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Oblivion - Game Informer Magazine 12 page article
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RPG Frog
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Oblivion - Game Informer Magazine 12 page article
   

Snagged a copy of Game Informer yesterday. This is the issue with the OBLIVION article. I must say this article and pics is impressive. The illegal scans that were floating around last week do not do it justice. I did not find anything negative in the article...I am quite sure many of you will disagree though as they mentioned the Xbox2 the entire time...barely mentioning the PC.

-1st person view is standard...3rd person is optional like Morrowind
-Guild system like Morrowind and a new Arena guild.
-Magic system like Morrowind
-Items...you can pick up anything and move it like Morrowind
-Horses...you can ride horses into battle, attack from them, take them up mountains all in real-time.(Daggerfall)
-Physics...engine uses HAVOK so you will likely be able to sling corpses and items around like Deus Ex
-Facial expressions…all NPCs have Half-Life2 quality facial expressions.
-1000 NPCs…all have their own AI and work, sleep, night/day routines…they can actually get caught by guards and get the snot kicked out of them while you watch.(Daggerfall)
-Combat, alchemy,lock-picking will be more action-oriented. Did not really go into details on this…the pics look like Morrowind though(1st person with sword).
-The dragon that some people were touting was just a wicked looking Daedroth which is in Morrowind.
-Release Date…Winter 2005
-Setting…Cyrodil
-Size…smaller than Morrowind
-Construction kit does come with PC version.

The good news is...within a month we should start getting some real information from bethsoft and all the game sites. It does look like they are REALLY far along with this game.
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Post Wed Sep 22, 2004 8:52 pm
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quote:
-Combat, alchemy,lock-picking will be more action-oriented.


From what i gather, in other words:
- combat will be more bloody & visceral. Could you provide full sentence contain the phrase "action-oriented?".
- some sort of "mini-game" when you lock-picking or doing alchemy. The "mini-game" could be like lock-picking as in Thief games.

And yeah, certainly nothing realy need worrying about and generally i'm happy from i heard so far.

About the article heavy references to Xbox or consoles when discussing Oblivion, that's because GI is magazine for console gamers, right? (check the mag).

Edit: more on thieving, from Emilpags who worked on Thied series before;

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As someone who worked on the Thief series for quite a few years, I'm really personally invested in Oblivion's stealth system. (which is ironic, because it was playing a Thief in Daggerfall that got me into Thief to begin with).

Anyway, I'm obviously not at liberty to give out any specifics, but you should know that thieving/sneaking etc. is getting a lot of tender loving care is TES IV.

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Post Thu Sep 23, 2004 10:09 am
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[quote="RemusEdit: more on thieving, from Emilpags who worked on Thied series before;

quote:
As someone who worked on the Thief series for quite a few years, I'm really personally invested in Oblivion's stealth system. (which is ironic, because it was playing a Thief in Daggerfall that got me into Thief to begin with).

Anyway, I'm obviously not at liberty to give out any specifics, but you should know that thieving/sneaking etc. is getting a lot of tender loving care is TES IV.
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This is very cool Remus. I happen to also like the thief game alot. I am a recent Thief fan...converted a few years ago because of playing Morrowind...I liked picking locks so much I had to find a game(Thief2) that could let me do this all the time. I certainly enjoyed Thief1&3 also.
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This all sounds very good to me... all games in the Thief series are among my all-time favorites.
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Post Fri Sep 24, 2004 6:26 am
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*off topic*

Oh jaz i just changed the signature; and btw how do you count the max. 3600 pixels?
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Oh jaz i just changed the signature; and btw how do you count the max. 3600 pixels?


Height x Width.

Yours is: 80 x 15 = 1200
Post Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:21 pm
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