Can you beat Oblivion without gaining any experience?
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- I feel like I was a bit mean to Baurus in this video. Not as mean as he was to the Emperor, though...
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Music used (in order of appearance):
TESIV: Oblivion - Reign of the Septims
TESIII: Morrowind - Caprice
TESIV: Oblivion - Minstrel's Lament
TESIV: Oblivion - Dusk at the Market
TESIV: Oblivion - March of the Marauders
TESIV: Oblivion - Harvest Dawn
TESIII: Morrowind - The Road Most Travelled
TESIV: Oblivion - Auriel's Ascension
TESV: Skyrim - Far Horizons
TESIII: Morrowind - Peaceful Waters
Old School Runescape - Beneath the Kingdom
TESIV: Oblivion - Sunrise of Flutes
TESV: Skyrim - Ancient Stones
TESV: Skyrim - Secunda
Old School Runescape - The Guardians Prepare
Old School Runescape - A Forgotten Religion
Old School Runescape - The Seed of the Cryws
TESIV: Oblivion - Fall of the Hammer
Old School Runescape - Mor Ul Rek
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - Farron Woods
TESIII: Morrowind - Nerevar Rising
#elderscrolls
#oblivion
#challenge
You cheated, bud. By playing this game, you gained experience. The experience of gaming, that is. As such, I cannot accept this run in good faith.
Oh no, he didn't specify "in game"!
He will now have to persist in the doomed world he has created
You can’t gain experience from the same game twice tho
@@theccarbiter Sure you can, as long as you don't play it the same way. I guarantee JBN had never played Oblivion without gaining XP before, so he had to learn new strategies and tactics; in other words, he experienced a completely different game from any other playthrough. The plot and story beats were the same, but the challenges were unique to this run.
@@Catman_CM it’s a joke bro chill
I remember playing Oblivion for the first time. Completely glossing over the "sleep to level" up thing. Went through the entire game wondering why my character level never went up. Slept, gained a dozen or more levels, and had quite the whiplash as the random scamps turned into Minotaurs.
Learn to read
yep, the oblivion experience haha
Same here and even after I figured that out I didn't know how the major skills worked so I only leveled up to level 7 😂😂
I had a similar experience; except my stupid 14 year brain figured *it was a bug and I was stuck.* I made a new char, picked different abilities because "lul I'm a ninja!" and proceeded to do the *very same thing* I did before. No, you cannot beat Minotaurs as "a ninja" and not understanding how char stats worked I was confused on easy. Same general thing happened in Morrowind except I got lucky and *figured out spells* which make you beyond overpowered. Oblivion requires more finesse; more work but a similar payoff.
I wanted to become the greatest mage in Cyrodiil, so I trained every magic school to 100. All of which were my major skills.
Suffice it to say, I was ground into dust by the first enemy who was scaled to my bajillionth level.
"I’m going to get up in a minute and walk out of here. That guy in the corner behind me will follow me. You follow him. I will follow you. Remember, I’ve trained for this kind of follow thing my whole life!"
"I will follow him. Follow him wherever heeee may goooo..."
I'm going to get up and walk out of your cell. That emperer over there will follow me. You follow him.
*Proceeds to immediately spring from the chair ragdolling all over the room.
"remember.... dont screw the fucking broads!"
so dont fu 'n screw the broads
"Martin, we have to save the Empire!"
"What are your skills?"
"Literally? Nothing. At all."
"...you mean-"
"Not a fucking thing, man."
That's still enough to become a politician
@@glitterforcemaximus7232It's like having 10 Charisma in New Vegas
“I think at some point in time I was born”
@@theghost8914 "...but to be honest, I just kinda woke up in prison the other day with amnesia, so I can't even prove that one"
I wanted martin to use the book to turn into a deadra himself tbh
Reading the title, i thought you were going to mod out the ability to gain exp. This was infinitely more convoluted and entertaining
I knew this would be it because I watched enough challenge runs.
The idea of Steven Seagall making a deal with Clavicus Vile certainly explains his acting career.
