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Originally Posted by Aezeal
Sombre: Fallout and Oblivion sure have great graphics but you can't really say their story or gameplay is nothing.. even this game fully focused on gameplay will have a very hard time beating them.. sure both aren't planescape torment or BG 1 or 2 storywise because they are meant to roam freely and open ended. And some like the setting of morrowind better than the less original setting (acutally same world of course but whatever) in oblivion.. personally I think the games are nearly exactly the same though except a bit better graphs on oblivion.. the quests and story certainly aren;t lesser in quantity or quality.
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I wouldn't say it's nothing, I'd say it's bland, derivative and inferior to games that have come before. I think the setting, writing and overall feel of oblivion is incredibly bland and uninteresting. It's like an 80s american renaissance fair. Everyone you meet is an ugly two dimensional idiot too.
Fallout 3 has an excellent pedigree but it utterly squanders it. It's a very good game but it's not Fallout afaic, it's just using the brand to cash in. It's Oblivion with guns and a more cinematic feel. It lacks the character, writing, sense of consequence etc - basically all the strengths of the previous two games (ignoring the ****pile called Tactics).
Fallout 1 and 2, Exile 3, Arcanum and numerous other rpgs are arguably as open ended if not more so than Fallout 3 and manage to have proper writing, interesting characters and locations, a sense that what you're doing actually matters,.. you get the idea. Both Oblivion and Fallout 3 are 'streamlined' rpgs. By that I mean extremely dumbed down.