What's your favorite side quest? *(Not including factions, daedric prince quests or DLC) Strongest Enemy in Oblivion: kzread.info/dash/bejne/laWA0KSAobeslLQ.html Umbacano Quests in Depth: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZoF5uqtyqq_HYtY.html

@wesnunn4226

2 жыл бұрын

The forlorn watchmen. That was so cool to 13 year old me way back when. On a side note my personal quest on every playthrough is getting fin gleam

@DoomGoodman

2 жыл бұрын

i like the best one.

@kaylawoodbury2308

2 жыл бұрын

No Daedric or factions? Um... Uhhhhhh... I guess it's either The Bloated Float, I also liked the painted world one. All my favorites are Daedric quests, The Dark Brotherhood, or specific quests in the other factions like the Grey Prince one lol.

@madpro7202

2 жыл бұрын

10k subs left and you hit a million. I remember when we were celebrating 100k subs. Where do the years go

@shawnberry760

2 жыл бұрын

Legit question. Do you guys take requests or commissions for character builds? Love your work!

The Hack Dirt quest has so many signs of Lovecraftian stuff it’s great.

@matthewdeguire472

2 жыл бұрын

Even in the name itself. Shadow Over Hackdirt - Shadow Over Innsmouth. Even the town being isolated and having odd looking secret-cult villagers is a direct Innsmouth reference. Such a good quest.

@chazzcoolidge2654

2 жыл бұрын

Speaking of which,who else went to Hackdirt and soul trapped before killing everyone to enchant a new set of armor?

@crazyscotsman9327

2 жыл бұрын

@@chazzcoolidge2654 Honestly I rarely did that quest because the reward wasn't worth much to my characters lol.

@DavidbarZeus1

2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewdeguire472 FudgeMuppet's friend Camel has a detective video all about this quest and the mystery of the Deep Ones. He has a pretty good theory about them

@mkay6915

2 жыл бұрын

The "Deep Ones" in this Quest are also a reference to the "Old Ones" from all the Lovecraft storys

My top 5, in no particular order are: - A Brush With Death - Hackdirt - Aleron Loche (Caught in The Hunt) - Canvas the Castle (the Chorrol castle missing painting) - Order of the Virtuous Blood

@windyninja1143

2 жыл бұрын

I love the order of virtuous blood quest

@twil2

2 жыл бұрын

I was very surprised that A Brush with Death was not on this list. That was such a unique quest.

@tonyanthony5105

2 жыл бұрын

A brush with death es numero uno

@forthexp8649

2 жыл бұрын

A brush with death is a great one, I'd forgotten all about it. Not sure about canvas the castle tho, sorta love-hate. It confused 15 yo me, so i thought surely 30 yo me could best it, and i thought wrong (forgot to find the paint both times lmao)

@THEdaveyorke

2 жыл бұрын

I hated Canvas the Castle, didn't know what to do for it for weeks as I had no idea about there being walkthroughs online at the time. But I did discover that there were such things because of this quest, so I give it a little credit.

By Azura!! I love the quest "Whom Gods Annoy" because it feels so silly leading a squad of passive scamps around lol

@thechanglingprince1853

2 жыл бұрын

They're passive until you hit them while mistaking them with other scamps trying to put the staff back

@themanwithnoname1839

Жыл бұрын

I used the scamps to boost my blade, blunt, and destruction, lmfao, really useful if you ask me

My personal favorite quest is the Pale Pass quest. When I was a kid it took me a long time since there's no map makers and you have to follow the directions of an old journal only to find the orinal authors corpse. I remember being scared because the final page of the journal mentions Trolls in the cave and then stepping outside of the cave onto the long lost Pale Pass. That area leading to the fort had a truly magical atmosphere that I still remember today.

@gwp3368

Жыл бұрын

I liked that quest but the reward is sooo annoying because you can’t throw it out of your inventory (that pissed me of)

@InfernoBlast-th1ot

3 ай бұрын

The place is overrun by Ogres. The soldier who had that diary has a sad story too. Also, that quest gives +4 fame for completing it.