No, Steven Seagall is a deadric lord himself, Clavicus Vile just managed to get Seagalls deadric artifact (probally while he was sitting in a chair).
What was the bargain then?
"You get an acting career"
But the art of bullshido doesn't train you in reading small print, and down there it says "quality of the works acted in are up to Clavicus Vile's decision"
And the good old daedric prince decided that it would be a great joke to produce the same direct to video movie a hundred times.
UA-cam made "Clavicus Vile" blue and put a magnifying glass next to it and when I touched it, it searched "Clavicus Vile"
Is this something you did somehow or some weird glitch or a new feature?
@@josephbrandenburg4373 seems to be a new feature as I've seen it happen a lot lately
Vampirism in Oblivion is never the right choice, JBN. Never.
Except when it is.
A masochist's favorite way to play Oblivion
@arifhossain9751 it's not masochism if my strength goes up by 40, it's masochism if I can't cary 10 short swords
@@arifhossain9751 I actually love it, after maxing out skills like acrobatics, and attribues, you can push them beyond 100, which can be worth it.
Vampirism is basically survival mode.
30:38 One day my dad decided I wasn't getting enough exercise, so he tricked me into going to the park with him to visit the RC airfield in hopes of seeing a crash. Eventually I noticed he left without me this time (usually only took a few minutes of not seeing a crash for him to get bored and want to leave), so I started walking back home. On my way I watched a fluffy, wooly caterpillar cross the road. Almost got run over a few times, and once I thought for sure the poor guy biffed it because it stopped moving for an entire minute after a SUV passed. But nope; took almost half an hour, but our hero managed to crawl all 20 feet to the other side. I decided to celebrate its victory with a 2lb hot pocket and 80oz mountain dew. God bless pre-"Supersize Me" America.
That caterpillar is long dead, I am the only person who ever took notice of its struggles in life, and I don't even know for sure if it grew into a butterfly or was promptly eaten by a squirrel who was run over ten minutes later in a tragic waste of two lives. But it was a beautiful moment to bear witness to, one that I will treasure and fondly remember from time to time. I'm sure someone who thinks gooder than me can find some profound lesson in the caterpillar's quest to cross the road beyond the obvious platitudes about determination. Or someone with a melancholic outlook will find some lesson in futility, who knows. All I know is a bug crossed a road and for a moment; someone cared.
Sorry your dad left you alone in a park! That's not cool.
Bro just casually dropped the most beautiful and poetic UA-cam comment ive ever seen like it's nothing 😭🙏♥
I really liked when he visited Desktop for the 35th time. Thank you Todd, very cool.
Desktop is my favorite Bethesda dungeon.
Especially with no cursor
I wonder if playing the game on old hardware helps with stability of the game. I've heard, that it does..
a pretty useful skill i have to say if you're gaming on something else than oblivion
only a gamer could appreciate that clanfears are the phlog pyros of oblivion
Haha, infinite stun loop go brr
Dang it, I'm not a real gamer..
I think Victorian philosophers would be very confused by this comment
Gonna be honest, I'm very tired and about to go to bed but when I saw this video, I thought the viewer count said "2B views" as in 2 billion and I just thought "Wow!!! Glad to see you're finally getting close to the recognition you deserve!"
I figured out a few seconds later that it was "28 views" but we can dream I suppose
In the 20 minutes since then it's up to 1572 views, so not too bad!
"1 second and 2 billion views, fell off"
I like some 2B views... Imma edit that out.
@@HereticalKitsune in 3 hours it's up to 8286
sooooon
The way I see it, as in real life, books can give you knowledge of how to do something, but to gain experience you really gotta DO the thing.
So realistically, no XP was gained. Run valid.
no
@@loud_shitting no
Realistically, this run is impossible
@@cheese3764he could have just not read the books. Like he said, he did not need to read them, but he didn't realize that until he eas editing.
@@oblivion1924 I don't say it invalidates run, yes, he fucked up, but that's it
"The next stop is.... the desktop."
