Skooma is pretty cool but the characters who use that Skooma are even cooler. So today we are taking a look at how Bethesda created Oblivion's Skooma Underground. Check out my social pages! TWITTER: / thecantinach
Hahaha that part was hilarious to me. I also love the weird way their mouths are animated as they drink it. They look like fish people addicted to skooma
I didn’t realize skooma permanently damaged your intelligence when I first started taking it and I was confused why my character couldn’t cast a single spell
The saddest thing about being the first is that you automatically scroll down to see the comments but you leave sad and disappointed for the loneliness.
This part of Oblivion always fascinated me. The drug dens, the skooma smuggling ring, it's a really neat aspect of the game that goes largely unnoticed. I really hope Elder Scrolls VI focuses more on this. When you drink Skooma in Skyrim especially, and to a lesser extent Morrowind and Oblivion, there are no consequences to taking Skooma. And they should add back in smoking Skooma. They should put more drugs back in as well, so you can try to get rarer drugs like Felldew, Greenmote and Balmora Blue. And adding a Skooma smuggling/dealing operation like that Skooma Dealer mod. It would be so neat to cook Skooma, deal it, export it to other provinces, take in shipments from Elsweyr, it would be so immersive! Also I really just wanna roleplay as a crackwhore.
Ya I always thought it was weird that the player cant get addicted. Interestingly though there is dialogue about an NPC trying to find a cure for skooma addiction.
@@TheCantinaChannel Yeah that Khajiit that you do the Tears of the Saviour quest for. So many weird rumours and unfinished parts of Oblivion; it would be truly amazing if some dedicated modders could expand upon them and really flesh out the game to the extent it could have been.
That would be awesome! For that though, we'd need a bartering system like in Oblivion and Morrowind. Bethesda has "streamlined" these features, so it's unlikely there will be a change.
I am so glad that after 13 years, people are still making content about Oblivion, it just goes to show how much is actually packed into this game. There's a certain magic to it, even for all of the discrepancies, glitches and unfinished events. Its all a part of the charm.
It could lose it's charm when you'd have to load an hours-old save for the fifth time because of a game breaking bug. I still loved Oblivion but the problem these days is that I couldn't get past the awful dungeon design of the excessively large cave dungeons and aelied ruins that you get sent to 1000 times. It would be cool if someone released a mod that just left in the storymode-type quests though, that is where it shined.
@@samuelrs5138 "It could lose it's charm when you'd have to load an hours-old save for the fifth time because of a game breaking bug." Fool you once, shame on him. Fool you twice, shame on you.
@@sh-bf7bv You do not understand, these bugs weren't about not saving and weren't fixable without losing hours of gameplay regardless of how many times you saved. I'll give you one example: In getting the cure for vampirism you're sent to a woman's hut and she sends you off to collect many things that requires hours of work. I got her quest, collected the items, returned, and she would not accept them. I learned the problem was that she was in her basement when I got the quest from her. That made her bug and stay in her basement forever. Despite originally giving me the quest down there, she then saw me as a trespasser in her basement and would only tell me I shouldn't be down there. She was scripted to only be in her basement at a certain time of day but since she was bugged and wouldn't come back upstairs I had two choices: be a vampire for the rest of the game or throw away hours and hours of doing the most tedious fetch quest in any TES game for the pleasure of doing it all over again just so I didn't have to live with the shitty experience of being a vampire in Oblivion.
Skyrim too. Skyrim has been around for a decade now and there are still videos being made about it. It's still to this day being played and it has a lot of in depth side quests as well as amazing dlc questlines.
RPG Games need more stuff like this. Even if you have no clue what is going on, seeing the same NPC in different cities and knowing they all have schedules helps provide immersion and hints at underlying complexity that you could uncover if you wanted to, or just leave it a secret.
There is still beautiful in that. I mean In TES sometimes you encounter experiences that any other games gives you, maybe because they try ton of stuff. I just hope for TES6 to be filled with stuff like this, little details that helps enourmous to the innmertions
@@v44n7 They do admittedly have a lot of fun things scattered around, but the massive worlds have so much nothing space in them and their writing is really sub par.
@@averagejoe455 that's not true at all. Don't forget they made The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, two ground breaking games, both with extremely good writing, environmental story telling and lore. Granted the newer games weren't as good, both Fallout 4 and TES: V still were pretty good in terms of lore and writing.
@@that_deadeyegamer7920 Skyrim did feel a bit more like a completed world, but Fallout 4 was just full of open spaces with nothing around. (Especially in the southern swampy area) They also filled the map with wothless settlements that made it feel like they didn't bother to create actually interesting places so they could push Creation Club and make modders do the actual work.
@@that_deadeyegamer7920 Don't forget that they only made fallout 3 and 4. And no, fallout 4 wasn't "pretty good" in terms of lore or writing. Skyrim's lore is alright but fallout 4 is pretty damn iffy. Far harbor had some nice writing, but other than that it was all pretty substandard. Especially when compared to stuff like New Vegas or the Witcher 3. Almost an unfair comparison until you look at the amount of time these games took to make. (new vegas being made in 18 months, and the witcher 2 and skyrim being released the same year, and the witcher 3 and fallout 4 being released the same year). Fallout 4 is little more than a base for copious amounts of mods withs Skyrim being a complete, if empty, experience. Both games are fun to pick a direction and go kill stuff, do some light questing, go to a location kill some stuff rinse repeat, but expect anything more than that and they leave you wanting.
