@@ABardsBallad As for runs maybe beating the main quest as a dremora churl? Black robes and dremora mace only. You can use sigil stones for enchanting and you can only loot oblivion gates. Pump up the difficulty and it could be fun.
Possible challenge idea: Paranoia quest, decline to help Glarthir so he goes to try to kill all the targets on his own with his axe, and you have to keep him alive long enough that he succeeds in killing all three. You can use any kind of buffs on him but cannot attack/aggro anyone fighting him.
Thought for a second it was a new JBN video, but was glad to see you are getting inspired by his content! Looking forward to see more content like this along your lore vids! 🥳
Something I really enjoy about your videos (no hate to other creators) is your voice and the way you speak as well as your very minimal editing that doesn’t take away from the video content itself. It’s relaxing and nice to listen to. I find some other RUclipsrs have really good video ideas, but the way they speak and edit their videos will end up annoying me to the point where it is pretty much unwatchable for me. I like putting your videos on a playlist before I go to bed because they’re interesting but still chill and relaxing.
I really appreciate the support and the kind words! :) I’ve heard a lot of people comment that these videos are in their nighttime rotation, so I try and accommodate that in the vids!
Possibly something similar to what Nerbit does for his challenges. Maybe it could be "Can you beat Oblivion's Arena as Robin Hood?" or something like that. Tons of his challenge runs are him trying to beat games as fictional characters and real historical figures (such as Abraham Lincoln).
I recently started watching JBN and I believe watching your morrowind videos are the main reason RUclips ever recommended him to me, so thank you and also thanks for the great content!
I really appreciate the support! :) I’m glad RUclips’s recommending all of the Elder Scrolls channels to everyone! A great way to network and exposure!
That's funny I watch Just background Noise and A bard's ballad videos as soon as I see them. Its an instant "like then fullscreen"! Thank you for making and sharing your videos with us!!
This is awesome, maybe a suggestion could be could a beggar complete the fighters guild, using only your fists and the rags on your diseased back. Love your content man!
I had a lot of fun doing it! I’m really glad you enjoyed it! I actually really love your idea! This one coupled with TDB no kill challenge are definitely my next ones!
Ha. Just Background Noise got me into Morrowind, which got me into watching your Oblivion playthroughs. It's always fun to see based people following based people. Never fails. I swear.
Wait. Oblivion and a challenge run? Hell yeah! ❤ I've always wondered, can you beat the Dark Brotherhood quest line while sneaking, as in you cannot come out of sneak. For rules, I think they only time it is okay is to talk to NPCs and sleep.
28:21 one of my favorite lines in oblivion, because the answer to it (or at least one of them) subtly hints that crime is why we’re in jail at the beginning of the game
man I love Oblivion's Arena and the whole aesthetic of it. back when I still played oblivion I used to make new characters just to play through the Arena questline over and over.
First lines subliminally saying I seen this guys content and I’m gonna steal it 🤪 fair play though algorithm putting you on my feed after I been subbed to JBN so it worked
Good stuff here. I did a Sorcerer build once with the atronach birth sign, farming sigil stones with spell absorption/reflection. I don’t think I have ever made a more broken build. 100% spell absorption/reflection, along with a massive base magicka pool - every magicka based fight was laughably easy.
That was really interesting. Never over the years of play ever thought of doing this. That was awesome. I've always used congeration 😊 my favorite field. Other than alchemy and archery. 😂 That was fun!!👍
I’m always willing to consume more “Can you beat” videos from different creators lol. How about a Bandit run? Use only bandit gear (Leather armor, iron weapons) and be wanted in every town, complete a quest line of your choosing!
@@ABardsBallad hell yeah man, him or nerbit, or even darkloredash would all be channels I'd love to see a collab with. Seeing your channel grow so quickly, knowing I've been here since 10k, is crazy.
