The Oblivion Thread

[FrostyBoy]

Originally posted by EPW
Scanning copy-right material and posting it on the web

I seem to do that a lot on Apolyton.

[Solver]

Looks frakking awesome. Now I need a new PC. So everyone here who plays Civ4 please send me 10$. Or 15$.

[Nacht]

I won't buy it right away, I hope for a nice spoiler free thread with general gameplay comments in this forum.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Sn00py
I can understand why he deducted 3 points for that.

If everything else is REALLY GOOD, and this one thing is REALLY BAD, it's like a really big pimple on the nose of a really beautiful woman.

I'm going to try and not listen to the background conversations and hope for a patch.

I wouldn't deduct 3 points for a pimple .

[FrostyBoy]

I remember reading about the Radiant AI a few years ago, now that the game is released and have started reading all about the game again, I am really interested in how the RAI has progressed, here are a few examples of things gone wrong while testing the RAI:

Example 1: One character was given a rake and the goal "rake leaves"; another was given a broom and the goal "sweep paths," and this worked smoothly. Then they swapped the items, so that the raker was given a broom and the sweeper was given the rake. In the end, one of them killed the other so he could get the proper item.

Example 2: Another test had an on-duty NPC guard become hungry. The guard went into the forest to hunt for food. The other guards also left to arrest the truant guard, leaving the town unprotected. The villager NPCs then looted all of the shops, due to the lack of law enforcement.

Example 3: In another test a minotaur was given a task of protecting a unicorn (there is only one unicorn in the game). However, the minotaur repeatedly tried to kill the unicorn because he was set to be an aggressive creature.

Example 4: In one Dark Brotherhood quest, the player can meet up with a shady merchant who sells skooma. During testing, the NPC would be dead when the player got to him. The reason was that NPCs from the local skooma den were trying to get their fix, didn't have any skooma, and were killing the merchant to get it.

Example 5: While testing to confirm that the physics models for a magical item known as the "Skull of Corruption," which creates an evil copy of the character/monster it is used on, were working properly, a tester dropped the item on the ground. An NPC immediately picked it up and used it on the player character, creating a copy of him that proceeded to kill every NPC in sight.

[Solver]

As usual, someone already says they got it. Quite plausible!

[Brundlefly]

My greatest hope for the Xbox version is that there will be no memory issues to freeze the game in the late stages of completion. I was not able to complete Morrowind due to constant Xbox memory crashes.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

quite brilliant... I wish they will give some kind of sandbox expansion where you will be able to walk around in some sort of chaotic world like that.

[FrostyBoy]

OFITG, I believe the game is quite moddable.


I'm keeping an eye on Torrent sites to see how long it takes before its up.

I'm not going to download it, I am just interested.

btw, as of right now, I cannot view the ES forums, maximum number reached.

[Jamski]

Am I right in thinking this game was released today? Is it any good?

[Solver]

It shipped to stores today, is actually released tomorrow. But of course, a bunch of people already have it.

[Jamski]

Any chance of some screenshots of the game in 3rd person mode please?

[Solver]

There's plenty of screens showing other NPCs. Playing in 3rd person wouldn't look much different. Although the 3rd-person view is supposed to be an eye-candy feature where you can check out your character - you're not actually supposed to play in 3rd person.

[Jamski]

Apparently the game is fully playable in 1st or 3rd person mode...

[Apocalypse]

It is fully playable, you just don't play in 3rd person mode. Some games play better in 3rd (WoW), but Morrowind was horrible at it and I suspect that Oblivion will be too.