I never completed it, too much running around closing oblivion gates. Frustrating is the best way to put it. If they make Skyrim's main quest fun instead of tedious then great and I'll finish it some day
Poll: Poll: How much did you care about Oblivion's main questline, and will you care about Skyrim's?
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I beat it in my second game but I didn't give a flying crap about it or any of the characters involved. What I did care about? LOOOOOT
I actually got all the way to the Sancre Tor quest before I got sidetracked by the Mage's guild. All subsequent characters I've started have never gotten to Kvatch, though. It's not even a question of whether or not I want to play it, because I do. I've just never been able to stand having Oblivion gates everywhere.
Bethesda has a history of terrible main plots, but the side quests are really interesting. So I'll probably wander, level up, discover secrets and join guilds and maybe when I have nothing else to do, I will follow the main plot.
I usually complete the main quest for Oblivion first, seeing as the narration keeps trying to instill it with a sense of urgency. Baurus says that I have to take the amulet to Jauffre IMMEDIATELY, and everyone associated with the main quest keeps telling me to make haste.
So, um, I do just that. Then I can derive some satisfaction in knowing that I'm the Champion of Cyrodiil and can become an absolute godmode by taking titles like Grand Champion, Archmage, Divine Crusader, Madgod and so on and pasting them over my character.
Then I imagine what it must be light to have so many achievements in your life. It makes me think the main character has to be some sort of ungodly and unbearable mix of Steve Jobs, Howard Hughes and Charles Foster Kane to have been able to accomplish so much after breaking out of prison.
My character: "I saved your ungrateful ass, you ************! You'd be chewed up in Dagon's jaws by now, if it weren't for me, so take that pride of yours, shove it up your ass, and give me my goddamned discount!"
*he then eyes Sheogorath*
"Oh, and *you*. Staff. Clothes. Title. NOW. You're fired from godhood, I'm taking over!"
Raminus Polus: "But you're already Archmage! Isn't that enough?
- No!
- Why, great and mighty Champion Archmage Divine Crusader of Cyrodiil?
- Because FUCK YOU, that's why!"
So, um, I do just that. Then I can derive some satisfaction in knowing that I'm the Champion of Cyrodiil and can become an absolute godmode by taking titles like Grand Champion, Archmage, Divine Crusader, Madgod and so on and pasting them over my character.
Then I imagine what it must be light to have so many achievements in your life. It makes me think the main character has to be some sort of ungodly and unbearable mix of Steve Jobs, Howard Hughes and Charles Foster Kane to have been able to accomplish so much after breaking out of prison.
My character: "I saved your ungrateful ass, you ************! You'd be chewed up in Dagon's jaws by now, if it weren't for me, so take that pride of yours, shove it up your ass, and give me my goddamned discount!"
*he then eyes Sheogorath*
"Oh, and *you*. Staff. Clothes. Title. NOW. You're fired from godhood, I'm taking over!"
Raminus Polus: "But you're already Archmage! Isn't that enough?
- No!
- Why, great and mighty Champion Archmage Divine Crusader of Cyrodiil?
- Because FUCK YOU, that's why!"
atm Skyrim is just screaming 'generic fantasy' at me so i will probably finish it soon so i can get it out of the way for mods and other stuff. Oblivion's main quest was just 'meh' compared to what users made for it.
Im hoping that finishing faction questlines wont mean the complete end of those stories like in Oblivion where the thievesguild or Dark Brotherhood, now just standing around there without anything happening at all. Something more dynamic is requiered to keep me going.
Im hoping that finishing faction questlines wont mean the complete end of those stories like in Oblivion where the thievesguild or Dark Brotherhood, now just standing around there without anything happening at all. Something more dynamic is requiered to keep me going.
For me, the main quest is finding the bloody thing. I keep getting lost and distracted. "Retrieve the Mac-Guffin off the dead guy," find myself doing the Mage Guild quest 5 seconds later. Hell yes, leader of the Thieves Guild, Mages Guild and almost done with the Fighters Guild quests! "You know that dead guy is still there with the Mac-Guffin right? Properly rotten by now...."
I've completed Oblivions main quest once; on my fourth or fifth character. Its actually the only quest chain in that game that i think i've done only once (maybe knights of the nine).
I eventually got around to it. The part where you have to rally the ENTIRE FUCKING COUNTRY against the daedric horde was bullshit though, so I was dicking around for a little while before I got around to closing all those gates.