The conjured skamps are so damn op and one of the best spells you can buy in oblivion cost wise. I use it for almost every character I play. Would love to see you beat the Dark Brotherhood without killing anyone
This was fun. I have an idea for a sequel. Play a large heavy armour (with large puldrons) melee specialist character called Ray Lewis. You can only play defensive (so never can you start a fight, only respond though dialogue to antagonise someone into a fight is fine), never be stealthy (alert 52) and try to go as far as you can in the Dark Brotherhood quest line 😂
TBF conjurers don’t have illusion spells because NPCs don’t have the AI to use them effectively (and most don’t affect the player). Its more of a design/game mechanic thing than anything to do with the class.
@@ABardsBallad speaking of challenges, my sibling and I did one where we had to come up with a build for the other person and see how far we'd get using that build.
I have an idea for challenge. No battle skills dark brotherhood line. Possible no op items aswel :) So it's gotta be something like: merchant, speechcraft, lockpick, athletics, acrobatics, alchemy, armorer. Also I'm pretty curious is it possible to do entire game with minimum magic skills and rely by far the most on hand to hand. How to deal with ghosts and high level opponents while playing hand to hand?
Before even watching it, yes do more like this they're great. (Space reserved for after viewing) at midpoint, I think you should do a Dr Strange Master of the Mystic Arts (all non damage magic) goal: defeat Mannimarco. Restrictions: cant use any custom spells
Conjuration is quite op in oblivion, especially in higher difficulties, at which point in the max difficulty it becomes practically necessary to not die even at some creatures that are usually pathetically weak, like mud crabs and rats, this happens since your summoned creatures scale with the difficulty as well, making them exempt from both the debuffs of taking x6 damage from other creatures and dealing 1/6 damage on other creatures that the higher difficulty gives to the player.
After seeing him get blasted by a scamp, Im starting to think the level ten legend the grey prince isn't as strong as he's made out to be Also, here's an idea I came up with that might be fun to try out: first, gather up as many followers as possible. They can be summons, faction followers like adoring fan and mages guild members, as well as quest related followers like martin and Ulrich leland. Once you have everyone together, crank up the difficulty and see if you can get through one of the harder dungeons or quests in the game
Next challenge: Skyrim, stay at level 1, you can use all that you want, only not god mod VS Bear. Then second one VS Troll. Hehehe. Thats should be good one
What if you tried to complete the thieves guild without Sneaking (using the skill specifically) or using Invis/Chameleon? I'm not well versed enough to know if its even possible, but it could be an interesting run through?
Oblivion co-op in the live tab would be fun and great on off-days. 2-3 hours of Oblivion shenanigans with different mods (streamer friendly)., like trying to do some horror mods like Into the Void. What mod manager do you lot use?
If you're going to do challenge runs you should just keep a save at the end of the tutorial area. You can completely change your character before you leave the sewers so for any further runs you don't need to do the tutorial. Just save yourself time.
Funnily enough, the Difficulty slider only influences the damage you receive/give and not your summons, which means this challenge might actually be doable on max difficulty.
In my experience summon clanfer is the most useful for arena matches as it is very aggressive and does a lot of damage without being too taxing on magika.
Have you thought about doing any playthorughs with oblivion mods? It’s been a decade since I’ve looked at them, but I’m sure there’s some story ones you could play as your main character.
I just finished a playthrough of pure conjuration. Clannfear was the best non-master summon as far as time/damage/health/AI. And I found that there absolutely was not a direct correlation between gold/magic cost and quality of summon, at least within each tier. Lots just had a shitty skillset or their AI sucked and they wouldn't attack enough. The journeyman clannfear was better than most expert and master summons.
Oh hell yeah, you two should collab, my two favorite elder scrolls RUclipsrs.
I really like his content! Definitely a cool way to help keep hype around the games! He also seems like a cool dude!
@@ABardsBallad As for runs maybe beating the main quest as a dremora churl? Black robes and dremora mace only. You can use sigil stones for enchanting and you can only loot oblivion gates. Pump up the difficulty and it could be fun.
Yeah, I was thinking about that, I think it would be a good match
How do you have Lucian next to your name. Is this how the dark brotherhood recruit nowdays?
I'd be able to fall asleep to the videos twice as well
31:32 "Save the world. My final message. Goodbye."
