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Why... won't... you... die?!
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weird how i thought those graphics were amazing 9 years ago
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>>284228405
16 years ago I thought Ocarina of Time looked good.
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This thread won't die!
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the only oblivion sound that is burned in my head is the generic beast yell that kahjits and argonians shared
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You sleep rather soundly for a murderer..
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>>284228405

>9 years later and the Gamebryo engine still hasn't been retired

That's what's really disappointing.
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>>284228239
then:
>good gameplay shit graphics
now
>bad gameplay good graphics

Fucking why, are devs just stupid?
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>>284228239
I love that wave of reminiscence I get whenever a screenshot of Oblivion pops up somewhere.
Thanks OP.
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Best quest?
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>>284232070
I liked the one in the mansion for the Dark Brotherhood where you had to kill a bunch of people.
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>>284232070
The one where you go into the painting.
How is it that Oblivion had such great memorable side quests, yet its main storyline was terrible?
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>>284230793
The graphics were pretty good for the time, I mean, for me, oblivion looked great and I really thought that no game could look better than that.
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we know
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>>284232823
yepp, this one.

and I liked the later ones from the magic guild
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>>284232070
The mage guild quest where you have to get a ring from the bottom of a well
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>>284230793
>>284232858
I was an Elder Scrolls virgin until I picked up Skyrim. I fell so hard in love that I picked up Oblivion. At first I thought Oblivion was butt ugly, but I've spent the last 6 months in fucking Oblivion, and its gotten to the point where I find myself actually admiring the graphics.

Its all about perspective. The graphics were great for the time.
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>>284230793
do you honestly believe oblivion looked like shit when it was released? fuck it still looks better than some shit being put out today
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Elder Scrolls 6 when?!?!

The rumor is March 2016 with an announcement this E3, but I don't buy it. I'd bet 2017. What about you guys?

Also, where is it gonna be set?
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>>284233331
Hopefully never. After what happened with Skyrim i wont hype myself up for a TES game ever again.
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>>284233331
2017
2016 is reserved for fallout 4
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>>284233479
meh. Skyrim has flaws no doubt about it. but with mods I put 400 hours into it and had a ton of fun with it.
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>>284228405

I never played the game, don't know why. I decided to play it a few months ago, but they bug me, even though I would have been amazed 9 years ago. It's like that awkward point in graphical development.
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>>284233823
play it enough and you will acclimatize
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>>284233823
there are tons of graphics mods out there that will help. You can't get it looking as good as modded skyrim looks but you can get it looking pretty close to a modern game.
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>>284233331
My guess is we are going to get a bunch of Fallout 4 info at e3 and maybe a super vague teaser trailer for TES6 that is nothing more than a title and a logo
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Does anybody have the video where you keep sucker punching the fag on the bridge?
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>>284233331
Morrowind - 2002
Oblivion - 2006 (4 years)
Skyrim - 2011 (5 years)
Hammerfell - 2017 (6 years)
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TES6 is going to take place in both Valenwood and Elswyer. Calling it.
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>>284234360

>the smaller it is the longer it takes
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Playing it with my brother for first time, we were thinking it would be shit. Came out of sewers mostly unimpressed and realised it was free roam and all looked this good and you could loot nearly everything. Then shivering Isles, I fucking loved the shivering Isles so much. Played it for 23 hour straight whilst visiting my brother once. Great days to be alive.
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Yeah TES6 is going to be 2017 at the earliest.
Bethesda's dev team is pretty small for a AAA studio, and they don't have a B team or anything. So TES6 development wont start until FO4 is done.
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>>284234584
Triple A gaming, folks, gotta get them nice GRAFIX.
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>>284230793
>oblivion
>good gameplay

I am not sure you and I played the same game.
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>>284234584
>the shittier it is, the more marketing it needs
wait... that sounds about right
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>>284234360
>Skyrim came out in 2011

Holy shit it's been that long? I've lost my perception of time.
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>>284234360
>Hammerfell
That would have alot of visual potential. ALl the sand dunes being kissed by the sun and the wind, the intensity of the sun rays, the red rock formations jutting from the sand, the Redguard cities and markets and caravans....It has the potential to be the most visually intriguing and colorful game yet. Hopefully they don't get lazy and literally give us a fucking sand box.
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>>284228239
Oblivion is my favorite TES game. It's the perfect middle ground between Skyrim's acessibility and Morrowind's batshit insane everything.
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>>284228239
>800x600
>not downsampling Oblivion to 8k resolution

STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM
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>>284234808
>Hopefully they don't get lazy and literally give us a fucking sand box.
Have a little faith in bethesda, they rarely disappoint
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>>284232070
Knights of the fucking Nine

Pelinal Whitestrake was a fucking G
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>>284228239
>I've fought mudcrabs tougher tha-
>GUHWWAGGHH!
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>>284228239
>Why... won't... you... die?!

Well, you said you'd kill me and here I am, waiting in disappointment.
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>>284234808
This.
>Desert
>Snowy mountains
>ashlands and shit
>Plains
>Forests
>Islands
It's so perfect.
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>>284232070
That fighters guild one where you slaughter an entire village
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So what are going to be the big glaring issues in TE6? In every Bethesda game they fix all the issues people had with the previous games, but then introduce a whole bunch of new ones.
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killall
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Do you play Oblivion with or without an ENB?
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>>284235334
While on drugs
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>>284235120
500 confirmed endings
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>>284232823
Because who plays for the main quest anyway?

You break out of jail, leave the sewers, swim across the lake, take out the two bandits outside the Ayleid ruin and then you do whatever the fuck you want, as long as that doesn't involve going to Weynon Priory.

Oblivion was brilliant because it was clearly not about the main storyline, it was about the player. Skyrim is nowhere near as good for the opposite reason.
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>>284235309
All the fucking rumors from anonymous sources claim the Black Marshes, though.

It has potential as well, but idk, I don't see it being anything other than dark, bland colors like Morrowind in HD.
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>tfw when you find the UNICORN
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>>284232070
whodunit
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>>284228405
I was thinking the same thing too, 2006 felt like it was not too long ago but it's been almost a decade already.
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>>284235559
>Black Marshes

They won't even give us walking fucking trees whats the point
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>>284235559
Meh, I don't want to play a game where 90% of the NPC's are Argonians. Also I'm fucking sick of playing video games that take place in the jungle.
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>>284235410

can you post some more webms of viewing buildings, trees, etc in the distance? I'm pretty sure my game is fucked up with LoD stuff but it's also possible that I am not remembering how this looks correctly.
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>>284235120
>>284234808
>>284234360
>>284235309

We had a thread about this yesterday. Some fag was talking about how the redguards can create time vortexes or some bullshit with their swords, how they have airships and all this other cool-ass shit in Hammerfell. And also how none of it will be present in the actual game and we'll get generic plains and mountains filled with boring old bandits and wolves because Bethesda can't into imagination. Same shit with what happened to the living jungles of Cyrodiil, from what I heard.

Also, why is everyone so confident the next game will be in Hammerfell?
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>>284235532
It took me 2 years to actually bother to complete the main story and i played the game for hours almost every day. I would spend ages just picking a point on the compus and walking until i find a ruin or cave and then go exploring.
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>running around in the wilderness
>find guard fighting a mudcrab
>"I've fought mudcrabs more fearsome than you!"
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>>284235743
That's Valenwood.

Godamn, A Valenwood game would be great. Hell, once Hammerfall and high rock are out of the way, there's no more human lands left to go to, and they were already covered in Daggerfall
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>>284228239
Nanomachines son
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>>284235819
I'm in the process of reinstalling everything, just gimme a minute.
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>>284235790
But donkey, Argonians live in a swamp.
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Elswyer would be so fuckign dope.
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Anybody here have Elder Scrolls anthology?

