The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Review - GmanLives
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is an action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks and the Take-Two Interactive division 2K Games. It is the fourth installment in The Elder Scrolls action fantasy series, following The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and preceding The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The game was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in March 2006, and on PlayStation 3 in March 2007, with a mobile version of the game released on May 2, 2006. Taking place within the fictional province of Cyrodiil, Oblivion's main story revolves around the player character's efforts to thwart a fanatical cult known as the "Mythic Dawn" that plans to open portal gates to a demonic realm known as "Oblivion". The game continues the open world tradition of its predecessors by allowing the player to travel anywhere in the game world at any time and to ignore or postpone the main storyline indefinitely. A perpetual objective for players is to improve their character's skills, which are numerical representations of certain abilities. Early in the game, seven skills are selected by the player as major skills for their character, with those remaining termed as minor skills.
Development for Oblivion began in 2002, directly after the release of Morrowind, opting for tighter pacing in gameplay and greater plot focus than in past titles. To design the graphics, Bethesda used an improved Havok physics engine, high-dynamic-range lighting, procedural content generation tools that allowed developers to quickly create detailed terrains, and the Radiant AI system, which enabled non-player characters (NPCs) to make choices and engage in behaviors more complex than in past titles. The game features fully voiced NPCs-a first for the series-and the music of award-winning composer Jeremy Soule. Upon release, Oblivion was well received by critics and has won a number of industry and publication awards. It was praised for its impressive graphics, expansive game world, and schedule-driven NPCs, and is now considered one of the greatest games ever made. It was successful both commercially and critically. Following a number of smaller content releases, Bethesda released two expansion packs for the game, Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles, which were bundled with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition which was released in 2007, and later re-released as a fifth-anniversary edition in 2011. - เกม
Hey Sonny Jims, this review was originally supposed to be uploaded last year, but I held off on uploading it for various reasons. So if my voice sounds a bit different, you know why. Either way, I hope you enjoy the video!
Review for The Simpsons: Hit and Run?
Review the Mass Effect games?
Do my boi morrowind plz
I hate to ask, but why didn't you upload it? :/ I get it, though. Sometimes you just might not feel right about a video and decide not to put it up. It's all good. :)
Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Gotta admit I’m a Morrowind guy, and I’ve only ever gotten through the main quest of Oblivion. Need to replay it sometime.
Fun fact: the Adoring Fan's voice actor, Craig Sechler, didn't understand why he was made to play such an annoying character. He said "no one's gonna like this character!" The dudes at Bethesda responded with "exactly! We want the fans to hate him!" Craig loved all the creative ways fans were killing the Adoring Fan, and even remixing his dialogue into songs.
"By Azura! Its the grand champion! I can't believe its you! Standing here.. next to me!"
Where the fuck is Craig?
Sounds like an awesome lad!
That is so stupid. Everyone LOVES the Adoring Fan! He's an amazing character! So many of us love him
It’s like Cicero
-Have you heard of the High Elves?
- Goodbye.
Take care
I WILL DRINK FROM YOU-hmph
Mount and Blade: Oblivion
- "Hello!"
Ragdoll disabled!
An oblivion review? By the nine divines
愁い-Unorthodox By the nine divines - Review! Review!
By Azura! By Azura! By Azura!
Yes, Thalmor officer. This one here.
BY THE EIGHT, QE MUST GET RID OF FAKE TALOS. JUST A MORTAL MAN CANNOT BE A GOD!
You're all a buncha nerds.... I feel comfortable here.
"Bruma! That's where men are women!"
"Let's get to bashing butts, as well as deez nuts!"
A little birdie told me "Go, go! Socialize! Talk to those fine people!...
AND THEN KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM! PLUNGE YOUR KNIFE INTO THEIR THROATS WHEN THEY AIN'T LOOKING, AND THEN BURN THEM TO THE GROUND!
Well that's silly, isn't it?
HahahahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHA"
@@devon00789 This is insane! Oblivion's being TROLLED!
