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[Dr_Cogent]

The new video has the following line:

I heard a rumor that you're an idiot. Any truth to that?

That was hilarious. :lol

 

[Robobandit]

Anyone post a mirror for that video? the sites are getting hammered

 

[Sp3eD]

They should throw them up on filefront everyday at video launch as that site has enough bandwidth for everybody.

Searching for mirrors..

 

[SnakeXs]

Not bad. To be picky, some lip syncing isn't perfect, but far from being annoying. Looks great, really.

And, yeah, the idiot line was pretty funny.. I wonder if it's a coincidence. :lol

The waiting, it's so.. damn.. hard.

 

[Sp3eD]

http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0KJIBLUFAABD81G4PVIW0ZF6K0

 

[SnakeXs]

Ok, the way the pupils dart around is really freaking me out.

And that's a good thing.

 

[Wolffen]

One more mirror (like to see if the googlepage will actualy handle the bandwidth)
http://wolffen.googlepages.com/countdown_3days.wmv

Gods give me strength

The Gate Open In 3 Days

QFT. God give me strength. 3 more days...

 

[AzureRonin]

http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0KJIBLUFAABD81G4PVIW0ZF6K0

Thanks for the mirror.

One thing I noticed about the voice acting is that the different races don't have as harsh accents as they did in Morrowind. For example the DUnmer sounds pretty imperial, not gravely like in Morrowind.

All the races look very nice, too bad we didn't see any Altmer or Bosmer though.

 

[Sp3eD]

The light reflecting off the priest's face is simply amazing.

 

[u_neek]

When will the reviews start rolling in?

 

[Wolffen]

Is it just me, or did the priest sound like Oded Fehr?

 

[Kabuki Waq]

am i racist becuase i wanna kill the tiger/ lion looking dude on sight. :lol

 

[Pimpbaa]

Thanks for the mirror.

One thing I noticed about the voice acting is that the different races don't have as harsh accents as they did in Morrowind. For example the DUnmer sounds pretty imperial, not gravely like in Morrowind.

All the races look very nice, too bad we didn't see any Altmer or Bosmer though.

Redguards sound exactly the same tho.

 

[Peter Olafson]

:Our guide is #65 on amazons top 100 book list

: i'm not sure a strat guide has ever done that.

It was up to #34 this morning.

Peter

 

[AzureRonin]

Redguards sound exactly the same tho.

Yeah I noticed that too, it's mostly all the same voice actors. The Redguard looks really good though. Man when I think about the original faces in Morrowind and comapre them to these I just can't complain.

 

[SteveMeister]

Is it just me, or did the priest sound like Oded Fehr?

It's Sean Bean.

 

[Solo]

Boromir the priest. Cool. What other celebs have lent their voices?

 

[Wolffen]

It's Sean Bean.

Really?! I was wondering if that was him, but it sounded more like Oded Fehr to me.

:Our guide is #65 on amazons top 100 book list

: i'm not sure a strat guide has ever done that.

It was up to #34 this morning.

Probably people like me willing to wait a few days for it if we can get it for $11.99.

am i racist becuase i wanna kill the tiger/ lion looking dude on sight.

"Please do not let my appearance...unnerve you."

 

[SteveMeister]

Boromir the priest. Cool. What other celebs have lent their voices?

Patrick Stewart, Terence Stamp and Lynda Carter.

 

[VibratingDonkey]

Terence Stamp kicked ass in The Limey. Will he be extremely pissed off all the time in the game as well?

 

[Pellham]

Thanks for the answer, MSFD. I can't wait



It's "wasn't" and "you're".

to be anal, there is no difference between wasnt and wasn't, however the distinction between your and you're is important.

 

[DreamMachine]

:Our guide is #65 on amazons top 100 book list

: i'm not sure a strat guide has ever done that.

It was up to #34 this morning.

Peter

just checked it's hovering at 36 right now.. congrats..

 

[Uncle]

God damn. I got spoiled by IMDB.

 

[AzureRonin]

Patrick Stewart, Terence Stamp and Lynda Carter.

Such an amazing line-up. I wonder how Bethesda ended up getting all these people.

 

[Pimpbaa]

Lynda Carter.

I assume she does the voice for female nords just like in morrowind I can hear her voice now every time I stepped into the fighters guild "Hail!".

 

[DreamMachine]

didn't lynda carter do some voice work for KOTOR ??

 

[Ark-AMN]

The Argonian's got a real face-lift with the new generation. They have a cool reptillian sense about them without seeming dumb like in Morrowind.

Plus, I heard they also got rid of that really awkward "beast walk" that both the lizard and cat peoples had in Morrowind too.

 

[Vyse The Legend]

It appears a German site has posted about 34 new pictures of the PC version of Oblivion and 2 new videos. Sadly, their site was nuked by all the official Oblivion board posters, but I come bringing some news.

Test Machine Specs
• Windows XP Pro
• AMD Athlon XP 2200+
• 1024 MB DDR RAM
• ATI Radeon 9800PRO 128 MB


We have tested Oblivion on a rather mediocre PC and were quite astonished by the impressive graphics and the still acceptable framerates.

[snip]

Important: Some settings like HDR, grass shadowing and shadow details couldn't be enabled due to hardware reasons. Antialiasing was disabled for performance reasons, face shadows too (they mean self shadowing i would guess) because they looked kind of awkward.

I also found some of the pictures (all done on a rig described above, so it's a bit fugly). Here's the Emperor:

They then did some comparisons of 1024x768 and 1280x1024:

Notice the extra grass on the higher resolution^^^

There's a few more. You just have to change the last number in the link (goes up to Vergleich-6.jpg).

Nice Staff:

Edit: The site is back up. WARNING: Pictures of Oblivion inside.

