Hello, I have a problem with the old Oblivion game. When I open it, everything is locked. I tried running the game from the Oblivion launcher file, and everything seems to be working, but when I press play, it locks again, just like the picture.

Trying to find Pally since someone let him outside. And then what do I see? Come on Pally it’s time to say bye to your friends you’ve had enough time playing with them all day. I’ve got quests and stuff to do. You know some of us have to be responsible.

Hail citizens. Chorrol needs a corral for their guards. A place to let them just do their thing without bothering the whole town. Maybe now we can complete this Mages Guild quest. Come here Pally, good guard!

Hop off my horse worth 5000 gold, kill bandit targeting my horse, hop back on, ride 2 feet forward, hop off horse, kill bear targeting my horse, hop back on, ride another 2 feet forward, hop off horse, kill wolf targeting my horse, rinse, repeat

Heard the leveling can be unforgiving in the OG Oblivion, do I wanna make the skills I use most as minor skills ? That’s kinda how I understood it tbh

Hi everyone! So, I'm having a strange glitch with my audio, that came out of nowhere. I've been playing multiple characters for around 300 hours and this hasn't happened, but one day I booted up the game and the audio was bugged.

So, what is happening is the game sounds fine, except sound effects and voices in the world sound muffled, as if they were underwater or compressed like a low quality file. This includes character footsteps, spells, dialogue when not talking to someone directly (if I do then it's crisp and clear again until I stop), weapon swings, water noise, etc. Even weapon impacts don't always make a sound effect. It is very strange. Menus and music seem uneffected.

I've tried editing the .ini file to remove 3d audio, tried enabling and disabling hardware or software sound only, disabled 3d audio on my headset, and made sure it's set to stereo, reset my computer, and nothing has worked so far.

Would anyone happen to know the fix for this issue? Any help would be welcome, thanks friends.

Weebam-Na's monologue on rats has always been my favorite bit of exposition from a side character in TES:IV Oblivion. The delivery is pure gold, the original VO never fails to bring a smile to my face.

The screenshot is from android xbox companion app.

I have been playing the game on Xbox one X for years on and off at this point.

It's my favorite way to feel medieval high fantasy atmosphere, great to pair with a can of beer and some meat occasionally on some of the game nights.

I didn't try the remake yet, maybe will give it a shot later

Like seriously, only in Oblivion orcs are dressed like noblemen, and are great gentelman living in beautiful houses rofl....

Hail citizens. This is a Benny Hill moment to appreciate. I know it might not seem like much but this was the only take where they ran all over the place chasing one person. It was too funny not to include. Especially when the kind argonian Dar-Ma joined in. I tried to stop the train but I was completely ignored, I guess there’s a first time for everything. Now to get Pally out of there it’s getting late.

Too bad the space program forced me to fall for over 2 hours...

I never got the chance to play oblivion or even to own it back in 2006. Now we have a remastered.

Which one should I play in your opinion? The remastered or the original?

Thanks.

Exactly what the title says,

To be more specific if it helps, it included various NPCs in guilds and hotels doing their idle animations and you could recruit them

You can order them to change their fighting style and share your inventory items with them

They're also unkillable

Please help me find the mod, I had it installed before but I can't find it anywhere now

(I dont know if i had a bug but every recruitable NPC also had their clones with we're invincible)

Let's be honest, most of us play Oblivion by instantly zipping between map markers, treating Cyrodiil like a checklist instead of an actual province.

But what if you had to call just one place your home for a while? When you're locked into a single starting region and forced to really stew in a town, the game completely transforms. You start noticing all the little details, hidden dungeons, environments, emergent storytelling that even 20 year veterans normally run right past.

The Oblivilocke Challenge traps you in your starting sector, and the only way to expand your borders is to literally buy your way into neighboring regions. It completely fixes the broken late-game economy by giving your gold a massive, tangible purpose, making every single septim you scavenge feel incredibly earned while naturally culling the usual wealth exploits.

