Oblivion out today

In other words, the game is an even bigger piece of shit than we originally thought?

Great. Just great. It's good to know that Fallout license is in such good hands.

 

LMAO!

This is exactly why I won't be buying Oblivion. I don't need to buy shit and test it out, to know it is going to be a pile of crap. The fact that its a Bethesda product, should be enough for most people to know that they shouldn't waste their money.

The whole gaming industry is and always will be based on hype man. I guarantee that every further installment of the Elder Scrolls series, will promise all sorts of cutting edge features and graphical enhancements. I also guarantee that all those cutting edge features will only half-ass be there, and the graphics, although they will be great, will be poorly implemented.

This "rpg" game will please the masses, but I seriously doubt any true roleplaying game fans will ever be satisfied or duped by a crap Elder Scrolls product.

 

Is there something wrong with the codex? I can't seem to be able to access it for the past 2 days.

 

Should I feather then tar myself for liking Fable and Ocarina of time? Or should the tar bucket only be brought forth when I play games made 2003+ labeled as RPGs? Will you never love me for who I really am?

Seriously though, have no idea how it will be. I guess it will be a Fable, only bigger and better looking, no real replay value (that crap about choosing path and making your own choices is getting old, we all know it's nothing to talk about) and good for some simple fun in a couple of weeks. 7/10, 8/10?

 

I suspect it is *worse* than Fable, because Fable at least had a good engine powering it.

 

Me neither…
It must be the horde of Oblivion fans, trying to access the site and writing post about how kewl Oblivion is.

 

I really have no idea if this will be good or a flop.

I hear the most fantastic storys by the "fan boys" and some pretty hard criticism from "codex" people

I didn't like MW.

Lifeless world and boooooring fighting system. But both these issues should have been dealt with so i dent know.

snip by Sander
We don't want or need to know anything about that. Bad gangster.

 

Lesson for game developer: NEVER develope a game on PC and console platform at the same time. *cough*

Think I'm gonna sell mine when it arrives... Anyone?

 

problem with fable is that its far too easy for the auto-save to become corrupted. when that happens you basically lose that "charecter" and this usually happens when you try to exploit to get lots of xp or get lots of hp/mana expanding pots.

 

I've decided I'm going to go about playing the game as if it is an action game; maybe then, my buyer's remorse will diminish, because Oblivion is hardly an RPG.

Blar, I should have waited. Both things I most hated about morrowind were not fixed as said they were, the boring combat and the generally lifeless world are still highly intact. Next time Bethesda, instead of relying on some shoddy AI gimmick to make the NPCs interesting, do it yourselves, because the former did not work. And if "Mount & Blade" can have excellent medieval combat, so could Oblivion.

Gosh, I could go on and on about the many problems with this game, but I won't. Ahh, nothing like good marketing and hype to replace solid RPG design. Hey, I can't say it didn't have an effect on me, I bought the game afterall.

Next time though, I will not make the same mistake. Unless there is a completely different design philosophy behind Fallout 3, I won't even consider buying it. It's not just me, I'm certain many others will be doing the same thing. We're not impossible to please, just make the fucking thing like a Fallout game should be made.

Also Ratty, the game seems better than Fable, and so does the engine. From a technical standpoint, the game is sound and quite goodlooking, with an interface more conducive to a mouse and keyboard than the fable interface. Unfortunately, those don't make up for the unfavorable game design in general.

*reloads oblivion*

I'll be damned if I don't at least *try* to have some fun with it.

 

"Try?" Do, or do not. There is no "try."

 

I've always known that no matter how big the hype, Bethesda just wouldn't fix the "lifeless" world and "boring" combat. Simply put. They don't know how.

Regardless, I wouldn't get so down just yet, Mingus. I'm sure with the extreme popularity of the game, will come a few high quality mods. Just might have to wait a bit.

Also... get drunk before/during hell even after you play, that should increase the fun factor 10fold! This tactic worked perfectly for me when I bought Deus Ex 2 and realized it was total garbage.

 

i wanna buy it to see how badly they fucked up an RPG even considering something like Fable with its low bar.

but i also dont want to get it for like 2-3 weeks to give time for the first patch and to get a 7800 gt or 7800 gx.

the 6200 turbocache really isnt fast enough to do oblivion any kind of justice i think.

plus if whats so good about oblivion is the graphics i dont want to prejudice myself by having such a low-ball card for a game like this.

 

I'm going to have it late next week, we'll talk then. Keep those impressions coming.

 

I bought it last night, unfortunately one of my hard drives started dying yesterday so I was up all night backing up things and re-installing windows instead of playing it. Fun! I'll post my first impressions later today.