The BIG Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Retrospective 

Thanks for watching! Please consider liking, commenting, subscribing, yadda yadda. As always, correction can be found below as they become known to me. DON'T (do not) get mad at me or else! IMPORTANT: Timestamps periodically disappear. i can't fix it no matter what I do. They are still in the description. Research was possible thanks to the following: Rimmy Goblin Wars Vid ► ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q-QPuhtgrAo.html Cantina Sutch Vid ► ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X36P4M5T3Ew.html Reddit Thread ► www.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/1337o3z/question_avatar_of_akatosh_banishing_dagon/ UESP & they were also where I got the goblin trouble pictures ► en.uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page Imperial Library ► www.imperial-library.info/content/post-archives Making of Oblivion ► ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zvm0CN3tQFI.html Radiant AI Discussion ► www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/s20zm1/how_does_bethesdas_radiant_ai_work/ Oblivion Trivia ► www.vgfacts.com/game/theelderscrollsivoblivion/ Development Wiki ► en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_The_Elder_Scrolls_IV:_Oblivion Other credits: Kingthings font ► www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/kingthings-petrock Corrections: 1. I forgot to mention there are other ways to join the Thieves guild such as reading the wanted posters and then conversing with beggars to get information about the meeting. 2. Didn't explain the issues with soul gems very well. The real issue is that you can waste a grand soul gem by putting a petty soul in them, as you cannot stack souls within a gem. 3. I repeat myself sometimes. I tried to find all of them but some slipped through the cracks. 4. While the imperial city is all about being grandiose, the white gold tower itself was made by the Ayleids and there are multiple towers like it. I don't think I made this very clear in the video. 5. I have had two separate claims of me copy-pasting / plagiarizing from the wiki without credit. I have used the wiki to research some quests and when I need to make use of the UESP, I mention it in the video. I also have them credited in the description. The one thing I failed to mention was that I used their pictures from Goblin Trouble in the video so I'm doing that now. If I missed anything else, please let me know. 6. If you're here to yell at me because of the one snippet from the arena section because you saw it on twitter or something a) please don't lol and b) I'm not complaining about that as an aspect of the game. I thought it was an interesting part of the narrative. There's another part in the video where I point out that morality isn't a big focus on the game and we shouldn't care about the morality of our character in Oblivion because the devs clearly don't. Again: not complaining about this aspect of the game. Let's just all vibe ty. Mods I used ► www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/51105

If I had a nickel for every Oblivion retrospective that was 12 hours long, I'd have two nickes, which is not a lot but it's weird it happened twice.

You have my ear, citizen.

You know you’ve watched too much long form content when you catch yourself on thinking “Man…I’ve only got 3 more hours left of this”

You call it a 12 hour oblivion video, I call it wednesday evening

In awe of the size of this monster. The length. The girth.

A fine addition to my collection of multi-hour long oblivion retrospectives.

Man, i forgot how Oblivion could have people look like a full grown adult and a child at the same time. Great retrospective!

I love that multi-hour oblivion retrospectives have blossomed into their own genre

yes I absolutely WILL watch every 10+ hour Oblivion retrospective I find

I think one thing many don't talk about with Shivering Isles is that it fits perfectly with Oblivion's atmosphere. All those weird quirky moments that happen in Oblivion such as the NPC conversations, all of the sudden no longer feel out of place because the world is supposed to be insane and full of weird and strange people. It basically embraces Oblivion's stranger and quirky moments and makes it work in the context of its world. My favorite overall is Skyrim, but I definitely think that Shivering Isles is Bethesda's best expansion, with Far Harbor being a close Second.

Paying 500 gold to speak with Todd somehow fits the narrative

Oh man, is this retrospective going to suck me back into oblivion? An hour in and I’m already feeling the pull hahaha

Why yes, RU-vid, I WOULD love a 12 hour video on a game I’ve never played. Amazing video and I am going to very much enjoy rewatching this from time to time

Saturating the 12 hour Oblivion video market ... is not a thing I thought I'll ever see

Morrowind was the game that "awoke something" in me. The moment I realized as a kid that it wasn't the usual linear game, but that you actually had virtually complete freedom from the moment you set foot in Seyda Neen absolutely blew my mind. Morrowind was my first Elder Scrolls game and it's probably the game I've put more hours of my life into. It's my "comfort game" that I regularly come back to. And since then, no other game series other than the Elder Scrolls could even come close to replicating that feeling of freedom.

