Best quests in oblivion?

I see a lot of people say Oblivion has the best quests in the series, so I'm curious what your favorite ones are. Some that come to my mind:

>the one where you go into the painting and its like a real painted world
>the dark brotherhood house party (everyone loves this one it seems, it's just great)
>the guy in anvil who sells you a house and it turns out to be haunted
>the last theives guild quest "the ultimate heist" where you steal an elder scroll
>that quest where these people in town form a group to kill vampires, but the leader turns out to be a vampire himself
>end of the main quest where you go into paradise
>where you sleep in the boat inn and when you wake up you discover the boat is out to sea and it's been taken over by bandits

Any other great ones? It's been a while since I've played it.

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>That one where you rescue some guy from his own dream.
>Those feels when you kill Grey Prince at the arena because he lets you kill him.

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>Not using the attribute cap extender so Unarmed actually does more damage than kitten farts

What the mod actually does is it makes h2h knock out opponents among other things.
Still, those kicks look pretty solid.

The Dark Brotherhood house party quest is fucking great, but I believe I heard that the AI is actually really shitty; and it doesn't matter whether you murder in front of the other guests or not. I may be wrong, but that would really be disappointing.

Anyway, "A Shadow Over Hackdirt" deserves a mention. Loved that one.

>Not using unarmored acrobatics and EFS so being naked makes you faster and more agile.

Ah, cool. Hand to hand needs some help in the base game afterall.

I'm playing through Oblivion for the first time in about 7 years with a bunch of mods and while I still feel it is inferior to Morrowind and Skyrim, I'm having fun.

I've got the Order of the Virtuous Blood mod, Paladin Mod, OOO (For Light of Dawn), Vampire Revolution and Curse of Hircine. Playing a Vampire Hunter is actually rather fun. It's probably more enjoyable than being a Vampire Hunter in Dawnguard, although Probably not as fuck as being a Vampire with Better Vampires or whatnot from Skyrim.
Curse of Hircine Werewolves are better than Morrowind Werewolves in general, although inferior to Skyrim Werewolves but that's not surprising.

>I believe I heard that the AI is actually really shitty; and it doesn't matter whether you murder in front of the other guests or not. I may be wrong, but that would really be disappointing.

That's true, the Unofficial Patch fixes that though.

Modded Oblivion is the best vampire life sim I've ever played.
That said, I haven't played Skyrim.

Which Vampire mod do you use? I struggled with that for a while before settling on Vampire Revolution.

I'm not even playing as a vampire, but it looked the best for that. The enemies get the powers from it too so that is nice as well. Arising from death, staking bodies, burning to ash, turning invisible, even nothin personelling to teleport behind you. Making fighting Vampires quite nice.

EFS?

When I play as a vamp I use Unholy Darkness among other mods (like that one where vampire hunters will wander the city if you're spotted doing vamp stuff, or you have a % chance of being woken up by a hunter)

When I play as a hunter I think I use OotVB, StarX, and of course karnak's Castlevania mod and the whip mod. But many other mods I can't recall. Long time I don't play.

I remember vamps would sleep on graves and flinch if you showed them a holy relic (like the classic cross but lore-friendly)
There was a chance where in some dungeons fires would go out and vampires would suddenly ambush you. I was pretty spooked when that happened.

But again, I'm probably messing mod features up since I haven't played for quite a while.

>Shadow over hackdirt

>There's a mod that adds actual deep ones and expands the quest.

The one where you uninstall this Bethesda garbage and play Witcher 3 instead.

Dark Brotherhood quests.

I literally had a boner while sneeking into dudes' houses and killing them in their beds. 'Dishonoured' is basically the Dark Brotherhood quests from Oblivion.

Dark brotherhood, thieves guild (I even liked the fencing shit) and shivering isles.

I'm ruined, my mind read this in the most sarcastic passive aggressive voice and i don't know if that was how it was meant to be conveyed

i like oblivion

All the Daedric Quests were fun. Border Watch and Umbra were my favorites.