1024x768 pictures: http://justgamers.de/?page=gallery&gallery_id=1725
1280x1024 pictures: http://justgamers.de/?page=gallery&gallery_id=1724

 

[SiegfriedFM]

So Sean Bean is Brother Martin? Now isn't that an ironic casting

 

[SteveMeister]

So "Lockpick" is "Dietrich" in German? Awesome! The programmer who developed the lockpicking minigame has the last name Dietrich

 

[Florian]

Here's the link to the video from the German website:

http://rapidshare.de/files/15838515/The_Elder_Scrolls_Oblivion_Waltkrough_HQ.zip.html
(Warning: Oblivion footage inside)

It certainly looks good, although it stutters like hell. Does anyone know on what configuration this is running? (I assume it's not the same as the one from the screenshots...)

 

[Teknopathetic]

"
It certainly looks good, although it stutters like hell. Does anyone know on what configuration this is running? (I assume it's not the same as the one from the screenshots.."

Well, I'd assume the stuttering might be due to video capture, unless they have it set up to capture it externally or something (I don't really know how all that works I just know FRAPS saps my Framerate inside any game).

 

[Robobandit]

"
It certainly looks good, although it stutters like hell. Does anyone know on what configuration this is running? (I assume it's not the same as the one from the screenshots.."

Well, I'd assume the stuttering might be due to video capture, unless they have it set up to capture it externally or something (I don't really know how all that works I just know FRAPS saps my Framerate inside any game).

yeah, they actually mentioned that on the site. The capture killed the framerate

 

[syllogism]

"
It certainly looks good, although it stutters like hell. Does anyone know on what configuration this is running? (I assume it's not the same as the one from the screenshots.."

Well, I'd assume the stuttering might be due to video capture, unless they have it set up to capture it externally or something (I don't really know how all that works I just know FRAPS saps my Framerate inside any game).

Yes, they actually stated that is why the video stutters. Otherwise it was running "pretty well".

edit: curses

 

[u_neek]

It looks extemely good in the video - apart from the stuttering of course. But damn, this has got to be the most beautiful game ever!

 

[Pimpbaa]

Oh, that german video gives you a bit more of a feel for the game. Definitely seems like morrowind except beautiful! This game is going to consume my life for a few weeks. Damn you bethesda!

 

[SiegfriedFM]

Fraps halves the framerate, whatever it is, and maxes out at 30 fps I believe. And of course, it takes some CPU power and HDD communication to run. I wouldn't be too concerned about framerate problems because of that.

 

[Borys]

It stutters because of FRAPS. Try capturing anything under FRAPS (even Quake 1) - you will lose a large percentage of framerate just beacause it is capturing, compressing and writing to the HDD in the background.

I'm kinda shocked how well the engine is optimized judging by the comments on other sites/ forums.
Bethesda's first well written engine?

God speed with Fallout 3!

 

[Speevy]

Avatars for everyone!

 

[AzureRonin]

It stutters because of FRAPS. Try capturing anything under FRAPS (even Quake 1) - you will lose a large percentage of framerate just beacause it is capturing, compressing and writing to the HDD in the background.

I'm kinda shocked how well the engine is optimized judging by the comments on other sites/ forums.
Bethesda's first well written engine?

God speed with Fallout 3!

yeah seriously, morrowind is still out of control sometimes.

 

[VibratingDonkey]

Now those are just plain creepy.

 

[RegularMK]

The khajit one is creepy and awesome. I totally call it.

Thanks Speevy!

 

[Wario64]

Oblivion reg edition 360 - $45 at Compusa next week

 

[Dr_Cogent]

So "Lockpick" is "Dietrich" in German? Awesome! The programmer who developed the lockpicking minigame has the last name Dietrich

Uh, well - I won't say it's true or not, but Translate Google didn't translate it as such.

Oblivion reg edition 360 - $45 at Compusa next week

Son of a bitch. Mine's already paid off at EB.

Arg!!! Got a link to where you saw that Wario?

 

[Baron Aloha]

I picked up the guide today. I figured it would be nice to have because this game is so massive. I'm glad I picked it up. As others have said, it is extremely well done.

Its 368 pages and it includes:

Character recipes
Maps
Walkthroughs for every quest in the game
Sections devoted to all of the gameplay systems (combat, stealth, alchemy, spellmaking, enchantment, magic, vampirism, etc)
Equipment lists
Beastiary

 

[Vyse The Legend]

I picked up the guide today. I figured it would be nice to have because this game is so massive. I'm glad I picked it up. As others have said, it is extremely well done.

Its 368 pages and it includes:

Character recipes
Maps
Walkthroughs for every quest in the game
Sections devoted to all of the gameplay systems (combat, stealth, alchemy, spellmaking, enchantment, magic, vampirism, etc)
Equipment lists
Beastiary

I love the changes they made to vampirism in Oblivion. It's majorly improved over Morrowind.

 

[jarosh]

So "Lockpick" is "Dietrich" in German? Awesome! The programmer who developed the lockpicking minigame has the last name Dietrich

Uh, well - I won't say it's true or not, but Translate Google didn't translate it as such.

it's true. 100% true

 

[Pimpbaa]

I love the changes they made to vampirism in Oblivion. It's majorly improved over Morrowind.

Oooooh, very cool news.

 

[Mejilan]

Holy shit, I hope my rig can run the game much prettier than the german pics listed above. Yikes. Otherwise, I might wind up getting the X360 version as well. :/

 

[Diseased Yak]

I love the changes they made to vampirism in Oblivion. It's majorly improved over Morrowind.

Ooooh, I can't wait! I thought that maybe I'd become a vampire with my first character. I loved it in Morrowind, but damned if I didn't always wish for more quests, as there were only 3 vampire clans and you could only choose one (as far as I know).