Oblivion's game of the year edition. Is it worth the extra just for a couple of extra's for a game you've already completed? YES, it is. The shivering Isle's expansion is great as you get fantastic weapons e.g DuskFang and DawnFang, lethal armor e.g Dadric armor and at the end you become shepgarth himself, can sit in his throne and get his clothes. May not sound like much but that's barely anything as the stories about another 30 hours whichithe length of se games. You maythink 'but I'll have to start frome the beginnig again' but you can just load your other game and even if you start a new game the shivering isles is there from the beginning. So if you don't have it, you should!!Also if you put the 30 odd hours on top of the couple off hundred of hours doing all other quests you get a game which takes you weeks so you don't buy it complete it the next day then have no use fo it as it's just not interesting anymore.NO, in oblivion you have a game that even when you complete it you can start again pick a completely different race to be and gain their benefits, a completely differefnt star sign to be and get their attribute boost and a completely different class and gain their special attributes or you could make a class completely different to your previous one so you would have to learn to fight with different types of weapons and would have to work one different things. Also if your not that good at it you don't chane difficulty but rather put the difficulty bar down and unlike other games you can actually see a change in difficulty when you change it. Overall this is probably the best game i've ever played
Skyrim lead designer Bruce Nesmith looks back on Oblivion's Horse Armour DLC 18 years after the internet revolted against it.
“One of the things about Horse Armour that you have to remember is Bethesda, I believe, was the very first company to do downloadable content expansions,” Nesmith told us. “Nobody had done that before for the platforms. We literally pioneered that."
That's literally not true and not even close, bud. In fact, that's like 5 to 6 years too late. While I don't remember if Sega Channel offered any DLC like content, I do know that during the Dreamcast years, with SegaNet, there was DLC for some games. Some were free and some were not. As usual, Sega did it first when it comes to a lot of these Online stuff in the console space. In fact, you can thanks SegaNet for Xbox Live.
"And so Bethesda didn’t know what the hell it was doing at the time. We didn’t know!” And the best part is that they still don't. Nooice!
Yeah, SEGA definitely doesn't get the kudos it deserves for it's part in online gaming.
And now Blizzard sells horse armor for x3-4 times as much in Diablo 4. We've come full circle.
Oblivion's Shivering Isles is arguably the best DLC for any RPG and is still enjoyable after more than 17 years.
I was just thinking about that a few weeks ago. How amazing Shivering Isles was... Felt like a whole new world.
Witcher 3 Blood and Wine is the best dlc for any rpg....not even arguably. It is the best.
Agree that Blood and Wine is an exceptional DLC cut from the same quality cloth of the main game. Shivering Isles was that over a decade ago, and was truly a unique setting from the rest of the game. Possibly one of the last major old school "expansion" packs.
Terrific expansion. A starkly different locale with new plants, wildlife, towns, weapons, quests, Daedra variations including a remarkable madman deity presiding over that beautiful freak show.
Bethesda may never make anything that good again and that saddens me.
Created by Bethesda Softworks, The Elder Scrolls is hailed as one of the most groundbreaking RPG franchises.
I don't know if I agree entirely with the scores you gave out for sound, gameplay or graphics; I think you were a bit too generous there. Still, good review. It's a great game, really.
Even though i think oblivion is near perfect i have a few questions...
1how does those scores average out to a perfect 10? did your calculator go on the fritz?
2."the game rarely bores you" What about when your just roaming around? Just pointing that out...
Also you ahould never give a perfect 10 because in life nothing is perfect. There is near perfect but thats it.
good review though. I liked it.
Your review is well written, but you cannot give a 10 to a game that is considered to be very good, but not perfect.
10's happen once a generation; not for a game that many people won't play because it requires well over 150 hrs.
lol noob review