Fable or oblivion?

Oblivion Pros: Incredible outdoor environments. AI characters interact with each other as well as with the player (hunters hunt animals, people hold conversations with each other). You can make your own spells and enchanted items once you become powerful enough. You could spend the whole game doing sidequests and never even touch the main storyline. Play as good or evil as you want. Complicated attribute and skill system affects all aspects of gameplay, from conversations to combat to movement throughout the game world to bartering. Tremendous mod community.

Oblivion Cons: Scaled monster difficulty (difficulty of random encounters is determined entirely by your level, not where you are in the game or how good your combat skills are). Generic voices get repeated A LOT throughout all the characters. Hefty system requirements. The more complex and open ended a game, the buggier it generally is. Character models are ugly. Extremely open ended games can have a washed out, generic feel to them sometimes.

Fable Pros: Easy to jump into. Play as good or evil. Unique art style. Far less demanding system requirements.

Fable Cons: Failed to live up to the lofty goals indicated by the developer. Relatively simple combat and skill system. Feels too linear for an "open ended" game. While the game world is heavily populated, you can't actually talk to most of the inhabitants. Overall the game is very deep, but most of that depth is fairly transparent to the player.

-Byshop

 your kidding right? i have both oblivion and fable and i enjoyed oblivion much much more! dont get me wrong fable is an exellent game but oblivion is far better. dont let low end machine put you off bbuying oblivion its amazing.sloppy_sex

I have both and Oblivion is head and shoulders above Fable in every department. It's the best game I have ever played. I can't wait for the expansion to come out in a month.luamhtrad

i have intel core 2 duo 1.86ghz, 2 gig ddr2, and geforce 7300LE will i be over to get over 30 FPS when i do alot of tweaking?dragonmaster64

i cant upgrade but how much FPS do u think i should be getting on acceptable resulution.dragonmaster64

can anyone post oblivion on 800x600 pictures?dragonmaster64

i cant upgrade but how much FPS do u think i should be getting on acceptable resulution.dragonmaster64

[QUOTE="luamhtrad"]I have both and Oblivion is head and shoulders above Fable in every department. It's the best game I have ever played. I can't wait for the expansion to come out in a month.RayvinAzn

[QUOTE="sloppy_sex"] your kidding right? i have both oblivion and fable and i enjoyed oblivion much much more! dont get me wrong fable is an exellent game but oblivion is far better. dont let low end machine put you off bbuying oblivion its amazing.dragonmaster64

I have pretty much the same system as yours, just with the 7500LE model and it works fine. Sometimes when walking through the woods it gets chuggy, but just lower the resolution a little. I forget the resolution mine is set on.
seanthebond

[QUOTE="dragonmaster64"]i cant upgrade but how much FPS do u think i should be getting on acceptable resulution.achilles614

 your kidding right? i have both oblivion and fable and i enjoyed oblivion much much more! dont get me wrong fable is an exellent game but oblivion is far better. dont let low end machine put you off bbuying oblivion its amazing.sloppy_sex

please post moredragonmaster64

What else would you like to know?

-Byshop

im wondering running it on 800x600 what will the graphics look outside? thanksdragonmaster64

I'll post some comparison pics in a minute. Just reformatted and haven't gotten outta the sewers yet.Platearmor_6

This is what my old computer used to run it as.

That was a 2.6GHz AMD processor with only a nVidia 5900 and 1GB of RAM with an FPS of around 35-40

This is on my new computer:

But thats an XFX 8800GTX XT, nVidia 680i motherboard, E6600 processor and 2 GBs of RAM with an FPS of between 90 and 100.

I don't know about those cards(infact I've never heard of them but I'm guess you'll definately be able to get it looking better than the first picture.


Platearmor_6

After seeing what it looked on the 5900 - I'm definately getting Oblivion :)Cyborg-21

yea it looks asomedragonmaster64

any1 play the game on 800x600, can you post pics please and tell us your FPS dragonmaster64

Seriously, just get the game and enjoy it already.