oblivion

[Bibble]

I snuck around and shot people with my bow. The Grey Fox mask was great for that stuff.

 

[Andrew1990]

I like to play the rogue archer/bowman.

I just wish they added crossbows and shooting while on a horse....

 

[PieIsAwesome]

I played it on PC but spent more time tweaking and patching the game with mods than actually playing it. I found it boring. Maybe I will get it on 360.

 

[sonambulo]

Originally posted by: gorcorps

The assassin guy sounds funner than anything I've done. I'll have to try this out some time. Sounds like it might be a struggle through the arena and such though.

Just hit up the arena at a low level. Speaking of I had a good time abusing the shit out of my little fan there. He sure could take a beating.

Originally posted by: R Nilla
I never played Oblivion all the way through, but this is how my character was on the PC. I stole absolutely everything, including breaking into shops as well as taking rare treasures from inside some of the castles (some of which required cheating), and just straight up murdered a lot of people. I did play completely through the Dark Brotherhood as that was the most interesting thing in the game--don't remember if I did the thieves' guild.

You know what's really fun? Walking up to a town's ruler and punching them square in the face. Once you're thrown into jail take off all your clothes and beat your cellmate to death with your bare hands. Then pick the lock and run the fuck out of there, stealing a bit of armor on your way out. You can lead the soldiers up into the hills and watch them get slaughtered by NPC's or just do the job yourself.

Would have been a lot better if there was an option to bang the sheriff's daughter on the way out of town. Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaw!

 

[JJChicken]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: Barack Obama
thats one old game. i found it pretty boring to be honest and quit within 10 minutes. sigh 110$ wasted 🙁

Really?? 10 minutes? Not much of an attention span.

lol, the bad part is I'm not exaggerating.

 

[sanzen07]

I don't know what you people are talking about. Oblivion is an amazing game. I'm playing it on PS3 and I feel that it's money well spent. I've finished the main quest and most of the Shivering Isles main quest. Haven't done many of the side quests but planning to go back and do those too. It's one of the few games that I feel like I might never uncover absolutely everything in the game.

 

[sonambulo]

Originally posted by: sanzen07
I don't know what you people are talking about. Oblivion is an amazing game. I'm playing it on PS3 and I feel that it's money well spent. I've finished the main quest and most of the Shivering Isles main quest. Haven't done many of the side quests but planning to go back and do those too. It's one of the few games that I feel like I might never uncover absolutely everything in the game.

Warrior's and Mage's guild quests are pretty goddamn boring. The thieves guild and Dark Brotherhood quests are fucking amazing though. Do NOT skip them.

 

[Dumac]

Originally posted by: sanzen07
I don't know what you people are talking about. Oblivion is an amazing game. I'm playing it on PS3 and I feel that it's money well spent. I've finished the main quest and most of the Shivering Isles main quest. Haven't done many of the side quests but planning to go back and do those too. It's one of the few games that I feel like I might never uncover absolutely everything in the game.

Enjoy your bandits who ask you for 100 gold while they are wearing armor worth a million 😉

Oblivion is a decent game, but only when modded to high hell and back. Vanilla version was unplayable for me.

 

[sanzen07]

Originally posted by: Dumac

Originally posted by: sanzen07
I don't know what you people are talking about. Oblivion is an amazing game. I'm playing it on PS3 and I feel that it's money well spent. I've finished the main quest and most of the Shivering Isles main quest. Haven't done many of the side quests but planning to go back and do those too. It's one of the few games that I feel like I might never uncover absolutely everything in the game.

Enjoy your bandits who ask you for 100 gold while they are wearing armor worth a million 😉

Oblivion is a decent game, but only when modded to high hell and back. Vanilla version was unplayable for me.

Hmm. It seems fine non-modded to me. Not that I could mod it anyway if I wanted to...

