The 5 Worst Oblivion Quests 

Ironic that the Master speechcraft trainer is the NPC that has a left over voice recording error where the voice actress stops and says she wants to do her line over

The trick in Clavicus's quest is that the sword of Umbra is amazing, while the mask he is giving you is crap

Oh, I remember that vampirism quest very well. When I gave all the ingredients needed to make a cure, the witch told me that she needs time and I have to come back later. So, I stepped outside, only to find out that it was morning and I was on the last stage of vampirism. I began to die very quickly, couldn't fast travel anywhere, so my only option was to come back to the witch house. But the best part was when I hit "wait" button, the game informed me, that I "cannot wait in this location". Yeah...

The "trick" is that Umbra is a bad ass sword, and he tricked you into giving it to him in exchange for a worthless helmet.

Wait, do other people not obsessively use speechcraft to make every single NPC adore them?

The trick is trading a good sword for a terrible mask

game came out 13 years ago today, and i have just learned the allies for Bruma quest is optional MY LIFE IS A LIE

One time I went into an oblivion gate searched a chest and found a ring of 100% shock resistance. So that was dope.

you think the cure vampirism quest is bad? it's even worse in the german version because of a translation error. you see whoever translated quest msut not have been the same guy who translated objects so what happened is that nightshade, one of the ingredients needed for curing vampirism, was translated differently, so in teh quest it says that you need "nachtschatten" which is a literal translation of teh words night and shade, however the night shade plant and alchemy ingredients are translated as "tollkirsche" which is what the plant is actually called in german. so unless you are aware of the translation error, you will spend the rest of your years trying to find an item which does no texist in the game.

I contracted vampirism at level 2 so imagine my pain and suffering

when the vampire quest bugs out and you can't get the cure

Clavicus Vile is actually voiced by none other than *Todd Howard.*

I find the lack of "finding your roots"...disturbing.

The cure for vampirism is even worse if you play the game in german. The witch tells you to collect Nightshade - "Nachtschatten" in the german version. Sounds easy. So you rome around trying to find all the ingredients, until you got them all - well, except "Nachtschatten". So you search harder - check every barrel, flip every rock, search through the wilderness, ask all the merchants, check areas you haven't visited yet, search through the wilderness, ask the witch again, kill all the merchants, and search through the wilderness. But you wound find any "Nachtschatten". Because the item you searching for is not called "Nachtschatten" but "Tollkirsche". Yes that's right, the witch tells you to get "Nachtschatten" but they gave the "item" the name "Tollkirsche". And since you need 5 of them, it's unlikely that you will give them too the witch by accident. Good luck figuring that shit out. In case you were like me, with no access to internet at that time, there is an easy solution; JUST COLLECT 5 PIECES OF EVERY INGREDIENTS IN THE GAME!!!

so we bought the GOTY edition of Oblivion when it came out and my dad contracted vampirism. he did the quest to cure it but ran into a game breaking glitch that made it so the potion wouldn't stop brewing, make the quest impossible to complete. we found out later the only way to fix the glitch was to buy the non GOTY version and load your save on it. and thats the story on why i have 2 copies of oblivion for ps3

I personally enjoyed doing the Oblivion gates, though they could get tedious at times. The enchantments were always worth it imo.

why does no one understand you have to hover over a choice in the speechcraft and watch their face before making a decision. then selection the best ones for the biggest gains.

Oblivion Gates become easy enchantment sources when you realize you can just sprint through them

I think the speechcraft lady just sent you on that quest so you didn't bother her, like a snipe hunt.

"This cure vampirism quest is taking forever! How many more people do I have to talk to?" A single quest chain from World of Warcraft would cure you of your...ignorance.

