So...I recently looked at the instruction manual (it was the first time I've done so) for Oblivion. I found a drag command. This means you can move stuff without picking it up and keeping it in your inventory. Several immobile environmental elements are also movable now also. So...the wheels in my head started turning. After I got done admiring the light bulb that came on, I quickly grabbed my axe and introduced it to the town guard. Now...after you commit any kind of felony, the closest guard will run at you like a madman and tell you that you've broken the law. You have three options:
Go to Jail. (Viciousness of the crime is your time)
Resist Arrest. (When you feel the need to tell the guards that they need to be felt more than heard)
Pay Gold. (You pansy, take it like a man)
Looking in my wallet, I noticed that it has just enough in it to clear my assault fines. So, being the reasonable individual that I am, and realizing that my clumsy axe swings must be reprimanded, I quickly responded "Resist Arrest" and didn't miss his head this time. Every citizen in town decided it was in their best interest to stop me...can't disagree with them there. All the guards swarmed like starving wolves to a steak dinner, but I was feelin' lucky. 30 minutes, 15 guards, 10 citizens, and 3 broken weapons later (is it bad that you kill a guard just to get his sword?) the massacre was over. My restoration magics certainly got a workout afterwards. Feeling the need to repair my items, I realized I'd killed the weapons/armor dealer in my fit. Ah well, shouldn't stop what I had planned.
Seeing that I had plenty of materials now, I slowly took a sturdy looking guard and placed him in the middle of town. I followed suit with 3 others until I had a good base. I never had Linkin' Logs as a child...perhaps that's for the best. I proceeded with several layers of of my corpse tower until it was a decent height and then got into position. I decided to make this character very aggressively built, so he has good weapon skills and destruction magics. I selected a wide splash damage fireball and took aim. I tell you, bodies went EVERYWHERE. I can only imagine what was going through the neighbors' minds. Now, there are some pretty good videos on YouTube of other people's similar activities, but it is so much more fun to do it yourself. Anyways, for my entertainment, my bounty was raised to 40,250 moneys. Ouch. You don't wanna know what my infamity was.
Moral of the story: video games aren't killing children's creativity...just giving it a convenient outlet. Now, I've got to get back to gathering money and sneaking around town to pay off my crimes, sigh...
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
TES IV: Oblivion
Alright, I've been a little bad on what games I've been playing lately. I was craving some boring repetitive fighting and trading, so I've been playing Freelancer for the past month. Solid RPG in space kinda deal with flying a ship around till you're bored of it (when you stop playing, then you truly beat the game). Then I rented Battalion Wars 2 for the Wii...because I hadn't played the Wii since I participated in the "Check Mii Out Channel." Solid game, but it's very short, and I beat it in the time I had it rented, so it's not really worth buying.
Wishing to play something like Freelancer again, with all the freedom to choose whether you want to be good, evil, indifferent, or just plain weird, I thought about The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I haven't played the game in months, so it's lost the boredom factor that it had after I had completed every quest on 3 different characters (maybe I should buy the official plug-ins). To get you acquainted with the kind of game it is...try to imagine yourself in medieval times. What's the first thing you would do? Odds and a half are...you can do it in the game. If you wanna use magic to send everyone in town into a mad frenzy, there's a spell for that. Wanna bash some skeleton heads? There's a war hammer with your name on it! Want to become a vampire and suck the blood of innocents? Not a problem! Have the erge to stack the corpses of the town guards in a nice pile in front of your mansion? Go for it! Want to become the god king of your own reality? It's actually in the expansion pack, Shivering Isles (I ain't jokin'). Want to string the bodies of live sacrifices to you in the windows of your sanctuary of murder? There's a Vizine for that!
You have near absolute freedom in the game and can kill just about anyone no matter now powerful or influential they are (with exception of main quest characters). Just be prepared to reap the fruits of your actions. You can also go through just about the entire game without killing anyone at all, if you're more of a sneaky sort. And if you don't want to even pick up a single weapon in the game, don't: there's magic that makes people run in fright of you. You can just go treasure hunting if you don't want to raid bandit camps and undead forts. I have never played a computer game quite like this before, and so far it hasn't been duplicated too well either. The only downfall: it's single player. This would be the greatest game ever created (until TES V anyways) if there was some kind of multi-player. Even over a LAN system (MMORPG would be just too crowded and annoying) would be great. Ah, well, maybe next time. If you want some RPG ownage, hook yourself up with this game. It's also out for Xbox 360 and PS3 with purchasable plug-ins that add quests, items, and locations (of course not for Wii), so this increases the availability and reduced the need to nice computers to run them.
Rating: A+
Wishing to play something like Freelancer again, with all the freedom to choose whether you want to be good, evil, indifferent, or just plain weird, I thought about The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I haven't played the game in months, so it's lost the boredom factor that it had after I had completed every quest on 3 different characters (maybe I should buy the official plug-ins). To get you acquainted with the kind of game it is...try to imagine yourself in medieval times. What's the first thing you would do? Odds and a half are...you can do it in the game. If you wanna use magic to send everyone in town into a mad frenzy, there's a spell for that. Wanna bash some skeleton heads? There's a war hammer with your name on it! Want to become a vampire and suck the blood of innocents? Not a problem! Have the erge to stack the corpses of the town guards in a nice pile in front of your mansion? Go for it! Want to become the god king of your own reality? It's actually in the expansion pack, Shivering Isles (I ain't jokin'). Want to string the bodies of live sacrifices to you in the windows of your sanctuary of murder? There's a Vizine for that!
You have near absolute freedom in the game and can kill just about anyone no matter now powerful or influential they are (with exception of main quest characters). Just be prepared to reap the fruits of your actions. You can also go through just about the entire game without killing anyone at all, if you're more of a sneaky sort. And if you don't want to even pick up a single weapon in the game, don't: there's magic that makes people run in fright of you. You can just go treasure hunting if you don't want to raid bandit camps and undead forts. I have never played a computer game quite like this before, and so far it hasn't been duplicated too well either. The only downfall: it's single player. This would be the greatest game ever created (until TES V anyways) if there was some kind of multi-player. Even over a LAN system (MMORPG would be just too crowded and annoying) would be great. Ah, well, maybe next time. If you want some RPG ownage, hook yourself up with this game. It's also out for Xbox 360 and PS3 with purchasable plug-ins that add quests, items, and locations (of course not for Wii), so this increases the availability and reduced the need to nice computers to run them.
Rating: A+
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