WoW Rehab, should I get Oblivion?

[Flie]

I am trying to stop playing world of warcraft and I think something like Oblivion which is apparently amazing, is it worth it and will it stop me wasting £9 a month on ruining my life?

[Mr. Ron]

wait for all too human

[DanD]

wait for all too human

if this is the game I've thinking of it looks exceptionally average

[JerrySanders]

Yeah get Oblivion, it doesn't have online though so it probably doesn't have as much replay value as WOW.

[team_racket]

Definately get it. Its just been re-released in the xbox classic range for about 15 bones. Its a classic game that will last you a long time.

[willfellmarsy]

73+ hours and i didnt even beat the main quest...I'm a loser i know :(

[DaveSavesTheDay]

re roll horde.

But seriously, get Oblivion.

[awia]

wait for age of conan...real time action mmorpg.....if that stinks then get age of empires 2

[Phalanx]

Everyone should have Oblivion in their game collection

[guitarded_chuck]

played Oblivion on and off for months and still haven't beaten it. super fun

[DJ Ducksauce]

Eh. I got bored with Oblivion after 9 hours. but I used cheats. But I guess if you like games like morrowind, then go for it.

[bradc1988]

I put about 100 hours into Oblivion over in between semesters last year, good stuff!

I hate the monster scaling though, where as you level up the monsters level up too, so you can never dominate :(. Also for such a big place there aren't many people!

[Flie]

It seems that I am definitely going to get it, especially seeing as I have 70s in horde and alliance, wow it got old really quick, even when I made my own private server where I am admin. Is Oblivion as great as everyone makes out?

[Oriah]

I played Oblivion and no its not really a good substitute for WOW. I would simply just quit WOW and take up something more real. As in something that involves you not sitting at the computer.

[Flie]

Well seeing as this is a musician forum I guess I do, I just think that Oblivion looks so much better spells and physics and mods wise.

[Phalanx]

Is Oblivion as great as everyone makes out?

Oblivion by itself is actually huge PoS. You need to get lots of mods to improve the game, but once you do, the game becomes amazing.

Mods like Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul for example.

[Flie]

Ah yes I believe I will be installing mods as soon as I get it just because I am that kind of guy, especially the pokeball one haha. I am just wondering can you like drop items out of your inventory and they become physical objects that you can move around? Because I will want to set stuff up in a house.

[guitarded_chuck]

**** mods

[Aficionado]

stop playing addictive video games

[Flie]

Well seeing as I am getting my new s series this week it will probably help but I want to try out Oblivion as well because it looks so damn amazing.

[kattunlover69]

meh i had oblivion.....then I was basically think....wdf am i goign to do now.....and i am still thinking that.....while i havnt played it for about 4 months....

[DanD]

I downloaded Oblivion a while ago

there was too much stuff to do, I didn't like it

then again, I don't play MMO or anything so idk

[team_racket]

The soundtrack is undeniably great, and its just awesome to sit on a hillside and watch the weather change.

[British Kid]

Oblivion is good.

it's pretty massive too. Though I haven't played it properly in about a year, I can't bring myself to trade it in, because I know I'm going to go back to it eventually.

I'm just overly obsessed with Guitar Hero right now.

[Pluperfect_Arson]

Do people really have that hard of a time quitting WoW? I played for ~6 months straight and just quit cold turkey last week. I came to the conclusion that it was taking over my life, though, seeing as I never left my room. :(

I loved Oblivion when I played it, though.

[FakePlasticTrees]

I got tired of cave crawling, so I put Oblivion away for a while.

[guitrguy]

wtf is with people not beating oblivion? I just played it at a friends house multiple times and was able to beat the main quest.

[JerrySanders]

Go buy Gears of War.

[Flie]

I do not have a 360 so I would not be able to do much with it.

[JerrySanders]

Gears of War is on pc now.

[Flie]

Yeah oh well I do not want to get that, not my thing to be honest. I want to get Oblivion for the free roaming and physics and mods anyway.

[JerrySanders]

Yeah I don't like it too much either, a lot of people like it but I like Western rpgs better like Oblivion and first person shooters.

[Flie]

Yeah, and of course I want to use the pokeballs mod on guards xD.

[Iscariot]

ugh oblivion is so damn boring

just quit playing lame nerdy games and go outside for a while you'll feel much better

[JerrySanders]

But he wants to go on an epic quest in the land of Cyrodil.

[Flie]

Nah I want to get a life and have sex but that's never going to happen so I fill my life with video games.

[Pluperfect_Arson]

wtf is with people not beating oblivion? I just played it at a friends house multiple times and was able to beat the main quest.

