Oblivion Expansion hits Live soon!

[Phades]

According to this story at IGN (http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/771/771434p1.html) , it should be available around the end of the month for 2400 points ($29.99) on Live. Prepare to lose more of your life.

Today Bethesda announced the price and release date for the latest expansion to its epic RPG landscape, The Elder Scrolls IV: The Shivering Isles. Players can download the expansion from Xbox Live the week of March 26 for 2400 Microsoft Points ($29.99).

Also, a Shivering Isles trailer will available on Xbox Live later today, along with a new theme and pic pack.

[Norse]

Cool, I've been waiting for an excuse to spend more time with the game. The expansion looks cool and different enough from the rest of the game.

[IrishWhiskey]

I would pay the $30 for a patch that fixes the damn bugs in the game. I keep spending hours trying to get around glitches in dungeons and main quest lines and I'm getting sick of it.


All the same, I'm curious as to how many people will get this without having finished all the guild quests or other endeavors in Oblivion. Are you buying for the new areas and enemy types, or to extend what is already a monstrously epic game in length?
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[Wonka]

Last year I played two truly great RPGs. Twilight princess I finished in about 50 hours and I really loved it. In comparison Oblivion sucked away a good 120 hours of my life (so far) and there are still 2 MAJOR quest lines that are entirely unexplored. Of the two games, I also really liked Oblivion a lot more. And that's impressive to me since I spent so much more time there.

So in short, I would *almost* buy this expansion out of a feeling of pure indebtedness. That is, if Zelda is considered a high water mark for a good RPG (and I think that few would contest that statement), then these guys have delivered more than twice the goodness to me, but for about the same price thus far.

So yeah, I look forward to exploring the shivering isles.

[Vandenh]

Yeahh!!! Been waiting to dive back in... I think I am gonna start a new char. It will all feel new and fresh ;)

[EvoG]

Oh jeez. :D

I spent 120 hours or so the first run through last year, doing the thief and dark brotherhood guilds...

...now, apparently 120 hours isn't enough to do everything, I'm 15 more hours in, having finished the fighters guild and the Knights of the Nine quests with a brand new character...

...and I still have the mages guild (also with a brand new character)...

...and now Shivering Isles.

200 hours? Is that possible!? Holy crap. :D

[menage]

Great. I've been away from Tamriel for a while now (Okami does that to you), but once I finish up my adventure in Nippon I will be heading back there. Saw the trailer and it looked great.

I'm curious how the game will look after the update. The new shaders are included in this add-on right? How much does this download weigh? All these questions.

Well better get some more MS points. This months is gonna be expensive.

[RevGored]

Is this the same expansion pack that is being sold for 10 dollars less at retail for the hardcopy PC version?

:(

[NightRain]

Seems like a lot of money for an expansion. The PC expansion is cheaper here in Canada than that, with the currency conversion it is almost $40 to buy 2400 point. $38.75 before taxes for 2500 point. It should have been 2000 point tops, but 1800 would have been better. I doubt I'll be buying this now.

[mulligan]

I tried, I really tried to like Oblivion, but after the eye candy novelty wore off, I uninstall it right away, all I did was get to 1st Oblivion gate, where you had to close it down in order to find the king's son in a church, but My God was the game boring!! after killing a few goblins and having the moronic A.I knight die on me because of an imp that was up in rock (that can't be reached) and running around holding my balls wandering how the fuck you close an Oblivion gate, I wondered, WHAT DO YOU SEE IN THIS GAME? If I try to charm people, they curse me off, NPC's kept getting stuck forcing me to reset the game, the BORING ASS walking to Jeffer's tower or whatever (horse dint make things better, well other than get me killed once).

Is this a game you have to keep playing in order to enjoy it? is Morrowind experience required? Did I give up too early? :confused: :confused:

[Vandenh]

Did I give up too early?

Did you play at all? :)

First Oblivion gate is like the first 3h into the game dude.... the game just starts after that. That is the tutorial.

[TrackZero]

Cool, I've been waiting for an excuse to spend more time with the game. The expansion looks cool and different enough from the rest of the game.

Ditto, I was just thinking about playing some more the other day, and realized I've done pretty much every quest in the game world, besides plunging through dungeons for loot.

[KingGorilla]

I will be getting this later, I really do not have to time to-Grind a new character(I want to go into the realm of madness powered up...and I want to revisit the game), nor do I have to time to let Oblivion take my life over again. For a guy who is not an RPG player and hated TES...I really like Oblivion.

[Yeti2005]

$30 seems a little high until you realize it's another 20 hours in main quests and who knows how many in side quests. The environments look totally different than the original so it's not like you're looking at the same dungeons, monsters, etc. I wish it were cheaper (hell I wish everything was cheaper...gas, cars, games, etc) but I still think I'll buy it.

[Serapth]

Did you play at all? :)

First Oblivion gate is like the first 3h into the game dude.... the game just starts after that. That is the tutorial.


