The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is a role-playing game developed by Bethesda Softworks and published by ZeniMax Media, Take-Two Interactive and 2K Games. It was released in 2006 for PC and Xbox 360. It was ported to PlayStation 3 in 2007.

Why It Closes Shut The Jaws of Oblivion

 * 1) Awesome atmosphere.
 * 2) Nice story which is about helping a bastard prince prevent an invasion from another dimension, which in some ways, represents Hell from Christian legends.
 * 3) You can play the game in either third-person or first-person perspective, both of which can be done easily in-game.
 * 4) You can increase the disposition of people through a minigame where you need to spin a wheel, where every wedge of the wheel is associated with a phrase to tell to the person who are you're talking to.
 * 5) You can play the game in many ways based on your preference or for generally trying out something new, such as a stealth game or a role-playing game.
 * 6) In order to level up, you need to raise eighteen unique skills, seven of which are labeled as "Major Skills" that are chosen at the beginning of the game and show what you specialize in from the beginning. Increasing skills will fill a bar (which can be seen from the character screen). When the bar is full, you will have to sleep to level up.
 * 7) The Radiant AI system used in the game makes sure that every single NPC in the game has his or her own daily life and dialogue, making the world feel much livelier.
 * 8) An enormous and breathtaking world completely open and free to traverse either on foot or horseback, and with many things to do.
 * 9) You can join many factions, each one with its own questline (which themselves are fairly well-written), bonuses and unique items. Characters in your same faction will like you more.
 * 10) The Imperial City Arena is a good way to level up (by taking part in battles) and raise money (by taking part in battles and betting on fights).
 * 11) Throughout the game, Oblivion Gates appear across the map that the player has to close, which act almost like this game's version of dungeons. Closing Oblivion Gates will award you a Sigil Stone, which can be used to enchant equipment.
 * 12) You can find Daedric Shrines scattered around the world, whom you can make an offer to in order to start a Daedra quest. Some of the most powerful items in the game, including the Umbra, are obtained by doing so.
 * 13) You can buy houses in every major city for a large sum of money, where you can safely store your items. You can also decorate them by buying furniture at a local shop.
 * 14) The DLCs are fully optional and add features such as new questlines and gameplay gimmicks.
 * 15) Awesome modding community. There are mods that improve the combat, the trade system, add new quests, restore scrapped content, or fix bugs in the game.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Many bugs and glitches with the worst being the Abomb bug, where after playing the game for at least a few hundred hours things like doors and spells will start to move extremely slow or completely freeze, basically breaking the game. Bethesda was aware of it during development but still released the game anyway. It happens on all versions of the game and only the PC version is fixable. Despite this, some glitches can be quite funny and some, though they are unintended, can even be useful.
 * 2) If you play as a vampire, it is pretty tricky to get used to this status. And unlike the the game's predecessor, lycanthropy is absent here due to time and financial constraints.
 * 3) The infamous Horse Armor DLC, in which you had to pay $2.50 in order to gain access to the incredibly minor feature of adding armor for your horse, with varying sets of armor available to purchase.
 * 4) The voice acting ranges from average at best to corny at worst. It doesn't help that almost every NPC encountered seems to be voiced by the same small cast of actors, acting, which was probably made due to financial constraits. All of this can become pretty annoying after a while.
 * 5) Expect to grind a lot since leveling up becomes very hard rather soon.
 * 6) While ambitious, the Radiant AI system has its flaws, such as randomized NPC conversations, which were turned into internet memes.

Reception
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was critically acclaimed and was deemed one of the best games ever made. Reviewers praised this game's vast game world and impressive graphics, while criticizing some NPCs' poor dialogue lines and recycled voice.

The game was awarded the "Game of the Year" title in 2006.

Tips

 * 1) Use the Altar of Enchanting in the Arcane University to enchant items, along with Sigil Stones. Keep in mind that it needs Soul Gems (which are also used for recharging magical items) and money, so be sure to use it only as a last resort.
 * 2) Bring always with you a weapon with the Soul Trap enchantment to trap souls that allow you to use soul gems.
 * 3) If you want to max out all skills, you'll need some help. Tips to level up the skills can be found here
 * 4) Heavier pieces of armor (mostly boots) will increase the noise that you make, thus making you easier to detect while playing stealthy.
 * 5) Most containers in the game reset their loot after an in-game day and every thing you stored inside will disappear, so you may want to buy a House as fast as possible.
 * 6) Early in the game, cast a Charm spell (which you can buy for cheap in magic shops in the Imperial City) on vendors to make them more eager to haggle with you.
 * 7) If you have the Vile Lair DLC, buy the Cattle Pen upgrade to obtain an undying prisoner that you can use as target practice or to feed with if you are a vampire.
 * 8) When you can't use a certain spell, use a scroll of the same magic to replace it. The scrolls can be used only once, though.

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