Applause for Bethesda

Post » Thu May 26, 2011 10:01 pm

The disc contained in every Oblivion case is actually a portal to a virtual world displayed to you through your human television sets.
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TRIsha FEnnesse
 
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 2:22 am

The disc contained in every Oblivion case is actually a portal to a virtual world displayed to you through your human television sets.

I agree completely.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 4:33 am

From an old-school RPG'ers stand point oblivion was not as good as i would of liked but that is my opinion. I did enjoy a few of the guild questlines. The arena was fun for me. The MQ was something that could of been worked on longer so it could be better. Thankfully for mods.
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Post » Thu May 26, 2011 8:04 pm

Same here.

I said that in another thread, but i really got the moneys value i put into that game back a hundred times. There are no other games (not even KoTOR) that i still play to this day since their release.
Oblivion (and very rarely MW) is the only one.
This company has convinced me that they can make great quality products , so i definitelly will support them by buying their stuff^^


So true!! I have too saved hundreds of euros in just concentrating on Morrowind and Oblivion! I love those games soooo much! Other RPG games don't get even close to the excellency of these games!

Bethesda has one more true fan that will spend his money on it's games. Keep up the good work Bethesda and don't worry about worldwide financial crisis. Good games means good income. :intergalactic:
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 6:45 am

Honestly I've put more time into Beth's games (i.e. gotten my moneys worth) than any other game I've played minus EverQuest.


Yup, same here. In fact, Oblivion cured my EQ2 addiction. :lol:
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Post » Thu May 26, 2011 8:21 pm

Yep before OB I thought games were meant to be beaten within a few days. I got my 500 hrs+ out of it. Thanks Bethesda.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 5:58 am

Beat all the quests in Oblivion within a month :(

At level 1-5 :sad:

:( :sad:

MMORPGs will always be there for me...
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 12:39 am

Even though I have complaints about how Bethesda handled certain aspects of the game, I have to admit they do a lot for us, giving us Arena and Daggerfall for free, releasing the CSes, and hearing complaints of PS3 owners and actually giving them DLC in their next game.


Next we get Morrowind for free... and then Oblivion. Hmm...
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 9:19 am

Next we get Morrowind for free... and then Oblivion. Hmm...

Nope probaly battlespire then redguard then morrowind then oblivion.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 10:06 am

Nah, those 2 games will prolyl be free at the same time as Morrowind.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 12:28 am

Beat all the quests in Oblivion within a month :(

At level 1-5 :sad:

:( :sad:

MMORPGs will always be there for me...


How? My life revolved around Oblivion for the first two months after I got it, and barely scratched the surface during that time. Did you explore? Even without exploration, how did you accomplish that? I had school during those two months though, so unless you played all day, every day, I don't know how you could have done every quest in one month.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 12:16 am

I followed the magic green arrow to where I needed to go... I played alot, but not all the time, about 2-3 hours a day.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 10:26 am

I followed the magic green arrow to where I needed to go... I played alot, but not all the time, about 2-3 hours a day.

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That can't possibly be enough. Did you explore or anything? I played over 100 hours while barely doing anything really. I finished the main quests for the KoTN, the SI, and the arena, along with some smaller quests. I barely explored much, and still took up so much time and enjoyed every minute.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 8:42 am

Don't need to explore everything in Oblivion, every cave is the same as the next, every ayleid ruin is the same as the last :( I did the MQ, the FG, the MG, the TG, the DB, the KOTN, the SI, the arena, and the misc. quests, and was done with the game, I found little reason to stay... :sad:
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 5:12 am

Don't need to explore everything in Oblivion, every cave is the same as the next, every ayleid ruin is the same as the last :( I did the MQ, the FG, the MG, the TG, the DB, the KOTN, the SI, the arena, and the misc. quests, and was done with the game, I found little reason to stay... :sad:


I love Oblivion and always will. It's your opinion. Bethesda is great though.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 5:49 am

You can love Oblivion all you want :) And Bethesda is my favorite game company, by FAR! Bioware is good, but compared to Bethesda... Lets face it Bethesda for Life!
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 6:26 am

Oblivion was my first seventh-generation game and my first Bethesda game. It is also my favorite game.
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Post » Thu May 26, 2011 10:57 pm

I find it difficult to belive that someone completed everything in Oblivion within only 5 levels, after a month of playing.

