Talos number 1

Skyrim Belongs to the Nords!!

The more I learn about Talos and the three souls that make him up the more I think he's a bad one. He likely mantled Lorkhan/Shor and effectively killed and subsumed him.

@@ConnorRunda I mean he was a conquerer who subsued other cultures and nations for little more reason than because he could. It's in the nature of conquerers to not be good guys.

@Brennan Lu you don't know anything about history

Same it was so magical

Same

It was 15 years ago 😉

@@Rat_Basket48 he was talking about his age, but good reminder that we're all OLD AS FUCK BRO, JUST BRING THE WHEELCHAIR NEXT TIME BRO FFS

I spent 30 minutes shooting arrows at a guard and running away when he chased me until he died and I stole his armor. Then I stopped playing the game feeling accomplished.

they still look pretty tbh - at least like the trees n shit

@@VariantNode yeah the forests and flowers and mushrooms all look amazing, I personally love the look of the architecture and interiors. Honestly the only thing that doesn’t look good are the faces lol

@@Lubedupsquid as long as you put a bag over its head oblivion is beautiful

I wish more games went for that bright, vivid aesthetic.

Yep even Shadow of the Colossus from 2005 would be a stretch to say was a match for it. And that game didn't have an expansive world. I can't even think what other game could have competed on graphics.

It's weird, huh?

Lets go a round again!

Unwanted nostalgia is like a cute form of ptsd lmao

I somehow ended up liking the system.

I could never read the facial expressions, so I'd go around the pie and select each option to HEAR how they feel, then rapid fire the relationship up from there lol

Absolutely!!

Feel the exact same. Turned my shit around!

Can't agree more

Indeed it did 😊

indeed

I think it's the Septim Empire or Cyrodilic Empire technically

It's ... the Empire. There is just one. You can inofficially specify which of its various incarnations over time you mean, but that's just for clarity.

Let's just call it Impire.

The Septim Empire The Cyrodilic Empire The Third Empire Take your pick. Mix and Match.

I thought it was called the "I M P E R I A L L E G I O N" because someone keeps telling me I'm defying it...

Similar experience. For some reason, I didn't realize you could run in Resident Evil 4. I walked through literally half the game. Made it even scarier. I agree, good times.

@@rkgrkg could be a nice challange run lol

I am gonna try to play oblivion and maybe skyrim like that, it sounds fun

I usually try to avoid fast traveling, myself. It's not as bad as you'd think, honestly. You just need to plan your travels a bit so you're not walking back and forth across the continent. That said, of all of Bethesda's modern games, it's probably the most irritating to do in Oblivion: there are more back-and-forth fetch quests than Skyrim or any of their Fallout games, and there's no travel alternative like Skyrim's carriages.

Bro same lol

While it didn't help me through tough times it did introduce me to the series and I'll always love it for that.

It was the first rpg experience I had, so nothing can undone the fascination of it. Oblivion was truly the way to get away from the shit of the real world and loose yourself in it, even for a couple hours

Why is this shit so depressing. "videogames got me through hard times" what happened to "ye bro I fuckin loved that game as a kid,

Can't argue with a statement like that :) If a game does that for you, it will always remain a favorite no matter how good or bad the game is overall.

@@DATskorge oh stop complaining

I didnt know that

do you have a video/link for this interaction?

@@dovahkiin3853 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nrqbe9GjxLKdcaM.html

Why are you lying? You can play football with her head, and smack everyone with his confession journal, you will still have to follow Emil’s rollercoaster ride.

@@max7971 hey Max, sorry for confusion. While the quest does still play itself out the in the same fashion, Emil himself will look very nervous and say something akin to "is that a head?" instead of whatever else he is normally scripted to say while in Applewatch. Hence giving it away to the player. This unfortunately does not influence any quest decisions.

Well, the Prophet did said the Eight AND ONE.

The Mod Awakens

Was literally just thinking that Morrowind fans are like original trilogy fans, Oblivion fans are like prequel fans... I don't want to compare Skyrim to the sequel trilogy tho haha

@@M2Mil7er I think Daggerfall is closer to the original trilogy. Morrowind was still a step back from the original appeal of the series but still Elder Scrolls. Oblivion/Skyrim are straight up sequel trilogy.

@@del46_60 I guess so, from a certain point of view. Morrowind was my first ES game, so the one I connect to most, and the OT Star Wars was the same for me. Some people prefer Oblivion, and the prequels for the same reason. That's my perspective, but appreciate Daggerfall may have that role for your good self. Cheers!

