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Oblivion interview on Evil Avatar
- Thread starter keeks
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Greatatlantic
Erudite
A little tidbit
Aha! No more to-hit roll. So who said combat was basically like MW just with blocking?
I am beginning to hope Oblivion combat will be like improved Gothic combat.
I am beginning to hope Oblivion combat will be like improved Gothic combat.
Hah! He doesn't know Mount&Blade of course!
NeutralMilkHotel
Liturgist
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Perhaps this should be news?
It would be if I actually liked Evil Avatar.
*cough*Fable*cough*
Of all the things to talk about, why spoken lines?
Ive actually played the very first video game to put shadows. Some odd atari game that had you flying around a barn. Its goofy that shadows really havent come too far, but are still Ubah HY TeK!
Shagnak
Shagadelic
Well, they've got the right guy for those sorts of quests.
I played Morrowind with a mainly sneaky guy; hopefully Oblivion will allow that sort of character even more, i.e. not force you to compromise him for the sake of the linear central plot.
Sol Invictus
Erudite
This is old news. We've already known about the lack of to-hit rolls and the heavy use of blocking and parrying in Oblivion's combat, so why is everyone acting like they've never heard about it before?
We knew about the voice acting too, so what's the point of 'calling them out' by making a Fable reference? KOTOR, KOTOR2 and Jade Empire all have full VOs. This is all very asinine.
We knew about the voice acting too, so what's the point of 'calling them out' by making a Fable reference? KOTOR, KOTOR2 and Jade Empire all have full VOs. This is all very asinine.
Fresh
Erudite
This sounds kinda menacing to me. So far Ive hoped that a AMD64 3500 or something would be enuf cpu-wise to "handle" Oblivion comfortably, but I guess not?
crpgnut
Augur
@!H
I didn't get that from the interview at all. I'm sure your AMD will be fine as will my P4 HT/3.4 gig machine. What Kathode said is that Ob will benefit from a multi-processor setup; not that it would be necessary. If you have dual processors the game will run faster and more efficiently. It'd be cool if Kathode and MSFD would jump in here and tell us what machine they're testing the game with and how it runs right now, before optimization. Until the game is complete, they really have no idea what the final requirements will be.
I didn't get that from the interview at all. I'm sure your AMD will be fine as will my P4 HT/3.4 gig machine. What Kathode said is that Ob will benefit from a multi-processor setup; not that it would be necessary. If you have dual processors the game will run faster and more efficiently. It'd be cool if Kathode and MSFD would jump in here and tell us what machine they're testing the game with and how it runs right now, before optimization. Until the game is complete, they really have no idea what the final requirements will be.
Sol Invictus
Erudite
I like HDR and your newly implemented shadows as much as the next graphics enthusiast, but was there ever any question that HDR would be implemented?kathode said:The shadow and HDR and some of the tech stuff is new info, but you guys hate tech, so....
MrSmileyFaceDude
Bethesda Game Studios
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I'll tell you what kind of machine I'm currently developing on, but not how it runs (hey, it's not done yet, so any performance hints I can give you have no bearing on the final game anyway, and besides, I run the game in the debugger most of the time). I'm using a 3GHz Pentium 4 with 1GB RAM and a Radeon 9800XT with 256MB. All fairly middle of the road stuff nowadays.
Fresh
Erudite
MrSmileyFaceDude said:
Aight thx, thats great to hear! Now I feel much better all of a sudden.
Shagnak
Shagadelic
How many CRPG-players have YOU talked to?MrSmileyFaceDude said:
MrSmileyFaceDude
Bethesda Game Studios
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Shagnak said:How many CRPG-players have YOU talked to?MrSmileyFaceDude said:
What possible relevance does that have to do with what I said? I answered crpgnut's question, and it is true that those system specs are FAR from top of the line nowadays.
Shagnak
Shagadelic
I guess it's because you did not qualify the "all fairly middle of the road lately" statement. The implication is that you think that the average CRPG-er will have this sort of box.
It has relevance because a lot of your target audience (CRPG-ers) quite simply don't have that kind of hardware. Most people I know who mainly play FPS's dont have that sort of hardware. (I have no idea what it is like over in SmileyFaceDude land, but I suspect the average box is a bit better :wink: ). They spend money on other things, like life.
If I peruse the local rags, the average new PC isn't even those specs. Remove the grafix card, half a gig of ram, etc.
Perhaps by the time of release the average PC owned by the CRPG-playing community will sit around about these specs, who knows.
I do have that sort of hardware; so as one of the people on this site that actually enjoyed Morrowind (despite recognising some obvious flaws), I will definitely buying Oblivion - and I expect it to be good dammit!
It has relevance because a lot of your target audience (CRPG-ers) quite simply don't have that kind of hardware. Most people I know who mainly play FPS's dont have that sort of hardware. (I have no idea what it is like over in SmileyFaceDude land, but I suspect the average box is a bit better :wink: ). They spend money on other things, like life.
If I peruse the local rags, the average new PC isn't even those specs. Remove the grafix card, half a gig of ram, etc.
Perhaps by the time of release the average PC owned by the CRPG-playing community will sit around about these specs, who knows.
I do have that sort of hardware; so as one of the people on this site that actually enjoyed Morrowind (despite recognising some obvious flaws), I will definitely buying Oblivion - and I expect it to be good dammit!
MrSmileyFaceDude
Bethesda Game Studios
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Hey, I thought CRPGers were hardcore gamers who spared no expense :D
No, I just meant in the general scheme of things, not specifically the CRPG market. Sorry I wasn't more precise.
No, I just meant in the general scheme of things, not specifically the CRPG market. Sorry I wasn't more precise.
Greatatlantic
Erudite
Hmmm... I have a gaming rig on that level, but I just bought it a couple of months ago. Though I spared plenty in expense to get it. So, I think yours and mine are more an uppper level midrange PC. What is it with Americans and they desirr to be "middle p.class". I think if still used my Apple IIe I'd say it was mid-level.
Shagnak
Shagadelic
Naww...I suspect most of us are bloody cheapskatesMrSmileyFaceDude said:
Most of us that have flash gaming rigs do so cos we also play demanding FPS's. If it weren't for that, I would have saved a lot of money due to most of my favourite games being much less demanding CRPGs.
No worries. I suspect I was reading more into it than I should, anyways.
It is a legitimate concern however. The whole "appeal to gamers with demanding/flash games" versus "don't alienate gamers who don't meet the spec" dynamic.
But Morrowind was fairly demanding when it came out, I guess, and heard a rumour that that one didn't do to badly sale-wise :wink:
Shagnak
Shagadelic
Hmmmm...dunno...how many cogs in your graphics board?Visbhume said:
Greatatlantic
Erudite
Shagnak said:Hmmmm...dunno...how many cogs in your graphics board?
Sheesh, haven't any of you people ever heard of vacuum tubes? Its the next millenium already!
Sol Invictus
Erudite
Heh, those stats are just like my own computer's. I'm glad to hear that you're not running some super powered rig or you'd have the problem of accurately gauging the game's performance on regular desktops.
Computers like ours cost less than 1,000 US dollars these days, and that includes the price of a monitor. I'm not sure what Shaqnak's fuss is all about.
Computers like ours cost less than 1,000 US dollars these days, and that includes the price of a monitor. I'm not sure what Shaqnak's fuss is all about.
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