I made a small post about the more popular Elder Scroll games available on the market a couple weeks ago, and now I want to focus on one in particular. And that is Oblivion.
Overview
Oblivion starts off with you creating your character in what seems to be a normal jail cell. You choose the name, race, gender, and aesthetic attributes, such as the size of your face and hair, or how pronounced your nose is. After you lock in that, you are given control of your character. You soon find out your seemingly normal cell is actually a secret tunnel leading out of the Imperial City when the Emperor and his bodyguard walk into your cell. You then tag along with them and escape the Imperial City through the secret tunnel and the sewers. Although the Emperor dies from the Red Dawn assassins chasing him, he gives you a sacred magical object that you must bring to a monk named Jauffre at Weynon Priory.
There are numerous skills you can train in Oblivion. You have a choice of making seven of them your main skills and the rest will be secondary, which means they will be harder to train and will be a lower level when you first start out. They are all affected by your attributes and specialization which you pick at class selection and birth sign selection when you are with the Emperor. The ways to level up these skills are numerous, as there are many different spells and abilities granted by each skill. You might choose to be a sneaky conjurer who infiltrates a dungeon and then spawns merciless minions to do his bidding or maybe a bare knuckle fighter, who beats his enemies into submission using his fists.
Once out of the secret passageway and the sewers, you have two options, continue with the main storyline and take the magical amulet to Jauffre, or explore and have fun. Most of the time people start to explore the vastness of Oblivion, which is a key factor in the games success.
There are nine cities in the province of Cyrodiil, but only eight of them are normal, as Kvatch is currently inhabited by demons. This occurred quite recently before your character comes out of the sewers. There are countless side quests in every city, and even in the remote towns that are scattered around the province. These can range from delivering messages to destroying evil demons that are intent on enslaving the entire world. The rewards from these quests are most of the time level dependent, which means the rewards get greater the higher the level you are.
There are three main guilds you can join in Oblivion, which are the Thieves Guild, the Mages Guild, and the Fighters Guild. Each one has an obvious general specialization included in the names, and they all have their own storylines and characters, which gives countless hours of entertainment through questing and acquiring skill in the certain areas those guilds favor. There is one organization that isn’t a guild though… but very well known in the world of Oblivion, and that is the Dark Brotherhood. Much less a guild and more a society of ruthless murderers for hire, the Dark Brotherhood is basically the boogiemen of Oblivion, and will give you strange quests that challenge your ability to kill while remaining stealthy. They have a very dark storyline and will give you large bonuses for accomplishing secondary goals, like dropping a giant animal head onto your mark, instead of running in and stabbing him to death.
If you do get bored, why not just start the main quest line, it’s always there, and you won’t ruin the game by completing it as it’s just like any other quests, except for the fact it’s about a giant daedric prince coming from the abyss to destroy the entire world, but it can’t possibly affect that much of the game… right?
In Oblivion, the entire world seems to revolve around your actions, you are constantly doing things for everyone and it can be quite profitable at times, and you can buy numerous houses and items, but really in the end, it’s all up to the player when it comes to how the game is played and it never gets old because of that. Stay tuned for more.
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