Hey,
I love that game. Can't remember the class I was playing on it but. Excellet game, and my comp ran it on High Graphic Quality and it ran smoothly.
You guys thoguhts on the game??
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Hey,
I love that game. Can't remember the class I was playing on it but. Excellet game, and my comp ran it on High Graphic Quality and it ran smoothly.
You guys thoguhts on the game??
Oblivion, lovely game. My new computer manages to run nearly everything on High with no slowdown, which is a big step up from having to disable nearly everything and run the Oldblivion mod. I still disable grass and use Oblivion Optimization. :loveg:
Addicted to it for a while on my ps3, it was an awsome game, couldn't stop playing.
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Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae
What Class you play as Kek? I sold my Oblivilon (needed the money you see, now I am going to buy a cheap copy on amazon!).
I was this One Lizard class that was good at Pick Locking (or sneaking, don't remember) and swimming or something. Did quite well really. :yes:
Really is a addictive game!!
I'm still sure KingWarman is talking about Morrowind.
ooohhh, he's talking about morrowind, I'm talking about the new one.
Elder Scrolls 4 is Oblivion. Pretty but ultimately soulless. I became a bit of a mod call girl in an attempt to alter the game to something more interesting (and to improve the graphics even further).
I just can't stand the voice acting: only a few voices, all badly done. It became really grating and was the biggest turn off for me. I found myself missing the more traditional text boxes.
I still have it installed and sometimes load it up, only to quit within minutes.
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Originally Posted by Charge
Daggerfall, Morrowind, Battlespire, and Oblivion all had Argonians as playable races, but he is talking about the fourth in the original Elder Scrolls series (Oblivion).Quote:
Originally Posted by {BHC}KingWarman888
And as for class, I never use a pre-built class. I always custom make mine. I prefer either Imperial or Bosmer (Wood Elf) for my race, and something stealth-oriented for the class.
For my stealth-oriented character, my main seven skills were Armorer, Heavy Plate, Blunt, Alteration, Conjuration, Destruction, and Hand to Hand. In other words, the skills I do NOT use. This means I can gain skill in the ones I DO use (Athletics, Blade or Marksmanship, Block, Illusion, Restoration, Sneaking, etc) without worrying about leveling up. I can fully control when I level up just by using the skills I never normally use.
Powerleveling. It's a wonderful thing. :tongueg:
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Originally Posted by Charge
Nope, Never played Morrowind. Any good?
I always enjoying breaking into houses and such. Very fun and challaging when breaking into Guard's Barracks. :yes:
Before I stopped playing Oblivion I had an really really high leveled Nord, with almost everything maxed out, I beat almost every single quest ever in the game, I was the leader of everything, and then I went on a mad rampage, went to EVERY single town and killed everyone. It was fun, having 50 gaurds chase you around the whole map.
So I'm really can't imagine how you managed to run Oblivion on high.Quote:
2.8 GHz
512 RAM
Radeon X1300/1550 256 MB Card
Especially RAM (at least gig).
My comp has a bit worse CPU (if you have p4) and ram (if you have ddr400). Video card no match though. And it was just screwed up with G3. Maybe TES4 has more optimized engine, but seriously, it's a one of the most exacting dx9 games! ...
Yea I know, but when I was installing it and when it was figuring out the quality, it stuck it on High and it ran fine. SO, It was good. :yes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Charge
I was playing Oblivion until about a month ago on me 360. I was female Dunmer WarMage and did everthing except for the Daedric Quests, I only have Vaermina's quest and Clavicus Vile's and of course, Hermaeus Mora's quest. Man, I love the Skeleton Key. Don't like battlemages w/ their emphasis on heavy armor. Then I started a new one as a Nord Crusader and got to the Chorrol Gate and never finished it. I never finished Morrowind, however, too much walking, which is why I prefer battlespire/oblivion. I just downloaded Arena two days ago and downloaded an emulator last night. Hopefully tonight I can play Arena b/c the graphics look so awesome (for its time period). I want to be a Bosmer Ranger or maybe an assasin. I think it's funny how Argonians have human hands on the game. I hope the next TES won't be a MMO b/c then I'll will be pwned so bad, not much of a combat person.
