Zero Punctuation: Oblivion 

ive heard that the reason everyone sounds so awkward in oblivion is that the actors were given their lines alphabetically

"Pumped steroids into my graphics card" ....Wow... we've come so very far haven't we?

I turned on my old Oblivion save and noticed I was level 10 despite having 47 hours of gameplay. Took me way too fucking long to realise you had to sleep to level up...

Immersion is when you try to quick-save in real life.

BACK IN MY DAY, YAHTZEE HAD TERRIBLE AUDIO AND USED LICENSED MUSIC

Immersion is when you comment a Zero Punctuation video and as you write you can hear Yahtzee's voice reading it aloud. You're in my head, Yahtzee :)

I know EXACTLY who is he talking about when he says "throaty voiced man" and "vaguely posh woman"

You know it was a long time ago when Yahtzee is complimenting an Assassin’s Creed game...

"If a game can truly draw you in then it could make up for a lot of flaws"-Yahtzee Crowshaw

I want a Zero Punctuation review of Morrowind because it was an amazing game.

One night in San Francisco, back when I was playing Thief fan missions constantly, I actually did have a moment like Yahtzee describes at 1:54. There was a kind of alley leading down some stairs to the basement entrance of a house, and the way it was lit there were pools of light separated by dark, shadowed areas. I may not have gotten as far as trying to check my visibility gem, but I did find myself planning how to get to the door without stepping into the light. Probably just as well I had no lockpicks on me.

I feel like the guild quests are the best part of oblivion. The dark brother hood was amazing and after the first few boring ones the thieves guild was pretty cool too. Also I feel like the immersion comes in later when oblivion gates are popping up everywhere and destroying whole towns and stuff unlike skyrim where you see a dragon in the distance and just shrug and speed off on your magic anti physics horse.

that "if { nothing(); } else { remeber(this); }" was precious

I really SHOULD like Skyrim better than Oblivion, but for some reason Oblivion is just so much more fun. There's something about the overall feel of Skyrim, particularly in many of the sidequests and the Guilds in general, that was very half-assed and shallow.

i swear, going from skyrim to oblivion was...interesting. the graphics age like milk in an airing cupboard.

I love Oblivion, but most of this is true.

Immersion is when you've been play half life 1 and your queuing at the school canteen and you see a vent asked feel the urge to smash it and go looking for suit batteries.

I imagined I was arrested for questioning the popularity of Call of Duty.

Surprised you didn't mention the thing I personally disliked the most which was the level scaling. In oblivion getting better gear made you stronger (as it should) but leveling actually made you weaker because the enemies also get automatically leveled as well. I realize on its face this seems like a good way to make a go where you want do the quests in what order you want type experience, but the result is a game that make me actually want to avoid leveling up as much as possible, get the gear while avoiding getting experience. Perhaps I am just too old school but I like games that have places I can get to but are not badass enough to handle yet, there is a certain satisfaction from seeing how much more badass I have become when I return there and wipe the floor with it, it allows me to see how I have grown stronger. Oblivion losses this effect for the greater part because I know the challenges always raise with me, which means leveling is largely irrelevant at best or if I do it too much actually a hindrance. So as I learn more I actually become less competent, that is both counterintuitive and disheartening. So it becomes a get the gear as effectively as possible while avoiding exp as much as possible experience. And while I feel clever for figuring that out, I didn’t enjoy it. It is perhaps the most disturbing thing for immersion for me that anyone could possibly concoct. Perhaps I am a minority in this but a very large part of the appeal for me in RPG games is that feeling of growing stronger and rising to challenges you could not have faced at the start. But if the challenges are almost always scaled to my level than progression becomes irrelevant, and I can‘t think of anything more central to the RPG genre than progression. It is really the only thing which separates RPG games from other genres, it is the selling point and appeal of them, at least in my eyes.

Fuck hes right...I didnt even realize that thats why I stopped playing...yeah. Every dunguon is the same. Theres like 5 people and the most interesting voice dies in the first 10 minutes. Even when you get to a somewhat estranged part of the world, say snowy cliffs, there are like 3 distinct types of locations. The 5 or so times you get off base and go somewhere strange, its not that bloody strange. The stone work. The fucking stonework all looks the same. There are more ways to put something together. The houses are all neat and tidy and fit the theme of the town. WHY?! Not all of them are going to look alike.You head through one oblivion gate, youve been through them all. The architectural themes are so strong that they bore you out of the game. Holy shit!

