I've *Only just* bought Oblivion

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Yes, I know I'm a year late.
Yes, I know there used to be a whole forum about it.

But anyway, yesterday I bought it and i've been playing with it.
It seems a pretty good game, but it seems to be somewhat lacking.

The scenery in the distance is APPALLINGLY low res, the map doesn't give you enough information on locations inside cities, and the inventory menu-things are far too big.

Does anyone know of various Mods to combat this? I could do with better views and a less cluttered view :)

I know there are websites that have loads of these, but I don't want to trawl through hundreds to find one,when someone who has already got it could just point me in the right direction.

Cheers :)
 
screenshots are awesome!
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And I love you too, Llama :)
 
I still need to buy this game.

But I just wouldn't have the time to fully get into it until winter/spring break. :|
 
I played it like 20 minutes on my friend's computer..
Maybe I'll play it fully someday..
 
I am tempted to buy the PS3 GOTY edition just to play it on the big TV. Still, you are in for quite a treat. The game is great. Well, the side-quests are great--the main quest is one of the worst ever thanks to the ridiculousness of the Oblivion Gates. Awful awful awful. The rest I love.
 
VictimOfScience said:
I am tempted to buy the PS3 GOTY edition just to play it on the big TV. Still, you are in for quite a treat. The game is great. Well, the side-quests are great--the main quest is one of the worst ever thanks to the ridiculousness of the Oblivion Gates. Awful awful awful. The rest I love.
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What's awful about the main one?>
 
I hate going into Oblivion.. it's more of a chore than a duty.
>.>Some of the side quests are hilarious. And be sure to buy the Shivering Isles expansion.
Pure. Hilarity.
 
Oblivion was a linear nonlinear game with crappy great graphics.

And two voice actors.

In total.

(apart from major characters)
 
Mod the shit out of it before you continue playing. OOO mod is a must.
I can't stand vanilla Oblivion.
 
Omg so downloading the high resolution pack, and playing again!
 
i remember i loved this game for like 2-3 weeks, got caught up in the hype, after that i just got extremely bored mostly due to the lame leveling system, didn't bother again with mods to improve it.
 
World is bland. Dialogue/stories/character sucks. Gets boring...only really good bit was probably the Dark Brotherhood.
 
Dark Brotherhood was such a good mission line.. Too easy, imo..
 
i bought the game and got so damn bored with it...I think I played like 10 hours and just couldn't even take it.
 
I liked it for some reason. I think the main reason I played was because I could become such a bad ass, and wear bad ass stuff.
 
I enjoyed Oblivion as a really big first person shooter with elves and swords.
 
Oblivion wasn't pure shite, really. What it was, was a LIE.

So much scope, so much potential. And all for nothing, for want of just a little bit of depth.
 
Bad^Hat said:
Oblivion wasn't pure shite, really. What it was, was a LIE.

So much scope, so much potential. And all for nothing, for want of just a little bit of depth.
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Hah! Someone agrees!
 
I didn't complete the main quest until I had played for...40 some odd hours. Yeah, I was still doing side quests. Really, the game had such potential, too bad it didn't live up to it. I gotta play with mods, still.
 
It was an absolute disgrace of them to hire Sean Bean and then give him the lines they did.
 
Cheomesh said:
I eagerly awaited Oblivion like many others when it came out a year ago. However, once I got it and patched it, there where a great number of things that just got under my skin about this "great" game. I liked Morrowind, and even though I never beat the main quest, I still enjoyed it greatly.

Here are the list of things that just got to me. I know it's a GAME, but still.

1) The Voice Acting. It was AWESOME that they got a fairly known celeb to do the voice for the Emperor, but other than that, the voices sucked...I couldn't tell an Imperial from an Orc, a Kajit from an Argonian, etc.

2) Ugly, ugly people. I liked the random face designs and stuff, but everyone turned out ugly with few exceptions. Even the elven people, who are supposed to be beautiful, where ugly.

3) Leveled lists. The fact that stuff leveled with you was awful. You figure they would put some limitations on it more than what they may or may not have had -- a robber wearing dwarven pauldrons asking me for 50 gold is...sad.

4) No "hitboxes". Arrows to the face for the loss...

5) Casting magic with stuff in your hands -- would be ok for a few spells but uber-leet-lightingball thing? No, too imbalanced.

6) Oblivion is copy-pasted to tears. I couldn't bring my self to go into a fourth gate because it was just like the other three...

7) No mounted combat -- made horses somewhat a liability.

8) Not much didn't want to not kill you -- needed more passive wildlife.

9) Imperials where not the imperials from Morrowind -- Morrowind had a DISTINCTIVE Roman-Empire esque feel to them. They where so totally roman in the way their stuff looked it make it feel like a different fantasy game. The ones in Oblivion where so totally medieval Europe it felt "done".

