Imp the Dimp
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And a an incredibly poorly designed RPG.
I consider Morrowind one of the most impactful and memorable gaming experiences I've ever had and as soon as Bethesda started promoting Oblivion (which was in mid to late 2005 I think), the game blew my mind. I remember things like "Radiant AI" (which didn't make it into the game to the extend Bethesda showed us at all) and other fancy stuff.
Ultimately, I think vanilla Oblivion (I played the 360 version) is one of the worst sequels I have ever played and actually a fucking awful game. I'm talking a 3/10 turd that would have gained little attention had it not been the sequel to Morrowind. The mechanical issues are well known and I won't go into detail as to why the gameplay sucked but even in terms of graphics it wasn't as good as people expected it to be with textures in the distance being hilariously low res on PC and 360 alike. Characters looked awful, the art design was utterly generic and everything just fucking glowed because of an inflated use of HDR or bloom or whatever. It was just ugly as hell.
On top of that there were scaling enemies, scaling loot, scaling quest rewards, copy and paste dungeons, repetitive Oblivion dungeons and frankly, I can't think of a single thing this game did well. Maybe I'm overly bitter because I consider it my most anticipated game ever and was let down like never before or after (in terms of gaming) but I don't see how vanilla Oblivion could have possibly been developed by the same people that managed to create Morrowind (which I replayed multiple times after Oblivion and it is still outstanding).
It was so bad.
I consider Morrowind one of the most impactful and memorable gaming experiences I've ever had and as soon as Bethesda started promoting Oblivion (which was in mid to late 2005 I think), the game blew my mind. I remember things like "Radiant AI" (which didn't make it into the game to the extend Bethesda showed us at all) and other fancy stuff.
Ultimately, I think vanilla Oblivion (I played the 360 version) is one of the worst sequels I have ever played and actually a fucking awful game. I'm talking a 3/10 turd that would have gained little attention had it not been the sequel to Morrowind. The mechanical issues are well known and I won't go into detail as to why the gameplay sucked but even in terms of graphics it wasn't as good as people expected it to be with textures in the distance being hilariously low res on PC and 360 alike. Characters looked awful, the art design was utterly generic and everything just fucking glowed because of an inflated use of HDR or bloom or whatever. It was just ugly as hell.
On top of that there were scaling enemies, scaling loot, scaling quest rewards, copy and paste dungeons, repetitive Oblivion dungeons and frankly, I can't think of a single thing this game did well. Maybe I'm overly bitter because I consider it my most anticipated game ever and was let down like never before or after (in terms of gaming) but I don't see how vanilla Oblivion could have possibly been developed by the same people that managed to create Morrowind (which I replayed multiple times after Oblivion and it is still outstanding).
It was so bad.