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harleyquinnbluemoonlove · 4 years

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Welcoming the new Social Movement/Platform/Political Party in the World

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Current Name: Monica Gill FUTURE Name: Mercedes Lynnette Giovanni

Email: [email protected]

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BASIC IDEA/PLAN OF ATTACK/EXECUTION OR POSITIVE WORDS LIKE “LAUNCH”. We can issue an ATTACK or a LAUNCH CODE.

I will dumb it down a little bit. I am taking advantage of my position of power, now that I am a Celebrity in the World. Its the greatest feeling in the world, feels better than good sex and that is a hard thing for me to admit because I love some good, hot, sweaty sex and I’ve been going without for several weeks. I almost fell like a Nun because I cannot even pleasure myself because I was molested as a child by Lovie Price’s boyfriend “Frank Parker” a gasoline man from an early. I told Connie Price about it when I was 15 and her name at the time was Connie Dunford. It was the same day Brandie Ann Thompson said Curtis Triplett tried to rape her in the bathroom at the house In Frayser, Memphis TN. Brandie Ann in her hayday, resembled a youthful Cameron Diaz. Cameron Diaz dated Justin Timberlake once upon a time. She played in the move “The mask” and the mask was green. At the end of the movie, the dog put on the mask. You all know, when you wear that mask---you become a Shape Shifter, transforming into anything/anyone you think will grab the Hot or Not Rated #10 Woman’s ATTENTION/HEART/LOVE and will do anything, I mean anything to get it. The secret to my success is a compilation of everything good, bad, dirty, evil and let’s call it “The Struggle” or the “Human Experience”.

Old School (OS) Operating System (OS) Back to Basics (B2B) Brandie Thompson (BT) Barry Thompson (BT) Blue Tooth (BT) Brandie Smith (BS) Bull Shit (BS) Rent A Center (RAC) Roger Adren Crawford (RAC) $1K (RAK) Rags to Riches Richard Abernathy (RA) **secret boyfriend shh!!** Douche Bag (DB) or Douglas Belknap (DB) Thomas Jones (TJ) County Road (CR) Danny Thomas (DT) Deanna Thomas (DT) ... Trying to show you how I think period dot. In ya’ll are slow, period dot also equal two dots. You must have two dots to play connect the dots and draw the lines to illustrate inspiration into a masterpiece. The best pieces of Art are very old, have a solid reputation, and is properly curated to ensure it maintains its value for infinity times three.

Basically, you can get with my program, drink my Kool Aid, swallow your pride, do the right thing, if you have done something wrong, you really need to return to your basic religious beliefs what they may be, get right with yourself, because what you have done will come to light, exposed, we are moving on from there. We are, as a society going to change and deliver the children and the children’s children: a brighter future with more options, a limited amount of privacy, give them the world and see what they can accomplish with living in a world of positive vibes, beautiful colors, great music, entrepreneurship, dreams, and now, the little girls if we get married will truly believe in fairytales. This right here is whats up because we have an opportunity, once in a lifetime opportunity, to fix society, establish unity and peace, competition is good but everyone needs a chance to win sometimes to boost their confidence and pride. When there is monopoly or kingdom, it fosters the seven deadly sins, seven capital sins, and the seven cardinal sins, which is systemic to original sin.

Genesis clearly explains that certain things were created on certain days and back time was measured. You cannot just create a man or a woman. First, you need the Universe. Then, you need the Galaxy which creates Space. In Space, you have the moon, stars, sun, planets, black holes, asteroids, comets, shooting stars, orbit, gravitational pull. Here we are on planet Earth with 7 continents and 7 oceans. I like the number 8 because it represent a number, a symbol, and no limitations--infinity. My son was born on 3-8-03 weighing 8 pounds, 8 ounces and 19.5 inches long, color: BLUE, life: No sign of it. It took 10 minutes and PLEADING WITH THE LORD AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS SCREAMING PRAYING TO PLEASE GIVE HIM LIFE, I DON’T WANT TO HAVE GONE THROUGH 35.5 HOURS OF LABOR AND 7 HOURS OF HARD PUSHING WITH NO PAIN MEDICINE, NO EPIDURAL, GAVE BIRTH TO A STILL BORN BABY NATURALLY AND THE GOOD LORD ANSWERED MY PRAYERS AND THAT BOY CRIED AND WENT TO THE NICU AT BETHESDA NAVAL HOSPITAL IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND. ITS ALSO REFERRED TO AS “THE PRESIDENTS HOSPITAL”.

He is 17 years old, already a MASTERMIND and a Professional Gamer. He is so smart like me, that he had to design/build/code his own computer because there is not a computer on the planet that can keep up with his level of gaming. I saw a photo of it. Its a desktop computer with the case taken off the side--lit up with blue LED lights

It’s Confession Time and Holy Communion Time that means confess your sin, wrongdoing, break bread, eat bread, drink wine, not whine. No days off, no excuse, no immunity, no setups, no blame game, no liars, no stealing, checks and balances, no absolute power because absolute power fosters absolute corruption, which is why were in this position right now with COVID-19, Corona Virus.

I think one person needs a pardon because he has stayed on the job, even though he was originally lied to by the Feds. He deserves a pardon, record expunged, and an opportunity. I see great potential, just needs an opportunity, believe in himself, and have the courage to escape his own prison of gold diggers, groupies, fans, and whores.

In this triad, it is a rags to riches story times three. There is only 1 TRUE VERSION of ME, and its right here in Memphis TN, age: 41(Birth Cert).

To succeed in any sports game, you must be fit, educated, content with yourself to include your pros/cons/demons and knowledgeable & intelligent enough to know that I am certified True OG, I got your back no matter what because to me money ain’t a thing, fame fades just like stars, but loyal dogs do not turn on their master unless they are abused or hungry. I am a Blue AKC Royal Bloodline Pitbull, Staffordshire Terrier. Pitbull is the image you need to have in your mind when you think of ME.

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BLUE, COME ON UNLESS YOU ARE “CHICKEN” “SCARED”

I PROMISE I WILL NOT BITE. BUT, I AM STARVING, LONELY, NEED MONEY TO CREATE AND LAUNCH MY DREAMS TO POSITIVELY AND EFFECTIVELY CHANGE THE WORLD WHICH WILL PLACE ME AND PRESIDENT TRUMP IN THE HISTORY BOOKDS. AND THE HISTORY BOOKS ARE GOING TO BECOME FACTBOOKS, AND HISTORY CLASSES WILL BE MANDATORY THROUGHOUT LIFE REGARDLESS OF AGE, POSITION, JOB, FINANCIAL STATUS BECAUSE THE BEST EDUCATION IS A “CONTINUOUS EDUCATION”. IF YOU DO NOT CONTINUE LEARNING, YOU BECOME RUSTY AND THEN, YOU CANNOT KEEP UP THE FAST PACED CHANGES OF ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY IN THE REAL WORLD AND IN THE REAL GAME OF LIFE.

RECOMMENDATIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

1. DONATE MONEY TO MY CAUSE ON CASH APP

$BLUEDOGBITEMAFIA888

DO NOT HACK MY PHONE OR MY LAPTOP, DO NOT HACK ANYTHING OR ANYBODY BC YOU CANNOT DO IT BETTER THAN U.S. BC U.S. CREATED THE INTERNET IN WASHINGTON DC AT THE PENTAGON CALLED “DARPANET” IN 1974. THE FIRST COMPUTER WAS AN APPLE, SECOND COMPUTER WAS MICROSOFT. A GOOD BRAND IS A HP WITH MS WINDOWS. I HAVE A BLUE HP LAPTOP STREAM, I HAVE A BLACK APPLE IPHONE 7. I AM ON A WIFI WITH A VPN THAT KEEPS GETTING DISABLED. THE SOUND ON MY PHONE DOES NOT WORK. I AM BACKING UP BOTH DEVICES AND GOING TO RESET TO FACTORY SETTINGS SO I CAN GURANTEE EFFECTIVE DIGITAL SECURITY.

2. I NEED COMPANY TO SIT WITH ME, DRINK WITH ME. I WOULD LOVE SOME JACK AND COKE OR A BUD LIGHT. I WOULD ALSO LOVE SOME FOOD THAT CONTAINS RED MEAT TO ASSIST ME WITH MY BLOOD PROBLEMS. BUDDY OR BLUE OR YO -- FIGURE IT AND SEND ME SOMEONE I KNOW. I AM TOO PRETTY AND TOO COOL TO BE CHILLING BY MYSELF WITH NO FOOD, NO ALCOHOL, NO MONEY, NO WEED, ETC.

3. SELF EVALUATE OR DO A PEER REVIEW/. SELF EVALUATION IS LOOKING AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR AND THINKING ABOUT YOUR LIFE. I LIKE TO WRITE THINGS DOWN, IF HELPS ME. IT WILL BRING ABOUT A SENSE OF UNDERSTANDING WHO, WHAT, WHY YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE, HOW YOU BECAME PERSON, AND DESIGN YOUR OWN ROADMAP TO BEING A BETTER PERSON AND OPENING YOUR HEART TO REALIZATION THAT THE CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE, RIGHT WE ARE THE WORLD, WE CAN ACHIEVE GREATNESS, A NEW TYPE OF MAGIC “UTOPIA”.

