Fun fact about the sirens deception quest. If you’re playing as a female character they try to recruit you into their little gang. Tell you to come to their hide out where they explain how it works. the quest plays out the same.
@@ABardsBallad you should checkout Dark Lore Dashes videos on Oblivion, might find some new stuff you WOULD LITERALLY never would expect is in the game. I also love hearing multiple viewpoints
I'm really glad you covered the Cropsford quest. That was one of the very last quests I found on my first playthrough so many years ago and it absolutely blew my mind to see that it could actually result in a whole village being built up from the ground. It wasn't until years later I found out that it goes even deeper and there was a genuine goblin war system. This video reminded me of why I love Oblivion's quests so much and something I feel some modern games miss out at times. A lot of these quests aren't about rewards, but the little stories that flesh out the world that make you feel like you are in a living world and having an impact on it. From stopping a corrupt imperial watch and seeing him dragged to prison, to helping and saving two brothers defending their home, all the way to seeing an actual village built up from the ground up due to your actions. These are the things that made me feel like I was in a real living world and fully immersed me in. On a side note, the Roxy Inn was actually one of my favorite chill spots. For some reason, I always found it cozy and at the time seeing all the NPCs come and interact with each other made me feel like I was in a tavern at the end of a long day of questing. I was going to make my own rankings but honestly I pretty much agree with your rankings. Tears 100% deserve the number one spot, it might be a fetch quest but it's brilliant at masking that and has a very interesting story and it's one of those quests where the quest itself is the reward. For most of it I expected the reveal to be that it was a false story, so to actually find the grotto and the frozen knight was quite rewarding. Excellent video overall, keep up the amazing work!
I think the point of the sirens quest was the guards would have you robbed, then show up after to do the arrests. After all, you’re just a single person so you wouldn’t be as embarrassed as the married guys. The guards wouldn’t necessarily recognize your willingness to kill either
You don't have to be in the Imperial City Audens Avidius will find you anywhere! He won't attack you if you are under lvl 5. One time he didn't show up, I thought it odd but didn't think much of it. Later I found his dead body outside a closed Oblivion Gate. If you try to talk him about corruption he will get upset "You must be stupid to accuse me of corruption to my face. In fact, I'm pretty sure you just attacked me. I think I need to arrest you for assaulting a member of the Imperial Watch." he will then put a bounty of 1000 gold on your head, exit the conversation and arrest you!
@@KimberlyKjellberg What made it funnier was at the time I didn't realize that was suppose to happen. So here I am, fighting hoards of daedra, and I'm suddenly being attacked by a random guy in a loin cloth. 😂
The only problem with the frostfire glade quest is that if you happen to use any AOE magic, you could accidently send one or multiple of garridan's tears flying in some unknown direction, never to be found again.
A fun fact about the Siren's Deception quest: originally, there was supposed to be an option to capture Faustina and place her under arrest. If I remember correctly, she was supposed to originally run straight to the basement and let her friends kill you, and if you went after her you could either kill her or arrest her. There are no English voice lines available (to my knowledge), but if you have the German version of the game installed, there are some left over voice lines in Faustina's dialogue folder that indicate this possibility. Whatever the reason this alternative way to handle the quest was removed is probably anyone's guess.
One time after I finished Imperial Corruption, Avidius spawned in Veyond Cave while I was waiting, he later drowned chasing me without regard for his own life
Had him spawn in the gardens of Mancar Cameron, in his realm that I needed to complete several quests in order to be able to open a portal to. access. This guy, broke into an impenetrable blades fort in true mountains on the Skyrim borders, made it past all the blades stationed there, into the main hall & into the portal, in front of Jauffre & Martin Dudes a terminator. Watched him get torn a new reality. by a big blue, tattooed daedric bad ass who carried a massive ebony battle axe. Was hilarious.
I was doing the quest for Azura in which you have to slay some vampires in a cave near her shrine. He suddenly showed up inside the cave and he also either attacked a vampire or was attacked by one. Can't remember exactly. It has been a while since i did that quest.
