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[Edited on May 16, 2006 at 3:04 PM. Reason : ]

5/16/2006 3:04:15 PM

*sigh*...alright, i suppose i'll travel back there and try to get rid of it...curses.

5/16/2006 5:49:43 PM

anybody know how to get in the middle door at the arcane university in the arch-mage's lobby? says you need a key. I am currently the arch-mage and don't have access

5/16/2006 6:24:07 PM

that imperial room? i cant get into it either and have always wondered what was in there.

5/16/2006 8:02:40 PM

STOP, CRIMINAL! PAY WITH YOUR BLOOD!

Who here's running around with >100 bounty?

5/17/2006 2:18:01 PM

Not me, cause I'm playing with a clean character, but one time I was curious to see how badass I truly was so I saved my game beforehand and went on a rampage in the city of Bravil. I slaughtered everyone in the town including every single guard. The only people I couldn't kill was a couple of the mages guild leaders. My bounty after all was said and done was somewhere around 25,000.

5/17/2006 2:44:01 PM

i consistently have to pay off my bounty through the thieves guild, and i don't think i'll ever again be able to pray at the temples

5/17/2006 3:09:29 PM

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/events/e32006/articles/bethesdasbooty.htm

Quote :

"Bethesda's Booty Even though Bethesda Softworks' The Elder Scrolls® IV: Oblivion™ owns my soul, it's nice to know that they are still supporting my favorite addiction. Developer Ashley ACheng Cheng showed off the upcoming Thieves Den download for Oblivion behind closed doors today, but I got a chance to check it out. "Basically, it's Goonies," he said. "That's what we really wanted." In the downloadable mission, which will be released in two weeks, you battle for control of a massive cave, complete with a haunting pirate ship. Once you conquer the lair, it forever belongs to your character. You can start a band of pirates. You can plunder. And you can decorate your captain's chamber with furniture. Cheng also hinted at further content on the way. "We're going to keep on releasing demos every three to four weeks as long as people keep playing," Cheng said. "We've got six or seven in the queue—one is a huge and epic dungeon." The two downloadable missions for Oblivion are two of the top downloads on Xbox Live® Marketplace. The only thing that will change, Cheng said, is the cost. "We're really trying some different things on the pricing." Though Bethesda is committed to downloadable content Cheng said that it will not affect expansion packs, which he didn't give a launch date for."

Sweet! I hope they allow for a downloadable animation of the Truffle Shuffle!

5/17/2006 4:55:00 PM

wait so r these downloads for xbox only or for PC as well? i mean i dont want to lose out cause i play on PC. that pirate ship thing sounds awesome though.

5/17/2006 5:28:23 PM

All the downloads so far have been for both.

5/17/2006 5:39:24 PM

Has anyone tried doing Glarthir's quest in Skingrad? Don't spoil it, but is it worth it?

[Edited on May 17, 2006 at 8:07 PM. Reason : ,]

5/17/2006 8:03:54 PM

good for money if you are low lvl but otherwise, not really.

[Edited on May 17, 2006 at 8:17 PM. Reason : lotta waiting involved for me.]

5/17/2006 8:17:09 PM

eh it wasnt worth it. a lot of waiting around.

5/17/2006 8:18:22 PM

is there anything past becoming grand champ in the arena? I beat erebody in like.... an hour?

5/17/2006 8:30:22 PM

an hour??? Im stuck on fightin the damn 3 prisoners. They keep kicking my ass. thats what I get for tryin to swing a sword when Im suppose to be a mage One time I got behind some damn fence where they couldn't get to me and I conjured up a spirit to kick their ass but then I couldn't jump back out!!!

5/17/2006 8:33:47 PM

yeah, as a warrior i womped through the arena in no time. was hard with my theif so i did about half. hit or miss with my mage, but it helps if you have certain spells. high conjuration is a good benefit and im sure high illusion is also great.

5/17/2006 8:35:57 PM

I rose up pretty quickly, but quit shortly after. I haven't tried becoming the grand champion. Most of the time I went 2-3 battles without having to restore my health.

