Why is Oblivion so comfy?

>>377974696
i wannaaaa live in a place of downszzz

the objective truth with elder scrolls games is that they have the best ambient soundtracks in gaming. Skyrim specifically.

>>377976873
Oblivion's ambient soundtrack is only like 20 minutes of music in total looped. I turned it off real, real quick

>>377976873
Fuck yeah

https://youtu.be/hBkcwy-iWt8?t=22m9s

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Damn, Emperor Uriel Septim looks like THIS?

>>377977472
I'd Uriel his Septim if you catch my drift.

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>>377974696
BEST GAME
>staying up all night in middle school with my bro doing thieves guild quests fucking with moth priests
>spooking out at dark bros quest with the mothers head
>cheesin Umbra ASAP
>duping potions via arrows
>skeleton key hype
>SHIVERING FUCKIN ISLES
>HALT CITIZEN
I'm watching lobosjr play it right now while drinking some vodka Schweppes eating taquitos.

>>377976873
With Oblivion he actually got in a car accident while working on it's soundtrack, and had a sort of religious or life changing experience. He threw everything out and started over on the soundtrack and produced what we have now. It's also the best Elder Scrolls soundtrack to date.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKLfvt6CZCY

>>377974696

Jeremy Soule's ambient music for the wilderness, towns, and indoors was right on point for Oblivion. It really captured the essence of living in a metropolitan and modern empire at the height of its power. The architecture and aesthetics helped too; though the people looked like potatoes, the lighting, architecture, and furniture all looked really inviting and pleasing to the eye.

Unlike Skyrim, which is not comfy due to it being in a harsh and somewhat untamed province in the middle of a civil war. Everything looks kinda brown, the lighting is muted and kinda dark, and most of the furniture around is simple and rough-looking. In addition, the cities all pretty much look the same due to the lighting and lack of color despite being architecturally distinct.

Ah, its Grandpa Piss

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It's a major nostalgia game for a lot of people.

>tfw never played oblivion during the craze
>just sort of consider it to be yet another game that dramatically lowered the bar for the rpg genre as a whole

>>377974696

>Get Oblivion again after not playing it for years
>Instantly remember that its the comfiest game in existence
>Remember I'm almost max level
>Boot that shit up
>See the familiar face of Red Bull the Wood Elf Badass
>Charge around the Shivering Isles at breakneck speeds summoning Haskill for no reason and hopping across the surface of water just literally being a living god

Feels so good friend, glad you made this thread

>>377974696

is there any mod that fixes the potatoe faced people in oblivion?

>>377974696
today OP was a wise man

>>377974696
For a lot of people it opened them up to open world games. I mean, A LOT of people played morrowind and other open-world/RPGs before Oblivion...but it was generally restricted to the PC and back before gaming became as huge as it is now.

Like, the 360/wii/ps3 era really brought gaming to the forefront of the mainstream like gaming had never really been before. And Oblivion came out with it. Consoles sell more games/units typically as well. Combine all of this and BAM you got 'baby's first open world nostalgia game'

I mean I love Oblivion with the bottom of my heart, but it's like a retarded/autistic child that you love because it's your kid.

Oblivion also arguably had the best/most inventive quests in the Elder Scrolls series. Which, I feel is one of the chief reasons Skyrim pissed me off.

>>377977820
Damn that's comfy.

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retcon

>>377978515
There's a burgeoning mod that's taking skyrims assets and turning it into a revamped Oblivion.
It's coming along pretty well, they nailed the lighting which is one of the core differences between Cyrodill and Skyrim.

oblivion is like a big stinky that you encased in gold and said was da best ting in da world

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>>377974696
I tried to start playing this recently and I'm having a really hard time getting into it. Morrowind is my favorite game of all time and as much as I hate Skyrim it is still better than Oblivion. I think I am doing something wrong...

>>377978515
Character Overhaul. This is one of the faces >>377977472. The rest, especially the mer, look a lot better.

>>377980473

HAS SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR?

>>377980473
Oblivion is really hard to get into if you played Morrowind and Skyrim first.

Morrowind, from a worldbuilding and freedom standpoint, and Skyrim from a modern touches perspective that make Oblivion slightly irritating

>>377974696
because the difficulty stays the same no matter how much you level?

Alright, can someone please explain the fucking lockpicking in oblivion to me?

>>377981456
Only press it when you hear the second tink noise.

>>377974696
music and soft faces

>>377981346
I noticed that dungeons have nothing in them so I stopped exploring. I assume everything levels with you which was one of the problems I had with Skyrim. Downloaded Oscuro's Overhaul and I've been looking into Better Cities. Hopefully they help.

>>377981903
The soundtrack, glitches, and quests are what I liked about Oblivion.

Oblivion has my favorite quests.

Like if ES6 could take what Daggerfall,Morrowind,Oblivion, Skyrim did right and put it into one game...it'd be nice

>>377982142
>Like if ES6 could take what Daggerfall,Morrowind,Oblivion, Skyrim did right and put it into one game...it'd be nice
It would be and we can only hope. I don't see them have the diverse settings from Morrowind where you have several groups with their own lore, architecture, and aesthetics. I really don't see them bringing a lot of the RPG mechanics of Daggerfall and expanding the skill sets. It's nice to hope though...

>>377982597
Yeah, nor do I.

I would just like an Obsidian Fallout with the Fallout 4 engine so I can play a notretarded game.

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90% of it is on the shoulders of Auriel's Ascension.

Because it was your first TES game.

>>377984487
This. Like, not only was it people's first TES but for many it was their first Open World game.

>>377980473
>>377981346
I'm definitely biased because Oblivion was one of the first games I played after I built my first computer when I was a kid and is the first real RPG I ever played, but looking back the glory of Oblivion was in its comfy atmosphere, its detailed NPC lives, and most of all its quests.

Quests would have you searching for a man and then entering a painting world, or assassinating a man by dropping a huge Moosehead on him, hell there was even a dream invading quest.

My biggest gripe with Skyrim is that it had too many "miscellaneous quests" which felt more like errands. Skyrim just never held the mystery that Cyrodiil had.