Ironically, I didnt touch the first Oblivion gate until about 60 hours in.

[MSUStud911]

I was hoping it'd be a bit less, but $30 isn't by any means an unfair price. Pretty typical for an expansion. I was just hoping it might be $5 or $10 cheaper due it being digital distribution only.

[KingGorilla]

Ironically, I didnt touch the first Oblivion gate until about 60 hours in.
The game is so much more satisfying if you do all the guilds first.

[Shodan2020]

Yahoooooo! This is most excellent news!!!!

[Shodan2020]

The game is so much more satisfying if you do all the guilds first.

Eh, nah, well not for me anyway. I rescued Martin first and escorted him to Cloud Ruler Castle, then did guild shit.

I also created my own class the second time around made a Nightblade with Blunt as a Major Skill instead of Blade. Called his class an Ichormace and I called him Douchewad McGee. I wreaked major havoc and didn't care about the main quest and did the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood quests with him. The Dark Brotherhood Questline was way more involving and interesting than I thought it would be! I loved it.

[Spigot]

All the same, I'm curious as to how many people will get this without having finished all the guild quests or other endeavors in Oblivion. Are you buying for the new areas and enemy types, or to extend what is already a monstrously epic game in length?.
I'll probably pick it up and I've barely played much of Oblivion. I always fire it up, spend about 3-4 days completely absorbed in it and then life intervenes and I end up forgetting about it for a while. I want to really spend time in it, but there are so many other games that I have on the go that I usually just think about Oblivion and the sheer amount of time I'd need to spend to do anything in it ends up scaring me away from playing.

That said, I'd gladly get the Shivering Isles content so that I can have the 'full' experience when I do get around to making my way through the game. I picked up that retail release of all the downloadable content (Knights of the Nine) so that I will have everything currently available.

All of this aside, when is the PC content going to be available?

[Shodan2020]

I would pay the $30 for a patch that fixes the damn bugs in the game. I keep spending hours trying to get around glitches in dungeons and main quest lines and I'm getting sick of it.

All the same, I'm curious as to how many people will get this without having finished all the guild quests or other endeavors in Oblivion. Are you buying for the new areas and enemy types, or to extend what is already a monstrously epic game in length?
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I finished every single guild quest in the first one. I still need to buy Knights of the Nine and some of the other mods. I'm buying for both, some of the new enemies and areas look really gorgeous! Besides that, I'm an Elder Scrolls nut. I own all of the TES games. I played around the glitches.. I didn't encounter many, EXCEPT for this really annoying voice bug where my 360 would think the game was unreadable. It only happened with certain voices and I could tell when it was going go crap out on me and save my position. Very annoying, but I'm too much of a fan to let that stop me from enjoying an otherwise awesome experience. :)

[Mortis]

Is this the same expansion pack that is being sold for 10 dollars less at retail for the hardcopy PC version?

:(

No, this one is being sold for $29.99 on PC also. You may be able to find deals somewhere though.

[KingGorilla]

Yeah this is a full expansion, not the retail version of all the little DLC that was released, and the retail version that not a goddamn person bought. If you wanted any of that, you downloaded it.

[Huricos]

So wait, I bought a 2100 Microsoft points card a while ago just for this expansion and now I'm still 300 points short?!

Bugger.

[DaedalusFolly]

Are there any rumors, or educated guesses, on if/when a 'GOY' version or some such will be released for the 360 that includes some of the added content? I borrowed a friends and got way into it, but now have to buy my own. I'd be willing to wait a little while to pick it up if this is the case.

[MacD]

Yeah, the Brotherhood quests were the best in the game. I really hope the guy who did them had a major part in developing the Shivering Isles quests.

Also, I wonder what performance impact that new shader has...I got a top of the line 6800 for Oblivion and it plays smooth as butter now (with all kinds of community texture/shader upgrades and other beauty mods [not to mention gameplay mods :P]). I hope it still will after installing SI.

[KingGorilla]

Brotherhood And Thieves guild are the best parts of the game.

[Dr.Finger]

$30 is a bit steep, but not absurdly so. Still, I was planning to buy a bunch of the DLC when this drops, so it'll likely run me more like $40 when its all said and done.

[SPBTooL]

You should never have to buy more than one card for anything on live. even an offered full game.

[Hlektana Dbonsky]

Does the expansion fix all the crappy enemy level scaling?

[ElektroDragon]

Wow, $30 is way WAY too expensive for a digital only expansion pack. Bethesda are really full of themselves. I was going to get this but now I'm having second thoughts. I mean Christ, that's as much as the boxed price of Tetris Evolution and that will have 1000 achievement points, not 250. If MS hadn't changed the point rules for add ons, there is NO WAY Bethesda would have tried sellling this for $30. What a rip off. It's not half the size of the game, it's not 500 extra points. OVERPRICED ALERT!!!

[Vandenh]

Does the expansion fix all the crappy enemy level scaling?

