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Alf Shall Rise 02-26-2007 11:55 AM

Close the Jaws Of Oblivion!
 
Heh, I decided a make a thread about TES 4: Oblivion. I've been playing that, and I wanted to know who ELSE plays it, and their main account. lol

I.E., here's mine:
Name: Luigi (heh)
Race: Breton
Level: 25
Time Played: 86 hours (optional)
Largest Bounty: 250,000 (optional)

Dishcush naw!

Arxryl 02-26-2007 05:33 PM

Well, my main character changes a lot. I've already beaten the main quest, so I like to go through as different characters. I've had a Breton as my starting character, a nord, an Argonian, and a finally a Dunmer (dark elf.)

Currently my guy is:

Name: Arxryl
Race: Dark Elf
Level: 8 (although he kicks arse with a long sword)
Time Played; Don't know.
Largest Bounty: about 2,500.

I haven't been able to find it in a while, so some of the info may be a bit inacurate. But...meh. :)

squeak117 02-26-2007 11:45 PM

I used to play Oblivion. I still would if I had money to buy add-ons and such... and maybe if I didn't have so much schoolwork to do.

Name: Alex (my name)
Race: Dunmer
Level: Thirty - something.
Time played: Approximately 80 hours.
Largest Bounty: I have no idea. My brother got the bounties. I think he had a $75 000 bounty.

I don't play it much anymore though, as I said. I just watch my brother send dogs flying with powerful shock staffs. I think he made one go over the Chorrol wall.

Abraham Lure 02-27-2007 08:25 AM

My brother used to play Oblivion until his console no longer recognised the game disc for some unknown reason. One of his characters was a Bosmer/Wood Elf and the other was a Breton. I loved watching him play. I also played a bit myself (mainly to talk to people). I absolutely love the Khajiits and Bretons. My brother also made me a character which was a Dunmer/Dark Elf.

The questline that I got to know and love was the Dark Brotherhood. I like it so much that I'm even writing a parody story of the questline. Anyway, I got to love two characters, Lucien Lachance and Vicente Valtieri. Vicente because he is really educated and because he's got a cool voice. Same with Lucien, except Lucien is cooler than Vicente.

I might have to get my brother a new copy. Just to watch him play again (I prefer watching).

Alf Shall Rise 02-27-2007 05:37 PM

Really? I prefer playing, I fall asleep while watching a game other than survival horror games. And could you inlighten me about who Vicente is again? His name sounds SO familiar!

Arxryl 02-27-2007 06:20 PM

he's a vampire in the dark brotherhood. Doesn't he allow you to turn into a vampire later on in the quest or something?

Leto 02-27-2007 06:46 PM

Downloaded some of the plugins recently at a friends house, and they dont ****ing work unless I'm on live (which is never at my place). Wtf, made me angrus.

Started a new game, played for about 15 hours and am around level 14. Man Oblivion gates **** me off.

Arxryl 02-27-2007 07:07 PM

My brother had a hell of a time with 'em too. A glitch occured and he couldn't close any of them...

Mojo 02-28-2007 09:36 AM

Welll, they're pretty easy with a lot of chameleon potions :P.

Arxryl 02-28-2007 05:23 PM

Not so much that. He couldn't physically close them! when he pulled out the sigil stone, nothing happened. The room went white, but then it returned to normal, with all kinds of Deadra still attacking him....

Alf Shall Rise 02-28-2007 06:25 PM

Ah the Dark Brotherhood. I hate em. When I joined, one of them attacked me -- for no reason, I'm not wanted, I didn't do ANYTHING! He just attacked me, I attackd back and got kicked out. And plugins? You mean like, "Knights of the Nine"?

Arxryl 02-28-2007 08:22 PM

Well... sort of. Nights of the Nine I think is going to come out as an actuall update disk or something, but yes. Little additions to the realm- of Oblivion. Duh-nuh-nuh!

Leto 02-28-2007 09:18 PM

Knights of the Nine is already out on XBL and CDROM for pc.

I don't have a hard time with oblivion gates, but they get very monotonous and tedious because you have to close one for each city.

Mojo 03-01-2007 12:25 AM

There are plenty more than that.

