Oblivion GOLD - Due in stores March 20th [Archive]

BleedTheFreak

03-02-2006, 09:15 AM

It's official, March 20th will show gamers what it's like to play as a powerful mage and steal bread from townsfolk! Grab your Deadric armor and prepare for battle!

Here you go, what you've all been waiting to hear and have suspected for a while now. Expect the game in stores in the US as early as the 21st. The date in Europe may be a few days after, but it should be that week pretty much everywhere. As always, please check with your local retail store as the retailers themselves decide how fast to ship it to their outlets. I can't tell you when it will be in your specific city/country, so please don't ask.

Official Forums Pete Hines offers hope for a beleaguered Genre (http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=249750)

I can breathe again! Yay!

StANTo

03-02-2006, 09:20 AM

While you're waiting for that; I shall wait for Spore from Maxis.

Jacob Singer

03-02-2006, 09:23 AM

I'm gonna be one broke gamer at the end of March.

bapenguin

03-02-2006, 09:23 AM

Excellent news.

Congratulations kathode (Gavin), Pete and the rest of the team!

UnderHero5

03-02-2006, 09:24 AM

I'm gonna be one broke gamer at the end of March.
You and me both, man.

Everlost_MI

03-02-2006, 09:25 AM

Yes!! Excellent news! W00T!

ChumLord

03-02-2006, 09:28 AM

Nice. Now is the time to finish up Morrowind after all these years, I guess :o

joruussuun

03-02-2006, 09:31 AM

I've suddenly become light-headed... I think I'm going to faint...

Ultima Thulian

03-02-2006, 09:33 AM

Here's hoping all the time that went into the game will pay off. It's been a long time coming.

CrashCart

03-02-2006, 09:34 AM

Felonous

03-02-2006, 09:35 AM

Nice. Now is the time to finish up Morrowind after all these years, I guess :o

WOOT! GOLD BABY GOLD!

I'm right there with you Chum, in order to get in the Elder Scrolls mood I thought I should finally play Morrowind through to the end. I must have ADD when it comes to Morrowind, a half dozen times I would play the game and not get much further than half way through and get distracted by some other game. I love the game, but I tend to burn out on it because I always was doing every quest I ran across, join all the guilds, etc.

But last month I installed and have been playing through the game again, but this time I vowed to stick to only the main quest. I think I'm about 2/3 of the way through the main quest, definately farther than I have gotten before. Only guild I have joined is the Fighters guild, and only did the first couple of quests from them.

Hopefully I'll be done by the time the 20th rolls around :)

ÜberJumper

03-02-2006, 09:35 AM

Apparently it has issues (http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/games/index.blog?entry_id=1422030).

I'll be waiting for some reviews.

Heretic Machine

03-02-2006, 09:41 AM

You know what's annoying about this? That is the last day of Spring Break.

Rakael

03-02-2006, 09:41 AM

You guys all called this one. Thank God its official though! Now I have to see about snagging a 360.

Rakael

03-02-2006, 09:46 AM

Apparently it has issues (http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/games/index.blog?entry_id=1422030).

I'll be waiting for some reviews.

I'll be doing the same really, especially considering that I have to wait to get a system that can play the game. However, I would not put a lot of stock in what that guy says. As a matter of fact, all of the other previews have been at least decent, his being the only one that negative.

ChumLord

03-02-2006, 09:46 AM

Apparently it has issues (http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/games/index.blog?entry_id=1422030).

I'll be waiting for some reviews.
I'll pick it up on day 1, but that link has some serious points. I prefer 3rd person for RPG's mostly and hope that option will get added. I don't like what I'm hearing from the above article about the graphics stuff either. We'll see how it all turns out.

I'm right there with you Chum, in order to get in the Elder Scrolls mood I thought I should finally play Morrowind through to the end. I must have ADD when it comes to Morrowind, a half dozen times I would play the game and not get much further than half way through and get distracted by some other game. I love the game, but I tend to burn out on it because I always was doing every quest I ran across, join all the guilds, etc.
Same here. I've really done so much sidetracking after all of this time that I've managed to see boatloads of stuff not in the main quest. Just gonna wrap it up.

president_fred

03-02-2006, 09:48 AM

Personally I am worried about the 360 version after reading Tycho's link in yesterdays post I hope it wasn't as bad as all that. I think I will be snagging the PC version as it may chug along at first but patches and upgrades willing will be flowing with long draw distances with time.

