Oblivion Headed to PSP & PS3 76
errorjustin writes "More Pre-E3 news is coming out - Bethesda's 2006 line-up has been revealed, and on the list is are PS3 and PSP ports of Oblivion. Both are currently slated for a November release, which further backs up Sony's insistence that the PS3 will launch in November. A formal announcement is expected in a couple weeks at E3."
Hah! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Hah! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Hah! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Hah! (Score:4, Funny)
Look, if you can't pony up for the dual-core Athlon [amd.com], and the doubled up GeForce 7900 [asus.com], don't take it out on the game developers. Come on out of the stone age, why don'tcha.
I just have no tolerance for people that let their technology sit around for months without upgrading.
Re:Still not enough (Score:2)
Re:Still not enough (Score:2)
I like the long-distance scenery (it's a big thing I missed in Morrowind -- what's with this haze that prevents me from seeing entire cities directly below me when I'm levitating??), so I've solved all my Oblivion problems by turning off the grass. Runs fine and looks nice on a 6600GT at 800x600 with 2x AA (though I must say I never thought I'd be going back to 800x600).
I agree about your preference for Morrowind, though. I find dungeon design, especially, a lot less interesting in Oblivion. Morrowind has
Re:Still not enough (Score:2)
This is where patient PC gamers can really win out in the end. Folks who are willing to shift their gaming timetables by a year or two will much more easily be able to play Oblivion at its maximum settings with good resolution. They will also have the advantage of ge
Re:Still not enough (Score:1)
I added a bunch of the 3rd-party mods around to make it a touch more nice to look at, and it still runs nice and smoothly on my thoroughly ancient overclocked 9550. Plus, the game itself cost me less than three quid, rather than fifty.
So yes, I'm pretty happy with getting older games...
Re:Still not enough (Score:2)
Landscape LOD Replacement (21MB) - This mod replaces all the distant blurry LOD landscapes with better looking higher resolution textures. This means you don't have to use the uGridsToLoad command, and hence you won't experience any major performance reductions or visual glitches. More details here.
Landscape LOD Repla
Re:Still not enough (Score:1)
Re:Still not enough (Score:2)
Re:Still not enough (Score:1)
Re:Still not enough (Score:1)
Re:Still not enough (Score:2)
Except, I HAVE a dual core Athlon (Score:2)
Now, granted, the Quadro is a top of the line CAD card, and not a gaming card
but still you'l think that my setup would be able to handle Oblivion without
hurling.
Re:Hah! (Score:1)
Bethesda already has a portable version of Oblivion!
It should run relatively well on a PSP...
Re:Hah! (Score:1)
you must have something wrong with you system (Score:1)
Re:you must have something wrong with you system (Score:2)
This is not due to overly aggressive FSAA, Ansiotropic filtering, multisampling or supersampling or something
Re:you must have something wrong with you system (Score:1)
Oblivion has some serious performance problems.
BTW... I'm a computer consultant (for about 13 or 14 years now) so you don't impress me with
Re:you must have something wrong with you system (Score:1)
Re:you must have something wrong with you system (Score:1)
As for attacking repair center techs, this was not my intention. But as you said yourself, "a lot of them are a+ certified morons". Don't try t
xbox360 and ps3? (Score:1)
Re:xbox360 and ps3? (Score:2)
Oh for gods sakes... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Oh for gods sakes... (Score:1)
Re:Oh for gods sakes... (Score:1)
Re:Oh for gods sakes... (Score:1)
Have you updated your drivers? What are your other system specs?
Feel free to send me a message here or email me if you would like further assistance.
Re:Oh for gods sakes... (Score:1)
Three words. (Score:2)
Release dates mean nothing (Score:5, Insightful)
Yea, and Oblivion was originally slated for release on the 360 for LAST November, but we all know how that ended up.
Re:Release dates mean nothing (Score:1)
Re:Release dates mean nothing (Score:2)
If it turned out the same way for the PS3 version, wouldn't you be validating the assertion instead of countering it?
Re:Release dates mean nothing (Score:2)
And now it is complete.
Re:Non-Event (Score:2)
Re:Non-Event (Score:1, Flamebait)
Considering how much the game system itself is going to get pushed back, expect that to be a very large "window."
Unless you want to defect over to the Japs, you'd better not be expecting to go home any time soon, Joe!
