Poll: Poll: How much did you care about Oblivion's main questline, and will you care about Skyrim's?
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I've had many PC save files where I never even beat the Main Quest. Either my file got lost with time, or saved up for all eternity and never bothered with again. It was only on one of my 360 characters that I finally got around to beating the Main Quest, and that was about a hundred hours after I'd done other things.
The thing about Oblivion is, for all its glitchiness and bad leveling ideas, something it does really well is good side-quests. It's not like the MMORPG side-quests where you have to kill x number of monster y to collect randomly-dropped item z, or find item x in convoluted dungeon t. The side-quests in Oblivion all tell an interesting, unique, mini-story. And they involve doing interesting, unique things. Finding out why everybody in a town is invisible. Making the sky rain dogs. Locking up a corrupt imperial guard. Quests are more fun when they're not just about the killing. They build atmosphere by showing that the society has problems of its own.
The thing about Oblivion is, for all its glitchiness and bad leveling ideas, something it does really well is good side-quests. It's not like the MMORPG side-quests where you have to kill x number of monster y to collect randomly-dropped item z, or find item x in convoluted dungeon t. The side-quests in Oblivion all tell an interesting, unique, mini-story. And they involve doing interesting, unique things. Finding out why everybody in a town is invisible. Making the sky rain dogs. Locking up a corrupt imperial guard. Quests are more fun when they're not just about the killing. They build atmosphere by showing that the society has problems of its own.
The dark brotherhood is by far the greatest questline in oblivion because it's so well written.
In terms of storyline, I think very few quest for oblivion did I actualy enjoy, I think going into the portal is pretty cool and that really does it for me but I wouldn't play it again.
Skyrim's story seems more ambitious so I will play that one.
In terms of storyline, I think very few quest for oblivion did I actualy enjoy, I think going into the portal is pretty cool and that really does it for me but I wouldn't play it again.
Skyrim's story seems more ambitious so I will play that one.
I didn't care about it too much, and i never got why my character should care (i mean, except for the "world is ending!" thing...)
But you were a prisonner, and a (arguably crazy?) emperor tells you something about a prophecy and Oblivion... he also gives you a (very nice!) amulet when he dies and tells you basically to save the world...
I would have been out of there so fast (sweet liberty!) without even a look back, what do i owe these people again ?
But you were a prisonner, and a (arguably crazy?) emperor tells you something about a prophecy and Oblivion... he also gives you a (very nice!) amulet when he dies and tells you basically to save the world...
I would have been out of there so fast (sweet liberty!) without even a look back, what do i owe these people again ?