Wow. I like his stuff, but this was by far the most unfunny "review" he's done. This is probably one he's had sitting around for the last year or so ready to stick up in case there was nothing worth reviewing.

As for Oblivion, I find the game baffling in that I don't think I would ever put it in my top ten games, yet I've put more hours into it than any single game ever. It's basically my "I'm bored. Let's wander around Cyrodil," game.

AlKusanagi

@sariah: @Billkwando: Right after his Psychonauts review, people started e-mailing him telling him that review sucked, so in the next review, he said he'd try and find more games to bitch about.

Go check.

Ashurahori

I never liked Oblivion, the thing that bugged me most was how the enemies leveled with you. You never got to the point where you could run into the city and destroy everyone with ease. My friend even beat the game on level 3 because it didn't require you to make your character stronger.

That and some enemies appeared to be significantly unbalanced. I remember being able to kill certain enemies in big suits of armour with ease yet a mountain lion destroyed me in 3 hits.

While I'm at it, I hated the character's faces and the extreme bloom. Travel to the main city at midday and no longer can you look at people's faces, the immense light streaming off them too blinding for even a short glimpse.

With that said I can understand why people liked it, just certainly not my cup of tea.

Monkeez

Wow. I can't express my hate for flv players with words.
Damn it.

pulyx

Most of his points apply to the majority of PC RPGs' NPCs.

Blinkstale

i found pushing the A button and blocking to be repetative but i put like 90 hours into this game so i enjoyed it.

Dakobah

Video doesn't work for me until I go to ZP's site.

I think it's safe to say that if not by the time he reviewed SSBB then he must surely have criticized at least one game that everyone enjoys by now. Nevertheless, he always makes valid points and does it with a laugh. Heck, the animations alone are usually worth the watch.

Absent Blue

I still enjoy Oblivion on a regular basis. The mod community that has sprung up around it is particularly skilled.

siempre

only 60 hours Mr. Fahey, For Shame, I easily played 175 hours before I even purchased the bonus Bethsda content.

Speaking of which I need to get around to completing the Knights of the Nine DLC pack cd and the Shivering Isles, as I still haven't even gotten around to even touching that content.

Magnum1024k

Well he is a comedian for sure, but besides Uncharted (racism huh?) his reviews have always been on point. I don't think the points he gives are not as much reasons to be disgusted by the game as things that might disgust you in a game that you may (or may not) like. Oblivion is an impressive masterpiece but I would always rather play through CoD4 for the 11th time or get fragged online then slide the game into my PS3. When I DO decide to play it though, it's another story...

slomo788

Reminds me off his response to the SSBB mailbag, he will say everything that is wrong with it, but you shouldn't care, because if you enjoy, what somebody else say about it shouldn't matter.

ban_hammer

I was like the only person in the world who didn't like Oblivion when it came out, for all the reasons Yahtzee cites here.

Morrowind was a rich and diverse world, Oblivion was just as Yahtzee said. The same square mile of landscape copied+pasted 14 times. The combat was stiff, the voices were plentiful but mediocre, and there were just so many glaring logic holes, I found it impossible to suspend my disbelief.

I mean, you go into a person's house and jump around on their table, and you're fine. But if you so much as PICK UP a single carrot, the entire town guard is on your ass. Any time I would start to get into the game, an issue like that would pop up and pull me right back out.

QualityJeverage

@Tons Of Fun: I imagined the psycho parade to start much later, not in the second comment. ;)

Americo

Just go to the linked article to watch the video.

Is it just me, or is he talking slower than he used to?

Usually I agree with the flaws he points out in my favourite games, but I found Oblivion to be very immersive. The landscape doesn't have much variation, but that's what you'd expect from a medieval setting - it aims for more realism than WoW (well, as much realism as you can get with goblins, magical fireballs and the like).

He's right about the NPCs though. And I did like Picard. Shame he croaked so soon.

Herc

@Tons Of Fun: My sarcasm detectors, let me show you them.

@Ashurahori: ZP has only been around a couple months, so not quite.

Anyway, this is the first one I didn't find all that funny, but I do agree with him about the game.

I watched the No More Heroes review again and re-upped on laughter, so all is well.

