Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

[Squeek]

This game is terrific. I hadn't played an Elder Scrolls game before this one, but I always watched my friend play Morrowind and he had oodles of fun doing so.

So I started with a Breton since a battle-mage seemed like a cool class to play. Then I realized he's REALLY FREAKIN' SLOW. I hate slow. I'd take speed over power any day. So I made a Khajiit since cats are coo~

So I do as much of the main quest as I can before I lose interest (Cloud Ruler Temple, anyone?) and move on to sidequests and crap. I do like 2 and they take forever so I'm bored. I get to level 2 and I'm like hey Arena let's go yay fun. Then I beat it all. Some challenge that was. I leveled once while in the Arena. Never died. Never healed in-battle. And that makes me world champion. Well, I DO have it set on easy, but that's not the point...

So I sleep and get up and some guy says hey join this evil organization of silent assassins and I'm like k. Then I rank up all the way to the top of that and suddenly I'm level 7. Funny how assassinations level you so darn quickly. The missions weren't hard, but they were tedious. Then I'm like coo~ vampire then I'm like this sucks sunlight hurts and there are no advantages to doing this other than looking somewhat cooler. Too bad it requires crap I can't get to make it go away.

So then I want to start up the main quest again but apparently cannot from the NPCs up on the Temple, but they did make me a member of the Blades. Rofl. So I'm the Arena Champion, (rank) in the Black Hand, and a Knight in the Blades. Funny how that works out... being the champion of justice while assassinating people.

So it's fun. I've burned at least 20 hours on the game already. I definitely chose the right class, even if I chose the wrong factions. I've closed like 2 gates. They're boring. The main quest is boring. Bleh.

~Squeek

[Omeganitros]

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find the super-secret amazing easter egg that the developers would have to be retarded to NOT put in a world so amazingly vast.

Also, compare it to Fallout 2. Can I specifically shoot my opponents in their left eye? Can I get to the point where I can talk almost any enemy NPC into joining my cause?

[Squeek]

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Arrows stick to where you shoot the enemy, so if you aim it to their left eye, I'm sure you'll know it hit there. You also pull arrows out of enemies if you want to reuse them.

You can get every NPC in the game to like you (or so I think). There's speechcraft where you MAKE people like you. It takes a while to accomplish but it's kinda fun.

The best was where you are one of six people locked in a hotel with a hidden chest of gold and you're all like competing for it and all. Except not. Your REAL goal is to use speechcraft to talk them into a private conversation upstairs, wherein you get them in their private quarters and kill them one by one.

It gets more fun when everyone is suspicious of everyone except you because everyone likes you due to speechcraft.

Classic whodunit.

~Squeek

[Omeganitros]

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(gasp)

I'll be damned. Something that actually out-does Fallout 2? I thought I would never see the day...

P.S. If your character can gank anything in it's path in one mighty blow, it's worth being slow. Ganking is just so...Devilishly pleasurable. Like devil food. But not like angel food.

[Telvanni_guard]

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I liked the original Morrowind (not to mention killing everyone including those you had to not kill to finish the game), so.. whenever I get the time, I'm running by to pick this one up.

Xbox or PC version Squeek?

[Squeek]

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XBOX IS HUEG

Also known as:

I hate the Xbox. Why would I ever own something that ports any decent game it ever gets to PC, which will run it faster and more efficiently?

Omega: Never played that, so find out for yourself I guess. Right now I'm just running around finding places trying to get to this one place that isn't known to me =/

Stupid quest is like here's a poorly-translated letter and a poorly-drawn map. Find this place. Gl hf dd

~Squeek

[Squeek]

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Bump so people like Spec don't make new threads without looking.

Finally got my invite to the Thieves Guild. I'm rockin' that out.

I figured out what I hate about this game. Quests. Every so often I'll come across one that won't finish or move on to the next step no matter what I do. So then I have to load from a reaaaallllly old savefile to fix it. It's so lame. I've had 3 or 4 out of 14 quests do this to me so far. Long ones too.

~Squeek

[nickadeemus]

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I've been playing this game a lot lately as a Wood Elf Thief (up to level 9 now). I've completed a handful of sidequests and am slowly making my way up into the Thieves Guild. I would be playing right now except I think I glitched this Guild quest because I stole an item before talking to someone about stealing it, and I don't get the option to tell her I have it when I do! I just got turned into a vampire too, just checkin out the stat bonuses for now.

I'm not THAT happy with my major skills because some don't fit my character well and aren't that easily leveled up (alchemy, sword skills when I mostly use a bow). Acrobatics is one of my major skills, and I can jump pretty damn far already. Tomorrow I'm going to try to fix my glitch and maybe use some vampire seduction skills on people and see how that goes.

This game is pretty awesome, even my friend who is a big non-gamer enjoyed being a warrior and even played long enough to close the first portal.

