By: Samantha White
Submitted: 2010-05-04 18:03:21 | Word Count: 611
The good thing in Oblivion, Elder scrolls is that almost every class is able to do some magic. There are many different types of magic in Elder Scrolls, however you need to have certain skills with them in order to use them. The skills grow as you use that particular skill, so if you fight with your sword, you tend to fight with your sword for the rest of the game. However, whenever you want to change your fighting style, you are free and even in some manners, encouraged to do so! The easiest spells that you can do are the ones who costs least and your skill advances faster from lowest skill levels. However, as your skill gets high, it becomes harder and harder to gain any skill. This is of course most commonly applied for melee fighting skills such as blunt, blade, hand to hand, block and such. For spells, you are given the chance to use better spells, which make you advance in the skill line with bigger jumps.
Spell casting in Oblivion can be considered, good or bad when thought of different sides of it. It is not like the same way people cast spells in various games. Standing in one place, saying magical words, taking some time preparing the spell cast, and finally letting it go. Any type of spell is cast instantly in Oblivion IV, Elder Scrolls. You just need like, one or two seconds to cast a spell, since all you do is making some glow in your hand and throw it forward. Even though i am contend with either way of casting these spells, some people have certain ideas about it. Most people, especially those who tend to play the game for its fantasy role playing possibilities, think that this kind of spell casting is extremely unrealistic and unnerving. As it would look silly for someone to cast spells without vocal components, or the proper talents for casting it silently. Even if he had the talent, excluding the fact that even a warrior who have not seen magic in his entire life can cast it that way, he would need some time to focus on the spell he or she is casting, and prepare it before releasing it. Otherwise, without proper preparation, the spell would either be failure or without any effect. Since spells are cast by the force of will, concentration is the most important thing, that is why you also need to stand right where you are and do not move until you cast the spells. Most unlikely, even the mobs we encounter in the Oblivion IV Elder Scrolls tend to kite us, if we happen to be melee fighting classes. They run back and send fire balls, frost bolts or lightning bolts on us, trying to keep the range. This is so stupid and annoying as it gets even harder to hit them, given the current circumstances are already impairing our chances.
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Maybe the most realistic part in spellcasting of Oblivion IV, Elder Scrolls, is that the spells we cast are not that smart to follow the target we meant for them. In most other games, it does not matter if the target moves after you cast the spell. Or even that if the target is moving while you cast the spell. You just need to face the right way in one hundred and eighty degrees, and the spell you cast will be automatically send to the target of yours. Maybe it is because of that Oblivion is not a third person combat strategy game that works in selecting abilities and which targets to use those abilities we have chosen.