@@del46_60 How is Morrowind a step back in anything except scale? It's an all-around improvement on all of the core elements of Daggerfall.

What's even more incredible is how much they achieved with such horrible optimization.

I mean at this point we had Half-Life 2 for a year and a half and a year after Oblivion we got Crysis. Oblivion was kinda impressive when it came out but still pathetic in some regards even for the standards back then (like the NPC faces).

I've seen a dozen skyrim remasters or re-releases... I want oblivion now

@@GodleyX check out Skyblivion project 😉

so did skyrim

Hry man, if you love video game video essays, check out Noah Caldwell-Gervais. He's got a low budget old school vibe, but has some of the sharpest writing of anyone doing game critique

Have been trying to post another one for you about Morrowind but KZfaq keeps instantly purging my comment. My determination to give you this video will not waver! I assume its the link so here is the title: TUN: The Elder Scrolls VI - Youtubia

@@darken2417 thanks man, lol, I appreciate your insistency funny but I was just looking through my past comments and youtube deleted one I wrote earlier too - gotta love it

Idc as long as I got something to put on when I sleep idc, I'll probly never care that he never played them as it's obvious in his pronunciation of "burma" xD

So far they have all been hard to get through because they don’t seem to understand the lore of TES. Each of these games were built off the lore. Kind of odd to complain about why Bethesda made certain games a certain way when you don’t understand the lore.

yeah, well... still better then waiting for Joseph Anderson's Witcher 3 review

@@kiriruro that is what I was thinking.

Amen brother.

@@kiriruro Do you know what's going on there? Is Joseph Anderson okay?

@@bearman1625 Last i checked, he postponed the review till after he did the one on Cyberpunk. And since cyberpunk got postponed itself... well, here we are.

I suppose he panicked rather often on this video.

Corpsus disease!!

The Empire got so big it came to our world and conquered lands there. :)

@@Philosophocat amogus

You can tell he never played this game.

Considering the directions Bethesda took with Fallout I kind of hope I don't. It might take years for modders to make the game an actually playable RPG experience.

Well according to him the next episode about Skyrim is the final in the series,right at the very end he says that the next episode is the last in this series so he hasn't left any room for other upcoming elder scrolls games sadly

@@GeorgePerakis Hopefully the game either doesn't need a script extender, or they stop forcing an update that breaks it every time they want to mess with it.

Nah I just finished that quest at level 24, when all the enemies are basically maxed out. You just have to keep him alive long enough for the 3rd gate to open, then get in there, regardless of whether he looks like he's about to get smashed by a xivilai

@@blahblahblahblah2837 Not the point.

@@baronvonbeandip how is it not? It's fun and exciting to keep Martin alive when you know 2 hits could wipe him out. It was actually challenging. Are games not meant to be challenging?

I just resurrected everyone with console commands because I didn't want any of them to die lol.

Lvl 1 run is best fun

Try the deadly reflex mod (:

I may not be 75 but I love the game as much as you

Light hypnoidal trance or Flow State?

A FLCL reference?

@@The_Nut_Goblin yup

I think it improves the immersion. You get to realize they don't do that just to you, the player. They are stubborn and wont move for each other ether. Like its a cultural thing, where to move out of the way is to admit weakness and "Lose". lol

This is because of the engine of the 2000 vs the ones used later... But despite this, the immersion is still greater in morrowind. Like NKB said, i found more real a world with desert or mountais with bears or cave with monster, and mystic shrine with daedra despite you being level 1 or 50, and an exploration of both enviroment and culture of the region, and less real a world where the events of the world seems to be disconnected to the story, and when At level 1 you found rats on the deepest dungeon and At level 50 minotaus on the roads between major cities

Morrowind is so overrated

A truly underrated aspect of this game imo

@@UndeadTurning one of the best aspects imo

Shame that Elder Scrolls has a shit structure for its music, and so limits Soule's potential.

Imo, all of his works in this series are masterpieces.

Skyrim’s soundtrack definitely got its just due.

As well as the unofficial patches naturally, although that's probably a prereq for the others

I would just go Nehrim and overhaul the whole thing. Same goes with Enderal for Skyrim.