I never beat it because I only ever played it at my friend's house, and I found doing the side quests more entertaining, so I put the main storyline off for a while.

Then, my friend sold it, and all I said was "WHYYYYYYY?"

It has been a long time since I have sat down and seriously played a console game, considering that is what I grew up on.

[HinDae]

definately get oblivion, it is amazing :)
also see if you can get morrowind, oblivions predecessor (sorry if spellings bad)
ive heard lots of good things about WoW, is it any good?

EDIT: flie, dont worry, the real world will catch up soon enough, i get action all the time with my other half and still get to play games ;)

[guitrguy]

I never beat it because I only ever played it at my friend's house, and I found doing the side quests more entertaining, so I put the main storyline off for a while.

Then, my friend sold it, and all I said was "WHYYYYYYY?"

It has been a long time since I have sat down and seriously played a console game, considering that is what I grew up on.
Yeah I tend to be OCD about beating main quests before I do side quests, in general. The Main quests are pretty short compared to the near infinite amount to side quest.

[HinDae]

I never beat it because I only ever played it at my friend's house, and I found doing the side quests more entertaining, so I put the main storyline off for a while.

Then, my friend sold it, and all I said was "WHYYYYYYY?"

It has been a long time since I have sat down and seriously played a console game, considering that is what I grew up on.

the thing is with oblivion you cant really "beat" the game, as the main quest is but a small fraction of the game. theres all the smaller quests to do and the DLC to do (shivering isles = w00tzorz x100) its a game that never gets old, besides, when you get bored of your character, you can always swap him/her out for a different one :)

[Flie]

definately get oblivion, it is amazing :)
also see if you can get morrowind, oblivions predecessor (sorry if spellings bad)
ive heard lots of good things about WoW, is it any good?

EDIT: flie, dont worry, the real world will catch up soon enough, i get action all the time with my other half and still get to play games ;)

Only get WoW if you want to lose your girlfriend and social life and any other hobbies you have. Seriously it is good but do not play it ever! What is morrowind like in comparison to oblivion?

[HinDae]

Only get WoW if you want to lose your girlfriend and social life and any other hobbies you have. Seriously it is good but do not play it ever! What is morrowind like in comparison to oblivion?

oh wel thanks for the heads up ;) i aint losing my girlfriend for nothing

morrowind is much, admittedly, worse looking than oblivion but its far more involving, theres 3 main quests (see game of the year edition) and its much harder ffom the get-go, which in my opinion makes it a better game, unfortunately it doesnt play on xbox 360 :'( but aparently the PC versions game editor has produced some seriously cool stuff, theres a whole website full of user-made downloads for it, seriously man give it a go

[willfellmarsy]

Morrowind's good but very very annoying...the journal is probably the shitties one in the history of video games...Oblivion fixed that problem pretty much and it looks so darn perty it's a must get.
I beat evry side quest (Assassin's Guild is the ****) and then when i got to the main quest and lost all my stuff, i almost killed myself with how hard it got. It wasn't worth it to continue so i never did...maybe i'll start the game again and just do the main quest so i can finally beat it...maybe not.

[Flie]

My problem in Oblivion will be the fact I will have to use Oldblivion but still that does nto matter so much, I am actually mostly buying the game for some of the badass mods.

[Pluperfect_Arson]

Yeah I tend to be OCD about beating main quests before I do side quests, in general. The Main quests are pretty short compared to the near infinite amount to side quest.

Yeah, I read that it has something like 400 hours worth of side quests. I don't quite remember the actual amount.

One of my other friends beat the main quest and was like "THAT'S IT?!" He didn't even bother doing a majority of the side quest. -.-

[Flie]

I would just like to say great avatar Pluperfect Arson. Does anyone know if you can go to the main city as soon as you finish the tutorial?

[Phalanx]

I still haven't done the main quest, too many damn oblivion gates got boring.

So I instead did the Fighter's guild and Mage Guild quests on my Paladin-esque character. Then I ventured into Morrowind (using the Morroblivion mod)

[Flie]

Do you need tes 3: morrowind to use that morroblivion because it sounds very interesting!

[FatalEnergy]

Yeah, how does that Morroblivion mod work?

Link?

[Jude]

Oblivion is awesome and isn't an online game so it doesn't have near as much potential to destroy your life

But get Morrowind instead because it's way better than Oblivion.

[FatalEnergy]

Morrowind just seemed way too clunky for me and I don't know. I remember I made a new character started out on the Fighter's Guild and couldn't beat the first quest. Killing three rats even with all this awesome armor and weapons I stole. It just seemed unrealistic. I should give it another try though. Morrowind is much cooler place than Cyrrodil.

[-Listy-]

Oblivion ruled.

