Newbie - essential questions Options

[Duezala]

Hello there,

I just bought Oblivion and come from an adventure/exploration gaming background. This games looks interesting but I have a few questiions:

- Is it possible to successfully play the game without having to kill and can I do this by setting the difficulty slider on '0'?

- Can I die in this game? If so, will I have to start over from scratch?


I just really want to manoever in all the environments and meet the characters without having to fight. I don't mind the magic and stealth, providing I'm not spending my time stealing or what not.

Bit lame, I know...but does anyone mind addressing my questions and offering me some tips?

thanks

[mritchey]

I think that is a pretty interesting approach ... no weapons, only magic. You will have to kill some people/creatures but can probably avoid it most times by just making yourself invisible and running away. For example, you don't have to kill anybody to close an oblivion gate ... just run through it healing yourself as necessary until you take the sigil stone to close it.

[Duezala]

I think that is a pretty interesting approach ... no weapons, only magic. You will have to kill some people/creatures but can probably avoid it most times by just making yourself invisible and running away. For example, you don't have to kill anybody to close an oblivion gate ... just run through it healing yourself as necessary until you take the sigil stone to close it.

Geez, at the Oblivion Gate I didn't believe I had enough magic/illusion competency to protect myself from the fire bolts and ended up gearing up on armour and smashing the demons and other beings to pieces with my axe blade <sigh>. However, once I'd closed the gate I took off my armour and returned to my anti-violence mode. It is interesting how this game demands a definitive in-the-moment decision as to whether one will lean on immediately accessible defenses - maladaptive as they may be -- for the expedience of self-preservation, or to have the courage and confidence to go outside one's comfort zone (mid-crisis) to cultivate lesser developed skills for the sake of realizing a vision of self-mastery. This game allows us to define who [our character] is by the choices made throughout the journey -- very unique for a video game.

This post has been edited by Duezala: Jul 20 2006, 03:28 AM

[Intestinal Chaos]

I think that is a pretty interesting approach ... no weapons, only magic. You will have to kill some people/creatures but can probably avoid it most times by just making yourself invisible and running away. For example, you don't have to kill anybody to close an oblivion gate ... just run through it healing yourself as necessary until you take the sigil stone to close it.

Geez, at the Oblivion Gate I didn't believe I had enough magic/illusion competency to protect myself from the fire bolts and ended up gearing up on armour and smashing the demons and other beings to pieces with my axe blade <sigh>. However, once I'd closed the gate I took off my armour and returned to my anti-violence mode. It is interesting how this game demands a definitive in-the-moment decision as to whether one will lean on immediately accessible defenses - maladaptive as they may be -- for the expedience of self-preservation, or to have the courage and confidence to go outside one's comfort zone (mid-crisis) to cultivate lesser developed skills for the sake of realizing a vision of self-mastery. This game allows us to define who [our character] is by the choices made throughout the journey -- very unique for a video game.

I admire your insight, yes a lot of people miss this point about the game. I'm glad to see that there are other people out there that are unfamiliar with the game and yet play it in an intelligent and mature way nontheless. Mostly we just get people like Abu here.

[Abu the Cat]

...Mostly we just get people like Abu here.

Are you saying that I'm a mindless drone that wants to hack, smash, shoot, kill, mame, loot, and destroy, and nothing else, and is also stupid? Fart knocker!