Oblivion turns 10 years old

[Doktor Best]

Why is there a thread for this shitgame, but none for Gothic which turned 15 years some days ago?

 

[CrawlingDead]

I'm replaying the game now actually. I'm quite enjoying it, but there are some glaring issues, such as the level scaling. I just have to wonder what they were thinking when they thought it was a good idea for common thieves to be wearing Daedric armor at level 20. I'm level 17, and I feel like I already have nothing to strive for. In Morrowind, you were lucky to get a full suit of Daedric unless you killed Divayth Fyr.

There's a couple other gripes too -- the quest compass and bad voice acting. They couldn't even give Boromir or Captain Picard good lines. Why waste money on wasted talent? The same thing for Liam Neeson in Fallout 3. They like the big names, but they're too lazy to give them a good script. I say they should just fire all the writers. It might go a long way to help fixing their shit.

 

[CrawlingDead]

Why is there a thread for this shitgame, but none for Gothic which turned 15 years some days ago?

Then make a thread you donkey.

 

[Ignatius Reilly]

I'm playing Two Worlds right now, and that puts in perspective how horribly wrong an open world game can go. It's not the worst of this type of game I've played, but it's not the best. Then again, it allowed Fallout 3 to happen, so it could be the worst, but Fallout 3 did give us New Vegas, so...

But I digress.

I think I just have a thing for standing in big fields of grass while listening to beautiful music, so that brought me some form of satisfaction.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/xub0vRpTSJQ

I know it's a bad game, but to me, not offensively so. I just can't muster the hatred others can.

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

Far more entertaining than the quests of the base game was going to Rockmilk Cave and seeing how the Blackbow Bandits vs Marauders conflict played out each time. Actually got more interesting as they level-scaled. More often than not they'd ignore you.

 

[CrawlingDead]

Far more entertaining than the quests of the base game was going to Rockmilk Cave and seeing how the Blackbow Bandits vs Marauders conflict played out each time. Actually got more interesting as they level-scaled. More often than not they'd ignore you.

Great place to keep looting too, loads of money.

 

[TripJack]

mods fixed it yet?

 

[Hirato]

Is it officially oldschool now?

Nah, it's just old-shit.

 

[mondblut]

It was the game that crushed my optimism in the future of gaming.

Newfag.

My optimism in the future of gaming has died when diablow was proclaimed the best rpg evar. Heck, make it "when SSI lost the D&D license"

 

[Bumvelcrow]

I think I just have a thing for standing in big fields of grass while listening to beautiful music, so that brought me some form of satisfaction.

Yes, I loved hiking between those two cities up in the north, through the trees, with my best imaginary girl by my side. It was awesome as long as I didn't look downhill and see the Imperial City five minutes walk away. I did play it long enough to get bored with it, but at least I completed the main quest, unlike Skyrim.

In fact, some of my best Elder Scrolls memories are from Oblivion - Kvatch for the first time, Pale Pass, etc... - but please don't make me play it again.

 

[Baron Dupek]

It still lurking on some codexers' hard drives, along with Skyrim and loverslabs mods...

 

[mondblut]

It still lurking on some codexers' hard drives, along with Skyrim and loverslabs mods...

Well, that's the reason to play bethtard games, no?

 

[Sjukob]

You know , I still think that Bethesda should have made Morrowind , Oblivion and Skyrim porn games . We know what things modding sites for those games are filled with ( so we know what community asks for ) . And Bethesda's silly writting would actually be fitting for a porn game . I believe they could have been very sucessful with such ideas . Besides TES universe would allow them satisfy a lot of different fetishes .


P.S. Actually there is one thing I like about Oblivion , how UI looks , not how it's placed . Some music is nice and shivering isles worth something .

 

[octavius]

It was the game that crushed my optimism in the future of gaming.

Newfag.

My optimism in the future of gaming has died when diablow was proclaimed the best rpg evar. Heck, make it "when SSI lost the D&D license"

It thought it was Dungeon Master?

 

[octavius]

I'm replaying the game now actually. I'm quite enjoying it, but there are some glaring issues, such as the level scaling. I just have to wonder what they were thinking when they thought it was a good idea for common thieves to be wearing Daedric armor at level 20. I'm level 17, and I feel like I already have nothing to strive for.

One of the most absurd results of the level scaling was the Highwaymen. I think they demanded a modest sum; 10-100 coins, but if you were high enough level they would wear armour worth thousands.

 

[mondblut]

It thought it was Dungeon Master?

It was the Original Decline (or Ultima 4, YMMV), yeah, but I wasn't yet around to witness it in person. Besides, it took the fuckers over half a decade to pick up the pace and overrun real RPGs.

 

[mondblut]

You know , I still think that Bethesda should have made Morrowind , Oblivion and Skyrim porn games .

Porn games have sucky distribution and reputation. Outsourcing it to third party content producers was a wise business acumen.

 

[Kalon]

It still lurking on some codexers' hard drives, along with Skyrim and loverslabs mods...

LL mods for Morrowind was quite interesting if you used it with the Morrowind Romance mod. I have some fond memories of my female Nerevarine getting impregnated by all the members of House Redoran and dropping her babies in Red Mountain's volcano.

 

[markec]

mods fixed it yet?

No amount of mods can make this game playable.

 

[Kalon]

Well, it is playable, in a way. That is, it is equivalent to reading a kindergarten book when you usually have Paradise Lost on your bedside table. So you have not many words, huge fonts, a story aimed at children, goofy-friendly faces and badly drawn art.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

My best memory of the game was playing as a wood elf ranger with a needs mod and the exotic landscapes. I was trekking back to town and went through a pretty forest with yellow trees. I got thirsty, but the river water was dirty and I didn't feel like wasting resources to boil it, so I just hopped on top of a rock and got drunk instead. The trees swaying in the wind became a moving mass of colors. Suddenly, something comes out of the bushes. I can't see clearly but judging by the horns it's obviously a minotaur. I tried to run away but being wasted out of my mind, I kept tripping and falling on my face. Fuck it, I'll die fighting then.

Cue two minutes of minotaur taking wild swings at me while I stumble around completely shitfaced. When I was laying on the ground, he could only hit me with his headbutt attack. I decided those were decent odds and started to stab him on the dick whenever I could see which of the three minotaurs I was supposed to hit. I won.

Then I got hungry and ate him.

 

[Mexi]

Never played it.

We know. It'll take time away from you hitting refresh on this forum you slob. We can't have that now can we?

 

[muds_animal_friend]

My optimism in the future of gaming has died when diablow was proclaimed the best rpg evar. Heck, make it "when SSI lost the D&D license"

SSI went popamole action/shitty minigamefest in 1989:

Everything has been shit since. 1989 the year RPG gaming died.

 

[mondblut]

My optimism in the future of gaming has died when diablow was proclaimed the best rpg evar. Heck, make it "when SSI lost the D&D license"

SSI went popamole action/shitty minigamefest in 1989:

Everything has been shit since. 1989 the year RPG gaming died.

Well, back in the day they quickly realized D&D-derived popamole shitfests do not sell, and came back to do 12 other Goldbox-based games. By mid-90s, that was no longer the case.

 

[markec]

My optimism in the future of gaming has died when diablow was proclaimed the best rpg evar. Heck, make it "when SSI lost the D&D license"

SSI went popamole action/shitty minigamefest in 1989:

Everything has been shit since. 1989 the year RPG gaming died.

Hillsfar on C64 was my first encounter with RPGs, I hated the game so much I avoided playing RPGs until Daggerfall.