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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game Guide
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Featuring: Oblivion Game Guide, Oblivion Atlas, Knights of the Nine Game Guide and Shivering Isles Game Guide.

Behold, our unofficial strategy guide to overwhelmingly gigantic The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. Here you will find everything you need to know about the game and was afraid to ask anywhere else.

First, some technical stuff. As you may know from other texts about Oblivion, the game’s world reacts to the player’s progress and evolves with him. That means that you can actually beat the main quest without even bothering to do anything except it, ‘cause if you don’t level up your character, you’ll be fighting some basic enemies over and over again to the very end. That leads to the fact that we can’t actually point out how many or what type of enemies you will be facing in certain situations. These factors depend on your character’s level. If you don’t want to “loose” time on leveling up, go ahead and endlessly fight Scamps and basic Dremora soldiers.

We didn’t cover the things that are pretty obvious in our guide. There’s no point in telling you exactly what to do in each dungeon, so we stick to the essentials. Hey, you’re a gamer, you shouldn’t feel like a fish out of water when you’re deep underground surrounded by skeletons, now should you?

There are a lot of bugs in this game. Bugs that keep you from completing certain quests, make objects disappear or NPCs talk rubbish. Save often, that’s the best advice we can give you. Every quest is beatable under certain circumstances and bugs seem to appear randomly, so you might not have a problem at all when you beat them the second time round.

 

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info about game: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
title: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | genre: cRPG
developer: Bethesda Softworks | publisher: 2K Games
platform: PC DVD | rated: 16+

Live Another Life in Another World. Create and play any character you can imagine, from the noble warrior to the sinister assassin to the wizened sorcerer.

Oblivion is the quintessential role-playing game for the next generation and another leap forward in gaming. Step inside the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created. Oblivion is the latest chapter in the epic and highly successful Elder Scrolls saga and utilizes the latest PC and next-generation video game hardware to fully immerse you into the experience. With a powerful combination of freeform gameplay and unprecedented graphics, you can unravel the main quest at your own pace or explore the vast world and find your own challenges.
- Live Another Life in Another World. Create and play any character you can imagine, from the noble warrior to the sinister assassin to the wizened sorcerer.
- Next Generation Graphics. Pixel-shader effects and high definition televisions are fully supported to create unprecedented visuals, including lifelike towns, dungeons, and the most realistic forests ever created in a game.
- First Person Melee and Magic. An all-new combat and magic system brings first person role-playing to a new level of intensity where you feel every blow.
- Radiant AI. This groundbreaking AI system gives Oblivion's characters full 24/7 schedules and the ability to make their own choices based on the world around them. Non-player characters eat, sleep, and complete goals all on their own.
- Realistic Characters. Oblivion's features over 1,000 non-player characters who come to life like never before with facial animations, lip-synching, and full speech. They even engage in unscripted conversations with each other and you.
- Open-Ended Game Play; Short Challenges. The enormous world of Oblivion is open for you to explore at your own pace, and shorter challenges such as fighting bandits, mixing potions, creating magic items and persuading friends keep the challenges coming.(info about game from official page)

PC System Specifications:

  • OS - Windows 2000/XP
  • Processor - Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent 3.0 GHz
  • Memory - 1024MB RAM
  • 8 x DVD-ROM
  • ATI X800 series, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series, or higher video card with 128MB+
  • Sound Card - DirectX 9.0c compatible
  • 4.6 GB free hard disk space
  • Input - Keyboard, mouse
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comments and responses

The game seems to be meant for you to create your own class. The default classes seem kind of weak and some of the skills are kind of hard to be comfortable with. Monk excelling in hand to hand??? I'm too used to them excelling in blunt weapons, but whatever.
Legendary Chicken Chaser
13/11/2009 03:45
So just now i completed the main storyline and im still level one mage.
Magi420
09/11/2009 06:31
OblivionMasterBethany-Xbox360 CHAMPION: Just saying Oblivion 5? it's elder scrolls V. won't be called oblivion. Also if u want it first when it comes out youll have to fight past me first. cos i am the best Elder scrolls fan ever. got: Morrowind, Tribunal, Bloodmoon, Oblivion and am thinking of getting SI. :-)
Supergnash
20/10/2009 16:06
Fredddy: yeah just make your own class most of them arent that good.
Supergnash
20/10/2009 16:01
Is it just me; or does the Monk class, in fact, suck ass? You simply cannot hand-to-hand every bad guy you come across, it usually ends badly.
Fredddy
08/10/2009 18:30
I MEAN KALTHAR LOOOL ;)
OblivionMasterBethany-Xbox360 CHAMPION
05/10/2009 20:20
freddy:
with the leyawin recomendation you HAVE TO FIGHT FALCAR or you cant do it. once i ran away and had to start the game again. in this quest also did you get the key of the orc warlord in that fort so you could get out? if not your kinda S.T.U.C.K BUT......if you are still in that fort just go back and loot the orc and get his key.!!! good luck ;D
OblivionMasterBethany-Xbox360 CHAMPION
03/10/2009 10:11
to bostonredsoxrule:

