This game doesn't even feel like a game to me anymore. It feels like an experience and every time I boot it up, I'm not playing a game. I'm reliving experiences.
Not sure about that. I don't play Oblivion for such a long time, so far, (since march), and I also got this feeling from the very beginning (after a few days). I think it's more then we can explain in one word.
I play on console, and my PS3 stopped reading discs. I hate that i'm unable to play the game, but I am happy that I was able to experience it ... sooner or later, i'm gonna purchase a new one.
@TM Films All elder scrolls game are at least worth trying. Still almost no games that give the same type of experience still. Do your research but enjoy what you play!
Indeed it was brother, it was. As much as I’m looking forward to what the future brings, I miss those simple days when the only thing that mattered was what sidequest I was gonna do, and whether or not I had enough chips and soda to last the whole dungeon run
@@smithconner24 I actually played this game again during the 2020 pandemic. I was like "It's the end of world. Might as well play a game about the end of the world" lol
My best friend passed away from cancer 3 weeks ago. We were friends ever since we were 4. He introduced me to gaming and to oblivion. Oblivion will always be one of my favorite games, simply because of all the stupid things the npc's would do. We never got tired of laughing about that. I'm really going to miss you Kyle, I loved you
Ive been there my brother 10 years ago. time is flying, the memories slowly begin to blur and fade but the pain of losing a best friend or a loved one will remain the same now matter how many years passed..
It’s a shame that Spotify just forgot about the song in the album. Up to this day they won’t put it in. I miss it every time when I listen to Souls masterpiece - that’s why I come here. May the Peace be with you all!
This song brings me back to a time of peace. A time of stillness. A time of no worries, sitting on my computer late on a summer night with my window open, and a cold summer breeze lightly brushing against me, while I play oblivion. I wish I could go back
I had a best friend who passed away in February this year. We had known each other since we were kids and he had been in my life for over 80% of it. We used to play Oblivion together, and this song is the one that reminds me the most of those times. I remember a time that he was so heartbroken because he got the Gray Fox glitch and couldn't finish and get the mask (no save) and I returned to redo it for him and got him the mask. Bethesda has done something which even things in real life can't do, give me memories that last a lifetime. Long live this great company, and continue to make your artistic and beautifully developed games. Bethesda is a beacon in the darkness of bad games, and every Elder Scrolls until the ending of the series will be in my collection. Edit: I may have been a bit over-zealous commenting on the greatness of Bethesda. :/
+MrBaddestofthebad i bow to u, cuz ur not like the rest of these mindless drones, u feel my friend and know whats good, i bow to you, also Peace of akatosh, is a "sad" tune, but ofc in a good way cuz it was made with pride in doing so, also i am sorry for ur loss
@@SnakeHelah like rock faces could be cleaned up and made a bit more random, and the trees could load in better, but overall the graphics are still outstanding and absolutely gorgeous
Sometimes I listen to TES or Fallout music and it makes want to cry somehow. It's happiness, nostalgia, gratitude, disbelief, melancholy. But over all that I somehow feel lost... maybe is because of so much feelings and thoughs it brings that I can't get my head around them. Is strange but beautiful. I love them, for sure.
Tried playing Oblivion after Skyrim but couldn't really get into it. But from what I've heard from the comments on this video it's kinda like when my friends tell me they can't really get into the old Halo games. It's sad knowing these games are so good, but people (myself included) will never understand. So as a tribute to Oblivion, I modded this song into my Skyrim music. I put it in the morning exploration folder. I was coming out of a dwemer ruin after a hard fought battle with Falmer and Centurions only to be greeted with the light glittering in the snow as the sunrise peeked over the mountains and this song playing in the background. It was perfect.
The music in Oblivion is incredible. You should really try again playing Oblivion, the attributes system is far more in depth and add a lot to your progression rather than just upgrading your health, fatigue and magic and a few odd perks in Skyrim. In oblivion you can make spells to allow you to run faster, jump higher. Some aspects aren't as good but it's worth playing through. I love Skyrim but when you play with attributes you can improve and spell making you really see how little depth there is in Skyrim.
My Skyrim is modded so heavily with combat mods that it has a lot of depth. I have about 200 mods installed, it took me months to get all of them working without crashing. Vanilla Skyrim has very little depth I can agree, but that wasn't necessarily a bad thing since it was accessible and fun for a much wider audience and hence why I played it. But after logging thousands of hours in vanilla Skyrim, I needed something a bit deeper and bought it on PC. The reason I can't really enjoy Oblivion is because it looks like an old game and the graphics aren't that great. It's different with the old games of my childhood, since I have a connection with them that goes beyond the superficial graphical issues. But without that nostalgia to drive me forward, I find older games like Oblivion unplayable. Even with graphic mods, Oblivion still doesn't look good enough sadly. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I wish I played Oblivion when it first came out, but since I didn't, it has issues that I can't look past.
