Your Fav. Thing About Oblivion, That we know of. Options

[Discobiscut]

It probally is more a "fav thing while waiting for Oblivion"
But I love all the various dev quotes we get.
They are like a bunch of giddy children trying really hard to keep a secret
but nearly bursting with excitement.
There is such an obvious passion and love for what they have created it is contaigous.

PS loved this weeks newsletter but wasn't as good as the first

[Red]

Lets see, I'll probably follow an NPC for hours, watching RAI in progress, then live in the forest, learning the wisdom of the trees and various books I find in ruins. So pretty much, Forests and RAI.

[Uruhara_Kisuke]

Besides the extreme graphics...

I think it has to be horse riding, also a more interactive menu when dealing with NPCs.

A year after the official release I'll look forward to the modding community's contributions. In particular, the Forgetten Realms project seems pretty epic. I'm wondering if anyone has plans for better heads/bodies this time round?

[Zelda_Zealot]

I'm wondering if anyone has plans for better heads/bodies this time round?

I doubt it, the way they were talking about the face generater seems like it would be harder to mod a head into the game, besides, you can make your own faces in game.

The bodies sound unlikely as they are using really good modeling programes that costs a ton of money, so it will be a few years before someone gets a better program and makes better models.

[Nelis]

Im excited about everything and i cant even decide on my first character. I cant choose between a nord warrior arena fighter or a thief character. maybe both but to answer the question im most excited about the new stealth system AND the new arena guild sorry there is no way that i can choose only 1 option im just too damn excited about this game !

[Neela]

I doubt it, the way they were talking about the face generater seems like it would be harder to mod a head into the game, besides, you can make your own faces in game.

The bodies sound unlikely as they are using really good modeling programes that costs a ton of money, so it will be a few years before someone gets a better program and makes better models.

Actually its not so much the quality of the program as it is the quality of the models. It depends on how many polygons the program can handle without making a real hit on performance. I would be willing to bet that given the creativity of the very passionate TES community that we will see a better bodies mod within a few months. Especially given the popularity of the Morrowind version.

[Sirin]

Man, i just can't wait to be a thief/assassin type of characther! I'm looking foward to hopping about the NPC's rooftops, stalking them in the night, and then finding a "back way" into their house so I can kill them quietly. Then, I'd enjoy dashing through town and stealing a horse, and riding away with the Law behind me. Ah, I'm so evil!

[Arkay]

I’m looking forward to being part of this RPG revolution. Oblivion is going to take the gaming community buy storm both on PC and 360 because of the size of the world, graphics, physics and effort put into to making it the best it can be. Being part of that is going to be great.

[Sirin]

But aren't we in agreement that the evil-ness will be fun? Man, I can't wait. I'm writing a story set in Cyrodiil to pass the time.

[jchamber]

I have been talking to people like nonstop about this game since I found out it was coming out like a month ago and I keep stress RAI, physics, and pretty pictures. But one of my favorite things is going to be modding I think, which I have never done b4 as my computer is weak. The forests and trees are something I have used to gauge a game's attention to detail for many a months now, over a year acctually. I love the prospect of finding and using new magic, stealth manuvers, and combat strategy. I also want to see how the world reacts to each person being assainated, like if I kill the mayor does a new one get elected? lots of varients on that concept that I have, I love the auto-fix of rooms you mess up I think I will walk in a bookstore and knock everything over, go away and walk back in to a freshly made store...just to knock it all over again


OMG EVERYTHING IS AWESOME, I seriously can't get enough info on this, I have been on the forums for the last 7 hours for instance.....I really need to get homework done but When i start it I can't concentrate.... I might have to have my cousin take my computer to his house 12 hours away so that I can get my stuff done for the quarter before OB comes out. and omg the lack of my ability to finish stuff in next quarter is going to be horrible...and if my computer dies I am going to get seriously violent in the real world b/c I can't afford repairs after I pay for the needed upgrade.

[Sirin]

you and me both, brother. 'cept, i'll be playing it on x360. but i can relate with the talking about it to everyone

[Million]

Ragdoll and real time physics all the way! Finally no more dying the same way everytime! Yay! And Ya I'll be playing it on the 360 too...

This post has been edited by Million: Feb 13 2006, 03:19 AM

[Million]

Well, I'm excited about more than one thing, but if I had to choose two of my fav, it would definitely be the more in-depth Quests and Radient AI.    I'm getting more excited about the Guilds as well, after checking out the official ES forum-topics that has info on some Guild quests. It seems that the NPC's will more at least more interesting, and have more personality than Morrowind's. 

(However, I'm worried that only a few NPC's will be really deep, and the rest of them would be bland, like in Morrowind, and I hope that would not be the case. Also, I hope the entire game would not revolve around dungeon-monster-fighting entirely. I prefer fighting outside, not inside scary, dark places. )

Ya me too, I loved fighting outside and in the light but I also think that the stealth will be useful in the dark.

[Bofra]

Brrr... I also liked fighting outside much more than in dark scary caves.. Usually I tryed to do quest in caves during the day (real time), they were less scarier then

But to stay on topic, RAI is definatly the one thing I look forward the most, it seems very wellworked. In connection to that I also look forward the "life" of the game, mostly city-life, were I would look at people wander about doing their chores and myself taking part in everyday life.

As a second connection to RAI I'm looking forward the quests, especialy the non-main quests, I want to see how immersive they are, how personal they become and how well they are build. I hope to take part in puzzle-like quests like solving a mysterious murder for the local guardpost... That would be really cool.

[jack cloudy]

Well, the new AI of course. I'll probably go walk around watching people for a while.
Second would be the new combat system. Having to switch to the magic position every time you wanted to cast a spell made combat a bit tedious. In Oblivion you can wack them with a sword and the follow up with a fireball will just be a button press away.

[Joeri]

my favorite thing is that I can go into another world then my own after work or in times I don't like the 'real one'

the fact that the differences between the Elder Scrolls world and real life are getting smaller and smaller is also a bit frightening though
can you imagine how these virtual worlds in 10 years from now will look like ..i already think the Oblivion world is more beautiful then the real one (looking at the graphical aspects mainly)

[jchamber]

^ ^
In ten years the AI and graphics will be real time influenced by full range 360 degree 3D and with uploaded psycees (sp wrong)...well maybe that is 20 years away but you get the idea....they already made a headgear unit that super-imposes pac-man balls on real life landscape that you physically walk around and collect. what that means is if you are wearing this thing you see floating yellow balls above the sidewalk and the thing keeps track of a couple stats like where balls have been picked up and how many you have collected....not sure about the ghosts though, maybe the thing uses a GPS unit..not sure about that part but I AM positive about the super-imposed images...just food for fear, I mean thought.

[sins_to_dark]

Probally the RAI i cant wait to see what its really like and of course the beatiful scenary thats on offer

[Elidor]

Definately being able to order people around as the head of an order!

[Taillus]

My PC is primed and ready to go so I would say that the graphics will be a major thing for me. The character creation will more then likely take me longer then normal to to fine tuning. I also cannot wait to see the combat system as well as take a stroll to the arena and duke it out.