It's funny how Oblivion is such a meme game now. When I was 15, playing it every day, it like the greatest game ever. Hearing Yahtzee call out the weird NPCs is so funny, because I didn't even realise it at the time. I totally got lost in that game. But now it all seems so ridiculous. Funny how time changes things.

Oblivion had a frozen north region, a swampy south, a tepmerate center/east, an apocalyptic west, and literally hell. Christ, Yahtzee, did you play this game more than 20 minutes?

you know that this is a REALLY OLD video when you hear yatz calling assassin's creed good ._.

Immersion is when, just for a moment, you look for a "Bribe" option when talking to someone online.

0:24 All these years later and his JRPG character is still shockingly accurate.

Does anyone else crack up with laughter when he starts talking about the voice acting for the numerous NPC's, particularly when he mentions Lord of the Rings?

You know it is a bad sign when people say a game is good...because you can mod it to be good. You shouldn't have to mod a game for it to be good.

All of these “flaws” you bring up are reason I find the game so damn charming.

I think the strongest point in Oblivion is the UI. I love the menus in Oblivion, especially seeing your character pose in his/her armor and weapons :) I was terribly sad to see they took that out in Skyrim :(

It's fun watching these at x2 speed.

It's been a while since I saw such a nice and polite discussion on RU-vid. It was a joy to read it, more people should be like this.

"I saw a Mudcrab the other day. Terrible creatures." "I'VE HEARD OTHERS SAY THE SAME." "Goodbye." "Farewell."

fast forward to a decade later and he loves Persona lol I guess Yahtzee found Christ

Immersion is walking down the street after playing Skyrim, see your neighbor's dog chasing after you, and you try screaming it into Mount Washington

Weird, I was immersed by this game.

It's crazy how nearly 20 years have gone and he hasn't changed 😂

I don't mind adds I don't mind buffer but when adds buffer I suffer

You know him talking about how much he liked. Assassin's Creed nowadays is hilarious in hindsight

"On the other hand I though Morrowind was pretty good."

I'll have you know sir! That you can make an escalator using paintbrushes in this game!

this aged well

Oblivion was always better than skyrim in my opinion

Still can't believe that when I was a lot younger, I didn't know a thing about video editing. Nothing of the sort So I truly believed that you could actually speak this fast for this long without taking breaks to breathe. I don't know either m8.

At 4:34, Yahtzee liked Morrowind?! Life choices validated!

"Take one good look around the first moment you first emerge blinking into the daylight and you've pretty much seen everything". Yeah that about sums it up.

now that hes come around to jrpg's what does this say about the infinite power of christ?

"Never should have come here!"

Oblivion is my favorite game of all time, and I've been playing it since it's release and I'll be playing it until I die. World immersion is one of the strongest points of any Elder Scrolls game, the books, the side-quests, the lore, everything. My god you can live in that game and you don't even have to try. If you go into it thinking its going to be a cut and dry fantasy hack and slash, you're find it shit. For it's time it was amazing, especially on the PC, the aesthetics are orgasmic. Re-do.

You can't really compare Oblivion landscape diversity to WoW. WoW has all the territories in one game, where as Oblivion takes place in only one territory of Tamriel.

At least Oblivion didn't have health regen.

Immersion is when you've played to much from Telltale Games and expect dialog options to pop up when you talk to people in real life.

the visualisation of immersion's got to be one of the best gags Yahtzee's done

immersion is when you are immersed

TES 6 WHEN? Seriously tho, the elder scrolls series (single player games.....screw you ESO) are some of the only games I can always say with 0 doubt I will enjoy and always buy. Morrowind is still on my list of top 10 games of all time.

i was talking to archmage traven and he was telling me how he supported the decisions of... archmage traven

>steroids into video card >Oblivion

That last analogy was KILLER I loved it

Yahtzee: "I pretended I was arrested for shagging the emperor's wife and daughter." Uriel Septim VII: "All my children have been murdered."

I got so immersed in Skyrim I specifically remember putting it down because one day on my way to work I passed a flower and was surprised when I didn't see the ability to pick it pop up in my view.

3:58 The only thing I hated about oblivion was that stupid...STUPID....RAGE INDUCING...block and stagger mechanic.... Big tough hero of this oblivion thing.... sporting a master degree in heavy armour and shield usage.... clad in full badass armour..... gets knocked on his ass from a gay little spin...... gets staggered more then a drunken irish-man at a dance floor.... Can block a war hammer with a butter knife.... I'm glad for mods being able to remove that stupid stagger thing. I'm here for fun! Not to watch some one armed smelly zombie repeatily push me into a wall while regenerating all his health from some stupid rotting brain logic.

