One of the most unexpected and funny things I ever saw playing Oblivion was... (Tears of the Fiend needed to better understanding).

Nightfall, I was near an inn itself near Anvil although I'm sure it were not the one related to the mage's guild quest. So I thought as good idea taking a sip of cheap wine, hearing some gossip and going to bed.

Some 2 or 3 hours sleeping when I was waked by a fighter, more precisely a paladin of sorts that seemed to mistook me from someone he was hunting for bounty. Nothing I could say would convince him I wasn't who he was seeking and so he attacks.

Now, as the most boring gooddoer insipid character whoever stepped Cyrodiil, I yield, as I couldn't sense evil in him and he accepted. And so he did...

he did nothing, nothing at all, he just stood still and would not respond to dialog tentatives anymore, until ... until a mob composed by the innkeeper, a couple of imperial legionnaires and some customers came to the room and this started a fight no far west bar fight would be more proud.

And as the fighter was an essential good for nothing, the mess got stairs down, and I, the player and the PC too went after laughing and LOL. There the inn seemed to never had seem so much fun in all its lifetime and to make room and trying not being involved in the confusion I got behind the bar balcony.

Someway the fighter managed to reach the door and exit with the mob just behind his heel, and I went after... errr, I tried to went after when I was sudden aware I was stuck by a pillow, yes, not kidding, a pillow over the bedroll at the floor. I could do nothing to get hid of the cursed thing as the roof was low and not even crouching or jumping I could pass it.

Well, TCL and TCL and there I go ... I reach the door and after the load screen the party is not less animated, somebody had managed to steal the fighter armor (don't ask, but I'm pretty sure was the lady kajiit innkeeper).

At this time I was laughing to tears (fiendish and prophetic mod ), there were already two dead and the fighter was fainting but would not die...

PS: I reported this issue and seems Simyaz patched TotF so this shall not happens anymore.

I'm not native english speaker so I beg pardon for incorrect spelling and such

TWO of the weirdest things I've seen was in Oblivion.


1. I learned that they serve "Rat Ragu with Powdered Deer Penis" in Leyawiin (through coversation only)


2. In Chorrol, there is a dog-loving husband and wife. So, I break into their house. When I get in, the husband comes running down the stairs, fists raised. Logically, I think he's attacking me. Nope. He starts beating HIS pet dogs! One escapes out the door, but the other wasn't so lucky. When he tries to go outside, he attempts to open his door, but all I hear is the "Locked Door" sound, over and over, like a machine gun. It was quite funny, actually. Locked INSIDE of his own house!

the first above I didn't understood, but I think I know who you are telling in Chorrol, and confess ever suspected something weird there. I will verify this in the first opportunity

I can't help but wonder if some of the weirdness wasn't written into the program or if perhaps some mods cause strange things to happen.
Two Skingrad guards wandering in the IC. (have screen shots).
Two Imperial Foresters having it out with bows and yelling at each other....just west of Bruma.
One of the Alswell invisible people just south of Bravil, walking along the road.
Found a horse on the top of a large rock. Not sure how it got there, but took screen shot.
My favorite that happened to my PC: Every day, I have my PC eat and bathe (if there's water near) and anyway, while she was in a pool near Skingrad, a guard passing by waded into the pool, looked at her and said, "We're always on duty." I about died laughing when he moved closer and looked at her chest. I took a few screen shots and it gave me ideas for a mini series of photos.

Is this thread about Oblivion or gaming in general? I don't have any Oblivion stories, but i've got one or two from other games. I wanted to ask before I go and hi-jack the thread.

I placed it in the lounge exactly to open broadly to any game, you are welcome to bring us those more than strange things gaming arise

These foresters I saw too, although was north of Bruma and they don't give up just welling, when the things got too hot I sudden remembered I had important things to do somewhere far

This one of Alswell I don't saw, wondering why

The unhappy horse I think have something to do with trying scape being stole by certain lady with a interesting quest of bring horse shortage to Cyrodiil

I'd played WoW a while back and a friend of mine helped escort my level 20ish paladin through his first instance. My friend used one of his higher level priests so everything was going quite smoothly when we entered a dilapidated town swarming with a hostile faction known as the Defias Brotherhood. At some point during our walk through the town, one of them runs up with murder in his eyes screaming "Die, priest!" and proceeds to start whaling...