My standard Freeform/DLC->Daedric->KOTN/Guild->MQ->SI-> playthrough takes months to accomplish (5-6 hours per day), and usually brings me up to level 30+. Maybe a few days less if I didn't run to each town (for the initial visit) during the freeform part. And this, mind you, is a playthrough that leaves minimal time for exploring... except when required for a quest (such as the 10 Ayled Statue quest.)

Of course, if you did complete "everything" is your version of Oblivion for the computer? If so, it's time to hit the modding community!

But for the misc. quests... well, did you find the Jade Amulet? Stop the Goblin War? Grab 100 Nirnroots?

Also, did you find the Udyfrike Matron? The Ring of Omnipitence?

How about city quests? The vampire in the Imperal City? The "sirens" in Anvil? The painter in Cheydenhal?
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 12:23 pm

At the very least, those that are critical of Vanilla Oblivion should be grateful to Bethesda for creating a base to build off of. I certainly am.

Really, I can't see any position where someone could *not* be grateful to Bethesda for Oblivion.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 3:16 am

Don't need to explore everything in Oblivion, every cave is the same as the next, every ayleid ruin is the same as the last :( I did the MQ, the FG, the MG, the TG, the DB, the KOTN, the SI, the arena, and the misc. quests, and was done with the game, I found little reason to stay... :sad:


You did this 2-3 hours a day for a month. Lets say 3 hours times 30 days, 90 hour game. :scratcheshead:
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 2:00 am

they got alot of bugs and glitches but still the game is AWESOME

fallout 3 is great as well but still OB is better:)

cant w8 for elder scrolls 5:)
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Post » Thu May 26, 2011 7:56 pm

Mind you, a lot of Daggerfall is randomly generated.

Make's you appreciate Arena, even though the towns are generic.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 5:51 am

Make's you appreciate Arena, even though the towns are generic.


All of Arena, except for the main quest dungeons and the towns, is randomly generated. In fact, the towns themselves have been made with a random generator like Daggerfall's. :P
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 3:34 am

Beat all the quests in Oblivion within a month :(

At level 1-5 :sad:

:( :sad:

MMORPGs will always be there for me...



Maybe you did the quests and applause for that. Now it is time to get some challenge. Install Obscures Oblivion Overhaul and try doing the same again.

Vanilla Oblivion is peanuts. It is good that modders make it harder. I bet you won?t get far after visiting Ayleid ruin that is infested with Azhklan Trolls. No business there if under 25-30 level.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 10:11 am

Vanilla Oblivion is peanuts. It is good that modders make it harder. I bet you won?t get far after visiting Ayleid ruin that is infested with Azhklan Trolls. No business there if under 25-30 level.


Good for you. As the dissenting voice, I'll retort that I _loathe_ this "piledriver" approach to mod design; simply stuffing a dungeon full of the toughest monsters you can find is cheap, easy and unimaginative. And it is almost invariably compounded by the lowest-item-on-the-potion-list-behind-very-hard-locks paradigm and topped with the "If you win, you get this Sword of Doom + 1M damage! See? Game balance!"

I played the last two dungeons of LOST SPIRES with the console "kill" command I was so bored with those "brilliant" design ideas.

Until a modder rewrites the actual A.I. routines (so mobs can seek cover, use concealment, retreat to recuperate, etc) there is no *fun* I can have wading in such waters, only busywork.

Good thing is: mods are always optional - it's just too bad so many of them are *stellar* in every other department. Previously mentioned LOST SPIRES comes to mind.

Just my dissenting 2cents,
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