so i did my dailies then logged off and started Oblivion

Wing

title implications aside. . .

I went to oblivion over skyrim because the innovations of skyrim didn't age very well (imo) and thus it does not hold up as well. skyrims dragons and radiant quests, touted features at the time, makes almost all questing in skyrim feel like busywork (some hand-crafted quests can be mistaken for radiant)

it was fun revisiting a more handcrafted experience though i instantly went back to min max mode with my character, yada yada +5 every level spam this level that.

but i cannot help but play a khajiit. . .



so, when did you last play oblivion and what was your character? race / combat style

if not oblivion, last tes mainline and same question!

Fenris_Arainai

I played Oblivion on 1 Dec last. After a break I felt an urge to hop back on and played some last week. I already finished the main quest, so now I'm just running around doing side quests, mage's guild etc.

He's a Dark Elf, mage-y, but can smack with a blunt weapon.

Morrowind was last Sunday. I stream my PT on twitch, so play regularly each Sunday Viewers, from available poll options, chose a female Dark Elf, who joined the Telvanni.

TaSheen

I play both Oblivion and Skyrim a few times a week, in the evening after dinner (unless I'm reading something totally absorbing, like Bethany Adams' The Return of the Elves).

Combat in Oblivion is always 2 hand melee, a redguard fem, custom class with athletics, acrobatics, mercantile, and whichever spells/armor etc trips my itch at the time I start a new one.

Skyrim is always Bosmer stealth archer with a hugely OP bow from a mod, and I always run Legacy of the Dragonborn and many of the adjunct mods.

FluffyReachWitch

Ah, Oblivion! Good times. Let's see.... June 22, this year, a High Elf nobleman who got himself in over his head. He fights with longswords, but his actual major skills are Athletics, Alteration, Destruction, Illusion, Mysticism, Restoration, and Acrobatics. Stuff for casting utility spells and running away very fast. (Optimal for leveling? No, but it's fun. Also, I made myself a tiny mod so that health is directly tied to Endurance and nothing else, which helps.) He survives into the time of Skyrim and becomes a hardened rogue/ranger by then.

In ESO, I play this very character as a Templar since he likes to use sun magic. Right now he is parked in a city, doing crafting writs and catching up on trait research.

amig186

I still have Oblivion on my HDD, looks like the last save is from 2018. A nord 2-handed warrior, running with OOO, Deadly Reflex and Vilja as a companion, among other things. Proud member of the Fighter's Guild and halfway arena champion, I can't picture him joining any other guild, aside from maybe the Brotherhood, since DR added some rather interesting stealth attacks you could perform with heavier weapons. I remember getting my ass kicked repeatedly by the enemies added by Oscuro's until I was able to snag an overpowered claymore from one of the dungeon bosses. Unfortunately it crashes on loading now, so so much for that.

I haven't touched PC Skyrim in years, but I've been playing a little bit of it on my Switch lite every now and again, made a high elf with magic in 1 hand and a weapon in the other. It's too bad there's not much room for altmer roleplay in Skyrim, the Thalmor patrols treat you like a human and you can only say, directly or indirectly, that you worship Talos, which is a bit like someone from the former USSR countries saying he worships Stalin. Possible, sure, but it would be an exception rather than the rule. For all the attention they put into the detail in some other areas, they left this one woefully lacking.

Soarora

June 4th... one of those games I randomly play obsessively and then stop for months haha. I play as an Imperial warrior, though his class is more of who he pretends to be rather than who he really is.

disintegr8

Haven't played Oblivion since I started ESO more than 6 years ago. Tried Skyrim again a year or so ago but it just felt dull.

emilyhyoyeon

I've been doing this the past couple months, dailies in ESO (basically just endeavors) and then boot up Oblivion. Skyrim also feels meh to me in comparison, and although I still like it, Oblivion is my first choice.

I kinda ignore the time differences between the games because I want to play my same characters in each. I really only do sidequests and RP so it doesn't matter.

The character I'm playing now is an altmer woman who is my sorcerer tank and DD in ESO. She uses alteration, conjuration, restoration, destruction, block, blade, and blunt. Skills within each skill are limited to what suits her RP-wise, for example no undead summons, no ice destruction spells, etc. No other combat skills except alchemy and light illusion spells.

I'm intending on clearing every location, collecting collectibles like nirnroots and spell tomes, and doing every RP-appropriate quest with her, since when I was a kid I only cleared the same 5-10 places because I was afraid lol. I'm doing this on max difficulty as well since it makes combat engaging.

I'm about to go do the Hackdirt quest which freaks me out badly so pray for me

Beilin_Balreis_Colcan

I replayed Oblivion this year after taking a break from ESO, it was good, and I still have lots of quests remaining, so it's my current fallback when ESO maintenance occurs.

