I'd say in 2006 it was a bit "generic" feeling. But by today's standards generic medival Europe fantasy settings are almost a novelty, since everyone and their mother has spent the last decade copying Game of Thrones. So nowadays I find Oblivion's setting oddly refreshing.
@@TheTjam84 I love the classic green medieval landscapes like you see in great artworks but rarely see in games for some reason. I don't think I've seen anything quite like it since.
I remember Martin Septim telling me how honored he was to fight beside me and what a great person I am. right after I broke in the jeweler store and stole everything.
Witcher 3 uses the same 5 voice actors for every npc, no npc offers dialogue unless its a quest npc, and there are about 5 models used for all men and women in game. But hey lets not criticize the best game ever right
@@jonathansoko1085 Oh sure. Critique is necessary. In the end we might end up with a better game. Personally, i never liked Witcher. I did like Oblivion.
Mostly the same voice actors they used for Fallout 3 as well and I’m not complaining BC I thought FO3’s voice acting was better than FO4, more campy maybe but it fit with the dark humor tone.
Same. I stayed at my friends place and he let me try. I didn't sleep that night, and I made it through most of the dark brotherhood quest line. I'll never forget
@@leskobrandon8454 Depends what you compare it to. If say Skyrim is a 10, Fable 2 is an 8, Fable 3 is more like a 5. The story is pretty linear and you are restricted in terms of where you can go and what you can do until you progress in that main quest.
Back in the day I played Oblivion like my life depended on it. It was so immersive because you felt like you were playing as yourself, and making your own destiny, not as a character whose destiny was already decided. Also, from the environment to the soundtrack, Oblivion just had a homeliness that I didn't feel so much in Skyrim. I felt like I belonged in that world even if I was just dossing about doing side quests. I haven't played Oblivion for years but still often listen to the soundtrack on UA-cam as I find it so relaxing. I think if one videogame had to be my favourite ever, it would be Oblivion. I spent too much of my life in that world for it not to be.
@@16thdemon understanding madness quest was tedious. But I feel like it made the game fee more real. A Mad god you supposed to replace wanna you to understand why he is the way he is. And why his realm exist. Understanding madness indeed was amazing in showing this.
The interesting thing is, the nostalgia is inherent to the game, rather than to when you played it. I played it for the first time in my 20s in 2018 and also had a massive sense of nostalgia for it - nostalgia for a wonderful sense of adventure. An absolutely unforgettable game, so worth it.
I've started TES with Morrowind, the setting there was too unique, didn't got it, but Oblivion is actually more classic fantasy, so I enjoyed it much more.
My favourite game of all time, accompanied by my favourite soundtrack of all time. Charming, magical, atmospheric, homely, nostalgic, fun, immersive, mystical, and much, much more. And the soundtrack.. The soundtrack... And those beautiful, medieval European style landscapes... And the charming awkwardness of the characters, dialogue, and AI... There's so much more that could be said... A masterpiece of a game. ♥️
the side quests I remember the most: where you had to find like a bunch of frozen tears and the one where you go into a painting world. I remember spending so much time looking for the tears. My game was glitched and that's why I couldn't find some. Haha
@@Strider91 Yes, one of my main issues with Skyrim is how short the guilds were compared to Oblivion. Becoming the head of a guild was a great journey in Oblivion, but it Skyrim it was just silly, they felt very rushed indeed.
Aw yes. Best game of all time. And unintentionally the FUNNIEST game ever made. My gosh, every time I turn it on and play for 30 minutes, I’m guaranteed to laugh at something.
This game always makes me feel nostalgic for the summer of 2006 when the game released. I worked for a concession stand at a little league baseball park to save up money to buy the game. Spent many late nights of my summer break playing this game to death. It has way more charm and personality than most games do. It's an entertaining broken little world to run around in.
In my country we have a National Exam that all grade schoolers take to determine which High School you will attend. I have fond memories of Oblivion because I spent the whole year studying. Then finally got to unwind playing Oblivion and loving it.
Oblivion in 4K will be released this year. It’s aimed at game pass. However, as oblivion was designed to work with 128-1028 mbs of VRAM(with most gpus containing less than 1gb of ram back in 2006), we might( no details on that) see a 64 bit version of the Gamebyro. Todd Howard has stated that it was very difficult to get oblivion run at 4K. I am hoping for multi treading and a 64 bit engine.
The quests and story writing of Oblivion are unparalleled, and the fact that you aren’t the “Chosen One” makes your accomplishments so much more satisfying.
Yep! That's largely shared with Morrowind which highly suggests that you aren't special necessarily, you *become* the prophesied hero (and others before you had tried and could have succeeded and become the Neravarine, but didn't)
Actually, fun fact. Skyrim was the first ES game were you actually played as the Dragonborn. All the other games you were mearly dragonborn adjacent lol!. Thats always why I loved them, I wasn't the main savior. . . . .I was some dude that stood next to him, who came from nothing. . . . Or escaped from prison 😁
Um, have you played the game? You are the Chosen One. The Emperor literally has dreams about exactly you and tells exactly you to save the world. Is there something wrong with your brain?
The music was so good, that there were times i stopped playing and looked at the massive world and think about my own life, never ever did a game gave me so much strange/good vibes.. shivers when hearing this music again after 15 years.
Yeah, i remember i used to stare at the sunrise in the forest to the east, and just listening to jeremy soules music. Or while watching the sun go down over the water at Anvil. I even stood idle on market places with the screen turning around, hearing jeremy's music and guards talking about arrows they got in the knee and stuff (or was that i skyrim? yeah that was probably in riften)... while i was afk and just internetting on my laptop.
15 years?! That made me feel very old and ruined my day. I remember getting this on Xbox 360 when it came out and being absolutely amazed with it's world.
I remember getting it at release on 360 too, I must have been 17. It felt hyper real back then after playing Morrowind on the original Xbox. Man were those the days.
I was 21 but couldnt afford to get a 360 and oblivion at the time as my first daughter had just been born. I had to wait for my student finance to come through the year after, I remember getting it and playing each night for hours once my little girl had gone to sleep. Now my little girl is 14 and I'm sat here with a 2 year old daughter added to the mix thinking "wow time goes fast" :D
Just played New Vegas for the first time, it really opened my eyes to how much I could enjoy a decade old game, now I think oblivion is next on the list
Oblivion had an atmosphere and world building that I missed in Skyrim. One thing that stuck out like you mentioned is that the dungeons actually feel like locations in Oblivion whereas Skyrim's felt like purpose built gaming dungeons. Why does everyplace have a shortcut to the end. It makes no sense and I much preferred Oblivion's style. Oblivion had a much more varied and fun cariety of quests as well.
Okay I have to disagree with you here. The dungeons in oblivion were quite honestly copy and paste everywhere you went. They had some good loot and maybe an interesting thing or 2 to discover but the needless back tracking in all the same dungeons felt pretty lame. I don't like Skyrim as much as oblivion but what they did right was the dungeon and cave system having little trap doors and secret areas that bring you back to the beginning, a more intuitive way of doing things that keeps you from wasting time back tracking through a maze of corridors.
