Alan Thicke
Alan Thicke, brutal orc warrior turned brutal orc crusader, is now making his way from the hamlet of Chorrol to the far away town of Anvil. Fearing no creature, he makes his way across the wilderness in search of dungeons and caves and their treasure hoards.
This game is incredible. People in the towns talk to each other in passing, people move about from place to place and tracking someone down can be a pain, as in real life in a world without cellphones. The phyics take over when you kill something and once I was fighting a flying imp in a cavern tunnel and when I dealt the killing blow, the force of it threw the imp into the tunnel wall and it's body bounced off and landed on the opposite side. I'm convinced that if I take a skull out of one of the dungeons I can play golf with it with my trusty mace.
I'm only level 2. I've only been to that one tiny town. I've found a house that I can buy and a place to buy a horse. This is going to epic.
March 28th, 2006 - 06:50
Alan Thicke is the best name for a character EVAR. That is so damn funny.
The game sounds totally awesome, and I might consider playing it if I didn’t dislike the first one so much.
March 28th, 2006 - 08:33
Oblivion is much more newbie friendly than Morrowind ever was. All your quests are sorted and marked on your map and your compass, towns and dungeons and notable places are marked on the map and compass, and the combat is more fun, instead of just standing there smashing the attack button, you can block and dodge and when you swing, if the bad guy is there, it’s going to hit. Skill levels just increase your damage. Some people think Oblivion suffers from consolitis (since it was simultaneously developed for Xbox360) but they said that about Morrowind too at the time and it’s a ton of crap. Some people can’t distinguish a steamlined interface from consolitis.