The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Game of the Year Edition
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Oblivion Game of the Year Edition presents one fo the best RPG’s of all time like never before. Step inside the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created. With a powerful combination of freeform gameplay and unprecedented graphics, you can unravel the main quest at your own pace or explore the vast world and find your own challenges. Also included in the Game of the Year edition are Knights of the Nine and the Shivering Isles expansion, adding new and unique quests and content to the already massive world of Oblivion.
Product Description
On the heels of the amazing success of the original game, which has earned countless awards from publications around the world and won numerous Game of the Year and RPG of the Year awards, comes the enriched and expanded Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Game of the Year Edition. This new product will allow players who have never played the 2006 Game of the Year to experience Oblivion for the first time with additional content. Included with the original game is the official expansion, The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles, and the downloadable content, Knights of the Nine. In addition, gamers can continue their existing games of Oblivion and experience the new quests and areas offered by the expansion and downloadable content. ESRB rated RP for Rating Pending
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Oblivion is EXACTLY how I imagined an RPG should be like back in the 80′s, while playing Ultimas on Commodore 64s and Atari STs.
Oblivion has weather. While there is no wind other than a constant, gentle breeze, you do get rain/thunderstorms, fog, snow (no blizzards though, because there’s not much wind). You don’t slip and fall on ice but the sound of your steps is different whether you walk on the road, on grass, on snow or on ice.
The world of Cyrodill is not exactly continent-size, maybe some 20-30 miles in any direction from downtown Imperial City but… what a world this is. Cities, settlements, camps, estates, roadside inns, ruins, caves, dungeons, mines, shrines. The landscape is made up of plains, hard-to-climb mountains, rivers, swamps, waterfalls, seas. You can travel on foot or you can ride a horse. You can fight your way into fame and fortune while doing good or you can sneak into other people’s houses or pickpocket the unsuspecting. The guards will chase you and throw you in jail if you do illegal things but, if they like you enough, maybe they will look the other way sometimes. Powerful gods or humble people will ask you do ‘little things’ for them and, if you can make them happy, they will reward you according to their abilities. You can raise to the top of your profession, as a fighter, as a mage, as a thief or as an assassin or you can assemble your own little gang of dreamy crusaders so that you can fight evil and recover the relics of a legendary knight. Or you can do them all and become all, in sequence or make progress in all paths more or less simultaneously while moonlighting as a gladiator as well and, if still bored, how about helping a lady take care of the rats in her basement (that’s NOT what you think) or some drunk guy at the inn get rid of the Trolls that took over his daddy’s country estate? Oh and, I forgot, there’s a world to save or… wait… there’s TWO worlds, thanks to the Shivering Isles extension.
This game is so huge, I can’t see how you could really ‘finish’ it. After more than 2 months of almost daily playing, I am maybe 75-80% into the main quest, half a way through the Knights of the Nine, only started the Shivering Isles adventures. I did become the realm’s Chief Mage (and the titles earns me no respect from the scholar mages) and the grand master at the Fighters league, got myself 350,000 gold coins in my pocket, 2 comfortable houses and 2 nice offices, completed close to 100 quests, slaughtered 2000 creatures and hundreds of humans, murdered 4 or 5 and all but one by mistake (friendly fire), didn’t even come close to the Thieves guild and, foolishly, made it impossible for me to ever join the Dark Brotherhood (these are the assassins). Also, I’ve never been a vampire and didn’t yet start my career as a professional gladiator. I did massacre the peaceful dwellers of a small village but I did that under the influence of some drugs that made them look to me like bloody Orcs – that was the price to pay for infiltrating and destroying the source of that scourge. Oh, and while briefly in the land of Dementia – or was it Mania? – I did, willingly, push buttons that caused a few careless adventurers to go insane and I watched as they were becoming so. I humiliated a lovely princess – or was it a duchess? – and I killed so many fearsome monsters, I lost count myself but the game does keep a count so it’s easy to know. In fact, the game keeps track of so many things… I could easily find out how many jokes I told, how many potions I made, how many horses I’ve stolen (one), how many hours I slept or how many books I read.
