Playing the role of an addict
I haven't blogged in the last four days. Or five. What's my excuse? I was busy. Busy playing Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Busy!
I don't usually like role playing games. When I was in high school, I gave Diablo a try after hearing my friends go on and on about how awesome it is. I quit in 15 minutes and never played again. And don't get me started about MMORPGs like Ragnarok Online. I just don't understand their appeal. At an overnight Christmas party a few years ago, I noticed a friend playing Ragnarok on a PC in the corner.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"Killing frogs," he said without looking up.
"Why are you killing frogs?"
"To collect bottles. Frogs drop bottles."
"Why are you collecting bottles?"
"It's a quest. If I get 500 bottles, I'll get a reward."
500 bottles? Are you freaking kidding me? That would take forever! I decided right then and there that watching paint dry is more entertaining than Ragnarok. Come to think of it, I wouldn't be surprised if there's actually a "watch paint dry" quest in that game.
The only RPG I've ever played to the finish was Quest For Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness. I gave it a chance because I loved many of the other Sierra games. Within the first few minutes, I was introduced to the five basic elements that make up all things: air, earth, fire, water, and pizza. Pizza? Heh. The old Sierra brand of quirky humor was enough to have me hooked.
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion isn't nearly as funny as Quest For Glory was, but I find it entertaining in a different way. The game is huge. Huge is good. It's also nonlinear. Nonlinear is good too. There are so many fun little side quests to do (no kill-frogs-collect-bottles snoozers) that even someone with as short an attention span as mine wouldn't get bored easily. It's almost like the GTA: San Andreas of RPGs.
I might blog a bit more about my new Oblivion addiction tomorrow. Right now, I need a fix. It's just a little past 3:30 AM, so I think I'll go play for an hour or two. Or three. Yay!
I like RPGs
You're weird.
:-P
I guess I like a different kind of RPG.
I didn't get this the first time around
Again D:
...
what do you know, you're human after all. and for awhile i was buying the fact that you were a chicken.
Why?
Can't chickens play RPGs? :-P
mwahahaha
i guess i'm wrong. pls forgive me, your highness!
The one thing I don't like about Oblivion
is that there are no chickens in the game. All RPGs should have chickens.
well, you can't get everything you want
Name one RPG that has chickens in it (as main characters).
Don't the Final Fantasy games
have giant chickens that you can ride? I know, I know, they're Chocobos. But they look like giant chickens to me.
They're not chickens!
*indignant*
If it looks like a chicken,
it must be a chicken. Right? Right.
So...
i thought you were only bluffing about playing oblivion
dark elves FTW!!
wheredja play it? Xbox 360? PS3? PC? the PS3 braggadocios smite the 360's controls. I don't think theres really much improvement that can be made
I play it
on my lousy old PC, so I don't get much of the eye candy I've been hearing about :-(
The low visual quality does bring some gameplay advantage though, heh. More on that later.
500 bottles hardly take forever
A couple drive-bys in streets of Kaunas and you'd get more than enough bottles of beer.
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Hehe
Now that's the kind of game I like to play.
RPG :D
weeee. I love Elders Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to play it, since it requires hours and hours of game time. But yeah, the side quests are good. I love it. And GTA. And Diablo as well. Not Diablo 2 though, and also not those other internet RPG games. :D
I don't have time for it either,
but I play anyway :-D That's probably the wrong thing to do though, especially with a deadline coming up in two weeks. Hmm.
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