Forum Overview :: The Elder Scrolls :: Re: Initial reaction

[quote name="Zsenicorpse"]I fucking <i>hate</i> Oblivion. The clunky interface, my <i>immoveable fucking neck</i>, the glaringly blue and opaque water, the <i>FUCKING OREGON TRAIL FONT</i>, forced full-frontal facial with each and every conversation! The game takes running leaps backwards in realism. For every dead jiggling rat, there are: - Conversational tools in which you must, manditory soldier!, threaten someone and then kiss his ass. I left Caltrops to avoid that whole scene! - "Natural" NPC "conversations" - where have I heard freaky, stilted, non-sequitur conversations like these before? "Hello!" "Good day!" "Have you heard about Funiculus Pederast's new girlfriend?" "Mm hmm..." "<i>Tchuss!</i>" "<i>Guten abend.</i>" Morrowind was much better in this respect. Everyone was a surly bastard who hated you and couldn't wait to tell you all the same shit everyone else in your entire life to date had told you. Until you gave them money or slapped them around a bit or got the local gentry on your side. Then it was all "oooo Hortator!" - Rat jiggle PLUS perpetual object jiggle everywhere all the time. The whole world has Parkinson's! - Mirror hair. - WHY IS THERE NO MOUSELOOK? AND WHO DECIDED THAT WHEN YOU'RE ON A <i>HORSE</i> YOU GET MOUSELOOK... BUT CRIPPLED MOUSELOOK?! 180 degrees of mouselook can't be that much fucking easier to code than 360. Look, I'll peer all the way behind me without moving my hips at all! Look at this, Bethesda! You've officially given me a fantasy alter ego less physically fit than my real life alter ego! FOR A LOT OF YOUR TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC, THIS IS VERY AWKWARD. - That fucking Every Menu Is One Menu inventory/map/whatever dongle is fucking retarded as shit. It was so easy in Morrowind - I wanna see my inventory. Okay now I want the map. Okay the journal. Separate keys! Fast-loading, easy to get to! Crippled the game not at all, stranglely enough! - People come to check my shit out if I wander over to their bedroom door - but once I'm IN THE FUCKING BEDROOM, it's no longer a matter of any concern to them at all. I could spend a week in some guy's private quarters, reading his books, jumping on his bed. While he's sleeping in it. He don't mind! Anything for a good lockpicker! - Buy Wheaty Bud from shopkeeper. Exploit ludicrously obvious bug that allows me to make potion with single reagent. Sell potion of Name back to shopkeeper for 3 or 4 times the price of Wheaty Bud. Why does this ruin my whole day? Because... because... IT'S SO EASY TO NOTICE THAT SHIT LIKE THAT HAPPENS! But Bethesda was too invested in making the Greatest XBox Game Ever Made to bother with the PC port, I guess. The water really bothers me, too. Why can't I see my hand in front of my face?! It's like some kind of blueberry mush in there! Morrowind's water was a graphical triumph at the time it was released; now the water in fucking World Of Warcraft gets the heads up on the leading Realistic Real Real Real game of our time. Oh yeah, and ahhh, the waving grass, the waving bushes... the...waving everything... everything is waving all the fucking time... in the same freaky circles... One of the underlying problems with game design is that the more "realistic" games become, the harder it is to accomplish further realism, and the more people notice the stuff that's badly done. Who bitched about solid blue water in Castles? Nobody. Did anyone decry the lack of scales on the little snakes in Utopia? No. Did we need to know more about the white house we were behind in Zork? Uh uh. Oblivion suffers from this nasty little paradox: that in a game filled with sunlight on the harbor and flowers hidden in the grass around tree trunks and the freedom to run wherever you like and do whatever you want, you HAVE to zoom in on people's fat fucking faces when you talk to them, and you HAVE to look in the same direction you're running. I find it practically unplayable! In fact I did find it unplayable until I saw you guys cooing over it after having soundly rogered Morrowind, a game I consider superior to Oblivion in almost every possible area! But I'm going to give it another chance on the strength of your dumb opinions. [/quote]