This. This is the greatest game to have ever been created. This is the culmination of all that the gaming industry, no, the human race has set out to accomplish. Nothing can even compare. William Shakespeare dreamt that he could write something on par with the quest "Whodunit?" Milton and Pope can only wish that they were capable of writing something with such depth as the Dark Brotherhood storyline in this game - this masterpiece. Michelangelo wishes that he could capture in his art what this game communicates accidentally, even in its apparent imperfections, such "glitches" like the Skull of Corruption cloning process.
This is no mere game. This work gives a fundamentally crucial commentary to the human condition. Its potato-faced NPCs shed light on our own shallow natures. Its leveling system reminds us all that the world waits for nobody: you either keep up as you age, or you get left behind.
Does any other mortal creation even compare? O Greatest Work of Human Hands, I can only pray that your shimmering radiance will touch more souls than my mere self. Let ye who claim that its puny companions in the so-called Elder Scrolls series can compare perish totally for the sake of your heresy. Oblivion is the only path forward; it is our next step, as a species. Embrace it, Sup Forums - or perish.
Oblivion is the best game ever made. No this is not baiting, shilling, marketing or whatever you wanna call it. You need to understand that humans evolve through time. Art evolve, music evolve, movies evolve, humans evolve and so games do. No, your Ocarina Of Time is not better than Horizon: Zero Dawn. No, your Deus Ex is not better than Persona 5. Still no, your The Vampire Masquerade: Bloodlines is not better than Skyrim. Things change, they evolve. A game released 15-20 years ago it's not better than a modern game. You think that but it's just nostalgia and emotions. I too used to believe that The Legend Of Dragoon was the best game ever but at some point I had to face this thing: modern games are better. I love The Legend Of Dragoon and will always have a special place in my heart but cannot compete with the likes of, lets say, The Last Of Us. I understand that and I accept that and so should you. The "old games" are better is just a meme being reinforced by nostalgia and by the fact that you just can't let it go. I know that, deep inside you, you know all this already. But you have your position to maintain. That feeling of being different than the others. Dislike these games or not, you have to accept that TLOU, TW3, P5, HZD and BOTW are the pinnacle of gaming history. It is time, user. Time to let the past go. Just keep all those memories and feelings in your heart and move forward or you will never be able to enjoy new games. Remember that old is obsolete. New is the future. We can only go forward.
Jordan Sanders
That damned book has been debunked a million times over
Dominic Lewis
>people that liked Oblivion are old enough to post on Sup Forums now >baby Dovahkiin will be 7 this year
It's legit one of the worst games i ever played. "Best TES" my ass, even skyrim was more enjoyable and that game is a shit RPG.
Henry Reed
sure, if you were born after 9/11
Jace Long
>literally all dungeons look the same shit rearranged in a different way fuck off this game is terrible
Gabriel Phillips
morrowind>skyrim>oblivion morrowind got the best atmosphere and better experience skyrim got the best combat and unique dungeons/cave Oblivion got the best quest and horse armor lol
Ethan Rodriguez
>install a bunch of mods >it's still mediocre and filled with potato people >go back to Morrowind
I want to know what makes daggerfall better than the other TES.
Luis Hall
Who unironically enjoys these games? They're more of a modding sandbox than an actual RPG and the combat is a joke. Quests aren't that impressive and lots of immersion breaking points, especially if you count the endless glitches and bugs in every fucking Bethesda game.
Aaron Murphy
how can you debunk straight facts?
Asher Cooper
>Skyrim>Oblivion
Utterly pathetic.
Julian Torres
t. early twenties
Jacob Moore
Oblivion = best Elder Scrolls. I’d say that’s a fair place to leave it
Kevin King
this is the perfect example of a game being carried by the soundtrack.
Andrew Martin
The lore from the Elder Scrolls series is amazing.
More like a clusterfuck. Morrowinds Lore is rather consistent but the overarching lore of Elder Scrolls is an utter mess of unreliable narrators and dragonbreaks.
>Implying unreliable narrators ia a bad thing Imo, it's one of the things that make the world and lore so compelling. It functions just like the real world where different people push different agendas and believe different things.
Already have that one saved but it's an interesting read nonetheless. I also got pic related from a lore thread last weekend which i found really interesting. The user who wrote it said it was OC.
It was my first truly open-world RPG, and with the amount of detail and characters it had, my tiny mind was blown when I first played it. There are plenty of great games I've played since then, but something about Oblivion will always have that extra bit of magic for me.
That fucking music man, listening to this while running around that beautiful green, forested landscape, not know what I was going to discover next. Fucking magic.
>a game's worth is only determined by its leveling system
Cameron Williams
kys
Jacob Phillips
when the leveling system ruins the game, yeah
Alexander Hughes
Look, no matter what you think of Oblivion from a gameplay or story standpoint, can we all agree it has the best OST in the series and is literally Jeremy Soule's greatest work? It is auditory perfection and a major part of why the game is so memorable.
>calling something the "greatest" implies it has no flaws or at least it has no huge detrimental flaws compared to other games in the same genre bare minimum >level scaling is a huge, terrible flaw
It's not the greatest. Simple as that.
Oliver Perry
>want to play it on my big screen >no xinput support >dinput support is fucking garbage
meh, i enjoyed it for its open world and exploration aspects, as well as how fleshed out every individual character was, the combat was secondary to me
>you either keep up as you age, or you get left behind. That's one way of looking at it.
Henry Mitchell
I commend you for copy pasting all those links no one's going to click
Logan Rodriguez
>Muh Immersion broken. Nobody said muh back then.
Jaxon Hall
>open world is just trees >"exploration" is copy pasted dungeons/caves >characters are bipolar retards that stand in one place for 14 hours because of amazing radiant AI
Poor kid. Should be laws against names like that. Any reference that makes a name more unusual than Zelda should be banned.
Josiah Wood
>Any game with randomisation in character generation >Good Arena and daggerfall were unable to be anything but trash for this reason.
Luis Lopez
>and is literally Jeremy Soule's greatest work? Since he isn't dead yet I wouldn't make that claim, now having said that I haven't listened to all of his work, however the OST to Oblivion is really fucking good, and I guess almost dying in a car accident could definitely inspire someone to put their all into their current/latest project.
trees, bushes, towns, villages, 'cities', dungeons etc etc, each containing a whole host of characters with unique quests and dialogue
the only thing that i think really sucked balls was the main quest, as going into oblivion gates became a bit repetitive, but hey i enjoyed the game, you're going to have to learn to live with that, good luck.
John Collins
Todd wasn't kidding The NPCs are actually intelligent and none of it is planned They do nothing because they realize they're in the game and put themselves in harms way so that something (i.e. the player character) might end their suffering
Luis Peterson
oh sorry, trees AND bushes. and how unique of every npc to tell me the rumor of how the grey fox does or doesn't exist.
Samuel Rivera
Oblivion even brought some good lore stuff to the series desu.
>a name more unusual than Zelda >Zelda Fitzgerald would now be considered a meme name when Miyamoto first chose the name as in honor of Scott because Shiggy likes Fitzgerald's writing We've come full circle and looped back around 20 times by this point
Morrowind guild quests are fucking boring >collect some mushrooms >collect some more mushrooms >kill this guy >no story arc whatsoever, just random errands
