Not to be branded a noob or anything, but I recently bought a copy of the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (can't play it till tommorrow as I left my 360 at University). Any tips for new users? I'm usually used to JRPG's more than Western RPG's, so I'm limited to the first Fable game, any good western RPG's out there as well that I should play?

loot everything! money is scarce in the begging and you need a bit of it too get some 'good stuff' - in the first dungeon in the beginning make sure you pick up every thing and sell off what you don't need, be mindful of encumbrance though.

Find a map of where to start all the daedric quests. They were my favorite part.

Go through as many quest paths as you can. If you're looking for the most from the game, switch between good and evil to get as much done (and score as much loot!) as possible. Though if you're going for the whole "Roleplaying" thing, you may find it better to stick to one side/style.

This site is very helpful, but don't use it for a bit less it will spoil the game

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

Other than that, do the arena early on buy the house along the waterfront it's cheap and a good place to store stuff

If you plan to ever do things for the thieves' guild, and you find a place called Ancestor Moth temple, do NOT go inside until they ask you to. A particularly un-fun glitch happens otherwise.

Gameplay-wise, you don't actually need to look up all the daedra shrines; finding them on your own is highly fun. But you should look up Azura's shrine and do her quest as soon as humanly possible.

Really think of your play style before you really start. Don't use an Orc if you are a stealth player ect. I say start with the Knights of the Nine quests. You get some really over powered armor, but only if you have the edition of the game that includes that.

Grimm91:
Really think of your play style before you really start. Don't use an Orc if you are a stealth player ect. I say start with the Knights of the Nine quests. You get some really over powered armor, but only if you have the edition of the game that includes that.

On the contrary, I actually had some fun making a character who was an orc, who worked his way through the thieves guild. Maybe i played the game for far too long, but i imagined all the other thieves in the guild being impressed at my green skinned stealth troll!

Avoid doing portals... they are boring as hell..

Oh, and if the game starts getting too hard too fast don't be ashamed to adjust the difficulty slider down since the game isn't well balanced at all.

jebussaves88:

Grimm91:
Really think of your play style before you really start. Don't use an Orc if you are a stealth player ect. I say start with the Knights of the Nine quests. You get some really over powered armor, but only if you have the edition of the game that includes that.

On the contrary, I actually had some fun making a character who was an orc, who worked his way through the thieves guild. Maybe i played the game for far too long, but i imagined all the other thieves in the guild being impressed at my green skinned stealth troll!

I did too it just really took forever to get stuff done. However I found that if you go to an inn and go into stealth mode.Then sneak into a corner for about an hour. You can max out your sneak skill. I used a rubber band to keep my joy stick from moving and took a nap. When I woke up I had a green ninja with a hand axe.

Grimm91:

jebussaves88:

Grimm91:
Really think of your play style before you really start. Don't use an Orc if you are a stealth player ect. I say start with the Knights of the Nine quests. You get some really over powered armor, but only if you have the edition of the game that includes that.

On the contrary, I actually had some fun making a character who was an orc, who worked his way through the thieves guild. Maybe i played the game for far too long, but i imagined all the other thieves in the guild being impressed at my green skinned stealth troll!

I did too it just really took forever to get stuff done. However I found that if you go to an inn and go into stealth mode.Then sneak into a corner for about an hour. You can max out your sneak skill. I used a rubber band to keep my joy stick from moving and took a nap. When I woke up I had a green ninja with a hand axe.

I did exactly the same thing actually. He wasn't my main character I was getting achievements with, so I don't feel guilty.

jebussaves88:

Grimm91:

jebussaves88:

Grimm91:
Really think of your play style before you really start. Don't use an Orc if you are a stealth player ect. I say start with the Knights of the Nine quests. You get some really over powered armor, but only if you have the edition of the game that includes that.

On the contrary, I actually had some fun making a character who was an orc, who worked his way through the thieves guild. Maybe i played the game for far too long, but i imagined all the other thieves in the guild being impressed at my green skinned stealth troll!

