Waiting4Oblivion Proudly Presents: The E3 Thread Options

[Rane]

-----Waiting4Oblivion Proudly Presents: The E3 Thread-----


Ok people. It's time to buckle up. We're living in some pretty interesting times right now and by the looks of it, the end is nowhere near.

As most of you already know, Bethesda is showing Oblivion at E3 this year. With all the info pouring out from there and other sources we've decided to gather a bunch of the info right here, on your very own Waiting4Oblivion forums.

We will have two places where the info will show up. This thread is one of them. The other one is the Special Features page. Look below for direct link.

Waiting4Oblivion Special Features

---Update---

E3 Demo Summary

2nd day at E3 diary

3rd day at E3 diary

The goal of this thread is as follows:
Anything from previews to reports, Developer statements to possible trailers will be posted here, with links and source locations.

Remember to check back for updates. Who knows what tomorrow will bring to us.


We'll be starting off with links to some of the first previews of the game, some screenshots that were published recently and of course, an early version of the very anticipated trailer.

Bethesda E3 Team Diary

Gamespot preview

Gamespot screen shots

Gamespot Q&A with Todd Howard

Gamespot early E3 report


Update 19.5.05, 11:42 PM GMT
Actiontrip's preview

Update 20.5.05, 10:45 AM GMT
Interview with Gavin Carter

The Interview in text, by Steerpike lsn

Direct download link

Update 20.5.05, 00:21 PM GMT
IGN Preview on Oblivion

Update 20.5.05, 9:47 PM GMT
CNN preview on a few games, including Oblivion

Update 21.5 1:12 AM GMT
Alexander's and Stargelman's E3 report and update post on the offical forums

Update 21.5.05, 3:01 PM GMT
Gamespy report on Oblivion demo

Another Gamespy report

Update 21.5.05, 10:13 PM GMT
Happypuppy.com demo report

Another Happypuppy.com report

Update 21.5.05, 9:25 PM GMT
A really good E3 demo report by Boomtown.net

Update 23.5.05, 8:51 PM GMT
GamesMainFrame preview

-----Oblivion trailers-----
http://xboxmovies.teamxbox.com/xbox-360/19...3-2005-Trailer/
http://www.gamespot.com/x360/rpg/theelders...vion/media.html


Direct download link

Microsoft briefing, Oblivion footage at 5:40 in the file

---THE OFFICIAL TRAILER---

84.3MB - High Definition DivX AVI Movie
http://www.bethsoft.com/downloads/video/Ob...ailerDIVXHD.avi

77.4MB - Hi-res Quicktime Movie
http://www.bethsoft.com/downloads/video/Ob...railerLarge.mov

15.3MB - Low-res Windows Media Movie
http://www.bethsoft.com/downloads/video/Ob...railerSmall.wmv

Update 20.5.05, 2:27 PM GMT

More E3 footage of Oblivion, by IGN

[Rane]

Ok, one rather enlightening report here.

http://rpg.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art...iew.php?id=8288

Some major quotes to be mentioned:

[quote]Oblivion takes place in Cyrodiil, the main province of Tamriel, and the area spans about 25 square kilometres, of which about half is forest.[/quote]

This makes me believe that the game area will be 16 square miles after all.

Note that 25 km² is not 16 square miles though.

However, 1 mile = 1.61 km.

And 16 x 1.61 = 25.76

In other words, I think they simply did a miscalculation when they converted the number from square miles to km²

The calculation should probably have been:

16 x 1.61² which is about 41 km²


Also, the article confirmed that the bookseller incident involving the dog being burned was not scripted.
[quote]She decided to drink a potion to increase her accuracy, while her dog (also armed with Radiant AI) started to act up, because it was hungry. She fed it, and hoped for some peace and quiet to read a book in (The game has more than 400 of these). But the second the sat down, the dog was at it again, and she cast some sort of calming spell on it, saying “Mommy is reading!” (all the dialogue is spoken). As last, she went to her bed to get some sleep, but the dog was back, more excited than ever, and she wound up casting a fire spell, incinerating the poor dog…


After the demonstration, I asked whether this example was scripted or not, but it wasn’t.[/quote]