elder scrolls: oblivion

Post by **mjrpes** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:32 am

i don't like rpg's, but damn, these are some amazing screenshots:

all in-game too. there's more:

http://www.elderscrolls.com/art/obliv_s ... ots_01.htm

i just might have to start liking rpg's.

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:39 am

yea, cause rpgs are all about the gfx and none about the role playing and story

elder scrolls always rocked. problem is that Morrowind was plagued by some rather unforgivable bugs (crashes to desktop, etc).

they say its going to be released near the end of the year, and that its for XBox2. thats pretty cool

Post by **mjrpes** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:45 am

MKJ wrote:yea, cause rpgs are all about the gfx and none about the role playing and story

for me, there's too much role playing and too much story. on the website they even talk about how it takes 100s of hours to complete the game. not my cup of tea. a ten minute game of quake does it for me.

but i'd buy it just so i could play around in a world with gfx like that

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:42 am

someone mention obliv0.on?

quality

Post by **U4EA** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:02 am

I loved Morrowind and apparently seem to be the only one who didn't have any technical issues with it (apart from crapworthy performance on a pretty decent machine of the time). I'll probably be giving this a try :icon14:

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:03 am

My only issue was the slow gameplay and everything in between that almost put me to sleep.

But this does look nice.

Post by **U4EA** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:05 am

Yea, it required a lot of time and patience. Perhaps a bit too much.

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:06 am

i stopped playing for a week or so and never got into it again :S i was quite far in the main story line, bloodmoon and tribunal not included.
its so hard to backtrack a game this big :S pity, really, i really liked it :icon14:

Post by **Strangler** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:06 am

it looks like painkiller quality.

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:08 am

they said that in this part, they'd make travelling "easier" by just clicking on the location of your choice - BG style.
im not sure if i like that. what i loved in morrowind was the fact that you had to travel, walking for days n nights, encountering tons of sidequests and tombs n shit.
it made "a far land" really feel far away and not just a dot on the edge of the map :icon14:

Post by **Eraser** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:31 am

I gave up on Morrowind after the first 16 pages of non-stop reading.

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:17 pm

I can't stand those generic fantasy D&D RPG's either. Big yawn, no matter how good they look.

Post by **megami** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:09 pm

MKJ wrote:they said that in this part, they'd make travelling "easier" by just clicking on the location of your choice - BG style.
im not sure if i like that. what i loved in morrowind was the fact that you had to travel, walking for days n nights, encountering tons of sidequests and tombs n shit.
it made "a far land" really feel far away and not just a dot on the edge of the map :icon14:

I agree, the world seemed a lot more vibrant that way :icon25:

Personally, I thought Morrowind was a blast- tempered only by those annoying crash-to-desktop bugs and the lack of any acknowledgement from the world that you've completed the main quest besides a slap on the back from Azora.

The sheer amount of things you could do and places you could discover was amazing, and I'm pretty sure they can keep the same feeling with Oblivion. Unlike some other companies that developed games simultaneously for PC and Xbox, Bethseda kept Morrowind from seeming console-ized, so at least Oblivion won't be a guinea pig.

Post by **Strangler** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:07 pm

it would take too long to do anything in a single town though like that Baldora place, and it would be too easy to get lost in. I mean there is just too much to do and too many people to talk to.

Post by **SplishSplash** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:39 pm

Any news on Baldur's Gate 3 yet?
(And please spare me the NWN2 bullshit)

Post by **Kills On Site** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:06 pm

my copy of Morrowind, on the X-Box, is actually quite stable. I have not had the bugs and crashes that so many have

Post by **megami** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:14 am

SplishSplash wrote:Any news on Baldur's Gate 3 yet?
(And please spare me the NWN2 bullshit)

As far as I know, BG3 was in development a few years ago at Black Isle until Interplay canned it. Too bad, it was supposed to feature a darker storyline and allegedly in-depth moral choices

Post by **Kills On Site** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:44 am

Kaziganthe wrote:Either you were being sarcastic, or didn't notice that they said DESKTOP

well from what I have heard it will randomly freeze on the X-Box. One friend said it would freeze every time he opened the world map. Apparently the GOTY edition for the X-Box did solve some issues from what I heard. So stop being a smart ass fucker :icon32:

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:15 am

BG3 was never in dev. thats a stupid intardnet rumour and wishful thinking. they revealed once that BG was supposed to be a trilogy but scrapped it when Wizards discontinued the Planescape campaign setting.
they also once mentioned they would love to do a game in the BG universe again, but thats no announcement. its the same when Blizzard said "they love the starcraft universe and would like to visit it agian one day" - theyre not saying StarCraft2 is in the works, only that its not impossible

Post by **Strangler** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:20 am

"but scrapped it when Wizards discontinued the Planescape campaign setting. "

mind elaborating more on this? whats the planetscape cmapaign setting?

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:25 am

planescape. not planetscape.
its a campaign setting by wizards, like the Forgotten Realms is and the newly released Ebberon.
there was also a game made for it on the computer called PlaneScape Torment.
i guess the setting wasnt too popular (it was rather abstract, with the random teleporting n all) so they stopped creating more content and accessoires for it. e.g. let the whole thing die

Post by **megami** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:26 am

MKJ wrote:BG3 was never in dev. thats a stupid intardnet rumour and wishful thinking. they revealed once that BG was supposed to be a trilogy but scrapped it when Wizards discontinued the Planescape campaign setting.

Hmm, I remember reading the info in a post made by a BIS employee on a reputable board. I also read that there was supposed to be a Planescape: Torment sequel, but that got cancelled when the Planescape setting was discontinued.

Post by **Strangler** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:28 am

MKJ wrote:planescape. not planetscape.
its a campaign setting by wizards, like the Forgotten Realms is and the newly released Ebberon.
there was also a game made for it on the computer called PlaneScape Torment.
i guess the setting wasnt too popular (it was rather abstract, with the random teleporting n all) so they stopped creating more content and accessoires for it. e.g. let the whole thing die

so what does that have to do with bg3 from not being made?

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:13 am

Strangler wrote:
MKJ wrote:planescape. not planetscape.
its a campaign setting by wizards, like the Forgotten Realms is and the newly released Ebberon.
there was also a game made for it on the computer called PlaneScape Torment.
i guess the setting wasnt too popular (it was rather abstract, with the random teleporting n all) so they stopped creating more content and accessoires for it. e.g. let the whole thing die
so what does that have to do with bg3 from not being made?

because the original idea was that the player would go to PlaneScape in the third game. but with it being discontinued n all, they ended it with Throne of Bhaal being in the Forgotten Realms

Post by **Strangler** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:23 am

why dont they change the idea than?