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« on: April 24, 2006, 02:34:47 PM »

Is a great game... I think. :unsure:

I got it at the weekend and it runs awfully slow on my system - even at 640x480 with everything on low quality it's not really playable; but enough to tell me that it should live up to the hype I've heard about it.
(Once I get my MBP up and running, the 256MB Radeon X1600 and DDR2/5300 RAM should fare far better than my measly 128MB GeForce FX5200 and DDR/3200.)

So, anyone else here played Oblivion and got any thoughts?
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« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2006, 05:38:51 AM »

I don't think my comp will play it...  Wink
But I do know that I've crashed it for some of my friends  LOL  all I did was IM them  Sad  :ph34r:  
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« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2006, 06:25:17 PM »

Oblivion plays beautifully on my MacBook, with most of the settings on top/high quality. Cheesy

And it is a good game.

I do have one complaint - you can't do anything (fight, cast spells, etc) when riding horses - so if you're riding along and a wolf starts chasing you, your only real option is to stop, climb down, kill it, climb up, and start riding again.
Why can't they have a Mount&Blade style mounted combat system? Sad

Here, have a picture of my character trying on some trousers...
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« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2006, 08:20:38 AM »

I was really going to try and see if my computer would play this game... but this morning I got up and walked into the computer room (my office Tongue ) and I smell hot PCboard  :blink:  :ph34r:  Sad my video card's fan stop, the card is less then a year old...and I'm going to have to wait two weeks to get it back from the makers  <_<

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« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2006, 05:58:20 PM »

SS, your character looks a bit like Keanu Reeves.

I have Morrowind, although I haven't played it much yet. Does anyone else here have it?  
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« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2006, 10:25:24 PM »

I haven't been playing games in I don't know how many months Sad
This will change when I get my job.. I think Wink
/me SW QA Game Tester :grass:  
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« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2006, 12:34:10 AM »


Heh.  You know not what you're in for...
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« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2006, 01:02:28 AM »

DO work as a games tester, so the hideous abominations that were Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (which, in the pre-patch out of the box version, cannot be completed without cheats) and Knights of the Old Republic 2 (which was just mind-destroyingly annoying with all it's bugs) never happen again.

Of course, these were both Atari games. Maybe their portakabin is especially smelly?
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« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2006, 01:32:30 AM »

Oblivion works on my semi-god forsaken machine, although it gets jerkier as time goes on Sad
 
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« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2006, 10:34:46 PM »

Come on guys... Wink
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I start work tomorrow :ph34r:
/me hates buggy games, that's one of the reasons I wait a while before buying new games <_<


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« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2006, 12:07:25 AM »

smi, everyone wants money ;/
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« Reply #11 on: June 14, 2006, 02:48:52 PM »

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SS, your character looks a bit like Keanu Reeves.
Is that a good or a bad thing? :unsure:
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