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Even though Oblivion had some pretty big flaws which have been documented plenty, thinking about it last night after the announcement of ESV did make me remember it was my first real open world game that I really let my imagination run a little wild. Sure I guess you could say there were sandbox games before like GTA, but that was so limited- you could drive, shoot, blow shit up but not much else. There was morrowind and the time I spent with that was excellent since the game world was so dangerous and well realised in places I role played to a pretty serious extent in that, not really messing around too much and trying to stay away from those fucking cliff racers.

Oblivion however, had this strange streak to it for me that allowed me to get too much into character. To a disturbing amount acually.

I went through my computer and found some screenshot grabs I had made of certain moments the first time I was playing the game. I remember being amazed the first time I left the prison and emerged on the other side. I had a rather pansy moment where I looked up at the night sky and felt the freedom of the open expansive world the game had been hyped so much.

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I remember the first place I went was the Imperial City, just exploring and taking in the amazing architecture, it was 2006 so it was the first real glimpse into the next gen for me after being unimpressed with some of the earlier games that year.

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After a while though, I was thinking my character just escaped from prison, has been walking around straight for two days and so he needs somewhere to sleep. A place to lay his weary head and carry on exploring this amazing world the next day. I tried just politely using some shopowners bed while he wasn't in it, busy at work, what would he care if I tried to sneak up to his bedroom and unlock the door, it's not like he would come from behind his counter and look at me suspiciously ready to call the guards if I dared to sleep there...

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Oh. The dick. So I decided to see if I could just get a place of my own. I asked around town and some stuffy woman who worked for the city said she wanted 2000 gold for a shitty little shack on the rough side of town. Considering I barely had any gold seeing as I was a fresh new convict wearing some shitty animal skin for clothes and a face like a badgers arse, it was looking unlikely I could charm or legally buy my way into some property. So I went around town wondering if I could find maybe some abandoned place I could just squat in or something. I eventually came to a ship at one side of town- for some reason as soon as I stepped aboard, some dudes just ran out from inside the ship and attacked me. Some pirate dudes with curved swords and baggy pants. Since they decided not to greet me with a polite welcome, I returned the favour. This is what it looked like about 5 mins later.

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As you can see I dragged the bodies off the surface of my new home and left them there. I could have easily dragged them into the water but I felt having them scattered around the edge of my new abode was a good way of saying "Don't fuck with me. Especially if you're a pirate" so I decided to leave them as they were. I had found a much nicer place, a mobile home with a cabin with on suite facilities of a few bags of grain and a big king sized bed for me and plenty of space to store my goods as well.

For a while things were fine. But it got a little lonely. A boat is a place most have a crew, or at least a companion. Oh the idea of a companion, a lady companion at that. We could go away sailing together, watching oblivion gates block the sunset and offering tourist tours while putting on a pirate accent. So my character, or I you could say, we got a little delusional. I began to steal a few strange items. Ladies shoes and jewels. I would display them as if the lady who owned there was living there.

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This worked for a while. I would just imagine the owner of those dainty velvet shoes placed on top of the dressed next to the neatly made bed and of those pretty jewels she liked to sort and display on the desk, was always out shopping or sharing her radiance with the rest of the town. But soon enough that made it worse, why was she never home, did she not want to come home? So I left the boat one night and found her, at least someone who looked like this woman in my head, I followed her for a while, sneaking of course until before I know what happened...

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She had er fallen asleep while out on the town...er yes. So I dragged her back to our home, stripped off her clothes down to her underwear and displa....laid her on the bed so she would never ever leave again :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:

Can't wait to meet someone new in Skyrim

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I do hope that they've been scrubbing the shit out of the Gamebryo engine, or are using Tech5 for some of it, Oblivion was such a 'this is next-gen' type game that if a game five years later on still looks quite similar to it, it will be a slight disappointment.

Uzi, that story is inspired. :hat:

I seem to remember someone on here saying that they spent a huge amount of time in Oblivion without wearing any trousers and only realised by randomly going to 3rd person at some point. :)

I pretty much screwed up my Oblivion character by doing the whole first section in the prison where it decides what character you are, crouching without realising it. It made me a thief or something and gave me a lot of sneak points, I didn't even realise I'd been crouching the whole time until after I'd gone outside...

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From Bethesda's twitter:

"Seeing lots of speculation about #tesv game engine. It's brand new... and it's spectacular!"

"But in keeping with previous ES games the biggest threat to the world won't be dragons or gods but will be the engine itself."

I'm really hoping this game will be good and won't be as buggy as some of their previous efforts.

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I pretty much screwed up my Oblivion character by doing the whole first section in the prison where it decides what character you are, crouching without realising it. It made me a thief or something and gave me a lot of sneak points, I didn't even realise I'd been crouching the whole time until after I'd gone outside...

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How much can you modify a game engine? That isn't a shitty rhetorical question by the way.

Is it likely to look fairly similar to Fallout 3 because it shares the engine or could it potentially be much better looking?

Well I don't know if this actually answers your question but look this is Morrowind unmodded:

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And this is Morrowind, same engine, with a few snazzy mods and lighting effects applied:

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Of course this is all moot since Skyrim will be using an all-new engine anyway :D

I can't wait to see in-game footage hurry up Bethesda :omg:

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On that note I actually loaded up morrowind on the PC yesterday. Without mods, just the vanilla version running at 720p or so. It actually didn't look that bad- the worst thing was though one of bethesda's constant flaws. The animation. Every character walked like they had shit in their pants- if you thought Oblivion or Falllout walking/running animation was bad, go back to morrowind.

Still the freedom of the game was so refreshing. I forgot how quickly it starts. You're on a ship within a two min intro. You're off the ship 30 seconds later. You create your class and do one or two other things and you're done. Go and do whatever the hell you want, with very little hand holding either. And knowing that there were places immediately in the world you could find enemies who would one hit KO you. And amazing loot. They're already abandoned the insane levelling of oblivion in fallout, so hopefully they'll go ever further in Skyrim in the danger and amazing treasure you could find if you were brave enough.

Plus I wanna steal extra special trinkets for my future Skyrim girlfriend :blush:

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On that note I actually loaded up morrowind on the PC yesterday. Without mods, just the vanilla version running at 720p or so. It actually didn't look that bad

To be brutally honest I couldn't find a decent screenshot of unmodded Morrowind on short notice and I used one from the Xbox version :lol: But you know, that was what morrowind on PC looked like on medium settings back when it came out.

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I just hope they get rid of that thing where the animation gets more stuttery the the further away it is. Necessary in 2000, maybe. Not any more though.

And good grief, I hope they can manage more than a handful of npcs onscreen at a time. The capital city in Oblivion felt like a ghost town :lol:

YOU HAVE THE HANDS OF A HEALER. LOOK AT THE MUSCLES ON YOU. MUDCRABS. FILTHY CREATURES.

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How much can you modify a game engine? That isn't a shitty rhetorical question by the way.

Is it likely to look fairly similar to Fallout 3 because it shares the engine or could it potentially be much better looking?

well gamebryo runs both Warhammer Online and Oblivion / Fallout so you can be the judge :)

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Good news on the engine front

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-12-13-elder-scrolls-v-tech-took-many-years

Over the weekend Bethesda said Elder Scrolls V is powered by a new engine. "We can now confirm that the TES V: Skyrim engine is all-new. And it looks fantastic," Bethesda community man Nick Breckon tweeted. "It's a new graphics/gameplay engine built internally. We'll have more details down the road."
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