Possibly the best game since Morrowind?
I remember when I first posted on Morrowind when it was released, and the popularity of the game on these boards prompted an entire new section.

So I ask, how goddamn cool is this game? 'Cause I'm having a bloody blast.

They screwed up my preorder and gave it to someone else. I'm extremely angry. I HAVE BEEN SLIGHTED!

I have no idea how good the game is, it's incredibly laggy on my system and I have to play it in 800 x 600. Of course I'm still raiding in eq so that's a good 4-5 hours yesterday that I didn't get to play Oblivion. So far, I liked Morrowind much more than Oblivion at the same stage of the game in which I am.

I don't know b/c every freaking game store in my area is SOLD OUT :( I should have pre-ordered.

3 EBs
4 Gamestops
Circuit City

No Oblivion, and no idea when they're getting more copies. I guess I'll order it from online.

Hmmm might have to look into this. Could use a good stand alone game.


Fandros

Great Graphics and overall a sweet game atm, I bought it for the PC, though I havent gotten use to the controls yet its just so different from how I usualy play.

im glad there arnt any copies, teach you fucks to reserve shit. I work at a game store and fucking i pushed this game like no other, and guess what, dipshits like everyone who doesn't own the game right now said ohhhh ill just come in a day later and pick it up. WRONG. So now i have the distinct privilge to welcome people to my store and basically call them idoits. Reserve stuff, its fucking free to do god damnit.

Sucks to be you guys I went to my local Gamestop not even knowing that Oblivion was even coming out yesterday and I happen to hear someone talking about it when I left and because I had a extra 50 bucks I thought I would buy one, anways Gamestop still had 3 nonreserved copies and the local Best Buy had at least 15ish copies that were still onthe shelf around 3 pm.

im glad there arnt any copies, teach you fucks to reserve shit. I work at a game store and fucking i pushed this game like no other, and guess what, dipshits like everyone who doesn't own the game right now said ohhhh ill just come in a day later and pick it up. WRONG. So now i have the distinct privilge to welcome people to my store and basically call them idoits. Reserve stuff, its fucking free to do god damnit.

Wow, bitter much? What store do you work at, I'd like to know so I never give a prick like you my business.

Mine will be here in the morning via UPS. been tracking it and its ready for drop off. I have been looking forward to having this game for a year now. Rebuilt wifes machine for it and this comp is ready to go as well. Should be great.

Wow, bitter much? What store do you work at, I'd like to know so I never give a prick like you my business.

No kidding.

How about I say something that will be easily understood by you Clobber. Get a REAL job :D

It's no wonder the best job the guy can get is in a video game store.

The last one was one of the most boring and clunky game's I've played in years. But I keep hearing lots about this one, is it changed enough for me to check out?

I never played MorrowWind and I suck so far at the close combat fighting but overrall the graphics and the pretty decent story keeps me playing.

'The last one was one of the most boring and clunky game's I've played in years. But I keep hearing lots about this one, is it changed enough for me to check out?'

- Yeah, it has.
It has definately dealt with some huge issues from the Morrowind.
And the gaming world.. talk about infinite. If you can see snowy peaks in the distance, even if it takes you an hour, you bet that you can get to the top.
Dungeons, cities, landscapes, it's all breath-taking.

The combat has had an overhaul which makes it feel more like you're in control, which is something I found lacking in Morrowind. Spells are king, and have a bigger part to play. Work's kept me busy, so haven't had too much gaming time on it. But it sure as hell is the best single player game I've played this side of a year.
No main quest for me, nop, it's rogue adventuring, all the way baby! A thousand side quests, and quite rewarding, definately challenging.

I heard it's particularly fun on an Xbox 360, anyone confirm?

Now you've done it Halo, I'll have to go pick it up today...

Was the blasted climbing the mountain you can see in the distance thing to be honest.

