.
I remember when my older brother got Oblivion when it was new. I was 8ish at the time and I watched him play it. He also let me play as well. I was instantly hooked and I still play it to this day. Easily my favorite game of all time.
Just started playing this for the first time.
Did you enjoy it?
@@pendanttea421 it's good so far, really hard to figure out where you're going. Skyrim did better in direction to quests. If only Oblivion had access to the Clairvoyance spell.
@@zacharythomas8617 use your hippocampus my guy
True. I hated how t100 magic spells are charged though.
@@zacharythomas8617 Huh? You take a quest from a guild or side quest (save main quest until the end) and click on that quest in the quest log and the map shows you EXACTLY where to go. Morrowind was the game where you had to find things on your own.
Besides who the hell wants Skyrim's hand holding. Just wander around and explore whether you are doing a quest or not in Oblivion and you will find many wonderful surprises.
When I first got Oblivion in 2007 I played it nonstop for a few years. When I got Skyrim in 2011, I was bored of it by January, 2012.
The relationship building, the humor, the atmosphere, the dungeons, guilds etc were all incredibly immersive back then. You were actually emotional watching Martin sacrifice himself. I remember coming back every once in awhile to go say hi to Martin as he stood there in his stone form.
I would feel a slight pang in my heart whenever I walked by Applewatch knowing what was left inside. Seeing Jauffre and Baurus die during the great gate siege, and reloading the save numerous times trying to save them as a kid.
The characters within the game actually felt like friends to an extent. That's not something I can say Skyrim ever made me feel.
Oblivion was my first Elder Scrolls game, I played it on the Xbox 360. I didn't know that you had to sleep to level up your character so I basically never leveled any of my skills. One day I'd like to play the game correctly lol
Shivering Isles felt like a return to Morrowind in ways. Cyrodil was made really straight forward and basic as a fantasy universe to get more main stream appeal as opposed to Vvardenfell's swamps, ashlands, vocanoes, and alien mushroom towers. Its like the developers were told to hold back making Oblivion but the consolation prize was "do whatever the hell you want" for the DLC.
It was my first open world game and role play game.
Skyrim was my first Elder Scrolls game. i’ve played it countless upon countless times through since its release. i am kicking myself in the head for never trying oblivion until now. what a fantastic game i missed out on for so many years.
I gave plasma and bone marrow in order to buy the limited edition amulet of kings
I remember being like 13 years old when the Shivering Isles came out and just being awe struck at the the scene where you're inside of a room speaking casually to Haskall the butler or whatever his name was; and then he leaves and the room flutters away into colourful butterflies revealing that it wasn't a room at all - but open skies and an alien horizon.
Even now games don't even bother trying to earn your enthrallment like they did with that scene. With all our technological advancements and it doesn't matter; a DLC that can only just vote, smoke and drink beats modern AAA titles with ease. That kind of aesthetic magic is timeless, and difficult to capture.
Oblivion will likely always be my favourite elder scrolls game; and not just because it was my first. The soul of Oblivion which I appreciate the coinage - that soul is special, and likely never to be seen again.
This was the strangest game I have played, specially the Shivering Isles, but hell it was a good time !
Oblivion is what got me into The Elder Scrolls at 8 years old. It's definitely a janky game in some parts but it still holds a special place in my heart that can only be rivaled by Skyrim.
It has interesting questions too with nice writing Bethesdas writing got progressively worse than it was already after Oblivion. Look at FO3 & 4 stories are absolute garb.
I remember seeing Oblivion for the first time when my brother in law was playing it. I couldn’t wait to try but when I realized that my PC couldn’t handle it because it didn’t remotely meet minimum requirements. When I found out there was an older game in the series I discovered Morrowind and played that for a long time which was a great experience. Eventually my dad got a Gerorce 7600 GS GPU in his PC and I’d go to his house and play it over there. Great game.
played first time in end if 2023. i fall in love in it
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I played so much oblivion but I never knew there is a The Prisoner reference in that game!
How amazing is that?
Än amazing game paired with one of the greatest television series ever!
I have to admit this was the first game of Elder scrolls I’ve ever played. It is also my favorite, even if it might not be the best. I would very much like to try to play sky oblivion, but I don’t know how.
