Why haven't you closed shut the jaws of oblivion yet?

cause the jaws of your mom are still open

I'm waiting for a patch, stutters too much in the open world and crashes too often

Not my problem

I'm waiting for the porn mods.

magical barriers prevent planes of oblivion from crossing into tamriel

but you can summon beings from there and occasionally go there from time to time

Can someone tell me why the oblivion crisis was a unique threat? Why could they just get an army of summoners and bring like 10,000 dremora through?

Also, are summoners basically kidnappers? Do random dremora/daedric beings just get sucked through portals every once and a while and accept it?

the news says there's a flash flood happening

but I can turn on the faucet and that causes water to come into my house without issue so what's the problem....?

I need sigil stones.

Because going to Kvatch before level 10 makes the Daedra look truly weak and pathetic.

You literally answered it yourself, need to know arcane fuckery for temporary contact vs complete merge

No Spider Daedras or Flame Atronachs have yet emerged

I just did half an hour ago, but it took me until level 30 to get around to it

oblivion gate 20 yards from a "town"

demons crawling around and shit

sky is blood red

talk to person in town

i saw a mudcrab the other day

You need to know arcane fuckery for both. Unless the oblivion crisis is much more underwhelming in the game vs the lore I don't see the difference.

Got bogged down trying to immerse myself into the game by running around rando caves, enchanting the perfect gear, and being a melee knobhead. I should be grinding this main quest shit and moving on. A small part of me is hoping for a minor update (QoL, bugs, etc), but I think this is it so oh well.

moved on to Tainted Grail. I remembered more of Oblivion than I thought, it's nit hitting the same as a new game.

So a 10,000 strong army of dremora, probably something a group of 100 summoners could do in a single day, is a drop in the bucket compared to the oblivion crisis?

why the waffle house?

i did it 19 years ago, in the legendary times before you were born

too underleveled for this shit

oblivion crisis

Hate that. Couldn't they have given it a more fantastical name?

something a group of 100 summoners could do in a single day

Substantiate this claim

theoretically yes, in lore the gates were opening all over Tamriel and constantly shitting out dremora. the only region not fucked was Black Marsh since the argonians were in their home field and started counter invading so the gates closed on their own over there. Everywhere else was basically fucked hard, just not well represented in-game.

Unless summoning in the lore is a hell of a lot more complicated than it is in the game, each summoner would only need to bring through 100 dremora each.
I assume the "only one summon at a time" restriction is just a game balancing thing.

Oblivian Gates explain the Miami Mall portal incident better than the liars on the news did

No, the average peasant does not need arcane knowledge to get killed or tortured by daedra in the second scenario

and constantly shitting out dremora

The remaster should've improved this by having dremora attack towns like dragons do in skyrim

they have the right to if they want!!!
the veil is down glowie!!!

probably was a mod for classic Oblivion, especially for the gates that spawn outside of the towns

I assume the "only one summon at a time" restriction is just a game balancing thing

The issue is that you're being very selective over deciding that, in lore yes magic is a much more complex affair than "equip spell and press V". The entire world is essentially under siege by an enemy that can appear nearly everywhere, but the devs probably didn't want to turn the whole game map into a hellhole battlefield so it's limited

get the oblivion remaster

remember that I can't do any quests until I'm like level 18 or else I'll get gimped stat garbage

make it to level 20

realize I never liked the game, not even as an 11 year old

haven't played it in weeks

he fell for it again

Im confused as to what you mean by needing "arcane fuckery." And which scenario you think needs it, and which scenario is the first or second.

>remember that I can't do any quests until I'm like level 18 or else I'll get gimped stat garbage

This is such an appalingly retarded design decision that I struggle to comprehend that apparently no one in the studio went "wait, this is fucking stupid" for however many years oblivion took to develop

Under normal circumstances, summoning can only be short-term. As for an Oblivion gate, it could only be open for a minute or two at most and be highly unstable while the barriers are active.

