I got Oblivion a couple days ago and just a few minutes into the game and I doesnt seem too well made. You have to open a menu and pause the game every time you want to change a spell, or switch to a bow. Everyone says its a brilliant game but Im struggling to enjoy it. Am I doing something wrong or the whole game like this?
Oblivion, whats it all about?
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I dont think Ive ever read instructions for a game, just pick it up as I go along. I guess reading them might be a good idea eh?weringo said:
I felt the same about it! Got it, installed and thought I'd see what the fuss was about.
Got a bit into it and got bored tbh...didn't really seem like much in the way of objectives...and I killed the prison guard (or who ever he was) and then everywhere I went people kept hunting me down and hacking me to pieces...lol...I uninstalled...
Well it's an RPG and that's the way it usually is in RPGs. There's so many different weapons you can get that they leave it up to you to make your own shortcuts. There's a way to assign items to the number keys. Should be in the manual.
While in your inventory you can add a weapon or spell to each of the number keys. I think you have to click on the item, then Ctrl + number you want.
At first you wont have much to put in the shortcuts, but you shouldn't have to go into your inventory much while moochin about - it's only when you face something new or get a new item you're likely to be messing around in the inventory.
SiriusB
At first you wont have much to put in the shortcuts, but you shouldn't have to go into your inventory much while moochin about - it's only when you face something new or get a new item you're likely to be messing around in the inventory.
SiriusB
As with Morrowind, I was engrossed with Oblivion for a while but didn't have the will to finish the main quest. The leveled enemies made adventuring easier but took away the fear of straying off the beaten path in Morrowind - and after reaching a certain level seeing the same cretins all the time in the oblivion realm got old, fast.
It is a pretty game, and the combat is pretty fun; but I had very high expectations and it didn't really keep my interest long term. One thing I didn't like was the lack of diversity, the cities didn't have as much variance as in Morrowind, some of the guilds weren't as interesting, I liked the whole house redoran/hlaalu/telavi system in Morrowind. In every town in Oblivion I swear they used the same tree in a circle as a centrepoint of the town.
It is a pretty game, and the combat is pretty fun; but I had very high expectations and it didn't really keep my interest long term. One thing I didn't like was the lack of diversity, the cities didn't have as much variance as in Morrowind, some of the guilds weren't as interesting, I liked the whole house redoran/hlaalu/telavi system in Morrowind. In every town in Oblivion I swear they used the same tree in a circle as a centrepoint of the town.
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They're called hotkeys... learn them. They are your friend 
(Took me 3 months to work it out, but it does actually say in the tutorial
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(Took me 3 months to work it out, but it does actually say in the tutorial
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I was initially very impressed with Oblivion. I couldn't believe the scale and graphics, and the physics added that extra bit of freedom/realism. I eventually got sick of the way enemies levelled with you though - it took the fun away from character building, knowing I could probably get through the entire game at level 1. In the end, I started levelling my character in ridiculous ways such as setting all the skills I would be using the most as minor skills, and all the ones I wouldn't touch as major ones so I could control when I levelled.
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do you have to play oblivion online or can it be played offline like in a single player mode???
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It's single player only.
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but is it all done online or is there a offline mode where you can play through stories, quests etc???Inquisitor said:
reason being uni internet doen't allow online game connections and as it looks like a great game there would be no point buying it if it was all done online.
thanks