"Six! That's seven too many" lol that killed me

WHAT!!! THE ALLIES FOR BRUMA QUEST IS OPTIONAL!!!! I SPENT SO MANY PLAYTHROUGHS DOING THIS CRAP AND I WAS CONVINCED IT WAS MOST OF THE MAIN QUEST BECAUSE IT TOOK SO DAMN LONG!!! THIS MEANS THAT THE ACTUAL PLAYTHROUGH IS LIKE 8 HOURS LESS!!!! UGH

Hell just kill umbra and never finish. It's weightless and levels and is one of the best (especially with Azuras star)

all i remember about oblivion was when i first started the game i would always focus on and finish the arcane university quests first so i could become the head mage or whatever so i could get access to a certain arcane enchanter. then i would find an item with 25% chameleon and disenchant it and use that to enchant 4 pieces of armour with the 25% chameleon thus being 100% chameleon. i would then play the rest of the game totally invisible and explore every gate of oblivion without alerting any enemies. good times.

how does walking outside of the borders of a map a reason to say a mission is bad? that part of the map is not even related to the mission itself,so it doesn't make sense besides that,i agree with everything else

Maybe I'm the only one but I really enjoyed allies for Bruma. It made the world feel more realistic and also made the Battle of Bruma even more fun

I remember getting a nasty headache the first time I tried to find the damn tears. Took me like 2 hours of running in circles looking on the ground, fearing I might have accidentaly knocked one away or off the map while walking ( this is oblivion after all ) seriously fck that quest.

"Not even very good treats"? Other than, idk... the literal best one handed sword in the game

I would dare say that Allies for Bruma isn't even that bad, until you get to CHEYDINHAL that is. The Wayward Knight is just so much worse than the entire Allies for Bruma quest (in my opinion) because it is the only one that requires you to do more than just kill stuff and close the gate AND get the reqard. Instead, you have to help 2 complete morons that refuse to go back even though the rest of their friends died. Not to mention, if you want the max leveled reward for the quest (like I did, both the Thornblade and the Staff of Indarus are pretty good) you have to go in there above level 20 and pray they don't die to the higher leveled Daedra so after EVERY SINGLE FIGHT you can just wait to heal them. THIS in my eyes is possibly the worst quest I've ever done next to the vampire cure quest.

The trick is that the Sword Umbra is fucking awesome, and if you give it away the joke's on you

You gave me severe flashbacks to a side character I had back when Oblivion was a new game. I caught vampirism and immediately sought out a way to cure it due to the horrific detriment the sun had become, and I was not willing to play the game in never ending darkness. The quest was so stupid and convoluted that I totally gave up on it and abandoned the character.. at least it wasn't my main one. Later, my ex was playing the game, and decided that she really wanted to be a vampire, she was into Anne Rice's novels and stuff. I BEGGED her not to do it, especially not on her main Khajiit character, because she loved that character so much and really identified with her. But she just wouldn't listen.. She ended up abandoning it, too, and her character. She got really angry and despondent for a while, and sadly watched me play through the game on my main character. She was so damn sad about it and I felt absolutely terrible, though I did everything I could. Back when the game was new, my ex and I were 21 and 22, respectively. I feel so bad for the people trying to deal with that shit when they were just kids..

"6! That's 7 too many." I need to steal this as an irl one-liner.

Hey, the 5 soul gems are hidden in her house or more specific around her house :D you don't need to buy them

Bruma....that's where the men are women.

Tears of a saviour is actually a pretty good quest. Its pretty well written, has good lore, and if you read all the notes and books youre handed, it actually makes gathering the tears unteresting :)

The Vampire cure quest get even worse when it decides to glitch and then your stuck as a god damn vampire

*I always kill Umbra at level 1 so I can get the Umbra Sword. When you do it that way, the Umbra Sword becomes weightless and can't be dropped until you get Vile's quest. Also if the sword is hotkeyed, you get to keep it when escaping from jail. The Umbra Sword is definitely the best sword at level 1 in Oblivion!*

By returning the sword Umbra to Vile, it starts the whole Infernal City conflict. It actually really interesting. For instance, people who hold the sword Umbra, slowly have the person Umbra leak into their soul (or something like that). After that they start going insane and call themselves Umbra. It happens in the second book, where the Dark Elf guy and the prince guy meet the person in possession (forget their names). It was a great series and makes Vile's quest make more sense.