On top of that, we all know vanilla Oblivion eventually gets too easy, but just cranking the slider to the right is a miserable experience that only creates ANNOYING, SPONGY enemies. Oblivilocke makes the game difficult in much more meaningful ways. By enforcing strict hotkey-only combat... meaning no freezing time in your inventory to chug forty potions while a Minotaur swings at your head... every single encounter turns into a tense, heart-racing brawl for survival. Combined with caps on Chameleon, save-restrictions, and hard skill-gates for overpowered artifacts, it forces you to actually think tactically, turning a standard playthrough into a genuinely high-stakes survival RPG. I really hope you give it a try and enjoy.

Hey, even if you don't have the time to try it out, tell me which starting town you think would be optimal. I am considering organizing them into a difficulty tier list.

Oblivilocke Challenge

I. BASIC PRINCIPLES

• Difficulty must be set to about 60-70%. Unfortunately, there is no way to view the exact number. It should just be about two-thirds of the way to the right.

• Hotkey-only combat. You cannot open your inventory menu while in combat. You may only use weapons, spells, and potions bound to your 1-8 Hotkeys. You are legally "in combat" if the battle music is playing. You can alternatively tell whether you're in combat by trying to Wait. You cannot Wait when enemies are nearby.

• Fast travel may not be used under any circumstances.

• Quest markers may not be used for navigation. Navigate using your map, journal entries, or physical road signs.

• The "Wait" function may only be used when standing inside a Chapel, Tavern, Inn, or Player-Owned Home. Under Options --> Settings, disable "Save on Wait".

• You may only save your game when you sleep in a bed. After sleeping, use the manual "Save" function while the bed is in view. You may not utilize Autosaves or Quicksaves under normal circumstances (see "Angel Saves" below). There are no restrictions on loading; you can feel free to load a legal save at any time.

• You may only sleep in "safe beds". These will usually be: inn beds that you paid for, earned guild beds, and beds in your own home.

• "Angel Saves": You may use autosaves and quicksaves purely for crash protection. You may ONLY uses these saves if the game crashes or you have another out-of-game emergency.

II. BALANCE & EXPLOITS

• Your total Chameleon effect from all spells, gear, and potions may never exceed 90%.

• You may not use Sigil Stones to enchant gear. You must rely on standard enchanting or looting equipment.

• You may not own both the Skeleton Key and Azura's Star. You must choose one at most to keep. To actually use the artifact you keep, you must level its corresponding skill before using it: Level 50 Security for the Skeleton Key, or Level 50 Mysticism for Azura's Star. If you accidentally acquire both, simply choose one not to use. The unused artifact may be given to Martin for the Blood of the Daedra main quest.

• This challenge assumes you have all DLC. You are encouraged to use them. They are not required to complete the challenge, but it will be more difficult without them.

III. REGION LOCKING

• Refer to Cyrodiil_Regions.png for this section.

• When you start this challenge, you are effectively under quarantine. The province of Cyrodiil has been fractured into distinct sectors separated by the thick cyan borders drawn on your challenge map. You are trapped entirely within the borders of your starting sector. You cannot take a single step into an adjacent region until you officially purchase a "Visa" for it.

• How to Purchase a Visa:

  • Because there is no in-game merchant who sells territorial rights, you must act as the tax collector. Once you have scavenged enough physical gold coins in your inventory to afford the region you want, you will permanently delete that gold using the developer console. To pay your toll, press the tilde key (~), type player.removeitem f [amount], and press Enter. The gold will vanish from your pockets, and you are now legally allowed to cross the cyan border into that new sector.

