I'll do some screens since I didn't post anything today.
First, is this one wood elf guy with the scripted encounter as you approach the Kvatch refugee camp. He runs off afterward and I didn't think much about it...until I later encountered his dumb ass getting ripped apart by timberwolves. Twice. I babysat him all the way to Anvil's dockside bar, just to make sure our precious NPC population didn't dwindle.
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I forgot about the casual racism in the game, haha. To be honest, I'd much rather having NPCs with actual (usually stupid) opinions and rough edges than some sanitized "we all get along" drivel. That said, Bosmer are probably my least-favorite race to play as in ES games, so I'm not going to go to bat for them very often. Don't get me started on the Green Pact cannibalism...
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While I was bodyguarding for that Kvatch elf, I wound up doing some Fighter Guild quests, including one to find thieves in some pawn shop. It was a tough fight (took a few tries since I don't have enchanted weapons) but I eventually got by with a little help from my friends (and by friend, I mean
paralysis poison
). All the would-be looters just spawn outside the pawn shop on the appointed day, too, with permanent 0 disposition and the same race-tweaked line to repeat. Reminds me of those pirates at the Waterfront who say "ain't got nothin' to say to ya, fancypants" -- one of Oblivion's classics.
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Did Azura's quest to get my Star and had to tough it out against some vamps in the crypt. It sure is harder to do quests when you don't get Umbra at LV1, haha. (Although now that I know it's Clavicus Vile's quest, I'm going to go cheese that immediately.) Gotta say, though, I do prefer calm, kind, sweet Azura of Skyrim and ESO instead of stern, angry, possibly wrathful Azura -- voice-wise, anyway.
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masterpug53 posted...
Yeah, I get that constant sun damage is more 'realistic,' but vampirism in Oblivion was...not fun.
I have memories of swimming deep underwater to avoid sun damage, lol. Good thing that river goes all over the country.
masterpug53 posted...
I too occasionally get the itch to revisit Oblivion. I was downright obsessed with that game for years, but haven't touched it since Skyrim came out.
Now that I know this laptop can play Oblivion fairly well, I kinda want to replay New Vegas, too, haha. I can play both that and Oblivion on my 360 if I really wanted to, but I don't feel like finaggling my weird disc drive, finding the controllers/batteries, etc. Might even have Morrowind from OG Xbox that I can play with backwards compatibility...maybe.
drclaeys posted...
What was funny was the voice acting, like 5 voices for the ENTIRE game.
Don't forget the chick in the Imperial College (or whatever the mage college is called) with the voice line that has a flub left in. I'm sure someone can link it here.
ellis123 posted...
At bare minimum grab graphical mods. Even if the characters will still have the potato face going on the game really does have the ability to look much better. They also have the benefit of generally not being that hard to install as unless you overwrite the exact same areas over and over (for whatever reason) they don't conflict at all.
I keep vacillating between modding and doing a normal style. If I mod, though, I'd probably do a bunch of stuff instead of just updating the aged graphics, which I don't mind in the first place. After hearing nightmares about people's load order and mod compatibiilty and stuff, I'm a little gun-shy about it.