TES: Oblivion.

    To be fair, play as something else slicky.

    You've become the best warrior/tank/whatever. Try being a mage, or an assassin, or a vampire. There's still some variety left.

    I do agree with you about the lack of items and monsters though.

    Yeah Tequila, is right. I remember completing MW with about 4 diffrent chars. Joined guilds I didnt complete in past games ect, and it was suprisingly fun every time

    One good thing about the PC ver. is the mod's. Morrowind had plenty of them, making the game soo much better

    man this game is fun. There is so much to do and the quests are great. The thing I love the most is how realistic things are, People accually, eat, drink, sleep, change, talk to each other, snoop, go to bars, etc.

    Im level 6 now been doing a bunch of stuff, main story, guilds, side quests, makes it more fun.

    Had the game 48 hours, racked up 30 hours gameplay so far

    It does suffer for being developed for console primarily, but beyond that I think the game is awesome. Conversly to what has been said above, I have been finding the game more challenging to play than Morrowind. I have yet to find any really decent items and have gotten my ass kicked more times than I care to mention.

    Much like I did in Morrowind, I have totally ignored the main quest and at the first opportunity I just picked a compass direction and started wandering. I don't know whether or not this has given me a different impression of the game to other people, but I certainly disagree with the shallow lake analogy. I really don't know what kind of depth folks were expecting, it's certainly deeper than any other RPG of its type out there, though I do believe you need a chunk of imagination to play these kind of games in the first place, to fill in the blanks as it were. As with Morrowind, and Daggerfall before it, you kinda get out what you put in.

    So anyways now it's monday morning and I am seriously thinking of doing some last minute holiday booking so I can get back to the game. I think that says it all

    Looking at the ingame timer it says Ive played for around 26 hours now !

    Totally love it now, I admit that I've had somewhat deluded expectations and that it takes a while to get used to the way the game works. However when you're really into its an awesome game, been trying to get into the main quests again but I keep finding some Inn where some folks are having problems sending me in another way, quite awesome . Theres also a tremendous amount of variation in the different quests. Although you get those generic "go kill stuff in a cave" quests from time to time then Im quite impressed with the degree of variation in the quests, also by the number of them.

    Something Ive been thinking about regarding getting into the game and my hard startup is that this really is a game that in general feels amazing. Problem is, like many say about their fears of photorealism in games, rather than making things more believable it outlines the limitations and the things that are wrong, where as games today generally leave alot to the imagination of the player. I think this somehow goes with Oblivion as well (Not that it looks photorealistic, obviously ) because it felt like a really cool place, but the constant strange actions of NPCs and that kind of stuff sort of breaks the illusion and in my case made the game less appealing. However once you realize whats messed up and live with it you can continue dwelving into the world.

    Oh yeah, anybody else had the "bug" where pair of NPCs in Inns and such have the exactly same conversation at once? So you hear the exact same dialogue being spoken pretty much at once by 4 NPCs? . I've had around 6 of those so far

    Oh and for those that complain of its obvious consoley feel, I've tried both the PC and 360 version and I honestly think the 360 plays better. Even though you sometimes have to point you view very carefully to pick up a small item then it works really well. The PC is obviously better in this, but I found the menus horrible to navigate, where as they're freaking fast when you're used to them on the 360.

    Oh yeah I'm also getting pretty owned at the moment, lots of Minotaurs and Trolls are starting to appear and they just rip me to threads in no time. Good thing I got myself a über fast 5000 gold horsie so I can run away from them

    Yikes I need to talk more and work less...or the other way around :G

    Im at 24 hours playing right now and its still awesome. I found my horse back and figured out how the locked doors bug works so I can get around

    it

    Beat the main quest and several other guild/other quests and now going to try and level up a lot before i go in the land and start exploring all the dungeons and stuff on my own

    Wonderfull stuff

    Btw, maybe its just because I'm not playing a very stealthy character, but how the hell do you steal stuff without being confronted by guards right after? Even when you're in a totally remote and concealed place they figure out you stole something. Do you need to be in stealth mode/crotch or what?

    Mazy: I dont know if it has the same system of stealing like Morrowind did, but there you had to crouch, point at the item you wanted to steal, and wait for the "steal item" icon was shown to the buttom left of your hood. And yes, sneak skill will improve your ability to steal and aslo do critical damage

    BTW, just bought a new PC (so I could play this game) Wonder if anyone got about the same speccs as me, and how the game runs?

    AMD 64 X2 4200+

    gForce 7600GT

    1GB RAM 400hz

    ESC Extreme MB

    450W Power supply

    Thanks

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    Oh and for those that complain of its obvious consoley feel, I've tried both the PC and 360 version and I honestly think the 360 plays better. Even though you sometimes have to point you view very carefully to pick up a small item then it works really well. The PC is obviously better in this, but I found the menus horrible to navigate, where as they're freaking fast when you're used to them on the 360.

    Console menus horrible to navigate on a PC but fine on a 360? Fancy that! Dunno why they couldn't give PC users the option to customise it without mods.

    I think PC users have a right to complain, it is obviously imo an interface designed for console use and why they haven't given pc users an alternate mode or something that takes advantage of the pc is beyond me.

    I hate to use the words dying etc when it comes to PCs but if we keep getting console stuff that isn't suited to the pc (some stuff works fine) there will be problems ahead, the pc just needs a little tlc, you're not limited to 10 or so buttons on a joypad, you've got a keyboard and mouse, lemme use it!

    (thank god for the 12 item inventory)

    so far, a fine game let down by some stuff, including menu and level scaling.

    My guess is that it will run decent with settings at high (high is not very high so you will have to turn some things off)

    The game never runs really great, even on super high end pcs the fps are still quite low outdoors but that doesnt bother me, its a singleplay game afterall

    The interface could have been better but its ok imo (for PC), Im getting used to it already, quickly clicking things

    Anyone know how to make hotkeys for certain spells like in MW ?

    hes a monk though, so it sounds fine to me, hehe. 1 thing that bugs me is you hear the same black guys voice for every black guy in the entrie game, Hes the voice Actor from Unreal 2 = Main Character.

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    The game is awesome. But the character Jauffre has the sillyest voice in the galaxy.

    Yeah, in general I think its fine that they use the same say 10 voice actors for all the NPCs in the game, but that guy that voices Jauffre really got on my nerve, so fckn annoying D:!

    Depends what animations your are talking about, most of it seems great. The combat is great to..

    Actually, now that we are on this subject, heh. I was a bit disipointed that they did not add in, to put it as an example, when you shoot someone in the leg with an arrow, they should move slow, or fall, well neither is included. Would have been nice to have chacters move slow when shot in the legs, hehe.

    Yeah, the indoor environments are the coolest ive ever seen. Even on my crappy computer. Outdoors are not as impressive though. But i guess it depends on your computer.

    And the animations are kind of strange. Especially when you jump in third person. haha, the character is standing up straight trough the whole jump.

    And the fact that you cant be in a city when you are wanted by the guards is quite annoying. All guards know exactly where you are inside the cities. And they always see you. It should be more like, that youre forced to sneak around the guards, and avoid being seen. And when you see you, they try to catch you. That would be lot more fun and exciting.

    Its a great game however.

    I hate that sometimes when you've stolen something, and presumably no one saw you do it, then 10 mins later a guard runs up to you and says that stupid line: "YOUR EVIL DEEDS ARE OVER YOU FOUL CRIMINAL!" or something like that -> Jail time

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