Oblivion worth buying?

i have many friends that play that game and they all say they love it. I have not personally played it befor but, judging by my friends reactions I would say Oblivian is worth while. So my answer is yes.

 

Oblivion is a ****ing amazing game, though I would sooner play it on PC than xbox (and currently do), because of the amount of user created mods that really extend gameplay length and such.

 

yeah ive probably logged at least 150 hours on it. probably my favorite xbox game ive played so far. if you even somewhat like rpgs/ open world exploration games, id get it for sure. even if you dont, its still fun, but not for as long.

 

I've got you beat by 120 hours bub.

So in my opinion, absolutely fantastic game, it is one game that will never leave my shelf, even after the xbox 360 becomes obsolete.

EDIT: It's probably more than 270 actually, I'm just thinking of the 270 I put in one character... I probably got well over 300 with all my combined characters.

 

YES. It was the second game I played on xbox and it was and still is AWESOME. Lengthy gameplay, tons of side quests and loads of items to find and use or buy and use. So I say yes, because it is a great game, better than Fallout 3 made by the same guys!

 

Get it, play it, get addicted.
I myself have something over 600 hours on it. Take that Randle.

Seriously, though it is an awesome game, especially the Madness expansion, which is a whole new ****ing world about two-thirds the size of the normal one to play in.

 

If you have a pretty good pc (newish, high clockspeed processor, atleast 2 gig of ram and a pretty good graphics card) i would certainly go for the PC version, it is above and beyond the 360 game.

However having bought the 360 version more than a year before i bought the PC version, i have to say i found the 360 game much more immersive because of the restrictions. I prefer playing on a controller, and i thoroughly enjoyed the game, clocking in over 100 hours each on many different characters.

I may recommend you get the GOTY edition to allow yourself all of the DLC for a more rounded experience, however, i would also say don't use them until your pretty far in the game. Generally they are unbalanced, and will poisen your early game experience.

I'm still a firm believe that Oblivion is probably the best xbox 360 game to date. Although i don't play it so much anymore, it's the most rounded, fulfilling experience available, and the amount of time you will want to invest in it is ridiculous.

 

If you have a vista or mac get it for the xbox. If you have an XP then totally get Oblivion for your PC. And get GOTY edition. Then Knights of the Nine DLC Complete addons. Vista can't run those sexy things. P.C.'s better for the fact of mods.

Final Point: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is the best game ever. Total buy. Eff the graphics, or get a mod that updates them on PC, and it is the best RPG to date. I would tie it with Halo for GoTY. But if you can get it for an XP, it's totally worth it over Xbox, but Vista's 64 bit system ruins my fun again. That's why I have it for only Xbox. I was gonna buy it for my laptop, but being vista, I'm gonna end up getting Fallout 3 for it instead. Which I also have for Xbox, but modding is so awesome I need it. Hope you have fun!

P.S. On my Xbox I've logged around 500 hours of gameplay over 8 characters.

 

I have Vista on a Laptop, and i run Oblivion on highest detail, at 1360x768 resolution, with mods that enable every object visibile when distant, and texture replacers that increase every texture in size by the power of 4. It runs smooth as a babys..

Anyway Vista is fine, you just need more ram because vista hogs some by default. The big mods only add an amount on your ram usage, but Oblivion will never need more than about 1 gig, after that it depends on your processor and graphics card.

It's because the game uses old stystems and an old engine that Vista cannot take advantage of.

 

I heard somewhere that addons don't work with Vista though... Like the orrery and tomes. You sure Matty? I might buy it after all.

 

oblivion is the ****, even though it's relatively old its still fun as balls. you could get fallout if you want one of Bethesdas more up to date games, but oblivion is still a great game.

 

I am pretty sure you are talking about 64-bit Vista, not default 32. I sadly have the 64, and I know certain add-ons and mods don't work.

 

I looked at gameplay videos of the game, and when you hit something with your sword it didn't even respond. Like, you just kinda swing your sword around and it pretends like the enemy is getting hurt with no animation to it. Looked kind of dumb to me.

 

If you like roleplaying games then yes, you should buy Oblivion. It was one of the first few games for the 360 and was amazing for that year. Don't use the On Demand dl thing though, it will steal a lot of space from your harddrive.

 

5.9 isn't all that much space. And as an RPG, it's not all that good. As as a lot of missions can up pretty ****ed. The first Dark Brotherhood missions can be done all fine if you just kill the target and run as fast as you can. I'm pretty sure that's not how they wanted the missions done. Oh yeah, and stealth is **** as you can still stealthilly kill a guy but the guards will know. 90% at least.

Anyway, Oblivion is one of those games that pisses me off now but it's fun at the start. And by start I mean for the first hundred hours or so. After that, you really start to notice difficulty curves going all over the place because monsters level up with you which leads to bullshit things like Goblins being nearly stronger then you. (In Elder Scrolls lore, Goblins are supposed to be rather weak.)

And if you actually want to play a character on normal, you need some forward planning for the start so that you can stand a chance in the later levels. And easy is ridiculous.

So get it.

 

The omniscient guards have also always annoyed me, since in the game the disturbance distance is coded to ridiculously long range, and NPC voices are as well. So I just downloaded a convenient little mod that drops down that distance to reasonable levels, so that you can now actually sneak without getting caught by guards (you still can though, and if you do get caught the bounty is much greater).

 

I rented it for 360 once, and I must say Morrowind (Elder Scrolls 3) interested me more.
But this entire time I still want to buy it cause it probably is as good as morrowind, but I don't want another RPG to hook me just yet....

oh and heres a great elder scrolls site for Oblivion:
www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Oblivion

 

Well i owned oblivion and played it alot and personly i would recomend it because:
1) glitchy
2) bad plot
3) boring gameplay
4) map is not much use
5) guards will keep coming and coming until they arrest you
6) the huge amount of time it takes to walk somewherem, i mean it once took me nearly 1/4 of a hour to walk to somewhere i needed to go for a mission.
7) bad graphics when someones talking to you, by this i mean there lips will be out of sync slightly with sound and they will have a solid facial expression.
8) people who should be following you run awy somtimes.
9) no multiplayer
10) no co-op campaign

good things:
1) easy gamer score, by easy i mean easy but will take endless hours of gameplay.
2) good ending video
3) get to design your own character, sort of

overall i rate it 3/10.