Gaming’s defining moment in the 21st century was the release of Halo 3. There is absolutely no arguing with this, whether you like Halo or not. For better or for worse. Honorary mentions go to Grand Theft Auto 3, Skyrim, WoW and CoD: Modern Warfare 2.
I played it more recently and it still held up. I thought I’d just try it out for a bit for laughs and then delete it again, but I ended up playing it for 200+ hours. Did the guild questlines, did the arena, just fucked off and explored stuff, closed a bunch of Oblivion gates, etc. There are not that many 15 year old games that hold up like that.
Oblivion set a new standard for open world games by making it so that all of the shit to do in the game is easily accessible so that players don’t have to work too hard to find activities and making said shit to do not feel like a slog. Yeah you could just have players run into a goblin cave and kill everything, or you could have it set up so that they first see a bunch of goblins fighting each other with a poor farm girl begging for help because her family is getting caught in the middle of the conflict, thus setting up proper motivation for spelunking into said cave and wrapping the experience together with something that will keep it memorable.
Oblivion is Apocalypse of gaming all smart people stopped right there. Quest marker! Retard dialog system for kids who can’t read. A fantasy world was replaced with Middle Ages theme. RP combat replace with action. Golden age of FPS ended. CRT left the markets.
nah, oblivion did it right. quest markers and fast travel and shit weren’t intrusive like they were in skyrim. you still got to explore and fill out your map and just adventure. why even bother talking about melee combat in a TES game, if you aren’t using magic and ranged shit that’s on you
it didnt.
Oblivion replaced the intriguing dark magic world of Morrowind with generic fantasy, biggest fucking downgrade.
But from gameplay, RPG standpoint its massive improvement how it feels and what you can do, its got proper mechanics now whatever than means
I just couldn’t stand the dungeons. The quests were great but every single dungeon save for a couple unique ones were the exact same layout over and over and over again copy pasted. Completely ruined the game for me. At least Skyrim’s endless draugr caves had slightly different maps for each dungeon.
Coping with what? I enjoy Oblivion. You don’t. You cope.
yes, cope
lol are you retarded, anon?
>lol
cope,retard
I think you should cope.
Unironically I felt that other than the stat point system (other than how to gain +5s) was the perfect blend of complex and simple that was perfect for the mass appeal TES was going for.
Oblivion is objectively a terrible game but I can’t help but find it immensely cosy to play. I think the soundtrack does all the heavy lifting.
Skyrim did everything better
why were the characters so ugly?
Because making 800 attractive characters is hard. Characters who are important/you speak to a lot tend to have okay faces.
Using the game’s character creator, you could make a good looking male/female so it was ok.
Oblivion is factually awful.
Name a better game besides Dark Souls 1. And no, not Skyrim, I said a BETTER game.
Morrowind.
touche.
But Oblivion is still playable today and Morrowind is tougher to get past in terms of how it has aged.
>oblivion
>soulless trash
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Idc what anyone says, glass armor in Oblivion was awesome. Shiny green meteorite crystal weapons and armor = my kinda shit.
I didn’t like the armor, especially the helmet, but the weapons were really cool
soulless trash. if you likey kys
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>soulless
>end game weapons are shiny and glowy
Pick one.
better than skyrim, worse than morrowind.
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Gaming’s defining moment in the 21st century was the release of Halo 3. There is absolutely no arguing with this, whether you like Halo or not. For better or for worse. Honorary mentions go to Grand Theft Auto 3, Skyrim, WoW and CoD: Modern Warfare 2.
Halo 2 was more significant than Halo 3. On release, people meme’d about how Halo 3 was just Halo 2 HD.
Because you were still young when you played it.
I played it more recently and it still held up. I thought I’d just try it out for a bit for laughs and then delete it again, but I ended up playing it for 200+ hours. Did the guild questlines, did the arena, just fucked off and explored stuff, closed a bunch of Oblivion gates, etc. There are not that many 15 year old games that hold up like that.
Oblivion set a new standard for open world games by making it so that all of the shit to do in the game is easily accessible so that players don’t have to work too hard to find activities and making said shit to do not feel like a slog. Yeah you could just have players run into a goblin cave and kill everything, or you could have it set up so that they first see a bunch of goblins fighting each other with a poor farm girl begging for help because her family is getting caught in the middle of the conflict, thus setting up proper motivation for spelunking into said cave and wrapping the experience together with something that will keep it memorable.