My first time playing, naturally I had no idea Audens would escape in 10 in game days. When Audens came after me, I was trying to do the mages guild questline, waiting around for the light to shine on a necromancer's altar. For some reason, it wasn't letting me wait for longer than an hour, yet it didn't say an enemy was nearby either. After waiting about 4 times, all of them being interrupted and cut short, Audens popped up over the hillside and just started attacking. By that point, I had 100% forgotten who he was, so I was very confused until I got the quest notif when he died.
Ahh, good old Audens.. turn him in and he'll track you down no matter where you go. Charm him and break his aggression and he'll live anywhere, even in the sewers with a note about vengeance, a loaf of bread, and a dagger lol. I honestly lioed all of these quests, Neat video man!
Oblivion is so much better at the whole social aspect than Skyrim. The NPCs feel much more like they live there and know each other. And you can mess with them in so many ways.
Same; love oblivion, haven’t played it in a while. So watching this is like “passively” playing it again; he has nice narration, good pacing, long vids. Perfect binge background material (hope that isn’t too offensive 😅). Build up that library, son! 😄
Chillrend is probably the first enchanted sword I go after. Garridan's tears has always been cool (no pun intended) and one of my favorite and most memorable quests. I remember roaming around that glade being burned by cold while frantically trying to discern those dang icey tears, and it was the first time I ever saw frost atrinochs.
One play through I had Avidius follow me into the Oblivion Gate during the quest Battle for Bruma, look dude, see that huge ass Siege Crawler? I literally don't have time for this!
Fun fact: Some of the Fighters Guild Quests are optional. I've played the game several times. The Fighters Guild has scripted quests like the first one and quests related to the fighters guild members and the guilds quest line plot. But several of them are completely optional. Some of them all you have to be is be the appropriate level be around the cities and over hear a conversation. You'll get an update about the quest and you can complete it. Alternatively you can be a member of the guild and accept a contract that will be given to you regardless of level. But only a few of them that aren't specific to the guild it's self are completely optional even though they will have dialogue if you got the quest through them. If you did them before joining you'll get through the story line allot faster but then again all the guilds are relatively fast compared to Skyrim. The mages guild in Skyrim is like what 3 or 4 quests long and boom you're the master the companions were like that as well. I supposed in Oblivion once you beat the story line for a guild there is hardly any reason to come back there. But in Skyrim oh endless radiant quests yay. Me personally who is a hoarder 1 million gold is to low for me so I do gladly accept the endless quests but that's just me. Love these videos mate.
I have literally just realized that Maelona and Gogan are literally completely different NPCs when they appear in the cabin in Anvil watch uniforms. How did I never notice that before? I remember that with my first character I missed the basement in the cabin with all those 'unique' stolen items that sirens stole from those men. I also remember failing to save the brother in the quest The Killing Fields with my first character, thinking that one brother will always have to die no matter what and can never be saved. I also couldn't find last of Garrison's tears also with my first character for like 20 minutes straight :D. Out of these quests in the video my top 3 would be : 1. Goblin Trouble - I just like the concept of Goblin war as well as helping settlers creating a new village/settlement as well as 2 different ways to approach this quest. 2. Imperial Corruption - It's a cool idea for a quest, favorite part would be how Audens Avidius gets out from jail and his ranting before he tries to kill you. 3. Tears of the Savior - I had trouble locating the fifth tear with my first character, but overall I like the atmosphere, by that I mean the unique looking door in the caves as well as the 'outside' enclosed area. 4. The Siren's Deception The rest I honestly don't know, they are kinda tied in ranking for me.
