Microsoft says truth

[Kamaz]

No matter what Bethesda implies, it appears, Microsoft knows better and recognizes the genre of the game even if devs try to hide it.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/t/theelderscrollsIVoblivion/?MSID=f3a57d2fe1984e0aaa7bdb8684fa6a83

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Developer: Bethesda Softworks

Publisher: 2K Games

Genre: Action

Release Date: TBD

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Quickly TES fans, to the Microsoft forums!

 

[Ghost At The Feast]

lol, it doesn't matter because anything associated with the word "Microsoft" automatically looses all credibility. Including xbox owners.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Bwahahahaha! Take that MSFD!

 

[Ghost At The Feast]

On the UK site it lists it as being an RPG.

 

[MarkQuinn]

WOW Kamaz, what an excellent find. You really put the nails in the coffin of every TES fan out there. This proof that Oblivion is an "action title" is about as strong as the "face" on Mars proving people once lived there. Bravo. Score another one for the hive mind.

MQ

 

[Drakron]

Well it seens Microsoft knows what a RPG is ... guess all that money they thrown for japanese studios support payed off.

 

[Chefe]

On the UK site it lists it as being an RPG.

English people are stupid. Who are you going to trust, a drunken Englishman with bad teeth or the company that fucking owns the console? Oblivion is an action game, deal with it fuckwit.

 

[Mefi]

I'll take the drunken Englishman with bad teeth because at least he's figured out that Dark Alliance 1 and 2 are essentially the same game and so belong in the same category...

US Xbox site. For retards by retards.

 

[SlavemasterT]

This proof that Oblivion is an "action title" is about as strong as the "face" on Mars proving people once lived there. Bravo. Score another one for the hive mind.

MQ

"People" didn't live there, idiot, Ethereals did. Until my crack squad of X-COM soldiers wiped them out (again) about a week ago.

 

[Chefe]

I'll take the drunken Englishman with bad teeth because at least he's figured out that Dark Alliance 1 and 2 are essentially the same game and so belong in the same category...

US Xbox site. For retards by retards.

Man, I wish I was black.

 

[LlamaGod]

WOW Kamaz, what an excellent find. You really put the nails in the coffin of every TES fan out there. This proof that Oblivion is an "action title" is about as strong as the "face" on Mars proving people once lived there. Bravo. Score another one for the hive mind.

MQ

wouldn't you be technically part of the Bethesda Hivemind?

 

[Kuato]

Microsoft has big name japanese mercenary developers making "rpgs" for the xbox360
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/599/599191p1.html

 

[Sycandre]

I think labelling Oblivion as an action title, both emphazise that the game has enought action content to be labelled so, and that the gamers Microsoft/Bethyare trying to attract is the action gamers crowd.

When the new TES fan base (just look the weight of MW fans have on the official forum compared to previous TES ones) will have completely turned from RP gamers to action/adventure ones, the next TES will probably even be a step forward in the action (dark messiah of TES?)... and they'll even be able to say that it is to legitimaly satisfy their fan base.

On the official forums, RPGamers will be regarded as complete nerds, weirdos, and you'll see people defining TES by long sword combos, gravity traps and fireball throwing magic staves...

If I got to choose a medfan FPS with marginal RPG elements, I'll probably choose dark messiah (because it's developed by fellow frenchies!), or the Witcher, because esthetically it crushes Oblivion.

So it may be a Microsoft "mistake", but the result on the game market will have reall consequences on the serie future.

 

[Chefe]

Good fucking God, that woman in your avatar is hideous.

 

[Micmu]

Good fucking God, that woman in your avatar is hideous.

Must be the FaceGen. :shock:

 

[kingcomrade]

Woman? I thought it was a transvestite.

 

[Sycandre]

Good fucking God, that woman in your avatar is hideous.

I took it in the codex avatars library. I choosed it because it was exactly the one I picked up for my first and main avatar in Ultima Underworld, the first CRPG I played.

So it may look like a tranny, but i'll keep it anyway!