Oblivion PC Orrery available

By Tom Bramwell Published 19 April, 2006

Proper Orrery-show.

Those of you playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion using a PC can download the extra content we talked about yesterday - and to add to the indignity of coming second to the Xbox 360 people in getting-it-quickly terms, you're paying $1.89 rather than 150 Microsoft points. Which is god only knows what in old money.

The quest you're buying is about nabbing some Imperial Orrery parts back off thieving bandits to help The Cause. Which is to rebuild an Imperial Orrery, obviously, and benefits you to the tune of some moon-based powers.

Quite what those are is best left to the people on forums to tell you - every time we expect to go and actually do some Oblivioning we're summoned back here to write about something new to do with it. Chances are it'll happen again, too - with Wizard's Tower DLC on the turboweb horizon.

Those of you interested in buying up the Orrery quest can do so at Obliviondownloads.com, where you can also buy the Horse Armour pack if you really want to trot around the land looking like some sort of enchanted rug salesman.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • smoison #1 6 years ago

    How about a patch that STOPS random crashing when loading....

    I can't believe this game got a 10. Gothioc 2 was better IMO.

  • Genji #2 6 years ago

    How about a patch?

  • Beano #3 6 years ago

    What about the Xbox 360 DLC pack in Denmark (and possible other countries) ??

    It's still not available here :(

  • justsomeone #4 6 years ago

    the most overrated game since...since...well, obviously since the last game that was really, really overrated. but still.

  • Thamuhacha #5 6 years ago

    How is it overrated?

    It's quite obvious that a very large number of people are enjoying it immensely.

    What's the issue?

  • gizmo #6 6 years ago

    Methinks those crying overrated either have a shite PC or no 360.

    Its bloody brill.

  • justsomeone #7 6 years ago

    overrated doesn't mean something's crap, it just means that something is rated higher than it should be. oblivion is a fairly good game, but it's not great and it's no 10.

    and no, i've got a kick-ass PC and pretty much the best gfx card that money can buy. graphics shouldn't come into it anyway, it's the game that counts.

    i meant c'mon, is it really *that* huge an improvement that you can block attacks, or that the screen does a shakey-shake when you get hit? clicky button sword waving isn't really a massive step forward in terms of gameplay.

    face it, it's just not that great. "a very large number of people" saw police academy 4, drink diet cola, read the sun, watch big brother, thought michael jackson was great and attend chris de burgh "gigs". ok, i went too far there, but the point stands, get over it.

  • w00t #8 6 years ago

    Difference of opinion SHOCKA!!!

  • smelly #9 6 years ago

    Yeah, but wot dont you like about it?

    I could bore you with a huge list of why i think its great, but am interested as to why u dont?

    Im not out to slag u off, just interested.

    Hey, why not post a review??

  • Thamuhacha #10 6 years ago

    And why does it have to be a massive step forward? What's wrong with just being really immersive, really big and very well put together?

    Based upon your comments ProEvolution 5 would have been reviewed as "2/10: Nothing new".

  • Rodafowa #11 6 years ago

    And Michael Jackson WAS great. Right up to the point where he went barking mad (say, pretty much everything pre-Moonwalker).

    But then I like Oblivion too. And Diet Coke. So perhaps I'm part of the problem.

  • Gallilee #12 6 years ago

    I'm probably an idiot, but when checking for downloadable content on the Oblivion main meny I don't see any extra quest.
    I thought Eurogamers announcement was for the european content?

    EDIT: Oh, this blurb was only for PC. Oh well, I have a lot to do anyway.
    Edited by Gallilee at 19/04/06 @ 17:12

  • kangarootoo #13 6 years ago

    They don't call it a quest, but there should be an item in the list that rambles on about a mages guild.

    Well, actually, I'm assuming its a quest. it could be an in-game book that tells a bold tale for all I know.

    EDIT: Oops, I didn't read your full post. I'm sure I have seen this on XBLive marketplace too though. Like last night I think (or maybe the day before, they all seem the same with Oblivion by your side).
    Edited by kangarootoo at 19/04/06 @ 17:42

  • Caffo #14 6 years ago


    Unfortunately, on Xbox live, this only seems to be for certain countries. While you people in the UK can get it, I cant get it in Ireland. Not that I'm all that interested in either the horse armour or the Orrery, but that wizards tower is so going to be my mages new gaff!

    Anyone in EG know when the rest of us are going to have the chance to fork over money for very little?

  • TheBard #15 6 years ago

    God that was awful. Two bucks down the drain. Seriously, if Bethesda continues with this crap, they shouldn't wonder why their reputation goes down the drain.

    But due to curious guys like me, they even make profit. Shame on me :-(

    I want a refund!

  • smelly #16 6 years ago

    @TheBard, Why whats up with it?

    Going by EG's description, it seems like just a boring treasure hunt, is it?

  • Drakron #17 6 years ago

    Well it first you have character get a note out of tin air (I shit you not) that says to go to some cap and get the stolen pieces back.

    Now there you kill the bandits and one have one piece and a "undelivered letter" that says were the other pieces are located, after going there and get rest of the pieces you go to the Arcane University, talk to the NPC and one day later the Orrey is fixed and after you activate it you get a crappy power (and I do mean crappy, you get to fortify one attribute at it drains another attribute for the same value, making the damn power utterly useless, expecialy since its duration does not seen to be very long) ... to add insult to injury it seens the bandits are all in outdoors camps so enjoy fighting at 15 FPS or less,

    The only thing good is seeing the machine working but worth 2$ ... not by any means.

  • smelly #18 6 years ago

    Meh I'll pass then.


    EDIT: Note to idiots : This is not me being a troll/fanboy or whatever of any system you now think i hate/love.
    Edited by smelly at 19/04/06 @ 20:34

  • Virgil #19 6 years ago

    I know and im sorry but im still not enjoyin' the whole "buy new quests" idea. Still some exec deserves a medal cos it's working.

    P.S. Dont start, i wont be paying for the quest