Fandros

'Get a real job' Hey fuck you mother fucker. I'm trying to put my self through college, and you tell me to get a real job. FUCK YOU, god damn inconsiderate prick. I am doing my best whats at hand. I could care less where I work the fact is if you come into my store, full on knowing that you could have gotten a copy held for you asking for one. I am going to flat out call you a moron.

'Get a real job' Hey fuck you mother fucker. I'm trying to put my self through college, and you tell me to get a real job. FUCK YOU, god damn inconsiderate prick. I am doing my best whats at hand. I could care less where I work the fact is if you come into my store, full on knowing that you could have gotten a copy held for you asking for one. I am going to flat out call you a moron.

Good luck in life Clobber you have a mightey fine way with words and people. I look forward to hearing about you on the news when you snapped off and went postal because you were tired of saying "want fries with that".

These aren't the boards you're looking for, the potty mouth boards are further down the intraweb.

Tata for now!

Someone needs to invest their college money into some medication.

My computer will be fully upgraded by tomorrow night, and the Oblivion-fest will begin. Speaking of medication, it may be time to invest in a case of Red Bulls and amphetamines...

Speaking of medication, it may be time to invest in a case of Red Bulls and amphetamines...

I prefer BAWLS myself. It tastes better than Red Bull and whoa does it have some kick :D

'Get a real job' Hey fuck you mother fucker. I'm trying to put my self through college, and you tell me to get a real job. FUCK YOU, god damn inconsiderate prick. I am doing my best whats at hand. I could care less where I work the fact is if you come into my store, full on knowing that you could have gotten a copy held for you asking for one. I am going to flat out call you a moron.

I went in to my local Gamestop yesterday and they had about 50 copies of 360 and PC version.

In short, shut the fuck up you spasmatic retard. Not everyone is such a fanboi that they feel the incessant need to reserve their shit, and more often than not it works out fine.

But really. Nothing scares me more than the prospect of my local Gamestop employee calling me a moron. THEY R TEH TUFFF1!11 lol

Oblivion is georgeous. I preferred the menus in Morrowind, but damn the graphics in Oblivion are amazing. Of course, I just bought a 7800 so I could run the thing over 640 x 480...

I found that it took a good bit of tweaking even with a decent system and fairly high-end gfx card. Tweaking the nvidia settings directly was the best. Now the frame rate is quite good and the views are just stunning.

Still love me some Morrowind, tho.

I may have to look into this one myself, especially after the comment about rogue adventuring, heh.

BTW, I tossed a +hit to Clobby just for having to deal with idiots all day. :p

I don't think xbox 360 can have anything on the PC version of the game, simply because PC can be modded to add all kinds of depth. The only thing that I could think of is that no matter what you're guarenteed smooth running, I'd imagine. At least, that was the way it was with Morrowind for me. I had it on the xbox and the PC (got the PC later with the release of Tribunal and Bloodmoon) and my PC was a bit inferior to the specs, and it showed. Xbox there was no such problem.

Sorry Fan, but it's true!
The coolest thing is, you'll never know what you'll find at the top. Maybe a few trees, maybe a desolate peak, but maybe a dungeon, or a city-fortress, or a cluster of huts with a few NPC's and some pretty cool merchants or quests you would otherwise never have seen.

Think of Morrowind, and double the size of the game-world. It's pretty breath-taking. Now excuse me, 2hrs before I have to pick my gf up, precious time left!!

Anyone know a good place online to find a guide and a map of the Empire City I cant seem to find things that I need. oh btw winning money at the arena is way to easy.

haven't been to the arena yet but i'm having fun joining the dark brotherhood and being an assassin.

I want to pick this game up, but I've been way too busy with the new Metroid game. :D

Oh this game is wonderful...../drool THere is a great Nvidia tweak out there. If you OC your cards at all you are familure with programs like Coolbits NVtweak and Rivatuner. Well in the hidden Nvidia optiosn there is a adjustment to render frames ahead. Set that to 0 or 1 over the default 3 and it opens up a ton of FPS... great tweak.

