"God's Beard!"
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Ok so I bought this game a while back, but it ran like shit on my 6600 and it seemed really boring at the time, kinda like Morrowind. It was just too open, and the insta-warp was really lame to me. Maybe I just spent too much time exploring every single one of those damn mines that you find everywhere for crappy randomized loot, but this time the game really synched with me.
Now that I'm playing with my 8800GT, everything runs great and looks awesome(or, I'm sure it does, I had trouble noticing the difference at first after beating Crysis lol). I made a badass Ghengis Khan as my character(Combat specialty w/heavy armor, athletics, acrobatics, blade, marksmanship, sneak, security, born under shadow), and the guard asked me if I was sure I wanted to be a mongolian :lol I wanted to take screenshots, but print screen isn't working and I was never able to take them in oblivion for some reason...
Anyway, now that I'm doing quests instead of spelunking(11 active quests lol), the game really works, because I have all kinds of options without being want for something to do or getting bored. I'm amember or the fighters guild, mages guild, thieves guild and the Dark Brotherhood(if I kill someone for the DB do I get my thief license revoked?), my current play style is to do quests while simultaneously robbing everyone blind(using Moonshadow for stuff I really want, it's a free steal even when they're looking right at you!) I still don't like randomized loot, though, it takes out the (only) fun that I had in Morrowind, knowing I could sneak in and steal cool weapons really early on. I also enjoy long walks on the beach and picking flowers at sunset.
My favorite part so far is the Arena, by far. I love the feeling you get when you walk through the ramp up to the gate, it really feels like you're heading into an epic death match. The Blademaster rules as well, how much damn voiceacting is in this game? I loved planning out the fights, aiming an arrow at their head before the fight begins, firing once the gates have dropped then quickly switching to the sword and shield, jumping over their head when they charge at me, flipping around and slicing their neck while circling around to their left so they always hit my shield when the swing.
This place gave me more money then everywhere else combined.
Right now I'm having trouble with the first Mage quest at Anvil. I keep walking down the road to Kvatch, but I never get attacked or anything. I wound up just going into Kvatch and sealing the gate to Oblivion for some jewel, which is cool, I guess. I also found 3 of those nilbog roots or whatever, I need to find an alchemist for that crap. Oh, I almost forgot. I found a farm with some empty slave houses, and after I finished stealing all their crops, I broke in to the big house only to alert the residents, who are apparently invincibe. I don't know who gets knocked out by 12 arrows to the chest, but they must be important to the story or something.
Wow! I've done a lot of stuff in maybe 10 hours or so! And to think I've barely explored anything and only visited 3 or 4 towns and only broke into like 3 houses! And I don't even have the expansion packs. Oh crap there's story quests, lol I gotta find jauffre :lol
Now that I'm playing with my 8800GT, everything runs great and looks awesome(or, I'm sure it does, I had trouble noticing the difference at first after beating Crysis lol). I made a badass Ghengis Khan as my character(Combat specialty w/heavy armor, athletics, acrobatics, blade, marksmanship, sneak, security, born under shadow), and the guard asked me if I was sure I wanted to be a mongolian :lol I wanted to take screenshots, but print screen isn't working and I was never able to take them in oblivion for some reason...
Anyway, now that I'm doing quests instead of spelunking(11 active quests lol), the game really works, because I have all kinds of options without being want for something to do or getting bored. I'm amember or the fighters guild, mages guild, thieves guild and the Dark Brotherhood(if I kill someone for the DB do I get my thief license revoked?), my current play style is to do quests while simultaneously robbing everyone blind(using Moonshadow for stuff I really want, it's a free steal even when they're looking right at you!) I still don't like randomized loot, though, it takes out the (only) fun that I had in Morrowind, knowing I could sneak in and steal cool weapons really early on. I also enjoy long walks on the beach and picking flowers at sunset.
My favorite part so far is the Arena, by far. I love the feeling you get when you walk through the ramp up to the gate, it really feels like you're heading into an epic death match. The Blademaster rules as well, how much damn voiceacting is in this game? I loved planning out the fights, aiming an arrow at their head before the fight begins, firing once the gates have dropped then quickly switching to the sword and shield, jumping over their head when they charge at me, flipping around and slicing their neck while circling around to their left so they always hit my shield when the swing.
The slave trio was bullshit, they kept knocking me down and it was the only match where I got close to dying. I kind of feel bad for not finding out the half-blood prince's origins, what the hell was he, anyway? Now that I'm the Grand Champion, how come I can only come back once a week for a measly couple hundred gold? does this go anywhere? Oh, and I kinda killed my fan. whoops.
Right now I'm having trouble with the first Mage quest at Anvil. I keep walking down the road to Kvatch, but I never get attacked or anything. I wound up just going into Kvatch and sealing the gate to Oblivion for some jewel, which is cool, I guess. I also found 3 of those nilbog roots or whatever, I need to find an alchemist for that crap. Oh, I almost forgot. I found a farm with some empty slave houses, and after I finished stealing all their crops, I broke in to the big house only to alert the residents, who are apparently invincibe. I don't know who gets knocked out by 12 arrows to the chest, but they must be important to the story or something.
Wow! I've done a lot of stuff in maybe 10 hours or so! And to think I've barely explored anything and only visited 3 or 4 towns and only broke into like 3 houses! And I don't even have the expansion packs. Oh crap there's story quests, lol I gotta find jauffre :lol