Oblivion

I've played the other elder scrolls games all the way through. But never this one... even if I have to grit my teeth I think it'd be fun to play thru

I guess so.

>playstyle
Do a fighterthiefwizard playstyle like everyone else.

Let me tell you that at one point it gets tedious as fuck, the main quest I mean.

I wish they would remaster Oblivion with modern graphics

damn, that makes me sad. What do these mods do exactly?

its fine so long as you don't move the difficulty slider from the middle
just play as a warrior

I have my own mind and ideas on how to play. I'm curious to see what other people do

Thanks I'm starting this play through now. Worried about how hot it might get

its great. its a lot easier to get into than morrowind but still has a lot of freedom for builds unlike skyrim which is made for people who are basically retarded. the main quest is extremely mediocre but there's a lot of great sidequests that build some great tes lore and just general good stories.

stealth archer

unique landscapes, does what it says on the tin. It'll add farm land and waterfalls, anything to break up the landscape. Not as improtant as Better Dungeons
BetterDungeons goes ahead and reworks and adds a ton of functionality to most of the dungeons in the game. Oblivion's dungeons were made by a single person and seemingly were made very quickly with a bunch of premade tiles with little thought put into making them all unique

If you're gonna listen to what people in the thread say and not bother with the main story, then don't go to the city of Xvatch.
It triggers some really annoying encounters that are scattered around the entire map.

Oblivion still has better guild quests than Morrowind and Skyrim. Main quest is bad, especially when you have to rush a bunch of gates in a row.

shivering isles sucks

It's gonna filter you

Yes, just go and have fun op, its a fun game

The only thing you should do is to get plenty of agility so you can run stupidly fast and jump stupidly high. Otherwise the daedra portal sections will become a regular nuisance really soon

>Is Oblivion worth playing in 2020?
No TES game is worth playing after 2004.

Thanks. I love it. I'll sprinkle in a couple mods but I don't want to go overboard. So far, just from this thread, sounds like I need:
-alternate start
-unique landscapes
-Better Dungeons

yes, but mainly for the side quests.
I don't know how people without nostalgia for the game would react, but for me some of the jank adds to the charm, the voice acting is as cheesy as it gets.

You absolutely should get a Ui mod for it if you're playing it on pc, I like Darnified Ui personally, nexusmods has everything you need.
I would also get a mod that fixes the level scaling, but it all depends on how much you want to stay vanilla, I played it just fine without mods in 2006.
Check this site for more recommended mods
>tesgeneral.com/oblivion-essentials

>No TES game is worth playing
Fixed that for you.

tesgeneral.com/oblivion-essentials

How much weight does this comment have? Are these "encounters" gates? Are they all the same? Kinda sad to hear how negatively people feel about the main story

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Just started playing it again and I’m about 40 hrs in on this playthrough. It’s got more charm than Skyrim, with just a little less polish.

>Is Oblivion worth playing in 2020?
Fuck off zoomer

>Are these "encounters" gates
Yeah
>Are they all the same?
The gates have different layouts, but they all really look the same. There's never any variation to the way anything looks. The same dark Daedra architecture and the same blinding fucking lava. Plus they're boring/annoying as shit to get through, and never even have good loot.

It is also a desperate bid for attention and social interaction. More so, I feel than the seemingly original intent to discuss the video game, they merely want social interaction.

Yes, just mod it.

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You should add a few mods I think, any basic bugfixing one and graphical changes are pretty mandatory these days. Just scroll through most downloaded on nexus and pick whatever you think looks cool, the game is pretty rough vanilla.
This link is pretty decent too

VERY IMPORTANT :
Don't level up your character!!!

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if you're going to do stupid workarounds like this, you should just install a mod that makes it a non-issue in the first place.

Sadly the "cure" is worse than the disease
Every mod that tries to balance oblivion level scaling just ends up putting insanely overpowered enemies everywhere. I'll take the damage sponge bandits with daedric gear that only start appearing in level 25+ over le epic goblin mega warlord that instakill you and level 99 vampires that regenerate 10% of their health every second unless they're under sunlight or you hit them with a silver dagger every 2 seconds

Yeah, mods that try to get rid of the level scaling issue generally do it by getting rid of level scaling. There being enemies that are too strong for you to fight as a low level person without cheesing is good for feeling like you actually progress in power. Some nobody rookie adventurer shouldn't be able to win fights with vampires and the like, or goblin warlords. Makes no fucking sense for rare shit like that to exist if the local city guard could just walk out and beat it to death with no issues.

