OBLIVION SOUNDTRACK 4 (WATCHMANS EASE)

[@EldritchAugur]

Oblivion just had this incredibly unique and hard to pin down atmosphere that I found fascinating. Where Skyrim was powerful, adventurous and heroic, Oblivion was quaint, and beautiful but with a strange darkness underneath it. There was something just extremely generic about Skyrim and I mean that as a compliment and as a drawback. Skyrim was instantly easy to identify with and provided a strong connection immediately, but I quickly grew tired of it's setting and atmosphere as I had seen it all before. Whereas Oblivion still remains a mystery to me. I've explored nearly everything I can in the game and yet the game still just seems so strange and mysterious to me even to this day. The cozy towns, lush countryside and grand beauty of the cities are all hiding a darkness underneath, filled with horrifying creatures and unknown magic. I really loved that about Oblivion. I don't get why people think Oblivion is the generic one. I think it has easily the best atmosphere of the series.

[@mason4519]

+Kolbe Howard I completely agree

[@Stormwing14]

+Kolbe Howard And the Shivering Isles! That was one fcked up world, and I'll be damned if I didn't like it. I liked leading the adventurers astray. I loved the idea of battling ORDER and perfection (being a chaotic personality). The twisted personalities and creatures were so interesting. The dungeon you could only complete by becoming a drug addict... THAT is how you teach a kid not to do drugs.

[@Fabl3d93]

wow that was really said, I always knew there was something about skyrim that got boring but could never pin it down, and you hit the nail on the head, it's generic, perfect description thanks

[@Lo127L]

I dont know why but I literally don't remember a lot of soundtracks of Oblivion, simply because they went so hand in hand with the atmosphere of the game. It just felt right and natural walking through the great forest with this calm , tranquilising music in the background.

[@dakotanenninger4645]

Thatoneguy eat pickles

[@XepherXV]

you have my ear citizen

[@dakotanenninger4645]

Xepher Corvidae pickles

[@ikmal017]

Ow that's my ear, give it back

[@sullysunflower204]

♥

[@rastovicfilip]

The amount of emotions this tune brings back is unbelievable, Jeremy Soule is a genius !

[@pinkpanda419]

This song always seems to play whenever I enter the Imperial City. Sweet memories..

[@charzzbarzz]

And Bravil. I loved Bravil.

[@synal]

charzzbarzz Jumping on the roofs in Bravil was awesome

[@nothingissacrosanct]

+charzzbarzz fuck Bravil anvil was the shit

[@emperorsithisilith]

Cheydinhal and Skingrad. I love both of them.

[@Nonsensius]

Chorrol is my favourite

[@warlockdruid]

0:47 very nostalgic

[@du4lstrik3]

Reminds me of Guild Wars 1. Jeremy Soule also compost the OST for that game and this sounds very similar. :D

[@lowa_9674]

I can remember.. when I was 5/6 years old, not even going to school, I watched my brother playing this game on his crap PC, like 2 minutes loadingtime when he was entering a house.. I did not understand what this game was about, but I liked it. I can remember, he was going out of a city, and we saw a deer.. and he just killed it with a bow ._. I was so sad.. and he just reloaded the game and was so happy when I saw it again ._.

[@dakotanenninger4645]

Aaarschkratzeer? pickles

[@sacredxgeometry]

Are you me? This is literally what happened when I was also 6, right down to the details. Then when I was 10 I finally got it for myself!

[@alexandrasimon7191]

This one story alone perfectly summarizes what it felt like being a little kid in the late 90s - early 2000s and I love it so much

[@BufteaGangsters]

It all comes back... It happened long time ago but it feels like yesterday. Oh boy how I rode my starred chestnut horse throughout the hills surrounding the Imperial City ocasionally gazing upon the majestic sky rising white gold tower as I wandered aimlessly through the meadows of Cyrodiil...

[@somecynic808]

Soboligostrutohipopocastorcangurozaur My horse died immediately, that's why I walk everywhere, but I'm a vampire, so I'm fast a f**k boi

[@dylanvalorfall]

God...all the music in this game is so fucking epic!

[@LouisYates2010]

Im gonna cry

[@julianjaimes197]

This shit is sublime, the entire soundtrack is so magical and beautiful. Papa bless Jeremy soules soul

[@yeoldmedic7572]

Your comment made me big happy

[@jerssh]

Listening to these gives me the chills so bad it *hurts*.

[@warlockdruid]

Oblivion has a way better atmosphere than skyrim

[@NuclearMegadeath]

I guess it was more fantasy, in the literary, classic meaning.

[@helvetwarrior]

A happier atmosphere but truly different than Skyrim.