@@sonedts I mean those are both fun but complete overhauls to the point ur not playing the same game

@@bradenculver7457 Yeah those have the classic way of leveling and skills which completely removes the appeal of the "learn from practice" approach of Elder Scrolls

I hope this gets pinned, this is basically the essential modlist every Oblivion novice should see

I agree. But also I think making the dungeons loop is a solution to a problem that Bethesda created themselves for no apparent reason. Sure, Skyrim's Q-shaped dungeons save the player the slog of backtravking through a dungeon, but in Daggerfall and Morrowind backtracking through dungeons became a non-issue once you obtained the Mark/Recall spell (which could be very early in the game, it's a really cheap spell) and could just set up an anchor at the start of the dungeon and then teleport back to it once you were done. In Morrowind you could even use the Almsivi intervention and Divine inrervention spells to save yourself the effort of backtracking to the nearest town. Not sure why Bethesda removed Mark/Recall in Oblivion and Skyrim tbh.

@@juancarloshernandez2333 There is an inherent criticism in that. Since it requires you if not to fully play a mage then to at least have those spells on hand (Which is worse in Morrowind because of cast failure chance and the fact that you lose magicka for it meaning it could end up taking longer than just walking back for non mages).

@@cyberninjazero5659 If I recall correctly, there were a lot of scrolls of the two intervention spells in the Fighters Guild supply chests available to all members. They were also fairly easy to buy. And, pretty early in the main quest, I think you get two amulets enchanted with the intervention spells. Basically, it was fairly easy to have the intervention spells on hand at all times without having to play a mage who could cast them.

I actually didn't mind backtracking through dungeons, given how fast you run and that they're fairly small (at least compared to Skyrim). I feel that interest trough + reminder of what you did is beneficial, as long as it's not too long. Finding a shortcut instead instantly shatters immersion.

Laughs in amulet of recall

This is just schizophrenia sorry man :/

i really like this read. as a kid i never really had a problem with it. i liked the admittedly very small aspect of strategy involved in choosing what comment to make at what point, and it was short enough to not be too annoying

Yes, same! That game actually helped me understand real-life small talk and stuff better 😊

That's an interesting perspective that I didn't consider. While I'm glad it worked for you, it still is a really dumb system from a game design standpoint. It's neither immersive, realistic, nor intuitive for the vast majority of people and I always found it tedious. To me some of the best persuasion comes from games like Fallout New Vegas which relies on a given stat to charm/intimidate someone into doing what you want.

@@QuantumParticle agree, FONV did that better than any other game. And your choice actually matter.

Exact same story for me. Especially compared to the "click click click reload" of Morrowind, I appreciated having a gamified system, and it made sense to the 'tism.

Yeah, this is the kind of game that's easy to critize now. It's was wonderful when it was new. Like his complaints about the world being less alien are nuts. The games before Morrowind clearly establish that it's mostly a normal world. I find exploration games more interesting when it feels like I could go there.

Me too

I like it too. It's intricate and cool. It took me years to learn how to do it properly though, and it does take a long time sometimes, but I think it makes lockpicking feel more meaningful

That was the most frustrating part of the game to me 😭

Was that a haiku?

@@Joseph_Biten No?

hahaha i wasn't expecting that comment

@@Joseph_Biten Futurama reference

If a video can make anyone discover Morrowind, then it's a video worth the internet. I hope you'll enjoy this good old classic. :-)

We welcome you, new friend. But to this game where destiny is made, why have you come unprepared?

Highly recommend OpenMW for Morrowind. Makes it playable on modern machines.

@I want to suplex Joe Cecot here's an excerpt from the website. OpenMW is a free, open source, and modern engine which re-implements and extends the 2002 Gamebryo engine for the open-world role-playing game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Like the Construction Set for the original Morrowind engine, OpenMW comes with its own editor, called OpenMW-CS, which allows the user to edit or create their own mods or original games. Both OpenMW and OpenMW-CS are written from scratch, and aren’t made to support any third party programs that have been added to the original Morrowind engine to improve its functionality. OpenMW is not a “mod” to Morrowind. It is an entirely different game engine that does not use the original Morrowind.exe in any way.

@@D--FENS What a grand and intoxicating innocence. How could he be so naive?

good point, i thought the same thing

Echo your sentiment fully, especially the sentiment of your last sentence.

Honestly, Oblivion might fail in many ways, but IMO the amazing aesthetic across the game (scenery, music, sound design, atmosphere) more than makes up for it

I use the soundtrack to sleep to it’s quite nostalgic and relaxing as you say

As you get pummeled at level 40 by a common bandit in full Daedric.

