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- NonLeftistDiggr, on 10/23/2007, -3/+28This is the most addictive game I ever played in my life (except maybe mario when I was 8). I couldn't stop playing it, then one day my interest dropped like concrete in water. I haven't even finished it yet.
- whatthefu, on 10/17/2007, -3/+22PC gamers why do you have to make me feel ***** for only having consoles to play games on :(
- Lane, on 10/17/2007, -0/+17I love that Oblivion is so easy to make it the game you want it to be. No structure or urgent you have to do this now plot interruptions. For the PC this is just one of thousands of add ons which can be downloaded, content is abundant and easy to install.
- delightfuldemon, on 10/17/2007, -9/+20For us PC gamers: http://elderscrolls.com/downloads/updates_plugins_ ...
- Racerx52, on 10/17/2007, -0/+10You missed out on the greatest thing that game offers. The dark brotherhood.
- coheedcollapse, on 10/17/2007, -0/+9Draw distance is pretty damn decent for the PS3. Only second to the computer from what I understand (with the extra time between the launch on the 360 they developed some new ways to draw that stuff). Framerate has never bothered me either.
Also, from what I know, they're still working on getting oblivion expansions to work on the PS3. I haven't booted mine up to check, but I still doubt that it's available just yet. (I could be wrong though) - Lane, on 10/16/2007, -2/+10On PC you can mod the game to render everything in the world in full detail if you so choose to provided your pc is a higher up gaming rig. I am assuming your on a PS3 then as fps draw distance and such arent an issue with pc at all.
- ORiONXxX, on 10/18/2007, -1/+8you win the run-on sentence award
- ScottoGato, on 10/17/2007, -1/+8Morrowind blew me away the first time I played it. Like yourself, I was not expecting much. One of the best Xbox games ever.
I got Oblivion as my first Xbox360 game, and I definitely like it. It's not as mind blowing as Morrowind, but it's a damn good game. - tuxidomasx, on 10/17/2007, -0/+6same here
i did all the guild quests instead of the warrior one
and i closed like 5 gates so far
then then i just stopped. i kinda have a good reason tho-- i wanted to finish it on my new hardware. my processor was bottlenecking my rig, and the average frame rate was only like 25 and i couldnt take it - tehpwnrate, on 10/17/2007, -2/+8http://elderscrolls.com/downloads/updates_plugins_ ...
Digg destroyed his link. Don't blame delightfuldemon! - popothebright, on 10/17/2007, -1/+5Tudor houses. Deer. Butterflies. A paltry 3 guilds. Corsets. Map Travel. ...and no Flying.
That's what replaced Morrowind's Under Skarr, Propylon Indexes, Slit Striders, Floating Jellyflsh, Giant Mushrooms, The supercool Ministry of Truth, Underwater Chasms, Levitation, Mongolian Yurts, Palaces made entirely of giant twisted plants, exotic architecture and cities of giant floating cantons.
Oblivion was fantasy for dumb people.
Lesson learned: Dumb people are one hell of a great market. - keyboardashtray, on 10/18/2007, -9/+13Everyone burying the Oblivion bashers needs to know that Oblivion was built on the tears of die hard fans of the Elder Scrolls series. We waited through delays and empty promises to get the heaping pile of commercial trash that was Oblivion, only to see Bethesda's selling-out succeed brilliantly. They took perhaps the most immersive RPG series ever and turned it into a FPS with swords. And while most of the die hard fans were screaming bloody murder, Oblivion won positive review after positive review and awards.
In and of itself Oblivion might be an OK game, but it was death to an even greater series. - anillop, on 10/19/2007, -2/+5Actually i played the hall out of them both and I think Oblivion is by far the better game.
- Cloned, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3I only recently got introduced into the Elder Scrolls when I borrowed Oblivion. I thought it was going to be an alright game, but I only saw everything I was missing. I'll have to borrow it again so I can play this.
- inactive, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3Same here. I'm gonna have to burn a new disk though :(
Damn Bethesda! Why can't they just leave the game alone like everyone else instead of continually adding features and content and stuff for free to make the game better!! - brufleth, on 10/17/2007, -1/+4"OMG what do I do? Oh I click the mouse furiously...just like I've been doing for the last tens of hours of game play."