Well…? What do you think?
On the ‘not so good’ side, the game does slow down when you are fighting 4-5 monsters at the same time or when there are other things that keep the PS3 busy while you are fighting the baddies – like a fire burning. Loading/saving times are a bit too long but, while this is happening, you do get to read some randomly selected good advice on the screen.
The other thing that saddens me is that I don’t believe the good people at Bethesda are working on the next chapter yet. I do hope that, as soon as they are done with Fallout-3, they are going to get busy with another adventure in Cyrodill or thereabouts.
My other problem is that I am now fighting with my kids over time on the PS3. We have a bunch of other games but, since Oblivion came into our house, I would say that 95%+ of our PS3 time was on Oblivion.
OK, I’ve been ruined so badly that all other games seem less appealing now. Guess I’ll have to wait for Elder Scrolls V now
This is the best game I’ve ever played, period.
It was hard to stop. The flexiblity of gameplay it provides is phenomenal. Great graphics, non-repetitive actions, non-linear flow, awesome soundtrack, numerous challenges…I can keep going. I spent 5 months playing this game at least 2-3 days out of a week, lasting about 2 hours at least. It is so vast, engaging and challenging enough to keep it interesting. No wonder it’s the game of the year.
For anyone who is an an RPG fan and has a Play Station 3, look no further. In my opinion it is easily one of the Best, if not THE best game for the PS3 thus far.
The GOTY Edition is basically the Oblivion main game with Oblivion’s 2 largest Expansion packs bundled in with it, “The Knights of the Nine” and the “Shivering Isles Expansion” pack.
The “leveled system” isn’t perfect, as it is way too easy to level up an underpowered character while the in-game mobs/adversaries automatically get stronger so there is no going back to the newbie sewer dungeon as the rats and easy goblins have leveled up to minotaurs and goblin lords.
Thankfully, for casual gamers you can pretty much follow and beat the main quest at level 1 and for those who have underpowered characters, you can adjust the difficulty slider to an easier level.
For the more hardcore RPG gamers, you can easily get much more involved and with careful balancing and leveling of stats and skills you can build a character that is more than a match for the mobs on the default “medium” level and perhaps even hold your own at the “hardest” level on the difficulty slider. gamefaqs.com has some really good guides that can help you along with all that.
Anyway, the bottom line is that if you have a PS3 and you are into RPGs this game is definitley recommended.
5.0 out of 5 stars
It is fun but…
This is really a great game. It is fun and it does take some serious thought into defeating your enemies.
5.0 out of 5 stars
great game
This is one of the best games I’ve ever played on any system. I had this on PC but hadn’t played in quite a while and picked this up.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing game–lots to do!
This game is the next game in the Elder Scrolls series after the also excellent Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Will never be able to play any other RPG ever
I was never really into “gaming” until I met my husband (with the exception of six months being completely obsessed with Wonder Boy in 11th grade).
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Game
A t first I was skeptical because I do not play these fantasy realm games much. This game allows for you to join a number of factions or just play the main quest.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Addicting game
I bought this for my kids and since it arrived they have been hooked to it ever since.
4.0 out of 5 stars
For Warning…
This is a good game, really fun, and that is why I gave it 4 stars. Why did I say For Warning? Well, there is known and unknown bugs in the game. It is the Vampire Cure.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Game of Meditiation
There are plenty of reviews describing the amount of depth, customization and expansiveness of this game, so I don’t really feel like it’s necessary to add to that…
4.0 out of 5 stars
Must have for those who owned the “normal” version.
Well like everybody know, this game is well know for the funny and addicted that can become, that’s why there is a Game of the Year Edition (this product), so why 4 stars you may…
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic!
I can’t believe how much depth and realism there is in this game! Stunning graphics, immersive game play, and huge replay factor make this a fantastic bargain.