Since you finished everything in main base game Oblivion. Are you going to 100% complete both the Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles DLC addon expansions also?
Love the looks of this run, I'm also going through a similar run in my own game of Oblivion, with the standard 100% guidelines, but I've also added at least two additional rules to the mix. "Play Yourself" and "Collector". With the first rule, I pretty much have to play myself as in I can only play as human characters. No elves, orcs, or lizard people. Just Imperial, Nord, Breton, and Redguard. Next, your birthsign is determined by your own birth date. So for example, I was born on a December, meaning that my birthsign would be the Thief. Lastly for your class, you can't make a custom class. You can only choose one of the given classes, for me I chose to be a Sorcerer given my playstyle. The second rule is that I must collect ALL multi-enchanted loot and apparel, including all unique Dremora weapons. Some of these items will only spawn at certain levels, such as "The Robe of Glib Tongues" already being able to spawn at LV 1 while "The Shortsword of the Fang" spawns at LV6. Not only that but I must also collect the unique leveled loot such as "The Robes of the Apprentice" at its highest tier it being at LV10. The only exception to this rule are the unobtainable uniques such as the Emperors Robes, Shimmerstrike, Gray Aegis and so on. If you can't get them normally in game without exploits or glitches, then you're free to ignore them.
Can't believe I was watching this back in high school and finished this series while I'm in university. It makes me real happy to see this series and this channel in general constantly there in my life, you're a legend.
Several years ago I was 18 and living on my own I worked early in the morning I was very broke and my favorite escape was oblivion and I decided to “100%” the game, I did all the quests I cleared every location and got all the achievements and a bunch of other things. It’s still one of my favorite gaming experiences I’ve done thus far. I still go back and play and it doesn’t get old
Ive been playing this game since i was 11 and now 23, glad to say that i still play and enjoy it to this day i have put countless thousands of hours into oblivion 😌
I remember having a playtime of 540 hours on a single character and completed it 100%. I play extremely slow paced and immersion is everything for me. Although I love to remember this time I can't enjoy oblivion anymore. RIP my character - Robert de Sable
I play through oblivion every year or so, i dont always 100% the game but I usually max all stats and main skills, and by max i mean natural 100 in every stat including luck.
Oblivion is my fav game of all time. I've owned 10 or so different copies from the base game to every edition there is through ps3 360 GOG and steam. I'd say I've sunk in around 10000 hours the vast majority of which come from my younger teens. I loved playing that game every day I was obsessed with it I did literally every single quest collected and stored every item in the base game and the DLC/plugins. I spent a lot of time on the UESP. I loved decorating the Skingrad home with the many artifacts I acquired. By the end of it, all my saves were utterly broken the game would take a really long time to load and crashes were a constant. I wouldn't take back those hours they were well spent
One of the best videos I've ever seen. Anyone should watch it. I think it would teach a lot about: - Progression All the videos leading up to this recap. - Goal crafting & Structure A series with specific goals in mind, and a way to go about achieving them. - Marketing Doing a recap of all those videos. - Analysis & Tracking Progress Excel for the quests, gates, nirnroot map... Keeping goals in focus through all those videos is huge. Not even mentioning all the research you had to do, and the effort you had to put in to get through this challenge.
How many hours... Oh god. This was amazing, you've done something so impressive and it has inspired me to finish more things in my life, something I haven't been great at.
49:58 You could also use the Damage/Drain Stamina spell/Enchant effect. Oblivion has this systeme that a NPC stamina can go lower than 0, and its also used to calculate stagger, once a NPC reach -100 Stamina, they simply fall "unconcious" meaning they are Paralyzed for a couple of seconds( up to 10 iirc), and they will get up ONLY once their stamina reaches back 0/+1, meaning that unless an enemy as immunity to stagger( wich i don't recall any having it, but its been a while since i played), if you keep hitting them with the Drain/Damage Stamina, they will stay down.
