As a person who played as a vampire most of time i rarely had to deal with the sunlight because of the readily available food in every city known as homeless people
same, I didnt see it mentioned in the vid (could have easily missed it) but there's literally a DLC, the Vile Lair that gives you a house with everything you need as a vampire. The added strength, and free night vision and detect life are nice, I always liked being a vampire lol
Fun fact, if you do the battle of Bruma and destroy the Great Gate there as an advanced stage vampire at night, the statue they make of you in Bruma's city will take sun damage during the day just like you would, it turns red and I think has smoke coming off of it
I remember failing to notice the infection and, thus, being turned in my first playthrough. That long, convoluted, dangerous and esoteric quest to cure it felt like the first actual, factual, real role playing quest I'd experienced since Morrowind, and was the moment I decided I love/hated this game.
There's plenty of other roleplaying quests and Oblivion overall absolutely has better quests. Morrowind is the better game but Oblivion is my favorite.
I got it near the end of the Main Quest and was like "fuck it, I'll just deal with vampirism afterwards". Bloodgrass only growing in Oblivion was only half the problem: in German, one of the ingredients is mistranslated only in this one line, meaning I searched for something that didn't even exist.
When I played this on the 360 a billion years ago, I had a bug where the NPC’s treated you like you were infected, all the way to “maximum”, all without having any issue at all. Then I reloaded my save from 2 hours prior- And it happened again. I had to get bitten, get infected,and go through the quest line to clear the bug up to progress in the storyline. I’ll never forget how irritating those comments were about my skin.. “Are you feeling all right?!”
I remember during the climactic battle with all of the allies you've gathered, seeing some of them accidentally hit each other and start screaming murder as they turned on each other. 😂
I don’t like being a vampire in oblivion, but I like that it’s role play friendly. It’s not like Skyrim where you just become ever so slightly weaker in the sunlight. It actually forces you to play in the dark
still why is the damage so fucking high also roleplaying sucks when you can't even play the fucking game there's basically no quests you can do in the dark (there's a reason every vampire mod for skyrim gives you the option to disable sun damage)
I played this game for so long that I ended up making a custom spell for the sole purpose of reducing Mehrunes Dagon's health to nothing. Just wanted to see what happened. It did every type of damage, plus weaknesses, and all of it was maxed out. Named it Divine Bitch-Slap. Had to use a bunch of fortifications to even use it. And, during that ending bit where he's stomping through the city, I fired off that spell...and dude kinda melted... Seriously... Didn't die though, obviously. The game won't allow that. He just sorta melted into this weird semi-recognizable puddle of himself for a few seconds, then reformed and resumed his rampage.✌️
I used to make the finger in the mountain spell into something similar. It would chain between available targets, then apply debuffs, absorb stats, then finally and obviously electricity. Was brutal walking thru the imperial city just cast and destroy half the citys pop.
funny enough, the sword you get by rescuing Farwil Indaris from the oblivion gate (how to get?, easy, just never talk to him and close the gate, he will appear outside) will also kill Mehrunes Dagon in one hit, I only rescued Farwil for the sword really, I mean, it's a cool sword.
The custom spells and enchantments where so freakin op. I literally broke one of my characters, because I used the ring glitch to obtain over 100% invisibility. At first its all fun and games when no one sees you anymore. But if you cant lay down these rings... No one will ever see you again. Of course I overwritten my last normal save. So I was stuck to being invisible forever. This game is truly a experience.
I always take vampirism as it comes up in the dark brotherhood and cure it after finishing the questline. To me that's the perfect amount of time to see every mechanic and it not get too boring and frustrating. I love how the amount of sun damage actually depends on the weather and time of day, not just your vampirism level. Skyrim really took it a step backwards having vampirism kick in before the sun even rises, in the coldest part of the map with grey clouds blocking the sky. People with actual sun allergies have backed me up in saying that a vampire would be right at home in Skyrim.
In real life, near the poles, in the winter the days are short, but in the summer they're actually long. If you go far enough to the north the sun never goes down in summer months Now, Skyrim represents Scandinavia/Nordic countries which are near the North pole. If TES universe works the same way, it means that Skyrim's winters are great for vampires but summers are actually terrible. Up to a whole month with no night at all and several months where night is only a few hours long. How is a vampire supposed to feed in that time? I don't know the exact way the sun affects vampires in TES lore (lore can be different from game mechanics so it may be different from how our character is affected in-game), but in other stories (e.g. Dracula) even the slightest ray of sunshine is harmful to the vampire, no matter if there are clouds in the way. Even sunlight directed at the vampire with a mirror is enough to kill it in some stories. So the cloudy weather of Skyrim isn't necessarily any good for its vampires, they don't want to go out at daytime no matter what
@@exantiuse497 the relative closeness/distance of Skyrim to the north pole isn't stated in any Elder Scrolls game as far as I know. however, most speculative maps of Nirn put the continent of Atmora in place of the Arctic circle. latitude-wise, Skyrim is more like southern Canada, so I don't think it would suffer from axial tilt that much. I definitely agree with markwest that oblivion did the sun allergy mechanics better. unfortunately, imo vampirism in TES has always felt like a game design afterthought
I'd enjoyed the surprise of being turned into a vampire a bit out of the blue in Daggerfall. In that one, if you got infected and slept for a bit afterwards but within three days after, you got a quick dream scene; and eventually, you "died" and woke up at night in a tomb. I had no idea why I'd gotten the cutscene at first, and searching the Internet wasn't really a thing yet, so waking up as a vampire in a tomb three days later came as a genuine surprise. I'd liked that surprise and experience, and it made me interested in trying vampirism mechanics in the following TES games. No cute cutscene in III, IV and V, though. In Oblivion, as it happens, I met a vampire in a side quest rather quickly, well before going through Kvatch in my first playthrough (I think I was level 4). Nevertheless, a long-duration, slow heal custom spell essentially removed the issue of taking sun damage very quickly. It meant only upsides unless I let vampirism progress to stage IV and entered cities (and since it can only progress from you voluntarily initiating a transition, that's not happening unless you decide it does). Well, stage II+ also meant no fast travel, but I never used that anyway. Never fast traveling is how I even made the detour to Kvatch in the first place - I'd gone up there hoping to buy a grand soul gem from the Mages' guild it would have probably had if it had been still standing, so that part of the main quest, in what was my first run, came as a bit of a surprise, and I stumbled into it because I was looking for five grand soul gems to cure that vampirism. Had fun after that, since I was at stage II vampirism and the sun was just rising when I began the escort quest for Martin, which meant the whole trip was spent taking sun damage and regularly casting heal spells, finally arriving in Bruma at dusk - imagine standing around in front of the Blades just after bringing the final Septim to them, standing with flecks of ash floating away from your body in the wind while Martin is being honoured and you, his silent protector, stand defiant of the pain you endure and relish what you've just survived and accomplished. That visual wasn't implemented, of course, nor any specific narrative, but why play a RPG if you aren't going to let your imagination play a bit ;)
Interesting note: Because you were a vampire when you brought martin to cloud ruler temple, your Bruma hero statue actually WOULD burn in sunlight. I was playing with a 100% chameleon armor set when I took martin to the temple, and my statue was invisible as a result 😂
I honestly think a lot of bugginess in Oblivion is honestly new and I really haven't experienced the people randomly killing each other like that (maybe just the advanced stage vampirism being the variable that breaks it?) But I remember the quest breaking for both me and my brother on the 360 and making new characters rather than dealing with that shit
it was the point for me that i've just started my first playthrough since a child and i went straight into kvatch before talking to the knights as i talked to the guy inside the castle first and I didn't have to do whatever long quest line thing he did because i did that? so idk
@@NohRoom it's really common for guards to turn on one another in kvatch because they accidentally hit each other. Just like they have a disposition towards the player, they have a disposition toward one another. If one guard hits another one too many times, too quickly, then they all turn on each other just like allies turn on the player. One guy gets fed up, and kills another, then the rest of the guards get mad at the murderer, and it keeps happening until the remaining guards like each other enough to not keep the madness going. Surprising you've never seen this madness. There's an argonian in one of the cities who usually gets caught stealing food, and sets off the same thing.