😂😂😂 the hero we don’t deserve but the hero we needed
Possible challenge idea: Paranoia quest, decline to help Glarthir so he goes to try to kill all the targets on his own with his axe, and you have to keep him alive long enough that he succeeds in killing all three. You can use any kind of buffs on him but cannot attack/aggro anyone fighting him.
Holy that’s a crazy good idea 😂😂😂 I really like it actually! Definitely going to have to try it out!!
Love this idea
I like this idea too! Maybe you could turn the paranoia notch up a bit by making your character look like Glarthir too! Lol
Curious what happens
Great idea would love to see it and I gotta try it out myself. If I would add anything to the challenge I would set the difficulty meter to max.
Yes please! JBN and you make amazing content. I’d love to see more challenges! Great job. Also your fallout content is amazing too!
I’m really glad to hear it! I’ve gotta hop back on fallout very soon! JBN makes some amazing content!
Shout out to just background noise. Thats awesome you keep up with him too! Btw, i love your morrowind content. Very well composed.
I really appreciate it! :) yeah he makes some amazing content over there!!
Awwww heck yeah. Love JBN's videos, and challenge runs in general! They can make a familiar game feel fresh again. :)
He has awesome content! Really love his work! Absolutely! Playing oblivion like this made me feel a whole new passion for it!
I cannot wait to devour this video once I’m home. What a treasure trove this channel is!
Cheers from Texas
sup neighbor, I am from oklahoma.
I really appreciate the kind words and support! I really hope you enjoy it and cheers from Toronto Canada!
Woohoo, fellow Texan here, born and raised in Austin, how about you?
The marshawn lynch bit is so freaking funny. Killed it with this one, bard!
"you KNOW we live in a SOCIETY when the mages guild banned Necromancy" -The Jonkler
Too true, what a society to be a part of
Thought for a second it was a new JBN video, but was glad to see you are getting inspired by his content! Looking forward to see more content like this along your lore vids! 🥳
😂😂😂 just inspired by! Yeah he has some amazing content over there!
Something I really enjoy about your videos (no hate to other creators) is your voice and the way you speak as well as your very minimal editing that doesn’t take away from the video content itself. It’s relaxing and nice to listen to. I find some other RUclipsrs have really good video ideas, but the way they speak and edit their videos will end up annoying me to the point where it is pretty much unwatchable for me. I like putting your videos on a playlist before I go to bed because they’re interesting but still chill and relaxing.
I really appreciate the support and the kind words! :) I’ve heard a lot of people comment that these videos are in their nighttime rotation, so I try and accommodate that in the vids!
Possibly something similar to what Nerbit does for his challenges. Maybe it could be "Can you beat Oblivion's Arena as Robin Hood?" or something like that. Tons of his challenge runs are him trying to beat games as fictional characters and real historical figures (such as Abraham Lincoln).
That’s a really cool idea! I really like it actually! Definitely a lot of fun potential for fictional and historical run throughs!
I like the idea. For you, just pick a character in lore or outside it and play it. @@ABardsBallad
Just Background Noise mentioned 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣 hope you two talk over video, seems like a dope dude
He makes some really great content! Would definitely love to be in talks with him one day!
I love challenge runs, so it's cool to see you taking one on! Looking forward to watching this later!
It was honestly really fun to do! I really hope you enjoy it!
I recently started watching JBN and I believe watching your morrowind videos are the main reason RUclips ever recommended him to me, so thank you and also thanks for the great content!
I really appreciate the support! :) I’m glad RUclips’s recommending all of the Elder Scrolls channels to everyone! A great way to network and exposure!
Love the idea of you doing challenge runs, I really look forward to more
I’m really glad to hear it! I had lots of fun, 100% more to come!!
That's funny I watch Just background Noise and A bard's ballad videos as soon as I see them. Its an instant "like then fullscreen"! Thank you for making and sharing your videos with us!!
This is the most American Elder Scrolls video I've ever seen and I love it so much. Look forward to seeing what other content you put out!