I am glad that younger people are trying out the game, I played it back in 2007 when I was 10, and to this day it’s my favorite game of all time.
Love Skyrim and oblivion. Both unique game with unique charm. I can't choose to give up either of them
I just bought an Xbox Series X, and the first game I put into it was my old copy of Oblivion 360 Game of the Year edition. I loved it the same as I always have, and now it runs even better! I don't care if it's 18 years old, I still amazed my 8 and 10 yo kids by climbing way up into the mountains on the western map edge and letting them watch the sunrise, and then telling them, "if you can see it from here...I can go there".
Shivering Isles is in the conversation of the greatest DLCs of all time
It’s the centre of the conversation
Love this game, been playing every year since, sometimes several times in a year. Going all the way back to 2005.
Deep immersion
Beautiful graphics and terrain models
Number of quests along with main story deliver hundreds of hours of play
The FPV elements deepen the feeling of being an active participant in the world I was traveling
Was a great game at times of release and has stood the test of time
FIRST AND DAMN 18 YEARS BROOOOOOOO
You weren’t first
I'm hoping that the Oblivion remaster is real. I'd love to play through it again. The only real complaint I have that I'd hope would be addressed is the lack of NPCs in towns. Last I tried to play it felt so empty it was immersion breaking. The imperial city is the main one. It needs to be packed and feel lived in.
Edit: more voice actors too.
Oblivion has always been my true fave game ever made and I always play it wetherits on the xbox360 or the ps3 or the pc and I enjoy playing Skyrim but I also love playing Morrowid.
Morrowind was before Oblivion and then it was Skyrim.
If the players of Skyrim wish to get into the gameplay history of what made skyrim what it is id recomend you to play Morrowind then Oblivion and then back to Skyrim. Both Morrowind and Oblivion have many deep seeded hidden places and eastereggs.
A lttle fact - everyone always reffers to skrim jumping.....it originated from Oblivion as the skill Acrobatics meant that you litterally had to jump like a nutter alll over the place in order to level you're Acrobatics up and it also helped get up huge steep mountains and another old trick to leveling up you're Sneaking skill was to do it right at the start before the emporor gets killed, where you would do this is when you're first seperated fromthe emporor and his gaurds so go through the door and loot the skeleton and chest and go forward till you see the zombie fighting 3 rats so go fourth to activate them and then quickly sneak you're butt up the path and hide behind the pillar in the very far left of the room till the ras run from the zombie to the door and the zombie cases the rats to kill them at the door and it says put so loop around the right side of the room till you get to the smallcorner net to the zombie while sneaking the then face the corner and procede to walk into the wall in the corner and within 2 to 3 hours you're full fledged in sneaking and this will help you right from the start after eiting the start!
special glass helmet called fin gleam helmet in the sea near anvil is special as it gives you ( water breathing-night eye-detect life ) right in the early game so goto anvil city head to the small island at anvil and face the sea and quickly hea into the sea in the daytime an find a skeleton with the helmet and grab it ad here you go you now have a really handy light helmet that is going to e handy for lot of you're eploits inthe game.
If this was any help to you please give this comment a cheecky Thumbs up so it goes to the top for otheres to see and use this advice specially the new players starting this game.
thanks for this usful tip 😃
I still play oblivion to this day, i never get tired of playing it
Oblivion is a masterpiece ❤. Flawed, but good and memorable.
Take notes, Bethesda.
I was a 12 year old kid when Oblivion came out and I was reading about it in a gaming magazine. I read the article about the game like 200 times, I couldn't believe something like that was possible. It had a screenshot from the game(taken right outside the Imperial City in Weye) and under it it said "You see those mountains in the background? You can simply walk to them."
I saved up money for half a year for it. I refused to spend money on anything, no pokemon cards, no ice cream after school. Finally after half a year I saved up the equivalent of $50 and my dad took me to a store and I bought it. I'd wake up in early morning just to play the game until 11 pm when it was bedtime. I'd run home from school as fast as possible so I can turn on my PC and play it. I must have played it for 1,000 hours. I never played anything like it before. I couldn't believe that this game was real. My grades did get worse in school but it was worth it.
