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Severely Overhyped
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Rating: 1,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User
I really wouldn't call TES 4 Obivion an RPG. Hardly. It's more like an FPS that caters to the desires of 1337 n00b pwned hax0rs. This is a massive slash at the rep of Bethesda for me.
First on the agenda is the main storyline. It is ungodly easy, and can be completed in under 30 hours if you want to. Remember Final Fantasy 7? Even so, the storyline isn't that good, and is so trite and predictable it's not even funny.
The side quests are just as bad,or even worse. These are definitely even more trite, being so unbelievably cliche. They're unoriginal, even sinking as low as to take the Lovecraftian story "Shadow over Insmouth," copy and paste it into the game.
The world in oblivion is minature, yet they have fast travel. Literally, I could travel from the southernmost city to the northernmost city in a few minutes. But who wants to do THAT? Nooooo. We can FAST TRAVEL! I just can't see it in the Oblivion world. it's way too small. But of course, people complained over and over about in Morrowind you had to run everywhere. I can see fast travel in Daggerfall, but the world in Daggerfall was mega-massive. MEGA-MASSIVE.
Periodically, over the small map, you'll see "Imperial Forts" and "Caves." For God's sake, every fort is the same as the next, and same with the caves. In Morrowind, you could enjoy yourself exploring caves, but they were different. In Oblivion,I've seen one cool cave. Thats it.
Everybody remember how there was one set of Daedric armor in Morrowind? NOT IN OBIVION!! Since theres LEVELED MONSTERS...you can get DAEDRIC ARMOR off of a MARAUDER! Come on. Seriously. Daedric weapons? Armor? That stuff should be rare, or at least mega expensive. And if you gant Glass armor(Alien Green UFO suit.) All you have to do is kill a few bandits. It really makes me sick.
I could ramble on and on about this.
It's way overrated.
So if you enjoy actual storyline instead of hack n' slash, avoid this.
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