Edit:Whoops, I meant Daggerfall not Battlespire. I've never played Battlespire or Redguard
I have never played Arena, oddly enough. I really should, considering it's a free download.
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Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae
Downloading and installing now, tell you all how it is later :yes: :yes:
I didn't know Arena was free download either until some guy on youtube said it was free in one of his comments. I've just started playing and I can't seem to make it out of the starter dungeon. This will be my 8th try although I didn't know how to attack until my 5th try. This time I will be a Nord Barbarian, maybe I can bullrush those goblin hordes. Stupid random wizard and witch that keeps on killing me.
As hard as the newbie dungeon may be (I've, as I said, never played Arena), it will pale in comparison to the newbie dungeon in Daggerfall. Unless you are playing a magic user, or choose the Ebony Dagger, the imp you find at the start is virtually unkillable (immune to iron weapons). Unless you just zergrush through to the exit, you'll find that the vast majority of your deaths come from this one dungeon.
It's also the entire reason why you should never, EVER, use a pre-made class. Custom build your class!
I actually just picked it up yesterday. Now that I have a PC that is able to run it maxed out I decided to give it a try. Looks great but I also saw that it is possible through mods to make it look even better... :dizzy2:
I don't think I can custom build my class in Arena...but I will if I ever play Daggerfall. I know that the guy who developed Morrowind took 20 attempts to make it out of the starter dungeon. I finally made it out (on my 9th try;I made it on my 8th try but I forgot to save and was killed by an Orc.) as a male Bosmer Ranger and I've been transported to a city called Emperor's Run and now I have to find a place called Fang's Lair to find the first staff piece. King Warman where were you transported after going through the shift gate. Right now, all I have is a katana and a measly round shield. Hopefully I can retrieve the staff piece by tommorrow;wish me luck...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae
funny, how this thread has evolved into one based on Arena not Oblivion anymore:beam:
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Originally Posted by Draconian
I downoaded the DOS emulator, and I can't use DOS worth a crap. So I'm stuck here :sweatdrop: :laugh4:
What's wrong w/ the DOS emulator??? Did you follow the directions that came w/ the Arena download??? The directions should be in the DOCs folder.Quote:
Originally Posted by {BHC}KingWarman888
Oblivion was an odd beast. They managed to fix the issues that ruined Morrowind for me, then introduce new and improved design problems to ruin Oblivion for me.
I can only assume there is a Bethesda gene that lets your overlook the vast amount of issue their games have, and I lack it.
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Originally Posted by Draconian
I'm just not good with using the commands with DOS. I think I follow the directions :yes:
If you saved it in the C drive it should look like this.
Z:\>MOUNT C C:\
Z:\>C:\
C:\>CD\ARENA
C:\ARENA>ARENA (The game should start once you hit enter)
It took me three tries before I could access the game b/c I accidentally put the game in my K drive.
Thanks m8. I install it in C Drive, but I got little knowledge of DOS (now if my ask my older brother.... :laugh4: ), but nolw I test it later (in school now) :yes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Draconian
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Originally Posted by Draconian
Got it to Work, Thanks Draconian. :yes:
Kinda slow for me though (Mabye my comp is to fast for it?)
hit ctrl f12 to increase your frame rate. Mine is at 15000 fps.Quote:
Originally Posted by {BHC}KingWarman888
ctrl f11 is to decrease your frame rate.
esc is to access main/save menu
shift m is the fast travel map
(there are some other controls and hints that they can be found at this site)
http://www.svatopluk.com/arena/manual/
or you can look at this...hope it helps. And tell me how many times it took for you to get out of starter dungeon and which city you end up in.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
It is probably a virus or a parasite rather than a gene. I enjoyed Morrowind on the second attempt, almost two years after buying it (thank goodness for the Boots of Blinding Speed though!). The first attempt got no where, I didn't like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phatose
Oblivion I just found rather dull and full of nice ideas executed poorly or not developed enough. A bit wishy-washy. This feeling of "it could be so much better with only a little tweaking" was soothed for a while by mods but eventually all the things that annoyed me got too much and I stopped enjoy myself.