@@oliverhopkins8074 Sounds like a Chaos Techpriest explaining how the Daemonculaba works lmao. If you don't know anything about Warhammer 40k, you should totally definitely look this one up.
Wow I'm an Oblivion nerd and even this kinda of challenge would drive me insane! This is an amazing accomplishment! The algorithm just suggested this to me so hopefully you'll get even more views - you certainly deserve them for your effort. Side note: I wonder if this is even possible in Morrowind? It might be too easy with exploits and some of the OP items. Another issue is that many of the guilds and factions quests interfere with each other. I'm actually curious to experiment now that I've seen this video.
Thank you for the kind words! As for Morrowind, I foresee it being more difficult due to mutual exclusivity, but I faced the same issue in my on-going Savior of Skyrim series. There I had a system where if one quest excluded another (Imperial vs Stormcloak, Dawnguard vs Vampire, etc.), I could mark the locked quests as "uncompletable". This would then remove them from the total amount of quests I had to complete, so I could still technically complete every* quest, but the * means it's technically every *completable* quest. Probably a bit too much of a ramble, but it goes to show that it's an interesting dilemma!
a truly inspiring series. i've been watching RU-vid since 2011 and this is by far the longest playthrough i ever stuck thru. so amazing man, been watching you for like 6 years. so proud of how far you've come. keep creating man. you're a champion
The fact that this video only has 4K views is a crime, this is such high quality content! It's so well edited, and your passion for this challenge and your character shines through. Genuinely amazing content, you're bound to blow up eventually!
Al though I am sad the challenge is over. It being something I looked forward to every time I saw a new episode in my Sub box for the last 4 years made this series something special to me and myself and people I showed the series to over the last 4 years some finding it to drawn out and some loving that sexy voice of yours and even more sexy beard of yours dark. Being a darkling for 7 and a half years has been rewarded by a series I will properly put on my “re-watch ones a year list.” next to Millbeeful's Katawa Shoujo series. Even though the channel has not exploded like you with all rights deserve. I think It allows for something more of a commutative way to the creator. Random finger movements aside. I thank you a lot for something truly amazing.
Man i wish this got way more recognition cause this has to take so much willpower. I always play this way.. well expect the hardest difficulty part. Good job :)
Me too, at beginning I was like "but this is normal por an rpg isn't it?" because I always play like this. I devoted day after day fro Oblivion specially and made every quest, cleared all the map and found all nirnroots (for like half of them I didn't use a map but later on I needed because they were outside any route I was taking). Wasn't on higher difficulty though because I'm very bad at any videogame lol
Truly amazing friend! This game always has a special place in my heart as my first experience with a RPG. Never had 100% it but did spend a large portion of my life throwing away hours and hours of this game. Thank you for this experience.
Hey VoicesFromTheDark, I hope you are able to read this comment! I just wanted to say I love this video and it even inspired me to do my first playthrough if Oblivion! I am looking forward to seeing the recap video for the 100% DLC and Skyrim challenges!
Can seriously respect this. I did this myself years back, but I wasn't so restrictive on fast travel. As a rule, I generally do my first trips anywhere on foot then fast travel back. In particular, the Fighters Guild is hell without fast travel because you will be sent to opposite ends of Cyrodiil and back again a ridiculous number of times. If Oblivion had means of transport as modest as even Skyrim's carriages it'd be so much better, not to mention Morrowind's transport. But again, incredible work.
Absolutely amazing! I spent 232 hours completing the Witcher 3: every quest, side quest, Witcher contract, achievement, all gear, all mutagens, every potion, bomb, decoction and max level. Maybe some other stuff too I can’t remember it all but I loved every second and seeing how much you enjoyed this has made me want to watch all 250 episodes and I can’t wait for the DLC!! Keep them coming amigo!
i found your playthrough when you were already around episode 200, never got through it all, it's a lot to binge honestly haha. Glad you finally finished!
