Elder Scrolls Oblivion

Just got an xbox recently and picked this up. Haven't started playing it yet but have read about problems about levelling up. Anyone got any tips on what it is the best way to go about playing this - i.e. level up and reduce the difficultly or don't level up?

also, do you need to close the gates to finish the main story?

quarryman

Keep the difficulty slider in the middle and see how you get on.

Also read this on the best way to level:

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Efficient_Leveling

on the gates:

no you don't need to close all the gates to complete the main quest but completing the main quest closes them

Pushtrak

Even if you intentionally made a terrible character, reducing the difficulty slider can make it simple. Don't worry about it too much. In terms of advice I'd give, try and stick to only one weapon. As you raise skill in it you gain perks. No point in focusing on two weapon skills. Or armour skills.

Edit: My take on it is don't try making a jack of all trades character. I find it better to make a focused stealth character, mage and warrior. But thats how I prefer it, not necessarily how you would.

calex71

Be prepared to lose 100 hours of your life to it

Bear in mind too, that as you level so do the monsters. Well in theory anyway from what I remember in the last 1/4 of the game I was canning them.

calex71

calex71 wrote: »

Be prepared to lose 100 hours of your life to it

Bear in mind too, that as you level so do the monsters. Well in theory anyway from what I remember in the last 1/4 of the game I was canning them.

that's the problem with the levelling that I read about - that the monsters can get too hard as you level....

EGriff

Great game. Pretty easy with the difficulty slider about half ways so i wouldn't worry too much about leveling or not. You don't need to close all the gates to finish it either.

Played over 100 hours and still don't have everything done.

davearthurs

I completed it but I found the autoleveling really annoying and kinda ruined the game for me having played Morrowind to death which was much better IMO.

Fallout 3 is great though.

Pushtrak

davearthurs wrote: »

I completed it but I found the autoleveling really annoying and kinda ruined the game for me having played Morrowind to death which was much better IMO.

Morrowind for its time was far, far (I could say far quite a few more times) better than Oblivion was for its time. I keep meaning to look up graphical improvements for Morrowind in the form of mods to play again, but I know how much time I'll devote to it again would be mental. Maybe next week, then.