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Joshua Wolens

18 years on, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion's unmatched comedic timing is still enough to go viral

A man in armour snarls at the camera in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion.

Oblivion isn't many people's favourite Elder Scrolls game—that title usually goes to either its predecessor or successor—but it's unquestionably the funniest. Yes, Morrowind had The Lusty Argonian Maid and Skyrim sent you to the Moon every time a giant took a swing at you, but Oblivion's technology and acting combined in perfect alchemy to produce effortless comedy entirely without trying.

It's so good, in fact, that clips of the game's unintentional comic genius have gone viral on Twitter over the past few days, after a tweet from New Blood's Dave Oshry called attention to an accidentally hilarious Vinesauce video (posted by another Twitter user, NotRollingTim) of the game's Whodunit quest, in which the paranoid Neville absolutely annihilates Nels the Naughty with a blast of lightning. 

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