-Eric
Re:Bugs? (Score:2)
But you've heard 'reports' of problems on the Xbox- and there is that one guy with the Orc problem.
So are you saying the 360 version sucks?
Re:Bugs? (Score:2)
100% chance when looking at certain objects while Specular lighting is disabled.
10% chance of freezing indefinitely while loading certain areas.
3% chance to have the quest phase not acknowledged by essential NPC, making it impossible to proceed with the quest. (with the number of quests, and their phases, that's a lot!)
70% chance for friendly NPC to do something terribly dumb during a battle.
5% chance to get kicked out of all guilds whenever fighting near a horse.
1% chance to get stuck in
Re:Bugs? (Score:1)
I've created a new character, with a custom class, with all my frequently used skills in the Minor class, and have found that it balances the game quite a bit better.
Had a couple of saved games go corrupt, and frequently experience the crash on exit but otherwise quite happy wi
Re:Bugs? (Score:2)
The simple answer is that Bethesda set our expectations too high with Morrowind.
The game isn't all that bad. But it's way worse than Morrowind. And it reeks with bad management decisions. The world, the general idea, plot, background, the part that belonged strictly to developers and designers is great. But then you see a lot of shit tacked on top of it, that looks like a manager sat for 5 minutes to the play, got some idea and told people to implement it. It stinks, it spoils the fun. Minigames,
Re:Non-Event (Score:2)
"PC developers appear to have almost zero confidence in the 360."
I don't understand that in the context of either the article or your post.
PSP Disk Access (Score:2)
Re:PSP Disk Access (Score:2)
Oh cool (Score:3, Insightful)
And hey, Oblivion makes perfect sense for the PSP, becuase Oblivion is chock-full of the one thing the PSP really excels at-- load screens!
Anyway, things are looking really, really bad for the 360 on the exclusives front, honestly. The 360 had what looked like an impressive or at least sizable runup of coming games a year ago, but it's now looking like basically everything the 360 has either has a PC release already, is getting a PC release eventually, or is getting a PS3 release eventually. It looks like pretty much all the 360 has left for exclusives is Halo 3 and Gears of War. And as Halo 1 and 2 show us, all we have to do is wait a year or two and Halo 3 will come out on the PC as well. After the number of exclusives which have jumped ship already, the exclusivity of the ones that are left is in serious doubt. For example I wonder how long Gears of War will stay exclusive..?
This is a problem, because the 360 can't fall back on being "the multiplatform games system" as easily this time. Almost none of the really important XBox 1 games were exclusives. But that was okay, because whenever a game came out for multiple systems, the XBox 1 version was invariably the best; so the XBox formed this nice little niche where it had a variety of standout versions of the best games for the PC and PS3 of the time. The 360, though, will be either matched or surpassed in power by the PS3, so the 360 won't have this advantage that the XBox had. The 360 version of [insert game here] will vaguely lag the PS3 version in quality, instead of the other way around. Microsoft has abandoned the niche they held last time. Instead the 360 is basically settling into the niche of, it's the system for the hardcore PC gamer who doesn't want to bother maintaining a PC. I'm certain the 360 will serve this niche very well, but I somehow doubt this is a niche likely to grow much over the next 3-4 years...
Re:Oh cool (Score:1, Insightful)
This discounts the 360s other platform benefits like superior development tools, a proven internet platform with Live instead of 'Yes we'll have the same features that have taken you years to develop in a month and they'll be much better!' thread-bare promises from S
Re:God of War 2 (Score:2)
Re:God of War 2 (Score:2)
Cramming Oblivion onto a PSP (Score:2)
Re:Cramming Oblivion onto a PSP (Score:1)
Re:Cramming Oblivion onto a PSP (Score:2)
Bethesda? November? (Score:1)
I'll believe it when I see it. (Score:3, Funny)
translation: gamasutra got played.
News is still unconfirmed (Score:2, Informative)
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/703/703224p1.html [ign.com]
Basically:
"At present we have no announced plans to bring Oblivion to any platforms other than PC or Xbox 360." - Bethesda staff Let's wait before "official" news come in before we get hyped about Oblivion on PS3.
The TFA should say (Score:2)
Fully patched, ready-for-release, version of Oblivion heading to PS3!