In Conclusion: Oblivion

by Seyon, in Games: In Conclusion, Oblivion (3 Comments)

It was months ago that I finally finished The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, by Bethesda Softworks. I say “finally” but not in a negative way; it comes from playing the game for over a year and doing ever bit of content available in the game. I did all the main quests. I did all the city, village, faction, master training, Daedric, and miscellaneous quests. I even did ones that had no journal entry.

I could give a nice long review of all the good things and few annoyances of this game but honestly, I’m probably way too biased. So in lieu of listening to a raving fanboy, I will give you assorted statistical numbers from my time spent in Cyrodiil.

Let’s just start with some basics. My character was a female Ainmhi, which is a custom race of cat girls, named Sarah. Mine just so happened to also be a futanari. (A Google search on that term is NOT SAFE FOR WORK.)

When I retired Sarah, she was level 45, which is on the low end for maximum level depending on your race and the major skills you choose. Here are some specifics:

• 241 quests completed.
• 441 Fame with 0 Infamy, but that is not to say that I didn’t get any infamy points during my play. The ones I did get were expunged when I completed the pilgrimage for the Knights of Nine quest.
• 3,859 items stolen, including 25 pickpockets. The pickpockets seemed too low; it may not have counted if I wasn’t detected.
• 66 assaults and 16 murders with all but one of those murders being part of the Dark Brotherhood quests.
• 2,367 creatures and 994 people killed. NRA would be proud. PETA would not.
• 292 places found. I really tried to explore every location in the game but with a game world so large, I’m sure I missed a few.
• 608 locks picked, 1,287 souls trapped, and 1,090 potions made. Sadly, out of all those potions, I probably only used a couple dozen of them. But I still loved gathering all of the plants and assorted animal parts for them.
• 1,698 books read, 385 jokes told, and 27 diseases contracted. I swear those diseases were mostly from zombies… mostly.

Some of the most interesting stats to me are the ones that don’t have to do with gameplay:

• I had a total of 2,159 save files when I quit. I saved often in part due to the mods I had causing some game instability.
• Total gameplay time was 465 hours, 57 minutes, and 36 seconds. That’s nineteen and half days.
• I had 208 mods loaded taken up 5.7 gigs of space. One of those mods were made by myself as a bug and annoyance fix. The TES Construction Set that was provided with the game made modding really easy.
• The largest portion of those 208 mods were companion mods. I had custom-loaded exactly 100 companions in the game. I wasn’t aiming to have exactly 100, it just happened to turn out that way. While I had 465 hours of in-game play, I spent almost as much time downloading and installing companion mods. When I was done with that, I would spend as many hours costuming and choosing weapon loadouts for them. Wolf called the game my dollhouse.

I loved this game but it really was a time sink and have been avoiding playing Fallout 3 because I feel it will consume me in the same way. So for now, I’m taking a break from Bethesda games, but don’t tell Wolf that I’ve already started downloading mods for Fallout 3.