TES4: Oblivion Analysis | A Quick Retrospective

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Channel: PatricianTV

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Length: 720min 0sec (43200 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 01 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/MasamuneTrigger]

“A quick analysis”

12 hour video

Considering the number of hours one can put into this game, I suppose it checks out

[u/morcovuldelicios]

Oblivion was better than Skyrim and I'll proudly die on this hill.

More memorable characters, better written questlines, far better city/region variety, better RPG features.

[u/[deleted]]

I had always hoped Bethesda would release their original, Un-nerfed Radiant AI for the game.

I want to experience one dog doing something stupid and setting off a chain of events that makes the entire city break out into a huge fight to the death.

I don’t understand why they wouldn’t release that code and let modders put it into the game so we can experience their true vision.

[u/snak3eat3r2017]

i love patriciantv, these videos are so well done and well researched. ive watched the morrowind one twice

[u/Dyncommon]

I watched his 8 hour vid about Morrowind while working and I’m hoping this is just as good. The last one was incredible.

[u/TarJack]

Surprised at the hate on long-form commentaries like this here.

• This is a niche. If you don’t like videos like this, that’s great and understandable and there’s plenty else to watch. But as someone who wants to get into a hobby like this and make long-form videos, I completely understand the appeal of not only watching them but creating them.
• YouTube’s algorithm actively promotes longer videos like this one, and actually suppresses videos in a linear series. These videos serve as a series that creators actively don’t want to break up, since it’s been showed that later videos in series tend to not attract as many viewers. But also, it’s just fun to be able to say you made an accomplishment like a twelve-hour video. It’s a hard journey for creators, and a huge effort, but is actively impressive and fun for people like me to watch when we have the time.
• A few people are acting offended that the creator advised viewers to comment on the video their timestamp so they can return to it, as if the creator has some nefarious plan to get boosted to the top of YouTube because of that. Let me tell you that any video on Oblivion nowadays is going to struggle on YouTube regardless of comments because it’s a 15y/o game. If he was trying to game the algorithm, he wouldn’t make an incredibly detailed 12 hour video. It’s not profitable.

Some people here (reddit in general, but especially r/Games ) need to get a grip sometimes. “I don’t like long videos!” Why are you commenting that on a twelve hour video? Do you think that the majority of people who came to these comments agree? I can’t wrap my head around this logic. I don’t like Battlefield, but I don’t go under every post about Battlefield and go “harumph, I don’t like Battlefield, why are you guys posting Battlefield stuff? I don’t like it.”

I understand asking what the appeal is. I understand questioning the audience. But I cannot comprehend coming to the comments to state, as fact: “I don’t like this.” And that being all you offer. Is someone keeping tally? Is there a threshold where if a certain amount of people come to the comments of a post and say “No I don’t like this,” that the post gets deleted and the user banned?

[u/BarfingRainbows1]

FR, this guys content is excellent

The 8 hour madness that was the ES3 review was so entertaining. But it is worth checking our his shorter reviews

[u/Froggmann5]

Makes me question the integrity of the retrospective when he starts off the video stating that he doesn't see ESO as canon and that it breaks existing lore when that simply isn't true. There's a pretty big evolution of the lore in Oblivion that happens in ESO that he's choosing to ignore for the entirety of the video while simultaneously referencing evolution of Oblivions lore in games like Skyrim regardless of its status as a sequel.

[u/hopecanon]

I actually was that crazy person who watched this entire thing all in one go as it premiered with the only breaks being to get some food and piss.

This video is fucking awesome and for anyone who really loves detailed breakdowns of game mechanics, writing choices, art direction, or hell even just Elder Scrolls behind the scenes info this thing is fucking awesome and i highly recommend watching the Morrowind video this guy made as well.

I don't personally agree with everything he says or every complaint he levies but by god nobody has any right to say this shit was poorly thought out or researched.