I love this, Just Background Noise and you are my two favourite Bethesda youtubers. Please do more stuff like this!
The NFL Lynch references were hilarious 😂 Derrick Henry would be a good one too! Lol
Great vid as always!!
😂😂 I’m glad someone could appreciate it as much as I did! 😂😂 I appreciate the support! :)
Been watching for a while, your style of commentary and editing is damn near perfect for these type of videos, good job puttin out quality content
Always love a good challenge run. Keep them going!
Yessss!!! I love JBN and I hope this becomes a series!
He makes some awesome content! It definitely will be a new thing for this channel!
If you want another level 1 challenge, do the Dark Brotherhood questline at level 1, as Gogron (no stealth Orc barbarian)
Oh hell yeah, I recommended JBN and you commented saying you'd check him out. I'm glad you took my recommendation 😁
Yes! Some excellent content and great work he’s doing over there!!
This is awesome, maybe a suggestion could be could a beggar complete the fighters guild, using only your fists and the rags on your diseased back. Love your content man!
I had a lot of fun doing it! I’m really glad you enjoyed it! I actually really love your idea! This one coupled with TDB no kill challenge are definitely my next ones!
Good video! Welcome to the challenge run club!
Fantastic, loved this type video. Hope more stuff similar comes out!
Dude... I was just thinking you should do challenge stuff. Keep em coming.
Great timing! 😂 I really enjoyed myself! I hope you liked the video and definitely a lot more of it to come!
Ha. Just Background Noise got me into Morrowind, which got me into watching your Oblivion playthroughs. It's always fun to see based people following based people. Never fails. I swear.
That’s awesome! Life works in circles like that 😂 based comment 👌
Glad to see creators inspired and wholesome, so innocent but glad to hear someone just say it outright
You and just background noise are my favorite dudes to listen to at work glad you also have good taste
Great video, I subscribed and look forward to watching more of your content sir.
The oblivion character generation is like nothing else and I’m glad you took full advantage of it 😂
😂😂😂 I love it when people can appreciate the character art in oblivion 👌 😂 it’s my favourite part of the game tbh
Great video couldn't find something to watch while I eat till I came across your vid ❤
Eyyyy, another JBN fan :D
He does great stuff over there! Some really awesome content!
Wait. Oblivion and a challenge run? Hell yeah! ❤
I've always wondered, can you beat the Dark Brotherhood quest line while sneaking, as in you cannot come out of sneak.
For rules, I think they only time it is okay is to talk to NPCs and sleep.
28:21 one of my favorite lines in oblivion, because the answer to it (or at least one of them) subtly hints that crime is why we’re in jail at the beginning of the game
JBN is a goat and you're slowly getting there!
please keep this up! going thru oblivion content withdrawals ;-;
"I heard a rumor that you're an idiot. Any truth to that?" 🤣
That’s the real GOAT of Oblivion 😂
I'm really glad challenge runs in elderscroll games is becoming a community norm.
man I love Oblivion's Arena and the whole aesthetic of it. back when I still played oblivion I used to make new characters just to play through the Arena questline over and over.
First lines subliminally saying I seen this guys content and I’m gonna steal it 🤪 fair play though algorithm putting you on my feed after I been subbed to JBN so it worked
Watched the vid and confirmed. There are levels to this. Basically, you are a mud crab and JBN is the Dohvakiin.
Good stuff here. I did a Sorcerer build once with the atronach birth sign, farming sigil stones with spell absorption/reflection. I don’t think I have ever made a more broken build. 100% spell absorption/reflection, along with a massive base magicka pool - every magicka based fight was laughably easy.
That sounds like an amazing time 😂 I’ll have to try it one day!
That's my current playthrough. I'm also a vampire. Now I resist normal weapons too
That was really interesting. Never over the years of play ever thought of doing this. That was awesome. I've always used congeration 😊 my favorite field. Other than alchemy and archery. 😂 That was fun!!👍
I’m really glad you enjoyed it! :) I had tons of fun doing it! Yeah idk why I never used it before, honestly such a fun school of magic to work with!!