That's the thing though. I've played every Elder Scrolls and you see people saying "Morrowind is the best hurdur!" when in reality, it was just their first game. For me, Oblivion is the best game. It doesn't have the best main story (That's Morrowind), it doesn't have the best combat (that's Skyrim) but it had the living world, incredible music and by far the best side quests that fleshed out the world and made it feel so amazing. That being said, I didn't really miss attributes in Skyrim. It didn't feel like my Elder Scrolls experience was affected at all by the loss of attributes. I did miss the spellcrafting, which without spellcrafting, I think that's why magic was so weak in Skyrim.
I feel your story is a lie. Not just because you claimed to work your way backwards in the series, which is hard for even more to do and I started with Daggerfall, but mainly because you actually said that the combat in Oblivion was somehow worse than Morrowind. Morrowind's combat is terrible and clunky compared to Oblivion and Skyrim. Also, Skyrim's combat is the exact same combat of Oblivion but Kill Moves make the combat feel better along with screenshake effects. Another reason I think you are lying is because you use basically using the list of every flaw Oblivion had that is always cited by Morrowind players who want to puff up Morrowind's stature and deflate the other games. I have never met anyone who legitimately thought or noticed all the "problems" you have listed. Trying to say Oblivion is a generic, cliche'd fantasy game is an erroneous statement every anti-Oblivion player throws out their and only proves that they never really played Oblivion but played the main story (which isn't even bad) and didn't actually PLAY Oblivion. As for the odd conversation interactions between NPCs, that was not nearly as common as you are saying it was and if your immersion is that easily broken, then you should never have been able to immerse yourself in Morrowind. It was a brand new system that did what no other game tried to do before and it worked most of the time flawlessly. Are you seriously suggesting that the system is better off being NPCs standing around, never conversing or going about their daily lives until an adventurer comes around and talks to them. How is that any less immersion breaking?
This music always played during the the forlorn watchman quest. Letting that silent ghost, a victim of a brutal murder, guide me through the wilderness was sad :(
There are few games like Oblivion that really take a hold of your heart and properly trigger emotions. Warcraft would be another, but holy shit this game will stick with me right through my life. Sure, as a game there are definitely better choices but when it comes to the passion of Fantasy and storytelling, Oblivion is number one. You know what's incredible? The game had like four voice actors yet it still felt like a lively world and then obviously the sound track just transports you into the world completely. Wandering through Cyrodill at 4am on a school night with this song playing, the memories just topple that of pretty much any other game.
When I play Oblivion (which I do religiously) I relive me when I was 8 or 9 years old, when I was a just a kid, getting lost in the fantasies of the Elder Scrolls games. This series has touched my heart in many ways.
this is the best game music ever composed, Jeremy Soule was in his prime for this game. I have this song on my sleeping playlist when I listen to my ipod at night, so wonderful
I played this game first when I was 15 and loved this song. Now Im rocking my 4 month old son who just fell asleep peacefully listening to this. Funny where life goes
I remember when I was only six years old watching my dad play this game and just being in awe when this track would come on. I want to say that the music from this game is probably what started me on my journey of loving music. This and Skyrim have brought me so much peace whenever I’m anxious or sad.
i swear this song is in like a "heavenly music" compilation or something everytime i hear youtubers put on church music, its this song. always this song.
This does something to my soul. For me this is what heaven sounds like..instantly i am somewhere else happy and at peace. Thank you for posting ive looked everwhere to find it and foind it when i stopped looking :) blessings
I was in college when Oblivion came out. Aside from Final Fantasy 7-10, the Elder Scrolls 3, 4, and 5 remain the core of my being. Soule nails the type of music for exploration and wonder.
I don't know if you are still online, but thank you for posting this. Putting this on loop really helps me get into a good mindset whenever I pray a rosary.
Gonna get crackin' on this game this weekend with acase of beer, i've owned skyrim since release and love it to death with countless hours played, just now getting into oblivion and a whole new adventure awaits.
Oblivion and fabel 1 is that kind of masterpiece that you will never forget playing and enjoying every hour spent. im never going to forget waking up inside the pirate ship in cyrodill harbour.
