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Welcome to Let's Play The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion... BLIND!    WHO THE HELL ARE YOU? Hi, I'm uzworm and a while back I did an LP of TES V: Skyrim. From what I've gathered in the time during and since, apparently nobody likes that game anymore but me. For years, I've heard a non-stop chorus of "Oblivion and Morrowind are better!!" when talking about my like of it. Sadly, Skyrim has always been the only thing I've known; it's the only TES game I've ever played! I figure it's time to change that. In this thread I'll be diving into the depths of Skyrim's predecessor, blind as a bat to whatever I'm going to be witnessing. (And not just because the game is dark as poo poo with no working brightness meter!) Pray for me. WHAT'S THE PLAN HERE? I'm not going it alone, thankfully. I'll have at least one or two people who actually know the game with me at all times, and at the start I'm going to at least try to stay on course for whatever the main plot of the game is. (It's a Bethesda game, we all know that's not actually going to happen.) After that, sky's the limit. I really want to do the Dark Brotherhood quest to compare it to Skyrim's, but other than that I have no idea what wacky poo poo we'll be getting into. Actually, given how much I absolutely hate this game, it's probably gonna end after I finish the main quest  WHAT MODS ARE WE USING? Like my Skyrim LP before this, I'm going to start off modless so I can experience the game the way the idiots at Bethesda meant it to be experienced!  Shut up, Chitlin. Seriously though, I'll be adding mods in as we go so it becomes a smoother ride. Hopefully, at least. Let me know if there's any specifically that you think would smooth my gameplay experience. WHO'S WITH YOU? I have a few folks who know the game that will be guiding me along: namely KillerEmcee, Psychedelic Eyeball, and Inhindenburg. WHO'S OUR HERO? You may remember our intrepid hero Mr. Puffles from Skyrim. Obviously this game can't have him in it, because it takes place several centuries before Skyrim does. That doesn't mean, of course, that we can't have a Legend of Zelda-esque timeline with several Mr. Puffleses appearing throughout the history of Tamriel. This one isn't quite as good-looking as his future descendent.  Yeah. Poor guy. You think the old Puffles hated Morndas? This guy's gotta be a grump. Hopefully what he lacks in looks he'll make up for in combat finesse or something. I'm going to try and emulate Skyrim Puffles in playstyle as well, selecting the Barbarian class and working with heavy blunt-force weaponry and whatnot. Expect far worse results than we got last time. SPOILERS? Yeah, this time I'm actually going in without a clue here so no spoilers please! UPLOAD SCHEDULE? When I actually have videos available (having all three other people available at the same time for several hours of recording isn't easy) I'll be uploading a video a week or so, normally on Sundays but we all know how I do with "upload schedules". PLAY YOUR ACCORDI-  IS THIS GOING TO BE FULL OF BAD LADY GAGA PARODIES AGAIN? Most likely not, because it's unlikely something is going to catch my heart like Joanne did back in 2016 when I was doing Skyrim. ...That said, I make no promises. LG6 should be coming out soon, after all!   UPDATES Episode 1 - Mr. Puffles is Ugly Episode 2 - Mr. Puffles Starts the Plot Episode 3 - Mr. Puffles Goes Fishin' Episode 4 - Mr. Puffles & the Inconsequential Fort Episode 5 - Mr. Puffles Can't Aim Episode 6 - Mr. Puffles, Master Sinner Episode 7 - Mr. Puffles Goes to Hell Episode 8 - Mr. Puffles Does it Himself Episode 9 - Mr. Puffles Experiences Karma Episode 10 - Mr. Puffles is Led Astray Episode 11 - Mr. Puffles' Acrobatics Increased Episode 12 - Mr. Puffles in the City Episode 13 - Mr. Puffles Saves Correctly Episode 14 - Mr. Puffles' Reading Comprehension Episode 15 - Mr. Puffles Walks & Waits Episode 16 - Mr. Puffles Blows His Cover Episode 17 - Mr. Puffles Cr- Episode 18 - Birthday Stream Episode 19 - Mr. Puffles Back 2 Hell Episode 20 - Mr. Puffles, Accidental Crimelord Episode 21 - Mr. Puffles Hurts Himself Episode 22 - Mr. Puffles' Ghost Adventures Episode 23 - Mr. Puffles' Really Long Day Episode 24 - Mr. Puffles Entertains Us Episode 25 - Mr. Puffles Hates Diplomacy Episode 26 - Mr. Puffles' Tome of Jokes Episode 27 - Mr. Puffles Gets Spooked Episode 28 - Mr. Puffles Angers Everyone Episode 29 - Mr. Puffles' Pedestrian Paradise Episode 30 - Mr. Puffles Wins by Doing Nothing UZworm fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Mar 24, 2020 |