My favorite oblivion character was a vampire. I did the whole "virtuous vampire that only feeds on villains" thing. I thought it was a lot of fun to have to hunt down bad guys to feed from so that I could keep my honor lol.
I did that too, had to find bad NPCs, or bandits. I knew a few campsites that had them. Would be great if there was a on touch feeding spell or something, like killing someone counted as feeding maybe, like morrowind did with werewolves.
I like this idea. Being a vampire at all in this game requires your willingness to roleplay. If you really get into the story of your character, vampirism can be an enhancement.
Being a vampire early on was beneficial for me when I was doing the dark brotherhood and mages guild quest line but I got tired of having to feed after fast traveling a couple times
I wonder if it is possible to feed on your adoring fan from the collesium. There is a spell to make him go to sleep whenever you want I'm sure, and since he will always follow you he can be a mobile bag of blood.
@@deliacolquhoun2845 there are so many npc´s in the game its impossible to not keep up with the feeding. you can even feed on bandits when they sleep in their camps.
I remember being 12 or something like that when the game came out, me and my buddy used to always play the game at his place after school. Obviously, we always played as a vampire, and always only did the dark brotherhood questline. Because it was the cool, dark and edgy stuff you played the game for. I still remember always going to the waterfront to feed on this one beggar, puny Ancus (we had a nickname for him, i think you can imagine what it was) or going to the bloated float during the day to wait for nighttime. This one time we accidentally started the bloated float quest without having fed, and it basically softlocked the game because we couldn't kill that one person manning the wheel before dying from sun exposure. Good times.
i always like to give martin the sanguin rose. azura's star is just too useful if you're l;ike me and love using enchanted weapons. plus if you give him the rose of sanguin you get an alternate line of dialouge where martins tells you he once held the very staff you'vbe given him becuase in his youth he was tempted by the power of daedric magic.
I started playing oblivion for the first time over a year ago. My main build is a vampire. pretty op especially once you get good enough you can make a spell that heals you I think 16 hp per second for a couple minutes. this spell basically neutralizes sun damage. Magic is so fun & op in oblivion. especially with spell stacking you can do basically anything
i tried to make a spell like that as my spell caster i couldn't cast it even once yeah that's how fucked custom spells are just don't bother as a vampire (and your game bugged hard if you aren't attacked on sight)
@@Dovah_SlayerI just looked it up civilians & imperial guards shouldn't attack you on site for being vampire in oblivion. Oblivion is super buggy tho so no telling with that and you not being able to cast that spell
@@Memento_Mori_504 if npc´s in oblivion find out youre a vampire theyll become automatically hostile. and they will always find out if youre at stage 3 or above. the vampire in the dark brotherhood warns you about the consequences when he gives you the option to become one.
I often end up as a vampire, the sun can be ignored with basic healing , and you gain a lot. The only realdownside is being unable to wait outside without dying.
oh a few random ass powers that are borderline useless sun damage melting you in seconds if you refuse to feed to get the best of mediocre powers (also the guards constantly trying to murder you) you think skyrim is bad? Oblivion vampires have NO appeal whatsoever thank god for mods but even then it only makes being a vampire marginally better
@@Dovah_Slayer looks like you forgot about the bonus attributes that allows you to get beyond 100 without any gear, the resistance to weapons ( that aren't enchanted daedric and silver) and last but not least the immunity to paralysis, the last one doesn't seem like much. But it is soooo usefull later on.
@@naboost9485 paralysis immunity is irrelevant (enchantments) immunity to normal weapons can be replaced by shield or reflect damage (again enchantments) and doesn't confer the weakness to enchanted silver or daedric weapons plus reflect spell exists frankly being a vampire is more hassle than it's worth oh you can easily get to over 100 attributes without gear spells leveling potions nothing good about a being a vampire is good enough to justify its downsides nerf the sun damage (or hell flat out remove it it's just annoying) change it to reverse progression (you get stronger when you are fully fed (which frankly makes more sense than fucking starving yourself which by the in game lore and every vampire thing ever is a BAD thing in fact reverse progression would fix the annoying sun damage too)) which will also remove the hate from the guards AND ONLY THEN will vampires be worth it the sun damage is still a deal breaker for me and I have yet to find a mod that gets rid of it (at least with the reverse progression mod it fixes the other gripes I have and makes the damage not as unbearable (it still scales with hunger though so fast traveling can still instantly kill you)) Edit: so after I made this comment I finally found a no sun damage mod for PC so NOW playing as a vampire is worth it
@@Dovah_Slayer I'm curious, how do you manage to get over 100 attributes without any external bonuses. You're supposed to be capped at a hundred. Maybe it's a cheese or something ? Also, yes, starving yourself as a vampire is supposed to make you stronger . mortal blood is the only thing that partly lifts the curse. Making you more mortal than vampire. As you starve the mortal part of you fades away and the only thing remaining is the vampiric curse , the source of your power is thus purer. Addressing the inchantment part when you argue that it's much better to equip a whole shield to prevent yourself from being paralyzed is better than an actual good piece of equipment,well,I strongly disagree for reasons I just stated, why would you waste and equipment slot for something you can get passively while keeping in mind that all stages of vampirism gives that immunity to paralysis. Your not even forced to get the sun damage to get it. Additionaly a paralysis spell or inchantment isn't the only way to get paralysed, while on early game it pretty much is, in late game even the bandits you encounter are skilled to the point their attacks can get you paralyzed. It has the advantage of keeping your magicka for something more useful too. Being a vampire doesn't give you exclusive superpowers, given enough effort, every character can theorically get the bonuses of vampires without the downsides at least temporarily, it's just a nice pile of passive advantages and disadvantages you add up to your character, when you do play as a vampire however you get to relocate those ressources you would have otherwise spent on getting the immunity to paralysis, resistance to weapons , bonuses to attributes and skills ect ... elsewhere, wich is really handy. Not gonna lie it is inconvenient at times (thinking about you fast travel ) but it is convenient at others. To me the outcome is very much worth it.
@naboost9485 There is supposed to be a cap, but I've found that with the enchantment exploit, caps don't matter (and with that exploit, you actually don't take up a gear slot) which of course loops back around to making the vampire advantages irrelevant I will say though the passive bonuses in my modded playthrough (which now has no sun damage and reverse progression) doing little to no exploits being a vampire is finally worth it but that sun damage and stage 4 guard hostility are both deal breakers for me (because i like to be as powerful as possible when i play a vampire character in any game) and the fact that the cure quest can just break making it impossible (without cheating in the console) to cure is really just the biggest slap in the face ( the part where you have to talk to the count to cure his wife can also break......yay, oh Oblivion you buggy fucking mess we love you)
Excellent work jury-rigging around the algorithm and getting on my front page. You have a new subscriber. Also, vampirism was completely killed for me from playing Morrowind, where maybe 60 out of the 1200 NPCs will talk to me without trying to kill me on sight. Even then, they won’t barter or provide services to vampires. Thoroughly upsetting.
