Yassss! Won't be getting rid of me that easily either!





He heh, I just woke up, myself. I got the new game at 12:11 am, installed it on my PS3 (took about 20 minutes) and gamed about 6 hours...until I couldn't keep my eyes open anymore, basically. :stare:

I am relieved to know, however, that Oblivion (Vanilla Oblivion no less...) still has a lot to offer me as a gamer. Cyrodiil's simply a more vibrant place, more colorful, that is, and I'm not giving that up. Both games truely are stand-alone experiences, but neither one is really "better" than the other. This is a relief to me, to Eradi~Kate, and to Lady Saga, as well. :yes:

I'm with Modblivion until they patch Skyrim :goodjob:

Still have to finish the MQ once (see sig.) before I go on to Skyrim... and there will be Skyrim mods by then!

I will stick with Oblivion until some mods I have been waiting patiently for are released, like Cobl 1.73, MMM 3.8, OOO 1.35, and the latest version of FCOM.
Brunjild Hanin can wait for a while longer to become a character in Skyrim.

I've read quite a few complaints on some forums of CTDs and portions of the interface vanishing. I'm sure these will be taken care of fairly quickly, but the actual patching for content issues found in all gamesas games--stats not working properly in some situations, calculations in some spells being off, etc--this will take some time. gamesas has usually patched repeatedly up through their first expansion to the basic game. Further patching has come from the modding communities. Both Oblivion and Morrowind have some excellent patches that deal with a whole range of subtle problems gamesas failed to catch.

This isn't a condemnation of gamesas, by the way. Major company games these days are usually so large that plenty of things slip through the cracks. We could wish it were otherwise, but that's not the way such things happen. The best large game I've tried recently with very little need for patching was Paradox's Sengoku, and even it had three small patches to address a range of issues.

ah, I see. So what was that update then? The moment I put my disc and started the game, it already was wanting to update online. 1.01 I think it said. Was that some sort of an early patch?

Yes, from what I read there is a day 1 patch:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-08-elder-scrolls-5-skyrim-patch-1-1-at-launch

(btw, I just got mine delivered. Probably won't install until tomorrow. I figure Skyrim and I will likely have a lot of time together)

The "Creation Kit" is not released yet so for me it's pointless to buy the game yet as all I want is to make my world and put in my models and textures like in the previous ES
I 'm not really into fighting, blood, gore, weapons and armor so I'm really limited to what I do with the game. But I must say from the reports so far the new Skyrim ranges from fantastic to horrible. But I'm still using the construction set for Oblivion on the other monitor while doing this.
Oblivion is not going to dry up - in fact I'm thinking there will be a whole new round of interest after the new Skyrim players check Bethesda's other ES games.

Getting Skyrim for a Christmas present, so playing thru Oblivion until then.
Patience is a virtue.
That's what I am telling myself.

Now that I've found out that you must have an active Steam Acct to play or mod the game, my excitement has left completely.
I mod Oblivion all the time without internet access and I've just found out that Skyrim players and modders must have this intrusive malware running just to play.
So if you are not connected to STEAM you can't play or mod the game.
That just killed it for me.

I'm skirting around the shadows, making you jumpy.

Not getting Skyrim.

Whatup forums - this seems to be the active thread... never gave this game a chance when I first bought it, but coming back to it I realize I made a big mistake. What I was hoping for with Morrowind was dungeon diving something along the lines of daggerfall, and that game fell far short of my expectations, so oblivion got only a quick few spins and i dismissed it as a clone. But in oblivion the dungeons are far more developed, and best of all (the reason for me even signing up here really) : it seems like the developers intentionally copied dungeon design elements from daggerfall. Like fairly recognizable ones. There are also some really cool architectural nods to Elder scrolls 2 in the cities as well. Anyone else remember that game well enough to get what i'm talking about? (btw - when playing with the difficulty slider notched up a bit was fun at first, but with my caster and thief as soon as i get around 12th level my dps just can't keep up with the enemies and I just have to notch it down a little :- / how do you all set the difficulty?)

'Good bye my lover. Good bye my friend. You have been the one. You have been the one for me.'

