The Oblivion Thread

[Solver]

Oh, I am now having a better time with using poisoned weapons. Gave my mage a bow, so I will occasionally open the fight, if I'm low on mana, with a poisoned arrow. Nice.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Yeah, thanks for that tip on using posions, I had been selling them all until now.

Kassi, How's the spellsword working for you. I strangly picked that as well, but went wit hthe warrior class, but now I have really weak magic power (only 80).

[yin26]

EDIT:

Solver: Is that something you just discovered, as we did?

Spaced Cowboy: Right on! Makes the game a lot more interesting.

[FrostyBoy]

I just wanted to say this in case it is useful to anyone.

My system:
AMD 64 3000
512ram
6600GT

On that, I can run on med-settings with choppiness here and there.

Today I upgraded the ram to 1 gig.

I can now run the game on FULL SETTINGS WITH NO SLOW DOWN.

It occured to me, while I had 512 ram, that the game was often having problems dumping ram, or whatever it was doing, because after about 2 hours of play, the game would become too slow to play, it was as if it were gradually getting slower.

An extra 512, gave it all it needed.

[Imran Siddiqui]

RAM is like magic sometimes

[bonscott]

1 gig is really the bare minimum today anyway so you should see a nice boost in performance all around. Good luck!

[snoopy369]

Hmm. That link is really quite excellent ...

I think I'd be happier if they had some of the more important NPCs be fixed level, but I understand why they aren't. (Perhaps a fixed minimum level?)

Y'all still don't understand BustaMike's point, because you see the game differently from him. It's basically just a different point of view entirely ...

Anyhow, the implementation of Level Lists does indeed sound pretty decent, overall, with perhaps a few minor issues I have (and I'll live with those). 1000% better than Morrowind, in any event.

[Solver]

Originally posted by yin26

Solver: Is that something you just discovered, as we did?

Well, I proved myself wrong with regards to non-strategy game manuals having no useful info .

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Asher
I don't think he gets the point of the game.

Oblivion is the kind of game that's what you make of it. If you want to beat the arena at L1, that's your problem...not the game's.

Personally I am going through all of the quest chains. As of tonight I'm L17 and guildmaster of the Thieves Guild

Next I plan to work up the Dark Brotherhood.

I like these to be challenging. I like how the difficulty adjusts to my current level, otherwise it becomes a cakewalk to do one quest chain after you complete one.

This is a single-player open-ended RPG. You don't need rigid levels of difficulty like you would in, say, Everquest where at L1 you can't even kill a bunny without dying.

If you're looking for a game where it gets easier as you go along or a game where your selection of what you can do at L1 is next to nothing, go play another game. Because you've clearly missed the point of this one.

I haven't yet to see a problem with the "believability" of the game. I'd say if you make your character defeat the champion at L1 you're ruining the believability yourself -- you're the one roleplaying the damn character, use your head...if you don't think it's believable to do that at L1...don't do it? Hello...

Like Snoopy said, you've kinda missed his point. It's not that the game gets harder he objects to, just how it gets harder. The traditional progression is that you get more powerful but the dungeons also get harder. When you clear a dungeon you know that two levels ago you wouldn't have been able to achieve what you just have.

Overall no one should be telling anyone they are wrong here, because it boils down to a subjective judgment on how you weigh up the advantages of non-linearity against the advantages of a more traditional RPG. Personally, I have a lot of sympathy with Bustamike's view. You may not.

[yin26]

But that's essentially how the game works, with only a few exceptions. Unless you're reading Solver's link differently.

[Solver]

By the way, I've just ventured into Oblivion (the realm) for the second time, and am definitely feeling stronger than on my first time, because there are some of the weaker creatures around that I now kill easier. At level 4, I had big problems with a Stunted Scamp, at level 7 these critters are considerably easier .

[Nostromo]

Personally, I have a lot of sympathy with Bustamike's view.

Me too. It seems they're applying their system a little too mechanically. The Arena champion, for example, should have a minimum level. There shouldn't be a level 2 or 3 champion. If your PC is of a higher level than him, the game could then ajust the champion's level accordindly.

[Asher]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Asher, you're ignoring his point.

BM objects to the fact that you COULD beat the champion at level 1. Not that you do.

No, I get his point, but his point is basically he doesn't like open-ended RPGs.

If you restrict what you can and can't do, you make it a linear RPG instead of an open-ended RPG.

[ZargonX]

Has anyone heard of a fix yet for the slowdown problems with Radeons in regards to the Oblivion Gate, Summon-Spell effects, etc? The game runs great on my system except for those few things, which unfortunately make certain parts of the game nearly unplayable...

[Fve Crathva]

The problem is that when you're getting up there in levels, and riding around the countryside, and get set upon by bandits, it's easy to think, "Wow, this place has a real crime problem if all the bandits are level 15." But... you know... who really cares? It's not a game breaker by any stretch of the imagination.

SP