the oblivion essence captured in 52 seconds

must have been the wind type beat

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[jeffco.]

Good stuff. In case anyone was interested, pirates are hostile likely because the main character assassinated their captain in a Dark Brotherhood quest. Guards are running all around the waterfront because a city watch captain called in a bunch of extra guards there to crack down on the Thieves Guild and try to capture the Grey Fox, their alleged leader. The Dremora was a messenger sent by a high ranking Mage Guild member demanding the guards taken from the Arcane University be returned immediately since a rare magic staff was stolen from the Arch Mage's room after the guards were siphoned away to the waterfront. The main character, of course, is the one that stole the staff in a Thieves Guild quest or, if he was already done with the Mage Guild questline, just kind of casually took it out of his own room.

[Raschko]

- walks up to human
- "begon, mortal"
- proceeds to walk away

[General_Popo]

"Must've been the wind": ✅️
"I've faught mudcrabs more fearsome than you": ✅️
Some random dead NPC: ✅️
Dremora: ✅️
Wes Johnsons running at mach 2 speeds: ✅️

[blazi]

My favorite Oblivion moment is when I was chased by the guards, entered the tavern in the market district, guards with bows accidentally shot at the NPCs while trying to hit me, triggering a massive tavern brawl. Don't remember his name but there was one NPC altmer mage who absolutely wrecked the guards

[qewobob]

they shouldn't be worrying about the grey fox theres much more going on

[pyrowithoutgoggles]

I like how the pirate says, "Getting tired?" but yet the player jumps like 10ft into the air multiple times

[dregspromise]

Oblivion is truly art that cannot be replicated. It is something truly special.

[Shizuku.Tsukishima]

Truly encapsulates the Oblivion experience. All we're missing is the OG adoring fan and some ragdolls.

[nitrokid]

"The Oblivion gates are the greatest threat to Tamriel!"

Meanwhile, Tamriel:

[TheWorldMemeDatabase]

With the Oblivion crisis going on, you’d think the mages sending a Dremora strolling through the Imperial City would be the Nirn equivalent of yelling fire in a crowded theater.

[hallamhal]

You can see denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance, in that order

[PaladinfffLeeroy]

This is perfect Oblivion.

I had an Oblivion moment where during the quest for the mages guild in Anvil you are escorted by 2 Legion battle mages to stop the rogue mage.
Their ai registered the rogue mage becoming hostile to me so they attacked her.
But somewhere nearby there was an Oblivion gate and 1 of the wandering Legion soldiers had lost his horse in combat with the Daedra there so now he stopped wandering.
His ai was JUST close enough to notice the battle mage ai aggroing the rogue mage that was not agrod to them so it registered it as Assault and the soldier goes and attacks his own Legion mates.
We kill the rogue mage, soldier kills 1 battle mage and starts attacking the other one. I try to help my battle mage and Kill the soldier.
I get 1K bounty and the battle mage attacks me. Forced to kill him. I have 2K bounty.

I went to turn myself in in Anvil but as I arrive at the gates I see a guard, the stable master, AND A HORSE fighting 1 wolf.
They kill the wolf. The stable master returns to his stable AND THE GUARD STARTS FIGHTING THE HORSE...

I swear you cannot make this shit up but somehow we all know that this is just regular day in Oblivion.

[EdWedgie]

The casual will say this game aged bad. The experienced knows this game aged like wine.

[GalahadGaming]

Now, it looks like madness. But guys, 20 years ago, this was absolutely mind blowing to see NPCs actually doing things on their own. Different things, too. That RNG element to DnD that kids are all bonering over these days, that was the 'Radiant AI' lmao.

[alexanderb]

"It just works!"
-Todd Howard specifically referring to Oblivion npc mechanics.

[JamrockHobo]

nobody yet mentioned the casual olympic world record backwards jumps

[LocoJunius]

Never seen a Dremora do that, game still surprises me years later

[benjaminoechsli]

"Begone, mortal!"
"So, the mages send a daedra to deliver that message instead of providing work to an honest, hardworking person. How typical. 🗿"

[crystal.starr]

I'm playing through the main quest rn and the Dremora Kathutet is constantly just hanging out with Martin at Cloud Ruler Tample... Dagon plan of intentionally losing is all making sense now.

[greenredblue]

As a programmer, this is almost wholesome. The computer is happily playing every character at a LARP, and the player is just in the way.

You could almost see how this would work as a lava lamp or ant farm.