@@jsullivan2112 not to mention dragons lol. But yeah that's about it, cleaned up combat a bit added duel weilding, less butter faces. But the streamlined UI and leveling, meh weapon/ armor design and bland colors that make up most of Skyrim made it less enjoyable than oblivion for me.
@@tempestsquall5882 You know, since my initial comment, I actually went back and tried playing some Oblivion with new mods (after not having touched it for like 7 years) and I agree, the dungeons were copy and paste for the most part and not very furnished aesthetically as well as Skyrim (I think like one or two developers worked on all the layouts for Oblivion). But, that being said, I still don't particularly like the obvious barred door or just out of reach cave section that brought you back to the beginning of a dungeon in Skyrim. It always kinda brought me out of the immersion and made the locations feel very video gamey which was more offensive to me than having to backtrack a couple minutes.
Me personally I loved the rpg gameplay design of Oblivion more than Skyrim. There's something extremely satisfying about seeing how you've achieved a higher understanding of your training and how you need to rest and meditate. Once you reach apprentice, journeyman, expert, and master you feel like you actually did something. Even if in reality you were sitting there spamming an illusion spell. The game felt more in touch with its roots especially the leveling system and the character abilities that are able to be increased through using them such as running aka athletics. Skyrim just keeps you at one preset speed with no ability to increase your athleticism or acrobatics. Even worse Skyrim makes it feel like you never truly get any better as a character because you are Dragonborn who is extremely OP right off the bat. In oblivion the character isn't someone special and so you can train yourself to become anyone or anything but Skyrim limits you to being the dragonborn with very specific traits and characteristics. Skyrim did a lot better in the basic swordplay, animations, archery system, magic animations, and the sneak system. However the game feels lifeless without mods to increase the basic feel of each of these systems. Skyblivion is a thing.
“... it’s easy to see why Oblivion was either forgotten or ignored by fans.” Patronizing (and factually incorrect) when you consider that Oblivion was Bethesda’s bestselling game and the highest rated game of the generation when it launched.
I find far east interpretation to be more generic settings in fantasy games. Like FF12 or the starting areas in Two Worlds 2. The European fantasy setting was very well done in oblivion and I wish there were more fantasy settings like it on the genre, because of you think about it most other games at least now a days have you in some generic bio futuristic, or too realistic to be fantasy settings.
@@tempestsquall5882 exactly. Western fantasy settings have almost become “so cliche they’re not cliche”. Very few games or movies really even attempt them anymore, and even fewer do them well. Oblivion is one of the only things I’ve seen that’s made a believable western fantasy setting
He doesn't even mention how much better leveling your skills were, hand to hand/mysticism/athletics/acrobatics and the fact you could make your own spells.
i personally thought the level the skills you use mechanic in morrowind was more organic but you still had to make a conscious decision of what role you wanted to play.
@@BrockSamson810 This right here is probably the biggest fucking reason Oblivion is my favorite. I can actually be a sword/shield battlemage in that game without having to constantly go through menus and switch my hands.
IMO, once I got a grasp on efficient leveling it was not as much of an issue. Also, the modding community has a couple of decent, non-game breaking mods.
Some of my favorite moments in Oblivion were simply of walking around in the nature, collecting everything I possibly could while listening to the beautiful ambient soundtrack of the game. I also liked the vampire part. Of the games, Oblivion and Skyrim, Oblivion is by fare my favourite. The nature in Skyrim is more dull, I did not like the main quest at all (though I did not like Oblivions main quest either) in regards the the whole dragonborn thing. And the dragons were just annoying.
Best western RPG track EVER. I have yet to hear anything in my life that makes me still to this day feel like I'm in a true fantastical world other than the FF games.
@@xCestLaVie1 Bethesda's barely released any footage of TES VI. Meanwhile, the Skyblivion Team recently released gameplay of their project. Additionally, the Skyblivion Team has to modify Skyrim, meanwhile Bethesda has to start mostly from scratch. Do you have any actual evidence that Skyblivion will come out after TES VI?
This was the first game I became obsessed with. The first game that made my dad look at the screen with elves and magic and look back at me lying on the couch and say, "I worry about you."
@@ariberry1407 For 2006 the AI blew my mind. It's nothing to write home about nowadays and the conversations between NPCs is laughable, but actually seeing each character have their own daily (or even weekly/monthly) routines was impressive. A few select characters would even move between towns. Not many open world games, Skyrim and Fallout 4 included, attempt that level of AI complexity. It's kind of a unique product of it's time
@Harris Farley Unlike most RPGs really. As janky as it can be at times, the AI in Oblivion and Skyrim results in a level of detail and immersion that is more or less unparalleled in the genre. I don't even really like Skyrim anymore, but I'll always give it that credit. The only other games that do things like that with NPC AI are simulation oriented games where the AI is the primary focus. Bethesda didn't need to create radiant AI, Morrowind and Daggerfall were perfectly fine without it. Games like Dragon Age Origins and The Witcher 2 and 3 are fine without it. But they did it anyway, because they could. And when it works as intended it does add a lot to the believability of the game world. And when it doesn't work as intended, at least it's funny.
They have a long track record of good reviewers. They’ve always been better than IGN. I suppose over the years they’ve gotten worse but I haven’t stuck around to notice.
@@poopmonkey48 only problem with it is that you barely *steal* anything. Hell the last mission is you RETURNING something. I felt more like some hired thug than an actual thief in that questline. Oblivion’s thieving aspect for their theives guild is a lot better
I remember the very first time I played this back when I was 11, I’m 26 now and to this day haven’t felt the same feeling towards a game as I did towards oblivion. I’ve never been the type of guy to finish a game and replay multiple times over. No word of a lie, I have finished oblivion 20-30 times.
@@justinvesty yeah I’ve not played for a very long time, I’m saying no game ever made me feel like oblivion did. Keep your opinions to yourself otherwise wether or not you want to be a “D” it makes you one :)
Holy shit I never even realized Sean Bean was Martin until today.....his voice sounded familiar but I never thought it was Bean’s and it’s fucking awesome he’s in Oblivion
Just got a new laptop and decided to download off of gamepass and give it another whirl. I've never been able to try modding, but I'm gonna learn how very soon
I adore this game. Back in 06 seeing those open world forests was mind-blowing, no other game came even close to those graphics until Crysis was released. Oblivion made me go out and take walks in the woods while listening to Jeremy Soule on my iPod Nano ffs.
The feeling and immersion that Oblivion gives me is unparalleled , dunno if it's the music, dunno if it's the environment, maybe it's the sense of being....a normal person.... maybe is the thing that you don't stumble on something to do every goddamn second like every meter of the world map has a damn unexplored something. probably it's the mix of everything, dunno,it's damn good.
@@retep8891 that's where you are wrong, kiddo. You better have a good CPU where you have high frequency on a core because it uses only 1 core. Doesn't matter haw much cores you have if the frequency is low.
@reborn6596 Fast traveling can ruin the experience, and you can miss a lot of dungeons and quests. Many times when people say "I never saw that in skyrim." They probably fast traveled everywhere.