5/17/2006 9:27:38 PM

I'm calling straight up bullshit on an hour. I went through the arena in one shot and only died and had to reload my game one time and it took me just a little over 3 hours.

It may have felt like one hour, but there's no way anyone goes from start to finish in just an hour.

5/17/2006 10:11:11 PM

so fuckin pissed. i somehow contracted vampirism and now i'm all havin to travel everywhere (not by fast travel) to get the shit to cure it.

i dunno, i've kinda had it with this game with the constant lockups and slow frame rates. i already beat it once and i've already done all the guilds on my 2nd go round, just doin the main quest again.

[Edited on May 17, 2006 at 11:37 PM. Reason : .]

5/17/2006 11:36:41 PM

lockups eh, only crashed on me 2x in 65 hours of play.

my disk got a lil bleh which will fuck it up sometimes, but actual crashing hasnt been an issue.

5/18/2006 12:04:37 AM

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"I'm calling straight up bullshit on an hour."

You're wrong.

It can be done extremely fast. You can fly through these fights if you know how to build a character. It ain't hard to break these games wide open.

5/18/2006 2:20:12 AM

I destroyed the arena with my character. Took slightly over an hour. Blade+heavy armor+destruction+restoration+alchemy+block (other skills too, but these are the important ones here at least.) I had a 3 damage type poison for each thing I fought (fire, electricity, and poison damage) by poisoning all opponents and focusing on one at a time, the fights went very quickly. Mastered alchemy is kind of disgusting really.

[Edited on May 18, 2006 at 2:30 AM. Reason : ]

5/18/2006 2:30:32 AM

^^In case you haven't read my posts in this thread, I'll tell you I pretty much so have broken this game wide open. I destroyed everyone in an entire town including 20+ guards (and IMO one guard is harder than anyone I fought in the arena)

I'm still saying 1 hour is a stretch to go through the entire arena mission in one shot. Under 2 hours I'd believe. 90 minutes perhaps.

5/18/2006 9:47:10 AM

^ Guards are supposed to always be 10 levels higher than you

5/18/2006 9:57:44 AM

^^ you THINK you've broken this game wide open...but apparently, you're really just talking out of your ass

5/18/2006 3:30:37 PM

could be. I'd say being able to take out an entire town full of people pretty much so makes me a badass motherfucker. But what do I know?

5/18/2006 3:34:07 PM

those merchants are tough cookies

5/18/2006 3:40:41 PM

^^ it's not hard, i'm sure...summon a gloom wraith or storm atronach, go invisible, take potshots at npc's from a distance, watch for fun...if you say you took them all out using JUST your sword/dagger/whatever, you're a liar

5/18/2006 3:46:18 PM

Wanna bet? I've got $1000 that says I can do it again. Just a sword. No shield, no spells, no nothing.

And you wonder why I think I've broken the game wide open.

5/18/2006 3:52:43 PM

depends on ur level, lot harder if you dont have stuff maxed out.

5/18/2006 3:57:23 PM

are you guys really arguing about this

5/18/2006 4:20:51 PM

yes.

i'm trying to my e-penis as large as nacho's.

btw, nacho, are you talking about real money or gold pieces? because i've got all the gold pieces i need.

5/18/2006 4:29:56 PM

You called me a liar, and I'm willing to prove you wrong. And in the meantime I'll gladly take $1000 of your real world dollars in the process.

5/18/2006 4:33:22 PM

seeing as no one is going to sit there while you pretend to destroy an entire town with just a fork, i'll tell you what, you do it again and come up with a screenshot that proves it, k? otherwise, continue to make claims that you have no way of proving

5/18/2006 4:46:43 PM

Dude, I never claimed anything about my e-penis. I never said I was better than you or anyone else. I don't know why you're all over my nuts about this, you're the one that called me a liar and you're the one that started this.

