Oblivion Delayed Till Next Year Options

[Kaleem]

Oblivion Delayed Till Year February - April 2006
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/663/663056p1.html

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6136973.html

Sorry.

This post has been edited by Kaleem: Nov 1 2005, 03:07 PM

[Rendelius]

Why Oblivion is delayed is undisclosed, and I think it will stay this way, because most probably it is a mix of several things:

My very personal opinion is that the technical problems are with the Xbox version of the game, not the PC version. Microsoft shipped the dev kits one month late, and porting the game to the actual hardware of the Xbox certainly isn't a trivial thing. It has a lot of graphics power, but it is on the lower side of memory and processing power (and Oblivion will be processor heavy for sure).

The most plausible reason for a delay I can imagine is that this game needs a lot of balancing regarding the economic aspects of Oblivion. If you remember, the economics in Morrowind were broken beyond believe. You made money extremely fast, and the unprotected loot got way too powerful with the middle player levels. In his posting, Pete said that they have playtested Oblivion much more than any other previous game, and earlier on he once statet that the devs have spreadsheets galore to balance the game as good as possible.

I don't think they have any showstopping bugs in there anymore, just a lack of finetuning - which would mean an essential flaw.

And when is "early 2006"? All I know is that January is a bad month for a major release, and I doubt that Bethesda and T2 would release the game then even if it is finished. Instead, they will put the extra time into the game and refine it even more.