What is crazy to me is that this situation is caused by only 2 factors being tweaked from the previous game that caused it to break. In Morrowind, for the most part, none of the enemies or equipment scale to your level. The only ones that do are the random spawns on the overworld. This makes players plan and get stronger before approaching a problem. You can find better loot even at a low level to adapt to the issue. The second change was that Oblivion trimmed the total amount of skills in the game which makes it harder to plan around levels in the long run. You have less opportunities to level skills with the attribute you want and if a skill of that attribute gets too high it becomes almost impossible to level that attribute up. An example of this is Morrowind having 5 skills that can level up strength, vs Oblivion having 3

Abusing broken systems is where the best fun is at though.

Now I want a version of the game where you dive in a bean swamp and end up attacked by Shrek

Oblivion was the best version?!?!? It was the best game!

Need darksouls runescape 🫠

What surprise me is that there's an actual map, i though that it was just a trick, and that the photos were hust PNGs, i didn't even inagine that it had an actual modeled map

I’m going to guess you never played D&D. Everything you do matters.

BEAN'S

So you figured out how to change the sea monster shrexture, huh?

Its funny how hardest level simply 36 times harder than normal

Honestly, it's the level SCALING in everything else that's the problem. The stat-boosts based on skill ranks gained each level is a concept that works fine in Morrowind, a game where a Kwana Forager is a Kwama Forager and a Golden Saint is a Golden Saint, and that's that. You level up, you get stronger; only question is by how much, and choosing to min-max with your skills by way of the "efficient leveling" method outlined here is an option you can take or leave without much issue. It feels more like a reward for going out of your way to roleplay the act of intense training, rather than workaround for busted systems. It was also a straight-up improvement over Daggerfall's system, which just rolled a die on each level-up to give you a random number of points to assign to stats. Previous games in the series did put stronger enemies and variants in places based on player level, but it hardly applied to everything, and it didn't have as drastic an effect on enemy stats. Oblivion on the other hand applies level-scaling to anything and everything, so by endgame even the bandits are kitted out with ebony or daedric armor and rocking inflated stats. Skyrim may have nixed attributes entirely, but the real fix it applied to the problem was to only apply level-scaling to some things and not others, and not in such a uniform fashion. There are parts of the game that scale a little, parts that scale a lot, and parts that don't scale at all and remain fixed in place... meaning you can overcome them with higher skill levels and better gear. Oblivion, meanwhile, can legitimately reach a point where even if you are "efficiently" leveling, you should just stop leveling up because your damage potential stops increasing while enemy health pools keep inflating. Maddening.

Not only do the types of enemies change depending on your level but their total health also scales effectively infinitely. So when you reach a very high level combat becomes a tedious slog against ridiculous damage sponges.

The leveling system was perfect. Why should you get max stat boost every level? It adds a layer of depth bc a beginner/casual player won't be rewarded for just doing the bare minimum while the journeyman/expert will reap the rewards of hard work and understanding. Personally games that punish the stupid and casual player are the best because if you're humble maybe you learn a thing or two and can appreciate the complexity and depth of a game and it's systems.

Its like if i dreamed playing minecraft

6:24 the godtexture is 2 squirrels, a yawning dog mouth, and goat horns

Yeah, I think I hit this issue back in the day, so I just lowered the difficulty because killing mobs became turning them into shish kebab for next few minutes. Like for some reason I wasn't getting killed by them, just damage output was low. That was whenever I didn't forget that you need to sleep to level up, which was also a problem. It is a system that looks good on paper, but then when you play it, it just falls apart. Also dunno if I am misremembering it or not, but also didn't game kind of punish you for overleveling at latter stage of main questline, where you have to babysit Martin and if you leveled too much, mobs that would attack would cut through friendly NPCs like knife through butter, but on the other side, you hitting at them was not doing that much of the damage? Like I remember that and can't really remember if I didn't need to cheat so Martin would survive. On the other hand, if you came there early you didn't need to do much. So like it was actually punishing you for taking your time to travel the world. Unless you forgot to sleep. Which also made me remember that whole world leveling with player was what kind of broke it, since older games had similar system and it worked better without world leveling with you. Plus you didn't have issues with keeping NPCs alive at too high level... feels like they added that without thinking how it impacts all the other systems. Which now that I think about it, sounds like the most Bethesda style of incompetence you can possibly have. Makes you think how they never really got more competent either. :-D

I love oblivions "jank"; its very very charming. The leveling system is the one thing that makes me question the sanity of the devs lol. Thank god for mods haha

Todd thought they were cooking, but they weren't.

Most stupid shit you could do was domintating people so they would help you in combat, buffing them, healing them, reverse pickpocketing armor and weapons,...

Drain health 100 on touch for 1 second instakills weaker enemies and costs like 5 Magicka I called the spell "Purge the weak"

Because of you custom class you can put all your least used skills as majors ones and up your minor skills. I made a character that grew to have; 100 sneak, 90+ blade, 90+ destruction and restoration and 50+ light and heavy armor. And i was like in level 8. I wrecked things.

