If I like Dungeon Master, would I like Oblivion?
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If I like Dungeon Master, would I like Oblivion?
I have been contemplating buying Oblivion for the PC. Seems it's getting praised as a great RPG, albeit with a few glaring flaws. Ever since I played DM many years ago, I've always wanted to playing a good RPG in the first person view. What do you guys think? Is Oblivion a game you'd recommend to a hard-core DM lover?
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I just finished playing Oblivion last week (well, the Main Quest of the last expansion - I have the GotY edition), but am still playing it 'cause there's a whole load of lesser quests and stuff I haven't done yet, and there's a load of stuff I wanna have a mess around with (just got Wabbajack but not zapped anything with it yet ). I think Oblivion's great - the scenery is beautiful (I have a whole load of screenies I took which I'm keeping to swap through as my desktop wallpaper), and the gameplay is pretty similar to Morrowind, which I've played through twice (again, GotY edition so the main game plus both expansions).
Overall, I reckon I like Morrowind a bit better than Oblivion (mainly owing to a bunch of stuff you can do in Morrowind but can't in Oblivion, though there are some cool things in Oblivion which you don't get in Morrowind), but both are fantastic games - I'm not saying that if you like DM you'll automatically love the Elder Scrolls games, but as you can see, I like both, at least .
If you decide to get Oblivion (or, indeed, Morrowind) and wanna chat about it or whatever, rest assured you have at least one person who will be happy to do so .
Oh, and welcome to the forum, btw .
Overall, I reckon I like Morrowind a bit better than Oblivion (mainly owing to a bunch of stuff you can do in Morrowind but can't in Oblivion, though there are some cool things in Oblivion which you don't get in Morrowind), but both are fantastic games - I'm not saying that if you like DM you'll automatically love the Elder Scrolls games, but as you can see, I like both, at least .
If you decide to get Oblivion (or, indeed, Morrowind) and wanna chat about it or whatever, rest assured you have at least one person who will be happy to do so .
Oh, and welcome to the forum, btw .
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Umm...I'll let someone else answer that one as I have no idea what "Steam" is - some kind of download? I just bought the GotY edition in the shops - had been wanting to play Oblivion for ages and got my own comp (since my dad's would probably xplode if I tried it on there ) in order to do so. And Spore, whenever that finally comes out .
I've been thinking I'll probably play Morrowind again some time soon - I played it before on my dad's comp early last year after he got it for himself (along with NWN) as a Christmas prezzy, but it goes all laggy after a couple of hours of zoning outdoors a lot. So at the end of last year I got myself an XBox and Morrowind on that so I could play it lag-free. But now I have my own comp, I somehow reckon Morrowind'll run without any fuss on it, muahahaha .
First time I played Morrowind, it took me maybe two months to finish it (original game plus both expansions). Oblivion I think I finished (the final expansion) maybe a week ago, but I missed out a load of stuff. Well, I missed out quite a bit in Morrowind too. But there's waaay less guilds to join in Oblivion - technically it feels like there's less in it than in Morrowind but there's still plenty to do - it's just laid out differently I suppose .
I've been thinking I'll probably play Morrowind again some time soon - I played it before on my dad's comp early last year after he got it for himself (along with NWN) as a Christmas prezzy, but it goes all laggy after a couple of hours of zoning outdoors a lot. So at the end of last year I got myself an XBox and Morrowind on that so I could play it lag-free. But now I have my own comp, I somehow reckon Morrowind'll run without any fuss on it, muahahaha .
First time I played Morrowind, it took me maybe two months to finish it (original game plus both expansions). Oblivion I think I finished (the final expansion) maybe a week ago, but I missed out a load of stuff. Well, I missed out quite a bit in Morrowind too. But there's waaay less guilds to join in Oblivion - technically it feels like there's less in it than in Morrowind but there's still plenty to do - it's just laid out differently I suppose .
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Oblivion doesn't seem to be available on Steam : http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php ... re=3&cc=FR
I never played Morrowind, or more precisely, i *tried* and got killed on my first mission : i remember a very fast-running mage killing me almost instantly on a bridge.
I never played Morrowind, or more precisely, i *tried* and got killed on my first mission : i remember a very fast-running mage killing me almost instantly on a bridge.
