PC Gamer UK - Oblivion Reviewed

NeoPendragon on 20/3/2006 at 17:08

Cry more.

Uncia on 20/3/2006 at 17:11

no u<p>

Stitch on 20/3/2006 at 18:52

Well the local Software Etc I preordered through says they'll have the game in by 3:30 today, so it looks like I'm nerding tonight.

I'm not too worried about how it will run on my machine (Intel P4 3.4 ghz, 1.5 gigs of RAM, GeForce 6800) although I fully expect I'll have to scale a few things back to get a good frame rate. I even did a full format and OS reinstall to get things running as smoothly as possible.

I approach this game with enthusiastic optimism, but I give it a 50-50 chance of being nothing more than a next generation Morrowind, which would force me to forever swear off Bethesda altogether.

Renzatic on 20/3/2006 at 20:28

My local EB, after shafting me out of 10 bucks in a related but entirely different story, has it in but isn't gonna scan the game into the system til tomorrow. Lazy bastards.

Edit: Cool news. The (http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/updates_utilities.htm) Oblivion Construction Set just became available for download. And there's a nice (http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Main_Page) tutorial wiki to check out as well.

Stitch on 21/3/2006 at 05:12

Yep. After putting in five hours I can fairly safely say if you didn't like Morrowind you won't like Oblivion. A few cool things have happened but so far it's got identical flaws.

Proud Taffer on 21/3/2006 at 05:21

My system is almost identical to yours, Stitch, how's the performance on your rig? You running everything maxed out?

Stitch on 21/3/2006 at 05:48

God no. This thing runs like shit.

DaBeast on 21/3/2006 at 06:05

The only magazine I read is the teletext one on channel 4 , you might not always agree with them, but you're guaranteed a fair opinion.

Also worth noting, for those who watch Cybernet. They use the same reviews from Gamespot. Bad enough the VO guy sounds like a complete ass, the reviews arn't even thier own.

scumble on 21/3/2006 at 08:08

Quote Posted by Stitch

God no. This thing runs like shit.

Oh dear. I wonder what sort of rig the demo videos were taken on?

Aja on 21/3/2006 at 08:12

Quote Posted by Stitch

God no. This thing runs like shit.

Thank god - this means I won't have to get it until I upgrade everything else, probably not until the end of the year. I don't need ANOTHER 200 hour game - I'm still playing Morrowind!