...on me.

I mean, he was nowhere near strong enough to take me down either, but I guess he got a better look at that level 60 priest and reconsidered his options.

Since we are allowed to mention other games....in Half Life 2, forgot what the area is called, but it's after the ant lions, and the woman (forgot her name, too) programs those tripod machine guns. Was moving a few of the guns for protection from all the combines that kept coming in, don't know how or why, but I had two of the same babe with me. Took screen shots. Yup, I'm a big fan of screen shot, especially for when things are unusual.

I was in Derelict Mine Level 3 in Oblivion, I grabbed this Goblin Totem Staff worth 7760 Gold, and I opened a nearby chest. Only to find out I had NO lockpicks AND it was a trap chest. It shot lightning at me and killed me one shot. I loaded my latest save which was back all the way up to Level 1 of the mine. I climbed all the way down, grabbed the staff, grabbed a lockpick, opened the same chest. This time it shot Fire Damage over Time. No prob, Healin' Pots I have, so I just went into the next room and opened a chest...

Only to find out I forgot to grab a lockpick, and the chest was a trap and shot lightning at me. Which killed me at FULL HEALTH!

I forgot to save too, so I had to load back at the start of the mine. Climbed down, grabbed the staff, unlocked the first chest, and got lightninged AGAIN.

Loaded back up, climbed down, grabbed the staff, ran back up with 20+ Goblins chasing me (Thankies MMM!). As I exited, I turned around when all the goblins came out, I fired Midas Sparks and sent them all flying over the cave entrance XD.

Well, for any FEAR fans among us this should be pretty funny(Gman, Freddy, I mean you). In FEAR there's a weapon called the HV penetrator. It fires large metal spikes at the enemys, and if you deliver the killing shot while the enemy is standing within a few feet of a static object, the spike will actually stake the baddie to it. Anywho, I was playing one day, and I had just managed to grab a penetrator when a pack of evil-doers decided that I was next on their hit-list. I managed to fire a spike into the face of one of them and he was promptly attached to the wall. With just two enemies left, they charged me. I leaned around the corner and started to pump multiple shots into the chest of the one leading the charge(they came at me, single file). Immediatley upon the first badguys death, my framerate hit a brick wall. For a few seconds the game froze completely, and just as I was about to press ctrl-alt-delete, the game unfroze. But somehow the leading enemy had just been tacked to the chest of his trailing buddy! The impact stunned the second badguy and he backed away from me, dragging the attached corpse of the other along with him! I laughed so hard I actually couldn't pull myself together enough to prevent them from killing me.

Ah yes, the Penetrator.

I like the Particle Cannon. One time (online), I got shot with one of these, but I got blasted by a grenade at the same time. The result was not pretty. I see my Skeleton half way in the wall (compliments of the Particle gun), and a spray of blood and meat shooting everywhere (compliments of the grenade).

Now, the funny thing was that as I died, I had a 'nade that I had thrown. As the death cam shows my body, I see someone tea-bagging it's remains. Then the 'nade goes off. Wham! His body goes flying into the wall where my body was, headfirst! Then, to add insult to injury, my dead, fried body has a physics glitch, and it looks like it's tea-bagging him! I just about died of laughter.

Oh, FEAR has some funny stuff. Even just seeing the Spike Penetrator stake someone to a wall for the first time was hilarious!

In FEAR, I once threw a grenade. And nothing happened. For some strange reason I still have not figured out, my grenade just vanished.....

In a game, Crash Bandicoot Racing or some such thing, you can fire homing missiles, right? Well, I fired three of them at an opponent once, and they just circled him. Around, and around, and around, while he raced across the track....

Great story Gman! And this isn't FEAR, but rather Halo3(and it happened just a few days ago too). I was playing 4on4 Team Deathmatch(slayer) on a large outdoor map(Valhalla). One of my teammates quit the game the instant it started so my team was down one player. Deciding that we wouldn't stand a chance unless we stuck together, we traveled closely at all times. We were making our way across the map, and as we rounded a large house-sized rock the team-mate on point managed to cry out "HOSTI---"(had been trying to say "HOSTILE!") before a sniper killed him with a headshot. While I scrambled for cover, my other teammate stopped dead in his tracks, turned to me and asked over team chat--"Whats a Hosti?"

