Things you don't like about Oblivion?

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I've got some.

1. Shooting someone in the friggen eyeball with an arrow and them still chasing me around the arena. I don't know about you guys but if I had an arrow in my eye I'd either call time-out or BE DEAD. It'd be cool if you had to shoot certain parts of armor multiple times until it broke revealing the kill shots.

2. Graphics. Why are the Half-Life 2 character models so much better and that game runs fine even on Geforce FX's? I know Oblivion is set in a huge world but this seems to be a clunky graphics engine they're using. Also, arrows don't stick in watermelons.

3. Leveling system. I just sit around skilling up conjuration at level 1. Then I summon monsters that completely demolish everything. I just sit there and watch.

What are some things that bother you the most in Oblivion?
 
I WANT TO BE ABLE TO DRAW MY SWORD/BOW AND CAST SPELLS FROM THE BACK OF MY HORSE!!!!!

What the hell kind of horsemen can't fight while riding a horse?

It really pisses me off to have to actually dismount my friggin' horse to fight someone. It'd be nice to be able to draw my sword and run a bitch down. But NOOOOOO I've got to dismount. Wait 20 seconds for my lame ass character to get off the horse, then wait another 30 seconds to draw my weapon before I can even think about fighting. Meanwhile, as I'm dismounting I'm getting my ass reamed. If I could draw my sword while trotting along on my horse I wouldn't have that problem. I've had one horse die on me because I couldn't fight from the back of it cause I was surrounded by goblins, a fire atronarch and a few really pissed off imperial watchmen.

The other thing that bothers me? Why is it that when I finally do get off my horse to engage the enemy my friggin' horse has to run right in front of my arrow??? Huh? Or my fire ball? Hello jackass, I'm trying to fight here. I don't need to whinnying and kicking the guy because it takes you an hour to kill someone whne I can drop someone in 1 or 2 arrow hits or 1 Heat Wave spell. Get the fuck out of my way!!!

I want a mod so I can actually be effective in combat from the back of my horse. But since I'm the only one who is bothered by this it'll most likely never happen.

Other than that, I love the game. And I really don't see where people say the game's characters look bad. Maybe you all should think about upgrading yoru rigs.;)
 
That's why I have running armor, screw horses. I'll just choose to run faster than them and be able to fight at same time :)
 
Thats not really the point. Its the principle of it. I should be able to draw my weapon or cast a spell from my horse. There is absolutely no reason why I should have a grip of death on the reigns.
 
they need to clean up the character movement/action modeling from the 3rd person view. Its way too primative.
 
Allied NPCs following you have problems with collision detection. Like on Kvatch side quest to clear the castle. I had 2 Kvatch guard archers and 3 Imperial Legions following me. Everytime I really went down stairs or through doors that are coming from a corner they would either get stuck. Bad collision detection. I had to go back and walk into them to get them following me again.
 
Moose777 said:
Get the fuck out of my way!!!
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Best. Post. Ever.

The only thing I don't like is the fact that someone with a 6800GT and 3500+ can run the game smoother than I can.

And no dual-core support?
 
no fighting/drawing weapons from horseback is seriously lame. its just plain stupid.

the floaty kind of way everything seems to move and interact with the environment sort of bothers me

its a good game but just not especially fun, imo. I'll be more interested when someone puts together a few Great House Mods to emulate some of the Morrowind experience...I can see why some REALLY like it, but more so, I can see why some dont :(
 
Zelda for the 64 managed to get horseback riding / archery right. And that games a billion years old.
 
I don't like the fact that you can't sleep anywhere. I understand that it's too beggar-like to sleep on the city streets, but why does your character have to lack the basic bedroll so he/she can sleep out in the wilderness?
 
cos youd get attacked by a monster in the middle of the night.
why must you sleep anyway?
i dont ever sleep - it brings out the fangs
 
heatsinker said:
I don't like the fact that you can't sleep anywhere. I understand that it's too beggar-like to sleep on the city streets, but why does your character have to lack the basic bedroll so he/she can sleep out in the wilderness?
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I hate the not being able to sleep in an owned bed, you should be able to, but just have to face the punishment if you get caught.
 