I watched a guy play this at a video game store yesterday. I have to say that I'm actually not that impressed by the graphics. I'd still play it if I had a chance to, but seeing as I have neither a computer nor an xbox360 (nor a tv for that matter) I will have to go without.

What struck me with the graphics was the same thing as with Doom3, it looks very much like plastic.

Sweet, you can be in the Dark Brotherhood? Awesome! I remember all you could do in Morrowind was get chased around by them. You could join the Morag Tong though.

Sweet, you can be in the Dark Brotherhood?

As of right now, I'm a member of the Dark Brotherhood and the Fighter's Guild. Though I haven't tried to step foot in the fighter's guild since I joined the Dark Brotherhood, so I have no idea if I'm going to be kicked out of it.

Yeah thats one thing I dont like with the newer games graphics, I see it even in the Brand new Madden Game, there heading to more of aplastic look, in Oblivion everything is deffinately to shiny.

You might try turning down the Specular Lighting. I think that's how you spell it anyways. I turned it darn near off and that shine on everything went away. Looks much better. At least if you're playing it on a comp that is. Have no idea on the 360 version.

Actually I am more pissed off at not being able to find any vendor heal potions, anyone know what town to get some?

Anyone Else having problems with crashes?

Me and a pal has been playing this pretty much non stop since the release of it.. i play it on 360 and at first it felt really laggy and choppy but that was until i found out my HD was pretty much full and really fragmented to fix that all you have to do is restart the Xbox and keep "A" pressed down until you see the bethesta startscreen.. poof.. hd defragmented and no more laggy menus..

the game is stunningly beutiful and the feel for it is true to the series.. the open non linear style that we have loved since the days of arena and daggerfall..
we made a rogue type class.. an acrobat to be precise, after 15h played and still lev 1 we joined the thief guild and started our carreer as the elderscrolls version of Garret..
the first few missions were easy as hell.. but pretty soon they became insanely hard..
and that seems to be the story in this game.. while morrowind was easy enough for a semi blind monkey with diarrea to play this will present a challenge to everyone.. and caster IS ACTUALLY playable since mana regenerates.. no more need for cheats or a cart full of mana potions.. and fast travel.. many hate it and thinks it ruins the game but i love it.. having to run for 20mins to get back to town just to speak with some yahoo for a quest update just isnt fun..

since i got this game in my hands i havent been able to even start my Everquest 2 account.. it just dont call me anymore.. perhaps in a few weeks.. or.. anyone want a EQ2 account?

back to breaking the law in imperial city.. over and out...

sincerly
the swedish Leninist kommunist SIND

now for my ultimate decision, I have the opportunity to become a vampire. The head of the Dark Brotherhood(or at least in the Sanctuary I have available to me) has offered to make me a vampire after completing his line of tasks... hmmm oh the dilemma.

Anyone Else having problems with crashes?

Not at all on my machine, but the wife will occasionaly crash when she goes back to load another save point. And even then it's maybe crash 1 or twice out of every ten re-loads. There is deffinatly need for a patch to clean somethings up but over all its really stable.

'Actually I am more pissed off at not being able to find any vendor heal potions, anyone know what town to get some?'

- Facing Rindir's Staffs in the Market district, there's a few magic shops. The one on the left sells potions, I believe.

I've had a few problems with crashing, but go to the official forums, their technical section is brilliant. Go to page 7 and there's an unnofficial FAQ thread, with all the fixes and tricks you need to run it well, or at all.

Picture me, I have a p4 1.9ghz radeon 9800 with just 600mb of ram.
And I play this pretty well on 640 res. I even have full distance view :devil I'm not saying it's completely smooth, but, ya know, nothing beats the sun-sets and snowy peaks.