I won’t lie this levelling issue is the sole reason I haven’t tried the game yet. Granted yes, I can download the mod. But I seriously hate mods for first playthroughs. Some weird tick of mine

On a single player game with no class system we should be able to make broken shit

Any form of level scaling sucks in my opinion. If you can't make your game enjoyable without it, then the game sucks. Oblivion is simply an awful game.

Bandits in Daedric armor comes to mind. I did efficient levelling and maxed out stats. I can't believe the grinds I used to do.

Efficient leveling really isn't important. The only attribute that kind of matters is Endurance, but even that's not super big of a deal. The amount strength actually increases your damage is almost negligable compared to how your skill in that weapon affects it (Blade, Blunt, Hand to Hand). Same with Agility and Marksmanship. Personality is a 100% useless attribute, because of Charm (unless you fortify your personality with magical effects to stupid numbers where wildlife becomes non-hostile, still not really worth the effort). Speed is completely useless, your athletics matter more, your size matters a lot as well, but what matters the most is your encumbrance and weight of your weapon. Luck is a good attribute, but you can't efficiently level it, so it's irrelevant to this discussion. Willpower is a decent attribute, but it gives you a % based regeneration so your maximum Magicka matters a lot more. Intelligence is good, but it is capped relatively fast, and other ways to increase your Magicka are easy and much more important (potions, fortify attribute spells, birthsigns, enchanted gear...).

Shrek

5:33 me if say pis and not pls :

6:24 If you are wondering what is Gods texture supposed to be: A png of two squirrels with bloody bulging eyes, horns, a dog mouth and a intestinal backround

Hey, at least you recovered a bunch of health from eating all this food. 10 per cheese, 5 per can! I'd say this was a mighty fine investment! Grezzo is a fine pal, I must say. So much hospitality!

Why does the monster from the thumbnail looks like froger from pressure-

I prefer it over Skyrims leveling system. I used to solve the problem by getting daedric sigils and duping them 😂

On my First playthrough of Oblivion I opted just to never level up once I realized how leveling up mad me weaker.

The only real time i found the seatruck useful was in the crystal caves

sorry I missed this one my friend

I remember beating this game by adding chameleon 100% on armor, and never levelling up past 10. Good times

The "no stat increase thing" not entirely true, you can stay level 1, and up your stats in the wizard tower with spell creations and enchantments, however it will be very time consuming r, but it is doable without leveling up.

Spell crafting? You could destroy anything through spell crafting including full on breaking the game with say, a speed buff that makes your horse so fast you cross the map in seconds and crash the game. Never found this game difficult or the level a barrier although it was broken. I just don’t think it ever became hard. Morrowind was much more difficult.

Dude, you pronounced it better than anyone else, ever. You've got the best French! Thanks for playing and that great video!

It's so fitting for you to be covering this game. I made a review as well.

Why is it broken, or how is it broken? Why seems like a rather asinine question.....because it was programmed that way. How is it broken is a better question that can actually be addressed.....

Oblivion's leveling system is 100% transplanted from Morrowind's. The difference: Morrowind didn't have a world that leveled with you. At least not to Oblivion's degree. Sure, random monsters and loot factored player level into the tables, but NPCs had their level and they stayed that level. None of that "Player minus 5" or "Player plus 1" algebra. So a Morrowind PC could eventually outpace the rest of the world no matter how inefficiently they leveled up.

one of those games that is more of an art piece than a game

If whoever built this place made the slow train alarm a whistle, it would've saved a lot of bother.

On episode of the Castle Super Beast podcast, a listener sent a letter to the podcast and told a story of how Warren Specter came to give a talk at their uni. One of the audience member asked a question, wondering if PS1 graphics would return to the mainstream. Spector said no, saying the art style is unpopular. This was waaaay before the boom of PS1 style graphics but it is kinda funny how he got it wrong, not that that's his fault.

My interpretation is "drugs".

I just loved efficient leveling and maximizing each level, it feels so good that in this game actually makes a difference everything you do, and you have to plan ahead

After playing it im of the opinion its a multi faceted crtitique of several things. The industrial farming industry which is incredibly unhealthy bad for the environment and basically torture for the animals being crammed in spaces they barely fit in not to mention being pumped full of broad spectrum anti biotics that are absolutely going to contribute to antibacterial resistant strains going forward that we can't treat. Another part is the videogame industry i think as well and just capitalist work culture in general where we treat employees as commodities or assets instead of people and squeeze every drop of effeciency out of them under threat of firing to make 0.0001% more profits while working the person to death. Theres other interesting stuff in the game like did you know the games difficulty is determined by which country you pick? Its basically whichever country has the highest mountain peak as thats where your doing the train whistling and is why theres no oxygen. For example usa is the 3rd hardest difficulty. Unsure what that means towards the games measage but its interesting

Wobbly PS1 geometry aesthetic and it's from an IM SIM dev with open mechanics? The venn diagram is now a circle for me.

Tried to watch ManlyBH do a playthrough, but he just let the alarm keep going while he did other stuff, and it stressed me out!