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Oblivion? Yes, it is pure kino.
why morroshitters always come in droves when there’s an oblivion thread up, go discuss about your dark elf homosexualry in your own thread
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because morrowind threads are filled with 5 different schizos spamming autistic copypastas
>that video
>pure fucking soul
really wish I just stopped gaming here at the peak and focused on school
Oblivion is Apocalypse of gaming all smart people stopped right there. Quest marker! Retard dialog system for kids who can’t read. A fantasy world was replaced with Middle Ages theme. RP combat replace with action. Golden age of FPS ended. CRT left the markets.
Oblivion is the great BOOMER filter of gaming.
nah, oblivion did it right. quest markers and fast travel and shit weren’t intrusive like they were in skyrim. you still got to explore and fill out your map and just adventure. why even bother talking about melee combat in a TES game, if you aren’t using magic and ranged shit that’s on you
>That horrible semi-slouched posture
I could fucking MOG everyone in this game just by not having scoliosis
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Only the battle stance. When your weapon is sheathed they stand normally.
How could it be the peak with it’s overshadowed by Morrowind? It’s a plateau at best.
>peak
every play through I move the "difficulty" bar all the way left
fuck this game
It just sucks, the scaling and copy pasted dungeons ruin the game. Best TES soundtrack though
it didnt.
Oblivion replaced the intriguing dark magic world of Morrowind with generic fantasy, biggest fucking downgrade.
But from gameplay, RPG standpoint its massive improvement how it feels and what you can do, its got proper mechanics now whatever than means
I just couldn’t stand the dungeons. The quests were great but every single dungeon save for a couple unique ones were the exact same layout over and over and over again copy pasted. Completely ruined the game for me. At least Skyrim’s endless draugr caves had slightly different maps for each dungeon.
Yeah. I would have loved more unique dungeons.
You’re the one making the assertation, why don’t you tell us?
I honestly think that a really big part of it is [spoilers] soul. [/spoiler]
I have such vivid memories of emerging from the sewers for the first time as a child and [spoilers] scrotes tongue my anus [/spoiler]
classic obliviontard
Blessed Oblivion enjoyer is too busy enjoying Oblivion to spend all his time on Ganker. Hence why he didn’t know spoiler tags don’t work here.
Idk I just kept going back to Morrowind until Skyrim came out.
skyrim is better
actually, daggerfall is better
>actually, daggerfall is better
you’ve never played it though
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i haven’t?
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bitch
at nothing.
Yes.
cope
>can’t enjoy Oblivion
>blames others
>doesn’t blame himself
Very sad, anon.
do keep coping
Coping with what? I enjoy Oblivion. You don’t. You cope.
yes, cope
lol are you retarded, anon?
>lol
cope,retard
I think you should cope.
Unironically I felt that other than the stat point system (other than how to gain +5s) was the perfect blend of complex and simple that was perfect for the mass appeal TES was going for.
DON’T DO THIS IT CREATES MUSTARD GAS
-grabs you by the throat- back the fuck off!?!?
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>it feel stiff, clunky and annoying to play, the bloom is disgusting and the UI hurts my eyes
wheres the lie
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>cancerjak
Drown yourself
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Because it fulfills two most important requirements of an RPG
>build variety and replayability
>amazing quest writing
Oblivion quest writing is overrated as all hell. Decent, but not some shining beacon of quests that all games should strive towards
I love the guild storylines. The main storyline is good too. It’s only flaw is that Morrowind surpasses it.
its*
Yes thank you, grammar anon.
oblivion was a shining beacon of color and wonder in the middle of the grey / brown apocalypse generation of gaming. shame skyrim didnt follow suit
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Based Patrician of Ganker.
it feel stiff, clunky and annoying to play, the bloom is disgusting and the UI hurts my eyes
>the most basic vanilla looking shit hurts my eyes
How do you function at all anon?
I’ll take oblivion’s soulfoul UI over skyrim’s minimalism appleshit meme ui any day.
This is a game that actually looks better if you turn all of that post-processing garbage off.
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Can’t wait to play Oblivion on my Steam Deck while I chill in bed.
Very comfy anon
damn I have a laptop but it’s not so great to play Oblivion with in bed
hope the deck is a success so I can buy one in 5 years
no