After flexing my manhood with DS, I decided to get back to a mastodontic game I never cared to finish even after having spent more than 40 hours in my first playthrough. TES: Oblivion. I wasn't having fun with my imperial anymore so I decided to ditch that character and reroll with a breton lady. I tried to make her somewhat attractive, failing miserably. Oh well, at least I never have to look at her face again. Except for menus.
I'm 10 hours or so into the game, dabbled a bit with the main quest to get my feet wet again, freed Kvatch and took Boromir to that hideout in the asshole of the mountains. After that, I said "fuck the main quest", joined the mages guild and started working on those quests. I'm trying to keep quest burden to a minimum, to avoid excesses like it happened to me in my first playthrough. So far I've succeeded in keeping things streamlined, which means I get to savor each quest in a continuous fashion, instead of hopping here and there. My plan is to do the mages, then fighters guild, and leave thieves and dark brotherhood for last. After that I'll give the expansions a try.
I'm also having a blast making potions, something I never tried in my first run, and now I keep an eye on every single herb, fungus and flower that I stumble upon.
You can access fast travel from the map. You just move your cursor and select the place you want to travel to. The game will automatically advance the time you would have used by traveling normally. It's pretty convenient, but only works for places already on the map. So try to move around whenever you have the chance because shrines, ruins and small encampments have to be discovered by normal travel.
The gate in front of Kvatch's city gate? You have to talk to the leader of the small soldier garrison stationed outside the city. You need to close that oblivion gate before entering Kvatch.
Okay, yeah I went into there without cloaisng it and a bunch of lizard people took an interest in me. Okay. Thanks also for fast travel explanation.
I loved the first hour, the second hour, not so much, it's a walking simulator.
But I'm sticking with it, I bet it gets more interesting once I can sell some of this loot.
You should have a horse by now. In Bruma, if you speak to prior Maborel, he'll lend you his painted horse. You can ride to Kvatch on that. If you keep walking everywhere and not fast traveling, you're going to be bored to tears in no time. Distances are huge in this game.
I also don;t get why everyone except the monks are complete pricks in this game. Why is everyone always coming at me with an axe?
Most of the people you bump into on the roads are going to be bandits or thieves. There are a few imperial guards here and there, but virtually all the people you can interact with while not getting stabbed in the process are in towns.
I remember trying to play Oblivion on my PC back in the day. It kept freezing one me so I couldn't continue.
Than I got the GOTY Edition a year later when I got the 360. I really do like the game but it was so difficult to get into. I had no problem getting into Fallout 3 but I couldn't with Oblivion, for some reason.
Maybe it's because I played Fallout 3 before Oblivion. Maybe that's why it was kind of hard to get into a 2nd open-world RPG all over again, kind of like playing Fallout 3 from the beginning with another character.
I'm on the opposite camp. I have tried to start FO3 a good number of times, but I always get bored and quit.
They're both really good and addictive games for sure. I do actually prefer the sword and sorcery setting of Oblivion over Fallout 3's apocaplyptic setting.
Both had tons of glitches though!
Fallout 3 looks terrible to me, but who knows maybe I'll try it some time. But as for today, Fallout 3 looks like such a boring ugly environment.
At least with the boring transit in Oblivion I am in a nice serene place (when I'm not in a cave whacking a rat).
Aspro if you start walking so slowly you are encumbered and have to ditch some of your loot to get lighter and walk properly again.
What is hard to get used to is the massive landscape, but really there isn't much point wandering about it. It's large to the point where it is boring to travel about it, so use fast travel by selecting locations on the map.
And what is with you guys and your character choices? You should choose the beefiest guy with the biggest axe.
A manly man.