>thieves guild (I even liked the fencing shit)

I actually really, really liked this. It reminds me a bit of how Factions in Morrowind had skill requirements, but a bit more organic. The amount you need to fence it far too low, but it is something.

A mod that vastly increases the amount you need to fence for all the quests is mandatory for me, along with the Thieves Arsenal for blackjacks, noisemaker arrows and that sort of thing.
I also use the mod that makes the mages guild and fighters guild have skill requirements to advance. I wish they would bring that back, it neatly solves the "Archmage of the mages Guild when I never cast a single spell" issue that Oblivion and Skyrim have.

That one were you get drugged and go kill a bunch of goblins.

Turns out the globins were people and you killed an entire village.

Really enjoyed the quest where you enter the giant oblivion gate, so much fucking awe playing it the first time.

Also the quest where you enter the dream world basically a trap course, something to do with a dwarven helmet.

>Entering the Kvatch gate for the first time.
I have played this game so many times and this quest never gets old for me.
Would make for a nice movie.
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Fuck, and you had even done a quest to help them before.

I find Oblivion gates to be a huge chore due to there being so few varieties. I like the fame and the sigil stones but fuck.

>rescue your own argonian waifu

Oblivion gates are a huge chore. The only good ones are the quest-related ones.

Oblivion was the worst in the series but the quest where you start to get deceived by the Dark Brotherhood is by far the best quest in the game. When you go back and look at the papers you will notice they are different.

lol to compare the witcher to Oblivion... The Witcher lacks real nonshitty RPG, has many more and better detailed quests, better detailed world, better character building...

I hope when people mean Dark Brotherhood, they mean the first half and not after the purging. The questline became boring after that.

Anyway many of the "entryway" to the Mages Guild was fun, like that weight ring.

I really liked the Fighters Guild quest were you infiltrate that rival faction, and are manipulated into murdering an entire village because you thought they were goblins.

I don't know, I just found that quest pretty impressive.

the one you get when you sleep at the inn on the waterfront is cool, as well as ging to et the crystallized tears

Well shit...

I've put like 100 hours in to oblivion, I've only encountered 1 of those quests. The thieves guild one, which was pretty awesome though not hard.

I think I encountered the vampire one, I think someone offered me money to get rid of them so I murdered the leader.

I'd replay it but my disc is long gone.

I love the Blackwood Co. questline

I wish you could pick them over those limp wristed Fighters Guild nerds.

It was pretty obvious something was wrong, seeing as the papers had a different icon and everything.

fighter's guild was pretty meh when you think about it

despite being the leader all you could do was gain cash, fuck at least the mage's guild has much better perks when you're the leader and you can even recruit random mages

>Going back for Valen Dreth.
>Those patrolling guards
>That bargaining he tries to do.
>His expression of fear when he hears the night mother sent you.
10/10 it genuinely felt llike a ninja game.

That house quest is terribly shallow if you've played it more than once. It's also the Reddit-tier answer

The whole Dark Brotherhood and Thieves guild questlines are great

people actually enjoyed the second half of DB?

>That house quest is terribly shallow if you've played it more than once.

Only due to bad coding. The way the different people react to each other and the way you can turn them on each other depending on the order killed and their disposition toward you is great.

Just because something is actually well done and widely recognized for it doesn't make it Reddit-tier, user. Stop being a hipster.

>This guy
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Simply brilliant.

I don't see these quests brought up a lot, but two minor ones I always liked were the reclusive mage who turned an entire village (and the creatures guarding his tower) invisible, and the one where you get robbed by the tavern sluts who lure you in with promises of an all night four-way.

If you looked around the stash in their house, you could find clothes and jewelry that belonged to the married men of Anvil. Would've been interesting to see the quest continued with routes to blackmail, sell, or discreetly return their items.

I always thought the vampirism cure questline was pretty cool, too, but nobody ever mentions that either.

