[PC/360/PS3] The Elders Scrolls IV: Oblivion

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Oblivion is a fantasy-based role-playing adventure game and an example of open-ended or sandbox gameplay. The main quest may be delayed or completely ignored as the player explores the expansive game world, following side quests, interacting with NPCs, and developing a character according to their taste. The player is free to go anywhere inside the land of Cyrodiil at any time while playing the game, and even after completing the main quest storyline the game never ends, allowing the player to build their character in whatever way they want, with no restrictions on skills or equipment. The game contains many enemies for the player to fight, including monsters and animals. Many enemies, quests, and treasures are "leveled", or become increasingly difficult, as the player gains levels. The player, however, has the option of adjusting the difficulty level.

The fast-travel system found in Arena and Daggerfall, but left out of Morrowind, returned in Oblivion. In Oblivion, if a player visits a location, it appears as an icon on their map. The icon may then be clicked to visit that location, with time elapsing in the interim. However, you can't fast travel from certain locations or when enemies are nearby. Oblivion also introduced ridable horses while removing Morrowind's transportation options, such as Mages' Guild teleporters, silt striders and teleporting spells. The game also removed all levitation spells and items, as the cities in Oblivion are separate cells from the rest of the world and thus must be entered into, and exited from, the town gate to avoid glitches. Select non-player characters may enter and exit areas at will, and will do so quite often, following the Radiant AI's commands.

One major focus during Oblivion's development was correcting Morrowind's imbalance between stealth, combat and magic skill sets. The skills system is similar to Morrowind's, though the number of skills is decreased, with the medium armor, unarmored, spear, and enchant skills removed altogether, and the short blade and long blade skills condensed into a single blade skill. The game also introduced "mastery levels," which give skill-specific bonuses when the player reaches a certain level in that skill. The combat system was also revamped, with the addition of "power attacks", generally given by mastery levels, and the removal of the separate styles of melee attacks present in Morrowind. Ranged attacks were also changed, so that the determination of a hit is based solely on whether the arrow struck the target in-game, rather than the character's skill level. Spears, throwing weapons, and crossbows were removed as well, while staffs no longer counted as weapons, but are only used for casting spells. The choice came from a desire to focus all development efforts in ranged weapons on bows specifically, to "get the feel of those as close to perfect as possible", as perfect as the Havok physics engine allowed the team to do. Morrowind's passive Block skill became an active feature in Oblivion, activated by a button press. When, in the new system, an enemy is successfully blocked, they now recoil, offering an opening for attack.





Personally i've played this game on the PC and 360 for over 250 hours, and it's just a amazing game, it's not a game that everyone likes, infact it can be hard to get into, but once you do, then you won't let it go for a long time.

Indeed its amazing. After many hours I finished the main story, and than after many many hours I still didn't finish all quests ^^. The game is endless, but I get bored after a while becuase there is nobody to talk with or to compare with (skills/level).

Even tried to make a dungeon, but its quite hard.

Lovely game :)

Sorry didn't grab me, i absoloutely hated the interface. Played it for 30mins on pc then dropped it and deleted it.

Not like TES III : Morrowind now theres a game i've played countless times. I still play when im bored, i like to go treasure hunting (dunno if you can do this on oblivion but) you find a book about the lore of the region and you can usually get some clues as to where the items are from those, then you go hunting and voila you've got something to do for a while. On my most recent completion i've collected 90-95% of all the legendary items and completed all the main quests (tribunal and bloodmoon) some of the items like boots of blinding speed i can't live without.

Morrowind was indeed better imo, what i really miss in Oblivion is the fact that items and mobs are fixed on your level, so instead of the chance of finding cool stuff and fighting tough mobs, you just kill the same crap all the time, also the enchantment system in Morrowind was way and way better. I really don't get why they removed those 2, as they were excellent.

I fell in love with Morrowind first and then was flat down for Oblivion when it came out. Havent played Shivering Isles yet but I guess that's gonna be fun too when it happens.

Oblivion was like a good change from those continuous long days of being a MMO addict. Well the only problem was that the system requirements were way too high. :(

I really hoped they had a multiplayer option over LAN or something. The game would be so much more fun then.

Hehe, i actually played Oblivion on a Geforce 4 TI4200. :D

Oblivion was a great game in my opinion. All of the major quests had great stories and I gt really into them.

As for the game play. Sure it's not as good or the 3rd game but in ways it still felt good. Also you can't deny the fact that the game looks damn good. Over a year latter it still looks better then most other new games. Which is a hard thing to do.

With Shivering Isles it brought more fun to it. The new world maybe smaller but looks even more amazing on an artistic value. Then when you throw in the odd humor it makes for a much better experience.

NoPeace - out

The game does look amazing, except for 1 thing... landscape textures... upclose they're great, but the distant ones look shit. I heard the PS3 got updated textures though.

I have it for the 360 its a fun game lol me and friend used to play it all the time and then go to skewl and just talk about it but then my disk fucked up so i havent played in a while ... Morrowind was better i dont know why i like it more i just did ...

I once posted a review of Morrowind, deffo the best, but Oblivion was so much fun.

i had oblivion for the xbox 360 and i took it back coz i found it hard and it aint my type of game lol but overall it is a really good game very well made !!!!

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Originally Posted by GohanSSJ

The game does look amazing, except for 1 thing... landscape textures... upclose they're great, but the distant ones look shit. I heard the PS3 got updated textures though.

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That's because the LOD setting and draw distance was turned down a lot on the x360.

The PC version, if you have a high end card, does not have that problem. Nor does the PS3 version.

The PS3 version really shocked me. The PS3 has a weaker GPU and a slower drive but that didn't reflect Oblivion on it. Instead they improved the graphics quality greatly and have much much better textures. In the 3 versions the PS3 has the best base graphics and not just that. The load times on the PS3 is much lower then the other versions (aside from a $5000 computer).

NoPeace - out

The textures look better on the 360 then on the PC, unless they been patched, but both on my PC and on both my brothers, both dual core systems - 3800x2 OC'd, 2 gig memory each and 1 with a 7900GT and 1 with a 8800GTS. I'd say if you can't get these high textures at all, then it's not there, it's not like they're missing the options.

The PS3 version ain't that impressive really, in the end they simply improved the textures which had been no problem for the PC or 360, but they just never made them until then.

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Originally Posted by GohanSSJ

The textures look better on the 360 then on the PC, unless they been patched, but both on my PC and on both my brothers, both dual core systems - 3800x2 OC'd, 2 gig memory each and 1 with a 7900GT and 1 with a 8800GTS. I'd say if you can't get these high textures at all, then it's not there, it's not like they're missing the options.

The PS3 version ain't that impressive really, in the end they simply improved the textures which had been no problem for the PC or 360, but they just never made them until then.

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Actually I played it on the PC with an x1900XTX and the textures at max settings with 16x AF were hell of a lot better then the x360 and the same goes with the 8800GTX.

Just make sure you have good filtering settings.

Sure the PS3 isn't that impressive compared to the others. Though what is impressive is the fact that they took weaker hardware and make it better looking. That is why it's impressive.

NoPeace - out

Yeah but they just improved the game, they said they would release a patch for the 360 aswell with updated textures. In the end it's really not impressive, the PS3 version was released much later, so they had the time to improve the game.

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Originally Posted by GohanSSJ

Yeah but they just improved the game, they said they would release a patch for the 360 aswell with updated textures. In the end it's really not impressive, the PS3 version was released much later, so they had the time to improve the game.

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Yeah of course they have had time to make it better and to be honest that's why it's actually amazing. Since if you compare it to 90% of the other PS3 ports it did the complete opposite. Since almost all of the ports was plagued by poor graphics and poor performance. So it was an amazement to see them do the complete opposite.

NoPeace - out

In all truth those that complain about morrowind being better then oblivion.. have u looked in the modding community ?

Those dedicated members have managed to mods to make oblvion more like morrowind then ever , one such example is the open-cities mod which allows no loading times when entering cities , but this is only rly effective with a good computer that would alllow a good frame rate when your char is travelling outside town , its then when u get that immersive feeling pumped to the max ^^.