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: sanzen07

Originally posted by: Dumac

Originally posted by: sanzen07
I don't know what you people are talking about. Oblivion is an amazing game. I'm playing it on PS3 and I feel that it's money well spent. I've finished the main quest and most of the Shivering Isles main quest. Haven't done many of the side quests but planning to go back and do those too. It's one of the few games that I feel like I might never uncover absolutely everything in the game.

Enjoy your bandits who ask you for 100 gold while they are wearing armor worth a million 😉

Oblivion is a decent game, but only when modded to high hell and back. Vanilla version was unplayable for me.

Hmm. It seems fine non-modded to me. Not that I could mod it anyway if I wanted to...

IMO it's perfectly fine un-modded if you never have modded it in the first place. After playing with several mods that change how the enemies level with you and makes it so the guards don't automatically know you've stolen shit at times, the vanilla version seems to be lacking.

 

[techwanabe]

Originally posted by: Barack Obama

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: Barack Obama
thats one old game. i found it pretty boring to be honest and quit within 10 minutes. sigh 110$ wasted 🙁

Really?? 10 minutes? Not much of an attention span.

lol, the bad part is I'm not exaggerating.

Maybe you should spend more than 10 minutes before judging a game to be boring. Especially after you supposedly spent $110 on it. I spent $20 on it and my daughter has gotten countless hours of enjoyment out of it. I've played it some myself and I have to say, its a nice game, with beautiful graphics and lots of open game play. I imagine we will be getting the expansion at some point.

 

[Sea Moose]

Originally posted by: gorcorps

Originally posted by: sanzen07

Originally posted by: Dumac

Originally posted by: sanzen07
I don't know what you people are talking about. Oblivion is an amazing game. I'm playing it on PS3 and I feel that it's money well spent. I've finished the main quest and most of the Shivering Isles main quest. Haven't done many of the side quests but planning to go back and do those too. It's one of the few games that I feel like I might never uncover absolutely everything in the game.

Enjoy your bandits who ask you for 100 gold while they are wearing armor worth a million 😉

Oblivion is a decent game, but only when modded to high hell and back. Vanilla version was unplayable for me.

Hmm. It seems fine non-modded to me. Not that I could mod it anyway if I wanted to...

IMO it's perfectly fine un-modded if you never have modded it in the first place. After playing with several mods that change how the enemies level with you and makes it so the guards don't automatically know you've stolen shit at times, the vanilla version seems to be lacking.

one thing that i found annoying was, i would commit a crime in the imperial city and flee to another city, and the guards there would already know !! Wtf@ Do they have morse code or some shit.

I wish you could join the imperial army like in morrowind, more side quests and factions would have made this game even better...

When is the next elder scrolls comming out?

 

[artemicion]

BTW, if you're a perfectionist, you want to create a custom class, and the skills you choose for the class are not necessarily the skills your character is going to focus on.

I'd look up the details on gamefaqs, but basically, in order to maximize your character's stats, you need to control the pace inwhich you level your skills. It's rather non-intuitive but basically you level up when you increase your core skills by a certain amount. Your attributes bonuses at each level up are based on how much you increased your core AND non-core skills during that level. So the basic stragety for maximizing attributes is increasing your non-core skills enough to maximize your attribute bonuses, THEN increasing your core skills to level up.

That's a real quick-and-dirty overview of the basic strategy. The game is pretty much playable without doing the above, but you can really hamstring your character if you pick a class that has a lot of skills that increase quickly. Like alchemy (really easy to get alchemy to 100 even if it's a non-core skill). If you level too fast, you get crap attribute bonuses, and will have a really weaksauce character in the endgame.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: Sea Moose

Originally posted by: gorcorps

Originally posted by: sanzen07

Originally posted by: Dumac

Originally posted by: sanzen07
I don't know what you people are talking about. Oblivion is an amazing game. I'm playing it on PS3 and I feel that it's money well spent. I've finished the main quest and most of the Shivering Isles main quest. Haven't done many of the side quests but planning to go back and do those too. It's one of the few games that I feel like I might never uncover absolutely everything in the game.