WHAT ARE YOU ABOUT? WHAT DO YOU WANT OUT OF LIFE? ARE YOU HAPPY WITH YOURSELF? CAN YOU FREE YOUR MIND? CAN YOU OPEN YOUR HEARTS? CAN YOU COMMIT? DO YOU KNOW WHEN TO WALK AWAY? WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN? DO YOU HAVE CONFIDENCE? ARE YOU IN YOUR OWN PRISON--YOUR MIND, YOUR FEELINGS, YOUR RELATIONSHIP STATUS?

WISDOM COMES WITH TIME, EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION, HARD WORK, SERVICE, LOYALTY, PURPOSE, AND TRAVELING.

At the end of the day, who do you want to be with?

Woman - Wise can deliver the world or drop the world, age 41 -- looks better than 20 & 30 year old GIRLS. Does not care about money, fame, status, power because the game was scheduled and unfortunately, unaware of the OP -- she walked, ran, sprinted STOLE the Flag, and won the game.

Everyone wants to still run their mouths, try to control a man, and those hos, have no power, position, fame, etc. They are with or around you because of who you are, what you have done, and what you can give them---in my opinion that is abuse of power and targeting someone to manipulating them to do what you want them to do.

I like structure, things to be done a certain way because I like cleanliness, organization, faith, love, hope, trust, and loyalty.

I would not cop an attitude with everyone, if I did not feel like the world was against me. Hint, hint -- I don’t trust authority figures because I was molested, abused, targeted, almost died several times, lied to, cheated on, setups, smear campaigns, gossiped about, bullied, beat on, yelled at, called names, jealous women everywhere so dumb they forget I have a hunger against Human Trafficking. People are on this RACISM BULL SHIT.

Its 2020, Racism = IGNORANCE AND IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS ANYMORE, IGNORANCE IS DEADLY.

Basic belief system of Karma, it is a metaphysical/paranormal reality that is mixed with real, artificial, and soon-to-be virtual reality. It is what it is.

What you set your mind, what you do and the thoughts and actions you put into the world will either grant you your dreams or come back times three by the of karma, what goes around, comes around.

I want/will do good and be a good role model for everyone. I am going to teach, help you, do what I want, when I want, how I want because I know my worth, my value, and what I can GURANTEE/DELIVER.

Greed, jealousy, laziness, and all the ugly things that are in the world

WILL

get you no where but hungry, lonely but free, penniless, candy-less, eliminate sports.

COMMIT OR QUIT

MY MISSION WILL ENDURE AND CARRY ON UNTIL I FEEL MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. I DO NOT HAVE A FAILURE TO THRIVE AND I DO NOT LACK A WILL TO LIVE.

MY ISNT OVER, YET;

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programaticallydelicious · 5 years

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What’s the opposite of a hardcore game?

So I’m sure you can think of a couple of “hardcore” games off the top of your head. Dark Souls and Bloodborne are probably near the top for a lot of you. What defines those is an argument for someone else, and has been made a multitude of times.

I’m here to talk about their opposite. A lot of people, when asked what the opposite of a “hardcore” game is, would immediately jump to “Casual”. Something like Bejeweled, or Angry Birds. That...isn’t exactly correct. Casual games are targeted at people who can’t sink a great deal of time into a game in one sitting, A few minutes here, a few there, maybe an entire hour sometime. And with how the “casual” market is mixing in paid mechanics on mobile, there’s an argument to be had for them being an entirely different form of hardcore.

But I digress.

What is the opposite of a “hardcore” game? Is it an easy game? Maybe, maybe not. Is it a simple one? Not necessarily. Is it forgiving? Potentially. The opposite of a hardcore game is one that gives the reins to the player, and lets them control their own experience. I, personally, have never been one for hardcore games in the way the term gets bandied about. I don’t like games punishing me for my poor reaction time and variable coordination.

I like games that let me choose how to proceed. And to give a good idea of what I mean, I’m going to go through my steam library (not all 800+ games of it, just the ones with at least 60hrs of playtime), and explain exactly what they did that ensured they weren’t hardcore.

1. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (751 hrs)

Unsurprising, and easy to explain. Bethesda games, in general, give the player as much control as possible. Want to do the main quest? Have at it, nothing can stop you and if something does, just pull up the console and nuke it to death with the kill or disable commands. Don’t like something? Modding can fix it. Want something you don’t or can’t have? Modding can fix it. Want to shoot something? You can! Stab them? Sure! Want to pretend quests don’t exist and live as a hermit in the woods? I’ve done it!

I think you get the picture.

2. Fallout 4 (663 hrs)

Do you need to ask? Look above, I explained it there. Also, the VATS system is actually surprisingly cool to play with, and I really, really enjoy waltzing around overleveled in tricked out power armor as everything the bad guys throw at me winds up just plinking off and maybe killing them for me.

3. EVE Online (500 hrs (logged on Steam, at any rate))

This can’t be right, can it? The MMO known mostly for having a learning curve so steep it‘s a cliff with an overhang? Not hardcore? I’ve gotta be high!

No, it isn’t hardcore. EVE gives the player a fantastic amount of control over their experience. You can pick what skills to learn, what kinds of ships to fly, whether to produce, raid, lead, gather, trade, or mission run. Personally, I racked up most of these hours about ten years ago when I was doing a lot of asteroid mining on a second screen while working on stuff in college. It was slow, relaxing, and impressively predictable overall.

4. Starbound (214 hrs)

I have a love-hate relationship with this one. I racked up most of that playtime in the early beta, when the mechanics were wonky and unbalanced and the playstyle was still being worked on. I can’t enjoy this game anymore, because all I want to do is find a pretty planet and build a base I like on it. But the prettiest planets are pretty good at killing you, and the best materials to build with are rare, in places good at killing you, or incredibly expensive. I could build safely on a barren world, but...it’s a barren world.

5. Terraria (166 hrs)

I love this game, I really do. But I can’t play it with other people. I like having a safe home, and while you can make safe homes in hardcore mode, they’re a pain in the butt to design properly and the allowances you need to make to keep things out are less than appealing to me. Meaning I end up running two worlds with my character as a raider, and that gets...tedious after a while.

I once built an entire village for all of the NPCs in the game (there were fewer at the time), only to watch them die over and over because someone went to hell and killed the wall of flesh.

6. Space Engineers (143 hrs)

Do I really need to explain this one? I made a bunch of voxel spaceships, in space. Was fun, and neat, but last time I poked my head in it was still lacking in things to do long-term. Too much control, not enough content, basically.

7. NieR:Automata™ (126 hrs)

This can’t be right, can it? After all, it’s a twitchy action-RPG with a philosophical bent that feels like the illegitimate bastard lovechild that Nietzsche and Goethe abandoned in the dark forest at midnight on a new moon. (In short, it’s that impossible thing known as an object made purely of edge)

But it is. The game has a massive variety of potential play-styles and difficulties, from “all but literally does everything for you” to, well, bullet hell. And the chip system lets you suit all sorts of preferences (the taunt/crit build is OP as all hell, but I ran with a berserker build that boosted speed and healed me on damaging or killing enemies). The game is as punishing as you allow it to be, and Platinum Games did a fantastic job of that.

8. Subnautica (110 hrs)

I’ve beaten this one multiple times. It actually gives you a lot of control in terms of where and how to build, and how you go about progressing. But the truly great bit of control the game gives you is that it never forces you to progress. You move through it exactly as far as you want to, and it does a great job of getting you to want to.

Sadly, it has two things that really break that. Two enemies, specifically. Warpers, and crabsquids. Warpers can be avoided, are localized, and can become a non-issue by progressing far enough.

Crabsquids are seething gelatinous bundles of undiluted killjoy who prevent me from safely building in my favorite biomes.

9. Stardew Valley (94 hrs)

I really think this one is self explanatory. If it isn’t, it will be as soon as you play it.

10. ARK: Survival Evolved (93 hrs)

This game doesn’t belong on this list. Too much of the time listed was spent fighting the mechanics/trying to get things to work, as opposed to playing the game. It’s neither hardcore nor its opposite.

11. Plague Inc: Evolved (63 hrs)

My favorite thing to do in this game is running the neurax worm. The Christmas scenario in particular is great. This game is an RTS with short playtimes, immediate feedback on choices, and fantastic levels of replayability. Combine that with their scenario editor, difficulty settings, and the huge variety of things you can play as, it makes it as my favorite non-RPG on Steam.

Some non-Steam mentions that are self-explanatory: Pokémon, The Legend of Zelda: BotW (I enjoy the other games too, but they don’t qualify for this), Age of Empires II (I abused the shit out of a bug in the scenario editor), Pharaoh/Caesar III, and the number one timesink of any game I’ve ever played: Minecraft.

In summary: The opposite of a hardcore game is one that gives the player enough leeway to make their own decisions. Not necessarily by giving them multiple choices or paths, but allowing them to proceed at their own pace, potentially with their own choices of mechanics and/or difficulty. And most importantly, it doesn’t punish the player for those choices.

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aviyinglet · 6 years

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E3 2018

Here’s a lengthy series of crossposts from scalie.club on the respective press events of this year’s E3. In retrospect, I’m a bit more negative in here than I’d like to be (I complain about games like Anthem and FO76 I never particularly intended to buy in the first place, and I’m a little bit negative about Prey, which I think I’ve established I like), but regardless, here it is in case you’re interested:

Electronic Arts

- I saw a take on the reaction to Anthem's multiplayer focus and lack of romance: "Oh, so you want Bioware to just repeatedly make the same game with slight reskins over and over?"

No, I only -trust- them to make story-based RPGs with strong characters/lots of dialogue. That's where their cachet comes from! I'm sure they make good multiplayer for people who want it, but God, @Iron_Spike on Twitter had it right: just let me enjoy highly masturbatory single-player content in peace.