Leto 03-01-2007 10:17 PM

I meant that is the minumum for the mainquest.

I thought I wouldn't have to explain my every god damn sentence to fellow Elder Scrolls fans. :P Well that's the difference between Morrowind and Oblivion players.

Strike Witch 03-02-2007 12:46 AM

Uh...

you mean the ones to get the town aid?

I just went straight to the fight...not too hard at all.

Kimon 03-02-2007 05:05 AM

Whenever I play Oblivion, I just get Morrowind nostalgia, which really sucks cuz my Xbox is broken and Microsoft doesn't want to make one of the Xbox's best-selling games backwards compatible. Guh. It makes me wrathphul. Anyways, Oblivion may have fixed stuff in terms of gameplay, but it totally got rid of any and all atmosphere that made Morrowind so amazing. I hate to say it, because I totally advocated these things before the game was released, but the quest compass and fast travel really got rid of a lot of the awesomeness of Eldah Scrollz. Plus the voice acting was shitty and it made all the characers a lot less cool.

And yeah, Oblivion gates ****ing suck. Honestly, I just put the difficulty on easy so I can get through them that much faster.

P.S. Argonians and Khajiits shouldn't wear boots. Goodbye uniqueness of the beast races.

Mojo 03-02-2007 09:25 AM

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Whenever I play Oblivion, I just get Morrowind nostalgia, which really sucks cuz my Xbox is broken and Microsoft doesn't want to make one of the Xbox's best-selling games backwards compatible. Guh. It makes me wrathphul. Anyways, Oblivion may have fixed stuff in terms of gameplay, but it totally got rid of any and all atmosphere that made Morrowind so amazing. I hate to say it, because I totally advocated these things before the game was released, but the quest compass and fast travel really got rid of a lot of the awesomeness of Eldah Scrollz. Plus the voice acting was shitty and it made all the characers a lot less cool.

And yeah, Oblivion gates ****ing suck. Honestly, I just put the difficulty on easy so I can get through them that much faster.

P.S. Argonians and Khajiits shouldn't wear boots. Goodbye uniqueness of the beast races.


Then buy it on the PC? It's cheap!

Kimon 03-02-2007 01:01 PM

I actually originally got it on the PC. My computer hates me, and as such, I can't play any games with a higher graphical capacity than Final Fantasy 7.

squeak117 03-02-2007 03:26 PM

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I actually originally got it on the PC. My computer hates me, and as such, I can't play any games with a higher graphical capacity than Final Fantasy 7.

Well, aren't you lucky. My computer can only just play Age of Empires 1.
I do agree with you though, on Morrowind having a so much cooler atmosphere and environment. Exploring Morrowind was so much more fun than exploring Cyrodil.
Morrowind could be a truly excellent game if they fixed up the frustrating combat system. I couldn't get past the 3rd story quest because my sword wasn't hitting anything. I still think Oblivion is fun, but the exploration aspect has just completely gone from it. And even though fast travel is an easier way and convenient for most people (including myself), there should be a way to turn it off just for exploration purposes.

Arxryl 03-02-2007 04:13 PM

Well, when I'm just going through the game for fun, I usually just not use the quick-travel feature.

The game is a lot better when you just walk around, but yes. Like AE and AO, it lacked a certain feel to it. Still wish I could find the damn game though... why is my room so messy!? :fuzmad:

munchman 03-02-2007 05:26 PM

It was a good game :)
 
Name: Mantra
Race: Dark Elf
Level: 15
Time Played: 67 hours(optional)
Largest Bounty: 0 (optional)

Leto 03-02-2007 11:26 PM

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Plus the voice acting was shitty and it made all the characers a lot less cool.
Yes, I was disappointed at the lack of the origional male Imperial and Dunmer voices, as they were on the first leaked e3 video but wasn't in the actual game. Would've only been those two lines, but still... The male dunmers in there sound like they should own a store that sells little balls of string.

And @the fast travel and compass issue: yes, ruins the atmosphere of the world being big, and just walking around to look for new things. And fast travel, since I've been replaying it recently (nothing else to do and origional Xbox's laserdisc is screwed in the solaranus) and walking everywhere is a much more rewarding experience (but for the Dark Brotherhood, ****ing tedious).