The Dark Brotherhood Murder Party is just a staple. I wish Skyrim drew more from Oblivion Quests

@math_7911

2 жыл бұрын

I know, after the first time I've finished Skyrim I went back to Oblivion because the quests were better.

@Stephen-N

2 жыл бұрын

One of my most played quests, a stand out not just in oblivion but in any game as a fun creative quest 👌👌👌

@TheAwesomeDarkNinja

2 жыл бұрын

@@math_7911 Honestly, Oblivion just has so much charm compared to Skyrim.

@nicobelic9034

2 жыл бұрын

Why didn't they?

@Stephen-N

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicobelic9034 I feel like for skyrim they focused much more on the look of the game and the replay ability (with the random quests and things) and probably ran out of time to flesh out these big quests. Though the quests are great! we probably look back with nostalgia for the older games and think of them as much more than what they were

This game has so much wonderful quests that it's impossible for me to point out top 5, or even top 10.

The Troll quest.. with the painting you go into.. that’s one of my favorites!!

Camelworks did an amazing in depth look into Hackdirt and it seems that the creatures down below might be vampiric monsters from when Molag Baal invaded long ago because of the fissures in the earth

I'm always a fan of "Through a Nightmare Darkly" and "A Brush with Death", but these ones are all great too.

@Undivided_X

2 жыл бұрын

The nightmare one is different from Vaermina's quest? I don't think daedric quests qualify in this category.

@CthulhuianBunny

2 жыл бұрын

@@Undivided_X "Through a Nightmare Darkly" and "Vaermina" are two completely different quests. Remember, the Daedric quests in Oblivion are just named after the princes themselves, not anything unique like in Skyrim. "Through a Nightmare Darkly" is the one that takes place in Bravil where you help an Altmer who's trapped himself in a nightmare with an amulet and you have to conquer four different challenges in order to wake him up. "Vaermina" has you go to tower out in the wilderness guarded by mercenaries and delve into a bunch of strange rooms fighting the occasional enemy, then finally slaying Arkved and reclaiming the Orb of Vaermina. One has you helping someone, the other is a simple hit put out by a daedra.

@Undivided_X

2 жыл бұрын

@@CthulhuianBunny ahh I was mis-remembering it. Thanks so much for reminding me what the quests were.

My first side quest in Oblivion was the one where the store keepers in the Imperial City ask you to find out where the bosmer keeps getting cheap stuff and you end up catching a grave robber! I love how the quests in Oblivion sneak up on you and the outcome can change with your choices. There are also some places in Oblivion with no quest (that I have found) that still have a story, like in Skyrim. The best example I can think of is a little goblin cave just outside the Imperial City's walls (sideways cave) where the first chamber looks like a typical cave, but as you go deeper you stumble on a larger cave where you find flooded ayleid ruins and some tablets that talk about how the inhabitants had accidentally desecrated a shrine to Meridia.

IMO the Umbacano questline is the best in the game, because I always took it as being something you're supposed to do 'over time'. Because you can find an Ayleid ruin right after you leave the sewers and tutorial, where one of the Ten Ancestors is found, meaning that right off the bat you can get up to 500 gold (along with other loot) early on in the game. Then he basically tells you, "Hey, there's more of these, I'll pay you if you find them." And once you bring him a second one, he tells you "Great! Now I know where (up to) 5 more are" which leaves potentially at least 3 you still need to find on your own. Then his next unlocked quest is about the High Fane/Malada, which again you can take at your own pace, he just gives you what help you can, you meet the other fellow working for Umbacano, but otherwise it's more or less up to you to decide. Then regardless of the ending to that quest, the next one is either fast or slow, once again depending on your choice. All along you are also building your 'fame' essentially as a treasure hunter, while gaining loot and whatnot, then of course there's the grand finale. All in all, the questline is one you do over time as you journey throughout Cyrodiil, not something you just 'grind out' right away, since the questline takes you all over the place, but also so does most other ones too. It's nice being able to take a side trip to an Ayleid ruin, before say...going off and getting the Armor of Tiber Septim, or whatever. It helps break up the pacing and keep things more fresh. Plus the rewards are both fitting and powerful, without being overblown.