Microsoft

- The XbOne port of NieR: Automata is a criminally late and truly pathetic attempt to court me back, as I am both a forthcoming capable-PC-owner -and- the only person who exists

- My eyes glazed over at the Xbox conference whenever they excitedly showed off anything involving multiplayer or shooting, but still, a pretty good slate of trailers all around. Standouts: Sekiro, Forza Horizon 4, Tales of Vesperia, Session, Tunic, Just Cause 4, and -possibly- Dying Light 2 and Cyberpunk 2077, depending on how cynical their stories end up being.

I was honestly expecting something relating to VR; I suppose they're saving that for the next iteration of Xbox hardware, if at all.

- Oh, also, I might be somewhat into humanoid videogame amphibian guys, but the Battletoads always have been and always will be exempt from this, and so my interest in their new game is absolutely nil [don’t-@-me emoji]

Bethesda

- Never a good sign if your hot new game concept has to be defended before you describe any of its genre-redeeming features.

"You'll never have to see a server browser!" "Don't worry, you CAN solo if you want!"

Right, but what options do I have if I want to have a peaceful co-op or PvE experience? Does 'solo' mean 'completely on a private instance', or just 'in a free-for-all game world without co-op partners'?

[EDIT: There are no offline or private-instance modes in Fallout 76.]

- "You can team up with other players to launch a nuclear weapon and completely wreck another player's settlement!"

Congrats, this sounds completely horrible in every single way. If there's no way to completely isolate myself from the possibility of it happening to me, then it doesn't matter how hopeful the story/setting are supposed to be; this is a game I will never ever buy.

"You don't lose anything when you die!"

Then what's the point of including nukes to begin with?

[EDIT: There are other non-murder-related reasons for firing off nukes. Still seems counterproductive, considering there are no such reasons in real life.]

- The Prey stuff looks good, but I was seriously going to engage with the moon DLC primarily as a peaceful space to stack objects in. It being a roguelite with a corruption meter that increases over time has completely destroyed that ambition -- not that the game was designed for it in the first place, but still.

The base game does have NG+ now, though, which is good to know for when I get it on PC. I'm hoping I can just restart with Leverage and Mobility III for efficiency's sake.

Square-Enix

- Just Cause 4 still looks hot, though whether it'll be playable at all on consoles has yet to be seen. One of the reasons I'm building the PC to begin with is to play through JC3; when I abandoned it on XbOne I was attempting to complete it using the grappling hook as my primary weapon for everything -- turning it from a standard shooter into a destructive puzzle game. (I only stopped because the framerates were far too low, which a XbOnX hardware upgrade wouldn't appreciably fix.)

[Addendum: I agree wholeheartedly with the backlash to the backlash against Kingdom Hearts. Sure, it’s silly and the greater lore is impenetrable from the outside, but you could say the same about, say, the Resident Evil series.]

Ubisoft

- I was waiting for them to put guns, explosions*, or forced randomness into the new Trials, and I'm beyond pleased that they didn't. The Crew 2 is a day-one for me (but that was a foregone conclusion; Phen's getting it, and the closed beta was amazing). Starlink, congrats on the thirst-follows, but feel free to call me when the -actual- man of my dreams is playable.

[*referring to explosions from grenade launchers or other acts of person-to-person violence, not environmental explosions from, say, colliding with red barrels. Important distinction to be made here.]

Sony

- One of the most brutally unpleasant press conferences I've ever watched, just from the overabundance of deeply intense and deliberately upsetting visuals; my recollection of it feels like an actual nightmare. That said, Death Stranding looks nice; so does the RE2 remake (though not for the over-the-top gore in what they displayed). I'm sure Spider-Man will be great as well, though as with other PS4 exclusives, I'll be viewing them in hour-long chunklets as my housemate plays through.

- [CW: upsetting feverdream:] I open my eyes to a field of wind-rippling flowers; a ponderous instrumental plays. There's a gun in my hand. I examine it; every detail is intricate, I inspect the chamber, check the magazine, only a few bullets left. The mechanical sounds pierce my eardrums. The sky is a magenta gradient from a bright white sun to the black vignettes at the edges of my vision. Off in the distance, there's a man with a katana, and reluctantly, I realize it's him or me.

Nintendo

- Really shouldn't have watched the Giant Bomb stream of this one. The problem, as I see it -- they showed plenty of games, but in criminally small portions, and just to make time for Smash tweaks. Still, a "one more thing" might have saved it, especially considering the things that had been rumored.

It still would have been nice to see some new system features; Twitch and Youtube clients, integration with more social networks. eShop music, perhaps?

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everygame · 7 years

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Wolfenstein: The New Order (PS4)

Developed/Published by: MachineGames / Bethesda Softworks Released: 20th May, 2014 Completed: 21st June, 2017 Completion: Finished it almost completely on Bring It On! until I got real bored, because I’d got all the perks other than the stupidly random demolition ones. I didn’t get all of the collectibles, sometimes they showed up on the map and sometimes they didn’t? What was up with that? Trophies / Achievements: 70%

Hmm, this is why I should write these as soon as I finish the game in question, because it’s been a little too long since I finished this for me to be writing it up for it to sparkle in my memory. However, at the time I’m writing it, it all feels rather topical, what with Nazis literally rallying in the USA last weekend (“Mathew is writing this in mid-August. For all we know Wolfenstein: The New Order’s plot has become literally true by the time you read this. Has it? Please tell us it hasn’t.”—Ed.) and so let us begin.

So why did I decide to play this weeks before we’d all need a Nazi punching simulator close to hand (for when there weren’t any actual Nazis nearby, who you would obviously already be punching)? Well, it’s because I saw that trailer for Wolfenstein: The New Colossus at E3, and I thought… bloody hell, they really managed to get the look of one of those sixties TV programmes right, huh? It doesn’t look digital, the lighting is right, the costumes, the performances… it blew me away. Anyway then I pretty much immediately stopped watching the trailer.

It’s weird because it’s not like that kind of attention to detail from their marketing department meant I was going to enjoy their game or anything. And I did slightly swither on this, for a very classic “me” reason. You see, Wolfenstein: The New Order is—rather absurdly—an actual sequel to ID’s 2009 Wolfenstein, which even itself is a sequel to 2001’s Return to Castle Wolfenstein. And although I’ve played Return To Castle Wolfenstein, I didn’t play its sequel, so I was like… hmm, am I going to miss important references if I just skip to the sequel that came out five years later?

The answer is… only really with one character, and I suppose it’s debatable how much you would really want to play through an (apparently) 30-odd hour campaign in a game that isn’t generally considered to be that good to get slightly more background on one character. For once, thankfully, I decided against it.

Anyway. Here’s the thing. Wolfenstein: The New Order is—and I bet you every single critic wrote this at the time, and hell if I can avoid it—weirdly old school! I don’t feel like I’ve played an FPS like this one since, like… fuck, I don’t know, the Half Life 2 episodes or something. Because Wolfenstein is: super, super long; broken up into discrete levels but each level is usually pretty open; and all about health-packs and armour for survival. It feels odd!

And actually, I don’t entirely get the sense that MachineGames was completely comfortable with it. Don’t get me wrong: The New Order is extremely polished. But it’s also… sort of… wildly inconsistent in terms of both tone and design.

Design first: the game sort of wants to give the player complete freedom to play it as a balls-to-the-wall Wolfenstein-me-do—as you can dual wield everything and just run wildly into battle—but also as a stealthy sort, with lots of silent kill options and bonuses for doing so (such as avoiding new baddies spawning.)

The issue is, of course, is that stealth is the better option because of those bonuses. Killing a commander silently and avoiding new enemies spawning mean that you save ammo and health, and the game’s fiction makes running into any building and just lighting it up feel insanely unsurvivable (even if you can.) Problematically, stealth kind of blows because of the first-person perspective: I’d often find myself doing something like silently murdering a commander while someone watches me because I didn't turn my head 45 degrees to see them standing right there (and i can’t just blame first-person for this: the stealth in something like Far Cry 3, from two years earlier, is superb.) And the shooting is just kind of... loose feeling? When you’re letting go and just running around murdering nazis, you never feel masterful, and I can’t quite pinpoint why it doesn’t feel as amazing as it should. Maybe some of it is to do with the design of enemes, of course, which for some reason are often bullet sponges and—absolutely worst of all—armour plated, meaning that you have to watch your bullets ping off a lot until you hit the right spot. That the biggest and most horrifying enemies are fully armoured completely removes any joy you get from taking them apart—even with a rocket launcher. The lesson here: nazis are better when you can pound their pasty white flesh into a pink paste. if they’re going to be armoured, let it be a helmet we can ping off with a bullet (that also embeds in their cranium, preferably.)

So it’s not quite there in game feel, and the tone is also a case of wondering exactly what they were trying to go for. I mean, in a game this long it’s possible they just wanted to have their cake and eat it, but what we have here is a game that simultaneously wants you to think about the real horror of the actual nazis—human vivisection, concentration camps—while also enjoying the camp of "cinematic" nazis—who are all about, you know, being “nazis… but in space!”

Just like the design, it so totally allllllmost works. The things that make you consider—you know—how bad the nazis actually were are not merely disturbing but often moving, and at the same time, going into space and seeing a 60s pulp nazi moon base is fun as heck! Really the game feels like, well, this, where you have an alternate reality Jimmy Hendrix (ok) talking about racism in America (good) only to then, uh, take acid and have a guitar freak out with BJ (genuinely idiotic). It’s not like the stupid stuff removes the good stuff—you can enjoy it—it’s just... why.

