Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

[Team Andromeda]

Pretty amazing , though the animation is a bit wooden (guess u can?t have it all) and what a music score

[sputnick]

yeah i'm loving this so far!! graphics are lovely(especially the lighting)


gonna be epic!

what classes have people gone for out of interest?

dark elf - nightblade for me with mage starsign8) .

[PeteJ]

Reet, some character stats after 11 hours >_<

Wood Elf, level 5

Attributes
Strength 47
Intelligence 40
Willpower 38
Agility 67 (includes bonuses)
Speed 59
Endurance 50
Personality 35
Luck 50

Major skills
Blade 34
Alteration 30
Acrobatics 46
Light Armor 49
Marksman 45
Security 32
Sneak 44

Minor
Armorer 14
Athletics 30 (includes bonuses)
Block 16
Blunt 5
Hand to hand 7
Heavy armour 17
Alchemy 16
Conjuration 6
Destruction 19
Illusion 5
Mysticism 5
Restoration 15
Mercantile 12
Speechcraft 11

I totally gimped my character at the start by selecting Alteration, which has so far done nothing for me!

[Myth]

Im fooked. Just got caught breaking into someones house. and it auto saved. So now the guards are just chasing me around some sods house and i keep dying. Thats the only option i have to load back to etc.

Do i have to start again?! help!!!!!

I've been having fun breaking into someones house, managed to get in and steel is house key and half of his posessions and out before getting noticed.

I love this game

[Hodge]

Walking! what's up with all the bloody walking in this game? It's all very good the game world is 14 miles large but all they've bloody done is put tons and tons of nothing but randomly generated terrain between anywhere of interest, even on the horse you have to ride around for sometimes 30 minutes just to reach your next check point.

And this is one of the main reasons I don`t play RPG`s in general. I was all for buying this till I read this. If there`s one thing I can`t stand in games this is it, aimless wandering for ages just to get to your next destination.

[Ish]

Its like the Ultima games. There is interesting stuff everywhere. You just have to look a little for it.

Mind you I'm only saying this on 4 or 5 hours play... but I found a number of things just on the way to the first "checkpoint".

[EvilBoris]

And this is one of the main reasons I don`t play RPG`s in general. I was all for buying this till I read this. If there`s one thing I can`t stand in games this is it, aimless wandering for ages just to get to your next destination.

There is a quick travel thing where you can teleport to anywhere on your map that you have visited

[John Beaulieu]

Not far into this yet but its looking as though it's the 360's answer to Halo1 - everything is just perfect, gfx's, controls and the way it just sucks you into the story.

Decided on becoming a Wood Elf Assassin, with The Shadow specialist subject - been doing ok against rats, goblins and wolves but just come up against a bloody vampire that is kicking my arse big time (and infecting me with vampirism - no way do i want to go through the game as a vampire this early in the proceedings) so I am thinking of just turning away from these ruins till a later date, or maybe waiting till it gets daylight. Even tried eating some bloody garlic to see if that stopped the bastard, but it just made him kick the **** out of me more.

Only problem I have upto now is my character is a lightweight mofo - i have two bows (iron and steel), a **** load of arrows and bits of armour (leather mainly) and anything heavier than a short sword gives me 'over encumbrance' - hope i can find a gym somewhere and get him beefed up

[Rossco]

Reet, some character stats after 11 hours >_<

Wood Elf, level 5

11 hours!!! have you been playing this solid since 11am or something!!!?

Thats mental. I'm so angry the postie screwed me over with this, tomorrow is gonna rock, gonna get at least a asolid 5 hour go at it before the plans for the rest of the day take over..

And then I'm working on Saturday too..

My mate has been playing this all day and said he hasn't done any quests at all yet, just playing about doing daft stuff. He said someone gave him a horse and then other people set the horse on fire!!!! Mental!

What other wee funny stories of things done do people have to keep me going?

[Silvergun X]

John, raise strength on level up. It'll boost up what he can carry.