Bro, the Marshall lynch scamp comment had me rolling
I’m glad you found them as funny as I did 😂 that scamp had a meeeaaan follow through 😂
I’m always willing to consume more “Can you beat” videos from different creators lol. How about a Bandit run? Use only bandit gear (Leather armor, iron weapons) and be wanted in every town, complete a quest line of your choosing!
I appreciate the support! I really like that idea! It’s really interesting and can be really creative! I’m going to add that one to the list!! :)
JBN is a pretty solid choice, you and him doing a collab would be cool.
He makes some great content! Would be an awesome collab for sure!
@@ABardsBallad hell yeah man, him or nerbit, or even darkloredash would all be channels I'd love to see a collab with. Seeing your channel grow so quickly, knowing I've been here since 10k, is crazy.
My favourite youtube channel.
Any content from Bard is a good day 🎉
I really appreciate it! :) I hope you enjoy this one! :)
The conjured skamps are so damn op and one of the best spells you can buy in oblivion cost wise. I use it for almost every character I play. Would love to see you beat the Dark Brotherhood without killing anyone
For real! They were too useful to conjure up! 😂 that’s a great idea! Definitely one that I’ll be doing soon!
my man did a goober thing. so proud of yah
😂😂😂 being a goober is really fun as it turns out!!
Just background noise mentioned 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Love your videos!
oh god now there's two insane clowns obsessed with dead corpses around cyrodiil
😂😂😂 conjurer is but a simple conjurer 👀👀👀
This was fun. I have an idea for a sequel.
Play a large heavy armour (with large puldrons) melee specialist character called Ray Lewis. You can only play defensive (so never can you start a fight, only respond though dialogue to antagonise someone into a fight is fine), never be stealthy (alert 52) and try to go as far as you can in the Dark Brotherhood quest line 😂
TBF conjurers don’t have illusion spells because NPCs don’t have the AI to use them effectively (and most don’t affect the player). Its more of a design/game mechanic thing than anything to do with the class.
If you do more of these challenges, hotkeys will your best friend.
Absolutely! I’m horrible when it comes to keyboard gaming so I fumble around a lot with finger placement 😂
@@ABardsBallad speaking of challenges, my sibling and I did one where we had to come up with a build for the other person and see how far we'd get using that build.
I have an idea for challenge. No battle skills dark brotherhood line. Possible no op items aswel :)
So it's gotta be something like: merchant, speechcraft, lockpick, athletics, acrobatics, alchemy, armorer.
Also I'm pretty curious is it possible to do entire game with minimum magic skills and rely by far the most on hand to hand. How to deal with ghosts and high level opponents while playing hand to hand?
I love that idea! Definitely am going to have to do it! :) I was even thinking about this idea in the car today! 😂
Lore guy challenge run let's gooooo
Lore guy 😂 I love it! I hope you enjoyed it!
Block is a combat skill
Before even watching it, yes do more like this they're great.
(Space reserved for after viewing) at midpoint, I think you should do a Dr Strange Master of the Mystic Arts (all non damage magic) goal: defeat Mannimarco. Restrictions: cant use any custom spells
Haha I appreciate it! Yes please let me know your thoughts afterwards!
Oh i would love to watch. Can you beat oblivon dark brotherhood without killing anyone.
100% love it! Was just thinking about this earlier and how it would be a great idea!
10:27 lol she was definitely hitting you from afar lmao holy pin coushin
Your character is absolutely beautiful.
Conjurer extends his thanks 😂
Scamp shoulder barge MVP
It really did do all of the heavy lifting lol
@ABardsBallad Oblivion has some of the goofiest creature attack animations. I still remember the trolls straight up kick you
Hell YES! Let's gooooo!!!
I hope you enjoy it! This one was lots of fun!!
I would definitely tell this like a story instead of a play by play, but whatever works for you!
I’ve already done detailed videos for each faction! For the challenges, I just want to focus on my experience!
Goddamn that character is nuked. He can breathe underwater.
😂😂😂 I was thinking that he looked a lot like a fish lol
You should do lvl 1 hand to hand only in the arena! It’s extremely hard!