MrWonderstuff

03-02-2006, 09:50 AM

Now to upgrade the PC or buy a 360. Hmmm.

Pumped'Up

03-02-2006, 09:55 AM

Oh good. Since I don't own a 360, and I doubt my PC can run Oblivion too well.. I'm not in too big of a rush for this one to hit shelves.

But now that it's done, can they now at least acknowledge that they own the rights to the Fallout franchise, please? ;) I want to see a new game in the series, but I don't care for the Elder Scrolls style gameplay too much. I'm hoping they don't go that route with Fallout.
I can't wait for the day when we see Fallout 3. I don't mind if they use the Oblivion style gameplay i.e. venturing through the wastelands in 3D, but I just hope the combat system remains turn-based. Man, Fallout 1 & 2 are simply the greatest RPG games ever made...

TRiLoGY

03-02-2006, 09:58 AM

It should be out in the UK on the 24th :)

bapenguin

03-02-2006, 10:00 AM

Apparently it has issues (http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/games/index.blog?entry_id=1422030).

I'll be waiting for some reviews.

If things go according to plan, we'll have a review up of the 360 version by the time it comes out. :)

Pumped'Up

03-02-2006, 10:00 AM

Now to upgrade the PC or buy a 360. Hmmm.
The deciding factors for me are the load times, graphics qualities, and future games. Upgrading my PC is on the favourable side as it'll help play Hellgate London in the future.

Zurik

03-02-2006, 10:01 AM

Elder Scrolls games may have their buggy releases, but they are so worth the wait.

Yeti2005

03-02-2006, 10:02 AM

Apparently it has issues (http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/games/index.blog?entry_id=1422030).

I'll be waiting for some reviews.

I somehow believe the half dozen other sites who said the game was amazing. I'm sure they'll be framerate issues in places. A few reviewers did mention that the graphics in your character's immediate area were awesome but in the distance low res textures were used. That doesn't bother me so much.

I'm looking forward to exploring a huge world with tons of side quests. The radiant AI is supposed to be damn impressive as well.

Rakael

03-02-2006, 10:04 AM

I also think that both on the 360 (via live) and the PC, a lot of the issues will be worked out as patches are released.

drakkarim

03-02-2006, 10:08 AM

thank goodness, i can finally start planning which days to take off of work :)

Steele Johnson

03-02-2006, 10:11 AM

I'm so happy that the hype has ended.

GrinR

03-02-2006, 10:15 AM

Morrowind ran like shit when I bought it, small view distance and muddy textures a-go-go.

Somehow, despite the general ugliness and overall clankiness (made up a word!) of the engine, I managed to just about shit myself having fun. I think I probably sunk about 200 hours easily into Morrowind. Poor me.

WastelandDan

03-02-2006, 10:17 AM

what I don't get about ship dates and actual release dates is that why, if the ship date is the day it's supposed to be available, can we not get it until the next day? Most stores will get a game in by the end of the day on the "release" day but they claim that they'll be breaking street date if they don't sell it until the next day. Who determines this?

falcon

03-02-2006, 10:21 AM

I'll pick it up on day 1, but that link has some serious points. I prefer 3rd person for RPG's mostly and hope that option will get added. I don't like what I'm hearing from the above article about the graphics stuff either. We'll see how it all turns out.

Oblivion does have third person already built in, you just push the right thumbstick on the 360 version and I think the R key on the PC version.

Magnanimous Gnome

03-02-2006, 10:22 AM

Wow, I can't believe this finally went gold! WOOHOO!!

Sadly I have no means of playing it, but I'm strongly considering and new PC for this and Gothic 3 alone.

I only hope that this game combines Morrowinds expansive world and character options with Gothic 2's polish and superior NPC AI. That would truly deliver the game of my dreams!

Count me in the group of those who played Morrowind a lot but never finished it. Hell I barely scratched the main quest. I have a few friends who played it all the way through and never saw half of the things I would tell them about. I really need to get that game out again and try out the mods more...

Magnanimous Gnome

03-02-2006, 10:23 AM

Oblivion does have third person already built in, you just push the right thumbstick on the 360 version and I think the R key on the PC version.

Unless they changed the controls from Morrowind it will probably be TAB on the PC version, as a clarification.

Borys

03-02-2006, 10:24 AM

If things go according to plan, we'll have a review up of the 360 version by the time it comes out. :)

An honest, down-to-earth review or a "kathode posts here so we will write only about the good stuff" one?

bapenguin

03-02-2006, 10:31 AM

An honest, down-to-earth review or a "kathode posts here so we will write only about the good stuff" one?