I haven't actually got that many stories to tell yet. I'm just sorta wondering around trying to find the thieves guild and chatting up random NPCs in the process. My speechcraft has been raising pretty good.

The game IS fun as hell though! I just wish I had more lockpicks so I could break into a few more random people's basements.

If anyone could tell me where the thieves guild is, or an archer's guild or something, please do let me know.

[erhgiez]

I have honestly never been so excited about a game, Ive not felt like this since the christmas when I was 12 and got Aladdin on the MD. I HAVE actually finished my uni assignment early! just so I can play this game all tomorrow (yes I know its today now, but I dont consider the day complete until I sleep )

[FreelancePolice]

can i just say (while drunk, i played for about an hour and i'm so pleased with how much better the combat is to morrowind. The LOD issues with the cliffs far away are abit annoying but i somehow have faith that it'll be fixed or sorted out somehow. Anyway far more important things like playing it are at stake!!

[Silvergun X]

Well, saying that, I did walk into a hotel, wander into the resting area/dining area, steal all the alcohol I could find then walk out again. o_o;

[FreelancePolice]

some sort of coincidence ? i think not!

anyway im going to have a drunk oblivion session i'll see what it turns up!

[andrewfee]

Walking! what's up with all the bloody walking in this game? It's all very good the game world is 14 miles large but all they've bloody done is put tons and tons of nothing but randomly generated terrain between anywhere of interest, even on the horse you have to ride around for sometimes 30 minutes just to reach your next check point.

It depends how you like to play; with a game like this, I love how well-crafted the world is, and find it... relaxing to walk from one location to the next.

If you're just sticking to the path, then no, you won't see a huge amount of what is interesting. There are over 200 dungeons placed all over the world, and there'll be many more other things you can do as well. I did hear they reduced the number of enemies you encounter when travelling though, a lot of people complained that there was too many in Morrowind.

But the Fast travel system was designed for people that don't like doing this - you should be able to travel to any of the nine major cities in the world from your map, as well as anywhere you have previously visited. You will, of course, end up missing a lot of the dungeons and so on.

Picking a character with a faster speed attribute, and carrying less will make things go along a lot quicker. (as will picking "The Steed" birthsign)

Level system - I've closed two gates and i'm still level 1, because the creature level scales to that of the player, whats the point in me leveling up exactly ? :P

I believe things are only levelled to a point - there should be areas where creatures start having higher minimum levels, but the point is, you're playing a role-playing game - if you want to powergame and exploit things to make your experience much less fun, or easier, then that's up to you. Why not turn down the difficulty slider as low as it can go too?

It seems like an entertaining enough game, but it's certainly far from being the classic everybody is trying to make it out to be.

Well, it depends how you look at it really - with a world this big and involving, and a game this ambitious; it's just not possible to be completely bug free, and the most polished game ever, but from what I have seen, they have done a remarkable job. Bethesda create very convincing worlds with their own history and lore, if you want to spend the time reading books about it. (in the game, of course)

For people that love role-playing games, like myself, it's one of, if not the best RPG around, as its skill system and lack of boundaries really lets you role-play, rather than being stuck to a main story, or whatever sort of skill system the game has.

If I'm playing a thief character, for example, and I find some great enchanted battle-axe, I can pick it up and use it if I want. I may not be great at using it, but if I give it time, work at it, and gain enough levels I can eventually master it and use it just effectively as my bow - I'm not restricted in what I can and can't do.

I totally gimped my character at the start by selecting Alteration, which has so far done nothing for me!

You'll probably have to go to the mages guild and pay to get taught new spells to make any use of it. Personally, I choose either alteration, which can magically open locks, or security, although alteration is not just limited to lock-opening.

Only problem I have upto now is my character is a lightweight mofo - i have two bows (iron and steel), a **** load of arrows and bits of armour (leather mainly) and anything heavier than a short sword gives me 'over encumbrance' - hope i can find a gym somewhere and get him beefed up

Being over-encumbered means that you're carrying too much; it doesn't mean that the new weapon you've found is too much for you, just that it's taken you over the amount of weight/loot you can carry.