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MISC. NONSENSE ultrabindu shows us all how I play video games. Not just Oblivion, just video games https://i.imgur.com/3ilny8i.mp4 UZworm fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Nov 27, 2019 |
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RareAcumen posted:Not intending to bust your balls or anything but did you finish the Skyrim LP? It feels like it's been two years now. Kinda sorta. I did end up doing everything that I had intended to with the LP (Main Quest, Dawnguard, Dark Brotherhood) and even though I originally intended to do some other stuff (Dragonborn, mod stuff) after those three things, it was becoming too draining to keep going with and so I decided to just end it after the Dark Brotherhood instead of trying to start another quest line and having it possibly end halfway through. Unfortunately, by the time I hit that point the SA thread had already closed so there was never any real announcement.  Worth noting that the way I'm recording this LP is so much quicker and easier than Skyrim was (I was doing the old "record videos, edit them, send out to people, they do commentary over them, I edit that in as well, release video" method) that it should be a big improvement on both productivity and energy. UZworm fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Apr 1, 2019 |
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Apr 1, 2019 03:35
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RareAcumen posted:Oh okay cool. I'm glad to hear that you got a better set up that's less draining on your part now. I liked the LP but my memory is terrible so you could've told me that was 4 years ago and I'd believe you. Last episode having gone up in Jan 18, it's just over a year since its demise, but it took almost two years for me to even get to that last episode so it might as well have been. Deadmeat5150 posted:Please God use the enhanced textures mod. Link? And oh yeah, does anyone know a mod that increases the brightness of the game? The impossible darkness if you're torchless is easily the most annoying part so far.
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Apr 1, 2019 06:49
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Zanzibar Ham posted:So just to clarify, is the LP blind in the sense that you haven't played it before/read any guides, or in the sense that Mr. Puffles has been rendered blind by whatever made him look like... that? Both, ideally. UPDATE Episode 2 - Mr. Puffles Starts the Plot Even though I actually have a schedule planned for this, since we're just getting this thing started I figured I'd throw out a second episode! And that's no foolin'.
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Apr 1, 2019 18:51
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UPDATE Episode 3 - Mr. Puffles Goes Fishin' This should teach my co-commentary crew not to ask me to do anything outside the main quest lest we accomplish the same level of aptitude as this video. 99% of the video is me wandering around a lake, the other 1% is me trying to figure out Oblivion's UI.
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Apr 3, 2019 12:09
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Grizzwold posted:I haven't watched the videos yet so maybe you mention it there, but are you going to be doing the DLC? I've heard Shivering Isles is good, though I've never even finished the main quest in the base game. I mention in the latest video that I *think* they were all included in the Steam version so they'll be available if I want to give them a go.
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Apr 4, 2019 00:51
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Poil posted:Magic is the only way I've been able to stand it. Melee characters seem best to leave at level 2. This bodes well
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Apr 5, 2019 09:37
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UPDATE! Episode 4 - Mr. Puffles & the Inconsequential Fort Seriously though, main quest is gonna happen as soon as my co-commentators stop trying to lead me Ash-tray (eyyyy) into poo poo I ain't needing in my life! We spend the majority of our time in this video in the mysterious and incredibly loving dark Fort Ash on my way to the next actual objective, while learning how things like my minimap and item durability work. UZworm fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Apr 7, 2019 |
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Apr 7, 2019 14:50
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UPDATE Episode 5 - Mr. Puffles Can't Aim I swing my sword about 500 times in this video and the only time it actually hits anything, it's a guard.