I really liked the fact that you could interact with the Guards in all the towns in Oblivion. Ask where the Inn was, ask about nearest market. I relied on that in the early stages of the game. I don’t know why they removed this interaction from Skyrim. It made the guards seem more knowledgeable and righteous.
Me too dude. I started on Oblivion and didn't play morrowind until later and of course skyrim too. Cyrodil is beautiful and everything feels so cozy and the combat is soooooo so good.
I liked how you could build relationships with everyone too. Making or ruining a character's day because you talked to them was a great feeling compared to Skyrim, where nobody seems to remember you.
nobody remembers you? in allot of places they give you a remark about youre deeds or status so dont lie,i cant go annywhere without people talking about me and adressing me.
@@Marcustheseer Right, that's why in Skyrim I could have just slain Alduin, Harkon and Miraak, and have a guard go "You're a companion, so what, you fetch the mead?" while I'm in full masterwork Dragonbone gear. Get the fuck out of here.
Once I start playing this game I don't even see the graphics quality. I'm fighting enemies, doing quests, leveling up, exploring caves. I've done it all so many times. I love it.
One of the greatest games I’ve ever played, what a game changer! it’s crazy it came out in 06, I was 17 then, I’m 32 now, Ive went back and beat this about 7 times. I see another play through coming soon.
@@schadenfreude6274 Yeeaahh I don't think so.. I played Morrowind as well and it has aged REALLY badly. One hour is what it all took for me to turn around and play something else.
Oblivion was by far the best of the Elderscrolls series. Skyrim is the newest and gaming in 2011 was more popular then in 2006 (gaming was still regarded as for nerds) yet the quests and story of ES IV was way better then skyrim. Just to enter the mages guild in ES IV was more quests/depth then the entire college of Winterhold questline. In Skyrim you were never given the feeling you achieved something where as in oblivion you would get a statue. People would adress you as the champion etc etc. I loved skyrim and played it so much (mods for life) but i like oblivion unmodded more then skyrim modded or unmodded.
In Oblivion, you feel like you are a character that starts from nothing. You are not born as a hero, you are not born as someone important. You are just a citizen of Cyrodil on a journey, an adventure who by fate or luck, was allowed to leave the dungeon under special one in a million circumstances.
The graphics were jaw dropping at the time for me. I still remember the awe and wonder I felt just imagining what the future would bring when I first saw this game.
It's the game i made a brand new gaming PC for,back in 2007.I loved it so much and it was so hard to play it on my old PC that i decided to make a new one.The golden age of Deus Ex,Morrowind,KOTOR,Mass Effect,Oblivion and Dragon age...
Skyrim's enemy design: Wolf, Bear, Bandit, Draugr, Dragon, repeat, repeat, re-fucking-peat. Oblivion's enemy design: Daedra of differing types (Clannfear, Daedroth, Dremora, three types of Atronachs, Scamp, Spider Daedra, Xivilai), Undead of differing types (Zombie, Ghost, Skeleton, Wraith, Lich, actual undead rather than the bullshit Skyrim gave us), Goblins, Imps, Land Dreughs, Minotaurs, Ogres, Will-o-the-Wisp... There's just no contest. Oblivion's enemy design and variety beats Skyrim any day of the weak. Oblivion had an enemy variety and design like an actual RPG whereas Skyrim just kept throwing the same wildlife, bandits, and draugr at you while just plopping on more damage and HP to them.
I personally find that having to be some mythical "chosen one" in almost every RPG eventually becomes rather stale and predictable. I try to avoid becoming the Dragonborn for as long as possible whenever I play Skyrim, often times switching the game off by the time it becomes inevitable. I also love the world of Oblivion much more than Skyrim, which sometimes feels like little more than a frozen wasteland inhabited by annoying racists who I would just as soon let the dragons devour. Cyrodill actually feels like a more inviting fantasy realm with a lot more character and depth, that is actually worth visiting / living in. I just wish Oblivion on PC was controller supported, as I hate playing keyboard and mouse. Eh, here's hoping Skyblivion comes out in 2021!
I always return to this gem of a game knowing there's always a creative quest or hilarious moment around a corner. The guilds alone are some of the best quest lines in the series. And to top it all Shivering Isles is one of the best dlcs ever made. Its a rocky and fabulous masterpiece of a rpg.
@@JD-se4cy Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Gothic 1, Gothic 2, Planscape Tornament, Vampire the MB, Fallout New Vegas, TES Morrowind, Divinity OS, Divinity OS 2 - here 10 rpgs that are much better then Oblivion, and there are even more. Who cares about your shitty "top 10 rpgs of all time" made by people who seriously think Skyrim to be the best rpg ever
Oh sure beside Morrowind it lacked the depth, but it made up for it in beauty. I live in an area that looks very much like Cyrodill (minus the goblins if you don't count the drunks) and I used to walk for miles with my friends. There are some games that don't hold up. Diablo 2. Sorry, it just doesn't, but Oblivion? I want to curl up and just live that world. When you walk the road between Bravil to the Imperial City. You still can almost chafe from ticks in Bravil, but suddenly you meet the verdant Heartlands and you feel it gets warmer. The White Gold Tower nestled in the centre of a huge lake. The centre of this Empire you are exploring. If you've only played Skyrim, I recommend playing Oblivion. whilst I adore the plains and hot springs of the land of the Nords, something always pulls me to Cyrodiil. Its rolling hills and the Colovian estates especially. I finished the main story long ago, but i still jump in to my character who lives outside Chorrol in the big castle and walk a game trail to Skingrad. Camp near the Aedra shrine then hike home with my pelts and venison. Check on my wine. Only one other game took away my breath as Oblivion did. That was the Witcher 3, Skellige and Toussant. The latter literally made me put down the controller. The entire DLC is designed like a vacation. Having devoured the books at the time, Toussant was the page brought to life. A mix of southern France and Italy. It's romantic and deadly.
In the beginning of this video you said the npcs always introcuded themselves and that was a problem. Sure that maybe, but in the examples you used it makes sense. Of course a merchant would introduce themselves and someone you just freed would also introduce themselves to be friendly
What I want for Elder Scrolls 6: The complexity of the world design and lore from Morrowind, the Quest design from Oblivion and the Combat and general technical improvements from Skyrim.
this is the best game that has come out in the millenium so far, no other game came close to Oblivion when it was released, now new release games are always a buggy and glitchy mess when they come out, Oblivion was groundbreaking when it came out in 2006 for PC, I couldn't wait to buy that game back then, had to buy a new computer with a good enough video card at the time to play this game as well, back then purchasing computer parts to build a PC was alot more expensive too, it was worth it to play Oblivion
Saving your game just as you're starting the 'Whodunit?' Quest so you can repeat the process in different ways over and over again... Oblivion gave me years and years of fun in a way not many other games have 😂
Let's not forget that this is by FAR the most meme-able of all the ES games. That's all most kids know about it nowadays, but behind the memes there actually is a good game. (I was 26 when this came out... god I'm old.)
By Azura, by Azura, by Azura!
