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glitchy piece of crap

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 33
Date: April 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

to me this game does'nt have a fun factor it is way over hiped i had it and never ever wanted to play it ,its very dull and boring your mainly walking around very very slowly while the game glitches every few seconds i just dont understand why this game got the great awards and ratings it did. i was dissapointed in it, or maybe im just old school .

Don't Bother with Xbox360 Version

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 30
Date: June 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'll admit, right off the bat, that this game does indeed have beautiful graphics. Also, since I'm a fan of this series since the first installment, the game itself is pretty cool. Now, here are the problems with the Xbox 360 version. Load times are extremely long, whether you are loading a save game or starting a new game, expect to see the 360 screen saver pop up or your controller turn off due to the amount of time passing by. Also, looting a corpse, examining a chest, or even going into your inventory, will cause the game to take a very long time to load (if it doesn't just freeze altogether). So if you enjoy sitting around for 10+ minutes whenever you try to do anything, then go ahead and buy this piece of garbage. Or, if you have a decent PC, buy the PC version instead plus the expansions (downloadable content). With the PC version it is just as pretty but without all the ridiculous bugs. After working 5+ years in the video game industry as a quality assurance supervisor, I can't believe how or why the Xbox 360 version was even released. It's utter crap.

Best game ever but buy Goty

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: September 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the same price as the game of the year edition, which has an extra 20-60 hours of game play, less gliches, and the disc dosn;t fry if you play for to long!

Do not buy!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 32
Date: September 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

1) Graphics are too realistic. Ruins the idea of fantasy.
2) NPCs personalities are all the same.
3) Repetitive hack and slash game.
4) Ridiculous background music.
5) Poor main storyline.
6) Too many bugs, especially for the various Great Houses and factions.
7) It felt a little too real-life medieval rather than a fun game.
8) Lame in-game jokes. Eg: M'aiq the Liar.
9) The ending of the main storyline, Great House, all guides and factions, are all extremely poor.

If it was like Kotor I a bit, or Neverwinter Nights series in companion interaction, then it would be much better. I find this game a little too open ended and didn't have a pulling effect into the main storyline as many other games are capable of doing.

I've also tried Shivering Isle. It didn't add much to Oblivion. I regret purchasing Oblivion.

I hate all of you....LOL

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: April 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I purchased the game based on people's reviews. Man this game Sucks really bad. movement horrible, A.I horrible, action horrible. what has this world come to that people can actually play this garbage.

This is a very glitchy game!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 17
Date: June 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the greatest video games ever made. I don't particularly care for this genre of game, but this will go down amongst my all time favorite games. All the raves of the other good reviews will give you advice on this games strengths, of which there are many.

However, don't buy it on the 360. PLEASE, save yourself the headaches and get it on a PC!!!

I've had Oblivion for a little over two months now, and my Xbox 360 can barely play this game. It is full of bugs. I've returned it twice and am on my third disk, so I know it's not an errors on the disk itself. It's just tons and tons of software glitches on the import from PC to 360 (which is funny since the 360 is just a PC in a pretty case). Three of my close friends are all playing the 360 version as well, and they're all having the same problems I'm having.

There are plenty of downloadable features (The Orary, the horse barding, priate ship, etc.), and these seem to have a negative effect on the software and cause a lot of trouble. However, I didn't donwload any of this, and my game is rife with bugs. If you go to Bethesda's forums, you can read tons and tons of posts discussing these problems (you might even find me there!). But I'll sum them up for you.

1) The game freezes constantly. I think it has something to do with the DVD drive trying to load sounds and locking up.

2) "Unreadable Disk Errors" are VERY common. The game will pause, go black, and give this type of errors. Some times it even says to remove the disk and put in a game designed for the 360!

3) Strange loads. Sometimes, you'll load saved files and appear in the world paralized and halfway inside of your avatar.

Bethesda is no help with any of these problems. On the forums many people have posted their customer support replies, and they're all the most generic, "I'm not listening," plug your ears and hum responses I've ever read.

As I've said this is one of the best games in a generation. But stick with the PC. You may be one of the fortunate ones with no bugs, but if you're in my boat, you'll be spitting mad at dumpting $60 for a coaster. If I'd have bought the PC version, I'd have beaten the stupid thing by now!!!

Unecessarily gorey

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 30
Date: April 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

We bought our 360 specifically to play this game. There is absolutely no denying that the graphics in this game are the most astounding for any game to date. The ultra "customizability" of your character is unbelievable. You can almost get your character to look like you! (if that's what you want).