The voice acting is a case in point.
Oblivion: great graphics, great music, and little else going for it.
I was initially very impressed with it at first but once the novelty of great graphics wore off, I started to see the game for what it truly is much more clearly. Shallow fluff.
Way too many map markers that can be instantly teleported to; never sense of getting lost in the wilderness. Main quest is way too short. Side quests are also way too short. The crime system with omniscient and telepathic guards is completely and utterly broken out of the box and sucks all the fun right out of the game. Enemy and loot scaling to your level totally kills any intrigue or sense of exploration or danger the game might have otherwise had. As well as any challenging or memorable areas or encounters that the game might have otherwise had. The NPC character models and voice actors are recycled way too much; the very same characters models and voice actors copy and pasted all over the game and are "supposed" to be different persons in the game.
Ultimately I put Oblivion in the same category of Doom 3: great graphics engine, bad game.
IMO, I think in Oblivion they went for more eye candy instead of content.
I remember in Morrowind, you had like 12 factions not counting smaller ones like the 3 vampire clans, with each of them having a full fledge mission series.
In Oblivion? Just 4 measly factions and far less miscellenious content. To this day, I still haven't done EVERY single quest in Morrowind even though I played it alot for quite a while, but finished basically everything in Oblivion in 60 hours.
Oblivion went for more ability to be modded. If you read Something Awful, they had a three-part article on the best of the worst of mods, including the sex/prostitution mods (I'm still trying to find the one in the second article on page 8).
Christ, they've got everything. :dizzy2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kek
Mysticism is so redundant, but I use it anyway. The best mod is the one with the bag of holding, it weighs 5, but you can store infinite items inside it, (I swear it's not cheating :laugh4:).
Edit: The Michael Jackson one is REAL! :laugh4:
Maybe some of you Oblibvion Vets could tell us wich mods to go for? I have Oblivion, but never played it much (yet). THere are so many mods it's impossible to get an overview.
Depends on what type of mods you're looking for, gameplay effects, new quests, new items, graphics enhancers/optimisers, etc.
If you want a wider variety of monsters look for MMM.
MMM? I dl'd something called "the unofficial Oblivion patch". that should fix some in-game errors. Other than that I'd like more of everything ...
The system which makes Oblivion easy to mod is essentially just a souped up version of the modding tools which ensured Morrowind cult status and a long life.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae
In actual fact some aspects of Oblivion make it more difficult to mod. The voice acting is a case in point: It renders user made content that much harder to make. Unless you happen to know some decent voice actors you have to fill the screen with text while playing a silent voice file. No matter how well written this user content may be it will never blend seemlessly with the original material in the way that many Morrowind additions did.
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Recommended_ModsQuote:
Originally Posted by Magraev
Thanks for the link.
So I took one of the 8 lists of mods (one of the short ones actually) and decided that I only wanted the "essential" from ballofflames list. That's 33 different mods (only the essentials there are loads of other recommended ones).
So I have to spend a couple of evenings just downloading, installing, etc. before I can even begin play! At least the one mod I have downloaded is one of the 33.....
Edit: I found another list with only 10 "blockbuster" mods. the first one was 400 mb, the second 3 gb...
I'm going for OOO and MMM for now (and the unofficial patch). Sounds like those give a lot of extra to the game. Now I just have to figure out if there are any conflicts and in what order I want to load them. Playing games is a lot of work!
That's funny, I had exactly the same problem with the previous game. The voice acting was so irritating that after a while I tried really hard not to bump into other characters in order not to have to hear it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slyspy
"What do you want, outlander?" To get right away from you!
I heard this had been fixed in Oblivion but apparently it wasn't.
My other major grips with Morrowwind was the really awful UI. I can hardly believe anyone put up with it, and I've heard the UI for Oblivion is worse still!
