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Old 01-29-2007, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Monolith View Post
And what was this "best RPG experience"? Being railroaded through a plethora of fetch/kill X type of quests without any choices? The exploration which is reduced to following a compass? The riddles which are solved by journal entries? The NPC interaction which is narrowed to a comical laughably and easy to master mini-game? The linear, dull and illogical main plot? Or did you mean the character development, which isn't even needed thanks to sucking level scaling - besides being total crap? Or was it the setting, bluntly copied from Lord of the Rings, with a raped TES lore and an invasion which, oh well, doesn't really take place?
That's the best and most terse summary of Oblivion's failings I've ever read.
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