Yeah. that's true. The music bring me back to when i was captured by the world of oblivion (same with morrowind) and i was curious about everything, i used to explore cities for hours, looking for secrets, for hidden quests, and it was amazing. But i know that is impossible to ever recreate those feelings, i would get bored easily if i pick up the game again. but man, what an amating time was.
Every inch of oblivion was savored for me. I was right into it and then did Morrowind's main quest as well as the dlc's and ranked all the way to the highest rank in house redoran. Then did it all again on another profile just so I could rank all the way up to the highest rank in the telvanni. What adventures
man the first time coming out of those sewers was one of my happiest memories in gaming. Just the fact this beautiful world is waiting for you, the people, monsters, demons, cults, thieves, vampires, endless exploration.. I had this on 360 but didnt really dive into it until going into 9th grade... theres apart of me I think that will always be stuck in there. (kinda like the art mission if anyone remembers entering the painting lolol) love this masterpiece
What you said at the end there was weirdly poetic. It's like, instead of Oblivion having a special place in my heart, my heart has a special place in Oblivion (or rather Cyrodil) itself. When you become so immersed in a world and find such comfort and sanctuary in that place, it starts to feel like home and a small part of you might just become stuck in there forever.
Oblivion was the reason why I bought a 360 in the first place. After I left the sewers I was immediately slaughtered by the bandit with elven Armor, who occupies the ruins right in front of the sewer's exit :D
There is something i felt playing Oblivion which i didn't feel playing Skyrim, i have no idea what it is though. Something very unique, maybe the experience because there was nothing like this game at the time. It's beautiful :)
HenKaya I get the exact same feeling just thinking about it and people say it's dumb that I feel like this about a game but it is indescribable and no one can k ow until they've played it
I got that feeling as well. With oblivion no matter how many times I played it i feel as if there is something I haven't discovered every time I picked up the game
In Oblivion I felt like I was somebody appreciated by the npc's. For god sake's I was the fucking HERO OF KAVATCH. In Skyrim you do not feel like that, you can acclompish all kinds of stuff in skyrim and the npc's continue to give you know respect. Fuck Skyrim especially the stormclocks
Oblivion was a lot more colorful and had a lighter tone for the most part. It felt more like you were put inside a fairytale than just a world with magic.
@@Scion3881 He's very egotistical, and protective of his works, at one point telling fans not to attend a Skyrim concert because he wasn't invited there to perfect the music. He's also against piracy, at one point comparing it to the Holocaust. The GW2 Soundtrack had a DRM, and some who bought it never received it, getting the run around. He also made a Kickstarter for an album that took years to make. Oh, and he compared himself to Beethoven... Shitty person, amazing composer.
Better than the 5000 remasters of Skyrim we've been getting. Needs to be the same EXACT game, though, with only a few minor bug fixes, and a huge graphical overhaul.
I love Oblivion too!! So much good memories. Like 9~10 years ago, playing everyday, a second life....a so unique game for that time. Each song has something important to say to me, every piece of my memory playing it.
This music is one of the only things keeping me sane in a time of my life when the foundations of everything I understood to be true have been shattered. It keeps me from falling too far into that pit of dark despair that is depression.
Funny thing is that the stories of the in game books are very good indeed. Oblivion offers a very deep level of immersion, even with it's flaws. Some of it was lost in Skyrim, and the books in TES V aren't near as good as the stories inside oblivion's books.
@@PolishGod1234 Witcher 3 is a masterpiece of an open world aRPG, but its atmosphere is much more dark and realistic. Tissie is right, the atmosphere of a dream-like, high fantasy adventure of Oblivion is unmatched to this day.
I remmeber playing this as an early teen, spending countless friday night hours roaming through this fantastic world. At that time my life was a mess, I had problems at school and with my family, so I was always angry. This game made me forget all that for a moment, I could scape to a world where I could be a hero and kill my monsters for real....and hear this music. This music has a special place in my heart, and depending of the day I still shead tears hearing its acords... I supose taking into account my situation at that time and the fact that I was a teenager the notion I have of TESO is a bit overrated, but the reality is no game has ever accomplished to make me feel like this one did...Maybe Mass effect 2, but on another level. Thank you for uploading this, now I use it to get my way through college exams!