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Apr 14, 2019 17:57
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UPDATE Episode 6 - Mr. Puffles, Master Sinner Apparently the gods aren't a big fan of Mr. Puffles. I swear, I didn't do anything! ultrabindu posted:This is you UZworm Okay look I get better I swear
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Apr 22, 2019 10:59
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UPDATE Episode 7 - Mr. Puffles Goes to Hell Apparently Oblivion is a place! I'm learning so much!
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Apr 28, 2019 14:38
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UPDATE Episode 8 - Mr. Puffles Does it Himself Tons of battles against imps? Tons of battles against imps. Also featuring me learning that you can't repair weapons in battle because this game is good
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May 5, 2019 20:52
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Poil posted:Excuse me sir, would you mind waiting a few moments for me to heat up a forge and repair my weapon before we resume this bout? Okay but why is THAT the one realistic thing this game does
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May 6, 2019 09:52
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Double Punctuation posted:So, durability in this game is actually super bugged. If your items aren’t at 100% durability, and you have enough items in one inventory, the game can forget how many items are in the inventory, and items will randomly disappear and reappear until you empty the inventory. This also happens if items have more than 100% durability, meaning getting to 75 points in Repair can be a detriment in some cases. #BETTERTHANSKYRIM
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May 11, 2019 07:00
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UPDATE Episode 9 - Mr. Puffles Experiences Karma Sometimes, I am bad at video games. Sometimes, I make catastrophic errors in judgement. Sometimes, I am not very good at saving my game correctly. Today, we witness all three of these things.
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May 19, 2019 18:57
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cugel posted:UZworm, seriously your videos are too short. lol I realized I should probably make them a bit longer for the next session In other news the most UZworm LP thing of all time has happened and my health has been hosed up including breaking my foot lately so that's why this has been less than updated
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Jun 20, 2019 09:17
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Ohmygodholyshitit'san UPDATE! Episode 10 - Mr. Puffles is Led Astray It was easy because we aren't actually done with the latest batch of recordings lol but still I've finally come back! There's a lot of oompah loompah songs in this one and I spend the entire thing having no idea where I'm going. Bethesda games at their finest!
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Jun 29, 2019 18:04
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UPDATE Episode 11 - Mr. Puffles' Acrobatics Increased Almost done with that last recording session! In this one we jump a lot and talk about Speed Racer and oh my god who even knows anymore where's progress
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Jul 5, 2019 23:34
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UPDATE Episode 12 - Mr. Puffles in the City We did this recording session on April 21 and just now posting the last video out of it. Efficiency! Nalesh posted:Also the magic system imo, especially once you start modding it. Maybe I should have started a magic character instead of one-handed or whatever I'm doing here. But then I'm not using mods because I'm either a dipshit or a purist so who knows 
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Jul 21, 2019 20:38
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UPDATE Episode 13 - Mr. Puffles Saves Correctly Help I've killed again Start of the third recording session with the same folks as the last few vids!
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Jul 29, 2019 11:06
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UPDATE Episode 14: Mr. Puffles' Reading Comprehension I probably should have just cut this off halfway through getting lost in the sewers
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Aug 16, 2019 11:54
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UPDATE! Episode 15 - Mr. Puffles Walks & Waits 
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Sep 9, 2019 16:35
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UPDATE Episode 16 - Mr. Puffles Blows His Cover Only takes 4 seconds into the video before I accidentally hit someone with my sword that I probably shouldn't have. This is par for the course at this point, really
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Sep 20, 2019 20:11
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UPDATE Episode 17: Mr. Puffles Cr- Yeah.