The fact is, that I’d probably give the entire thing a pass if I hadn't got tired of Wolfenstein about two-thirds of the way through, and had to (for my own sanity) blast through the rest on easy even though I was committed to and interested in the story. Instead Wolfenstien: The New Order gets a partial credit, because killing nazis is right and just and feels good, man.

Will I ever play it again? No sir! However I’m pretty sure I’m going to want to play the sequel, The New Colossus. I’m happy to skip The Old Blood, tho.

Final Thought: So, there’s a pretty nice and clean way to "fix" one of my biggest complaints about The New Order, and it’s weird that they didn’t do it and I wonder if it was something that they’d planned and then—after word from higher up—decided not to do. You see, the “timelines” split after a decision fairly early in the game, and there’s simply no reason that you don’t split the levels up between the timelines. So—for example—you’d be stealing a nuclear sub in the Fergus timeline, and going into space in the Wyatt timeline, and dealing with the Nazi threat in a unique way in each. Heck, you could even, if you felt like it, make one story the grimmer reality, and the other the wackier one. And each timeline would still have been about bloody ten hours long.

But yeah, “players shouldn’t miss out on content” probably. Let’s take a look and see how many people on PS4 have finished the game, eh? Ah, 37% of owners. Brilliant decision.

#wolfenstein #wolfenstein: the new order #bethesda softworks #bethesda #machinegames #video games #games #gaming #2014 #text #txt

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What I Learned from Two Years in America

Veit Medick, Der Spiegel, Aug. 31, 2017

I recently took another walk around our neighborhood with my children. We went out through the front door, down the four steps from our porch and then right onto Highland Avenue down to Lynbrook Park. It’s a nice park with lots of tall trees, a basketball court, a playground and a large green field. It’s surrounded by those American suburban homes that always seem to be built the same: driveway, garage, porch and front yard.

It’s an idyllic setting. At least on the surface.

The kids wanted to swing a bit on the playground. The sun was shining and it was warm out, but hardly anyone was out and about. No people, no cars on the road, no children throwing balls or walking dogs. The field was empty, as was the playground. The neighborhood felt like a still-life--as it so often had before.

We spent two years living in Bethesda, a privileged, almost exclusively white suburb located a few kilometers north of Washington, D.C. In many respects, it was a wonderful and exciting time. We experienced history in the making. We had to find our way in foreign surroundings, but learned that we had the skills to do so.

Over time, my daughters became little American girls. They now sing songs by Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus, they love motorhomes and collect Shopkins. In them, it is possible to see just how powerful the lure of the American way of life can still be. That can be annoying. But it’s also kind of cute--at least for a short amount of time.

I liked living in our neighborhood. We had great neighbors and the ones next door quickly became our friends. It’s often said that relationships in the United States are superficial, but that wasn’t our experience.

Nevertheless, the emptiness and sterility of the streets often got to me. Something was missing: vibrancy, public life and the feeling that a neighborhood is something that actually gets used and isn’t just some movie set. Our neighbor Craig says that many Americans prefer to stay home because they have become comfortable, immobile. Because everything can be ordered online. Because air conditioning makes things so much more comfortable than the real weather outside. Because cars have become a second home for many. “We’re complacent,” Craig says. But is that really it?

I read a book a while ago by Barry Glassner, a sociologist. Glassner’s theory is that Americans live in a culture of fear and don’t do anything to try to counter it--instead allowing their lives to slide into a downward spiral of paranoia. I’ve thought a lot about this theory. In Bethesda, there’s not really much to be afraid of other than, perhaps, mosquitoes or car accidents. But even a single neurosis can be enough to make one’s home seem like a refuge. To me, Bethesda often seemed like one big refuge.

Fear, of course, is nothing new in America. It’s a country that has always believed that the apocalypse is somehow just around the corner. But the level of fear that has developed in the United States--both on a smaller and larger scale--my God! You don’t have to look very far to find it. Stores provide anti-bacterial wipes to protect their customers from germs on grocery carts. Parents obsessively coddle their children by driving them to school and picking them up each day. Fences surround playgrounds to prevent anything bad from happening. Alarms to protect classrooms from school shooters are ubiquitous. Hysteria is everywhere on the cable news channels.

A study was released recently about the things Americans fear the most. It includes literally everything. Terrorism and identity theft. Corrupt companies and financial ruin. Tornadoes and adultery. There is an explanation for this. America is no longer winning wars. Other countries suddenly also have a lot of power. Everything has become insanely fast. And the fear of external threats can influence the psyche--there’s no question about that.

There’s also a domestic dimension to this fear. Many Americans no longer trust their politicians or the elite. They no longer know what to believe in a situation where the macroeconomic indicators are trending positive but the amount of money that lands in their wallets is getting ever smaller.

Donald Trump has been masterful in understanding how to take advantage of that fear--in many areas of life. In politics, in the real estate market and also in the media. At home, we subscribed to The Washington Post. My wife read the entire newspaper, even the local section--leading her to say things like, “Let’s not drive through Prince William County--there are constantly shootings there.” At first, I laughed at her. That is, until I also noticed that I myself had grown more cautious. For example, I no longer like going to stadiums that don’t have security gates. Is that silly? Yes, but fear in America can be contagious.

And it’s true, this country often drives people to despair, even if you live in a bubble. It is wrought with contradictions. Everyone talks about security, but the Americans haven’t even managed to impose reasonable controls on weapon ownership. Everyone talks about freedom, but then, at the swimming pool we went to a few streets to the north, girls were made to wear bikinis even as babies. If I bought a bottle of wine at the store, I had to keep it hidden in a dark plastic bag until I got home.

We recently got pulled over by the police because I had allegedly swerved outside my lane. What would happen if I didn’t sign the ticket, I asked? “Then I will arrest you,” the officer said. Don’t go to jail dad, my daughter called out. Sometimes you feel like you’re under observation in the United States--and not free at all.

In January 2016, a house stood across from our own. When we looked out the window, we could see that the house didn’t really belong anymore. It was small and old and a little dirty and run down. No one had been taking care of the yard. At some point, a bulldozer showed up. Within an hour, the house no longer existed. Only two months later, a new home had been built on the same property--with six bedrooms, four bathrooms for $1.6 million. Of course, it also had a driveway, garage, porch and front yard. A family is living there now, and they appear to be happy--at least when they make an appearance.

Was it displacement? You could see it that way. But for me, that house remains a metaphor for the way the country ticks. And how we tick as Germans. We would have approached the problem differently. We probably would have tried fixing up the house--putting in a few new windows and giving the place a fresh coat of paint. We would have somehow tried to rescue it. After all, it used to be grandpa’s place.

When you live in another country, you also learn a lot more about your own culture. As Germans, we’re not fond of getting rid of old things. We preserve and optimize things. One thing we’re definitely not very good at is the idea of just scrapping everything and starting over from scratch.

Americans have an uncanny ability to do this. If they get tired of something, they just order a bulldozer. Cars are discarded, as are homes, theories, ideas, sports heroes, professions, companies and politicians. All that matters is that they are replaced by something new. The moon? Been there, done that! Next time it’s going to be Mars. Things aren’t going well at General Motors? Then we’ll build Tesla.

I personally believe that, to a certain extent, Hillary Clinton was also a victim of this mentality. She had been on the scene for too long. The Americans were bored by the prospect of her becoming president and instead just chose to vote for someone else. And this despite the fact that they knew doing so might be extremely risky. Or could it be that this desire to take risks is also what led them to vote for someone else?

The readiness to question everything can be dangerous. But I also admire it. It makes the country creative, dynamic and exciting. It ensures that America is a country that can shed its skin and transform itself. It’s something that will eventually be felt by Donald Trump, as well. After Barack Obama’s election as president, we thought to ourselves: That’s the real America. But the tide can shift pretty quickly here. Trump will be gone in 2024 at the latest. Nobody can predict what will follow him. Perhaps a king--who knows?

America is a place where people have dreams. They still do today, despite everything. My neighbor Mark is actually a painter. But for the last few years, he’s been a psychologist. Mark wrote an article that he believes will revolutionize neuroscience. I don’t understand any of it. But the strange thing is that, when I listen to him talk about it, I wouldn’t rule out that possibility.

A street fair recently took place in our neighborhood. A woman in her late 40s named Lisa organizes it twice each year. She collects signatures and then goes to the local authorities to get a permit to block the entire street. She even set up a Facebook group and manages a small budget. Lisa has a day job, but she tends to her block in Bethesda as if it were her true profession.

On the day of the street fair, which was also intended as a send-off for me and my family, everyone was suddenly outside. The children rode a pony across the intersection. Then they did gymnastics in the street. We drank beer in our front yards, played games and ate like kings. My neighborhood had suddenly become very lively.

It was a good farewell.

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10 live shows that mattered, all true

When that 10 bands meme circled around Facebook, what struck me the most was the breadth and variety of the music represented. There was death metal, there was classic rock, there was ‘80s pop. And so many people had at least 9 live shows they could list. That’s the power of live music.

I made a quick list of my own, but I started thinking more about the bands I’ve seen live, and the shows that have meant the most to me, or had the greatest impact on me.

So here are 10 live shows that mattered, all true.

