{"id":2308,"date":"2010-06-30T21:41:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T02:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2013-10-08T21:04:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T02:04:14","slug":"oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/?p=2308","title":{"rendered":"In Conclusion: Oblivion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/post\/sarah01.jpg?m=1290032007\" title=\"Sarah&#039;s back\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"160\" height=\"320\" \/>It was months ago that I finally finished The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, by Bethesda Softworks. I say &#8220;finally&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>I could give a nice long review of all the good things and few annoyances of this game but honestly, I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;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 <em>futanari<\/em>. (A Google search on that term is NOT SAFE FOR WORK.)<\/p>\n<p>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:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list4\">\n<li>241 quests completed.<\/li>\n<li>441 Fame with 0 Infamy, but that is not to say that I didn&#8217;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.<\/li>\n<li>3,859 items stolen, including 25 pickpockets. The pickpockets seemed too low; it may not have counted if I wasn&#8217;t detected.<\/li>\n<li>66 assaults and 16 murders with all but one of those murders being part of the Dark Brotherhood quests.<\/li>\n<li>2,367 creatures and 994 people killed. NRA would be proud. PETA would not.<\/li>\n<li>292 places found. I really tried to explore every location in the game but with a game world so large, I&#8217;m sure I missed a few.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>1,698 books read, 385 jokes told, and 27 diseases contracted. I swear those diseases were mostly from zombies&#8230; mostly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/post\/oblivion_post_image.jpg?m=1290032007\" alt=\"Oblivion\" width=\"557\" \/><br \/>\nSome of the most interesting stats to me are the ones that don&#8217;t have to do with gameplay:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list4\">\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Total gameplay time was 465 hours, 57 minutes, and 36 seconds. That&#8217;s nineteen and half days.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>The largest portion of those 208 mods were companion mods. I had custom-loaded exactly 100 companions in the game. I wasn&#8217;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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><br \/>\nI 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&#8217;m taking a break from Bethesda games, but don&#8217;t tell Wolf that I&#8217;ve already started downloading mods for Fallout 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was months ago that I finally finished The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, by Bethesda Softworks. I say &#8220;finally&#8221; 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[91,90],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-in-conclusion","tag-oblivion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6066,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/6066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}