@MadMamluk88

2 жыл бұрын

This, not to mention it makes you pretty stinking rich.

@TheNN

2 жыл бұрын

@@MadMamluk88 That helps a lot too. Although it kinda varies depending on when you turn them in as to how helpful his money is. Early and mid game, that 500 Gold + other loot can make a massive difference. Late game, not so much.

Finding hackdirt is one of those moments that made Bethesda seems like magicians to me back then - just thinking about the feeling it gave me still gives me flashbacks of the sense of total freedom/open world discovery it gave

I recently started reading H.P Lovecraft's "shadow over insmouth" which the hacksirt quest is based on , short story, can't be more than a 150 pages but it is a frieght of a thing.The Quest itself is a loveely homage and shares more than a handfull of the story elements. Great video !

One of my favorites was one that took me years to find. There’s a little farmhouse south of Kvatch where a guy believes that the sacking of the city is the result of the wrath of a storm antronach living in a nearby cave. It’s a simple quest, but I really liked finding it when I did

Just stared playing again for the 10000th time last night so perfect timing lol

Caught in the hunt was probably one of my favorite quests in IV, shadow over hackdirt is great too. Oblivion just had a way of inviting you into unassuming quests that turn into great multi faceted stories.

I still believe that the "deep one's" from the Hackdirt quest are actually The Sload. I can totally see them manipulating a village for their own gain

@aetherinfuse

2 жыл бұрын

I think of vampires for the following reasons: First up, Sloads live in the shores of the Abecean Sea, too far away from Hackdirt Second, if you go to a crumbled tunnel in the caverns (don't remember exact locstions) you will hear some demonic whispers, and I'm pretty sure Sloads dont sound like that And lastly, when speaking of "they demand blood" I think they mean it in a literal sense. Otherwise they would just get the corpses and Dar-Ma would have already been killed. No, they needed her to be alive so when the vampires arrived, they could feed on her

@adriaanlabout5291

2 жыл бұрын

@@aetherinfuse Like the argonian in Whitterstad (the one in Eastmarch :) !?

@aetherinfuse

2 жыл бұрын

@@adriaanlabout5291 Can you specify? Never heard of that Argonian of even that location. Is from Online?

@PelinalDidNothingWrong

2 жыл бұрын

@@aetherinfuse You make a good point...

@adriaanlabout5291

2 жыл бұрын

@@aetherinfuse Yes it is from Online. let me check the spelling...it's Wittestadr. The quest is 'Right to live'.

A brush with death is probably my favorite side quest not related to to factions, daedric, or DLC but there are a bunch of good ones. That's why I think it's my favorite Elder Scrolls.

I was looking for some fudge muppet videos to eat breakfast to, I started watching the 'nords are dragons' theory when this came out

@FudgeMuppet

2 жыл бұрын

Enjoy your morning binge!

When I first got the manor in Anvil, I remember thinking "no way" - one of the best moments of my time in Cyrodiil

@adhwaezraazkiya_11ips44

2 жыл бұрын

"Damn bro, this is definitely a steal, can't believe they sell an awesome big manor like this for just 5000 gold" -me when i first playing Oblivion and bought the manor

With the Benirus mansion quest Carahil has unique dialogue if you talk to her after you finish the quest. I don't know if Carahil says anything before you kill Lorgren, such as talking to her after Velwyn mentions her but before heading into the mansion, as I've always forgotten to check but I liked how Bethesda thought to include adding this bit of flavour to the quest.

picked up Chillrend yesterday doing a side quest. thought you could only get that in main story. love Oblivion and all it's hidden stuff.

I'm glad you cover Oblivion. Skyrim came too late in my life to have nostalgia

@PrinceIsot

2 жыл бұрын

It came out ten years ago....

Even though it's a guild quest, WHODUNIT? definitely stands out as one of my favorite TES4 quests

I know it's a guild quest but Whodunit is easily one of my favorite quests in Elder Scrolls.