I was their the day you started your play threw! Or when you uploaded it.... I watched 60 episodes till i moved on. Finally an episode to recap half what i witnessed! 🤙
This is pretty awesome. 4 years is crazy, I actually wanted to try and complete Oblivion 100% with zero kills, but after seeing this I cant put that much time into it, lol. Great video!
I've always loved playing as bretons, all the way from morrowind to skyrim. Especially in skyrim because if you maxed out alteration, and took certain perks, dragons literally couldn't damage you with fire or frost. I think in Morrowind it was better than oblivion mainly because of the variety of spells in morrowind. Mages could do serious damage to you in Morrowind.
Jeg husker det så mye. Dette var en veldig morsom tid. Jeg husker jeg løp hjem fra skolen da jeg var yngre for å spille oblivion sammen med denne youtube-serien. Så flotte minner
Woah bro I just check up on this again after like a year of not seeing it and I wondered if you ever completed it, congratulations for this man, I applaud your dedication to this series you deserve so much more subscribers. Have a good Christmas from Australia.
i love how some humans in life struggle to find a driving force of a challenge irl so they put upon themselves those ridiculous challanges in game. (dunno if that's ur case exactly but i'm just sayin) It takes a huge ammount of self discipline and conscientiousness to bore yourself so much and youtube makes it a profitable undertaking. You earn money playing games i get to watch a ridiculously cool story that wouldn't have happened irl so THANK YOU A BUNCH for beeing who you are.
I completed oblivion 100% on a melee character. The best weapon in the game was a perfect amber warhammer, enchanted with drain health 100pts for 2 seconds. Fatigue was a massive part of the melee combat, so you would need to have a restore fatigue potion active at all times. 101% reflect damage also helped, but I didn't go for 100% spell resistance/reflection as i liked picking up as much stuff as i could and selling it, to see how much money i got in the end. I completed all quests (including the test quest in the Todd Test Land) and closed all 50 random gates. The oblivion gates give a boatload of money at higher levels, and also give you bloodgrass, which at 100 alchemy can be used to make powerful chameleon potions that makes the dark brotherhood and theives guild quests a cakewalk on any playstyle. Now, what's amazing, is that I actually did this challenge four times. The first time was on ps3 and my save just corrupted and the game wouldnt load after loading it, and I lost about 150 hours of my life. The second time was on my first laptop, a really shitty machine that could barely handle oblivion (i played with only textures at max and distant land on, everything else on mimimum, and grass off) but I did everything there. All quests done. All gates closed. And every location explored. When i had done all quests, i turned myself into a vampire for the extra strength, and also focused on it with the oghma infinium, so my strength was around 130ish if i remember correctly. I also enchanted all my armor with feather so my carry weight was somewhere around 1300. I'd explore a few places, loot everything until i was almost over encumbered, come back and sell all my stuff to the Wizard's Tower merchant. It actually became very lonely. It was eerie, going into all these long abandonded places with no motive other than curiosity. I used console commands to bring Ushnar's dog to cyrodiil to keep myself company. Eventually I did it all though, I explored every location in the game, and when I finished I did the vampire cure quest as my final act on that character. It ended up with about 213 hours of playtime and 6 million gold to my name. Now pure vanilla oblivion is something I can never do again. I love cryodiil, and I love exploring it, but the combat at high levels is broken as all hell. So I decided to play it modded. I'd add in a few mods to mix up the gameplay but still add in new things and quests, and consider those a part of the checklist for 100%ing. And I did 100% it again, twice. Kind of. First was Elfied the Eternal, which I did all the base game + the quests added in by OOO. I closed all 50 gates and did lots of exploring (with a mod to keep track of where i've explored) but got kind of bored by the time I was about to start SI, as I had just learned about TTW and I wanted to try that. The second modded playthough I'm still technically playing, but I took a break to play skyrim around the time Skyrim Together Reborn came out. This second modded playthough I went all out with a FCOM install, plus better cities and unique landscapes, and I've done every single quest added by those mods in the base game, plus cleared all gates. I'm halfway through SI right now on that character, and I'm 300 hours in. Oblivion is perhaps one of my favorite games of all time, the art style and the world is really magical and has captured my imagination far more than Skyrim or Morrowind has. With what you said about always taking a break from characters to try another, I completely resonate with it. When I play a game, except oblivion and Thief 2, I hyper fixate on it and think about nothing but it for a month or so until I complete it or lose interest. With Oblivion, it's always on my mind and I'm never quite so invested in it, and it strangely makes the game more magical. Anyway, I don't know why I wrote this essay, but I enjoyed the video. :D
man oh man. I´m sooo looking forward to starting the DLC challenge!. I also plan on doing my own skyrim completionist run by my own rules. And oh boy I hope you pull through in skyrim the same way you did in oblivion! Keep it up Dark!