I found your Channel yesterday and ngl i hope you continue making Oblivion content or Elder Scrolls content in general. You explain and summarize all the stuff really well and the camera shots are well done too. I was a bit surprised too that you only got 5.7k subs with such well made content
Theres so many quests in Oblivion i love so its really hard to rank them actually but at number 1 spot i give that to the DLC quest Mehrunes razor 2. Goes to the bloated float a rather short but very fun quest with two endings, 3. Hackdirt (When you freeing the Chorrol argonian Dar-maa) and i love the lore behind that unsettling town 4. Pale pass love the lore behind that to 5. Ghost of Vitharn (Shivering Isle) 6. Where spirits have lease (Benirus manor in Anvil) 7. The collector (Umbocano quest line)
I always hated the tears quests, I sometimes lost one or two tears when I'd fight the frost atronach, don't know if they went flying or through the ground
It's a bit disappointing that the only two channels doing good Oblivion videos now, this one and Dark Lore Dash, never properly play the persuasion game and instead just slam the bribe button. I know it's easier and there isn't much other good use for your gold in this game but just from a role playing perspective it would be nice to see some youtubers use it once in a while. The idea of the game is that you are winning them over with your powers of persuasion instead of bribery. You can easily max out their disposition without the use of scrolls, spells or septims with the persuasion minigame.
I find the persuasion mini game quite simple once you get the hang of it. Maybe the creators are a bit lazy or they don't want to bore the audience and just quickly get to the meat of the quest.
The disposition checks are not hard if you have gained some fame from quests. If you're an Imperial, you can just charm them for 30 points with voice of the emperor.
usually after i kill the graverobbers, jansine loves me (100 disposition) so i have really no idea what happened here. also, why would beguile not work ? it gives 35 points and i think you can afford 50 coins for a bribe before the spell. edit: now i see you talking to itius, again you bribe him after the spell lol
I generally like your videos, but your tendency to summarize what the npc just said is a little annoying to me. Apart from that i really liked the video.
I appreciate it! A little insight into it is I like to summarize when the NPC has laid out a lot of information, but I get that sometimes it isn’t as necessary for the little interactions! Hopefully my newer videos are better off for you!
>Scene plays out >Dude is telling what just happened, barely adding anything of note Is this a video for people with Alzheimer's or do zoomers suffer from incomprehensive levels of brainrot?
I suppose for me the top of those quests is Goblin War. Because it does something I personally like in RPGs and isn't done as often as I'd like. Instead of just sayinjg "you have accomplished X' or giving you a token reward, it actually changes the world. You saved those Settlers and in most RPGs they'd say like "Thanks for saving us!" and give you some trinket/token of reward. And then... sit still. Or vanish off the map entirely. But there? Well "You solved the problem so we can make our settlement" and over the course of... I forget it, an in game month? The settlement actually grows. You can see them when they only have like Foundations and Timber Frames up, when the houses are empty and unfurnished as they finish things, and finally the fully developed settlement itself which is the real reward of the quest. It's very nice. Lowest for me on that list? Probably The Gravefinders Repose. There's not much to it really on the surface or by designer intention. Probably the most interesting part of it to me is just showing that Traven isn't entirely alone. The crusade of ignorance as it were with going after Necromancers for no reason other than "Ew, icky!" basically. And I really did feel like a villain doing it. I just kicked down someone's door and murdered everyone inside because they were noisy neighbors, they didn't actually DO anything wrong. Undead roaming at night and "boo hoo that innkeeper found their property values going down" sort of thing. It just feels wrong. Even if the game doesn't consider that I was wrong for doing it. Like yeah, it's Tamriel, the woods are never safe at night. There's Gobbos and Minotaurs and Ogres and Bears and crap out in the mountains. And all she "knows" is "There's been rumors of undead wandering at night". Even after she professes she doesn't actually KNOW anything going on. So? I suppose I'd have liked the quest more if there actually was some reason behind it as a more heroic action that the game thinks it is. Like seriously I felt like it should have given me an Infamy Point for murderizing the cave. Like say things like "Oh that's my ancient family burial chamber and I didn't say those Necromancers could move in there!" because then it's actually a crime and in the near lawless Tamriel where crimes are universally paid for in coin, blood, or insultingly short prison sentences... that would have fit. Instead