I got one thing.... that it is such a good game that there's SO MANY threads about it!! lol, this is way more than when Half Life 2 came out!! lol
 
The AI is quite dense sometimes.

I remeber whiping out the dark brotherhood (in Chorrol?). I killed everyone except the vamp dude. He didn't even seem to care. I trotted up to him and killed him. One would think that he would attack me or at least flee.
 
The fact that polearms, crossbows, medium armor, throwing knives/shurikens, and levitate and jump spells have been totally removed. I understand no levitate and jump since all the outside areas are no longer seamless like in Morrowind (for example they can't have you levitating over a wall into a town). Also I don't like how axe is now under blunt with maces and such.

Also how the higher your level is the better weapons your enemies hold. It's just silly that a bandit will be using glass weapons and elven armor. Also how in a well governed and socially advanced province, Cyrodill, there are bandits all over the place on every road. It made sense in Morrowind but not in the capital of all of Tamriel.

NO MORE CORPSE DISPOSAL. There are dead bodies just lying around. I wanna clean up after myself instead of walking through the area later and seeing dead bodies lying around.

Basically anything they uselessly took out after Morrowind upsets me. But it's still an awesome game.
 
the ability to write on a map is not there, not many RPGs have it, but I'd like to MAKE SOME F-ING NOTES SO I KNOW WHERE THE F I HAVE ALREADY BEEN

and no, I don't care if there is a mod that lets me do it.... it should be in the goddamn game, I don't use any mods and don't ever plan on using any either.
 
heatsinker said:
I don't like the fact that you can't sleep anywhere. I understand that it's too beggar-like to sleep on the city streets, but why does your character have to lack the basic bedroll so he/she can sleep out in the wilderness?
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Luckily there is a mod for a portable bedroll.

My biggest complaint is the auto-level/world scales with you. Bandits w/ daedric weapons and enchanted armor ?
Broken.

I use mods which auto randomize every dungeon and location in the game, with the loot to match.
So some dungeons I can just breeze through. Actually if I pop my head in and it's all weak stuff, I skip it. And then some dungeons have been really hard. But the rewards are much sweeter. It's more exciting going into a dungeon and not knowing what to expect.
 
I don't like how there was like 1 male and 1 female voice actor for every character class so that every single character of any given class and gender sounds exactly the same. I would have preferred there not being any voice acting at all actually and just reading the subtitles a. la zelda. The recycled voices just seem so cheap.
 
Stereophile said:
Luckily there is a mod for a portable bedroll.

My biggest complaint is the auto-level/world scales with you. Bandits w/ daedric weapons and enchanted armor ?
Broken.

I use mods which auto randomize every dungeon and location in the game, with the loot to match.
So some dungeons I can just breeze through. Actually if I pop my head in and it's all weak stuff, I skip it. And then some dungeons have been really hard. But the rewards are much sweeter. It's more exciting going into a dungeon and not knowing what to expect.
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Isnt the items/characters in dungeons already randomized?
 
Khaydarin said:
Isnt the items/characters in dungeons already randomized?
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I meant like randomized compared to your level.
Out of the box, the game pretty much tries to "match" you character's abilities.
It will give you enemies and associated loot commensurate w/ your level.
You're never going to find a place you "shouldn't" be.

The game looks at your level and pulls enemies and loot off a "level list".
With the mods, it ignores your level and just randomly assigns a difficulty to all the locations.
So when I find a new dungeon, it's actually exciting. I don't know what it will contain until I explore it a little. If I want to try and pull off a dungeon with enemies much higher than my level, I can try it. And conversely, every single bandit on the road isn't super powerful after I hit level 20. I still run into weaklings that die in 2 hits.

