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I bought Oblivion GotY Deluxe today (contains all oblivion expansions ever).
I wanted to buy Fallout 3 GotY, but it was too expensive.
And I never got into Oblivion, so I thought it would be worth a try.


Took me a full day to get it to work so I couldn't even play it yesterday when I bought it.
It wasn't that hard to install, but I wanted to mod it from the start to get the best experience.
I currently have Qarls Texture Pack 3 Redimized installed and Darnified UI, this makes the experience much better.
I also optimized my system for gaming and got it to run a lot faster, I can now run Oblivion on Ultra High, with draw distance on max and High resolution mod installed with hardly any frame rate drops.

I've read there is about 250 hours worth of gameplay in the GotY Deluxe edition.
Really I have no idea if I'm ever going to finish this game.
But its fun to get sucked into the world.

I've been playing for 4 hours and it still feels like a fresh start, this game is huge.

I know its from 2006 so a lot of people have quite recently finished this game and forgot about it, and other people might not care for this type of game.

Does or did anybody here play Oblivion?
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HOW DARE YOU PLAY A GAME THAT SHAMELESSLY STOLE FROM HEXEN ILL ZFCULING GARG YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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VikingBoyBilly wrote:HOW DARE YOU PLAY A GAME THAT SHAMELESSLY STOLE FROM HEXEN ILL ZFCULING GARG YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm so ashamed I've been playing these old games, just look at the graphics.
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Fluiq wrote:I'm so ashamed I've been playing these old games, just look at the graphics.
Commander keen is for retards.
Either you're being sarcastic, or else I have no idea what you're doing on this forum then. :D
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to be fair unreal tournament is worse, because they directly ripped the crystal vials and didn't even try to hide it (shame on you epic! You can't make a good game without stealing from Raven or ID). Oblivion just happens to be an fps that takes place in a cliche'd rpg world, from what I gather.
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I don't follow. So why exactly does Oblivion especially steal from Hexen? (Given the fact that it's part 4 of it's own series already)
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Isn't Oblivion part of a massive series of games that spans back to the 80s?
I don't think it ripped anyone off.
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Paramultart wrote:Isn't Oblivion part of a massive series of games that spans back to the 80s?
I don't think it ripped anyone off.
Elder scrolls is part of oblivion, you might say they "ripped someone off" but its a fantasy game and it uses a lot of elements other fantasy games are using.
Its the first first person game in the series.

You could also say commander keen ripped of from mario, or you could say it was the first sandbox game cause you are able to choose the order you play it in.
But really thats all just garg.
Commander Keen is a unique game.

Oblivion is a unique game.
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Let's face it, all fantasy stories are just a bunch of Lord of the Rings wannabes. :D
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Lava89 wrote:Let's face it, all fantasy stories are just a bunch of Lord of the Rings wannabes. :D
No dude, LotR is totally ripping off Hexen too! :P
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I always thought LOTR was a rip off of Beowulf...
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Lava89 wrote:I always thought LOTR was a rip off of Beowulf...
lol wut
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Well I read (sourced from the Raffel brothers themselves, i believe) that some of the items in Hexen came directly from this thing called 'dungeons and dragons.' So by extension all of the above except beowOlf (with an 'o'. AN O FOR ODIN'S SAKE! And it's "Balder" with an E, not "Baldur" because some stupid video game mispelled his name) ripped off a nerdy board game Romero used to name a big sword.
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VikingBoyBilly wrote:(with an 'o'. AN O FOR ODIN'S SAKE! And it's "Balder" with an E, not "Baldur" because some stupid video game mispelled his name).
What are your sources for these being the only accepted spellings? This suggests that the Anglicization of Old Norse is understandably not so clear-cut...
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StupidBunny wrote:
VikingBoyBilly wrote:(with an 'o'. AN O FOR ODIN'S SAKE! And it's "Balder" with an E, not "Baldur" because some stupid video game mispelled his name).
What are your sources for these being the only accepted spellings?
Adamant stubbornness. And a book by a guy named Kevin Crossley-Holland who calls him 'Balder' that I've clung onto for almost 10 years.
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