“One look at Oblivion will shatter your conceptions about what is possible in a video game.”- Game Informer
I’ve just started the game and have made this thread to discuss and/or drop tips about it. (but no cheat codes)
The X-Box 360 is decent but the graphics are far better on a computer, which is what I’m playing it on. Anyone who likes first-person games should check it out. Its quite possibly the biggest game ever made, as well.
Daggerfall is much larger. It would take several weeks, real time, to traverse that world on horseback.
But, yeah, the comp is the way to go. Not only for the graphics, but for the mods as well. Mods vastly improved Morrowind. Indeed, by the release of Oblivion, Morrowind with the mods that were considered ‘standard’ was a very different game from Morrowind fresh from the box.
Oblivion sucks ass. You start the game and it sounds like you’re about to get raped in a jail cell and like then you get out there and you get eaten alive by sewer rats and you walk out a little further and get clubbed by this hobo thing and then you come across these people with really big noses and those with reptile like characteristics and it’s like…wtf?
damn buddy!! what kind of graphics card do you have?
i wonder if my computer will support it?
im a huge fan of the elder scrolls, and played morrowind until i exhausted all the cool mods i could add on to it and found and explored everything and got all the cool stuff.
my friend just got oblivion on the X-Box 360 and i go over to his house all the time to play it, the game is simply amazing. what makes it amazing is that the game has ‘life’. Morrowind was convincing at first but everything became very dull and predictable after awhile. This game is much more complex in the lives of the NPCs.
one thing that pisses me off is that you can travel instantly, in Morrowind you had to go to a town and use a transportation service to go places or just tough it out and walk there. it takes away from the ‘realistic’ aspect of the game.
So you have to play the cynic, huh? Well I liked the beginning very much, thank you. I thought the prison break was well written. And the reptile creatures are the Argonians and they aren’t in the beginning of the game so I don’t know what you are talking about.
Its got 256 memory “on board,” that’s why it doesn’t have any trouble with the game. The installation automatically made it a “medium performance” setting, and still the graphics are breathtaking. I can’t imagine how cool it would look if it was a full performance installation. I suspect that it might bog the processor down a bit if it did, so I ain’t complaining. The processor only runs at 4000 rpms.
What is presently pissing me off is this new joystick I bought. I can’t seem to ‘calibrate’ it to work for my computer. I’ve followed the directions forwards and backwards twice, and still I do not understand. The left axis moves the view up and down, as it should, but the right axis doesn’t move the side-to-side view, and I can’t figure out why.
What? You’re kidding. How? Just click on the map icon?
See, I wouldn’t mind that option myself. I would rather query a few quests and deal with them directly rather than wandering aimlessly throughout the countryside picking up little quests for people who I can’t find later on when I complete them. As you know, there are a trillion tombs and ruins and caves and shit all over the place, and they become tempting when you happen to pass one by while wandering. It is far too easy to get lost. Which brings me to this complaint:
The maps aren’t topographical, and that is a pain in the ass. Just yesterday I spent fifteen minutes just trying to get up to a fucking castle on top of a mountain that appeared utterly nonegotiable…from every direction I approached. I circled the thing twice looking for a road or something and found nothing. Finally I climbed up the side…fifteen minutes later.
It would really help to see a dimensional map of the terrain.
yeah you just click on the icon and it ask you if you want to travel there, im pretty sure that you have to have been to that place before though, but im not sure cause its my friends game.
yeah it was pretty easy to get lost in the previous game (Morrowind), however in the previous game being lost got dull quickly in certian places but then you would see amazing new landscapes and find stuff you would never have seen before. getting lost was fun and i strived to get lost and then gather loot and gain power.
but in the new game, Oblivion, i would think that getting lost would be even more fun because the graphics are so amazing and the intricacy of your surroundings is breathtaking. that is just my opinion however.
yeah i do agree about the maps not being topographical, they had topographical maps in the previous game, but you had to ‘reveal’ the entire map by traveling, so places you havtn been to you dont know about, until you actually hit the exact spot where they are, i thought that was kind of cool.
it would have been nice to have a topographical map in this game too, so you know what is ahead of you.
another thing that i find amazing about the morrowind series, is how much lore is actually involved in this game.
the history of the world of the game is covered fully, and there are thousands of different books you can read. and the books may not be novels but some of them are quite extensive.
