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A few days ago I remembered that (A) I still had Oblivion installed on my computer despite that I've been chucking shit left and right to make room, and (B) that I had shit I'd downloaded for it that I hadn't yet gotten into. So here I've been for the last few days going along and doin' my stuff, and the going's been pretty good.
'cept for, you know, the resource hogging.
The horrible, horrible, oh-god-why-haven't-they-fixed-this-yet resource hogging.
I must say, though, that considering just how bad Oblivion can get at times - as in by itself eating up 70% of my RAM and CPU once it's been going for a good long while, and the five minute deflation period after quitting that's like a digital cold-turkey drug withdrawl run into a straight wall - it really puts in perspective just how much Bethesda shaped up their programming when they went over to Fallout. I load FO3 up, and it's smooth sailing until I hit the loaded-with-incredible-amounts-of-resource-consuming-crap wide open countryside (which ALWAYS seems to be Beth's problem with these sorts of games) and even then the crash is nice, clean, and quick and I can hop right back in. Play Oblivion for too long, though, and eventually it dumps you out so your PC can have a five-minute timeout.
But even with all that shit, I can't help but love the game, it and its power-gaming, female-objectifying, grammar-defying, voicework-facedesking diamonds-in-a-sea-of-shit mods - and hell, if they made such good progress working on FO3, I can't wait to see what they'll give us for Elder Scrolls V.
So let's talk about these sorts of games: the kind that sleight you and annoy you and frustrate you in so many ways because some shoddy coding got through the betatesting (or lack thereof) but that you just can't help but love.[/o]
'cept for, you know, the resource hogging.
The horrible, horrible, oh-god-why-haven't-they-fixed-this-yet resource hogging.
I must say, though, that considering just how bad Oblivion can get at times - as in by itself eating up 70% of my RAM and CPU once it's been going for a good long while, and the five minute deflation period after quitting that's like a digital cold-turkey drug withdrawl run into a straight wall - it really puts in perspective just how much Bethesda shaped up their programming when they went over to Fallout. I load FO3 up, and it's smooth sailing until I hit the loaded-with-incredible-amounts-of-resource-consuming-crap wide open countryside (which ALWAYS seems to be Beth's problem with these sorts of games) and even then the crash is nice, clean, and quick and I can hop right back in. Play Oblivion for too long, though, and eventually it dumps you out so your PC can have a five-minute timeout.
But even with all that shit, I can't help but love the game, it and its power-gaming, female-objectifying, grammar-defying, voicework-facedesking diamonds-in-a-sea-of-shit mods - and hell, if they made such good progress working on FO3, I can't wait to see what they'll give us for Elder Scrolls V.
So let's talk about these sorts of games: the kind that sleight you and annoy you and frustrate you in so many ways because some shoddy coding got through the betatesting (or lack thereof) but that you just can't help but love.[/o]
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Ug, I tried to play that game a few times and couldn't keep playing it.
It's really shitty if you try playing it like a 3D action game.
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Like being able to equip a drill as a hat.
Or the evade stat being worthless.
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or using status to keep Terra in esper form forever...
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I routinely sketched someone in one battle and the game went completely berserk. Sprites constantly changing to weird shit, like esper form Terra and general leo. Messed up menus, and when I left the battle, it had blown up my illumina sword, given me an Excalibur and 10 dirks. I loaded.
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