Eldar Scrolls Oblivion isn't that good...

[wethepeople]

My rig:

Windows XP SP2 Home
Pentium D 820 2.80GHz
3GB DDR2 RAM
Radeon x1600 pro 512MB OC'd
228GB SATA HDD 7200RPM

I play on mostly medium settings all around, but no AA. So don't say I'm not getting a good feel of the visuals. They rule. But the game isn't that fun. I played through the opening act, went through one of the most confusing and overhyped character creation systems of ALL TIME, and then fought my way through the pitch black (Not my monitor.) dungeon and yada yada and finally reached land. Beautiful? Yes. Thats it. The world is freaking empty. Having played Stalker, I'm used to people going to and fro, mutants and animals running on un-scripted pathes, etc. But this was terrible. There was nothing within sight for miles. So I went to the nearest town where it was the usual bunch of douchebags scripted to walk around, some ambient dialogue, etc. Then it pushes you head first into the story you /must/ follow and then I saved and stopped. So far not so good. No excitement, no real customibility (Mages and thieves still seem useless--So do all premade classes. Custom is the way to go. It always is.), Races go from good to bad with no balancing going on, and it just seems like a mess. Light armor is (Still) stronger than heavy and more useful, there seems to be WAY less weapons (No spears/halberds or staff weapons, not maybe daggers and not many war hammers or axes.) The facial customizing was OK at best, but it was not what was told to me over and over. It was actually really confusing, and no facial hair (Wanted to make Snake Plissken) for the loose.

[crazyisraelie]

Pentium D 820 2.80GHz
3GB DDR2 RAM
Radeon x1600 pro 512MB OC'd

This is your problem. Your video card could have been a lot better. Also you should have gotten a better processor from AMD for the same price.

[Shyox]

... Well, you don't have to follow the story.

There are an ASSLOAD of quests. The part I hate the most about this game is that you have to start over from the beginning in the sewer everytime.

[wethepeople]

>_>

...-Sigh-

Its a prebuilt, and I'm not made of money. Bought and OC'd the card myself about a year ago and exactly one day before the 8 series came out (Wasn't too keen on cards back then). Basically I bought the x1600 a day before ALL cards got a huge price drop when I could have bought a x1800 or 7900 for the same price, but oh well. The card has performed miracles for me. Medieval II on high settings gets about 20FPS with 1000 men on screen, Shadow of Chernobyl gets about 40FPS on max settings, Battlefield 2 maxed out completely gets 70FPS, etc. Thats just a few of all the games the x1600 pro has conquered for me. Oblivion is Medium-high with 30FPS outside and 20FPS inside dungeons with fog.

[bioakky]

and then fought my way through the pitch black (Not my monitor.) dungeon

It's your monitor.

[wethepeople]

Orly?

Actually turned up the brightness from its default on Oblivion, that fixed it.

[schneereich]

yeah that card is shit for oblivion. i was playing on a geforce 6600gt and felt the same pain. then lightning owned my computer so i got a core2 duo and an x1900xtx (and a better surge protector). that was a good lightning strike.

[wethepeople]

Card is fine. Did some tweaking, most of everything is maxed out. Who needs freaking tree shadows? Thats all I had to cut.

[schneereich]

i need freaking tree shadows. also, what resolution do you use?

have fun with the dark brotherhood. they give you a horse. and you can assassinate people. what could be better?

[wethepeople]

Thats actually who I'm gonna join. =/ The guilds... they are way lacking, Morrowind so far owns this game.

1024*768

ALRIGHT ALRIGHT, I NEED A NEW CARD. =/ But that means a PS replacement, new Mobo and thus a Core 2 duo and then I need to reconfigure this asshat RAM setup...

Too much money.

[schneereich]

i thought morrowind was more interesting than oblivion. but oblivion is SO PRETTY!
there's always something to do to your computer... i could do with another 2GB of ram and a 150GB raptor, but im not made of money either

[wethepeople]

You and I are probably thinking of the same Raptor. I WANT THAT DRIVE.

[Vector]

heh

p4 3.0
1 gig dram
x600 gforce
dell (tis devil spawn)

somehow i still am to find a game i cant play on it
that being said most of my games are 04'-06' because i'm too cheep to get new stuff but, i belive that i can run bioshock

[Shyox]

My good machine has an X1950 on it, Pentium 4 2.8 gig dual processors, and 3.00 Gigs of Ram.

My dad uses it for his music stuff, but he lets me put games on it.

It's awesome. Really, I don't think all of the other machines in the house combined could make a better machine.

[Damen]

Nothing around for miles? There's like 3 dungeons that I always raid before heading into the Imperial City.

I got to level 30 before I decided to go find the King's heir.

[wethepeople]

heh

p4 3.0
1 gig dram
x600 gforce
dell (tis devil spawn)

somehow i still am to find a game i cant play on it
that being said most of my games are 04'-06' because i'm too cheep to get new stuff but, i belive that i can run bioshock

No.. no you can't. I can't even run it. x1600 runs circles around the x600, even though both cards aren't that good. Get a dual core you guys, they're much better then P4's now. Even the Pentium D is.

Anyway its getting pretty good now. I'm trying some jobs, saving for a horse and some new armor, etc. Its no where /near/ as good as Stalker was in terms of giving you stuff to do, but oh well.

[Damen]

Don't save for a horse.

You get the best horse in the game if you do the Assassin's Guild missions.

To do that, just kill an innocent person that didn't provoke you and you get a message from them

[Damen]

Also, the best armor can be easily raided.

[Damen]

<_< And you misspelled elder

[Damen]

<_< And you misspelled elder