You're welcome, Oblivion was indeed jaw-dropping and you could really escape into the world it felt so alive and harmonious. Those were the charms of Oblivion never to be repeated by any other TES game (Skyrim was still very good in my opinion but not the same as Oblivion). It's nice to hear we experienced this game in kind of the same way, I'm also glad it supports you while studying. I wish you good luck with your exams. Kind regards,
I had the same experience, I had a troubling childhood as I was always struggling in middle school and could never feel I could fit in but with this game I felt I could escape with my brothers or by myself and feel as if I belonged here
I'll tell you a personal thing: I played this game when I was just 17 years old, in the open countryside, at my paternal grandmother's house. With me were my best childhood friends, we played together and we finished it. During the day, of course, we went out to do some outdoor activities. We used to play in the summer season campaigns. When we left the house, we couldn't wait to get back inside, turn on the PlayStation three with the Sony TV and start the game. When we loaded the save, the soundtrack played and you were excited. It was like this all summer of 2009. An emotion that I will never forget and that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. Now when I hear the soundtrack, I close my eyes. And the imagination takes me back to many years ago when I was a happy and carefree kid and ran around the countryside looking for an Oblivion gate to close it; with my friends we used to play swords imagining that we are fighting the evil forces of Oblivion. Best summer of my life I think. I love this game.
Morrowind, Skyrim and Oblivion actually all have the same composer. Check out Jeremy Soule, his work is excellent :) He also did the music for Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights and many more awesome titles.
@@polarisationsfilterlambda6291 I would say that world looked like paintbrush strokes and was very fun the first time, but the colors they allow in the over world, every color in the sunset and the nights are lit up by those two giant moons, beautiful stars and galaxy stretched across the night skys, if you hang out around Leyawiin its a swampy area and has all of the swamp sounds with a morrowind vibe.
@@sofakingonmynuts1438 That's why I always found Oblivion's graphics so beautiful actually. They have a different, distant but also a warm and dreamy feeling like if they came out of one of Tolkien's books. Kind of looks like a fairy tale too.
I'm kind of crying with nostalgia but also with happiness knowing I was born in the age where this game exists. It shaped my childhood, as a kid I was bad at morrowind because of the combat but Oblivion improved on that. This game truly is the apex of gaming history. It taught me imagination, creativity, it inspired many months of writing my own fan fiction in my notebook as a kid. It allowed me to be whoever I wanted in an amazing world, it took me away from the problems life gave me. It may sound silly to some, that it's just a game but the thing is it's not just a game, it's the best goddamn game in the universe and it was my escape from the real world. Oblivion is, like a home to me, and nothing could ever compare to it. No matter what games come out, they'll never be able to have this effect because oblivion was there at the right place and right time. I hope when I die that the afterlife is this game. Thank you for uploading this. The music will help me to sleep tonight.
I promise you that when you die you don't want to be in the OBLIVION CRISIS, the game tones it down due to lack of processing power but a lot of the place was over run by daedra and many died every day so it kinda would suck tbh
This is beautiful. I will never fail to be amazed by the impact that good art can have on people's lives. From how it can make us feel, to how it can change us, to how big a role it can play in saving us during our darkest moments. Cyrodil is also one of my happy places for the very same reason. Thank you for sharing!
Memetron 5000 I was born in 2007, now I‘m 12 and I miss this game💕😭. I know when I played it with my grandpa when I was 4-8. Gosh I want this Time back, when Games were wonderfull, and not like Fortnite
I’m a kid myself, I’m only 11 years old, but Oblivion is those types of games that bring such a big smile to my face whenever I boot it up. I’ve written stories about my in-game adventures, and dreamed about being in Cyrodill.
