Review Oblivion loved by Strategy Informer

[obediah]

random oblivion comment

my wife was watching me play, and she was impressed that the columbines were accurate, but the peony was dead wrong, and that I couldn't pick the hydrangeas.

 

[EvoG]

my wife was watching me play, and she was impressed that the columbines were accurate, but the peony was dead wrong, and that I couldn't pick the hydrangeas.

:shock:

 

[obediah]

we looked at all the herbs I could find in the game, and most of them were pretty close. The peony flower was actually right, the game just had one flower on a long stalk, while all my wife (and google) knew about were bushes.

If nothing else, it shows that there is a lot of love in this game. All the zenimax bottom line and sellout to the x-boxers in mind, it's obvious that an order of magnitude more effort was put into this game than your usual $50/$60 game.

It also goes to why it may be impossible to do a good review of oblivion. There is a lot wrong with the game, and most of the meta-game crao is bad. Yet, the game is big, and continues to surprise me 30 hours in.

The crux is if game A has X content and gets 85% of it right, and game B has 10X content but only gets 50% of it right, how do you compare the two?

EDIT: spelling and what-not

 

[Twinfalls]

Peonies really are beautiful flowers, which (to me anyway) are at their best just before they open up. White with the flecks of red are my favourite. Like all true beauty, they're unshowy, but stunning after a closer look, with a certain regally antiquarian quality.

 

[EvoG]

Peonies really are beautiful flowers, which (to me anyway) are at their best just before they open up. White with the flecks of red are my favourite. Like all true beauty, they're unshowy, but stunning after a closer look, with a certain regally antiquarian quality.

:shock: :shock: :!:

 

[Twinfalls]

Hard to find a photo that does justice to them. This one's the best I could find quickly, yet you can't appreciate just how lavishly soft and fluffy the petals are - I can't think of another flower that is better in this regard. This one, a day or two earlier when it was less open, would have been at that point I talked of before. You need to see it more side-on, it has this perfect assymetry of shape. There's a pure voluptousness contained by a regal, somewhat austere dignity and grace. The tension between the two is sublime.

Then when it opens up, you lose that regal, restrained thingy, but you get these fabulously generous clouds of softness, you could just dive into.

 

[Micmu]

 

[sheek]

What a fugly plant...

 

[Oarfish]

Favourite plants thread

Now that one is magic.

 

[Twinfalls]

Tell us what you've seen with it, Oarfish....

 

[Oarfish]

Tell us what you've seen with it, Oarfish....

Nasty hippie things that don't sit well with my evil capitalist ego I grow craploads of the stuff, don't take it all that often though - it's rather strong.