Oblivion: Was this a disappointment to anyone else?

[ZeroMachine]

My favorite parts of Oblivion were modded in. Not gonna lie.

I loved it before, but I've gone back to it of late, and, well...

... Skyrim can't come soon enough. The graphics on Oblivion have aged worse than Halo 2's.

 

[triggrhappy94]

The combat system really isnt that bad. You just got to get used to it. And remember the game is like 5 years old.

 

[Aisyah Fatihah]

Well, a bit. I enjoyed it, but the level up system kinda suck... And the uncanny valley. And the limited cast for voice acting. And the generic RPG setting. And that I have to lower the difficulty every time I level up. The combat seems to work nicely for me, though.

Again, I enjoy the game, despite the flaws.

 

[DirgeNovak]

No. Oblivion was my first Bethesda game ever and it blew me away. Sure the dialogue sucked, but the combat system was awesome (and still is) and the immersion isn't that bad.

Other games have bested it in most regards, but back then it was awesome and today it's still totally great.

Now I was planning on finishing Catherine today, but I have to play Oblivion again because of you. I hope you're proud of yourself.

I think I'll be an Argonian this time...

The lack of variety regarding voice actors was a real immersion killer when talking to NPCs.

Whats even worse then only having five voice actors is when you are talking to somebody and they switch between three of them, especially when it changes from a guys voice to a girls.

That never happened to me in 200+ hours.

 

[Catchy Slogan]

I got it a few years ago, GOTY edition and no, not really. I didn't have that high of an expectation. I've had quite a bit of fun on it now and again, and I have still yet to finish it. I still find new things every time I play it. It was the best value for money I have ever had. And this is coming from the person who got Mass Effect for £5 last year.

 

[AlternatePFG]

Played Morrowind after Oblivion, I liked Morrowind better than Oblivion despite the worse graphics and combat. It doesn't treat the player like a moron, and let's them figure things out for themselves. Sure, sometimes the directions were ridiculously vague, but that's better than having an arrow point where you need to go at all times. But I only played both of them seriously like last year, so there wasn't any time for me to be disappointed.

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

I defantly didn't enjoy oblivion as much as i did morrowind. I loved the story and the enviorments but was annoyed with the descion to have enemies level up with you so even at level 60 two goblin shamens is all it took to kill you.

I also wasn't a fan of the restrictions they but on leveling up and enchanting. In morrowind if you worked the system right you could make a god like character and it was really cool. in Oblivion you have to cheat to do that.

I still enjoyed Oblivion much more than fallout. Mostly because i hated the enviorment in fallout and i felt the gun physics we're too wonky. I just don't like ovlivion as much as Morrowind...heres hoping for Skyrme

 

[Post Tenebrae Morte]

Meh. I liked Oblivion. Sure it wasn't as good as Morrowind, but honestly, it was still pretty good. If you think the combat is bad, go play Daggerfall or Arena, those games will eat you alive. Yes, the leveling loot system was a pain in the ass. But to be honest, it was easy as hell to gain levels. I got to 21 in 2, 6 hour playthroughs. That got me to a good point that the loot would be quite good.

For the voice actors: It didn't bother me. I played Morrowind to death, so I'm immune to being picky about stuff like that. Hell, I was missing the old Dunmer Male Voice Actor. But I digress, the VA wasn't as horrible as people would love to paint it.

Combat evolved better in Oblivion, Morrowind contained traces of the old Combat system, so it got bad at times regarding fighting.

Skyrim looks to be better than Morrowind and Oblivion, so no worries about the sequel.

 

[Shamanic Rhythm]

Oblivion was fun on the first few characters I made, most because they put in all the content and balancing with the first ten levels in mind. Then they went, "Well, we've got another forty levels - fuck it, let's just make all monsters scale." So initially I thought the game was fucking incredible when I was just riding around drooling at the environment and making a different character each to do the Main, Fighter, Mage, Thief and Dark Brotherhood quest chains. Then I tried doing more than one on a single character, and it just descended into tediously long battles with super-scaled enemies.

Morrowind was a lot better purely for the lack of level scaling. The problem with these third person RPGs though, like Gothic and The Witcher, is that the combat systems revolve too much around the same boring light attack/heavy attack/block mechanics. They're not as immersive as the developers would like you to believe. I'd seriously prefer that someone take up the Age of Conan mechanics of directionally based attacks and defenses, because that feels far more involved, and incredibly visceral when you get the timing right to land a special blow in the enemy's weak side.

 

[StBishop]

I did, but for one reason and one reason only: The level scaling.

How I despise it...

The leveling in Oblivion ruined not only the game but the entire year in which I played it. Yes, my entire year was ruined.

So no, op, you're not the only one who was disappointed with Oblivion.

 

[Bohemian Waltz]

While Morrowind has its share of flaws, I still find it far more immersive than Oblivion.

I remember on my first play of Morrowind....

I immediately left Seyda Neen and traveled north in search of adventure, determined not to be fenced in by society and it's rules and laws! Suddenly a crazy wizard fell to his death from high above the sky without any warning. This intrigued me.

Being a impatient fool I nicked his stuff as his fancy robe and wizard hat suited me. I didn't bother to read his journal so I threw that aside and decided that magic was more of a hands on sort of thing. I was far too brave to bother with understanding the mechanics of what I would soon learn to respect and fear. Look here I had been blessed with some nifty scrolls to try out my first incursion into the arcane arts.

So I took one and cast the spell balls to the wall without any idea of what it may or may not do. I'm a rebel gamer it's how I roll.

I stood there for a few moments wondering if it did anything. After some moments of looking around I figured it didn't do anything at all and nothing at all is certainly not important enough to warrant looking up the technical aspects of the arcane power I just impatiently released. The whole thing was too much hassle and started off back to town to sell the old mans stuff and buy a shiny new weapon, which might prove more amusing then scrolls that do nothing. I started on my journey to near certain riches with a hardy skip and a hop......

Suddenly I was flying though the air as my jump ability had increased a million fold! Bamboozled by my predicament I decided that I was an arcane superman able to leap mountains in a single bound. I was ever so quite pleased with myself that my mind swimmed filled with delusions of grandeur until I came to my senses put together why the old mage inexplicably had fallen to his death in the middle of a remote back-water swamp shortly before I hit the ground dying instantaneously a few hundred miles away.

'Now that's immersion.'

 

[Imbechile]

Oblivion was a piece of shit, you would be correct. There were plenty of people who found th game disappointing. Bethesda as a whole is one of the single most overrated, incompetent game developers in the history of the medium. I can't think of a single dev team who consistently releases so buggy, poorly designed, and poorly written products into the market, yet still somehow manages to somehow avoid massive berating from the journalists as well as the gaming community as a whole. I am sure that is partly thankful to its overly-devoted, almost fanatical fanbase that hates anyone who dares speak against Bethesda's work.

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Although Morrowind is my favorite game ever i do agree.
People who bash Obsidian often forget that Bethesda in it's 20 years of existence has never managed to deliver a bug-free, stable game. When I look at Bethesda's games i see a vast, greatly designed world that is meant to cover the game's rotten, putrid core.

 

[Rensenhito]

Just mod the ever-loving hell out of it. Also, if you really want some fun, play a stealth based character.

 

[Lawlhat]

I couldn't bring myself to play it for very long until just recently. I've recently enjoyed coming back as a stealth-based character (though it seems that when it comes to stealth, it's like all the enemies are both blind and deaf). I just came to the realization that you have to forget that there is even a main quest, because it's just so horrible.