I couldn't of said that any better 👌 this game was my escape as a child, my happy place I guess..and it still makes for the perfect escape, especially this year, during the pandemic. Peace be with you 🙏❤️
The score of this game is just incredible. Skyrim's score is very "grandeous" but Oblivions is more grounded and emotional in my opinion. Morrowind's is also very "reminiscent" and emotional. Morrowind and Oblivion both had good music. Skyrim had good music as well but the nostalgia for both Oblivion and Morrowind is unmatched. Oblivion's score is the most memorable to me because every song is unique. Morrowind was the first TES game I played but Oblivion was the first TES game I finished. I've spent thousands of hours playing and listening to these songs. After Starfield and Bethesda's checkered past in the last decade for underwhelming and same-y releases, I am scared for TES VI. I hope that I'm just being paranoid and they deliver something incredible to appease us long-time fans. Never did I think Elder Scrolls VI would take 15 years to play after getting Skyrim. I had hoped at the most, maybe 5 years but it took them 6 years to release a teaser at E3 and it's been 5 more years since they released that teaser. It really sucks having to wait so long. I've lost family and friends during the wait for TES VI. I'm just hoping I, myself, make it to see TES VI. It's the only truly immersive medieval franchise that has that feeling of being completely enveloped by the game world for me.
It reminds me of riding on Shadowmere, Lucien Lachance’s horse, after murdering all the characters that I grew so attached to, and to bring it up a notch, my friends. My heart dropped to my stomach when I received the Purification task. That’s the part of the music it reminds me of the most.
That is my second favorite song. 29:37 is the most nostalgic for me. First song I heard when leaving the sewers and it has that feeling that an adventure is starting
When you listen to this soundtrack, every time it switches songs, you think "oh this is the song that plays when you're in a tavern" or "this plays when you're in the woods and it's nighttime" or "this is what plays when you're in the streets in the Imperial City." Makes me wanna replay this game.
I wouldn't say that skyrim is that bad because in my opionion. I feel the same when i play skyrim like i feel as if i havent discoverd all yet.or the relaxing feeling walking through the night. Oblivion and skyrim are both good games and to say the one is bad and the other is good is not relevant its the setting that matters lad
Can mentally hear the footsteps on the grassy hills in the forest ,and the clicking of the steel armor boots ,right when I see an atronach ,I sneak and hear the sound of drawing my bow and tensing it ,fire, and then the theme changes to battle theme ohhh the days of this magical game
I remember having a pirated version of the game with subtitles translated by something like Google Translate or PROMT back in... what it was, 2006? I was laughing my ass off in the sewers, but then you get out, and there is THESE VAST LANDSCAPES all around, with this calm music instead of eerie underground OST... You put that screenshot with that music at exactly that moment in video on purpose, to bring tears of joy to our eyes, did you?
@@Artalus94 I remember playing this game on an absolute potato. Couldn't have been more than 15 fps in the Imperial City, but I still loved it to death.
I only played skyrim up until yesterday when my friend lent his oblivion to me, and having only played oblivion for about an hour and a half, this still makes me nostalgic
Psycodelicrelic This was probably the first game that I REALLY enjoyed. It was the first RPG I had ever seen, and being a kid who hadn't seen much of the world loved the idea of exploring another. I've played the game 3 times. I'm studying game design and I now know many of its design flaws, but I hold it as something that has defined me in my love of games.
You're 50 years old, living with your wife and kids. Through fate, or some other means, you come across this soundtrack once again, and you remember the days of your youth, but you don't sorrow, you just smile as a tear falls from your eye.
All of these songs immediately hit me when I heard them again: "Oh, this song! Yeah, I loved that song!" I had forgotten what an amazing soundtrack Oblivion had.
Joris Lemoine XD wow, that is soooo true, seriously. Honestly, even after Mass effect, Witcher 3, Skyrim, KOTOR, and other games with phenomenal soundtracks, I still believe Oblivion tops it for me.