Dude... walking out on the deck of that ship for the first time, being surrounded by an oceanic sunset that set my soul completely at ease, even though pirates were all waiting for the "intruder" down below 🤣 good times --Also Fable 1 is totally worthy of the masterpiece title 👌🌄
This track suddenly makes me forget about all the bugs, memes and shortcomings of Oblivion. This is one of Jeremy Soule's best pieces in the Elder Scrolls franchise, and it has a very poignant quality to it.
There's nothing like exiting a dungeon you just finished after fighting for hours and coming to near death alot of time and coming out to a sunny day out of the darkness and listening to this song It makes you think... Man what an adventure
This ost transported me into Cydodiil back when I first discovered the game. I wish I could do it all over again. I’d oftentimes relax and stargaze as this track played.
This song always seemed to play after I had killed a deer any other animal out in the wilderness, made me think it was some kind of dirge for the them Also, this song playing in the snowy wastelands of northern Cyrodiil was one of the most magical gaming moments for me
IDK why, but Oblivion always had that 'homely' feel to it. Maybe it is just me, but this was one of those differences that I felt whenever playing Skyrim.
This was the first music I heard when I went out the sewers and I saw Cyrodiil for the first time. It was night, and the atmosphere was calm and enchanting, yet somber: I just witnessed the emperor's death, a good man who treated me nicely. It was the first of many losses my PG experienced during the game. Oblivion was great because it created a really melancholic, yet heartwarming story.
never really played oblivion, only skyrim, but i still listen to the soundtrack and this is my favorite piece on it. i added it to my exploration playlist, which i listen to whenever i play skyrim, and when this piece comes on i nearly tear up (2:01 is, personally, my favorite moment). i don't know why, but i do feel like i get something like second-hand nostalgia, if that exists, even. it's weird.
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If I was given the option to live anywhere such as a game, in a book or just something on top of my head I would choose to live in Tamriel, Idc if there is no technology, people I don't know; I could be living in a world where most thing and creatures exists and most people can't even begin to dream about oh but I wish my wish could true
Say what you will about Oblivion but this game truly felt real and there were sometimes I just turned the game on and travelled the countryside just to get lost in the scenery. Skyrim was amazing but it missed this essential element at times.
They do and there is. Try listen to some classical choral music or even, more current, Harold Budd and Brian Eno; First Light. Nice stuff for sure. That will set you on track for some relaxing and different music.
Thank you for this answer, Mark Williamson. Many people - even those who like this kind of music - underestimate the power of classical music. It's not all Mozart, especially the romantic period after ca. 1850.
This song makes me want to put on plate armor and hop up on a horse, trudging out into the woods, the only sounds being those of the birds, the horses hooves, and my soft humming. There’s sunbeams coming through the leaves, and I look up, using my hand to shield my eyes. In the distance I see solitude city, rising gracefully above the water. I smile.
I was fifteen. I sat in a leather beanbag chair, turned on the PS3, and disappeared for hours at a time. My brother, two years younger, would sit in the same room in the corner, on his laptop, occasionally making jokes about the faces or the sudden tone shift of the soundtrack changing from pieces like this to the combat music whenever a mudcrab would harass me. And just as things were getting tense in a dungeon, dinner would be called from the other room, and I'd return to the world to sit and eat with my family. I had many save files, but one will always stand out to me as my definitive run. My character was a simple man, an Imperial who refused to wear armour or use weapons, that refused to sleep in beds, and was stuck on the highest difficulty setting, but insisted on saving the world regardless. His mastery of magic was limited, and relied mostly on his fists to get by. He made most of his money going from town to town selling potions he'd make, mainly from produce he'd stumble across or "borrow" from isolated farms. The PS3 would break and be replaced in 2015, my save file of him lost forever. My brother, shortly after turning 18, would slowly lose himself to alcohol, something he struggles with to this day. He stopped using the games room and would sit alone in his bedroom, drinking and rambling about the same three traumas on a loop. Mom stopped cooking meals because the kitchen was no longer safe with a violent drunk slumped over in the chair. She would slowly lose her mind in her own way, and is now constantly raving about whatever the television tells her to get mad about. I haven't had a coherent conversation with her in at least five years. I was pulled away from gaming entirely, first by education, then by an abusive relationship that nearly broke me. My recovery was helped by games, plenty of long afternoons of Minecraft and herbal tea do wonders for an anxiety disorder, but it wasn't this game. Years passed. A pandemic drove us further apart, right as we were about to make amends. I left home under the cover of darkness after the second time he attacked me, unprovoked, and spent several months couch surfing with whatever I could carry with me out of that house. Eventually I was rehomed, where I've lived ever since. But nobody sits in the corner to comment on whatever I'm doing, or to share what they've been up to. Nobody calls for dinner. Nobody sits at the small wooden table I bought that's been hardly used over the past two years. But I bought it for a reason. Because I once had people I could surround myself with and felt safe around. Because I once had a life that made sense. Because even after all these years, I come back to listen to this particular song, one that always seemed to play whenever that Imperial, whose name I can no longer remember, walked out into the rain, the flat green leaves rustling in the breeze, letting the rain clean his blood soaked hands and his dirty shirt and suspenders after risking life and limb to collect more Welkynd stones so he can conjure more skeletons. Because I was fifteen.
