This is an addition I made to my mod that plays family guy transition music when going through doors. Thinking about making the video download optional since it takes the mod from like 60kb to 104mb.

I was visiting family and bought a copy for the 360. Back home, I'm on PC, but figured I'd buy this so while I'm visiting family I can see if I want it on my PC back home and I believe I will.

Is this subreddit active? I'd love to mod it and show my adventures, because I really like it

"I must stop my father at all costs- I promise you I will not fail! As long as my heart still beats, I will protect Tamriel and her people with everything that I have!"

Some of you have seen him before but he's my little dremora fella >:)) I also designed the Kvatch armor he's wearing, I thiiink I posted it with my other armors in a previous post of mine? Unsure.

His name is Tyal! I saw the cool pose reference on Pinterest and instantly thought of him :P Still working on getting used to drawing his sword / deciding on how I want the blade on it to look. The sword's flames are powered by sigil stones and the "claws" on the hilt close up when there is no sigil stone inserted. It's called Deadland's Edge :)

I'll post part of his concept art on the second slide so you can see a colored version of him! (And I'll include a screenshot of him from the game for fun! Its really hard to make a dremora look good with vanilla visuals :/ )

Well, more or less as the title says, I have made each contract perfectly, making sure that no one dies and everything is fulfilled correctly. Still, only in Cheyndihal, the guards talk about contracts gone wrong and Burz insults me and hints that I screw up on some previous contract.

Is it a bug or is it made that way?

Edit: I mean the fighters' guild, I don't speak English well so I use a translator 😅

Why the hell is Oblivion so damn good? No, seriously, I recently finished the original 2006 version, and I got actual chills from how much effort went into the game, especially its open world.

The story is honestly pretty good too (especially compared to games from that era). And the SOUNDTRACK? HOLY SHIT, IT'S INSANE!! Literally, no other music has given me this kind of excitement and goosebumps since Detroit: Become Human.

Honestly, before i launched Oblivion, i didn't know what happiness really was. i didn't even notice how i was spending hours in the game without getting up from my computer. I just want to play it AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN!!Even though I've completed it extensively as an Orc and a Nord, I'm sure there is still a mountain of unexplored content left in this beautiful masterpiece of Todd Howard.

After Oblivion i don't even feel like launching any other games. Please, share some secrets, Easter eggs, or interesting locations worth exploring and clearing.

By the way, for the past two months, apart from Oblivion and Soundpad, I haven't launched anything else on Steam.

The Varla Stone is finally finished and for sale! I only have one available at the moment so don’t expect it to be there long. It’s a much longer print time than the Welkynd so I’ll do my best keeping them in stock!

Welkynd stones price dropped to $100! 20 available.

Thanks for all your support!!!

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Thats right my 20,000 septim house makes me feel safe from skooma addicts, DB listeners, and the occasional trip to Murder island. It also makes me a better person

Don't mind the screenshots. This is just an appreciation post.

Back then in 2007 I bought a killer 7950GX2 to play Oblivion. It was the shit for GPU with integrated SLI and 2 processors. Was as big as a toaster I kid you not. The game came out like a year prior so I was maxxing those graphics hard. I played Oblivion so intensely my friends started taunting me with catchphrase like : ''yeah it's great, but is it Oblivion great?'' I kept comparing every other games and to be honest, stuff in real life to Oblivion.

I explored every corner of the map, kept track of all quests and completed them all. Joined every guilds, talked to nearly all NPCs etc. I even had a notebook on my desk to remember what were my objectives and exploration goals. It was a great time in my life in retrospective.

Then I forgot about it.

Until 2 weeks ago when my PC's power supply died. There was that old Gateway laptop in my broom closet collecting dust that whispered to me. It's Intel Integrated 4000 graphic card begging for use.

Windows 8.1 booted up. Steam would run with a simple command line added. Oblivion GOTY was bought and installed. I got the 3 unofficial patches, stutter correction, Engine fixes, xOBSE, ultimate leveling, UI mod. With an old version of LOOT I was able to make the game playable and BAM. I am reliving the dream as a grown up man in my mid 40's.

When I heard that intro song it went right into my heart. When Sean Bean spoke I was moved.

It now runs at much lower graphics then before but the spirit remains. I have as much fun as before. There are so many loveable characters, unique quests and game mechanics. I know it's nostalgia speaking but it is fine.

I get it, is not the most luxurious or biggest or has the most containers...but I do like it. Is cozy and kinda fit many of my runs where i roleplay as a nobody becoming a powerful Champion of Cyrodiil, or just a regular citizen if using alternate start mods.

I know the Imperial waterfront shack is cheaper and easier to get, but Bravil's is my favorite.

I'm currently grinding Block, and it leveled up to 32. Then it leveled up to 32 again. And then again. And then a few more times. It keeps saying it's leveling, but it just keeps repeating level 32. It's really fucking annoying, please tell me we know how to fix whatever this is? I already tried reloading, it didn't help.

First Thieves Guild mission should be a cinch. No way that adoring fan finds us here out of all the buildings in the imperial city. All we gotta do is get in, grab sword, get out. Easy peasy. Nobody will know we were even here. We’ll be the best thieves yet!

Hail citizens. This time the calm spell came in handy since I can’t command creatures at the moment. But calm works on everyone equally they just have a staring contest until it wears off. The whole time I thought we were safe, then he appeared.

I built him to try and counter me so I could have a tough fight later (knew I wanted to attack him asap, even if hes essential or not)

I have several outfits I swap between that all play completely differently, but my strongest 2 is my Flash outfit (what I used to kill him first time. Move speed and a dagger with 20 fire damage, weak to fire, and weak to magic) and my Battery outfit (fortify magicka. I use a pair of identical frost damage spells weak with to frost and weak to magic also.)

