GAME POW 6.04.09: Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and Sneak King
Posted by Sam Pow on 06.04.2009
In the latest edition of GAME POW, 411’s Sam Pow takes a look at Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, and offers up a ton of fun tips to enhance your gaming pleasure as well as some tips for Sneak King! Check out the full column for all the details!
GAME POW---June 4th, 2009
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Welcome to this newest GAME POW! Due to a trip I'm taking, this will be a shortened version of everyone's favorite column, featuring some fun ideas for Oblivion. Also, I am taking the advice of writer Armando Rodriguez, and Sneak King will be making an appearance in this column.
Let's do this thang!
Sorry for that last sentence. Anyway, my week of gaming has been pretty hectic, writing tons of articles and reviews in preparation of my trip (by the time you are reading this, I should be in Washington DC). I have spent tons of time with Battlestations Pacific, going over game modes again and again. That is an awesome game, in case you didn't know. I also spent some time getting my ass kicked by my brother in PES 09 on Wii, and playing assorted iPhone games for review (among them Zooloretto, an amazing iPhone adaptation of the award winning board game). Anyway, let's boot up the article now.
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Eventually the world of Oblivion, although massive and awesome, will get boring. So here are some great ideas to spice up your Elder Scrolls love life. (Many of these ideas are translated or inspired by the Oblivion UESP)
UNO: Go Hunting
You've all probably attempted chasing down a deer in Oblivion, but how often do you actually catch it? And how often do you use your star wars like force powers to lightning bolt its ass? One fun little game to play is to venture out into the woods with nothing but an iron bow and iron arrows. To enhance the experience, you may wish to remove all clothing but your pants. And no, you are not allowed to lift that last sentence and quote it in other writing. All GAME POWs are Copyright 2009 Sam Pow. Anyway, just venture out on foot until you find a pack of deer. Then chase one down and kill it manly style (manly style being with bow and arrows). After which you can celebrate by taking the venison, which you can do one of three things with:
1. Eat it raw on the spot like the Orc (or any other race) you are.
2. Throw it at the next pack of deer you find, intimidating them and making you look like a crazy deer harasser.
3. Using paint brushes, create a mantle and place the venison above
your fireplace like a trophy.
DOS: Fort Time!
Remember when you were a kid and you would build forts in your living room with blankets and kitchen chairs? Well, thanks to a certain paint brush glitch, you can do the same thing in Oblivion! Using floating brushes, you can create bases for yourself to store items and defend against attack. First, find a cool area you want to make into a fort. This can be a house, cave, or even a town. Now, once you have lots of paint brushes (Google: dupe glitch) make some walls, platforms, and ladders so that your new fort is more fun. I use the brushes to make stairs up to roofs, walls to keep out critters, and of course a horse stable. Here are some other crazy fort ideas:
1. Make walls on each side of the hallways in the Imperial City, and then run around and punch every guard (This is to make sure they follow you and they DO NOT have their bows out). Now jump into your base and watch as huge amounts of soldiers pile up and yell threatening phrases at you. Fun!
2. Find Cropsford and make ladders onto the roofs of the building (well, almost buildings) using paint brushes. You can watch cool goblin battles from up there. Cropsford is also a cool place to make forts themselves, as it is just frames everywhere.
3. Try putting different cool things in your fort. If you can find a brick, you can use these to stack up and make walls. Making paint brush bins and filling them up with skulls looks really evil and adds class (evil class, that is) to your fort. Experiment with different items and find things that look cool.
TRES: Other Random Cool Things
These suggestions couldn't fill an entire section on their own, but are still worth mentioning. Check 'em out:
1. Go mess around at Dive Rock. It's awesome.
2. Try to kill your horse while you are still on it. This can be easily achieved by jumping off large heights.
3. Try to stop arrows shot at you with fruit. Start with a watermelon, and eventually work your way down to a pumpkin, pear, apple, and finally blackberry. Ok, so maybe not the blackberry, but you get the idea. While much more difficult, it is also fun to try and catch arrows out of the air when shot at you. You can even try shooting arrows at yourself.
There are your crazy awesome tips for this week. In other news, 411 games staff writer Armando Rodriguez (of The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly fame) had suggested that I write about Sneak King in this week's column, and who am I to reject an offer like that? Here you go, you brought this upon yourself.
Ok, there isn't much strategy involved to actually playing Sneak King, but here are my suggestions for out-of-game tips that will boost your burger dispensing, dumpster hiding skills!
NUMBER ONE! Eat Burger King meals before every Sneak King session. Always.
NUMBER TWO! Wearing an elegant robe, stockings, and a crown will increase in-game success by 37%.
NUMBER THREE! Keep your Sneak King disc in top condition, cleaning it every morning and night, and each time after playing. Scratching of the disc will trigger the Kings appearance in the middle of the night to kidnap you and leave you in a lumber mill.
Follow those rules, or else. On a lighter note, I would like to encourage everyone to comment on opinions of my possible column. All the details are at the end of lasts weeks GAME POW, found here.
Thanks for reading GAME POW this week, and keep the suggestions comin' Armando! POW!
