I'd kill for an Elder Scrolls 5. And more voiceactors. :P

" I'd kill for an Elder Scrolls 5. And more voiceactors. :P "

I realize Oblivion is a considerably older game making it that much more impressive, but I just went back to Fallout 3 a few days ago to play some of the DLC and got the same reaction.
 
If they put everything they've learned from Oblivion and Fallout into a new Elder Scrolls I can not imagine how incredible that game could be.
 
I've never beat Oblivion (I had a real beef with the leveling system) but I'd really like to put that behind me and take another stab at that beast.

I thought Bethesda would be all over another ES when they gave New Vegas to Obsidian...someday I hope. "

I still play it.  It's one of the few games I bought for the console then again for the PC.  My current game is modded out the wazoo which breathed new life into it for me as I get to play around with all the wild and wacky add-ons that people have made for the game.  I believe Fallout 3 has the edge in many pure game play aspects, but Oblivion is still better than most of the stuff that has dropped onto store shelves since its arrival.   An Elder Scrolls 5 sounds to me like something that would be announced at E3 although with Game Informer getting all these scoops these days, I guess something could come earlier.  If not, that means no hard info until sometime in 2011.

Compared to Morrowind, Oblivion is your run-of-the-mill generic fantasy setting with copy+paste dungeons and worthless loot.
The story was classic good vs. evil trite and the art direction was a result of watching The Lord of the Rings one time too many.
I do like the crazyness of the "Radiant A.I", though.
The game is not that bad per se, it's just that it dissapointed me compared to Morrowind, a game that pleasantly surprised me.
But hey, that's just my opinion.

The thing that bothered me the most about Oblivion was how small everything was, The Imperial city for example was supposed to be the Capital of an empire which stretches over an entire continent, yet there are only a couple of buildings and maybe a 100 people living there. I remember hearing about it in Morrowind and was so disappointed when I saw it in Oblivion for the first time.
 
I can't wait for another ES 5 though, as long as it isn't an MMO.

" I realize Oblivion is a considerably older game making it that much more impressive, but I just went back to Fallout 3 a few days ago to play some of the DLC and got the same reaction.  If they put everything they've learned from Oblivion and Fallout into a new Elder Scrolls I can not imagine how incredible that game could be.  I've never beat Oblivion (I had a real beef with the leveling system) but I'd really like to put that behind me and take another stab at that beast. "

" @pweidman said:

I thought Bethesda would be all over another ES when they gave New Vegas to Obsidian...someday I hope. "

I'm just nervous that they're putting all their resources into an MMO. "

I've been playing Oblivion a lot in the last couple of weeks, trying to actually do the story stuff (and other quests), instead of just spending hours rolling new characters, running around the world and getting killed as I did when I got it about a year ago.

I love Oblivion so far, I love Jeremy Soules soundtrack and just how much there is to see in the world.

Sure, the cities are extremely small, but the only problems I really have with the game is the already mentioned lack of voice actors and how the story is too separated from what you do in the game. I don't think I have heard more than 10 different voices in the game so far, and it gets really ugly when two people with the same voices start talking to each other, and it probably wouldn't have hurt if they had something like in Mass Effect where you get punished for running away and doing something else when the entire world is about to get overrun with demons, or just would have done something more like in Morrowind and Fallout 3 where you don't feel like you're breaking the story when you go exploring.

Yeah, I hope I won't have to wait too many years for TES 5.

What platform are you playing it on? PC or something else?

I'm actually thinking about playing some more Oblivion. I dare say it is one of the greatest games I've ever played.

I always thought Oblivion was a broken and disjointed mess of a game. Poor combat didn't help much either.

"Compared to Morrowind, Oblivion is your run-of-the-mill generic fantasy setting with copy+paste dungeons and worthless loot."

weird started playing it today again. Then came here and saw this topic. Whatever back to killin mud crabs.

I want a new Elder Scrolls more than another fallout. Im a huge fan of both series though.

" weird started playing it today again. Then came here and saw this topic. Whatever back to killin mud crabs. "

" @Hockeymask27 said:

" weird started playing it today again. Then came here and saw this topic. Whatever back to killin mud crabs. "

"I saw a mudcrab the other day. Nasty little creatures." "

Just jumped back into it yesterday, started a Rogue/Mage hybrid. The leveling system is head-bangingly unintuitive, and the old Bethesda presentation issues have only been exacerbated by time, but goddamn it's still one hell of a game.

Am I the only one who didn't have a problem with the leveling system? During the 200 hours or so I've spent with the game, I never once said "Man, the leveling system is garbage!" So what if I level up sometimes by running or jumping, to me that just means I get upgrade my character faster.

"I was in a bar once and a member of the Blackwood Company (Fighter's Guild related) actually said that. Kinda weird, considering he had a huge sword and giant armor. "

" Am I the only one who didn't have a problem with the leveling system? During the 200 hours or so I've spent with the game, I never once said "Man, the leveling system is garbage!" So what if I level up sometimes by running or jumping, to me that just means I get upgrade my character faster. "

I'm not trying to show off, I'm simply trying to prove how much of a gamer-gasm I'd get for Elder Scrolls V. 
 
Look at my personal gamerscore, I have ALL of the achievements for Oblivion and Fallout 3 on PC, and a large majority of the Fallout 3 achievements on Xbox 360. 
 