Oblivion was like the first love of my life. Average looking, but kept me happy. However Skyrim's the new hot blonde who moved in next door and is craving for my attention. Out with the old, in with the new. Good bye Oblivion dwellers, you don't know what a massive Roleplaying experience your missing in Skyrim

Difficulty slider is always default, in Oblivion and now also Skyrim. I experimented with raising the diff in Oblivion a while back, didn't like it because it made the enemies stronger, but it also made my character weaker. :nope:

I keep the difficulty slider at default in the middle because I don't like the way it works. I want my character to do big damage, but I also want her foes to do the same.

What I do to make foes ‘hit’ harder is ignore my character’s endurance (so she has few hitpoints) and she typically runs around at level 20 with a single digit armor rating. That way, she can’t take many hits at all.

What I do to make my character ‘hit’ harder, is tweak out her gear, tactics, supporting attributes and skills as a mystic archer. I also limit how many hitpoints she has to shoot through by capping her (and therefore, her foes) at level 20.

All this seems to work and help give me what I want: My character can strike like a dragon or crumple like a butterfly.

I have a slightly different approach, which probably works out to the same thing. For warriors and thieves I set the difficulty slider a bit left of center (to make my character hit harder), and then I limit armor, and advance armor skills slowly (to make my character vulnerable.) I rarely use much in the line of shielding enchantment, since that makes my character too "safe," but I like the ability to one-hit kill with a poisoned arrow from the shadows. (There's something fun about hitting a daedra from afar, seeing it turn green, and then having it run toward you and fall dead from the poison right at your feet... )

On the other hand, I adjust the slider to the right of center if I'm playing a mage, particularly a Conjurer or Illusionist, since those characters should be more vulnerable to being hit, and much of their attack method is not affected by the slider anyway.

The best advice I can give about the difficulty slider is to just put it where it feels "right" to you. It's a trial-and-error thing for me. I don't believe in "super rats" that can survive a hit with a steel sword, but I think that an attacking clannfear should really do some damage to my character.

I will always play Oblivion and Morrowind.I already bought Skyrim even though my computer can't run it at the moment.That will be taken care of in a few months and then I will taking a break from Cyrodiil and Vvardenfell and exploring Skyrim.

Well,here we are,10 days past the release day of the new game and I'm back. In Skyrim I am at level 21 as my first character and I am really enjoying it BUT, I only started playing Oblivion about 3 months ago and became totally addicted to the series.After starting the new game I really felt that I was leaving so many things in Oblivion "unfinished" that I had to stop playing Skyrim (just temporarily) until I finish some of the stuff I felt needed completion. So ya,I'm still here and will be for some time to come. I've killed a few dragons and explored Skyrim but that cold and bleak feel up there is really kind of depressing at times and it feels more like "home" back down here in Cyrodiil....just my own opinion of course! Hail Sithis! bliviongate:

Aye! 'tis good to have you here matey!

I am most definitely back for another play through. Great great game.

I got about 25% into Skyrim and had Steam essentially wipe out the ability to launch the program. I've had too many issues with Steam in the past, and this was the straw that broke the camel's back. Uninstalled Steam and every program attached to it, including Skyrim. Bad choice for Bethesda. Sent an email to Bethesda stating dissatisfaction, but doubt they will pay any attention to it. OTOH, do not plan to EVER buy another Steam related title or run anything related to Steam ever again. Ever. So, that could be the end of new titles from Bethesda for me.

Wish things were otherwise.

OK, back to the Imperial City....

Im still here.

I've literally just finished Morrowind in the last 10 minutes and will shortly be moving on to Oblivion.
After Oblivion, and only after Oblivion, I'll get Skyrim.

So yeah, I'll be here now...!

It's always a good thing to keep in touch with the forum you started in. I may be playing Oblivion now and loving it, but I honestly spend most of my time in the Fallout section.

Hello my fellow Cyrodiilians.

Over time I have come to realise that Cyrodiil is my home.
I could easily fill a library full of scrolls giving reasons for my positive feelings towards Oblivion.
Best summed up in one word... LOVE!

I will be remaining in the heartland of Tamriel.
The environment is beautiful and the people are great!

Skyrim, for me, simply adds lore to Oblivion.
They can coexist well enough. But I will be here in Cyrodiil, thank you...

I am interested to find out how you did that because I seriously had no idea it was even possible :wink_smile:

I think you put that very well.

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