I didn’t like world levelling really, that’s very true.

But otuside of that it was ALL visual design that I hated. From lore Cyrodiil is a jungle, almost impenetrable. Not a European forest.

The Imperial City is a MASSIVE city, with many different islands, canals and gondolas. It’s a lot like Venice.

And for cities like Cheydinhal, well they were ridiculously represented.

As was the beastiary. And as was the watered down culture.

Ald’ruhn was destroyed by it however. And the departure of the Nerevarine to Akavir, is partly to blame.

But Akavir is like untouched snow. And Bethesda of these days will amke it yellow.

Who’s there, I know there’s the serpents men, those are what are conventionally called the Akviri. But theres like snow yetis and stuff isn’t there? I can’t remember

I still think it could be Akavir. An island with four distinct cultures. The size of Vvardenfell, all carefully designed. No vast empty spaces. Lots of never seen before lore about the whole Akaviri culture and the early times of men and mer. Not happening.

And there are tons of unexplored ‘assumed’ Empires on Nirn.

Atmora, where the original Imperial/Nords came from.

Yokuda, where the Redguard came from. And is now inhabited by sload.

Pyandonea, where the yellow elves came from, or the maomer.

Akavir is just the most popular in the previus two TES games, becuase both played a huge role in alliance between Akviri and the Imperials.

Damn… I LOVE this game.

Very early in all the consoles life cycles, they port a game from PC, that’s depth cannot be compared to anything developed on the console exclsuively.

It’s a very scalable engine, with a TON of scalable middlewares.

It’s massive, and the only RPG out on the consoles, with the most innnoffensive and dull, fantasy
settings ever.

Word spreads, and there we have Oblivions success.

In the HD generation, people realise making a massive RPG is fucking difficult. HD assets or current gen quality assets make things much more difficult to do on a large scale.

Suddenly Bethesda is the only developer invested in doing that.

Now people are starting to recognise the Bethesda name.

Maybe they will chnage their ways too now they ARE in the spotlight, of the hardcore market.

If so, I don’t mind Oblivion being shit, for that.

I think Bethesda are shit at the moment.

Bethesda just don’t want to do the animation. Budget and tiem constraints etc.

Fallout 3 was smallera dn more linear than Oblivion. Definitely no problems at all.

Had failes since and I’ve managed to recover the data from them, but this one was utter cunting epic.

A friend of mine works with these people who help forensic investigators get data from hard drives that have been smashed, burned or failed. I ahve a whole spare computer on an 80gb external Harddrive now. With my Morrowind saves.

I LOVED the scrolls you took from his corpse.

Most epic find I ever had though, was I entered a boring lookign Ancestral Tomb, and there was a lock at the bottom. I had comissioned a ring with the spell open lock of 100 on touch.

And the lock was 99! Anyway, I went down about 10 flights of slopes (as they don’t use stairs), to find another 99 lock. Used my rign again, and foudn a MASSIVE open cavern, and steps leadign down to the water, where it becomes a maze.

So again, using my initiative, I had found a levitate ring.. I used that and discovered it was the Burial ground for some guy. There was a Daedric Helm (SOO rare and not levelled) and tons of gems and gold, and another artifact I can’t remember.

I was amazed. I thnk I am gonna go play it now.

750 hours!!!!?

Seek help, quickly.

With Obilivion,I have logged in 600 or so hours, maybe. Too afraid to look.

Morrowind? I logged 750 hours last time I checked, and still have not completed the entire thing. I had to stop. Seriously, I did.

Still, once in a while, I hear it calling my name through the aether…

/kidding