I remember when I first discovered this game in the computer pubs 10 years ago. Those were these public places that do not exist in this decade anymore, where you could pay 1 hour for using a computer there. Few of them had Oblivion installed on them. I was absolutely stunned by the beauty of that game and the complete freedom unlike I've ever seen before in a game. I could discover the whole Cyrodil on my own. I could be a warrior, a thief, a mage! Choose all these attributes, skills and even birthsign. It seemed so amazing. And I could go everywhere I want and interact with all the NPCs. Wear the same clothes they are wearing. It was funny as I desperately tried to get into Mage University but didn't know you first have to complete all the tasks in the other cities. :D I remember when I saw the posters of the Gray Fox and he seemed so impressive with that mask and all! I joined the thieves guild, finished the first quest and felt like I accomplished something great! :D Oh... this game will always have a special place in my heart. It's like a good book you return to from time to time in few years.
I never played the game, but I feel there is something magical about the music. Like it speaks of so many memories and of a time gone, a time that people like you remember and people like me only hear about. Idk, but it feels really special.
i appreciate you making this i remember my first playthrough i had exited the sewer cave at the start of the game and killed the bandits near that aylied ruin i took there loot but i saw a message pop up saying i was over encumbered which at the time my young mind did not understand so i obviously thought the game was broke i called out for my mom and she had to look the word up so i dropped my stuff and headed into the deep forest i love this game
Hey there, you're welcome. Haha amazing, I also played the game as a young fellow, so many good memories. I remember myself walking for hours in the mountains and woods, once I did a trip from Cheydinhal to Leyawin through the Nibenay basin/valley and Blackwood. It took me three hours, amazing memories!
Lots of great times playing this game and hanging out with my best friend. We'd play this game for hours until our eyes and fingers felt like they'd explode. This music reminds me of that time; when we were young and had an entire world ahead of us. Now, looking back I think so fondly of all of those adventures in Cyrodil. This game needs an update on a prettier engine. I just want to delve those gates and beat back the Daedric princes just one more time.
I owe this game so much, back in the day I had quite a hard time coping with all the crap that was going on, Oblivion helped ne to find peace in a world I could do whatever I wanted, to be whoever I wanted. I remember wandering in the grass around Skingrad listening to this music, doing housing, enjoying every quest.. thank you
If you didnt play this game when i came out as a teenager you really dont know the feeling you get after you spend hundreds of hours in this game, and dozens of characters. The music in this hits me harder then skyrim ever will. Just something so epic about it
There's something about that first song that just... captures the sanctity and beauty of life. It's a thing of beauty to be sure, we are of a wonderful Creator and life is an amazing thing. Anyone else get this from that song?
Sometimes music speaks. The instruments have their own languages and the way to understand the language they speak is by feeling the melody and fuse it with yoir thoughts. I can type more, but it'll be too dragging. Haha
Vanderhooven when I first played when I was around 8/9/10 can’t remember exactly but at that age it made me think about the afterlife like ghosts and how those people in the past have lived and died in real medieval times. I got it when inside old taverns looking at those blue windows and Ecpecially when near old ruins and that shipwreck ‘the mouth of the panther’ just omg I want to experience that same feeling again.
I remember playing this game on my sick days from school and just roaming the land on a horse and exploring, those were the days, where the hell did they go!
This game was my first ever RPG and will forever be my favorite. It's bringing me so many happy memories and an overwhelming sense of nostalgia that brings me to tears each time. I remember all this time playing around with the character creator and creating the most unique, powerfull, goofiest and funniest characters. Spending most of my nights roaming around Cyrodiil taking in all the scenery and and beautiful abiance in a world rich with lore, landmarks and some of our favorite npcs of all time were the best gaming moment I've ever had. This game was like a second life altogether to me. Thank you for being a part of me Oblivion ❤ May the nine divines keep you safe on your journey.
