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TES Oblivion thoughts by LunaMoon

Been playing Oblivion a lot again and I completed the main quest, thieves guild, mages guild, fighters guild and some other side quests (which I think 2 are broken), I'm doing the Dark Brotherhood quest line now, I wanted to make this one the last because I'll probably end up ending some characters of the other guilds. And I'm almost completing the Daedra worship quests, there's only 2 left.

I don't remember if I said anything about my character in the last Elder Scrolls journal, but I'm playing with a Breton woman, very broken in combat because I'm using heavy armor and 108% of spell absorption with the atronach birthsign, basically I'm imune to magic and also dangerous in close combat using the Umbra sword at level 100 blade. This is my first run so I just picked everything good I found and used it 'til I found something better, didn't really cared about the build I was doing with this race if I could eliminate any enemy easily in the end... I also could beat up Mehrunes like that since I had the Umbra and he used magic against me but it would take too long...

I pretend to do many quests I can... Aaand yes, as someone who was a fan of Skyrim, I can totally see why people who played Oblivion first says that Skyrim is bad. Personally, I'll say that, I found Oblivion funnier to play than Skyrim... After playing Oblivion I realized that in Skyrim, looks like the races lost their essences and personality, Oblivion has much more of it, and of course the RPG elements. The magic in Oblivion is much more usable than in Skyrim, and also the environment feels more ''explorable''... And Oblivion is harder than Skyrim, not only in enemies but also leveling up your character. I know Skyrim is more of a Action game, that's why I really hope TES 6 brings back the ''RPG game with action elements'' and not the inverse of it.

Well, basically, Oblivion is my favorite TES game now and in my opinion was the perfect balance between RPG and action elements. I don't know if I pretend to play Morrowind though (Arena and Daggerfall are already discarded, sorry xD), i'm still thinking on that, if I play it, my run will be more focusing on knowing the story than enjoying the gameplay which looks bad... Well that's it I guess!! Good night/day. C:

TES Oblivion thoughts

LunaMoon

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    I'd say if you have a friend who has played Morrowind, or is at least super knowledgeable about it it makes the experience a whole lot better (I speak from experience haha). It's clunky, it's rough. Some mechanics make absolutely no sense and can be abused without explicitly cheating all the time. Rule of thumb, don't jump around Vivec or any bridges because you WILL clip right through them. But it has a great story. It's just old with some outdated game design. Though there is nothing wrong with cheating if the game does you dirty hahaha.

    I do agree that Oblivion is the perfect balance between the two (being Morrowind and Skyrim). It's my favourite from the series thus far and continues to be. Skyrim is a fine game. I liked my first playthrough back in 2011 but my gripe with it is how many times Bethesda rereleases the same game over and over, barely changing anything about it between releases. But i'm SO glad you enjoyed Oblivion! May I ask what your favourite side quest or questline has been so far? :3

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      I don't have any friends that played any Elder Scrolls before, I'm playing it just now with a friend, he finished all the quests in Oblivion and it's now playing Skyrim, he pretends to play Morrowind after it I guess, he didn't played it before because of the same reason as I, Morrowind looks like paper Hehege. But I'll give it a try later.

      I think my favorite quest line was the Thieves guild, the plot twist in the end was epic and that mask has the most unique effect in the game I think... The last mission, as I didn't had much sneak it was a bit hard but I could finish it, the main quests were awesome too, the last one was epic as well and kinda funny because ''Chancellor Ocato is unconscious'' every 10 seconds hehegeh it was just funny every time when some daedra knocked him down. Well, I had a lot of fun playing this game, there was no game breaking bug at all, I only had 2 crashes recently but I think it was because of the high amount of saves I had, after deleting some, it stopped.

      I'll definitely keep playing it with other characters in a more roleplayed run :D