Damn it Manslay3r
"Women, girls, BACK to our kitchens..."
This was one of those games for me where despite all of it's many many flaws I absolutely adore it to this day on account of the killer atmosphere, countless childhood memories and the absolute state of the npcs 😂
Same here. Even the flaws became part of the experience, and I look back at them with nostalgia.
@@Boredasfuck29 this game still has one of the best medieval soundtracks when it comes down to raw exploration, also the vibe the game gives off from running in the woods to along the beach to back to a town
@@Boredasfuck29 that's fair, and I've also never played Morrowind, but I'm sure I'd like it.
The way you feel about Oblivion is how I feel about skyrim honestly haha
@@buttpiratesbuttpirate5913 Jeremy Soule will go down as the goat of video game composers by far.
Feel the same way about Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption.
Play as an Argonian and become a vampire. When his pupils change, he has this expression like "I have seen some shit maaaan" haha It's hilarious.
Because Argonians have different Eyes compared to everybody else it's so comical when they get this big round pupils instead of the little slits.
huhuhuhuhuhuh you said slit
@@dedeedo9355 cute and funny*
Being A vampire isn't worth it
I had to look that shit up. Looks hilarious.
You look so sickly, though. Like you need to molt out of your old skin and it just won't go.
By Azura! By Azura! By Azura! It's the GmanLives! I can't believe it's you, reviewing Oblivion for me!
No thanks to the princess of Valla, mate.
I do remember knocking you off a cliff somewhere, adoring fan.
He ain’t doing it for you asshole, go fuck yourself mate
@@donniedarko2815 haha it's a joke from the game dude relax 🤣
@@donniedarko2815 lol you don't get the joke..that's funny
*Stop! You violated the law. Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence. Your goods are now forfeit. Then pay with your blood!*
*I've fought mudcrabs more fearsome than you!*
@@massiveheadwoundharry6833 You violated my mother!
Good, I was hoping you’d resist arrest!
it's your stolen goods are now forfeit. the guards don't take anything but the stolen shit and gold.
jesus christ denton
13 years later, and that intro still gives me chills every time. That's the mark of a masterpiece.
That's cool, but have you heard there is a new game - Skyrim. You shold buy it, it is realy good.
Rod Toward (c)
wrong.
Fallout 76 is where it's at.
Yeah and I got a rumor of some kind of The Elder Scrolls that u can play with friends
I don't know why I chuckled. I must have seen this a million times
Obivlion > Skyrim, for me personally.
Morrowind>Oblivion>Skyrim
I recently started replaying this and you drop a review... beautiful.
Also, "Uriel's son Jauffre"
Wat
_Says Uriel's son's name is Jauffery_
_Literally says Martin in the corner at __5:29_
@@Largentina. Filthy s'wit.
@@Largentina. he literally got something wrong and this guy was pointing it out piss baby
Ok coomer
"I will be playing this game as vanilla as possible." *Picks race: Todd Howard*
Speechcraft %1000
Oblivion is secretly design as meme generator
Bacon_ is proof of that.
@@stevebob240 yeah that guy!
Sorenova?
@@DatMentalGamer who?
@@Ghosttea Sorenova, he's a shitposter similar to Bacon_
th-cam.com/channels/O4n0n31pCAKxum-MpPFIOw.htmlvideos
"Crashes more than a one-armed taxi driver with crabs" - Absolutely lost it at that line
"Die fetcher!"
Oh wait I mean
"Stop! You have violated the law."
pay the court a fine or serve your sentence!
@N5ZZ0
"YOU N'WAH."
You're honestly one of the only reviewers that can review games and make me want to play them again or even try them out and that's rare for me lol.
Regardless keep up the amazing work Gman, loving your videos and how they're always consistently amazing !
"Uriel's son Jauffre" yea he's great
"Uriel's son Jauffre"
Well Martin is voiced by Sean Bean. Did miss a ‘to’ in there. But amusingly enough your heading to the city to take jauffre a necklace
I always pick Todd as my Race
When you pick Todd, there is no crash to desktop. It just works.
