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    Default Still care about Oblivion?

    It's odd. Guards say 'arrow to the knee' all the time in Skyrim and that catches on. Yet somehow, 'I saw a mudcrab the other day.' never caught on.

    Anyway, I decided to start this for the benefit of people who like one Elder Scroll and stick to it (my sister is fond of Morrowind) or for people who can't stay current on video games.

    In particular, I was wondering if anyone had some neat-o potion recipes to share. I finally found all master level alchemy equipment and I can finally get cooking Paula Dean style on my deadly potables.

    One cool potion I discovered is Nightshade+Arrowroot+Leek+Primrose Leaves. This makes a combined effect burden+damage strength poison, with some damage luck thrown in for fun. While the numbers may look unimpressive initially, at alchemy 100 with master equipment, four doses of this .1 weight poison can immobilize a minotaur lord, three doses can down a female Orc Marauder, and only two can stop a female Dark Elf Bandit Bowman- all for 180 seconds! While it's not totally as good as paralyze in that enemies can still shoot or cast at you, enemies can't melee you or squirm out of the way of your own shots or spells. Further, if you have a claymore and they have anything other than that, you can inch forward to beat on them without any retaliation.

    Although that aside, I am also enchanted by the wonderful music and world of Oblivion as well. The gameplay is fun and most of the quests are well designed. You know what Oblivion has that Skyrim doesn't? Color.

    P.S. Google coconut crab if you want to see a mudcrab today.
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    But as we've agreed, sometimes the real power was the friends we made along the way, including the DM. I wish I could go on more articulate rants about how I'm grateful for DMs putting in the effort on a hard job even when it isn't perfect.

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    Quote Originally Posted by No brains View Post
    It's odd. Guards say 'arrow to the knee' all the time in Skyrim and that catches on. Yet somehow, 'I saw a mudcrab the other day.' never caught on.

    Anyway, I decided to start this for the benefit of people who like one Elder Scroll and stick to it (my sister is fond of Morrowind) or for people who can't stay current on video games.

    In particular, I was wondering if anyone had some neat-o potion recipes to share. I finally found all master level alchemy equipment and I can finally get cooking Paula Dean style on my deadly potables.

    One cool potion I discovered is Nightshade+Arrowroot+Leek+Primrose Leaves. This makes a combined effect burden+damage strength poison, with some damage luck thrown in for fun. While the numbers may look unimpressive initially, at alchemy 100 with master equipment, four doses of this .1 weight poison can immobilize a minotaur lord, three doses can down a female Orc Marauder, and only two can stop a female Dark Elf Bandit Bowman- all for 180 seconds! While it's not totally as good as paralyze in that enemies can still shoot or cast at you, enemies can't melee you or squirm out of the way of your own shots or spells. Further, if you have a claymore and they have anything other than that, you can inch forward to beat on them without any retaliation.

    Although that aside, I am also enchanted by the wonderful music and world of Oblivion as well. The gameplay is fun and most of the quests are well designed. You know what Oblivion has that Skyrim doesn't? Color.

    P.S. Google coconut crab if you want to see a mudcrab today.
    Hmm, it may not have caught on on the internet at large, but on the Bethsoft forums themselves it certainly did. It's an extremely common reoccurring joke over there, with many MANY variations ^^ Though, I do believe the best use(and directly from Oblivion) is "I've fought mudcrabs harder then you!" whenever you're fighting a humanoid opponent :)
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    I saw no reason to ever play Oblivion again after Fallout 3 came out. Oblivion was, for me, all about wandering the map exploring, which F3 just does better. Some of the quest chains were good (DB, Thieves Guild, Shivering Isles main quest), but that doesn't save it from having however many scores of dungeons with absolutely nothing of interest.

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    I stopped playing oblivion largely because other games were satisfying my need to wander around and be horribly murdered by over powered enemies. Then I discovered Oscuro's, and spent another hundred hours in Oblivion.

    Unfortunately, now with Skyrim being out, I'm finding that Oblivion doesn't quite hold my attention, outside of the handful of guild quests. Because the Thieves Guild line is STILL awesome. And so is the Dark Brotherhood.

    For a potion recipe, I don't quite remember them all, but I found Dragons Tongue, Cheese, and a couple of others produced a very useful defensive potion for stopping fireballs from terminating me. Cannot remember the exact formula, nor can I find my potions list at the moment. I do recall those were two base ingredients in a lot of potions I made though.
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    I haven't played Oblivion in a few months now, but I used to keep up with the new mods coming out on a daily basis.

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    The total conversion mod called 'Nehrim' is my favourite thing about Oblivion.

    It has some of the problems of Oblivion, facial animations, combat and all that. But it makes up for it with a story of an epic scale, even if it gets a bit silly at times, and locations that are actually exotic and fun to explore instead of the boring 'fantasy' land of Oblivion full of forests that I could explore just as well by taking a hike a stone's throw from where I live.
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    I tried to like Nehrim. I really, honestly did. But it was so obfuscatingly hard. I made it out of the first dungeon only on my... seventh try I think.

    I suppose there was an epic story buried in there somewhere, but I couldn't stay interested long enough to find it. And it's not that I've got a short attention span either, it was just that hard to get into. I suspect that it was the difference between it and base Oblivion.

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    Mudcrabs were definitely memetic with people who'd played Oblivion. I think the main reason that the 'arrow in the knee' thing became omnipresent is because Skyrim had a very big release. It broke records for sales on Steam by a wide margin, everyone and their dog had played it. Oblivion was definitely popular and it spawned memes from its own dialogue/glitches/AI, but it didn't get the universal hype and attention of Skyrim.

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    I use to see a mud crab the other day, but then I took an arrow to the knee.... I feel dirty now
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    Quote Originally Posted by Androgeus View Post
    I use to see a mud crab the other day, but then I took an arrow to the knee.... I feel dirty now
    So I guess you can't "Keep Moving"? On to the bookstore where you can find all the filthy books still uncensored? Out of an unplayably old game?
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    Quote Originally Posted by No brains View Post
    But as we've agreed, sometimes the real power was the friends we made along the way, including the DM. I wish I could go on more articulate rants about how I'm grateful for DMs putting in the effort on a hard job even when it isn't perfect.

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    Thinking moron 'Arrow to the knee' I think it should be the term used to describe someone who is debilitated by discovering a new Elder Scrolls game.
    Quote Originally Posted by No brains View Post
    But as we've agreed, sometimes the real power was the friends we made along the way, including the DM. I wish I could go on more articulate rants about how I'm grateful for DMs putting in the effort on a hard job even when it isn't perfect.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Talvereaux View Post
    Mudcrabs were definitely memetic with people who'd played Oblivion. I think the main reason that the 'arrow in the knee' thing became omnipresent is because Skyrim had a very big release. It broke records for sales on Steam by a wide margin, everyone and their dog had played it. Oblivion was definitely popular and it spawned memes from its own dialogue/glitches/AI, but it didn't get the universal hype and attention of Skyrim.
    Yeah, Oblivion has tons of memes, just none of them that went too far outside the Oblivion playing/modding community. Probably the one that came closest to getting exposure outside of this realm was "STOP! YOU VIOLATED THE LAW!"

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