After flexing my manhood with DS, I decided to get back to a mastodontic game I never cared to finish even after having spent more than 40 hours in my first playthrough. TES: Oblivion. I wasn't having fun with my imperial anymore so I decided to ditch that character and reroll with a breton lady. I tried to make her somewhat attractive, failing miserably. Oh well, at least I never have to look at her face again. Except for menus.
I'm 10 hours or so into the game, dabbled a bit with the main quest to get my feet wet again, freed Kvatch and took Boromir to that hideout in the asshole of the mountains. After that, I said "fuck the main quest", joined the mages guild and started working on those quests. I'm trying to keep quest burden to a minimum, to avoid excesses like it happened to me in my first playthrough. So far I've succeeded in keeping things streamlined, which means I get to savor each quest in a continuous fashion, instead of hopping here and there. My plan is to do the mages, then fighters guild, and leave thieves and dark brotherhood for last. After that I'll give the expansions a try.
I'm also having a blast making potions, something I never tried in my first run, and now I keep an eye on every single herb, fungus and flower that I stumble upon.
I save a lot. A lot a lot. But yeah, I've had zero technical issues with the game. It had a tiny little patch when I first loaded it, so maybe that covered it.
Okay, sweet.
http://www.uesp.net/maps/obmap/obmap.shtml?centeron=Sheogorath%27s+Shrine
It's a map of Oblivion using the googlemaps API.
Thanks for the heads-up. I'll print this out to have as a quick reference guide for shrine quests and other obscure places.
Well over 40 hours now, Lv 13, I think. I just completed my very first daedric shrine quest, one that involved rescuing the souls of a bunch of idiot cultists from the oblivion planes. The reward was pretty nifty: the Spell Breaker, a heavy shield with spell protection.
I'm having such a good time with this game that I'm seriously considering buying the plug-ins for it (no horse armor, lol).
I am 9 hours in and just finished my first Daedric Shrine Quest. I did the one for the Sheogorath, which was pretty easy. Am now closing the Bruma Oblivion gate.
I've done about 3-4 quests in the last two hours and it's a lot of fun. Some tough choices, like killing a lady for some cheese (long story), but still, very enjoyable.
I am only level 3, and needed one of the Daedric Shrine Quest rewards to continue the main story, so I am guessing you are not doing the main story line?
I was shocked to find out for all the time Mrs. Aspro spent in this game that she did not even start the main story.
Bruma Gate now closed, now looking for the second thing martin wants Blood of the Divines! I looked up a FAQ and I'm on 11 of 17 missions -- maybe this won't be the last game I play this year afterall.
The expansion pack, Shivering Isles is it, its amazing.
The main quest isn't long at all. Man, how can you not do the side quests, though?!
No, I'm not doing the main quest, except for one mission here and there when I feel like it. I just did the four books one. My main focus right now are the mages guild quests, and I'll probably try to get as many daedric shrine quests as possible for my current level as well. The rewards for most of them are very good.
It surely is. I have the GOTY edition, which has shivering isles and knights of the nine. I'm saving those for when I finish the four guild lines. There are a number of plug-ins that go for about 150 MS points in the marketplace that give you stuff like a whole castle, a huge mages tower, an underground lair and a pirate ship.