If Xbox360 had compatabilty for Morrowind, Stranger, Deus Ex II and Worms 3D I would die a happy chica. Oh I want to play Stranger now. **** yall OWF.

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you mean the ones to get the town aid?

I just went straight to the fight...not too hard at all.
I totally didn't know that. That cuts out 80% of the tedium for the mainquest, thank your Lord.

Strike Witch 03-03-2007 01:32 AM

Yeah, the battle isn't too hard, theres two little gates, which spew Deadra, but only three at a time, and the Blades and Bruma soldiers can hold them off. Just kill any heading for Martin. When the big Gate appears, head into it.
It's the last Gate in the game, and the toughest, but luckily the most straightforward.

Get past that, and prepare to fight Mehrunes in Imp City.

Arxryl 03-03-2007 10:51 AM

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If Xbox360 had compatabilty for Morrowind, Stranger, Deus Ex II and Worms 3D I would die a happy chica. Oh I want to play Stranger now. **** yall OWF.

That would relieve a lot of the things to bitch about in the Bitchiness thread. Why doesn't Microsoft just at least try to put games on there we actually enjoy?

Leto 03-03-2007 12:17 PM

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Yeah, the battle isn't too hard, theres two little gates, which spew Deadra, but only three at a time, and the Blades and Bruma soldiers can hold them off. Just kill any heading for Martin. When the big Gate appears, head into it.
It's the last Gate in the game, and the toughest, but luckily the most straightforward.

Get past that, and prepare to fight Mehrunes in Imp City.
Whereas since I've only done the mainquest once I thought the aid for bruma thing was compulsory. And this is typical of me, I come to know this knoweledge after getting the last town's aid since I've been replaying it, oh dear.

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Why doesn't Microsoft just at least try to put games on there we actually enjoy?
Well, these are but a handful of games that got preference over what we actually want to play:

Barbie™ Horse Adventures™ Wild Horse Rescue™
Catwoman™
Fuzion Frenzy®
Pure Pinball
Shincho Mahjong
Splat Magazine Renegade Paintball
Every single Tom Clancy piece of anus

Paramite of War 03-03-2007 01:07 PM

They got a really cool exspansion comming out called the Shivering Isles.
Its is like 1/4 the size of oblivion and its really cool.

the Exoddus 03-03-2007 01:25 PM

name:fatcat
race: kajight
lvl:3 (still kan take on 5 gards with low helth)
play time:245?
highist bounty: 450,000 (dont ask)

theif of course =p onley place i can get peace is the mines other than that im being chased XD

Mojo 03-03-2007 01:59 PM

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Whereas since I've only done the mainquest once I thought the aid for bruma thing was compulsory. And this is typical of me, I come to know this knoweledge after getting the last town's aid since I've been replaying it, oh dear.



Well, these are but a handful of games that got preference over what we actually want to play:

Barbie™ Horse Adventures™ Wild Horse Rescue™
Catwoman™
Fuzion Frenzy®
Pure Pinball
Shincho Mahjong
Splat Magazine Renegade Paintball
Every single Tom Clancy piece of anus

Actually, FF is quite fun if played while drinking large amounts of alcohol.

And Rainbow Six: Vegas is pretty sweet too!

the Exoddus 03-03-2007 02:15 PM

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Actually, FF is quite fun if played while drinking large amounts of alcohol.

And Rainbow Six: Vegas is pretty sweet too!

na you need alot of caffine packets AND large amounts of red bull and alchole then ff is fun =p

Strike Witch 03-03-2007 11:16 PM

Barvie Horse Adventures FTW!

Leto 03-04-2007 08:46 PM

To you all:

Sigh.

Kimon 03-06-2007 02:28 PM

Isn't Vegas a 360 game?

Leto 03-06-2007 08:40 PM

Most probably, it's all the same shite.

I'd like Shivering Isles, but the plugins I downloaded dont work unless I'm connected to live, which is never at all. So I shant get it. lol.

Mojo 03-07-2007 10:08 AM

Thats odd... It works for me.

Leto 03-07-2007 09:58 PM

And everyone else, except Leto. Even my mate who resides in the same house has got it to work. Dont know whats up.