I miss being a kid.
I want to play it on PC but it doesn't offer controller support (my hands are unable to use a keyboard in gaming fashion).
It should of was on Xbox too
.... rwasd?? Any input program?
look up Oblivion Modern Controller Overhaul on nexus mods it is a bit of effort but it will make controller support fantastic
Oblivion is really a game where you can laugh your ass of in every given moment and then write a philosophical essay. It really is incredible how the whole game doesn't take itself seriously yet is suprisingly profound. This game is the most personal expirience of all the TES games in my opinion, even though I could argue Morrowind is better. I have a feeling that if Oblivion was a book that it would become classic literature.
This is my favorite Elder Scrolls game!
Oblivion started my videogame addiction as a little boy. It was just so unbelievable at that time to go into such an immersive world where you could basicly do what you want, be who you want to be and actually see it on screen and not in some kind of pen and paper type of game.
The game was going to be a lot better. There was a main developer that in old threads talked about how Cyrodill the game is set in was going to look alien like, like Morrowind before it. But Todd Howard watched movie Lord of the Rings and changed everything.
Sounds like he made a good choice. The Oblivion traditional fantasy setting is incredible and cozy
Good for Todd. I love the Tolkein-like setting. You have Morrowind for the weird setting and Oblivion's own Shimmering Isles as well so something for everyone.
So glad Cyrodiil looks so beautiful and vibrant and green. Thank goodness they didn't weird it up for the sake of weirdness.
You just sumarized everthing I've been thinking of Oblivion. I always found it's humor and wackiness charming, especially combined with clunky gameplay mechanics and bugs. On the other hand it tends to be very profound and philosophical at times. Especially with it's soundtrack.
I have tried SO HARD to get into Oblivion but I just can’t do it. Love Skyrim and Morrowind, but I’ve put in hours and hours into Oblivion over multiple attempts and I’ve just never really enjoyed it.
The story never really clicked with me, there’s little to no role playing, and the dialogue isn’t anything to write home about.
But that’s fine, right? Skyrim didn’t excel at any of that either, what carried that game for me was the exploration, the combat, and the progression. The cycle of dopamine.
But in Oblivion enemy scaling is broken, so unless you google how to optimally level you’ll have to constantly turn down the difficulty or else feel like you’re either not getting stronger at all, or god forbid getting WEAKER. So even just playing to experience the progression is a no go.
So if I’m not playing for the combat/progression, and I’m not playing for the story/dialogue, why am I playing? Exploration? It’s 99% forest and plains, and I can fast travel anywhere from the jump.
I’m sorry man, I just can’t figure it out. I feel like I’m missing something obvious, and if anyone has any tips or ideas please let me know!
Edit: I’m hoping Skyblivion helps, since at the very least scaling will be fixed. Shame that Shivering Isles won’t be released at launch, though understandably, as I’ve heard that’s some of the best Oblivion has to offer.
No I think you are right. Nostalgia is often misused as an explanation of why people like old games, when oftentimes they are as good or better than modern ones, but Oblivion, at its core a quite juvenile experience, and i think it's hard to enjoy today, at least as an adult, without having played it while younger. The guild quest lines, the part of the game that seems to be the most lauded, work as sort of entertaining roller coaster rides that take the player through some twist and turns and send them on some fun quests, but nothing more. And as you said, there is no depth in combat, narrative or exploration and the roleplaying is almost nonexistent. I think the video author explained the pull of the game quite well though, it's dumb, absurd fun and oftentimes funny, but for me personally even that gets old rather quickly.
I also don't really get the hype for projects like Skyblivion or Skywind etc. I mean, as far as I understand it, it's the same game but without the aesthetic qualities and gameplay quirks that made it what it is. Better graphics sure, but blander also. They just seam quite devoid of character and pointless.
