The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was released nearly nine years ago, (Raise your hands if you can’t believe it’s been that long.) At the time, the fourth installment of the franchise was seen as groundbreaking, and a promise of the great things to come in the early days of Seventh Generation gaming. They were right. The Seventh Generation of games saw publishers finally start to fully utilize many of the technological and narrative innovations made during the 5th and 6th Gen of games. Bethesda itself brought us Fallout 3 and Skyrim, which were built on what was done with Oblivion.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was released nearly nine years ago, (Raise your hands if you can’t believe it’s been that long.) At the time, the fourth installment of the franchise was seen as groundbreaking, and a promise of the great things to come in the early days of Seventh Generation gaming. They were right. The Seventh Generation of games saw publishers finally start to fully utilize many of the technological and narrative innovations made during the 5th and 6th Gen of games. Bethesda itself brought us Fallout 3 and Skyrim, which were built on what was done with Oblivion.
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I love role-playing games, both the tabletop kind and the video games. They are my favorite genre, but that will never be true for the majority of gamers. No one thing is for everybody, and what we like is ultimately subjective, but some things will always be more popular than others regardless of relative quality. Linear and uncomplicated games will always win out over RPGs, in the long run. It’s like any other aspect of pop culture where boy bands like the Backstreet Boys outsell bands like Iron Maiden.
It’s been nearly twelve years since the first Knights of the Old Republic game was released on the original Xbox. When the game hit in 2003, we were in the latter of the Star Wars prequel/ enhanced version malaise. The doctored originals gave us Greedo shooting first, and a musical number from the Muppet Show and the prequels gave us Jar Jar and more blah than deserves to be mentioned. KotOR was a relief and beacon of hope for many. RePLAY is a new feature on RPG Gamer where we do a playthrough of not so old RPGs. It may be considered as a review, just like our RETRO [RE]VIEW feature, where we remember some of the greatest classic Role-Playing Games. There couldn't be more appropriate way to start this feature but with Mass Effect, the first installment of the great Mass Effect trilogy. |
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