I just discovered your channel, great video i was hooked from start until finish my mind is crazy today so this was great to watch to take some focus of the darkness
Nice challenge and good video. I set about doing a 100 skill/stat (including luck) challenge years ago. It died once I broke the back of the challenge and reached the easy to control grinding of the end stage. But the save still exists and so do the hand written logs of skills and levels that I was keeping. Maybe I'll pick this back up and give it a final push. All I really need is a several hundred episode series to watch while I do it.
What a wonderful look back at the journey. And what an oblivion of a journey it was, 250 episodes, from poor little mudcrabs to shaking the foundations of the realms themselves. And now we're finally on to the DLC, from something as simple as getting armor on an old nag, to facing down the gods themselves. And winning. Because it's Marina Mistfire. The single strongest champion in Nirn and beyond!
Loved this guide , I,ve been playing video games a while now due to a injury , I love to complete and build these characters and dealing with challenges, I appreciate this guides, thank 😊 u
all of these crazy challenges seem to start in winter what an amazing season, to be able to drive people to the brink of insanity only to find some outlet for them to pour it into
Alright, time to play some Oblivion again, you have inspired me Dark! And since there is nothing much to do irl, why not eh ? Also, looking forward for the DLC! Keep the great work a stay safe.
This was an amazing video and wish it was longer! You did an excellent job preparing then overcoming the obstacles. Thank you for sharing your journey =) I wish there were mods to reduce the need for quicksaves to complete these or to add flavor/utility to things to make it more advantages to acquire them other than completionist reasons. Like removing quick travel except through specific ways like only if you have bought the house in that city can you add a waypoint to travel between houses. Then have the skill books all be in fixed locations near the unique monsters that have added abilities to better defend these desired items. Add a Nern Root tracking spell that either points you in the direction of the nearest one or has any in the area shine brighter.
Its awesome to see people still playing these games! Oblivion was my first Bethesda game so it will always have a soft spot in my heart! Also have you checked out Enderal or Nehrim? They are mods for TES4 & 5 which essentially turn both games into completely new games! Highly recommend if you haven't checked them out!
Having put hundreds of hours into Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim back on console when they came out, I absolutely loved them. Then after building my first PC near the end of 2013 I put even more hundreds of hours into modded Morrowind and Skyrim, but not Oblivion. It just never felt as good to mod as the others even though it held most of my hours on console. Seeing this video with the minimal mod list(and spreadsheets, glorious spreadsheets!) has inspired me to give it another go on PC. Maybe even on the hardest difficulty.
I never comment on anything, after binging your series over the last couple of months! All I have to say is RIP Apprentina, I laughed so hard when she jumped off the cathedral.
i’m planning to do this but in skyrim, with modded content once all beyond skyrim mods are complete… tho my main goal for the file is to collect every book in the game, but i think i may do this for oblivion as well- with less mods obviously… we shall see, and excellent job on completing this!
As a kid the first elder scrolls game i played was morrowind and boy howdy that game DOESNT hold your hand! Oblivion really got me interested in elder scrolls great game, crazy lore, and best of all Bethesda glitches lol