On my game it doesn't matter what level you are. Some dungeons are full of crazy powerful monsters, some about equal to your level, and some much weaker than your level.
It runs the full gambit.

Ghosting a tomb full of gloom wraiths and liches at a much lower level than you'd be able to fight them in combat is very cool. :D

With great risks come great rewards. The problem with the game out of the box, is the dungeon exploring gets repetitive since you always know approximately how challenging of monsters you'll have to fight and how good of loot you'll find.
 
I hate the art style, character models, combat system, and some of the music.
 
*El Primo most annoying/hated flaw*
1. Phyicic guards and instant world knowledge of my bad deads is horrendously gay/unfair

2. Recharging enchantments is BS. Its magic for the love of God!

3. Lack of spell animations and variety dissapointing

4. Repetative use of small number of voice acters for NPC's.

5. How the hell does moving an object justify as stealing it?????

6. Oblivion lava is pathetic

7. Only deer and wolves in forest? Quite sure theres alot of other animals in forests

8. No cool built in enchantment animations. *thanks to mods, this has been made possible*

9. Whats with the random weather system?

10. Unwilling vampirism is total bullshit, along with mission to cure it. I almost threw the game in the garbage that pissed me off so much.
 
Coldtronius said:
7. Only deer and wolves in forest? Quite sure theres alot of other animals in forests
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like mountain lions, two species of bears, minotaurs, orcs and imps? you haven't leveled up enough yet ;)
 
Coldtronius said:
*El Primo most annoying/hated flaw*
1. Phyicic guards and instant world knowledge of my bad deads is horrendously gay/unfair

2. Recharging enchantments is BS. Its magic for the love of God!

3. Lack of spell animations and variety dissapointing

4. Repetative use of small number of voice acters for NPC's.

5. How the hell does moving an object justify as stealing it?????

6. Oblivion lava is pathetic

7. Only deer and wolves in forest? Quite sure theres alot of other animals in forests

8. No cool built in enchantment animations. *thanks to mods, this has been made possible*

9. Whats with the random weather system?

10. Unwilling vampirism is total bullshit, along with mission to cure it. I almost threw the game in the garbage that pissed me off so much.
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1. Mod out that fixes that
2. Use soul gems. Easiest way of charging up enchanted weapons
3. Agreed, could have used a bit more there.
4. Also agreed.
5. Hopefully there is a mod that fixes that. Or just don't press the Z button in a shop.
6. It's like water, only really burny.
7. More monsters once you level up.
8. Mods as you said.
9. They have a mod that allows you to choose the weather.
10. Carry Cure Disease potions or have the spell. You can cure vampirism before the 3 days are up without needing a huge mission.
 
I thought of another one. Soul Trap. What a pain in the ass. And it only lasts for 20 seconds. What the hell?

I have to equip the spell. Cast the spell, block so I can then change spells so that I can kill the target before my 20 seconds is up. I end up having to play the spell shuffle for 10 minutes until I am actaully able to successfully kill him to capture the soul.

And what the hell is with the, "You don't have a Soul Gem large enough for the Soul." What the fuck? Its a god damned soul. It doesn't take up any space. You should be able to go GhostBuster on everyone and carry one friggin' gem around for everyone. Stuff so many god damned souls in it its rediculous.

The Disintigrate Armor weapons and speels are uterlessly useless. Why? Why in the hell do you want to disintigrate someone's armor if you plan on either repairing it for your own use or selling it?
 
I just got to level 17. Bear in mind that I haven't taken a look at the list of mods that are out there, so my assessment of the game could easily be corrected by a few mods.

as a warning, possible spoilers below
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Anyway, out of the box:

1. mountain lions are absolutely a b!tch to kill. Usually, it's the other way around: I get killed first. I just think mountain lions owning me in two hits (when my armor is mithril or something better) is a bit extreme compared to getting stabbed by some enchanted weapon.

I remember there was a quest where I entered this cave filled with mountain lions. Luckily, I did whatever I needed to do in the quest by taking advantage of my 96 speed.