This game got me though the worst years of my life. Thank you, Oblivion. I hadn't ended it back then and sadness is not as strong now. Still holding up and fighting my own main quest! ❤️
i remember playing this as a kid, where i had a huge imagination and all the time on my hands. my parents were going through a divorce, and this game (along with many others) were the reason for why i was able to cope. i just wish i can go back and experience it again for the very first time: my dad helping me run through the game and allowing me to choose whichever option i wanted, allowing me free reign to the characters i wanted to make and go through whatever quest i wanted to do. he let me do it and would watch me play, even if i got sidetracked and went swimming everywhere because i was an argonian and could breathe underwater, or if i wanted to replay the same quest of me pushing hirrus clutumnus off of the stairs in the shivering isles. regardless, it was really amazing for me to be able to have a *choice* in what i did, rather than listen to what i was told. this was the opening for my writing and creativity, and a reminder of a time when things were much easier. now, as an adult, i'm reminiscing on the childhood i had and wishing for nothing more than to be able to relive it... and ultimately coming to the heart-wrenching conclusion that they are only, and forever will be, memories. here's to you, bethesda, for making a game unlike any other i've ever experienced. nothing will ever compare to the nostalgia and amazing questlines of oblivion. this was the game of a lifetime.
I have some problems in life, like many of us or everyone, and listening to this music is so helpful, going back in mind when I was 12 years old boy, just playing and exploring this game by many hours and hours. This and World of warcraft so both soundtrack are just incredible and helping to survive and not go mad :P Thanks. All the best for all.
In 2006 I went to my friends house to play on his many PC games, when I spotted Oblivion hiding amongst them all. I started playing and I couldn't believe how good it was, that moment when you escape the prison and you're in the beautiful, sprawling land of Cyrodiil is something I'll never forget.
It kind of surprised me how I played this game AFTER Skyrim and I still prefer this game :'). The final heist of the Thieves Guild was beyond awesome for me
this music reminds me of when i would play this game when i was younger. waking up on a cold saturday morning in the winter after going to school all week knowing i had the weekend ahead of me to play this. no other game made me feel like this one has i wish i could go back to those times
when i was young, probably less than 10 years old, i was using my 16 year old uncles ps3. i saw a a cool looking game "OBLIVION" from there, so many timeless memories were created. traveling the vast rolling hills of cyrodiil, seeing so many interesting people and places, and even that first time seeing the oblivion gate and witnessing the plains of oblivion for myself. this game accomplished something special and rarely seen in any other form of media for that matter. i wish i could go back sometimes, such a blissful time
It's funny looking at these images now and noticing the game, graphically, is very similar to Morrowind. Yet at the time it felt so much more advanced. Maybe Skyrim will look like Oblivion once we've seen the TES6 engine in full.
redwest Skyrims details are too good for its time for it to look like oblivion vs skyrim Seriously the one thing i hate about oblivion is the graphical details just haven’t aged well while skyrim despite on the same hardware as oblivion aged much better
@@lilchad-ig1oj eh, character models are the ones that haven't aged very well in oblivion, but the cities and outside looks incredible in my opinion. The colors are so alive. And you don't need a lot of graphics mods to make it look super crisp, just a tiny file and the difference is massive
Oboy the nostalgia is strong in this one. I never really appreciated the music when I was younger but damn if this isent one of the better soundtracks in elder scrolls. Auriel's Ascension brings a tear to my eye :')
MacAndrews Yeah nostalgia pure, only when I was older I realised how this soundtrack impacted the game. My personal favorite is Harvest Dawn, it's so relaxing. :)
Are older games rly better than present games? i don't think so, but... Only The best games after many years show us, how nostalgic our childhood rly was. And this is reason why is the Oblivion one of the best game ever.
I think older rpgs compensated the lack of great graphics with detailed storytelling and music and now it's obviously better looking but sometimes lack that "soul" element
Way better, not only do we have to deal with a high focus on graphics over content, but in games like Starfield etc. they now saturate it with identity politics.
Now here in Italy is 01:07 AM....in the night's hearth I'm listening this music and from my eyes flow so many tears, so many fuckin' tears...because now I'm 27 years old and this glorious music has accompanied me throughout my adolescence, when i was 16-17....fantastic period, when my family was unit, my thoughts were light as a feather and problems were easily accessible....and now work, love and family are so complicated, lack of money, lack of good emotions, lack of a stable tranquility....it would be wonderful to go back to those fantastic times and start all over again....Thank you Oblivion for having been part of my life
Listening to this while playing Starfield just hurts..... God I miss those good years, Oblivion clearly has a big place in my heart. Thank you for all the good times.