You forgot the part that if you closed all the gates to oblivion the witch will pretty much just say "Oh well, cant help ya now"

I loved every Oblivion gate I took down, made me feel like a badass.

Whoa man, oatmeal may not be great by itself sure. BUT. mix in some brown sugar, (with an optional dash of cinnamon), with milk instead of water and BAM! Instant amazingness that takes like no time to make and is very filling. coincidentally its also perfect for warming up after being in the freezing cold for hours. On another note, I totally agree with the vamp cure quest. I HATED it.

Lore-wise, the Vampirism quest makes sense. You talk to someone about it, their first thoughts are to the face of the Mages, Raminus. He'll at least know what he's talking about. Raminus/most of the higher Mages know of Hassildor's own vampiric affliction, which no one else in Cyrodiil knows (outside of maybe The Dark Brotherhood). So it makes sense that Hassildor is the logical person to go to, he's the leading authority on Vampirism due to his position. However Hassildor doesn't want to play his hand either, because he defaults to not knowing you for this quest (rip@BethesdaBranching, it works if you don't actually know him) and so he sends you off to his most likely lead (he may in fact know she can do it). It wouldn't make sense for Joe Schmoe to know of this random witch as she doesn't exactly do the potion often. It also wouldn't make sense for Joe Schmoe to know Hassildor is an authority in vampirism because that would be the end of his rule quickly if he drew attention in such a way. It does make sense for someone to just pass the buck to Raminus, odds are he knows something that can help and he does. So he's the logical conclusion. It's annoying, but it's supposed to be. Vampirism is something you have to really want, and it's something that shouldn't be frivolously received and removed. I hate the quest mind you, and I agree with it being on the list. However lore-wise it works. I also don't agree with Clavicus Vile being on the list when you didn't list Nirnroot's quest and the Reinstatement into the Mages Guild quest. Both of these are dumpster-tier quests. Clavicus is just garbage bag-tier if only because they could have done more.

"Hates someone because they do their job" OK

I actually liked doing the oblivion gates. I can't say why, because I don't know why... I just liked them a lot XD

I agree that the Umbra quest is pretty bad but , "Not very good treats?" Isn't Umbra the best sword in the base game? I think that's a pretty good treat. And as for tricks, I don't know, I consider it pretty tricky of Mister Vile to give you a shitty masque in exchange for the best sword in the game.

You forgot the part in the vampire cure quest where the lady didn't let me in her house at night, kicked me out during the day, and forced me to run for my dear (un)life to the nearest town while I had to wait for her to brew her stupid potion.

For the five soul gems, each of the mages guilds has one person (the shopkeeper) who carries a grand soul gem, which you can pickpocket. And if you have the Frostcraig Spire FLC, you can easily teleport to each guild.

oatmeal is amazing how dare you

I absolutely HATED the Pilgrimage quest. The wayshrines are unmarked and when you get a little bit of infamy, you need to do it all over again.

In the Garridan's tears quest, if you actually read the Knightfall book it's really, really well written. Honestly, after reading the book and doing the quest, it felt so much more impactful. (Collecting the tears was still a large annoyance)

I concede number 5 and Obliviongates, but none of the others. Putting Vampirism Cure at #1 ? Complaining about bugs when you jump off the "end of the world" ? Yes it sucks, but most older games had that. Hell, most EA games these days have you fall through the floor into oblivion (heh).

Ironically the fire frost Glade quest is one of my favorite

For me it's Paranoia. The quest has you follow people around Skingrad from 6 AM to 12 AM. While following them you will see them do exciting thing such as: Sitting in the chapel, slowly walking around Skingrad, working from 8 AM to 5 PM. The only good thing about this quest is that you get to kill the quest giver at the end. And that you get to hear Wes Johnson talking to himself alot.