[Benny1]

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Right now I have a level 2 lizard guy, which I cannot remember the name of..

I made my own class, because I was bored, it's major skills were like armorer, blade, blocking, heavy armor, mercantilism, athletics, and restoration.

I dunno how well that will work out, I hope it will pretty well, but I'm not sure iwth only blades as my weapons.

I'm not very far into the game at all, only a few hours at most.

[Squeek]

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I've been playing this game a lot lately as a Wood Elf Thief (up to level 9 now). I've completed a handful of sidequests and am slowly making my way up into the Thieves Guild. I would be playing right now except I think I glitched this Guild quest because I stole an item before talking to someone about stealing it, and I don't get the option to tell her I have it when I do! I just got turned into a vampire too, just checkin out the stat bonuses for now.

I'm not THAT happy with my major skills because some don't fit my character well and aren't that easily leveled up (alchemy, sword skills when I mostly use a bow). Acrobatics is one of my major skills, and I can jump pretty damn far already. Tomorrow I'm going to try to fix my glitch and maybe use some vampire seduction skills on people and see how that goes.

This game is pretty awesome, even my friend who is a big non-gamer enjoyed being a warrior and even played long enough to close the first portal.

Srsly the Vamp skills suck. You need to (What I call) level up the skills to the third level and then you get some stuff that SEEMS worthwhile but amazingly sucks. There are 3 levels as I call them. The first is what I like to stick in. You get some of the skills and some crap, but you don't take sun damage.

If you Wait or Sleep after some time passes, you'll get a box with a story about death. That means you're up a level. It also means you get one more skill, a little more strength, etc. However, you'll start to take sun damage. If you do it again you'll be stronger each time but take more sun damage and be less social. It gets to the point where you can't ask for a bed because the Innkeeper is afraid of you. You can't go outside because you can't heal fast enough to live. You can't fasttravel while taking Health damage. It sucks, so I just feed after I sleep and level because I hate being anything past level 1. It's such a burden...

Oh and you need to load from a save game from before you stole that thing or try to put it back. The quest system is amazingly screwed up.

~Squeek

[Tokzic]

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I. Love. This. Game.

I'm a Morrowind vet, so I've been waiting for this for all eternity. Right now I've started over three times, but that's okay, because now my class is perfect. I'm a L7 Dark Elf Bladecaster, a custom class that basically uses magic and weaponry. Blade, Block, Acrobatics, Heavy Armor, Alteration, Destruction, and Conjuration.

Just closed the first Oblivion gate again. Getting somewhere in the Mage's guild now - the Arcane University sounds awesome.

[Squeek]

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That was so lame.

Right before I left to go to my classes, I finished another quest for the Thieves Guild to put me at "Cat burglar" status.

One part of it was to get yourself thrown in jail, which I did. Unfortunately, by the quest's end, I didn't auto-get it back like I did before.

So now ALL MY STUFF is counted as stolen since I had to take it all back from the guard. I guess it's a good thing to raise my fenced goods total, but now I have the red hand logo on all my stuff =/

~Squeek

[nickadeemus]

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That sucks, Squeek.

I don't have any earlier save files, so I'm pretty much done in the theives guild since I can't complete this quest. I think I'll start a new character now that I have a feel for the major skills. Just bums me out to use all that time killing 13 slaughterfish earlier for nothing.

[Squeek]

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Finished the Thieves Guild.

Man it's got an awesome ending. Mr. Fox says "it's" instead of "its" twice!

The final heist is so incredibly awesome. I won't spoil what you steal or how you do it, but you take something from the Empire. When you find out what it is you're taking you'll go wtfhax.

The prize from the final heist is an item that adds +25 Sneak, +200 Feather (can someone explain to me what feather is? Morrowind guides aren't giving me a decent explanation either), and +120 Feet of seeing Life.

So now I'm working on Fighter's Guild quests. The first one is annoying as the crazy lady I'm supposed to follow can see me like all the time no matter where I'm hiding. I hid on the roof of a house behind a chimney and she still saw me, so she won't put the venison down to lure the lion...

~Squeek

PS: Just to add to the list of annoyances I've found. I found out I didn't do the Kvatch quest all the way through (Just saved the guy and left), so I went back and did it while waiting an entire day for someone to make something for a quest. In the process of group killing with the Kvatch and Imperial guards, one of them stepped in front of my swing apparently and I hit him for the kill. I didn't find out, of course, until 3 hours later as I was running back to Anvil (still trying to waste time and level Athletics) when I came across an Imperial Watch who told me I had a bounty of 1,000 gold and had to go to jail.

-.-

PPS I have like 25,000 gold now rofl

PPPS: Level 15.

[GuidoHunter]

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So, would I like this game?

Keep in mind that I HATED Morrowing with a burning passion.

It all sounds pretty cool, though.

--Guido

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