Goddamn that was good :D
that caught me so offguard 🤣
The desktop is a town full of skooma addicts, i can't believe he went there
Fun fact: holding your weapon out lowers everyone's disposition when you talk to them.
Having your "weapon" out might make a guard nervous. Haha.
@@oz_jones Guard might get nervous... Man approaches with his weapon drawn.
Fun fact: The whole "priests not being allowed to shed blood" thing had major implications for how the medical profession developed in the middle ages.
Basically, what happened was that you got two different types of medical professionals. Doctors and Surgeons.
Doctors studied medicine at the universities, but because early universities were religious institutions, studying medicine meant becoming a cleric and therefore taking a vow to not spill blood.
Thus, a doctor could only treat his patients by administering medication and giving recommendations on how a patient should live, what they should eat, etc.
Surgeons on the other hand weren't part of academia at all and just learned their skills through an apprenticeship. They technically started out as barbers, presumably because that job already involved treating people with a sharp blade, though you would sometimes also have other people such as executioners and nurses offering surgical services.
Surgeons would operate on patients but weren't allowed to prescribe medication.
So you've got this interesting situation where depending on what ailed you, you'd seek the services of two completely separate fields.
If you caught a disease, you'd call for a doctor, but if you suffered an injury, you'd ask for a surgeon.
A doctor might also end up prescribing a bloodletting session (based on their study of Galens teachings of the four humors) which you might then have to visit a surgeon for, because the doctor wasn't allowed to touch the red icky stuff.
I wonder if that's part of why Surgeons are so separated from General Practitioners today? Obviously they still go to medical school now, but they're very specialized. Although, I suppose if somebody's literally going to cut me open and rummage around inside me, I'd prefer they've done it a few times before...
cool! thank you for the info!
I didnt see that on wiki. It discussed the elitism of doctors vs surgeon-barbers, as the former considered themselves above such acts. Surgeons were largely because yeah, already slick with a blade so what's some extra cutting?
But also: doctors were just as likely to kill/torture you for research purposes! Especially in the industrial revolution. They paid graverobbers, picked up strays on the streets, and kept other patients for no real reason but their own cruel egos. So why risk that when surgeon-barbers are mostly gonna know how not to kill you and be less likely to have any reason to cause unnecessary suffering.
Otherwise solid info! Cool to see this acknowledged more!
ah yes, curing headache by removing the head, thanks executioner
@@AedanTheGrey Wikipedia isn't always complete and I was specifically referrring to the medieval situation.
By the time the industrial revolution came knocking, universities had long become secularized and doctors had no more qualms about operating on patients.
You can get another free horse by talking to Prior Mabel at Weynon Priory after giving Jaufree the amulet
it's soooo slow tho. but faster than walking speed. i had a character that could regular run faster than that horse though it drove me mad
He let's you borrow it but it walks back when you get off it
@soupstoreclothing it's definitely a horse for a level 1 character. Bethesda absolutely expects you to go straight to Weynon Priory right after the tutorial.
@@soupstoreclothingyou can cast a speed spell on horses
That NPC's "Hello there!" After you had to struggle against the sun to get to his house. That got me good 😂
One of my favorite obscure spell tricks in Oblivion was water walking for X amount of time on Target. Then I'd cast it on my horse and ride across water. It was rarely useful but it looked really cool, so I enjoyed it. Bonus fact: Ruma Camoran is oddly named, as ruma means "ugly" in finnish. Go figure.
Oh this is just what I needed rn. Thank you for constantly uploading such comforting content
That sewer level was used as a demo to show off things such as physics and lighting for the game. Which is why there are strangely placed traps in it
"thank you Martin for opening this DOOR" I love how this still pisses you off
There aren't many hills I'll die on. But this is one of them.
I mean tbf the word portal can mean door as by definition it's a doorway, gate, or other entrance, especially a large and imposing one
There's exactly one use for the spell tomes dlc. It has certain exclusive effects, like fortify skill
Fortify skill is not exclusive, you can get it from standing stone and make your own. Summon bear is. Some effects also have stronger effects than normal, like drain hp 250 pts. Normally max is 100.