It was also very clever that the opening sequence of the game serves as a tutorial for people who have never played (without being tedious for people who already know how to play). It was also a really bright idea to add a second chance to completely change your character before exiting the sewers into the main game.

There is no end to the praise I could heap upon the graphics in this game. I also really liked that, unlike the old morrowind, the plants, animals, etc. were real world items now, as opposed to being made up plants like "hackle-lo leaf" or "kanet flowers". Now you pick things like mugwort, st. john's wort, lavendar, morning glories, etc. The animals I have seen so far are butterflies, deer, sheep, wolves, and horses. I even heard meadowlarks in the meadows.

All these changes are magnificent. My complaints concern the Plane of Oblivion found through the Oblivion Gates. I understand that these places are the domain of dark lords of destruction and chaos, but there is absolutely nothing left to the imagination in the depiction of these realms. The landscape is a melange of broken, tormented, structures surrounded by boiling lava with a crimson smoke sky overhead. This isn't so bad, but everywhere you look there are spikes on everything; the buildings, bridges, turrets, monuments...I didn't even necessarily have a problem with that. But the end of each spike is covered in red...not only does this not really make sense, but it makes everything looking like it is dripping blood...absolutely everywhere. What really made me ill, however, is the dungeons themselves. The oblivion gate I went through was outside the city of Kvetch. The rooms had names like "Blood Feast", "Corridors of Dark Salvation", "Rending Rooms", etc. There were these utterly macabre things called Blood Fountains (pretty self-explanatory). In the towers there were naked corpses suspended from the ceilings. Their bodies were flayed and mutilated (including mutilated genitals); worse, you can search the corpses and take their bones and any gold they had on them (begging the question of where exactly a corpse hides gold?). Given that the graphics in this game are highly detailed, the corpses didn't leave much to the imagination. In those same towers, there was a lift with spikes located at the bottom of the tower and a metalwork grate at the top of the tower. This life is for smashing the suspended corpses into the grate at the top of the tower. I didn't actually see this happen, fortunately, because the lift switch was too damaged to operate. But of the 15 other Oblivion gates you have to go into in this game, chances are one of those lifts is working and it will show the corpses being mashed...

In the untainted world of Tamriel, your character often searches barrels and crates for any treasure that may be inside. On the planes of Oblivion, their version of crates are called "The Punished". They are these odd tripod structures with what looks like a huge pulsating, flayed, heart hanging in the center of the tripod.

I found the extreme level of gore on the Plane of Oblivion to be intolerable. I don't care what anyone says, but immersing yourself in such macabre surroundings can NOT be healthy, most especially for young people (Game is rated for teens). Why why why did they have to do this? The original morrowind was bad enough with "corpus meat", etc. but this makes the old morrowind look friendly.

Now I am hard pressed to justify spending hours playing this and I am super disappointed. I hope some parents/people will take notice of this review and perhaps consider renting this game before shelling out 70 bucks for it.

I guess I'm old school....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 36
Date: May 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

why level up on this game? I'm a 18 level half Orc Warrior. I'm attempting to finish a mission where I need to kill from goblins. Well I would have been better off doing trying to complete this game at level 1. As you level up, so do all the ememies!!! So leveling up is POINTLESS!!! You level up and the bosses get even tougher. This game had such promise, but this really screws with the fun.

extremely fun, ever more glitchy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: January 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm currently sustaining a love-hate relationship with this game. It is by far the most amazing game I've ever played. The freedom to do anything and the ability to choose so many different paths never gets old. I play it alot and can never seem to put it down... until it crashes and does it for me.

This is the buggiest game I've ever played. Everything from freezing, sounds not working, music skipping, and not being able to read the disc. This is my second copy. I traded it in when my old copy starting having problems. This second one was absolutely perfect, no scratches, or marks... that is until my Xbox put them there. That's right, my 360 actually scratched the disc. The problems got worse, but I, being the big fan I am decided I would just save often and tough it out. Well, this worked for a while, until one day when I entered a plane of oblivion and it froze. I restarted it, loaded my game, and found out everytime I tried to leave the room I was in it would freeze. The floor was not rendered, it just black and when I'd move around the room it would freeze. I was a level 10 and my game is destroyed.

Be extremely cautious with this game and if you can buy it for PC or wait until is comes on PS3 because this game is very frusterating.

Ruined My Lifw

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: April 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I loved oblivion while I played it. But, it is way to long. It ruined my life. I didn't eat, I didn't hang with my friends, and I didn't sleep. This game is addictive. A few days ago I was 150 hours in and I deleted my file. I was so proud. Now I'm free. This game is perfect for those with no friends and life. It started to get repetitive, but I still played for countless hours a day.

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