Should i try to play oblivion ?

HangTime said:
A word of warning, don't go overboard on the mods when you first start.

I tried it around a year ago, and decided that in order to maximise my experience I should make sure I get all the best mods installed. So I downloaded over a gig of mods, around 20 in total. I then found that I wasn't really sure where to start, in fact I probably spent more time hunting down mods than I did actually playing the game.

I think the problem was I got roped in by all those comments saying how mod x/y/z was 'ESSENTIAL' or makes the game 'INFINITELY BETTER'. Maybe the best approach would have been to just start up the game in vanilla mode, play for a while getting used to how the game works (bound to make mistakes and want to re-roll anyway I'd imagine), and then hunt down mods to specifically fix any gripes I found before restarting.
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Beat me to it. In general you should play the game and decide what you don't like. Then install a mod which fixes it. Avoid the big gameplay-altering mods like MMM or OOO until you are an experienced player. There are really only two mods which could be described as vital:

a) The BT mod, which increases the amount of inventory which is visible when you open it.

b) Immersive Interface, which shrinks the massive HUD.

Everything else is personal taste, no matter what anyone else might say. "Vital" means "I like it anyway". If you feel even slightly brave, make your own mods: pretty much everything in the game can be changed. I've altered the amount of magicka per intelligence, the load-carrying capacity, the speed of arrows and spells, added houses and dungeons etc. And that's without a single line of code.



As to the reasons why people don't like Ob?

First of all there are us experienced MW players, who miss the complexity. Oblivion is a very good game, but MW is a great game.

Many people misunderstand what Ob is. It's NOT a hack'n'slash like DMoMM: there are no combo-moves etc. Fighting is pretty basic, but is designed so that it is your character's skills which win, not your l33t keyboard prowess. As an old man with poor reflexes, I like this, but many youngsters don't.

It's not a true RPG: if you want a character that takes two hours to design then play something else. Characterisation is more for personal RP than for hardcore RPGers.

The game is an adventure game with some RPG elements, and involves a lot of travel. Its greatest plus is the completely and utterly open-ended gameplay. Don't like the Main Quest? Then don't play it - very little will be different.


Play it. Even if you don't like it in the end, you should do it.

Edit: nearly forgot - here are some screenies.

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its one of my all time favourite games, the game world imo is great, people have said the people are lifeless, yes they arnt completely realistic, but a lot of them have routines, and although they are basic. The music really draws you in aswell, its possibly some of the best game music you will ever hear, makes strolling through the forests much more enjoyable.

Theres only one thing though that i disliked in the game, and that was the oblivion gates! they were tedius and boring, so i couldnt be bothered to do the main quest properly because you had to close too many so i just uses quest codes to beat the main quest, but i have put lots of time into the guilds and also lots of exploring and side quests.

So basicly you may aswell try it, because although there are some people that really didnt like it, theres so many people that do, and you really need to decide for yourself.
 
get darker dungeons mode makes dungeons darker! lol but it makes the use of torches essential and more realistic? Francesco's mod is great too as i founn OOO a little to slow on leveling but like the idea of it hence I use francescos mode.

Natural enviorments./ darker mods essential in my eyes.
 
Not sure if this has been mention but if you don't close the Kvath gate on the main quest you never see a Oblivion gate open during the game.

The game is a lot better if you leave the main quest alone and just explore.
 
Started playing this a couple of days ago. Just found an awesome helmet under the water somewhere that gives me Nighteye, Underwater Breathing and something else whenever im wearing it! :D

I've gone for the light armour/assassin - thief route. Its fine so far, as long as I dont get charged by more than 2 people, in which case i get my ass handed to me. I pretty much rely on the sneak attack bonus moves. :/
 
i like the game, depends on your style of play.

i level up quickly to level 20 and then do the main quest, once the oblivion gates open i go on raiding sprees for the best sigil stones which you can use to boost your character something silly.

i have a mage with many many magika enchantments who just launches streams of electric death.

pick a few mods and give it a go.
 
Spunj99 said:
Its fine so far, as long as I dont get charged by more than 2 people, in which case i get my ass handed to me. I pretty much rely on the sneak attack bonus moves. :/
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don't worry you will never get attacked by much more then 2 anyway and that very rare, which reminds me of another point about ob i don't like; when changing the difficulty to hard the game just makes the enemy much stronger, where as i owuld have prefered to instead have more enemies but with the same strength. this would mean that rats stay always the same strength, goblins etc, but if you decide it's too easy then rather then making them uber strength make it so ther is so many to kill its imposible tobeat. muchmore realistic imo

once again though fantastic game with far too many things which could have made it better. oh well gives me the chance still to make my own and not have it already done...
 
Curse you Meridian!! I was actually gonna uninstall this today to clear some hdd space but looking at your screenies has got me thinking about giving it another whirl ;)
 
tomanders91 said:
yeah give it a go, for some reason people dont like it compared to morrowind, but i think its just as good. Really is a fantastic game, one of te best ive played. Still looks supberb aswell.
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If you had played morrowind extensively you would understand why the gaming style annoyed people, in morrowind you had to do so much exploring to get stuff which was intresting, in oblivion its just, oh your x level now, here you go... not only was enemies wearing fully deadric/glass armor tottaly against elder scrolls lore but it just tottaly devalued exploring....

I bought the collectors edition of oblivion expecting it to the best game i would play scince morrowind, instead i was confronted with a game dumbed down to suit the console crowd...

even the expansions did not bring much to the table i dont think, except an exponential difficulty curve, no skill like in morrowind, just your x level so your either win or you lose, it was pretty annoying having just gone through the whole swg fiasco which followed a similar pattern...
 
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Im currently about 25hours into it, and i really enjoy it

as far as the boring bit at the beginning goes, just download the "skip tutorial" file and you end up at the end of the tutorial :p
 
I thought it was really good with some mods, coming from wow it was far more fun and interesting. Even though it is just single player.
 
IT's the only game where I have played one character for over 275 hours. INstalled many mod and add-ons to keep me interested. Not touched it in a long time as I've completed every single quest the game had to offer.

Has its flaws, but still a classic in my mind.
 
Meridian said:
Actually the trigger event is the little escort job you do a little later.
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Always throught it was the gate :confused:.

Been a while since i did the main quest now, i always leave it alone, a lot more fun without the gates poping up all over the place evey five minutes.

As said before, try it first time without any mods then add what you think is missing.

Frans is a good one for main game changing, got along with that one a lot better than MMM, not tried OOO yet.
 
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