10) Got stuff too fast -- I manged to get a full set of steel armour early early on in the game.

11) Stuff is too common -- never understood why you saw so many suits of armour everywhere. I know it's a fantasy game but still, it's going to cost A LOT of money to make a full suit of armour and if you're not a professional fighter, there isn't a reason to have it.

12) No reason to listen in to stuff -- everything people say is easily accessed in "gossip".

13) Rag dolls -- made death animations look boring. The fact that heavy weapons fell so slowly was kinda odd.

14) Magic everywhere -- even at the lowest level people still often had a magic trick up their sleeves, be it enchanted weapons or armour, or a spell. ((Made it feel less magical.))

15) Stuff was heavy -- even "elven" swords where hefty, weighing many many pounds

16) Huge inventory -- necessary I know but it would be nice to have had a "bag" system...

17) Empty world -- hardly ever see anyone on the roads, except the odd bandit and the law enforcement. A mod fixed this, however.

18) Paid expantions -- some where nice, like the horse armour, and some I would never have messed with, like the tower or spell books, but still, wouldn't it be best to have saved it for an actual expantion, instead of selling it online, THEN making a "boxed" edition of it?

There are likely others but I'm sure I've done enough for now.

I may toy with the editor sometime, make changes, etc, but still, the game was "lacking" :(.

M.
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For those who don't want to link.
 
Oblivion failed due to its world. It was without depth; bland, boring and uninteresting. It was forest after forest. Nothing in the world was set apart; no unique territory or what have you...just caves, forests and some snow. They should have watched Lord of the Rings. There was nowhere you shouldn't go - no places 'too dangerous'.

Hell, it ****ing constantly had random wolves coming at you. Some really shitty design going on.
 
Samon said:
Hell, it ****ing constantly had random wolves coming at you. Some really shitty design going on.
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Oh don't get me started on the goddamn wolves. Christ, by the end I was sick and tired of going into the forest, bieng attacked, killing one, and then five meters later having another attack me.
Oblivion is fail. To an extreme.

Also, nice list that I agree with completely cheomesh :thumbs:
 
I played Oblivion for a while but i realised that it wasn't going to be too good when i preferred looting entire towns or doing side quests rather than the main quest. The game didn't involve me enough.
 
Atomic_Piggy said:
Also, nice list that I agree with completely cheomesh :thumbs:
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:D




I had considered making it more "medieval" in terms of what you find, where, how things are done, etc, and making the Imperials Roman again.

I mean, in Morrowind they where so totally Romans. But then they where definitely high middle ages French in structure.

Both are fine but...you gotta pick one. ONE.
 
I had huge panic attacks from being so bored with this game. No horse shitting.

Enjoy it anyway. :)
 
I was sad that this game fell well short of being as good as it could have been. I don't mind the idea of endless forests to trudge through, as long as they're immersive and not completely annoying. The presence of a 'hiking' element in a game should also show that the game isn't so focussed on providing the cheap adrenaline thrills of an FPS.

Neither of these were the case in Oblivion. Oblivion threw random encounter after random encounter at you - hardly anything in the forest is passive, everything wants to rip you a new arsehole. With the amount of deer around you'd think that lone wolves wouldn't be so eager to attacked fully armoured humans, but no. You'd think that the presence of passive wildlife in the area might signify the absence of carnivorous threats, but no, often I'd see deer wandering to and fro and then I'd turn around to get clocked by a troll. This undermined the immersion until it was reliant completely on the lovely graphics, which can only go so far. The whole explorational aspect that I was looking forward to so much became just a massive chore.

I had some fun with it in the early days, but the flaws eventually got to me. Horrible levelling, the most obvious low-voice-actor-count I've ever seen, etc etc... I still intend to go back to it at some point and mod the shit out of it, however.
 
God damn, it sounds like Oblivion isn't even worth buying.

Although, from what I've read... there's a ton of modifications out there that fix most of the problems people have with it.
 
sea said:
Do you have the latest patches installed, both official and unofficial? The unofficial patches fix a huge number of bugs in the game (it's literally in the thousands) and the most recent official one from Bethesda improves the low-resolution distance textures.

Still, Oblivion wouldn't be nearly as good as it is without the amazingly talented and dedicated modding community. The stuff they've done will provide you with literally hundreds of extra hours of playtime, if the core game itself doesn't provide you with enough already (I still find new things I never saw before, including some fairly lengthy and entertaining side-quests).

Oh, and beware of those high-resolution texture packs. They look great (if breaking from the game's art style a little), but will quite possibly kill your framerate in the process.
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If I install the Landscape LOD texture replacement MOD (replace with texture files included with the 1.2 patch)was that a bad move on my part? I didn't even bother to check and see what the game looked like before replacing the 1.2 patch texture files. Still looks good, but I don't know whether or not the texture upgrades from the mod were better.
 
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