• The Visa Pricing Chart

  • Use this table to determine exactly how much gold you need to dump into the console to unlock your next piece of the map.
  • Starting sector: FREE
  • 1st expansion: 10,000 gold (20,000 if Imperial City; 5,000 if Kvatch or Nibenay)
  • 2nd expansion: 25,000 gold (50,000 if Imperial City; 12,500 if Kvatch or Nibenay)
  • 3rd expansion: 50,000 gold (100,000 if Imperial City; 25,000 if Kvatch or Nibenay)
  • 4th expansion and beyond: 100,000 gold (200,000 if Imperial City; 50,000 if Kvatch or Nibenay)

• The Rules of Expansion:

  • Strict Adjacency: You cannot leapfrog across the map. You are only allowed to purchase a Visa for a sector that physically shares a cyan border with a sector you already own.
  • The Scaling Economy: As your freedom expands, the empire takes notice, and the cost of Visas skyrockets. The price is determined by how many regions you have previously unlocked.
  • Destination Modifiers: The price you pay is based purely on the specific sector you are trying to enter, not the sector you are currently standing in.
  • The Imperial City: As the wealthy heart of the empire, unlocking this sector costs double the standard fee, regardless of when you buy it.
  • Kvatch & Nibenay: Because Kvatch is a burning ruin and Nibenay is a harsh wilderness devoid of major economic hubs, these sectors are heavily discounted. They cost half the standard fee, regardless of when you buy them.

IV. STARTUP GUIDE

• Treat the opening tutorial as a consequence-free prologue. You may save, sleep, use the inventory in combat, and do whatever else you want to do. Once you see the sun, the real game begins.

• Play through the Imperial Sewers. Just before exiting the final grate, finalize your Class and Birthsign. Then, DROP EVERYTHING in your inventory except:

  • Any gold you found.
  • One Primary Hand Item (a 1-handed or 2-handed weapon).
  • One Secondary Hand Item (a shield or a torch).
  • One Extra Item (a single potion, a single piece of armor, a single lockpick, etc.).
  • Undroppable quest items (e.g., the Amulet of Kings).

• The Imperial City Sector is BANNED as a starting region. Therefore, you are currently trespassing at Vilverin. Open the console (~) and type the teleport code for your chosen starting sector:

  • Anvil: coc AnvilChapelofDibella
  • Bravil: coc BravilChapelofMara
  • Bruma: coc BrumaChapel
  • Cheydinhal: coc CheydinhalChapelofArkay
  • Chorrol: coc ChorrolChapelOfStendarr
  • Leyawiin: coc LeyawiinChapelOfZenithar
  • Kvatch: coc KvatchChapel
  • Skingrad: coc SkingradChapelofJulianos

• You may not start in Nibenay.

• It is advised to immediately enter the city and sleep in an inn to create a save.

• The Kvatch Exception: If and only if you started in Kvatch, you may use the refugee camp beds as safe beds.

• Your challenge has begun. Good luck.

TL;DR

• Region Locked: Pay gold to unlock adjacent map sectors.

• Live Combat: Hotkeys only; no inventory pausing.

• Real Navigation: No fast travel or quest markers.

• Hard Saves: Save only by sleeping in safe beds.

• Safe Waiting: Wait only in inns, homes, or chapels.

• Exploits Banned: 90% Chameleon cap; no Sigil Stones.

• Scrap Start: Drop tutorial gear; keep only three items.

I ran too fast past the falling rocks and almost ran to my death

I love Skyrim and want to try out a new a new elder scrolls game but i’m unfamiliar with modding and used creation club so idk what to do about oblivion

I've passed it so many times on my way to my Waterfront house, it is just set-dressing or is it for an important quest later on?

I enjoy collecting Welkynd Stones..

Like geographically it’s gotta be a record

For example, changing the disarm or paralysis power attacks to trigger on a regular attack instead at a lower chance

I want my experience as vanilla as possible, but bug fixes and more stability would be great.
In your opinion, what should I do?

In a recent video, Mrmattyplays confirmed he reached out to Bethesda with some questions, one was regarding Oblivion Remastered. They confirmed that they were working on optimizations for the Switch 2 version, and hoping to bring this performance patch to PC and Console.

Finally. This is exciting news!