if you want troll fat then in cheydinhal if you talk about to rumours to people you will hear about a young girl who has lost her husband. continue with that quest and after you have spoke to the girl you will be told to look for him in his study. when your in the study press 'A' on the painting and you should enter a painted world in wear you can save her husband and its population is taken over by trolls and all of them have troll fat ( i can teach you a duplicate cheat if you want to duplicate the troll fat but thats up to you) and then if you complete the quest you will be out of the painting and get a magic item as a award (worth 700 coins mine was so i duplicated it 54 times and sold Em!) . Good Luck ;D
OblivionMasterBethany-Xbox360 CHAMPION
03/10/2009 10:07
Hey Guys,

I'm stuck on two quests with no idea what to do:
Leyawin Recommendation; I went to fort blueblood, got the amulet, but didn't feel like fighting the trolls so I ran off and didn't even bother talking to Kalthar...or whatever. Now I can't finish the quest because I don't have the key fort hat big door in the fort anymore and it seems that K is stuck in there.
And I can't find the Sentinal Statue in the Unlifting the Veil.... any suggestions?
Fredddy
02/10/2009 20:35
Does Anyone know where to find troll fat?
bostonredsoxrule
02/10/2009 18:30
to napa:
When you have turned into a vampire go to skingrad and talk to the count (as he is also a vampire) you should get on fine from there - you also get a quest from him and at the end you get around 5k as a award - but you can keep pressing it and getting more moneyy :D good luck ;D
OblivionMasterBethany-Xbox360 CHAMPION
02/10/2009 16:55
OBLIVION RULES!!!! ITS MY ULTIMATE GAME AND I PLAY IT EVERYDAYY.. I AM THE CHAMPION SEEING AS I GOT ALL THE ACHIEVMENTS IN LESS THAN 2 DAYS AND COMPLETED THE GAME IN LESS THEN A DAY... I HAVE COMPLETED THE GAME LOADS AND I THINK I AM THE CHAMPION - AS I AM YOUNG AND FEMALE!!!!!! AND WHEN OBLIVION 5 COMES OUT I SWEAR I WILL HAVE IT FIRST!!!!!!! ;D
OblivionMasterBethany-Xbox360 CHAMPION
02/10/2009 16:51
How do you cure yourself from being a vampire. I was turned into one without knowing it and did not pay enough attention to the instructions on how to heal myself.
Napa
28/09/2009 19:28
re: My television is distorted and everything looks wierd. the health is blue, the fatigue is brighter green, and the magika is red. Imperial_Breton
09/08/2009 17:58

If you have your xbox hooked up via componet video cable[green, red, blue] and the colors are off, it usually means you have a couple of the component wires mixed up. check the connection on the back of the tv and make sure blue lines up with blue, red lines up with red, and green lines up with green. if your tv is hi-def, make sure you flip the switch on the xbox component plugin to hdtv. if you are connected via hdmi, could be the cable is faulty, or your tv is shit.
OffPot
18/09/2009 01:47
Haunted Hill Of Suicides, Umbra is best two handed sword, and Amber war hammers are power full, but again, 2 handed and they break easily. I prefer dawn/dusk fang, seen as how you get a bonus from the sword when you kill enough monsters, and you dont have to worry about recharging it or repairing it because it nourishes the blade on strike. combined with Lord Kelvyn's Bulwark(best sheild in the game, inheritted with Battlehorn Castle Deed) the Dusk/Dawn Fang sword is deadliest one handed weapon in the game bar-none.
OffPot
18/09/2009 01:39

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