Oblivion
Moderator: sonic
Oblivion
Have any of you gotten a chance to play Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (the sequal to Morrowind). I was able to play it for a little while at the Game stop at the mall and it blew me away.
For starters, your character appearance is much more customizable, you make the face rather than choose one.
You don't have a class, you just use your skills and get better at the ones you use.
The magic system has improved tremendously, it seems to no longer suck. You can cast spells while holding weapons and shealds, the casting times are faster, your mana not only recharges constantly, but it does so at a decent rate, and the spells actually deal enough damage to kill enemies before they get in your face (which isn't as much of a problem now because you will already have a weapon in hand and your armor skill can actually advance now that there are no classes holding your development back).
As an added bonus, Patrick Stuart does the voice of Emperor Uriel Septum.
For starters, your character appearance is much more customizable, you make the face rather than choose one.
You don't have a class, you just use your skills and get better at the ones you use.
The magic system has improved tremendously, it seems to no longer suck. You can cast spells while holding weapons and shealds, the casting times are faster, your mana not only recharges constantly, but it does so at a decent rate, and the spells actually deal enough damage to kill enemies before they get in your face (which isn't as much of a problem now because you will already have a weapon in hand and your armor skill can actually advance now that there are no classes holding your development back).
As an added bonus, Patrick Stuart does the voice of Emperor Uriel Septum.
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
-Hamlet
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
-Hamlet
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it's a memory eater as well--the world is just huge and insanely detailed! i guess it's crashing xboxes left and right. you can clear out the HDD cache if you hold down the A button while the disk loads. this should help long loads or "disk unreadable" failures. oh yeah, new or future x-box owners...DO NOT vertically incline your xbox...it will scratch your game disks!!!
other than that oblivion is so cool. you can totally customize your character like never before.
other than that oblivion is so cool. you can totally customize your character like never before.
while i've read that's a DEFINITE NO-NO, many people on the xbox boards have complained of scratched disks by just having the xbox erect from the get-go. i first had my xbox stand vertical, then discovered lots of minute scrtaches on my oblivion disk. my local gamer dealer replaced it for me (because we bpought them all starbucks when the console came in ) afterwards i have kept my xbox horizontal and no scratches at all.Lightice wrote:Doesn't it only happen when you move the box while the disk is inside?
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