I had my first playthrough accidently run into me being a vampire. Unfortunately, i had the ps3 version of the goty edition which had a bug where you couldnt cure vampirism. That playthrough had about 400 hours on it and i was a vampire from about hour 25. I would spend most of my time between the dark britherhood catacombs and the anvil houses at night, ensuring i only stayed at a level 1 vampire. After finishing all major questlines and doing all side quests etc, i decided to throw the towel in, enchant equipment to negate fire damage & embrace the full effects of a vampire. Naturally, i wiped out half of the characters by the time i concluded the playthough. Fun times man, i love this game.
@roddydykes7053 the commitment was real. No real access to guides back then in my case either so it wasn't until years later I found out that it was a bug... I always thought I wasn't doing something right with the request needed to cure vampirism. That being said, it's one of those playthroughs that has stuck with me to this day and that's ultimately why a game like oblivion is so nostalgic, iconic and for me, gives so much freedom to create these stories like I had in that playthrough.
My favorite memories of this game, my Kahjiit vampire stealth archer. Having all the items to grant 100% invisibility, also had a lot poured into athletics and acrobatics and the sign of the steed so i would play at night run around at high speed taking running down deer and anything that got in my way.
Vampirism in Oblivion is definitely an end all, great once you’ve accumulated enough wealth, houses, etc. A vampire in Skyrim is a hell of a lot forgiving.
I remember as a kid playing it and getting the disease without knowing, then turning when I was in a tavern without knowing, so I just walked outside and died instantly. Good times.
I usually do vampire stealth builds (in oblivion)as vampirism in all games (unsure about arena and Morrowind since I've never played as a vampire.) give you a massive bump in attributes and strength most importantly so you can very early on max out strength which will help with sneak attacks along with the vampires other abilities. I would say besides nercomage, there is little to no reason to become a vampire in Skyrim with the controversial removal of attributes.
the boosts are marginal at best completely Irrelevant at worst and trying to get the best of this mediocre form ends up worse than just completely ignoring vampirism entirely
Man, i loved this game so much i remember my first real playthrough as a vampire. It was the first game I just loved so deeply, I dont think i ever finshed the game till years later. Honestly other then maybe vampire the masquerade have i felt that true roleplaying experience. Maybe its because i was a kid but they were so enthralling and able to make you feel like you were really in that world. Maybe new vegas was close but just off the mark, honestly we have only had a very few true roleplay games. Hoping after bulders gate 3s huge revenue performance we will see the love and care that made this game amazing being put into a few more newer games.
Fun fact: You can steal the books from the shopkeep, bypassing the need to talk to him, and should Gwinas refuse to talk to you because of vampirism, killing him or pickpocketing the note is also an option.
@@sklsdjf Ah, I forgot. While I think the book might be there without talking to him, you have to in order to get Gwinas to spawn into the game. So talking to him is required either way, sadly. My mistake.
Brings me back to my own oblivion days. I remember finally getting to level 20 without cheesing only to walk out of a door one day and lose all my health. I was clueless until i finally checked my status effects and was a vamp😢
I wish you prosperity on your youtube journey. It was a great video. I contracted vampirism on my oblivion playthrough and i got level 100 illusion but i kept dying from sunlight lol.
I think it's safe to say we all thought it was going to be really fucking awesome and then had to wait outside for the mythic dawn quest and kept burning to death
Bro you should do a run where you see how far you can get in evh questline if you were to keep all essential npc's following you the whole game. Like martin, jeffory, ulrich kekand, robert jermane, etc. You can end up with n entire possee of unkillble npc's
Vampire in Skyrim pre-DG: Sucks Vampire in Skyrim post-DG: OP Vampire in Oblivion: A fun challenge Vampire in Morrowind: You only turned for the sword, don't lie
problem with vampirisms in oblivion is that the buffs count as your normal stats, so you can't raise those stats past 95. But it is quite something powerful with a balance between constraints and benefits. It makes you superhuman, but with vulnerabilities. Better than in skyrim where you have very little constraint and very little benefits. If your character has a lot of health, sun damage is a neglectible debuff and no real danger.
7:51 I think what happened is the guards are technically marked as a different group. There was probably friendly fire and then they killed all of the Traitor guards. Looks like you got free armor to me. That armor slaps when you can't afford anything else.
Made the mistake of putting on the gauntlets of gluttony while I was a vampire in one playthrough. Killed me so fast that between the loading screen and actually getting in game I sorta soft locked. I reloaded to before I even got vampirism
I didn't quite understand open-world games when I played Oblivion, so having to predict the sun versus travel times as I skulked around was an amazing way to immerse myself.
What a throwback. My first playthrough of oblivion I didn’t even know I was a vampire. I got to the final fight and beat it, but i was always so low on health I died from the sunlight. To this day I’ve never seen the ending of oblivion.
If you used the enchanter to make urself 100 % chameleon you would be fine in the sun if I remember correctly. And why not have either a strong self heal spell, or absorb heath spell? Lot of ways to work around the the sun issue as a vampire.
there's not enough strong spells to outdo the damage of the stage 4 damage (i've tried to make vampirism work once when i accidentally became a vampire and the fucking cure quest broke and couldn't (this was on console so i was SOL)) at least not ones that have reasonable magicka costs you're better off ignoring vampirism in Oblivion all together always carry cure disease potions unless you want to play oblivion in the worst way possible
@@Dovah_Slayer From what I remember you can wear pants shirt helmet necklace ring and boots. Enchant each with 15% chameleon. You can then be totally unreadable to ai. U can commit crimes and not get caught, can pickpocket anyone, and avoid sun damage. That’s what I meant by enchant. It’s basically totally invisibility but you can move and interact. And can’t you put two enchantment on gear? So you can do that and boost magicka boost regen boost health regen, boost stamina regen and like feather. I think there was a gear and ring glitch wear you could wear many rings that you enchanted at once. My character ended up with 5k magica and immortal and super fast.
@@Thedeepesttruth ah yeah I tend to avoid exploits in these games I personally believe any system that is only fun with exploits is a bad system (which is also why I only played morrowind once everyone says "use exploits until you figure out how the game works" and im like no thats not something i want to do and because of that morrowind is simply too hard for me to enjoy)
@@Dovah_Slayer enchanting all armor slots isn't an exploit, but yeah the ring glitch and stuff is. I'm also not sure why chameleon would protect from sun damage.. but even if you didn't have 100% chameleon, you can still use enchants to the best of your ability for other stuff and just not go in the sun. or drink blood to revert to an earlier stage of vampirism and take less damage from it.. there's plenty of ways to legitimately use the tools the game gives you, this dude was just making it unnecessarily hard bc that's the point of the video
@@Dovah_Slayer I get it especially for first play through or challenges or like to make content. I usually always play the game traditionally then do second play through with a walk through to get all quests and secrets and abilities. Then if I’m still into the game after then is when I go for exploits to make it more fun and see what the limits are or how godlike/powerful you can get. It’s been like 12 years since I last played Oblivion, I got that game when if first game out on PS3 the first month of its release! In 2006 2007. Fun times. For the vampire there are some less exploitative tricks like always traveling at night and use stealth to hid in homes and caves. If I am remembering correctly as long as you have some type of shelter over your head it will protect you. Finally you can totally craft a spell that fortifies your health and heals yourself over time. The spell crafting is something I miss so bad in elders scrolls now. That was the original reason I used cheats to become god like so I could actually craft insane spells that I could actually cast for like 2000 magicka cost! I also found out you can make destruction spell on self for 1 point and spam it to build levels, or use a one sec summon on strong daedra to easily level up conjugations. There are a lot of work arounds for most magic skills.
