Has Oblivion ever affected you in real life? : IV - Oblivion

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:24 am

I forgot his name, but the dark elf who takes a final stand against the guard that is in front of his house, when he got killed I went on a blind killing spree, it made me sad,

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:18 pm

Earlier this year, my wife and I found out we were expecting our second child. Then, after the first ultra-sound, we were told that our daughter had a genetic disorder called Type 2 Osteogensis Imperfecta and probably wouldn't survive after being born. We spent the whole summer going to specialist after specialist, and hospital after hospital. Oblivion was one of the few things this year that helped make my life at least a little bit bearable. It gave me a place that I could escape to, and forget all the stress and sorrow I had to deal with for the last 6 months. I don't know if Oblivion affected me in real life or not, but I really do feel like it kind of helped me stay sane. My daughter's funeral was on Sunday afternoon, and after my wife, daughter and I all got home and everyone was asleep and the house was quiet, I sat in my living in the dark and played Oblivion for about 3 hours. As funny as it may sound, Oblivion was kind of like my therapist or something.

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:39 am

A game as forgettable as Oblivion? Of coarse not.

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:51 pm

My work around for emotional trauma caused by living such a violent existence is "resurrection" . Besides, places like the DB sanctuary are more enjoyable with the increase of family members . Now with all the old members again present and the new ones it has a real home atmosphere . Once I dispose of the people and complete the contract I bring them back and life goes on . This works well in most situations such as the treasure hunters in the Skingrade house . Its just one never ending party .

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:37 am

Earlier this year, my wife and I found out we were expecting our second child. Then, after the first ultra-sound, we were told that our daughter had a genetic disorder called Type 2 Osteogensis Imperfecta and probably wouldn't survive after being born. We spent the whole summer going to specialist after specialist, and hospital after hospital. Oblivion was one of the few things this year that helped make my life at least a little bit bearable. It gave me a place that I could escape to, and forget all the stress and sorrow I had to deal with for the last 6 months. I don't know if Oblivion affected me in real life or not, but I really do feel like it kind of helped me stay sane. My daughter's funeral was on Sunday afternoon, and after my wife, daughter and I all got home and everyone was asleep and the house was quiet, I sat in my living in the dark and played Oblivion for about 3 hours. As funny as it may sound, Oblivion was kind of like my therapist or something.

Wow that made me start crying. My heart goes out to you Benn and I hope you and your wife make it though this. :cry:

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:40 pm

Spoilers here:

Absolutely, I think it's a better game when you give yourself up to the story. I'll only do some of the Daedric quests after doing the Sheogorath quest first time out so i wouldn't have to give Martin the Azura Star. When I went back to Border Watch to see what was going on, the people were frantic and it was horrible...felt bad all day.

Another one I won't do is the quest for the Grey Prince to learn his heritage because then when you meet him in the arena...well, it isn't how I want to win. And then the end of the main quest was very good but a bit sad...I scatter flowers in the Temple. No DB for me...couldn't do it.

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:05 pm

Spoilers here:

Absolutely, I think it's a better game when you give yourself up to the story. I'll only do some of the Daedric quests after doing the Sheogorath quest first time out so i wouldn't have to give Martin the Azura Star. When I went back to Border Watch to see what was going on, the people were frantic and it was horrible...felt bad all day.

Another one I won't do is the quest for the Grey Prince to learn his heritage because then when you meet him in the arena...well, it isn't how I want to win. And then the end of the main quest was very good but a bit sad...I scatter flowers in the Temple. No DB for me...couldn't do it.

I agree. That Sheo Shrine quest is insidious. At first it seemed like a fun practical joke to my elf. By the time she was done though, she was quite ashamed of herself for mocking those Khajiit and quite angry with Sheo. The good news is that early on, it steeled her to quickly balk at any quest that didn't feel right to her.

Yup, she don't kill unicorns or Grand Champions or priests of Arkay. In fact there are loads of quests she wrinkles her nose at.

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:14 pm

Perhaps I'm just heartless but I'm not all that moved by the stuff that happens. I do, however, have a strict refusal to kill domestic dogs. I have a real life love of dogs so when one of the innocent dogs are walking around and then starts biting me because I killed his "human", I just run away so I don't have to kill him. I'm just strange, evidently.

