The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Game of the Year Edition
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Video Game Reviews of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Game of the Year Edition
Customer Review: Damaged case.
Summary: 4 Stars
I didn't get the game on time, and when I did, the case was damaged. Having said that, this games is amazing. Highly recommended.Customer Review: It is fun but...
Summary: 5 Stars
There are only 2 games I haven't finished. One is Primal on PS2 and this one. It is a seriously great game if you are unemployed because it will take you forever to finish it if that is even possible. The guide to it is as thick as a phone book. It is the equivalent to the modern day dungeons and dragons crowd. Hand to hand combat is pretty straightforward but I never figured out how to do the magical powers to defeat spirits. It is a free roaming game so you can go anywhere. You can also spend alot of time getting your %$%# kicked. You could play this for years and still not finish it.Customer Review: great game
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best games I've ever played on any system. I had this on PC but hadn't played in quite a while and picked this up. There is no other single player rpg that attains the same level of depth as this one. Throw in both expansions for the game of the year edition and you have a great value.Customer Review: Amazing game--lots to do!
Summary: 5 Stars
This game is the next game in the Elder Scrolls series after the also excellent Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
Like Morrowind, you are a character who starts out in prison and then freed to explore and do quests. Like Morrowind, you can make a female or male character and pick their race and class.
There are various races to choose from: Dark Elf, High Elf, Wood Elf, Argonian (lizard people), cat people, and a few Human types. Each race has its own strengths and weaknesses. Choosing a race can make a difference in what type of class and specialization you choose.
There are three basic specialization to choose from: Magic, Combat, or Stealth. These will be the main focus of how you play. You can use magic spells to heal, create illusions, increase/decrease stats, etc. You can use combat by fighting barehanded or with swords, axes, clubs, etc. For stealth, you must learn how to pick locks, sneak undetected, and perhaps even use invisibility/illusion spells, etc.
There are many classes to choose from. You can even make your own. Some examples of classes are warrior, thief, assassin, monk, mage, battlemage, paladin, etc. Of course, you can make your own class if you wish. Each class has a variety of attributes (strength, intelligence, willpower, speed, endurance, etc) and skills (Blade, Alchemy, Illusion, Conjuration, Speechcraft, Armorer, etc).
In order to improve your character's level, you must constantly use your main skills in that class. For example, if you are a warrior and one of your main skills was Blade, you must use a blade of some sort and use it in combat in order to increase your skill level.
In the game, you start out in the character creation menu, which shows your character's face. You create your character's appearance, race, and gender at this point. Then, as you go through the dungeon, you will be exposed to a variety of weapons and skills. At the very end, a guard will ask you what is the class you have chosen. You choose (or create) your class, skills, and attributes at the point.
From there, you are free to explore! A wide world is open for you to explore, do quests, etc. You can choose to do the main quest or other quests. You can join one of the guilds (Thieves Guild, Mages Guild, Fighters Guild, etc). You can even join the assassins guild (the Dark Brotherhood), if you want. You can just enjoy the sights (beware of enemies, though) or you can fight in the Arena. The choice is yours.
This game is very open-ended with tons of quests and sub-quests to choose from. The NPC characters are moving, talking, and feel alive. Some quests require you to find a certain character by finding out his/her schedule--what time does he go the bar, what time she sleeps, etc. The animation is smooth, the environments are beautiful, and the action is exciting.
There is so much to do in this game, as long as you do not mind fighting (there are lots of danger around the corner). I highly recommend this, especially to those who like real-time action RPGs or medieval types of RPGs.
Customer Review: Will never be able to play any other RPG ever
Summary: 5 Stars
I was never really into "gaming" until I met my husband (with the exception of six months being completely obsessed with Wonder Boy in 11th grade). But when we first started dating we played several of the two-player games like Gauntlet and Baldur's Gate, which I really enjoyed.
We bought the PS3 2 years ago, basically in order for him to play the new Gran Turismo racing game (which has still yet to come out). He wanted to get a game he thought I'd enjoy, though, so he got Oblivion. I've been playing it a year now, off and on, and just bought this version to get the Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles expansion packs, as I'd done all the other quests.
Here are the things I love about the game:
1) character creation allows for so many options.
2) being able to do any quest at any time - not having to follow the main storyline, etc. My experience of the game is so much different than the hubby's - when he first started he wound up accidentally shooting a guard, didn't know what to do, so joined the Dark Brotherhood assasin's guild so that he could have a place to buy and sell stuff since he had to run from the police guards every time he went into a town. Me, on the other hand - I did the entire main quest, got all kinds of good fame points, and only joined the Dark Brotherhood once everything else was done. The fact that I had much more magic and could make myself invisible made assassinating people much easier than it was for him.
3) Leveling up in the things you do the most. With Baldurs Gate and the others, you level up and choose the skills you want to have. With this, your skills automatically increase as you practice and become good. You can still choose powers and such that you want to have when you level up, but it's cool to use your bow and arrow all the time, and see these little messages saying "Your marksmanship skill has increased".
4) All the side stuff. You wouldn't even have to do the main quest, and you could easily amuse yourself for hours wandering around the countryside collecting ingredients for alchemy (which is how I got a lot of money in the beginning, when I realized that the ingredients were free and I could sell potions for like 30 gold). You could become a master mage and just spend your time enchanting stuff in the Arcane University. There are still so many things I want to do - I've never enchanted a weapon, for example. I feel like after I finish the quests in Shivering Isles, I'm going to just hang out and sell stuff and become a master merchant, buy a store, and retire in Skingrad with my servant bringing me beer every couple of hours.
5) The visuals. Sometimes I'm outside of Bruma, looking south, catch a view of the Imperial City, and I'm like, "man, Cyrodil is beautiful!". The fact that there are days, and weather. Sometimes it rains. Sometimes it snows. Sometimes you can go swimming under the two moons in Lake Rumare. Really, it's like a Second Life sort of thing. The only thing I can see making it more realistic would be if you could interact with other players in Cyrodil, which would really make it like Second Life.
I can't say enough good things about this game. I just downloaded the soundtrack, too, which is amazing. Everything about this game is awesome. I'm trying to think of things I'd improve, and I guess being able to interact with other players in some sort of common area, like the cities, would be cool. After you've been playing for a while, the people run out of interesting things to say to you, so maybe there could be more stock quotes and stuff. Oh, I'm just grasping at straws. This game rocks!