Time flies but by Todd Oblivion is a gem of an RPG even 15 years later. If only someone would remaster it ;)
Hmmm yes I really do wonder
Seriously, Todd, Bethesda, PLEASE!
aren't you doing some thing like remaster already?
@@AhmadrezaChehrehara yeah he’s joking
;) hopefully soon
The setting was NOT dull. I absolutely loved that world and still like it more than probably any open world.
It is one of my favourite open worlds next to The Continent from The Witcher III.
Completely agree. Perhaps because I love medieval green landscapes ie witchery or Kingdom come, it captured that beautifully.
I'd say in 2006 it was a bit "generic" feeling. But by today's standards generic medival Europe fantasy settings are almost a novelty, since everyone and their mother has spent the last decade copying Game of Thrones. So nowadays I find Oblivion's setting oddly refreshing.
@@TheTjam84 I love the classic green medieval landscapes like you see in great artworks but rarely see in games for some reason. I don't think I've seen anything quite like it since.
It wasn't dull but it didn't match up with the lore
I remember Martin Septim telling me how honored he was to fight beside me and what a great person I am. right after I broke in the jeweler store and stole everything.
SEAN BEAN
"Our Hero is a bit of a mixed bag, murders a lot and steals constantly buuuut also regularly saves the world so..."
And stole an Elder Scroll on top of that.
everyone steals in elder scrolls that's just how it is
@@sudstahgaming that’s how the Thieves Guild works I guess.
The voice acting is impeccable. All 5 voices used for every npc are impeccable.
Same with Skyrim too ;P
Witcher 3 uses the same 5 voice actors for every npc, no npc offers dialogue unless its a quest npc, and there are about 5 models used for all men and women in game. But hey lets not criticize the best game ever right
@@jonathansoko1085 Oh sure. Critique is necessary. In the end we might end up with a better game. Personally, i never liked Witcher. I did like Oblivion.
Mostly the same voice actors they used for Fallout 3 as well and I’m not complaining BC I thought FO3’s voice acting was better than FO4, more campy maybe but it fit with the dark humor tone.
Isnt the actor for Martin the Faramir actor in LOTR?
Has the same voice!
The side quest where you go into a painting and the world turns watercoloured occupies so much space in my brain.
I just did it today !
What is the side quest called? Thanks
@@jamisbrill a bit late, but it’s called a brush with death
Me too, man.
I think my game bugged and those trolls came out of the painting... it was a funny bug though
Honestly I think it had the best soundtrack
I liked skyrims music but it got too loud too frequent when u ran into enemies got kinda annoying
Morrowind's my favourite but Oblivion has some great tracks in it
@@metetural9140 I forgot about Morrowind and that was the true rpg of the elder scrolls
Series
I love how melancholic it is
Skyrim’s was 10x better
Oblivion was my first open world rpg. I had no idea games could have that amount of freedom. I was so young. I'll never forget it
Mine was one of the fables. I think 3
Same. I stayed at my friends place and he let me try. I didn't sleep that night, and I made it through most of the dark brotherhood quest line. I'll never forget
@@leskobrandon8454 Fable 3 isn't really that "open". It's much more linear and story driven and your movement is much more restricted than in Fable 2.
@@BigUriel it’s still pretty open
@@leskobrandon8454 Depends what you compare it to. If say Skyrim is a 10, Fable 2 is an 8, Fable 3 is more like a 5. The story is pretty linear and you are restricted in terms of where you can go and what you can do until you progress in that main quest.
2002 morrowind
2006, 4 years later, oblivion
2011, 5 years later, skyrim
2021, 10 years later, nothing :(
Don't worry, I'm sure in 5 years (give or take) we'll get a proper trailer, maybe even some gameplay!
*2021, 10 years later, Skyrim HD 4K REMASTERED VR SPECIAL LEGENDARY EDITION
they getting slack and oblivion was the peak
Unless you count Elder Scrolls Online
Rather that than what gamefreak is doing. The wait is worth it
Back in the day I played Oblivion like my life depended on it. It was so immersive because you felt like you were playing as yourself, and making your own destiny, not as a character whose destiny was already decided. Also, from the environment to the soundtrack, Oblivion just had a homeliness that I didn't feel so much in Skyrim. I felt like I belonged in that world even if I was just dossing about doing side quests. I haven't played Oblivion for years but still often listen to the soundtrack on UA-cam as I find it so relaxing. I think if one videogame had to be my favourite ever, it would be Oblivion. I spent too much of my life in that world for it not to be.
It's my favorite as well
"It didn't perfect it like Skyrim" okay well Oblivion still did lots of things better than Skyrim. Like all the factions
I'd argue Oblivion did MOST things better than Skyrim. Skyrim has better textures, better animations, and a less buggy Radiant AI. That's it.
@@spikem5950 the radiant AI was awesome and more immersive than the on rails scripted NPC encounters from Skyrim
@@theotherbeatle707 Yeah, Oblivion's radiant AI was much better designed. I was just saying Skyrim's wasn't as buggy.
Played both. Of course Skyrim is far superior than Oblivion
@@whatistime5768 I played all 5 games. Of course 1-4 were far superior than Skyrim.
Shivering Isles remains one of the best Expansions of all time, any game period.
Im literally showing my wife all the funny things that mad god said to me when I was only 15 playing my first 360 game.
Cheese for everyone!
I agree man
I totally agree. Witcher 3 expansions were great, but Shivering Isles was on another level entirely.
@@16thdemon understanding madness quest was tedious. But I feel like it made the game fee more real. A Mad god you supposed to replace wanna you to understand why he is the way he is. And why his realm exist. Understanding madness indeed was amazing in showing this.
The interesting thing is, the nostalgia is inherent to the game, rather than to when you played it. I played it for the first time in my 20s in 2018 and also had a massive sense of nostalgia for it - nostalgia for a wonderful sense of adventure. An absolutely unforgettable game, so worth it.
Never did I think Oblivion was dull. To me it's always been my favorite settings as I love that classical high fantasy setting. Lotr, fable, etc.
I like the obvlivion setting more too, GoT vibes
I've started TES with Morrowind, the setting there was too unique, didn't got it, but Oblivion is actually more classic fantasy, so I enjoyed it much more.
My favourite game of all time, accompanied by my favourite soundtrack of all time. Charming, magical, atmospheric, homely, nostalgic, fun, immersive, mystical, and much, much more. And the soundtrack.. The soundtrack... And those beautiful, medieval European style landscapes... And the charming awkwardness of the characters, dialogue, and AI... There's so much more that could be said... A masterpiece of a game. ♥️
I've been through oblivion about 5 times. I still play to this day.. I couldn't get interested in skyrim enough to play it more then a day..
Sean Bean's voice is the best. I can listen to it forever
Actually, it’s pronounced “Sean Bean,” not “Sean Bean.”
Unless you need something, let's continue on to Weynon Priory.
The quests in Oblivion are unquestionably better, more diverse than in Skyrim.
generic fantasy vs generic realism
@@Lunar4 A 🧢 on both fronts.
the side quests I remember the most:
where you had to find like a bunch of frozen tears and the one where you go into a painting world.
