I Played More Oblivion (it's honestly a 9/10 game) | Asmongold TV

In this stream, Asmongold plays through the Dark Brotherhood questline in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, a game he first played as a teenager. Over the course of several hours, he infiltrates the Imperial Prison, commits insurance fraud by faking a man's death, tracks down a drug-addicted high elf, and poisons a warlord—all while managing a sudden case of vampirism. The episode is less a structured argument and more a live demonstration of why Asmongold believes Oblivion holds up as a "9/10" game, even with its dated mechanics.

The Case for Oblivion as a 9/10

Asmongold's central thesis is that Oblivion succeeds not because of its gameplay, but despite it. He acknowledges the combat is clunky—"gameplay is so 2006," he says at one point—and that higher difficulty settings don't add challenge, only tedium: "It becomes a chore in high difficulty. There's just no real gameplay, right?" Yet he argues the game's strengths lie elsewhere: its aesthetics, environmental design, and immersive world. "I play plenty of shitty games," he notes. "If they have great aesthetics and great environment, then that's what matters too." For Asmongold, Oblivion compensates for mechanical shortcomings with a sense of place and purpose that keeps him engaged. He contrasts it with newer games he finds less compelling, saying, "Usually most games that I play are bad, and it's good to play