I did too it just really took forever to get stuff done. However I found that if you go to an inn and go into stealth mode.Then sneak into a corner for about an hour. You can max out your sneak skill. I used a rubber band to keep my joy stick from moving and took a nap. When I woke up I had a green ninja with a hand axe.

I did exactly the same thing actually. He wasn't my main character I was getting achievements with, so I don't feel guilty.

Same here. My main was a Breton Wizard that I maxed out his ability with every school of magic. He was a beast.

right after u exit the class designation bit and u can freely roam the map there will be a temple ruin thing just across the river. easy place to get a level under ur belt and some good loot to sell for some starter coin so just raid that area

good hunting

Don't use the bow and arrow, it doesn't work very well.

I would start off with stealth they are overpowered and you can get to at least level 30 until you start getting screwed over by the difficulty level. And plus, shanking is fun.

Avoid kavatch for a bit.

Steal everything you can get your grubby little mitts on.

1)get fallout3
2)win!

Get STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl. It's great for people that are new to RPG's

If you plan to use heavy armor, join the fighters guild as soon as possible. Many of the branch offices have steel armor laying around for the taking and the main branch has 2 fine steel longswords for your use.

Abjuration makes lockpicking obsolete. Level yourself up to 75ish and you can open ANY lock without the use of lockpicks.

Illusion makes persuasion obsolete. As soon as you get into the Arcane University make a touch spell that gives 100 reaction for 1 second. Since dialogue "stops time" this allows you to use your good vibrations, talk to them and get maximum reaction for only a tiny amount of mana.

Destruction and Restoration are hard skills to gain ranks in, because to gain ranks in destruction you have to do damage to something and to gain ranks in restoration you have to heal damage. Now you could summon something and blast away at it, but the easy way is to make a spell in the Arcane University that does 1 damage to yourself and then heals yourself.

Don't pick skills that you plan on using a lot for your main skills. I realize how silly this sounds, but the faster you level up, the stronger your enemies get. However, if you pick things that you can easily control how much you use (such as locksmithing and persuasion) it's possible to be the most powerful warrior-mage in all the land and still be level 1.

Search for the Daedric quests and do the one that gives you the skeleton key.
You have to be level 10 though..
But the skeleton key makes everything easier.

ZenMonkey47:
If you plan to use heavy armor, join the fighters guild as soon as possible. Many of the branch offices have steel armor laying around for the taking and the main branch has 2 fine steel longswords for your use.

Abjuration makes lockpicking obsolete. Level yourself up to 75ish and you can open ANY lock without the use of lockpicks.

Illusion makes persuasion obsolete. As soon as you get into the Arcane University make a touch spell that gives 100 reaction for 1 second. Since dialogue "stops time" this allows you to use your good vibrations, talk to them and get maximum reaction for only a tiny amount of mana.

Destruction and Restoration are hard skills to gain ranks in, because to gain ranks in destruction you have to do damage to something and to gain ranks in restoration you have to heal damage. Now you could summon something and blast away at it, but the easy way is to make a spell in the Arcane University that does 1 damage to yourself and then heals yourself.

Don't pick skills that you plan on using a lot for your main skills. I realize how silly this sounds, but the faster you level up, the stronger your enemies get. However, if you pick things that you can easily control how much you use (such as locksmithing and persuasion) it's possible to be the most powerful warrior-mage in all the land and still be level 1.

Leveling Destruction is the easiest.
Just make a spell that damages yourself for 1 damage and only costs one mana.
You health and mana will regenerate instantly and you can cast it over and over again.

Try to get your hands on some grand soul gems and get access to the Imperial City's Arcane University. Enchant some ordinary clothing (the lighter the better) with Chameleon (at 20% an item, you enchant a hood, a shirt, a pair of pants, a pair of shoes, and a ring, and you're at 100%.)