Are the oblivion expansions included?
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>>284235920
He's just letting that mudcrab nigga know that it ain't shit compared to other mudcrabs.
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>>284235834
>Also, why is everyone so confident the next game will be in Hammerfell?
Easiest way for bethesda to lazy out and make a square desert.
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>>284235426
Sailable ships confirmed.
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>>284235920
>Enter inn in the Imperial City
>Pick up a fork
>"HELP THERE'S A THIEF!"

god bless this AI
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>>284232070

Stealing the Elder Scroll
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>>284235790
I'd take a game with 90% Argonians over 90% fucking generic Nords who look identical to Bretons and Imperials for some reason.
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It should be either Summerset Isles or Elswyer.
We've had a million RPG's set in European and Nordic locations, but I can't think of anything that has a tropical south american and/or african style locations.
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>mfw I put over 200 hours into the 360 version
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>>284235834
>why is everyone so confident the next game will be in Hammerfell
We're not. There's nothing to go one, its all speculation. It could be Hammerfell, the Balck Marsh, Valenwood/Elsweyr, Summerset Isles, the part of Morrowind that's the size of fuckign Skyrim that we never went to in Morrowind..

They could even get original and take us to a new continent. Pic related.

Some anonymous fucker "reportedly" inside Bethesda gave an anonymous tip to an anonymous journalist that it will be the Black Marsh, released in 2016, sometime around March.
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>>284236419
>tfw they got rid of the 10/10 face paints and beards for the Nords
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>>284235834
The cool sword shit has a lore excuse, back when they were on their own island chilling they had the Ansei making swords of pure martial prowess and basically being anime characters, then they had to nuke the place and come to the mainland. It's been dying out since then and now most can't do anything cool like that.
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>>284236373
>Fallout 3 "fixes" this
>enter store
>pick up item with Z
>bring it into a dark corner
>pick it up into inventory
>NPC doesn't notice anything
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God dammit I'm getting that desire to reinstall again.

I'm just going to spend the next 2 days modding it then not playing it I fucking now it.
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>>284235841
I completed the main quest twice, but I've played through 13 characters.

>>284235920
Fuck, even the dumb shit in Oblivion was funny and somehow endearing. Why is Skyrim so dull and bleak? I don't care what anyone says, Oblivion was by far the better game.
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>>284234798
>Those who were 14 when Skyrim came out are now 18
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>>284236664
They did? When?

All I know is that every human race looked exactly the same, except that Redguards were stuck being black this time so I couldn't even make my light skinned Redguard any more.

At least Orcs and Argonians looked better.
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>>284236778
Reminds me of Skyrim where you could pick up a bucket and place it over an NPCs head then proceed to commit any crime without them seeing it.

I don't even know if they have fixed that with a patch or mods yet.
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PAY THE FINE!
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>>284236837
No they aren't. Skyrim was released 3 years, 3 months and 11 days ago.
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>>284236803
>I'm just going to spend the next 2 days modding it then not playing it
I do that everytime i get nostalgic over the game. I wish modding didnt take so damn long that the nostalgia has worn off by the time i decide to play it.
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>>284237041
They haven't. I did it last week.
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>>284236837
Where were you when Skyrim was first confirmed?

I remember walking to class and I saw my friends all gathered around a cell phone, watching some video.
>"ANON, ELDER SCROLLS 5 CONFIRMED, COME CHECK OUT THIS TEASER ITS SICK!!"
>"What's Elder Scrolls?"
>"Oblivion you fucking retard.."
>"OBLIVION'S GETTING A SEQUEL1?!?!"

I remember seeing that fucking dragon and tripping balls
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>>284236552
I hope they never do Valenwood or Black Marsh. They're not capable enough to recreate those places faithfully.

Remember how they retconned Cyrodiil being a jungle? Yeah.
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>>284237228
>>"OBLIVION'S GETTING A SEQUEL1?!?!"
You made it too obvious here
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>>284236552
Is there any kind of canon map of Nirn? It just seems so weird that there are other non-island landmasses aside from Tamriel. TES games really do a shitty job of world-building despite all this awesome lore they have to work with.
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>>284237041

So fucking real, it's their eyes noticing the crime.
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>>284237228
Yeah, I remember 3rd grade too ;^)

Not long until Skyrim 3, so hype!!!
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>>284237396
>You will never visit Akavir and fight with Vampire Snake-Samurai
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>>284237041
I think they patched it by making it that if they notice a item on their head they will take it off. If you're quick it still works.
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>>284235819
I'm thinking of installing Really AEVWD but it tends to slaughter my cpu.
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>>284236419
>>284235790
Why are there some Nords who have dark skin, like the beggar in Whiterun?
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>>284237745
why do they patch shit like that? Why do they care if we fuck around?
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>>284237228
>OBLIVION'S GETTING A SEQUEL

how to detect a normalfag/underaged
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>>284237228
YEAH SO EPIK, OMG CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT ELDER SCROLLS GAME.
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>>284228869
>adoringfandiscoverstumblr.jpeg
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>>284228869
Damn son , kill it with fire
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>>284237889
Complexion and dirt.
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>>284237904
You can still do it, but it's quite funny they don't react as you place a bucket on their ehad then wordlessly remove it
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>>284237994
>how to detect a normalfag/underaged

