um maybe if you retards actually PLAYED oblivion you'd have a better idea of your mental failure...
Ok, let's talk about the game then...
Leveling system: I see nothing wrong with it, actually, I find it quite simple to use compared to other RPGs where all you do is keep hacking away until you fill up an EXP bar or some other stupid shit like that, now, atleast oblivion's is pretty decent, you keep improving yourself through your skills, you gain more experience, no shit! are you kidding me!?!??! leveling up when you've improved, naw really? wow that's so shitty...NOT...
Oblivion should be based in a meadow...um what the fuck? No I don't think you've really actually played after the first hmm thirty minutes? Yeah, maybe because you're a beer bong frat boy who just loves to shoot people on multiplayer for that instant gratification, you forget that sometimes you need, oh, what's that word...Patience???
Ok, sometimes oblivion glitches, like someone getting stuck on stairs, or in a wall, or a quest won't update, but what about all those gears of war gay glitches where the game is no longer fun, but punishment to play, huh? Every game has its glitches, deal with it and dont cry like a little ***** when something goes wrong...maybe you should have prepared better by saving more often, maybe you should have expected that having such a huge world to explore, SOMETHING might load wrong huh, or, I forgot, you're too remedial to understand the meaning of complex games that take more than six hours to complete.
Oblivion looks all the same...um...what the fuck? southern bogs, northern snowy mountains, western steppes, and coastlines and forest in the middle, how the fuck is that the same, are you blind or something? Oh yeah, maybe you don't realize that to create a more "realistic" world, or atleast where the proportions aren't completely dilluted, you need to repeat some of the scenery for a little while, not like you're going to call something a forest when you can easily clear it in about a minute...that would be fucking stupid as the terrain in the real world doesn't change very quickly, now does it? didn't think it did....
how many quests are there to do in oblivion? the answer..Many...
Sure, you might have to kill someone in oblivion, you will have to kill many people in oblivion, but how the fuck does that make it a bad game, you kill in other games, hell, to please you instant gratified retards, nearly 80 percent of the games industry is devoted to putting out violent games, now, don't get me wrong, I love a good bloodbath here and there, and sometimes, I want to nearly shit myself from something jumping out from the dark, clawing at my T.V. screen, that's all stimulating, but when a game tries to give you nearly a little bit of everything, you go and take a big shit all over it...give oblivion a break for god's sake, it took them four years to complete oblivion, to make sure it was full of as much variety they could fit.
Voice acting, no doubt this is disappointing, I will admit you have me there, but how many people are in cyrodiil? hmm, let's just say somewhere around 100 atleast, not counting shivering isles. Ok, so you're going to have the budget to put that all into voiceacting instead of the other important areas? what game does that? has around 100 people, and has 100 different voice actors, without being complete shit...none, that's right. If i cared about the variety of voice acting in games, I wouldn't be a true gamer, voice acting variety is for the movies, this isnt a god damn movie......it's a.....GAME.....
and about the fast traveling, people were whining and bitching about not being able to travel fast enough, so what did bethesda do, oh, no fucking shit...they made it easier to travel wow that's fucking amazing, never saw that comming!!! Now, sometimes it's a pain in the ass to walk up a mountain, and I want to get there quick, hmm, I can instantly get there? wow, that's great, thanks, now I can keep on getting to the good parts of the game, without much of a hassle ,that's really nice of you.....
keep in mind this is a god damn fantasy game, a GAME, so it doesnt have to be realistic you stupid fucks, maybe you have never really played an RPG that was decently put together, something that gave you all the rewards without having you work very hard to get them, perhaps if most of you really did play through the quests in oblivion, you'd have a better respect for it. I don't know though, since you worship the ground that yahtzee walks on, he's a great guy who goes where not many people dare go in the gaming public, he says what's on his mind and isn't afraid of what people say about that. But he's not the main authority on games, i'm sorry to break this to you, but he's not, he may be very learned about games, he may have a huge amount of experience with them (infact he does, anyone would be stupid to deny that of course) but what i'm getting at here, is you don't have to automatically say, oh yeah, he's right, this game is shit cus he says it is....only a few people have disagreed with him, and that's just frightening....