Hundred Percent Chameleon does have the side effect of pretty much completely and utterly breaking the game, but it's useful for Oblivion Gates since you can just run through them undetected and rack up fame points. Also tremendously useful for any quest that requires you to steal from people's homes, since you can break in without having to wait for the person to leave their house. There's so much crazy crap you can do with 100% Chameleon that, like I said, it breaks the game if you're trying to play it seriously, but it's very useful for dashing through the game's occasional dull parts.

Thanks for the tips, started playing it yesterday. Does anyone know where to find the six bottles of wine for the woman in the pub outside the Imperial City? She says they're in ruins but every ruin I've been to I've searched and they're not there.

Get Morrowind, you should be able to get it really cheap somewhere, and it's better than Oblivion by far.

I would say avoid doing too many side-quests until you are a good chunk of the way through the story, else you may get sidetracked and find you've spent 30 hours on the game with no main story advances.

Kill someone as soon as possible. Then fall asleep and wait for the dark brotherhood to come. The assassins quests are the only part of the game I enjoyed. Ofcoarse, I seem to be an anomaly, most people love Oblivion to bits.

Don't fast travel too much, I can't believe how fast I leveled up just fighting my way from one side of the map to another.

SomeBritishDude:
Kill someone as soon as possible. Then fall asleep and wait for the dark brotherhood to come. The assassins quests are the only part of the game I enjoyed. Ofcoarse, I seem to be an anomaly, most people love Oblivion to bits.

Me too. There were some mechanics I liked better in Oblivion, but the actual game was pretty much shit from my perspective. The Dark Brotherhood was the only really creative section in the game.

Straitjacketeering:
Don't fast travel too much, I can't believe how fast I leveled up just fighting my way from one side of the map to another.

Considering how it's actually easier to beat the game at level one... What's the point?

Hellion25:
I would say avoid doing too many side-quests until you are a good chunk of the way through the story, else you may get sidetracked and find you've spent 30 hours on the game with no main story advances.

I don't know. I've actually put in about 100 hours just doing side quests, Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles included, and have found them to be very fun. I haven't touched the main quest. My favorite part of the game so far has been the guild quest lines and everything in Shivering Isles.

Trivun:
Thanks for the tips, started playing it yesterday. Does anyone know where to find the six bottles of wine for the woman in the pub outside the Imperial City? She says they're in ruins but every ruin I've been to I've searched and they're not there.

There are eight forts in the world that will have a locked chest that will contain 2 bottles of wine a piece.

My only real tip for you, is make sure you save it just before you exit the sewers. Basically you are given a chance to edit your class and stuff then so if you ever want to re-roll then you don't have to go through the whole intro again.

Brokkr:

Hellion25:
I would say avoid doing too many side-quests until you are a good chunk of the way through the story, else you may get sidetracked and find you've spent 30 hours on the game with no main story advances.

I don't know. I've actually put in about 100 hours just doing side quests, Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles included, and have found them to be very fun. I haven't touched the main quest. My favorite part of the game so far has been the guild quest lines and everything in Shivering Isles.

I thought Shivering Isles was sort of poor. It's too... cosmic. To a small extent, it's done the whole "let's put it in space" style of expanding.

Knights of the Nine however, absolutely adored it. So much fun. Was thinking about doing a video-run through of it soon but for some reason I can't remember how to start it.

Heard good things about Knights of the Nine...

As far as things coming down the pipeline though, I'd recommend Drakensang, it's up top of my list. The game killed it over in Germany and won a bunch of awards and is coming out for US release on February 24. Looks awesome, one of those classic RPGs we haven't had in a while.

Heard about Drakensang, it looks good but I'm not so keen on the fact that it's only out for PC. PC games are good, but I much prefer the level of control I have with a console controller (That said, I haven't played Halo in 3 months because I have it on PC and I'm still not used to the swap from left to right of the keyboard controls on my laptop)

Buy Morrowind. Overlook the graphics for an hour or two (force yourself, it's worth it). Enjoy far more.