You post a troll and they fall for it
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>>284237904
Dunno. There was also some console command you could use to make NPCs change expressions that they patched out
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>>284236552
The fuck is Himmelsrand?
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>>284237228
>"OBLIVION'S GETTING A SEQUEL1?!?!"
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>>284236032
Beat me to it...
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>>284238204
The original Reich
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I CAN'T FUCKING WAIT FOR SKYRIM'S SEQUEL
WHO FUCKING HYPE HERE!?!?!?!??!~?!11!!?!?!?
I'M HYPE
I'M SO FUCKING HYPE~~~~
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>>284237712
What pisses me off is that vampire snake-samurai seems so goddamn inconsistent with what we've been fed all these years by the games themselves. It's like Bethesda is trying so hard to make TES as generic a fantasy world as they can. Swords, sorcery, dragons, elves, and demons (I'm sorry, "daedra") are always the focus. The moment something new and interesting eventually shows up (like said snake samurai) it will seem totally out of place and jarring, like the devs just made it up on the spot to be weird. Not that it would ever happen in the first place, though, because we all know Bethesda is afraid of creativity. Morrowind was the closest we got to something truly unique and non-generic.
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>>284237904
They removed spellmaking (and most spells) because they said it would unbalance the game.

Removing optional content. From a single player game. Because it can possibly make your character OP.

Who knows how the fuck their minds work. They didn't even include most of the shit they made for that game jam.
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>>284238384
Hello SO FUCKING HYPE, my name is anon.
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>>284238425
Well Akaviri ghosts in Oblivion were just men.

Akaviri weapons and armour in Skyrim fit humans perfectly.

I would love to see Akavir one day though.
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>>284238425

Are you sure you want sjws to invent new fantasy things?
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>>284238710
>Bethesda
>SJWs

Are you okay?
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>Atmosphere
>Quests
>Music
>All that hidden shit to discover
>Unique charm
Despite its many flaws (not considering mods), Oblivion has to be one of my favourite games ever. Morrowind's good and all, but man, Oblivion!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YKicBAMlBk
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NEVER SHOULD HAVE COME HERE
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>>284238750
this is like looking in a fucking mirror when i post all the way down to the niggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggernigger i am also a cute girl
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>>284238785

Are you saying there's a place without sjws?

No I'm not okay, I see sjws wherever I go
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>>284238750
>You will never fuck salama while shitposting on /v/ together
why live
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>>284238449
>spell crafting was too OP so they removed it
>you can still enchant your equipment so your attacks deal quadruple damage and cost zero mana
>combat is still boring as fuck and requires zero strategy in the first place

Yep.
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>>284238959
It's a punishment for your sins.
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>>284232562
>two people left
>convince both that the other guy is the murderer
>they start to fight each other
>kill the 'winner'
>mfw they didn't watch themselves around me
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>>284238808
Yeah, Oblivion has some golden quality/ies that I can't put my finger on.

Skyrim feels so lifeless and dreary, the quests are shit, the NPCs only ever say the same thing over and over, the magic is shit and you can't make it better... just the faults in Skyrim are far more egregious and damaging.
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>>284238037
>>284238068
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>>284238710
Stop trying to derail this thread by implying SJWs have anything to do with what we're talking about.
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>>284239297

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrWlF0FpAm0

It has magic everywhere, skyrim doesn't
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Oblivion never looked good, it even underwent a HUGE downgrade like the ones you faggots are getting a seizure about nowadays. The gameplay sucked ass in every Elder Scrolls too, even with mods.

The only thing worthwhile out of this shitty series is Nehrim, which probably none of you retards has played.
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>>284235532

The main quest chain is vastly under rated. It's honestly well thought out and contains two of the best quests in the entire game (namely, infiltrating the mythic dawn, and invading Mankar's Paradise). Even the couple of dungeon diving quests had well designed dungeons. It even brings up some decent conversation about the lore!

