Oblivion…TOO BIG
Apr. 10th, 2011 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesThe trouble with Oblivion is that it's too bloody big. Granted the world isn't infinite and there are places where you come up against the end of the map and you can't ride any further, but in order to do a lot of quests you need to find locations—and you can't fast travel (e.g. through the menu, not gallop there on the horse) to a location you haven't already visited. So there's a bloody lot of pointless galloping around in circles trying to find places – because you can't "find" them until you are actually just about on top of them.
Plus the fact I'm a bloody vampire through no fault of my own, and don't want to be (and am working on the cure) and therefore can only gallop about pointlessly at night. It look me about an hour of real time yesterday to find one stupid cave, which the game designers thought would be funny to hide beneath an overhanging cliff. Ha ha ha. Very amusing. I also need to find garlic, bloodgrass and a few other pieces of crap, and frankly the thought of careering around blindly looking for this kind of crap fills me with gloom. Yes, I can cheat and look up the best places to find them, but that shouldn't have to be the first resort. There should be in game people you can go to to FIND STUFF OUT. Most of the things you have to find out are through chatting to random NPCs or overhearing conversations which start up when you are close enough—the snag there is that they only play once,and if you aren't actually within earshot, you miss the conversation completely.
There are so many quests and subquests and sub-sub-sub-sub quests that I believe you could play this game forever and never explore all of it. But obviously some people have. I mean HAVE YOU SEEN THE OBLIVION WIKI? The people there have catalogued everything. Right down to how many of each plant grows in each area. *gobsmacked* Who has that much time? I admit that it's probably fun to find the plants you need in the wild—but frankly I'd rather there was a merchant you could buy everything off. Even at inflated prices.