EDIT: I should add that the end of the main quest line was awesome. No one should play Oblivion without seeing what transpires at least once.
EDIT: I should add that the end of the main quest line was awesome. No one should play Oblivion without seeing what transpires at least once.
The problem I have with Oblivion and Fallout 3 is they're so bland. Sure it's livened up by occasional moments where you're really drawn in, but they're so brief and pointless that I always end up wondering why they're there at all.
*Let me see your face...you're the one from my dreams..."
"Oh my god, it's Patrick Stewart!"
*Five minutes later*
"Oh, look, it's Patrick Stewart's virtual corpse."
It's like, even just knowing that those characters are digitally alive--even if I rarely see them or what not, it gives me greater incentive to play the game. I was happy when Sean Bean showed up, but his bored-sounding role made him a rather disappointing traveling companion, though it was good to know he was there all the same. But even in Fallout 3, as soon as Liam Neeson got the boot (or, gas chamber...), I wandered back to the Wasteland like, "Great, the one character I was rather fond of is now deceased...what else have I got going for me here."
At least until I met Fawkes, that was cool. Then I realized it was the same voice actor who says "STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM" in a certain other game, and I sorta backed away from the friendly super-mutant as a traveling companion...
Anywho--when I first played Oblivion, I ended up skipping half the side quests because the main quest started off so urgent I thought I had to see it through first thing. Then about three days of semi-hourly sessions later, I watched as Sean Bean valiantly transform into a stone dragon, voice-over a little video of the pretty scenery the game has to offer, and after that--nothin'. I mean, yeah, I was still playing, and that one high elf dude told me how everything was in the gutter now that the heir to the throne was dead, and sure I got some badass armor and all--but in the end I was just like, "What now?"
So I joined the Fighter's Guild and bought a small home and all--but it was weird, because I was this superb hero of the land, yet being treated like a rookie by warriors ten levels lower than me (thanks, modifications, for making the game good!). So the next time I restarted the game, I made sure to set the amulet aside--and suddenly the world seemed much bigger.
On the whole though, I thought Oblivion's storyline was good, but not really noteworthy. It felt fantasy-like, it felt rather Morrowind like (though people who have actually played Morrowind will probably disagree with me or sommat'), but it wasn't all that engaging--it was only the seeming importance of completing it that made me feel I needed to rush through it--and I was rather fed up with all the Oblivion gates cutting into my traveling to and fro'. Speaking of, that wasn't really fun--seen one demonic reincarnation of various levels of hell you've seen them all; in Oblivion, at least.
Here's to hoping Skyrim's storyline will start off loose and relaxed, and become more intense the further you go on. If there's one thing I'll say about Fallout 3's main plot, I thought it was well paced. At least Liam Neeson didn't die straight away like Patrick Stewart did.
*Let me see your face...you're the one from my dreams..."
"Oh my god, it's Patrick Stewart!"
*Five minutes later*
"Oh, look, it's Patrick Stewart's virtual corpse."
It's like, even just knowing that those characters are digitally alive--even if I rarely see them or what not, it gives me greater incentive to play the game. I was happy when Sean Bean showed up, but his bored-sounding role made him a rather disappointing traveling companion, though it was good to know he was there all the same. But even in Fallout 3, as soon as Liam Neeson got the boot (or, gas chamber...), I wandered back to the Wasteland like, "Great, the one character I was rather fond of is now deceased...what else have I got going for me here."
At least until I met Fawkes, that was cool. Then I realized it was the same voice actor who says "STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM" in a certain other game, and I sorta backed away from the friendly super-mutant as a traveling companion...
Anywho--when I first played Oblivion, I ended up skipping half the side quests because the main quest started off so urgent I thought I had to see it through first thing. Then about three days of semi-hourly sessions later, I watched as Sean Bean valiantly transform into a stone dragon, voice-over a little video of the pretty scenery the game has to offer, and after that--nothin'. I mean, yeah, I was still playing, and that one high elf dude told me how everything was in the gutter now that the heir to the throne was dead, and sure I got some badass armor and all--but in the end I was just like, "What now?"
So I joined the Fighter's Guild and bought a small home and all--but it was weird, because I was this superb hero of the land, yet being treated like a rookie by warriors ten levels lower than me (thanks, modifications, for making the game good!). So the next time I restarted the game, I made sure to set the amulet aside--and suddenly the world seemed much bigger.
