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Re: Coming up to speed

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Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 05:34:00 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
> 
>> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
>> entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
>> say:
>>
>> <snip>
>>> Such is the case with Oblivion. As I said, there were quite a few
>>> things that made the seventh game in the Elder Scrolls franchise quite
>>> remarkable for their time.
> 
> 
>> Seventh?  Surely you mean 4th;  Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion.
> 
>> Expansions are not games in their own right, and Battlespire and
>> Redguard are NOT part of the main series.
>> Arena-->Skyrim is Elder Scrolls
>> Battlespire is "An Elder Scrolls Legend" and
>> Redguard is "The Elder Scrolls Adventures".
>> The latter 2 did poorly enough they killed their respective prospective
>> franchises.
> 
> Oooh! You gave me an 'Umm, actually...' moment! ;-)
> 
> As I didn't specify sub-series my initial comment was correct. The
> games are all part of the Elder Scrolls franchise. Neither are they
> expansions; they are stand-alone titles. In fact, they specifically
> call attention to the fact in their titles:  "Redguard: The ELDER
> SCROLLS Adventure", and "Battlespire: The ELDER SCROLLS Legend". While
> they are not part of the mainline series, they are part of the overall
> Elder Scrolls franchise.
> 
> In fact, it would be more accurate to say "Oblivion" was the _10th_
> stand-alone game released in the Elder Scrolls franchise, as there
> were three mobile game (released under the "Elder Scrolls Travel"
> line, individually entitled "Stormhold", ""Dawnstar" and "Shadowkey")
> that came out before "Oblivion".
> 
> (Also, there were two stand-alone mobile titles released /after/
> Oblivion ("Elder Scrolls: Blades" and "Elder Scrolls: Castles" which,
> with "Skyrim" and "Elder Scrolls Online", bring the total number of
> stand-alone games in the franchise to thirteen. And even more if you
> include the various repackagings (Game of the Year, Ultimate, VR,
> Remaster, etc.)... which I don't. But it's more than just the five
> main games, anyway).
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> I never finished Oblivion even once, but finished Arena, Daggerfall and
>> Morrowind (+expansions,) many times.
> 
>> In the end Oblivion as just "fight your way up the towers to the portal,
>> close portal, move to next Oblivion Portal and repeat".
> 
> It really is.
> 
> Bethesda for some reason /leaned hard/ into the "Oblivion Portal"
> loop, and that decision does the game no favors. The first time you
> have to do it -with the big portal in Kvatch- it's neat to visit
> Oblivion. It's a tricky dungeon crawl where you have to go back and
> forth through multiple towers to unlock your forward progress,
> battling monsters you (probably) haven't seen yet in the overworld.
> But then you have to do that same sequence AGAIN and AGAIN with a
> portal in front of each of the eight cities in the "Aid for Bruma"
> quest, and the game encourages you to do it even more by randomly
> opening numerous Oblivion gates across the countryside (for a total of
> up to 68 Oblivion portals).

So maybe you have played 10 hrs.  This sounds awesome.  68 was my 
lineman football number.  I relish it.  I'm not playing this right now 
because the weirdo next door is into it, he's a murderer and is trying 
to threaten me somehow by continually bringing up "Oblivion" and he 
won't listen to me when I say the name Oppenheimer is somehow related - 
what do you think? He's a weirdo because he wants me to get into 
"Oblivion" without giving any more details.  Most likely he's saying 
he's going to smash me into oblivion if I keep it up.

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