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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion |OT|
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SteveMeister
Hang out with Steve.
It's supposed to be pretty dark. Aside from torches, there are Light and Night Eye spells/potions/scrolls to help you out in dark places. You can make Night Eye potions with common ingredients found near Weynon Priory.
IAmtheFMan
Member
Good God, 12 out of 12 on my Friends List were playing Oblivion. It left me GRAW-less. 
I really want this game, but alas, I don't think I can. School is shitting the fan like nothing I've ever seen and we only have a month and a half left, and I'm not gonna have time after that since I'll spend the NEXT month and week or so to study for my Board exam... and afterwards I'll have two weeks of break before I start my Rotations... not at all a good time to start a lengthy RPG.
Don't go to med school.
I really want this game, but alas, I don't think I can. School is shitting the fan like nothing I've ever seen and we only have a month and a half left, and I'm not gonna have time after that since I'll spend the NEXT month and week or so to study for my Board exam... and afterwards I'll have two weeks of break before I start my Rotations... not at all a good time to start a lengthy RPG.
Don't go to med school.FrenchMovieTheme
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is there anyway to get theivery off your record? i stole some shit from this guys house, now this asshole cop is on my ass telling me i have to pay $$$ and go to jail. when i tell him to fuck off he proceeds to thrash me.
also, i got to this shrine and killed everyone there. then it said "someone has taken note of this transgression..." or some crap like that. what reprecussions will i see later on?
this game is pretty sweet. i need to buy a horse though.
also, i got to this shrine and killed everyone there. then it said "someone has taken note of this transgression..." or some crap like that. what reprecussions will i see later on?
this game is pretty sweet. i need to buy a horse though.
:lol blaming it the console, thats some funny shit
anyway, i am loving the ai stories and some stuff people have done, reading all about it in all the forums. still on vacation, will pick it up next week hopefully for cheap at best buy
hopefull the ini changes will be finalized by then
anyway, i am loving the ai stories and some stuff people have done, reading all about it in all the forums. still on vacation, will pick it up next week hopefully for cheap at best buy
hopefull the ini changes will be finalized by then
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
I don't agree with most of the hyperbole here. It's really just a natural evolution from Morrowind. It's more of the same with some nice new features and tweaks.
One of my favorite changes so far are how the citizens will run for guards when you try to kill them. I remember just slaughtering entire towns in Morrowind and stealing everything, but now, when you hit that shopkeeper, he bolts out the door and brings in some guards to deal with you.
One of my favorite changes so far are how the citizens will run for guards when you try to kill them. I remember just slaughtering entire towns in Morrowind and stealing everything, but now, when you hit that shopkeeper, he bolts out the door and brings in some guards to deal with you.
Pimpbaa
Member
GashPrex said:
Why else would there be such aggressive LOD on textures? There is no reason to limit that on the pc version due to much more ram and faster harddrive access. There should have been an extra slider to increase the distance of the detailed textures. Guess we have to tweak via the ini to get the kind of graphics Bethesda or more likely MS doesn't want us to see on the pc version.
Edit: I guess they wouldn't have let us access such vast amounts of graphic options in the ini if the load of bullcrap I just said was just true :lol
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
It's not like he's wrong. The giant font, the simplified menus, the N64 textures, and the control scheme all make it feel like a rushed Xbox 360 port. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but this is the same sort of problem that caused so much backlash at Deus Ex 2 and Thief 3.GashPrex said:
Pimpbaa said:
yeah thats it, its a vast ms conspiracy so that people will buy the 360 version ....are you serious?
or maybe they realized from a pure perfomance/detail level that was the best level for the general gaming public, and any hardcore pc people who cared and had pc's capable of that, would just play with the ini file.
Illuminati
Member
Lol it would figure something is wrong with my soundcard (SB-Live 24-bit) and I need to play with the music off. The game would hang when I tried to create a new game.