I remember spending so much time looking for the tears. My game was glitched and that's why I couldn't find some. Haha
The guilds actually took time, and effort to complete. It took weeks to do just one, so many twists and turns. It was beautiful
@@Strider91 Yes, one of my main issues with Skyrim is how short the guilds were compared to Oblivion. Becoming the head of a guild was a great journey in Oblivion, but it Skyrim it was just silly, they felt very rushed indeed.
Aw yes. Best game of all time.
And unintentionally the FUNNIEST game ever made. My gosh, every time I turn it on and play for 30 minutes, I’m guaranteed to laugh at something.
And still it's such a nice game. Kinda like a B movie.
Me too, but I'll admit that 90% of it is just the voice acting.
STOP RIGHT THERE!
This game always makes me feel nostalgic for the summer of 2006 when the game released. I worked for a concession stand at a little league baseball park to save up money to buy the game. Spent many late nights of my summer break playing this game to death. It has way more charm and personality than most games do. It's an entertaining broken little world to run around in.
I had a scarily similar teenage years to that
Duuude same. I was working at McDonald's to save up money.
Second this. Hours, days, heck I poured WEEKS into this game lol.
In my country we have a National Exam that all grade schoolers take to determine which High School you will attend.
I have fond memories of Oblivion because I spent the whole year studying. Then finally got to unwind playing Oblivion and loving it.
I stole this game from the rental shop 2 weeks before it closed down.
I don't know why Patrick Stewart being in the game for 5 minutes adds so much to the experience whenever I think about it, but it does.
Make it so
Engage!
I guess giving 80% of the voice acting budget was worth it then 😆
Now we just need an Oblivion Special Edition
Oblivion in 4K will be released this year. It’s aimed at game pass.
However, as oblivion was designed to work with 128-1028 mbs of VRAM(with most gpus containing less than 1gb of ram back in 2006), we might( no details on that) see a 64 bit version of the Gamebyro.
Todd Howard has stated that it was very difficult to get oblivion run at 4K. I am hoping for multi treading and a 64 bit engine.
@@mylesjackson1 Would rather have morrowind remake with modern mechanics
@@idipped2521 so you mean Skywind?
Wait for Skyblivion
@@mylesjackson1 The creation engine is basically just an upgraded gamebryo.
The quests and story writing of Oblivion are unparalleled, and the fact that you aren’t the “Chosen One” makes your accomplishments so much more satisfying.
Yep! That's largely shared with Morrowind which highly suggests that you aren't special necessarily, you *become* the prophesied hero (and others before you had tried and could have succeeded and become the Neravarine, but didn't)
@@JB-xl2jc I think Morrowind had the best story in the series by a mile but Oblivion easily had the best side quests
Actually, fun fact. Skyrim was the first ES game were you actually played as the Dragonborn. All the other games you were mearly dragonborn adjacent lol!. Thats always why I loved them, I wasn't the main savior. . . . .I was some dude that stood next to him, who came from nothing. . . . Or escaped from prison 😁
Um, have you played the game? You are the Chosen One. The Emperor literally has dreams about exactly you and tells exactly you to save the world. Is there something wrong with your brain?
@@Strider91 No fucking shit, Sherlock. Everyone knows that. Why the hell are you saying that as a fun fact?
Me: No I dont think it's worth replaying
Oblivion community: THEN PAY WITH YOUR BLOOD!
Should have PLAYED THE GAME!
This is the part where you fall down and bleed to death!
This game was more memorable to me than skyrim. I'll never forget the first time i found chameleon could make me invisible, i stole so much shit
Oblivion is the only game I've ever played that made me nostalgic for it during my first playthrough.
The music was so good, that there were times i stopped playing and looked at the massive world and think about my own life, never ever did a game gave me so much strange/good vibes..
shivers when hearing this music again after 15 years.
It happened to me but with morrowind!! Oblivion is good too, but did't touch me the same way. Anyways both games have Jeremy soule's music!
I can still remember how I just couldn't believe that whole world fit into my Xbox 360 🤯
Yeah, i remember i used to stare at the sunrise in the forest to the east, and just listening to jeremy soules music. Or while watching the sun go down over the water at Anvil. I even stood idle on market places with the screen turning around, hearing jeremy's music and guards talking about arrows they got in the knee and stuff (or was that i skyrim? yeah that was probably in riften)... while i was afk and just internetting on my laptop.
This
Indeed
15 years?! That made me feel very old and ruined my day. I remember getting this on Xbox 360 when it came out and being absolutely amazed with it's world.
I was 15 when Oblivion came out. A little surreal for me.
Your not the only one there mate
Same - I was obsessed with this game all those years ago.
I remember getting it at release on 360 too, I must have been 17. It felt hyper real back then after playing Morrowind on the original Xbox. Man were those the days.
I was 21 but couldnt afford to get a 360 and oblivion at the time as my first daughter had just been born. I had to wait for my student finance to come through the year after, I remember getting it and playing each night for hours once my little girl had gone to sleep. Now my little girl is 14 and I'm sat here with a 2 year old daughter added to the mix thinking "wow time goes fast" :D
This is one of those games I wish I could unremembered so I could experience again for the first time.
What an experience that first playthrough was!
Just played New Vegas for the first time, it really opened my eyes to how much I could enjoy a decade old game, now I think oblivion is next on the list
I just started a new save for the first time since 2011... there's a TON I don't remember and it feels similar to playing it for the first time again
Oblivion had an atmosphere and world building that I missed in Skyrim. One thing that stuck out like you mentioned is that the dungeons actually feel like locations in Oblivion whereas Skyrim's felt like purpose built gaming dungeons. Why does everyplace have a shortcut to the end. It makes no sense and I much preferred Oblivion's style. Oblivion had a much more varied and fun cariety of quests as well.
Okay I have to disagree with you here. The dungeons in oblivion were quite honestly copy and paste everywhere you went. They had some good loot and maybe an interesting thing or 2 to discover but the needless back tracking in all the same dungeons felt pretty lame. I don't like Skyrim as much as oblivion but what they did right was the dungeon and cave system having little trap doors and secret areas that bring you back to the beginning, a more intuitive way of doing things that keeps you from wasting time back tracking through a maze of corridors.
@@jsullivan2112 not to mention dragons lol. But yeah that's about it, cleaned up combat a bit added duel weilding, less butter faces. But the streamlined UI and leveling, meh weapon/ armor design and bland colors that make up most of Skyrim made it less enjoyable than oblivion for me.
@@tempestsquall5882 You know, since my initial comment, I actually went back and tried playing some Oblivion with new mods (after not having touched it for like 7 years) and I agree, the dungeons were copy and paste for the most part and not very furnished aesthetically as well as Skyrim (I think like one or two developers worked on all the layouts for Oblivion). But, that being said, I still don't particularly like the obvious barred door or just out of reach cave section that brought you back to the beginning of a dungeon in Skyrim. It always kinda brought me out of the immersion and made the locations feel very video gamey which was more offensive to me than having to backtrack a couple minutes.
