That’s why I was impressed by Fallout 3. It was the first indication I’d seen that Bethesda had actual game designers employed. (Next step: Prove that they also have animators)

Apart from that, I strongly suspect cyrenic was making a joke, because Fallout 3 often gets branded “Oblivion with guns”. ;)

He says, and I quote: “Lame, this just looks like it’ll be Fallout 3 with swords.”

I’m insulted! The Elderscrolls games were the back bone of the Fallout 3 gameplay. Oblivion was as good as Fallout 3 if not better. To say a sequel to Oblivion is just “Fallout 3 with swords” is stupid. Fallout 3 was just Elderscrolls with guns.
Has he even heard of Oblivion?

Sorry if I’m ranting a bit. I just thought it was a stupid comment.

Keiron? Alec?

I am a HUGE fan of oblivion so i thank bethsda for such a great game

Although i have not finished playing oblivion but up until now i have logged to 320 hours of game play :) :)

So you could see how much i love this game

Now the one thing that i wish for in tes v is the story to still be in cyrodiil as i much like to know what will happen to it after martin because the left the story in a interesting level

(spoiler)

I mean when you talk to high council after the martin’s transformation

Now if we are to talk about the in-game clues of tes v it is most likely summerset isle

But i really hope that the story sties in cyrodiil and at the beginning of the game the ask about your your oblivion hero’s name and race and sex so that he will be mentioned in conversations in tes v that will be just awesome :o wow!

I will not talk about anything else as I like it the way it is

Ohh i can not wait till it is out

I enjoy Oblivion for the world it creates (especially with the Unique Landscapes mods) – I basically play it as a sort of soothing walking simulator with the occasional quest in between, though.

I’d like to see the story develop in a way that is more interesting and lends itself more to justifying the 35 hours of exploration before actually advancing the plot. In Oblivion, you’re in jail, then holy crap the King dies then… is that an elven tomb? Oh look, a run down fort.. 30 hours later (or months in game time) you suddenly remember you just witnessed the murder of the king and should probably investigate it for a bit. Strangely, everything else stands in the same place too. It just seems like there are these huge things happening in the world that nobody cares about. Oblivion gates? BFD, I’m going to wander back and forth between the castle and my home. This is more a complaint with plot development than anything else, it just seems like Bethesda jumps into this huge dramatic story arc so quickly that it doesn’t make sense to include any exploration (thankfully they still do). I know its a game, but still, if I just witnessed a king get murdered and he cryptically mutters a prophecy of cataclysmic portents, I *might* check it out before satiating my wanderlust. Maybe that’s just me. Perhaps easing into the story would make things like traveling for 5 months straight more acceptable. Would it make sense to have a point of no return? Functionally it may not work, but in the world of reality it certainly makes a whole lot more sense.

I also liked the idea (I don’t remember who wrote it, and quite frankly, I’m not going to reread all the above posts) of rumors and things like that actually referring to something in the game that is not quest related. It’s all about building a world and creating smaller stories within that world to make it authentic. Fallout 3 started things moving in this direction and, honestly, I connected more with all the little side stories in Fallout than I did in the main story. Bethesda built a better world than a main quest, and I applaud them, now they just need to bring those concepts together.

Which brings me to another point, don’t make a single followable main quest. I’m going to reference Fallout in this little quip: If I leave the vault and decide, hey, I’m evil and I’m going to become a raider, why in the world would I even care about my father or fighting the Enclave? It just doesn’t make sense that I would go about murdering, pillaging and cavorting… then find my dad and save the WORLD. Seriously.

Last thing, make the characters a part of the world around them. React to things around them, like shooting their partner with a sniper rifle. I would run, why doesn’t the npc? Hey, I saved your life and all you’re going to say is, “Welcome to Megaton” for the next 45 years of your life? Even a repeatable yet believable phrase would be better, like, I don’t know, “Hey, what’s up?” or whatever periodically / geographically / racially correct dialogue that would be.

Honestly, a lot of these things are minor in the sense of functionality. Does the game work without these things added, sure, it’ll still get a bunch of 9s and 10s, but it just breaks the immersion of a game when NPC’s react just the way we would expect a code controlled AI script to react.