If we're going by popularity all over thre world (like your arguement about thats why soccer is the best sport) than RPGs are the most popular and therefore the best games in the world.

"Sure they are"

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Oblivion boasts a new artificial intelligence system, fully developed in house by Bethesda, codenamed 'Radiant AI'. It is a major source of excitement for many of the fans of the series as it aims to counter what was believed to be one of the major flaws of the previous installment (The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind): the lack of 'life' of the NPCs in the game. Radiant AI gives every NPC a set of 'needs' (such as hunger) that they will need to fulfill, thus creating a more lifelike world.

Radiant AI works by giving NPCs a list of goals. Nothing else is scripted. They must decide how to achieve these goals by themselves based on their individual statistics. A hungry NPC might compare his current gold against his moral values to decide whether he will walk to a store and purchase food, or just steal it; a skilled archer can choose to hunt his own deer.

This has required massive testing, but has even greater long-term flexibility for future NPC AI as well as testing with PAC AI for further developments.

The following are examples of unexpected behavior discovered during early testing:

1. One character was given a rake and the goal "rake leaves"; another was given a broom and the goal "sweep paths," and this worked smoothly. Then they swapped the items, so that the raker was given a broom and the sweeper was given the rake. In the end, one of them killed the other so he could get the proper item.
2. Another test had an on-duty NPC guard become hungry. The guard went into the forest to hunt for food. The other guards also left to arrest the truant guard, leaving the town unprotected. The villager NPCs then looted all of the shops, due to the lack of law enforcement.
3. In another test a minotaur was given a task of protecting a unicorn (there is only one unicorn in the game). However, the minotaur repeatedly tried to kill the unicorn because he was set to be an aggressive creature.
4. In one Dark Brotherhood quest, the player can meet up with a shady merchant who sells skooma, an in-game drug. During testing, the NPC would be dead when the player got to him. The reason was that NPCs from the local skooma den were trying to get their fix, didn't have any money, and so were killing the merchant to get it.
5. While testing to confirm that the physics models for a magical item known as the "Skull of Corruption," which creates an evil copy of the character/monster it is used on, were working properly, a tester dropped the item on the ground. An NPC immediately picked it up and used it on the player character, creating a copy of him that proceeded to kill every NPC in sight.

Bethesda has been hard at work to fix these issues, balancing an NPC's needs against his penchant for destruction so that the game world still functions in a usable fashion.
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That should be pretty damn funny to watch, amazing stuff.
I've seen in one of the videos this woman getting annoyed with her dog that kept waking her up so she firstly froze it with a spell, it eventually woke up and so she hurled some kind of fireball at it hah.
This is just my kind of game, I love jus having open ended world where I can just do whatever I want. Mines pre-ordered, hope it runs alright on my 9800 pro 128mb, I realise it'll stutter sometimes but the rest of my setup is the recommended quote, heres hoping.
rock:

[quote=geRV]"Sure they are"[/quote:49e64]

Indeed they are.

Had to drag this topic back again, muahahaa.

PC Gamer gave Oblivion 93%

small sample:

"Some people will say they don't have time for a game this huge and immersive, but Oblivion players will just laugh. You think we had time? Once you start, everything else just loses importance. Suddenly you've called in sick, your girl- or boyfriend has given up on you, and all you have is sweet, blissful Oblivion."

I have scans of the review, pm me if you want them.......jeez how sad did that just sound?

dance:

[quote="TGB!":3915a]The DAY 5 video has just been posted -

If ever there was a doubt that this game was going to be ridiculous fun - that pretty much blew it out the water.[/quote:3915a]

Link eek:

happy:

meh, this game is totally overhyped.

cool: cool: cool: rock:

You rule stammer :P

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cool: cool: cool: rock:

You rule stammer :P[/quote:1596a]

And you suck. Case closed, move on.

fuck me up the ass tystnad.

Tystnad, like 99% of the swedish population has a small penis and a low sperm count.

fuck it then. small penises are a personal turn off...which makes me wonder what i find attractive in you, elstatec...

my thread has been hijacked by a convo regarding the swedish male's penis size

nag:

I'm expecting it to be avaliable tomorrow at the earliest for me. More likley wednesday. I'm going to call EB later today and ask if they know when it's coming in.

i actually have masturbated to the sex scene in titanic i think when i was in like 8th grade cuz there were titties and i couldnt get on the internetz that day

Hopefully this game [url=http://youtube.com/watch?v=8NYxClWESMw:91e51]will beat living like this.....[/url:91e51]

..theres hope for the geek in all of us freak:

some nice scores coming in for it :)

PC Gamer: 95% [U.S]
PC Gamer: 93% [UK]
OXM (USA): 9.5



PS, to whoever gets the game, what are your pc specs?

p4 3.0ghz, 1g ram, radeon 9800 pro 128mb.
I know mine won't run it smoothly but i'll give it a go.. spank:

[quote="mr.miyagi":7d077]what are your pc specs?

p4 3.0ghz, 1g ram, radeon 9800 pro 128mb.
I know mine won't run it smoothly but i'll give it a go.. spank:[/quote:7d077]


My specs arent the best either.

