Well, the title pretty much says it all, i'm new to elder scrolls, I liked fall out and so far I like Oblivion.
I used to play Morrowind but just couldn't get into it no matter how hard i tried so I gave up on it.. then Oblivion came around
and i heard a lot of good things about it, so yesterday I finally bought it.. so far i'm a level 7 Nord Warrior, any tips on what to do?
I've started the main story line and i've just finished up with the first oblivion gate and taking Martin to the blades, and killing the daedric dude in the bar..
but yeah, Hi. ^^

Nope, no tips. I find that the greatest way to get into a game is just play it. Make mistakes, see what works and what doesn't. Particularly with RPG's and The Elder Scrolls, you should be considering multiple characters so your first run through will kind of almost be practice. Atleast this was how it was when i first got introduced to Morrowind. Also, go check out uesp.net. Good site that one

Yeah, i've mainly played the Fable series, and wanted something bigger and heard a lot of good about TES, but the thing is i'm just kinda bored, I can't seem to find anything to do, I just wander around a lot and do the Fighters Guild contracts, I made a Dark Elf and did the assassin storyline, and a bit of thief but that about as far as i've gotten.

Just don't make my mistakes. When you make a new character make sure you want to use him for a while, don't become addicted to making new characters like I did. Trust me, it's awful.

I was doing that at first, because I thought the characters where to weak and was dying in the tutorial, and then realised the difficulty was at max about two hours later... still in the tutorial. -.-

It's a fun game if you let yourself get immersed. Stick it out until it starts to get fun. Beginning always svcks (for me atleast).

Since you're a Warrior, you might like to join the Fighter's Guild and do quests for them. That way you'll have a place to sleep in every city. The Arena in Imperial City involves a lot of fighting and you have the chance to make some gold. There are mines and caves everywhere with loot you can sell and if you meet up with Umbacano in Imperial City and get the quest to collect some artifacts for him, that'll get you going around the rest of Cyrodiil and get you some more gold. Just a few ideas. Good luck!

And welcome! Here's a http://images.wikia.com/tesfanon/images/c/c4/Fishystick.jpg

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Start looking around Anvil or Leyawiin, there is a hooded Kajiit that runs very fast, if you can catch him he has much to tell. He is also in need of some calipers, if you happen to find any calipers, he needs them.

^Don't trust http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:M%27aiq_the_Liar! That's the first advice to dispense! Ha ha. j/k.

I'll say the main thing I usually say...don't fast travel, especially early on. Walk, run, or ride to your destinations. There's a lot of hidden content out there in the countryside! A lot of encounters. A lot of stuff you'll miss if you just blow thru the game from point A to point B.

Walking or riding around also allows you to get to spend more time with your character, to get to "know" your character further. As a lot of us here have noticed, this entity you've created will indeed show you some things about his/her world, existence, and way of life if you allow this to happen. He or she may even teach you a few things about your way of life on EArth! This sounds corny, I know, but it's happened to many of us here.

There's other advice I could give you, but everybody winds up playing the game in their own manner. I prefer, for instance, to have several characters, each one specializing in a certain set of larger quest lines (Fighter's Guild and Knights of the Nine for instance, or Mage's Guild + Main Quest) rather than one character who's a jack of all trades.

Welcome to the Forum!

Don't know if you're in to the whole role play thing, but if you have a browse on here there are some great RPG ideas. Arcadian has a wealth of depth to zis char, Buffy, so worth checking out zis posts for ideas...

at the moment, I'm saving up enough money to pay for all the training my high elf wants - she ran away from home and came to Cyrodil to go to the University of Life... lol... so I'm doing lots of monster dungeons to get great loot to sell.

the wiki is spectacularly useful, although sometimes I think I rely on it too much to find out about quests and stuff...

My most rewarding quests were the daedric shrine quests. Complex/difficult/funny/enchanting/varied. Brilliant!

How exciting!

When first starting, I like to see what a game can do. So for Oblivion I started with a series of 'all rounder' characters that dabbled in everything to see what I liked. Learned how lots of skills worked, did lots of exploring and quests. I also restarted a lot during this process. I don't regret it a bit because it gave me a great feel for what the game could do.