This game doesn't even feel like a game to me anymore. It feels like an experience and every time I boot it up, I'm not playing a game. I'm reliving experiences.
Not sure about that. I don't play Oblivion for such a long time, so far, (since march), and I also got this feeling from the very beginning (after a few days). I think it's more then we can explain in one word.
every game designer should think of their game primarily as an experience, according to game designer Jesse Schell.
Similar to past-life regressions. Interesting.
I play on console, and my PS3 stopped reading discs. I hate that i'm unable to play the game, but I am happy that I was able to experience it ... sooner or later, i'm gonna purchase a new one.
@TM Films All elder scrolls game are at least worth trying. Still almost no games that give the same type of experience still. Do your research but enjoy what you play!
This song better play in heaven or else Im not dying
I don't think you're going to Heaven, buddy
@@fatherleo4603 what makes you say that
😂😂😂 funny
@@linkalot7415 He knows...
@@linkalot7415 He's the father
i actually need to listen to this sometimes
Same
Moves your soul
Yes.
Only the great Jeremy Soule could've came up with this magical piece
Same, I feel that
it was a simpler time, it was a better time.
Feels the same amen to that brother
Indeed it was brother, it was.
As much as I’m looking forward to what the future brings, I miss those simple days when the only thing that mattered was what sidequest I was gonna do, and whether or not I had enough chips and soda to last the whole dungeon run
"Before the dark times. Before the Empire."
Youre gonna make me cry
Indeed...
Soothing enough to make you forget about the whole crisis around you.
Yes, even for a moments bliss
No kidding
and you said this even before the pandemic lol
@@smithconner24 I actually played this game again during the 2020 pandemic. I was like "It's the end of world. Might as well play a game about the end of the world" lol
@@agnosobosovo9775 lmao so true, hope you enjoyed it brother
My best friend passed away from cancer 3 weeks ago. We were friends ever since we were 4. He introduced me to gaming and to oblivion. Oblivion will always be one of my favorite games, simply because of all the stupid things the npc's would do. We never got tired of laughing about that. I'm really going to miss you Kyle, I loved you
I'm sorry to hear brother. My best friend recently had a health crisis and made me realize how we should cherish the moments.
I'm sorry for your loss. I hope the game reminds you of all the good times. Best of luck to you
I cry with your soul my friend
Peace of akatosh be upon you, man. May kyne’s grace guide your friend through aetherius
Ive been there my brother 10 years ago. time is flying, the memories slowly begin to blur and fade but the pain of losing a best friend or a loved one will remain the same now matter how many years passed..
It’s a shame that Spotify just forgot about the song in the album. Up to this day they won’t put it in. I miss it every time when I listen to Souls masterpiece - that’s why I come here. May the Peace be with you all!
This song brings me back to a time of peace. A time of stillness. A time of no worries, sitting on my computer late on a summer night with my window open, and a cold summer breeze lightly brushing against me, while I play oblivion. I wish I could go back
Damn, that was beautifully written.
Written by your mom lol
Don't do this to me
I had a best friend who passed away in February this year. We had known each other since we were kids and he had been in my life for over 80% of it. We used to play Oblivion together, and this song is the one that reminds me the most of those times. I remember a time that he was so heartbroken because he got the Gray Fox glitch and couldn't finish and get the mask (no save) and I returned to redo it for him and got him the mask. Bethesda has done something which even things in real life can't do, give me memories that last a lifetime. Long live this great company, and continue to make your artistic and beautifully developed games. Bethesda is a beacon in the darkness of bad games, and every Elder Scrolls until the ending of the series will be in my collection.
Edit: I may have been a bit over-zealous commenting on the greatness of Bethesda. :/
I'm sorry for your loss.
+MrBaddestofthebad i bow to u, cuz ur not like the rest of these mindless drones, u feel my friend and know whats good, i bow to you, also Peace of akatosh, is a "sad" tune, but ofc in a good way cuz it was made with pride in doing so, also i am sorry for ur loss
Sorry for your loss. Thanks for sharing. And peace.