I never fed as a vampire gained about 87 levels without feeding. Your stats increase when u don’t feed. I think I had 862 strength. 650ish endurance and like, 500ish stamina. You literally become a super Saiyan. In oblivion when you kill some one (the actual killing blow) all excess damage is turned into physics, throwing the lifeless corpse. Needless to say, unless I was in a dungeon or building…. They’re body would just fly away like 6 miles. Sometimes traveling I would just find corpses of people I killed months ago. Vampires are OP
As a kid I almost exclusively played this game as a vampire. Don't really know why just thought it was cool and the effort made the game feel more worthwhile considering how little actual role playing is in it.
I mean, he wasn't exactly using the mechanic fully. he was playing as a stage 4 vampire only, if u just drink blood it's not that bad lmao. plus u get huge perks when ur not in the sun
As someone who grew up playing game of the year edition on PS3... i can tell you it is definitely possible to beat oblivion as a vampire. Because that witch would never take my bloodgrass i was forced to ALWAYS play as a vampire
I remember getting trapped outside the vampirism cure making lady's house 😢. After giving her the ingredients she locked me outside in the daylight and i couldn't get anywhere indoors before dying.
One of my favourite playthroughs of oblivion was a Khajiit Assassin that just punched everything and should definitely overdosed on Skooma considering he drinks six every fight, sometimes even more if it’s a long fight
I got a love/hate thing going on with Vampirism. While it gives great buffs and sets up interesting ways to play the game, I’m still traumatized from the time I got stuck reloading an auto save and scrambling to get out of the daylight before it kills me. Fun times.
I remember playing through oblivion, fast traveling somewhere, and dying. Apparently I hit the deadline for vampirism, and it took me forever to realize why I kept dying as soon as I loaded in
I loved playing as a vampire. I wouldn't feed on anyone so you'd get the highest buff and just loved the added challenge. I'd always be nervous when fast traveling and having to find the nearest place to heal and stay out of the sunlight. Also needed to cast persuasive charms just to speak to anyone was kinda fun too. I miss those days so much....
Yes you can. I learnt this after wandering into the woods/hills for a few hours, then sleeping in a random crypt, on a slab of concrete. Stayed Vampire for the rest of my play-through. I remember running around store to store to be the only difficult part.
I had a playthrough as a vampire. I didnt hide from the sun i just ran around spamming healing magic. My restoration was at 100 in no time but since that was one of my tag skills i was leveling up but underpowered as hell. Wasnt a fun time
Man, Vampirism was no joke in Oblivion. Makes me miss it in Skyrim (I know there are mods that can do that, but it should have been in the base game lol.) Welp, guess I know what I'm gonna pick up again, also loved the video, got you a sub.
As a person who played as a vampire most of time i rarely had to deal with the sunlight because of the readily available food in every city known as homeless people
Dunno still an extra step and a chore to me.
In character, that sounds like the equivalent of surviving by dumpster diving
Not really a chore when you rob people house, just feed at the same time and the detect life spell is really useful as a thief/assassin
@@Erpes2lmfao
same, I didnt see it mentioned in the vid (could have easily missed it) but there's literally a DLC, the Vile Lair that gives you a house with everything you need as a vampire. The added strength, and free night vision and detect life are nice, I always liked being a vampire lol
Fun fact, if you do the battle of Bruma and destroy the Great Gate there as an advanced stage vampire at night, the statue they make of you in Bruma's city will take sun damage during the day just like you would, it turns red and I think has smoke coming off of it
Thats so fucking cool! God I love Oblivion!
@@connor1734ITS NOT A BUG ITS A FEATURE -Todd Howard
Ts funny because the status are all actualy npcs and that one of the mc is an actual clone of your character. Same for the armour dummy's in skyrim
Yeah it's actually coded as a character. You can also use /kill on it and it ragdolls. Very Bethesda of them honestly
@@peteramaranth85everyone laughs until the armor dummy starts an animation
I loved that bit at the beginning. "I've done everything in Oblivion, I've been a stealth archer, I've... um..."
same 😭 i was thinking no one else would find it funny enough to comment
Dude, playing an orc vampire in my grandpa’s machine shop on a shitty PC in the middle of the night is one of my favorite gaming memories haha
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That's a vibe
I always laugh when Uriel says you are the one from my dreams like what sort of dreams is he having
@natmarelnam4871
I get that still weird he dreams about you though
No wonder he wants to die...
Bro having naughty dreams😳😏
Uriel: You are the one from my dreams...
Prisoner: **a literal human tomato**
@@Crimson_Sun2486
Haha must have been a nightmare if that is who he dreams about
I remember failing to notice the infection and, thus, being turned in my first playthrough. That long, convoluted, dangerous and esoteric quest to cure it felt like the first actual, factual, real role playing quest I'd experienced since Morrowind, and was the moment I decided I love/hated this game.
There's plenty of other roleplaying quests and Oblivion overall absolutely has better quests. Morrowind is the better game but Oblivion is my favorite.
I got it near the end of the Main Quest and was like "fuck it, I'll just deal with vampirism afterwards". Bloodgrass only growing in Oblivion was only half the problem: in German, one of the ingredients is mistranslated only in this one line, meaning I searched for something that didn't even exist.
Until the quest glitches and your a perma vampire lmao
When I played this on the 360 a billion years ago, I had a bug where the NPC’s treated you like you were infected, all the way to “maximum”, all without having any issue at all.
Then I reloaded my save from 2 hours prior- And it happened again.
I had to get bitten, get infected,and go through the quest line to clear the bug up to progress in the storyline.
I’ll never forget how irritating those comments were about my skin.. “Are you feeling all right?!”
Yeah I still remember my first play through when it took me hours to complete that damn quest to cure it.
"Their racism against vampires overrules their disposition" had me in stitches. Racism prevails yet again.
>racism prevails yet again
Let's go(?)
Racial supremacy is justified when your race is actually superior.
It’s not racist it’s ableist.
Racism should be a feature in every role playing game imho
@@donutmike vampires right match
That courtyard fight where all the NPCs just started murdering and screaming at each other, really is the most Oblivion thing ever.
I remember during the climactic battle with all of the allies you've gathered, seeing some of them accidentally hit each other and start screaming murder as they turned on each other. 😂
Help!
Help!!!
There's been a murder!
I don’t like being a vampire in oblivion, but I like that it’s role play friendly. It’s not like Skyrim where you just become ever so slightly weaker in the sunlight. It actually forces you to play in the dark
still why is the damage so fucking high also roleplaying sucks when you can't even play the fucking game there's basically no quests you can do in the dark (there's a reason every vampire mod for skyrim gives you the option to disable sun damage)
@@Dovah_Slayer well it’s more generous than how vampires are typically depicted. They’re supposed to turn to dust in sunlight
@@austinbevis4266 fair still in gameplay terms it's not fun thank god for mods mods fix everything
Oblivion fans will come up with any cope to say any clearly worse system is better than the other games
@@saiyananatomy6627 what would a vampire do in traditional vampire lore in the sunlight? They would be damaged
That heart transition right after Lucien showed up literally killed me.
