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"The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion"

The amazing sequel to one of the greatest games of all time (Morrowind, if you thought it was something stupid like Halo) is finally on its way THIS Christmas alongisde the Xbox 360 release (as Oblivion is a release game) for PC and of X360.

Now you should all know by now how detailed the graphics are, how smart all the NPC's are going to be, more or less get the jist of how the combat system will work, and that the character creation at the start will be very detailed you could have millons of different faces probably for each race too (the usual 8, Khajiits, Argonians, and all the human races), but did you know that you can use a special item in the game that allows you to revive a dead foe and turn him into a mindless bodyguard to defend and fight for you whenever you are attacked. Now if there is a spell version of this item then perhaps this wil be the ultimate necromancers tool to play the game, by using the enemies against each other.

Another thing that has recently been confirmed is the possibility to become a Vampire like in Morrowind, however in this game being a Vampire will not hinder your chances of completing any quests unlike before.

Anywa I for one have been waiting with dried drool on my chin for maybe a year now, and the wait is nearly over at last. This game will not however be delayed like Twilight Princess because they are in the final stages of production at this very moment and have they had already finished the main world structure ages ago.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
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> That was one of the things I hated about Morrowind, having to read
> pages and pages of beardy nonsense everytime you talk to someone.

Except you really didn't since most of it wasn't very useful and could be gotten from those you had to talk to to complete various errands rather than talking to everyone when most of them simply said the same thing somebody else already had.

Anything important came up as soon as you talked to them without having to go through the different topic of conversation.

Voice acting?

Thank god.

That was one of the things I hated about Morrowind, having to read pages and pages of beardy nonsense everytime you talk to someone.

As long as they fix the combat as well, this game should be good.

I have no hopes to build - I knew what Hedfix meant witht he Xbox360 bit.

It's fine, I expect a single player RPG - now to read into it and yhype myself up :D

So bullett don't build up your hopes for a multiplayer for no reason coz they'll only be torn down right away.

They already denied it would have any online multiplayer in a interview about a year ago.

Something along the lines of: "We make the best offline RPG and we intend to keep it that way".

I think the only function the X360 live will give players is the updates for the extensive player and producer mods to the game, not any multiplayer feature otherwise they would have already announced that part for sure.

Thanks for the clear-up. To someone who knows nothing about the series (me), it certainly looks like it could pull off MMORPG-ness, what with the different races and classes, the big world etc.

Still, as an offline single player, it's looking damn interesting - a 360 purchase I think.

It will be online on the 360 in-so-much as it will be 'Live aware' like all other 360 titles.

Bethesda has intentionally made this a single player NON MMORPG, this is just a massive offline RPG adventure game. However good a multiplayer sounds it just wouldn't make the game as much a sucess as it will be without I think.

No multi (thank god).