Played every side quest again to make one video. That’s serious dedication

Where Spirits Have Lease is a really cool name for a quest.

This might be a weird request, but can you guys do a guide to how efficient leveling works? I'm kind of a hybrid visual/audio/textile learner, and all the good guides I've found are just text. I like your guy's videos, and frankly your voices and accents. Would an "efficient leveling" guide for oblivion from you guys be too crazy?

@SecretSexSkeleton

2 жыл бұрын

Not exactly the main point here, but I definitely have to jump on the "you 3 definitely have the most pleasant, soothing voices/accents" train. Add in the calm, relaxing soundtracks in the background and the always beautiful scenery of the games, and these videos are easily just as Zen-inducing as they are informative. Perhaps this is the true path to achieving Chim... 🤔

@MizanQistina

2 жыл бұрын

Iam done with "efficient" leveling, it is unrealistic and not fun. The game is broken, play as it is.

@Ptollemios

2 жыл бұрын

@@MizanQistina I'd like to learn how to play without turning the difficulty all the way down, maybe even play it on higher difficulty.

@CharliMorganMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it would

@MizanQistina

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ptollemios I always play normal/default, the slider is always at the middle. The game is broken, difficulty don't mean anything, just play as it is.

"I LIVE AGAIN!" *Gargoyles theme plays*

Haha, Skyrim fishing pole was a very clever slip.

My favourite "quest" is the Bruma Roof Jump Quest. You start off at the castle side of town and jump on every roof without touching anything else. And yes, it is possible!

Super hyped to see how close you guys are to 1 million subscribers! Great video!

I'd love to hear y'all take on the Souls series of games, any or all of em. Thank you all for the content y'all deliver! :)

I looooooove #3. It feels so good to be like "ahhh, the hunters become the hunted now," as you destroy these well equipped opponents through the broken watchtower.

I’ve played through oblivion at least 4-5 times and I never knew about the hack dirt quest awesome video !🤟🏻

@literalfuckingtroll

2 жыл бұрын

One thing Oblivion did right is unique quests. There were so many of them that people with hundreds of hours were still unable to get through them all.

I’m glad to see Shadow Over Hackdirt winning, as it’s definitely my favourite quest in the game.

Bruh, watching this is so bittersweet. Playing this in middle school and the memories of such make me want to cry knowing it's over but being able to look back at the same time makes me so thankful I was able to live in this time.

My favorites are rated in no particular order. An Unexpected Voyage. A Brush With Death. Through a Nightmare, Darkly. Paranoia. Where Spirits Have Lease.

One of my favorites are Whom Gods Annoy and Through The Nightmare Darkly

ngl, oblivion was the first game that got me into pc gaming, and played a huge part in me setting off on the path that turned me into the highly fuctional misanthrope i am today, so i played it an absolute ton, but to this day i did not know you could pay the merc in the treasure hunter quest to turn, amazing content as always lads :D

im replaying oblivion again right now, and i just love the world in this game. there is so much to be discovered that isn't said out loud or shoved down your throat, like i was just walking around and found a camp and saw evidence which amounted to the camp dwellers being canabals. it was very unsettling but just amazing to see and piece together. something you could so easily just walk past and never think twice about. what a phenomenal game

I just found that invisible people questline near the Imperial City for the first time. Despite 3 playthroughs I'm still nowhere near discovering even 1/5th of this Toddamn masterpiece

@cmelton6796

2 жыл бұрын

I just did that one recently too. I grabbed the Fin Gleam helmet for the detect life enchantment because the invisible livestock got in the way.

@freerangepork9072

3 ай бұрын

I was hoping I’d see someone mention that quest, it’s always stuck in my memory after all these years as one of my favorites

This brought back a lot of great memories, thanks guys. I'm going to go play Oblivion again. It's my all time favorite game.

You literally just brought some god od memories from my childhood. Thank you ❤️❤️❤️✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽

Wow three of these took me back to my childhood memories. Two of these I have zero memory of at all, first time seeing them ever. Time to get back into Oblivion!