Pellham said:
uGridsToLoad=5
change that up to 10, seems that 7 or 8 would be best
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=276393
Vyse The Legend
Member
Borys said:There's still hope for the eye-candy crippled, consolized PC version:
Official max:
INI changed:
Paging Dr. Vennt to the Oblivion thread.
chaostrophy
Member
Damn I'm jealous of all you people playing this. I still haven't been able to track down a 360. To pass time during the wait I started playing through some unfinished quests in Morrowind with my near-invincible lvl. 39 character. Just got the Staff of Magnus woohoo!
SteveMeister
Hang out with Steve.
GashPrex said:
Yeah if you have a lot of RAM, this is a good change to make. There are tons of tweaks you can make to the game, but there's only so much space in an options menu
Dammit, I just had my first Oblivion freeze. I really hope that it's not a common thing (my 360 had only frozen once before this since launch day), as Morrowind had plenty of crashing problems. Perhaps the gaming gods were angry at me, since it decided to freeze as I was stealing loot from a church of all places.
Teknopathetic
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Steve: Define "Lots of ram," would that tweak be useful for someone with 1gb or should it only be fore people with more than 1gb+?
SteveMeister
Hang out with Steve.
Teknopathetic said:
*shrug* depends if you have anything else running. Min spec is 512MB, recommended is 1GB. Tweak the settings & see how your system behaves.
Ended up playing the X360 one for an hour and a half until it froze on me. First time my X360's frozen. I got on a horse and moved a step and then everything froze up
Other than the freezing and the GTA style chop chop chop framerate when other characters are on screen it seemed pretty nice. Love the music, the lighting effects, and the expansive world. Still need to get used to the controls, the analogue sensitivity seems wierd. Sometimes it feels too sensitive, sometimes not enough. If the PC version can keep a better framerate and have smoother controls I might pick that up down the line.
Other than the freezing and the GTA style chop chop chop framerate when other characters are on screen it seemed pretty nice. Love the music, the lighting effects, and the expansive world. Still need to get used to the controls, the analogue sensitivity seems wierd. Sometimes it feels too sensitive, sometimes not enough. If the PC version can keep a better framerate and have smoother controls I might pick that up down the line.
PotatoeMasher
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Anyone got any tips on lockpicking manually?
I can only get one pin locks to open. When using auto-pick i've gotten four-pin locks to open...
I think I'm missing something...
I can only get one pin locks to open. When using auto-pick i've gotten four-pin locks to open...
I think I'm missing something...
The Shadow
Member
Can't wait 'till some tweak guides start popping up on the net.
My game just froze again, maybe 15 mins past where the last freeze was. I even did the whole "hold A when booting the game to clear cache" thing after the first freeze.
If the game keeps crashing several times an hour forcing me to quicksave every 5 mins I'm seriously going to get pissed.
If the game keeps crashing several times an hour forcing me to quicksave every 5 mins I'm seriously going to get pissed.
The "Bethesda is in bed with Microsoft!" conspiracy theories are really stupid and not exactly true.
PC gamers like me really don't *need* to complain because The Elder Scrolls IV is:
- first PC RPG with bumpmapping on majority of textures (Arx Fatalis got it maybe on 5-10 textures through the entire game)
- first PC RPG with physics
- just an awesome game from what I read
Of course we *can* complain and no number of 360 fans singing praises will take this right away from us.
PC gamers like me really don't *need* to complain because The Elder Scrolls IV is:
- first PC RPG with bumpmapping on majority of textures (Arx Fatalis got it maybe on 5-10 textures through the entire game)
- first PC RPG with physics
- just an awesome game from what I read
Of course we *can* complain and no number of 360 fans singing praises will take this right away from us.
FrenchMovieTheme
Member
i think i might have to restart.
* edit - i will respect the boards wishes
i killed a bunch of people and joined the dark brotherhood. now everyone is blackballing me and treating me like a common criminal!
also, you know you can quick warp to a lot of places on the map right?
also, you know you can quick warp to a lot of places on the map right?
* edit - i will respect the boards wishes
FrenchMovieTheme
Member
:lol what??
Pedigree Chum
Banned
FrenchMovieTheme said:
Fuck that, kill everyone and take their shit.
I'm going to THE most evil thief ever.
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