I think people just shit on it because they didn't realize the quest to close an oblivion gate outside of every city was optional.
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>>284238920
Maybe you should get off /v/ then. God knows we all should.
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>>284230964
I'm struggling with this problem right now.

I have a backlog that I was trying to slog through, just finished trails in the sky. I just started the next one I wanted to get through but now I'm really trying to fight the urge to reinstall oblivion.
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>>284228239

It always bugged me that the blade texture is so much worse than the hilt texture.
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>>284239012
I know, it makes no sense whatsoever, because the game is more broken than ever with Enchanting/Alchemy exploits, and shit even just getting smithing to 100 and using a stock potion breaks combat completely.

But see anon, that breaks the game in a boring way, so it's cool. If you could create a spell like in Oblivion to make everyone in 50ft super brave and super furious, that would be a problem. But making a really strong sword that can kill the final boss in 8 hits? That's realism, so it's okay.
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>>284239625
Bethesda have a tendency to have no idea what they fuck they are doing when making the graffix
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>>284228405
No it wasn't. Oblivion was ugly and was the worst game in the entire series.
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>>284232562
>>284239236
This quest was fucking great. The one consistently great thing about TES is the lack of boring fetch/objective quests. The mansion murder mystery was all dialogue and decisions - no combat, crafting, exploration, or any of that, and it was one of the most fun things to do in the game.
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>>284238808
>>Music
Every time i hear a piece of music from Oblivion it makes me want to play it again. The game may have done a lot of things wrong, but it also did a hell of a lot right.
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>>284235834

>Same shit with what happened to the living jungles of Cyrodiil

The nibenean valley is largely tropical. The reason they didn't make the country primarily jungle was a design choice, not laziness (although it's possible excessive vegetation could have bogged down the already limited processing power of 7th gen consoles and computers people were using in 2006). Perhaps they were worried that making things primarily jungles would have made it too similar to Morrowind's ecology?
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>>284239836
>The one consistently great thing about TES is the lack of boring fetch/objective quests
And then skyrim came along
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>>284239910
Actually I'm pretty sure they swept it under the rug with "Talos changed it lol"
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>find out about enchanting
>"Cool!"
>enchant headpiece with huge fire damage bonus so that my fire spells will do more damage
>put it on
>I catch fire and die
>wat
>reverse pickpocket it to an NPC
>he puts it on and dies
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>>284239625

I have a very strange love/hate relation with that sword
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>>284239297
To be honest, I think it has a lot to do with nostalgia. Most of you played Oblivion when you were kids, and it was your first dose. I'm a newfriend to ES, so I played them back to back after I was already a grown man, and they were equally as fun to me.

The only notable differences I noticed were that Skyrim's main quest was 10000x better than Oblivion's. Also Skyrim's side quests had way too much cave shit. And I know Skyrim has less weapons available to make, or something along those lines, but it wasn't something I saw in practice because I'd never get to 100% completion unless I was in middle school again, on Summer break.

Overall, they were both 10/10 games for me, and I'm excited to see the 6th.
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>>284239390
Fuck I actually love Oblivion. It's so sunny and bright and colourful, and it sounds... peaceful a lot of the time.

>>284239460
Guild quests were just far better. Main quest in Oblivion is probably still far better than the best Skyrim quest though. The Battle of Sancre Tor and the one outside Bruma were brilliant as well.
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>>284239440
no one cares
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>>284239572
>trying to fight the urge to reinstall oblivion.
why would you 'fight it?'

