Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Well I've finally started playing this now that I've upgraded my PC
Currently I'm a level 10 Bosmer Assassin.
I'm the Listener of the Dark Brotherhood (Head poncho)
I'm Grand Champion of the Imperial City Arena (I'm 'ard)
I'm Arch-Mage of the Mages Guild (the dude)
I'm Apprentice of the Fighters Guild (haven't done any missions yet)
Shadowfoot of the Thieves Guild (one of the top dogs, answerable to the gray fox)


Anyone else played this? If so, would be interested to see you choice of class and race

PLaying this online is free? or you have to pay?

I used to play it, but I got kind of bored of it and, uh, stopped playing it.

jcis, there is no multiplayer in this game

I play it on PS3 , currently a Level 4 Dark Elf Rogue

Haven't played in a week, i lost all of my gear on the quest to go into the mythic dawn hideout..:'(

so i haven't been too happy after completing that quest and wished I'd saved beforehand.

Im a level 41 Nord Assassin.
Ive completed all guilds n that stuff, except the thieves guild, its so boring:mad:

Oh it's not an massive-online-whatever-you-call-it? That's the only thing that stopped me buying that game, it looked badass.

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I play it on PS3 , currently a Level 4 Dark Elf Rogue

Haven't played in a week, i lost all of my gear on the quest to go into the mythic dawn hideout..:'(

so i haven't been too happy after completing that quest and wished I'd saved beforehand.

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Dude, you get it all back, or something. I forget at the moment, as I just killed everybody.

I have a level 30+ High Elf wizard (once you become a master of destruction, you can make some absolutely ass-kicking spells), and a totally messed up Bosmer fighter. I made the fighter first time, based on what I had learned about character creation from the earlier Morrowind. The character creation flaws were one of the many things fixed in Oblivion, and I ended up with a character who was crippled from the start, and took a long time becoming tough enough to live.

With the wizard, I made a character correctly, and he is now so tough that I have moved on to something else (though I see an expansion is out). I created a pair of spells, and cast them in quick succession. Only Ogres and a few of the toughest daedra survive the first pair. Since one of those paralyzes the target, nothing gets close enough to touch me, so I don't need to bother with armor of any sort.

Just got The Journey to Wild Divine. As a game, it is barely a game, but what it does have is so unlike anything else out there that it is pretty fun.

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Dude, you get it all back, or something. I forget at the moment, as I just killed everybody.

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Problem is i just ran out of the cave and didn't bother fighting anyone....i needed to kill the guy who had all my stuff, and now i'm guessing it's too late, or at least it'd be pretty hard to go back now and fight my way through everyone :o

I got caught up with the main questline so much (awesome storyline imo...) that i didn't bother skilling up or anything really, i still had my basic spells etc....so the fighting in the cave was too hard for me to handle yet....so i cheated and just memorized my way out of the cave, and ran past everyone as they were shooting spells at me and hitting me... :afrog:

Basics of any RPG, you have to do many of the sidequests to skill up enough to do the main storyline. Besides, many of the sidequests are more fun :D

My favourite has to be the assassin mission where you go to a murder mystery party. I just love how I managed to turn everyone against each other and watching the carnage....strange how they didn't suspect the person cloaked head-to-toe in black though hehe

The thieves guild missions are some of the hardest missions, one especially is hard

Nerds.

whats the matter woss? Cant you get oblivion to run on linux?:lol:

Actually it can. Not natively but it runs well.

The strangest cheat-like thing in that game is that you can go into sneak mode, and auto-walk. Thus you can find somebody standing around (like in a shop or something), go into sneak, and auto-walk at a corner, then go have lunch, while your character boosts his sneak skill higher and higher. Set my character up doing that, went and ran on my treadmill for half an hour, and had advanced to the next category. Did that three times, and I was a master of sneaking. Since that skill is fun to play with, boosting it fast is useful.

I also particularly liked the alchemy, though you advance faster and faster, and once you become a master at it, it gets pretty nearly pointless.

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Originally Posted by TomGibbons

Actually it can. Not natively but it runs well.