@@insertusername9755 ah. My bad. Didn't know you could get fortify skill vanilla, but still, you can get exclusive/hard to get effects.
@@insertusername9755 I didn't know getting it from a Standing Stone Greater Power gave you spell craft access, funky
Iirc it was to introduce Skyrim's system ahead of its release, or at least that's what I heard
Someday I'll finally get the Summon Bear tome. Has to be the coolest effect added by Spell Tomes DLC. I've never come across it though.
God this must have been torture to play. I found out recently through another Oblivion video that you can skip Sancre Tor by having enough healing magic/potions and a staff or spell to blast the armor you need off the pedestal and close enough to you to pick up.
Fun fact - the Conjurer is a bit of a meme in the Oblivion community, especially with hardcore mods that turn him into a raid boss, so from the moment you start the game, you'll be racing against the clock to gain enough power and cheese to take him down when he inevitably finds you, or manage to give him the slip 😂
New challenge run idea?
HE NEVER LEARNED A DAY IN HIS LIFEEE
Except that time he read four books all at once for no reason at all...
Man... I replayed Oblivion literally just last year, around this time, and watching this video is already making me want to do it all over again. All it took was the music kicking in at 5:45 and immediately my braincells started firing lmao
EDIT: Aaaand immediately you have your first crash a few minutes after that. God, that's a mood and a half - I think a lot of people might underestimate just how disruptive the crashing really is.
Anyway, super-interesting run! The idea of trying to literally never gain EXP is a really neat choice for a game like TES, and because of how wonky Oblivion's level-scaling is, I think the challenge works a lot better this way (compared to, like, getting a no-EXP mod or something like that).
"How many videogame horses don't operate like cars anyway?"
One. One horse. Agro will not listen to Wander's steering attempts, you must go where the horse desires.
That does have the pleasant side-effect of making her a lot easier to shoot from, especially during combat. Good horsie.
I always love finding a channel that I can confidently hit the like button on before I've even watched the video.
horse riding is a weird combination of consoling a large dog and athleticism in my experience
What dog
@@fareastslav The horse, metaphorically a dog
Dang, one of the more challenging runs just by how much of the core design of the game has to be worked around in order to beat the challenge, well done!
Oh! Theres a trick to oblivion lockpicking. There are several different animations the game will cycle through. The one that lets you (somewhat) consistently get through is always the one right after the fastest animation.
I've always done it through audio cues, the slow (succeed) and fast (fail) animations make different sounds
After playing for awhile i would always break more lockpicks on easy locks than expert because i got so used to the timing for the "harder" locks
I have hundreds of hours in Oblivion and I never knew about the Order of the Virtuous Blood quest. Neat.
Also, if you ever do another Oblivion run, you may want to consider the Lord Star if you don't know what you want. The heal power it gives is kinda crazy.
man i appreciate the captions sm
My god, Oblivion is beautiful.
Amazing.
It just works
Fun fact, Clavicus vile is voiced by Todd Howard
no, he aint
@@katzenkampf I also thought this was complete BS, but it's actually 100% true. Todd voiced Clavicus Vile in Oblivion.
So, we have access to audio file of Clavicus Vile saying "it just works"?
@@cheese3764 In a just and kind world, we would
Todd Howard IS Clavicus Vile
man, i just gotta say, this channel was an absolute GEM to find, the mixture of childhood nostalgia games with the modern challenge video format is just PERFECT!
34:28 Wow, that scamp has some moves. Crazy what the development team of this game focused on, no matter how sick.
23:43 " _Egg salad_ "
Was looking for this comment
"oh that's a neat idea. Oh wait. That's going to be a pain. A whole lotta pain"
I love your personality, humor, and creativity! Like many others in my life, you have inspired me to think ahead of the curve and in ways to utilize the fullest potential of Morrowind/Oblivion.
glazing
The only way to ensure this is a zero experience run is to remove your frontal lobe via lobotomy
That Vin Diesel/Vindasel joke got me to subscribe. It hit me the exact right way that I couldn't breath I was laughing so hard.