she just insists the Necromancer was evil because... reasons? Honorable mention kind of second place for me is Tears of the Savior. It builds up some mythology about the quest. Involves a nice mechanic with the cold going on. It's a pretty classic high adventure treasure hunt. Quite enjoyable all told. Liked digging into the legend about the knight and searching the vale. Siren's Deception I had mixed feelings about. Because I liked that it actually bothered to check for the character's gender. So you get an alternate path of being invited into the gang initiation or being a mark based on if you're female or male. What I don't like is the actual meeting at the farmhouse goes exactly the same way regardless of if you were invited there to join the gang, or invited as a mark. I suppose there just wasn't space to do anything for it in particular. But I would have liked the idea of having kind of a petty "Siren's" Faction you could have joined where you would get an option to take part in a robbery once every week or something. Kind of similar to how as the Grand Champion of the Arena you can go back to do an Arena match once a week for a reward. Maybe asking too much but the fact that they even bring up and tease the idea of joining the gang... then absolutely railroad the conclusion just feels poor. Also didn't like the "Oh the previous victim was a guard all along!" twist. Like... at that point they didn't really NEED you? If they were just going to rush in and bust the gang anyway (as they do)? They already know the gang is guilty (because they were undercover and personally witnessed the crime). So it's not like they NEEDED you to be robbed so they could witness the crime/bust them. They went in with full Guard Kit so it wasn't like they were REALLY trying to maintain their cover either. Why do YOU need to get involved then? Like at all? Just feels... odd. Like someone really didn't think it through or some demand to cut the quest short really hurt it or something. The set up was there to be interesting and they absolutely tripped over themselves for the ending. I mean other than you have to be involved because Protagonist of a video game. It's just not well thought out as a design aspect I suppose.
Fun fact about the sirens deception quest. If you’re playing as a female character they try to recruit you into their little gang. Tell you to come to their hide out where they explain how it works. the quest plays out the same.
I always wanted for there to be an option to join them and rob people haha
I actually was wondering what would’ve happened if we were playing as a female character! That’s pretty cool actually!
The most disappointing thing was you couldn't say yes and do it.
@@ABardsBallad you should checkout Dark Lore Dashes videos on Oblivion, might find some new stuff you WOULD LITERALLY never would expect is in the game.
I also love hearing multiple viewpoints
@wareforcoin5780 I think it'd more dissapointing that the gang wasn't interested in trying to seduce my girls like they would the boys
I'm really glad you covered the Cropsford quest. That was one of the very last quests I found on my first playthrough so many years ago and it absolutely blew my mind to see that it could actually result in a whole village being built up from the ground. It wasn't until years later I found out that it goes even deeper and there was a genuine goblin war system.
This video reminded me of why I love Oblivion's quests so much and something I feel some modern games miss out at times. A lot of these quests aren't about rewards, but the little stories that flesh out the world that make you feel like you are in a living world and having an impact on it.
From stopping a corrupt imperial watch and seeing him dragged to prison, to helping and saving two brothers defending their home, all the way to seeing an actual village built up from the ground up due to your actions. These are the things that made me feel like I was in a real living world and fully immersed me in. On a side note, the Roxy Inn was actually one of my favorite chill spots. For some reason, I always found it cozy and at the time seeing all the NPCs come and interact with each other made me feel like I was in a tavern at the end of a long day of questing.
I was going to make my own rankings but honestly I pretty much agree with your rankings. Tears 100% deserve the number one spot, it might be a fetch quest but it's brilliant at masking that and has a very interesting story and it's one of those quests where the quest itself is the reward. For most of it I expected the reveal to be that it was a false story, so to actually find the grotto and the frozen knight was quite rewarding.
Excellent video overall, keep up the amazing work!
Appreciate the support and the comment! :) I’m glad to hear others feel the same about Tears of the Saviour!
I think the point of the sirens quest was the guards would have you robbed, then show up after to do the arrests. After all, you’re just a single person so you wouldn’t be as embarrassed as the married guys. The guards wouldn’t necessarily recognize your willingness to kill either
Ahhhh that makes sense actually! Appreciate it!