MrBaddestofthebad Damn, you have my greatest respect.
May he rest in peace. 🌧⛅️🌤☀️
I will smoke right now man :(
May Akatosh give you all strenght when needed.
it's crazy how real Oblivion's graphics can look in certain shots.
Back in the day it did look really good for its time and the graphics still hold up in some way today imo. Was a bitch to run too back then.
@@SnakeHelah like rock faces could be cleaned up and made a bit more random, and the trees could load in better, but overall the graphics are still outstanding and absolutely gorgeous
Whenever I hear this music, it'll be a big reminder that I failed to keep Baurus and Jauffre from dying. Those guys were awesome. 😞😞😞
RKO Dinerocon Conversely, no one would want to keep Boros and Joffre from Game of Thrones from dying. XD
Dude they were cool tho 😐😐😐
AgentMegatron76 I reloaded so many times just to keep them alive lol
Don't worry, they are waiting for you in a new game
I feel old because I still consider this a new game.
I remember eagerly anticipating it before it came out. Put more hours into this game than any other I've ever played.
The best was when you exit the plain of Oblivion. The clouds clear and you are at peace.
we are so lucky to be here in mundus, together
I love you all.
Kindred brothers and sisters.
We children of Tamriel.
Sometimes I listen to TES or Fallout music and it makes want to cry somehow. It's happiness, nostalgia, gratitude, disbelief, melancholy. But over all that I somehow feel lost... maybe is because of so much feelings and thoughs it brings that I can't get my head around them. Is strange but beautiful. I love them, for sure.
Jeremy Soule and Inon Zur are why
Tried playing Oblivion after Skyrim but couldn't really get into it. But from what I've heard from the comments on this video it's kinda like when my friends tell me they can't really get into the old Halo games. It's sad knowing these games are so good, but people (myself included) will never understand. So as a tribute to Oblivion, I modded this song into my Skyrim music. I put it in the morning exploration folder. I was coming out of a dwemer ruin after a hard fought battle with Falmer and Centurions only to be greeted with the light glittering in the snow as the sunrise peeked over the mountains and this song playing in the background. It was perfect.
The music in Oblivion is incredible. You should really try again playing Oblivion, the attributes system is far more in depth and add a lot to your progression rather than just upgrading your health, fatigue and magic and a few odd perks in Skyrim. In oblivion you can make spells to allow you to run faster, jump higher. Some aspects aren't as good but it's worth playing through. I love Skyrim but when you play with attributes you can improve and spell making you really see how little depth there is in Skyrim.
My Skyrim is modded so heavily with combat mods that it has a lot of depth. I have about 200 mods installed, it took me months to get all of them working without crashing. Vanilla Skyrim has very little depth I can agree, but that wasn't necessarily a bad thing since it was accessible and fun for a much wider audience and hence why I played it. But after logging thousands of hours in vanilla Skyrim, I needed something a bit deeper and bought it on PC. The reason I can't really enjoy Oblivion is because it looks like an old game and the graphics aren't that great. It's different with the old games of my childhood, since I have a connection with them that goes beyond the superficial graphical issues. But without that nostalgia to drive me forward, I find older games like Oblivion unplayable. Even with graphic mods, Oblivion still doesn't look good enough sadly. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I wish I played Oblivion when it first came out, but since I didn't, it has issues that I can't look past.
That's the thing though. I've played every Elder Scrolls and you see people saying "Morrowind is the best hurdur!" when in reality, it was just their first game. For me, Oblivion is the best game. It doesn't have the best main story (That's Morrowind), it doesn't have the best combat (that's Skyrim) but it had the living world, incredible music and by far the best side quests that fleshed out the world and made it feel so amazing.
That being said, I didn't really miss attributes in Skyrim. It didn't feel like my Elder Scrolls experience was affected at all by the loss of attributes. I did miss the spellcrafting, which without spellcrafting, I think that's why magic was so weak in Skyrim.
why are you here then?
I feel your story is a lie. Not just because you claimed to work your way backwards in the series, which is hard for even more to do and I started with Daggerfall, but mainly because you actually said that the combat in Oblivion was somehow worse than Morrowind. Morrowind's combat is terrible and clunky compared to Oblivion and Skyrim. Also, Skyrim's combat is the exact same combat of Oblivion but Kill Moves make the combat feel better along with screenshake effects.
Another reason I think you are lying is because you use basically using the list of every flaw Oblivion had that is always cited by Morrowind players who want to puff up Morrowind's stature and deflate the other games. I have never met anyone who legitimately thought or noticed all the "problems" you have listed. Trying to say Oblivion is a generic, cliche'd fantasy game is an erroneous statement every anti-Oblivion player throws out their and only proves that they never really played Oblivion but played the main story (which isn't even bad) and didn't actually PLAY Oblivion.