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But to run it you'll have to spend more hours in the terminal trying to get it running, than you actually spend on playing it:lol:

I happen to quite like the terminal.

Plus, I believe that Transgaming added official support for it. This, theoretically, means that you can pop it in, load up Cedega and install it just like that.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

The strangest cheat-like thing in that game is that you can go into sneak mode, and auto-walk. Thus you can find somebody standing around (like in a shop or something), go into sneak, and auto-walk at a corner, then go have lunch, while your character boosts his sneak skill higher and higher. Set my character up doing that, went and ran on my treadmill for half an hour, and had advanced to the next category. Did that three times, and I was a master of sneaking. Since that skill is fun to play with, boosting it fast is useful.

I also particularly liked the alchemy, though you advance faster and faster, and once you become a master at it, it gets pretty nearly pointless.

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Good idea, that could come in handy seeing as I'm an assassin :D
Thing is though, I'm an expert in Sneak anyway, and as my Black Hand robes give me a 15 bonus, and I also have various bonuses from my class, and race and such it's at about 100 anyway
My other main skills are Security (I have the skeleton key which is an unbreakable lockpick and gives a constant 40 bonus), and marksman

I'm playin it now (level 4) :)
Maybe some of you could help me a bit with this:

1) I see my character is getting older, is there a time limit and then he dies?
2) I become a Vampire with red eyes, is it normal? I just want to be a magician and finish the magicians guild part first (Actually I can just Summon skeleton and headless zombie, restore health by myself..).

Your character shouldn't be getting older, they stay the same age. It could be because you have Porphoryic Haemophilia (Vampirism)

Two ways to get rid of vampirism is to pray at the main shrine in any of the chapels, or cast Cure Disease on yourself. The shrine will refuse you have a infamy higher than your fame

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Your character shouldn't be getting older, they stay the same age. It could be because you have Porphoryic Haemophilia (Vampirism)

Two ways to get rid of vampirism is to pray at the main shrine in any of the chapels, or cast Cure Disease on yourself. The shrine will refuse you have a infamy higher than your fame

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That only works if you have just been infected. This guy has the full-blown disease, which you can only cure by doing the Vampirism quest. It's not a simple cure. Basically, he got bit, and didn't notice in time. I forget how you get the quest, possibly by talking to a priest.

The reason you age has to do with the progression of the disease. If you weren't diseased, you wouldn't age.

Valley's just had too much clean living.


By the way, a Master of Destruction with a good wizard class is about the toughest you can get.

If you have vampirism and age, when you cure it, do you return to your normal age?

This quest is really nice, you can't travel during day because the sun kills you, direct travel not allowed neither, so you have to travel by night, but you can't trade with people at night, so you have to keep searching for that gems escaping from sun, using magic to survive and waiting to people to get up and sell (I bought 3 gems and stole 2).

Arrow Rider: Good question, this guy is old now, and i'm just starting the game, i hope he gets young again.

I would expect that he ends up young again. The alternative would have been too weird to code.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

That only works if you have just been infected. This guy has the full-blown disease, which you can only cure by doing the Vampirism quest. It's not a simple cure. Basically, he got bit, and didn't notice in time. I forget how you get the quest, possibly by talking to a priest.

The reason you age has to do with the progression of the disease. If you weren't diseased, you wouldn't age.

Valley's just had too much clean living.


By the way, a Master of Destruction with a good wizard class is about the toughest you can get.

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Too much clean living? Hardly. I'm the head (Listener) of the Assassins guild and was pretty ruthless when completing the missions. I'm also the head of the Thieves Guild (Grey Fox) but was really annoyed with most of those quests as I couldn't kill people!

I'm a very patient player and will often wait until the right moment to kill with my bow and arrow. Because I was such a good assassin the Grand Arena was simple to complete

I think you should stay a vampire and join the dark brotherhood.

I killed the recruiter for the Dark Brotherhood the first time I met him. He had some good loot on him. He thought he was invisible, but he wasn't nearly as hard to see as he thought. He was also a wuss.

That's something i don't like, if I cure my vampirism now I'll never be able to join the Dark Brotherhood, it means there are things that you have only 1 oportunity to make, if you don't do them, never in the future you'll be able to do them. I know i could become a vampire again but: there is no way to make the vampire quest again to return to normal, or find another 5 Grand Soul gems, is that correct?

