After flexing my manhood with DS, I decided to get back to a mastodontic game I never cared to finish even after having spent more than 40 hours in my first playthrough. TES: Oblivion. I wasn't having fun with my imperial anymore so I decided to ditch that character and reroll with a breton lady. I tried to make her somewhat attractive, failing miserably. Oh well, at least I never have to look at her face again. Except for menus.
I'm 10 hours or so into the game, dabbled a bit with the main quest to get my feet wet again, freed Kvatch and took Boromir to that hideout in the asshole of the mountains. After that, I said "fuck the main quest", joined the mages guild and started working on those quests. I'm trying to keep quest burden to a minimum, to avoid excesses like it happened to me in my first playthrough. So far I've succeeded in keeping things streamlined, which means I get to savor each quest in a continuous fashion, instead of hopping here and there. My plan is to do the mages, then fighters guild, and leave thieves and dark brotherhood for last. After that I'll give the expansions a try.
I'm also having a blast making potions, something I never tried in my first run, and now I keep an eye on every single herb, fungus and flower that I stumble upon.
"What is hard to get used to is the massive landscape, but really there isn't much point wandering about it. It's large to the point where it is boring to travel about it, so use fast travel by selecting locations on the map."
Another reason it's poopoo compared to Morrowind.
Yeah, Morrowind shits all over Oblivion in every aspect imaginable. Having given away my GOTY Xbox copy to my brother in law with my OG Xbox is one of my very few gaming regrets to this day.
I'm waiting for a nice Steam sale on Morrowind GOTY edition. Perhaps this christmas sale.
I am a manly man IRL. A beefy guy with a big...axe. I want to try out other stuff when roleplaying.
Lies.
And shut your filthy rodent whore mouths, Oblivion pees on Morrowind, cause it's the only one I've played .
Yeah, that happens a fair bit.
Right now I am inside my first Oblivion Gate (Kvatch). I have no potions etc... so it's slow going. Just keep killing the little lizard men.
Another thing about Oblivion and Fallout 3 is how I get lost a lot of the times. WoW is so accesible because there are question marks over people who'd give you quests to do. I think in Oblivion and Fallout 3, you just have to talk to everybody to see who needs help.
It's really time consuming I think, which is why it's so hard to get into it. But once you get hooked, it's addictive.
I'm making pretty good progress now, about 4 hours in.
I figured out how to zap around the map without walking which is good.
Incidentally, if you had not already figured, I am trying to get through the main mission as fast as I can, no side-questing (as is my modus operandi).
i'm just going by hearsay as I haven't played either but people say that a lot of the side-quests in oblivion and fallout 3 are more enjoyable than the main thread missions