As for the odd conversation interactions between NPCs, that was not nearly as common as you are saying it was and if your immersion is that easily broken, then you should never have been able to immerse yourself in Morrowind. It was a brand new system that did what no other game tried to do before and it worked most of the time flawlessly. Are you seriously suggesting that the system is better off being NPCs standing around, never conversing or going about their daily lives until an adventurer comes around and talks to them. How is that any less immersion breaking?
This music always played during the the forlorn watchman quest. Letting that silent ghost, a victim of a brutal murder, guide me through the wilderness was sad :(
pppaaaooo13 I loved hearing this song play as he led me near the wreck. It really added to his otherly feel.
This video was disliked by Mehrunes Dagon.
and what a kick ass name Mehrunes Dagon :)
Denis Chelaru that wasnt what i said i know mehrunes dagon is an evil deadra i was talking about its name
And mythic dawn agents
@@Elchupanibres His name most likely comes from Dagon, who was a real deity in Canaan
Think I've found my funeral song ;(
let's hope it's a long, long, long time before it has to be used!
14kip hell nah ima play the full soundtrack let them bitches hear 1 hour of great music
same here mate =/ =)
@Wrong Profile 🇨🇦🍻🤙
There are few games like Oblivion that really take a hold of your heart and properly trigger emotions. Warcraft would be another, but holy shit this game will stick with me right through my life. Sure, as a game there are definitely better choices but when it comes to the passion of Fantasy and storytelling, Oblivion is number one. You know what's incredible? The game had like four voice actors yet it still felt like a lively world and then obviously the sound track just transports you into the world completely. Wandering through Cyrodill at 4am on a school night with this song playing, the memories just topple that of pretty much any other game.
When I play Oblivion (which I do religiously) I relive me when I was 8 or 9 years old, when I was a just a kid, getting lost in the fantasies of the Elder Scrolls games. This series has touched my heart in many ways.
I think 3:27 has to be one of my favourite moments in any piece of music ever
fixed: 3:27
When the musics resolution hits
this is the best game music ever composed, Jeremy Soule was in his prime for this game. I have this song on my sleeping playlist when I listen to my ipod at night, so wonderful
starfire reminds me of halo which was first
I think his peak was the Skyrim OST
I played this game first when I was 15 and loved this song. Now Im rocking my 4 month old son who just fell asleep peacefully listening to this. Funny where life goes
this brings me back to another life i never had
For me, it was definitely 2012
This game was the escape from all stresses in life
Masterpiece.
One of my online's friend passed away in 2022. He was a fan of Oblivion
Soon i will be embraced by akatosh. May the peace lay down on me
I remember when I was only six years old watching my dad play this game and just being in awe when this track would come on. I want to say that the music from this game is probably what started me on my journey of loving music. This and Skyrim have brought me so much peace whenever I’m anxious or sad.
i swear this song is in like a "heavenly music" compilation or something
everytime i hear youtubers put on church music, its this song. always this song.
this game holds so many lovely memories for me... *sigh* simply beautiful; my 'home' game.
This does something to my soul. For me this is what heaven sounds like..instantly i am somewhere else happy and at peace. Thank you for posting ive looked everwhere to find it and foind it when i stopped looking :) blessings
+Paul Massey and usually thats how u find what ur looking for, when u stop "trying" to find :D also awsome tune
I was in college when Oblivion came out. Aside from Final Fantasy 7-10, the Elder Scrolls 3, 4, and 5 remain the core of my being. Soule nails the type of music for exploration and wonder.
i want to live inside this soundtrack
The Angels Welcome You
I don't know if you are still online, but thank you for posting this. Putting this on loop really helps me get into a good mindset whenever I pray a rosary.
I played it last year and now i’m planning to play it again.
What a masterpiece! 😢
This song always meant a lot to me because it played when I first exited the Imperial City sewers during my first playthrough of the game.
Me too!!
Same here and I never fast traveled at night just waiting to hear this song while traveling through
Gonna get crackin' on this game this weekend with acase of beer, i've owned skyrim since release and love it to death with countless hours played, just now getting into oblivion and a whole new adventure awaits.
Drunk Not I Am how'd the adventure go? Was it as magical as people say it is?
+Andrew Lewis yup
Still have fond memories?
Even if this game is about 9 gods, this song really helps connect me to the One True God.
Praise Talos
+Yokozuma bc Lmao
Hahaha
Blessings of Talos.
