If you like closing gates...

~s:a:n:i:t:y~ on 21/4/2008 at 13:46

Lawl. it is not generally boring but boring in your opinion. Becides I know for a fact that you were Oblivion's fan :p

Rogue Keeper on 21/4/2008 at 14:32

Just initial enthusiast, but it faded away.

Jashin on 23/4/2008 at 02:01

Closing gates has got to be one of the most tedious aspects of Oblivion. Lifelessness is the other.

Thank heavens for Jeremy's music or I wouldn't have made it through... Wait, I've never finished the game. Oblivion's probably one of the few games in which I didn't finish once started. :laff:

steo on 24/4/2008 at 18:37

Don't worry, you didn't miss much.

~s:a:n:i:t:y~ on 25/4/2008 at 07:34

Quote Posted by steo

Don't worry, you didn't miss much.

I don't know.. to me, the final battle of Martin vs Mehrunes Dagon was worth playing.

On the other hand, I am a kind of person who never skips cinematics^^

steo on 25/4/2008 at 20:00

I found the final battle very short and not at all interesting. The battle outside Bruma was more of a fight.

MazDAMN on 26/4/2008 at 05:24

I am 100% with steo. I was like, WTF? I had a nice bow/arrow equipped. I wanted to at LEAST shoot once. :erm: but noooo. Now I gotta go finish the other quests, and wait to get that prize. :tsktsk:

Dia on 3/5/2008 at 11:41

I've enjoyed playing Oblivion tremendously; especially once I discovered how to take a few shortcuts which seem to cut back on the tedium of plodding along all over the map to get where you're going. And, I did add a few mods and learn how to use the console, but try to keep my console usage down to a minimum.

The only thing that disappointed me about the main quest end-game was the fact that all the movement, sound, & extra NPCs, etc. seriously bogged down my PC, so I couldn't really enjoy the final battle to the fullest. But I've since found a site that has a lot of tweaks for that kind of problem and am considering using the tweaks then going back & restarting the game. I've added two companion mods (Aragorn & Legolas) and even though it's great fun having them accompany me throughout various smaller quests (I've played Shivering Isles & Knights of the Nine, as well as the first official mod, Fighter's Stronghold - which was rather short and boring), I'm finding that I'd rather leave them home now & then because they intervene so well during confrontations that there's hardly any 'baddies' left for me to kill.

Another reason I'd like to re-start the main quest is because I finished it before I could visit a lot of the other 'untargeted' gates. After closing a few of those gates on my own, I realized that all the fighting was increasing my levels more quickly than just strictly adhering to the main quest.