The shortcuts are realistic. It's known the people who built the tombs in the pyramids dug shortcuts so they could get out
Skyrim was just a more polished version of Oblivion, but without it's soul
Me personally I loved the rpg gameplay design of Oblivion more than Skyrim. There's something extremely satisfying about seeing how you've achieved a higher understanding of your training and how you need to rest and meditate.
Once you reach apprentice, journeyman, expert, and master you feel like you actually did something. Even if in reality you were sitting there spamming an illusion spell. The game felt more in touch with its roots especially the leveling system and the character abilities that are able to be increased through using them such as running aka athletics. Skyrim just keeps you at one preset speed with no ability to increase your athleticism or acrobatics. Even worse Skyrim makes it feel like you never truly get any better as a character because you are Dragonborn who is extremely OP right off the bat.
In oblivion the character isn't someone special and so you can train yourself to become anyone or anything but Skyrim limits you to being the dragonborn with very specific traits and characteristics.
Skyrim did a lot better in the basic swordplay, animations, archery system, magic animations, and the sneak system. However the game feels lifeless without mods to increase the basic feel of each of these systems. Skyblivion is a thing.
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“... it’s easy to see why Oblivion was either forgotten or ignored by fans.” Patronizing (and factually incorrect) when you consider that Oblivion was Bethesda’s bestselling game and the highest rated game of the generation when it launched.
Yeah I remember it was a big deal when it came out.
Yeah, just because the narrator did not care for elder Scrolls until Skyrim doesn't means everyone did
Game journos are buffoons, nothing new there.
Think he means Oblivion had the worst reception out of Morrowind, Oblivion & Skyrim.
@@DeadSpacedOut ironicly for me Oblivion is the best of the three. I tried skyrim and Morrowind afterwards, bit could never warm up with either
I hear the “generic fantasy setting” complaint a lot but I’ve never had more fun exploring an open world than in oblivion
I still remember discovering that ghost town that wasn't on the map in the great forest. Amazing
Same
I find far east interpretation to be more generic settings in fantasy games. Like FF12 or the starting areas in Two Worlds 2. The European fantasy setting was very well done in oblivion and I wish there were more fantasy settings like it on the genre, because of you think about it most other games at least now a days have you in some generic bio futuristic, or too realistic to be fantasy settings.
@@tempestsquall5882 exactly. Western fantasy settings have almost become “so cliche they’re not cliche”. Very few games or movies really even attempt them anymore, and even fewer do them well. Oblivion is one of the only things I’ve seen that’s made a believable western fantasy setting
He doesn't even mention how much better leveling your skills were, hand to hand/mysticism/athletics/acrobatics and the fact you could make your own spells.
@Beans put difficulty slider down two notches
i personally thought the level the skills you use mechanic in morrowind was more organic but you still had to make a conscious decision of what role you wanted to play.
Or the fact that you could cast spells while still holding your weapon and a torch
@@BrockSamson810 This right here is probably the biggest fucking reason Oblivion is my favorite. I can actually be a sword/shield battlemage in that game without having to constantly go through menus and switch my hands.
IMO, once I got a grasp on efficient leveling it was not as much of an issue. Also, the modding community has a couple of decent, non-game breaking mods.
Some of my favorite moments in Oblivion were simply of walking around in the nature, collecting everything I possibly could while listening to the beautiful ambient soundtrack of the game.
I also liked the vampire part. Of the games, Oblivion and Skyrim, Oblivion is by fare my favourite. The nature in Skyrim is more dull, I did not like the main quest at all (though I did not like Oblivions main quest either) in regards the the whole dragonborn thing. And the dragons were just annoying.
You forgot the amazing music. Way better than skyrim
Don't forget the amazing music. It's life changing.
In the composer's case quite literally.
Best western RPG track EVER. I have yet to hear anything in my life that makes me still to this day feel like I'm in a true fantastical world other than the FF games.
Oblivion was never "forgotten" by fans. Nearly as soon as Skyrim came out, the Skyblivion project, to remaster the masterpiece, began.
Skyblivion will never come out lol we will get a new elder scrolls by then.
@@xCestLaVie1 Bethesda's barely released any footage of TES VI. Meanwhile, the Skyblivion Team recently released gameplay of their project. Additionally, the Skyblivion Team has to modify Skyrim, meanwhile Bethesda has to start mostly from scratch. Do you have any actual evidence that Skyblivion will come out after TES VI?
This was the first game I became obsessed with. The first game that made my dad look at the screen with elves and magic and look back at me lying on the couch and say, "I worry about you."
Oblivion's writing and world building is unironically very good.
I agree, but the ai on the other hand....oh boy .
@@ariberry1407 It was good for a 2006 game.
@@ariberry1407 For 2006 the AI blew my mind. It's nothing to write home about nowadays and the conversations between NPCs is laughable, but actually seeing each character have their own daily (or even weekly/monthly) routines was impressive. A few select characters would even move between towns. Not many open world games, Skyrim and Fallout 4 included, attempt that level of AI complexity. It's kind of a unique product of it's time
...no it’s not.
@Harris Farley Unlike most RPGs really. As janky as it can be at times, the AI in Oblivion and Skyrim results in a level of detail and immersion that is more or less unparalleled in the genre. I don't even really like Skyrim anymore, but I'll always give it that credit.
The only other games that do things like that with NPC AI are simulation oriented games where the AI is the primary focus. Bethesda didn't need to create radiant AI, Morrowind and Daggerfall were perfectly fine without it. Games like Dragon Age Origins and The Witcher 2 and 3 are fine without it. But they did it anyway, because they could. And when it works as intended it does add a lot to the believability of the game world. And when it doesn't work as intended, at least it's funny.
Dude. People are so obsessed with Skyrim and Morrowind, but I love Oblivion more
Is it just me, or was this level of quality reviewer unexpected from gamespot?
They’re improving can’t lie I liked the guy who did there recent Cyberpunk video
They have a long track record of good reviewers. They’ve always been better than IGN. I suppose over the years they’ve gotten worse but I haven’t stuck around to notice.
I absolutely adore Oblivion. If only Skyrim had some of that excellent guild quests
Skyrim's Thieves Guild Quest is flat out amazing. You should revisit it.
@@poopmonkey48 I was just thinking this yesterday. Skyrim's Thieves Guild questline definitely stands out as one of the better ones in the game.
@@poopmonkey48 Sure skyrim's Thieves Guild was amazing, but Oblivion's thieves guild quest is Legendary.
@@poopmonkey48 only problem with it is that you barely *steal* anything. Hell the last mission is you RETURNING something. I felt more like some hired thug than an actual thief in that questline. Oblivion’s thieving aspect for their theives guild is a lot better
Also buying property pimpping it out and getting a maid.
I remember the very first time I played this back when I was 11, I’m 26 now and to this day haven’t felt the same feeling towards a game as I did towards oblivion. I’ve never been the type of guy to finish a game and replay multiple times over. No word of a lie, I have finished oblivion 20-30 times.