I did, like 19 years ago

Retard can't appreciate Oblivion kino

Not my problem. A single mod fixes leveled quest rewards.

This is such an appalingly retarded design decision that I struggle to comprehend that apparently no one in the studio went "wait, this is fucking stupid" for however many years oblivion took to develop

There's alot of that

dude it's good if you mod it

so it's not good

it's always the last thing I do. I'm a procrastinater. it makes the battle of kvatch feel hard

Fatasses on Anon Babble can't even close their own jaws to a cheeseburger, how are they gonna close the jaws of Oblivion?

it sucks you poos can't afford food in India

I don't know whats so confusing for you. Normally you need a trained mage to summon daedra and a shitload preparation/knowledge/arcane fuckery by said mage to visit a daedric realm.
During the oblivion crisis Dagon and Nirn started to merge, were he successful you'd have daedra walking around literally everywhere

to a cheeseburger

saar

See this makes more sense. Summons having a time limit vs oblivion gate allowing for prolonged visit.

No one said that. You continue to make yourself look more retarded with each post.

don't mess with mudcrabs anon

complain about the game

"there's a mod for that"

so? fucking bethesda slop eater

Your retardation levels are reaching critical mass. Better stop while you aren't ahead.

don't do first main story quest

oblivion gates never spawn all over the map, ruining the comfy atmosphere

Objectively correct way to play the game, just like ignoring the main quest in Skyrim and avoiding annoying as fuck constant dragon attacks.

Yes but you needed said "arcane fuckery" via the mythic dawn cult. Im assuming they instigated it and the gates did not just start opening randomly.

Yep
nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/37908

keep playing your favorite (modded to fuck) games then, sloptard tranny

This sounds great until the daedra kill 90% of all side quest givers and participants who aren't marked essential.

Utterly mindbroken retard

Okay? That was Mankars plan, yes

better find a mod for it

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index

I've owned oblivion since it came out and still haven't finished it.

It all but tells you that's what's going to happen in the mod description. This is for someone who's already played the game normally and wants a different experience looks like. Could be interesting.

since the argonians were in their home field and started counter invading so the gates closed on their own over there

Portals FROM HELL appear all over the world

One of them appear in the land of geckos and lizards and shit

HELL gets fucking invaded by scalies

they get so scared they close the portals there

what the fuck bros

I haven't seen and gifs of the remake. Is it really that bad?

Hist Trees are scarier than Mehrunes Dagon, just remember that.

Someone in the discussion mentioned they have Crowded Cities installed. That could make it more interesting while lowering the chance of an important NPC dying.

I did thoughbeit. Like a hundred hours of playtime ago.

Why haven't you closed shut the jaws of oblivion yet?

Nirn is a multicultural, multiethnic place. I'm not some anti-immigration chud.

Waiting for skyblivion

Why?

Why haven't you closed shut the jaws of oblivion yet?

I actually have.

Oblivion isn't a bad game, but I honestly wonder why it so fucking bloated with side content. Only the main quest, guild/faction quests and shrines quests are worth completing. Not to mention that the game doesn't even have a functioning economy or a money sink - I literally have almost 1 million Gold, but nothing to spend it on.

What a journey it was

youtube.com/watch?v=Rcp1SH7Wq3I

I got woken up from REM sleep by having to take a huge diarrhea shit and I had a brief moment of half-dreaming delirium since I hadn't fully woken up. Anyway for about 2 minutes I believed that me releasing the shit from my body was equivalent to mass-deporting immigrants, and that I should feel bad about doing it. Maybe I should be more tolerant of the shit instead. Maybe I'm the problem. Maybe the shit can just assimilate

buying all the houses and furnishings is quite expensive if you aren't duping yourself a bunch of gold

There's some unique pieces amongst the merchants as well. Beyond that though I don't know what you'd expect from an RPG from the 2000s.

