Live 12-Hour Oblivion Marathon

HarvardFrankenstein writes "Gamespot's Greg Kasavin will be playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for 12 straight hours tonight (Monday, March 20th) and the entire marathon session will be broadcast live. Kasavin will be 'offering commentary about the experience as it transpires. Subscribers will see a picture-in-picture view of Kasavin as he spends an increasing number of successive hours playing the game, and they will be able to chat with each other over the course of the event.'" The event starts tonight at 6pm PST, if they get started on time.

Re:What has the world come to?

[Hannah E. Davis]

Is it really any worse than watching other people play sports?

Re:Well, remember, this *is* Greg Kasavin.

[ivan256]

I looked into it more.. The HDR lighting and AA combo restriction is only on older cards and nVidia cards because both functions use the same hardware. If you have a Radeon X1xxx you should be able to enable both.

The consensus seems to be that the maximum view distance is farther on a high end PC though.

Re:erm..

[Reapy]

I for one, have been looking forward to Oblivion since I heard it's annoucnment, and the only picture was that silly little picture of the name.

I've been holding off watching videos because I remember running off the ship in morrowind and standing with my mouth agape looking at the fucking amazing water. I jumpped right in that, and ran around in it for a good 15 minutes watching it splash and move around different ways.

Then I remember picking up and throwing silverware and forks and all the "junk" all over the freaken world. It was as cluttered as an ultima game, but in 3d!

So I want that again with oblivion. I want to crawl out of the dungeon and just gape at the amazing world they created.

But, I cracked last night, and watched him play for a bit.

I enjoyed it a lot. I watched for maybe 15 minutes or so. This really reminded me of playing the game with my buddies. It was sort of like we all got the game, unwrapped it, and started plowing along with one guy driving and the rest of us commenting.

I honestly could see myself leaving the window up last night while I was surfing the web and doing other things and watching the wonderful game that is oblivion. I just wanted to save the exploring for myself, so I turned it off.

I enjoyed the reviewers little comments as he played, and I could see him really getting into it, and doing a great job showing off things in the game. It was probably the best type of review you could EVER get for a game.

So I think this was a really cool idea, and wouldn't mind seeing more of these types of things going on.