The Elder Scrolls :D
Reminds me of Halo music.
This game is so beautiful
It really does, I swear I thought it was from Halo 3 at first
Oblivion and fabel 1 is that kind of masterpiece that you will never forget playing and enjoying every hour spent. im never going to forget waking up inside the pirate ship in cyrodill harbour.
Dude... walking out on the deck of that ship for the first time, being surrounded by an oceanic sunset that set my soul completely at ease, even though pirates were all waiting for the "intruder" down below 🤣 good times
--Also Fable 1 is totally worthy of the masterpiece title 👌🌄
This track suddenly makes me forget about all the bugs, memes and shortcomings of Oblivion. This is one of Jeremy Soule's best pieces in the Elder Scrolls franchise, and it has a very poignant quality to it.
There's nothing like exiting a dungeon you just finished after fighting for hours and coming to near death alot of time and coming out to a sunny day out of the darkness and listening to this song
It makes you think... Man what an adventure
Or even after closing an Oblivion gate. This music was truly magical, aside from Auriel's Ascension
I love this tune.
It's so beautiful 🙂
It's a tune that would play in Heaven 🙂
When you glitch out your acrobatics skill to 24000 and hit space bar: 0:01
jump so high you start hearing heaven's angels LOL
This ost transported me into Cydodiil back when I first discovered the game. I wish I could do it all over again.
I’d oftentimes relax and stargaze as this track played.
2:02 "I slept in the woods. I came back the next morning... and Kvatch was gone."
Brings back so many memories.
Shoutout Conway the Machine for this being sampled into the intro on his new album. My life has officially come back full circle hahaha
This entire soundtrack is unbelievable
I used to listen it every morning.
Special thanks to Jeremy Soule
The best elders scroll ever.. Oblivion
Is this the best soundtrack in all of Oblivion? I think so.
Peaceful days, to my friends and family i love you all. To the fellow wayfarer's out there i wish you all the best in all you do.
its taken almost 8 years to get 100k+ views, why? this should have millions
Couldn't agree more
I see my own grave in my mind when I hear it.
This song always seemed to play after I had killed a deer any other animal out in the wilderness, made me think it was some kind of dirge for the them
Also, this song playing in the snowy wastelands of northern Cyrodiil was one of the most magical gaming moments for me
Dirge...what a great word!
Oblivion has the best soundtrack ♥️
Fit perfectly for war cemeteries and shrines...a solemn remind for all the pain mankind faced...
*Mr Incridible final form*
This song reminds me of adventuring through the forests of Cyrodiil to find all of the shrines to complete my pilgrimage. Good ol' days.
this comment reminds me of listening to Oblivion music 6 years ago to reminisce about playing the game. Good ol days
One of the finest pieces of music ever.
This ost helped me get through my law exams this year.
I’d pay 10,000$ to hear this live and cry on how beautiful this is.
IDK why, but Oblivion always had that 'homely' feel to it. Maybe it is just me, but this was one of those differences that I felt whenever playing Skyrim.
Watching the sun set from the Anvil light house while this plays is perfection
No bias, but this is really good.
I remembered the time passed inside the temple only listening to this
2.02 and on always hits different. It’s such a peaceful moment yet savage beauty.
This was the first music I heard when I went out the sewers and I saw Cyrodiil for the first time. It was night, and the atmosphere was calm and enchanting, yet somber: I just witnessed the emperor's death, a good man who treated me nicely. It was the first of many losses my PG experienced during the game.
Oblivion was great because it created a really melancholic, yet heartwarming story.
Every Time I Go Sit In A Chapel This Immediately Plays In My Head Because I Feel At Peace
This song makes me crying and touch my soul. A masterpiece.
never really played oblivion, only skyrim, but i still listen to the soundtrack and this is my favorite piece on it. i added it to my exploration playlist, which i listen to whenever i play skyrim, and when this piece comes on i nearly tear up (2:01 is, personally, my favorite moment). i don't know why, but i do feel like i get something like second-hand nostalgia, if that exists, even. it's weird.
Love the music for Oblivion and Skyrim. I'm going to have to plug in my PS3 and play Oblivion again
or you can download it on pc and plug in a controller :D
its not exactly the same thing but ..
Skyrim music bored me to death. except the Main theme and Sovngard.
I want this to play at my funeral.
Lyrics
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If I was given the option to live anywhere such as a game, in a book or just something on top of my head I would choose to live in Tamriel, Idc if there is no technology, people I don't know; I could be living in a world where most thing and creatures exists and most people can't even begin to dream about oh but I wish my wish could true
Sam Rocha admit it, you'd want to join the Dark Brotherhood
Me too dude
I would buy a house in the colovian Highlands, overlooking the great forest of cyrodiil... It would be amazing
All fun and games until some necromancer comes out of a nearby cave and massacres you and your entire village.