Just like king crimson it just works.
The most respected race in the land
I remember playing this back in the day and killed my first wolf. Seeing its carcass slide down the hill was such an amazing moment at that time.
Oblivion still has a place in my heart. My first real rpg that I ever played. Have fond memories of it.
One of my favorite games of my childhood. Used to play this game over and over for many years, and I never used mods.
The game that got me into the Elder Scrolls series back when it came out on Xbox 360.
If any games needs a remake for current gen it’s this one.
On PC you can check SkyBlivion - Oblivion on the Skyrim's version of the engine.
On console... Nothing, as always.
Morrowind need is way more than this one.
Nah this game doesnt need a half arsed remake. Its fine as it is despite showing its age but thats also the charm of this game. Also with the Creation engine, Bethesda couldnt do much to improve the visuals, maybe some high res textures and a 4k resolution but thats it.
Love it and I'm even currently playing it on a PC too. But nah, no remaster or remake. Too many of them these days, I'd rather new and original content rather than milking an old game for all they can.
There are so many mods for this game as it is, you can pretty much remaster it with mods alone
Yeah, no. Fuck remakes
Oblivion > Skyrim
@Martin Combes noo
Madalin Grama u have shit taste
I didnt expect to see critical nobody here even if im late 😂😂
Hey bud appreciate that you have a gaming channel that actually discusses good, bad, new and old video games rather than just bitching about EA/Epic/Bethesda for clicks like all the others, cheers :)
Jeremy Soule’s music in Oblivion is timeless
His career isnt.
This game's soundtrack is legendary. It was so good I got it on CD, to date the only game soundtrack I've ever bought.
Game soundtrack cd's are actually good investments because they are being sold in a limited amount
this games was such a huge part of my childhood, I was 14 at launch and remember visiting my cousin in the Czech republic, he had oblivion installed on his PC and I spent my whole European vacation in Cyrodiil rather than sight see. To this day putting this game in the Xbox 360 gives me the same feeling as putting Zelda Ocarina of Time, or Banjo Kazooie in a N64.
Personal bugs back in the day on Xbox 360: once I entered in a house and cannot get out. I had to kill the owner and go to sleep, so that the Assassins' Society guy could come to me and invite me into the questline, LEAVING THE DOOR OPEN.
The other big one was that I visited all the shrine to start the Knights of Nine quest, but the counter didn't count it.
Love you're reviews and love what you do. Keep up the hard work man!
I felt obliged to comment on this because elder scrolls. Good review!
Good to see you here, and tell Ma'iq to stop prancing around with just a chef's hat and a cooking pot, also tell him to give me back my cooking pot! XD
I always preferred Oblivion to Skyrim. Its quests were far more fleshed out. Skyrim has very poor writing in comparison.
Then folks say "yeah but morrowind was even better". Yeah maybe but visuals are too poor for my tastes.
that sounds like nostalgia talking. There's no nuance in the conflicts or most quests in oblivion. Skyrim and morrowind has this. And skyrim does everything besides being on equal ground in terms of music
@@nemeru3352 nah dude, Skyrim just sucks in terms of story, its kind of sad that its DLCs and sidequests have a better story then then main one, lets also not forget that in Oblivion whatever you did had an impact on the world overall and the NPCs recognize you for it, unlike Skyrim, *so you are the newest member of the Compainons, what do you do, fetch the mead?* Guard in Skyrim to actual Harbinger of the Companions
@@samuelhaverghast2442 Am talking comparatively. Main quest, isn't well written or anything, but you don't have to do oblivon gates, instead you fights dragon's, which tho they get repetitive after awhile, they're the best most Dynamic thing you'll fight in the entire series. Skyrim is Oblivion, more of the same, just with a lot of necessarily refinement.combat is more flashy if still shallow, magic is cool this time,duel welding was a great addition. becoming a werewolf, vampire lord.Not having 5 voice actors. Once you've walked out of the sweers of oblivion you've seen the whole thing cuz its incredible visually repetitive. There'd some nuance in the conflicts in skyrim, Nords vs the empire. and then the elfs. Everything was basic bitch fantasy in 4
@@nemeru3352 yes you fight Dragons...that all act the exact same and are easy as balls, the combat being more flashy literally means fucking nothing, the magic was always fine, dual wielding added nothing to the game other than added fake complexity, you can become a Vampire, Werewolf, Wereboar in Daggerfall so that's not special in the slightest, again that doesn't matter, implying that Skyrim isn't visually repetitive XD, there is no nuance and on top of that you literally didn't even give examples as to why you think they're nuanced. You say that but Skyrim isn't basic bitch fantasy? Meanwhile ignoring the fact that it has dragons which are literally as basic as you can get for a fantasy setting?
