Oh, This Is Just Another Reply!
Hello, Forum!
#00: Uh, by the way, I think my first ever reply post, is to Dragon Wench's post about armor.
#01: But anyway, oh man! I read to the end to see it has a sad ending! My sympathies about your X-Box problems. My brother has one, and when I visit him, that's how I play "Oblivion" using an X-Box. At home I play on a PC that I got for Christmas 2007 I think it was. So I would be so frustrated if something bad happened to my character's save game file that I have on my brother's system!
#02: There is a "Ring of Chameleon 100%" to be found. I think I've noticed that the differences between the one with Invisiblity, is that with Chameleon I spend less time falling into "Grey Space" and waiting to see where my character will end up!
#03: My PC doesn't have enough space to allow me to have more than one big game installed at a time. So for now, it is only about "Oblivion" for me. No more Sims, no more calls to duty, no more high speed races, no more cities to manage, no more civilizations to rule, et al. I suppose that there is enough cause for envy of people with console game systems. So at least you still have options, if you need a silver lining in your cloud.
#04: Oh, my old "Atari" reminds me that I could play it if I felt like it.
I suppose then my old SNES wonders why I stopped playing with it. (Midnight, she chewed through your cables, that's why.) My S.I.L., she gave me an arcade nostalgia game system, that I haven't played much either.
#05: Anyway, back to "Oblivion". Hmm. Character generation choices. Well, when I play as a male, I play as a male Imperial. The default "Bendo" sort of reminds me of me anyway, but I alter him a little. When I play as a female, I play for the Eye Candy factors only. In either case, it isn't so much about the "gaming" as it were, as about the "role playing", for I'm more about the story telling aspects, and I use the time spent playing as sort of research tool or source of inspiration for my writing. Something that I hope to get paid for someday. As for challenge itself, the challenge is to be able to do every quest without breaking my character's save game file so that he or she can't be played anymore, because I made an unfixable error. Like, doing a quest out of order in such as way as to be unfixable even with Console Cheats. I have limited space to make save files per character.
Anyway, an example is to get the "Boots of Springheel Jack" from the Earl of Jakben early on, without even being in the Thieves Guild.