Big factssss
I played through the oblivion campaign so many times. God damn it was good
You need to do other things. Not trying to be a D
@@justinvesty yeah I’ve not played for a very long time, I’m saying no game ever made me feel like oblivion did. Keep your opinions to yourself otherwise wether or not you want to be a “D” it makes you one :)
Top 5 game of all time in my opinion
Holy shit I never even realized Sean Bean was Martin until today.....his voice sounded familiar but I never thought it was Bean’s and it’s fucking awesome he’s in Oblivion
Of course it's Sean Bean! You see a lead/major character role where the character has to die and you think Sean Bean ISN'T gonna be all over that???
Does anyone else stand on a mountain and look over the world, watching the sunset, listening to the soundtrack and just thinking about life?
I'm playing it right now as I got this notification.
@MattSm00th I've heard others say the same.
🧢
me and my son started last week lol
Just got a new laptop and decided to download off of gamepass and give it another whirl. I've never been able to try modding, but I'm gonna learn how very soon
Oblivion will be excellent even after 100000 years
thats the amount of time I have to serve in prison to pay off my bounty
I adore this game. Back in 06 seeing those open world forests was mind-blowing, no other game came even close to those graphics until Crysis was released. Oblivion made me go out and take walks in the woods while listening to Jeremy Soule on my iPod Nano ffs.
Awesome
Shiet now i wanna make my city guarde angry as i break lockdown protocols just to goto the forest while listening to oblivion theme
@@thalassaer4137 don’t comply with tyranny
In real life? Why?
Nice piece, man. Oblivion had the best quests, but damn the towns had amazing flavor, too. Skyrim's was good, but Oblivion aced it.
The feeling and immersion that Oblivion gives me is unparalleled , dunno if it's the music, dunno if it's the environment, maybe it's the sense of being....a normal person.... maybe is the thing that you don't stumble on something to do every goddamn second like every meter of the world map has a damn unexplored something. probably it's the mix of everything, dunno,it's damn good.
Played the heck out of oblivion during my university years. Back then I did not have a powerful computer, so I had to play in 640x480. Loved it.
Try it now... You can run it cranked and like the video said, it's worth replaying.
@@retep8891 that's where you are wrong, kiddo. You better have a good CPU where you have high frequency on a core because it uses only 1 core. Doesn't matter haw much cores you have if the frequency is low.
@@vngames179 sure, it will be bad if you are playing on a potato, but anything released in the past 5 years will be fine.
@@vngames179 who says kiddo dude
I remember being 600+ hours into oblivion before I realized I could fast travel. Honestly it made the game so much more immersive.
Sounds like a literal waste of time
@@reborn6596 It really does, I learned fast travel the first time I played once I got out the sewers
@reborn6596 Fast traveling can ruin the experience, and you can miss a lot of dungeons and quests. Many times when people say "I never saw that in skyrim." They probably fast traveled everywhere.
Ты шутишь ?
I love the resurgence of this game, I've been playing one character for the past 2 years and people always hate on me for playing😂
Screw them! Keep having fun and playing that character. Bethesda games are made for that:)
People make fun of you for playing Oblivion? They sound like losers, bro😂
Same here
Must be the same people who think old game = bad game
I really liked the fact that you could interact with the Guards in all the towns in Oblivion. Ask where the Inn was, ask about nearest market. I relied on that in the early stages of the game. I don’t know why they removed this interaction from Skyrim. It made the guards seem more knowledgeable and righteous.
It probably cost a fair amount to get all that dialogue voice acted. I wouldn't be surprised if they skipped it for Skyrim for that reason.
Just finished an extensive replay of Oblivion with all DLC last month, and I loved every minute of it. One of my favorite games of all time.
Me too dude. I started on Oblivion and didn't play morrowind until later and of course skyrim too. Cyrodil is beautiful and everything feels so cozy and the combat is soooooo so good.
The music alone makes it worth replaying.
I liked how you could build relationships with everyone too. Making or ruining a character's day because you talked to them was a great feeling compared to Skyrim, where nobody seems to remember you.
nobody remembers you? in allot of places they give you a remark about youre deeds or status so dont lie,i cant go annywhere without people talking about me and adressing me.
@Ayto Zed Hahah I love how you got sand in your vag because of something irrelevant like this. Must be hard being you.
@@timdev615 He is only stating facts, Skyrim is empty compared to Oblivion and Morrowind.
@@timdev615 must be hard being dead inside and being unable to love something
@@Marcustheseer Right, that's why in Skyrim I could have just slain Alduin, Harkon and Miraak, and have a guard go "You're a companion, so what, you fetch the mead?" while I'm in full masterwork Dragonbone gear. Get the fuck out of here.
“STOP! You violated my mother”* - GamerPoop
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Once I start playing this game I don't even see the graphics quality. I'm fighting enemies, doing quests, leveling up, exploring caves. I've done it all so many times. I love it.
One of the greatest games I’ve ever played, what a game changer! it’s crazy it came out in 06, I was 17 then, I’m 32 now, Ive went back and beat this about 7 times. I see another play through coming soon.
Started another playthrough yesterday. This game is brilliant, but honestly the voice acting cracks me up every time
It's nothing compared to the German dubbed version 😂
GOTY 2006 for Oblivion
Spike Video Game Awards
Golden Joystick Awards
I’m about to do a Bethesda marathon, starting with Morrowind and ending with Fallout 4.
I hope you enjoy each one and by the end you pick 1 Elder Scroll and 1 Fallout game to mod to the fullest to go on and play agaib
funny last night i just started new vegas again.
@joceja23 Let me guess, you never played F4?
Nothing new, people like you always try to corrupt others with their sick minds.
@@Cynwale Its fucking horrible
No Fallout 76? :P
the best game ever! no more talking, this is the best game!
Oblivion, Fallout 3, New Vegas, and all 3 Bioshock games are games I play at least once a year, I’ll never get enough of them.
i will stand by and revisit this game annually until the day i die.
it has one of the best writing, world, quests and adventure sense in RPGs
if you think that is good, you will be blown away by Morrowind.
But sadly the main quest is short
@@schadenfreude6274 i played morrowind, i know it's better
@@schadenfreude6274 Yeeaahh I don't think so.. I played Morrowind as well and it has aged REALLY badly. One hour is what it all took for me to turn around and play something else.
Such a good game for its time.Then years later I’m still playing all over again lol
@Ayto Zed I've played it again recently on PSNow.
@Ayto Zed ygfyhh try
put about 40 hours into Oblivion earlier this year, first time revisiting it in like 12+ years... still excellent
Oblivion was by far the best of the Elderscrolls series. Skyrim is the newest and gaming in 2011 was more popular then in 2006 (gaming was still regarded as for nerds) yet the quests and story of ES IV was way better then skyrim. Just to enter the mages guild in ES IV was more quests/depth then the entire college of Winterhold questline. In Skyrim you were never given the feeling you achieved something where as in oblivion you would get a statue. People would adress you as the champion etc etc. I loved skyrim and played it so much (mods for life) but i like oblivion unmodded more then skyrim modded or unmodded.
The music and exploration made Oblivion very engaging for me.
Beautiful world to explore with a stunning soundtrack. Can literally just wonder about and get soaked in the music. best game ever made. Period!
I believe you
Ah yes, the game that kicked off what we know today as microtransactions with its horse armor.