N3CR01

I've played through Oblivion multiple times over the years on Xbox 360.
Probs been 10 years since the last one.
Each time I did every quest inc. the DLC.
Think I was always a KittyBlade.

endgamesmug

Been 10 years i guess since i played that but i have some good memories of Oblivion 😁. Might have to find myself a copy again, the npc conversations or interaction were always a crackup 😆

GlassHalfFull

When I last played oblivion, I super enjoyed it because I added three mods,
(1) OOO which I believe is named Obscuros Oblivion Overall,
(2) MMM which I believe is named Mortigans Monster Mod, and
(3) some mod (do not remember the name) which starts one off in a random location, so you can enjoy role playing as a new character (instead of a save the world over powered super hero) more often, including death.

Vrienda

Februrary/March 2020, I was a Bosmer that favoured blade weapons.

Finished every quest in the game on that playthrough, even the skill ones, was lovely revisiting one of my favourite games for the first time since Skyrim launched.

thedocbwarren

Been a few years for me. I have some other games I pick up as an alt. Right now just doing dailies, endeavors, then log off. I've not done all the content. Stopped around The Reach and didn't finish the main. Played with someone through mains and just stopped. I have a lot of catching up but waiting for stability on platforms I play on and a better combat experience.

gariondavey

The leveling system in oblivion remains my favorite of all time. What an incredible game.

Tesman85

To minimize the hassle with attribute maxing, get a mod that gives +5 to an attribute every time at levelup when even a skill governed by the attribute is raised by a single point (if you play on PC). That makes the experience smoother.

On topic, I played Oblivion in July and Skyrim in June. It was nice for a change, but those games couldn't hold me for long. Sadly, I've just played so much of both during the years that I get bored with them pretty fast. Incredible games, both, but there's a point where one moves on, it seems.

In Oblivion this time I made a Breton woman custom class that was a sneaking spellsword- type. Quite fun to play, that. In Skyrim I played an ex-vampire Breton female magical archer and made some other characters to test new builds (but couldn't bother far with them).

Maybe I should try playing the Morrowind main quest again with the game modded graphics-wise up to eleven - and, of course, with movement speed and +5 leveling mods. Morrowind's writing is the deepest in the series, and the mechanics of the game such as alchemy and spellcrafting make some awesomely broken things possible. Or maybe some roaming around in Daggerfall. I'm by no means bored with ESO, but sometimes it's nice to play something else to keep things fresh.

Grizzbeorn

What is it about Oblivion that people like better than Skyrim?
(no judgement in the question, just honest curiosity.)

I have both Morrowind and Oblivion downloaded, but I haven't tried either one yet.
(I've been aware of TES since Daggerfall was in development, but ESO was the first TES game I tried, then Skyrim.)

SammyKhajit

This one played as a khajit, Redguard or Breton in Skyrim, and as a khajit and Breton in Oblivion.

Reading all these posts is making Sammy nostalgic for paintbrush staircases and persuasion wheels. That, and an excellent storyline where “the end is nigh” was done well.

Shardan4968

So we talking about oblivion now, ok. I played as a pure imperial mage wearing only robes and after leveling acrobatics enough I stopped walking/running normally and was just making front flips in air all the time. Its been years since I played it last, but I do have fond memories of playing it around this time of the year and even on the new year's eve, so now every december I get a strong urge to go to Cyrodiil in ESO, which I've been doing without a fail ever since.

Beilin_Balreis_Colcan

Grizzbeorn wrote: »

What is it about Oblivion that people like better than Skyrim?
(no judgement in the question, just honest curiosity.)

I have both Morrowind and Oblivion downloaded, but I haven't tried either one yet.
(I've been aware of TES since Daggerfall was in development, but ESO was the first TES game I tried, then Skyrim.)

The leveling system (as someone mentioned a few posts above), and the difficulty setting.

Mesite

I played for a good few hours earlier this year. I played as a Redguard for tankiness but then used the atronach birthsign for loads of magicia, but magicka only regenerates if you are zapped by magic (Iots of imp hunting). I gave up due to the difficulty in levelling but will go back.