I always liked the ‘Ebon Hand’.
Did anyone ever get involved in the Whirling School of Vivic? Care to explain their numerology to me?
Hello F(r)iends,
Oh, what a glorious day.
To watch Detrop pimp a product to the masses…
May we all partake of consumerism.
-Thirst
So I’ve contracted a vampire disease from a fight with a demon, and any sunlight kills me now.
Fortunately I am currently on a quest to discover a cure through a witch doctor, whom has asked me to find six “greater soul gems.”
If any of you folks know where I can get some greater soul gems, let me know, k?
Preesh.
that sucks ass…even though you are WAY more powerful, people hate you and its not easy to do stuff as you normally would. plus you cant go out in the day, though i heard that there is a vampire quest where you get an item or the ability to go out during the day (which is pretty cool), if i were you i would get rid of vampirism immediately (in the last game there was NO cure for it).
soul gems you usually find on corpses of certain types of daedra or in tombs or ruins or what have you.
but i think it may be possible (im about 95% sure) to steal some from a mage’s guild or an enchanter store, just find them lying around and when the guys not looking, nab em.
but that may be difficult considering you cant go out during the day…
good luck with that…
or you could just stay a vampire… 
It was my understanding that if you fed regularly, you didn’t show the symptoms of your disease.
Have you downloaded any vampire mods?
I so really need to get a new computer. Envy. Jealousy. Rage. 
Yes it most certainly does. The problem is I have to be indoors before the sun comes out so I can’t risk traveling distances that I can only predict, for fear of the sun rising and killing me while I’m riding (I got a horse).
It wouldn’t be so bad if I could get healed by drinking a potion or visiting a temple, or even using a scroll, but nooooo, its got to become an elaborate quest where I waste an hour saving and loading games because the light kills me and nobody will talk to me.
You’re right about the Mage’s Guilds having soul gems. I just don’t see myself finding 6 anytime soon. That would require visiting several guilds and therefore much travel…and therefore, much sunburn.
I’ve started a new character and I know to stay away from corpses and so forth in the dungeons, tombs and mines. Besides, the dude I started with wasn’t as good as I wanted him to be with melee combat. He was more of a spell caster. I wanted a more ranged character so I switched to a Red-Guard class and customized my attributes. This dude is pretty good, so I’ll stick with him and avoid vampires for the time being.
yeah i forgot you could do that, but i think its possible to make it permanant
yeah my friend started out with a redguard with a preset set of skills and attributes, and a preset face, but i made him change it.
so i made this dark elf and customized his face and everything completely, every detail, and he looks badass. its amazing how many different options they have for the facial specifications, they have a adjustment for every facial contour. and i customized the skills to be: blades, ranged, block, light armor, acrobatics, athlectics, other good stuff too.
of course by the end of the game you’ll be so hardcore it won’t even matter what you started out as.
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[i]Its quite possibly the biggest game ever made, as well.
I liked the beginning very much, thank you. I thought the prison break was well written.[/i]
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-Thirst4Capitalism
wait…what?
i just did a google search.
are you talking about this?
http://www.whirlingschool.net/about.html
if so then would you care to explain to me what numerology is?
Did you just make a funny, Thirst4Metal?
I hope you aren’t making fun of me for playing video games. I was playing Kings Quest on the IBM pc jr when you were still playing with Transformers, if you weren’t out stealing hub-caps.
Its true, but I don’t usually wear jeans. I am thirty-one and I still wear my ball-cap backwards. My hairline has paid dearly for it but I don’t mind.