Gaming isn't some checklist where you have to play every game /v/ tells you to play or you're not a 'gamer.' Its entertainment. It is designed to entertain. Go be entertained.
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How do I level up as a thief/assassin without getting my ass kicked at higher levels?
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>>284240156

That was their narrative justification, yes, but they had to have had a reason to enact the change in the first place.
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>>284240628

Sneak attacks

Install mods which temper the retarded level scaling
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>>284240168
>DB quest to kill your branch
>Plant poison apple on big orc
>Sits down to eat
>Sit next to him, look him in the eyes as he takes his first bite and seals his fate
>Watch him slowly die

>DB quests to kill the members of the Black Hand
>Rude ass Dunmer has a honey allergy
>Drop mead into his inventory
>Completely paralyses him
>Slowly cut him up with a dagger as he lies there, helpless

Man, where the fuck were the quests like this in Skyrim? Hell, where were the mechanics in Skyrim?
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>stun spells / poison
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>>284239298
If you didn't play as a mutant abomination in Oblivion then you played it wrong.
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>>284228239
That place brings back memories. I was raped for the first time near these.
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>>284241197

A great moment in games will be when npcs actually react to the horrors we create
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>>284240242
Nah, I first played Oblivion at 17, through to a few months before Skyrim.

Skyrim is definitely nowhere near as good as Oblivion. As has been said itt before, Oblivion has a certain charm that Skyrim completely lacks.

You're forgetting that Skyrim had no spellmaking, hardly any spells, REALLY short side quests.

So yeah, Skyrim had one quest line that was better than Oblivion's. The rest were exponentially worse.
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>"so anon, are you excited for the Skyrim?"
>not so much, I still haven't finished Morrowind
>"WUTS MORROWIND?"
>mfw

No seriously, he didn't know about Morrowind.
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>>284241321
>You. I've seen you. Let me see your face. You are the one from my nightmares. Then the stars were right, and this is the day. Gods give me strength.
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>>284241238
what? wrong board, friend.
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>>284240242
If you played Oblivion when it was first out you would realise nobody liked the questline and the game was about the exploration, side quests and setting which was something Skyrim lacked completely.
I went into Skyrim more excited than any other game i had ever played. After playing it for about 10 hours i decided to stop playing since it was such a shallow mess of a game.
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>make a really good looking character in Oblivion
>it's the best looking guy in the world because everybody else has a potato head
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>>284241792
>he didn't play with rape mods
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will bethesda announce Fallout 4 / Elder Scrolls 6 or will they disappoint everyone?
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>>284240242
I disagree and I played Morrowind first on the Xbox.
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The Elder Syndrome IV: Downblivion
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>>284239440

>oblivion never looked goo
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>>284241839
Same.

To me, Oblivion is like a giant, muddy lake. Looks a bit shitty, but has a lot of depth.

Skyrim's like an oily puddle. Looks pretty but it's shallow as all fuck.
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>>284239440
Nehrim was ok but the reused assets bothered me. Cities felt like guards from Oblivion roleplaying as krauts
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>>284240527
Like I explained, I have a huge backlog I was happily beginning to clear.

The " fight it " part is entirely self-imposed, /v/ and its opinions have nothing to do with it at all.

The only reason it even matters is because a few games are coming out in rapid succession starting at the end of this month, so I was spending this time clearing older games I'd put on the back burner.

And then there's Oblivion, just like Deus Ex and Vampire the masquerade, any time I see a thread about it I get this urge to reinstall it and it takes precedence over any games I was trying to play.

So yeah, it wasn't because I was told to play a checklist, it's just that Oblivion likes to come in from time to time and just kick everything else I'm doing to the curb.
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Oblivion's landscape is a bit generic and no mods can fix that without shitting up consistency or atmosphere (looking at ULComp). That's the only thing I'd give Skyrim over Oblivion, landscape and graphics.
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Why'd they get rid of the minimap and start using the shitty compass anyway?
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>>284242029
kek
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>reinstall oblivion
>create new character
>think about going to SI but feel I'm too low level
>wait a bit, go to SI
>by this time I'm godlike and nothing can challenge me
>quit playing
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For some reason my video card back in the days couldn't support the grass, so I played the whole game without any grass. Just imagine riding through hills that are just green lumps.
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>>284241928
>or
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>>284242285
It's less generic than Skyrim. In Oblivion you had snowcapped mountains and tundra, swamps, sunny bays, forests, flatlands and huge lakes.

Skyrim has mountains and tundra, small lakes, forests... that's it.
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>no option for facial hair
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>>284242196
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>>284242714
>Skyrim
>Can't even have a non-black Redguard

>letalltrashman.gif
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>>284242494
I have to disable grass with the console everytime I kill a bandit in the grass because I can't find his body.
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>>284242458
>>by this time I'm godlike and nothing can challenge me

Bullshit.

