To all those getting Oblivion
 

what are YOU going to do in it?

i will use the a.i to totally rob people and occasionally commit some pwnage against happy innocent

Hmm, if its anything like morrowind the story will be complete pants, so i'll spend my time robbing everything not nailed down.

forks, candles, plates, vases, books, pillows...

anything really.

The first of a series of many Oblivion polls to come, no doubt :D I think I'd just follow the storyline and try to take up as many sidequests as possible, and try to do all the "funny stuff" on a replay :)

I loved destroying entire villages. Just to find out later that I was lonely with everyone dead. :)!

Sean

I'll follow the storyline, but also do a lot of things on the side, it all depends on what I feel like doing at any given moment. However, I probably won't play Oblivion till I upgrade and that might take a reeeally long time.

I'll probably start playing so that at first I'll do a lot of sidequests, then get gradually more interested in the main storyline. Or then I'll play them and just a bit of the main storyline until I get bored and have a longer or shorter break from the game, and when I get back start playing, I'll play almost only the main story in a rush, get quite far, then lose interest again (that's what happened to me in Morrowind, though at time I was a novice in the genre... Well, maybe I still am, but, you know...)

OK, actually, I'll do a lot of side quests and explore, but also do the main storyline, in an about 65-35 ratio, probably. In exploring I'll also probably do a lot of stuff that has nothing to do with anything, except maybe very much later, when I've either totally forgotten about it or something else which makes all weird...

RPGs are one of the ways I express my supressed kleptomania.

The others being adventure games and Thief-like FPS? :D

:P What a dumb question! Of course I'm doing EVERYTHING in it!

Well, everything my conscience lets me get away with, that is. I can't help it, I'm not like most of you shameless gits ;), I can't ever be totally evil. As in real life I gotta be good here and there, even if it's helping a little old monster cross the street. :shifty:

;) Xbox360 is your friend.

Yes, especially the Broken Sword series! Also, MacGyver is like porn to me in this regard.

Porn? Yech. I never could get past that mullet. Eiw.

I said other since im gonna do the main quest in a funny and reckless way :D

Well thats the only way to play such games. Why not explore the very limits when you can?
I'll play it like I did with Arcanum and Fallout and especially Morrowind. Two or three times to see everything and do what can be done.
Really looking forward to seeing the game!

It would cost me less to upgrade my PC. :)
Xbox 360 is still not officially sold in Croatia and costs more than $500.

Amen to that brother.

Or as we would say:

Spoiler:

Tu u Hrvatskoj nema nicega! A cega ima, to je preskupo!

If it ends up being like Morrowind, being able to still after the main quest is over, then I'll do the main quest and any side quest I run into. Then I'll do all the ones I missed. After the looting and killing are always fun! :D

I'm with others, i'm doing everything.

Yeah im gonna be all nice to the guy untill he is no more use to me then im gonna rob him of everything i can see, maybe even try to pickpocket his trousers n stuff

< dirty mind >

Gonna try to 'steal' his family jewels, eh? http://www.websmileys.com/sm/evil/105.gif

What an odd reply! :P Gaming == escapism. I like to play a character that doesn't resemble me in my real life. A character that does things I would never have the guts to perform in real life. Like, the drunken monk constantly belching in public, the level 555+ "You looking at me?" muscle man (bullet proof to everything). Or the smart bard constantly flirting with pretty women... :shifty: :D

Anyway, I think I'm going to finally pick up a copy of "Arcanum" from somewhere instead. Oblivion can wait, especially since "Morrowind" is enough to last two lifetimes and I haven't played the fantastic Gothic 2 yet, either.

Other: everything... if I have time, I remember putting like 80 hours on just one character in Morrowind.

So its out Today in America and Friday in Europe?
Cant wait! :D

I really hope there's a really big bank or something for me to totally loot.
And to make thieving stuff even FUNNER will be a THIEF-STYLE STEALTH SYSTEM
Excelente.

http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/media_movies.htm

A new movie each day till release :9~

havent read the PC GAMER UK review of it yet, but from what it says on the back of the cover its a 'Must Buy'.

Ebgames tells me its in later this afternoon......*bites fingernails*

This reminds me, GameSpot are doing a 12 hour live playthrough for subscribers later on today. (6pm PT - 6am PT) I'll be asleep for most of that though.

Well, yeah, but wouldn't you want to experience all that for the first time by playing, not by watching?

The Elder Scrolls site says PC Gamer USA gave Oblivion 95%. Also, the Construction Set has been released and is available on the Elder Scrolls site.

How interactive is Oblivion? I think a lot of what I do will depend on that. I haven't played a game that's really interactive in a while, so if Oblivion has that kind of interaction, I'll be doing all sorts of interesting things, just because.

I think the last game to have a really interactive landscape was Half-Life, that allowed me to be completely random.

"C'mon Gordon, you have to go!"
"No! I'm too busy skipping random crates and items across that lake over yonder with my gravity gun."
"... o-kay, have fun with that. Everybody else, move out, we've got Combine incoming!"

The last RPG to really allow for it was Ultima VII, with the possibility of Gothic.

Nothing like planting a barrel of Gunpowder next to Lord British, lighting it and then running like a bat out of freakin' hell.

That's one thing I crave, really, is a genuinely interactive environment. Barring that, I'll try stealing random things and equipping a spoon. If I can use a spoon I'll have hours of random fun killing guards with a spoon.

"... and then I took down the entirety of the Guard phalanx at that outpost o'er there with a spoon."

Then again, depending on how good the AI is, there might be other oppurtunities ...

"Oh, that place wasn't so bad. I simply did the Uhura-dance for the guards which ...lured them away. Then I cleared the place out."
"... but you're an overweight male Khajiit."
"Exactly!"
"... ... The horror. The horror."

Barring all of the above ... I'd have to say stealing everything in sight, like everyone else. That and finding a Dunmer mine, clearing it out and using it for my horde. Just like in Morrowind I'll have one room that's full of one of every item in the game, all neatly laid out. And if those clockwork guards have any problems with that, then they can just talk to my spoon.

It looks pretty interactive. Everything is physically modeled like in HL2, though there is no gravity gun. I wonder if you're able to carry stuff around in your hands. Possibly not.

Oh man that means the mailman is going to make me very happy sometime tomorrow/day after :D I still can't figure out why the collector's edition costs me thesame as the regular one would've :crazy:

I know! Because I hate you! :P







I don't really hate you, silly.

Yeah Fop, the latter is what I was hoping for. That and the absurd hope of being able to drop-kick items. Perhaps in a mod (since it'll probably support modular additions as Morrowind did) ...

*Drop expensive candlestick, PUNT at guard.*
"Ow."
"..."
"..."
"A BEATING!"
"I'm gone." *Flee.*

If anyone wants to see the live GS feed, here it is:
mms://a812.l1165445721.c11654.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/812/11654/v0001/reflector:45721

:)

And I thought I had to be a subscriber to see this...;)

This game is damn amazing. I've already brought up most of my comments on another forum, so I'll do a paste job:






So in other words....I'm loving it :D

God damn you.

Morrowind had the inventory filters aswell didnt it?

Yes.