I agree that it is a bit disappointing. Fun, but you can just *see* how much it could have been better.
When you have about a dozen mods running, it feels like a totally different game though. A *lot* of these mods do things that should have been in the original game in the first place... and $3 for a stupid horse armor mod? (just using it as an example, the other mods are just as bad in the cool/expensive ratio). Good thing I'm playing it on the PC!
I got PJ's spell compendium installed (and Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul, and Mighty Magicka, and LOD replacement, and ... ) In PJ's spell compendium, there is a nice spell called "Push", which is basically a "force push" spell. It is WAY fun to use, and useful in combat when you are an unarmored 'pure' mage... Why don't they just include some of these beauties in the first place?
And that main quest... gets really boring at certain points. It just feels uninspired. Like they tried to make the best game they could, only they forgot to give it a "soul", a "personality".
On the up side, most of the side-quests are excellent, and Oblivion is certianly *funnier* than Morrowind (meaning there is more humor present).
The dungeon crawling is pretty fun, although I also think more cool items might be found (there's a leveled loot/better loot mod that might help with that).
It's also pretty sad that the majority of people on the PC resort to mods NOT because they want to try something different, but because they don't like the way the original game works.
What's even more sad is that the game has been overhyped... and to say that it did not live up to the hype would be a serious understatement...
So it's both fun to play it for what it is (at least with a boatload of mods installed), and disappointing when you think about what it *could* have been.
Swansen said:
i'll admit i'm a pretty big elder scrolls fan i've even played daggerfel. Anyways i was just thinking how amazing morrowind was, i really got into it, there was always something new no matter where you went and you'd always be able to find something sweet or have some crazy quest, basicaly it was sweet. So i figured yes oblivion should be the massiveness that i would have come to expect of elder scrolls games, but in my opinion it really fell short. I didn't feel like anything i did mattered, and there wasn't even a boss fight. That and in morrowind at any moment or around the next corner you know you could run into that really sweet item, but there isn't anything special in oblivion. These are just my opninions, anyone have any other input