I'm glad I never dealt with the stupid conversation pie. I just had to go through several quests and save the world so I could make a charm spell powerful enough to make a nord fall in love with an elf. After that I made a spell that allowed me to turn courtyards full of people into an angry mob that showed it's anger by killing off anything nearby. That's the funnest thing about the game. Make a set of 100% chameleon armor then some frenzy spells. It's hilarious watching the snobby mages start tearing each-other to shreds and then you show up to loot all the bodies and kill any survivors. All without breaking the law.

He really hasn’t changed in 8 years.

I so thoroughly miss when yahtzee picked the music.

It really is the NPC voice acting that is the weakest part of the game. Absolutely destroys immersion by all accounts. Next weakest link is the leveled loot. It's almost entirely worthless. In Morrowind, you used the things you found. You walked around with 16 pieces of gear on that you found. In Oblivion you just make all your gear. It's better. Just like Skyrim. Thus making the entire loot system worthless. Why are you looking for items of power when you can make them yourself better than anybody ever dreamed? And the third weakest link is the quest development. In Morrowind, you had to read directions then find your way there. Remember that? That's infinitely more immersive than simply going to a map marker. Just try to play Oblivion or Skyrim with the map marker off. You won't know where the hell you're supposed to go. That is just lazy. They obviously tried to juggle too many plates and wound up with porcelain in their face. They really need to focus on quality over quantity. Really. More unique voice actors, and quests that require you to actually feel like you are in the game world. Not just constantly referencing some map until you arrive where the big glowing arrow is. That is fucking stupid. Everybody can see this. Everybody knows this. Follow the map marker quest design is broken. Period.

Y'know today I took a flightpath in WoW for basically the first time since Cata. It made me think of this video. I was poking around through my collection, checking my pet levels and planning a battle group for my next questing area. I had this sudden realization. They did it. They added the in-flight movies. O_O

having put maybe 600+ hours into oblivion I greatly disagree that its not immersive. that the terrain isnt that interesting? to that I can agree but honestly if it where like WoW or tried way too desperately then it wouldn't be immersive. the game is extremely immersive, it offers alot of personnality in its characters, thats where I was most immersed. the races all have general personnalities so finding the honor bound Mazoga was so cool. or finding that there is a finded vampire hunter group in the imperial city! or trying to talk to the county of Skingrad but he is always hiding away!

He hit the part about immersion right on the head. One time I had been playing fallout 3 constantly for an extended period of time. Then I went on a ski trip. On my way back home, I stopped at a gas station, and on the shelves I saw old classic coke bottles, a la nuka cola, and I stood their for about 5 seconds, trying to press the E key to add them to my inventory, until I realized that this was real life and I wasn't playing fallout.

immersion is messing something up and trying to reload a save.

Oh my god I love "Village Green Preservation Society" by the kinks that has been one of my favourite songs since I was 11!

Least immersive? not to me..... like seriously when Oblivion gates start popping up and whole towns get destroyed is when it gets epic...... i wish more RPG games destroyed more towns as the game progresses

You know, i avoided the conversation pie after i realised that the mage guild lets you make a spell that charm them to 100 for a second and that second doesnt end until you are done talking to them. You can also make a giant 1 damage fireball, or as i called it, my "room sweeper"

I actually liked the Conversation Pie... The lock picking, less so...

This may actually be the best video game review of all time in my opinion.

Never forget that the current plague of games where 85% of the content has been carved out to be sold to you as microtransactions or stuffed into loot boxes is all a consequence of THIS fucking game and its fucking HORSE ARMOUR! Never forget, _never forgive!_

This was the first video of ZP Ive watched and been comming back ever since. This week we got the 500th video!

all right, I want you all to do something for me. if you have the pc version of this game find a random body, one thats Predead, like it say "open dead body" then resurect it useing the ~ key, then talk to it.... go on quit reading and do it, ok,.................................................................................................................................................... FUCKING CREEPY RIGHT?!?!?! I did this on acident once, creeped me the fuck out! I thought they might be normal after words, and they act like it... BUT THERE NOT! you can TELL they were dead once...

"Has obviously never actually been to Glastonbury" Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. Don't know who does the post production on this (possible the Big Y himself) but hats off.

I could never get into oblivion either... If the animations had been better, and the dialogue not delivered so woodenly, I think I would have liked it a lot more...

That spinning plate analogy, which I hope is yours alone, was brilliant.