It was in the UK like 2 or 3 pounds, I remember how ridiculous the price was, little did we know ..
“I dont know you, and I don’t care to know you”
In Oblivion, you feel like you are a character that starts from nothing. You are not born as a hero, you are not born as someone important. You are just a citizen of Cyrodil on a journey, an adventure who by fate or luck, was allowed to leave the dungeon under special one in a million circumstances.
The graphics were jaw dropping at the time for me. I still remember the awe and wonder I felt just imagining what the future would bring when I first saw this game.
White gold tower is so iconic
It's the game i made a brand new gaming PC for,back in 2007.I loved it so much and it was so hard to play it on my old PC that i decided to make a new one.The golden age of Deus Ex,Morrowind,KOTOR,Mass Effect,Oblivion and Dragon age...
You forgot Halo.
@@Cynwale is that an RPG?
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 Reread your comment.
@@Cynwale halo isn’t a rpg he was pointing out the golden age of rpgs😫
I actually preferred oblivion’s enemies design especially the ghosts sure cartoony but creepier than glowing people
The headless zombies gave me nightmares for days they were so well designed 😂
Skyrim's enemy design: Wolf, Bear, Bandit, Draugr, Dragon, repeat, repeat, re-fucking-peat.
Oblivion's enemy design: Daedra of differing types (Clannfear, Daedroth, Dremora, three types of Atronachs, Scamp, Spider Daedra, Xivilai), Undead of differing types (Zombie, Ghost, Skeleton, Wraith, Lich, actual undead rather than the bullshit Skyrim gave us), Goblins, Imps, Land Dreughs, Minotaurs, Ogres, Will-o-the-Wisp...
There's just no contest. Oblivion's enemy design and variety beats Skyrim any day of the weak. Oblivion had an enemy variety and design like an actual RPG whereas Skyrim just kept throwing the same wildlife, bandits, and draugr at you while just plopping on more damage and HP to them.
Chamaleon 100% set and "It must've been the wind" phrases were so good lol
I personally find that having to be some mythical "chosen one" in almost every RPG eventually becomes rather stale and predictable. I try to avoid becoming the Dragonborn for as long as possible whenever I play Skyrim, often times switching the game off by the time it becomes inevitable. I also love the world of Oblivion much more than Skyrim, which sometimes feels like little more than a frozen wasteland inhabited by annoying racists who I would just as soon let the dragons devour. Cyrodill actually feels like a more inviting fantasy realm with a lot more character and depth, that is actually worth visiting / living in. I just wish Oblivion on PC was controller supported, as I hate playing keyboard and mouse. Eh, here's hoping Skyblivion comes out in 2021!
I always return to this gem of a game knowing there's always a creative quest or hilarious moment around a corner. The guilds alone are some of the best quest lines in the series. And to top it all Shivering Isles is one of the best dlcs ever made. Its a rocky and fabulous masterpiece of a rpg.
Todd ''Yes I was in the chess club'' Howard
Oblivion is easily my favorite game ever. It puts modern RPG's to shame.
Mine too. So many years have passed and I still treasure the memories of playing it for the first time. The atmosphere is one of its own kind.
Oblivion is broken game and bad RPG.
@@полотенце-ж5с You're a bad person.
@@полотенце-ж5с Is that why its in every top 10 in rpgs ever what the hell that name is
@@JD-se4cy Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Gothic 1, Gothic 2, Planscape Tornament, Vampire the MB, Fallout New Vegas, TES Morrowind, Divinity OS, Divinity OS 2 - here 10 rpgs that are much better then Oblivion, and there are even more. Who cares about your shitty "top 10 rpgs of all time" made by people who seriously think Skyrim to be the best rpg ever
This game is like a good old wine
Oh sure beside Morrowind it lacked the depth, but it made up for it in beauty. I live in an area that looks very much like Cyrodill (minus the goblins if you don't count the drunks) and I used to walk for miles with my friends. There are some games that don't hold up. Diablo 2. Sorry, it just doesn't, but Oblivion? I want to curl up and just live that world.
When you walk the road between Bravil to the Imperial City. You still can almost chafe from ticks in Bravil, but suddenly you meet the verdant Heartlands and you feel it gets warmer. The White Gold Tower nestled in the centre of a huge lake. The centre of this Empire you are exploring.
If you've only played Skyrim, I recommend playing Oblivion. whilst I adore the plains and hot springs of the land of the Nords, something always pulls me to Cyrodiil. Its rolling hills and the Colovian estates especially. I finished the main story long ago, but i still jump in to my character who lives outside Chorrol in the big castle and walk a game trail to Skingrad. Camp near the Aedra shrine then hike home with my pelts and venison. Check on my wine.
Only one other game took away my breath as Oblivion did. That was the Witcher 3, Skellige and Toussant. The latter literally made me put down the controller. The entire DLC is designed like a vacation. Having devoured the books at the time, Toussant was the page brought to life. A mix of southern France and Italy. It's romantic and deadly.
Crazy Bethesda hasn't given the switch a port of oblivion yet.
Should have included the clip at the start after the emperor dies, And the fella Says bye, Runs onto a trap and instantly gets squashed.
1 of best games ever
I was born in 1996. and Oblivion made my late childhood so so so much beautiful
In the beginning of this video you said the npcs always introcuded themselves and that was a problem. Sure that maybe, but in the examples you used it makes sense. Of course a merchant would introduce themselves and someone you just freed would also introduce themselves to be friendly
What I want for Elder Scrolls 6: The complexity of the world design and lore from Morrowind, the Quest design from Oblivion and the Combat and general technical improvements from Skyrim.
'The character creator is all sorts of deranged'. Absolutely correct and that's why I love it
Game is good.. level scaling not good.
Good thing there are mods that solve this issue
@@Skumtomten1 Or I could just play better games that don't need modding
@@jayray1714 those better games are still worse than Oblivion in every other aspect.
@@jayray1714 dumb comment
this is the best game that has come out in the millenium so far, no other game came close to Oblivion when it was released, now new release games are always a buggy and glitchy mess when they come out, Oblivion was groundbreaking when it came out in 2006 for PC, I couldn't wait to buy that game back then, had to buy a new computer with a good enough video card at the time to play this game as well, back then purchasing computer parts to build a PC was alot more expensive too, it was worth it to play Oblivion
Saving your game just as you're starting the 'Whodunit?' Quest so you can repeat the process in different ways over and over again... Oblivion gave me years and years of fun in a way not many other games have 😂
Let's not forget that this is by FAR the most meme-able of all the ES games. That's all most kids know about it nowadays, but behind the memes there actually is a good game. (I was 26 when this came out... god I'm old.)
Its meme-ability just made it that much more charming to me. When it's working as intended it's great, when it isn't it's fucking hilarious.
"Hey you! Over here!" Who else killed the annoying fan?
he may have fallen off a cliff i dunno...
I wish the Arena "Guild" would come back
I did the sheogorath quest after I finished the shivering isles. When I prayed to the statue Haskell replied saying “praying to yourself sire…?”
Oblivion is the best because Patrick Stewart said i was in his dream
5/5