Oblivion is very flawed and it shows. You made a lot of valid points.
whenever i play oblivion i kind of view it as a day dream. nothing is polished and it's all a little goofy like the narrator said. the animations are choppy the spell casting looks weird and the quests dont really make sense. the main story is a drag but exploring towns and grinding guild quests are what involve the roleplaying aspect for me. skyrim feels like im watching a movie sort of, everything makes logical sense and is well sorted, its missing the messy mystical aspect that oblivion gave me (played skyrim first).
it took me a good while to get into the game but when i finally "got it" oblivion will forever be my favorite. food for thought
@@younghegelian1 I played Oblivion first in my middle age. It wasn't juvenile. Now Skyrim certainly is but not Oblivion.
This, Warhammer and the tv show Legend of the Seeker is what got me into high fantasy as a genre. I still play Oblivion on and off nowadays, though not as much as I used to. And, I never flip the intro tutorial. So many memories!
Omg immediately clicked the notification i lovw your content man ❤❤❤
I never finished Shivering Isles but getting there and observing the creativity on display ... I was impressed
Oblivion is the only monty python game we ever got😢
Now I could mod, I would add a quest for a holy grail. Base it on the movie but never actually mention it. Be pretty epic. Wonderful idea.
One of my favorite bits of Oblivion is that, you aren't the chosen one. You are just a guy, and not just a guy, a prisoner. You just happen to be in the cell that the blades are using by chance, and frankly you have no real reason to do what the Emperor tells you. It is the call to adventure, you aren't a chosen one, you aren't someone destined for greatness. You just happen to be there and are the right man for the time.
It is a good game overall, fun, varied environments and interesting mechanics. I would love to see a remaster someday, be it Skyblivion or an official remaster. As the games visuals (especially character models) have aged a bit.
In Oblivion you are in a way the Chosen one but you aren't something overly special, just a person who was placed into your circumstances by the gods, becoming the Hero of Kvatch and one of the most influential protagonists of the whole series. the whole reason the empire didn't fall completely is because of the Hero of Kvatch.
The level scaling makes it nearly unplayable in actual reality. One of the worst game design decisions of all time, a decision so bad the very idea of massive overhaul mods was created as a result of it. Oblivion did not ever get talked about without OOO back in the day. No revisionism will change that. Oblivion is a horrendous game without it.
Leveling is just fine. Learn it and it is your friend. You get 5 training sessions per level and use them at every level. Endurance is your friend; the most important attribute in the game. Max it each time and it maxes your health points greatly. Strength is next in importance. Reflect spells and reflect physical damage and constant strength enchantments do wonders too. No revisions needed. It works beautifully.
the only good thing about time flying by so fast is that we're getting close to the release of skyblivion now. i can't believe it. i loved oblivion and it was so easy for me back then to get properly immersed in it... skyrim didn't quite do that. i was always longing to re-experience oblivion, but a better version of it ... the opening shot of this video alone, man. i love the atmosphere, the mood, the colours, the music - you just want to exist in there and explore that beautiful and mysterious world. in the past 13 years i have only played a small number of games. i tried some other rpgs but they just weren't for me. i _need_ oblivion 2.0 ....
I'm still a 14 yo kid when I first played Oblivion. The banishing the haunted house on Anvil and making it yours is a great quest. Also the Pirate Cove home was sick.
Absolutely beautiful video on such a nostalgic favourite.
Oblivion makes me laugh, smile and have fun to this day. Not a lot of games can do that now a days.
Oblivion was my first taste of Bethesda games. I spent so much time playing that game and absolutely loved it and its story. Skyrim didn’t make me feel quite the same. Oblivion was superior IMO
This was the 18 year old explanation of a game that I didn’t know I needed..and I have played at least 1000 hours across multiple play throughs
I went to the midnight release of Skyrim when I was 18. Put HOURS into that game. Now at age 31, I still find myself wanting to go back and play oblivion more so than Skyrim. It truly is one of the greatest games that has ever been made, of any generation or time period.
This game holds a special place for me, as it does for many.
I spent so many hours in this game in my teen years I was completely obsessed and immersed in that world.
The game was so far ahead of its time and unlike any other game I had ever played at the time. One of the best games ever made hands down
I remember growing up spending all day in 4th grade thinking about different characters to create only to get home and make another bow assassin and listen to Lucien's sweet sweet voice... every. single. day.
Man i just put another like 30-50 hours into oblivion last December its the only game as old as it is that keeps me coming back and picking it back up for a bit every so often