In your case it might fix your crappy brain.

[KingGorilla]

Does the expansion fix all the crappy enemy level scaling?
For all the foibles of that system...it makes a lot of sense when you think of this expansion. It is required for an open world that the entire land(rather than level by level) scales.

[Knite]

so anyone have info if the shader is actually included?

[GigaFuzz]

Hmm, I don't know whether to go for the 360 or PC for this. I've got the 360 version of Oblivion (my PC wasn't good enough at the time), and still have the Mages guild to finish, and the Thieves and Dark brotherhood guilds to do.

I'm thinking of getting the PC version (got a new shiny new PC since), along with this expansion and some of the DLC.

[KingGorilla]

so anyone have info if the shader is actually included?
Ooooo, that is a good question.

[Shodan2020]

Wow, $30 is way WAY too expensive for a digital only expansion pack. Bethesda are really full of themselves. I was going to get this but now I'm having second thoughts. I mean Christ, that's as much as the boxed price of Tetris Evolution and that will have 1000 achievement points, not 250. If MS hadn't changed the point rules for add ons, there is NO WAY Bethesda would have tried sellling this for $30. What a rip off. It's not half the size of the game, it's not 500 extra points. OVERPRICED ALERT!!!

I don't think it's digital only, the article says that you CAN download it on Live. I would imagine that they would release it like "Knights of the Nine" both as a download and on hard media. There is nothing about it being a Live ONLY download or anything like that. They are also releasing it for PC in a box. The digital release is for the convienence of those who would like to purchase it on Live and download it. If you want it you're gonna pay $30 either way, unless you find it on sale or something.

Calm down, dude.

[Spigot]

Yeah this is a full expansion, not the retail version of all the little DLC that was released, and the retail version that not a goddamn person bought. If you wanted any of that, you downloaded it.Hey! I'm the one person who bought the retail version since it worked out to being cheaper than getting them all individually, plus I fear and distrust the internet :)

[Flatpicker]

I'm in.
It's too bad you can't prepurchase titles for DL om live yet.
i'd love to have it DL while I was out then it'd be all set for an all nighter.

[Phades]

Wow, $30 is way WAY too expensive for a digital only expansion pack. Bethesda are really full of themselves. I was going to get this but now I'm having second thoughts. I mean Christ, that's as much as the boxed price of Tetris Evolution and that will have 1000 achievement points, not 250. If MS hadn't changed the point rules for add ons, there is NO WAY Bethesda would have tried sellling this for $30. What a rip off. It's not half the size of the game, it's not 500 extra points. OVERPRICED ALERT!!!

I'm with you! Achievement points are the true indicators of a game's value. All games for the PC and every console every made have zero value because they give you zero points. :rolleyes:

[KingGorilla]

Hey! I'm the one person who bought the retail version since it worked out to being cheaper than getting them all individually, plus I fear and distrust the internet :)
Then thank dumbasses like me who downloaded that shit day 1. AND YES, I bought horse armor.

[EL CABONG]

Oh jeez. :D

I spent 120 hours or so the first run through last year, doing the thief and dark brotherhood guilds...

...now, apparently 120 hours isn't enough to do everything, I'm 15 more hours in, having finished the fighters guild and the Knights of the Nine quests with a brand new character...

...and I still have the mages guild (also with a brand new character)...

...and now Shivering Isles.

200 hours? Is that possible!? Holy crap. :D
Very Possible I am close to 200hrs with only one character. Looking forward to SI.

[MacD]

BTW: 30 bucks is pretty normal priced for a real expansion pack. The only ones I recall being cheaper were the secret mission packs for Wing Commander, at 20 bucks a pop.

[Disgustipated]

I would pay the $30 for a patch that fixes the damn bugs in the game. I keep spending hours trying to get around glitches in dungeons and main quest lines and I'm getting sick of it.
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If you've got the PC version, there's an awesome unofficial patch.

[tacitus]

Hmm, I don't know whether to go for the 360 or PC for this. I've got the 360 version of Oblivion (my PC wasn't good enough at the time), and still have the Mages guild to finish, and the Thieves and Dark brotherhood guilds to do.

I'm thinking of getting the PC version (got a new shiny new PC since), along with this expansion and some of the DLC.
I would advise you to get the PC version - not only is there the Unofficial Oblivion Patch, but there are also some great game changing mods - like Martigens Monsters Mod, Francesco's, or Obscuro's Oblivion Overhaul. All of which add a significant amount of variety over vanilla oblivion. The only one I have experience is MMM and it rocks; but there are fans of all of them.

[Spigot]

PC version is great just for the fact that you can mod it to be a proper Elder Scrolls game and tweak the hell out of it.

[Evil Avnovice]

Release it whenever. Kinghts of the Nine was finished long ago, and I'm looking forward to Shivering Isles.

Price is kinda steep though....http://mazeguy.net/expressive/expressionless.gif