Is Oblivion worth it right now? Options

[Furious_George]

Ummm buy it now if you have a 360!!!!!!

Clearly, from the proliferation of pc-based threads, you'll want to be careful. But on 360 despite the loading screen times, it's absolutely amazing.

[Sunboom]

Ummm buy it now if you have a 360!!!!!!

Clearly, from the proliferation of pc-based threads, you'll want to be careful. But on 360 despite the loading screen times, it's absolutely amazing.

-He already buyed the game
-He doesn't have the money for an Xbox

[Magefire]

Chumb

So sorry that you haven't been able to run the game on your PC. My own PC is being replaced (by sheer chance), but doesn't arrive until next week, so the Gates haven't opened for me yet. I've watched it being played on my son's computer (he's home from university for Easter). I don't want to start a character on his and have the hassle of moving it across.

The game looks totally awesome, though I think the levelling system means it will get progressively harder, and I'm not that experienced at gaming (Morrowind, mostly).

Assume you have Morrowind? Yes, it's a bit old now, but if you haven't played it, it is wonderful and there are aspects of it that are better than in Oblivion. I can't play obsessively, due to the demands of my lifestyle, but it is so easy to resume the game when I'm ready.

Good luck with your A levels, sounds as if you have a lot on your hands right now.

[Chumbaniya]

Well, I've made the only cheap upgrade I can to my computer (doubled the RAM with another 512mb DDR, bringing it to 1 gig) but it's no improvement. Rather than worry about it, I've gone back to playing some older games (they're still extremely good fun to play) and I guess I'll wait for a few years and play Oblivion once it gets to the point that bog standard PCs have the right requirements.

[damncrackers]

this is why i bought an xbox360, I have a computer well capable of running this game but playing on 360 is the only way to go, you say you dont have enough money to buy one, Go here, then buy one and stop complaining about your computers

This post has been edited by damncrackers: Apr 6 2006, 10:09 PM

[ThePerson98]

Heheheh, my next system will probably end up..

Oncoming socket AM2 Athlon 64 3000, 208 dollars (Yes I have found out the price)
120-150 dollar motherboard
7900 GT.
2 GB of RAM (2x 1 GB sticks)


Should run oblivion max graphics, and compare, probably beat the Xbox 360 By the time I get the money, It should beat it. Im at 360 dollars, and need about 900. Going to start mowing lawns, babysitting more, and finding other junk.
Its hard to make money when you're 13 XD

[Erikc]

Have you ever tried playing past the character creation bit? Because I know that I got amazingly bad response times during the character creation screen (5 seconds ish for the mouse to move). After i got out of that, it worked perfectly fine; occasional slowing, but not at all bad. I haven't the foggiest idea why, but the creation screen seems to be the most demanding part of the game. Hope yet exists; you might still be able to play!

[Sam]

I have almost the exact same situation. I know exactly what you mean by feeling cheated. Bethesda has to be crazy to make a game that very few people can play without driving themselves to the point of insanity upgrading (or in our cases, wishing we could upgrade. I'm fourteen, so there's really no chance of an upgrade, and my peeps won't let me get the 360).

According to the official system requirements, I should be able to play the game on low settings without a problem. This is not the case, however. I get absolutely crap frame rates, and the graphics look worse than Morrowind's (this isn't to say that Morrowind's graphics were bad). I feel really cheated, especially as I was really looking forward to Oblivion.

Hopefully Microsoft will lower the price of the 360 so you can get it (technology these days is too expensive), although I may never play Oblivion in all of its glory for another 4 years when I go to college. I totally sympathise.

[Fuzzy Knight]

I'm glad I have a monster PC But it's pretty sad that great graphics and gameplay comes with the price that either you need to have a pretty good PC to play it or you need to spend a lot to upgrade it...

[Vrill]

It runs really well on an Nvidia 6600GT 128MB. My CPU is just average AMD 3200 Athlon.

It would probably look better with a high end card though. Performance is good.

But I'm playing the game on my 360, as it looks really great on that.

[damncrackers]

It runs really well on an Nvidia 6600GT 128MB.  My CPU is just average AMD 3200 Athlon.

It would probably look better with a high end card though.  Performance is good.

But I'm playing the game on my 360, as it looks really great on that.

do you have high def tv?