Gradually, the concept for a 'permacharacter' emerged. Buffy's a mystic archer and the only character I've played now for the last couple years. What I like about how I got there is that Buffy is very much a roleplay; she is simply living her life in Tamriel. When she wrinkles her nose or balks at some quests (most of the 'evil' ones) or refuses to use some skills (she won't touch a melee weapon, staff or use her fists or a lockpick. . . ) I don't mind a bit because I know what the skills can do and what the quests involve.

So my advice is to dabble in things. Experiment and learn what works. By all means, don't avoid magic - even a warrior can use some nice potions/poisons, some basic spells and some custom enchanted gear. Don't get wrapped into thinking about a 'permacharacter' that you can be happy with until you've been playing a long time. Stop to enjoy the waterfalls, pick flowers and enjoy the beauty of Cyrodiil. Be aware of the awesome resource that is the UESP wiki for Oblivion; make up your own mind about how much you want to use it. Wiki is, at a minimum, a fabulous resource for how the game mechanics work. Oh, and save a lot; maintain a solid collection of saves that you can go back to.

Before you pick up a Sigil Stone make sure you save!, when it's added to your inventory you can see what bonuses it will give you, if you don't think they are awesome enough reload the game and pick the Sigil Stone up again and it will have different stats. I love this! you will too.

As far as advice, I would suggest delaying finishing the main quest and doing a lot of side quests and walking around without fast travel. (I've been playing the same playthrough for hundreds of hours and still haven't gotten around to finishing the main quest yet;-) bliviongate:

Later on, perhaps for your second playthrough, you might want to try installing a few mods

Here are a few that I found to have a huge impact on my enjoyment of the game:

- Qarl's high res texture pack
- Bananasplit's Better Cities
- Tamriel NPCs Revamped
- COBL Real Hunger, Real Thirst, Real Sleep Extended
- OBGEv2
- ENB Series shaders
- MMM
- OOO
- Fran's
- FCOM
- HGEC Body replacer
- Duke Patrick's SCA Combat Archery
- Elaborate Eyes
- Ren's Beauty Pack

Welcome!
If you get stuck (Or just want to find a specific quest local) Here is a link to the Wiki!
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Oblivion

http://www.uesp.net

/wiki/Oblivion:Oblivion

See signature link, and use alchemy.

Just to be a bit contrarian: My advice is to use fast travel right off the bat to visit some of the major cities and start doing guild quests, but your mileage may vary.

Why I am being contrarian: I also just (re)started playing Oblivion in the last week or so. I had borrowed it from a friend awhile back, tried the "don't fast travel, just walk around" approach, got terribly bored, and quit. The only reasons I picked it up again were that I was hearing promising things about Skyrim, and I needed another RPG to discourage me from playing Dragon Age 2 again.

I'm really glad I picked up Oblivion again, though, because it's really fun when you're actually doing quests, or when you've leveled up a bit. I found dungeon crawling at early levels to be just excruciating and pointless, as the combat system doesn't really get interesting until after you've leveled a bit and gotten some new abilities. AFTER I got started doing quests for the Mages, Thieves, and Fighters guilds, then I felt inspired to actually go looking for trouble in the countryside. (And now I'm hip-deep in customizing spells and enchanting equipment, which is a level of complexity I never would have put up with before I got compulsively obsessed with the rest of the game...)

So, in summary: Great game, but if you get bored, try looking for a specific quest rather than just wandering.

Sadly, as much as I want to use mods on the game, I'm not sure if I can because i'm on an xbox.
If there is a way can one of you tell me how because I really don't know. :facepalm:
also whats a good difficulty setting, at first it started too high and I kept dying, now it's too easy and i'm starting to lose interest.

Unfortunately, there is no way to mod Oblivion for Xbox - yet...

If Bethesda sets up some kind of TES modding marketplace like the app store with MS and Sony for their consoles, then perhaps it will become possible, but definitely not at this point in time.

Regarding the difficulty setting, as it is a slider (at least on PC), you can keep adjusting it little by little until you find the right balance.

I would say that the vanilla version of Oblivion is terribly unbalanced IMO because as you increase in level all the monsters increase in level exactly as you do. The overhaul mods I mentioned really help to correct that balance.

While playing the vanilla version, the strategy is to delay advancing in level while increasing your skills and power. How do you do that?

By creating a custom class and putting all the skill you want to use frequently in the "minor" skills category (don't increase your level), and filling your "major" skills with those skills you won't use very often or would only use when you are deliberately ready to increase your level.