While working I need Just Background Noise to listen to. I was searching a bit and saw this video in the recommends. Your puns are delectable, your way of speech and voice is pleasant to listen to. It was a pleasure listening to this video, and I'm going to go on to watch/listen more! Thank you for your work!
11:52 I love the Morrowind Reference there. Lol, Your Rest has been Interrupted *Dagger Rasps from Sheath* "You N'Wah!"
Nice to see this video gain 3k views since I opened it, this channel's challenge runs puts it at the top of my favourite content creators right now. This level of perseverance is insane to me, and as someone who grew up playing all these games it's wild seeing the self-imposed restrictions people endure for entertainment
This is honestly one of your best videos, homie. Great work all around.
35:55 Oh hey Todd, didn't expect to hear you here.
The "I'm about to zero-sum" bit absolutely sent me lmao
Four random levels be damned, this was remarkably impressive.
It's great that he mentioned it at the beginning instead of leading you on into thinking he really did it though, unlike some other challenge videos.
@@danksmemington362 Lemme rephrase, four levels be damned, he really did it.
@@annabellerice839 I mean usually they would just make you watch until the part where the mistake happened without admitting that there was a mistake at the beginning
And no he didn't really do it, no matter how much your reddit-positivity ass copes and says he does. 4 levels is 4 levels.
the pet vampire line got a genuine lol outta me, great video
Thank you, Martin, for opening this *DOOR* ^_^
I absolutely love your sense of humour. This video in particular had me laughing the whole time.
Reading a skill book isn't gaining experience, it's gaining a level.
12:26 The little "Oh, hello" really killed me, idk why xD
Mr. Bean speedrun: bumps into the main quest, accidentally kills enemies, keeps gesticulating wherever he goes
27:40 made me laugh. that zoom in on the "oblivion has stopped working" got me good.
Honestly? A spell to fold people in half would be quite neat.
Im so excited to see another Oblivion video, I hope you do more oblivion! There's such a charm about the game
I was expecting a kenshi video, but was not disappointed when I saw the oblivion title
Mehrunes' packing some serious heat. It's at least 12 feet long.
Btw, it maybe because of the patch or something, but when I played Oblivion as a kid, Martin only cared about whether the gates are closed or not. Even though his dialogue sounds like he wants us to expell daedra from the city, he would always go with meto Jauffrey as soon as the gates were closed. The keep quest is a side, when I played the first time as a kid, I even missed it.
been watching elder scrolls challenges lately and the one thing they all got in common is the crashing, be it oblivion or skyrim, moddem or modless.
"You didn't grow, you didn't improve..."
i swear to god, ur vids help me sleep, i really use ur videos as background noise at night, then rewatch it by day
Poor Baurus catching pot shots all run lol
25:20 the game also forgets that you are in a fight if you quick save-quick load it. This trick is very helpfull when you try to fast travel buthe there is some angry mudcrabs in a kilometer radius of you.
Spell Tomes also added some new cool spells so it isnt completly useless
One even lets you conjour a bear
Why do I feel like the Oblivion gates are the perfect moment for a classic Dark Souls edge drop.
I hope you never run out of wild ideas to bring to video form. Fantastic entertaiment ❤
"our next stop is... the desktop" slayed me, well done
I love that paralysing animation, gotta play the game again just because of it
"We return to the Priory with Martin" How hard could it be--oh. Oh I can't say it either.
Like usual, i had you on my second monitor just vibing before i heard the words "Phlog Pyro" and i had a full blown monkey neuron activation moment as I, myself, am a Phlog User. Thank you for making me go monkey mode for a moment.
This is exactly the kind of Oblivion content I never knew I needed in my life.. tyvm sir for making this. It calms and fulfils my inner autism and gives me peace and enjoyment.
I really like the addition of the FFX tracks in the background while showing footage, id recommend upping it just a lil bit or upping it when just showing footage with no audio then lowering during dialogue
Another absolute BANGER video. Great work man. I certainly don't have the patience or skill for a run like this and it's so sick to see.
