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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion |OT|
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Pellham said:pretty lame to complain about a feature that has never before been done in RPGs. oh well, it's not like they docked 20 points off the score for it anything.
i'm sure most people aren't gonna care.
Oh, I agree. Real, believable AI is still in its infancy. Frankly, I think it's a great accomplishment that Bethseda was able to design a game where the NPCs will actually decide when, where and who to start a conversation with, of their own accord.
We have at least another decade before people should start griping about the nature of their conversations.
Robobandit
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Pellham said:pretty lame to complain about a feature that has never before been done in RPGs. oh well, it's not like they docked 20 points off the score for it anything.
i'm sure most people aren't gonna care.
they said if it wasn't for that and the breaking of the immersion that resulted, they'd have given it a 96% of which they've only given 4 of in their entire 10 year history (supposedly)
a very minor issue, but I'd have been a little disturbed if I heard two sets of npcs going through the same dialog at the same time within earshot of each other. I can understand the complaint about the conversation algorithm not taking into account whether nearby npcs are discussing the same thing.
So the 3 point deduction was a combination of the repetition, stilted va in npc conversations, some awkward dialogue and npcs that can't remember if they've met you before or not.
doesn't seem so unfair
I would at least hope that they would remember you if you tried to kill them or if they caught you stealing from them.. but perhaps they don't even remember that :lol
flarkminator
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Wollan said:They still got the PS3 version to finish.
Will be announced at E3. My little bet, this is.
So what you're saying is...
[ ] DS Lite
[ ] Pacakes
[ ] prruuwwuuuuuuuuuu
[X ]
UltraMagnanimous
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The soundtrack is amazing. Why isn't Soule composing in Hollywood? This beats most of the stuff you hear in the cinema (IMHO).
flarkminator
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I FINALLY got my copy of OXM and I have truly have no words to describe how sweet this games is.....
I'm definetly taking a whole week off from work, yep, thems the breaks but sometimes games just gotta come first.
I'm definetly taking a whole week off from work, yep, thems the breaks but sometimes games just gotta come first.
AzureRonin
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So I bought the Oblivion Soundtrack and I'm listening to it now. It's very good, you can slightly recognize some themese from Morrowind, but the music is just so much better. I guess I would describe it as more epic. With Morrowind the music was very subdued, the Oblivion soundtrack still has some very calm music but the melodies are captivating. Not like Morrowind, which I thought was good but not something I would want to listen to in my spare time.
Good analysis. It retains the same "feel" as Morrowind, but the quality and scope is greatly improved in all aspects. Right now, my personal fave is track 11 - March of the Mauraders. It's the quintessential tune for a dungeon romp. Has almost a bit of a TSR Dungeons & Dragons flavor to it.AzureRonin said:
SiegfriedFM
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One of the themes actually end with the final chords of the Morrowind main theme. Really cool.
Bebpo said:Indeed, gonna be the best game to own on the X360 for months and months to come. me thinks
I'm looking forward to what'll hopefully be the most enjoyable Western RPG in 5+ years.
Just remove the "on the X360" part and you're just about right.
Vyse The Legend
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Deducting points for repeating spoken dialogue in Oblivion is just as silly as complaining that NPCs say the same thing in every other RPG known to man when you speak to them.
Vyse The Legend
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SnakeXs said:
You won't win that argument with Bebpo. He is expecting FF12 to be the greatest game this year.
Vyse The Legend
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Speevy said:
I like the way you think my friend. Or, you can paralyze them and then punch them repeatedly. :lol
apparently jeremy soule + morrowind = great soundtrack(the first morrowind soundtrack was great too)
otherwise i have found most of soule's work well, souless really. Better than most, but mostly average stuff
here is his mobygames page
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,10448/
otherwise i have found most of soule's work well, souless really. Better than most, but mostly average stuff
here is his mobygames page
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,10448/
EviLore said:
i have a hard time believing that considering that is the superhigh config performance rating on the official forums
I was planning with my x2 4400 @ 2700mhz, muskin 2gb and x1800 512 to get some serious performance with all the bells and whistles on. There is really no way to get any higher performance for a pc, except maybe with the fx-60(though its overclock is not high, and is close to the 4400 @2700) and x1900 but that system won't test out much ahead of mine or the one you posted
EviLore said:
Only 8 days until I laugh*...
At PC gamers. Not really anyone here, but all the crap over the weeks/months, I will have a hefty bellowing guffah in their general direction.
P.S. You gonna play with A.A. or HDR? xD
P.S.S. Sorry, that was low.
Robobandit
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It has been said more than once that no current rig can max the game's settings out.
(and no, max does not equate to "high" settings.. if that is wrong, please correct me )
It wouldn't surprise me if the official specifications are woefully inadequate to play the game even on medium settings, but alas there is no public, official confirmation of that from the developers or anyone else in a position to know those kinds of things.
I think that high settings should be quite playable for a rig like that, but expecting to max out all of the distance sliders and effects is out of the question for any current rig
(and no, max does not equate to "high" settings.. if that is wrong, please correct me
)It wouldn't surprise me if the official specifications are woefully inadequate to play the game even on medium settings, but alas there is no public, official confirmation of that from the developers or anyone else in a position to know those kinds of things.
I think that high settings should be quite playable for a rig like that, but expecting to max out all of the distance sliders and effects is out of the question for any current rig
SnakeXs said:Only 8 days until I laugh*...
At PC gamers. Not really anyone here, but all the crap over the weeks/months, I will have a hefty bellowing guffah in their general direction.
P.S. You gonna play with A.A. or HDR? xD
P.S.S. Sorry, that was low.
I'm going to do both considering i also have a 360 and want to see the differences between them. plus the x1800 can do both since you can force AA on a application through the catayst control center, though its not a very good solution and will probably kill the frame rate. I don't understand considering i play far cry with hdr and AA, yet they say no chipset supports it.
flarkminator
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Yeah, well, I have the last laugh, 360 collector's edition, and PC version arrvinging in just 8 days =P
His mid to late 90's work was pretty conservative, as he was just cracking the biz. I always got the impression, from listening to some of those early soundtracks, that he really didn't want to stray too far from the tried and true formulas which were the norm back then ( hiya Tallarico ). Although, I do think that Secret of Evermore was vastly underrated.GashPrex said:
If you haven't had a chance to listen to the GuildWars CD, then I would highly recommend it. Probably his best work, outside of Morrowind and Oblivion.
SnakeXs said:Only 8 days until I laugh*...
At PC gamers. Not really anyone here, but all the crap over the weeks/months, I will have a hefty bellowing guffah in their general direction.
P.S. You gonna play with A.A. or HDR? xD
P.S.S. Sorry, that was low.
Thanks for confirming that you are and always were a troll.
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Project Midway
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You are quite sensitive for a tough guy like you.Borys said:
Anyway, back to topic, cant wait for Oblivion. I need something different to play while having breaks from GRAW and Call Duty 2.
Futurevoid
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Oblivion surpasses his work in Guild Wars for me. The Guild Wars Battle Pak and Sorrow's Furnace music add-ons were even better than the original soundtrack though. Especially Sorrow's Furnace.GreekWolf said:
Now, if folks are interested in hearing some of Soule's absolute best work, then you need to run out and find the original Icewind Dale soundtrack. It still ranks as one of the absolute best game soundtracks out there IMO.
SiegfriedFM
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A question for Steve: What happens if I take an important item (like the Amulet of Kings) and throw it outside the border of the world where I can't go pick it up again?
SteveMeister
Hang out with Steve.
SiegfriedFM said:
Certain quest-specific items like that cannot be dropped or bartered, at least not while they're important to the quest.
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