On the whole though, I thought Oblivion's storyline was good, but not really noteworthy. It felt fantasy-like, it felt rather Morrowind like (though people who have actually played Morrowind will probably disagree with me or sommat'), but it wasn't all that engaging--it was only the seeming importance of completing it that made me feel I needed to rush through it--and I was rather fed up with all the Oblivion gates cutting into my traveling to and fro'. Speaking of, that wasn't really fun--seen one demonic reincarnation of various levels of hell you've seen them all; in Oblivion, at least.
Here's to hoping Skyrim's storyline will start off loose and relaxed, and become more intense the further you go on. If there's one thing I'll say about Fallout 3's main plot, I thought it was well paced. At least Liam Neeson didn't die straight away like Patrick Stewart did.
I don't know how many time during my exploration I would start doing a quest to only realize it was part of the "main" storyline. Each and every time I kept wondering why this quest was so boring.
I didn't really bother with the main quest line. I'm pretty sure it was still only at the "give the amulet to Jauffre" stage when I just went around and did other quest lines and explored the map. Only until recently when Skyrim was coming around the corner did I go back to it. I wanted to finish it before Skyrim came out. It wasn't that great, imo.
I never touched Oblivion's main quest. The one time I accidentally stumbled across it, I promptly turned around and wandered in another direction.
I only did the oblivion main questline after I got permenant 100% chameleon from enchanted armour, simply because it made everything else so easy I did all the major side quests in a weekend and had nothing better to do. Seriously, 100% chameleon destroys that game.
The oblivion main story was a major disappointment compared to Morrowind. It was a boring fetch quest - not really of any substance. If anything the guild quests were more imaginative and had a better story, loved the Dark Brotherhood members and missions most of all. Hope the quality of their missions in skyrim is the same.
But all in all i normally do my own thing and forget about the main mission at the start, although i may do the first quest. Just in case, like Oblivion, you get a horse or other goods to start with as this would be useful.
But all in all i normally do my own thing and forget about the main mission at the start, although i may do the first quest. Just in case, like Oblivion, you get a horse or other goods to start with as this would be useful.
I purposely didn't work on the main questline in Oblivion. Once I got out of the Imperial Dungeons it was exploration, sidequests, and mayhem. Stole a horse, rode like hell for 5 or 10 minutes to another town, the guards immediately confronted me. Huh? Do they have radio or something?
Anyway it was many many hours before I started doing the main questline, and I played that up until I closed the first Oblivion gate. I don't think I did any more after that, busy with mods and various guild quests. I will say the main questline was decent, but I tire of the "end of the world" type scenarios, and I didn't enjoy my time in Oblivion.
In Fallout 3 I sort of did the same thing, once out of the vault I went UP the mountain, found a sweet AR-15 type sniper rifle too. Lots of exploration and sidequests. I did eventually do the main questline in Fallout 3 and unfortunately it was over very quickly, I guess I was too good at the game and well equipped by then.
I'm sure I'll do the same sort of thing in Skyrim, wander around exploring for a long time at first.
Anyway it was many many hours before I started doing the main questline, and I played that up until I closed the first Oblivion gate. I don't think I did any more after that, busy with mods and various guild quests. I will say the main questline was decent, but I tire of the "end of the world" type scenarios, and I didn't enjoy my time in Oblivion.
In Fallout 3 I sort of did the same thing, once out of the vault I went UP the mountain, found a sweet AR-15 type sniper rifle too. Lots of exploration and sidequests. I did eventually do the main questline in Fallout 3 and unfortunately it was over very quickly, I guess I was too good at the game and well equipped by then.
I'm sure I'll do the same sort of thing in Skyrim, wander around exploring for a long time at first.
I completed but it was one of the least interesting parts of the game. Each and every guild quest line was a lot better. So it wasn't like I got lost or distracted or anything, I just plain and simply found it lacking. It will depend for Skyrim, if the main quest is interesting then I'll be all over it but if it's crap I'll do the five million other things you can do first and get around to it eventually.
First time through I went through Oblivion's main story and it wasn't bad.
With Skyrim... there are Dragons you need to kill and lore to look into.
I liked how you didn't have to fight the end boss, but I also hated that fact.
With Skyrim... there are Dragons you need to kill and lore to look into.
I liked how you didn't have to fight the end boss, but I also hated that fact.