And let's not forget that Skyrim has less content, less features, dumbed down the gameplay to where classes don't fucking exist, wasted our time with two main plots that mean fuck all and have no effect on the world, one plot is so poorly written that they go out of their way to make the Stormcloaks out to be the biggest assholes on the planet, etc.
Skyrim was a completely shit game that has no charm or personality whatsoever and their half-baked attempt at pleasing the people who liked Oblivion with adding Sheogorath but worse than how he was in 4 was pathetic.
@@nemeru3352 Skyrim is and was shit. The quests, the gameplay, the dragons... the nuance(in a game where I killed the emperor and joined the Imperial Legion shortly after).
Skyrim - arrow to the knee
Oblivion - "have you come seeking the light" with horrendous bloom
Morrowind - cliffracers
and more and more RPG elements getting cut out with every new game in TES series...
the only thing i hated about skyrim was no custom spells so destruction took 80,000 years to max out
Jaffacus what game did you play? Oblivion’s leveling system is completely irrelevant and can be completely ignored. The sense of progression is completely missing. There’s no point to leveling.
In Skyrim you create whatever character you want, just because the game isn’t telling you you’re an assassin, doesn’t mean there isn’t classes. There is.
@@thatoneguy7495 80,000 years to max out, in order to deal...oh, like 40-80 damage per cast, welp...guess I'll go back to my Iron Dagger...
@@robertvose7540 the expert spells were p good so was shocks master spell. Plus you could spam spells once you enchanted your armor for free spells
Revolver Skyrim was boring. You like gray? Do you like gray with snow? Do you want a fighter guild that talks about honor but does nothing? Do you like go to this cave, go to the end, collect the chest, and take it back to me instead of a long quest line? Do you like fighting in a war and afterwards they tell you nothing really changed.
Amazing! Now do Morrowind you N'wah!
Lol
8:24 i always loved that standard "THANK YOU KIND SIR"
7mins since upload and im number 847... this channel is now rocking my GGGMan!
It’s always a good sign for a game when the only type of mods you really want are quality of life and graphics updates.
Or you know, the community made patches that fix over 2,500 bugs that Beth never fixed. Playing vanilla Beth games is like scrubbing yourself with rusty barbed wire.
@@Splozy True!
I love watching your reviews so much... especially love how you cover older games. You're awesome, keep it up!
Got a ps3 and playing oblivion heaps lately ... Love it
"The shivering arse DLC."
I could get behind that.
*from the other end of the hall*
I get iiiit!
the price when it first came out felt like my wallet was getting pounded in the arse.
Honestly never, ever expected this. I though Wolfentai would come first
wait what ? Wolfentai ? what ?
Hmmm… So somebody made a hentai mod for Wolfenstein?
Isn't that called 'The New Colossus'?
@@demizson576 lmao
Keep up the great content man! Shwack that subscriber count past 250K!
Thanks for making me want to play this classic again. 'Thank you kind sir"
elder scrolls iv oblivion feels like small indie company tried to make their first AAA game but they run out of funds when product was 50% finished but they still released it cuz why not
By the Nine Divines!!!!