You don't have to be in the Imperial City Audens Avidius will find you anywhere! He won't attack you if you are under lvl 5. One time he didn't show up, I thought it odd but didn't think much of it. Later I found his dead body outside a closed Oblivion Gate.
If you try to talk him about corruption he will get upset "You must be stupid to accuse me of corruption to my face. In fact, I'm pretty sure you just attacked me. I think I need to arrest you for assaulting a member of the Imperial Watch." he will then put a bounty of 1000 gold on your head, exit the conversation and arrest you!
Ahhhh that makes sense! That’s really neat actually! Appreciate the info!
He found me in pale pass
He was so pissed at me for exposing him he tracked me down to the rumored pass lost for hundreds of years
He found me IN an Oblivion gate. 😂
@@michellebrickner9307 That’s ambitious!! I wonder if he tried to go after me and I just managed to close it before he could catch up with me!?
@@KimberlyKjellberg What made it funnier was at the time I didn't realize that was suppose to happen. So here I am, fighting hoards of daedra, and I'm suddenly being attacked by a random guy in a loin cloth. 😂
The only problem with the frostfire glade quest is that if you happen to use any AOE magic, you could accidently send one or multiple of garridan's tears flying in some unknown direction, never to be found again.
Rip to my first time encountering them.
Sadly you can't use frustrated player tears as a substitute.
@@BrandonDenny-we1rwthis happened to my sister when we were like 11 I think
Just recently found your channel and already binge-watched most of them. And now a one hour video? That's just perfect!!!
Cheers! Appreciate the support and I’m glad you like the videos! :)
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A fun fact about the Siren's Deception quest: originally, there was supposed to be an option to capture Faustina and place her under arrest. If I remember correctly, she was supposed to originally run straight to the basement and let her friends kill you, and if you went after her you could either kill her or arrest her. There are no English voice lines available (to my knowledge), but if you have the German version of the game installed, there are some left over voice lines in Faustina's dialogue folder that indicate this possibility. Whatever the reason this alternative way to handle the quest was removed is probably anyone's guess.
I didn’t know that! That’s pretty neat!
i know every quest like the back of my hand.. but it doesnt stop me from always watching good oblivion cotent... mmm delicous content, thank you!
I appreciate the support! :)
One time after I finished Imperial Corruption, Avidius spawned in Veyond Cave while I was waiting, he later drowned chasing me without regard for his own life
😂 that’s too funny, I guess he goes to the ends of the earth to find us lol
Had him spawn in the gardens of Mancar Cameron, in his realm that I needed to complete several quests in order to be able to open a portal to. access. This guy, broke into an impenetrable blades fort in true mountains on the Skyrim borders, made it past all the blades stationed there, into the main hall & into the portal, in front of Jauffre & Martin
Dudes a terminator.
Watched him get torn a new reality. by a big blue, tattooed daedric bad ass who carried a massive ebony battle axe.
Was hilarious.
@@TH-camcanfuckagoat Technically he could also have joined the Mythic Dawn and killed himself immediately afterwards to get to you.
I was doing the quest for Azura in which you have to slay some vampires in a cave near her shrine. He suddenly showed up inside the cave and he also either attacked a vampire or was attacked by one. Can't remember exactly. It has been a while since i did that quest.
My first time playing, naturally I had no idea Audens would escape in 10 in game days.
When Audens came after me, I was trying to do the mages guild questline, waiting around for the light to shine on a necromancer's altar. For some reason, it wasn't letting me wait for longer than an hour, yet it didn't say an enemy was nearby either. After waiting about 4 times, all of them being interrupted and cut short, Audens popped up over the hillside and just started attacking. By that point, I had 100% forgotten who he was, so I was very confused until I got the quest notif when he died.
Ahh, good old Audens.. turn him in and he'll track you down no matter where you go. Charm him and break his aggression and he'll live anywhere, even in the sewers with a note about vengeance, a loaf of bread, and a dagger lol.
I honestly lioed all of these quests, Neat video man!
