Oblivion To Be Patched, Sells Well 93
Gamers with Jobs has word that a patch for Oblivion should be expected sometime in the near future. The future official content downloads, at the same time, should be cheaper to obtain. Meanwhile, the game has been burning up the charts, according to Next Generation: "The title has become the fastest-selling Xbox 360 game in North America, and according to The NPD Group, it's currently the best-selling PC game, with the Oblivion Collector's Edition following behind at number 2. NPD also reports that the RPG made up 13 percent of PC game sales during its first week on the market -- more than four times the sales volume of the next best-selling title."
Games.. *sigh* (Score:1)
Re:Games.. *sigh* (Score:3, Insightful)
This pisses me off no end.. (Score:2)
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1) I get not enough room problems, once I emptied a bookshelf, became over encumbered and couldn't drop anyhting, I reloaded.
2) Stuff floats around in my crosshair getting generally in the way
I now only leave things in corpses and chests to make life easier.
the error could be between chair and keyboard though.
Re:Games.. *sigh* (Score:2)
I've never got the no room message except when trying to drag it out of my inventory rather than when using shift-click.
I've found turning in place to drop something elsewhere usually helps with the no-room messqage when dragging items out of my inventory as well.
Mycroft
Re:Games.. *sigh* (Score:1)
Another note to mention is that even though a developer can have as many combinations of hardware as possible, there's no feasible way for them to have them all.
Some games are pickier with hardware than others. I seem to remember Command & Conquer Generals being very picky about your memory. If you had any error at all, the game would crash. People that had other games running fine (UT2k4, RTCW) had to get new memory because the old memory was causing C&C Generals to crash. I was one of them.
Re:Games.. *sigh* (Score:2)
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Nope. I'm using the onboard sound that came with my Abit A7N. It only rarely happens anyway, so its not that big a deal. I played most of Saturday and I only had it crash once in the evening. Since I work M-F, I only have it happen once every couple of days. That isn't too much to worry about, and I can wait for the official patch to come out.
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Re:Games.. *sigh* (Score:3, Insightful)
As for patches within weeks, think about it this way: Bethesda's beta testing probably encompassed a few hundred machines at most. Upon release, the game was being run on hundreds of thousands of machines with various hardware and software configurations. Bugs are inevitable which weren't discovered in the testing process. The fact that they responde
Re:Games.. *sigh* (Score:2)
This isn't a case of Q&A being terrible, this is a case of Oblivion being really really big, and not possibly having the time to test EVERYTHING.
As an owner of a copy of Oblivion... (Score:2, Insightful)
I'm aware the parent post was just a quick blurt out to get a comment up, but Oblivion has been a great exa
Re:As an owner of a copy of Oblivion... (Score:1)
Re:Games.. *sigh* (Score:2)
Not surprising (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Not surprising (Score:1)
Re:Not surprising (Score:2)
If you have an amd64 3200+ (Score:2)
Re:Not surprising (Score:3, Informative)
For example: default to detecting and running joystick. Something like half or more of the people I personally know (me included) started the game, and in the first 'scene' ended up creeping or lunging one way or another, and once you hit a wall (or bars) you were unable to move....until you figured out that it was reading the JOYSTICK input. And no, as far
Re:Not surprising (Score:1, Informative)
open My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Oblivion.ini
There's a line in there bUseJoystick=1 (or something like that). Change the 1 to a 0.
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The manual was a guide on how to avoid bugs. (Score:3, Funny)
Take this excerpt from page 53:
You may be tempted to enter the ancestrol tomb of C'Baothag, which holds silks, spices, and unimagineable riches beyond measure. DON'T. Entering this cave will cause the game to crash to your desktop, erasing all your saved games. You have been warned.
Re:The manual was a guide on how to avoid bugs. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:The manual was a guide on how to avoid bugs. (Score:1)
Re:The manual was a guide on how to avoid bugs. (Score:1)
So... that's like what, 1e-8 FPS?
Sales of items (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Sales of items (Score:2)
I doubt I will buy any of the plugins from obliviondownloads.com, though hopefully they will release expansion packs for Oblivion (like they did for Morrowind) and I already expect to be buying all of them this time around (unfortunately I had bought the
Re:Sales of items (Score:2)
Re:Sales of items (Score:2)
Re:Sales of items (Score:1)
Exact figures about how well it sold weren't stated, but the tone leads me to believe that it sold way more than he thought it should have.
Impressive. (Score:2)
Hehehe.
The Patch and Paid Content for the PC (Score:1)
Now granted this may not appeal strongly to those of us in the community that can go out and get our own free content, it could certainly be of some benefit to a standard, non-power user.
Anyway, I'd be interested to see what this company may try and do to bridge the gap and bring in additional incremental revenue.
Re:The Patch and Paid Content for the PC (Score:2)
Hehe... (Score:2)
100/1 Fire damage
100/1 Shock damage
100/1 Frost damage
100/1 Drain Health (will return if it doesn't kill the creature)
Almost anything falls to the first hit of that combo, which eats 250 of my 340 SP. Then wait for me to recharge, spot the next enemy on the horizon, BAM! I finished all the Arena quests today without breaking a sweat. Did Necromancer's Amulet and Bloo
Re:Hehe... (Score:3, Informative)
Morrowind had the stupid Breton/Atronach combo that allowed you to cast a spell summoning an ances
Re:Hehe... (Score:2)
Seriously, despite how easy it might make the game if you level your character a lot, don't you think a high-level wizard
This is fantasy people
And if you don't like the role, play a thief or fighter. Its a single player game, its not like there's balance needed like in MMORPGs.