The various entities and beings would pose a greater threat to you there then in a more stable world such as ours(and ours is NOT stable)
Am i... dead?
To play this music, and play Elden Ring. Oblivion would always be in heart
Oblivion and Skyrim, best games ever made by far.
i love how in the next game you are quote the opposite of the "peace of akatosh" and also quite literally kill "a piece of akatosh"
Soule is the star of Oblivion.
There are so many great elder scrolls songs, but this one is probably the greatest to me.👏😃 Peace in the land
Blessings of the Akatosh upon you
I can hear my fireballs hurtling towards deer now..YOUR DESTRUCTION HAS INCREASED.
Nostalgia 😮💨
Can't find this master piece on spotify
Shit!
Its there now
Most epic game music ever I have the whole soundtrack
Say what you will about Oblivion but this game truly felt real and there were sometimes I just turned the game on and travelled the countryside just to get lost in the scenery. Skyrim was amazing but it missed this essential element at times.
it hurts
They need to make way more music like this.
They do and there is. Try listen to some classical choral music or even, more current, Harold Budd and Brian Eno; First Light. Nice stuff for sure. That will set you on track for some relaxing and different music.
Thank you for this answer, Mark Williamson. Many people - even those who like this kind of music - underestimate the power of classical music. It's not all Mozart, especially the romantic period after ca. 1850.
2011: Music from Bible
2020: Mr Incredible becoming Canny Phase 17
This song makes me want to put on plate armor and hop up on a horse, trudging out into the woods, the only sounds being those of the birds, the horses hooves, and my soft humming. There’s sunbeams coming through the leaves, and I look up, using my hand to shield my eyes. In the distance I see solitude city, rising gracefully above the water. I smile.
Bro im crying right now 😭
I was fifteen.
I sat in a leather beanbag chair, turned on the PS3, and disappeared for hours at a time. My brother, two years younger, would sit in the same room in the corner, on his laptop, occasionally making jokes about the faces or the sudden tone shift of the soundtrack changing from pieces like this to the combat music whenever a mudcrab would harass me. And just as things were getting tense in a dungeon, dinner would be called from the other room, and I'd return to the world to sit and eat with my family.
I had many save files, but one will always stand out to me as my definitive run. My character was a simple man, an Imperial who refused to wear armour or use weapons, that refused to sleep in beds, and was stuck on the highest difficulty setting, but insisted on saving the world regardless. His mastery of magic was limited, and relied mostly on his fists to get by. He made most of his money going from town to town selling potions he'd make, mainly from produce he'd stumble across or "borrow" from isolated farms.
The PS3 would break and be replaced in 2015, my save file of him lost forever. My brother, shortly after turning 18, would slowly lose himself to alcohol, something he struggles with to this day. He stopped using the games room and would sit alone in his bedroom, drinking and rambling about the same three traumas on a loop. Mom stopped cooking meals because the kitchen was no longer safe with a violent drunk slumped over in the chair. She would slowly lose her mind in her own way, and is now constantly raving about whatever the television tells her to get mad about. I haven't had a coherent conversation with her in at least five years. I was pulled away from gaming entirely, first by education, then by an abusive relationship that nearly broke me. My recovery was helped by games, plenty of long afternoons of Minecraft and herbal tea do wonders for an anxiety disorder, but it wasn't this game.
Years passed. A pandemic drove us further apart, right as we were about to make amends. I left home under the cover of darkness after the second time he attacked me, unprovoked, and spent several months couch surfing with whatever I could carry with me out of that house. Eventually I was rehomed, where I've lived ever since. But nobody sits in the corner to comment on whatever I'm doing, or to share what they've been up to. Nobody calls for dinner. Nobody sits at the small wooden table I bought that's been hardly used over the past two years.
But I bought it for a reason. Because I once had people I could surround myself with and felt safe around. Because I once had a life that made sense. Because even after all these years, I come back to listen to this particular song, one that always seemed to play whenever that Imperial, whose name I can no longer remember, walked out into the rain, the flat green leaves rustling in the breeze, letting the rain clean his blood soaked hands and his dirty shirt and suspenders after risking life and limb to collect more Welkynd stones so he can conjure more skeletons.
Because I was fifteen.
Nice history, have a nice trip to you ❤
"Lord Akatosh lends you his might. When your own strength fails you, trust in the Nine."