http://www.************.com/b/news/a...ng-a-baby.aspx

lol

name kid Dovah whatever, send copy of birth certificate to bethesda, then have his name changed, ez game.

they're doing some sort of in game look in 15 minutes.

http://www.bethsoft.com/elder_council_wallpaper/

Countdown has been over for 10 minutes now...and I still can't load the page.

Derail! Is Oblivion better than I gave it credit for when I dismissed it for not being Morrowind? I mean for those who have finished it would you say I'm missing out on something really good?

yes

finally saw got through to see the video. pretty sick, a lot of what appeared to be in game footage.

I loved Oblivion. I didn't finish the main storyline but I did most of the random stuff to do, Brotherhood quests, expansion content. So I didn't "finish" the game but I got the the point where I was OP enough that I could walk in to pretty much anywhere and own. At that point I would walk around the world and just explore some dungeons and clear out zombies etc.

I found oblivion to be really good, especially with some vital community mods and the expansion that adds the insanity island ( the "non-knight of the nine" expansion, can't remeber the name )

edit: shivering isles is the name

All the fast travel, standard setting, additional player helper features... I dunno. Morrowind dropped you into the world and it always felt like there was some undiscovered thing around the corner that may even be interesting. Oblivion felt.. not that. But I'm still hearing about people starting it up and really enoying it... so maybe I am missing out.

As I said, community mods are vital imo. I hated the fact that every single critter leveled up with you ( wtf at rats becoming uber-strong after you level ); really pissed me off. So some mods were some serious gosends.

Natural Environment, Natural Wildlive, Oscuro's Obliovion Overhaul and the unoffical patch are my favorites. Add shivering Isles and you just lost a month of productivity.

Also, you do realise you can just NOT USE fast travel, right ?

I never played Morrowind.

fast travel was nice because it allowed you to advance some of the story (i.e. side quests) as fast as you want. But like I said, I still spent a lot of time wandering around the countryside just happening upon whatever dungeons were out there.

It was nice to have the option, that's all I'm saying. If you're in the mood to wander, then wander, if you're in the mood to see what happens when you murder person X and only have 10 minutes till you have to go, you can still get it done.

Well ya but it's not the same as having to use the big strider things like before! It was cohesive within the game world! Cohesive!

Skyrim youtube link

The comments are pretty hilarious

morrowind is better (well except for the graphics obv) but i still liked oblivion a lot.