Enjoy your bandits who ask you for 100 gold while they are wearing armor worth a million 😉

Oblivion is a decent game, but only when modded to high hell and back. Vanilla version was unplayable for me.

Hmm. It seems fine non-modded to me. Not that I could mod it anyway if I wanted to...

IMO it's perfectly fine un-modded if you never have modded it in the first place. After playing with several mods that change how the enemies level with you and makes it so the guards don't automatically know you've stolen shit at times, the vanilla version seems to be lacking.

one thing that i found annoying was, i would commit a crime in the imperial city and flee to another city, and the guards there would already know !! Wtf@ Do they have morse code or some shit.

I wish you could join the imperial army like in morrowind, more side quests and factions would have made this game even better...

When is the next elder scrolls comming out?

I haven't had a problem with this until today. I killed a random person in their home in order to get into the dark brotherhood. They didn't get out of the house or anything and I was never caught in the city. I went off to do some other stuff, and now every time I come near any guard in any city I get nailed for it. It's annoying as hell and is really turning me off starting this game up again.

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: artemicion
BTW, if you're a perfectionist, you want to create a custom class, and the skills you choose for the class are not necessarily the skills your character is going to focus on.

I'd look up the details on gamefaqs, but basically, in order to maximize your character's stats, you need to control the pace inwhich you level your skills. It's rather non-intuitive but basically you level up when you increase your core skills by a certain amount. Your attributes bonuses at each level up are based on how much you increased your core AND non-core skills during that level. So the basic stragety for maximizing attributes is increasing your non-core skills enough to maximize your attribute bonuses, THEN increasing your core skills to level up.

That's a real quick-and-dirty overview of the basic strategy. The game is pretty much playable without doing the above, but you can really hamstring your character if you pick a class that has a lot of skills that increase quickly. Like alchemy (really easy to get alchemy to 100 even if it's a non-core skill). If you level too fast, you get crap attribute bonuses, and will have a really weaksauce character in the endgame.

Lots of running and swimming for my female battlemage! I put her in light plate mail with a katana and shield and sought out trinkets that maximized magic damage and did retaliatory damage when I got attacked. Most enemies kill themselves just by attacking me and if they don't die fast enough I can always throw out a level 4 fire spell to quickly off them.

Also, the PC version with lots of mods is the only way to play this game. Really Fallout 3 is the same way IMO.

 

[RyanPaulShaffer]

Just stay as a level 1 and beat the last boss who will have 12 HP and will only be wielding a stick and a cowhide shield, since the entire game scales with you.

 

[thraashman]

Originally posted by: RyanPaulShaffer
Just stay as a level 1 and beat the last boss who will have 12 HP and will only be wielding a stick and a cowhide shield, since the entire game scales with you.

You can't beat the game at level 1. In order to finish the main quest you have to get ahold of at least one Daedric artifact. No Daedric gods will give you a quest at level 1, two of them will give you a quest as early as level 2. Besides, even with the scaling, I could beat anything in the game with no sweat at level 40 because of equipment.

I always play as a custom class. I mainly use 4 skills. Blade, Destruction, Conjuration, Heavy Armor. It may seem like a weird combination, but it's virtually unstoppable. It often got to the point where I'd run into every Oblivion gate I found, run past the enemies summoning a Clannfear on the way through to keep them busy, then grab the stone at the end (saving immediately before and reloading if it was something I didn't want). You get a bunch of those resist magic and Shock Shield or Fire Shield ones, you can be invulnerable to magic and virtually invulnerable to physical damage.

 

[RyanPaulShaffer]

Originally posted by: thraashman

Originally posted by: RyanPaulShaffer
Just stay as a level 1 and beat the last boss who will have 12 HP and will only be wielding a stick and a cowhide shield, since the entire game scales with you.