I've been so side-tracked with little quests, killing the fishes for the guy in the cottage just outside the Imperial City (an amazing water-breathing ring, permanent is the reward), helping the merchants in the Market district with the guy underselling them, and getting 100gold and a great attribute ring and sword in the process, and finding the Imperial Grey Prince's homeland in some city about 2hrs walking distance from the Imprerial City...it's all been major fun. Spent hours and hours on those few quests.
Now I'm back in the City and thinking about joining the mage guild. Went to their island thingy but couldn't gain access, does anyone know where I can find the local mage guild leaders for recruitment? Looked pretty much everywhere.

Enjoying this game more than anything right now. For the Imperial Grey Prince quest, I set off through the most amazing country-side and valleys, there's a hundred dungeons, npc's, and side-quests on the way.

Oh, and won 3 fights in the arena. My "fame" on the character panel is 2. Oh yeah, I'm the man.

Bought it - installed and played with it. Very fun.

Went to forums, read things about level scaling... and I decided to drop the game. In RPG games, you shouldnt have a world scaling to your level. Thats nonsense.

I am sad - such a great game - destroyed by an idiot idea.

Lani

Wow one problem and its not worth it anymore? How did you ever play Everquest for more then a week?

Does this game only come in a dvd format?

Really don't want to pick up a new HD ( mine is only 80g) and a new dvd drive for one game.

Fandros

Yes, the scaling blows. I'm hoping modders can make it more reasonable, but I expect that to be more complex than simply neatening the UI.

Still a fantastic and beautiful game.

I don't understand what is meant by scaling?

As you level up, the monsters around you level up with you so each area you go to the monsters you're fighting will be challenging still (thats the theory anyways). As opposed to a system like EQ's where the mobs are statically leveled with a small range of variation.

The argument against it (at least one) goes something like this: Early in my career I go to a dungeon. It's tough. I kill the first mob or two, but further in they are just too strong -- no can do. So I leave, vowing to return one day to avenge...myself, really. I leave, level up a few times, collect some goodies and return. That dungeon is still a challenge, but now the tables are turned. I am the victor and may revel in my accomplishment. Huzzah!

But Oblvion isn't like that. Every dungeon and the vast majority of NPCs are your level (give or take, depending on where the Difficulty slider is set). Thus, people can become Arena grandmasters at level 1, be arch-mage of the guild by level 3, and finish the overarching quest at level 6. I'd have at least preferred that some important targets scale only have a certain level. As it stands, I can see how this set up will water down in game accomplishments.

Still a great game, and mods will improve it.

We each like different things. Level scaleing? Brilliant. I prefer a tough challenge. I have had to comeback after maybe getting different equipment or different spell sets but I have always been able to beat any dungeon/gate so far. You are really dis-servicing your self to quit the game because it is too hard. Great stuff. Don't quit.

The Level scale is brilliant for side-quests. But for the main quest, its advantageous NOT to level. Hell - you will become Arena champion at lvl 1? And kill the endboss at lvl 3?

The level scaling shouldnt disappear - that allows player created mods to be played by everyone. But the main questline should have fixed level dungeons imho.

And yes, I have set the game aside, and hope for a patch :) I want an RPG, and with level scale, this isnt (for me) a real RPG.

Anyway, happy hunting for those who enjoy :) (I play(ed) a nightblade).

Lani

As a level 8, I've never had problems with any dungeon.

That said, the stat increases from leveling through skills are fucking retarded.

That said, the stat increases from leveling through skills are fucking retarded.

I guess you haven't played any of the other TES games if you didn't expect this to be the way to raise your stats.

With Morrowind, you could level up without seeing a monster if you had the money to do so. There were trainers that could take you all the way up to 100 in a skill (some required a certain rank in a faction). Heck, you could even find a way around that, if you had a fortify to take a skill that was at 100 over it, you could train that skill indefinitely (at least on the xbox version) and level up as much as you wanted to.

I just picked this up - it sounds good so far, I haven't played that much into it. What I will say is that the minimum specs on the box really are the minimum specs if even that, my poor computer is crawling along with a 128mb video card, 1 gig ram, and a P4 3.0ghz processor. The minimum says 512 ram, I can't even imagine trying to run it on that.