For the record I do have witnesses that saw me take out the whole town with just a sword. I can do it again if you'd like however I'm not sure how one screenshot would prove anything as you can't prove that I didn't use spells or that the screenshots weren't taken out of order/context.

I'm not sure why you're giving me such a hard time, at the beginning of the game I set out to be the most badass non-magic blade swinger out there and I think I'm pretty close. I'm sure if there was a multiplayer option there are millions of spellcasters that could annihilate me one-on-one because I'd probably never get close enough to them to touch them, but as far as being a tank and being able to take out an oblivion gate/entire town with just a sword, I'm there.

plz to get off my nuts now.

5/18/2006 4:58:01 PM

It really isn't that hard to slaughter a whole town with a sword or a dagger, as long as you've got recovery spells and destruction magic, assuming we're NOT talking Imperial City. Slaughtering everyone in Imperial City would be nearly impossible.

I just made it to Grand Champion of the battle arena.. and that battle was a joke. The champion just stood there and told me to kill him. I guess that's because I completed his sidequest. I'm guessing if you don't do his sidequest, and then try to face him, he'll actually fight back?

5/20/2006 5:40:36 PM

^ exactly. if u dont do the sidequest he is very difficult to kill.

5/20/2006 5:43:13 PM

I think you have to complete the side quest for him to agree to fight you, but you don't have to tell him the whole vampire dad thing? Either that or there's no option but an easy victory.

5/20/2006 5:44:13 PM

Quote :

"It really isn't that hard to slaughter a whole town with a sword or a dagger, as long as you've got recovery spells and destruction magic,"

Maybe, but as I've stated I did it without any spells or magic of any kind.

Apparently that's pretty hard for some people to believe.

5/20/2006 6:40:20 PM

ok Im an "expert" in conjuring things but the best spell I got is to conjure a damn regular ghost or scamp/zombie. Where can I find better things to summon?? IVe found my first will o wisp and the damn thing is kicking me and my ghost's ass.

5/24/2006 4:42:21 PM

wow i really offended el nacho's nerd honor

why is it you can beat an entire town but you can't get through the arena faster than 2 hours?

5/24/2006 5:12:58 PM

I just got it the other day. I was in the main city market, and I was getting bored, so I saved my game and attacked a beggar woman. I didn't feel like paying up so I resisted arrest and started fighting a bunch of guards. I killed a fighter-mage(?) type guy in the city, then ran for the door, since I'm level 1 and there were about 6 armored guards after me. One of them followed me through the door, so I killed him. Then when I decided to rest to get to level 2, I was approached by this robed guy and asked to join some dark brotherhood. I'm interested to see where that takes me, because I've always only played these kinds of games as a clean-conscience type character.

5/24/2006 5:13:36 PM

Yeah, from nooblet to grand champ in about an hour.


But then again, I was playing the game on super easy mode.

5/24/2006 5:23:23 PM

deputy dog, it tells you about 100x in the load screen that you buy conjuration spells in chorral. you can get a big alligator daedroth, a wraith of some sort, or a frost atronach now.

[Edited on May 24, 2006 at 5:48 PM. Reason : .]

5/24/2006 5:47:17 PM

^^^

Ahhh dark brotherhood quest line is pretty cool.

5/24/2006 6:10:57 PM

DH quest was def the most fun i had of all quests. then the thieves guild after that.

5/24/2006 6:12:45 PM

worst is def fighters guild, boring as jawns. GO TO A CAVE AND HELP SOMEONE. GO TO A CAVE AND KILL SOMETHING. only the very end was remotely interesting. mages guild was close, but a lil better.

5/24/2006 7:50:32 PM

LEMME SEE SOME TITTIES!

5/24/2006 7:57:05 PM

my mage is the oldest woman i could make. you want a pic of her in a bikini?

5/24/2006 8:01:35 PM

sweet jebus, the recommended specs for this game are nuts. i don't even meet the minimum. 0.4 gHz shy of a 2.0 gHz processor.

5/24/2006 8:13:31 PM