The good ol days of "You are overencumbered", chugging 20 bottles of skooma, flying across the map to dump all your loot in your waterfront house, and then realising you can no longer cast healing spells.
I don't do dope, not even in videogames. People complained about how difficult it was to save your game in Kingdom Come Deliverance, puh-leaze, I don't drink booze, not even in videogames, so I went to find a bed every time, no big deal.
@@andrevanniekerk6526 Hm. On an *Oblivion* related video. Since these are not cognitively my sort of people, I expected a greater chance of someone trying to provoke me. I didn't anticipate that the person would attempt to provoke me by self-reflection. I usually avoid certain swathes of people, so I forget that there are people that can do things of this particular scope.
Such a practical video. His name is Shady Sam. So maybe the addicts in the Imperial City had no idea he was there? Lets not forget skooma also destroys intelligence. Maybe Bravil has the best skooma and they have addict friends there. Seems realistic to me
i kinda like it that those two guys outside the skooma den are there. its like that they want to get wasted outside on the porch with fresh air and a nice view and the other guys just pass out inside instead. its also crazy how much unique dialogue they have there even though you're never incentivized to there or anything
brings back the feels it's been so long and I'm blown away again by how good the voice acting is like you going to Cryodil just makes me think of that one old Khajit lady that always had the gnarliest voice I don't know why but thats what this video reminds me of
I remember a lot of this! Yeah, there's a barrel in the waterfront district with an average lock by Myvryna Arano's house! If you go there at the right day/time, you can actually see Oghash do the use animation on the barrel, then leave. I only saw it a handful of times, never learned the time/day perfectly, but if you pick the lock and check the barrel right before she gets there, you can find a few bottles of skooma inside that are missing after her animation. I always wondered how a lot of this was connected and what it was meant for. This has been bugging me, no exaggeration here, for literal YEARS! Thanks for the video on the topic!
I learned that schedule and wrote it down. Raid the barrel at exactly Two P.M. on Tirdas for the Skooma. It's how my character makes enough fenced gold to cover the thieves guild quest flags.
@@Draco-pv8ie Thanks for letting me know the schedule. Like I said, it's been bugging me for years now, so thank you for taking the time to tell me what time to look out for!
I remember reading about the skooma transportation and smuggling in the official strategy guide. It's such a cool, small aspect of the game. I wish there was more like it!
I think this quest might have had multiple endings. You were probably able to arrest the main skooma dealer or tell him that you will shut up if you get a cut of the profits, or maybe join in, but i doubt it.
I know have serious nostalgia from watching this even tho I played oblivion 2 weeks ago lol still tho will never go a day without missing it hands down best game ever created also hands down fav channel to watch missed you dude
I've discovered your videos about a month ago and finally subscribed because that seems to be a "thing" to do though I don't know what that means. I never "subscribed" (what does that even mean) to any channel on RU-vid before but I owe you, man. Your stuff is so good I had to become a "subscriber" finally.
I legit never knew Shady Sam existed and I’ve played this game for countless hours shows just how much detail was squeezed into this game also one thing I’ve always liked about Oblivion was the radiant AI I love how they all have schedules and things they do and unlike Skyrim it feels more natural and less like robots
Wow this is really cool! I had no idea all of this Skooma dealing was going on. I knew about the den and that's it. When I talk to the addicts, I wait a bit before exiting the conversation. All of their gulps of skooma combine into one loud gulp after I press B. I dunno, I think its funny. Weird too. XD
This is one of the coolest videos about oblivion ive seen. It's so interesting how much work and secret things they put in this game (also didnt put in this game). THE CANTINA KILLS IT ONCE AGAIN, long live your channel and bless you to good health and merry times .
I've played Oblivion since it first came out, and I had no idea that there was a character nameed Shady Sam. You learn something new about an old game. Incredible.
Hey it's great to see another amazing video. I love this video and now I know where to get skooma in Oblivion. So when I play more I'm going to buy some.
I literally own every bottle in the game it's in my skingrad townhouse drug den room, every loose bottle and a scale of course. I knew a kid who stole every item in the game and put them in one house, not an exaggeration, he meticulously robbed every single house tent cave city farm until he couldn't carry more, dropped the loot and repeated. It was insane, I wish we social media'd better around 05-09, my golden years ;-).. you kids today have your lives documented online, all I got is a dumb graduation picture
Few weeks ago I found your channel and have already watched almost all the videos on Oblivion. I thought you finished with these video, but nice to see that I was mistaken) Make them more often))
I thought Shady Sam was just there so you could buy essentially unlimited lock picks until you get the Skeleton Key. I think that’s all I ever used him for
I know that if I were transported into Oblivion (like how Jeff Bridges was transported into the computer in TRON), I would soon become a skooma addict. It's really sickening to think of me gulping it down all day.
One of the issues with the npc's making their own decisions and skooma was that those addicted would go seek out people with skooma and if they couldn't pay for it they would kill other npc's for it.
The reason we didn’t know about the people being involved in skooma might be intentional. Drug users wouldn’t want a random outsider to know that they do drugs or deal in narcotic, you might snitch. Plus drug dealers usually look like normal people, we could see some every day and probably not notice.