It was a hack and slash game. Unless you loaded mods you could only really have one magic ready for quick use at a time. Mostly you just clicked to swing your weapon a lot. It was so damn boring. - adamclif, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3Done. Already immortalized in my Oblivion add-on collection.
- DrewBlood, on 10/17/2007, -1/+4I just downloaded the update to my 360. Not sure what you're sad about.
- dadioflex, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3I think I finished the game on about my fifth character build. The same happened with Morrowind and all the expansions - I never completed a single of those main quests. And yet all told with the mods available I must have clocked close to 1000 hours between both games.
I'm hoping FO3 has the same value for money but when comparing what's to do in-game Morrowind > Oblivion by a good stretch, so my worry is that FO3 will be prettier but shorter and with less going on. - MrFisty, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2Same again. I spent soooo much time exploring every cave then one day just sped through the remainder just to finish it. Haven't played it since. After a while, most of the caves, forts, ruins etc just feel the same and you wind up with more ebony battle axes than you could ever need.
With that said, I'm really looking forward to the next separate installment in the series. - brufleth, on 10/16/2007, -3/+5Comments like that get you dug down but Oblivion was over rated to be sure. The characters were stiff and boring in an attempt to be realistic, the game play was repetitive and lacked a sense of progress and after trying to get into it a few times I finally just ditched it because I was bored out of my mind. Even playing with mods and such only added a couple hours of interest.
- tehpwnrate, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2Same exact thing for me! Except this has happened to me a few times. And when I start again, I always end up with a new character :/
I think it's partially because it takes so long, that something happens in your life that makes you forget about it for a while. - McGrude, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2Just a new house. A nice house, but just a house. There are only about 5 marauders to kill, then about 6 items to buy to upgrade it. costs about 30k gold to fully upgrade.
- warriorscot, on 10/17/2007, -3/+5You get vastly more games on the PC and they cost significantly less and multiplayer started on the PC and it is still great on the PC and not at all difficult for someone to use and that little bit easier on a 360 is not worth mods or having to play shooters with a pad. And if you think it isn't worth mods you must be mad look at all the mods that are not only good but sometimes better than the games they are based on and the ones and some of the best games on consoles and PC started life as PC game mods.
PC gamers go on about it because it is just so obvious and they are trying to save you a bit of cash as well consoles are stupidly expensive in comparison to PCs it doesn't look it but over the course of their lifes the console will cost you allot more and no guarantee your games will work on your new console either. - Pandalume, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2Same with me. I think I lost interest after I thinking about how many Oblivion Gates I would have to close to finish the game. They got old quick for me.
- Cossa, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2Yes. My old PC ran this incredibly well at 1920x1200 (maxxed out settings). That was a Athlon 3500, Geforce 7800GTX and 2GB. A computer w/ that kind of spec would be considered medium tier or even lower end mainstream now. Running FRAPS I was typically in the 40-60FPS. I would imagine that newer PCs would be even smoother. However, that said...for whatever reason I chose to switch over to playing the game on the 360. The controls just seemed to be more "console oriented". It looked prettier on the PC, but I enjoyed the gameplay better on the 360. Same w/ Bioshock.
- combatchuck, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2Do they even make a computer that can run this maxed at 1920x1080? I have a fairly decent computer and it chugs at around 30 fps with detail down.
- JMZen, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2I didn't beat it myself, but my girlfriend did (with concentrated effort) in about 2-3 weeks. It not short, and it definitely feels rewarding, but it's not incredibly long, either.
You get to see HUGE dragons fight it out. :D - bigfatpaulie, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2Downloaded it, but haven't tried it out yet. Is it any good? Any new quests like Knights of the Nine & Shivering Isles, or is it just a new home like Deepscorn & Frostcrag?
- geoffreyireland, on 10/16/2007, -1/+3I still hold Oblivion in my top 5 games of all time.
The PC modding scene makes it better and better every day. I have installed and uninstalled it twice but still have my savegames because I know I will be going back to it sooner or later. Shivering Isles wasn't great though. - ScottoGato, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Yeah, I finished the guild quests for that pretty consecutively. I just wish there was more quests...well, more killing and not being a Listener.
