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DigitalChaos
DigitalChaos
Read this amazing preview of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Wow! I mean, WOW!!! The AI they're talking about is AWESOME! Voice acting for every line in the game?!?!?! BIGGER than Morrowind?!?!?! Look at the faces! They're saying real time facial expressions?! Now, let me show you these screenshots: Like I said, excuse me while I change my shorts. This is a true Holy Shit moment.
DigitalChaos
DigitalChaos
in game shots. the last issue of game informer had in game shots that looked this good 0_o It HAS to be in game shots.
fractoid
fractoid
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Woah! Me want game!
...and is that Sauron in the last one?
Orbviper
Orbviper
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*INSERT STUFF THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF HERE*


Holy guacamole!!!
fractoid
fractoid
Mmmm... guacamole. The stuff dreams are made of. [grin]

One thing I don't get - the article says "Players who just watch the NPCs going about their daily lives will often witness townsfolk in unscripted dynamic conversations gossiping about what's going on in the kingdom and what rumors and news is currently hot." How does that reconcile with 'Voice acting for every line in the game'? Unless they either have live voice acting, or some kind of speech synthesis... *boggles*
Myopic Rhino
Myopic Rhino
Wow! I'm really looking forward to spending dozens of hours running around on pointless quests for useless items in such a breathtaking world. (Note: believe it or not, there is no sarcasm intended in the previous sentence.)
Oluseyi
Oluseyi
LOL.

I'm unimpressed. The last game that I heard that same laundry list of features (especially real-time facial expression) was SCEE Team SoHo's The Getaway, and we all know how that turned out...
owl
owl
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Mmmm... guacamole. The stuff dreams are made of. [grin]

One thing I don't get - the article says "Players who just watch the NPCs going about their daily lives will often witness townsfolk in unscripted dynamic conversations gossiping about what's going on in the kingdom and what rumors and news is currently hot." How does that reconcile with 'Voice acting for every line in the game'? Unless they either have live voice acting, or some kind of speech synthesis... *boggles*


Maybe the NPCs can only say a specific collection of (pre-recorded) words and they mix them up to say something related to some context.

Or maybe we are misunderstanding what they meant. Or maybe they wanted us to misundertand it. Or they are lying.
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Oluseyi
Oluseyi
Somehow, a link to this thread seems so appropriate...
Ainokea
Ainokea
Your so cynical Oluseyi.
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Oluseyi
Oluseyi
No, I just have a good BS detector.




Okay, I'm cynical. I still call "BS!"
DigitalChaos
DigitalChaos
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No, I just have a good BS detector.




Okay, I'm cynical. I still call "BS!"


Your BS detector is WRONG DAMMIT!

What exactly are you calling BS about this game?
benjamin bunny
benjamin bunny
It would be nice if they could work on the gameplay a bit. I mean Morrowind is basically the same as the original Elder Scrolls: Arena (made in about '93) or Daggerfall if you ignore the pretty graphics. I expect more of the same.

Still, the graphics do look great. I wonder if those bricks are individually modelled, or if they're using something like parallax bump mapping to get the effect.
oliii
oliii
nice looking! On a £3,000 monster of a machine, that is. The last pic is obviously Photoshopped (the Dude of Fire looks fake). The bloom effect is a bit strong in the first picture. bump mapping galore. Looks very next-gen, pushing the enveloppe further, which is a good thing.
Everything is better with Metal.
oliii
oliii
bump
Everything is better with Metal.
sicu
sicu


Doesnt that look suspiciously alike some screenshot YannL posted before? Is he involved? :o
smart_idiot
smart_idiot
I don't see any real time shadows. I'm very dissapointed.
Chess is played by three people. Two people play the game; the third provides moral support for the pawns. The object of the game is to kill your opponent by flinging captured pieces at his head. Since the only piece that can be killed is a pawn, the two armies agree to meet in a pawn-infested area (or even a pawn shop) and kill as many pawns as possible in the crossfire. If the game goes on for an hour, one player may legally attempt to gouge out the other
null_pointer
null_pointer
The bugs have increased 2³ fold, so this time instead of shipping a game world editor to fix up your saves, they're going to open source the code and ship it with a free learning compiler.

And if you look closely at those screenshots, you can see the Microsoft logo kind of watermarked on some of the textures as a new form of subliminable advertising.

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