Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Has anyone else played it? I bought it yesterday, and I have to say, it's the most addicting game I've every played. The graphics are absolutely amazing. I'll stop in the middle of running around sometimes and just look around and watch the grass blow in the wind and be amazed at how real everything looks.

I've got it. Love it. The Elder Scrolls series has always been good in my book.

Blah.

I didn't care for it. Not my style I guess.

I have it for computer, starting to get bored, I might make a new character today, because yeah.

My char is a Lvl. 9 maybe? He's a dark elf... born under the sign of the thief, acrobat class.

I have trouble leveling up..

Personally I loved it. Found only one bug that, well, bugged the hell out of me. Stumbled on a wrecked ship, killed all the ghosts, and then found some quest to do exactly that. Now can't go kill them. So that quest can't be finished.

The leveling up badguys also annoyed me. I like some games to allow you to be the bees knees. I mean I'm a level 23 warrior carryign a Daedric bow with poison arrows and wearign enchanted glass armour, but the brigands and highway men have glass weapons? WTF? Sell your weapon for 10 000 gold and retire. Peasant.

One nice thing is the cumulative effect of enchanted items. My guy has 110% Chameleon. Basically he is invisible. I can walk up to a troll and beat it to death with my hands and it won't fight beack :)

It's a seriously fantastic game. However I'd suggest popping over to some of the mod's forums. There are some very very cool tweaks you can make to the game.

It's definately a good waste of around 85 hours of my life.

KBK

You have to join the Mage's Guild so you have access to the Arcane University. You can enchant items with any spells you are able to cast.

You need an item to enchant, which can't already have an enchantment on it.

You need a soul gem with a soul in it, the best being Grand soul gem with a Grand soul in it. You can buy them at some guilds with the souls already in them. Otherwise you need Soul Trap and empty gems.

Then you go to the enchantment altar, select the item, the gem, the effect, and then name the item.

It might be difficult if you can't really cast much magic, and unlike Morrowind you can't pay others to enchant for you. There are finite limits to the power of enchantments. I have shoes, pants, a shirt, two rings, and an amulet that each boost my magic by 24 points, the max you can get from a Grand soul gem.

Edited by reifidom - 12 June 2006 at 2:34pm

I liked the lower levels, and first getting into it. It's great just to wander and see what there is to see. There's a lot to see. Treasure chests in wading pools, caves and shrines all over. Good stuff.

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