Oblivion isn't a bad game

It objectively is
it shits the bed on a technical, gameplay level the second you hit level 15 or so
and that's just one of the fundamental issues
numbers problems, quest stage problems, dungeon design problems, voice acting problems
and then we can get into the "objective" flaws like how the story is boring and how when it came out in 2006 it looked like a game made in 2002

Why not?

I think you're just a retard.

it so fucking bloated with side content

Side content is literally the entire point of these games. Also, Oblivion has less quests than Morrowind, if anything I was disappointed by how little there was to do after finishing the guild questlines last time I played. There are so few factions you can join compared to Morrowind.

main quest

worth completing

lmfaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
everyone knows the sidequests and factions are the best part of oblivion by far, and while this is true, they're still not good enough to save oblivion from being a shit game
the main quest and everything else is literal irredeemable garbage

explain how and where I was wrong
are you saying the stat inflation doesn't become unreasonable past a certain, easily achieved player level?
because there's 20 years of internet discussion that disagrees with you, you understand it's a normie game and they all didn't like that either, right?

What's wrong with the main quest?

nearly everything

You can delete all the enemies even on master difficulty if you just learn how to play the game. Oblivion isn't really a normie game. It bridges the gap in a lot of ways but it's the middle child between Morrowind(real rpg) and Skyrim(baby game made toddlers). But in doing so, it has a very unique flair of its own. Mix of old and new ideas.

That quest is awesome. Is that seriously your complaint?

master difficulty

who gives a shit? no matter what difficulty you're playing you're stuck there getting your armor worn down to 10 perfect by 1 minotaur lord in the overworld no matter what your super optimized build is
that's a failure of the game, it wasn't intended, it's just that nobody at bethesda playtested the fucking game at high levels outside of using console commands to make sure quests work

oblivion isn't a normie game

it 100% is
it's the halo 2 of western RPGs

Just put the repair hammer in your hotbar. What other complaints do you have? There are probably in-game work arounds to nearly all the "problems" people keep bitching about.

It objectively is

Guess you'll hate TES 6 since it'll be more Oblivion-like than Skyrim.

I do, retard. And armorer is one of the easiest skills to max out because of fucked armor and weapon durability is.
You understand it's not supposed to work that way, right?
Just like Mannimarco isn't supposed to have a magicka pool so low he can't even cast the epic final boss necromancy spell they gave him.
They just fucked up their game's numbers on basically every front.
It's a bad game, it doesn't function the way it's supposed to

works fine for me!

isn't an excuse, you just have bad taste

Is that seriously your complaint?

i never implied it was my only complaint
are you retarded?

That quest is awesome.

ok so you're clearly a mindless drone not worth engaging with
shame because i was ready to argue my point in detail, sadly i would be wasting my time
kys subhuman retard

I hate both Oblivion and Skyrim, retard. And I will assuredly hate TES6.
Are you so young you can't spot a Morrowindfag?

People used to play text-based RPGs where you'd just have to imagine everything that's happening. The fact you have about 15 knights there that are about to fight 15 or so Daedra in a fully realized 3D rpg world was ambitious for the time. This is a mother fucking Xbox 360 game lmao.

The real question is, if this were possible 20 years ago on consoles, where is the RPG today where we get like an army of a 100 soldiers fighting a 100 demon lords or what have you. Where has all the ambition gone?

Look man, I think Oblivion has flaws and I think objective criticism has real value, but of all the things you brought up I don't think you can apply "objective" to the story being boring - that's very subjective

I once fought 26 cliffracers at once on the Xbox version of Morrowind years earlier
Try again

I accept your concession.

Look man

No, fuck you.
The systems in Oblivion are objectively bad.
The numbers fall apart. You can't argue this, all you can say is "it doesn't bother me!" because you're fucking stupid and need to slaughtered in the street with a severity proportionate to how stupid you are.
It's a bad game.

