ravinhood -> RE: ELDER SCROLLS IV: OBLIVION "GOLD" (3/8/2006 7:41:40 AM)
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Once you've been introduced to open ended, it's very hard to go back to linear rpgs. Daggerfall was my first foray into real open ended rpging and I just got lost in it. I loved the long winding twisting where the hell is the exit dungeons myself. Those were REAL labyriths to me. Diablo 2 has many open ended features about it while still being linear. I musta done those tombs in chapter 2 a 100 times before moving on in the story. They to me were the most fun part of the whole game. Dungeon Siege was so linear I almost didn't finish it, but, I'm glad I did, it had one of the most exciting never seen before endings I've ever seen and played. If you ever play Guild Wars you'll get to experience this type of ending over again. I was a bit disdained with them copying Dungeon Siege ending and felt robbed of the whole experience. The thing for me is Daggerfall did something Bethsoft hasn't done since and that was the random missions/quests, I hate scripted quests/missions that don't change from character to character. And I'm afraid Oblivion isn't going to use it again. It will be just Morrowind with better graphics sadly. And only good for one time thru. NWN's is too square and blocky. I know it's nice to have all the goodies of dnd, but, the smallness of every zone just made that game feel like it too was missing something. It did break from being perfectly linear by giving you choices in most of the chapters. But, the paths of those choices were still pretty linear. I played the first Baldur's Gate and have the other two in shrink wrap still. Once again I found the game just too square and too blocky, while I did enjoy the AI interactions with one another and myself. One of the first where it actually seemed like your traveling buddies were alive though canned. The story was good and I like the twist at the end. I love a good story and one that will shock you at the end. Both Baldur's Gate and the origional Dungeon Siege have that quality. My two favorite rpgs of all time though would be Daggerfall (for it's random never ending play value really) and Ultima IV (yes, this was the king of all rpgs to me).
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