*Slips Borys one of his many $100 bills*

Of COURSE it's going to be an honest down to earth review. :)

screwtape

03-02-2006, 10:32 AM

If things go according to plan, we'll have a review up of the 360 version by the time it comes out. :)
Oooh, did you guys get a review copy? That would be sweet to see some in-house previews/reviews a la Gamespot before a game is released.

Anybody hear about a demo? I'd like to see how it runs on my PC before picking it up.

cppcrusader

03-02-2006, 10:33 AM

Just in time for my birthday. I think I'll make that a present from myself to myself.

bapenguin

03-02-2006, 10:37 AM

Oooh, did you guys get a review copy? That would be sweet to see some in-house previews/reviews a la Gamespot before a game is released.

We are supposed to get one. Whether or not that happens remains to be seen. Hence the "going according to plan" part.

AntB

03-02-2006, 10:38 AM

Am I the only person on this goddamned planet that doesn't care about load times?!

Zurik

03-02-2006, 10:49 AM

Am I the only person on this goddamned planet that doesn't care about load times?!

Yes, cause some of us have better things to do than load every five seconds.

Mysterio

03-02-2006, 10:50 AM

Yes, cause some of us have better things to do than load every five seconds.

He said load times, not load frequencies.

rein

03-02-2006, 10:51 AM

Am I the only person on this goddamned planet that doesn't care about load times?!

Yes, yes you are.

Librum

03-02-2006, 11:11 AM

I loved Daggerfall, though I didn't get very far into it. However, it was what made me want to get Morrowind. I don't think I played Morrowind much at all after I initially got it - just couldn't get into it enough and I felt a little lost with there being so many things to do and no clear direction. But lo and behold, a year or two later, I powered my way through the thing doing almost every side quest I could, and I never even really got to touch the expansions.

So I'm imagining Oblivion will be like that, again. A slow to involve, difficult to master but very engaging and thoroughly enjoyable PC game for the long term, like the last two have been.

baz

03-02-2006, 11:12 AM

I'm a day 1 purchase. I know it's not going to be perfect, there is going to be bugs (it is a bethseda game after all...) but I also know I'm going to enjoy the absolute fuck out of it.

ChumLord

03-02-2006, 11:14 AM

I'm a day 1 purchase. I know it's not going to be perfect, there is going to be bugs (it is a bethseda game after all...) but I also know I'm going to enjoy the absolute fuck out of it.
Agreed.

Mason

03-02-2006, 11:15 AM

Very glad to hear this. I think I'm still traumatized from HL2, such that if a dev team demures on giving a firm release date in the last few months of development, I mentally put it in the "vaporware" file, just to be on the safe side. Getting to haul Oblivion out of that file is a very pleasant thing.

Any wagers on how it'll look on a 9800pro and P4 3.0c?

Atorak

03-02-2006, 11:15 AM

I am speechless. I am without speech!

Side Note: Are people REALLY going to hate the game if you have a short load time everytime you enter an interior door? Did it REALLY take away from the original Morrowind? I mean, sure, who wouldn't want a completely seemless world? If every developer could create their games that way, believe me, I'm sure they would. Anyone remember a little game called Half-Life 2? Even on a sick gaming rig, some load times took 20-25 seconds. Yet, it still won the most Game of the Year awards that year. Strange...

AntB

03-02-2006, 11:16 AM

Yes, yes you are.

I should have mentioned reasonable load times, if the game takes 2 minutes to load and then 15 or so seconds to load a mission like gta it doesn't really bother me.

Half-Life 2 load times were pretty bad, but Valve pretty much fixed that.

But seriously, with the amount of data(textures, models, ai, etc) games have these days, you should expect initial loading times to be a far bit longer then they used to. It all mostly depends on your processor speed, amount of memory and hard disk speed(rpm)... if it takes you a minute just to copy a 250mb file in windows, you can't expect a game to load that same exact amount of information in a shorter time. HardDrive speeds haven't increased much in the recent years, going from 7200rpm to 10,000(raptor)...

I wonder what kind of load times spore will have, since most of the game is supposedly procedural(future tech)...

Grimgrock

03-02-2006, 11:16 AM

ChumLord

03-02-2006, 11:19 AM

Any wagers on how it'll look on a 9800pro and P4 3.0c?
My guess is: respectable. Far from the low end, but far from the high end enough to make you want a new GPU with 16 pipelines and PS3 support :)

Edit: Depending on your RAM, you are at the "recommended" system requirements (read: minimum requirements for an enjoyable experience) and just under for the GPU. I think you'll be just fine.