I did too and it's not the same thing. Their bodies didn't even have physics when you killed them.

oh, look, it's the nonwhite autist who spams the same screencaps in all these threads
remember he's probably working for bethesda and/or microsoft in some capacity, though maybe not for actual money

I closed this shit immediately because the area inside of it is ugly.

didn't have physics

the physics bethesda implemented into their games has been a punchline for 25 years
it wasn't worth it
nor was the jump in graphics if every character looks ugly
nor was speedtree when 80% of the trees are clipping out of the ground

So say elder scrolls actually depicted this as they wrote it in lore what game style would work best?

?????????
Anon I agree with you, did you not read my fucking post? Are you so accustomed to social interactions being a PvP exchange you react with hostility any time someone responds to you?

It would probably look more like a total war game if scale was realistic

I just like this game. I think it's really good. You said the main quest was bad so I challenged you to state what was bad about it. It seems as though you couldn't really articulate yourself, so I accept your concession.

What if I want to spend the night in my daedroth gf's bed?

that's what I hate about Bethesda games, I have literally never been able to finish half of the main story because there's just too much freedom to go elsewhere and explore/do sidequests that by the time I put in 30-40 hours of just dicking around I forget how to even continue the main story and just quit

You deserve to die.

I don't know what you mean. It's awesome to kill something and watch it roll down a cliff or fall of a ledge or fall over dead leaning on a wall or something. Maybe you are a zoomy but I was there for that leap in video games and it was awesome. I know you can't fathom it zoomy but having actual physics in your game was a hot thing for a while.

I'm not the one you're arguing with.
I've just seen you like 10 times this week, and I'm letting everyone else know what you are.
I'm not going to explain why a 20+ year old game is bad to a person in their early 20s who played it for the first time last month via a different version

Lmao retard

actual image of Oblivion gate opening in Argonia (formerly Black Marsh), colorized

I'VE SEEN YOUR POSTS BEFORE! I'M GOING CRAZY HELP ME NIGGERMAN!

lmao. This schizo is going crazy because he's seen me in other threads. Yeah wow, dude. Amazing. It's not like I am keeping myself "hidden" or as a secret, ya know? Hahahahaha. Fucking schizo.

I asked you to say why the main quest was so bad and this is all you can do. I accept your concession, lolcow.

jaws

I'll go to sea and fight this horrid beast of oblivion

lmao u lost argument

why did it take you two posts to address that point?
I look forward to you doing this with the fallout 3 remake and repeatedly asking why the story is bad and spamming the same 10 screenshots multiple times a day
I accept your autism, lolcow zoomer

someones always getting murdered outside a waffle house, statistically most likely place for oblivion portals

still cant argue absolute tranny behavior xD

Ignore the retard who can't enjoy videogames. Nice screenshots btw.

I'll take some more screenshots. These are mostly from the early days when I was still gushing over the visuals.

I am looking forward to FO3 Remastered, and I'll probably post some screens and talk about the game when that one comes out too. Looking forward to your seething about it too lmao.

Thanks brother, you too. I kind of regret not having more "in the middle of battle" screens.

Is it worth it to stay as a vampire? Kind of annoying to only be able to travel at night...

It seems my PSU is underpowered for the demand this game puts on my 9070 xt.

No. Vampirism sucks in all games except maybe Skyrim and that's because they dumb that shit down so hard.

Your screenshots are very crisp at least. I'm guessing frame gen fuckery cut down on the quality of some of mine.

No. You first explore that dungeon right outside ye sewer exit (Vilderin or whatever the fuck). Then you visit the city, pick up and do all the quests there (while hitting every town or building or NPC you walk by in the way). Do all the faction quests, daedra quests. Once you've exhausted everything else, then you do main story, as step 5000 on your Oblivion journey.
Fact is you're not terribly incentivized to do the main story. If you do just that and focus it, you'll be done with the game in 20 hours. And then you'll make a thread "Anon Babble lied to me I beat Oblivion in 12 hours, no content shill game sar tranny" whatever the fuck your generation is squawking now.

My journey:
Dark Brotherhood
Mages Guild
Thieves Guild
Arena
Fighter's Guild
Shivering Isles
Knights of the Nine
Daedric Shrine Quests
Main Quest

It just sucks that it has to end. Oh well, I still have random town quests I can do.