Thank you for this. I love Oblivion music and only played a few mins of it... my younger bro got me into the music and I love Skyrim music and the game... have to play Oblivion if only for the music and awesomeness of the game before Skyrims.... peace
I love the scene where you go into the kingdom of madness and after agreeing entering Sheogorath, the entire dark dungeon room walls suddenly turn into butterflies revealing a beautiful garden like landscape. I remember thinking that was so totally unexpected and original...AWE moment FTW, probably one of the best moments i had playing games.
Damn... the feeling of sitting in your own house youve been saving up for and finally bought. Hearing the rain outside. Knowing the sheer amount of mystery and adventure existing behind your door. Just waiting for you.
the sense of optimism for the future of gaming was high with this release, never can forget the feeling. Crazy to see the evolution of this once great industry
I will never forget the first time I exit the sewers, to behold a endless magical world ready to explore. Doesen't matter what is happening in my life, this soundtrack always gives me peace
As long as this video exists I will keep coming back. Oblivion was my first Xbox 360 game and basically was my childhood much like many others in this comment section. Oblivion, this place, and all of you people are the best :)
Skyrim may have been the first ES game i dove into but oblivion was my first exposure to the universe in general ill never forget renting it from blockbuster and being utterly overwhelmed by how open ended the game was compared to what i was used to. It was almost like being born again because I could hardly decide what to do after the realization i was left to my own choices
I remember getting this game for my birthday back in 2009. Left the pool party early just to go back and play it for the rest of the day. One of the best RPG games of all time! Thanks for the epic mix
9th grade I believe. When it was first released, this was a bone crushing game that had a reputation for challenging even the best PCs. I still regard it in this manner. It was a big deal when it came out. A HUGE deal, and remember feeling prideful that my PC could run oblivion.....
I am currently playing this game for the first time, by Talos! After playing only Skyrim in the last year and a half. Yesterday evening I was just wandering around in the Jerald mountains, trying to spot Skyrim places in the distance :)
Marc Faur Niiiice, a game worthy of that number of play throughs. Lol my khajiit martial artists/mage got corrupted DX guess that calls for a new playthrough :D
36:36 this is the most beautiful song in any video game that I’ve ever played. The people at Bethesda are truly masters at creating incredible melodies for their video games.
Hearing this brings back so many fond memories of my childhood and adolescence I would love a remake of oblivion with the Unreal Engine 5 . I miss that period when studios were forced to innovate, they had no choice, and we found ourselves with absolutely legendary titles. Today we can also find quality I think of The Witcher 3 but things have changed and the objectives too. The wheel turns so one day or another a great period like the one we had will come back I just hope not in 20 years. Thanks for this video !
I usually play the OST from Oblivion as I'm falling asleep. I first discovered Oblivion 15 years ago when I was 19, and though I've played so many games before and after, this resonates with me unlike any other game. I will never forget the amazing moments and all the serene experiences I've had in this game.
This game has an unique atmosphere, replaying it regularly. Everything about this game is perfect (maybe except some escort missions on higher difficulty levels, like rescuing some highly annoying dunmer princeling :P). I ended up having it permanently installed on my PC, along with few others good old favs. My PC is old and slow, but if I ever get a better one I'll add Skyrim and The Witcher III. For now I must be satisfied watching my son play
I still play oblivion. I’m playing it now, never get tired of this timeless game. I’ve never got so submerged in a game and it lush landscapes as much as I have this. And it’s from the good old days of simply inserting the disc and installing. No stupid steam or registration codes.
There's genuinely only one thing that bugs me about this video. The map of Tamriel at the beginning. In Cyrodiil, Bruma is on there twice. It says Bruma where Bruma actually is but then it says Bruma where Bravil should be. Other than that, flawless.
The music from games tends to be some of the most beautiful, relaxing, music there is. And, the way it stirs the imagination and carries you away? Nothing like it.