I mean, while there's cheats to get the achievements on PC, I didn't type a single one in and will eventually have all of the xbox 360 achievements for Fallout 3 too. :-) 
 
I can't wait for any ES games or Fallout games to come out, and I'll play them over and over (within reason) for the rest of my life.

I really want to get into this game. I've tried, many many times. In fact I'd say I have at least 25+ hours into it, total. But I just can't. I find it frustrating how sometimes enemies die easily, and other times they require you to constantly run backwards while attacking and doing almost no damage until they die. That just kills the game for me. I've boughten it 3 times, including the other day on the steam sale, and I feel like the world is so awesome that I could easily get immersed if I could just get passed that. Plus, the dark brotherhood quests are awesome. 
 
Does anyone have any advice? Maybe mods that make the enemy HP less all over the place? Because seriously, the high HP enemies are just annoying as hell to fight. It's not like I ever die to them either, it just takes sooo long and is frustrating. 

Oblivion is my favorite game of this generation. There have been better games, but nothing amazed me like the first time I got out of that prison and stepped into the world.

I'm much more into sci-fi than fantasy and generally liked Fallout 3 more.  
I played through Fallout 3 twice and never even finished half of the main quest in Oblivion, but I have recently been reading Livin' in Oblivion and it really makes me want to start over an try again.

Once I climbed atop the maintstay in an Inn in Bruma and started perforating the local clientele with arrows.
Those poor guards had a hard time trying to apprehend me.
 
I remember the E3 videos. What could have been.
 

It's one of the few games that I've S-Ranked, but want to play more.

" Am I the only one who didn't have a problem with the leveling system? During the 200 hours or so I've spent with the game, I never once said "Man, the leveling system is garbage!" So what if I level up sometimes by running or jumping, to me that just means I get upgrade my character faster. "

Not to be a troll, but I'm still amazed that so many people actually like it, despite all of it's annoyances and problems. I feel like it really had a lot of potential, but I've never been able to enjoy it much, unfortunately.
 
Oh, and dude, no good games out now? You're nuts, sir.

Must be going around, I been playing Oblivion pretty heavy all week.

This makes me want to make a new character...but I have to finish so many other games first :(

" Not to be a troll, but I'm still amazed that so many people actually like it, despite all of it's annoyances and problems. I feel like it really had a lot of potential, but I've never been able to enjoy it much, unfortunately.  Oh, and dude, no good games out now? You're nuts, sir. "

At quakecon Tod Howard said 
 "One thing I can say is that from when you first hear about it to when it's out will be the shortest it's been for us. It's pretty far along. When we show it, we want to show a lot, because there's a lot of game there to play right now."
 Thats straight off the the elder scrolls wiki, and i really hope its the next elder scrolls. Ive overkilled oblivion but i do feel like playing shivering isles again, again with all this talk lol.

" @Ignor: I want to know why they didn't go all the way with the Radiant AI. The E3 demo was awesome; makes me wish that stuff actually happened. "

I bought the deluxe edition with all the extra content. I just installed it yesterday on my pc yet I also have another copy of the orginal game somewhere. I just hope it still holds up today, which it will. Also it's nice to play every dlc content there is. So far i'm not even out of the first dungeon from the first level. I'll binge with a ton of oblivion tonight.

I may have moved from the 360 to the PC for my Elder Scrolls fix, but I still cannot get enough of Oblivion. One of the best games of all time, the beautiful scenery coupled with Jeremy Soule's amazing soundtrack leads to hours of endless enjoyment doing absolutely nothing in the game.

Yeah played the hell out of it too.  Would like to see the voice acting canned, though.  Or roll it back to Morrowind levels.  Limits dialogue and story depth too much, having to voice every-last-thing.
 
And I hope they're not working toward an MMO, ugh... enough of those already.

"

I'm not trying to show off, I'm simply trying to prove how much of a gamer-gasm I'd get for Elder Scrolls V. 
 
Look at my personal gamerscore, I have ALL of the achievements for Oblivion and Fallout 3 on PC, and a large majority of the Fallout 3 achievements on Xbox 360. 
 
I mean, while there's cheats to get the achievements on PC, I didn't type a single one in and will eventually have all of the xbox 360 achievements for Fallout 3 too. :-) 
 
I can't wait for any ES games or Fallout games to come out, and I'll play them over and over (within reason) for the rest of my life.

"

" Compared to Morrowind, Oblivion is your run-of-the-mill generic fantasy setting with copy+paste dungeons and worthless loot.
The story was classic good vs. evil trite and the art direction was a result of watching The Lord of the Rings one time too many.
I do like the crazyness of the "Radiant A.I", though.
The game is not that bad per se, it's just that it dissapointed me compared to Morrowind, a game that pleasantly surprised me. But hey, that's just my opinion. "

" The thing about Morrowind though is that it does not have a timeless quality. The only Morrowind enthusiasts are those that played it when it came out. People who never played Morrowind would have a hell of a time trying to get into it now. "

" @pweidman said:

I thought Bethesda would be all over another ES when they gave New Vegas to Obsidian...someday I hope. "

I'm just nervous that they're putting all their resources into an MMO. "

" @Ignor:  But at the very least you have to agree that the game has several mechanics that would be an instant turn-off to most modern gamers. "