Re:Hehe... (Score:2)
Re:Holy Crap, you mean... (Score:3, Interesting)
Speaking as one of the people that bought Morrowind for the XBox, I'll tell you why I did that: I had no clue about the plugins on the PC version, I didn't even know there was a PC version. Morrowind was the first time I had ever heard of the Elder Scrolls.
Re:Holy Crap, you mean... (Score:1)
Re:Holy Crap, you mean... (Score:2)
1. Playing it on a 40, 50, or in one case, 60" TV, on their couch.
2. Running it at excellent graphical settings, in HD, on a video game system that costs about as much as a graphics card that can match the performance.
Re:Holy Crap, you mean... (Score:1)
PC Version: Mods (they have nice UI mods too), Mouse is nice for managing inventory, and if you like settings its full of em.
Xbox 360 Version: Controller great for intense combat, no settings to tweak.
Re:Holy Crap, you mean... (Score:2)
Re:Holy Crap, you mean... (Score:3, Interesting)
oblivion needs to be patched (Score:1)
***Is there anyone here playing Oblivion that can tell me why level scaling doesn't suck???***
i went through the first 'main' mission with a level 1 fighter with no problem. level 9 thief and i cant get past the first guy. its even that much more impossible with my level 33 mage.
i did find a mod that tries to remove the traditional RPG where gaining a level will help you rather than hurt you (oscuro), but its not perfect and i'd rather have an official fix from bethesda, cause a
Re:SOLUTION (Score:2)
Re:oblivion needs to be patched (Score:2)
On the other hand theres also plugins that slow level so it takes longer to level up, and many other things to make the game harder (great if you find Oblivion to be too easy).
Re:oblivion needs to be patched (Score:2)
The level scaling does work well in your scenario. If you play a bard, for example, or your major skills are non-combat you can easily get killed by a mountain lion. If you level as a result of mercantile, alchemy, and speechcraft, this does not help much in combat (the alchemy helps a little). Those 3 skills don't
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Re:oblivion needs to be patched (Score:2, Informative)
You gain the most by focusing on skills not in your chosen skill set
Re:oblivion needs to be patched (Score:3, Interesting)
Sure if you like being a magic/alchemy nerd that can barely hold all of his potions let alone armor and a weapon.
The leveling system in the Elder Scroll games were always 'OK' as long as you didn't try making a 'jack-of-all-trades master-of-none' character. Try creating a character class with athletics, acrobatics,
Re:oblivion needs to be patched (Score:3, Informative)
The concept isn't terrible. It's the ballance that is broken.
You're having trouble because you're not an all-out combat mage. Your magic and magic regeneration scale up when you level, so if you had been using destruction magic all this time you'd still be taking those guys out easy. If you want to be any other type of character, well... Sorry, you're out of luck.
Re:oblivion needs to be patched (Score:2)
One reason is something you touched on - because leveling in Oblivion is as easy as holding down the "C" button, there would be no challenge to the game if you could beat everything just by gaining more levels. It would add a "grind" aspect to the game that many people feel detracts from the fun.
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Re:Best Buy (Score:2)
Here [xbox.com] is a pretty complete list of all the announced 360 games and release dates (if they haven't already been released).
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Hmm (Score:1)
Re:Hmm (Score:1)
Any sells would be "well" since it only costs, what, the player and MS for the bandwidth? They got all the suckers for that price range so they're lowering it to get all the suckers who held out because they thought buying content for their game (which they bought too) was stupid but hey, now that it's cheaper....
Re:Hmm (Score:2)
Re:Hmm (Score:1)
Level scaling? (Score:1)
If the patch fixes this (or makes it optional) I might actually consider buying Oblivion...
Re:Level scaling? (Score:2)
Re:Level scaling? (Score:2)
BUy it. It's worth it, even if it doesn't live up to Morrowind.
Off topic (Score:2)
Content addons? (Score:2)
Re:Content addons? (Score:1)
According to my Xfire profile [xfire.com], I've been playing for 28 hours. Already, I'm finished with the thieves', assassins' and mages' guilds, and completed every random quest I could find inside of all the major settlements.
Next in line is the closing of the random Oblivion gates. They're annoyingly redundant, but luckily, nothing can stop the 'Fox. This should be finished soon, considering that I can close a gate in about five minutes if I try hard enough.
So in conclusion, while Oblivion may be large, it is
Re:Content addons? (Score:2)
The patch... (Score:1)
Lack of Decisions in Oblivion (Score:1)
That said, the biggest annoyance was the lack of decisions you can make during a quest. The quests and dialog choices are on rails. If a quest has an objective, often you have to perform that objective to the letter. There were many times during the game where I would have liked to betray someone, perform a quest in a different manner or just flat out refuse to do something. Each time I found the game pushing me down a specific path. While I love
Simple example of huge scaling problem (Score:2)
The monsters have scaled up to match your level.
Your allies have NOT!!!!
Allies die quickly, you are stuck alone fighting the hordes.
(of course if you decide to play the game casually, do a bit of thief, do a bit of combat, do some magic, you know... have fun..... then you will be screwed as you level up! Exploring the average dungeon soon becomes a massive chore of running and healing from every single creature.. UNFUN)
Re:Simple example of huge scaling problem (Score:1)