How would you rate The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion?

[Fljotsdale]

I voted Very Good. It has faults, so I couldn't vote Excellent.

The main fault is that you don't have to play the Main Quest if you don't want to; it ought to be an integral part of the game - something to build up to - not just be an optional extra.

Another fault is that there seems to be little or no play as the head of any Guilds you get to the top of. You get to be Boss, and that's it. There ought to be some sort of follow-through, however little. And it annoys me that there is no Guild interaction with other Guilds, even when one is next door to another (like Fighters and Mages Guilds). Some co-operative operations would have made the game richer, imo.

[Mr_Snow]

I've played it twice now and twice shelved it to play other games.
So it's main problem is that it doesn't hold my attention against other games that mightn't be so "graphically" good.

Can't wait to NWN2, that and FSX will do me well into next year, hopefully until SHIV comes out. I might load up Oblivion as a filler but I can't see it as my major game

[Ideal Maxima]

I voted on Average. It was a good game, but I don't think it was as good as Morrowind. Maybe slap on the next gen graphics for Morrowind, and you'll have the best game ever right there.

I'll elaborate tommorow, it's one o'clock here. Night everyone.

[Xandax]

Voted very bad now after I've played it some (it is already removed again)

Take away the eye candy and you are left with a mediocre (at best) game. I simply dislike way to many things in the game and I think it truely has been made with the lowest common denominator of players in mind. I feel saddened that Bethesda has butchered the Elder Scroll series to this.

The AI is annoying and bad.
Mobs are annoying in the fact that you can't run away from them, but they keep.
The level scaling annoys me the most and I find it terrible implemented.
The dumbing down of an already very forgiving character development system.
And I could continue.....

Hype and promises will never substitute a good game.

[C-K'R[PhoEniX]]

Too simplified, too demanding for hardware, too easy for some classes, too difficult for some classes. Anyway, I liked Morrowind much much more.

[EVIL V2.1]

liked Morrowind better storyline wise

[DarthZ]

Originally Posted by ch85us2001

It is very good, but it's just missing something. If the fast travel werent there, and the compass, (the things that I feel make it feel like a game), it would make the MQ feel much longer, and much better. I miss getting lost searching for some God Forsaken Cavern. That being said, I don't use those functions now.

Sp, I vote very good. Hopefully, expansions and mods make it better.

Yea, honestly, I think I'd like the game more without these kind of things. The thing I love about MW was that I never quite knew where I was supposed to go; made me explore alot more. In Oblivion I often find myself exploring the cities and just getting missions and then off to do them outside. I mean; in MW I could run around the world for days without getting bored.

[RebelousDarkElf]

Originally Posted by matthewd

the game is nice but i am more into like fable kinda games

Oblvion adopted a few Fable style features, though. You can teleport to any spot you have previously been, and like Fable, you now have a sepperate button to block. So it is kind of like Fable, only much deeper...

[Tanis Half-Elve]

it had good gameplay but its graphics are to good as you have to have the greater machines to run it

i managed but only on low graphics

128 mB video card p4 cpu 2.6ghz 1 g ram

i do enjoy the forgotten realms most. but it was still a good game

i gave it a "VERY GOOD"

[d-mac]

I said 'very bad,' mainly because of the 5-minute mq and utter lack of lore in the game. I also disliked the wierd menus, manual blocking, LEVELED LOOT (RRRRGGGGHHH!!!), and the skill system. In Morrowind, you don't hit your target every time you try to; it all depends on your skill with that particular weapon/magic type. You do, however, do the same amount of damage when you actually make a hit. Oh, and, much like in everything having anything to do with magic, spells aren't supposed to work every single time! In my opinion, Oblivion looks like an RPG at first (especially to someone who doesn't play them very often), but it's really just a more open version of an action game.

[Siberys]

Originally Posted by d-mac

I said 'very bad,' mainly because of the 5-minute mq and utter lack of lore in the game. I also disliked the wierd menus, manual blocking, LEVELED LOOT (RRRRGGGGHHH!!!), and the skill system. In Morrowind, you don't hit your target every time you try to; it all depends on your skill with that particular weapon/magic type. You do, however, do the same amount of damage when you actually make a hit. Oh, and, much like in everything having anything to do with magic, spells aren't supposed to work every single time! In my opinion, Oblivion looks like an RPG at first (especially to someone who doesn't play them very often), but it's really just a more open version of an action game.

Couldn't agree more.

[Deadalready]

My vote was average... I had heaps of trouble with the game for various reasons. The major thing was I felt limited(?) when compairing it to Morrowind, things just seemed more accessable in Morrowind.

I didn't enjoy the level scaling feature much at all, it has it's good points but I never felt like I was actually getting anywhere with my character. Guards and their strange ability to appear out of nowhere were the worst in my opinion.

[Darth Chef]

I played Oblivion before I "played" Morrowind, and because of that, I stopped playing it. Oblivion stopped me mostly because everything inventory wise (map, equipment, maps ect.) and storyline wise (mostly because of the journal) were much more clear and straightforward. I got lost for three hours, not kidding, after I left the first town/city. It also took me a half hour to finally understand the inventory screen. there was no journal, so if I stopped playing for a little while, I'd forget what was happening and where I had to go. And lastly, I don't think anything was leveled to me, because the first highwayman I came across killed me in 5 seconds. Oblivion pampered me to a point that any attempt I I'm made at playing morrowind got me mad, bored, or gave me a head ache. Now I also did really x3 like Oblivion. alot of you think it's missions are too loose and easy, and it lacks depth. But I think it's deep, there is so much to do, from small missions about finding the potatoe thief to defeating Mehrunes Dagon. There are hundreds of quests, everywhere you turn there is something to be done, ecspecially now with all of the downloads. And of coarse the eye Candy part that everybody has mentioned, totally kills morrowind. Well all of this talk of Morrowind has got me wanting to fianlly beat it, so I'm gonna get on that now.

[Xandax]

Morrowinds (initial) journal system was very bad. But that - and graphics (*sigh*) are about the only two things Oblivion holds over Morrowind.
Morrowind does not pamper you, and does not show your where to go (or teleport your there) and the monster you find on the way might be to hard for your so you're better off taking a long road.


Morrowind is by leagues a better game then Oblivion, and I didn't even like Morrowind all that much (cause they removed the things I loved about Daggerfall in Morrowind )

[dragon wench]

And even where the graphics are concerned, if you download some of the amazing texture replacers out there, the graphical difference between Morrowind and Oblivion lessens quite a lot. Indeed, some of the replacers, like Better Bodies and some of the face/head textures are (going by the screenies I've seen) *better* than those in Oblivion.