The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion in the original test: A role-playing game that survived the decades

Creating a game world of huge size and graphics splendor is one thing. What Oblivion makes a masterpiece is the wealth of adventures in this stunningly beautiful country.

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion has been on his belt for almost 20 years. How did the role-playing championship work hit the test at the time?

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A notice:This test comes from the Gamestar edition 05/2006 and refers to the original release version of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. We decided to publish the test again to publish the remaster version.

To the east of the capital of Cyrodiil, Cheydinhal hugs into a valley, from afar you can see the sea of ​​the red brick gable, which speaks pointed into the blue sky like petrified waves. Anyone who follows the street through the gentle hills of the Heartland sees the huge fortress wall appearing, which lays on a ring -shaped around the white -whiten half -timbered houses; Slightly increased, cheydinhal wakes up over the river city.

You have to step onto the forecourt through the wooden wings of the west goal, get the three stone levels up to the »Gasthof Zur Brücke« and look around in Mariana Acharia's bar; Only then can you see the worries that dig into the faces of the residents. Cheydinhal groans among the finance fines of the city guard, which captain Ulrich Leland has recently raised; Nobody knows what happens to the money.

Fits you if ...

  • Your Skyrim likes.
  • You want to go back to Tamriel before Elder Scrolls 6.
  • You are looking for ingenious guild quests.

Doesn't fit you if ...

  • Your level scaling does not like.
  • it insists on good German translations.
  • Your varied NPC faces and voices are expected.

The Waldelf Aldos Othran, one says, has lost his wife in an attack, since then he has been drinking; He sleeps on the street because his house was seized when he could not pay a fine. A few days later he will be dead, killed by one of Leland's guardian; But at the moment you have no idea.

Count Andel Indarys, ruler of Cheydinhal, has no longer sleeped since his son has been lost. It is believed that his disappearance is related to the dark red portal to Oblivion, which is open to the city wall and spits out Daedra lens. Nobody knows how long the city guard holds out the fights. Cheydinhal could be lost, maybe tomorrow.

Holes in the world

Nothing of all that happens in Cheydinhal has to do with the task that made a prisoner from the dungeon of the imperial city at the beginning of the game as the hope of a threatened country
has. Ruler Uriel Septim is dead, slain of strangers. Shortly before his murder, the ruler frees us from our underground dungeon.

We fight for his life, but the assassins are too numerous. The dying ruler presses us an amulet and breathes a request: we may find his illegitimate son. Without
The heir to the throne is open to Cyrodiil for an invasion of the Daedra Prince Mehrunes Dagon from the Höllenwelt Wohlivion, who is already tearing more and more holes in the barrier between the worlds.

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