An Elder Scrolls: Oblivion thead
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Just reading the last few pages of comments and it started to put me off. Are the Oblivion gate missions that bad?
I expect based on great review the gameplay and story is great. I like the old school stuff.
I was hooked for an hour, that's pretty good going by my standards. Actually that's a lie, I felt nothing. It remains barely touched lol.
Unless you got some nostalgia for the original I doubt you'll get past how basic it is.
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I was hooked on Skyrim
I don't recall if I played the original tbh. Going to give it a miss based on some stuff I have read. I will grab it once it is much cheaper and beta tested by Roff and Kelt
I was hooked on Skyrim
I don't recall if I played the original tbh. Going to give it a miss based on some stuff I have read. I will grab it once it is much cheaper and beta tested by Roff and Kelt
Yeah same and Morrowind, but Oblivion just lacked something fundamental which I enjoyed with the other two games.
I've always described Oblivion as the Windows Vista of Bethesda games. Added a whole load of new stuff, none of which really worked properly.
As for the gates questions, I'd stick to the ones that the MQ requires you to close (including the Allies for Bruma ones) and that way you've seen pretty much every type. The rest are just minor riffs on those layouts.
As for the gates questions, I'd stick to the ones that the MQ requires you to close (including the Allies for Bruma ones) and that way you've seen pretty much every type. The rest are just minor riffs on those layouts.
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Over 4k replies and no one has mentioned the typo. 
Over 4k replies and no one has mentioned the typo.
Smeg thead.
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What is it with peoples mouths? They look like jack nichelsons joker
Faces in general are a bit of a joke let alone the mouths.
They have also changed the algorithm for your statue after you save Bruma in the MQ. Before, your statue was furnished with what inventory item was most valuable for each slot, even if you weren't wearing/wielding it. Famously this meant that for lower-level characters who had the Dagger of Woe in their inventory the statue would be posed in epic style - wielding a diddy little knife.
Now the choice seems to be based on best stats. I had three pieces of summoned daedric armour (the old summon, repair, drop trick). They have 0 value and I wasn't wearing them - but my statue is. Also, just like the real thing, the bits on the statue glow. The sword was weirder, because that appears to be bugged. Most effective was the summoned daedric two-hander, and most valuable was an enchanted dremora sword. What my statue is wielding looks like a plank. I suspect that it's actually the collision box that the game uses to work out if a weapon has hit the target. Still looks like a plank though.
On a different note, shopkeeper gold limits work differently now. Now the amount of gold they carry is just the limit that they can pay for a single item - after each transaction they still have the same total left.
Now the choice seems to be based on best stats. I had three pieces of summoned daedric armour (the old summon, repair, drop trick). They have 0 value and I wasn't wearing them - but my statue is. Also, just like the real thing, the bits on the statue glow. The sword was weirder, because that appears to be bugged. Most effective was the summoned daedric two-hander, and most valuable was an enchanted dremora sword. What my statue is wielding looks like a plank. I suspect that it's actually the collision box that the game uses to work out if a weapon has hit the target. Still looks like a plank though.
On a different note, shopkeeper gold limits work differently now. Now the amount of gold they carry is just the limit that they can pay for a single item - after each transaction they still have the same total left.
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I think the Argonian's faces look really detailed. Perhaps because they're not human it's easier to get away with it.
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IIRC when it first launched you could craft a boost intelligence potion. If you took that potion then any potion you made would be stronger. Hence you could collect enough ingredients for lots of boost intelligence potions, make one and then immediately take it, make another stronger potion while the effect lasted and then immediately take that one and repeat. Doing this you could make super strength boost intelligence potions. Taking one of these super strength potions would enable you to make super strength potions of whatever you wanted.
The only one I remember doing was a super strength boost health potion. This would give me thousands of health points and would last for many minutes. I used to take these to blitz my way through the gates as I found them boring and I was never great at combat.
You could do this in Morrowind, but surely Oblivion has a) no stacking of potions with the same effect, and b) no more than five potions at a time?