I didn’t know that! That’s actually pretty cool! Appreciate the support! :)
Oblivion is so much better at the whole social aspect than Skyrim. The NPCs feel much more like they live there and know each other. And you can mess with them in so many ways.
I just found your videos a few days ago, and you’ve quickly become my new favorite background channel
I appreciate it! :) as a guy who loves having background channels, I’m honoured! :)
Same; love oblivion, haven’t played it in a while. So watching this is like “passively” playing it again; he has nice narration, good pacing, long vids. Perfect binge background material (hope that isn’t too offensive 😅). Build up that library, son! 😄
Brutha, where art thou? I haven't slept in so long 😭 I need your videos
Im loving the new longer format vids
Cheers! Me too! I’m glad to hear the longer vids are the way to go!
Yes! A new video! Love your oblivion content so much, always happy to see a new video pop up.
Thank you for the kind words! I really appreciate it! :)
you deserve it! thanks @@ABardsBallad
The algorithm has blessed me with this timeless masterpiece. 🙏🏅🙌 Great job, keep it up!
Chillrend is probably the first enchanted sword I go after. Garridan's tears has always been cool (no pun intended) and one of my favorite and most memorable quests. I remember roaming around that glade being burned by cold while frantically trying to discern those dang icey tears, and it was the first time I ever saw frost atrinochs.
One play through I had Avidius follow me into the Oblivion Gate during the quest Battle for Bruma, look dude, see that huge ass Siege Crawler? I literally don't have time for this!
I didn't even know about imperial corruption until now and I've played through dozens of times
Fun fact: Some of the Fighters Guild Quests are optional. I've played the game several times. The Fighters Guild has scripted quests like the first one and quests related to the fighters guild members and the guilds quest line plot. But several of them are completely optional. Some of them all you have to be is be the appropriate level be around the cities and over hear a conversation. You'll get an update about the quest and you can complete it. Alternatively you can be a member of the guild and accept a contract that will be given to you regardless of level. But only a few of them that aren't specific to the guild it's self are completely optional even though they will have dialogue if you got the quest through them. If you did them before joining you'll get through the story line allot faster but then again all the guilds are relatively fast compared to Skyrim. The mages guild in Skyrim is like what 3 or 4 quests long and boom you're the master the companions were like that as well. I supposed in Oblivion once you beat the story line for a guild there is hardly any reason to come back there. But in Skyrim oh endless radiant quests yay. Me personally who is a hoarder 1 million gold is to low for me so I do gladly accept the endless quests but that's just me. Love these videos mate.
I have literally just realized that Maelona and Gogan are literally completely different NPCs when they appear in the cabin in Anvil watch uniforms. How did I never notice that before?
I remember that with my first character I missed the basement in the cabin with all those 'unique' stolen items that sirens stole from those men.
I also remember failing to save the brother in the quest The Killing Fields with my first character, thinking that one brother will always have to die no matter what and can never be saved.
I also couldn't find last of Garrison's tears also with my first character for like 20 minutes straight :D.
Out of these quests in the video my top 3 would be :
1. Goblin Trouble - I just like the concept of Goblin war as well as helping settlers creating a new village/settlement as well as 2 different ways to approach this quest.
2. Imperial Corruption - It's a cool idea for a quest, favorite part would be how Audens Avidius gets out from jail and his ranting before he tries to kill you.
3. Tears of the Savior - I had trouble locating the fifth tear with my first character, but overall I like the atmosphere, by that I mean the unique looking door in the caves as well as the 'outside' enclosed area.
4. The Siren's Deception
The rest I honestly don't know, they are kinda tied in ranking for me.
Hope to see you again soon! Hope all is well.