AMD Barton 3000+, 1 Gb RAM, Radeon x700 Pro 256 Mb.

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My specs arent the best either.

AMD Barton 3000+, 1 Gb RAM, Radeon x700 Pro 256 Mb.[/quote:980f0]
I'm hanging out for MorrowCunt : The Wanking.

AMD Athalon 64 3500+ @2.2ghz
2 gigs Kingston HyperX
256mb Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro

I'm hoping it will run well beacuse bf2 ran like shit on my machine for some reason.

EB said they'd have it today so here's hoping.

anyone here got it yet, its out in the U.S, prolly Canada but us Euros will have to wait a few more days...

http://www.srtest.com/referrer/srtest
use this if you want to know if it'll run on your system, obviously choose 'The Elder...' and press test.. nag:

Your system will run it fine ninty as will tystnads, its very scalable apparently

I called EB again and they said within the next hour and a half, so hopefully i'll have it for this afternoon. I'll post some screens if I do indeed get it today.

EB Employee in Alberta : "FFS!"

yeah probably, lol...they said 12:30 and it's 12:25...those bastards...they have 5 minutes to call me

I actually just checked the futureshop website and it says they haev it in stock at the store closest to me. Danmit eb, I already paid for the friggin thing from you. Oh well, it's just a game, but I would like to play it today since i'll have no time tomorrow or the nex few days to play it.

Torrent download FTW...

I still have to finish CALL OF CTHULHU (great game, try it) and ANKH (if you like Lucasarts style games, try it), but I want to get into it as soon as possible.

ja, once a decent torrent was released anyway. GG stupid people that don't test their releases.

[quote="dr nein":64681]ja, once a decent torrent was released anyway. GG stupid people that don't test their releases.[/quote:64681]

Takes all of 3 minutes to get that release working. But if I was dling the torrent I'd be brassed off too. . .

/blesses GIGANEWS subscription. . .

I got the game. it's really good so far. even been through the gates to oblivion in kvatch. took me about an hour to create my character since there are so many bloody sliders to customize him.

LOL, really ? Wow. Character customizati0wn3d! biggrin:

Sounds good to me. Morrowind's character options seemed a bit lacking.

[quote="dr nein":28f18]Sounds good to me. Morrowind's character options seemed a bit lacking.[/quote:28f18]

beer:

You could, realistically, spend hours in the character creation section. Facially ( eek: ) - its deeper than other Create-A-Character games (SMACKDOWN! comes to mind). . .

Youll see words that you've never seen before (the fuck is a sellion) in the menu. Great overall system.

Oh - and the game fucking rocks. I played for 6 hours yesterday, and spent 4 of it in the Imperial City - so many houses. . .so much loot. Definitely a place for my negro blade wielding thief.

The only problem with the game is that if you dont have a SUPER HIGH system - default settings are going to look like shit and you will need to tweak them.

[quote="TGB!":dbc5a][quote="dr nein":dbc5a]Sounds good to me. Morrowind's character options seemed a bit lacking.[/quote:dbc5a]

beer:

You could, realistically, spend hours in the character creation section. Facially ( eek: ) - its deeper than other Create-A-Character games (SMACKDOWN! comes to mind). . .

Youll see words that you've never seen before (the fuck is a sellion) in the menu. Great overall system.

Oh - and the game fucking rocks. I played for 6 hours yesterday, and spent 4 of it in the Imperial City - so many houses. . .so much loot. Definitely a place for my negro blade wielding thief.

The only problem with the game is that if you dont have a SUPER HIGH system - default settings are going to look like shit and you will need to tweak them.[/quote:dbc5a]
happy:

What system do you have? is 2gb of ram a pretty important upgrade or will my 1gb be enough....
rest of mine is: p4 3.0, 9800 pro 128mb, think i'll need a vid card upgrade?

[quote="TGB!":5c080] Right now Im thinking about just killing one of the shop propieters that has goods I want, and simply paying the fine - or going to jail.[/quote:5c080]

Figures rolleyes: , way to become just another statisic annoy:






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This is on my default settings that the game gave me. I don't know how many FPS i'm running so if anyone knows how to enable that I would appreciate it. I would then increase the level of detail cause as it is now it runs pretty smoothly. it's only 1024X768. My rig can handle a little more I think.

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