27th March 2006, 1:17 PM
Quote:First of all, the landscape was ripped directly out of Lord of the Rings.
That's one of the things that really stands out as an improvement. In Morrowind, everything was a shade of brown and there was an intense amount of fog everywhere all the time. That's all changed though: Oblivion uses much more natural colors, the towns are excellently crafted, and you can see a long ways.
Quote:though I very highly doubt that it has true variety now...
Why would you want to go around in a game such as this and get into long complex dialogues with people? And what would you talk about anyway aside from a few main issues regarding the world in general? Regardless of that, do you go around getting in conversations with random people in real life anway? Yeah, the NPCs aren't all that much different from each other but they do carry out their own lives in Oblivion: walking around town, going to sleep at night, and carrying out their daily routine. It might be nice if you had a long list of things to talk to random people about sometimes, but honestly, I wouldn't want to spend hours on end talking to NPCs regardless of how real the conversations were.
Oblivion is all about action and exploration, which is does very well.
Quote:(Oh yes, and is it really necessary to have such stupid combat in these games? This is a PC RPG, darnit! Give it PC RPG combat! And by that I don't mean Diablo...)
The combat style is fine the way it is. It works and it doesn't copy other games. If I want an RPG that plays like KOTOR, then I'll play that.
Quote:... don't expect good quests
How about a quest where you have to spy on someone to find out how mountain lions are getting into a woman's basement? Or convincing vampire hunters to leave town? Or following a person around town to see who they meet up with and what they do? Or travelling to a distant cave to get your mage's staff? Or criss-crossing the country to find the cure for your vamprism? Or traveling into another person's dream to bring them back to the real world? Or finding out what happened to a woman's worthless husband? Or helping the residents of a town oppressed by city guards?
Sometimes you get the scorpion.