Oblivion - Eldar scrolls

[Luke_Retrofly]

Hi
Just picked up this game and it seem like a bit of a beast. I've only done the first quest and am now a "blade".

Theres so much to do I don't knwo where to start (apart from doing the main quest).

Anyone got any ideas?
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[GhostRider]

If I was you I'd do a main quest objective every other quest, don't do what I did and play 35 hours doing side quests and powering up, only to find that when you do want to do the main quest, ther opponents are so high level it's more or less impossible to complete. I never bothered starting over after that. I read somewhere that someone had done all the geek work, and when you look at it, your character is the most strong/powerful at the very start of the game, thus ploughing through the main quest first is your best bet.

GhostRider
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[Fawbish]

After 14 hours I got a tad bored, but s'alright
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[Luke_Retrofly]

So enimies level up as you do
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[GhostRider]

Yeah, which is all well and good, so long as you level up adequately for a given quest. I did 3 main quest objectives before I decided to go galavanting about the countryside looking to become badass. 34 hours of play later and I figured I should press on with the main quest, got to these gates to a castle and there was some big fuckoff monster guarding, took him out but I'd used all my magic, all my health potions and spells etc etc, thought bloody hell that was tough, on with the quest! Walk through the doors and there's 3 pathways, each of them guarded by another of those monsters, and since there was no way to know which way I was supposed to go, odds were I'd end up having to fight them all...hence there was no hope of completing the main game, as I was still literally at the start, and I couldn't imagine it getting any easier. I do think that had I gone straight there, I would have been faced with some run-of-the-mill opponents who'd have taken a couple of well aimed sword strikes before I could be on my merry way, but as it happened, I just turned the console off, and never spoke of I again....until today!!!

GhostRider
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I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

[supZ]

attempted to play it for a bit, fought some skeletons, but once you get over the 'oo the scenary' it got boring very fast.

few years old now isnt it?
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[Luke_Retrofly]

Yeah, was almost a launch title wasn't it?
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[WildGoose]

I built this PC in 06, in order to play Oblivion half decently. Struggles a bit on max setting.

It's great game, but it has some terrible flaws as standard.

Bear in mind that the levelling system is broken, thereby if you level up as normal (without being particularly calculating about it) you will get weaker through the game as your progress and your enemies will get stronger. Sooner or later, you will find things you cannot possibly kill, and thus will reach a dead end.

You can complete all but about a dozen quests in the game without levelling (mainly the daedric shrine quests that need a certain level). I completed the main quest at Level 2.

By just increasing your skills (blade, block, light armour etc all those), but not actually 'levelling' you will actually get more of an advantage over your enemies as you go through.

To not level, just never sleep. Your skills will increase but you will remain at current level.

Disadvantage to this is you will not meet the more interesting enemies, you will fight skeletons, imps, goblins etc. Your stuff you find also won't be of the higher classes either, you will only find silver weapons/armour etc, not mithril/daedric etc. Silver weapons are all you need to kill undead stuff, so that is more than enough.

Though not all monsters and items are levelled, so you can still find some interesting stuff.


You can level "efficiently" but it requires a lot of grinding, writing stuff down and making sure you only work on a particular skill set each level. That is no fun at all, but if you are interested.

https://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Efficient_Leveling


The way I played, I focused mainly on the main quest, but didn't "fast travel" anywhere, and often got dragged into interesting adventures and side quests that I stumbled across on my way through the world.

The PC version has been modded by third parties over the years to eliminate the levelling problem. Though from what i've seen these only serve to make the game harder.

There was plenty of challenge playing it at level 2, particularly trying to close the great gate. When you get that far, make sure you get all the "Allies for Bruma" that you possibly can, they do make a difference.
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