Man, I always love when you upload. Thanks for the entertainment.
Looking forward to the adventure of this sad, Habsburg-esque Nord.
Edit: Ea-nasir!
Holy crap bro, 45k views in 1 day for a channel with 62k subs, this channel is blowing up. Great content brother keep it up
Random Korend Underground music in the middle of the video. Love it.
i loved the contempt in your voice when calling the portal a door
Regarding the mouse cursor disappearing while in the lockpicking minigame, usually just pressing Esc to access the options list and then pressing it again to return to the game makes the cursor reappear.
Also, great video! Makes me wanna play Oblivion again as well.
This was my first Elder Scrolls game. I remember buying it. It wasn't even a planned purchase, I bought it randomly while browsing a Gamestop, and it was on sale. Never heard of this series before that either. I fell in love with it, even though it took me a long time to actually get far in the game, cause I was terrible at it. I went through multiple builds, and the first build I completed Oblivion with was a Khajit warrior. I played this game to death. This was well before Skyrim. I love Skyrim to this day, but my experiences with these 2 games are nothing compared to Morrowind. I played Morrowind last, and it's my favorite Elder Scrolls. Everything changed once I played Morrowind. I don't look at Oblivion the same any more, I don't like it nearly as much as I used to, and with Skyrim, while I still play it, so many features from Morrowind are just stripped away. Anyway, Oblivion will always have a special place in my heart, but it's definitely my least favorite Elder Scrolls. I can't say much about Daggerfall or Arena, since I've only seen videos on them, but Daggerfall looks interesting, I gotta try it some time.
There's a quest in one of the mages guilds, I think it's Cheydinhal or Skingrad, where you have to go get a lost wood elf guy in a cave. He's decent and he can use magic, and he's essential like Martin. Before I installed the CMPartners mod and got real companions, I'd get him and then never finish the quest so I always had a companion. You could have used Martin to start the quest, get him, and then finish the main quest with him by your side.
"There are no Aedric artifacts on Nirn."
Crusaders' Relics and Brush of Truepaint - "Are we a joke to you?"
Your music choices this episode have been on point
"This is how I will feel at the end" lol best funny looking character I've seen
With that guy in the cage at the top of the tower, there should be a lever around on the floor that opens the bottom. Usually there's no floor directly beneath, so whoever's in there falls all the way to the bottom.
This is a pretty good idea like one Mitren squad would do, also who or what inspired you to suddenly do elderscrolls challenge video besides the popularity
Buying items doesn’t grant mercantile experience? I haven’t played Oblivion in ages, but I thought it did? Seriously painful challenge run, but a great watch. We appreciate your sacrifice!
I’ve been around since the runescape vids on rs3 but man I’m happy to see you finally really pop off you’re so underrated.
Perfect timing, I just got done cooking.
So awesome that you're doing oblivion runs! I really enjoyed all the morrowind ones so I can already tell this is gonna be great content. I think you did the challenge faithfully even though you got some extra levels on accident, you figured out that there is no need to read the books after all and stayed within the constraints so it's a GG there. Also kudos struggling through the game crashing, I've played a good bit on newer hardware and it is truly a massive pain how much it crashes. Lastly I think having your weapon drawn when you speak to people gives temporary lower disposition until you sheathe it and speak again, maybe this helps in future runs :)
That wet paint joke at 12:14 should not have gotten me as good as it did
I thought you were going to use a mod to stop the xp when I read the title, but was happy to see you actually went with just making it hard by not using actions that give xp. Fun idea on this video in particular
Get super jazzed every time I see one of your videos pop up, haven't finished video yet, but love it!
That run looked painful, thank you for your sacrifice so that we may be entertained.
I spent countless hours in Prif getting 200 million smithing xp.
Hearing that music in your video was like coming home.
"I guess we could wear armor and just not get hit..."
Well, the armor wouldn't be doing much good then would it? Yes, you could enchant it; but, you can also enchant normal clothes.
"What school do you study?" and then "Chiropractic" killed me
And the trap mechanics are never seen again in the game