IMO It's amazing what gamers will put up with...
Here are my experiences for those interested.
It turns out that MMM and OOO don't go well together (without downloading something else and setting that up...). So I went for OOO and some other smaller mods like unofficial patch (conflicts with OOO but I don't care anymore), Stealth overhaul (seems to make my regular hotkeys mixed up), Elven map (can't remember the name - but if you use it you have to change your oblivion.ini to make it work, found out after some swearing at the screan that RTFM works), Phinix dark UI (no real problems with this one actually!) and a time scale changer to make the days longer. And I also added the FREE Fighters Stronghold from Bethesda (free until sunday that is).
The game in itself is beautiful, and a lot of fun. The mods should expand on this and I think they probably do. I'd reccomend only using a few mods though or you will drown. The fact that the hotkeys from Stealth overhaul 1)don't work half the time and 2) disrupt the regular hotkeys makes me want to remove that one. Only it's fun to shoot enemies from where they can't see me :skull:
Maybe I'll reinstall and only use OOO and a couple of new mods like Fighters Stronhold. I fear that my repeated modding makes the game unstable. Haven't had any ctd's yet, but it gives me an error each time I exit.
OMG, they made a combat mod that adds mounted combat?? I may have to install Oblivion again. :yes:
Yep, Deadly Reflex, a mod that also adds decapitation, wrist slicing (Jedi-style), and slicing someone in half.
There is no part of that I don't like. :beam:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae
Any idea if it works with OOO?
The streamline mod also sounds interesting, if it works half as good as they say it does.
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8273Quote:
Originally Posted by Xiahou
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-This mod should be compatible with basicly almost anything - BUT YOU REALLY REALLY NEED TO LOAD IT LAST.
I use this mod myself with FCOM (OOO, Frans, MMM, Warcry, Bob“s Armory),
and ~80 others.
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Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae
Delicious! :chef:
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gotta get that mod :beam:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre
That mod doesn't work for me, I might try it again, loading it last.
Any of you use a hunger mod?
Perhaps someone will be kind enough to provide download link (and description) for all those mods mentioned?
Ah, but in Morrowind the voice was just garnish. It was merely a standard greeting for that kind of character. Actual conversations were in text. In Oblivion the whole of every conversation is in voice. You cannot avoid it! Just think on that, and then think about what this means for the "Radiant AI" NPC conversations!Quote:
Originally Posted by screwtype
I gave Morrowind all of about 1 day before uninstalling it and wouldn't bother with any of their newer games after that "experience". Irritating clone characters that all say the same annoying things, a horrible UI and quite possibly the worst combat system I've yet seen, all contributed to this. Having to ask everyone the same lengthy questions then read through the equally lengthy replies while wondering if any of them would reply with anything different was also very frustrating.
:thumbsdown:
Well the best part in Morrowind was the exploration and the environment, which did make up for the faults you stated. Also the main quest was pretty engaging once you actually got going.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cambyses II
Tran - in response to your question about links:
From the Wiki-pages you can find all you need. It has its own list of reccomended mods as well as links to other lists.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae
Just don't get discouraged with the number of choises. Use KISS...
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
After hearing about all these cool mods, I should have bought it for the PC instead of the PS3, but I do admit it is pretty damn awsome on the PS3.If only you could download mods for the PS3 version.
Same with the Xbox.Quote:
Originally Posted by RoadKill
But that's the price you pay for having a computer that don't cut it.
Ive started tinkering with some of these performance/graphical mods (among others) and I have to say, this game can look truly stunning. :yes:
https://img85.imageshack.us/img85/72...6278cb5.th.jpg<-Clicky.
Natural Environments and AliveWaters are pretty good eye-candy mods. Nice to have normal fish in waterways and have seasonal weather patterns. But, Crowded Cities is such a resource drain on my PC.
Those mods you've got there Xiahou, would probably make my PC die.
For those of you wanting to tweak the prettiness of the game, here's an article on some mods and such. Oblivion: Make It Pretty. (Almost all of which destroy my PC).