You can't beat the game at level 1. In order to finish the main quest you have to get ahold of at least one Daedric artifact. No Daedric gods will give you a quest at level 1, two of them will give you a quest as early as level 2. Besides, even with the scaling, I could beat anything in the game with no sweat at level 40 because of equipment.

I always play as a custom class. I mainly use 4 skills. Blade, Destruction, Conjuration, Heavy Armor. It may seem like a weird combination, but it's virtually unstoppable. It often got to the point where I'd run into every Oblivion gate I found, run past the enemies summoning a Clannfear on the way through to keep them busy, then grab the stone at the end (saving immediately before and reloading if it was something I didn't want). You get a bunch of those resist magic and Shock Shield or Fire Shield ones, you can be invulnerable to magic and virtually invulnerable to physical damage.

Okay, so he'll have a dagger and cloth armor. You get my point though. 😛

 

[Dumac]

Originally posted by: thraashman

Originally posted by: RyanPaulShaffer
Just stay as a level 1 and beat the last boss who will have 12 HP and will only be wielding a stick and a cowhide shield, since the entire game scales with you.

You can't beat the game at level 1. In order to finish the main quest you have to get ahold of at least one Daedric artifact. No Daedric gods will give you a quest at level 1, two of them will give you a quest as early as level 2. Besides, even with the scaling, I could beat anything in the game with no sweat at level 40 because of equipment.

I always play as a custom class. I mainly use 4 skills. Blade, Destruction, Conjuration, Heavy Armor. It may seem like a weird combination, but it's virtually unstoppable. It often got to the point where I'd run into every Oblivion gate I found, run past the enemies summoning a Clannfear on the way through to keep them busy, then grab the stone at the end (saving immediately before and reloading if it was something I didn't want). You get a bunch of those resist magic and Shock Shield or Fire Shield ones, you can be invulnerable to magic and virtually invulnerable to physical damage.

Just add it to your inventory with a console 😉

Scaling was one of the major things that ruined Oblivion for me. But then again, that is what mods are for.

As for my custom class, my most recent one had Blade, Block, Conjuration, Restoration, Heavy Armor, and Archery. A nice combination in my opinion, although Restoration is kind of gimped in OB.

 

[Sea Moose]

Originally posted by: Dumac

Originally posted by: thraashman

Originally posted by: RyanPaulShaffer
Just stay as a level 1 and beat the last boss who will have 12 HP and will only be wielding a stick and a cowhide shield, since the entire game scales with you.

You can't beat the game at level 1. In order to finish the main quest you have to get ahold of at least one Daedric artifact. No Daedric gods will give you a quest at level 1, two of them will give you a quest as early as level 2. Besides, even with the scaling, I could beat anything in the game with no sweat at level 40 because of equipment.

I always play as a custom class. I mainly use 4 skills. Blade, Destruction, Conjuration, Heavy Armor. It may seem like a weird combination, but it's virtually unstoppable. It often got to the point where I'd run into every Oblivion gate I found, run past the enemies summoning a Clannfear on the way through to keep them busy, then grab the stone at the end (saving immediately before and reloading if it was something I didn't want). You get a bunch of those resist magic and Shock Shield or Fire Shield ones, you can be invulnerable to magic and virtually invulnerable to physical damage.

Just add it to your inventory with a console 😉

Scaling was one of the major things that ruined Oblivion for me. But then again, that is what mods are for.

As for my custom class, my most recent one had Blade, Block, Conjuration, Restoration, Heavy Armor, and Archery. A nice combination in my opinion, although Restoration is kind of gimped in OB.

is there scaling in fallout3?

 

[Dumac]

Originally posted by: Sea Moose
is there scaling in fallout3?

Yes, there is. However, it is implemented differently than in Oblivion and not quite as annoying. I believe how it works is that enemies scale to your level the first time you enter a new zone, but they don't scale up after that.