It's a fucking Waffle House. If they didn't close due to the gates then we are fine.

I hate that I slowly progress each guild randomly so it doesn't feel very structured, but I also don't like quick traveling around the map a lot which guild quests usually require. I did the arena in two chunks but that one is easy to complete back to back.

It keeps me warm

Yeah. For me personally, it feels better to focus on 1 guild entirely and close that chapter before starting the next phase of the journey essentially. It's like a "season" of a tv show before the next story arc begin.

Fighter's Guild is the worst culprit of fast travelling lol. There's like 3 main headquarters and you constantly need to travel between the three rather than just finish one and move to the next.

I swear this is the same as 4/5 of the morons who absorb Bethesda slop.

The next time I focus on a guild quest I'll do that. Ironically enough will probably do the fighters guild first despite the traveling. Slightly related, in that FG mine quest one person died from the stupid log trap and now everyone talks about "something going wrong" with that contract in rumors...

level scaling slop

kino

kill yourself

POV: your prostate

knock knock

who's there?

Knock Knock

who's there?

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

aauuughhh ~~~

There were too many of them and they were too repetitive so I fell asleep

I think the same thing happened to me lol.

Based

There's so much petty shit people have issues with in Oblivion. They mistake the trees for the forest. The game is a journey. "NOOOOO THIS QUEST REWARD ISN'T MAXIMIZED FOR 100% EFFICIENCY NOOOOO AAAAAAHHHHH" lmao

It objectively is

Keep coping morrofaggot, Oblivion shits all over Morrowind

The most underrated villain in TES.

No need to resort to that, both games are good.

He's just retarded though

How?

Brokering deals with daedric princes. I don't think anyone has ever won from that. And the games try to make that pretty clear.

Yes it takes a certain prideful arrogance to believe you can make deals with demons and come out on top from the transaction, but that goes hand in hand with being a villain.

gotta go the Mannimarco route and just accomplish your gambit due to a literal deus ex machina to become your own god

i haven't played in a week because I want a patch that fixes the memory leak save corruption
if that ever comes i'll do one "big" playthrough and do everything and never play it again

whats tiwht the way the lefs pelenor?

level scaling is a "petty" issue

repetitive dungeons with no worthwhile loot is a "petty" issue

repetitive oblivion gates is a "petty" issue

What's a non-petty issue to you then faggot?

You don't have to close all the oblivion gates. You don't have to do all the dungeons. Bethesda really fucked with the "checklist minded" gamers that want to do everything, but if you just kind of casually experience it all I think it's great. The level scaling is something you can plan for and circumvent 100%.

Because refugees are welcome

I dont feel like paying for a games worth of dollars to play a reskin with worse combat and UI.

you don't have to play the game

dumb faggot

remember that I can't do any quests until I'm like level 18 or else I'll get gimped stat garbage

Hmm oblivion filters autistic people..

That's not what I said though. I said you don't have to 100% checklist the game. Out of the 60 Oblivion gates that can spawn in your game, I did about 20 of them before I finished the MQ, for example. And that was mostly to get all the different varieties of sigil stones I wanted, if not for that I'd probably have done just 12 or so.

Because I'm addicted to FFXIV and Oblivion doesn't scratch that same itch. No I will not play ESO.

Cool new rabbithole to go down.

Never said you have to do 100% of them, faggot. It's just that it's big chunk of game's content and it's shit.

Using cheats

Looks like someone didn't beat the game

why is his prostate telling knock knock jokes

what has this got to do with Bethesda trash

I'm addicted to XIV

Pressing the same buttons in the same order in front of punching bag enemies who sometimes put red circles on the ground for you to move around.

doesn't scratch that same itch.

There's no "itch" for XIV, you're just a sucker, and you might realise one day how much of a boring waste of time it was, playing this crap when you could have been playing something you actually enjoyed.

what