I had another end to Glarthir's quest. I can't remember exactly what I did that led to this situation but I remember seeing him in the middle of the night, walking on the street with a big axe. I aproached him and talked to him to figure out what was going on and he only said something like "I have to take matters into my own hands.". I followed him and saw him enter the house of one of his suspects. After a short while he came back out. I walked inside the house and found the person inside dead. I actually relaoded a save and this time I quickly followed him inside the house. It turned out that if I was in the house when Glarthir was going to kill her she woke up and he couldn't kill her quickly enough. They both ran outside and I followed them. Once outside Glarthir kept chasing her but then the guards saw it and killed him. This is why that quest is one of the most memorable to me. The way it can end several different ways and how I could have easily missed stopping his murder if I didn't stumble upon him by chance at the right time.

I absolutely love this genre of who can make the longest Elder Scrolls retrospective.

Between Patrician, PrivateSessions and you, I’ll never run out of long form video essays about Bethesda games.

The point where I decided to cure my vampirism was when I had run out of healing items and hadn’t fed in a while so I went to hide out in someone’s home while the sun was rising and starting to hurt me. When entering the home, i was unable to wait until night because i was trespassing and was unable to use any beds either. I didn’t have enough health or healing items or restoration spells to try to bolt to another place where I wouldn’t be trespassing. So then I had to wait from the morning until night time before i could leave, in real time, with nothing to do. I also didn’t have any good backup saves to go to that didn’t lead to substantial loss in progress. At that point I was sick of it and as soon as night came, I started working on making the cure. I didn’t know that I had the access to the dlc to make it easier to cure vampirism, so I just went through the tedious default process. I learned a lot of lessons that day lol

Oblivion is the only game that as soon as I hear the opening music for it I shed a few tears thinking of the thousands of hours I spent in my childhood and teenage years playing it with my brother and late father. Sometimes it’s not about how good something is…but the memories that are associated with it.

I’ve listened to your Fallout Retrospectives over a million times. I’ve never played Oblivion but here I am anyway.

These 12 hour videos give me life. I especially love these when I can't sleep at night so I let them lull me to sleep, you get a 12 hour one go view every night, and I get sleep 😊

When I first played Oblivion, I was honestly impressed with character creation. I think it was among the first games I've played that allowed you to do so much.

Oblivion Being the First Game in the Series I was exposed to. At the Age of about 15 I had all summer to Explore everything Oblivion had to offer. I’m thankful I had this in my Childhood

Oblivion was my first RPG back in 06 when it came out. Super excited to watch this over the course of the next month lol

You did it. It's finally out... The long fabled, the legendary. Oblivion retrospective. You may rest now champion, you've done your part, now its time for our part.

"Have you ever played a game that woke something up inside of you?" Literally me with Oblivion. I stepped outside the Imperial City Sewers and it blew my young mind. Now I play MMOs and Open World games more than anything else.

coming back to this video for the nth time, and just wanted to say that this long retrospective as well as a few of your other ones have been helping me get through some really tough stuff this week. things have been bad enough that I can't have any silence, especially when sleeping. your videos have been keeping me company and helping me get to sleep through some of the worst things. i already loved listening to your perspective on games, your brand of humor, and game trivia and dev insights. now things just mean a little bit more. greatly looking forward to whatever you create next, and thanks.

12 hours of pure Bliss, thank you my man. I genuinely cannot wait to see what you do next

Small thing you missed with the Dark brotherhood questline. Vicente actually does acknowledge you're the one that escaped from the imperial prison

i work 12 hour shifts as a machinist, i typically have to download mulitple videos to get me through the day. Glad to see the one video that will get me through a day lol

I'm two hours in. I was listening while drawing some stuff and playing something. Not only that, but I ended playing, noticed that the video is still going and to my surprise this video was 12 hours. I'm in awe.

For the algorithm gods! I love how there's a library of long Oblivion retrospectives on RU-vid. 😂

Thank You. This was worth every minute of watching. Great Work. I really enjoyed this overview.

It took a week, but I got through it. Thank you for doing these long form videos, and I hope this small bit of encouragement makes it all worth it in the end.

What a wonderfully sized video! Even longer than my "rain noises to sleep to" video I listen to. Excited to work my way through this. Thanks!

I am really glad to see more long-form videos really exploring these games in depth. Can't wait to finish watching this one.

