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Great RPG

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As a fan of RPG's, Oblivion has a wide variety of character types that meets my desires. If you're not happy with the default settings they give you, you can customize your character's abilities. Deep storyline that lets you "choose your destiny" and has many side-quests should the main quests become overwhelming for you.

Worth the price of PS3 itself!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm probably not your average "gamer". I am a married father who owns his own company. PS3 was a christmas purchase for my 10 year old son. Someone told me about Olivion so I bought it for myself. I am ashamed to say that I am now completly addicted. The game is truely amazing; from the amazing graphics to random characters striking up conversations with you on the street. The depth of gameplay and thought that went into this epic is unbelievable! I like that you can just roam around or complete "quests". I often get sidetracked while on a quest and I like that you can go off in a different direction and then complete the quest later. I just beat Methunes Dagon and thought the game was over but instead I have some suit of armor on order and I can still keep playing.

Horribly Addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you've read any of my previous reviews (and I have no idea why you would have) you know that I traded in my 360 to get a PS3 due to the lack of time I was playing games.
I bough Oblivion about a year ago for my 360, and just couldn't get into it. I thought it was "lame". I was probably just overwhelmed, but I digress. So about a week ago I decided to give it a go on the PS3, I don't know why, I just did. And I must say, this is the best game I've ever played (not counting NHL 94).
The world is HUGE, the game is completely interactive, and the depth is beyond anything I've ever experienced in a game.
So, with just over a week of owning the game, I've logged about 40 hours of game play. This game makes me want to play games again. My only fear now is that every game I play in the future will be unfairly compared to this masterpiece.

Pros:
Beautiful graphics
Huge, Open-ended game play
Hours of game play

Cons:
Sometimes there are slow loads (if someone knows how to clear the cache on the PS3 like the 360, please inform)
Horribly addictive

Leveling trick????

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I just bought this for my PS3 after playing it on the pc. On the PC I discovered a trick that seemed to keep the other creatures from leveling up with you. It could have been a side effect of some of the mods I was using, but so far I think its starting to work on the PS3 as well. Just don't sleep, creatures level up when you sleep! Sleep a few times to increase your strength so you can carry more stuff, but then stop sleeping completely. Your blade, magic, block, armour etc. skills will keep increasing as you use them, making battles easier and easier. Then much later, I did catch up on my sleep, slept about 20 times in a row at once, leveling up each time, and found that after sleeping I still had the same advantage over other creatures! I haven't played my PS3 version to know for certain this works on it also...

Not quite my cup of tea

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Let me get this out of the way, I prefer JRPG's. Thats what I grew up on and thats what I like. Not a knock, just a preference. So Oblivion wasn't as much fun( but still good) for me as it was for some others. That being said, if you are a fan of big open ended rpgs, you are not going to find a better game than Oblivion. Its got gorgeous graphics, well done voice work and plenty of stuff to do. It can be a little bit too D and D for my taste, but if you want a massive world in which the fun is more in the exploring than in the story, Elder Scrolls IV is perfect for you.

Boring and Buggy

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game looks OK and it does have a lof of options, but the bugs drive me nuts and overall I find it kind of boring. I stopped playing after a week or so. My 9 year old son hates this game too.

When I start the game up, I go to a sceen informing me not to turn off the system when it's writing to the hard drive, like every other game. For some reason, with this game I can get stuck on this screen for over a minute. I press X and nothing happens.

I'm not a huge fan of role playing games. Every few years I buy a game with a good review and then after playing I remember why I don't like games like this. It's because you do a lot of moving around and not much else.

A Masterpiece

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is probably the best RPG I have played and maybe will ever play. Even without the expansion packs, it is incredible. It blows my mind to think of all the possibilities of this game. The fun almost never ends. I played with my first character for about 70+ hours combined and I am still not close to finishing. I even created a new character that I am taking in a different path. I still switch playing between the two of them. Even if you might think the missions are boring, it is always fun to just explore the expansive world that this game has. I would also highly recommend investing in the full strategy guide. It reveals so many fun and exciting secrets to go explore when you aren't sure what to do. The gameplay is brilliant and it is pretty easy to control everything once you get the hang of it. For the price it is now, this game is a must buy.

EXCELLENT!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I just CAN'T get enough of this game!!! I'ts very fun. A MUST HAVE for PS3 owners.

Deserves its Game of the Year award

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Oblivion is a game you could find you and your family/friends playing for a long, LONG time. That is because this game is the deepest I have seen that not PC-based. While there is a main objective to the game (in some of the emperor's final words, "to close shut the jaws of Oblivion"), it doesn't begin and end there. Just on the initial character creation, you have choices on how your hero looks, clear down to complexion, skin color, eye color, facial structure, hair style, etc. You can choose from ten different races, 13 different birth signs (with bonus and special powers), and more than a dozen character classes, with the option to create your own custom class.

The quests and missions you go on all depends upon who you talk to (or overhear talking to someone else). Besides the different missions from the guilds (Fighter, Wizard, and the underground Thieves and Dark Brotherhood [assassin], you can find side quests that take you anywhere from five minutes to several hours.

Add the Official Game Guide, plus the two currently available expansions, and you have an almost endless game of adventuring ahead of you.

Excellant Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. The graphics, PS3, are fantastic. The caves and dungeons that you get to explore is cool. The Oblivion Gates that you have to work your way through was a lot of fun. Not being able to carry a lot of extra stuff, weapons, armour, and such, was a draw back, so you had to plan ahead, or not even pick up stuff.I was a little dissapointed when I figured that I was near the end of the game, but that's the breaks. I only played a mage, but there is a ton of other people you can be. That is really a big thing for me. I tried some of the side quests but didn't have to much luck with them. I really just like to go after the story line anyway. I always would explore caves or old forts when I ran into them in my travels and I always got a cool weapon or armour.

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