I got Morrowind first, but Oblivion was what got me hooked.
Also for every playthrough. First thing was not to go to Kvatch, and instead do all the Guild/Side quests first. No Oblivion gates to get in my way haha!
9:00 I love that too. I also do that in KCD. It's just wonderful when a game is serenely beautiful like that.
Despite the complaints about the combat, it’s nevertheless so satisfying the way enemies go flying backwards when you kill them with an arrow and smack them with melee, and the way skeletons explode.
The mechanics aren’t the best, but damn it was still fun to watch people going flying on death.
One of my favourite RPG's of all time, I finish it every year.
How do I always manage to open my phone to these being out in under 10 minutes
Doctor Taco it's crazy how I thought the same thing when I saw the vid
do you have a flip phone?
one of the best games of the 2000s! Great review, love the new font for your channel in the intro haha
TOP 3 FOR SURE
“Joeffery voiced by Sean bean”, that’s some nice irony
Man, hearing the main theme again gave me the warm fuzzy feelings.
Best thing about Oblivion is that by the end of the game lore-wise your character becomes a literal God.
thanos?
This takes me back. I loved the Shivering Isles DLC; it was great to see a new location so far removed from the style seen in the game. I hope they do something similar again.
Big up for those 222 k subscribers mate, i always loved that number! Gmanlives for eternity and beyond!
Seeing a mudcrab the other day almost makes you wish for nuclear winter.
When your Oblivion review comes out before Half-Life 3 in 2019...
*BY THE NINE!*
Gmanlives graces us with his immense knowledge!
Thank you for your review on one of my all time faves....really enjoy your content
I literally began replaying oblivion two weeks ago
Same
I literally didn't. But I feel that metaphorically I may have.
thecowofbeef I did but only figuratively
You're the perfect person for a guy like me
And your eyes are shining like the Topal Sea
I wish you could be mine for eternity
Could you please be mine? Hey
You trapped my soul, you broke my law
I think you're a thief 'cause you stole my heart
Stole my heart, trapped my soul
Trapped my soul like Azura's Star
Star, star, Azura's Star
Star, star, 'cause you're my star
Seriously, i would love to see you review every Elder Scrolls. Its about time you did this!!
When I started replaying Oblivion and got more into TES u upload 1yr old video, Morrowind was free few days back and I bought TESO for 50% off
Great videos keep up
Oblivion has the best quest line in all of gaming The Dark Brotherhood. Skyrim's Dark Brotherhood questline was a disappointment.
man even watching videos of this gives me nostalgia of being 15 years old
I just recently played Skyrim and it's my first Elder Scrolls experience. I thought it was incredible. I'm not sure if I can go back to a previous game, but I wish I just played this first so I could then go on to Skyrim.
Face visuals will kinda lack but it has some neat mechanics like custom spell making that were cut in Skyrim. Plus the Shivering Isles DLC is really well done. I liked both games but atmosphere wise I think Oblivion had more diversity.
Don't forget about mods (if on PC) to spice up combat a bit, personally using Deadly Reflex (:
So stoked you did a review on this man, would be worth mentioning the unofficial patches that help with the framerate to the viewers even though I know you omitted mods for a reason. Thought others should know.
honestly ive never ever used a premade class in oblivion or morrowind
Haha. Same. Custom is where the fun starts.
people who use premade classes are Neanderthals
Love Oblivion. Though my favourite out of the series is Daggerfall.
fossilfern HALT HALT HALT
Likewise.
Also, VENGEANCEEEEEEE.
Kindred spirit
Daggerfall is the shit
I can’t wait for more Elder Scrolls reviews! Morrowind on Xbox was my first experience. I can still hear the music and see the rain droplets hitting the surface of the water. I remember getting the ability to jump clear across the map lol. Plus I had the boots of blinding speed with some trinket that offset it and let me see.
The Dark Brotherhood missions where very memorable to me in Oblivion. So good!