[@100xplus]

dkyp44 And that's why TES serie is one of the best because each game is good and have his own atmosphere ;)

[@MFMegaZeroX7]

dkyp44 The music definitely had a better atmosphere, I think, but the general atmosphere of Skyrim was better.

[@louirudy670]

its not a fucking competition.....but its very true that every elderscrolls game has its own atmosphere created with the music. Morrowinds music was made to fit the swamps and mushroom forrests. Oblivions music was created to fit the colourful citys and forrests. Skyrims music was composed to fit the snowy Mountains and overall darkness of the game

[@derkomissar100]

"Oh, thank you for returning that priceless family heirloom we somehow lost in a vampire cave." (Exit dialogue) "STOP TALKING!"

[@FlourescentPotato]

I adore this song. Oblivion's soundtrack is so much better than skyrim's.

[@hippohipp.5710]

Soooooo much

[@Bek359]

The ambient tunes like this, Wings of Kynareth, Auriel's Ascension, absolutely hands down 100%. The combat music, not so much. When the same "vague menace" music plays regardless of whether you're fighting a rat or a horde of soul-devouring demons, it tends to make for forgettable combat.

[@alexanderpantoja882]

yes it is but skyrim has similarities

[@MrMrHotDog0303]

You must have no touch with music or reality to actually think that

[@MrMrHotDog0303]

FlourescentPotato or just someone who has ears

[@prankstertwins]

I'm nearly 30 hours into Oblivion and just appreciating that I have lots left to look forward to.

[@spacemanbose]

My favourite track of oblivion...that strings are just epic and moody

[@R0ckmans]

To think that all of the Oblivion soundtrack was inspired from a near death experience.

[@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933]

It's almost like he died, listened to the music in heaven, and come back to life

[@Timic83tc]

You can feel it in the music

[@daltongoh9062]

"STOP! YOU'VE VIOLATED THE LAW"

[@faeiger9215]

Dalton Goh "STOP U VIOLATED MY MOTHER!"

[@cosmokicksass]

+Muhammed Majeed Lets get to bashing butts

[@faeiger9215]

VinylScratch65 haha lol totally forgot bout thatt

[@DanielCaedmon]

+Muhammed Majeed This is insane! Oblivion's being trolled!

[@faeiger9215]

***** NOOOOOOO

[@VinzZissou78]

I listened to the Oblivion songs on my ipod while walking through the snow last year, absolutely amazing!

[@MoreMallards]

Blessings of Stendarr upon ye :D

[@dakotanenninger4645]

Punished Mallard pickles

[@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933]

Blessings of the Shadow upon ye

[@jessekeller6465]

2021 and still listening to this masterpiece

[@cianmcloughlin2265]

"You're out late sir.",the guard implied, unaware of the elf's despicable intentions, or the fact that he had stolen every valuable item from the Imperial city. Aaah, the Imperial city. There isn't anywhere I'd rather be right now...

[@superheriber27]

We makin' it out of the Waterfront with this one 🔥🔥

[@Squeenix1]

I feel like I played this game yesterday yet it's been almost a decade since I first experienced this on PS3. Truly nostalgic.

[@RigsLife]

Now this is what I call proper RPG Music. Oh my god this is a masterpiece.

[@DerrickMcConnell]

This never gets old.

[@ceon4499]

This music is so lush and beautiful it makes me want to cry.

[@9volt65]

"I'm through talking to you!" "Hello there!" "I saw a mudcrab by the beach yesterday. Nasty little creatures." "Goodbye!" "Hmph."

[@lalolara123]

I have always loved this song. I used to play this game with my cousins for hours every day. Its funny because this would always play when we were committing burglary in the Imperial City. The funniest part was when the person we would pickpocket woke up, this song would repeat right after killing them! As if nothing happened! haha but it was always funnier with the guards!! Haha good times...

[@ThaReaper319]

Stop! You violated the law! Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence. Your stolen goods are now forfeit.

[@Inic]

Well met!

[@mountainman4987]

This song made me want to literally go into the game and stay there! Like the movie Tron!

[@ibrahimsanl6379]

this song stabs my heart.

[@30secondstomarscam]

this game is unbeliveable, i love it so much lol

[@AuD1os0nIC]

i remember hearing this while going shopping in oblivion! :D

[@anarathaminsawthecitygiver9569]

One of the best songs in the whole elder scrolls series...

[@MoreMallards]

The song that plays in my head when I've arrived in a city/town

[@KoningArjen]

It's great to see that this game is still living in our minds, even after a long time, this is a game that deserves to be reminded for a long time.