I like oblivion alot more then skyrim

I think that of the three recent TES games, Morrowind was the most immersive. Sure it looked about as good as these animations and you had to read pages of text instead of listening to the bastards, but there was something that felt very real about the world. Between the epic voices that the people had in my head and the fact that I had to get an actual physical map out to get anywhere left me reaching for my bow and/or running for the nearest guard every time a crow squawked.

DId Yahtzee call Windwaker a bad game? I know he's really critical but I thought he liked Windwaker and there have to be better examples of bad games with immersion.

I rarely get immersed these days but when I do,friday , Saturday and sunday become 1 hour.

Oblivion is a good RPG. It isn't too simplified like Skyrim.

Ah, even though though I spent an obscene amount of time with Oblivion back when it was new playing it again recently I still had to google how to drop items.

Everyone bitching about how Oblivion looks bad. Thank that to the console shit-ports, or better yet, the console game that got ported over to the PC. If you want a better landscape try "Unique Landscapes". Won't run on the original specs anymore, tough. :3

I like Oblivion. Lots of interesting characters, a rich history that stretches back thousands of years, beautiful landscapes, tons of quest & superb music that fits any situation perfectly. The only complaint I have is the leveling system. In most RPG's, you level up by killing enemies for experience points or completing quest. The leveling system (for me at least) makes it impossible to level up to 100.

God Save Donald Duck? Dafaq?

3:01 - Yahtzee was calling out the problem with the vast majority of open world games over 15 years before most people were

oblivion is still better than skyrim, even if it is showing it's age.

"They never did tell me what crime I committed, so I just filled in the blanks myself. So I chose to believe that I was in their for shagging the emperor's wife and daughter at the same time while playing a rockstar solo while standing upon the desecrated corpse of God.'' You always have a way with words Yahtzee and it always brings a big ole smile to my face.

Oblivion gates > anything in Skyrim

'Or the dialogue assignment is fucked!' TandilWe: "I heard that thieves broke into the Arcane University, The Imperial Legion Compound, and the Temple, all on the same night!...wait a minute let me do that one again...I heard that Thieves broke into the Arcane University, The Imperial Legion Compound, and the Temple, all on the same night!"

This and Skyrim are, to me, two of the most overrated games I've ever played. Granted, I am a massive fan of the Zelda games and I'm sure lots of people find those overrated, but Bethesda games are just too bug-ridden and over-ambitious. Not as over-ambitious as Peter Molyneux's shitheaps, but they need to try to tamper their own aspirations a bit and focus on making games that that feel finished as opposed to the glitchfests they always pump out.

The thing I liked about Oblivion was travelling. I would take out my map, look for the town I was supposed to go to, note the forks in the road along the way and which direction I was supposed to take, and then I would set off. Many strange things might happen to me along the way, but I knew that at the end of the road I would find a bed and a cold flagon of mead waiting for me at the local inn. In Skyrim, I fast travelled everywhere and never went into buildings for fear of the game crashing.

When a Bethesda game is designed poorly, a la Elder Scrolls, it's "charming". When a company like Konami's games are designed poorly, a la Neverdead, it's trash. Ah, and yet they fail to see the irony. Sorry, but if you have the coding skills of a cucumber and the writing skills of a potato, and a fan base as annoying as DC's, you still should be criticized like everyone else, not the exception.

I leveled up all to the maximun so I was hurling giant fireballs while shooting overpowered arrows to anything that moved, and never finished the main quest, maybe some day

As far as immersion goes - it does seem immersion breaking to see an NPC get stuck on the same bit of terrain, until you see someone attempt to parallel park IRL. Also, to be fair, In real life, there have been times when I've crashed to desktop when I've walked in the door.

So doing my mid-teen years, I started playing Pokemon Leaf Green for the first time. Loved it. Every day I played it. On holiday one summer, we were staying in a cottage at Loch Awe and while I was sleeping at 11:00 my mum came in and tried to wake me announcing that everyone was going to the waterfall and asking if I wanted to come. In my half-asleep state of mind, I distinctly remember thinking about the waterfall and the river we swim in. This made me come to One decision. If I was going to go, I'd NEED to bring Starmie with me. It's the only way I could navigate the water. That's how emerssive I found Pokemon. That's how strong my desire to be the very best Pokemon master was. I saw myself as Starmie's backpack while it floated around the river. My disappointment after fully waking up and Not getting to 3D print one of My top 6 Pokemon was immeserable and my day was ruined.

Found one with a title that breaks the "Game Title (Zero Punctuation)" naming scheme.