Frederic Petitpas Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 [........] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuketheXjesse Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Fallout 3 is Oblivion with guns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollgagh Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 do mods even exist for the xbox version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Oblivion GOTY is about the best gaming experience you can ever have, ever, regardless of platform Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambinate Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 just hearing its name makes feel warm and loved again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwaltzvald Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 You probably should have gotten the PC version as it surprised even me knowing you could easily spend a year or so on not just the game itself but with all the community-made content out there for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Final_metroid Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 I was always too worried about leveling to enjoy it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gollgagh Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Well I had it on computer off a torrent but I really hated the loading every 50 feet, do I didn't play past the first time you get outside. wat that's morrowind, not oblivion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamphibious Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Aside from the arguably bad level-scaling (depending on how you build your character) and the fact that there are way too few voice actors, its a solid RPG experience. The Shivering Isles expansion is especially good, but the main quest is great too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brevr Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Oblivion I thought was one of the best RPG's this console generation, The level scaling is a little annoying though. But, all the content and replay value in the game kept me playing for close to a thousand hours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XZero Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 It's one of those games that just puts you down in the middle of nowhere and says at the beginning, "Okay, you see that path? Yeah, that's the story. Work on that and you'll be done in 20 hours or so. Or don't. I don't care. There's lots of even better shit in the other direction anyway." If you like more structured RPGs with side quests supplementing a strong story, it's not that great. The story's fine, but it's not as compelling as other games. If you like Fallout 3 type games, it's fantastic. I'm more of a JRPG guy, so the lack of character development and a more cohesive plot hurt my enjoyment of it. But like I said, it's really a matter of pure taste and personal preference. As western RPGs go, it's way, way up there in terms of quality. It just didn't get me anywhere near as obsessed as, for example, Persona 4 did (and I know that a lot of people have the exact opposite experience and opinion). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Native Jovian Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 Oblivion was a good game with a handful of huge flaws. The leveling system is terrible; it's extremely easy to level your character in a way that breaks the game, either by making it nearly impossible to continue (you won't be able to beat the enemies it throws at you) or by making it ridiculously easy (you can have maxed out every offensive skill to 100 and still be fighting level 1 enemies). The scaling enemies system also really stretches suspension of disbelief sometimes (brown bears and minotaur lords rampaging around right outside cities? Highwaymen in daedric equipment mugging you for 100 gold?), which can ruin the sense of immersion. The fact that there are only a handful of voice actors for extras (there are exactly ten for most of the game, and three more for Shivering Isles; that may sound like a lot, but given that there are ten races and each can be male or female, it means that you don't even have a unique voice for every race/gender combo, much less different voices for things like soldiers vs civilians, commoners vs nobles, etc) doesn't help with immersion either. That said, some of the quest lines are really great. Both the Thieves' Guild and the Dark Brotherhood lines are excellent, though I found the main quest to be a little cliche and forced. Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles were both pretty good, too. I do wish there were more long questlines like that, rather than the metric asston of fairly short ones that they have instead, but that's a fairly minor complaint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 Oblivion was 90 hours of my life that was not wasted Just as Skyrim will be too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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