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Oblivion vs Fallout 3? The debate...!

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  • #32
    120_Minutes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    Macker14717 wrote: »
    yeah i know that bud what im sayin is that fps are way better than that crap on a stick

    we dont go into your FPS threads saying FPS are crap do we?

    The games we're discussing are not crap you simply dont like them, "bud"


  • #33
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    FreeOSCAR wrote: »
    Speaking off, what make you off this excellent teaser ?
    Is it wrong that it makes me a little horny??


    DeV.


  • #34
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,504 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    I think my view on this was slightly coloured by my love of fallout 1 and 2 and how ultimately fallout 3 was a prettier, watered down console version.

    While it had lots of neat ideas, I never felt challenged, the story rarely engaged me and the quests were neither challenging or well written. Why have a compass that shows you exactly where you need to go for the next quest? It made it completely unnessecary to think about what had to be done next. Also, the dialogue system was poor when compared with the likes of mass effect. Besides getting some more dialogue options that funnel you into the same outcome, why would you choose to go down the "thinker" character route as opposed to guns blazing? While it was possible to create all kinds of characters in fallout 1/2, fallout 3 forces you to have a combat oriented character. The big miss was the humor, this for me was where the battle would be won or lost.

    Oblivion for me captured a lot of the fantasy world of LOTR and the like, even if the game mechanics and levelling system were far from perfect.

    Oblivion for me, purely because of setting and that it came first. Both games were too simplistic and sacrificed real role playing for hack-and-slash to appeal to a wider market of console gamers.

    I personally don't think games have to be dumbed down to appeal to console gamers, I had a hoot with mass effect, I just think that Bethesda have found a formula they like and are probably going to stick with it for some time to come.


  • #35
    120_Minutes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    Well i just bought the oblivion goty edition today, but as i'm away on holiday next week for 3 weeks, its gonna be at least a month before i can sit down with it, but hey, its something to look forward to when i get home!


  • #36
    me-skywalker
    Registered Users Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭me-skywalker


    0isin wrote: »
    Hi sorry to bother you i was just wondering how to start a debate

    haha brilliant.....


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