1. Adele, Sixth and I Synagogue, DC, June 17, 2008. My former boss was something of a trend spotter. One day he came over to my desk and had me watch the video for “Chasing Pavements,” by this rising young British singer. A couple of weeks later I heard she was coming to DC on her first tour. And that’s how I wound up seeing Adele at the historic Sixth and I Synagogue in 2008. The stage was so small she couldn’t fit her band and equipment so she played a mostly unplugged set, casually dressed with a knit cap slung over one side of her head. She hardly needed mikes or amplification; her massive voice filled the room and she charmed everyone with her between-song patter.

2. INXS, The Boathouse, Norfolk, VA, Sept. 13, 1997. I’ve seen INXS twice. The first time was thousands of other people at Compton Terrace in Phoenix in June 1988 when the band was at the height of their success, touring in support of the Kick album. I enjoyed the experience of traveling in a car full of other high school students down to the show and back as much as the show itself; the band was hundreds of feet away, specks on a massive stage. The second time was 9 years later at a small club called the Boathouse in Norfolk which was exactly what it sounded like: a converted boathouse. With a capacity of a couple hundred, the space was intimate, bringing everyone within the range of Michael Hutchence’s undeniable power and charisma. When he came down off the stage and climbed the rafters, the room was electric. I’ve never seen a frontman like him; this performance is what I imagine when I read about the heyday of Mick Jagger or Jim Morrison. Two months later Michael Hutchence was found dead and I truly felt the loss.

3. Elliott Smith, 9:30 Club, DC, May 12, 2000. My friend and former colleague Sam McDonald was a music reporter for the Daily Press when he came up to DC for a show and invited me to come along. I didn’t know the singer, but I trusted Sam’s taste. What a way to be introduced to Elliott Smith. I was in awe from start to finish and I’ve been a fan ever since. Another great loss to the music world.

4. Kenna, 9:30 Club, DC, July 20, 2003. Technically, this was a Dave Gahan show, a stop on his solo tour for Paper Monsters. As a Depeche Mode fan, I was there to see him. But the part of the show that really blew me away was opening act Kenna. Every song was a perfect blend of pop, rock, dance, and R&B. He’s only been back to DC once, again as an opening act (this time for She Wants Revenge), and his musical output has been frustratingly sporadic, but he’s released two perfect CDs and that’s more than many artists can say.

5. Crowded House, Tipitina’s, New Orleans, 1991. It would have been a great enough show if Crowded House were just consummate musicians playing tightly written pop gems. But they also had one of the best stage presences of anyone I’ve ever seen. Witty, bantering, interacting with the audience. The part that sticks out for me was the band and the floor crowd trying to shoot a ball through a basketball hoop nailed to the second floor balcony. We all felt like we were part of something together and it was joyous and fun.

6. Neil Finn, 9:30 Club, DC, Jan. 28, 2003. After Crowded House broke up, I followed Neil Finn’s solo career (more pop gems). His show at the 9:30 Club had the same infectious fun and impeccable musicianship of that Tipitina’s gig. We didn’t want it to end and neither did he; he played two encores and the show finished so late (unusual for the 9:30) that I barely made the last Green Line train from the U Street station—and got to Fort Totten too late for the last Red Line train and had to take a cab the rest of the way home to Silver Spring. It was still worth it.

7. Peter Murphy, Tipitina’s, New Orleans, March 21, 1990. I’d acquired Peter Murphy’s solo album “Deep” that year via the college paper and listened to it non-stop. Gloomy pop in the minor key? My favorite! So of course I went to see him at Tipitina’s on his Strange Kind of Love tour. It was a good show, but that’s not what makes this date memorable. It was his opening act, a band previously unknown to me called … Nine Inch Nails. Trent Reznor concluded their 8-song set by smashing his guitar on the stage, an audacious bit of rock star pageantry for a band whose album was only 5 months old and was still gaining word of mouth notoriety. (I would see Nine Inch Nails again, sort of, when they played the first Lollapalooza tour in 1991; due to faulty equipment, they never made it through their set, or even a full song.)

8. The Strokes, 9:30 Club, DC, Oct. 29, 2001. I had been hearing lots of buzz about this up-and-coming band from New York, but I’d yet to hear a single song when I saw they were coming to the 9:30 Club. I took a chance and got tickets and went by myself. Like Elliott Smith, it was a revelation to hear an act’s songs for the first time as a live performance. And what a performance. Their album was brand new and red hot and they were in full possession of their powers. Maybe some of the energy in the room that night was also the release of being together with other people, less than a month after 9/11, in some kind of celebration of music and New York and our continued existence.

9. The Weakerthans, Black Cat, DC, Oct. 24, 2003. The second time I saw them at the Black Cat, it was notable as much for the circumstances as the show itself: I was 3 months pregnant. (I nervously asked my OB/GYN if it was OK to go to the show and she patiently explained that the sound wouldn’t bother anything in utero.) So technically this is Julia’s first concert, too.

10. Half Moon Run, Strathmore, Bethesda, Sept. 21, 2012. Like the Kenna show, this isn’t about the lead act, it’s about an opening act stealing the spotlight. I was at Strathmore to see Metric; they are one of the best live acts I’ve ever seen, and this was the second time of now three I was seeing them in concert, so I was settled into my seat waiting to get through the opening act. And then Half Moon Run started to play. The first song made me sit up and take notice, and as they progressed through the set, I could feel the audience around me doing the same thing. I don’t know how to describe their music. In one song, all three play percussion. In another, the drummer is also simultaneously playing the keyboard. By the end, we were all new fans.

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Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus Review

This review will have all the spoilers. You’ve been warned.

It was either late 2013 or early 2014. Good times. I was messing around on Youtube one day looking at videos of the latest Batman game. Then in the recommended videos I saw something that both confused and intrigued me. The thumbnail was the iconic image of Niel Armstrong saluting the American flag he just planted on the moon. Except there were a couple differences. Twisted, terrifying differences. The American flag was replaced with the banner of Nazi Germany. And Niel was Seig Heil’ing to it. I’m pretty sure I let out an audible "what the fuck?" apon seeing this. This was the E3 trailer for Wolfenstein: The New Order. For those who don’t know, Wolfenstein is one of the oldest franchises in gaming, and put FPS games on the map. A goofy game about shooting Nazis in WWII that gave 90s gamers the chance to shoot the hell out of Mecha-Hitler. Think of it as a prototype to the more infamous Doom series that would launch shorty after. The New Order was a modern-day reboot with some ambitious questions. The biggest one being "what if they won instead?" The New Order takes you to an alternate 1960 where the Nazis beat the allied forces to the nuke (among other advanced tech) and thus took over the world. It was grim. It was campy. It was subtle. It was loud. It was dumb. And it was also much smarter and more engaging than anyone would’ve thought. So it went on to be a smash hit in 2014, and one of my favorite games ever. A few months ago to the day this is being posted, Bethesda stopped by E3 and showed the world it was sequel time, showing off Wolfenstein 2 The New Colossus (Actually like the 3rd or 5th in the series) to the world. The next day I preordered the hell out of it. Was it worth it? Well after 10 days of tearing through it, lemme tell you.

So I’ll start off with things I didn’t like, get the negativity out of the way. It’s not a big list but I think what on it is valid. In The New Order, which I shall now abbreviate as TNO, in nearly all sections you could either go in fast and loud, putting holes in everything that moves with dual automatic shotguns and a big laser cannon. Or you could be a bit more stealthy about things, sneaking through vents and corridors putting knives in throats and taking care of problematic enemies from afar with a suppressed pistol (which might I mention was one of the things I loved about the TNO; keeping the pistol relevant and not just a forgettable starter weapon like most shooters). It was all about personal play style, but both options were viable. In The New Colossus, which I shall now abbreviate as TNC, going in loud was the way I always went because it seemed more viable. And I always went stealth in TNO. I probably just need to learn the areas, but there was some problems I ran into. Like this game being dark. Not story wise (even though it is) but literally. I remember alot of areas meant to be stealth-able lacking in the lighting department, and I set my brightness at the recommended settings, too. Anytime I’d get caught it’d be from and enemy that I couldn’t see. And that leads to another problem. In TNO, enemies stuck out in the maps. Even if they were dully-colored humaniods coming in plentiful shades of gray you’d still spot them from across the area. It was probably due to both TNO being brighter and the enemies having a wide design variety. Not so much in the TNC. There’s less design variety here and they all seem to just blend into the background alot. Even the brightly-colored HAZMAT and Venus space troopers don’t pop in anything less than Glamour Magazine photo booth. On top of that those two previously mentioned troopers, while being obvious separate models apon inspection, honestly just look like classic Mortal Kombat-esque palette swaps. Again, TNO had alot of variety in their designs. Which is why it was a shame there was no proper model viewer in TNO, and why it’s straight-up bullshit their isn’t one in TNC. One of my favorite bits of last year’s DOOM (another Id games classic updated for the modern world) was a model viewer that let you get an up-close look at the game’s monsters and weapons. The Batman: Arkham games have had it for years. Hell, I remember having them back in 2005 with Jak III. Why can’t Wolfenstein, with their toybox of greatly-designed characters, weapons and assets have it? Or a photo mode, too? I’m not insane about graphics in games, but I still appreciate them with how incredible they are today, and TNC is no exception. It’s a beautiful game. Let me appreciate it to the fullest extent possible. Honestly these days model viewers and photo modes are something all games should have with how far graphics have gone. If only bosses got the same advancement. TNO had a few that aren’t Psycho Mantis or Big Baby Bowser levels, but they were fun nonetheless. DOOM’s bosses were one of the highlights for me. TNC has none of those. Here and then there’s an enemy that can act as a sort-of miniboss, but their’s nothing big and climactic like TNO’s showdown with the towering London Monitor, or the final showdown with the main antagonist, General Deathshead. The "final boss" of TNC is more of a gauntlet than anything. 3 pairs of Supersoldiers, a higher-powered but still common enemy assisted by a shitload of standard infantry, finished off by 2 "Zerstörers", which are basically super versions of the Supersoldiers (I call them "Super-duper Soliders"). The main antagonist of the game, General Engel, goes down with one melee attack, only vainly defending herself with a pistol. An outdated pistol by both the game’s and IRL standards. In a game where mechs, actual Avengers Helicarriers and boimechanically-enhanced mutants are possible, you’d expect so much more. Especially with Hitler himself making an appearance. I was really looking forward to a modern-day Mecha-Hitler. Not sure if I’d want bosses to worry about though since something as simple as getting your weapons out can be a pain. In TNO you could dual wield nearly every weapon in the game, but you could only dual wield two of the same gun. In TNC dual wield returns, for every weapon you can carry, and you can interchange between them. And while it has it’s uses for sure, it feels kinda clunky, not to mention slow. TNC takes it’s sweet time letting you change your weapons which can be fatal, especially since this game carries over a problem TNO had in that you’re not exactly warned when your current ammo’s about to run dry and you’re gonna get lit up while changing a clip.