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Well, here are my 2 mediocre machines :
- P4 2.8Ghz *without* HyperThreading (which means FSB533!) + nVidia 7800GS AGP 256MB + 1.5GB DDR
- Lenovo Laptop Y400 (bought in Thailand!) : Core2Duo 1.66Ghz + Geforce 7300Go 256MB + 1GB DDR2
On my laptop, Oblivion runs with *almost* max quality in 1280x800.
On my desktop PC, i play under 20 fps in 1024x768 medium quality and sometimes i get less than 10 fps when fighting several enemies in cities !!
Your machine is super-top compared to mine. I'm pretty sure you can play Oblivion with maximum quality and even better if you install the enhanced textures non-official mods.
- P4 2.8Ghz *without* HyperThreading (which means FSB533!) + nVidia 7800GS AGP 256MB + 1.5GB DDR
- Lenovo Laptop Y400 (bought in Thailand!) : Core2Duo 1.66Ghz + Geforce 7300Go 256MB + 1GB DDR2
On my laptop, Oblivion runs with *almost* max quality in 1280x800.
On my desktop PC, i play under 20 fps in 1024x768 medium quality and sometimes i get less than 10 fps when fighting several enemies in cities !!
Your machine is super-top compared to mine. I'm pretty sure you can play Oblivion with maximum quality and even better if you install the enhanced textures non-official mods.
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My comp is something like 2.2GHz processor, GeForce 8600 graphics, ermm...stuff...well anyway, your specs look betetr than mine and mine runs Oblivion fine - it just goes a bit jerky when I'm running through regions with mases of grass - but it's by no means unplayable. I don't think you'll have a problem.
Linflas - a bloke on a bridge killed you in Morrowind? Was it an old-looking bloke called Snowy Granias (wow I remembered his name off the top of my head :O) wielding (I think) a hammer and who summoned a skelly? He's not so tough...but you don't have to go up that way straight away or anything - once you get out of the Customs and Excise place (ie after you've created your char, once you're given the package for Caius Cosades and told to go to Balmora), you're free to do whatever the hell you like. If you do anything that'll mess up the Main Quest (which really only involves killing a vital NPC), you get a message informing you of such. Well, I suppose you could find one of the items necessary to finish the game, and the go chuck it in the sea in the middle of nowhere or something, but why would you do that? Anyway, last time I played Morrowind through, I stepped out into the world from creating my char and did the quests for every single Guild (well, except Houses Redoran and Telvanni since you can only join one Great House and I've always taken Hlaalu) and became rather uber before I even visited Caius for the first time .
Woo I haven't made a post this long for a while...hmm well as you can probably tell, I like to talk about Morrowind .
Linflas - a bloke on a bridge killed you in Morrowind? Was it an old-looking bloke called Snowy Granias (wow I remembered his name off the top of my head :O) wielding (I think) a hammer and who summoned a skelly? He's not so tough...but you don't have to go up that way straight away or anything - once you get out of the Customs and Excise place (ie after you've created your char, once you're given the package for Caius Cosades and told to go to Balmora), you're free to do whatever the hell you like. If you do anything that'll mess up the Main Quest (which really only involves killing a vital NPC), you get a message informing you of such. Well, I suppose you could find one of the items necessary to finish the game, and the go chuck it in the sea in the middle of nowhere or something, but why would you do that? Anyway, last time I played Morrowind through, I stepped out into the world from creating my char and did the quests for every single Guild (well, except Houses Redoran and Telvanni since you can only join one Great House and I've always taken Hlaalu) and became rather uber before I even visited Caius for the first time .
Woo I haven't made a post this long for a while...hmm well as you can probably tell, I like to talk about Morrowind .
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Oh man it looks good but I'd better not buy this Oblivion game, as it would suck all of my time away. Currently I'm addicted to RF Online, a different fish, but good for my 10-30 minute mindless hacking fixes that I need.
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This is from Arkane Studios, they also made Dark Messiah of Might and Magic : i never playd Arx but it looks nice (for a 2002 game).
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And "The Crossing" looks promising too : http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=HSRewknGUeY
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/8605
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And "The Crossing" looks promising too : http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=HSRewknGUeY
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/8605
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