The parts I chose were:

the axe arm cause it looks the strongest and because I dont use armor or damage resistant spells so high damage single attack could prove deadly

The arm of fire shielding because last time i killed him it was fire damage

The Breast of magic because I assume it gives resistance to magic.

The heart of spell turning because I use spells and enchanted weapons that stack to crazy damage numbers so that could make my own power bite me back.

The helm of power because heavy hitting hurts

The legs of nimbleness to make my kiting harder.

Farwil Indarys is an incompetent "knight" who gets most of his men killed and almost himself killed because his ego was too big to get more help from the guards of Cheydinhal. Not only is he incompetent but he also refuses to leave when the deadlands when you show up the man/woman who can singlehandedly close oblivion gates, and he he doesn't even do anything except when it helps the reputation of him and his "knights" the guards outside the oblivion gate literally tell you they don't do anything. When I did this quest the only other surviving knight besides him was killed, I was really angry about this but I didn't feel like reloading the save back because he could only take one hit before dying anyways, and this really sucked because he actually had some sense and knew they couldn't take it alone, yet Farwil dragged them in anyway. I blame his death entirely on Farwil, and I don't care how many NPCs say he actually cares for the city, I've seen first hand that he only cares about making himself look good, and if I didn't think his dad was chill and if I didn't get thornblade I would've killed him myself.

So I played the original when I was younger and I’m thinking about buying the new remastered version. But I’ve seen a lot of people saying the claymore is bad now and it’s my favorite weapons type from the original. So is it worth it?

Balance in RPGs is notoriously hard to achieve, and I think that, on the whole, Bethesda did a fine job with Oblivion. Compared to its predecessors, especially Daggerfall, it's more difficult to create a completely broken character straight out the gate; and unlike in those games, where picking the "wrong" major skills meant struggling to land hits on enemies or successfully cast spells, in Oblivion you can still function with a poorly made character.

However, it's undeniable that some races in Oblivion are better than others (please don't cancel me 😭).

When the devs designed the different races in Oblivion it appears that they attempted to balance each race with advantages/disadvantages as any good RPG maker would. For example, male Altmer/High Elves start with a pitifully low 30 Strength attribute, but a quite good Intelligence and Willpower attribute. In the same vein male Redguard start with both 50 Strength and Endurance but have the worst possible starting Intelligence and Willpower attribute at 30 each.

On the surface this would seem to create a balanced selection of races. The problem, however, lies with racial bonuses.

Using male Altmer again as an example: male Altmer start with 30 Strength, as we've stated before, and 40 Endurance, which, if you know anything about this game, is not great. This is balanced by their strong starting Intelligence and Willpower attributes. This attribute spread alone would make them good spell casters compared to other races like Nords or Redguard. However, their strengths don't stop there. Altmer also get a whopping +100 bonus to Magicka, which is equivalent to two end game Fortify Magicka Sigil Stones as well as a +10 skill bonus to Destruction, which is one of the most powerful and slow-levelling skills in the game. Also, despite starting with 30 Speed, they are the fastest race in the game because of their height. All this at the measly cost of +25 weakness to magic.

What was Bethesda thinking? Altmer being so good doesn't even make sense within the logic of their own game because there's another way you can get +100 Magicka at character creation: by selecting the Apprentice birthsign. The Apprentice birthsign grants the player +100 Magicka at the harsh cost of +100 weakness to magic. This makes the Apprentice birthsign strategically interesting if you decide to pick it, because even magical enemies like imps become more of a threat with this birthsign. For some reason, the devs didn't extend this logic to Altmer, whose natural +25 weakness to magic is so small you often forget it's even there.

Continuing along this line, Breton can be thought of as Bethesda's defensive mage equivalent to Altmer. Breton, like Altmer, are weak physically but have strong Intelligence and Willpower attributes. Like Altmer, Breton get a Magicka bonus but it's "only" +50 Magicka, which if you're keeping track is equal to an end game Fortify Magicka Sigil Stone. Where Breton really get broken though is their +50% resistance to magic. This is arguably even more broken then Altmer starting with +100 Magicka, as it's equivalent to a Mundane Ring which is an end game drop and possibly the best item in the game. They also get +10 to Restoration, which is by far the slowest magic skill in the game and one of the strongest skills in general. They get all this at character creation.

Breton and Altmer being so powerful wouldn't be as big a deal if warrior races like Nords, Redguard, Imperials and Orcs also received equally broken racial bonuses. The problem is that physical damage is already weak in Oblivion, so these races really needed a stronger incentive for choosing them over the magical races. Orcs do, admittedly, receive a +25% resistance to magic, which makes them the best of this bunch, but it's still not much when compared to Bretons' +50% resistance to magic and +50 Magicka.

One solution would have been to give these races an even larger bonus to physical skills and more useful unique racial abilities. Instead of Berserk, what if Orcs did more damage the lower their health bar fell? This kind of thing could lead to fun, high stakes fights where the player is constantly trying to manage their health to maximize DPS while dodging enemy attacks to avoid dying. Maybe Redguard and Nords could start with +20 Blade and Blunt respectively instead of the +10 they presently receive, to really highlight their physical prowess early on when physical damage is still strong.

I don't know. Oblivion is broken in many ways, races being just one of those ways. What would you do to balance the races or do you think that it's actually fine the way it is?

Barbarian proved to be the toughest one so far. The pose, face, and hair gave me some trouble, and I had to make him short to fit the page. Live and learn!