Oblivion

After much contemplation, I eventually bought The Elder Scroll IV: Oblivion. This is due to the fact that it's predecessor Morrowwind give me motion sickness when played it over a period of time. However, that never happen during Oblivion. I guess it's because of my better than average graphic card GeForce 6600.

The experience is quite similar to Morrowwind although I felt less *lost* than in MW. As it seems to be a tradition in Elderscrolls games, you will began your journey as a prisoner before being release into the world where you can make yourself into whatever you wants to be. It is one of the more hardcore RPG game style than let's say Final Fantasy series. In ES series you can ignore the main quest and just roaming the world as you please.

The graphic in this game is phenomenal. The forest is so lush and green, add that to the Distance land feature (which allow you to see the land far away, when the weather permits) the world looks alive and more realistic than ever. You will get all that only if you have good enough graphic card, I guess mine is quite decent and that's help with the motion sickness as well.

The real strenght of this game is the free roaming in the beautiful terrains, doubling that with the vast mod community that churn out thousands of mods to date. This game will have longer play time than most games. The mods for Oblivion has already double the number of the mods for Morrowwind. And that's just only three months after Oblivion release compare to the number of mods for Morrowwind that has been release for 2 years or so already!

I enjoy visiting the ever robust Oblivion Mod forum on the official site. I must have downloaded close to 1Gb content from custom weapons, armors, quests, buildings, including graphic tweaks. One guy has made Cloud's sword from the movie Final Fantasy VII: Advent children into the game and another guy apply Dwarven texture on it. The result is one very cool looking bastard sword ever :)