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Has anyone done the missing/stolen painting side-quest in Chorrol (I think) yet? Where is the next clue after you find the painting tools is Chanel's room? |
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nm, completed it. |
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use the search on the elderscrolls.com fora - quite a lot of hints and help to be found there when stuck. |
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good idea, i'll try that if I get stuck again. thanks. :) |
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.....but be patient, as i expected - the elderscrolls.com fora are very busy these days because of Oblivion. And i only wanted one little hint for Mournhold ! |
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Now im into a painting, helping a guy stuck in it, and he gave me therebentine (dont know how to say it in english but its a liquid to erase paint !!!) how fucked up and great is this game !!!! |
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This game really is awesome! to me it's like an adult version of Zelda, Link in the dark ages. |
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I didn't know you had played with Zelda, mister. Anyway, I should really get this game in some way.. This thread is tasty. |
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I even played Zelda before you were born, mister. |
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How many places have you guys found so far? I'm at 308. I think I've uncovered 99% of them, though, just searching for the last stragglers at this point. I've been close to finishing the main quests for last 5 days, and have been doing side quests and guild jobs and stuff. Oh and my house in Cheydinhall is looking pimp, and I'm still working on my house in Skingrad, though it's pretty bare because I spent most of my money on it. |
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oh, and has anyone downloaded/purchased the new horse armor module yet? I think it's kinda ridiculous that you even have to pay for them, but 2 dollars isn't a large percentage of my income. Maybe this is just the next evolution of expansion packs? God I hope not. |
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unless of course it becomes cheaper for the consumer to buy expansion modules for games separately rather than paying up front for a bunch of new gameplay changes, some of which the player may not even want. So for this 1st one, you pay $1 per armor. does that sound worth it? I guess. |
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I stopped using horses. I run quicker and jump higher. I'm that cat-like thing, Khajit or something. |
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yeah, sadly the only thing I use horses for are to ride about un-explored areas of the map faster to uncover new dungeons/camps/etc. I also have the fastest horse in the game, so you definately do not run faster than my horse. :D basically, I use fast travel for literally everything else, even making my way around towns (why walk to east gate when you can fast-travel there?). I try not to abuse the fast travel though because I feel it makes the gameplay feel too punctuated, like loading new levels does. I don't think oblivion was meant to be played that way, but you know people would have bitched and moaned incessantly if they didn't put a feature like that in the game. I think it would be better if you could only fast travel to towns, but then again if you can fast travel to one place, logically you should be able to travel to all of them in the same fashion. |
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yeah, this game is neat. I accidentally became a vampire, but I kinda like it now... |
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I don't use fast travel much at the moment, since I try to gather 20 samples of nirnroot and need to carefully axamine the banks of rivers and lakes. Kind of boring, but I hope it will be worth it. |
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I've set out playing oblivion with a mindset that allows me to experience all aspects of the game, whether they be good, evil or neutral. In spite of that fact, becoming a vampire is the one thing I have not done yet, so once I've exhausted everything else I'm sure I'll try it. Besides, my character's a dark elf, he's got bright red eyes already so why not become a vampire? He's already half way there. :D |
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if any of that previous post is worded poorly, it's because im fairly drunk. |
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i've got me the 9600. i hope it fares better. i should have a functioning copy of the game in approximately 7.34 hours. jawsome. i'm very excited. |
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oops. i missed this somehow. good news, though. |
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I'm running out of sidequests.. may have to join all possible factions... can I be both arch mage of the mages guild (which I already am), whateverthetitleoftheheadofthefightersguildis and on top of the thieves guild if that is even possible? and those assassins... can I advance in their ranks at all? I haven't done their initiation quest yet... what other factions are there? I'm in that knights of the white stallion thing with that orc and.. erh.. blades and something else which I can't remember right now... |
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Me and my friends expectations were very high for this game, perhaps too high. I haven't played it yet but this is what he had to say about it. (I'm 'zeal' and he's 'flesh to spare') flesh to spare says: oblivion was mediocre. makes me shick zeal says: fuck, whats wrong with oblivion flesh to spare says: they didnt make much changes at all since the elder scrolls for xbox flesh to spare says: only big difference is the attacking and ragdoll zeal says: what about the AI and environments? flesh to spare says: and though the attacking is way more improved, its still not even up to par with what condemned had to offer flesh to spare says: it should have at least been that flesh to spare says: the ai was filth flesh to spare says: retarded zeal says: even after all they said about it flesh to spare says: lets say i commited a crime in some town and ran away from some gaurds after resisting arrest. then i teleport to some other town way over on the opposite end of the map.. well suddenly the gaurds in this other city know exactly who i am and try to chase me down flesh to spare says: theres so many unrealistic stupid things like that zeal says: lol, news doesnt travel that fast in such a fantasy medievil time zeal says: what happens if you're arrested? do they try to kill you or just lock you up in a prison flesh to spare says: news should travel dynamically, and there should be ways to avoid suspection such as wearing different clothing flesh to spare says: you can resist arrest, pay gold or go to jail. zeal says: is there really bad lagging? flesh to spare says: there was, but it might have been the disc. it seemed scratched. but i'm sure there would have been some lag anyways flesh to spare says: the loading was massive, but i guess thats understandable zeal says: are the environments awesome looking? flesh to spare says: and the enemies are fucking stupid. you can hop onto platforms and enemies unable to reach you will |