AntB

03-02-2006, 11:26 AM

I need to see a benchmark... I'm hoping a Athlon 3400 and Ati x1900xtx runs it good. I don't have more money to upgrade the CPU.

Atorak

03-02-2006, 11:27 AM

So let me understand this correctly, they can patch the game on the 360? I've already pre-ordered this for the PC but as I now have an HDTV at 1080i, I think I'd prefer the Xbox version but only if they can patch as well as the PC.

There have been patches for Call of Duty 2 already on the X360, so my answer would be yes. Although, I'm not sure if you need the hard drive or not...

ÜberJumper

03-02-2006, 11:34 AM

After Dungeon Siege and Dungeon Siege 2, I expect that every single game I ever play will never have another load time.

Streaming the game world from the hard drive is fucking cool.

Worldcrafter

03-02-2006, 11:36 AM

Oblivion gone gold. That's the best birthday present I could have asked for.
(Not really, but it's pretty damn good.)

Zanzibar

03-02-2006, 11:40 AM

Goodbye, budget. That's another $60 of 'Must Fucking Have" this month, bringing the grand total to $180.

Blazing Angels
GRAW
Oblivion

That's also me waiting on Burnout Revenge and The Outfit.

ezra

03-02-2006, 11:46 AM

Let me be the 58th person to officially say WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

JOY!

Stormwatcher

03-02-2006, 11:48 AM

ChumLord

03-02-2006, 11:52 AM

Mason

03-02-2006, 12:06 PM

I must persevere with Morrowind. I really love western CRPGs, but never got into Morrowind. I find it abismally ugly. The characters are all hideous, the textures suck... And my char moves at half-snail-pace. Also, it throws way too much shit on you during character creation... One needs to read thousands of lines of text just t have some idea of what each thing do. But I'll try again... Any tips/hints for a Morrowind newb get started? an easier race/class combo to begin with?

Visit some mod sites. You can get some way better character models, which actually have a lower poly count than the original fugly ones. Very worth it.

I'm hoping that Oblivion PC ships with the same rich tools as Morrowind, as that made it one of the most pleasant games to casually mod. A while back I played as a mage and made myself a constant mana regen ring, so that I could get away with being something other than a ghost-stabbing Atronach. Made it a lot of fun. The flexibility to do stuff like that, or say disable all Cliff Runners, really adds a lot to the series.

fitbabits

03-02-2006, 12:15 PM

Oh my goodness! I'm wet with anticipation.

And I'd like to echo bapenguin's sentiments and say congratuations to the team on reaching this point.

Grimgrock

03-02-2006, 12:15 PM

There have been patches for Call of Duty 2 already on the X360, so my answer would be yes. Although, I'm not sure if you need the hard drive or not...

I was mostly concerned about getting the same amount of support on the 360 as on the PC. As I have a HD on my 360, I'm ok in that area. It's going to be a long 2 weeks of waiting for this...

abso

03-02-2006, 12:16 PM

Why oh why must my spring break be the week BEFORE it is released. :/ Oh well, hopefully this doesn't interfere too much with sleep. /me plots the takeover of every guild once again. ALL BOW BEFORE MY MIGHT.

Kelegacy

03-02-2006, 12:36 PM

An honest, down-to-earth review or a "kathode posts here so we will write only about the good stuff" one?
Heh. Man, do I love Borys. One of the reasons I keep coming back.

Neosho

03-02-2006, 12:56 PM

I predict by the 21rst, there will be some angry gamers, some happy gamers, and many, many, many gamers too blinded by the hype to see that the game isn't really that great.

Then again, i've been known to be wrong...

And that review's not really that negative. He just didn't like the load times, and the low rez distance textures. For me, that'd be a deal breaker...i hate anything that breaks immersion, and both of those things do. He says there's a bunch of stuff he likes about it (the character creation engine, the size of the world) and some stuff that he doesn't like. As someone said, that's only being seen as "negative" because all previews typically are a dicksucking contest to see who can get preview copies of the next game that company releases.

goc_sin

03-02-2006, 01:04 PM

An honest, down-to-earth review or a "kathode posts here so we will write only about the good stuff" one?

That's what I want to know too? Give us the straight goods.. no fanboy opinionated garbage.

bapenguin

03-02-2006, 01:11 PM

That's what I want to know too? Give us the straight goods.. no fanboy opinionated garbage.

And I will. Problem is, if I end up giving it a good review, it'll be labelled above and not taken seriously. So do I give it a bad review? If I do that I'd be labeled a "hit monger."

Only thing to do is to give it an honest review, just like everything else I've reviewed here.

EL CABONG

03-02-2006, 01:12 PM

Groovy
I have an 360 and pc version preordered. I will play the 360 when it comes out and the pc one after I upgrade (and hopefully buy then a bunch of mods will be out by then) in about a year or so.

Com_Gaunt

03-02-2006, 01:31 PM

Just preordered my PC version, currently waiting on the new 7900 cards to come out to bring the price down so I can snag a 7800GT or even a cheap 7800GTX card!
And on the taking off from work part, I'm going with the flue combined with diarea... what about y'all?

Cyotik

03-02-2006, 01:52 PM

I need to see a benchmark... I'm hoping a Athlon 3400 and Ati x1900xtx runs it good. I don't have more money to upgrade the CPU.

Nothing against him personally, but I hope AntTripz gets hit by a bus. Also YAY OBLIVION!

Reed

03-02-2006, 01:53 PM

After Dungeon Siege and Dungeon Siege 2, I expect that every single game I ever play will never have another load time.

Streaming the game world from the hard drive is fucking cool.
Man, no kidding. It's really a shame that it's still such a rarity to see that.

"Next-gen" should have in large part been about getting rid of load times.

Kefkataran

03-02-2006, 02:00 PM

Very exciting. I'll probably pick up the PC version. This should be right around when I get my tax return. :)

Magnanimous Gnome

03-02-2006, 02:05 PM

I predict by the 21rst, there will be some angry gamers, some happy gamers, and many, many, many gamers too blinded by the hype to see that the game isn't really that great.

I'm curious as to why you think so many will be disappointed?

As I recall, no one was really all that disappointed with Morrowind.

Well, I guess I'm somewhat disappointed overall, but that's just because there were some things that really bugged me.

Anyway, what, in your mind, are going to be the things that really kill it for people? Is there some big design flaw that you've noticed?

ChumLord

03-02-2006, 02:07 PM

Only thing to do is to give it an honest review, just like everything else I've reviewed here.
Stick with that and you'll be all aces in my book.

Cyotik

03-02-2006, 02:09 PM

Oh yeah... tax return... So I can afford Oblivion. That makes me even happier.

Atorak

03-02-2006, 02:17 PM

Oh yeah... tax return... So I can afford Oblivion. That makes me even happier.

Unless you owe the government money this year. In that case, I would defer. :)

Deathbane27

03-02-2006, 02:18 PM

What, no "I told you so!"s on the release date?

Guess I wasted my time on this... Ah well, posting it in advance then.

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/2426/reverysmartshutup0cd.jpg

Cyotik

03-02-2006, 02:21 PM

Heh, nope. Government owes me a small pile of money which is going to pay for Oblivion and a nice PC upgrade.

Watership

03-02-2006, 02:37 PM

I somehow believe the half dozen other sites who said the game was amazing. I'm sure they'll be framerate issues in places. A few reviewers did mention that the graphics in your character's immediate area were awesome but in the distance low res textures were used. That doesn't bother me so much.

I'm looking forward to exploring a huge world with tons of side quests. The radiant AI is supposed to be damn impressive as well.

The xbox version of Morrowind wasn't that graphically appealing either.
I don't know if the graphics in Any of TES games were that fantastic.

However, the games we're excellent.

The thing to watch is bugs. TES has always been buggy, until the patches.

Watership

03-02-2006, 02:41 PM

Half-Life 2 load times were pretty bad, but Valve pretty much fixed that.

They did? Ug. I played it again recently, and i gotta say, those loads still bug me.

When a console game like Halo2 had no load times at tall <constant background loading> you wonder about optimization on pcs.

Neosho

03-02-2006, 02:51 PM

I'm curious as to why you think so many will be disappointed?

As I recall, no one was really all that disappointed with Morrowind.

Well, I guess I'm somewhat disappointed overall, but that's just because there were some things that really bugged me.

Anyway, what, in your mind, are going to be the things that really kill it for people? Is there some big design flaw that you've noticed?

Personally, i'm really big on immersion...so it's going to be make it or break it on the lag issues. I've got a fairly decent computer, but if i'm dropping the graphics until they look like crap just to get a decent framerate, that's going to piss me off. Also, nothing pisses me off more than that 1.5 second "lag" on a game that i'm playing single player. I've had too many time where mid combat, i've had some file load and get me screwed or killed or whatever.

