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Skybird · 10-05-11, 04:42 AM

I still occasionally stroll around in the world of Oblivion - to me it all is about atmosphere, the mood of places and the chnaging light in changing time fo day and weather. I simply feel somewhat like coming home again whenever I enter the game. And I enjoy to recognise places again that I had visited long time ago. I completely ignore the main plot, it is very repetitive. I just stroll around and enjoy what is being laid out before my eyes.

And the music - another long-known companion now!

I remember the first time I fired the game up, in 2007 I think. Slow system, old 4:3 monitor, CRT. And still - I was stunned in disbelief, and couldn'T believe the detail and beauty all around. First the sequence in the prison dungeon, the escape, then getting out from the tunnel outside the wall, at night, a starry sky above me, moving tree leafes, the sounds - unbelievable! After dawn, when the sun was high, I walked over the bridge, turned right, the road you use to go when heading for Chorrol, and there is the path with those wall segments with flowers on them - it reminded me of certain illustration in a very old book I have with fairy tales, printed in the 1930s, with pictures like they do not do them anymore today. I just watched and thought - wowh. And I felt happy during those first hours of play. It was all new and excitiing, the first duels, running away or fighting, and if the latter - how best!?

To me it is more a Second Life clone, so to speak.

Playing imported 40s radio programs when being on the bridge and doing a long ride in SH3 is what comes closest to the way Oblivion makes me feel. The feeling of melancholy and isolation I happened to experience surprisingly intense in SH3, for a game. Oblivion can only be done justice if you also compare it to the standards of the time it was released: 2006. And for that year, the graphics were simply breathtaking.

I also completes the Shivering Isles. I loved the humour and the German voice (a famous actor over here) of Sheogorath, and the queer setting.

And ArmA2, I would only wish it they would finally, finally, finally spend at least some hours on repairing that totally FUBAR AI. It has become worse with every release. That'S why I have deleted ArmA2 again, do not play ArmA1 anymore, and only occasionally do a quick fight in Flashpoint. They are focussing too much on working on graphics and including ever more content, but the AI is some of the worst I have ever seen in any game. If they would priont on the package "online game, MP exclusively", then okay, at least then people would be warned. But selling it as a SP game as well is a bad joke. And with bad AI I mean the enemy as well as by team mates, cannot say who sucks more.

10-05-11, 04:42 AM	#10
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,620 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I still occasionally stroll around in the world of Oblivion - to me it all is about atmosphere, the mood of places and the chnaging light in changing time fo day and weather. I simply feel somewhat like coming home again whenever I enter the game. And I enjoy to recognise places again that I had visited long time ago. I completely ignore the main plot, it is very repetitive. I just stroll around and enjoy what is being laid out before my eyes. And the music - another long-known companion now! I remember the first time I fired the game up, in 2007 I think. Slow system, old 4:3 monitor, CRT. And still - I was stunned in disbelief, and couldn'T believe the detail and beauty all around. First the sequence in the prison dungeon, the escape, then getting out from the tunnel outside the wall, at night, a starry sky above me, moving tree leafes, the sounds - unbelievable! After dawn, when the sun was high, I walked over the bridge, turned right, the road you use to go when heading for Chorrol, and there is the path with those wall segments with flowers on them - it reminded me of certain illustration in a very old book I have with fairy tales, printed in the 1930s, with pictures like they do not do them anymore today. I just watched and thought - wowh. And I felt happy during those first hours of play. It was all new and excitiing, the first duels, running away or fighting, and if the latter - how best!? To me it is more a Second Life clone, so to speak. Playing imported 40s radio programs when being on the bridge and doing a long ride in SH3 is what comes closest to the way Oblivion makes me feel. The feeling of melancholy and isolation I happened to experience surprisingly intense in SH3, for a game. Oblivion can only be done justice if you also compare it to the standards of the time it was released: 2006. And for that year, the graphics were simply breathtaking. I also completes the Shivering Isles. I loved the humour and the German voice (a famous actor over here) of Sheogorath, and the queer setting. And ArmA2, I would only wish it they would finally, finally, finally spend at least some hours on repairing that totally FUBAR AI. It has become worse with every release. That'S why I have deleted ArmA2 again, do not play ArmA1 anymore, and only occasionally do a quick fight in Flashpoint. They are focussing too much on working on graphics and including ever more content, but the AI is some of the worst I have ever seen in any game. If they would priont on the package "online game, MP exclusively", then okay, at least then people would be warned. But selling it as a SP game as well is a bad joke. And with bad AI I mean the enemy as well as by team mates, cannot say who sucks more. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert. Last edited by Skybird; 10-05-11 at 04:57 AM.