And yes, the sniper then killed him while I pissed on myself from laughing so hard. And we actually managed to win the match 47 to 50!

A looooong time ago I'd played Final Fantasy VI. For anyone who's been under a rock for the last decade, FF games are a series of JRPGs produced mainly for console systems. This was for the Super Nintendo.

Anyway, I'd been progressing through the game normally when I encountered a new enemy: the Gold Bear. Now that game had some odd enemies, like Rhobites (which are essentially rabbits sitting on a head of lettuce) but this bear took the cake. For whatever reason, it's scripted to steal your gold then run. And not a little gold either. I mean you get messages like "Gold Bear stole 15798 Gold" and he doesn't even stick around so you can get it back!

It's so absurd it's hilarious.

Heh, just like the Half Life 2 crossbow. I loved that bridge map, staking the Combine soldiers to the walls.

I was just randomly starting again on the Elder Scrolls 4 - Oblivion and I came to one of the times where the mythic dawn attempt to assasinate the emperor. I killed one of them and they fell through the stone floor and you could see the agents legs and his hand which was sticking up from under the stone and his hand was waving. When it stopped I hit his hand and it started waving again! I found this hilarious. Don't know why but I did.

lets see i enterd one of the tows with a bounty on my head and off course a guard is hollering bloody murder and tries to make a beeline for me but somehow and for some reason he was elevated a few meters from the floor and half stuck in the wall
he keep running in the air and yelling at me but he didnt come any closer to me
..he didnt at least
the other guards did

That is not for the game itself, instead seems a thing from censorship... in the FF IV (Japan) Rosa (one of the main characters) is tied in a throne with a sharp pendulum above her head. In the FF 2 (US version of FF IV) it was replaced with a big rock meant to crush her... Seems some bright mind thought this way more 'secure' to little ones fantasy sanity. No, don't ask, I really don't understand

This is related to collisions issues, normally introduced by mods, and can render good 'weird' things, like people, creatures and so, sometimes stuck in walls, rocks, trees... you name

Once I saw an imperial legionnaire and her horse swimming near imperial city with no avail to move from where they were stuck. I closed and pushed then from several angles until they got free and completed the crossing (the horse was stuck in a submerged rock).

those same minds deemed it neccasary to remove all religious overtones from the games
or the female enemies from final fight

I can't remember her name, and I've never see her in Cheydinhaal, ever. A Dark Elf approached me, and asked what the fine was in Cyrodiil for necrophilia. She than proceeded to talk about it being accepted in Morrowind. My choices were "I don't know", or, “I’m not sure, but I think its 500". Okay, I've been playing Oblivion for about a year on XBOX and PC, and I had that only happen to me once, and very recently.

that one let me curious a lot. She is the owner of an alchemist shop and you'll find her sometimes near a cemetery or something like this around the city. Never discovered what or even if there is something more at this issue.

PS: Now I have something to do next time I play... follow her around a bit

i have encounterd her a few times
honestly i dont want to know what she does but i can imagine which is the problem
necropamncy and necrophilia ..brrr

could be the reason why necromancyis suddenly banned in cyrodiil
anyway the latets bizarre incident in oblivion just happend
i was fulfilling a contract for the dark brotherhood on mortierre the moment i 'killed' mortierre and hides his heartwas about to attack me an npc argonia appeared out of nowhere and aproached me as if i was in the middle of the street and proceeded to talk to me i could hold a normal conversation with her she seemed totally oblivious to being in a house where somebody was just killed
or where an assasin is trying to kill me when i ended the conversation she dissapeared and i coudl continue on my way

and i know this is no glitch i just find it amusing that the guards just leave glarthir's body in the street

That I saw today, Icewind Dale II, prologue. At the barricade the party see a group of men training slashing a barrel... so, humbly the leader points the trainees are doing wrong and so is invited to prove his concepts smashing the barrel. Once he does it and the party gains the XPs, the trainees begin do comment they don't have a barrel to train anymore, question if they are supposed to pretend striking the air, one other saying its just good since his arm was tired.... not for long as soon they are attacked by goblins and slaughtered.

Maybe was better letting they train, wrong or not would be a training ...

I just can't believe!
THERE ARE GIZKAS!!!