[QUOTE="TheKungFool"][QUOTE="Andrew_Xavier"]Dark Sector is fantastic!
Oblivion is okay, it's RPG-lite, the voice acting is brutal (other than a 20 second clip from professor xavier), all the dungeons are identical, enemies level with you, making it incredibly easy, the main story is useless...but, there is fun to be had, the dark brotherhood storyline rocks, the arena is good fun...anyways, yeah...
Go with Dark Sector.
Andrew_Xavier
Pretty much everything that guy said was false.
- Oblivion is a fantastic RPG and forces you to do more "role playing" than any console RPG to date.
Except, no, no it doesn't, instead of role playing, you can be a warrior character who joins the mage guild, or a murderer who joins the warrior guild, your actions have no consequences at all, that's not exactly absorbing or deep "RP" now is it?
- The dungeons are similar at times, but no more so than any other dungeon crawler
Many of the dungeons are identical, like, same textures and all.
- The voice acting is pretty good.
I love how people who are speaking to completely break character and changes voices depending on what you ask them, I love how old street woman sound like young nobles if you ask the right question, that's some fantastic voice over quality there.
- The enemies leveling with you works well, and you can increase the difficulty setting if you wish
I could go into this for a few pages, but, here's one example: You could technically not level, and face nothing but scamps in the final battle when you are running to the temple of the one...
- The main story is decent, and many of the side quests are very entertaining
The main story is short and generic, many of the side quests have no story at all.
- Don't go with Dark Sector, its decent, but certainly not on the level of Oblivion
Correct, it's underrated, not overrated, that's a different level all together.
1) Oblivion is the truest form of role playing because you actually have to do the things you want to get better at. Want to get better at making potions? You have to actually keep making them, or get trained by someone; you can't just kill the same enemy 500 times for points to be used on any skill you want. And yes, it is deeper and alot more immersive than RPGs that force your hand to go hear next and level grind to get your skills.
2) Of course many of the levels are similar in design, the story of the game is that they are either caves in the same region, or crypts build by the same race. Makes more sense than the standard RPGs that just throw you into the magical forrests, firery volcanos and castles in the clouds. Oblivion is about a realistic and seamless world, so yeah, caves in the same area and temple build by the same ancestors are going to be similar. What? Caves aren't supposed to have dirt walls? Castles aren't suppoed to have stone walls?
3) There are hundreds of NPCs all with spoken dialogue. There may be some quirks, but its alot better than countless pages of text to read, at least in my personal opinion.
4) Sure you could technically avoid leveling up and face the same guys....but why would you? That'd just be stupid. Most non-free-raoming RPGs have barriers; You get to the next area and all the sudden enemies are stronger, but if you go back to an old area, the enemies are laughable. Oblivion's system in necessary for its "go anywhere at any time" type of exploration.
5) I won't debate "under" or "over" rated with you because its all subjective. I'll just point out the average critic and user scores for Oblivion are much much higher and leave it at that.
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