The second most unfair gameplay feature

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With an advanced character, I enchanted a helmet I found on a table in
Ghostgate and happened to wear it in front of an ordinator in Vivec, and
*for the rest of the game* I was defending myself from,or trying to avoid,
ordinators.

The unfairness of their bullying is because (1) No NPC in any place, at any
time, *ever* warns you not to wear one! And (2) if you're playing on an
X-Box, like me, there is *nothing* you can do to turn them off. Apart from
starting a new game with a new character, which I eventually did.

In fact I searched everywhere for some NPC to tell me what I had done wrong,
and no-one ever told me! I was lucky I had a computer, so I could find out
from others on line, otherwise I still wouldn't know to this day why they
were attacking me throughout the game! It's the second most unfair event in
the game! (The worst one being the constant freezing of the game by faulty
programming, and being told it's your fault by the error message which
pretends that you must have scratched or dirtied your gamedisc.)

Somebody please stop the programmers from doing any more work on Oblivion
until they take a course in programming and learn how to avoid the constant
freezes!

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"The Appalling Silence" <appsil@myway.com> wrote in
news:_ALje.14666$Le2.92485@nasal.pacific.net.au:


>
> Somebody please stop the programmers from doing any more work on
> Oblivion until they take a course in programming and learn how to
> avoid the constant freezes!

Try playing with music off.
I'm playing with 200+ mods and the game very rarely crashes now. When it
does it's usually after having played several hours.

C

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The Appalling Silence wrote:
> With an advanced character, I enchanted a helmet I found on a table in
> Ghostgate and happened to wear it in front of an ordinator in Vivec, and
> *for the rest of the game* I was defending myself from,or trying to avoid,
> ordinators.
>
> The unfairness of their bullying is because (1) No NPC in any place, at any
> time, *ever* warns you not to wear one! And (2) if you're playing on an
> X-Box, like me, there is *nothing* you can do to turn them off. Apart from
> starting a new game with a new character, which I eventually did.
>
> In fact I searched everywhere for some NPC to tell me what I had done wrong,
> and no-one ever told me! I was lucky I had a computer, so I could find out
> from others on line, otherwise I still wouldn't know to this day why they
> were attacking me throughout the game! It's the second most unfair event in
> the game! (The worst one being the constant freezing of the game by faulty
> programming, and being told it's your fault by the error message which
> pretends that you must have scratched or dirtied your gamedisc.)
>
> Somebody please stop the programmers from doing any more work on Oblivion
> until they take a course in programming and learn how to avoid the constant
> freezes!

Why not...uh...reload the game after the Ordinator attacked you?

I have absolutely no problems with it crashing. It's the most stable
Elder Scrolls game yet. If you have a computer, why not play it on that
the way Elder Scrolls games are meant to be played?

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But some of us (like me) didn't find out that the reason we're being
attacked until several days later, and at that point, saved games that could
have been used were over-written. While it's cool to have ramifications on
your actions (i.e. kill a character in the game, then find out later that
you needed to talk to him), not being able to walk around in a town just
because you put on a hat is kind of lame.

Clint

"J. W. McCall" <jmccall@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
news:81qke.129605$AE6.19962@tornado.texas.rr.com...
> The Appalling Silence wrote:
> > With an advanced character, I enchanted a helmet I found on a table in
> > Ghostgate and happened to wear it in front of an ordinator in Vivec, and
> > *for the rest of the game* I was defending myself from,or trying to
avoid,
> > ordinators.
> >
> > The unfairness of their bullying is because (1) No NPC in any place, at
any
> > time, *ever* warns you not to wear one! And (2) if you're playing on an
> > X-Box, like me, there is *nothing* you can do to turn them off. Apart
from
> > starting a new game with a new character, which I eventually did.
> >
> > In fact I searched everywhere for some NPC to tell me what I had done
wrong,
> > and no-one ever told me! I was lucky I had a computer, so I could find
out
> > from others on line, otherwise I still wouldn't know to this day why
they
> > were attacking me throughout the game! It's the second most unfair event
in
> > the game! (The worst one being the constant freezing of the game by
faulty
> > programming, and being told it's your fault by the error message which
> > pretends that you must have scratched or dirtied your gamedisc.)
> >
> > Somebody please stop the programmers from doing any more work on
Oblivion
> > until they take a course in programming and learn how to avoid the
constant
> > freezes!
>
> Why not...uh...reload the game after the Ordinator attacked you?
>
> I have absolutely no problems with it crashing. It's the most stable
> Elder Scrolls game yet. If you have a computer, why not play it on that
> the way Elder Scrolls games are meant to be played?

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Simmie Simmerson wrote:
> Are you telling me that even the XBOX "crashes to desktop"? That is
> very sad.

Of course it bloody does........its M$ after all!

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M

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