>the last theives guild quest "the ultimate heist" where you steal an elder scroll
The idea is cool, but that torturously long Wraith tunnel sure kills it.

They're all pretty bland and boring desu.

>one where you get robbed by the tavern sluts who lure you in with promises of an all night four-way.

Never seen this. What if you play as a female character?

There is a mod that allows you to join them

It is, but it is kinda pointless considering that no-one is going to become a vampire unless they really want to become one, so there's hardly any reason for actually doing that quest. You end up doing it only if you are a serious conpletionist who becomes a vampire just that they can play through that quest, or if you become a vampire and regret it later (but why would anyone become a vampire if they don't know what they are getting into?).

if you play as female they'll ask you to join them but they will rob you instead

I catch vampirism accidentally all the time while fighting vampires.

It's in Anvil and they offer you a chance to join them, but you can only refuse it if playing vanilla so it ends up just like it would end up as a male character.

So does everyone else too, but nobody actually allows it to progress to actual vampirism unless they want to become vampires. You have such a long window to use a normal cure disease potion/whatever that it's impossible to become a vampire accidentally.

Dont compare that polish trash to an elder scrolls game

>>the dark brotherhood house party (everyone loves this one it seems, it's just great)

Sadly this was ruined for me the first time I ever did it because the script triggered for the murderer to kill someone in full view of everyone while we were all stood together in the same room.

>The king of worms fight
>The last part of the fighter's guild
>Helping that guy commit suicide in the shivering isles expansion
>Killing the duchess of dimentia
>Finding out that merchant in the imperial city is grave-robbing people and selling items
>Finding out about that ghost haunting the island near the imperial city
>Stealing the totems from those two goblin territories and making them kill each other to have a settlement rebuilt
>That black hand quest where you had to betray everyone in the guild
>That quest where you got abducted as a slave and had to escape and rescue others
>That black hand quest where you sneak back into the jail cell in the beginning and murder that dark elf that was talking shit

I always thought the vampirism cure quest was popular because of the reward glitch that got patched out. I exploited the shit out of it, but it took some of the fun out of getting new gear from exploring.

This one

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what's great is that the grave robbing quest acts like your first "non"-main quest since most players are drawn back at the IC, and it has some tutorial stuff too in an city setting rather than a dungeon (stealthing, following an npc, lock picking houses, all while preventing being seen by a guard)

They have other dialogue if they hate you, but due to the faction bonus it is rare to get it.

>those poison apples you get for cleansing the dark brotherhood

One night, I snuck into the guard quarters in the imperial city, stole all the food, and put those poison apples everywhere. Came back the next day and there were dead guards everywhere in the barracks.

The whip mod looks fun but I don't like it replacing 1h animations when not using the whip. What a shame.

Honestly, the majority of the dark brotherhood and thieves guild were great.

The finale of the thieves guild was amazing. I didn't cheese the AI or resort to combat, stealing the elder scroll was fucking amazing. All the shit you stole finally made sense and was used.
Shit was cash.

Mages guild was pretty good too. The well ring necromancy shit. Mannimarco and shit.

>Fighters guild was bretty gud too. It starts out generic, then getting revenge on the high on hist competition was good.

Only disappointment I had in the game was that the final Oblivion showdown was like 3v3.

>Only disappointment I had in the game was that the final Oblivion showdown was like 3v3.

???

I thought it was less fighting and more like letting the mooks of your side and the Daedra side kill each other while you escort Sean Bean

Oh and fuck all of shivering isles.

It's been a long time since I've played it, but I remember I helped out like 4 cities and each had like 2 guards to help stop the end of the world.

>I need to replay this shit.

Oblivion had the comfiest quests that's for sure.

