What moments in Oblivion gave you goosebumps?

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What moments in Oblivion gave you goosebumps?

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To me, hearing the music at the start-up menu gives me goosebumps lol.
In the storyline I would have to say before the Battle of Bruma takes place
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I'd have to say the Entrance into the Imperial City when the Daedra attack it...I really didn't know what to expect at all.

Also, the second to last room against Umaril as the Divine Crusader when time seems to stop and there's no sound. That gave me really bad goosebumps.
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Anywhere with snow or ice. Brrrr! :P

Actually, I never get goosebumps from games (or TV or movies, for that matter), however horrific or scary. I always know "it's only make-believe" and I'm not hurting anyone or anything because "they're only pixels". :wink:
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On-topic: When Intro movie starts (if you're idle in menu for too long), because of the increased volume and the music that starts to play.

(a little) Off-topic: Oblivion never gave me goosebumps, Morrowind neither. These are not the type of games, where storyline (or side quests) are really good. It's just average game, but with above-average (Oblivion) and superb (Morrowind) RPG system.

(a lot) Off-topic: What gave me goosebumps was scene in Final Fantasy X where
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Tisud learns that summoner (Yuna) is going to die when summoning the final aeon. Another one from this game is final scene.
There are really intense feelings in those scenes and, sorry guys, Oblivion can't do even 50% of what FFX has done.
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I was never really that nervous when playing most of Oblivion; however I've started a new character to do the Thieves' Guild. Now that does make me jumpy: the constant hammering of "detect life"; the sneak / run / sneak / run combination; the [Pinky]We're getting away![/Pinky] after grabbing the items... proper scary.
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For me it's the Purification Quest of the DB where you...
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Have to kill everyone!
and even worse when you return to Applewatch and find out that
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They killed Lucien!
There aren't a whole lot of other things that gave me goosebumps, well, there is the thing that that lives in Greenmead cave! It always just activates my "AAAH GIANT SPIDER!" reflex.
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Re: What moments in Oblivion gave you goosebumps?

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Anytime an enemy sneaks up on me :shock:
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I would have to say the Tears of the Savior quest. It was probably mostly in part to the glitch where one of the tears was unattainable and my character trying to go multiple times across the pond and taking cold damage that nearly killed him on every run.
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in order of what gave me goosebumps the most:
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1. "father prayed and guess who came the hooded man in Sithis' name...." (which is to say, the traitor's diary)
2. "Your blood turns to ice as a familiar shadow approaches."
3. The moment i realize I'm completely outmatched.
4. Popping out of that painfully long (and painfully painful) underground crypt in the Ultimate Heist into the room FULL of sleeping guards.
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I have another:
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When you are looking for the traitor in the DB quest line, you find his diary and literally some of the pages are like:

KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM
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Farlace wrote:I have another:
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When you are looking for the traitor in the DB quest line, you find his diary and literally some of the pages are like:

KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM
:shock:
Yea i got to say that kinda gave me the chills
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For some WEIRD reason, i was really scared in the fort where The Gray Prince's dad lives. I had never been scared in forts before and im not sure why i was scared in this particular one :mrgreen:
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RedSithis wrote:For some WEIRD reason, i was really scared in the fort where The Gray Prince's dad lives. I had never been scared in forts before and im not sure why i was scared in this particular one :mrgreen:
Lol I get what you mean
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DB Lighthouse, easily.
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Twilight wrote:DB Lighthouse, easily.
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The two times that I remember:

1) the first time I played Oblivion and left the sewers, it was a "wow" moment along with goosebumps.
2) the second time is similar to the first, when I first left Chorrol and at one point could see Skingrad at a distance, the realisation that I could walk there was another goosebump moment.

This was one of the first open world games I played so I was easily impressed :)
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1:First moments of Shivering Isles.....the butterflies,the explosion of colors,everything left me speechless & tingly
2:When an Oblivion Gate opened on top of the bandit house while I was exiting it
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Whenever I went into the Oak and Crosier's basement I got a little bit put off by the misplaced Dungeon music.
i never went in there again.
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No moments in Oblivion feel epic, the graphics look kinda cartoony to me (I don't care about graphics...but for an RPG they do matter, hard to get immersed in a 8bit 2D pixelized world), I would say the battle for bruma is the best part but even that its like "AFTER GATHERING A GIANT ARMY, YOU ONLY HAVE 4 GUYS -trollface-"
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Opening the door in the sunken ship to free the Forlorn Watchman. The skeleton kinda made me jump.
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RedSithis wrote:For some WEIRD reason, i was really scared in the fort where The Gray Prince's dad lives. I had never been scared in forts before and im not sure why i was scared in this particular one :mrgreen:
Oh yes. I'm not usually frightened by angry shirtless people, but Gray Prince's dad scared the crap out of me.
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All undead and all dungeons! I find myself very susceptible to creepy sounds. :oops:
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The Dark Brotherhood quest, in which you go to that lighthouse, with the mother's head.
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The moment where you enter the DB Sanctuary for the first time kinda gave me the chills.
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