Oblivion - Who is buying it at release

DESX · Post by **DESX** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:47 pm

Anyone a vampire yet? Im thinking of trying it out >< the only downside is that if you dont feed every day at least once and you go out in the sun you take dmg. But for every day you go without feeding you gain a special power. Supposed to give you a few good stat boosts to.

mofish · Post by **mofish** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:25 pm

Lovin it so far, didnt play too long. The character creation is insanely detailed. Its so complex I was having trouble making a guy that didnt look like a retard or a neanderthal :rofl:

Made my own class. Magic based, heavy armor, blade, block, destruction, alteration, illusion, restoration. Two main stats are endurance and willpower.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:30 pm

The only Elder Scrolls game I played was Daggerfall from way back but it looks like I may just have to pick up an xbox or upgrade my computer for this one. I've been hearing nothing but stellar reviews.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:35 pm

man

I think I'm going to Duro's tonight to check it out

Durothil Skyreaver · Post by **Durothil Skyreaver** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:14 pm

So who has gone through an Oblivion Gate? I went through one last night and it was pretty damn cool looking.

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:16 pm

I've only played about 3 hours maybe, just got level 2 and have gone through 3 mini-dungeons...really no point to them but they're along the way to where I'm going so I go there anyways. I'm starting to get the same feeling with Morrowind though, the fights are boring, i may have to change to a spellcaster.

Post by **Lyion** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:29 pm

Tacks wrote:I've only played about 3 hours maybe, just got level 2 and have gone through 3 mini-dungeons...really no point to them but they're along the way to where I'm going so I go there anyways. I'm starting to get the same feeling with Morrowind though, the fights are boring, i may have to change to a spellcaster.

Make a custom class based around the skills you find yourself using most.

The fights for me have been fun, and the graphics are super.

Ginzburgh · Post by **Ginzburgh** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:30 pm

I hate the first person fight view of morrowind. Can you switch the camera up in this one? You might have been able to in Morrowind but I never figured out how.

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:40 pm

Yeah you can play in 3rd person if you want though I think you need to be in first to open boxes and stuff

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:12 pm

Nvidia just released new drivers supposedly to optimise Oblivion http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/84.25/84.25_forceware_winxp2k_english.exe

Lionking · Post by **Lionking** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:43 pm

Ginzburgh wrote:I hate the first person fight view of morrowind. Can you switch the camera up in this one? You might have been able to in Morrowind but I never figured out how.

I have found 2 ways to switch between 1st and 3rd person. First way is to hit the 'R' key. Second way is to click the scroller on a scroll mouse, if you have one.

Lionking · Post by **Lionking** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:45 pm

Tacks wrote:Yeah you can play in 3rd person if you want though I think you need to be in first to open boxes and stuff

You can open boxes in either view. It is a bit tougher in 3rd person but you just have to angle the guy to be looking at the box, chest, whatever. Once you see the name of what you are looking at, on the bottom right-side of the screen, you can hit the space bar to open it up.

Lionking · Post by **Lionking** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:48 pm

Erodalak wrote:They have shadowknight?

Here are the classes:

"Acrobat, Agent, Assassin, Barbarian, Bard, Battlemage, Crusader, Healer, Knight, Mage, Monk, Nightblade, Pilgrim, Rogue, Scout, Sorcerer, Spellsword, Thief, Warrior, and Witchhunter. Players also have the ability to create a Custom Class (and give it a description and name), if they so choose."

Menlaan · Post by **Menlaan** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:37 pm

There's a pretty good thread on the FoH boards about Oblivion, and one person suggested using 3rd person view b/c it helps with seeing enemies who flank you. He did say it was hard to get used to, but once you've got it, you're much better off.

Looking forward to playing myself!
Menlaan

DESX · Post by **DESX** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:34 pm

Menlaan wrote:There's a pretty good thread on the FoH boards about Oblivion, and one person suggested using 3rd person view b/c it helps with seeing enemies who flank you. He did say it was hard to get used to, but once you've got it, you're much better off.

