Simply the best rpg to date.

User Rating: 9.2 | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion PC
I have to admit when I first fired up Morrowind I was awed by the graphics but the gameplay didn't inspire me. After a day or two I actually uninstalled it thinking it was just not my bag. Then reading all the reviews I desided to reinstall it and I "got it" after putting the time into it. I finished it and the expansions and just recently uninstalled it.

Obivion I was worried about as I feared it would be too consolish now as so many games are. (Lockdown comes to mind) I installed it and was happy to say that , for the most part, there is only hints of consolitis and most of that is the look of the menus.

They have tweaked the gameplay to be easier to get into for those who were lost in Morrowind or ...bored. The visuals are incredible and the animations are much better than what Morrowind had.

I also love the fact that the npcs all speak to you. I am so tired of reading all the time and they have a life now too. There seems to be less of them in this land but I do not know that for a fact.

I was unhappy to find I can not use the dmr lighting as I have a x850xt card but I have tweaked the ini file to get more visuals out of what I have. I am using a 3.2 gig ee processor , a gig of 3200 memory and the game runs smooth. I wish they could of used shader 2 technology or stepped down to it if you did not have shader 3 ala HL2. Oh well.....not worth the investment just for one effect imo.

If you enjoy deep rpg's and have a powerful computer pick this up. If not it might be the title to buy a 360 for.