@@Beegeezy144 Kinda funny how they run up to you in the best armor money can buy and demands 100 gold or your life

@@ziddd4026 They have to pay back their loans.

Settle down detective phelps

I enjoyed it, but I was 55 when it was first released. Heh, heh. I'd just retired, in fact. But I can imagine. For me, not having computer games _at all_ as a child, I was still blown away by Arena, then Daggerfall, then Morrowind... It was great! :)

@@henrycrabs3497 I spent less money than I made, invested the excess every month, and... didn't have a family (so my expenses weren't - and aren't - very high). Of course, that last part wasn't so I could retire early. It just turns out that I enjoyed living alone. And I care _nothing_ for owning an expensive house or car - I've never bought into the whole conspicuous consumption thing that corporations push on us - so, again, my expenses aren't high. And after making _every_ investment mistake in the book, I eventually figured out how to... well, get a few things right. Heh, heh. It works for me. It likely wouldn't work for most people. Certainly, the past 15 years since I retired has been _great._ Admittedly, there _are_ some downsides to getting old. :)

"I'll tell you about some gold you can earn by hunting slaughterfish." And I'll pretend you're not the same guy I killed for Lucien Lachance last week.

I just pretend I’m in a Monty Python movie

Yep. Though it gets a little old, a little fast, I still find it most efficient to get an NPC's disposition to where it needs to be. To be fair, most things that most gamers freak over and make hour-long, unhinged, videos about just cause me to shrug and continue playing...

I never knew, I just picked the section of the wheel with the most colour in it....

Gurl same I love listening to him

But at least some of them would still be maintained, no? Like there is clearly a ring of abandoned forts around the Imperial City: 9 of them on the outer bank of the central lake. There is even a circular road following the lake shore where these forts are placed alongside. Wouldn't the Empire wish to keep these as watchtowers and patrol way-stations? You'd also expect forts to be placed at crossroads and bridges as well as approaching major cities. And yet, the fort right next to the Imperial Cities entrance? Overrun with bandits. Just like all the others. Oooohhhhhh! Nine forts surrounding the Imperial City! Each one could be dedicated to a different Divine! Talos didn't exist back in the days of hte older Empires, having been created in the aftermath of Daggerfall's main quest (the dragon break caused by the Numidian's activation) then retroactively inserted into the past as if he'd also been there. Thus, the fort dedicated to Talos could be obviously different than the others: far newer and more reflective of current Imperial architecture. It's details like this that really enhance the world building. Quests can then be built off these details, like the fort dedicated to Stendarr was wiped out by vampires and you are sent to investigate. Another has a smuggling problem (Zenithar, god of commerce). The mage's guild has a presence in the Julianos fort. etc, etc. Each fort would have an Imperial guard presence, a minor chapel that serves as a pilgrimage point, and be slightly unique reflecting each of hte divines revered there. Forts not on a main road, current border, or obvious choke point should then reflect past borders. Say, between the Colovian estates and Alessian Empire that made up the northwest/southeast parts of Cryodiil respectively. Or a few forts ringing a minor vassal kingdom that has long since been absorbed back into the empire, but there remains a quest given by an amateur historian. They want you to find old artifacts of some ancient general or king in one of these abandoned forts from It would also be nice to see the difference between the maintained forts, others that had been renovated with newer facilities/expansions added, and the ruined husks that had been abandoned as borders shifted. Instead, they are all just generic dungeons filled with generic enemies... and don't really feel a connected part of the world.

@@duncanlutz3698 Empire is in a really, really bad shape at that point though. Unrest in the Imperial City was mentioned by Caius Cosades some 20 years before the Oblivion Crisis...of course, when we get there, there's no indication of any kind of political unrest (apocalyptic cults trying to summon Satan notwithstanding, but it's not like they are into politics). Still, stuff like derelict forts can be chalked up to the sorry state of the Empire.

Actually many of them were build in and before the reman empire

I always thought they were forts from the alessian empire or reman

@@duncanlutz3698 That’s a really good point. They could also be more visually interesting without too much work by using existing assets to show renovations. Maybe only part of a fort near Anvil has been renovated using materials seen in the city? I think the best forts are the ones near Skyrim which feel like them being abandoned makes sense.

I think it's more so how generic the art style is. It's not that the architecture is different, it's that the art style as a whole is suddenly derivative of generic fantasy. I believe Todd Howard himself said that this "generic medieval" approach is one of Oblivion's major failings.

