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Oblivious to everything else

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 26 / 29
Date: November 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The last time I played a game that took as much of my time, it was Diablo II: LOD. I played it the same way - that is, by myself. Although it was playable as a multiplayer online game (MMORPG), I don't often play that way. One of the most unusual things about Oblivion is that it was designed to be played by one person, alone. For that kind of game, it is just excellent. You can follow the usual paths, strike out on your own, interact somewhat with others, go at your own pace. There's no real point to 'leveling up', as the game 'levels' with you. I like that aspect a lot as well.

Altogether well thought out and a lot of fun to play. I have only played one game, in which I have become the Champion of Cyrodiil, The Grey Fox (head of the Thieves Guild), the Arch-Mage of the Mages Guild, the Grand Champion of the Arena, and the Listener of the Dark Brotherhood - and I'm still playing and having a good time.

It has sucked a great deal of time from my life.

oblivion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: November 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am a fan of Morrowind and was really looking forward to Oblivion coming out. It did not disappoint me. I really enjoyed playing it. However, you must have a really up to date computer to play it. It won't run on most older computers. Read the minimum requirements closely!

Boring

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 13 / 37
Date: December 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Its a beautifully rendered world. I saved many screenshots. But the game gets very boring after a few days. This game has everything, horses, individual armors, unique weapons, etc. But what it doesn't have is sustainable fun. You can sneak around and steal the world blind, but 98% of the things to steal is cheese, apples and clay servingware. Ok yes, that is what makes up 98% of the items in a RL house, but if Real Life was exciting we wouldn't be playing RPGs. The little pocket hells that you have to enter are repetitive, and have very little good loot (what it has is heavy and undervalued considering the items come from demons).

ESIII has poorer graphics (cuz its older duh!), but a better story and better NPCs. The problem is, I don't have an alternative to suggest since Gothic 3 and NWN2 are also disappointing. At least this still has the unrestricted travel.

You will have no life

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 21 / 24
Date: January 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

once you begin to play this game. The graphics are amazing, the gameplay engrossing. Seriously addictive. The only drawback is that you have to have a pretty powerful computer to play it. Even though my machine exceeds all recommendations for this game, it still crashes to the desktop on a fairly regular basis, and it took some serious tweaking to get it to run in the first place.

Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion (DVD-ROM)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: February 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

IT IS ONE OF THE BEETER 1 ON 1 PLAYER GAMES I HAVE PLAYED

GREAT RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: February 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Make sure you have the horsepower to run this visually stunning game. I have been a fan of this TES series and this game by far is the best in the series. You may want to quit your job...extremely addicting

PC Version: Made for screen shot marketing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 17
Date: March 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Pretty graphics, no art. Looks nice but playability sucks. Terrible keyboard controls, requires multiple clicks from scrolling lists to do simple things like cast a spell. Quests confusing, sometimes screen pixel hunt and click required. Very limited, laughable, quick key assignment. Can't even bring up the area map with a single click/key!!! No personal journaling or marking maps on this huge game area. Wait for it on the $9.99 rack, or maybe user content will make something of it. Seems like a great graphics engine with little RPG behind it. Seems very much designed by committee with features removed when anyone didn't like it. Get NeverWinter Nights 1 instead.

Update after about 50 hours into it: The inside caves, it seems, are made of a very limited tile set. There is a narrow tunnel, an open cave, and open cave with upper shelves on each side, or a cave with an above cross-over. Textures are cut stone, some are rough stone, but the shapes are the same. Very boring, you now know where to look for the monsters. Guess console players are less demanding. Too much money went into the cut scenes, not enough into the RPG engine.

Good but has many flaws

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 21
Date: April 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played the game for around 300 hours so the game is fun but......
Bethesda game support is not responding to my questions.
Right now I am having a video problem that certain moving things in the game are almost completely frozen the frame rate is near zero yet I can do all the normal stuff like fight. Examples of frozen things are: the fountain of blood, the wisps of fire from the lava, the smoke trail from spells and the elevators in the oblivion halls.
I have had many other problems the worst being saved games not saving and game crashing on exit and right now the game exits to the desktop for no reason with no errors. I just played Fear with no problems so it has to be a result of poor programmers.

Here is a list of the flaws that I have found so far.

1. The worst omission of the programmers in the game is that there is no damage meter enemy for the enemy so you do not know the effect your attack is having.
2. The close up maps in the caves are not very easy to read because you can't tell where one level starts and stops when they overlap.
3. The icons that show what damage is being done to you via spells etc. are not very intuitive.
4. In the menus the scroll line is too close to the items so is is easy to accidentally push in item and active it instead of scrolling.
5. The menus show all items in one place but would be nice tom see what is currently being worn grouped together because it is hard to find since the list can get so long.
6. No option to delete some of the saved games.
7. Sometimes maps are not filled in.
8. No magic bags to lighten load as in most other RPG games.
9. Can't shoot arrows through obviously big enough openings.
10. Almost impossible to find certain flowers that are needed in such a large world and not much fun to try.
11. Zoomed out map needs to zoom out a lot more.
12. Enemies attack seems predestined to hit even though you move or try to move you can't get out of the way.
13. Raising your shield seems to procrastinate.
14. Hard to tell how much magic a certain item has on self or weapon. Which magic effects can compound?
15. Bodies and weapons dropped vibrate and jump when you are near them.
16. The whole bribe thing is hard to figure out.
17. Lock picking is way too hard and lock picks are hard to come by.
18. Sometimes enemy can hit you through walls etc.
19. Enemy keeps talking even after dead.
20. What good does it do to level up when enemies just level up with you.
21. Dropped items can get stuff in mid air and when you try to get them you just walk right through them.
22. Wraiths get stuck in walls and can not be interacted with.
23. There are no directions on how to cure vampirism.
24. Sometimes if you jump you hit your head on something that is not there but close by.
25. Items shot or thrown can change directions when you do.

Good but shorter than expected

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: August 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Before I got this game I was heavily addicted to Morrowind. Once I finally got this game and played for a while I was disapointed somewhat. After about 9 hours of gameplay I was already the Grey Fox(Grandmaster of the Thieves Guild) and there were very little missions to complete. In Morrowind after at least 20 hours of gameplay I am probably half done with thieves guild missions. I have noticed on walkthrough websites that the number of quests in the game for each section of it(including Main quest) is between 10-15 quests. The graphics are great but It is just not as long as Morrowind.

Extremely Detailed Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: August 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is an awesome game, that you don't need to be into wizards and goblins and such in order to fully enjoy it. It's such a rich, detailed world. There's so many ways to play it, beyond the normal rogue, warrior, spell-caster approach, and it's so non-linear that you can pretty much do anything you want, or go anywhere you want.
The graphics are amazing and look almost photo-realistic.
This is a great game that I would recommend to anyone who owns a decent computer, an XBOX 360, or a PS3.

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