- hockyfight, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1HAHAHA ive played and finished all the quests in the game except the last theives guild quest (including this one which i finished this morning) and im at 109 hours so i think your gonna have to play a bit more if you wanna get close to finishing it. sucks theres no definitive ending though.
- EuphopiaB, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Same. I played it for easily 60 hours, got the Shivering Isles expansion and installed it, went to bed, then just never loaded the game back up after that. For some reason I'm not interested. I am hoping that some time in the future my interest returns as it usually does so I can finish the expansion.
- NonLeftistDiggr, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1I'm at 80 hours, don't want to do thieves quest, all that is left is the final one, out of the major quests.
- Myonosken, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Morrowind pissed me off actually. It just didn't make sense that I'd hit a crab 4 times and nothing would happen.
- munkyxtc, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1I'm still trying to get my hands on the GOTY edition so I don't have to download the $30 shivering isles expansion
- BugMeNot2, on 10/16/2007, -1/+2Same thing for me, too...
I played around 20 hours of the game, just wandering around and looking at scenery, doing the occasional quest, then one day I just stopped playing the game. Now I just boot it up whenever I want to test my hardware. - Scira, on 10/23/2007, -0/+1I don't have oblivion, but in morrowind it was so great to peg down cliffracers with my crossbow, or levitate just out of reach of enemies and start jabbing them with my spear. Or my other common guy was somewhat of a monk even though he wore medium armor. He would pull enemies with throwing knives and would subdue them with hand to hand. and while they were gasping of the floor I would be giving them a beatdown with my staff.
Is it fun doing those thing in oblivion? - coheedcollapse, on 10/16/2007, -7/+8Shut up, elitist. It might not be as incredibly deep/advanced as Morrowind was, but it's still a damn good game.
- uberlord, on 10/17/2007, -6/+7Because we need to make it clear, that what we lose in quantity of games, we make up for in the quality of the game and mods are the main reason for that.
From a former PC gamer, and still less intensive PC games, you're not missing out on too much. Having both is good, but IMO, sacrificing multiplayer and ease of use for a PC is not worth the mods. I built my computer with Oblivion in mind, then bought a 360 for Mass Effect, Halo 3, and Gears of War - Scira, on 10/23/2007, -0/+1Because they need to make up for what features they took out of the last installments.
- tuxidomasx, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1no i didnt. the only guild i havent done is the warriors one.
the assasins guild, aka dark brotherhood, was the 2nd one i did. - Subassy, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1I guess this is common. I built a new PC with Oblivion in mind. I played it a while, closed maybe one gate and then just stopped. Of course I was trying to record my progress at the same time so it was slowing me down. At least if/when I go back to it I'll have a fairly detailed account of my progress. I was trying to make a stealthy archer type character. Maybe I should play the 360 version for all the achievements.
- frieddonuts, on 10/17/2007, -2/+2It's for the XBox and PC. Now for PS3 owners...I want a Colovian stronghold too! :(
- hollismb, on 10/16/2007, -1/+1How long is the main quest in Oblivion? I bought the game, did a bunch of side quests, but never actually went into the first town to start the quest. Then I traded in the game. So, I'm just kind of curious how many hours the main quest is.
- SteViLx, on 10/20/2007, -0/+0Same here. After I beat the Main Quest line, I just stopped playing. It's not because the game became boring, I just lost interest for some reason.
- MRintheKeys, on 10/16/2007, -0/+0I agree. The one where you have to find the cat looking dude (sorry, haven't played it in a while) in the city of Burma. That mission drove me crazy. By the time I did actually find the guy, I spent the next hour chasing him around the village with the guards chasing after me.
- HigherLogic, on 10/17/2007, -5/+4I don't understand, I played Oblivion on my console Xbox...
- Azumoth, on 10/17/2007, -2/+1Knowing I'll probably get flamed for this, but I'm not totally impressed with the going away content. It seems like they didn't spend a lot of time putting something together, and sadly enough a lot of the community castle mods looked better. Maybe it is just me, but I was hoping for a big going away bang from Bethesda. Thank god for the Oblivion community for making the game what it is.
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