You don't need to be a vampire to join the Dark Brotherhood. All you need to do is kill a civilian in cold blood (i.e. they haven't attacked you) WITHOUT getting caught. The next time you sleep the recruiter will visit you and you'll be a member :thumb:

Well I have completed the main story line and have the dragon armour. i am a warrior of the stead and a high elf. Just looking for side quests before installing Knights of the nine addon

There is also a bug where if you do the arena thing and get all the way to the top, if you had done the quest for the orc guy (I don't remember his name), he won't fight you in the arena and just lets you kill him. The problem with this is, when you kill him, it counts it as a murder. The dark brotherhood visits you the next time you sleep after this fight.

It's not a bug

Is it a feature?

Try the HackDirt quest. Those guys all come after you, but if you kill them, it counts as murder and you get arrested next time you get near a town. I went stealth on them and ransacked the place using speed and invisibility. Nothing of any interest down there, though.

Killing the messenger from the Dark Brotherhood closes the Dark Brotherhood quest from you for the rest of the game.

Bodwad: Go ahead and load the add on, it is just one other quest, and the only thing that may matter is that you have to be pretty "good", or else you may not be pure enough to do some of the pieces of it. I finished it, and everybody was happy, but then I completed the murderous Daedric quests, and the smith in the Nights chapel now says he's disappointed that I turned out to be such slime.

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Is it a feature?

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It is indeed a genuine quest

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There is also a bug where if you do the arena thing and get all the way to the top, if you had done the quest for the orc guy (I don't remember his name), he won't fight you in the arena and just lets you kill him. The problem with this is, when you kill him, it counts it as a murder. The dark brotherhood visits you the next time you sleep after this fight.

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Yes that has to be a bug in your version, I killed the orc in the arena with and also without completing the orc family quest and it never counts as a murder.

I haven't played oblivion in a long time. When I encountered the issue, I was using the initial release version. I ran into on two of my characters, so it definitely wasn't just a fluke. They may have fixed it by now though.

I had already murdered someone so I cant comment :p

lol same here. I've become quite the assassin too. My battles are so much easier when using stealth as they never spot me, but I can pick them off over massive distances with my l33t bow skills :D

I love creating my own l33t weapons too. At the moment I've got three I've created. The first is the "Soul Reaver", a glass bow with Soul Trap. Useful if I need to boost my weapons up
The second is "Shiva's Fury", another glass bow but with Ice damage of 40 per strike
The third is "Ifrit's Vengeance", a Akavira Katana with 40 fire damage per hit.

The hardest part is trying to get the soul gem's filled up

I still havent worked out how to do that :p

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I still havent worked out how to do that :p

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You need to be a member of the mage's guild (i.e. you have access to the university) by completing the guild quests. In the university is a chrisonarium where there are three enchanting stands. Each requires a non-magical item (jewelery, weapon or armour) and a soul gem. Obviously the more powerful the soul in the gem the more powerful you can make the weapon. You'll also need a fair bit of money, but I usually just steal enough :)

Cool will explore

I installed the add on yesterday and managed to play about 40 minutes worth, will play more tonight probably :)

How much is the addon? And is it worth it?
The problem is being an assassin my infamy isn't too high (mostly because I don't get caught) but high enough to not be able to do most of the missions

Got it for xmas so I dont know how much it is. Its the first add on, knights of the nine

Or convert Grand Soul Gems to Black Soul Gems and trap human or argonian souls :thumb: (grand level, 2400 points), it seems it's the only way to completely fill Grand Soul Gems at early levels.

OOooo, good idea! Plays to my assassin character too mwaaahahaha http://www.vbforums.com/images/ieimages/2006/07/1.gif

One of my characters is the leader of the mages guild and therefore shall kill you for practicing necromancy.

Pfft!
I'm the head of the Dark Brotherhood (Listener), Mages Guild (Arch-mage), Arena (Grand Champion) and the Thieves Guild (Grey Fox)
:D

Is this an online game?

No..