These quests are way more interesting than anything I've encountered in Skyrim what the hell? Bout to fire up Oblivion.

@risinggamer7423

2 жыл бұрын

Oblivion writing was amazing then skyrim in many quest but both have some generic and some amazing quest .

Hopefully we get a video about the top 5 draugr caves in Skyrim

gosh i loved this list

Bring it on. I am ready

@FudgeMuppet

2 жыл бұрын

Enjoy!

@turin5675

2 жыл бұрын

@@FudgeMuppet it was amazing, as usual. Thank you!

I would love more oblivion videos please! 💜

I haven't played as much Oblivion as I wanted to yet (my first Elder Scrolls was Skyrim) but I have played quest number 3 and damn that was fun!

Best oblivion quest is the dark brotherhood mission in the manor where you have to kill all the guests without any of them knowing your responsible killing them off one by one while they blame each other and finally killing the last guest after they have murdered their fellow guest so satisfying

Through a nightmare darkly is by far my most exciting quest because it was so unexpected and unique

My two favorite quests in Oblivon are a Brush with Death, and the mini questline Through a Nightmare, Darkly. Both are quests to still resign in my mind whenever I think of my favorite missions in gaming because how unique and strange they are. I adore the story and the entire concept of these quests.

A Brush With Death tho 🔥 that would be in my top 5

This was great, I started playing elder scrolls when oblivion came out and knew all of the quests except for the hack dirt quest. Imma bout to fire that game up and binge for a while. Great work Fidgemuppet!

Been playing this recently with mods...and oh boy does it bring back so many memories from when I was a teenager Best Elder Scrolls

EFFICIENT LEVELING GUIDE FOR OBLIVION PLEASE

Out of hundreds of oblivion hours, I don’t think I’ve ever done the ship. But I have had the NPC talking about the screaming from the manor. I like that quest because once it’s done you get a full house for super cheap :D

I remember tere being a series of quests involving twin brothers and their family history. Also, the quest where you help protect a farm from some goblins was fun. Very D&D like in nature.

@connorbarton4308

Жыл бұрын

Both chorrol quests

Thanks...i had to rebuy Oblivion on steam thanks to this hahaha

1st pick was a great choice. I loved the dock district of the imperial city. Definitely one of my favourite places in the entire series. Great spot near there where you could sneak onto a crate to get on a pirate ship. Benirus manor was also super cool. Was my longest TES character's main house. Total city Bosmer that ended up the head of the thieves guild and a master marksman who hung out with Martin Septim on Thirsty Tirdas. Good stuff there.

There's honestly so many good ones that it's hard for me to decide.

I remember stumbling across the Hackdirt quest without knowing anything about it, it was real creepy and I loved it

Love oblivion vids

Caught in the hunt is the best quest because it always makes me think of the Fudgemuppet lets played from back in the day which convinced me to play the game in the first place

I don't have a PC so I'm always astonished by how drastically you can improve the faces with mods in Oblivion. Shit looks really good. I've seen it a ton of times but I'm still floored by it every time.

Yes oblivion again . A Classic .

15 years later and still learning new things about these games.

Sweet a new video, time to mow the yard.

The quest of the shrine of Sheogorath is one of my favorite quests!

I absolutely love the "Where Spirits Have Lease" quest. I always do it ASAP; can't pass up that cheap real estate 😁

This video lit

These were by far some of the greatest quests in the greatest Elder Scrolls game (in my opinion 😉) Fantastic, gents.

Crazy this game was the first most played in the Elder Scrolls series. Been here since the good old days baby

The mission where u enter a painting is also an awesome one

I never knew about the diary entries and could never finish Where Spirits Have Lease, I honestly may go play it right now lol

Hackdirt blew me away. I was versed in Lovecraftean lore at the time so it was extra special for me.

I first played TES games with Skyrim and then picked up ESO recently and I am genuinely impressed with that game. As far as MMOs go, it's so amazing to play an MMO in the Elder Scrolls universe. I'd never interacted with the Ayleids before until ESO and now I might finally just pick up Oblivion just so I can see more of them...