[@ReXaZz]

I remember hearing this music on the market district while buying some armor and pots to continue my journey and it actually feels like I'm living there in Cyrodiil, man it takes you back to those old days playing this game and you feels like living in another life

[@rasheedalloy44]

Soo beautiful...I shall never forget the Elder Scrolls.

[@warlockdruid]

man this song is amazing

[@starseed_Wanderer]

This music consumes me, it brings me to nature. Have to ponder over such a wonderful thought. The music washes over me, it brings me courage. This is the music of the Gods.

[@Tr3mA06]

Why does nostalgia creep the back of my head while listening to this great song? Ah.. the memories of playing this game a few years back.. gives me the chills and memories just listening to it!

[@vexec15]

So many good times with this game... will never forget them

[@youhavenoprivacyandownnoth8289]

When you're keeping watch and need to shit.

[@Beves640]

this reminds me of walking through the imperial market district in the afternoon... so relaxing and beautiful

[@iamcamski]

2006 was a great year.

[@DrakeCaliburn]

And no one can forget the epicness that Shivering Isles offered us. Please come back, or I'll pluck your eyes out!

[@renatetuisl1171]

Loved this soundtrack so much that I even listened to it during my WoW gameplay, Vanilla to WotLK. I also remember a friend & I trying this game out when taking a break from WoW and it left us in awe. Sadly; obviously, we were involved in something else at the time or we would have spent a ton of time in Oblivion. This soundtrack never gets old, one of the best I've heard in gaming to date. Great times... Bethesda were huge at the time & WoW was in it's peak. Lately I've returned to TES5; but have thought about making up lost time in TES4, since I quit WoW a long time ago back in '14 (cataclysm started my decline).

[@millionhera22]

i have played this game 3 years now...i havent done all guests or dicovered all places. this game is amazing...its another world

[@Griffo1709]

Oblivion wouldnt been much without this music. Thanks Jeremy Soule.

[@starseed_Wanderer]

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. A master piece of composition, Elder scrolls has the best soundtrack, by all means it does.

[@viniciusvyller9458]

I love Bach, Vivaldi, Wagner and Strauss II, and you may call me mediocre or a nostalgic fool, but these masters never created something as beautiful as the first 47 seconds of Watchman's Ease.

[@theTuBBiEBuBBiE]

EVERY time i listen to all of these soundtracks i go and play oblivion later on.. just too many memories. 11 11 11 :D

[@ainaarinjsh]

These pieces will always have tremendous sentimental value to me, and I'm sure also to any non-deaf person who has played this amazing game.

[@dragoniguana]

Best music in all the Elder Scrolls games. And the Elder Scrolls games have damn good music.

[@flurble33]

Same dude! I remember all i had played were a few small PS2 games and then to go from them to Oblivion was like being unchained. I wish i could play it for the first time again, it lasted months.

[@sscamaro9144]

Amazing game!! 180 hours put in to it back in the day

[@12alexdavis34]

Everyone talking about Oblivion and Skyrim, saying how Oblivion is better because it had a magical feel to it that can't be replaced, it's just nostalgia, when the next Elder Scrolls comes out I'll see these comments on Skyrim soundtrack videos. Although, Oblivion was the first RPG I played and there are so many great memories that come along with this music, I went into it with an open mind and played it without tactics or power leveling, it was, and still is a beautiful game.

[@getwilly1]

Im so glad that someone can put that into words. Thats something ive been trying to explain for so long but couldnt fine the words to do it :). Same for me, it was my first Elder Scrolls game.

[@rasheedalloy44]

I started with Morrowind,but personally Oblivion is my favourite,it just has a unique feel to it's world,Glad you love The Elder Scrolls games,this series is one of the most unique and amazing you'll find out there.

[@softwordshavepower]

Both Skyrim and Oblivion have their own separate atmospheres and they're both beautiful❤️

[@MrTheSade]

I can remember going into the Leyawiin guard watch tower and hearing the guards say, "It's your shift now. I'm on my break." with this song playing in the background. I had so many good times in Oblivion it's hard to not say what one of these songs reminds me of.

[@theeverchosen1504]

I want to go back to 2008 when I hear this!

[@RealityByteClips]

Best most soothing relaxing comforting song in the game. 5 star.

[@jorgeegrojjorge]

I have no words, this game is the best ever, just everything I wished an rpg had this game have it, glad tosee more fnas of this gorgeous piece of art!!!