@@Lucax97 I thought oblivion was one of the more varied worlds in the series, the swampy marshlands to the south east the frozen north, the rolling hills in the middle with Rivers and lakes, ect. The art style wasn't really unique but skyrim takes heavy influence from Nordic culture, I don't mind a Tolkien-esk design in a fantasy rpg though, even if it is a little derivative.

Yes but those cultures are seperated by vast ocean. The cultures of Japanese and Chinese closely resemble each other than with say America or Sweden.

You do know all of those countries and cultures are separated by weeks/months worth of travel by foot/boat and not just a 10 minutes walk like the areas in Oblivion, right?

@@Moromom22 distance isn't as important as history and migration, Japan and China are separated by an ocean, all be it not that far distance wise but I wouldn't call their culture similar at all, one is authoritarian, state run, with very strict rules on what its people can see or do, and Japans people hate censorship, and is ran democratically. They both have a history of spirituality but not the same beliefs and Japan is much more secular now.

Hail Sithis

Hail Padomay.

@@zanmaru139 actually I go to sleep while listening to his voice

I'll check it out simply because Waiting for Godot is one of my favorite stage plays.

@@authaire I heard something about a new patch recently, but as I understand it Godot is open source. If you ever get tired of waiting you can always bust open the code and add features yourself.

Hear, hear!

I... uh... don't understand why you wouldn't straight-up use Unreal, which is free up to a point. Also, you don't have to use LUA, which is a bonus.

@@baronvonbeandip Well for 1, it’s completely free as opposed to free to a point, 2 it’s completely open source so you can effectively make it entirely your own if you try hard enough, 3 it’s small and easy to learn so it make a good jumping off point for fledgling developers. I think that’s the big thing. Unreal is a tool for experienced dev teams, Godot is really a starting off point that can end up being a very versatile tool. It doesn’t really matter if unreal is an all around more powerful dev tool, if you don’t have the experience and knowledge to use it

And they have different meshes and textures - but he is right, they feel the same, regardless those details.

@@dacsus how something feels is entirely subjective and to that I could just say that to me they don't feel the same. What matters is the reasons. Why do they feel the same to you when they look different and have different layouts? I highly doubt you actually count the number of buildings and npcs when you play.

@@Spellweaver5 Maybe because the NPCs behave the same, they have the same voices, and they talk about the same things. And maybe it's due to the overall sterility of the oblivion. I'm not saying the game is bad, I was playing it at the time, but after Witcher III came out, it's quite obvious that open world games can be done differently.

Why you'd bring up Witcher as an example of good open world is beyond me when it's a game where the open world actively detracts from its value and actual good open world games like Gothic have existed since way before Oblivion. But even if that was a relevant example, when was it ever a doubt that you could do it differently? The whole premise of this video series is that no one could do the same thing that TES did.

@@Spellweaver5 "when it's a game where the open world actively detracts from its value" - you know that Witcher III is the most acclaimed open world game in history, it got 251 GOTY awards on launch, which rocketed to 8OO+ awards and accolades 1O months later? wholesgame.com/news/witcher-3-winner-game-year-awards-ever/ www.reddit.com/r/witcher/comments/473oh8/the_witcher_3_is_a_fucking_masterpiece_in_the_rpg/ The Witcher 3 is still a Masterpiece in 2020 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNl0fNGWybK1dmQ.html

This is a pretty good explanation.

Nothing will beat a meme about a guard, who was really cool in his youth, but than got an arrow in his knee 😂

About point one... Only mention of a jungle that I've seen is describing the homeland of the wood elves, not Cyrodiil. Morrowind is the first game in this series I've played, never the earlier ones and in Morrowind you can find a book series telling a story of some imperial doing official business with the wood elves, even meeting their leader in the last book. The first book can be found in starting town, Seyda Neen, iirc in the shack of the guy who murdered the tax collector. So, afaik, wood elf homeland is a jungle with walking trees.

Just like "pilenial" itself xD

Trust me mate, even it were 12 hours long we'll watch it

It’s fine not all of his videos need to be 4 hours or more. Take it or leave it

“They killed Ned! No way! They KILLED NED!” The track of some KZfaq reaction-video goes through my head every time I hear Sean Bean’s voice.

Damn Thalmor

There is no 9th divine, never was. A 9th divine died when they retconned ebonarm

@@Justanobody8472 pro thalmor move right there