Now to the good, which I assure you outweighs the bad. Lemme start by saying that the gunplay feels as fantastic as before. Every gun has kick and you feel it whenever you see a Nazi get turned to mush by your triple-barreled automatic rotary shotgun. Yes, that’s a thing in this game. As is a pistol-sized grenade launcher. And sticky-bomb launcher. And an OP-as hell laser cannon that atomizes people and metal covers/doors alike. And all of these can be powered-up through upgrades. The Shotgun can be upgraded to have ricochet rounds to deal even more damage. The pistol can have a suppressor so it stays useful like it did in TNO. The Assault Rifle can have both a scope and armor piercing rounds making it able to down mechanical enemies in one shot. And the laser cannon. Oh god the Laser cannon. Called the LaserkraftWerk in the game, it’s by far the best weapon you’ll get, even before upgrades. One shot will destroy even more armored infantry, but when you upgrade it so the blast can be charged, ooooooohhh. One charged blast will down Super soldiers with ease, and even on higher difficulties the powerful Zerstörer units I mentioned earlier will fall with a few good shots. Combo this with an extended battery doubling your already-decent ammo pool, And you’re unstoppable. I guess that leads to another issue. While every gun has their uses and you’ll likely use every one at one point, like DOOM before it you’ll probably cruise along primary’ing 2 guns. For me it was the Shotgun and Laserkraftwerk. But even then they weren’t the weapons I used the most. It was the heavy weapons. In TNO there was a Heavy MG you’d find here and there. It was powerful, sure, but could only be picked up and not carried in your inventory, and slowed you down considerably. You couldn’t sprint and crouching reduced you to a snail’s pace, and interacting with anything would make you drop it. In TNC there’s 4 types of heavy weapons and they’re awesome. They still slow you down but nowhere near the TNO’s. You CAN interact with stuff and you can even sprint with them. Doesn’t sound like much but believe me, that makes a world of difference. Another thing that gives you an edge in combat is the contraptions. There’s 3 in total; The Ram Shackles, which allow you to bash through both weak walls and enemies alike, the Constrictor Harness, which allows you to sneak around in tight spaces, and the Battle Walker, my favorite, which is just some goddamn stilts. They let you get to higher places so its not anywhere as useless as it sounds, but also has perks, like the other contraptions. You’ll be able to tank explosions without falling over, make enemies freeze n terror at the sight of you, and even keep your overcharged health from going down, my favorite. Speaking of health, one thing that makes the newer Wolfenstein and Doom games is the lack of regenerating health. You have to find health and armor in the levels, and this returns in TNC. One addition though is instead of having to pick up stuff manually, walking over health and armor pieces will make you pick it up automatically, though manually picking them up like before is still an option. It admitting needs refinement but it works well enough. It’s nice after a firefight were I took a beating, I remember where a health pack or some armor was, I run to that location, and I already have some extra heath/armor on me when I get there from the bits that was lying around. While I did say that their isn’t much variety in the enemie’s designs, the designs that are there are good, and carry over that retrofuturistic asthetic I loved so much about TNO. My favorites are either the Ubersoldat, with is basically a Nazi T-800, or the previously-mentioned Zerstörer. Enemy behavior is much better in this game too. In TNO during a stealth section if an enemy ran into a dead body, they’d just move along like something happened. In TNC, enemies are much more sharp. Anything louder and light sniffle they’re hear and investigate, and if they find a dead body they go into high alert and start hunting for you. The levels are incredible too, truly feeling and looking like a 1960s America under Nazi control. The level layouts in this game are kinda funny. In TNO a new level was an entirely new location. In TNC, multiple levels are across one location. This is due to the levels being so much more vast than TNO if anything. My favorite level is either the Nazi base on Venus (the actual planet), or Manhattan, which was directly hit by a Nazi nuke in WWII and is now a desolate, irradiated wasteland. You could feel how thick and cancerous the air is, and the devastated buildings have their upper skeletons eerily bent and curled from the blast. Fallout fans will have a bit of deja vu going through it. All these locales help guide the story along, which like TNO before it is a standout part of the game. TNC takes place right after TNO more or less, after the main character, BJ Blazcowiz, is mortally injured in his big battle with General Deathshead. You’re saved by your resistance buddies before they nuke the place, but you’re still messed up. After 5 months in a coma, the game finally starts. With you shooting Nazis on a U-boat you captured previously in a wheelchair. For half the game the only reason you’re able fight again is thanks to a power suit wired to BJ’s brain. Even while you’re fighting BJ’s injuries are taking their toll. By his own estimate, he has weeks. Which is tragic to think about since in TNO, he met Anya Oliwa, a nurse who took care of him during a prior comatose, and eventual lover. By the time TNC rolls around, she’s heavily pregnant with BJ’s twins. Not being their for his kids is something BJ laments a few times, and you feel for him. Especially when you learn about his awful childhood at the beginning of the game. He deserves a good family, and it sucks he’ll never get that. And for a bit it really seemed like that he wouldn’t since midway through the game, BJ’s betrayed by his abusive, racist, Nazi-loving father who make his childhood such a shitshow, and is captured by Nazi forces. After a few weeks of parading "Terror Billy" The most horrible terrorist the world has ever seen according to the Nazi propaganda machine, BJ is executed in front of the Nazified Lincoln memorial to an audience of millions. Beheaded, it really seems like the game took a grim turn. Luckily due to the quick work of his aforementioned buddies in the resistance and some advanced tech, BJ is saved, if head slapped onto a new super soldier body. This brings up something that some reviewers had an issue with. TNC goes through a tone shift in story midway through the game. It starts out very grim and foreboding. Your base was attacked, the leader of the resistance is murdered right in front of you, America seems like it’s perfectly fine living under the Nazi’s boot, BJ is crippled and basically expecting death, and his unborn kids seem like they won’t have a dad. Even in gameplay things feel grim at first. Even with the power suit giving double armor you can’t escaped the halved health. You really feel like you’re playing a crippled character. BJ himself puts it out there pretty good. "I take it off, I’m afraid I’ll fall apart and all the pieces won’t fit back together again." Then he loses that body and gains one that can actually move on it’s own power and then some. BJ is basically reborn. stronger than ever. It makes sense that the game would kick up to a more upbeat tone. You’re a new man, more powerful than ever before. This can be done. You can save the world. This upbeat attitude peaks at the birthday party scene. Just before the final assault, it turns out it’s BJs birthday, so what do you and your resistance buddies do? Party like theirs no tomorrow, because for all they know there might not be. If their’s one thing I like in a story it’s reminding me that the character I’m playing and the characters around them are people, and not by just showing me their trauma and flaws. Every character in Wolfenstein already has those in spades. I’m more for seeing them having fun. Being happy. Enjoying eachother’s company. Take me out of the misery for once and remind me that their’s something good in the world. Not to say seeing smiles on their faces is what made them good characters. Every major character is pretty good in this game. Grace Walker, The new resistance leader and black revolutionary front member is pretty much a female Samuel L. Jackson. General Engel, The game’s antagonist, is the perfect villain in that you want nothing more but to see her get what’s coming to her. Super Spesh, Grace’s husband and crackpot alien conspiracy theorist, gives some good comic relief for the time he’s around. And Anya. Fucking Anya. Loyal, smart, and considering the crazy shit she does while carrying twins in her, may be more badass than BJ himself. And even with the grim beginnings don’t think this game takes itself too seriously. In one level, right after BJ monologues to himself about his imminent mortality, he (and us) get a first glimpse at the Nazi’s rocket-powered train system. Something he immediately responds to with basically "what the fuck?". After nuking the Nazi high command in fucking Roswell, BJ escapes on what’s pretty much the monocycle from Men In Black. Before BJ’s head is slapped onto his new body, it’s dropped in a jar like Futurama. That Venus level I mentioned earlier? You get there on a Nazi flying saucer. And again, stilts. One of your upgrades is big, stompy stilts.