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flesh to spare says: and the enemies are fucking stupid. you can hop onto platforms and enemies unable to reach you will just continue to walk against the platform hopelessly trying to slash you flesh to spare says: from there you can just exploit them like nothing flesh to spare says: they cant even climb or jump flesh to spare says: and they overexaggereted so much about ai having dynamic task activity involved in their daily routines. wow, they just stand around, walk, sit, pretend to eat and drink and go to bed flesh to spare says: tahts pretty much it for everybody flesh to spare says: it gets old so quick, and the game feels dead zeal says: feck zeal says: what about the environ flesh to spare says: it was nice, but even with that there was horrendous things which ruined it flesh to spare says: you could run up and down mountains flesh to spare says: there was absolutely no sense of footing or weight flesh to spare says: it was glitchy crap flesh to spare says: and unlike metal gear solid, you couldnt even move bushes and stuff with your body zeal says: holy shit thats crap flesh to spare says: the dungeons were repetetive as hell zeal says: how long you been playing it? flesh to spare says: there were maybe a few variety, hardly distinguishable, and just felt like diablo with its random generation of different room sizes and stuff flesh to spare says: and oblivion didnt even have any deep customization or skills or anything flesh to spare says: it was such basic shite flesh to spare says: it felt like baldurs gate in that sense that trying to max out your guy because meaningless in the end flesh to spare says: there was no need for tons of spells in the game flesh to spare says: the characters in the town dont even travel across the map. they dont do much of anything. the most they do that makes them seem fresh is bring up some new topic so that you can activate a quest or something flesh to spare says: they still have |
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you can be a part of any guild, yes. doesn't matter if you're in another one already. |
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I would say saying your "expectations were too high" is an understatement. it is just a computergame, there's only so much you can do at this moment in time. like Ophecks said before - the amount of variety in the game is very, very broad, which does mean that not every aspect will go as deep and be as well executed. |
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I was disappointed I couldn't roll around and suck up the environment into a huge mass, like in Katamari. I mean, what's the point of all the advanced physics if I can't even do that? |
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heh, you should have seen how worked up we got for Fable. |
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it is just a computergame, there's only so much you can do at this moment in time. thats no excuse for the problems in the AI, like the way all guards are like members of the borg collective. flesh to spare says: and its funny, when gaurds try to approach you to prompt the options you have for the crimes youve done, instead of resisting arrest to begin the fight, you can just run around and they'll just keep following you stupidly allowing themselves to be vulnerable while you kill them with your bow |
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I have to agree. They way law enforcement is managed in this game is just horrendous. The rest I can live with. |
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I guess I'm just not the "punish me, officer!" type.. |
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yeah, but I seem to remember from morrowind certain guild quests involved killing other people from other guilds, which = being expelled from the guild (which, in itself, seems to be a sidequest)... I remember a quest that involved killing myself (by title, as I'd surpassed the other character, but the name was still that other characers.. auto-completed quest!) |
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it can get silly like that in Oblivion too. |
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Yeah, I'd say my biggest disappointment with Oblivion is the AI. In fact, there is almost no AI, but just enough to make the game progress. All enemies either see you or they dont, based on your sneak skill (if sneaking) and how fast you are moving. Once they see you, there is absolutely nothing to differentiate any of the enemies from one another in way of their tactics. Archers/Mages and ranged-attacking monsters attack you from a distance, and soldiers and melee-attacking monsters/animals run right up to you haphazardly trying to clubber you. Never once in the game do they do any kind of coordinated attack or change their tactics, like one might expect from an INTELLIGENT being. Aside from that, as Gwely pointed out, the way your "infamy" preceeds you every where you go is just ridiculous. Especially when you kill someone in a secluded area while no one else is watching, just to see a message appear at the top of the screen that "your killing has been recorded by forces unseen." It's just lame and makes the game feel too much like morrowind. |
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haha, time to provoke the silliness then I guess... |
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commence silliness. |
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this game is too good; it's huge, surprisingly detailed, and the pure exploration can mean many tens (hundreds?) of possible playing hours. i've had to stop myself playing it otherwise i'm not going to get anything done, ever. i will agree on the ai being a bit crap though, it's certainly one part of the game that lets things down. |
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I just tried to play this on my computer...all settings all the way down and it still can barely even run the menu. |
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i just can't get what you're talking about. are you trying to be cool |
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there's a bunch of optimisations you can do - it runs like shit by default, even on very high end machines. some kind soul has even made up ini files which you just throw in with suggested stuff already done. on this particular machine i'm using at the moment (xp 3500+, ati x850), it made a _massive_ difference - the game to me both looks nicer and my framerates are insanely better. |
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i'd give you the url but i can't find it at the moment. off memory it was on the official game forums. |
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Can you point me in the right direction for something like that? I have a P4 2.4 and an ati x800. I don't even care if I can't turn the graphics up higher, I just want higher framerate at the settings I already have (1024x768, Bloom, no AA). |
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"i'd give you the url but i can't find it at the moment. off memory it was on the official game forums." lol, didnt see that. yeah I'll be sure to check bethesdas forums again, because I didn't really find anything like that last time. |
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Just saying that the only thing I find intolerable is the all-knowing police. I can live with random crashes and enemies not able to climb. Not cool, just laconic. |
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you didn't spend years trying to get to Dagoth-Ur without codes, so you don't count. |
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That I most certainly did not. |
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you have a point there. but if you get whole and enthusiastic and excited into the game - you don't pay [so much] attention to little annoying details. on second thought all games are some stupid waste of time, but who cares ? i don't regret the time i've spent in morrowind. |
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I am having a problem. I can't seem to figure out how to drop items, and I am weighted down. That must sound stupid, but I just spent 15 minutes pressing buttons, and nothing works. |
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Oh yeah, I am borrowing the game and don't have a manual. |
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Oh yeah, I am borrowing the game and don't have a manual. |
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shift+click them |
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