Ever heard of the Oblivion Refrence Bug? It seems I have that.
You know, the one that is caused by the game running out of some digits, or something. It tended to show up on the Shivering Isles expansion after 100 hours, or so, sometimes sooner on the PC.
The weird thing?
I'm playing on the 360. And I don't have any of the expansions. I haven't even hooked my 360 to the interwebs, so far. The UESP says that on the Vanilla oblivion on the 360, it takes typically around one thousand hours for these symptoms to show up. The first thing I thought was, "I do have a life, right...?" then I thought of my pokemon games. I spent way too much time on them, and the most I ever got was 86 hours- which over a span of over half a decade is fairly reasonable. Still, I can't help but feel kinda bad for having spent literal days on a game, so I calculated my time in Oblivion between both my characters (the glitch happens for 1000 hours on one character, but still.)
I have two characters, that I used more than past day three: one at day 55, the other at 89. If you assume that I never slept, waited, or fast traveled, my times total up to 44 and 71.2 real hours, respectively. That totals to 115.2 hours: not bad for a game that I've had over a year now, and in fact surprising, when you consider that we are talking about a Bethesda game here.
Now, I must admit that I am a lame person. I was hoping of exploiting a few glitches before I went through the Hell of trying to deal with my college's internet to download patches. But I still can't help but feel boggled by this incident; why would I be affected by this in the first place? While tempted to attribute it to some Gypsy curse, its probably just unpatched Oblivion being unpatched Oblivion.
Still, I can't help but feel as though the game's trying to send me a message about my gaming habits, considering that I've been on a major Oblivion binge this weekend.
I felt that way several years ago, too, when I was playing with a gameshark on pokemon silver, when the game froze up, started making these particularly eeerie sounds, then deleted my favorite charizard after I reset the hardware.
Anyone else encounter bugs or glitches that seemed to be too relevant, or two rational for comfort?
(Also, take note of my wrong-board failure and feel free to have a chuckle...
Apparently, I'm on the failboat tonight.)
You know, the one that is caused by the game running out of some digits, or something. It tended to show up on the Shivering Isles expansion after 100 hours, or so, sometimes sooner on the PC.
The weird thing?
I'm playing on the 360. And I don't have any of the expansions. I haven't even hooked my 360 to the interwebs, so far. The UESP says that on the Vanilla oblivion on the 360, it takes typically around one thousand hours for these symptoms to show up. The first thing I thought was, "I do have a life, right...?" then I thought of my pokemon games. I spent way too much time on them, and the most I ever got was 86 hours- which over a span of over half a decade is fairly reasonable. Still, I can't help but feel kinda bad for having spent literal days on a game, so I calculated my time in Oblivion between both my characters (the glitch happens for 1000 hours on one character, but still.)
I have two characters, that I used more than past day three: one at day 55, the other at 89. If you assume that I never slept, waited, or fast traveled, my times total up to 44 and 71.2 real hours, respectively. That totals to 115.2 hours: not bad for a game that I've had over a year now, and in fact surprising, when you consider that we are talking about a Bethesda game here.
Now, I must admit that I am a lame person. I was hoping of exploiting a few glitches before I went through the Hell of trying to deal with my college's internet to download patches. But I still can't help but feel boggled by this incident; why would I be affected by this in the first place? While tempted to attribute it to some Gypsy curse, its probably just unpatched Oblivion being unpatched Oblivion.
Still, I can't help but feel as though the game's trying to send me a message about my gaming habits, considering that I've been on a major Oblivion binge this weekend.
I felt that way several years ago, too, when I was playing with a gameshark on pokemon silver, when the game froze up, started making these particularly eeerie sounds, then deleted my favorite charizard after I reset the hardware.
Anyone else encounter bugs or glitches that seemed to be too relevant, or two rational for comfort?
(Also, take note of my wrong-board failure and feel free to have a chuckle...
Apparently, I'm on the failboat tonight.)