Now that you're dead, I know you can't read this, but...RIP 😢
@@have_a_good_day420 What
The way he expresses ❤
Imagine just chillin in your shack and a vampire suddenly walks in and just sits and stares at you for hours
I played this game for so long that I ended up making a custom spell for the sole purpose of reducing Mehrunes Dagon's health to nothing. Just wanted to see what happened. It did every type of damage, plus weaknesses, and all of it was maxed out.
Named it Divine Bitch-Slap. Had to use a bunch of fortifications to even use it. And, during that ending bit where he's stomping through the city, I fired off that spell...and dude kinda melted...
Seriously... Didn't die though, obviously. The game won't allow that. He just sorta melted into this weird semi-recognizable puddle of himself for a few seconds, then reformed and resumed his rampage.✌️
I used to make the finger in the mountain spell into something similar. It would chain between available targets, then apply debuffs, absorb stats, then finally and obviously electricity. Was brutal walking thru the imperial city just cast and destroy half the citys pop.
If you have Wabbajack from the DLC (shivering isles) and shoot him with it he'll glitch tf out
funny enough, the sword you get by rescuing Farwil Indaris from the oblivion gate (how to get?, easy, just never talk to him and close the gate, he will appear outside) will also kill Mehrunes Dagon in one hit, I only rescued Farwil for the sword really, I mean, it's a cool sword.
I did the same thing. He t-posed after he got back up.
The custom spells and enchantments where so freakin op. I literally broke one of my characters, because I used the ring glitch to obtain over 100% invisibility. At first its all fun and games when no one sees you anymore. But if you cant lay down these rings... No one will ever see you again.
Of course I overwritten my last normal save. So I was stuck to being invisible forever.
This game is truly a experience.
I always take vampirism as it comes up in the dark brotherhood and cure it after finishing the questline. To me that's the perfect amount of time to see every mechanic and it not get too boring and frustrating. I love how the amount of sun damage actually depends on the weather and time of day, not just your vampirism level. Skyrim really took it a step backwards having vampirism kick in before the sun even rises, in the coldest part of the map with grey clouds blocking the sky. People with actual sun allergies have backed me up in saying that a vampire would be right at home in Skyrim.
In real life, near the poles, in the winter the days are short, but in the summer they're actually long. If you go far enough to the north the sun never goes down in summer months
Now, Skyrim represents Scandinavia/Nordic countries which are near the North pole. If TES universe works the same way, it means that Skyrim's winters are great for vampires but summers are actually terrible. Up to a whole month with no night at all and several months where night is only a few hours long. How is a vampire supposed to feed in that time?
I don't know the exact way the sun affects vampires in TES lore (lore can be different from game mechanics so it may be different from how our character is affected in-game), but in other stories (e.g. Dracula) even the slightest ray of sunshine is harmful to the vampire, no matter if there are clouds in the way. Even sunlight directed at the vampire with a mirror is enough to kill it in some stories. So the cloudy weather of Skyrim isn't necessarily any good for its vampires, they don't want to go out at daytime no matter what
@@exantiuse497 the relative closeness/distance of Skyrim to the north pole isn't stated in any Elder Scrolls game as far as I know. however, most speculative maps of Nirn put the continent of Atmora in place of the Arctic circle. latitude-wise, Skyrim is more like southern Canada, so I don't think it would suffer from axial tilt that much.
I definitely agree with markwest that oblivion did the sun allergy mechanics better.
unfortunately, imo vampirism in TES has always felt like a game design afterthought
really skyrim took a step back in every way it could, less skills, less spells, less mechanics in general and especially less roleplaying
How many sun allergic people you friends with? I'm sure they're experts on vampires.
@@have_a_good_day420well the vampires in Skyrim are basically magical dudes who have a slight sun allergy lmao
I'd enjoyed the surprise of being turned into a vampire a bit out of the blue in Daggerfall. In that one, if you got infected and slept for a bit afterwards but within three days after, you got a quick dream scene; and eventually, you "died" and woke up at night in a tomb. I had no idea why I'd gotten the cutscene at first, and searching the Internet wasn't really a thing yet, so waking up as a vampire in a tomb three days later came as a genuine surprise. I'd liked that surprise and experience, and it made me interested in trying vampirism mechanics in the following TES games. No cute cutscene in III, IV and V, though.
In Oblivion, as it happens, I met a vampire in a side quest rather quickly, well before going through Kvatch in my first playthrough (I think I was level 4). Nevertheless, a long-duration, slow heal custom spell essentially removed the issue of taking sun damage very quickly. It meant only upsides unless I let vampirism progress to stage IV and entered cities (and since it can only progress from you voluntarily initiating a transition, that's not happening unless you decide it does). Well, stage II+ also meant no fast travel, but I never used that anyway.
Never fast traveling is how I even made the detour to Kvatch in the first place - I'd gone up there hoping to buy a grand soul gem from the Mages' guild it would have probably had if it had been still standing, so that part of the main quest, in what was my first run, came as a bit of a surprise, and I stumbled into it because I was looking for five grand soul gems to cure that vampirism. Had fun after that, since I was at stage II vampirism and the sun was just rising when I began the escort quest for Martin, which meant the whole trip was spent taking sun damage and regularly casting heal spells, finally arriving in Bruma at dusk - imagine standing around in front of the Blades just after bringing the final Septim to them, standing with flecks of ash floating away from your body in the wind while Martin is being honoured and you, his silent protector, stand defiant of the pain you endure and relish what you've just survived and accomplished. That visual wasn't implemented, of course, nor any specific narrative, but why play a RPG if you aren't going to let your imagination play a bit ;)
Interesting note: Because you were a vampire when you brought martin to cloud ruler temple, your Bruma hero statue actually WOULD burn in sunlight. I was playing with a 100% chameleon armor set when I took martin to the temple, and my statue was invisible as a result 😂
@@nathanjohnston9762 yup, the statue is just a clone of the character, including all active effects.
The fact that you killed the guard in Kvatch with your arrow after your save game corrupted is tripping me out a little bit
Fr. Canon event right before our eyes
@@IPSToast lol ITS NOT OK HE SHOULD HAVE RE LOADED
I honestly think a lot of bugginess in Oblivion is honestly new and I really haven't experienced the people randomly killing each other like that (maybe just the advanced stage vampirism being the variable that breaks it?)
But I remember the quest breaking for both me and my brother on the 360 and making new characters rather than dealing with that shit
it was the point for me that i've just started my first playthrough since a child and i went straight into kvatch before talking to the knights as i talked to the guy inside the castle first and I didn't have to do whatever long quest line thing he did because i did that? so idk
@@NohRoom it's really common for guards to turn on one another in kvatch because they accidentally hit each other. Just like they have a disposition towards the player, they have a disposition toward one another. If one guard hits another one too many times, too quickly, then they all turn on each other just like allies turn on the player. One guy gets fed up, and kills another, then the rest of the guards get mad at the murderer, and it keeps happening until the remaining guards like each other enough to not keep the madness going.
Surprising you've never seen this madness. There's an argonian in one of the cities who usually gets caught stealing food, and sets off the same thing.
My favorite oblivion character was a vampire. I did the whole "virtuous vampire that only feeds on villains" thing. I thought it was a lot of fun to have to hunt down bad guys to feed from so that I could keep my honor lol.
I did that too, had to find bad NPCs, or bandits. I knew a few campsites that had them. Would be great if there was a on touch feeding spell or something, like killing someone counted as feeding maybe, like morrowind did with werewolves.
