[mr.miyagi]

UPDATE:

PC Gamer: 95% [U.S]
PC Gamer: 93% [UK]
OXM (USA): 9.5

OXM states, "Oblivion raises the bar so high that most RPGs would be (and have been) satisfied with a fraction of what's here." In his PC Gamer review, Desslock says, "The best compliment I can pay Oblivion is that it achieves far more than I’d even thought possible. It’s a superlative RPG."


Bethesda and 2K Games have just announced that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the highly anticipated RPG sequel, has gone gold and is off to manufacturing. The game will appear on PC and Xbox 360 in the week of March 20, in both North America and Europe.



As of today "Bethesda says that they'll have release date information soon—we're waiting with bated breath."

Rumours have been its most likely around 20-25th March release..been in development since mid-2002..out for PC and Xbox 360.

latest preview:
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/the-elder-scro ... 014p1.html

I've personally been loosely following the progress with this game and can't wait until it comes out although I realise that playing it will destroy big chunks of my life as theres so much to see and do in the game.

Any of you people going to buy this, if so did you play Morrowind when that was out?

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Recommended:
3 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
1 GB System RAM
ATI X800 series, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series, or higher video card

Minimum System Requirements:
Windows XP
512MB System RAM
2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
128MB Direct3D compatible video card
and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver;
8x DVD-ROM drive
4.6 GB free hard disk space
DirectX 9.0c (included)
DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
Keyboard, Mouse

[HeadUp]

i could play it, is elder scrolls an mmorpg tho? i wont stand a chance being anything more than a total n00b if im pitted against a bunch of wow-style-videogames-are-my-life nerds

[Mr.Buttocks]

[quote="mr.miyagi":b0cf1]if so did you play Morrowind when that was out? [/quote:b0cf1]


I have Morrowind and the Tribunal/Bloodmoon expansions......but have hardly played it. wallbash:

[mr.miyagi]

Its a single player game, no MP at all like the first.

[Tystnad]

Im getting this game. Mate of mine is getting it for the 360 aswell, hes got it preordered. And yeah, I played Morrowind a lot back in the days. Im actually considering reinstalling it. biggrin:

[ninty]

I've made a couple topics on the board here a while back about this game. I have been waiting ever since I finished Morrowind for this game. This game will be the best game ever created.

I still play Morrowind from time to time. It is an absolutley incredible game. I preordered Oblivion in October thinking it was coming out around Christmas, but then it got delayed so i've had my preorder in for about 5 months.

I can't wait for this one.

[TGB!]

The fact that you COULD do anything was a turn-off for me. I know having "restraints" would mean certain content would be cut off from you - but the fact that yuo could join ANY guild (including both good AND bad guilds) as well as numerous houses and unofficial groups - was just overkill.

You're telling me noone in any of these organizations (especially those that bar killing etc) - wouldnt hear about your actions - ESPECIALLY when you become HEAD of the house. . .just not likely. . .

Then there are the NUMEROUS dungeons/caves that get mistaken for ACTUAL dungeons/caves youre supposed to adventure in. . .not so bad. . .hopefully this fast track system improves on that. . .

Youre right. This game cant get here fast enough. I remember when MW came out - I was in love with the game. I didnt make it to BALDUR until about 8 hours into actually playing when I remembered - hey, Im supposed to get to this city (actually I couldnt understand the instructions on how to get to BALDURA - so instead of going NE through CALDERA, I went NW through the swamps and the coast/mountains. . .picked up the ORC armor though from the ISLAND off the coast - so not a total waste).

Another complain - the spell system. I hate it. Im not against being able to create your own spells, but let me delete spells if you're going to give me this ability. Also an auto-name feature would be nice (since the names they have for theirs are so cool). I ended up naming spells "Unlock To Get Into Sweet Drawer" and other ridiculous names. Also - thankfully - youre only able to buy your skill upgrade to a certain point. . .finding out about the CREEPER trick - and finding all the adamantium around town basically gave me a quick 200G starting off. . .so that I was one bad mofo - without even getting to the capital city.

All in all the end of MARCH cant come soon enough - which is when Im sure the game is going to be released. . .the video that was just released that has the unaltered audio (that the german mag released like WEEKS ago. . .) - where you hear the sounds of you fighting the white boy in Elvin Armor - I nearly came. . .

Hopefully the "real world interaction" thats going on in the game, doesnt end up like HL2's ridiculous scripted (and lame) feel. . .

HDR hurts my eyes.

other than that, its a pretty cool game.

[Mr.Buttocks]

[quote="TGB!":c91ba]The fact that you COULD do anything was a turn-off for me. I know having "restraints" would mean certain content would be cut off from you - but the fact that yuo could join ANY guild (including both good AND bad guilds) as well as numerous houses and unofficial groups - was just overkill.

You're telling me noone in any of these organizations (especially those that bar killing etc) - wouldnt hear about your actions - ESPECIALLY when you become HEAD of the house. . .just not likely. . .

Then there are the NUMEROUS dungeons/caves that get mistaken for ACTUAL dungeons/caves youre supposed to adventure in. . .not so bad. . .hopefully this fast track system improves on that. . .

Youre right. This game cant get here fast enough. I remember when MW came out - I was in love with the game. I didnt make it to BALDUR until about 8 hours into actually playing when I remembered - hey, Im supposed to get to this city (actually I couldnt understand the instructions on how to get to BALDURA - so instead of going NE through CALDERA, I went NW through the swamps and the coast/mountains. . .picked up the ORC armor though from the ISLAND off the coast - so not a total waste).

Another complain - the spell system. I hate it. Im not against being able to create your own spells, but let me delete spells if you're going to give me this ability. Also an auto-name feature would be nice (since the names they have for theirs are so cool). I ended up naming spells "Unlock To Get Into Sweet Drawer" and other ridiculous names. Also - thankfully - youre only able to buy your skill upgrade to a certain point. . .finding out about the CREEPER trick - and finding all the adamantium around town basically gave me a quick 200G starting off. . .so that I was one bad mofo - without even getting to the capital city.

All in all the end of MARCH cant come soon enough - which is when Im sure the game is going to be released. . .the video that was just released that has the unaltered audio (that the german mag released like WEEKS ago. . .) - where you hear the sounds of you fighting the white boy in Elvin Armor - I nearly came. . .

Hopefully the "real world interaction" thats going on in the game, doesnt end up like HL2's ridiculous scripted (and lame) feel. . .[/quote:c91ba]


"Comb yo beard, I don't wanna hear that shit!"

[ninty]

i don't have a problem with being able to join all four guilds. It would be kind of a pain in the ass if I had to start a new character for each guild I wanted to play.

There will be scripted parts...you can;t really avoid them, but i'm anxious to see the RAI. Watching a guy lock up his shop and then go to the tavern for a drink and then going home to bed will definetly put a new level of realism into the game.

[img]http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/article/559/559265/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-20041022093603087.jpg[/img]

[img]http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/662/662178/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-20051027034439286.jpg[/img]

[c312]

is this the game where the stuff around you is generated as you move around ?

[ninty]

I think they said that forrests and stuff would be randomly generated, yeah.

[c312]

yeah, I thought that was it. My brother's been watching this game for a while.

[Sirus]

looks pretty good, ill def check it out however id really like to see a trailer for it first before I make up my mind on this one

[elstatec]

never played morrowind myself but i remember my mate just showing me rooms of stuff in the game that he collected, all random crap.