Fell asleep listening to this, then woke up and carried on listening to it

No fucking way I'm hype AF to learn there's a second 12 hour monster of Oblivion content. i love you

Me: Just woken up* Cool a 12 minutes retrospective of Oblivion.... This will go well with my morning coffee... Also Me: After finishing my coffee and dishes* _Oh no......._

I really appreciate the effort you put into this. Excellent video , really looking forward to the next one :)

Bro, thank you so much for doing descriptions for audio listeners. I listened to the whole video at work and a lot of people don't consider that.

Over a month later and I’m finally done watching/listening to this absolute monster of a critique! Oblivion is a game I hold very dear to my heart so it was great to go back through it via this video, amazing work! Can’t wait for the next one.

I'm really loving these series length videos of old games that many are nostalgic for. Thank you making another work day fun!

This retrospective is ridiculously good, great job!

Truly GOATed video. I haven't played any mainline Elder Scrolls since 2013. Yet, by watching videos like this one, I feel like I've never stopped playing! Thank you for your contribution. 🙌

Such a well done video. Only about a quarter of the way through but man it’s bringing back so many fond memories. Keep it up

Just want to say how much I appreciate your content and editing style. Your videos are endlessly rewatchable and enjoyable to me even though idrk anything about oblivion or monster hunter. Keep up the amazing work king! 👑👑👑

Well I know what I'll be watching over the next few days. Appreciate the hard work you put into this

This game is a huge reason I got into fantasy as a genre. It basically raised me when my parents weren't.

Love how you made this a full 22 minutes longer than the other oblivion review of Patrica TV.

Thank you for creating such a long, comfy video. My puppy passed away yesterday morning and this was on the background literally all day, keeping my mind off everything.

love love love the way you structured this. unique, interesting and easy to follow. thank you!

Unironically thanks to all longtubers that give me videos to fall asleep to when I lie awake in bed at night. I couldn’t live without you.

It took me some time to get through all of it but I'm finally done lol One of the best, most though out and through essays on YT, great job chief!

I open the video, leave my like, comment, save the video and leave. I know I will have a good time watching this. Thanks!

amazing video as always superRAD, loving the long form content you make, i will definitely be re-watching this at some point! what a great watch!! really stuck me right in the urge to start playing again!

Great video man! lovely to see such a work of love from someone who genuinely loves Oblivion, very inspiring!

The perfect length to listen to on my lunch break

SuperRAD always uploading on my days off. Thanks King

1:50:08 funny part: while murdering the three Argonians - slowly, he talks about how bad the system is, that forces them to fight and how moraly bad everyone is participating in it.

I ended a 7 year relationship and right at the same time picked this game up. Safe to say that healing process was actually enjoyable, as I completely lost myself to Oblivion for a few months

i love that if you had started watching this as soon as it dropped you still wouldn't be halfway through hahaha

This is just what I needed another 12 hour retrospective of Oblivion. yusss

I finally finished watching this. Oblivion and Half-Life 2 are the two games I really wish I could unlearn so I could experience the first awe again. I still remember that cold night when I played the game for the first time on October 27, 2006 while eating Chinese fried rice... and stepping out of the imperial city underground and seeing the outside world for the first time, carefully examining the scenery and details, noticing the stars, clouds, and two moons moving independently from each other, pointing at a snowy mountain top on my little TV screen and asking out loud, "Can I go there" and being amazed not only by getting there, but also by the journey up the mountain. I remember playing Spyro The Dragon 2 years earlier and climbing a wall to see grassy hills in the distance and wishing I could explore beyond the invisible wall, then finding GTA Vice City 4 years later and being impressed with the world, but I wanted it to be more non-linear. Oblivion was my first true open world experience and the first time I could customize a character that my much. I wandered away from the main story, played for years, and I still haven't delivered that amulet. Great video. Shout out to the extremely open necrophiliac alchemist lady in Skingrad.

12 hour video? Just barely long enough. So glad folks like you make videos like this in these insane lengths

Just finished your New Vegas retrospective, and oh boy I'm ready for another.

I've seen this comment posted before but I love it. "RU-vidrs having a war over the longest elder scrolls video is my favorite content."

You have my awe and my patreon subscription for this. I can't fathom the amount of work it would have taken. Absolutely incredible.