Looking forward to playing myself!
Menlaan

3rd person is very effective not really because of all the flanking but more so in a dungeon if you are a rouge or some other class with a high sneak skill. Very effective in creating good situational awarness. + for all of you that have a major in sneak skill be sure to get the life detect skill at some point. Very usefull when your sneaking in a dark dungeon.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:59 am

played for a couple hours at Duro's last night

game's a blast so far as a sneaky elf rogue~

Drem · Post by **Drem** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:53 pm

to change to third person in morrowind you just had to press F1 or tab or something

Post by **Lyion** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:57 pm

Middle mouse button.

baddwin · Post by **baddwin** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:36 pm

I played for few hour's last nite. I still didn't get my new up grade for the video card, so i at mid level for graphic. I really enjoy the game so far, it really well made.

This word is huge, with so much dungeon/cave to explore if you go in the wilderness instead of jumping directly to the place you need to go for a quest.

Third person view is very practical to climb stiff hill btw and see if you have a stalker (wolf....) while running. I have selected Nightblade, the same class that i have use when i played Arena. For me it was a good one, sneaky with open lock, blade light armor some magic and alchemy.

I selected the Lezard man race, so far i like him, maybe there better race, but this one was looking cool.

What i mostly dislike is!!! game crash randomly, can be because i zone or will happen for no reason!!! /calm hilmself so the darkside won't get the control =p

i get some graphic problem when opening map, the screen is mostly black with the description of town and such.

I didn't find how the influence system work exactly (bribe...) maybe i need to use it with only certain NPC??

The lock picking system is nice, but it get practice to swing the tool fast enouth before the thing drop down again. Lucky there a auto try button =D

So far i love the game, can't wait to have a video card powerfull enouth to see more of it =D

Lionking · Post by **Lionking** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:47 pm

baddwin wrote:What i mostly dislike is!!! game crash randomly, can be because i zone or will happen for no reason!!! /calm hilmself so the darkside won't get the control =p

i get some graphic problem when opening map, the screen is mostly black with the description of town and such.

This doesn't surprise me. I haven't experienced these problems, yet, with this game, but I remember similar issues with Morrowind until they put out a good patch.

However, you probably should make sure your video card drivers are up to date, and stuff like that, until you get that new vid card. I've got a 6800 and even it stutters on occasion. I'm not sure if the 7900GTX is my answer or wait until the next gen after the 7000 line.

Oh well, I digress.

-Out

:vonk:

mofish · Post by **mofish** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:50 pm

Are people really beating this game already? Im reading people are beating it in 10 hours or so. If you just follow the main quest line. If so, that is very very Q_Q

Post by **Lyion** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:42 pm

They are cheating, then. Like any single player, you can use cheat codes.

Its like someone saying they made it to 50 in EQ and won. Its not accurate.

mofish · Post by **mofish** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:50 pm

Yeah I hope they are using console cheats, or have yanked their difficulty slider far left.

By the way, whats up with the difficulty slider? I usually play FPS' on the hardest setting possible. But I dunno what to do with Oblivion. Any advantage to sliding it to hardest? Better loot? Probably not, probably just hard as a bitch. I read that even a little movement on the slider is a drastic difficulty difference.

Durothil Skyreaver · Post by **Durothil Skyreaver** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:22 pm

Hmmm I should check my difficulty slider. I'm getting pretty torn up by random enemies I encounter. Aside from that I'm lovin this game. Almost have enough saved up to buy me a nice house.

Ouchyfish · Post by **Ouchyfish** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:23 pm

I never understood people wanting a game to be harder. I mean, more substance yes, but harder? (The games where "harder" means it takes 5 bullets to kill this guy rather than 1 and 1 to kill you instead of 5 etc.) It's like walking barefoot 30 miles to work instead of wearing shoes/driving your car because you enjoy the challenge.

:dunno:

give me a fuckin game shark and unlimited ammo so I can blast some resident evil fuckers so I can finish this shit. I don't get off on "aw shit he killed me again-I must practice harder!"

I'm just lazy/impatient I guess.