Level scaling in Oblivion means you never get to be godlike. Being high level just means long tedious battles with spongey enemies and chugging potions.
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>>284242714
I remember trying to make a Breton with a beard once as my 4 character.
He had a black chin and mouth, damn did it look ugly, no wonder I just went and made my 3 khajiit after that 20h playthrough.
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>>284242926
I use mods to fix that
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>>284236552
probably elsweyr or hammerfell because sjw
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>>284242494
There's loads of terrible games that don't have grass
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>>284242926
You never made custom spells and enchanted equipment, did you?
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Heard any news from the other provinces?
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>>284242727
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>>284243223
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By Azura! By Azura! By Azura!
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>>284243180
Nothing I'd like to talk about.
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>>284243331
What's going on with you?
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>>284234472
that's what I have been hoping for. Not gonna happen tho, they'll just rehash another northern province.
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>>284243129

Capped.
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>>284243414
I saw some mudcrabs by the water recently. I steered clear of them.
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>>284234808
fuck Hammerfall, they should just retcon morrowind.
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>>284243567
[SNORT]
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>>284243567
Nasty little creatures
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Game set in Akavir when? I can't take the endless Imperial wanking anymore
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>>284243629
Farewell.
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>>284243629
Good day.
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>>284242196
L..lord bork'd is that you?
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>>284236373
>Guard runs in
>"STOP YOU'VE VIOLATED THE LAW" etc.
>Bounty: 1
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>>284242668
90% of Oblivion is green hills, though. Skyrim just had a more interesting world design.
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>>284242668
>Skyrim has mountains and tundra, small lakes, forests... that's it.

Volcanic hot springs, ice fields, snow fields, swamp, a massive valley, two large lakes, two completely different types of forest... did you even play Skyrim?
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>>284235410
ENB for Skyrim looks like total shit
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Are Arena/ Daggerfall worth playing? I've gotten about 30 minutes into Daggerfall before, but stopped playing after that.
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>>284228239
God I remember that game slaughtering my GPU so much, I didn't finish playing it until I got a new one a year later.
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>>284243835
>Either forfeit all the stolen goods you've acquired or face five level 50 guards
>For a fucking 1 gold bounty
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>>284238380
>GOP Convention
Best filename
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>>284235334
Yeah that shit was freaky
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>>284243905
>>284243875
>ice
>snow
>tiny marsh
>two lakes nowhere near the size of lake Rumare
>tiny towns
>tiny little useless "hot spring" area
>two types of near-identical forests

Oblivion had a swamp. Skyrim has a small marsh. 70% is snow or rock, and it's all lifeless anyway.
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>>284244047
I bought a new setup "recently", and Oblivion runs at 60FPS with settings maxed, I thought I'd never see the day.
The FPS still dies if there's more than like 3 people fighting. Just try going into Rockmilk level 2 without it turning into a slideshow. Thanks Gamebryo/Bethesda
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>>284242285
Unique Landscape Compilation is great, what are you talking about?

>>284243875
>90% of Oblivion is green hills, though.
incorrect

>>284243985
Daggerfall's the best one
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BY THE NINE DIVINES! ASSAULT! A S S A U L T !
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>>284243975
I meant Oblivion, oops
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>>284228239
>Endgame
>Use custom spells and Daedric artefacts to slaughter entire population of Cyrodiil
>Let final guard take me to jail
>Spend 460 days in jail

I can't remember if the year changed in the diary or not.
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>>284244420
>nine
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>>284244292

The terrain of Skyrim is pretty much the only thing they got right and was a significant improvement over Oblivion.

There's a reason that there is no "Unique Landscapes" mod for Skyrim that is considered essential.
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>>284244571
Fuck off, jaundice elf
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>>284232823
My favorite was sheogorath's quest. Tricking that kajit village into thinking its the end of the world, mfw it to actually rains dogs at the end. You didn't see shit like that in skyrim
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>>284243985
>Arena
Not really no. I beat it, but trudging into that game is a relic of relics. The hardest part of it thought is trying to get hit level 5. Once you get that via a combat or magic spec thought, you're golden for the rest of the game pretty much. Before then thought all of your stats are are piss poor, and you die in a few clean hits. Not only that, but the WILDLIFE, IN CITYS, DOING NIGHTIME, IF YOU AREN'T IN AN INN.

