Attn: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion addicts

always listen to the media outlets?

shame

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always listen to the media outlets?

shame

How about this.

In North America, Oblivion has become the fastest selling game released on the Xbox 360. The NPD Group Inc reports Oblivion PC as the best selling PC game, while the Oblivion Collectors Edition is ranked number 2.

NPD reports that Oblivion represented approximately 13% of all PC game sales in the first week of it release, more than four times the sales volume of the next best selling title. (The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, the highly-regarded predecessor to Oblivion, remains one of the top 25 best selling PC games nearly four years after its release, according to NPD). European results have been similarly strong with Oblivion quickly becoming ranked the number one selling title in the UK, Germany and France.

Apr 10, 2006

Sales = King.

It has nothing to do with listening to media outlets. It has to do with you being almost the only person to say that Oblivion sucks and is not "next generation". It would stand to reason, that yes, in your opinion isn\'t all that, but in the media\'s view and apparently the publics due to the numerous sales and what not, that in reality, the game is above average, infact excellent.

13% of all PC games?  what else was released that week, i simply don\'t care enough to look.

look how well pokemon games sell, they must be god\'s gift to gaming

What\'s the best class?

I considered choosing one of the preexisting classes, but none of them seemed to have the ideal skill assortment.  Fortunately you can define your own class and choose any attributes and skills that you want.  The choice of "birthsign" is pretty important too, so take some time to read all the choices.
 
You might want to just choose a character quickly, then play one session to see what skills you like and don\'t like.  I don\'t know what recommendations to give you because it sort of depends on how you like to play.  As Giga said, I sort of gravitated toward the quicker thief / assassin type character with light armor and strong marksman skills.  It would be very easy to go in another direction instead.

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13% of all PC games?  what else was released that week, i simply don\'t care enough to look.

look how well pokemon games sell, they must be god\'s gift to gaming

It\'s amazing how you use "sales = king" , but when turned against you it is no longer valid.

oh, is oblivion a console?

i must really be missing something

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oh, is oblivion a console?

i must really be missing something

It has nothing to do with consoles or not. You dance around the subject way to much. The same thing applies for any product, sales equal king. Not to mention the high reviews are more than the negative reviews. Typically, if you are in the minority, you are wrong.

misinterpretation does not give you an advantage in any argument

There\'s a difference between sales as in raw numbers, and market percentage for a week.  Sales = raw volume numbers. % = dependant on what\'s out there.  You could have 50% of a really slow market and it\'s not as impressive as 25% of a stunningly hot week.  

WOW sold 200K copies first day, over 500K after a week.  Even games like Unreal Tournament won the % race, but it\'s numbers weren\'t that impressive (cause of all the crap available at the time).  

Now, if that 13% marketshare is of a week where lots of PC games sold well, then yes, that\'s an impressive amount.

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misinterpretation does not give you an advantage in any argument

There is no misinterpretation, there is only you, trying to be the oh so mighty cool one who has to bash anything remotely popular...

Don\'t you have some criterions to watch?

i\'m completely shocked you know what criterions are

no, really.

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i\'m completely shocked you know what criterions are

no, really.

Own a few. Love the fact that people collect them just to appear intelligent. Not saying that is what you do, just visit any DVD site and you\'ll see countless \'Criterion-drones\' ( as I call \'em) bragging about their collection..That\'s off-topic tho\'.

Oh yeah, Oblivion  = next gen.

cause the mass media tells you so
tsk tsk

especially when it could run on ancient geforce 4xxx cards.  yeah, real next-gen

go go better graphics with identical gameplay

I don\'t even know what "next gen" means, but I suspect it has a different definition for a console vs. PC platform.  PCs are continuously developing, so the concept of "generations" does not really apply to them.  Just because the PC version of a game can run on moderate hardware requirements, does not mean the console version of the same game is not "next-gen."
 
By the way, I was hoping people would discuss the game in this thread, not bicker about platforms.  So much for that.

it\'s a buzz word that should have died in the 32 bit era, and nothing more