I found your Channel yesterday and ngl i hope you continue making Oblivion content or Elder Scrolls content in general. You explain and summarize all the stuff really well and the camera shots are well done too. I was a bit surprised too that you only got 5.7k subs with such well made content
Theres so many quests in Oblivion i love so its really hard to rank them actually but at number 1 spot i give that to the DLC quest Mehrunes razor 2. Goes to the bloated float a rather short but very fun quest with two endings, 3. Hackdirt (When you freeing the Chorrol argonian Dar-maa) and i love the lore behind that unsettling town 4. Pale pass love the lore behind that to 5. Ghost of Vitharn (Shivering Isle) 6. Where spirits have lease (Benirus manor in Anvil) 7. The collector (Umbocano quest line)
I absolutely adore longer videos like this. Perfect to relax and watch ❤️
I think if you go into the coding, the two men who were shaken down in Imperial Corruption are tagged as lovers
That's a pretty cool hidden detail!
WHERE YOU AT BRO?
He's back 😂
Love them all played this game to death as a kid it has my heart in my troubled time
Glad you enjoyed the video! :)
Great channel, brother, glad to know ive subscribed before you hit 8k. Excited for your future of your channel
Thank you for the support! I’m really glad to hear you’ve been enjoying the videos! :)
Truly love your videos. Some of the best Oblivion videos and it's awesome seeing some attention for my old favorite game. Keep up the good work man :)
Sweet glad you covered more quests and the one I mentioned before
I appreciate the suggestions and the feedback! :) thanks for the continued support! :)
Honey! New Bard's Ballad video dropped!
😂 cheers! Hope you like it!
This game seems cool hope it releases soon
😂 I heard there’s been some delays 👀
I always hated the tears quests, I sometimes lost one or two tears when I'd fight the frost atronach, don't know if they went flying or through the ground
Do people really not understand speechcraft in this game? It's easier than lockpicking with the skeleton key
I hope you come back man. Your one of my fav content creators
Okay, I'm sold. Gonna hit the sub button.
love your channel dude, just found it, have you thought about covering morrowind and maybe skyrim? keep up the great work
Love these long videos. I noticed you didn't give Luronk any coins.. cheapskate 😄
It's a bit disappointing that the only two channels doing good Oblivion videos now, this one and Dark Lore Dash, never properly play the persuasion game and instead just slam the bribe button. I know it's easier and there isn't much other good use for your gold in this game but just from a role playing perspective it would be nice to see some youtubers use it once in a while. The idea of the game is that you are winning them over with your powers of persuasion instead of bribery. You can easily max out their disposition without the use of scrolls, spells or septims with the persuasion minigame.
I find the persuasion mini game quite simple once you get the hang of it. Maybe the creators are a bit lazy or they don't want to bore the audience and just quickly get to the meat of the quest.
I think i got that corrupt watchman attacking me after quest but i already forgot that he existed and was very confused about who is that madman😂
The disposition checks are not hard if you have gained some fame from quests. If you're an Imperial, you can just charm them for 30 points with voice of the emperor.
3:01 idk who needs to see this but the speech craft mini game is really easy guys
A wire just somehow liked a bunch of comments i had to make sure nothing was commented because of it lol
usually after i kill the graverobbers, jansine loves me (100 disposition) so i have really no idea what happened here. also, why would beguile not work ? it gives 35 points and i think you can afford 50 coins for a bribe before the spell.
edit: now i see you talking to itius, again you bribe him after the spell lol
Love oblivion!!!!
It’s a great game! :)
I've never done this quest as a male character, so they pick me up a little differently. I'm still sore that I couldn't join them.
Where can I get oblivion on pc? My 360 finally gave up on me
i like your videos
25:27 I hate this quest, if you level up a little too much the brothers will fall over like flies.
Antus was a dumbass in my play through and I let him die after like the 5th reload, not worth it
Bard, are you okay? 😅
So people in this game are outright terrible to their spouses… 😮
I generally like your videos, but your tendency to summarize what the npc just said is a little annoying to me. Apart from that i really liked the video.
I appreciate it! A little insight into it is I like to summarize when the NPC has laid out a lot of information, but I get that sometimes it isn’t as necessary for the little interactions! Hopefully my newer videos are better off for you!
Make more videos NOW >:)
movements are a joke lmfao
>Scene plays out
>Dude is telling what just happened, barely adding anything of note
Is this a video for people with Alzheimer's or do zoomers suffer from incomprehensive levels of brainrot?