Tbh I never knew the speehcraft quest existed

* goes out side of the player map* *finds grey nothingness* Pikachu meme

Allies for Bruma is a decent quest, only because of the Sigil Stone rewards. But I wish I knew it was optional...

oh man I love speechcraft. I know it's pointless, but I've always loved anything in games that revolves around charisma or speech?? Idk the speechcraft system is kinda fun to me. It's like a tiny mini game. It gets annoying sometimes, but at least I can make everyone love me if I want to. B-)

I always thought the trick in the Clavicus Vile quest is returning the sword to him, Umbra has no weight, infinite durability and scales with your level (if you don't complete the quest) and has very very high damage, while the mask is pure dogshit, that alone made it an interesting quest for me.

You can do Oblivion gates in a few minutes if you wish. Just leg it to the top without fighting anything and take the sigil stone, they're pretty easy if you want them to be. Invisibility is also an option if you need them to be any easier.

Wait so your problem with number 3 was you went somewhere you shouldn't and you're upset that you saw something you didn't like? That's your own fault, not a problem with the quest.

You left out one of the most annoying parts of "Tears of the Savior", the fact that you can go back and talk to the guy who gave you the quest and he'll give you a bunch of potions to protect you from the cold that's hurting you...oh? That sounds useful you say? Well it is, unfortunately THE QUEST NEVER TELLS YOU THAT YOU CAN DO THAT!! I discovered it by accident when I got fed up and couldn't find the last few tears (did I mention the compass does NOT show you where the tears are?) and I happened to talk to the guy a few days later, and he's like "Oh from the conditions you described, these might come in handy" AND HE GAVE ME A BUNCH OF POTIONS THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO USEFUL EARLIER!

The worst quest in Oblivion is just getting accepted to the Arcane University. Run around to every mages guild in Cyrodil and do pointless tasks for a recommendation. Thankfully the reward is worth it, but still what a pain in the ass.

1:58 shrek when he was 21

I think you missed the point with the speechcraft one. You don't have to speak with every beggar and help them, but you have to persuade Tandilwe that you did. I mean...how would she know the difference? Well, by detecting your lies. And passing that deception check is the true test. Oh, here is how I did the Allies for Bruma the second time I played through it and got bored of the oblivion gates after a while: Enter portal. Run and jump over everything. Use every object you can. Run up the top, smack the guy with the key, snatch the oblivion orb. It really cuts down the time it takes to complete a gate.

In tears of the saviour, I could never find the final tear - then I looked up a walk-through to see the location of each individual tear, and one of them was just missing from where it was supposed to be. Then I realised that I must have accidentally kicked one of the tears by running over it, and in tradition with Oblivion physics, it presumably went flying into some unknown corner of that map and I after spending hours of looking for it, I gave up and it was impossible to finish the quest. Also, I did stumbled upon the grey void in that quest too. I mean, I don't necessarily blame the developers for not elaborating too much on that map just for one quest, but they at least should have made it impossible to access the view from the top. Pretty lazy.

Vampirism is hardly that bad. If you keep it at level 1, you don’t even have to avoid the sun.

when youre a starving vampire at noon and the witch makes you leave the house

Umbrage was one of the earliest things I found in the game. I used a TON of underhanded things to kill her including lowered the difficult to novice. Like level 10. I didnt even care because I remembered how good ubra was in morrowind

For Garridan's Tears, I used telekenesis.

Man ...I don’t dare to be a vampire in Skyrim because of my horrible experience in Oblivion 😶....Every time I start a new game in Oblivion...I don’t forget to keep the cure requests in a special container just incase I get influenced by a single vampire attack...

"Thank Talos!" haha

Me : *loves oatmeal* Also me: *a tad offended he said it taste like mOoSh*

I was eating oatmeal when you said you hated it. 😂

Umbra's a pretty decent damn sword though.

Dude, I got shutting Oblivion Gates down to a science, man!

