If you want glowing reviews, read the other one. I'm here to talk about the flaws so you guys can see both sides to the game. You will probably expect to feel similar when playing the game, but everyone's opinion differs. Again, great game, I'm not saying it isn't. I'm just here to analyze the flaws.
FLAWS and ISSUES
1. Can't delete spells. I don't understand why not.
2. No suspense or later on there's no real suspense. I have my difficulty slider all the way to the right now but I notice that the game doesn't really grip me and put me on the edge like "holy marshmallows! What was that??" It's like you just go and attack and the fighting isn't super indepth. You just slash and use spells to kill your opponent, I just don't see a huge amount of strategy when I fight my enemy. I mean sure you can use strategy to kill your opponent, but why use strategy when plain raw power and outright onslaughter will do just the same? I just back up a little and let me summon go in first then I pick at the enemy from the sides. You can give your enemies a bunch of handicaps to make the fighting more interesting, but who are you kidding? Winning with all your strength and smarts is the best kind of fighting. It's like playing tag for real and playing it with little kids that you know have no chance in catching you, but you pretend to let them catch you. Not much fun.
3. With the difficulty slider all the way to the right I notice a few things. Either the fighting remains easy as heck or I get beat the crap out of. Like there was the final mission for saving Kvatch, where you're about to open the gate after going through the underground place and there's enemies outside the gate in mass. I got murderized in like 3 seconds? I got hit with spells from A through Z and the only way I beated it at my current state was putting it on medium to easy. Anyway, then there's other times when I raid a whole cave with ease on difficulty max. I'm so thankful for the difficulty slider because without it I think this game would be completely wack. So this game is either not challenging or too hard. It might not be so wack for the experience players, but it will be for many.
4. I know your items are organized, but there's many stuff you can keep in this game I wish there was more organization or a different kind of system. I wish I can also scroll down to the bottom of my list with a click of a button, if there is someone tell me? I keep having to scroll alllll the way to the bottom.
5. I really hate how you can't have the option to have your map, local or world, on the actual screen. I admit, I have a bad sense of direction, I mean in real life I use my Garmin to go to the store that's 2 blocks away, but I get lost all the time in this game and I have to keep going into my menu over and over to see where I am.
6. I hate how you can accidentally steal stuff sometimes and get jumped for it and when you summon or have followers, you keep accidently hit them and then they turn on you. I hate that. I have to save all the time because of that. I like having a follower because I get lonely in the game walking around by myself, but mines is a little snitching dog when I kill people or steal stuff. Oh yeah I also hate how when you click on your follower there's not an option to not choose either one so when you accidently click on them, you have to choose either to dismiss them or tell them to wait and since that was on accident, you gotta click them again to tell them to follow you again.
7. Btw just wanted to add that FAST TRAVEL is one of the best thing in this game so I don't know why some people put it down. I would probably kill myself if I have to keep walking around in this gigantic land. Fast travel makes the world a lot smaller and exploring is a good idea. I love Oblivion's world, but getting lost in it is no fun especially when you want to get to that destination and do your thing. I remember yesturday trying to find this ruin, I continuously got blocked by slopes that I couldn't get over and had to do a round trip in order to find a way in. The glarmor and nice graphics are killed by built up anxiety, impatience, and frustration of actually getting to where you want.
8. Different types of missions. So far I've only encountered missions that dealt with:
a) Having to kill someone or fake someone's death or something relating to someone getting killed.
b) Being a messenger boy or getting somebody together.
c) Being a bodyguard
9. I wish this game mixed itself a bit with Fable 2, where you can form some businesses and whatnot. Fable 2's business real life simulation + Dead Space kind of suspense + Oblivion + Zelda Ocarina of Time's memorable gameplay = Ultimate RPG.
10. Not that many unique interesting enemies. You will continue to see rats, cats, bears, wolves, goblins throughout the game. Then in later levels, you find a few more. But there's nothing super cool or special about them and there's not many enemies in general.
11. Is it me or are most of the caves look the same? I mean if you go to caves like crayfish, haynote/heynote and greenmead cave, you'll sorta notice some places that look awfully the same. Other than a few different tunnels and endings here and there....once you raid one cave, you sorta raid them all. Another reason is because you also encounter pretty much the same type of enemies in most of them.
12. The loading is supposedly a lot better than Morrowind, however, it can get a bit abnoxious sometimes. Enter house, LOAD. Exit house, LOAD. Enter cave, LOAD. Go to the next level in the cave, LOAD. Go all the way back out of the cave, load load load. Fast travel, LOAD. Opps, made a mistake! LOAD. Was I suppose to take the left door instead? LOAD. If you enter and exit a place, sometimes you won't have to load though.
TIPS TO A GOOD GAME:
1. Look up UESP on google. UESP is something you must check out if you haven't. It's the wikipedia of this game.
2. Many of the stuff in this game is leveled including opponents and items. Many of the quest items are leveled, meaning you won't get the best of certain items until you're around lvl 25-30. You'll find much better stuff around lvl 20+++. You also encounter new enemies as you level up higher but some old enemies will still be there.
3. Leveling up any skill in this game works like this: The more / fast you use it, the faster you'll level up. So if you want to level up a skill like conjuration fast, use a conjuration type spell like bound item and continuously cast. The lower the magicka cost, the better it is for you. It's not how big or costly the spell is, it's how many times you use it. Same for the other skills, magic related or not.
4. Always save often. If you're the type that knows how and when to save and remembers to save, then turn off autosave. After every few saves, make a new save file and don't delete the older save files until you're sure you dont need them. Oblivion has many glitches. You should definitely dl the patches when and if you can, it's worth it. I usually save every few minutes, I find it very worthwhile.
5. Use Hotkeys. It's in your manual.
6. If you press START and go to GAMEPLAY, you can adjust the difficulty slider left to right. It helps you adjust your character's build and your gameplay to the game. You can adjust it throughout your gameplay on Oblivion.
7. If you start having glitch problems such as problems completing a quest and you dont know why, the first thing you should usually try is to reload your game and clear your system cache. Directions in the first sticky on this board.
8. The best weapons in this game is a weapon you enchant yourself and is not found in the game or given to you. I mean you can get pretty good stuff, but you'll find that enchanting your own item works best. Enchanting means bestowing magical properties into the items that you wear or the weapons that you use. You will, however, need an enchanting alter found in FrostCrag DLC or Arcane University which is only accessible later on.
9. Fast travel is......GOD! But you should also remember to explore. Fast travel by going into your Journal by pressing B. Then scroll to the Map and Quest menu and have your cursor over the location. If fast travel is possible, then the option to press A to fast travel will be available as long as there's no enemies trying to get you or you're in a house or something.Get more detail about Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition.
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