Mesite

A family member played it for a while and I looked over their shoulder occasionally and I could identify exactly where they were geographically. A sign of too many hours in a game.

zaria

Not played Oblivion since Skyrim I think, but I played it a lot. Found that magic is strong in Oblivion. Not as totally OP as in Morrowind but you can stack weakness of magic, stuff we lost with to loss of spell making.

colossalvoids

Same deal, mostly logging in just for endeavours and going back to single player tes games for healthier gaming experience. Last Oblivion one was like a week ago, was my favourite game for years but currently Morrowind helds more interest mechanically. Though atmosphere wise Oblivion is unbeatable.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

It’s been a few years, but the last time I played Oblivion I played two characters in succession. Strictly speaking, the last one was a Redguard paladin-type, but I rolled him up because I couldn’t justify doing the Knights of the Nine questline with the previous character - a villian-with-good-publicity Altmer conjuror who go imprisoned for necromancy, then threw in to help Martin because being in the good books of the Emperor sounded like a fast track to power and prestige. He was overjoyed when Martin outright ordered him to go make pacts with Daedric Princes for more power a Daedric artifact…less so when Martin died at the end.

FluffyReachWitch

Grizzbeorn wrote: »

What is it about Oblivion that people like better than Skyrim?
(no judgement in the question, just honest curiosity.)

I have both Morrowind and Oblivion downloaded, but I haven't tried either one yet.
(I've been aware of TES since Daggerfall was in development, but ESO was the first TES game I tried, then Skyrim.)

For me it's many of the same reasons I enjoy ESO.

Oblivion has this charm. It has a vibrant world design and fun voice acting, interesting and funny NPCs, wilderness that feels vast and refreshing to run around in, and so many quests that are witty, great at showcasing the characters, and satisfying to complete. I feel that ESO is quite like this, just with the endearing cheesiness turned down several notches.

Wing

Grizzbeorn wrote: »

What is it about Oblivion that people like better than Skyrim?
(no judgement in the question, just honest curiosity.)

I have both Morrowind and Oblivion downloaded, but I haven't tried either one yet.
(I've been aware of TES since Daggerfall was in development, but ESO was the first TES game I tried, then Skyrim.)

I said this in my op but for me its the radiant system in skyrim that turns me off. they spent so much time developing a content system for players that they didn't develop any deep content for players.

oblivion is recent enough to still look and play great (sorry morrowind) have some depth of its RPG mechanics left (different builds and playstyles) and was made in that sweet spot of technological capability and vision before they tried to hand off quest design to computers.

Northwold

Grizzbeorn wrote: »

What is it about Oblivion that people like better than Skyrim?
(no judgement in the question, just honest curiosity.)

I have both Morrowind and Oblivion downloaded, but I haven't tried either one yet.
(I've been aware of TES since Daggerfall was in development, but ESO was the first TES game I tried, then Skyrim.)

It's original and has a lot of variety. Eg the dark brotherhood, the very, very different side quests (painting with trolls come to mind), the visual style is also more interesting than Skyrim's endless grey plus snow, every quest does not take place in a dungeon that looks almost exactly the same as the last one, and you're not endlessly trapped in the same, generically "gritty" emotional mood. But overall, it just plain better written and you're not expected to spend your time sympathising with violent, drunk racists who have nothing interesting to say. Skyrim feels like it was written for teenage boys who want to hit things and fantasise about being gods, with very poor attention paid to storytelling (the mages guild quest line fizzles out into "well that was weirdly pointless", the Dark Brotherhood quest feels like a low effort "well we need to put that in the game" waste of time, etc). It feels cookie cutter. Oblivion doesn't.

(The bits where you actually go to Oblivion are terrible, mind you...)

rpa

I've been logging in ESO, doing endeavors maybe some daily and logging off and then binge playing Skyrim because I recently got the GOG version. I do have Oblivion installed too but mods got bit in a tangle when I last played it and I have not gotten energy to deal with it yet. I do like Oblivion better and fresher than Skyrim. It's not quite as streamlined which is good (and also bad, bandits in glass armour really happens) and sometimes goes refreshingly out there.

TaSheen

Northwold wrote: »

(The bits where you actually go to Oblivion are terrible, mind you...)

The first mod I install in both Oblivion and Skyrim is an "alt start" one. After all these years in these games, I'm totally uninterested in the main quests of either one any more, and that includes messing with the icky "going to Oblivion" parts!

BretonMage

Northwold wrote: »

(The bits where you actually go to Oblivion are terrible, mind you...)

There are two things that make me hesitate to play Oblivion again: character design (the heads are particularly difficult to stomach, even with mods), and having to close all the Oblivion gates. I think the only tolerable way was to sneak through, but lawd did they take too long, even with 100% chameleon. Oh, and the lack of a companion. Oblivion feels beautiful but a bit lonely.

Anyway, the last time I played Oblivion was a few years ago, but I've played it at least 6-7 times, I think. I love the atmosphere of all 3 modern ones, TESIII - TESV, and have played them all numerous times. It's true the quests in Morrowind and Oblivion were superior, but I find Skyrim the easiest to replay, so I have the most hours clocked on Skyrim out of the 3 (mostly due to modding).