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I love these games! I kicked ASS in Oblivion--I was the baddest MF'er on the planet. In Skyrim, I hope the tombs have more variety--they kind of all looked the same. Really, that was the only suggestion I'd have. I have a new system partially built with Skyrim in mind (meaning I use it for business, but I don't need a badass video card for business ). I am so pumped, I might take an ax out and chop holes through the wall.

I couldn't get into Oblivion for some reason. I really have a tough time getting into first person games, the only one I really finished was Fallout 3. You'd think I wouldn't mind since its on the same engine, maybe I need to give it another chance.

Based on the amount of dlc they made for oblivion, I fully expect the dl for skyrim to be bigger and better and for there to be more of it. Theyre already saying that skyrim has over 300 hours of gameplay, and I'd love to see big chunks added to that via dlc

I thought Oblivion was the best game I have ever played. I never did give Morrowwind a chance as I stopped playing after about 2 hours. I couldn't get into it, like my brother, because of the poor graphics. I think a lot of that was due to how pumped up I was about Oblivion's because I can get into other games with poor graphics like zelda, mario 64, etc.

When it comes to Skyrim I think it has the potential to be the best game created for those who like rpg's. The only worry is I think the amount of desire Morrowind and Oblivion fans have had for this installment has been second to none. If the game isn't incredible people will be very upset. So I like cautious but very optimistic.

On a side note: I hope I can kill someone and own their house now instead of the house just sitting there under that person's name. I found some great Oblivion property I wanted but could never get.

My two complaints from Oblivion:

Dungeon Regeneration -- If I wiped out a pack of vampires, why would they suddenly be back? I didn't explore every cave because I knew there wouldn't be secret areas hidden in them, just a random assortment of level-scaled creatures

Level-scaling -- Part of what makes games like these fun is testing the boundaries of your character's skills. I built a unique character to see how he fits in the world around me, I don't want the world shifting to match my progression. I often kept my character from leveling, so I didn't have to see demons popping out of every nook and cranny anytime I stepped off a path to take a piss.

Here's what Bethesda said about level-scaling in Skyrim, with some context from a blog posting:

"Most RPGs have a built-in reward for your painstaking efforts to grow stronger than the fierce, two-foot-tall sewer rats of the world: you get to beat the stuffing out of the baddies who hung you from flagpoles and gave you swirlies back in the day.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, though? Not so much.

Instead, enemies’ levels would scale with yours, or washed up enemies would be replaced with something more capable of snapping you like a particularly sob-prone twig. As a result, players complained that the game lacked a tangible sense of progression, and it served as a small red mark on an otherwise fantastic game.

Fortunately, this time around, Bethesda’s learned its lesson.

“Since people are asking, wanted to briefly touch on level scaling. All our games have had some amount of randomness/leveling based on player level. Skyrim’s is similar to Fallout 3′s, not Oblivion’s,” wrote a Bethesda community manager on the game’s official forums.

Fallout 3′s level-scaling, of course, was much less pronounced and far more refined. In other words, no terrifying three-eyed gorilla monsters until we’ve got the gear, stats, and (hopefully) psychological preparation to deal with them."

49 days and 17 hours....Just thought this thread could use a countdown clock

A suggestion to those who have very nice computers. Pretty much every Bethesda game can be taken to the next level on PC. There are huge modding communities that really add tons of free content to the games. I'm thinking of buying a new graphics card so I can play on PC.

Loved fallout 3, never played oblivion, will I like this?

roger that

i'm so effing pumped for this.

I just sold my 360 b/c I hadn't used it for over a year, but I'm seriously considering buying the new model just for this game. Oblivion was titties.

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