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-- Current release date is Winter 2005

-- According to Todd Howard they are trying to make the game as appealing to mainstream gamers as possible without alienating the hardcore players that prefer more complex RPG's (maybe good or bad)

-- They say the game is very very large, but (sadly) it will be smaller than Morrowind for two reasons (Stated by Todd Howard):
--- (A) "Budgets and schedules for games will not change much while the enhanced graphics will require more development time,
--- (cool.gif "It’s a fact that, statistically, gamers prefer shorter games, and often do not finish more involved titles"

-- Will be unlike the conventional RPG in which the combat outcome does not depend on the luck of “dice rolls”

-- The damage that you dole out will be determined by your strength, your opponent’s armor, and the attack you unleash

-- Your opponents will block and dodge, so taking down an enemy is entirely on the player’s shoulders

-- To make this more mainstream appealing(?) they have made most of the tedious aspects of Morrowind fun (Lock picking, mixing potions, and forging armor for example are going to be done through a mini game of sorts)

-- Still made for the 1st person player there are options for both 3rd person and 1st person (like Morrowind), while also saying that the "combat is visceral and bloody”, and that it is designed to recall intense swordplay seen in movies like LoTR and Brave heart. Not to mention the fact that they said, “The combat will be every bit exiting as a FPS"

-- There are expansive forest regions that are the most breath taking of them all, if only you could see the screen, but they are packed with almost photorealistic trees and at least a thousand slivers of grass

-- All NPC's have a basic day to day schedule so they go to sleep, shop, Report for work and even if a poor guy that can’t afford food wants food enough, he will steal from some one, maybe even you

-- Here’s another quote "The elder scrolls games are about freedom, and oblivion takes that freedom to a whole new level ~~~ The combat is a much bigger focus than in the earlier games"

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Originally posted by Remus
Mostly obtained from the official TES: Oblivion forum, from peoples who subscribed to GI and already have the copy early. However the info here could still be inaccurate and obviously incomplete (second & third hands info).

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- dungeons, ancient ruins, town, church, castle
- New & better CS

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