Thank you for the amazing sleeping material it's so hard to find a chill super long video that I can wake up and actually just start watching

I actually really wanted to thank you. I saw your video on Dragons Dogma. That one totally passed me by. Granted, I am 48 years old and during Covid I got myself a mid-range PC and joined Steam. I didn't know where to start? I love fantasy games and the really old classics. Dus ex and System Shock. However, I wanted to grab a really good fantasy series and had only recently finished Skyrim. I like Bethesda, but wanted to go somewhere diferent. I watched your awesome Dragons Dogma video and decided I got a try that. SuperRAD, what a great game. Thank you for the video. I would have never heard of it if not for your video. I freaking love the game. I have been binging it like crazy. Such a good, solid game. I now follow you for great video content, but also to find great classic games that passed me by. I am going to go through your work on my day off and see what other classics you've done a doc on. Maybe it's time to finally try KOTOR?

It's always great when I find a nice, short video to watch right before bed.

Oh look, another 12 hr analysis/retrospective that I'll be watching 5+ times over the course of the year. Sweet bliss. 😌

This couldn't have come out at a better time I have a 12 hour drive today and now I know what I listening to on the way

I was not ready to see a 12 hour long superrad retrospective on my timeline yet here we are, I'm gonna be sleeping good tonight

Love the length Love your narrative I guess it's time for a 24 hour version.

I love long form videos about video games and usually listen to them while I’m doing my hobbyist woodworking stuff. After exhausting what felt like the entirety of RU-vid at this point, you can’t imagine the elation I felt when I saw a 12 HOUR LONG VIDEO about a video game that I love. Definitely binging the crap out of your channel.

thanks so much for this!! watched it throughout work the past 2 days lol. really really like your analysis

Ya know he wanted that 10 min mark

It is indeed very large retrospective The Elder Scrolls is my favourite franchise by far so i would absolutely watch this front to back ❤

This is the first video I've watched from you, but after like a week I finally finished it. It was very good keep it up!

Finally finished this masterpiece. You sir have gained a sub for this.

I know you're getting compared to another oblivion video already, but I do enjoy this video and put it in the same tier. You provide a vastly different experience than the other, as you go into depth on the side quests than the patrician video, as well as address thematic elements a lot more. You guys both did a great job, and something like this video is needed to provide a different insight over the game. Really great video. It 's crazy to see with even 12 hours of talking about the same game, a genuine and vastly different presntation is able to be made. Keep up the good work, and i look forward to more long from content!

So upon getting further in since the previous comment, i wanted to voice a thought process i have when playing oblivion. When you have the amulet at the end of the prison segment, its probably in the safest place possible. Only 1 person knows you have it, and until you bring it to Geoffrey, the plot doesn't start rolling. The way i get past the "rush to the main quest" feeling is just telling myself that it is probably safer with me than with anyone else, period

finally got through the video. i LOVE how in depth you went, and i learned a bunch of things that i didnt actually know before, specifically about leveling and just how broken you can become in terms of power. now to be the devil on your shoulder: a mass effect retrospective would be great!

Great video, SuperRAD! As someone who was out of video games for around 2 decades (2001-2021), it's great to see retrospectives like this. Thank you for your dedication and hard work in making a wonderful video!

The 12 hour video grind is CRAZY.

I am so sorry to say that you hooked me when you mentioned Morrowind yet again. Will be enjoying this for the next couple days and finally subscribing.

Once in a blue moon another in depth oblivion analysis pops up on youtube, safe to say... i havent missed one yet. Buckling up for a big night- THANK YOU KIND SIR!

"it's just a theory... I'm not gonna say it !" I chocked while laughing 😂 wp

I’m 8:19:55 in to this video and have finally decided to bite the bullet and play some more modded Oblivion! Thanks for the thorough and well though out retrospective you’ve released. 🎉🎉 I hope to see you do one for Skyrim or Morrowind as well one day!

can't wait for your 24 hr video

First watched the NV retro, then FO3, now this. You have become my favorite tuber regarding games.

Bro I didn’t know I wanted a 12 hour oblivion video until now. I played oblivion a good bit but those first 3.5 hours brought up quest I completely missed. I still got a few hours left but this is great and super entertaining. Honestly I’d watch another 12 hour video on whatever game you cover.

I played Morrowind continuously from the lunch when Oblivion came out. I never forget the disappointment after finishing all the guilds and the main quest in a week.

No way is killing an argonian first is racist

This video has taken me 3 days to finish, and I love it.

Watched in it's entirety, great content. Good job man

Yes... Another 12 hour retrospective to fall asleep too for several days. My man saves my good night sleep