OMG HE IS SO WRONG!

I bought oblivion when it first came out, and it was totally immersive.












For 15 minutes.

And enjoyable for about 30...45 after adding some cheat mods.

I want my back.

He misses Warcraft.

I really like Oblivion and thought it was very immersive (Not as immersive for me as Morrowind though). I agree on the scanty number of voice actors and how sometimes characters would totally lose their accents and bust out a canned line.

Any Elder Scrolls game beyond Daggerfall is much improved with modding tools.

FINE MUSTACHES.

I only played Oblivion sporadically at a friend's place, but I did have to wonder at the logic of having a stable of three generic voice actors to play 50,000 characters when you've got access to PATRICK FUCKING STEWART and yet you waste him on a character who dies five minutes in.

"... dogshit bullet between the eyes." :D

I approve of his love for the Kinks.

"soapy tit wanks"

I disagree with his reviews & constant revisions, but he's funny as hell.

Funny, but I still like oblivion.

I had to go look up "uncanny valley."

Admittingly he is right.

Oblivion is a good game...but in terms of immersion, i put it down after a month.

I played Morrowind for almost 6 months straight on the other hand.

And WoW for two years.

And Diablo 2 was my high-school education.

I play the crap out of Oblivion. Love that game, though yes-- the piddly number of VAs is annoying. You'd think they could have brought in all the programmers and art people and janitors and had them read off the piddly lines and save the paid VAs for the main quest characters, but eh. That's pretty much my only complaint for the game. I know you were all eagerly waiting to hear my opinions!!!

Oblivion is the best RPG of all time....

after you've installed enough fan-made mods.

As RPGs go, I thought Oblivion was raw fantastic, with the exception of flexible dialogue and terrain. While terrain does change a bit, it's a lot like going on quests all over, say, Ontario, and looking at the changes in terrain. They're not going to be tremendous.

A whole world, now, that would be impressive. I've got Morrowind on the shelf behind me (acquired after Oblivion) and am looking forward to playing it.

Still, when you get down to immersion, this guy is largely right: the Thief series pummels Oblivion into the ground. (Fucking zombies. No Thief FM I make will EVER have zombies.)

Not just a Kinks song but one of my favorites YAAAAY

also +5 for NERD/NORD

Never played Oblivion but I liked Morrowind a lot...the only thing that bugged me about it was that while yes, it WAS immersive, you were basically being immersed into a world where you'd spend a bunch of fucking time walking from A to B. Then again WOW is like that sometimes and you have to pay for it.

Eh, kind of an old complaint, really. But yeah, it always boggled my mind why this multi-million dollar project couldn't have afforded more voices or how Bethesda honestly thought having hundreds of people, including core characters, with the same voices would be a good idea. Then, to compound that mistake with Shivering Isles where there's only two new voices.

In terms of immersion overall, I disagree with most of this. One of the biggest things anyone can do to improve their experience in Oblivion, in my opinion, is to not use fast travel. The world feels much more like a world when you travel in it using normal means the majority of the time. I also found the game to be more fascinating when I "role played" a little bit, and did things like trying to get regular sleep and meals and changing into normal clothes when I was going to be spending a lot of time in a city, things like that. It's a fun little sandbox if you let it me, even without mods.

Im guessing he didn�t get to the assassin mission, which(coupled with the thief missions) made this game for me.

I couldnt agree more on the instant travel part though, well at least on haveing everything visible from the get-go.

I agree. The game sucked.

actually like Oblivion but must 5 star for humor here:

me no speakee retarded

Oblivion is an RPG made by autistic people.