Your Oblivion Experience

[TheKnight]

I got Oblivion a little under a year ago (shortly after it came out) and had nothing but trouble with it. I got it before I upgraded my PC to this current one, and while I could run it only on really low settings, it never crashed. But when I upgraded, it did nothing BUT crash, on my better PC, which was designed around the reccomended requirements. Now as I'm doing another spring update I'm wondering if it will run Oblivion at all this time, as while there where many things I disliked about the game, it was still a decient game on its own.

I was wondering if anyone else has had a bad experience with Oblivion crashing on "good enough" pc's?

[tehgeek]

Did you make sure to get all the patches each time before trying to run it? I can't give you that much help sorry, I installed it, played a few minutes and uninstalled it.

[TheKnight]

Disliked it that much?

[Pel]

hmm i never played it, heard a bunch of hype over it till it released, then it all went away. so i figured it wasnt worth buying ^^

[Taimh]

I used to play it, sometimes outdoors it stuttered slightly when turning but had no problems with it crashing.

Personally I think Oblivion is pretty good, some of my friends pretty much lived in it for a few months, I didn't like it as much as Morrowind admitedly but it's not a bad game in my eyes, just a bit too much candy and not enough game

[TheKnight]

Yeah my overall game-based dissopointments where:

*Ragdolls -- Everything looked crap when it died

*Radiant AI -- It was an outright lie

*Leveled Lists -- Eventually the common theves where wearing full plate armour or even dwarven stuff

*AI Leveling with you -- Made leveling pointless

*Blunt -- Axes became blunt weapons for some reason

*Blades -- All swords/daggers became "bladed" weapons so there was no point in using many of them

*Psychic guards -- In morrowind secret murder and theft was easy. In oblivion, they already know...(see minority report)

*Beating reccomended sys req's still resulted in poor gameplay

*Being forced to know magic (ruins a few classes/playstyles for me)

*AI commoners having armour/nice weapons like it was a common thing

*Bodies in the street not causing a particularly bad reaction

*Voice acters -- there where 4 total I swear. One for the Emperor, one guy for all the "human/Orc" males, one girl for all the "human/orc" femals, one guy for all the "beast male" voices, and one girl for all the "beast female" voices.

*No mounted combat

*Armour and weapons simply too easy to get

And a few other things here and there...

[Cromulent]

Other than that it was a great game then?

Originally Posted by TheKnight

Yeah my overall game-based dissopointments where:

*Ragdolls -- Everything looked crap when it died

*Radiant AI -- It was an outright lie

*Leveled Lists -- Eventually the common theves where wearing full plate armour or even dwarven stuff

*AI Leveling with you -- Made leveling pointless

*Blunt -- Axes became blunt weapons for some reason

*Blades -- All swords/daggers became "bladed" weapons so there was no point in using many of them

*Psychic guards -- In morrowind secret murder and theft was easy. In oblivion, they already know...(see minority report)

*Beating reccomended sys req's still resulted in poor gameplay

*Being forced to know magic (ruins a few classes/playstyles for me)

*AI commoners having armour/nice weapons like it was a common thing

*Bodies in the street not causing a particularly bad reaction

*Voice acters -- there where 4 total I swear. One for the Emperor, one guy for all the "human/Orc" males, one girl for all the "human/orc" femals, one guy for all the "beast male" voices, and one girl for all the "beast female" voices.

*No mounted combat

*Armour and weapons simply too easy to get

And a few other things here and there...

[tehgeek]

Originally Posted by TheKnight

Disliked it that much?

Pretty much, yep. Was "clunky" and just "awkward" feeling. Just didn't have a good overall feel to me I guess. I know people that treated it as if it was a gift from the gods though, thus why I tried it.

[TheKnight]

I agree with the clunky part. It didn't "feel" right when I attacked something. The death animations didn't help either, nor the hyper fast scabbarding of ones weapon.

[dirtymeat80]

Rented it for X360 when it first came out, and put in countless hours. I did enjoy the game, but got glitched on a Vampire quest, so I was stuck as a Vampire for the rest of my days.....quit soon after, cause as cool as it is.......damn was it a pain.

Glad I rented instead of bought, cause I sure wasn't starting over - but I did enjoy those few weeks of non-stop playing.