[Superfly]

Oblivion is great, you can kill townsfolk in broad daylight and nobod- STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM

[Flie]

What the physics like in it?

[guitrguy]

I would just like to say great avatar Pluperfect Arson. Does anyone know if you can go to the main city as soon as you finish the tutorial?

Once you get out of the sewers you can roam and do what you want.

[Superfly]

Yeah, how does that Morroblivion mod work?

Link?

http://thenexusforums.com/index.php?showtopic=49000&st=0

:angry:

[Jude]

Only get WoW if you want to lose your girlfriend and social life and any other hobbies you have. Seriously it is good but do not play it ever!

This but it's not even a good game at all


What is morrowind like in comparison to oblivion?
Way better, more depth, more interesting background and storyline, etc

[Superfly]

Ok I found a link for morroblivion;
http://www.grwn.net/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=3 go to general and its there somewhere...

will try it later tonight if I can find my oblivion disc

[Surtr]

^^^ Orly now.

[Jacaranda]

thats an ugly ugly penis

and wtf english please prick

[stevensonmat2]

I can't believe all the people who like oblivion here. That was such a poorly crafted game; essays could be written on all of the wrongs of oblivion. This kind of positive response to oblivion just shows how pretty graphics and cheap tricks are all that is needed to win the adoration of the witless consumer.

If you want to stop playing WoW, turn the ****ing game off. Get a life.

[Turkish]

I'm pretty sure 95% of the gaming community would disagree with you sir.

And wtf, I hit last page and scroll down to get face-full of pensi.

[Seantmpc13]

Is that guy banned yet?

I've never played Oblivion but I watched someone else play it and I was very impressed.

[stevensonmat2]

95% of the gaming community gets off on madden and has never played a true "classic" game. The majority of Oblivion players have probably never even heard of Daggerfall, Arena, or any of the titles leading up to their beloved Oblivion, totally oblivious of the fact that a 20 year old game is in many ways better than the modern one they love. I don't care if they enjoy it, it just bugs me when they say it's "amazing" or "groundbreaking" when in reality it's actually quite a large step backwards.

I guess it would be easier to say the majority of the people in the world are idiots, so why would the video game community be any different?

[Surtr]

lololol penis.

I'm mildly amazed a mod hasn't banned and removed that post yet. Anyways, tbh, I've only played Oblivion for a little bit on a friends 360 and it was alright, but then I've played Mirrowind a lot more on my PC and I enjoyed Mirrowind more, but that's very likely just because of how much more I've played it.

[stevensonmat2]

No dude, Morrowind is a much better game. The storyline is much more engaging and the environment is more thought out and detailed(and by detailed I don't mean beautified with repetitive, criss-crossed animations of waving grass).

[Surtr]

Mhm, I know Oblivion is obviously much better looking but I didn't really know completely which had better gameplay. I enjoy Mirrowind better than I did with Oblivion anyways. Not to mention idk of my laptop could run Oblivion, or if the game is even for PC lol.

[stevensonmat2]

Oblivion has some advantages, such as a much improved combat system and graphics, which are nice, but what they sacrificed to appeal to a larger audience is selling out, pure and simple. They gave up many things that made the series great, and betrayed their loyal fan base in many ways, most shamefully by carelessly disregarding cannon.

When you ask which has better game play, you have to know what makes good gamplay. Smooth controls? Partly, but immersing the user into a unique universe and making them feel like part of something much grander than life is what made the great games great, and oblivion fails to do this with a trite storyline and forgettable characters.

I could go on and on but I have to go now.

[Jacaranda]

i don't think anyone thinks oblivion is a good game

i just got morrowind for my comp and its ****ing sick, i'm having troubles with controlling it though. its amazing that i basically remember where every quest is located and how to do quests before i get them while doing others etc..

[Surtr]

I enjoy Mirrowind, but my only issue is that I've gotten myself stuck and can't seem to move on past anything inside Balmora.. It seems like all the Mini-Quests are becoming too hard and I'm stuck on the stupid Main Quest 'cause I have **** armour and I still haven't mastered the combat system.

[sLarkin20]

I am trying to stop playing world of warcraft and I think something like Oblivion which is apparently amazing, is it worth it and will it stop me wasting £9 a month on ruining my life?

That makes no sense to quite playing WoW because it is ruining your life by trying to find another computer game. You might as well just keep playing WoW, or, here's an idea, DON'T PLAY ANY GAME!

[Czech Yourself]

That makes no sense to quite playing WoW because it is ruining your life by trying to find another computer game. You might as well just keep playing WoW, or, here's an idea, DON'T PLAY ANY GAME!

I couldn't agree more.

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