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Also Known As: Elder Scrolls 4, The: Oblivion and Oblivion

Genre: Role-Playing, First-Person Action RPG Developer: Bethesda Softworks Publisher: 2K Games ESRB Rating: Mature Release Date: November 8, 2006

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Frostwyrm Bow

To get the frostwyrm bow, go to dive rock in the valus mountains, north east of cheydinhal. It’s difficult to get to because it is high up in the mountains, but I found a path by the camp of the master acrobatics trainer. When you get to dive rock there should be a tent and a sack near the edge of the cliff. Opent the sack an read the journal there should be some familiar names if you’ve played Morrowinds blood moon expansion package. The journal says that a couple went hunting for a monster called Uderfrtyke Matron. The journal says that the couple found the monster and it killed the wife of the couple and ate her whole ( the woman had the bow in her inventory when she was devoured so in case you were wondering, yes you have to kill the monster to get the bow) the man survived and wrote in the journal. Then he went back to kill the monster ( and yes, he died) after you read the journal go to the edge of the cliff and wait a couple seconds, it will say you discovered some new dungeon locations (this is optional)now go back the mountain using the same trail the monster should be running around somewhere along the trail. (it lookes like a blue troll) the monster is 100% immune to frost and has the chameleon ability, but is weak to fire kill it and take the bow from its remains – the bow has a 15 point frost damage.

Easy Way To Become A Vampire

All you need to do is travel to Skingrad go to the count’s chamber and get into a fight with him until you get a disease called Porphyric Hemophelia.

How To Get The Shivling Iles

The way to get the shivling isles for ps3 is to go to play station store and have 39. 99 funds on your network and buy the and on and then in a hour or 2 you wil have the shivling isles for ps3.

Best Blade

In the shivling isles there is a quest called a better mouse trap when you got to kill this people and at the end this dark elf gives you one of the people that you killed called dawn fang and the spell on the blade changes every hour or 2 from frost to fire or fire to frost and it tells how many people you killed and after you killed 12 or 13 it changes to dawn fang superior.

Steel Arrows

Inside the dark brotherhood hideout when the npcs r in their training room one of the characters will be shooting at a target. Just wait a second let her shoot a few arrows and take them. This can be repeated.

Landscape Climbing

Have you ever been playing Oblivion and you get a quest thats in the middle of the mountains for no absolute reason and no matter how hard you try the mountain stops you from getting to it. Well, for doing the glitch that has you jump over the castle walls so that the area does not load just makes everything invisible. If you do that glitch you will notice that the little bushes that are on mountains are still visible. That’s where landscape Climbing comes in. I found that no matter what mountain you are trying to climb just follow the bushes and you can never be stopped just try until you can get the hang of it. I found it really useful have easier more fun climbing.

Blunt And Blade Easy Level

Okay so first off if you have any magic weapons you want to level make sure your armorer is at least journey man other that all you need if alot of repair hammers and a spell that heals an oppents life on touch so to do this you need to goto the arena and get to the fight where you fight the grandchampion but before you offically fight him do the quest the orgin of the grey prince that he will give you personally after you do that quest and you goto fight him he will not attack thats where you set the difficulty all the way up and start attacking him go for as long as you want but make sure you constantly heal him this will work for bows and maigcka spells too and when you are finished just kill him off afterwards set the difficulty back to normal if you want.

The Flame Sword

To obtain the Flamesword You must go to the Chorrol Northgate and kill at least one person no guards with the blade of Woe then you will have the Flamesword.

Bound Weapon

To get a bound weapon go to the place near the mage tower where you make your own spell and when you start to make the spell select 2 bound weapons for the spell then cast it and drop the weapon you want then wait until the spell wears off. Then pick it back up and now you have a bound weapon.

Fun At Summitmist Manor

On the dark brotherhood quest whodunnit you will be told to kill everyone at summit mist manor without being seen. Travel to skingrad and find the place you be greeted outside by the doorman he will tell you that all the guests have arrived and you have to kill all of them, then he gives you the key to the house. Once inside matilda will talk to you tell her your an assassin and it will boost up her disposition ( she loves a good joke) then persuade all the guests to see how the guests feel about each other talk to matilda again and she asks to form an alliance to find the treasure tell her to look in the basement this will provide a spot for the murder after that talk to dovesi she is scared tell her to go rest upstairs (all guests except for neville will stay around the table fromthis point on)kill her while shes sleeping. Go talk to neville to send him upstairs to get his armor kill him once he’s upstairs the talk nels about primous he says he’s the killer and rushes of to kill him then you kill nels when hes through killing (note this could be played differently).

Becoming A Vampire

Okay there are a few ways at becoming a vampire the easiest way to do this is go into a cave or ayleid ruins, or you can wait until you have to find the boots of springheel jak for the gray fox toward the end of the thieves guild quests, but you will do this by attacking a vampire doesn’t matter what kind after you attack it just stand still it will come and attack you after it has made contact it will say you have contracted a disease then you will go and sleep for FOUR days and it will bring up a page like you have leveled up and you will gain vampire attributes.

The Pirate Ship

Okay if you wandering how you can get on the pirate ship on the far left in the imperial city waterfront, it’s easy all you have to do is step aboard the ship the pirates will then immediately start attacking you if they see you and make sure they do other wise this won’t work, when they begin to attack start running as fast as you can toward the other ship on your way there the guard will see you being chased and will begin to help you just stand back and let the guard take care of it it is entirely possible that the first guard will die and if he does when the pirates are dead you are completely free to loot his body, don’t attack the pirates if you do you will get a bounty.

Easy Way To Level Your Blade,blunt Or Marksman

Okay the easy way to do this is find a character that will not die he/or she just goes unconscious and as he/or she begins to wake and stand hit him again and do this repeatedly until you gain and advancement in the skill you are working, oh and go into sneak before you this so you get the 3x damage or 6x damage (you will not get bounty).

Use the Skeleton Key

When you get the skeleton key, a number of opportunities open. However, if you go for the main quest, eventually you’ll have to give it to Martin. But before you do that, join the thieves guild and it will be much easier since the skeleton key doesn’t break. Make the skeleton key useful while you can.

Easy Way To Travel Over Hills

If you have a horse (any horse will do) you can go over hills buy going strait up the hill as far as you can go then start going left and right while still going forward and you will go up the hill no matter how steep.

Good Training And Item Carrying

When you get the horse from the Dark Brotherhood, you can use it to get your exp. up. This can help with your Marksman, Hand to Hand, Blade, Destruction, and also help you carry more stuff. Just knock the horse out and search it. Put your stuff in there and he will carry it for you. Just knock him out again to get them back. (Note: after you knock him out once or twice, he will walk away.)

Duplicate Items

First, you need to have more than one type ofscroll, such as flare, hailstorm, etc. Go intoyou items and select that scroll twice(hit Xtwice). Then, go to the weapon/item you wantduplicated and drop it. you will have as manyduplicates of the item as the number of scrollsyou had.Note:this cheat may not work for all items, but itdoes work with the majority of them. Also, do notduplicate too many at a time, as your frame ratewill be so slow, you’d be better off restartingthe system. I’d draw the limit at 40 duplicatesat one time, but even then you will experiencesome lag.

Floating Paintbrushes

There are paintbrushes stored in random containers at various locations. If you take one out and drop it, it will not fall. It will just float in the location you were looking at when you dropped it. You can drop them in sets of two or more and use them as steps to reach high places. You can also use them as barriers between you and enemies.

Easy Kills In “Purifictation” Quest

While doing the “The Purification” quest for the Dark Brotherhood, use the following trick to easily kill some of the members in the santuary such as Ocheeva and Vincent. First, get your Disposition with them as high as possible, then sneak attack them with a dagger. Before they have a time to retaliate, propose a yeild. You can attack and yeild repetedly until they are killed.

Different Weapons In “Taking Care Of Lex” Quest

While doing the ”Taking Care Of Lex” quest for the Thieves Guild, you must scald the paper with Lex’s seal. Just beside the desk where the seal is, you will see a chest. If you come in the door directly behind the chest, you will get an Elven longsword, Glass longsword, Orcish helmet, and a Mythril shield. If you come in from the door upstairs, you will get an Elven longsword and Dwarven greaves. If you come in the exact entrance, you will not be able to open the chest.

Cure For Vampiricy

You must first have access to Arcane University. Go in and talk to the mage and he will tell you to talk to a man in Skingrad. Do as he says and run errands for whoever you need to talk to. Eventually you will be allowed to get rid of your vampiricy.

Feeding As A Vampire

If you have a good Sneak skill you can feed from a sleeping person without waking them.

Getting Desired Sigil Stones

While in Sigillum Sanguis (the Sigil Keep at the top of an Oblivion Citadel), save the game while standing in front of the Sigil Stone, before grabbing it. If you do not get the desired effects from the stone, load from the point before you grabbed it and try again. The Sigil Stone you get is chosen at random upon removing it.

Good Armor

At the beginning of the game after the King’s convoy is attacked, quickly take the dead guard’s katana and armor. This will make defeating the rats and trolls much easier.

Good Weapon

Fill a Black Soul Gem with a Human Soul. Take a weapon that is not already enchanted and give it fire, frost, or shock damage. Then, give a weakness to whatever damage you just gave it. When you swing it the first time, it will do the fire, frost, or shock damage, then give a weakness to it. The second swing will do a lot more damage.

Good Cheap House

Go to the city of Anvil, then go to the inn. Inside is a man whose name starts with a “B”. He is selling his grandfather’s old manor. You can purchase it for 5,000 gold, which is very cheap considering that most houses are 15,000 gold and are not as good. The house (at first) is ugly and haunted. However, after completing the quick quest the house will be fixed up without any additional payment.

Making Black Soul Gems

Take an empty Grand Soul Gem and a Soultrap spell to any of the four Necromancer lairs. There will be an altar which will only be active one day of the week. You may need to wait up to six game days. Place your Gem on the altar when it is active and cast Soultrap on it to make a Black Soul Gem. These are used for capturing the souls of NPCs. One is also required for one of the Daedric Quests as a tribute to the shrine.

