I bought Morrowind & didn't really like it. Hype tricked me into buying Oblivion & then somehow, the hype got me again with Fallout 3. I don't like Bethesda games. Hopefully I'll remember that when the next one is announced...
Oblivion came out 4 YEARS AGO?!
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I haven't bothered putting Oblivion back in either my PS3 or 360 for an age. I got hit, both times, with the bloody vampire curse thingy where I can't go out in the day, get rid of the ability or anything-on both consoles every time I tried to play it! At least, that's how I remember getting really sick of the game and having to start over after a ton of hours progress each time. Naturally, when FO3 came out I was daft enough to try that as well and found it to be EVEN more bug infested(seriously, is anyone worse than Bethesda for releasing games they seemingly hoped we'd pay to do the QA on? Dishonourable mention for Acti/IW for the state of MW2 which, having less QA than ever and no betas AND being forced to use P2P ensured a bad experience on or off line!), full of the same damn actors(confusing) and sporting a FPS mechanic that was frustratingly inaccurate and a VATS system which was so arbitrary it's untrue! Plus I felt it had a lot less atmosphere than the earlier FO games!
Anyway(oh, and the scenery just looked like Oblivion with added rubble most of the time)I realise everyone else, their dog and it's pups, loved both games but, for me, they need to actually make their next game feel; a bit different to get a purchase. Testing for game crippling bugs would also be nice-I'm sick of doing it for them only for them to patch something else just to wind me up. Sadly, I just know I'll be first in line top try TES5(when it happens) and New Vegas when it releases later this year(I think)and know they'll BOTH remain buggy as hell but, this time, I just pray I can join in with the luvvy duvvy praise fest too. I'm sick of being the only man on Earth who doesn't enjoy FO3 or Oblivion. Oh, it's also my job, apparently, top be THAT bloke who found Portal about as interesting as a paint drying observation festival and as hard as a fresh cow pat-so perhaps I just have crap taste. And too much portal puzzling ability.
Anyway(oh, and the scenery just looked like Oblivion with added rubble most of the time)I realise everyone else, their dog and it's pups, loved both games but, for me, they need to actually make their next game feel; a bit different to get a purchase. Testing for game crippling bugs would also be nice-I'm sick of doing it for them only for them to patch something else just to wind me up. Sadly, I just know I'll be first in line top try TES5(when it happens) and New Vegas when it releases later this year(I think)and know they'll BOTH remain buggy as hell but, this time, I just pray I can join in with the luvvy duvvy praise fest too. I'm sick of being the only man on Earth who doesn't enjoy FO3 or Oblivion. Oh, it's also my job, apparently, top be THAT bloke who found Portal about as interesting as a paint drying observation festival and as hard as a fresh cow pat-so perhaps I just have crap taste. And too much portal puzzling ability.
Hmmm well 4 year gap between Morrowind and Oblivion, and E3's coming up soon with Bethesda sure to announce new things. Who knows what could happen?
Oblivion had too many flaws to really feel like something special to me, stuff like you basically having to fast travel until you find a sufficiently fast enough horse (I think the Dark Brotherhood's is the fastest and it can still take a while to get places) which ruined the "worldly" feeling of walking into Kvatch instead of teleporting there... the walled cities that were basically new levels... the psychic guards that made stealing pointless... the auto-levelling bandits in Daedric armour.
It could have been so much more. Oh and yeah, add-ons only count for so much.
It could have been so much more. Oh and yeah, add-ons only count for so much.
Gaming has finally started to exit its teens! All those years of angst are over!The_root_of_all_evil said:Simpsons started 21 years ago. (23 if you count the Tracey Ullman show)
Mario/Donkey Kong and Princess Peach are nearly 30.
Sonic is 19, Kirby is 18, Link's 24, Duke Nukem is 19.
I can hear the screams now
Everybody says how much beter morrowind is, but I could jsut not play that game at all. I gave it numerous attempts and mods to make it more interesting, but to no avail. Its unplyable with a graphics mod since the dam mist makes it impossible to see anything. There is so much I didnt find that was lying just off the path because you just could'nt see it. Theres a masive tower not far from balmora, which I had no idea was there.
I wasnt a huge fan of fallout 3 either, I put even less time into it than Oblivion, whihc I at least whored for a while. after 10 hours of Fallout 3 the game got so boring it started to give me headaches, and all the amaizng stuff people go on about just seemed boring to me. As far as open world shooters go, I find S.T.A.L.K.E.R is still the superior game, and thats tiny in cope compared to Fallout and oblivion.mastiffchild said:
I have still to finish the main story quest in Oblivion. I did about 5, and then decided that the Dark Brotherhood missions were better.
Although, I like walking around at night in Oblivion. I guess I just like a night sky done well.
Although, I like walking around at night in Oblivion. I guess I just like a night sky done well.
Yeah exactly!SonicWaffle said:Same
I only bought it a few months ago, did all the side quests, became head of every guild, and then got bored of the story around about the point where you go through your...third Oblivion portal? I think, anyway. I'll get around to it sometime, but my problem is that it's so repetitive - you do one dungeon and you've done them all. I got to the point where I'd walk in, cast nighteye and invisibility, then sneak up behind everyone for a 1-hit kill. Of course, most of the time I didn't even bother killing them. I'd go invisible, run to get whatever trinket I had to get, and run back again.
Fun game and all, but it just went on for too long, when you factor in all the guild nonsense. Which was actually far more fun than the main storyline.
It was good fun, but i got the shivering isile? expansion with it, so by the time i got there and messed around a bit I was exhausted
I recently started it again and remembered how fun I found it back then.
I played with the stats I didn't really use before (Hand to hand, magic, vampire). The side-quests and guilds are a lot more fun than the main story is though. Although the main story is epic.
I don't think I clocked as many hours or found it as fun as Morrowind though. I retried Morrowind too recently though and then stopped. I'll leave it as a nice bit of nostaliga rather than see its age.
I played with the stats I didn't really use before (Hand to hand, magic, vampire). The side-quests and guilds are a lot more fun than the main story is though. Although the main story is epic.
I don't think I clocked as many hours or found it as fun as Morrowind though. I retried Morrowind too recently though and then stopped. I'll leave it as a nice bit of nostaliga rather than see its age.
I'm playing Oblivion for the first time now. TBH, I don't see what all the fuss was about. It's certainly a good game, but not A+ 10/10 5* like everyone said it was. Had the same opinion on Fallout too, but, give or take a moral choice system, they're pretty much the same game.
I loved Oblivion, but had to sell it in the end because I had no time for it due to college (got it a year ago, but had played it a lot before that). It's a game that demands time to savour and enjoy. Time I really wish I had.MiloP said:
Fallout 3 I wasn't a fan of. Everyone said about how it was amazing but I just thought, like Yahtzee said, it was way too similar to Oblivion.
But blowing up Megaton was awesome.