Admittedly, i'm biased because this is not my type of game. However, i think that given the level of hype this game has recieved, they better deliever an amazing product just to live up to expectations.

The half-life 2 effect all over again...the major hype for that could have killed it, if valve had done anything but make an excellent game.

I think people will be disappointed because they expect things that are totally unreasonable of the game, or expect this to be the defining game of this genre, and this game simply might not be that good.

Hype is a very, very dangerous thing.

Mason

03-02-2006, 03:05 PM

And I will. Problem is, if I end up giving it a good review, it'll be labelled above and not taken seriously. So do I give it a bad review? If I do that I'd be labeled a "hit monger."

Only thing to do is to give it an honest review, just like everything else I've reviewed here.
No kidding, I'm getting really tired of the accusations of bias on this stuff.

If someone liked Morrowind, and they later give a positive review to a game which is similar in concept to Morrowind, but better, that is not bias. That's human consistency.

The big question is, would someone like bap review Oblivion well if it came from a company other than Bethesdasoft? I really, really doubt that many "fanboys" would be pissing on Oblivion if it came from Bioware/EA/whomever, and merely lap it up because of BSoft's logo or the TES franchise.

Why is it that nowadays everyone assumes that the people with whom they disagree are unquestioning hosts to irrational and prejudicial opinions, even on matters as superficial as video games?

Mephistopheles

03-02-2006, 03:21 PM

Why is it that nowadays everyone assumes that the people with whom they disagree are unquestioning hosts to irrational and prejudicial opinions, even on matters as superficial as video games?

A quick tour of history will show that humans, a good deal of them at least, have always behaved this way. Art, music, politics, religion, pretty much anything one can have an opinion on is subject to this kind of attack. Whether it's on a dirty alleyway of a web forum or a real world war zone, it's the same close-minded stuff.

HonestIago

03-02-2006, 03:31 PM

Well, this will hopefully burn a big, big hole in my amount of spare time!!! I really hope this game will show what a pc is capable to be used for!
Let the scrolls rotate!

Kefkataran

03-02-2006, 03:34 PM

Well, this will hopefully burn a big, big hole in my amount of spare time!!! I really hope this game will show what a pc is capable to be used for!
Let the scrolls rotate!

I dig your name. A lot. But mostly because I just finished reading Othello for my Shakespeare class.

Dakar

03-02-2006, 04:41 PM

I dig your name. A lot.

Are you hitting on him?

rainbowblack

03-02-2006, 05:00 PM

GRAW, KHII and ESO

decisions decsisio....screw you KHII its next gen goodies for me

honestly i havent touched my 360 since i got tired of my launch games in december

Kefkataran

03-02-2006, 05:22 PM

Are you hitting on him?

Yes. Welcome to Evil Avatar, baby.

Atorak

03-02-2006, 05:34 PM

*awkwardly backs out of the room*

Jetherik

03-02-2006, 05:47 PM

:rolleyes:

Magnanimous Gnome

03-02-2006, 05:48 PM

Wow, this conversation suddenly got hot. :cool:

Kefkataran

03-02-2006, 05:52 PM

:rolleyes:

You know you love me.

ezra

03-02-2006, 06:14 PM

Yes. Welcome to Evil Avatar, baby.

Congratulations on making milk spurt out my nose.

I pronounce this thread lustrous.

TheHulk

03-02-2006, 07:17 PM

Getting back to the release date.... I've got two words... Woo Freakin' Hooo!

Deathbane27

03-02-2006, 07:49 PM

Anyway...

Correction on the news post title: March 20th is the shipping date, not the street date. It should be in stores a day or two afterward.

http://www.elderscrolls.com/games/oblivion_faq.htm

WHAT IS THE RELEASE DATE?
The game will be available in stores in North America and Europe the week of March 20th. Check with your local retail store to find out when they will receive their copies.

Cyotik

03-02-2006, 09:12 PM

As long as this game runs well on my PC, which it certainly should, I should be able to hold off an a 360 at least until Gears of War which is now looking like July or August. Sweet. Stupid shiny 360, making me want to buy it so bad. I've only recently reignited my love for the PC with WoW, BF2, DoD: Source and Warhammer: DoW which have kept me away from consoles for the most part for almost a year now. My heart will always lie with the PC. Or maybe that hottie Kefkataran.