I'm exactly the same way as you are so I don't find it strange :foodndrink:

I have two dogs in real life and if anything happened to them I would be crushed

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:13 am

Earlier this year, my wife and I found out we were expecting our second child. Then, after the first ultra-sound, we were told that our daughter had a genetic disorder called Type 2 Osteogensis Imperfecta and probably wouldn't survive after being born. We spent the whole summer going to specialist after specialist, and hospital after hospital. Oblivion was one of the few things this year that helped make my life at least a little bit bearable. It gave me a place that I could escape to, and forget all the stress and sorrow I had to deal with for the last 6 months. I don't know if Oblivion affected me in real life or not, but I really do feel like it kind of helped me stay sane. My daughter's funeral was on Sunday afternoon, and after my wife, daughter and I all got home and everyone was asleep and the house was quiet, I sat in my living in the dark and played Oblivion for about 3 hours. As funny as it may sound, Oblivion was kind of like my therapist or something.

My heart goes out to you and your wife... No one should have to go through something like that :cry:

EDIT: and sorry for the double post

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 4:45 pm

I was chilling at my sister's soccer practice since I have to drive her and its too far away from our house for me to get any benefit from going home, and the sky started turning red and I was like 'damn oblivion gates' and started looking around for one.

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:13 pm

On my first character, Jimmy Converse the Redguard with an Afro, when Jauffre was killed my Ocato, I practically began to cry. I smashed Ocato's face in pretty hard, but still, even though Jauffre sent me on suicide mission, he still cared about me, and I suppose i cared about him to a non-gay degree. Btw, I literally did cry out "NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO" when he died.

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:41 pm

On my first character, Jimmy Converse the Redguard with an Afro, when Jauffre was killed my Ocato, I practically began to cry. I smashed Ocato's face in pretty hard, but still, even though Jauffre sent me on suicide mission, he still cared about me, and I suppose i cared about him to a non-gay degree. Btw, I literally did cry out "NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO" when he died.

Why would Chancellor Ocato kill Jauffre?

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:14 am

Why would Chancellor Ocato kill Jauffre?

On accident he may have got in the way of his sword or a spell or something I assume. Or a frenzy spell.

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:54 am

On accident he may have got in the way of his sword or a spell or something I assume. Or a frenzy spell.

How would this happen? I didn't know Jauffre and Ocato could be in the same place.

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:25 pm

How would this happen? I didn't know Jauffre and Ocato could be in the same place.

Light the Dragonfires I believe. I've never gotten that far but I've read guides enough to know that if alive Jauffre helps you there.

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:53 am

The Purification in the Dark Brotherhood was the worst for me.

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:18 pm

The Purification in the Dark Brotherhood was the worst for me.

Worse than Molag Bal or Mephala's quests?

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:27 pm

Haven't done any of the daedra quests yet. I was planning on doing Sanguine since my character is in Skingrad. Is it a good quest?

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:22 am

When main characters die,

Like;

Spoiler

Lucien, Martin and sometimes Baurus, Jauffre, Mankar Cameron (Well, maybe not him...)

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:46 pm

Playing video games in general has drastically reduced my chances of reproduction.

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:06 am

Playing video games in general has drastically reduced my chances of reproduction.

I guess that's a chance you have to take. lol

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:23 am

Killing Agronak gro-Malog after completing the 'Origin of the Gray Prince' quest for him. Man how sad I was. He didn't even want to fight back. It was an unfair victory.
The worst part: everyone else seemed very happy around me after the victory, except me.

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:21 pm

Martin hated my horse for some reason, so he kept tryng to kill it.

He succeeded.

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:45 am

Corrupting that man to try and kill me to get that mace from that certain daedric prince. In real life that would be ****ed up.

yeah... that felt quite disturbing to me so I never did it

» Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:58 pm

Now and then, yes.

Spoiler

The purification, for instance. I didn't have much trouble killing my targets, but when it came to betraying my Dark Brotherhood fellows... it just felt wrong.

Well, one contract did make me a bit depressed. Wiping out the Draconis family. I mean, what can they possibly have done wrong? Killing a mother, and then her children... it just feels... like I said, wrong. I get that big over and done with as quickly as possible.