Lmao literally the plot of Santa Clarita Diet
I like this idea. Being a vampire at all in this game requires your willingness to roleplay. If you really get into the story of your character, vampirism can be an enhancement.
@@leonsjacketre4the Blade playthrough 😈
Being a vampire early on was beneficial for me when I was doing the dark brotherhood and mages guild quest line but I got tired of having to feed after fast traveling a couple times
I once fast traveled to the imperial city and instantly dropped dead. Completely forgot I was a vampire lol
I wonder if it is possible to feed on your adoring fan from the collesium. There is a spell to make him go to sleep whenever you want I'm sure, and since he will always follow you he can be a mobile bag of blood.
@@deliacolquhoun2845
there are so many npc´s in the game its impossible to not keep up with the feeding.
you can even feed on bandits when they sleep in their camps.
I remember being 12 or something like that when the game came out, me and my buddy used to always play the game at his place after school. Obviously, we always played as a vampire, and always only did the dark brotherhood questline. Because it was the cool, dark and edgy stuff you played the game for.
I still remember always going to the waterfront to feed on this one beggar, puny Ancus (we had a nickname for him, i think you can imagine what it was) or going to the bloated float during the day to wait for nighttime. This one time we accidentally started the bloated float quest without having fed, and it basically softlocked the game because we couldn't kill that one person manning the wheel before dying from sun exposure. Good times.
@@haroldharoldson9992 yes, obviously
@@ZingoBananaa There's Penniless Olvus in Anvil, another beggar. You can imagine what a group of 3 12 year old boys immediately named him.
i always like to give martin the sanguin rose. azura's star is just too useful if you're l;ike me and love using enchanted weapons. plus if you give him the rose of sanguin you get an alternate line of dialouge where martins tells you he once held the very staff you'vbe given him becuase in his youth he was tempted by the power of daedric magic.
I started playing oblivion for the first time over a year ago. My main build is a vampire. pretty op especially once you get good enough you can make a spell that heals you I think 16 hp per second for a couple minutes. this spell basically neutralizes sun damage. Magic is so fun & op in oblivion. especially with spell stacking you can do basically anything
also in my playthrough nobody attacks me on site at level 4 vampirism; they only refuse to speak to me, but charm spell allows me to talk to anyone.
i tried to make a spell like that as my spell caster i couldn't cast it even once yeah that's how fucked custom spells are just don't bother as a vampire (and your game bugged hard if you aren't attacked on sight)
@@Dovah_SlayerI just looked it up civilians & imperial guards shouldn't attack you on site for being vampire in oblivion. Oblivion is super buggy tho so no telling with that and you not being able to cast that spell
@@Memento_Mori_504 I think it's that it accidentally sets a hostile flag when you become stage 4 hated sometimes
@@Memento_Mori_504
if npc´s in oblivion find out youre a vampire theyll become automatically hostile.
and they will always find out if youre at stage 3 or above.
the vampire in the dark brotherhood warns you about the consequences when he gives you the option to become one.
I often end up as a vampire, the sun can be ignored with basic healing , and you gain a lot. The only realdownside is being unable to wait outside without dying.
oh a few random ass powers that are borderline useless sun damage melting you in seconds if you refuse to feed to get the best of mediocre powers (also the guards constantly trying to murder you) you think skyrim is bad? Oblivion vampires have NO appeal whatsoever thank god for mods but even then it only makes being a vampire marginally better
@@Dovah_Slayer looks like you forgot about the bonus attributes that allows you to get beyond 100 without any gear, the resistance to weapons ( that aren't enchanted daedric and silver) and last but not least the immunity to paralysis, the last one doesn't seem like much. But it is soooo usefull later on.
@@naboost9485 paralysis immunity is irrelevant (enchantments) immunity to normal weapons can be replaced by shield or reflect damage (again enchantments) and doesn't confer the weakness to enchanted silver or daedric weapons plus reflect spell exists frankly being a vampire is more hassle than it's worth oh you can easily get to over 100 attributes without gear spells leveling potions nothing good about a being a vampire is good enough to justify its downsides nerf the sun damage (or hell flat out remove it it's just annoying) change it to reverse progression (you get stronger when you are fully fed (which frankly makes more sense than fucking starving yourself which by the in game lore and every vampire thing ever is a BAD thing in fact reverse progression would fix the annoying sun damage too)) which will also remove the hate from the guards AND ONLY THEN will vampires be worth it the sun damage is still a deal breaker for me and I have yet to find a mod that gets rid of it (at least with the reverse progression mod it fixes the other gripes I have and makes the damage not as unbearable (it still scales with hunger though so fast traveling can still instantly kill you))
Edit: so after I made this comment I finally found a no sun damage mod for PC so NOW playing as a vampire is worth it
@@Dovah_Slayer I'm curious, how do you manage to get over 100 attributes without any external bonuses. You're supposed to be capped at a hundred.
Maybe it's a cheese or something ?
Also, yes, starving yourself as a vampire is supposed to make you stronger . mortal blood is the only thing that partly lifts the curse. Making you more mortal than vampire. As you starve the mortal part of you fades away and the only thing remaining is the vampiric curse , the source of your power is thus purer.
Addressing the inchantment part when you argue that it's much better to equip a whole shield to prevent yourself from being paralyzed is better than an actual good piece of equipment,well,I strongly disagree for reasons I just stated, why would you waste and equipment slot for something you can get passively while keeping in mind that all stages of vampirism gives that immunity to paralysis. Your not even forced to get the sun damage to get it.
Additionaly a paralysis spell or inchantment isn't the only way to get paralysed, while on early game it pretty much is, in late game even the bandits you encounter are skilled to the point their attacks can get you paralyzed. It has the advantage of keeping your magicka for something more useful too.
Being a vampire doesn't give you exclusive superpowers, given enough effort, every character can theorically get the bonuses of vampires without the downsides at least temporarily, it's just a nice pile of passive advantages and disadvantages you add up to your character, when you do play as a vampire however you get to relocate those ressources you would have otherwise spent on getting the immunity to paralysis, resistance to weapons , bonuses to attributes and skills ect ... elsewhere, wich is really handy.
Not gonna lie it is inconvenient at times (thinking about you fast travel ) but it is convenient at others.
To me the outcome is very much worth it.
@naboost9485 There is supposed to be a cap, but I've found that with the enchantment exploit, caps don't matter (and with that exploit, you actually don't take up a gear slot) which of course loops back around to making the vampire advantages irrelevant I will say though the passive bonuses in my modded playthrough (which now has no sun damage and reverse progression) doing little to no exploits being a vampire is finally worth it but that sun damage and stage 4 guard hostility are both deal breakers for me (because i like to be as powerful as possible when i play a vampire character in any game) and the fact that the cure quest can just break making it impossible (without cheating in the console) to cure is really just the biggest slap in the face ( the part where you have to talk to the count to cure his wife can also break......yay, oh Oblivion you buggy fucking mess we love you)
Excellent work jury-rigging around the algorithm and getting on my front page. You have a new subscriber.
Also, vampirism was completely killed for me from playing Morrowind, where maybe 60 out of the 1200 NPCs will talk to me without trying to kill me on sight. Even then, they won’t barter or provide services to vampires. Thoroughly upsetting.
"foul beast. Get away from meeeeee!"
I had my first playthrough accidently run into me being a vampire. Unfortunately, i had the ps3 version of the goty edition which had a bug where you couldnt cure vampirism.