maybe if you actually tried to play games without tunnel vision, you'd understand all types of games a little more, try to comprehend that in oblivion, there is a LOT of shit, and i mean the motherload of shit that they have to load into the game, maybe it has flaws because it's just too much to be able to go back and "fill in the gaps" when i've played it for quite some time now (i'm not a fanboy, I just hate it when people all bandwaggon someone just because he's the popular guy, even though some of his views MIGHT be a tad exagerated...) and i've had minimal problems with it. Maybe a freeze here, a glitched wall here, a glitched quest there...but what game is perfect? Not one of them. You act as though oblivion is supposed to be perfect or some shit...it's not, ok?
Another thing, it's a fantasy RPG, what's supposed to be real about it...you act as though it's supposed to feel like the real world, when it's on another plane of existence for god's sake...about the enemies, maybe you're fucking retarded, but as you can see, the enemies get tougher for the guy who doesnt use 100 pct chameleon, or 100 percent damage reflect, minotaur lords, storm atronauchs, xivilai...those aren't tough for your character when there are like....seven of them all pounding you?....either you're a genious of micromanagement or you're exploiting something in the game, bitching that it's too easy because you're blatently MAKING it that easy...here's a revolating thought, play the game it was meant to be played, and you'll have fun...wow...that's news, atleast to many of you it seems.
I just cant accept that from all that oblivion has to offer, almost none of you can figure out a way to have fun with it, you seem to accept all the flaws the other games have (unless you play like...i dont know...four games? or something....some of you said you played one elderscrolls game and you base your opinions on something you never fucking even played! wow, now that's a true dipshit way of thinking, honestly, confront your mom about all the heroine she took when she was pregnant with you.
with all the linear games that take me maybe four hours to beat, spending 60 bucks on some peice of shit like army of two, gears of war, assasin's creed, it's nice to see that i'll be getting what I payed for, a game that will keep giving me satisfaction weeks after I purchase it, not just a weekend.
about that twat that complained that the addons from the XBL market were outragous....i'm sorry if 5 to 10 dollars is too expensive for you, get a job....the shivering isles itself that adds atleast a good 2 weeks of play time in atleast, is only about 20 dollars or so, that's not bad at all....it's not like you HAVE to get those things to have your gaming experience be complete...so it's not the fucking end of the world if you have to spend 20 bucks to get more out of your game, that 20 dollars will come back, if you have, you know, one of those "jobs" you hear about all the time....
honestly, you people complain way too much, you think you have the right to set the standards about every game, why dont you fucking become a developer, and we'll see how much you fuck up and then we'll all take steamy shits all over your hard work...
dont think i'm going to even look at the further taint that's in this thread...I just wanted to point out your retardation,
ANYWAYS
Yahtzee, i'm sorry you don't like oblivion, i'm sorry you didnt give it enough of a chance to interest you through the different factions and variety of quests it offers, along with the extensive character creation tools. Maybe you missed out on the good stuff that oblivion has to offer, or maybe you are pointing out the flaws, and leaving out the good parts because that's your job to do as a critic, but I honestly can't see why you hated oblivion so much, when as an RPG, it's pretty different from the huge slew of the other one's that flood the market. Your review was funny as always, but I still just don't get it, how flaws in a game could make it useless, when those flaws don't happen all the time, and are easily cured by simply not giving in to temptation to fast travel, in oblivion's case, and to not hold a game to such high standards. I suppose, that's your job though, making sure a game is absolutely stellar before giving it a pat on the back. Oh well...I hope you will like the next Elderscrolls game if they choose to make it, that is, if you choose to review it if it does....
