In Oblivion again

Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:34 pm

Listen to this guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrRCmH3k_sQ&feature=related

Does this not make you want to play oblivion again?
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Marilú
 
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 4:04 am

I still occasionally play oblivion.
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Danny Blight
 
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:17 am

Makes me think of Ascalon and Morrowind, actually.
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Jesus Sanchez
 
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:48 am

I can't play Oblivion any more, now that I've played Skyrim. After I had Skyrim like a month or so, I showed it to my brother, then started up Oblivion to show him Skyrim's predecessor, and it just looked absurdly cartoony. The grass was to vividly green, and so forth. I felt like I had stepped into a Super Mario Brothers game. SMB is a great game and all, but I kept looking for a mushroom that would make me grow to giant size...
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:15 pm

I remember seeing a video on youtube where two girls perform this on the piano and violin. I'll go see if I can find it.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAnQQcIncq0, it was an amalgamation of the morrowind and skyrim themes.
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:33 am

Nope.

Makes me want to put the Oblivion soundtrack on, but I won't play Oblivion again.
Ever.
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:06 am

One drawback I oblivion was its cartoony graphics. That and the engine.
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naome duncan
 
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 3:27 am

Oblivion was fine for its time; when I first played it a couple years after it came out I was amazed. I'm sure Morrowind's graphics were the same way: amazing in context, but woefully lacking once something superior came out.

The same will happen in time with Skyrim as it does with most games. The only things that last are games with a great design sense, like Homeworld and Homeworld 2. Those games were amazingly great to look at (and play) and still are even though they're technically behind the times.
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:36 pm

Makes me think of Ascalon and Morrowind, actually.

Aye morrowind was a great game was it not? Alot more guild options, you can build your own stronghold, good questline... the good ol days. :)

er not that Skyrim doesn't count. Love Skyrim! :wub:
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Tanya Parra
 
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:42 am

Id rather fire up morrowind or daggerfall
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Trista Jim
 
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:31 am

I'm still playing Oblivion, I've started to get bored with Skyrim lately.
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:46 am

The soundtrack in the link is for Morrowind not Oblivion.
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Rowena
 
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:47 am

I hated oblivion but Skyrim made me appreciate it.
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:41 am

I have played about 80 hours of Oblivion before Skyrim, now I have gone back to playing a bit of Oblivion on the side, and I just am really annoyed by my onboard soundcard glitchyness with it. With sound disabled, it runs perfectly fine. With it, it stutters a lot, especially when switching songs or sound effects.

I have searched tirelessly over the internet for a solution but it seems I will have to put money into a new soundcard and I'm planning on buying a new PC this year sometime instead, Oblivion will likely have to wait. :( Unless someone has a solution to this soundcard problem other than disabling the sound! I hate not hearing things in the game! Like I'm deaf! Eh, that sounded bad. No offense to deaf people, I mean, it's just uncomfortable when a lot of the experience for me is the music.

In Skyrim, I will often listen to my own music but in Oblivion there's something a lot more enchanting.
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:20 pm

I have played about 80 hours of Oblivion before Skyrim, now I have gone back to playing a bit of Oblivion on the side, and I just am really annoyed by my onboard soundcard glitchyness with it. With sound disabled, it runs perfectly fine. With it, it stutters a lot, especially when switching songs or sound effects.

I have searched tirelessly over the internet for a solution but it seems I will have to put money into a new soundcard and I'm planning on buying a new PC this year sometime instead, Oblivion will likely have to wait. :( Unless someone has a solution to this soundcard problem other than disabling the sound! I hate not hearing things in the game! Like I'm deaf! Eh, that sounded bad. No offense to deaf people, I mean, it's just uncomfortable when a lot of the experience for me is the music.

In Skyrim, I will often listen to my own music but in Oblivion there's something a lot more enchanting.
Ever try a headset or headphones? That's all I can think of...post this in the PC forums maybe you could get a fix
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 4:12 pm

Oblivion holds a special place in my heart... It was my first Elder Scrolls game and the first game I took seriously. But then I played Morrowind and Skyrim and it fell behind. Now it is one of those games that I want to play for nostalgia, but have a hard time doing so. I normally get out of the tutorial and am spent.
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:34 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSLPH9d-jsI

This cover of the Skyrim theme makes me hate the Skyrim theme less. Must be because it isn't being used in five hundred videos a day.
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:58 am

One drawback I oblivion was its cartoony graphics. That and the engine.
Well, the new engine is basically the same as gamebryo.
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:27 pm

I must be nuts, because I like Oblivion's cartoony graphics. Maybe it's, once again, because realistic ones are so common that it's tiresome sometimes. I loved how stylized things were in Oblivion.

Only thing that kills the Oblivion graphics is having to look at every non-hostile NPC's face too closely when talking to them. HDTVs show enough details that you can see the flaws easier. I love Morrowind's save for the character models, and love Daggerfall's. I'm insane.
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:17 pm

I tried, but oblivion has aged horribly. I literary laughed out loud when i saw the character models again. I was amazed by Oblivion a couple of years ago, but now i will never play it again.
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:59 am

Fallout 3 and Oblivion, when I first saw them I said.. "this game must svck, look at the graphics!" Forgive me I was young and foolish. Then I seriously started playing Oblivion and Fallout 3, and they were the best games I'd ever played. Then I got a Morrowind graphics overhaul and played Morrowind for a bit, using the console to get 100000 athletics and jumping and never coming back down, lol. I just didn't like how in Morrowind you could miss and stuff, got irritating at low levels to me. I dunno.
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 1:32 pm

One drawback I oblivion was its cartoony graphics. That and the engine.
The engine with Skyrim is basically gamebryo with the creation engine name slapped on it.
The graphics was a little cartoony but that was not really an issue for me.
I had three complaints with that game.

1. The level scaling was the worst that I have ever seen in the game, and that made things very predictable.

2. The copy and pasted world was very repetitive and that took away some longevity to the game at least for me it did for a little while anyways.

3. Cut features such as the magic system had spells taken away. Less armor slots, less weapons, less factions and so on. But this is not as gutted as Skyrim is in terms of content.
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 4:20 pm

I thoroughly enjoyed Oblivion, but for some reason I just can't go back and play older TES games. There are plenty of other classic games that I still love to play (Ultima 7). TES games don't age well for me personally I guess.
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 3:24 pm

I thoroughly enjoyed Oblivion, but for some reason I just can't go back and play older TES games. There are plenty of other classic games that I still love to play (Ultima 7). TES games don't age well for me personally I guess.
Ultima 7 is freaking awesome. Even if I had trouble knowing how to keep track of things. Playing Ultima 4 at the moment.
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Post » Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:27 pm

I play Oblivion frequently. Amazing game, on a par with Skyrim IMO.
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