Still playable by today's standards? Or just go straight for Skyrim? I prefer grass over snow

Still playable by today's standards? Or just go straight for Skyrim? I prefer grass over snow.

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oblivion has a lot of grass.

Worst in the series

>I prefer grass over snow
Oblivion is the game for you, my dude. Also has better quests than skyrim so unless you're a graphics whore it should be better all around.

Oblivion doesn't look much worse than Skyrim sine there are graphics mods. Characters are uglier but have better animations.

Oblivion is a far better game overall, the only thing Skyrim has over it is Steam workshop support and that's relatively minor.

You clearly mean Skyrim.

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Definitely playable.
The vanilla game was bogged down by poor design choices and console limitations but if you're playing on PC you can rid the game of that peasant shit.

I'm at a tie between Morrowind and Oblivion being my favorite ES games, although Skyrim ultimately has the most hours from me despite being the worst game simply because of the endless supply of entertaining/funny/sexy mods for it.

There are plenty of good mods to make Oblivion's potato characters look more like actual beautiful people.

Thanks guys, I'll play Oblivion first.

>tfw you can't go back
>you can never go back

Has its pluses and minuses compared to Skyrim. Shivering Isles is far more original than anything Skyrim did. (Dragonborn was good, but was basically "Hey, remember Morrowind?" the DLC)

The fact that you could have both your weapons of choice and magic of choice equipped at the same time was something they should've kept. I had to mod Skyrim's stupid "hand" bullshit until I broke it to stop jumping in and out of the damn favorites menu because apparently a hotkey system was too low-tech.

Fuck Skyrim, honestly.

It's so shit it gave me a new appeciation for Skyrim

Play Morrowind frst, actually. because that's an actual good game.

>Still playable by today's standards?
Nope.
>Or just go straight for Skyrim?
Just never play another Bethesda game again. It's not worth the time.

It's aged, but I still have fond memories of the different questlines.

Play Skyrim first, then Oblivion, Then Morrowind, Then Daggerfall. You'll enjoy the series more that way. After that, play them again in release order so you can see the lore and how much they fucked it up.

visually, it has aged somewhat poorly, but at least there are graphics mods. vanilla level scaling is dogshit, but overhaul mods fix that and a lot of other issues. so vanilla is playable, but nowhere near as fun as modded.

it has way better guild questlines and more memorable quests than skyrim in general. it's also less dumbed down than skyrim since it still has RPG elements left.

Landscapes look just as good as Skyrim's. Quests are better. Gameplay is kind of a mixed bag. Some prefer it, some don't. Character models look like trash. Character AI does a lot, but it often bugs out or just makes odd decisions. But the weird AI adds to the experience.

Oblivion's level scaling is horrible. I would go straight for Skyrim OP

You have 10 seconds to name a memorable side quest from Skyrim.

>playing in anything but release order

Arena and Daggerfall are optional but Daggerfall is still worth a shot at some point

The cannibalism one in the Markarth House of the Dead. That said Skyrim gets so old so fast, and the only way to avoid it is heavy roleplaying in your head.

Discerning the Transmundane

fug

the one where you go to a dungeon, kill a lot of draugr, and fetch an item for a NPC

The one where you party with a daedric lord or some shit. I think it was Shigeruoth

Don't forget to mod it, stuff like Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul is mandatory.

Collecting the masks.

If you haven't played Morrowind play that first, it's where the series peaked in terms of actually being a good RPG. Oblivion has some nice things about it like Guild quest-lines (though it's still dumb they took out stat requirements for promotions), but it does some really bad shit like the god awful and poorly implemented level scaling. Not to mention it's probably one of the ugliest games ever made.

Just go Morrowind + Expansions to Oblivion + Expansions then Skyrim.

I remember playing with some overhaul mod and it made the game a lot harder, and as a result a lot more rewarding than the vanilla experience, where you can just finish the main quest and explore the whole world at level 1.

Back to what exactly, the weakest title in modern TES?

i cant get over the graphics, theyre horrendous

i even prefer morrowinds. both modded im talking about

lighthouse

Discerning the Transmundane, Blood on the Ice, talking Hagraven, No One Escapes Chidna Mine,

I'd say Oblivion aged poorer visually than Morrowind. I seriously cannot think of a game as ugly as vanilla Oblivion.

Back to the innocence of childhood.

That wasn't even a quest

>Oblivion
>childhood

>No One Escapes Chidna Mine,
Boring.
>talking Hagraven
Fun.
>Blood on the Ice

Fun, and once you get the house super cool to have a serial killer room.

>Discerning the Transmundane

Fun

really?

It was still memorable. Fucking Falmer.

Now post your character

I forgot how high level I was, but I got to a point in Oblivion where the only thing that could kill me were Goblin Warlords. I literally had over 100% physical damage reflect and they could still kill me.

my waifu

Nudes.

Oblivion is definitely the most bland ES from Morrowind forward. However it isn't worthless.

I honestly believe Skyrim is a better experience in 90% of the way, but going back and playing Oblivion is worth it. Atleast Hand to Hand is still its own skill, if if you don't have the Skyrim Kill animations.

Definitely go in vanilla, after about 10-15 hours install the smaller DLCs, then after main story do Shivering Isles for the best expansion ever made.