Idk maybe.
I love oblivion but it was for shit most people hate about it or make fun of it for.
>Make hoods of take 3 fire damage per second when worn
>reverse pickpocket them on peoples inventory, wait an hour in game and watch them all die since they all put the hoods on
>reverse pickpocket a potion of AAAAAA - 5555 HP and laugh when they drink it at low hp.
>cry when an npc you need to finish a quest is killed by a fucking troll because she takes weekly strolls to another town and got killed when you where not even near her.
>Figuring out stacking chameleon to 100% makes you fucking invincible
>Using drain skill on yourself each level to get a skill to level 200 without cheating with coaches

Shit like that made it fun but that was also coming from a tenager with way to much time on his hands that was able to enjoy oblivions stupid silly shit.

That said if you do play it prioritize the guild quests, name the dark brotherhood, thieves guild, fighters guild and mages guild in that order (or Mages guild first because while the quests are kinda weak getting about halfway though it unlocks spell crafting which is neat.)

yes
unironically stealth archer

yeah how dare you discuss video games

I had a lot of fun playing pure mage, didn't get farther than 30 hours though. the main story is so fucking boring and I've played it too many times as is

Elder Scrolls are... odd. I'd strongly advise against treating them like a sim, they are shallow quest-generators for you to blitz through, 100% the map, and never look at again.

They're not much fun to actually play (unless you get joy out of abusing stacking effects) but the quest design is nice and you get a real sense of exploration out of seeing new towns or such. All of which you can only do once.
But they're all worth playing. Even Arena. All of the spinoffs are garbage.

Biggest problem with these games is that there's zero incentive to explore once you become powerful. All of the dungeons are horribly uninteresting and poorly designed; the only thing that makes them bearable is knowing that you're getting a good reward at the end.

exactly. skyrim did this better than oblivion but it's still a big problem. fallout handles that problem a lot better

Nope nope nope. Aged really fucking bad in every regard.
could barely stomach it for longer than 30 minutes.

Ya, it's pretty good. If you have PC download a couple of fixes and look around for some 'essential' mods but I still quite like it. It looks like ass now though. Really wish someone would rebuild it. Same as Daggerfall actually.

>It looks like ass now though.
The potato faces and glass armour were always hideous, man.

Agree with vanilla, but both oblivion and skyrim have enough mods out there to make this not really an issue. Any of the big mods that rework level scaling (or just remove it) and change up loot tables around that generally mean there's more of a reason to check out dungeons, and to come back to them later if it's got some high level shit in there.
I wouldn't say either without mods are very great RPGs though, they really do just play like themeparks

+Realistic Leveling and Vanilla Combat Enhanced

I like Cyrodil better than Skyrim but the scaling in the game is so fucked that it makes the game unplayable for me.

>I have recently (role)played as a Imperial merchant/thief
I wish Elder Scrolls actually allowed for genuine agency and roleplaying. There's very little space for any character nuance, you often either agree to do a quest or you don't and there are very few choices within quests. Combine the openness of tes with a good crpg, and they'd be perfect.
>It looks like ass now though.
You serious? Oblivion looks perfectly fine, at time's it's almost beautiful. The only bad thing is the faces.

Well, yes, but I meant more the environments. Which where at the time not great but carried by an acceptable enough art direction, are now just bad with an acceptable art direction. Nothing in that game looks good now.

I had the most fun with Oblivion by not triggering the main quest at all. Using the mods already mentioned, plus something to balance the economy/gold distribution a bit and you can play hundreds of hours feeling like an adventure traveling around doing odd jobs and quests for people while slowly gaining in stature, it’s a very comfy game

I also recommend not using fast travel and getting an open cities mod that removes load screens to get in/out of the cities

I don’t find the occasional bandit in glass armour too offensive

Shivering Isles is great too