Oblivion > My Free Time
As you can gather from my other posts I don’t really have alot of free time. This is especially aggrovating because I just recently bought a cool new game from Bethesda called Oblivion. It’s better than Morrowind in the sense that it’s more mature in game play and concept, and it’s still completely open ended and nonlinear. One of my favorite things about Morrowind was the fact that it had so many distractions from the main quest. Unlike most console RPG’s or MMO’s, this game allows you to explore a huge world and interact with the NPC’s in various cool ways (you can even get a little guy to follow you around after you conquer the arena) and not ever have to touch the main storyline quests until you are good and ready.
I tend toward one player RPG’s, or MMO’s that don’t require group play (like Diablo 2)–mainly because most of the people playing those games are idiots. Guild Wars is a perfect example of this. It’s very frustrating when you are facing certain doom in the Underworld and the n00b warrior in your group runs off and aggro’s 3 level 32 bosses who promptly walk over and whack your entire party in less than a minute. MMO’s have their advantages. I like playing with other people, I just don’t like being forced to play with other people.
Other than Diablo 2, Oblivion and Morrowind are the closest I have found so far that mimic exactly what I would like in a game. I was a frequent of Diablo 2 for around 6 years before I finally got bored with the hacking and the impossibility of getting the really rare stuff. I never saw above an Jah rune the entire 6 years I played. Oblivion’s awesome graphics coupled with its open ended playstyle makes it a good chunk of eyecandy for me. Although, my card tends to choke if you set the resolution beyond 1024×768. I made the mistake of making it mad last night and it blue screened me.
Dave said,
March 29, 2006 @ 7:51 am
I pre-ordered it and the guide about 2 months ago, and when I got it Friday, I was astounded! This game is flippin’ huge and ultra non-linear! “I like playing with other people, I just don’t like being forced to play with other people.” Why I don’t like MMORPGs, that and the idiots who don’t follow directions and ruin your hour+ storyline quest(Guild Wars again).
Eric said,
March 30, 2006 @ 1:33 pm
Clearly, the response to both of those is… find a guild, one that isn’t retarded. Now this can be a difficult task in and of itself, but once accomplished, the game is much more enjoyable, as far as group experiences are concerned. GW or WOW.
As far as Oblivion goes, lovin it, roxxin away. The people in the forums are quite upset with the level-scaling, but there are creative ways to deal with such things.
Dave said,
April 3, 2006 @ 7:29 am
I wonder why this game is so easy to cheat in? All you have to do is open up the console and hit /help and you get a nice list of things to do. Not that I actually would in a game I’m taking seriously, but I made an extra savefile, and then tried out the awesomeness of 255 stats and 100 in all the skills. I then laughed at the arena at level 5. You have to sleep in a bed to level up, but sleeping doesn’t really require a bed, so you can avoid leveling up like this. lol
jduv said,
April 3, 2006 @ 12:38 pm
I think the game is on sort of a honor system lol. I haven’t played around with the scripting, but my UNIX instincts told me to type help at the command prompt to see what I could do. Sure enough, bingo a list of scripts to run to modify the game. So far my time has been spent planning my character and tweaking him so that I will enjoy playing him. My goal is to make it easy to get x5 multipliers on his attributes every level, and so far I have it figured out except for strength. Since all the strength skills require bad guys to level, this one seems to be the hardest for me. Especially since I am a stealth character.