(2:23) Well, who is _that_ strapping Nordic fellow? ;)
A milk drinker
This game sure had some funny voice acting.
Intro song still gives me goosebumps. It's amazing.
5:29 - Uriel's son is Martin, not Jauffre. Jauffre is the Grandmaster of the Blades, who helps you FIND Martin.
...Uriels Son is not Jaffrey...
5:30 ???
...???...
"The enemies scale and leveling up doesn't make the game easier."
10 seconds later...
"Once you level up the game becomes too easy."
I've noticed more and more overtime that gman isn't actually that good of a game reviewer lol
@@majik5194 I just watch for entertainment
@@majik5194 No reviewer is perfect but Gman is one of the, if not the best reviewer. You probably think he is bad cuz his opinion doesn't match with yours.
Hey thank you so much for this video. I could watch oblivion retrospectives all day
You should take a look at Nehrim and Enderal which are complete overhaul mods based on Oblivion and Skyrim. They are more like seperate games with its own massive world, lore and stories. Good stuff.
It's Martin, not Joffrey.
*Insert quote from Oblivion here*
Keen to watch man, love the content!
Love your reviews! keep it up broo 😘
I loved the dungeons in Oblivion. They reminded me of ZORK.
At least you don't have to deal with actual grues, just their Tamriel counterparts. No reason not to have a light handy though!
TheBreakingBenny/ I don't know what you would do without the light ring. What switch to a torch every five seconds? Pft.
@@williamj.6418 Needing to change to a torch every five seconds would be dangerously counterintuitive, for sure. That's why being able to wield a weapon in each hand is a blessing (torch and one-handed sword/axe/lance or dagger), and if you can use spells that emit light that works too.
I think it's just that charm that won me over Oblivion over Skyrim. The charm of it's quests and stories is just more better in Oblivion.
Skyrim is mechanically better in term of polish, gameplay, and system but sadly it has no charms.
I played Skyrim for one hundred hours when it first released. I was so into it...then I just suddenly stopped caring. Like, just went, "wow this is lame". Never had that problem with Oblivion.
Yeah, despite all of it's flaws, Oblivion just have a more richer world and more iconic characters and quests.
I think rather than quality, its all about nostalgia on which game hooked you first.
@@iriasu1667 nope thats bullshit.
Sounds like some of you need to play morrowind, way better quests and story
13:54 That Ultra Instinct dodge though.
Nice! I've been waiting for this!
Gman, don’t want to startle you, but...it’s 2019
"Hold on, let me do that again"
_- Yep, that sounds good! Nobody will catch onto that!_ said the voice director and guys managing the game data for a Gamebryo game.
@@TheBreakingBenny Truly the *best* Elder Scrolls game.
@@TheMofos32X I wouldn't doubt that at this point, since I know too little to argue for or against it. At least it's nice to be free from the system where you have a risk of missing, something that would only have a place for aimed shots or V.A.T.S.
Amazing stuff as always. The Elder Scrolls games, despite being a buggy mess at times, just have a way of enchanting you and making you fall in love with the worldspace. Jeremy Soule's music in the last two surely plays a large role in that. Thanks for the review.
1:35 hearing that music still gives me the chills...god i love the music in The Elder Scrolls.
You make a character before talking to Uriel Septim.
The video is ruined. Take it down.
@@ivemissedyou.8900 I didn't mean to sound negative, it's just something small I noticed. Still great video, and one of my favourite games.
@@benofkvatch6585 was just messing around. I found your comment funny. Didn't mean to be a dick. My apologies.
Just two things: Patrick Stewart and Sean Bean.
it's shaun bean
14:07 That made me laugh way harder than it should have XD
Awesome review. Really captured what I loved (and hated) about this game and why I still enjoy it.
careful you may get blacklisted by Bethesda
sarcasm or not, that wont happen (game is old af)
Blessings of Akatosh upon you.
Loving the new intro!
16:48 --> I didn't know, that Erling Haaland has an appearance in this game :D