If you have only played Oblivion in the ES series I would strongly advise you to try Morrowind, the GOTY edition can be found cheaply and many fans feel it is as good/better than oblivion and here is why.
Firstly the environments are much more varied: Swamps, Deserts with towns made out of giant shells, mountain ranges, caves, a snow island (in GOTY) and robot fortresses to name a few, the game is very alien compared to Oblivion which has forest, Oblivion realm, caves and Mountains.
The main quest is different with you being the main focus instead of a helper to the heir. You character is viewed differently by various NPCs as the quest goes on and you fulfill the prophecy.
One point that can be good/bad depending on how you view it is that there is no voice acting for conversations (there is some in game though) so there is much much more dialogue and exposition than you would get with Oblivion.
The leveling system is better as enemies don't scale to your power. In Oblvion you are always on a level playing field and by the end of the game common bandits have the best weapons/armor just to match you which is very unlikely. In Oblvion most bandits would be equipped with glass armor while there is only 1/2 sets in the whole game in MW and are very hard to get hold of. In Morrowind the start of the game is a real challenge with even small enemies posing a challenge but after a few hours you can cut your way through much more enemies and that gives you a much better feeling of getting stronger.
For side-quests I would argue Morrowind is better due to the fact it doesn't hold your hand, Oblivion has some great quests (going into the painting) but most are follow the quest marker and kill enemy, Morrowind has no quest marker which means you have to follow directions to reach your target and searching for hidden objects actually takes a lot of effort, this makes quest much less boring as you are more involved.
Weapons, magic and armor in MW are much better, there are far more kind of each in both type and material. You can use crossbows, spears, throwing knives/stars to name a few. There are also more weapon skills. The same applied for armor as you get light, medium and heavy. This all allows for a much greater degree of customization than in Oblivion. There are more spells that make the mage class more fun such as flight and blinding.
The guilds in MW are better by a wide margin than Oblivion, firstly there are far more of them and you need to be good in their class to advance, no longer can a swordsman become the grand mage. You can join the imperial legion, various churches and cults, an assassins guild who are the Dark Brotherhood's mortal enemy, vampire clans, elven houses and trading companies to name a few.
Some negatives to MW are that the combat is pretty bad, your chance to hit with a weapon is limited by your weapon skill so at the start you will freqently miss with any weapon, even an arrow will miss at point blank.
The game is also harder to get into as you are dumped into the world, given some cash and a place to go and then you are on your own from there on and this can be quite confusing.
Oblivion is a great game but I just thought I'd say its worth going back and picking up this classic for those of you who haven't.
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The Nintendo Switch 2 may receive support for docked mode 4K and 120 Hz output at some point in the future.
hopefully VRR via a firmware update is released for docked play as well (like the PS5 did post release)
There's actually a pretty long list of games on PS5 that support 120hz. Even more with 60+hz unlocked, and that isn't even counting PS5 Pro.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PS...
Yes, according to the dock teardown. It contains HDMI hardware chip of Realtek RTD2175N that supports 4K 120hz. And the HDMI included on the Switch 2 is HDMI 2.1.
Nintendo Switch 2 breaks US launch sales record, selling over 1.1 million units in its first week. This breaks the record set by PS4.
I'm happy for Nintendo. Even though the Switch 2 has received so much hate just to bring it down, it hasn't won. Even though some are saying they'll boycott Nintendo, it hasn't affected sales. Especially now, with word of mouth that the system is good, demand for the Switch 2 will definitely increase more.
But But the internet told me the switch 2 was going to be a failure.
Such a good system im having a blast with it and really enjoying my first ever playthrough of yakuza 0
Sold through or to the stores? Asking because they're tons of them at my local Best Buy. When the PS5 and Series consoles launched, you couldn't find them anywhere.
The article clearly says sold. If it were shipped, it would say shipped.
Nintendo had been saying the last year or so that they would be flooding stock so that scalpers would not be an issue. They've followed through with their word. It's not cutting edge tech, so it's been easier for them to sit on stock for a while until it accumulated to a massive number available to be shipped.
Good for them, I'm still not buying.
Looks to be a pretty safe and boring upgrade over Switch 1 which I don't think they can top it on how plain looking it is design wise.
Shame since Switch Lite showed they still know how to make a handheld that looks good and is actually portable in a classic Nintendo sense.
That's why I got one over Switch 2's block of charcoal.
Then there's the prices of it all and the whole Key card thing destroyed any sense of game ownership.
There'll be a number of revisions for the s2 like a s2 lite or oled also seems inevitable
Unless they drop the prices and actually has a more portable variant that can also dock then maybe I'll reconsider but as of now, nope too big too boring and expensive to make it worth this early, not enough of its own games atm as well.
Who knows removing the dock capabilities would lower the cost of the unit pretty significantly.
The cost of the dock, reduction in shipping costs etc bug savings which will enable a cheaper system
"the GOTY edition can be found cheaply..."
yeah but GOTY edition WON'T play on 360, only the orig version. wtf MS?? seriously. ...anyway yes I also liked morrowind much more than oblivion, as do many of my fellow n4g-ers. you did a great job pointing out some pros and cons of morrowind versus oblivion.
I looked into the not playing on the 360 a bit, of course I don't own the game but from this post it would appear that it does work on the 360.
http://www.gamespot.com/pag...
If anyone has any further proof in either direction I would be curious to know the verdict.