Haha that’s definitely something I’d be interested in! Certainly sounds hard!
10/10 thumbnail 😂😂
😂 conjurer thanks you!!
@ABardsBallad
Great video, too! I enjoyed the commentary! The scamp was totally 😈💪💪
Man conveniently left out the part where he bought Skittles before each fight to send his scamp into Beast Mode but it’s ok 😊
I appreciate you making your character look like a freak.
Dark brotherhood with illusion magic only.
Would you ever make videos on Skyrim I absolutely love your content and watch it every day
I for sure would! They’ll be coming sooner than later! :)
Conjuration is quite op in oblivion, especially in higher difficulties, at which point in the max difficulty it becomes practically necessary to not die even at some creatures that are usually pathetically weak, like mud crabs and rats, this happens since your summoned creatures scale with the difficulty as well, making them exempt from both the debuffs of taking x6 damage from other creatures and dealing 1/6 damage on other creatures that the higher difficulty gives to the player.
I can never make my characters so attractive 😤 😩 it is so beautiful 😍
After seeing him get blasted by a scamp, Im starting to think the level ten legend the grey prince isn't as strong as he's made out to be
Also, here's an idea I came up with that might be fun to try out: first, gather up as many followers as possible. They can be summons, faction followers like adoring fan and mages guild members, as well as quest related followers like martin and Ulrich leland. Once you have everyone together, crank up the difficulty and see if you can get through one of the harder dungeons or quests in the game
😂 I’m starting to think the same tbh!! And I really like that idea, definitely going to have to jot that one down!
My suggestion is trying the entirety of Umbacano's questline as a pacifist or only level 1. (Or any other restrictions that would be fun.)
That’s a really interesting idea!! I’ll have to add it to the list! :)
Next challenge: Skyrim, stay at level 1, you can use all that you want, only not god mod VS Bear. Then second one VS Troll. Hehehe. Thats should be good one
Haha I like it! Sounds really interesting!!
What if you tried to complete the thieves guild without Sneaking (using the skill specifically) or using Invis/Chameleon?
I'm not well versed enough to know if its even possible, but it could be an interesting run through?
Try the Thieves guild quest line. I imagine that would be very interesting at lvl 1
Yeah I was thinking something like thieves guild, combat only / I have to kill everyone or something of the sorts 😂
Oblivion co-op in the live tab would be fun and great on off-days. 2-3 hours of Oblivion shenanigans with different mods (streamer friendly)., like trying to do some horror mods like Into the Void. What mod manager do you lot use?
If you're going to do challenge runs you should just keep a save at the end of the tutorial area. You can completely change your character before you leave the sewers so for any further runs you don't need to do the tutorial. Just save yourself time.
Very true! I didn’t even think about that, appreciate the advice! :)
aw hell nah its the jinkler in oblivion
He’s here and he’s ready
Challenge idea: anything with vampirism
You could try the Thieves guild or Dark Brotherhood quest line without stealth
Funnily enough, the Difficulty slider only influences the damage you receive/give and not your summons, which means this challenge might actually be doable on max difficulty.
Beast Mode run
Not gonna lie, this challenge gives off Mitten Squad vibes just without Paul's style of commentary
In my experience summon clanfer is the most useful for arena matches as it is very aggressive and does a lot of damage without being too taxing on magika.
Have you thought about doing any playthorughs with oblivion mods? It’s been a decade since I’ve looked at them, but I’m sure there’s some story ones you could play as your main character.
Summarized rules 4:27
Scamp the GOAT no doubt
This kind of content is good too
10:40 bro tries to block an arrow
Ridiculous farts coming out of me today
Can you kill every count/countess without losing bounty?
I just finished a playthrough of pure conjuration. Clannfear was the best non-master summon as far as time/damage/health/AI. And I found that there absolutely was not a direct correlation between gold/magic cost and quality of summon, at least within each tier. Lots just had a shitty skillset or their AI sucked and they wouldn't attack enough. The journeyman clannfear was better than most expert and master summons.