Oblivion 5 Year edition...anyone else...dissapointed?

[Opa Opa]

Overruled!!

No! Objection sustained! Don't make me hold you in contempt.

[BoringSupreez]

Overruled!!

No! Objection sustained! Don't make me hold you in contempt.

I pronounce everyone guilty on all charges!

[dsheinem]

Mine arrived today (PS3) and I am really debating if I should open it or send it back. And yes, I know I really should play this game on the PC, but I don't like to play RPGs on the PC very much for a variety of reasons...including the length of time involved sitting at the desk.

Anyway, I did give Oblivion a shot back in 2008 and played 2-3 hours before getting bored...however that was before my current renewed interest in RPGs and so I figured this one deserved another shot. So what do you think: should I open it up and play it on the PS3, return it and go buy the non-GH GOTY version for PS3 or 360 (I've read the PS3 port is much better), or return it and just get something else altogether?

Also, should I play Morrowind GOTY (for oXbox, not PC) first?

[Stark]

IMO, Oblivion is better than Morrowind. Oblivion I felt more compelled to do sidequests and I liked the main quest storyline, whereas Morrowind I felt like I was wandering purposeless for most of the game (that I played, about 20 hours). I did not finish Morrowind, but I did Oblivion and I didn't see anything that I felt like I didn't know what was going on because I had missed Morrowind.

[Opa Opa]

So what do you think: should I open it up and play it on the PS3, return it and go buy the non-GH GOTY version for PS3 or 360 (I've read the PS3 port is much better), or return it and just get something else altogether?

I read some review on amazon claiming that the bugs on the ps3 version were not fixed in this edition.

Also, should I play Morrowind GOTY (for oXbox, not PC) first?

Up to you. If you feel like a first person hack n slash go for Oblivion. If you want more of an rpg experience go for Morrowind.

edit: and continuity between the storylines doesn't really matter. You can play either one first.

[CDink]

[quote="dsheinem"

should I open it up and play it on the PS3, return it and go buy the non-GH GOTY version for PS3 or 360 (I've read the PS3 port is much better),
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You masy aswell keep it then. At my work the GOTY edition is only 5 dollars less...you can justify the bonus materials for 5 dollars.

[darthmunky]

Is it just GOTY Edition repackaged?

[SirPsycho]

IMO, Oblivion is better than Morrowind. Oblivion I felt more compelled to do sidequests and I liked the main quest storyline, whereas Morrowind I felt like I was wandering purposeless for most of the game (that I played, about 20 hours). I did not finish Morrowind, but I did Oblivion and I didn't see anything that I felt like I didn't know what was going on because I had missed Morrowind.

I've put over 700 hours into Morrowind and I STILL have not finished all the quests. The game literally requires multiple playthroughs if you quest hard. The factions all have political ambitions, including allies and enemies. If you go through two opposing guilds simultaneously you can finish them both, yet neither will like you even though you're the leader. Go completely through one though and you're basically barred from the other.

I love Morrowind's setting and environment, it really felt alien most of the time and the Ashlands felt like the perfect backdrop for the depressed, beaten, and broken atmosphere that many of the Dunmer were going through during the storyline. The main quest of both games were really great, and the shining point of both games, but if you want an adventure that can feel never ending then Morrowind is your best bet. It took me 100 hours to have a level 60 stealth based character in Morrowind and sadly that's my only save file that's completed the main quest, both expansions, the house quests, the vampire quests (doing all 11 of these quests requires 3 save files just before you decide to be a vampire, who bites you does matter!)

Morrowind felt much deeper to me. Richness of setting, richness of character, broken gameplay. I love it.

I do love Oblivion too, but it just feels like such a generic fantasy setting to me. Medieval European styled architecture, steel armor galore, Anglo Saxons all in my castles, yet less broken gameplay. Doing every single quest in Oblivion requires 1 playthrough and maybe 100 hours if you spend some time messing around and killing stuff after making your important save.

tl;dr: I like Morrowind more than Oblivion. I play on PC and mod the crap out of them. The reason I play on PC follows in this video
You cannot argue that console versions are better when you can do that!

[littlecallen]

That really does blow. Usually the only way I see Bethesda ever screwing people is with the glitches in their RPG's, but I'd have to go with you in saying the fine print issue is total crap.

I might just get the 5th year anv. for the bonus disk though.