I hated morrowind, i absolutely loved oblivion.
120 hours in, finished most of the main quests, enjoyed almost every bit of it. The game's combat is a bit lacking (of course), but it does get incredibly difficult once you reach higher levels. I played as a battle mage conjurer for the most part. Summoned by helper, used him to tank and then whacked away with my sword and spells till the enemies died. There were many instances where tactics played an absolutely vital role in my surviving.
The ending to the mains story was excellent, but the Dark Brotherhood storyline was the best (with some of the best writing i've ever seen in a game). The final Thieves Guild mission is something that needs to be experienced. Even though I was horrible at sneak.
And for everyone who complains about the graphics, here are some screenshots: (Taken with my computer - the jaggies don't look that bad in game, but the jpeg compression amplifies them.) My computer isn't "top of the line" it's closer to mid-range now, and i was easily pulling 25FPS outside and 60fps inside, with the loading times almost never existing. (Of course, i had a few mods that removed the annoying "loading" messages so it was seamless.) Of course, my harddrive is an absolute beast (WD Raptor 74gig), so my complete lack of load times (except for the few seconds entering a city) is something that won't be exactly the same for everyone.
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The game is absolutely beautiful and I never really found the character models distracting. I thought they were very well done - in the entire game i never came across 2 people who looked the same. (With the exception of the twins). Even the non-human races managed to have individual characters that were unique. The voice acting was a bit too similar all around, but considering how many lines they gave voice acting too - it's rather incredible.
The game didn't interest me at first till i left the sewers and started to randomly explore the countryside, by about hour 3 or 4 i was hooked and didn't stop playing for an entire
month. After finishing the dark brotherhood the new game vibe wore off and i started playing it less and less till i finished the main storyline (and did most of the sidequests - excellent as they are) and eventually moved onto other things. Still, oblivion is damn good.
To those complaining about loading on the 360:
play the game a few times and the loading will almost entirely dissapear. The game is loading things to harddrive for the first few sessions, once it's done cacheing the majority of the game, the loading is far faster.
Of course, i'd highly, highly reccomend the PC version instead. Better controls, more customizable, far, far more mods (mmm... Obscuros Oblivion Overhaul....) and just all around better. Of course, i'm the type of guy that would essentially prefer the PC vrsion of *any* game, unless the porting was horrible.
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