That playthrough had about 400 hours on it and i was a vampire from about hour 25. I would spend most of my time between the dark britherhood catacombs and the anvil houses at night, ensuring i only stayed at a level 1 vampire. After finishing all major questlines and doing all side quests etc, i decided to throw the towel in, enchant equipment to negate fire damage & embrace the full effects of a vampire. Naturally, i wiped out half of the characters by the time i concluded the playthough.
Fun times man, i love this game.
Damn man I can’t imagine not being able to cure vampirism when it got too tedious
@roddydykes7053 the commitment was real. No real access to guides back then in my case either so it wasn't until years later I found out that it was a bug... I always thought I wasn't doing something right with the request needed to cure vampirism. That being said, it's one of those playthroughs that has stuck with me to this day and that's ultimately why a game like oblivion is so nostalgic, iconic and for me, gives so much freedom to create these stories like I had in that playthrough.
Your Weynon Priory bit with the guy begging for help with an enemy behind him literally never gets old
My favorite memories of this game, my Kahjiit vampire stealth archer. Having all the items to grant 100% invisibility, also had a lot poured into athletics and acrobatics and the sign of the steed so i would play at night run around at high speed taking running down deer and anything that got in my way.
imagine that kitty on skooma
Give the editor a raise, he did a great end card.
Nah
@@virux4107yah
@@virux4107 YEAH FUCK THAT EDITOR HELL YES
I couldn't stop laughing at this video. You have an amazing sense of humor! I hope you decide to make more videos in the future!
Vampirism in Oblivion is definitely an end all, great once you’ve accumulated enough wealth, houses, etc. A vampire in Skyrim is a hell of a lot forgiving.
I remember as a kid playing it and getting the disease without knowing, then turning when I was in a tavern without knowing, so I just walked outside and died instantly. Good times.
I usually do vampire stealth builds (in oblivion)as vampirism in all games (unsure about arena and Morrowind since I've never played as a vampire.) give you a massive bump in attributes and strength most importantly so you can very early on max out strength which will help with sneak attacks along with the vampires other abilities. I would say besides nercomage, there is little to no reason to become a vampire in Skyrim with the controversial removal of attributes.
Being able to turn into a bat demon was kinda neat.
@@garbagebandit5934The eye colour alone is enough reason to sell my soul to Molag Baal.
the boosts are marginal at best completely Irrelevant at worst and trying to get the best of this mediocre form ends up worse than just completely ignoring vampirism entirely
What💀. The Oblivion vampirism is awful in comparison to Skyrim and Morrowind
well uh. theres some good vampire based mods.
By gaming the system and making a fun video, you've earned yourself several subscribers, this is assured.
Man, i loved this game so much i remember my first real playthrough as a vampire. It was the first game I just loved so deeply, I dont think i ever finshed the game till years later. Honestly other then maybe vampire the masquerade have i felt that true roleplaying experience. Maybe its because i was a kid but they were so enthralling and able to make you feel like you were really in that world. Maybe new vegas was close but just off the mark, honestly we have only had a very few true roleplay games. Hoping after bulders gate 3s huge revenue performance we will see the love and care that made this game amazing being put into a few more newer games.
Awesome video, always happy to hear more Irish youtubers.
The vanishing guy must have been a "summon dremora churl" scroll used by the other dremora
Fun fact: You can steal the books from the shopkeep, bypassing the need to talk to him, and should Gwinas refuse to talk to you because of vampirism, killing him or pickpocketing the note is also an option.
I thought he said the book doesn't appear for you to steal until you talk to him about it?
@@sklsdjf Ah, I forgot. While I think the book might be there without talking to him, you have to in order to get Gwinas to spawn into the game. So talking to him is required either way, sadly. My mistake.
Love the Giga Chad Dark Elf you threw in after the emperor says “you are the one from my dreams”
Brings me back to my own oblivion days. I remember finally getting to level 20 without cheesing only to walk out of a door one day and lose all my health. I was clueless until i finally checked my status effects and was a vamp😢
Awesome game I played thousands of hours exploring everything and still load it up when I am feeling nostalgic.
I wish you prosperity on your youtube journey. It was a great video. I contracted vampirism on my oblivion playthrough and i got level 100 illusion but i kept dying from sunlight lol.
I'm amazed at the fact that not only i find new oblivion videos in 2024 but they are also good.
Vampirism is OP, no clue how anyone would think otherwise. Daylight is easy to avoid through feeding or waiting in buildings.
The sheer amount of bugs invoked so many memories. Good job! I personally gave up on this challenge after a couple of daytime quests…
Making content on Oblivion after almost 20 years since release? You sir, deserve my sub, and a varla stone
I think it's safe to say we all thought it was going to be really fucking awesome and then had to wait outside for the mythic dawn quest and kept burning to death
„…but because of how the UA-cam algorithm works we call this one…“ nice one! Instant sub.
More Oblivion pls. Thats so funny
It means so much to me that someone is still making Oblivion content even just a year ago
Bro you should do a run where you see how far you can get in evh questline if you were to keep all essential npc's following you the whole game.
Like martin, jeffory, ulrich kekand, robert jermane, etc.
You can end up with n entire possee of unkillble npc's
That's impressive ,I remember one time I was playing Oblivion and I ended up going on a long quest to get the cure for my Vampire curse
Vampire in Skyrim pre-DG: Sucks
Vampire in Skyrim post-DG: OP
Vampire in Oblivion: A fun challenge
Vampire in Morrowind: You only turned for the sword, don't lie
I never understood the names of videos like this because my first thought is "yeah, duh, you can", but you explained it in the first minute.
lol i literally stopped playing after i saw the requirements to cure Vampirism.
i love how much mitten squad has forcibly changed the YT ecosystem, probably on accident
Dude I can’t believe ur just now about to hit 1k bro, you had me cracking up the entire time, awesome video my guy!
problem with vampirisms in oblivion is that the buffs count as your normal stats, so you can't raise those stats past 95. But it is quite something powerful with a balance between constraints and benefits. It makes you superhuman, but with vulnerabilities. Better than in skyrim where you have very little constraint and very little benefits. If your character has a lot of health, sun damage is a neglectible debuff and no real danger.
by using damage attribute on yourself, it's possible to bring all stats and skills in oblivion to any number you want.
Being a vampire is pretty worth it if you are a mage
7:51 I think what happened is the guards are technically marked as a different group. There was probably friendly fire and then they killed all of the Traitor guards. Looks like you got free armor to me. That armor slaps when you can't afford anything else.
Made the mistake of putting on the gauntlets of gluttony while I was a vampire in one playthrough. Killed me so fast that between the loading screen and actually getting in game I sorta soft locked. I reloaded to before I even got vampirism
Why would put them on ever 15 strengh for 30 health drain is not worth it
@@demonic_myst4503 it was like my 2nd playthrough didn't know much about it just threw stuff on.
I didn't quite understand open-world games when I played Oblivion, so having to predict the sun versus travel times as I skulked around was an amazing way to immerse myself.
I FUCKING LOVE JUGGY
What a throwback. My first playthrough of oblivion I didn’t even know I was a vampire. I got to the final fight and beat it, but i was always so low on health I died from the sunlight.
To this day I’ve never seen the ending of oblivion.
