Oblivion; Is it worth it?

[rockera]

yes get it, I loved it
I got it on the xbox which was fun but I would get it on the PC it has the advantage of mods and probably easier to play.

 

[Wayneguard]

It's great. Totally worth it considering its dirt cheap nowadays.

 

[newwiseman]

The only mixed opinions I ever heard about Oblivion was weather or not is was as good as Morrowind, regardless of if you feel Morrowind was better or not, Oblivion is still a must play.

oh, and Horse armor for the win.

 

[Signa]

Spoiler: snip

Its a genuinely good game, and at this point, its pretty damn cheap. If you have some disposable income and time on your hands, why not give it a go?

If you have a PC that will run it they yes buy it. If your getting it on your xbox your shooting yourself in the foot and should probably take that money and put it into a bank account to make your computer better so it will handle oblivion and the new elder scrolls game. The Mods you can get for these games makes the ability to play it endless with user created quests and items.

In short) Buy it for the PC not Xbox.

You know, there are plenty of people out there who enjoy games perfectly well without mods. Consoles also have convenience, a controller, and a lack of console commands (irony_1) that just make the experience different. Again, some people enjoy playing games this way.

Video games are generally about having fun. Gaming on a PC is superior in your opinion. In many ways, objectively, it can be. But as long as gaming is about enjoyment, the bottom line is going to be whatever's the most fun for the individual.
Its polite to point out the advantages of getting a game like Oblivion on the PC, but its just poor etiquette to attempt to derail a thread into a "Console-PC" debate and assert that the view you don't like is some kind of big mistake.

Problem is that there is a lot of piss-poor design decisions they made for the game, and mods can fix those. I just maxed my level in Merchantile today and that's because I had a simple mod that allowed me to sell one item at a time instead of moving a slider after every sale. The 360 actually has a shortcut button for this that the PC doesn't but that still means hitting 3 buttons or so between each sale, in a certain order. I don't really care about mods that expand the game, but I want some to fix the bad UI the game has by default.

OT: To answer the question in the title, I give an emphatic... "Meh..."

The game is good, but I just can't get excited about it. I loved Morrowind far more than Oblivion, but I can't say that's the best game for you because you might not like RPGs and their rules as much as I do.

EDIT: ON the other hand, if you are just after the pretty graphics of Oblivion, Morrowind can be modded [http://forums.encyclopediadramatica.com/showthread.php?p=321965] to look better than Oblivion.

Thank you very much for posting that Morrowind link! I've been meaning to mod it for ages but never really could be assed to actually do anything about it. That was a nifty thread. And by Blind Io, does it look awesome.

Just a word of warning: those mods eat resources like a mofo. I had a 8800GT that couldn't run it at my customary 1920x1080 settings, and at 1366x768, it was just barely playable (~15 FPS is my guess). Now I'm on a GTX470, and at 1920x1080, its only slightly more playable than it was with the lower resolution with the older card.

 

[Signa]

People tell me its deep and worth playing, I've never really gotten into it. The combat is horribly boring. "left click, dodge, left click, dodge. Magic attack, dodge, left click...." repeat for the entire game...

World feels kinda empty, even though there are a ton of NPCs. When I play bioware games I don't get this same feeling, heck, I don't get that same feeling from Fallout 3/New Veg.

People claim these mystical mods make it awesome, yet I've never seen anyone suggest one in particular.

I beg of someone, PLEASE tell me different, show me the light. I have a sickness that troubles me when people have fun playing a video game that is supposed to be GOTY etc and I can't even have a wee bit of fun playing it.

I didn't use any to fix the repetitive combat, but I have the Darnified UI that makes the menu system a lot more functional, a Togglable Quantity Prompt mod that allows me to instantly select 1 or all in a stack of items by holding Ctrl or Shift (a feature that was present in Morrowind that got taken out for some unknown reason) and a Menu Escape mod that lets me end conversations, leave menus and answer "yes" to most dumb questions the game asks you by pressing r-click or space. It makes the game flow so much better than having to fumble around for the exit buttons.

I also have Zumbs Lockpicking mod to change the lockpicking system to be closer to Morrowind because that damn minigame gets old after a while. There is also the Persuasion Overhaul mod I installed for the same reason because that minigame was unbearable.

If you want to get around the lame combat without searching for mods, just get a dagger, Asura's Star and put Drain 100HP for 1 second, Soul Trap 1 second, and Weakness to Magicka 100% for 1 second and you will own anything that stands in your path. Each strike compounds on the last, and daggers have the highest attack speed. The soultrap effect will also double with each strike and that will allow you to keep the dagger charged.

 

[Omega500]

If you do get it for PC play with OOO mod http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBKjLxVJKRg at lease

 

[Skratt]

Buy it on Steam. It's a good game.

 

[Continuity]

Get it, its a great game, but beware the s**** character leveling system, it will screw you right over unless you read a guide first, only major flaw in the game.

 

[teh_gunslinger]

Spoiler: snip

Its a genuinely good game, and at this point, its pretty damn cheap. If you have some disposable income and time on your hands, why not give it a go?

If you have a PC that will run it they yes buy it. If your getting it on your xbox your shooting yourself in the foot and should probably take that money and put it into a bank account to make your computer better so it will handle oblivion and the new elder scrolls game. The Mods you can get for these games makes the ability to play it endless with user created quests and items.

In short) Buy it for the PC not Xbox.

You know, there are plenty of people out there who enjoy games perfectly well without mods. Consoles also have convenience, a controller, and a lack of console commands (irony_1) that just make the experience different. Again, some people enjoy playing games this way.

