Replaying Oblivion? (Minor Spoilers)

kok_warlock · Post by **kok_warlock** » Sun May 21, 2006 7:56 pm

So, i finished playing Oblivion, just wondering if the game is fun to replay, because, after i was over, i had finished all the main subquests, done most of the daedric quests, so i'm kinda bored, don't feel like just doing hack'n'slash.

Still, considering you can do nearly everything with a single character, i was wondering if the game is worth replaying, or is it just boring?

I'd like some opinions of people who finished the game and are playing again, maybe some mod suggestions.

Abuse · Post by **Abuse** » Sun May 21, 2006 8:47 pm

I too am wondering if the game is worth replaying - I wish the character development choices had long standing repurcussions as to what was later available to you - and some exclusivity on the guilds/factions you can join.

The do eveything/have everything/master everything makes all character builds tend to play alike once you go beyond lvl30-40.

nightinferno · Post by **nightinferno** » Sun May 21, 2006 9:00 pm

Oblivion is a great game and all but my character is only a level 15 and I'm finding increasingly hard to keep going without any motivation to do so. I've already done the main quest and all of the guild quests, after all those are done there's really not a whole lot of reason to continue. Now I'm wishing that I would have taken my time, exploring through all the Oblivion Portals and not just rushing through all of the guild quests. I myself will redo the game because I always, no matter what kind of rpg it is, have to finish off the game playing as at least half of the characters, so I'll be busy for a while.

yrthwyndandfyre · Post by **yrthwyndandfyre** » Sun May 21, 2006 9:22 pm

I finished all of the main and side quests and I'm only level 21. Now, I'm giving quests to myself just out of curiosity's sake. I saw the map. There are hundreds of places that I haven't even seen yet. Dog only knows what's out there still. If you need somebody to tell you what to do, I'd say your done. If you can amuse yourself, then there is a heck of a lot of replayability left.
In any case, if you've played once, you played as one character. There are dozens of possible combinations of traits to play with, and each presents its own challenges. Playing as a full thief is far different than playing as a full mage. It depends on what you are looking for.

kok_warlock · Post by **kok_warlock** » Sun May 21, 2006 9:34 pm

I played like 150 hours, and did all the other side quests before i did the main one, my character is level 38, once you get the right equipment and say a Claymore with a +25 Absorb Health Enchant, the game just becomes incredibly easy, by the end I was rushing the DB and Fighters quest line just so I could finish the main quest line, which I could tell was one of the last.

yrthwyndandfyre · Post by **yrthwyndandfyre** » Sun May 21, 2006 10:15 pm

[QUOTE=kok_warlock]I played like 150 hours, and did all the other side quests before i did the main one, my character is level 38, once you get the right equipment and say a Claymore with a +25 Absorb Health Enchant, the game just becomes incredibly easy, by the end I was rushing the DB and Fighters quest line just so I could finish the main quest line, which I could tell was one of the last.[/QUOTE]
Except I finished the DB and MG quests before I finished the main quest. It's not that cut and dried.
You can put on your best stuff and wander around slaughtering everything in sight. That's easy. You can also leave all of your best stuff at home, wander out into the wilderness in your skivvies, and play on the bare metal. That's a whole different kettle of fish.
My player was all but invincible, but I needed to jack my Armorer skill, so I just switched from my best stuff to unenchanted elvish armor (of which I had a lot). All of a sudden Bears (which had been a minor inconvenience) became a challenge. I fought my way into almost full Glass, taking on Minotaur Lords with plain weapons. It wasn't easy.
Now it's getting easy again, so maybe I'll drop armor entirely and go forth in robes. Maybe I'll try my luck as a plain mage, relying entirely on Magic. Maybe I'll go to plain clothes and a dagger, and try my luck as a plain thief. I've finished all of the designated quests, but there are still dozens, if not hundreds, of ways for me to go yet. I get caught all of the time because I've adopted a specific set of equipment for a specific purpose, forget that I've done that, wander into a situation with incorrect assumptions about what I'm wearing and get beset harshly just because I assume that I'm wearing different armor.
It doesn't take much to put the 'whew!' back in a battle. More than once, I've finished a battle with a wolf with a 'whew!', and in full armor, I can take them with my bare hands. In my best gear, they're about as much trouble as a rat, and even in my skivvies, I can jump onto the roof of a house, so I'm far from indefensible. You have to figure out how to make challenges for yourself.