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Sep 27, 2019 18:09
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THING! Today (9/29) is my birthday and if you remember that horrendous drunken Skyrim stream from a few years ago, something similar to that (but a bit less drunk) will be happening on my Twitch channel all day from noon to 8 pm MT. There'll be a few things going on, and some blind Oblivion will be among them! MelvinBison posted:I can't remember. Did someone already suggest a Morrowind LP in the future so we can make a "Better than Oblivion" joke? Even before I started this one I was actually planning on doing Morrowind after as well, but I didn't realize that this would just be people telling me no actually Oblivion is bad play MW instead :P
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Sep 29, 2019 15:30
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UPDATE Episode 18 - Birthday Stream Here's the 90 minutes I spent in my stream last Sunday playing Oblivion! I did very little actual main questline plot; it was mostly just me getting lost and finding my way into dungeons and things where no reward met me.
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Oct 5, 2019 08:07
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UPDATE Episode 19 - Mr. Puffles Back 2 Hell Not dead! We finally got together for another recording session and it went exactly as good as you thought it would. Why did they name this game after the worst parts of the game? Also, I think we see our first real glitch! Bethesda! UZworm fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Nov 21, 2019 |
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Nov 21, 2019 17:52
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TheNamedSavior posted:gently caress, I forgot how ugly Oblivion looked when you don't install over 1000 mods for the game. Good poo poo, Bethesda 
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Nov 22, 2019 18:32
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UPDATE Episode 20 - Mr. Puffles, Accidental Crimelord I literally have no idea what I did this time.
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Nov 29, 2019 17:58
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UPDATE Episode 21 - Mr. Puffles Hurts Himself Emcee tried to stop me but the pain was too deep
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Dec 3, 2019 19:21
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UPDATE Episode 22 - Mr. Puffles' Ghost Adventures I have so many silver weapons because I'm very good at Oblivion!
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Dec 10, 2019 02:40
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UPDATE Episode 23 - Mr. Puffles' Really Long Day I did not expect one ghost hunt to be so... lengthy
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Dec 15, 2019 17:04
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UPDATE Episode 24 - Mr. Puffles Entertains Us Cobain didn't die for this
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Jan 6, 2020 01:16
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UPDATE Episode 25 - Mr. Puffles Hates Diplomacy Against my better judgement I extend the gameplay by doing more oblivion gates or somethnig.
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Jan 12, 2020 21:15
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UPDATE Episode 26 - Mr. Puffles' Tome of Jokes Did you know the Kool Aid Man's real name is Bertrand? Did you know Oblivion is named after the absolute worst parts of the game? Did you know all of this nonsense is completely optional and why the hell am I doing it?
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Jan 25, 2020 00:03
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UPDATE Episode 27 - Mr. Puffles Gets Spooked I refuse to take responsibility for this
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Jan 30, 2020 17:00
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UPDATE Episode 28 - Mr. Puffles Angers Everyone We're on the home stretch! NPCs are once again angry with me! gently caress!
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Mar 13, 2020 01:05
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UPDATE Episode 29 - Mr. Puffles' Pedestrian Paradise I should have called it "penultimate paradise" because this is the second-to-last video of the Let's Play tbh Also I accidentally set this video to come out at midnight instead of the usual time lmao
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Poil posted:Not doing all the guilds? And the dlc? And the sidequests? And the run-all-over-the-map-and-collect-these-hidden-items-with-no-quest-marker-quests? Chitlin brought up me playing more of the "better" parts of the game in my Discord and I'll basically say here what I said there. The main quest is probably the worst part of Skyrim, but when I play that I still have some baseline enjoyment for the game. In this I have really not enjoyed much of it at all and the few times I did much of anything different (the one daedric shrine, when I wandered into some random caves/temples where I found literally nothing) it was the same, so I don't see my experience getting much better by going much farther. I'll probably be doing some Oblivion on my Twitch channel after the LP ends to maybe look at the Shivering Isles DLC or some Daedric shrines or the other parts that people have told me are better than the main quest (BETTER THAN THE MAIN QUEST!!!) but the LP officially is just gonna end there lol
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