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Oblivion (split from PS3 RPG thread)

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  • 18-09-2007 11:44am
    #1
    DarkJager
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    Oblivion: Possibly the best RPG ever made. 100+ hours of gameplay and you can do whatever you want in it.


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    Dont be at yourself
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    Oblivion is one of the most awful games I've ever played.

    Folksoul has been well received in Japan, and it is soon to be released as Folklore over in Ireland. You'll have to stomach some extremely ropey 'oirish' accents though.


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    super_furry
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    NekkidBibleMan wrote:
    Oblivion is one of the most awful games I've ever played.

    Wow. You must have only ever played three or four games then.

    As for RPGs, your best best is to pick up some of the PS2's better games - Dragon Quest, Rogue Galaxy, FFXII, Shin Megami Tensai and wait for the likes of FFXIII or Eternal Sonata. Folklore is pretty average by all accounts.


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    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users Posts: 10,581 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    Wow. You must have only ever played three or four games then.

    Nope, my tastes just aren't attuned to bland, uninspiring, clichéed, under-designed games. But that's an argument for a whole different thread!


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    DarkJager
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    NekkidBibleMan wrote:
    Nope, my tastes just aren't attuned to bland, uninspiring, clichéed, under-designed games. But that's an argument for a whole different thread!


    Cliched games??? What was cliched about Oblivion? You were given a massive free roaming world and left to do whatever you wanted to. The combat system was one of the best I've ever seen in an RPG, and the only real limit to your enjoyment was how well you could use your imagination.


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    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users Posts: 10,581 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself



    Cliched games??? What was cliched about Oblivion? You were given a massive free roaming world and left to do whatever you wanted to. The combat system was one of the best I've ever seen in an RPG, and the only real limit to your enjoyment was how well you could use your imagination.

    What wasn't clichéed about Oblivion? It was the most humdrum, run-of-the-mill fantasy setting that could have been lifted from any one of hundreds of similarly creatively bankrupt books or games. The game is technically impressive, but the massive free-roaming world is wasted when it's setting is so unimaginative and its population so banal.

    The real limit to your enjoyment isn't how well you could use your imagination - it's how well you can cope with the fact that the developers didnt use their imagination.


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    JCDenton
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    I thought I was the only person who thought that!

    For me, the best thing about Oblivion, is the use of it's engine for Fallout 3.

    (Albeit by the same developers)


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    Retr0gamer
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    I really hate the boring Tolkien lite settings of western RPGs like seen in Elder Scrolls games and Gothic and the like. The warcraft one is the only one that interested me because it injected it with some humour and had decent games wrapped around it. Say all you want about Japanese RPGs being linear, at least they create imaginative and interesting universes for their games.
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