Yeah buddy you nailed it…
@user-vy9km7ib9t How about no?
Man i love these videos so much.
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Wilburgur was right when he called Gogan a "Stupid Simp" jeez
I suppose for me the top of those quests is Goblin War. Because it does something I personally like in RPGs and isn't done as often as I'd like. Instead of just sayinjg "you have accomplished X' or giving you a token reward, it actually changes the world. You saved those Settlers and in most RPGs they'd say like "Thanks for saving us!" and give you some trinket/token of reward. And then... sit still. Or vanish off the map entirely. But there? Well "You solved the problem so we can make our settlement" and over the course of... I forget it, an in game month? The settlement actually grows. You can see them when they only have like Foundations and Timber Frames up, when the houses are empty and unfurnished as they finish things, and finally the fully developed settlement itself which is the real reward of the quest.
It's very nice.
Lowest for me on that list? Probably The Gravefinders Repose. There's not much to it really on the surface or by designer intention. Probably the most interesting part of it to me is just showing that Traven isn't entirely alone. The crusade of ignorance as it were with going after Necromancers for no reason other than "Ew, icky!" basically. And I really did feel like a villain doing it. I just kicked down someone's door and murdered everyone inside because they were noisy neighbors, they didn't actually DO anything wrong. Undead roaming at night and "boo hoo that innkeeper found their property values going down" sort of thing. It just feels wrong. Even if the game doesn't consider that I was wrong for doing it. Like yeah, it's Tamriel, the woods are never safe at night. There's Gobbos and Minotaurs and Ogres and Bears and crap out in the mountains. And all she "knows" is "There's been rumors of undead wandering at night". Even after she professes she doesn't actually KNOW anything going on. So?
I suppose I'd have liked the quest more if there actually was some reason behind it as a more heroic action that the game thinks it is. Like seriously I felt like it should have given me an Infamy Point for murderizing the cave. Like say things like "Oh that's my ancient family burial chamber and I didn't say those Necromancers could move in there!" because then it's actually a crime and in the near lawless Tamriel where crimes are universally paid for in coin, blood, or insultingly short prison sentences... that would have fit. Instead she just insists the Necromancer was evil because... reasons?
Honorable mention kind of second place for me is Tears of the Savior. It builds up some mythology about the quest. Involves a nice mechanic with the cold going on. It's a pretty classic high adventure treasure hunt. Quite enjoyable all told. Liked digging into the legend about the knight and searching the vale.
Siren's Deception I had mixed feelings about. Because I liked that it actually bothered to check for the character's gender. So you get an alternate path of being invited into the gang initiation or being a mark based on if you're female or male. What I don't like is the actual meeting at the farmhouse goes exactly the same way regardless of if you were invited there to join the gang, or invited as a mark. I suppose there just wasn't space to do anything for it in particular. But I would have liked the idea of having kind of a petty "Siren's" Faction you could have joined where you would get an option to take part in a robbery once every week or something. Kind of similar to how as the Grand Champion of the Arena you can go back to do an Arena match once a week for a reward. Maybe asking too much but the fact that they even bring up and tease the idea of joining the gang... then absolutely railroad the conclusion just feels poor.
Also didn't like the "Oh the previous victim was a guard all along!" twist. Like... at that point they didn't really NEED you? If they were just going to rush in and bust the gang anyway (as they do)? They already know the gang is guilty (because they were undercover and personally witnessed the crime). So it's not like they NEEDED you to be robbed so they could witness the crime/bust them. They went in with full Guard Kit so it wasn't like they were REALLY trying to maintain their cover either. Why do YOU need to get involved then? Like at all? Just feels... odd. Like someone really didn't think it through or some demand to cut the quest short really hurt it or something. The set up was there to be interesting and they absolutely tripped over themselves for the ending.
I mean other than you have to be involved because Protagonist of a video game. It's just not well thought out as a design aspect I suppose.
The goblin war have a lot of cut content, the original idea involved many interesting things.