woodsiegirl on 22/4/2006 at 17:20
When I played TES4 earlier today, and was riding my horse to the top of a with no enemies in sight, at about twilight, I sort of felt something :angel:
Sort of like the combination of the music, the great graphics, the landscape, and the incredibly deep gameplay, took a turn on my nerves :thumb: .
:( I wish I could live in an Oblivion world... I wish... :thunk: comes back to reality again.
Anyone else feel like this?
:p
RarRar on 22/4/2006 at 18:26
Of course. Just a couple of nights ago I had my one and only Oblivion dream to date. Surprising considering how much I'm been playing the game. I would expect I'd be having them every night.
I won't go into detail, nobody's ever interested in other peoples' dreams, but essentially I dreamed I was playing the game, not that i was *in* Oblivion. And I was marvelling how realistic everything was. A couple of times I had to tilt my head back to notice there was a monitor there, but otherwise the POV was as if I was really there. I picked up some pieces of pipe and thought how great that they actually had the right weight and felt pretty close to metal, though the dull finish looked rather artificial. Wondered how the programmers pulled that off. Went into a tavern and there was disco music playing and spike haired kids dancing. Got laid, sort of. It was very tasteful and I admired how the designers did it, and was glad that they decided to include a bit of sex after all. I had had to get undressed and all my stuff was now little plastic toys on the floor around the mattress, and I was annoyed that I had to pick them all up plus not everything seemed to be there.
Then the tavern caught on fire and I had to run outside almost nude and instead of Cheydinhal or Bravil or whatever it was a modern city with cars. This was a plot twist I guessed. Cyrodill was really kind of a Westworld-style fantasy park turns out and now the real game began.
woodsiegirl on 22/4/2006 at 18:51
Yeah, I dreamt I was playing Oblivion the other night, though I wasn't sitting down at my computer, I was actually 'in' the game, but in third person. I stole one of those really [SPOILER]fast black Cheydinhal horses[/SPOILER] from a stable outside Leyawin, then legged it :D and then I woke up. I was cross for days after that :mad:
RarRar on 22/4/2006 at 19:26
Sometimes I think about what fun it would be to actually be able to somehow live in Cyrodill for awhile. Who hasn't? But then I wonder what I'd do if I had to go to the bathroom. Go on a quest for the Grand Loincloth of Depends I suppose. Or more seriously I think I'd be absolutely terrified to ever venture outside of the city gates. What fun it would be to run in the flowery meadows outside Skingrad ... until one of those bad cats snuck up and ate me! Seriously, the inhabitants of Cyrodill must live in a constant state of abject terror. I guess I could just fast travel to the other cities. Or what if my personal genie blinked and I was transported into an idylic Cyrodillean town. Just like I imagined it would be, everybody saying hello to me, pretty buildings, clear blue sky ... with maybe just an odd tinge of red to it. But still wonderful. Then I notice the name of the town: Kvatch. Oh crap.
woodsiegirl on 22/4/2006 at 19:44
Originally posted by RarRar:
Yeah, I guess we're better off living without having to fight off ten highwaymen on a trip to a city ten miles away! It would be slightly easier living in Oblivion as a warrior... however you'd constantly have to be 'on alert'...
LesserFollies on 22/4/2006 at 19:52
Yeah, I hear you. When I first popped into Cheydinhal by the West Gate I got a wistful kind of feeling. Damn pretty. Too bad the horse-riding isn't mouselook, that ruins it for me.
Uncia on 23/4/2006 at 11:04
Not being able to look around as I ride would drive me bonkers. "What's that on the left OH CRAP I RODE OFF A CLIFF."
RyushiBlade on 23/4/2006 at 11:21
It's not that you can't look left or right, it's that you really can't look very far in either direction. I was thinking maybe being able to look from -45 degrees to 225, giving you a blindspot of about 90. But then, it would look weird in third person since the character doesn't turn at the waist.
Uncia on 23/4/2006 at 12:50
I just tap R when I mount up. I wish there was an option that automatically toggled to 3rd person when riding (and stayed there), then back to first when you dismout.
LesserFollies on 23/4/2006 at 16:53
No, no, I want mousehorse! I don't mind stopping and pointing my horse in the direction I want to look! (Ok, I'm uncoordinated and lazy.)