The amount of times I left the starting area, only to end up at night in a city, and then get slapped by a wolf is insane.

>Daggerfall
The best. Just note magic in that game hurts. Period. A lot of deaths I had in that was because some imp behind a door got a spell off on me and nuked me for all of my health. Doen't matter your level, they can still do it while your 20 fighting wyverns. Yes, there was dragons in Daggerfall I don't know why everyone acted like Dragons where a new topic in skyrim.
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This is the part where you fall down and bleed to death!
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>>284244640
I thought it was just too bland, dull and bleak.

It's not so much the terrains or biomes, but the fact that everything just looks so grey and bleak. There is just no colour in the game at all. It's really quite striking when you compare it to Oblivion and Shivering Isles.
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>>284244151
That imperial province boy, they never let nothing past them.
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>>284244671
Which is a real shame, because it's one of the things that makes Skyrim so boring.
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>>284244903
>>284244336
Thanks, i'l play Daggerfall. Seems like i'm missing out on a lot. Come to think of it i'm sure Arena was the one i've played actually.

>>284244671
Damn i completely forgot about that quest. I didnt even discover it until after i played the game through a couple of times already. I think thats what made Oblivion so great; it always found a way to suprise you.
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>>284244906

A deliberate design choice by Bethesda, not objectively better or worse than Oblivion.
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>>284244151
>cast a frenzy/rally spell on a crowd, starting a huge melee where the townspeople kill each other and try to punch guards, guards kill rioting villagers and each other
>end result: 50% of the town's named NPC population dead, massive guard casualties + some asshole looting all the corpses
>0 bounty

>buy some food at an inn
>go sit at a table and touch a fork
>psychic guard teleports in and wants me to go to jail because I just spent my last gold on the food, otherwise he'll kill me
thanks uriel
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>>284239958

was just about to say. damn skyrim wasnt a good TES
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>>284245296
Not objectively, but my use of asserted rather than assumed evaluations indicates subjectivity.

Anyway, I really enjoyed the colourful environments in Oblivion, they made the world feel alive, and comfortable. Skyrim just felt dead and bleak as hell.

Add to that the lack of NPC interaction and scheduling and the world just feels very dead.
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>>284239958
Apart from that one Oblivion quest to kill 10 bears. That felt seriously out of place.
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Can't have an Oblivion thread without mentioning Shivering Isles, one of the best expansion packs ever made IMO. I miss the days of massive expansion packs.
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>>284228405
9 years ago they were amazing, I remember when Oblivion used to be the top benchmark game for graphics cards before Crysis came out, good times
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>>284245493
>>cast a frenzy/rally spell on a crowd, starting a huge melee where the townspeople kill each other and try to punch guards, guards kill rioting villagers and each other
>>end result: 50% of the town's named NPC population dead, massive guard casualties + some asshole looting all the corpses

Has there ever been a more fun thing to do in any video game ever? That's not even rhetorical, if there is I want to know so I can do it immediately.
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>>284245953
I remember getting that and expecting it to add a few hours to the game and ended up being completely blown away. It was like playing another game inside Oblivon.
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>>284242714
Beards are obviously possible with mods but it's still convoluted as shit and not as good as it could be if it were properly implemented from the start

I wish the Fallout face system could be ported or something
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>>284245953
Shit was fucking fantastic, spent 200 hours in that place
tfw remember getting up at 4am to download the whole 2gb of it on my 0.5mb connection
It seems so not long ago
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>>284235713
>>284239828
>>284245972
>>284228405
>>284228239

I literally shed a tear at the graphics and how beautiful I thought they were when I left the sewers.

Games were so much more magical at 14
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>oblivion is almost 10 years old
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>>284246728
>le cancer man
good meme I saw it on facebook
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>>284246982
ok
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>>284242145
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>>284246486
>You will never be 16 years old and watching TTGL for the first time ever again
>You will never be 16 and playing Dawn of War 1 for the first time ever again
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>>284246298
I still reminisce the Knights of the Nine. But I spent a shit ton of time in S.I.

I practically lived there.
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