"Yes. I know of Umbra, but you're a stranger so I'm not telling" lol It seems the concept of shooting yourself in the foot is foreign in Cyrodiil lol. * facepalm *

Amazing video!!! :) The 'Vampire Cure' quest was a pain, I had an annoying time with Hal-Liurz, she would always go off on another tangent, never speaking to Count Hassildor, leaving me with a fine when trespassing to converse with him. :'(

Hi your videos are cool and I don't know if you did already but would you ever do a morrowind play through and also have played any of the fallout games in the whole series? Thanx

The worst part about the cure for vampirism quest is that on the PS3, where i originally played the game, she refuses to take the Bloodgrass, making it impossible to cure and thus impossible to ever see that hidden room in Castle Skingrad.

Personally I really like the cure vampirism questline. But the most annoying part about it is that you can't heal vampirism after the quest is complete, and that the game considers entering the witch's house as trespassing regardless of whether you're doing the quest or not.

Another great video, I'm really loving all the oblivion content. You deserve soo many more subs man.

You missed the worst part of the quest, Tears of the Savior. While looking for the tiny blue objects it is possible to accidentally kick them under an object or off the map. Doesn't take much for this quest to just sit there in your journal, taunting you forever.

Isn't Clavicus Vile that dumb statue in Skyrim where you have to take his bad-smelling dog back to him? Man, sucks to suck, Clavicus..

Your brand of comedy is genuinely wholesome.

I loves speechcraft in oblivion

Thanks for these vids. I'm glad I'm not the only person who still loves Oblivion.

The thing with Clavicus' Umbra quest, you are better off never even starting the quest and going and killing Umbra without the quest active. You will then have a weight 0 quest item (i.e. you keep it on you when sent to jail or losing all your other gear via other ways) version of the highest base damage one handed sword in the game that has a useful enchantment on it and a badass design. By not giving it to him you also stop a canonical zombie apocalypse that happens between Oblivion and Skyrim.

4:34 From what I remember, it is called Frostfire Glade because the frost is cold that it feels like the frost is burning on the skin.

Couldnt agree more about Aid For Bruma. I closed the oblivion gates and they sent me TWO soilders.

I love u yeah oblivion does have bad quest sometime but very rarely

To be honest I think the Oblivion gates are ironic! Oblivion is basically hell and then in hell you do the same annoying thing every time every day

Another layer to the Cure for vampirism quest, is that on PS3 the quest was bugged in a way that made her never finish the potion. You went through all the objectives but were never able to finish it right at the end. That experience broke vampirism for me.

OMG I freaking didn't know that it is optional either during my first playthrough....... I closed EVERY SINGLE OBLIVION GATE and what did I get: 2-3 soldiers from each city I aided WOW THANK YOU

I love the clavicus vile quest, talking dog statue, treasure choices, cool weapon, cool armor option, full ebony armor, whats not to love

Speech craft is so broken. It’s far easier to just mash the mini game until the NPC loves you. Can level to 100 without talking to a single beggar

I love the speech mini game, you can have a ton of fun making them say stuff with turbo speed. In Skyrim speechcraft matters way less, fail a "skill" check and you have 4 other options that will give you the same result... I forgot to add, that yes its true "Curing Vampyrism" can feel tedious but I would not have it any other way. It's very rewarding once you get cured, you feel the reward of it because you have to do a bunch of stuff that ain't exactly easy.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa the f bomb. Gasp! call every media outlet and tell them cantina beats dogs let's ruin his channel

Absolutely hated being a vampire and the quest to cure it was a massive pain in the ass! Nearly gave up playing the game because of it.

I remember playing this on a PS3 of all things and doing the vampirism quest was glitched on the GOTY version, when trying to give the witch bloodgrass she simply wouldn't take it. The only way to bypass it was to change the system language to German. Even stranger was that this also reset the shivering isle expansion. So much nostalgia for this game and I still love it, but I will always remember this cursed glitch!

Cool video dude keep it up!!