@wowomah6194

2 жыл бұрын

@@regs137 I don't think the Ayleids lived before time started as they left Aldmeris WITH those who became the Altmer and they lived together as Aldmer on Summerset before venturing into the mainland and creating settlements. They didn't exist until the Merethic/Mythic era

10k from 1M subs! My favorite ES game is by far, Oblivion. I have so many hours in this game.

"The real reward is the loot we found on the way." Genius.

Where Spirits Have Lease, Order of the Virtuous Blood, A Brush With Death, Through A Nightmare Darkly, and The Siren's Deception are my favorites from the vanilla game.

My top 5 sidequestS in Elder Scrolls IV Jermane Brothers Corrupt watchman in cheydinhall Bloated Float Mazoga the Orc Leyawin Mages Guild Quest Great video Michael thanks a bunch for the cyrdolliean stories and analysis

I was just searching up old videos yesterday of oblivion timeline lore and was sadly disappointed with the results. Oblivion was my introduction into TES and I've been addicted ever since. Please do more lore into this era and characters please 🙏 obsidian/zenimax really know how to create great roleplaying elements.

Yeah, the very first thing to cross my mind when the video started was the lovely new Argonian friend I made in Corral once upon a time 😏 Interestingly enough, this was actually young me's first indirect introduction to H.P. Lovecraft.

Damn ... I'm now sad.... I never did the Dar Ma quest (at least fully) because I guessed she was dead anyway.

I remember all of these quests.

Ah, Loch'es' family problem. I remember that on the very first version of Oblivion I've played there was that nasty bug that caused CTDs on very specific locations. Temple of Akatosh in Kvatch (down the main questline), catacombs of the Mothpriests monastery (down the Thieves Guild) and few forts. What forts, you may ask? To name a few - the one near the Malacath's statue (quest for te Dark Brotherhood to switch old warlord's medecine to poison), one where Grey Prince's father resided and... you've guessed it. The "hunting grounds" of this quest. At least a part of it.

Whaaaaat?!?! Michael doing an oblivion video?!?!

Hack dirt! Lmao! I loved that one! They should have called it LAUGH dirt for how much fun it was!

*"Last time I was this early, Auriel and Lorkhan were still homies... fun times."*

I have hundreds of hours, easily over 1500 but I still didnt know about 2 and 3. Damn.

I've been playing through Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion recently here are the five of the side quests that I've done on this playthrough. A Brotherhood Betrayed The Siren's Deception Two Sides of the Coin *my fave* Through a Nightmare, Darkly Unfriendly Competition.

Everything BUT the main quest made this one of the best games I've ever played.

Nostalgia.

The Following 5 are my favorites quests in the vanilla game that are not part of any faction or the main quest. And for the following reasons. The ones I seek to do as soon as possible 1 Shadow Over Hackdirt - Atmosphere and build-up. (So immersive as of this point whenever I read Shadow Over Innsmouth, I go "Oblivion did it better") 2 Through A Nightmare, Darkly - Making allies with a member of the Mages' Guild and combating personal demons to do it. 3 Lifting the Vale - Going on a treasure hunt to uncover lore, and an ancient antique. It feels like a Carmen Sandiago quest. 4 Order of the Virtuous Blood - Free money 5 A Brush With Death - Essentially being locked into a van Gogh painted room against very powerful enemies at early levels, testing my mettle early in a beautiful environment.

Hackdirt, Glarthir, the painting one, the one where the ship gets hijacked by bandits, and the gray prince. My list before watching this vid

Your npcs looks sooo good, what do you use?

I’m so excited for the Steam Deck.. just to be able to play Oblivion on the go!!!! Genuinely excited to have that on a handheld console. I’m desperate for Bethesda to capitalise on the switch and release an anthology collection like they did on PC…. Or even just Morrowind/Oblivion

@pvv890

2 жыл бұрын

Wait I didn’t even think of this, now I’m excited,