Skipping the Main Oblivion Plotline
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The main story line to Oblivion always seemed rather blah compared to Morrowind's. Maybe I just hated closing gates.
As has been said- you'd like Morrowind if you can look past the inferior graphics and terrible combat/magic system. The world feels much much bigger (at least it does to me) and since you like guilds you'll be in luck because there are more than twice as many factions to join.
Plus Morrowind kind of cons you into playing through a couple of more times to play through Bloodmoon differently and to try and sample all three Great Houses (shame Indoril and Dres aren't options too, that'd be epic)
As has been said- you'd like Morrowind if you can look past the inferior graphics and terrible combat/magic system. The world feels much much bigger (at least it does to me) and since you like guilds you'll be in luck because there are more than twice as many factions to join.
Plus Morrowind kind of cons you into playing through a couple of more times to play through Bloodmoon differently and to try and sample all three Great Houses (shame Indoril and Dres aren't options too, that'd be epic)
Just a quick note. After reading this thread, I decided that I should install Oblivion again in order to actually finish the Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine. As per my new policy, I install games to a large capacity secondary drive rather than the array that houses my OS and common use programs. It turns out, if you are running the 64 bit version of Windows 7, the game will crash to desktop unless you install the game to the Program Files (x86) directory. Apparently (as near as I can tell at any rate after fighting the issue for about 8 hours), if you install it anywhere else, there are problems stemming from either the use of multiple cores (though forcing the program to run on even a single core failed to resolve the problem. This idea was presented by Bethesda support) or the x64 instruction set (By default, a program installed in the x86 folder will execute using x86 emulation).
Just thought I'd throw that out for anyone who might run into a similar problem.
Just thought I'd throw that out for anyone who might run into a similar problem.
I'll add this: (maybe somebody already did, but I'm too lazy to read the whole thread)
There is very good reason to close those oblivion doors, the sigil (was that the name?) stones you get at the end. They allow you to create all sorts of magic items. I ended up with all custom made armor and equipment. I found that to be more than worth it.
I had a tun of fun naming my custom magic items. I loved my sword, it was called "Ahora Si Se Encabrono", spanish for "Now he's really pissed off".
There is very good reason to close those oblivion doors, the sigil (was that the name?) stones you get at the end. They allow you to create all sorts of magic items. I ended up with all custom made armor and equipment. I found that to be more than worth it.
I had a tun of fun naming my custom magic items. I loved my sword, it was called "Ahora Si Se Encabrono", spanish for "Now he's really pissed off".
Okay guys, I just got mindfucked. SERIOUSLY mindfucked.
I stopped going on with the main quest like many of you suggested, and kept going with the Dark Brotherhood. I got a bounty from a murder and went to jail. Because the doors were only hard locks, I used my Hard Lock spell and escaped from prison. My bounty is super high now. I decided to start being a vampire hunter while killing guards if they attack, and everything was going fine. UNTIL just then. I walked into the vampire slayers and a guard came in who I killed. Everyone was scared and started attacking me. Some guy turned into a Daedra and I shat myself. Then Count Hassildorf(?) walked in and attacked me, resulting in me contract Vampiric disease. Now I'm a vampire and some unkillable superhumans are trying to kill me.
What the fuck can I do?
I stopped going on with the main quest like many of you suggested, and kept going with the Dark Brotherhood. I got a bounty from a murder and went to jail. Because the doors were only hard locks, I used my Hard Lock spell and escaped from prison. My bounty is super high now. I decided to start being a vampire hunter while killing guards if they attack, and everything was going fine. UNTIL just then. I walked into the vampire slayers and a guard came in who I killed. Everyone was scared and started attacking me. Some guy turned into a Daedra and I shat myself. Then Count Hassildorf(?) walked in and attacked me, resulting in me contract Vampiric disease. Now I'm a vampire and some unkillable superhumans are trying to kill me.
What the fuck can I do?
AND NOW THE GUY WHO GAVE ME VAMPIRISM IS TRYING TO ASK ME TO FIND A CURE FOR VAMPIRISM. I HAVE OFFICIALLY FUCKED UP THE GAME 
...Caps Lock illustrates my points so beautifully.
...Caps Lock illustrates my points so beautifully.
Oblivion had a main storyline? All I did was dick around in the different guilds and fight in that arena. If there was one, I sure didn't bother with it.
Wait, people actually beat the game??? Well I always try, then I find a side quest, then another, then I find a guild, then a do some more side quests. And before you know it I'm a level 50 mage killing everybody in towns before I remember there was a main story and I was supposed to do something.