[@BobbyMakepeace]

I feel like i'm in Bruma right now.. with all this snow we've been having

[@KRAJJI96]

0:50 is the best part. it just brings me back to wandering the streets of the great city and talking to all the people and just being able to sleep in comfort :)

[@maipenlaikap]

I don't think I will ever like a soundtrack to any video game or film more than I like that of TES: IV Oblivion. It is just so evocative

[@S3VeR]

the melody is so stunning... just wonderful :-)

[@Alkaline524]

Oblivion music honestly brings tears to my eyes :,)

[@PuggetronicsPioneer]

I feel old, wow

[@asomelord]

0:48 "Hey guys, wanna hear my fantasy cover of Great Big Sea's When I'm Up (I can't get down)

[@VinzZissou78]

I played Oblivion the other night after like 3 years of not playing it, it was like visiting an old neighborhood. I didn't even play quests or fight anyone, I just visited all of the towns, landmarks, etc and just reminisced about the events that took place when that world was new to me. I love Skyrim, but it didn't have the same effect on me that Oblivion did.

[@Horsaz]

omg, sutch wonderful flashbacks. When I head the Skyrim remixed verison of this one, I seriously cried of the happiness.

[@snapblink]

One of my most favourite soundtracks of all time :)

[@capperz412]

"Hey there!" "How are you?" "I've been better." "Good to know!" "I heard that Daedra worship has become increasingly prevelent in Summerset Isle" "I've heard others say the same." "Goodbye!" *COUGH*

[@Skeltered]

capperz412 exactly

[@andens1]

This song brings back many good oblivion memories, even from when i first played the game :)

[@Darkboy2525]

The best game ever made still, and the music does fit perfecly to the genius game it self !

[@bratplapper]

---In oblivion, I once was falling off a high place and about to die, and I threw a shield below myself and used my mysticism to pull it towards me mid-fall, which halted my fall and saved me in the process. Its this freedom that often makes a videogame so great, and we can argue that's being lost here.

[@078matthijs]

Ahh memories, I just get the chills from this, this is truly the best game ever made. I cannoit wait for 11.11.11!

[@Avalanche341]

Reminds me of the loading screens.... And how the music never pauses. Entering a new area, or pausing and loading a new file. The music is constant. I loved that aspect of the game.

[@aaoppe]

My favorite track by far. Takes me back, sneaking through the streets of Imperial City.

[@hand_of_doom]

My favorite song from the game. Nice memories playing as a khajiit thief doing the thieves guild questline.

[@mithrandir5627]

this is beyond masterpiece

[@starseed_Wanderer]

The music brings nature and humans love together. It stops fearless ones in thier tracks, leaving the fearfull ones fearless. It binds our true spiritual divine being, a travellers spree. A jungle walk. The maternal mother calls us, we shall all live in peace. No war, no hatred. stay away from danger. Thanks. W567

[@benengel4270]

0:24 is my favorite part. A cautious reprieve from the beautiful and unforgiving land of Cyrodil.

[@SplendidFellow]

This track and "Town Day 8" from Skyrim are the best freaking music pieces in the entire world. Oblivion still takes the cake as far as soundtrack, but Skyrim had it's moments.

[@brabb555]

Exactly, I actually put more time in Skyrim than Oblivion, but not in terms of landscape. I loved Oblivion's atmosphere. It was amazing, and those forests/mountains... I miss them.

[@GriiiiiiinD]

The first play through is always the most magical.

[@hai31]

Remind me how fun it was while running as fast as a black horse courier's horse from Anvil to Skingrad, the road there was such beautiful it made me fall into a dream. And when i wake up, i saw myself was running into the wall outside Skingrad the whole time

[@Strelok473]

So incredebly beautiful

[@WSOSOCCER]

Im gonna pass this game onto my kids......so epic and the music is historical!!!

[@078matthijs]

Ahh, the nostalgia... My first game on the xbox 360 and still the best one I've played. The music in it contributed to that. Sometimes I go back and play it, the only downpart was the drop of framerate, other than that it was/is perfect.

[@ChrisOwen96]

this gives me goosebumps. powerful soundtrack

[@wittyag]

Best song from Oblivion. Easily top 5 in the series.

[@Ja-mbi]

Curious what you think is better than this. This is no 1 for me

[@JazminGutierrez6694]

This is my all time favorite game

[@Pestrew]

When i listen to this i always expect the sound of a door opening or someone shouting the word "HAIL".idk i think its just me

[@Critiqu3]

If the wilderness had this music playing in the background all the time, I would get lost more often.

[@Cherabreena]

There are some strikingly similar passages of this soundtrack to the Guild Wars Prophecies soundtrack. I love it!

[@Unwin85]

No game has ever got me as hooked as this one, not played the earlier ones i remember i first did it and didnt know how to do it and got mad and almost traded it back in, then i tried again and understood it and was hooked, i have never ever played a game as stunning and in depth simply awe-inspiringly brilliant Cant wait for TES V, when are they gonna put us out of our misery and announce whats going on? ive looked all over the web but cant find anything