> get oblivion
> Try to get the character overhaul and body replacer
> Follow the tutorials to the last line, even watch video ones
> The characters have no face, just eyes and a mouth with teeth floating
> The bodies are basically set at being 95% transparency
Can get the game to work with any other mods. At this point I don't even care about the faces and bodies, it's just autism to get it to work. Non of the mod managers or even manual installation help. 19 mods work perfectly, overhauls and shit, but those two are a bane of my existence.

I forgot just how much I hate Oblivion.

While Characters generally look better in Skyrim, I found 90% of them looked dirty/old/wrinkly/poor. Which is more realistic, but less non-modded cuties.

I played Oblivion in 7th grade. I'm a senior in college now.

Go outside once in a while and you'll find time has passed and some of the people who are younger than you are full adults now.

By far the worst in the series

Stop fucking installing the game to program files, and if that isn't your problem, learn how to follow fucking directions. Check your mod incompatibilities, use BOSS, simple af.

I played oblivion in 7th grade. You do realize it came out 10 years ago, right?

Vanilla Skyrim has plenty of cuties though.

Muiri
Sylgja
Adrianne
Olfina
Injard
Aela
Brelyna
Jordis
Lydia
Ysolda
Seena
Anneke

Skyrim does quite a few things bad but as far as visual style goes it's a more natural evolution of Morrowind's, it's fantastic.

>Muiri
>Sylgja
>Adrianne
>Olfina
>Injard
>Aela
>Brelyna
>Jordis
>Lydia
>Ysolda
>Seena
>Anneke

Bless you.

too bad most of them have the same awful VA, ruining any immersion

Wait for Skyblivion

youtube.com/watch?v=PfhtHRdaAnA

>"memorable"

Checked instructions, use BOSS. Been installing hundreds of mods over the years. Never had this problem.

> Installing game to program files

Who even does this. C'mon user.

here

I mean what the fuck did you want Bethesda to do, hire a VA for every NPC?

how about
use more than 15 voice actors for 80% of the game
how about
not have the same voice actor voice more than 1 npc per city

some things to ponder...

Only Oblivionfags would find Guard armor like that acceptable.

What is it even supposed to be? A generic fantasy plate with a random ass Ancient Greek helmet. Why?

Only historyfags would find something deplorable about armor in a video game. There's so many more off things about the picture, dummy--how about how none of the other textures work together in that scene?

Because the Imperial LEGION has always been fairly generic medieval fantasy with vague semi-Greek quasi-Aztec aesthetics.

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Dunno how you'd have such problems then, user. I'm shit at this kind of thing and run the game on a shitty outdated laptop with tons of mods and managed to get the character overhaul to work. Are you using OBMM?

Man, I forgot that almost every low-level armor set in Skyrim had exposed forearms and no gloves. Don't people get cold there?

all she needs is the warmth of her emperor

most of skyrim's low level armors are Noridc in style and Nords naturally resistance to cold so they don't give a fuck

is this bait

anyway, just play both, oblivion first. no good reason to skip it

telling anyone to start TES with oblivion should be a felony

urrite they should start with Daggerfall

Molag bal's quest in Markarth.

it's...
it's you! the hero of Kvatch! this is truly an honor

No, it's not playable by "today's standards."

Morrowind is a terrible game to start off with. This isn't the early 2000's anymore, most people don't enjoy having to walk everywhere, hope to luck out on a decent build their first time, and explore an empty brown world filled with paragraphs of text to read.

Oblivion is just intuitive enough, yet just complex enough, that it can act as a good stepping stone for either of the games adjacent to it.

>always been fairly generic medieval fantasy with vague semi-Greek quasi-Aztec aesthetics.
where did you get that? from your ass?

Imperials have always been inspired from Romans. See pic related. Even Skyrim tried to bring back the Roman aesthetic.

I'm not sure where the hell you got "Roman aesthetics" from looking at those armor sets, but I guess I'll take your word for it.

Play Nehrim and/or Enderal, literally no reason to play these fucking awful games.

why should I want to play a game in an awful game engine that has nothing to do with the lore I've come to love?

Because you're a rampaging faggot and you need something to calm yourself down with.

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Oblivion has aged VERY well, this is vanilla @ 3840x2160

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Now get a bit closer to one of those NPCs

>It STILL isn't finished

Who do I have to kill to get this game out!?

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CRIMSON

NIRNROOT

you could at least use nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/40549/?

What I want to know is if Daggerfall is worth playing. And I don't mean playing for 5 minutes to see what it's like, I mean actually diving in to and playing like I would Morrowind, Oblivion or Skyrim.

nope.

Nope. If you want to play a good old RPG, the Wizardry, Might & Magic, and Bard's Tale series are so much better. Hell, even Lands of Lore beats out Daggerfall at times.

skyrim a shit

Oblivion still looks great with mods and is a better game all around.

never knew Trump was in oblivion

imagine how much shit the next TES is going to be
now imagine it in an absolutely dreadfully boring place like Hammerfell with Bethesda-tier writing

oblivion is less casualized, skyrim has talent trees which is kind of fun doe

Oh. Well shit, any particular reason why? If I had to guess i'd say it's the fact that the game is apparently a buggy unstable mess, but for all I know there could be more to it then that.