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[Anarchosyn]

My drunken Pirate wizard guy didn't make it very far before I had to resort to beating things over the head with something.

Neither did my Ranger, Theif, or Assassin.

all ended up being a Kh-nig-uht.

I kept getting that vibe. It's like Bethesda was subtly telling me that if one is into fantasy settings then you're secretly longing to be a knight. I felt like they were projecting their own psychological disfunction on me at every turn.

I persevered though. I actually never have played Oblivion with anything but that gimpy character, though - by now - she's a thundering Jack of Many Trades, Master of Most (which is relatively unfulfilling). Ironically, tonight is the first night I picked it back up in months (Shivering Isles is where I put it down). It's fun to get immersed in the world, but after hour 40~ you begin to see how paper thin and hollow it all is.

Anyhow, I could segue into a rant on the "must allow the player to do everything possible in their initial play through" issue which I also fear will taint Fallout (in spite of early claims they were moving away from that), but I'll just finish by musing whether or not anybody at Bethesda plays outside of the box or is there a massive degree of group think plaguing that studio?

 

[Humpsalot]

Well I have thought the FPS aspect of the game was lacking. Largely due to all the cursors to to all the weapons being the same. In Mass Effect pistol, shotgun, rifle, and sniper rifle all had different HUDs, and depending on what shotgun and mods you put on your gun the "accuracy circle" would shrink and grow.

Ever since the old E3 video where he sniped a raider it looked really hard for me. Maybe on purpose, they might want you to get close and scramble and get a lot of close up actions. Fire twice here, use vats for that guy and that guy, then finish everyone else off FPS style. Tho if we wanted to snipe fps style they should have given us that option.

Edit: also there does not seem to be any recoil, which i like, but is unrealistic and i can not remember the last shooter i played that did not have any recoil. Doom maybe?