Oblivion Video

Darth Quorthon · Post by **Darth Quorthon** » 2006-01-28 04:14pm

A new Oblivion Video. It's in German, but the pictures speak for themselves. Slightly shorter than the 20min one from E3. Looks pretty sweet.

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2006-01-28 05:23pm

Finally something that shows a lot more gameplay! The film had footage from various builds sliced together (some of it from the E3 demo, and the first trailor), but it has enough new stuff to make me want this game more than ever. The combat looks to be better than I thought it would, and the draw distances appear to put Farcry to shame! Bring it on!

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2006-01-28 05:48pm

Most impressive!

Sharpshooter · Post by **Sharpshooter** » 2006-01-29 12:02am

::Squee::

I can't even wait - the Rig is getting an overhaul IMMEDIETLY.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2006-01-29 12:15am

Maybe this time I'll play the campaign, i saw cool stuff like burning cities and loads of soldiers coming over a hill.

Does this one take place on morrowind too?

Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2006-01-29 12:17am

InnocentBystander wrote:Maybe this time I'll play the campaign, i saw cool stuff like burning cities and loads of soldiers coming over a hill.

Does this one take place on morrowind too?

Nope. It takes place in Cyrodill, the Imperial Capital Province.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2006-01-29 12:51am

Rumor has it the graphics in that video were on low.

I like the look of combat MUCH better. More fluid, dynamic, and meaty.
Some nice lightning spells in there too.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2006-01-29 01:55am

The guy who kept drinking at the table was sorta silly looking (I've never seen anyone drink like that... com'on!). However I do like the idea of people acutally eating/drinking, they've always got such well made tables, sometimes there is even food on the plates... how about they eat it? eah!

Glimmervoid · Post by **Glimmervoid** » 2006-01-29 07:47am

Can any one tell me (I anm bad with hardware) if I will need to upgrade my "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400 with TurboCache technology supporting 128MB" to play Oblivion?

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2006-01-29 08:24am

Glimmervoid wrote:Can any one tell me (I anm bad with hardware) if I will need to upgrade my "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400 with TurboCache technology supporting 128MB" to play Oblivion?

Depends, do you like playing on the lowest graphic settings and potentially having a slideshow?

Netko · Post by **Netko** » 2006-01-29 09:19am

Jesus people chill about the hardware. From the official forums, it seems that the lowend will be a Radeon 9500 class graphics card, which his should handily beat. Sure, if you want to play at a nice resolution and such you need some horsepower, but 800*600 at somewhat good settings should be playable with older hardware.

No need to create expenses for the man for no good reason. With his graphics card he should get the game and see how it plays before considering upgrading since its possible that he will be able to get a good enough expirience with his current hardware.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-01-29 11:49am

mmar wrote:Jesus people chill about the hardware. From the official forums, it seems that the lowend will be a Radeon 9500 class graphics card, which his should handily beat. Sure, if you want to play at a nice resolution and such you need some horsepower, but 800*600 at somewhat good settings should be playable with older hardware.

No need to create expenses for the man for no good reason. With his graphics card he should get the game and see how it plays before considering upgrading since its possible that he will be able to get a good enough expirience with his current hardware.

Except, this is Oblivion, from the makers of Morrowind, I suspect optimising and good preformance not to be in the same sentence as the Oblivion engine.

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2006-01-29 12:11pm

Ace Pace wrote:
mmar wrote:Jesus people chill about the hardware. From the official forums, it seems that the lowend will be a Radeon 9500 class graphics card, which his should handily beat. Sure, if you want to play at a nice resolution and such you need some horsepower, but 800*600 at somewhat good settings should be playable with older hardware.

No need to create expenses for the man for no good reason. With his graphics card he should get the game and see how it plays before considering upgrading since its possible that he will be able to get a good enough expirience with his current hardware.
Except, this is Oblivion, from the makers of Morrowind, I suspect optimising and good preformance not to be in the same sentence as the Oblivion engine.

From the interviews I've read and from some of the dev post on the official forms (which are nicely cataloged at plantelderscrolls.com), optimization is a big focus for them. One thing that I know they've done is they ripped out the shadow system at E3 and replaced with on that is much more optimized. I think we'll have a much different performance experience with Oblivion than we did Morrowind.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-01-29 12:21pm

Arrow wrote:
Ace Pace wrote:
mmar wrote:Jesus people chill about the hardware. From the official forums, it seems that the lowend will be a Radeon 9500 class graphics card, which his should handily beat. Sure, if you want to play at a nice resolution and such you need some horsepower, but 800*600 at somewhat good settings should be playable with older hardware.

No need to create expenses for the man for no good reason. With his graphics card he should get the game and see how it plays before considering upgrading since its possible that he will be able to get a good enough expirience with his current hardware.
Except, this is Oblivion, from the makers of Morrowind, I suspect optimising and good preformance not to be in the same sentence as the Oblivion engine.
From the interviews I've read and from some of the dev post on the official forms (which are nicely cataloged at plantelderscrolls.com), optimization is a big focus for them. One thing that I know they've done is they ripped out the shadow system at E3 and replaced with on that is much more optimized. I think we'll have a much different performance experience with Oblivion than we did Morrowind.

I read abot that, but I'm still cautious.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2006-01-29 03:08pm

Is that the Imperial capitol I saw? Daaaanngg, that silver Roman architecture look is tight!

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2006-01-29 06:44pm

Arrow wrote:
Ace Pace wrote:
mmar wrote:Jesus people chill about the hardware. From the official forums, it seems that the lowend will be a Radeon 9500 class graphics card, which his should handily beat. Sure, if you want to play at a nice resolution and such you need some horsepower, but 800*600 at somewhat good settings should be playable with older hardware.

No need to create expenses for the man for no good reason. With his graphics card he should get the game and see how it plays before considering upgrading since its possible that he will be able to get a good enough expirience with his current hardware.
Except, this is Oblivion, from the makers of Morrowind, I suspect optimising and good preformance not to be in the same sentence as the Oblivion engine.
From the interviews I've read and from some of the dev post on the official forms (which are nicely cataloged at plantelderscrolls.com), optimization is a big focus for them. One thing that I know they've done is they ripped out the shadow system at E3 and replaced with on that is much more optimized. I think we'll have a much different performance experience with Oblivion than we did Morrowind.

They're not exactly going to say, "well it's an unoptimised, buggy piece of shit," are they?

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2006-01-29 08:06pm

Crazy_Vasey wrote:They're not exactly going to say, "well it's an unoptimised, buggy piece of shit," are they?

No, but the previews support the devs' claims. We'll find out in a couple of months.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2006-01-29 08:54pm

In my experience previews aren't much better than advertisements. But I'm just utterly disillusioned with game magazines and sites. Been burned too many times with them saying a game's great and then it turning out to be an absolute turd I guess.