2. some of the AI could use a bit tweaking. I had 100 sneak in the arena and all i did was sneak behind one of the pillars, and pwn all the combatants (aside from the fights with more than 1 combatant) even though it was sunny and the combatant just saw me round the pillar a second earlier.

3. as someone mentioned earlier, there could be more voices in the game.

4. dungeon design could be a bit more varied like the cities

5. attacking while riding on a horse would be good

Other than these nitpicks, I think the game is great even though I don't normally play RPGs.
 
O.K. here is one that gets on my nerves:

ONE voice (deep) "I only need one coin to feed my family" or whatever the male beggars say...

then...

the instant you give him a coin the voice turns into Apu from the Simpsons

"Thank you kind sir".

HAHA! Listen to it...it kills me!
 
I WANT TO BE ABLE TO DRAW MY SWORD/BOW AND CAST SPELLS FROM THE BACK OF MY HORSE!!!!!
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That pissed me off as well. In adition all the stuff in the first post.

1.Unesisarily long begining "tutorial" (in comparison to Morrowind) in that "secret" passage way

2.I was arrested for trespasing (sometimes more realistic=less fun)

I'm actually suprised, I thought I'd dislike more. Every thing else is amazing.
 
Coldtronius said:
*El Primo most annoying/hated flaw*
1. Phyicic guards and instant world knowledge of my bad deads is horrendously gay/unfair

2. Recharging enchantments is BS. Its magic for the love of God!

3. Lack of spell animations and variety dissapointing

4. Repetative use of small number of voice acters for NPC's.

5. How the hell does moving an object justify as stealing it?????

6. Oblivion lava is pathetic

7. Only deer and wolves in forest? Quite sure theres alot of other animals in forests

8. No cool built in enchantment animations. *thanks to mods, this has been made possible*

9. Whats with the random weather system?

10. Unwilling vampirism is total bullshit, along with mission to cure it. I almost threw the game in the garbage that pissed me off so much.
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I take back what I said, that's all true. THis game is starting to seem like a beta test with all the problems. Hopefuly Bethesda will bring out some patches soon.

LET'S BOMBARD THEM WITH EMAILS!
 
Steve said:
O.K. here is one that gets on my nerves:

ONE voice (deep) "I only need one coin to feed my family" or whatever the male beggars say...

then...

the instant you give him a coin the voice turns into Apu from the Simpsons

"Thank you kind sir".

HAHA! Listen to it...it kills me!
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haha I noticed that
 
Steve said:
O.K. here is one that gets on my nerves:

ONE voice (deep) "I only need one coin to feed my family" or whatever the male beggars say...

then...

the instant you give him a coin the voice turns into Apu from the Simpsons

"Thank you kind sir".

HAHA! Listen to it...it kills me!
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I thought it was more like begar and then wealthy buissnessman, but there was a clear difference. Now someone needs to go find the guy who on half his dialouge he speacks like and may and the other half as a woman, it'd go down in history as one of the funniest glitches
 
hellocomputer said:
...Also, arrows don't stick in watermelons.
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LMAO I noticed that too, they bounce off them like they were made of kryptonite :p
 
Actually, morrowind had just as many if not more problems than oblivion did, but years of patching and mods corrected alot of them or made the game better. Pretty much will be the same for oblivion would be my guess as the modders get busy.... :D
 
Steve said:
O.K. here is one that gets on my nerves:

ONE voice (deep) "I only need one coin to feed my family" or whatever the male beggars say...

then...

the instant you give him a coin the voice turns into Apu from the Simpsons

"Thank you kind sir".

HAHA! Listen to it...it kills me!
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haha, the same thing happens with the women beggar, she automatically gets a really deep accent on certain dialogues
 
I wish there were some dirty guards that were criminals or would look the other way when you bribed them. Also for things like guards I think it would be cool to give them multiple faces and personalities. The guards just seem like robots now.
 
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