Why Oblivion?!

[wikkid1]

i see countless posts with people whinin' and bitchin' about things they dont like in Oblivion when compared to Morrowind.

 

but i have yet to see a single post with a reason as to why these people are playing Oblivion. if there are all these things

that Morrowind did right(that Oblivion didnt do) why are you playing Oblivion and not Morrowind?

[Eshenaleros]

as a matter of fact, we all have peeves about certain things, even if we enjoy those things.

 

For instance, I love to read, but I find that if I get too into the book - which I love doing - then I end up going to bed far later than intended. why do I still read then? because I enjoy the other aspects of it. At their heart, people love to complain, and the old hands who played Morrowind have found a way to complain about things that lets others relate to them as well.

[majikmonkee]

I love it simply because I always loved rpg's and fps' and Oblivion is the best of both worlds. I originally played Battlespire and really wanted to love it, Oblivion is what Battlespire should have been.

[Balakirev]

Mods. There are tons of great mods for Morrowind, but conflicts are much more common do to the way the game was constructed. Which isn't a good reason to avoid playing Morrowind, but it is a good reason to play Oblivion with tons of mods.

[Sarya]

People that speak up are not nesessarily the majority of people participating in something. Most users of TesNexus don't post even once and just download the mods. And if you judge by pictures... well, Oblivion pictures can definitely be made prettier and livelier than Morrowind's since Oblivion allows much more picturesque freedom - pose mods, camera and other console commands and stuff. So, the majority is with Oblivion even from the start.

 

The thing where Morrowind wins is immersion and gameplay. For Oblivion this can be fixed by mods to some extent. Apparently, Morrowind's downsides, though mostly graphical, are not that easy to deal with. And people tend to go for graphics nowadays. Not that Oblivion is so great here, but anyway...

 

And another thing. I don't see a point of choosing when I don't have to. So I play... played... both, and with pleasure. I bet I'm not the only one.

 

I disagree about conflicts. Both are rich with them.

[TheSwedishPancake]

The simple faults of Oblivion to which people often refer usually don't cause them to have complete disdain for the game. I can hate the graphics on a game, but does that mean I hate the game? No. I can dislike Oblivion's combat system, but does that mean I dislike Oblivion? Of course not.

 

It is possible to enjoy both games, you know. I play Morrowind and Oblivion quite a bit. I'd honestly have to go with Morrowind being Oblivion's superior, but does that mean I can only play Morrowind? Certainly not; if that were so, I would only be able to play my most favorite game of all time. That wouldn't be very logical, now would it?

[Megatarius]

I play Oblivion because I want to play Oblivion. I looked at Morrowind videos on Youtube and decided I didn't want to play it. I'd rather play the game that looks the prettier, and then mod it to improve the gameplay itself.

 

I complain because it never ceases to amaze me, some of the things I've seen in this game without mods. I grew up on Doom and Duke Nukem 3D. I watched the 3D 1st Person style of gameplay evolve and change. And I find it has gone south compared to how it used to be. Better technology means more work to create it, which means more people hired, which means a less intimate and personal creation process. Doom had about 10 people working on it in 1991-2. Everyone put their hearts into it, and it showed. Now we have a game that was not only rushed for the XBOX 360, but was made by a large group of people in a managed setting. The result is a different kind of game.

 

 

Also, I refuse to let really stupid design decisions slide, like land-locking the big river and lakes, even though they have ships and are part of a central empire. I have no respect for rushing for the XBOX console crowd. GTA IV took forever to come out, and it was worth the wait.

 

 

Nobody complains more about video games than their players. If you don't like seeing it on here, go play Morrowind.

[majikmonkee]

I don't mind seeing it, but I don't necessarily agree either. I grew up with Wolfenstein, Duke, and Battlespire, and I can't help but embrace the things that are an improvement over those games. I can point out things that irked me bad about those old school games when they were new, but they never outweighed my enjoyment of them.

[Megatarius]

I still say those old games had more realistic 1st person. The movement of Bethesda's games is like a hovering camera with weapons glued on the sides. Sure you can look completely up and down, but where's the realistic motion of walking? Why do I feel like I'm flying with footstep sounds tacked on as an afterthought? Those older games are not very impressive technically today, but they were, and still are, visceral and engaging within their own design limitations.

 

I'd rather play Oblivion though, for the scale and the freedom to explore and essentially build your own story around the framework of whatever quest you're doing. I just wish the smaller stuff measured up to my old experience.

 

Oblivion feels like it's designed by people who spend too much time designing games, and not enough time playing them to know how others are done. (I'm not just talking about Doom. GTA IV is a good example of a modern game that Bethesda could take a few cues from.)

[Eshenaleros]

I still say those old games had more realistic 1st person. The movement of Bethesda's games is like a hovering camera with weapons glued on the sides. Sure you can look completely up and down, but where's the realistic motion of walking? Why do I feel like I'm flying with footstep sounds tacked on as an afterthought? Those older games are not very impressive technically today, but they were, and still are, visceral and engaging within their own design limitations.

 

I'd rather play Oblivion though, for the scale and the freedom to explore and essentially build your own story around the framework of whatever quest you're doing. I just wish the smaller stuff measured up to my old experience.

 

Oblivion feels like it's designed by people who spend too much time designing games, and not enough time playing them to know how others are done. (I'm not just talking about Doom. GTA IV is a good example of a modern game that Bethesda could take a few cues from.)

If you want a more immersive first person view, try downloading the new Deadly Reflex v6. Skycaptain has put in the head bobbing while you run, and your hands and arms aren't so static. very immersive