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How in the ... oh, right. I knew The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was a glitchy game, but hot damn, this is insane.

Almost every speedrun out there involves some sort of exploit in order to shave off precious seconds of game time (or in this case, hours), and the Oblivion speedrun located above is no exception.

By falling through the map, the speedrunner is able to initiate the game's final quest, completely skipping all of those pesky fetch missions.

While the video has no sound due to its creator being cheap and using demo software, it's still one to sit through.


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b33b3s's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 20:19
b33b3s
Pah! I beat it in 10 minutes once.
pendelton21's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 20:20
pendelton21
I like my speedruns with more Samus and less cheating.
GoS-CPT-Stewart's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 20:30
GoS-CPT-Stewart
Wow... How the hell do people figure this stuff out? It took me like 80 hours to beat the game (Including all of the guilds)
Triox's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 20:32
Triox
http://speeddemosarchive.com/Morrowind.html

7:30 and yes, abusing glitches but hey, so what :)

@b33b3s - pics/video or it didn't happen :p

Furthest I have gone before getting bored, full set of glass armour... er, not even sure what level that was but meh, may get round to beating it t some point, probably not though...
Clockwork's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 20:34
Clockwork
I peed.
Brian Keljore's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 20:43
Brian Keljore
Bleh, Speed runners ruin the fun of games.
Cartman's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 20:45
Cartman
Theres a vid on youtube of a guy who got a paint brush, used the ol' duplicate glitch and made a stairway of paintbrushes to the top of the imperial tower, which initiated the end battle of the game. Obviously not 11 minutes, but impressive nonetheless. also DONKEYCocks
keefles's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 21:01
keefles
Old video...

and in french, so its double fail!
TheNakedAnt's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 21:23
TheNakedAnt
GROSS!!!!!




French...
TurboSpaz's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 21:32
TurboSpaz
I've never played Oblivion, but that ending was epic! Too bad it cut out halfway.
PockyBum522's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 21:35
PockyBum522
Pretty sure there was a TES III Speedrun very similar to this. I love it!
Volomon's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 21:39
Volomon
Why the fuck is this news? Are you going to back catalog every game cheated quickly?
Triox's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 21:49
Triox
@Volomon - If it was Jim I wouldn't be surprised but hey, we can hope... we can but hope... :)
Jordan Devore's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 21:59
Jordan Devore
As a matter of fact we are. We spun a giant wheel that lists every game ever made, and Oblivion just happened to be the one that the ticker stopped on.
Eschatos's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 22:04
Eschatos
Damn. Now I want to see a speedrun without using glitches/cheats.
gomeja's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 22:08
gomeja
I haven't watched the video, but jesus freaking christ. I've spent over 100 hours playing oblivion and I've never even made it into the first gate.
Im OK's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 22:21
Im OK
I played this game for over 250 hours (vanilla, no mods, official or otherwise) and still didn't finish it. I tried it again later from the beginning with KotN + Shivering Isles + a crap-ton of user mods + a new graphics card, and got about 2 hours in before a soul-crushing sense of being utterly overwhelmed settled in on me and I stopped playing. I almost fear this game as much as I fear MMOs, which is a shame because it's otherwise awesome. I fully intend to go back one of these days and actually beat the damn thing, once enough time has passed (and I can find a spare six months or so when I don't have a billion other newer games waiting for me to play them).

I have no comment on the speedrun. Whether it's from using cheat codes or using glitches, if it's not a legit run I don't care.
SourGr8pes's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/29/2008 23:54
SourGr8pes
Real gamers do it glitch-free
KorJax's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 00:15
KorJax
This is kind of stupid really. All he did was one simple little thing of falling through a building to activate the end-game trigger prematurely.

Want to see a really fucking impressive speed run? Half-Life 1 in 30 minutes.

And, it has sound:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/79980.html
Archeron's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 00:30
Archeron
Lame video is lame.
nebones's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 02:12
nebones
hax
Jetsetlemming's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 03:41
Jetsetlemming
That was entertaining, fuck you haters. I never expected the flying object glitch from HL2 would be in Oblivion. :D
TheToiletDuck's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 04:51
TheToiletDuck
@Grim

Grim, I want to buy your wheel
cerebud's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 06:35
cerebud
@thenakedant: Where did you get that amazing sig pic??
hoezee's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 06:51
hoezee
I love speedruns.
But not Oblivion.

@KorJax: you people do as he says and watch that half life run.
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 07:25
Char Aznable
@Im OK

Yeah, I hear ya about being overwhelmed with Oblivion. I felt the same way, so I had to limit myself to just doing the guild quests and a few of the cooler looking other quests (The two guys trapped in the dream world and in the painting). I just don't have the time to do EVERYTHING.

I'm like 3/4 through the game, it seems, but I'll have to put that on hold for a bit because of Soulcalibur IV and some other stuff.

It took a lot of restraint on my part to not watch the very end of that speed run. I really want to know how this game ends.
savagesaladin's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 09:00
savagesaladin
Not a speed run if you cheat. But thats an interesting glitch.
Nogarda's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 10:30
Nogarda
i still prefer morrowind. levitate, and the ability to legitly steal the best armor in the game more or less as quickly as thius video is even better rather than leveling up unlocking it all.

I guess the right question to ask, is how the hell did people find that glitch? fair enough i understand getting into the building to be a glitch but for it to initiate the end sequence?
The Bozz's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 10:43
The Bozz
At first I also was overwhelmed by Oblivion. Many friends who've tried the game have stopped playing it because they felt "too free". But when I finally picked a character I liked and started doing the main quests I got completely hooked... I spent a whole summer playing it!

Damn you Destructoid, now I want to play it again!
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 10:51
Char Aznable
@The Bozz

lol Yeah, seeing it mentioned on Dtoid like 8 times last week gave me a serious craving for some Oblivion. I spent quite a few hours this past weekend immersed in that game. It's crazy how much I lose track of time in the real world while playing this.
akathatoneguy's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 10:55
akathatoneguy
I love Oblivion. Love it. I don't know if I'll ever be fully "done" with the game. I have put almost 200 hours in, and have done most of the sidequests, including some of the guilds, but not all. I finally had to just beat the main quest to see how it all turns out. I still have to check out Shivering Isles and KOTN!
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 11:00
king3vbo
Not a true speedrun if you use a glitch
Big Z's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/30/2008 11:26
Big Z
I get overwhelmed by Oblivion very easily if I don't dedicate myself to a specific task or chain of quests. I devoted about a week to the Dark Brotherhood quests, and I went from there to the main quest. I'm pretty far into it, but I've been derailed in an effort to explore the Shivering Isle. The broad array of mods I'm using has made the game quite interesting; though every mob in the game is much tougher than in vanilla, I've got new tools at my disposal to make up the difference.
revjake's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 01:43
revjake
i wasted 100 hours on that damned game
psychopathic's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 03:18
psychopathic
wish i woulda known that
Kryptinite's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 08:33
Kryptinite
so that's how it ends...sweet.
cerebud's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 13:03
cerebud
Dude, who is that chick??
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