There are some great tweaks on the various forum sites, but each of those is slowly degrading my game visually, and half the fun of an RPG like this is the eye candy. I'd probably want to save the emperor more if he didn't look like a pasty white blob.

I guess I'll have to suffer and upgrade now.:D

After waiting a day for mini-reviews to pop up, I constantly read that PC users hated the UI because it was made for a console.

So...I went and got the console version :D

I played the hell out of it for 3 days or so, stopped due to RL...

So far I've had an absolute blast, got to the head of all the orders at same time, explored alot, lvl'd up(I'm lvl 30something) so I could try creating some more powerful spells.

Havn't even touched the main quest yet.

http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=337495

Leveling Mod check it out.

Awesome! :) I will probably play it again then :)

Lani

There's a few mods out there to help with the blurry distant textures as well...

http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=330112

I just bought this game and am having trouble loading it. It installed fine but when I click on play I get that "do you want to send an error message" thing.

I need to find out why it isn't running but it isn't giving me a clear cut error message.

Any suggestions?


It says " Oblivion has encountered an error and needs to close. Sorry for the inconvience".

What are your computer specs? Do you have directx 9c loaded?

I think my specs are good.... I will triple check the DX9c.

Yep my specs are low for the game. I forgot that my original vid card went bad and I put in an older card..... Now I need to go rectify that.

what kind of card do you have in the PC now?

A lower grade Gforce. I had a 9700 in there before

do you have higher than say a 5500? if so you should be able to play oblivion at least at 800x600 on medium with the grass turned off.

ah here is the Oblivion Thread.

Still having fun with it Bise?

I got bored after a month :(

I haven't had a chance to load it up due to a weak ass video card..... :(

Beautiful game but I've become too accustomed to playing with others, I guess. Played some Planetside for a couple months but now am back into EQ2.

I admit it, my first character was a mangina. 8(

Been playing for a few days now.... I am terrible at close combat as a Night Blade.... any suggestions?

I basically kite everything like in EQ.....

I am having fun though with the side quests...

Funny thing happend though... my kids played Morrowind for a long while. Yesterday after they were playing O for a while I got back on and they had turned on an invicibility code. I cleared the ship out Anvil and got my first magic weapon. I thought that the ghosts were "illusions" trying to trick me and I was disbelieving them or something.

Anyway, I have been purposely avoiding the main quest by doing side quests and smaller dungeons.

I like it so far. I run it with all the highest graphic stuff... really nice...

When I make my next character it will probably be a pure Barbarian..... I wanna hack stuff more.

Okay, I am having fun now.... I finally set myself up with the proper magic gear and have been able to make and regenerate mana at a much faster rate.... which lets me cast my pet and actually kill stuff. :)

I am just now starting the main quest. I am the leader of several guilds and arena champion... the side quests have proved fun and challenging. :)

I loved Oblivion, but when you focus on the main quest, it takes about a day, which was always most dissapointing about the game.
And though people say you can continue in side quests, it always feels quite.. useless to do so.

Still, a top game. Glad you're having fun.

So after I finish this one, what would you guys suggest I find for my next endevour?

I am glad I did mostly side quests first. It gave me the feeling of having multiple story lines going on at one time and having to deal with several issues while the main quest line hung over my head.

:)

Purely accidental but things work out some times.

How about those mods like knights of the nine and other premium mods? Worth donloading / installing?

Since I have a better videocard (1950 Pro) I started to enjoy the game. The world leveling with you is very bad, but I have to revide my previous post, its not totally destroying the game. One can still enjoy the character progression.

Trolls regeneration is deadly :)

Lani

For some reason trolls wont go in water.... or at least deep water. pull them out of the caves and cast a pet the run in the water.... lather, rinse :)

I haven't tried the official mods, but there are plenty of player made toys out there worth checking out.