WE LOVE JUGGY
First by the way
Enjoyed the video a lot! Thanks for posting. You should keep uloading Juggy
If you used the enchanter to make urself 100 % chameleon you would be fine in the sun if I remember correctly. And why not have either a strong self heal spell, or absorb heath spell? Lot of ways to work around the the sun issue as a vampire.
there's not enough strong spells to outdo the damage of the stage 4 damage (i've tried to make vampirism work once when i accidentally became a vampire and the fucking cure quest broke and couldn't (this was on console so i was SOL)) at least not ones that have reasonable magicka costs you're better off ignoring vampirism in Oblivion all together always carry cure disease potions unless you want to play oblivion in the worst way possible
@@Dovah_Slayer From what I remember you can wear pants shirt helmet necklace ring and boots. Enchant each with 15% chameleon. You can then be totally unreadable to ai. U can commit crimes and not get caught, can pickpocket anyone, and avoid sun damage. That’s what I meant by enchant. It’s basically totally invisibility but you can move and interact. And can’t you put two enchantment on gear? So you can do that and boost magicka boost regen boost health regen, boost stamina regen and like feather. I think there was a gear and ring glitch wear you could wear many rings that you enchanted at once. My character ended up with 5k magica and immortal and super fast.
@@Thedeepesttruth ah yeah I tend to avoid exploits in these games I personally believe any system that is only fun with exploits is a bad system (which is also why I only played morrowind once everyone says "use exploits until you figure out how the game works" and im like no thats not something i want to do and because of that morrowind is simply too hard for me to enjoy)
@@Dovah_Slayer enchanting all armor slots isn't an exploit, but yeah the ring glitch and stuff is. I'm also not sure why chameleon would protect from sun damage.. but even if you didn't have 100% chameleon, you can still use enchants to the best of your ability for other stuff and just not go in the sun. or drink blood to revert to an earlier stage of vampirism and take less damage from it.. there's plenty of ways to legitimately use the tools the game gives you, this dude was just making it unnecessarily hard bc that's the point of the video
@@Dovah_Slayer I get it especially for first play through or challenges or like to make content. I usually always play the game traditionally then do second play through with a walk through to get all quests and secrets and abilities. Then if I’m still into the game after then is when I go for exploits to make it more fun and see what the limits are or how godlike/powerful you can get. It’s been like 12 years since I last played Oblivion, I got that game when if first game out on PS3 the first month of its release! In 2006 2007. Fun times. For the vampire there are some less exploitative tricks like always traveling at night and use stealth to hid in homes and caves. If I am remembering correctly as long as you have some type of shelter over your head it will protect you. Finally you can totally craft a spell that fortifies your health and heals yourself over time. The spell crafting is something I miss so bad in elders scrolls now. That was the original reason I used cheats to become god like so I could actually craft insane spells that I could actually cast for like 2000 magicka cost! I also found out you can make destruction spell on self for 1 point and spam it to build levels, or use a one sec summon on strong daedra to easily level up conjugations. There are a lot of work arounds for most magic skills.
You're a real one for bringing this game back
It never left.
I never fed as a vampire gained about 87 levels without feeding. Your stats increase when u don’t feed. I think I had 862 strength. 650ish endurance and like, 500ish stamina. You literally become a super Saiyan. In oblivion when you kill some one (the actual killing blow) all excess damage is turned into physics, throwing the lifeless corpse. Needless to say, unless I was in a dungeon or building…. They’re body would just fly away like 6 miles. Sometimes traveling I would just find corpses of people I killed months ago. Vampires are OP
As a kid I almost exclusively played this game as a vampire. Don't really know why just thought it was cool and the effort made the game feel more worthwhile considering how little actual role playing is in it.
Kinda funny that Vampirism in Oblivion is such a s$)# mechanic that it's considered a challenge run.
I mean, he wasn't exactly using the mechanic fully. he was playing as a stage 4 vampire only, if u just drink blood it's not that bad lmao. plus u get huge perks when ur not in the sun
The fact that you named this video this because of the Yt algorithm, immediately had me hittin subscribe
As someone who grew up playing game of the year edition on PS3... i can tell you it is definitely possible to beat oblivion as a vampire. Because that witch would never take my bloodgrass i was forced to ALWAYS play as a vampire
I remember getting trapped outside the vampirism cure making lady's house 😢. After giving her the ingredients she locked me outside in the daylight and i couldn't get anywhere indoors before dying.
Lol
One of my favourite playthroughs of oblivion was a Khajiit Assassin that just punched everything and should definitely overdosed on Skooma considering he drinks six every fight, sometimes even more if it’s a long fight
One minute in and im subbing bc you are a fellow Dunmer chad
I got a love/hate thing going on with Vampirism. While it gives great buffs and sets up interesting ways to play the game, I’m still traumatized from the time I got stuck reloading an auto save and scrambling to get out of the daylight before it kills me.
Fun times.
The heart transition after Lucien Lachance showed up was hilarious. I hit the like button and subscribed right then and there.
I’ve played threw as a vamp before never had that many bugs but this video seems like the most classic oblivion experience
Your prediction for the youtube algorithm was correct. You named this video correctly.
Fun fact you can fast move to cloud Ruler temple without having to go there the first time.
Congrats! Your 3 month old video has been picked up by the algorithm.
i mean, it showed up in my yt feed so i'd say the algorithm works
I remember playing through oblivion, fast traveling somewhere, and dying. Apparently I hit the deadline for vampirism, and it took me forever to realize why I kept dying as soon as I loaded in
For whatever reason I’ve never been able to get through the oblivion main questline so this was fun to watch
This is a great video, man. Keep up the good work bro.
Weather altering spells really would’ve changed up playing a vampire. Great video 🧛♂️👍
Subbed last night after watching you latest two videos, you're hilarious man. Keep up the good work.
"They're objectively the best race in the while franchise"
*wheeze laughs in Argonian supremacy*
Claiming you've got to get somewhere post-haste and then going to sleep for half a day really is the most Oblivion thing someone can do. XD
To be fair i saw the title and thought "yes, absolutely" and immediately clicked
Love these runs bro. The emperor saying elder scrolls 4: oblivion killed me XD
the humor and editing is top notch, youll have millions of subs i can smell it
I loved playing as a vampire. I wouldn't feed on anyone so you'd get the highest buff and just loved the added challenge. I'd always be nervous when fast traveling and having to find the nearest place to heal and stay out of the sunlight. Also needed to cast persuasive charms just to speak to anyone was kinda fun too. I miss those days so much....
I laugh I sub and damn did the line “close shut the jaws of the elderscorlls 4 oblivion” make me laugh
Yes you can. I learnt this after wandering into the woods/hills for a few hours, then sleeping in a random crypt, on a slab of concrete. Stayed Vampire for the rest of my play-through. I remember running around store to store to be the only difficult part.
I had a playthrough as a vampire. I didnt hide from the sun i just ran around spamming healing magic. My restoration was at 100 in no time but since that was one of my tag skills i was leveling up but underpowered as hell. Wasnt a fun time
Absolutely fantastic video.
Algorhythm brought me here. The editing is awesome fun and so was the video.
That watermelom clip was the funniest thing ive seen all week
Love to see oblivion making its rounds over youtube years upon years after its release
Man, Vampirism was no joke in Oblivion. Makes me miss it in Skyrim (I know there are mods that can do that, but it should have been in the base game lol.) Welp, guess I know what I'm gonna pick up again, also loved the video, got you a sub.
"And as for you, my little mortal minion... Feel free to keep the Subscription. As a symbol of my... Oh, just take the damn thing."
Vampire was insanely OP in Oblivion. I played as a vamp for hundreds of hours. Good times.