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What are the realistic factors of this game?

Depends on what you mean by realistic. By real life, it had great graphics for its time, you can buy a house, eat, drink, fight, buy things, decorate your house. There's plenty of things.
Buy the game, you'll enjoy it. If you don't, you can always take it back. Most Oblivion players like Fallout 3 and vice versa.

I think it′s a very good RPG. Building your own character the way you want it, and doing what you want when you want to. I do agree with the scaling though but that was Morrowind players′ fault. They didn′t like how some enemies were too tough from the beginning and the devs tried to fix that using this method. I′m not defending scaling, just explaining to those who may not know

There is one word to describe oblivion.
OMGBESTGAMEEVERFREAKINGEPICEPICNESSGETITNOW.
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Well if you liked FO3 or if you like open world games where you can go w/e you want and do anything, you should def give the game a try.
To make it even better at this point you'll be able to find the game very cheap at this point.

The above is seems to indicate that you're not satisfied with the answers. But it is not very clear about why.

You've receive answers about Oblivion's realism, comparison to Fallout 3, and whether it is a good game.

Is there something else you want to know?

See, that's the thing. Quite often I can't do what I'd like to do.

Morwen wasn't able to side with the Anvil Sirens even though she would have prefered to do so. She also wasn't given the option to cancel the Mages Guild's ban on necromancy once she became Archmage. During the later stages of the DB qustline Ra'Viir figured out that something was wrong (he found certain clothes in a certain house) but the game didn't let him do anything about it. In the finale of the FG questline Gilbert wasn't able to inform the Imperial Legion and let them handle the situation lawfully. Instead he was only given the choice of either being a vigilante and breaking the law or not doing the quest and neither of the options was in line with his personality.

Those are just a few examples. A typical quest in Oblivion only has one solution and the only choice you get to make is whether or not you want to do the quest in the first place. There are some exceptions (I especially liked the holy fire quest from the Shivering Isles MQ), but for the most part that's how it works. And that for me is the mark of a bad RPG. Oblivion as a game makes up for it with it's sandbox adventuring, which is okay in vanilla and good once you fix the level scaling, but that only qualifies it as an okay or good adventure game.

So I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on this.

I think I have to agree with you. As much as I like Oblivion, the "game" part of it isn't RPG at all. It's a complex system of linear, one-outcome quests, and that is probably closer to the Adventure Game model. There is little to none of the inter-faction push-pull that you see in earlier Elder Scrolls games. There are no "alternate endings," and there is no consequence for not completing the quests. There are also a number of silly "unfinished" things, like locations that continue to burn for months after the event that "destroys" them, meaning that you're really not expected to go back and look at them, after you've "beaten the quest."

On the other hand, it's the best example of what Bethesda does best, which is an immersive free-ranging sandbox RPG. You can basically ignore all the questlines and go off in your own direction, making up your own story as you go along. That's what gives the Elder Scrolls games their long-term replayability.

/helpful.
Just get the game.

The best game I have played, its absolutly breathtaking, every time I think of it, I get a itch to play it again.

....damn, its too late

Its a great game, and if you have issues with the level scaling for monsters you could always get a mod that removes that for PC.

Actually I totally agree with you regarding the quests. So many of them requires that you kill something, not handling it in another way and in a RPG that′s bad.

What I meant was all you can do outside the quests. Exploring freely, making spells in whatever way you want, steal from whomever you wish etc. What glargg said basically.
I′m very often unclear of what I really mean. I think I′ll make a new Fortify Speechcraft on Self spell tonight

What is Oblivion IV? Never heard of it. Is there a Oblivion III, II and I.? How long the series been going?
Where do I get it?
Is it a RPG or a shooter?
If a shooter is going to challenge COD and Battlefield 3?

As for The Elders Scrolls IV: Oblivion it a great game with faults. Get the PC version because of mods. First play it without mods. The next game play it with mods.

BTW The Elders Scroll series started at 1994.

Well good luck with that. Almost all retailers these days have a policy that once you open the game you can't return it, unless it's defective. It's been that way for quite some time now, so I'm not sure why you would suggest this course of action. It just isn't going to happen.

Really? EB Games, here in NZ have something where you can take in a used game, and get some coin for it. They just sell it as a 'used item', since EB Games is part of Gamestop, I presumed it'd be the same :shrug:
And then there's Ebay, Second Hand Stores and other things like that.

It is, at least in America. On topic, yes, you should get it. Just go in and get it on PC, as it's only like $10. It is wonderful and I've probably played darned near 60-75 hours, and that's nothing compared to what others have poured into it. I'm on my 3rd-ish playthrough and I use the term 'playthrough' somewhat lightly as I've still yet to complete the Main Quest.

Oblivion is the best RPG I have ever played. I freakin' LOVE this game. And I've been playing games since the days of PONG.



I love sitting on a boulder somewhere and watching the sunset.

And you learn to say "CAPITAL!" :foodndrink: