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B_MAN
10-06-2006, 09:53 AM
when the game first came out, i played for weeks straight
and then, all of a sudden, i stopped altogether
and havent touched it since
is anyone still playing this game? personally, itll probably take an expansion for me to return to the game :smoking:
When I first tried the game, it was unbelieveable. Then a week afterwards, I started to lose interest and now it's become an afterthought on my hard drive. An expansion would help but to me, it needs to make some changes that likely won't ever come to fruition (Put the RPG back into it!)
hungryduck
10-06-2006, 10:03 AM
I played it like crazy for a week - and haven't touched it since.
The formula of the game loses its appeal real quick.
Yeaaah, I actually lost the DVD =/
I was turned off by the idea of selling additional content when companies like Valve and Blizzard release even larger portions of content absolutely free.
I was turned off by the idea of selling additional content when companies like Valve and Blizzard release even larger portions of content absolutely free.
QFT
'Microtransactions' blows.
Ren.182
10-06-2006, 11:24 AM
I played it for about a month then i just got bored of it. It got repetetive pretty quick. Go into that dungeon, kill everything, take the treasure, sell/dump in house, repeat.
Graphics were nice though and i did like the world. Oh well.
TheHamster22
10-06-2006, 11:34 AM
The game just need more engaging stories, I think it would have been better if they had maybe a quarter of the side quests but each one was actually quite interesting and took 4 times longer to play. As well some obligatory non-story quests like if you read a book you find out about some strange artifact or something and can go on a quest to find it.
Basically the game needed to be less computer generated and more handed crafted to perfection, imo.
sinkoman
10-06-2006, 11:34 AM
Wasted four days of my life on it.
Don't plan on going back for a LONG while.
Once you've topped off the missions in one city, you've done them all. It's the same nonsensical unimaginative bullshit.
Player walks into bar and speaks to bartender.
Bartender "Ah, so it be the treasure of Karall you be looking for? I don't trust you enough to tell you about that"
Player plays a few rounds of speachcraft
Bartender "Ah, so it be the treasure of Karall you be looking for? Well, I trust you enough, I suppose I can trust you with this. A long while ago, some guy did some thing, and you don't even really have to listen to me ramble on about this crap..."
Player answers a yes or no question.
Bartender "Well, I don't have a ****ing clue where it is. BUT, Markachia knows where it might be. She lives all the way on the other side of the fricken map. Go pay her a visit, she'll make you do some bullshit bribe for the info, then send you dungeon crawling."
Unfocused
10-06-2006, 12:09 PM
I played it for about a month then i just got bored of it. It got repetetive pretty quick. Go into that dungeon, kill everything, take the treasure, sell/dump in house, repeat.
No, we're not talking about Diablo II, Ren. :p
Some quests were really fun/cool and didn't involve dungeon crawling. Lot's of spell effects and the ability to craft spells = ftw! Blade - shield combat = ftw! Sneaky bow shot = ftw! Beautiful game world = ftw!
I played with a good Battlemage up to level 30 (main quest started at lvl 22, previously did lots of other quests, became Arch Mage etc., after completing the main quest I did some others during the 2 week waiting for... the thing you get after completing the MQ :))
I played with an evil female assassin/thief to do only the Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild quests - a different game, going sneaky with the bow and eliminating people before they see you. I think she's about level 15.
I played for a bit with a Swordsman type, but then went back to my Battlemage which is now lvl 31 and kicks ass, despite the level scaling. Now I'm doing some Daedric quests.
There is really much to do if you don't want to explore dungeons. I found the Dark Brotherhood's quests most rewarding and interesting.
Cormeh
10-06-2006, 12:12 PM
I haven't actively played it, but I have a warrior Breton I'm chipping away at. The plan is to level up to about 20, then start doing major quests.
Other than that, the game did get old fast, shame because its still really good.
Lucid
10-06-2006, 12:39 PM
I still play from time to time.
I'm just pissed that I'm still level ****ing ONE, and I've cleared most of the dungeons and caves... and I'm half-way through the Dark Brotherhood.
X.x
Solaris
10-06-2006, 01:04 PM
You spend half an hour saving some counts son from the plains of obvlion.
Then you ask to buy a house, and you get "I don't like you enough to tell you that". Seriously wtf!
dekstar
10-06-2006, 03:30 PM
I stopped playing purely because it won't run half as well when I'm not overclocking, and my BIOS crashed when I was fiddlnig so my cpu was set at default clocks (AMD 2500+ instead of my overclocked 3200+). I just stopped playing because I couldn't be bothered to overclock at the time, and got back into CSS.
I plan on restarting though. My main character's save got screwed (He doesn't stop levelling up thanks to a lame levelling mod), but I just have better things to do.
Reginald
10-06-2006, 03:54 PM
I started a new mage character recently, and I haven't touched any form of weapon. It's pretty cool. I'm slowly levelling her up, but I may succumb to the pbs cheat to get all spells and become all powerful.
The Monkey
10-06-2006, 04:00 PM
I haven't touched it on two weeks.
Dalamari
10-06-2006, 04:03 PM
Played it for 90 hours, and then quit
Mutley
10-06-2006, 04:25 PM
Played for 20 hours top, the leveling system killed it for me. Finding glass armor on bandits is a joke. I made so much money I bought Microsoft.
JNightshade
10-06-2006, 04:45 PM
Played it for like 140 hours, then calmed the f*ck down. I'll still pop it in occasionally, but not a lot.
Steven
10-06-2006, 06:03 PM
I've played it too bloody long. If I play it again my head will explode.
DreadLord
10-06-2006, 06:18 PM
Played for 20 hours top, the leveling system killed it for me. Finding glass armor on bandits is a joke. I made so much money I bought Microsoft.
This sums up why I don't play it any longer.
Roland Deschain
10-06-2006, 06:39 PM
Finished mages quest. At this point I'm godlike with armor maxed out and spells that will kill even the strongest monster quickly. Long story short, leveling system killed it for me.
Homless Snark
10-06-2006, 08:20 PM
heh like 90% of these complaints are fixed with simple things like mods or using speechcraft ("don't like you enough")
CookieCuttah
10-06-2006, 09:41 PM
It was really fun at one point but after 100 hours it was enough, and my mage iddn't do too well anyhow. She could kill but she got killed fast, I prefered the thief/warrior hybrid way more.
After I completed the main story, I lost interest in it... pretty fast. It was very fun the first 10 hours, but it became more and more repetitive so after 60+ hours I stopped playing it.
Actually one of many few games I've spent so much time on, if you don't count Gran Turismo 3 and Grand Theft Auto 3 which I spent countless time on. ;)
French Ninja
10-06-2006, 11:14 PM
It's the only game I've played for the past month for the most part. 0_o
Reginald
11-06-2006, 12:09 AM
I'm aniticipating this forum to be deleted soon.
Lucid
11-06-2006, 12:45 AM
I just uninstalled it after not being able to level up for the entire duration of playing the game. :|
Krynn72
11-06-2006, 12:54 AM
I played it crazy when it came out. Now I am on and off. Mods are the only reason I keep coming back.
Laivasse
11-06-2006, 01:34 AM
I played it a lot at first, and still would be except it constantly crashes to the point of unplayability. I suspect it's my borked gfx card overheating, so I'll probably come back and attack it properly when I get a new one, if ever.
Steven
11-06-2006, 03:44 AM
Someone should make a mod that fixes all these problems, I would but I play it too much.
Bad^Hat
11-06-2006, 04:40 PM
I played it a lot at first, and still would be except it constantly crashes to the point of unplayability. I suspect it's my borked gfx card overheating, so I'll probably come back and attack it properly when I get a new one, if ever.
That's what I thought when mine was crashing all the time, see if you have any luck with this - http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=107324
Sanada
11-06-2006, 06:04 PM
When I first got the game I couldn't stop playing. Not knowing what you were doing kinda made it more fun in a way as you didn't know what was going to happen next. Some fun moments were looking for valuable things and pretty much picking up everything not knowing half of it is just crap, getting raped by some bandits in a ruin just outside of the imperial sewer and many more I can't remember. I spent most of my time getting arrested though at first since I didn't know I was committing crimes. :|
About 3 weeks later it's starting to wear thin. I just can't seem to keep myself interested for as long as before. Quests are boring and I can't be bothered to close Oblivion gates even though I want the Sigil stones. I just done the Arena cause I wanted to see Adoring Fan but I left him in a shop somewhere. Might play it every now and then though but it won't be long before I put it away.
Parlez
11-06-2006, 06:05 PM
I played it for about 4 days when it first came out and that was the last time I have touched it.
Laivasse
12-06-2006, 01:14 AM
That's what I thought when mine was crashing all the time, see if you have any luck with this - http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=107324
Nah, nothing to do with bows, my problem is definitely graphical artifacts and overheating. Ta anyhow.
bam23
12-06-2006, 01:42 AM
I can't wait till Dark Messiah :P
Shadow-warrior
12-06-2006, 12:01 PM
Played it for about 40 hrs and slowly realised just how boring and shallow the world/quests/npc were. The saying "if you try to please everyone you won't please anyone" fits this game well.
Steven
12-06-2006, 01:54 PM
Usually after playing a game for 24 hours+ you'll think it sucks.
Jintor
12-06-2006, 02:55 PM
I played it for about 2 months straight, then... just... stopped. Now I'm back into San Andreas and reminded about what an immersive world should be all about. Sure, it's not realism, but by gods it's fun.
B_MAN
13-06-2006, 03:13 AM
mmmm san andreas, good idea
Dog--
13-06-2006, 04:08 AM
It's been said before, but, it's just not the same as Morrowind, or any other Elder Scrolls Games, they took all of the gameplay away from it, in morrowind there were like 50+ quests, not including factions, in this one there was like 10 scripted quests.... the only things better are: House buying, Horses, Graphics, and combat.
Everything else was just changed for the worse...
I stopped playing it, simply because they've ruined the Elder Scrolls, I don't plan on going back to it.
BTW, thats such a coincidence, I started playing San Andreas for the PC once I stopped playing Oblivion - I made a guy that looks EXACLY like Mr. T, same haircut (Short mohawk + beard), gold chain, muscle as high as it can go, I love that game!
Parlez
13-06-2006, 04:25 AM
mmmm san andreas, good idea
I have it for the PS2 and I still play it at least one time a week.
VirusType2
13-06-2006, 09:05 AM
Oblivion is the best. I've played it quite a bit. If I had to guess I'd say I've played about 50 - 80 hours? Can't really remember. I still love this game to death, although it's not all new and surprising anymore, it's still a blast to play.
I have a horrible game PC with a PCI graphics card however, so I'm taking a break from Oblivion, and having a lot of fun working on my Doom 3 mod. In two days, I added 425 awesome skin variations (I'm getting pretty good at the complicated Paint Shop Pro 9)for some of the monsters in Doom 3. You might never see the same exact monster skin twice while playing through the game when I'm through.
One day I'll have a PC that can run Oblivion with ease, and I'll be playing it with all the graphics. I'll probably mod Oblivion like I am doing for Doom3. I'd like to make a total conversion multi-level dungeon only game. Like 12 levels connected by staircase or ladders or something, with puzzles and traps - with ideas I've been working on for 10 years. I think this would be the perfect engine to make this game for. Previously, I would have had to make my game from scratch, which I've already had some success with, although my graphics engine was 1987-ish. =P This 2006 Oblivion game engine would be the ultimate for my game.
Dog--
13-06-2006, 02:21 PM
Any time VirusType2 can give publicity for his mod, he gives 100% :D
We will all download your mod. ok?
JNightshade
13-06-2006, 03:07 PM
Any time VirusType2 can give publicity for his mod, he gives 100%
Haha, so true :D
Anyway, I am excited about playing Doomsday/Black Moon/whatever it's called now, so don't worry :p
Jintor
14-06-2006, 04:19 AM
As am I.
And I don't even like Doom3.
VirusType2
14-06-2006, 11:37 AM
Actually, you guys on this website and my family are the only ones who know I'm even working on it. So although it's not exactly top-secret, I want it to come "From out of nowhere", "The ultimate mod from ****ing hell". :devil: Hey that sounds pretty good. .. :laugh: That could be the name of it. :E
One reason I talk about it is because I spend all of my free-time working on it and I only stop in here when I'm taking a break. Also, because you guys are my friends and I just have to tell somebody.
The actual reason I mentioned it this time, is because the name of the thread is "anyone still really play?" and I haven't been able to play Oblivion because I was trying to finish my mod for 06-06-06. Also there is the fact that I can't wait to mod Oblivion. :)
99.vikram
16-06-2006, 07:04 AM
And you know we'll be with you all the way, VirusType2.
Damn. I need to stop lying :p
DreadLord
16-06-2006, 03:33 PM
Actually, you guys on this website and my family are the only ones who know I'm even working on it. So although it's not exactly top-secret, I want it to come "From out of nowhere", "The ultimate mod from ****ing hell". :devil: Hey that sounds pretty good. .. :laugh: That could be the name of it. :E
One reason I talk about it is because I spend all of my free-time working on it and I only stop in here when I'm taking a break. Also, because you guys are my friends and I just have to tell somebody.
The actual reason I mentioned it this time, is because the name of the thread is "anyone still really play?" and I haven't been able to play Oblivion because I was trying to finish my mod for 06-06-06. Also there is the fact that I can't wait to mod Oblivion. :)
We love you.
Edit: 1987th post. Good year, am I right?
NJspeed
18-06-2006, 01:50 PM
It's funny.
Practically everyone you talk to says the same thing: "Oh I played it like crazy for a few weeks, then I got bored all of a sudden."
It happened to me and a couple of my real life buds too. Morrowind was a much better game imo, I could play that for hours and hours... weeks and weeks. Oblivion? Ehhh. Beat the main quest and somehow my character isn't even uber. Leveled lists suck. It's ok but they screwed up big time when they decided to start changing their own winning formula. I'm a huge Elder Scrolls fan but Oblivion is just garbage. There's a total of what, 4? voices. Even if they aren't saying the exact same thing, the 1000+ lines of dialogue sound the same because they didn't use more voice actors! You'd think if they were going to spread thousands of lines of dialogue amongst a thousand NPCS, they'd have something like 20 actors. Anyway I won't go into it - you all know the rest of the reasons Oblivion blows.
Snappel328
18-06-2006, 09:56 PM
I've got a lvl 15 Nord and I'm runnig around closing the Oblivion gates that are near the different cities. I think the content of the game changes as your character levels up, since there's been a BIG difference since the first gate I closed and the one I closed after snatching the sigil stone with like 2 hp left :O
PvtRyan
19-06-2006, 12:10 AM
It's funny.
Practically everyone you talk to says the same thing: "Oh I played it like crazy for a few weeks, then I got bored all of a sudden."
It happened to me and a couple of my real life buds too. Morrowind was a much better game imo, I could play that for hours and hours... weeks and weeks. Oblivion? Ehhh. Beat the main quest and somehow my character isn't even uber. Leveled lists suck. It's ok but they screwed up big time when they decided to start changing their own winning formula. I'm a huge Elder Scrolls fan but Oblivion is just garbage. There's a total of what, 4? voices. Even if they aren't saying the exact same thing, the 1000+ lines of dialogue sound the same because they didn't use more voice actors! You'd think if they were going to spread thousands of lines of dialogue amongst a thousand NPCS, they'd have something like 20 actors. Anyway I won't go into it - you all know the rest of the reasons Oblivion blows.
So Morrowind is a better game than Oblivion because Oblivion 'only used 4 voice actors' while Morrowind didn't use any voices at all? Makes sense!
I hated Morrowind, especially the combat was complete shit, it has improved a lot in Oblivion.
alehm
19-06-2006, 07:10 PM
I am still playing it. Though I had to start from the begining again (lost my save games) this time I am playing straight through the main quest before joining any guilds or anything side quests.
I haven't got bored yet but I want to make sure I finish the main quest before I do. :D
when the game first came out, i played for weeks straight
and then, all of a sudden, i stopped altogether
and havent touched it since
This seems to be a phenomenon with oblivion, no slow gradual boredom - just BAM - no more play. I lived the damn thing for four weeks solid, and then just... stopped. Loved it right up to the day before I thought 'I can't be arsed', too.
Still a great game, but no replay value as such, especially now knowing how limited the AI is and how small the game world seems. Those were the main sellers for me but they never really happened as I was led to believe.
real shame.
Still, there's always Prey just around the corner :E
Lucid
19-06-2006, 10:48 PM
Put Morrowind on Oblivion's engine, and we're all set imo.
NJspeed
29-06-2006, 06:56 PM
So Morrowind is a better game than Oblivion because Oblivion 'only used 4 voice actors' while Morrowind didn't use any voices at all? Makes sense!
I hated Morrowind, especially the combat was complete shit, it has improved a lot in Oblivion.
The problem is that Elder Scrolls are supposed to be an RPG, not an action adventure where combat is the main focus. Morrowind was about the story and the journey, exploring interesting, different, locations and checking out the different cities....with their different architecture and different lore. Oblivion on the other hand, IS all about combat, as evidenced by your enemies leveling up with you - to provide a constant challenge - in MW, it was shit, like you said, because your character actually had the ability to get powerful and beat the crap out of everyone, yet it was still fun.. because why? Again.. the focus wasn't combat.
And yeah, Morrowind was better with no voices because you weren't constantly reminded that it's just a video game. Hearing the same person you just heard 20 times previously dissolves any immersion you might be able to achieve in Oblivion.
Shadow-warrior
30-06-2006, 01:35 AM
Its a shame I can go back to Morrowind right now, head off in a random direction and have some great adventures. With Oblvion I'm already bored by the time I reach the sewers exit.
Simply put, Morrowind had the 'it' factor, it wasn't dramatic (like plastic looking graphics or voice acting) but a low resonating quality begging to be explored.
Kouler
01-07-2006, 05:33 AM
I just uninstalled it after not being able to level up for the entire duration of playing the game. :|
You do realise to level up, you have to sleep in a bed?
Narcolepsy
01-07-2006, 06:56 PM
Simply put, Morrowind had the 'it' factor ... a low resonating quality begging to be explored.
I've been looking for a way to say what you just said for so long.
VirusType2
01-07-2006, 09:13 PM
This seems to be a phenomenon with oblivion, no slow gradual boredom - just BAM - no more play. I lived the damn thing for four weeks solid, and then just... stopped. Loved it right up to the day before I thought 'I can't be arsed', too.
Still a great game, but no replay value as such, especially now knowing how limited the AI is and how small the game world seems. Those were the main sellers for me but they never really happened as I was led to believe.
real shame.
Still, there's always Prey just around the corner :E
Well, you may have played it to death for 100 hours and have looked for other things to keep your interest, but don't forget that you can re-visit any of the old tombs, caverns, and dungeons that you have already conquered, and there will be more powerful enemies there this time (depending on your level) There are still enemies that I haven't seen yet and I'm getting up there in levels.
So not only can you play forever, and even reach level 200, unlike most RPG's were sadly, it really does have to come to an end, you can just pick it up and wander around and kill things. Since the combat is so fun, how can you get bored of it? You can even get past the stat caps with rare items and armor, which is a whole strategy by itself.
Also, don't forget that this game could get 100's of good mods within the next several years. New monsters, new flame-brand swords, armor, horses with flames shooting out of their eyes and hooves (like the Warlock horses in WoW), cool things like that, not to mention the great mods that are already available like the sunset sky mods and stuff.
Many of the dungeons are procedurally created - I thought, meaning they will be different next time you go, although I could be wrong about that.
Whats the deal with the forest anyway? So is it created differently every time you create a new character, or is it different every time you travel back through the forest?
I know I can't wait to play this game on a proper game rig, it will be my most played game again.
Jintor
02-07-2006, 07:05 AM
I thought it was a "me" thing, because I just stopped playing Oblivion, drifted back into GTA:SA, the drifted into Vampire:The Masquerade again. But, yeah, I have no real ambitions to playing Oblivion again right now. Something... slightly... wrong about it.
phantomdesign
02-07-2006, 03:59 PM
Oblivion just didn't hold my interest. Morrowind, I played that to death and then continued playing in the afterlife. Oblivion, I played, got bored, played, then got bored, and then just had no interest in playing. It was a great game, but it just didn't hold my interest at all. There's something missing from it, I can still play NWM, Morrowind, or WoW to death, but oblivion . . . there's just no reason for me to want to play.
EDIT: OBlivion is just too stale, as impressive as the graphics are, the caves all look the same, the oblivion planes all look the same and the constant red gets extremely annoying, there are no unique, interesting, hidden items, leveling up doesn't make you more powerful relative to your environment . . . there was just a lot of stuff that made the game fall flat.
Oblivion just didn't hold my interest. Morrowind, I played that to death and then continued playing in the afterlife. Oblivion, I played, got bored, played, then got bored, and then just had no interest in playing. It was a great game, but it just didn't hold my interest at all. There's something missing from it, I can still play NWM, Morrowind, or WoW to death, but oblivion . . . there's just no reason for me to want to play.
EDIT: OBlivion is just too stale, as impressive as the graphics are, the caves all look the same, the oblivion planes all look the same and the constant red gets extremely annoying, there are no unique, interesting, hidden items, leveling up doesn't make you more powerful relative to your environment . . . there was just a lot of stuff that made the game fall flat.
My sentiments exactly, it's got a great initial 'rush' feeling but it quickly falls flat after doing the same looking cave with the 'same level' monsters.
:(
Jintor
03-07-2006, 04:08 AM
Especially when EVERY DAMN NPCS goes 'Hey, you're the hero of Kvatch, aren't you?'
Rupertvdb
03-07-2006, 07:29 PM
This is a game, not some alternate reality in which to lose yourselves.
Jack_Karverboy
03-07-2006, 07:52 PM
I haven't really began playing yet. I got to Kvatch and my computer kicked the bucket soon after.
I havent touched it in a while either. It was really fun at first then its the same thing over and over.
-Talk to this guy
-he wants you to do him a favor
-do him a favor then he tells you go see other guy
-other guy doesnt like you enough
-speechcraft game
-you and other guy are suddenly best friends
-he tells you where to find this dungeon
-you go dungeon crawling for a half hour and finally get what you are looking for
CptStern
04-07-2006, 05:22 PM
I still play but Oblivion is seriously borked ..half my quests arent working ...been a month now and I still cant complete the last 2 mage guild recommendation quests
Rupertvdb
05-07-2006, 11:14 PM
I always thought that they were going wrong when I played the mages' quests. It turns out that usually you just have to talk to everyone that the particular quest has introduced you to and one of them will have somehting new to say. Or you have to some how realise that they have hidden an item you need somewhere. The mages' guild is a frustrating place.
French Ninja
06-07-2006, 03:01 AM
Not to mention the dumbest guild questline.
***
I'm putting Oblivion off until OOO 1.3 is released. Then I'm going to play it like crazy again. :F
VictimOfScience
06-07-2006, 08:27 PM
I haven't played in over a month, but I miss it and will go back to it soon I hope. Time has become a bit harder to come by of late...;(
Murray_H
07-07-2006, 04:50 PM
I fired it up again today, killed a bear. He rolled down a path for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages (looked funny with his mouth open :D) then he sat up and stopped rolling :O
oh, yeah? well I finally got cured of vampirism. besides, i didn't like my dude's apperance. his face was more gaunt than Samuel Beckett's and so pale, he made Micheal Jackson look tan! it took forever. but in other words, yes i still play, you dinkus!
Que-Ever
08-07-2006, 01:29 AM
I played it for a few days... then realized it freaking sucked. It's borign as all hell- and I love diablo 2.
Javert
08-07-2006, 01:42 AM
I wish I could play. I plan to at least finish the all the guild quests, having already finished the main quest and the gladiator circuit.
Stigmata
08-07-2006, 04:44 AM
Everything in the game is just way too generic. Sure, you can get cool Glass armor with Frost shield, or a nice Elven Longsword with some Soultrap enchantment, but in the end everything is just too much of a permutation of one of a handful of basic items.
I've never played Morrowind, but I looked into it for about five minutes on Google, and found that there are literally dozens of armor types, each with their own unique benefits and stats. And what do we get with the next-gen Oblivion? We get two parallel linear armor upgrades. Woohoo, Light and Heavy armor, with seven levels each! -_-
The only truly good thing about it is the graphics, and perhaps the fact that all the dialogue is audio (though even THAT gets repetitive).
Que-Ever
08-07-2006, 05:06 AM
Morrowind pwns oblivion in every way.
BRODIEMAN2k4
08-07-2006, 06:09 AM
It gets REALLY repetitive and bland after a while. I try to get back into it but after an hour I just say screw it. I only really play it occasionally now because of a lack of single player PC RPG's on my PC.
It gets REALLY repetitive and bland after a while. I try to get back into it but after an hour I just say screw it...
that's what i said about yo mama!
that's what i said about yo mama!
OooooOooohhhHhhhhh Buurrrnnn!!11one1
I tried to go back today, lost interest the moment I loaded. :|
Cormeh
10-07-2006, 10:02 AM
Being incredibly hungover yesterday with nothing to do, I fired it up and started playing my Breton again. I have to say, it was actually pretty good considering I had played the game to death previously.
Only level 4 at the moment, but I'm finding a few quests I had never known about.
PriNcE oF SpAcE
10-07-2006, 01:57 PM
just started playing a little again after having taken a break.
the game is still good, but there's something missing. Art direction wise Oblivion is just boring comparing to Morrowind with it's alien landscapes, even oblivion is boring and way too close to the usual depiction of hell.
another thing is that I can't seem to find anymore side quests....wonder if I've done them all....I'm about to do the final stages of the main quest...then I think I will start up a new char.
Jintor
10-07-2006, 02:29 PM
Mmmm... it suffers slightly from being 'too open ended', in that despite being a fairly large world there's not a lot to do that doesn't involve kicking the crap out of things.
Steven
10-07-2006, 02:37 PM
I think it sucks like crap now but I've played it for way too long. (150 hours)
The Monkey
10-07-2006, 03:19 PM
I have played for 50+ hours and I haven't even started with the main quest yet. Do you think it's time?
jimbo118
12-07-2006, 03:40 PM
I have played for 50+ hours and I haven't even started with the main quest yet. Do you think it's time?
just loaded it up now for the first time in months, starting with a new character, anyone recommend some decent mods? particurlarly leveling mods?:thumbs:
Cormeh
12-07-2006, 04:32 PM
I discovered a strange method of cave exploring I quite enjoy, upping the difficulty and entering a cave with no armour/clothes; and seeing how you get on.
All I take is a sword (or whatever weapon your chracter is adept with), my basic alchemy tools and a handful of repair hammers. Obviously this allows you to carry more, but you take more damage and all of that. It's quite interesting to see what equipment/potions/scrolls you end up with. I only recommend this method at least to level 10 characters and above. And Ayleid ruins can be bloody tough.
At the end of the day, naked spelunking = profit.
Jintor
13-07-2006, 09:28 AM
I have played for 50+ hours and I haven't even started with the main quest yet. Do you think it's time?
TBH, the main quest is a piece of shite.
DrunkPanda
29-07-2006, 05:17 AM
wow, i thought i was alone in feeling this way but i too played it for about a week or two, then got really tired of it and it wasn't fun at all.......
bvasgm
29-07-2006, 05:31 AM
I bought the collectors edition the day it came out and played it almost nonstop for about two weeks. After reaching level 30-ish, I realized that the only thing Oblivion did better than Morrowind was the Thieves Guild and the Dark Brotherhood. I stopped playing...
...
Four months later, I still haven't felt the slightest urge to load it back up.
GG Bethesda. You dumbed the game down to make the console kiddies happy and you ended up ruining what was potentially the greatest game in the series so far.
Snappel328
29-07-2006, 06:42 AM
I'm not playing as much as I used to, but that might be because I'm head of every guild in the game and I've beaten the main quest. I'm now desperatly looking for new quests to download, which I can't find any good ones besides the blackrock-lich-king trilogy and the myths and legends weapons. Does anyone know any good quests for download that are entertaining instead of just hunting an extremely hard to find place or fighting an extremely hard to kill foe?
Core407
30-07-2006, 07:11 AM
I put in 125 hours into Oblivion and I'm slowing down. I've basically done everything there is so I have no real reason to return to the game world.
Turning the difficulty level all the way to max is fun. Getting raped by wolves even more.
Slacker
31-07-2006, 06:29 AM
I have only about 20 hours on my file, and I've slowed it down a bunch. I love the game, I just never can find time to sit down and actually play it.
Fliko
16-09-2006, 07:02 PM
It sounds like a great game from what I've heard.
Seems most people put in +20 hours of gameplay which is a hell of a lot considering how long games are today.
I rented it for the 360, got pretty far, it was awesome but I stopped playing because I'm getting the PC version, and I don't want to do everything on the 360
DeusExMachina
26-09-2006, 09:02 PM
I'm getting it this Christmas so I plan to play a lot over break.
Fliko
27-09-2006, 05:01 AM
Mmmm... it suffers slightly from being 'too open ended', in that despite being a fairly large world there's not a lot to do that doesn't involve kicking the crap out of things.
I found that was the problem with Morrowind
Death.Trap
27-09-2006, 07:52 PM
Well, theres a ton of mods comming out for it..Dark Brotherhood Assencion or some such..looks awesome. Basically expanding on the originial dark brotherhood questline. And other mods like that that just keep adding to the game...theres just so much mod potential this game can pretty much never end....ever.
I just started a new char after about 2 months away from the game.
Krynn72
27-09-2006, 08:05 PM
Its pretty much going to be the same as morrowind. Some people will be put off by how little structure and linearity there is to it. Others will be playing for years and years until the next game comes out. The mod scene for morrowind was amazing and for Oblivion its even bigger. A lot of amazing stuff has already come out for it, and more and more stuff will be coming in the next years.
<3 Oblivion.
Max35
28-09-2006, 09:48 PM
Well, theres a ton of mods comming out for it..Dark Brotherhood Assencion or some such..looks awesome. Basically expanding on the originial dark brotherhood questline. And other mods like that that just keep adding to the game...theres just so much mod potential this game can pretty much never end....ever.
I just started a new char after about 2 months away from the game.
About the DB mod, yeah I was the original founder of the project. I made the post requesting for help and about continuing the DB concept. Needless to say, it was swept from under my feet.
CyberPitz
28-09-2006, 10:00 PM
I don't anymore, sadly. The game had some mad fun attributes to it. I'm finding myself wrapped up in Diablo 2 and City of Heros and Battlefield 2 nowadays...
PriNcE oF SpAcE
28-09-2006, 11:03 PM
just started playing a new character... trying out hand to hand combat, mixed with destruction...
it's quite effective so far but then again I'm only lvl 5 and the monsters aren't so tough yet. anyone know if there is any mods enchancing hand to hand combat? e.g. aditinal damage depending on the gauntlets you wear or being able to enhance gauntlets with "on strike"-magic?
The Monkey
29-09-2006, 04:12 PM
I'm about to!
I just have a question; is it possible to beat this game?
I've seen my friend play it once, but other than that I don't know much about the game.
Dog--
30-09-2006, 12:51 AM
Kind of.. But you'd need to be playing for like 1 year straight to get EVERY little quest and easter egg and item to beat it "Fully"
Atomic_Piggy
30-09-2006, 08:47 PM
I just brought it. I am doing Mankor Camorens paradise right now.
I just have a question; is it possible to beat this game?
Question is... is it possible NOT to beat it? as it's so painfully easy 'n all. Manky whassisname died from just three arrows, go figure.
Unless you mean is it so open ended that you can never actually achieve everything in the game? I found after completing the main quest there was simply no point playing anymore, so just stopped. If that's what you mean, then for me, the answer is no... because I don't really care. Get Gothic 3 instead.
Malfunction
30-09-2006, 09:40 PM
I haven't played it for a while, but that's largely due to the terrible performance I get on my PC, which can run every other modern game just about fine. I'm doing a near-full pc upgrade in a few months, and once that's all set up I'll give it another go, hopefully at max graphics.
Shadow-warrior
01-10-2006, 12:47 AM
I dumped this and went back to Morrowind, theres nothing that beats it in terms of atmosphere and immmershun!111!
DeusExMachina
01-10-2006, 02:15 AM
Question is... is it possible NOT to beat it? as it's so painfully easy 'n all. Manky whassisname died from just three arrows, go figure.
Unless you mean is it so open ended that you can never actually achieve everything in the game? I found after completing the main quest there was simply no point playing anymore, so just stopped. If that's what you mean, then for me, the answer is no... because I don't really care. Get Gothic 3 instead.
And what makes you think Gothic 3 won't be the exact same way?
Slacker
01-10-2006, 06:35 AM
Question is... is it possible NOT to beat it? as it's so painfully easy 'n all. Manky whassisname died from just three arrows, go figure.
Unless you mean is it so open ended that you can never actually achieve everything in the game? I found after completing the main quest there was simply no point playing anymore, so just stopped. If that's what you mean, then for me, the answer is no... because I don't really care. Get Gothic 3 instead.
You're an idiot.
Hazar
01-10-2006, 07:13 AM
I finally beat it just last week
JNightshade
01-10-2006, 04:22 PM
I still haven't :p
VictimOfScience
02-10-2006, 03:49 PM
I found after completing the main quest there was simply no point playing anymore, so just stopped.
Wow. You didn't do anything with the Dark Brotherhood or the Theives Guild at least?? Friend, you are missing out.
Get Gothic 3 instead.
Not until I see evidence of a nice clean, bug-free game that is much more than playable. That first gold master was a disaster!! :laugh:
You're an idiot.
Yes, but i'm an informed idiot. Which kind of makes you an uninformed fascist ignoramus. Or a spam bot.
Wow. You didn't do anything with the Dark Brotherhood or the Theives Guild at least?? Friend, you are missing out.
I played through the mages, fighters and dark brotherhood, in that order and got 362 days under my belt - I lived this damn game for the first 2 months. Dark brotherhood was easily the best of the three, but still way too easy to compensate for the lame AI, infantile hand-holding and limp main quest. Even Oscuro's didn't make me want to play it anymore, which is a shame because it was the one game I was expecting to beat the hell out of all others this year.
Maybe you're right, Gothic 3 might not be the answer to life the universe and everything, but it's an alternative to a game of known issues nevertheless.
CptStern
08-10-2006, 02:16 AM
Question is... is it possible NOT to beat it? as it's so painfully easy 'n all.
yes, I couldnt beat it ..I broke Oblivion ..I cant finish the majority of quests for some reason or other ..so I just gave up
I too am looking forward to gothic 3 ..and I'll also shamelessly plug age of conan (http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/age-of-conan-hyborian-adventures/702686p1.html)
Stigmata
08-10-2006, 02:25 AM
That first gold master was a disaster!! :laugh:*drops a mad beat*
What's Gothic?
JNightshade
10-10-2006, 04:07 AM
A cool game.
Also, the Thieves' Guild was inexplicably awesome. Easily on-par with the DB. If you do anything in Obliv, do that.
VictimOfScience
13-10-2006, 05:00 PM
*drops a mad beat*
Hahaha! Glad someone finally picked up on my sweet rhyming skills. :cheers:
blck_prod
16-10-2006, 01:20 PM
Im not playing it anymore...
I bought it, played it for a week but then it got 'repetitive' for me...
Maybe it was to Open for me... I don't know, got bored and fed up...
Just not my kinda game. Also the immersion was less than hoped for.
NPC where NPC's and I had no symphaty or emotion for them...Not like I have with let's say Alex in Ep1....To Bad..
Maybe one day...i'll start it up again...
Not much of a change since I'm playing DEFCON right now...-best game in months, bloody simple and yet brilliant-
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