Elvenblade
Sat, 5th Feb '05, 9:30am
http://www.elderscrolls.com/games/oblivion_overview.htm
The screenshots look awsome but I do hope they put more focus on the story and the dialogues then they did in Morrowind.
Equester
Sat, 5th Feb '05, 10:41am
yeah as far as I have heard, they have listened to a lot of the critic with morrowind, an have for instance tried to create better npc. instead of search engines, these guys should have some kind of agenda and personal goals and so on.
There will also be a little more focus on the main story and they will put a travel map in, so you are spared all that walking from one town to another (thank god for that). they have also focused a lot more on the combat part, so it's going to be a little more interesting, then just point'n'click.
So all in all, I'm looking forward to this game, it sounds so far, like it's going to be all that morrowind should have bin.
Wordplay
Sat, 5th Feb '05, 11:46am
Won't be buying it no matter how good it looks if there is no story carrying the game forward and no good NPC's -or players in co-op (that would be something). The sounds would need to be a whole load better too, since IIRC they were rather bland in the previous part.
All in all, they really need to do a lot of development if they wish it to be success.
The Kilted Crusader
Sat, 5th Feb '05, 11:50am
It looks very pretty and if they change the parts of Morrowind that brought it down a little, then this should be far superior.
Anyone else notice a guy on a horse in one of the screenshots... :)
Malovae
Sat, 5th Feb '05, 11:51am
They are apparently revising the combat so its more involving than just generally aiming and click and increasing the power of magic.... should make the game much more playable for rp'ers.
WiZinc
Sat, 5th Feb '05, 12:22pm
Full facial animations and lip-synching, combined with full speech for all dialog, allows NPCs to come to life like never before.Now that is something. It will eat plenty of space from our hard-drives.
That is if they truly intend to keep that promise.
Apeman
Sat, 5th Feb '05, 1:21pm
I recently got into elderscroll III and I love it so far. At first it feels bland and the same and a lot of travelling. But after a while you realise there is so much to do in those bland looking places.
Screens look good, this will be a hardware upgrade I'm afraid.
Wordplay
Sat, 5th Feb '05, 6:48pm
@ WiZ
Think again. Spoken dialogs cost money, so if everything is spoken the only way to save money is by limiting the amount of dialog there is... Well, you get the idea. ;)