Didn't play skyrim. Anything special quest wise?

oh that's not endgame, that's more like the third-to-the-last boss fight

you're talking about the invasion of Bruma which has certain amount of redshirts to help you provided you help the city with their oblivion gate trouble first

though apparently if you didn't do certain quests first, like ratting the corrupt guard out in Cheydenhall, you'd get say, said unkillable corrupt guard

after that you'd go visit the world the high elf boss made to kill him, and then the final battle in the IC which involves escorting him to the chapel

Oblivion was my first TES. I remember my jaw dropping during the last Dark Brotherhood quest, when I learned I had to steal a scroll that this game was based off of. Then the ending to that guild was like an ending to an entire videogame itself. It was fantastic.

I have so many memories of this game. It has probably aged like milk though.

true. I was reading this thread and given an itch to play it

But I played that game from when I was like 8 until I was 15, I don't know if I could enjoy it again.

except the elder scrolls don't have anything to do with the games, really

why is this series even named elder scrolls

were they a plot point back in arena

I need to try this sometime

Sorry most Skyrim Quests aren't as imaginative as Oblivion's, the only "unique" quests are the guilds, main quest, go find hidden parts to powerful equipment, and Daedra artifacts... after that every quest is go inside some cave or go collect 5 giant toes

The Elder Scrolls are literally the timelines, past and future, of the world that exist in universe. If anyone could read them they'd know the future of the TES world and achieve CHIM.

Nigga. That is as good if not better than oblivion itself. Go play that now.

There's a quest where you go party with some guy and then wake up on the other side of Skyrim in the middle of a chapel.

Oh wait, i thought you said shivering isle

im drunk

nah, skyrim is shit.

Skyrim's quests are so damn shitty and lazy it completely overshadow the very few quests that had any effort put into it, and even then it was further ruined by godawful writing

yeah definitely something Oblivion and Skyrim lack

The Video Games themselves are Elder Scrolls.

Think about the way Elder Scrolls are described in Oblivion. They're talking about the game itself.

When the Gray Fox uses the Elder Scroll the change the way the Gray Cowl of Nocturnal works and its history, he's basically Modding the game with a mod that isn't Lore Friendly

Thank you Japanese.

man I don't even remember some of those.

the entirety of thieves guild and dark brotherhood are amazing, you actually have to progress in ranks and start up doing shitjobs and end up doing way more important stuff.

Most of the deadra quest are also great.

I'm giving a special mention to the village with an undergroung society and a prisoner

>why is this series even named elder scrolls
They chose the name because it sounds cool. Then the games became popular and they had to bullshit out some lore for it.

Also have to ask what faces is he using? I assume he's using HGEC EyeCandy for the Body. Sorry I'm new to Oblivion modding.

really sucks that there's nothing you can do to remove the neck line in Oblivion

But you can.

>when you were 8
>came out in 2006
Jesus fuck man I was 12

how?

i was 18, you're both faggots.

I was only 16. It's strange, I swear I must have been younger than that it feels like a lifetime ago.

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i was 24 :(

I'm 20 now, which means you should've left years ago

as far as playing a thief/assassin type is concerned, oblivion was far superior to skyrim, there is nothing like creeping around ACTUAL cities and stealing everyone's shit

oblivion is a better thief game than dishonored or thief 4

What's it like being so old?

I don't mind the idea of wrinkles or crow's feat but these lines here terrify me. I'm already starting to get the hint of them.

is it compatible with the female eyecandy and the male body mods

Especially if you use the Thieve's Arsenal mod for blackjacks, rope arrows, grease traps, knockout gas and water arrows to put out lights.

this so fucking much, playing with OOO also makes the thieves guild much more interesting because you have to steal a SHIT TON of stuff before earning gray fox's trust to get the increasingly important mission. And even then it is just fun to wander in the imperial city, break into a random house and completely empty it out of anything of value.

Fuck everyone who says manjaw. Those lines are what ruins modern female characters.

What's a good mod to fix the shitty level scaling? Preferably one that doesn't also add a bunch of ancillary bullshit I don't need.

as you get older, its like you just dont give as much of a fuck about that sort of thing anymore

i guess a part of you knows that if you still did, you would probably kill yourself

you find pleasures in the little things, your tastes change, and life carries on

why im still here? fuck knows