AHA! beat ya'll to the punch!... finally, a new game to play.

 

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/693/693106p1.html

 

taks

Awesome

Woo-hoo! Good work.

 

"Our most ambitious project ever is finally done," said Todd Howard, executive producer of Oblivion. "We're excited to get the game into everyone's hands and let them experience it for themselves. We hope they enjoy it. I think it's our best game yet."

 

...Oblivion is an epic, open-ended single-player RPG for the next generation providing gamers with one of the most life-like gaming experiences to date. The powerful combination of unprecedented graphics and freeform gameplay allows gamers to unravel the main quest or explore the vast world at their own pace....

 

That mightbe good. But it might mean more polygon soup eating ...

neat

... Polygon soup?

Recommended specs: 3 GHZ, 1024 MB RAM, Geforce 6800.. Ouch.

I'm looking forward to playing this.

 

I'm a little worried about the system requirements, so I hope they've put a lot of effort into making it stable and fun on less spectacular systems.

Minimum System Requirements:

 

* Windows XP

* 512MB System RAM

* 2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor

* 128MB Direct3D compatible video card and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver;

* 8x DVD-ROM drive

* 4.6 GB free hard disk space

* DirectX 9.0c (included)

* DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card

* Keyboard, Mouse

 

Supported Video Card Chipsets:

 

* ATI X1800 series

* ATI X1300 series

* ATI X850 series

* ATI x800 series

* ATI x700 series

* ATI x600 series

* ATI Radeon 9800 series

* ATI Radeon 9700 series

* ATI Radeon 9600 series

* ATI Radeon 9500 series

* ATI Radeon 9000 series

* NVIDIA Geforce 7800 series

* NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series

* NVIDIA GeForce FX series

It comes out 1 day before my birthday...interesting.

[lie] Great news! I can't wait.

 

2 dark side points go to Karka!

Edited March 2, 200619 yr by karka

Not to mention a shift to Chaos.

Stolidly inane, I wonder how Bethesda will once more ingeniously violate my frivolous understanding, a couple of assuredly shallow words come to mind, "fun", "intelligent", "role-playing".

 

Long live the new flesh!

 

I'm a masochist : (

 

 

I mean awesome.

Edited March 2, 200619 yr by Baley

Emergent Artificial Idiocy ...

Oblivion is like totally going to reinvent the genre, no more of that messy reading!

 

Woohoo

 

Now, I remember why I *hate* games. : (

Well, if it's less of an idiot than most idiots, that's a good thing right?

Looks like the Gameplay date was right.

Recommended:

 

-3 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor

-1 GB System RAM

-ATI X800 series, Nvidia GeForce 6800 series, or higher video card

 

As we all know recommended = minimum. They're pretty reasonable requirements considering it's a top of the range game.

Recommended only = minimum if you are not very flexible with your performance settings IMO.

If they go the way of Morrowind, Oblivion will run like death on the recommended system.

Who said I was talking about Oblivion ... "

If they go the way of Morrowind, Oblivion will run like death on the recommended system.

 

Morrowind's engine was certainly NOT optimalised for the PC. I think they learned their lesson though and act like Rockstar.

 

(Note the difference in performance/issues between the PC versions of GTA)

I did raise an eyebrow at the 500 MHz minimum requirement for Morrowind.

 

 

The minimum requirements seem just so much higher now (relatively speaking). I think they were a bit more conservative. Morrowind officially supported slow-ass cards from years before.

I tried to play Morrowind with an Athlon 800 Mhz + 128 mb ram + 32 mb tnt machine when it was out.

 

It was just unplayable with full detail.

Edited March 2, 200619 yr by karka

Hahaha, 32 MB TNT for the win!

 

I don't remember what video card I had at the time. I either had the Rage Fury or the original Radeon...I'm 99% sure the latter. I also had an Athlon 1 GHz T-Bird, which really helped.

 

I'm pretty sure I had the Radeon, because I could play the game really nice, but I didn't have the pixel shader support....later I got a card that had it and the water was truly unbelievable.

I played it with an nVidia Go (something) ...