Making Stolen Items Authentic

When you steal items, most of the merchants will not buy them. Use the following trick to authenticate them. Get in the jail and escape. Take your items authenticated or pay for your days in jail and you will have the items authenticated again.

Saving Lockpicks

When you go on a mission for the Thieves Guild, it is much easier to steal keys for all the doors from immobile guards or the owner(s) of the place you are robbing after you have leveled up your Sneak skill with the “Easy Sneak level” trick. After you steal the keys you can open nearly every door for the building you are in.

Easy Kills With Nord Race

Select the Nord as your race and choose The Lover as you star pattern. Get an enemy down a little bit in health, then use The Lover’s star pattern ability to stun them. While they are stunned, hit them with Nordic Frost. This will kill almost all enemies and works well as a finisher.

Easy Stealing

Get the Gray Fox’s mask and put it on. Steal something and wait for the guards to tell you, “Oh, you are the Gray Fox. I’m going to kill you” (or something similar). Select “Resist Arrest”. Then, go to your inventory and take off the mask. Exit the menu, then yield to the guard by holding Block and pressing X to talk to him at the same time. He should walk away. You will not have a bounty, and you will still have the stolen item.

Easy Lockpicking

While unlocking a door, press Up on a key, then immediately pause the game afterwards. Look at the tab you raised up. If it is mostly up and about to reach the top, resume the game and do it again. If it is mostly half-way or mostly down, resume the game and immediately press X. You should have that tab done. Continue on with the next tab. This might require a few attempts, but after you have done it once it should be easy.

Easy Ebony And Umbra Sword

Go to the Arena and get a few claymores. Then, go directly south of the Imperial Waterfront to a place called the Old Bridge. Move west and follow the road until you reach a ruin that starts with a “V”. Go inside and get past the minor creatures. You will find a girl named Umbra. There is one broken pillar in the room. Use the bench next to it to jump on top of it, then stand at the edge. Use a ranged attack to have her start attacking you. Then, take out the claymore and just start hitting her. She has a lot of health and does a lot of damage — do not fall off the pillar. If done correctly, you will have full Ebony and a great sword without getting touched.

Easy Conjuration Skill

Near the town of Bruna, go east, then southeast. If you reach The Red Ruby Cave you went too far. You will need to go back west slightly. You should see a shrine, that once activated, will give you Conjuration points as well as a temporary bound weapon and/or greaves. You can keep activating the shrine every 24 hours. Wait in front of it for 24 hours, then activate it again. Repeat this as many times as desired.

Easy Athletics Skill

Get an enchanted amulet, ring, or other item you can enchant with Water Breathing. Make sure it is a constant effect. Equip the item with Water Breathing, then jump in some water. Swim to the bottom, then hold [Up] to keep swimming into the floor. Your Athletics skill will greatly increase in just five minutes.

Easy Armor Skill

There is a woman named Arvena Thelas in the town of Anvil who has four rats in her basement (the same as the first Fighter’s Guild quest). If your level is high enough that rats do not cause you significant damage, you can break into her house, annoy the rats by punching them (or casting drain fatigue spells if your punch is too strong), then letting all four rats attack you while occasionally casting a heal spell. This is also useful for raising your Block skill, and is much easier than repeatedly causing summoned monsters to attack you.

Easy Alteration Skill

To get quickly increase your Alteration skill, make sure you have these spells: Open Average Lock, Open Easy Lock, and Open Very Easy Lock. Then, find a chest that you would normally need a key or have to lockpick. Use the opposite spell of the chest. For example, if the chest requires the easy spell, use the very easy spell on it. Make sure you have some Magicka potions or you can just wait an hour every time you exhaust your Magicka supply. In a short period of time you will have leveled your Alteration skill dramatically.

Easy Alchemy Skill

Steal a mortar and pestle. Steal a lot of food items and turn them into potions. It should not take too long to reach the Master level.Use the “Duplicate items” trick to duplicate two different types of food (such as apples and lettuce or other fruits). Try to get over 100 of each food. Then, use a mortar and pestle to create potions from the food. Repeatedly make potions as quick as possible with the duplicated food. When you run out of food to make the potions, just duplicate some more and repeat the process. It is possible to get your Alchemy skill to Master in ten minutes or less.

Easy Acrobatics Skill

While moving around on foot, just keep jumping instead of walking to your desired location to easily increase your Acrobatics skill.

Infinite Arrows

Go to the Bloodworks in the arena and find the gladiator that is practicing with his bow on a target. Stand close by him and when there are five to ten arrows in the target, take them before he does. He will just continue shooting when you move out of the way. This is an unlimited source of iron arrows, which can be sold to almost any merchant and therefore also makes an unlimited source of gold.Go outside of the Inn Of Ill Omen where the man is practicing his archery. He is using steel arrows. Go in front of him and pick up the arrows. He will not hit you and just wait until you move out of his way. You will not get into trouble with the guards. Repeat this as many times as desired.

More Easy Gold

Use the “Duplicate items” trick inside a store. Make sure the item you duplicate is worth a lot of gold. Sell all but one of the item that was duplicated, then repeat the process as many times as desired. It is possible to make up to 50,000 gold in a few minutes.

Infinite Gold

Go to the Talos Plaza District of Imperial City and find a house owned by a man named Dorian (Dorian’s House) in the southeast section of the district. Break into his house and find him. When he tells you to leave, kill him. Do not press X to loot him and take all. Instead, take each item individually, finishing with the gold, which will not run out once it hits 8 pieces. Just keep selecting the gold he is carrying and take it. Do this repeatedly, and the number of gold pieces remaining will freeze when it gets down to 8 gold pieces. It will not go any lower, but will just keep giving you as much gold as desired. Note: After you break in and he tells you to get out, talk to him. Go to “Persuade” and bribe him a lot. After that, kill him. He will now have more money to loot, which makes it easier to get more faster.

Infinite Recharge

Use the “Duplicate items” trick on a Soul Gem. Pick them all up. When an item is on low charge you can recharge it back to full without wasting money on Soul Gems or having to bother with soul trapping.

Infinite Health

Use the “Duplicate items” trick on a potion of strong health. Repeat the duplication to get the desired amount of potions. Open the inventory screen and go to the strong potion of health, then assign a hotkey to that potion. When you are low on health, just press the hotkey to use a potion. When running low on health potions, repeat the duplication process.

Duplicate Items

Equip a bow and any set of arrows, then draw your bow back. While it is drawn back, go to the inventory screen. Select the arrows that you are using, then go to the item to be duplicated. Drop the item, then leave the equipment screen and resume the game. The item that you dropped will be duplicated. You can pick up all the duplicates and use or sell them. The amount of copies of an item you make depends on how many arrows you have equipped. For example, 10 arrows allows 10 copies. This works with most, but not all, items and weapons. Note: Do not try to duplicate more than 250 copies of an item or the game may freeze.

Cheats

Currently we have no cheats or codes for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion yet. If you have any unlockables please feel free to submit. We will include them in the next post update and help the fellow gamers. Remeber to mention game name while submiting new codes.

Unlockables

Secret Treasure

Buy the house in Skingrad, then go to the top floor and look for the room with the deer mantle. Jump on top of the mantle, then jump again onto the loft design in the back corner. You will find an old note that has a riddle on it which leads to a treasure.

Unnamed Sword

Use the ”Duplicate items” trick on a paintbrush. After getting at least twenty paint brushes, go outside of ”A Fighting Chance” in the Imperial City Market District at midnight. Drop a paintbrush. Notice that it will float. Get on top of the brush and repeat the process to form a set of stairs. Once you get high enough to reach the top of the A Fighting Chance store, get on top of the building and look for a chest that is locked. The lockpick level is very difficult. Lockpick it and look inside to find an odd sword without a name. The sword has no attack, breaks easily, and cannot be sold.

Easter eggs

Currently we have no easter eggs for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion yet. If you have any unlockables please feel free to submit. We will include them in the next post update and help the fellow gamers. Remeber to mention game name while submiting new codes.

Glitches

Arena Glitch

When at the Imperial City Arena, go on the outside of the arena and drop a paintbrush. It will float. You will need about twenty paintbrushes and to that you will need to use the “Duplicate Items” cheat by having more than 1 of the same scroll. Once you have climbed onto the first paint brush, drop another and keep doing that until you create a set of stairs. Once at the top, you will need to jump into the arena, but save before you jump. If you do not live, then create another set of stairs going down. Once in the arena, you can do whatever you desire and to leave the inside of the arena, got to the Arena Blood Works Door and you will be back outside.

Super Glitch In Imperial City

Go to the imperial city and find some paint brushes and duplicate them. Then use them in the market district to jump on the roofs of the stores. Get near to a wall on top of the store and drop the paint brushes until you get to the wall, then jump over it(better have a lot of health and acrobatics if you want to live). you will notice that the walls have disappeared when you turn around. You can’t walk through where the walls were but you can shoot through them and the enemies can’t hit you. And if you look around the outside area it will all look different. The water in the river is gone and some of the area is also gone. And sometimes you will walk under the ground. The only way to undo this glitch is to either fast travel or go into a door.

Guides

Currently no guide available.

Trophies

Currently we have no achievements or trophies for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion yet. If you have any unlockables please feel free to submit. We will include them in the next post update and help the fellow gamers. Remeber to mention game name while submiting new codes.

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