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Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Official Release Date is March 20


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That's not what I found. I found the ring on the body.

 

 

I wasn't finding the body period. I restarted my game since I wasn't that far in, and I wanted to change some classes. I went to Falcar right away and saved before applying to join the guild. It took like 4 tries reloading before the body showed up in the well

 

 

To Wall:

 

 

Talk to beggers in the street, some of them know more, but won't talk unless you make them happy.

 

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Speaking of beggars, I was suprisingly able to kill a beggar in Layewiin in the street withouth getting in trouble.

 

Also, the chapel doors in Layewiin are messed up. If you enter through the front into the chapel and then turn left and use that door, you spawn on as if you used the right door to exit. Going in through the doors is fine, but using the left door to go out is messed up.

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So, what's the consensus on Oblivion then? Live up to all the hype?

 

All the reviews I've read have said the graphics are amazing, the world is great, and that there are still major balance/gameplay problems/limitations. But they have all given it 9s or 9.5s anyway... so i guess the atmosphere and graphics overide any gmeplay issues?

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Well, the graphics are very nice, but it's rather advanced. If you want full-fledged graphics, you'd better get the 360 version. The hardware required to crank this game to the max at 40-50fps won't be affordable for a while.

 

Other than that, I'm loving the game. I'm hurting my wrist I'm playing it so much. :/

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So, what's the consensus on Oblivion then? Live up to all the hype?

 

All the reviews I've read have said the graphics are amazing, the world is great, and that there are still major balance/gameplay problems/limitations. But they have all given it 9s or 9.5s anyway... so i guess the atmosphere and graphics overide any gmeplay issues?

 

The amazing thing is that when I think of writing an Oblivion review (not my job this time around) I think:

- the enemy leveling is problematic

- the main plot is weaker than the side-stuff ... by far

- the friendly AI is stupid and results in too many quick-save & reloads as guards and other allies walk into my fireballs and get killed ...

- other glitches

 

... but yet I would give the game 4.5/5 in a heartbeat ... because while it is easy to compile a list of quibbles, they are just that. The game experience on whole is truly excellent. I still find the world of Gothic II more alive and the schedule and 'overheard dialogue' more interesting (most times in Oblivion they spew things you've already heard completely without context to each other), but this is a wonderful game.

 

I'm running on two systems, one that detected on 'Medium' but works well with all distances maxed out, and my main system gets 'ultra high' and is a thing of beauty.

 

Mike

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I'm planning to get a new pc to play Oblivion, and I want to know: Does Oblivion take advantage of 64-bit processing?

 

As far as I know, it cant. Games can't take advantage of 64-bit processing unless it's on a 64-bit operating system.

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SOunds like the overal experience is pretty darn good. But as i only started playing morrowind last week i might wait a while... ;)

 

It is the latest Dell XPS laptop, so it has a 256MB nvidia 7800 GTX card and a 17" screen. Thing of beauty ...

OT: Are XPS laptops upgradable at all? I was thinking of splashing out on one - but its a heck of a lot of money if it just ends up being obsolete in a year or so. Any pros/cons/comments?

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I'm planning to get a new pc to play Oblivion, and I want to know: Does Oblivion take advantage of 64-bit processing?

 

It' doesn't explicitly take advantage of 64-bit processing, but it definatley boosts the performance if you have an amd64 chip in there :)

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OT: Are XPS laptops upgradable at all? I was thinking of splashing out on one - but its a heck of a lot of money if it just ends up being obsolete in a year or so. Any pros/cons/comments?
I dunno ... because I tend to go through a laptop every year or two ... so I remember that they said they were making the XPS upgradeable, but don't know if they actually did. On the system itself, it is really excellent. Solid, reliable, with some excellent performance on everything I have thrown at it (including Oblivion, F.E.A.R. and so on)

 

Mike

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I sort of lost my horse that I...

got from the guy who died in Kvatch. I just jacked another one from cloud ruler temple, does anyone know if i can even find my first horse?

 

 

Oh, and with a few tweaks here are my settings

 

First, system specs

 

AMD Athlon XP 2100+

768 mb ddr ram

nVidia 6600 256 mb video card

60 + 40 gig hd

Windows XP professional

 

Oblivion Settings

 

Resolution

1024 x 768

High texture size

Distant land, buildings, trees on

Bloom

 

=]

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