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Simply stunning and vast

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

What makes this game so great is the incredible level of flexibility it (and its predecessor "Morrowind") allows. First you can choose your race (10 choices) and configure your appearance to match yourself or your favorite star. Then you can choose your character's class from over a dozen standard classes (sorcerer, barbarian, bard, etc) or design your own. After that, while there is a Main Quest providing the narrative backbone to the game, you are free to go off and explore ruins, join guilds, and pick up minor quests from characters you meet.

The world of the Elder Scrolls is vast, complex, and incredibly rich (even more so if you played "Morrowind").

When this game came out, it required top-of-the-line hardware because of its beautiful (and CPU-intensive) graphics. Today, you should be fine with any relatively recent computer with a good graphics card.

For $45, Oblivion GOTY is an incredible value - you will get months (years?) of playtime out of this. Perfect for those of us without a life!

Oh, and did I mention that the game includes a kit for developing extensions to Oblivion (new quests, dungeons, monsters, treasures, cities...)? There is an active community creating new content all the time, so you may never be free of this game...

Oblivian Rules

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have really enjoyed playing this game. It has a feel of the MMOs and yet you can solo everything. Great graphics.

Lacking stability

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 63
Date: October 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had to return mine because it was unplayable. The game caused a complete system failure at predictable points in the game, every time. My computer is more than capable of running it based on the system reqs, and I have a top-of-the-line video card that works brilliant with every other game. With Oblivion, I spent two weeks every night talking with tech reps from the nvidia, bethesda, and HP and in the end, despite trying a slew of different approaches, they could not make this game work. Stability is a known problem with this game and some computers will just not be able to run it for whatever reason.

Awesome game, worst customer service ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 27
Date: December 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind Game of the Year Edition
I bought morrowind about a year ago. It's a great game, Open-ended and great gfx. Some master trainers are not there. You can corrupt quests. I did. When I called tech support, the main line didn't work, and I had to relay a few times to get through. I asked them to fix the quests. This is a very simple matter for someone who knows what their doing(fixing vars, etc). They said no they won't. What, this is tech support?? I'v used tech support that did far more then just this request. I'd be on for 1-2 hrs(or more) on the phone and/or email me with helpful info. Now, I'm stuck with a number of quests that can't be finished. ARG!!

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition
So far oblivion has been great, same open-ended format, great graphics/art. Just before I bought it, I called tech support/customer support. I couldn't get through again! Pressed 1 for oblivion, nothing happened. I did this 5 times in a row. When I called the main line, I got the worst customer service call ever. I said the tech support line wasn't working. They said it did. I said no it didn't, round and round. ... EVER HEARD THE TERM THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT ... Can you connect me to tech support? No. What?? I'd had enough and hung up.

Oblivion is amazing, worth every penny! :)

But if you want customer service or tech support, go buy another game. If think you might need either, go buy another game. Worst customer service of any game i'v brought ever.

Best RPG to date

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: November 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the best RPG to date and is bundled with all the expansions and add ons, it's a great buy.

One of the best!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Probably THE all time best RPG game to come out. Flexible, interesting, non-linear feel. Love how your class isn't pre-determined and you begin the game with no skills and they develop based on your choices for weaponry, strategy, etc. I would actually prefer if you never chose your class and it continued to be set by your actions. I am only in the beginning and recently had to choose a class after it gave a recommendation as to what it thought I was given the courses of action I'd taken. Perhaps it will keep changing along the way if I alter my focus? For now - love it. Truly one of the best games period!

Great expectations

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

When I fist heard about Oblivion, I was totally hyped. Its little brother Morrowind was a game that had a lot of potential and good ideas, but it didn't quite pull them off. Right off the bat Oblivion impressed me, the graphics were excellent, and the combat had a nice feel, to top it off, the spellcasting is much, much better than it was in Morrowind. Bethesda has made an excellent successor that took advantage of Morrowind's potential, and the game has far exceeded my expectations.
For the more technical user, take a look at Gamespot's "make it pretty modpack". It makes the ui a lot better, and the graphics packs look great too at very little cost to your cpu+gpu resources

enjoy your game!

-S

amazing experience

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you haven't played this game, please do yourself a favor and buy it, it is def. in my list of greatest games of all time. I really can't say enough good things about this game, I could play it 10 times through again and again and still not be sick of it, my only complaint is that it doesn't last forever. I own it on p.c. and the playstation 3, and both are perfect.

I love the game, but...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I loved Morrowind, and I was positively stoked for Oblivion. I bought it as soon as I had a computer worthy of running the game. The first disk (which is the original game) installed just fine. The second disk, however, produced an error (it turns out to be rather common, as there are many forum posts on this topic) I've been in contact with Bethesda, and none of their fixes work. Some other people suggested that you should buy the game and the expansions separately. I haven't tried that yet (I might just buy the PS3 version.)

As far as what I can play of the game, it's beautiful. The graphics and sound are top-notch, and the story is fantastic. It's too bad that this version is faulty and I can't install the full game to finish it.

Perhaps the most immersive game I've ever played.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game will suck you in and refuse to let go for many, many weeks. It's gorgeous, fun, and well worth your time. Just don't, you know, try to maintain a job, school, or a relationship while you play it.

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