I'm not exaggerating there either, when tailored to fit Oblivion is a spectacular game. Complaining about how modding shouldn't be necessary as a point of principle might get you a few minutes of basking on the moral high ground, but the price is you're doing yourself out of one of the best games of all time. My advice is give yourself a break from the game for a while, then mod it up and restart from scratch. I suppose you could argue that Bethesda shouldn't have cut their PC fanbase loose by providing such a simple and cuddly sequel to the far more grown-up Morrowind, but that's business, they were making a console launch title and there lowest common denominator is where the money is at.Īs far as restarting the game on a modded version is concerned I think it's a smart move before you spoil the game playing it the ordinary way, which is frankly much less challenging no matter what you do with the difficulty slider (the vanilla version of the game just beefs the monsters stats up, so if you can beat one you can beat them all it just takes longer). But expecting a difficult and unforgiving step up from Morrowind, which I think a lot of Morrowind players did want, was bound to lead to disappointment.
The auto-travel, hugely intrusive mission hints and levelling system made it a walk in the park compared to Morrowind. Net result of this is that I don't know any Xbox user who has a bad word to say about the game, but I don't know any Morrowind player who wasn't a bit disgusted by the easiness of it all. I could see what Bethesda did with Oblivion, they made it an entry level game to the franchise and they put a lot of work into the Xbox 360 version, and balanced that out by making sure the PC version out of the box didn't make the Xbox version look ugly. I mean how do the devs know precisely what you want? Sixty hours or so down the line I'd completed it, put it away for a while and then came back to it with a bunch of mods and it was a whole new game.Įxpecting a game to be perfect out of the box is asking not so much a lot from the developers in terms of effort, but you're expecting a lot in terms of just sheer luck.
Click to expand.See the thing is I didn't actually hate Oblivion out of the box, and the only initial overhauls I did were to the graphics on the first run.
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