Video games are generally about having fun. Gaming on a PC is superior in your opinion. In many ways, objectively, it can be. But as long as gaming is about enjoyment, the bottom line is going to be whatever's the most fun for the individual.
Its polite to point out the advantages of getting a game like Oblivion on the PC, but its just poor etiquette to attempt to derail a thread into a "Console-PC" debate and assert that the view you don't like is some kind of big mistake.

Problem is that there is a lot of piss-poor design decisions they made for the game, and mods can fix those. I just maxed my level in Merchantile today and that's because I had a simple mod that allowed me to sell one item at a time instead of moving a slider after every sale. The 360 actually has a shortcut button for this that the PC doesn't but that still means hitting 3 buttons or so between each sale, in a certain order. I don't really care about mods that expand the game, but I want some to fix the bad UI the game has by default.

OT: To answer the question in the title, I give an emphatic... "Meh..."

The game is good, but I just can't get excited about it. I loved Morrowind far more than Oblivion, but I can't say that's the best game for you because you might not like RPGs and their rules as much as I do.

EDIT: ON the other hand, if you are just after the pretty graphics of Oblivion, Morrowind can be modded [http://forums.encyclopediadramatica.com/showthread.php?p=321965] to look better than Oblivion.

Thank you very much for posting that Morrowind link! I've been meaning to mod it for ages but never really could be assed to actually do anything about it. That was a nifty thread. And by Blind Io, does it look awesome.

Just a word of warning: those mods eat resources like a mofo. I had a 8800GT that couldn't run it at my customary 1920x1080 settings, and at 1366x768, it was just barely playable (~15 FPS is my guess). Now I'm on a GTX470, and at 1920x1080, its only slightly more playable than it was with the lower resolution with the older card.

Cheers for the heads up. I did suspect that it would cause a major performance hit. You don't get pretty shinies like that for free after all. I also suspect that I wont be able to run it very well, but I'm sure gonna give a go. If it turns out bad, then I at least tried.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Its a genuinely good game, and at this point, its pretty damn cheap. If you have some disposable income and time on your hands, why not give it a go?

If you have a PC that will run it they yes buy it. If your getting it on your xbox your shooting yourself in the foot and should probably take that money and put it into a bank account to make your computer better so it will handle oblivion and the new elder scrolls game. The Mods you can get for these games makes the ability to play it endless with user created quests and items.

In short) Buy it for the PC not Xbox.

You know, there are plenty of people out there who enjoy games perfectly well without mods. Consoles also have convenience, a controller, and a lack of console commands (irony_1) that just make the experience different. Again, some people enjoy playing games this way.

Video games are generally about having fun. Gaming on a PC is superior in your opinion. In many ways, objectively, it can be. But as long as gaming is about enjoyment, the bottom line is going to be whatever's the most fun for the individual.
Its polite to point out the advantages of getting a game like Oblivion on the PC, but its just poor etiquette to attempt to derail a thread into a "Console-PC" debate and assert that the view you don't like is some kind of big mistake.

I have the game for console, and I would actually recommend it for PC. I mean, it's fun and all for consoles, but then I hear about a light saber mod, or something else awesome and I wish I had gotten it for PC. Most of the mixed opinions are about the base game, and there's a mod to fix a lot of those issues.

That said, if you aren't going to dabble in mods, by all means get it for console. A note of warning, if you get the GOTY edition, don't become a vampire. The quest to cure you is broken on the GOTY version.

 

[hyzaku]

Everybody's saying that he should get it for PC or 360. What happens with the PS3 version? Is it bugged, flawed or somehow unplayable? Because I don't have a gaming PC or a 360, and I really don't care for bugged games.

I'm just quoting this part, but I did read all the post.

I've been searching around and I've seen a lot of complaints about the PS3 version crashing and bugging and doing weird stuff. It's not weird, I mean, at the time, not many people knew how to effectively program for the PS3. But reading about how you have to put thought on the leveling up process.... that doesn't sound like my cup of tea.

Understandable about some people having issues. I just was lucky and didn't encounter any. Same thing happened to a friend of mine recently who played New Vegas. I hear about a ton of bugs and glitches in the game and yet my friend has played the hell out of it and never seen a single one. Although I did play the GoTY version, so they might have fixed some of those issues on that version.

 

[ryo02]

hmm I never did get around to playing shivering isles

 

[OrokuSaki]

It's only $20 and it's over 60 hours of gameplay......... so yes.

 

[Twad]

Try it out, its a ton of fun on PC with Mods. Expect to easily lose hundreds of hours in this game.

Personally i like it a good bit, but the large lack of balance (imho) stopped me from enjoying it after a while, even with mods. I could not play a pure rogue character and stay competitive after i passed level 20, no matter what i tried. Magic is that ridiculously powerfull in that game.

Just keep in mind a few things; you MUST use magic with whatever you decide to play to be "competitive" later in the game. Bows arent very strong. Stealth.. while primitive, is quite usefull too.

Anyway, magic only becomes trully important once you real level 15 and higher, until then you can play wahtever you want and still kick major ass.

As for mods, i strongly suggest: OOO (oscuro oblivion overhaul), MMM (martigen monster mod). These mods makes the game a LOT, LOOOOT richer and funnier, like, massively better and a lot funnier to explore and fight in. Go for OOO mod first.
I personnaly added a physics mod to increase the stangely low gravity in the game too.

 

[Senaro]

Yes, get it now.

/endthread

 

[northeast rower]

A bit old by now, but if you get it you will never stop playing. It's not that addictive, but there's so much to do

 

[brodie21]

yes, get it and get the mods for it