Billkwando

Meh. He did have some points about the voices, but this week's review felt like he grasping at straws

Mohrdikai

I have to agree with Yahtzee on this one, especially the part at the end where he asserts (in text) that he thought Morrowind was a much better game. It may have had a crazy interface and some notable flaws, but Morrowind had so much more spirit and variety than Oblivion, at least for me.

Nirolak

Yeah, lol, you let a reviewer's opinion cloud your own opinion? Oblivion was a good game. Sure it could have been better, but hey, what can't be?

Coherent

There are a lot of things I disagree with in most of Yahtzees reviews. However, I also realize like most things in life, videogames are subjective to an extent.

I love Obivion, but like all his reviews (no matter if i agree with them or not) - it was highly enjoyable.

Benjamin Linus

Did Yahtzee just say a game is good if you go into it with "the right mindset"? What the bozack?

A strangely off-model moment from Mr Croshaw

frostcircus

I loved every minute of Oblivion and all the addons. I must have played over 200 hours alone on the 360 version. I also finished the PC and played quite a bit of the PS3 version. I guees that makes me a Oblivion fanboy :)

Bumbuliuz

@Samos42: I bet he'd love Shivering Isles though. It addresses a lot of the problems he has with the game.

Samos42

@Thorax: I haven't played Oblivion but that was my impressions of the character's faces in GTA4.
Ham heads...

I couldn't get the escapist vid to work all day.
I was waiting for Kotaku to post it to see if it was a problem with the escapists site... probably my crap bandwidth.

Ehardergardens

Good review. He has some good points but I still love the game.
@Tons Of Fun: I think Fahey was just joking about that.

Samos42

I always felt bad about not spending more time on Oblivion. I went through the first tower and lost interest. Spot on with the voice acting, and the Pie Chart of Destiny chat game was god awful. It's one of those things I keep thinking about reinstalling before something new and shiny keeps whisking me away before I do.

lonkley

@Ashurahori: Actually, I've also enjoyed the reviews which don't bash the game almost as much. You should really go and check out his Psychonauts review...

(goes and tries to find her copy of the game)

sariah

vid not working...

TheHun

Hmmm, the video isn't working for me.

: /

dead_red_eyes

He's not a critic, he's a comedian. People like it when he bashes games, so he does. And he likes a single game from year to year so it doesn't get boring.

Ashurahori

I am the Mad God. Fear me! But with a smile please.

Lixie

The only thing people should do with Yahtzee's reviews is laugh at them, that's what they're for. He's a comedian in these reviews 95% of the time (and damn good at it IMO).

Don't let it change how you feel about a game Mike, it's totally tongue-in-cheek.

JimElNino

@Tons Of Fun: Hell, when he bashes a game it makes me enjoy it more for some reason. Don't know why.

Thorax

I'm still playing the game and agree completely with everything he says about the game. Surprised he didn't talk about how all the characters look like they have been carved out of ham.

Thorax

"I could have sworn I had thoroughly enjoyed myself back then, but now I'm not so sure."

So all the hours of fun you had are suddenly moot because some other guy didn't like the game? Why would you even allow Yahtzee to determine how much fun you HAD while playing a game? He's a funny critic, he has bashed a few of my favorite games, but it didn't make me enjoy them any less, nor did it make me reflect on countless of hours of fun I had and then think... "Gee...was I really having any fun?"

Tons Of Fun

I love Oblivion, but he's right about the voices.

octoSink

@jsf49: You have zero punctuation?

glibby

I like Yahtzee's reviews. Even when I disagree with them, like in this case, they are entertaining.

A little too cocky lately, though. I liked him better in the beginning when he didn't seem to be aware of his growing popularity.

LordPotato

Haha, look at his video gallery on the escapist and compare the number of comments on the two brawl videos to everything else. That's insane.

Wolfers

@Xurreal: I agree Just because a guy can talk without breathing doesn't make him a good critic Judging from his past reviews it doesn't seem like he and I share the same tastes Therefore his role as a critic is pretty much useless to me The longer he's been on the air the more I feel he is exposing himself as gimmicky and one note Sorry but that's the truth A couple of swears here some sexual imagery there hate this hate that The end

jsf49

It's funny because I had just resolved last night to trade in Oblivion after going back with a friend and showing them the house I spent hours decorating in Skingrad. I think I realised I really did everything I could. I got all the achievements, my skills were more or less maxed out, nothing was a challenge, and there was no more DLC in the pipe.

Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.

Cola82

I have always considered Yahtzee's reviews to be satire and there's nothing wrong with that, I throughly enjoy them. Though sometimes I do cringe when I see comments of people supposely expressing their desire not to buy a game because of how "spot-on" his reviews were.

Most of the points made in his reviews are nit-picking, heck he even says that in one of them. Yet some people take it as some game breaking bug that would sour your overall gaming experience.

Xurreal

I laughed my ass off at this one, primarily because I played probably, oh, about 5 or 6 hours of it, got HORRIBLY bored and then uninstalled the game and gave it to a friend (who also got bored with it and pawned it off on someone else).

Aside from all of Yahtzee's (extremely valid and spot on) criticisms, the character generator alone nearly kept me from playing too far into it... EVERYONE in this game was some degree of fucking HIDEOUS. I spent at least an HOUR trying to make a character that wouldn't cause me to throw up a little in my mouth if I happened to make the horrible mistake of actually, you know, LOOKING at them. Couple that with the voice 'acting', and the bland cookie-cutter landscape and it was one big snoozefest.

At least with WoW you have a social element and SCENERY :D

Furiursa

I loved Oblivion, and still play it to this day, off and on.

The only problem with it is that it quite literally requires about 70 mods to struggle from being merely good to being actually great.

That's not an exaggeration. 70 mods.

Atheist Jew

Yahtzee is like an angry emo guy or something I picture him as one of those guys who hang out at the comic book store bashing everything and talking philosophy all the time At least that's what I think those guys do there When I first watched his videos they were pretty cool but now they feel really repetitive Every one of them feels the same

jsf49

I put 100 hours into that game and I loved every second.

Grahamunculus

Honestly, the world was cool but the gameplay was awful. Nothing ever really changed, I was fighting things the same way at retarded power levels as I was when I first started out. The little flare I shot at rats was the same little flare I shot at huge demons. The difference was a damage rating.

C'est la vie. I thoroughly enjoyed the setting, but I'd rather play a good game with an average setting than an awful game with a great setting.

onidavin

Count me as one that still plays Oblivion. In fact, it's the only game of mine that has survived the multiple trade-ins I've done... even to get GTAIV.

It's the one game (besides GTAIV now), that I can put in.. fuck around and kill things for an hour... and then turn off. Without having to actually go forward in the game. I think I'm still only at the third mission on the main quest, and I've had it since October.

MrBionic

@jsf49:

I don;t think anyone agrees with his tastes, He criticizes every critically acclaimed and major AAA released game. I watch mostly because it's really funny and enertaining, even if I don't agree.

However, I just bought Oblivion a couple weeks ago and this makes me feel slightly bad about the purchase, but whatever. Oblivion definitely has limitations (damn you character creator!) that were pointed out here.

The great thing is that even if you think he is harsh or disagree with his opinion (he tends to blow up small problems), if you have played the game you can at least see where he's coming from.

CarbonFalcon

man...I was thinking of picking that up when it goes on sale, because I want to know what the deal is with the game...but if what he says is true...I would hate it. The game with a big map for no reason...just the same scenery over and over...it sounds boring.

karateka

@QualityJeverage: Yeah, you'd go into someone's house, pick up a spoon, not even put it into your bag and the guards would come screaming in.

"STOP LAWBREAKER, your crime spree is at an end"
'But..But, I was only looking at it....'
"THEN PAY WITH YOUR BLOOD!"

Monkeez

@Tons Of Fun:

Totally agreed.

If you enjoyed a game why let 1 opinion change that? I loved my time with Oblivion twas a fun game for the almost 130-150 hours I played. It could have been better but it was a great game.

Majpain007

I have yet to play Painkiller and his review made me want to play it. I consider him to be mainly parodical, but a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning. I mean come on. The Steam ad made it even better.
Still didn't buy it though.
I'm still not sure if it's worth it...

@Wolfers: O_O

braagh

@the_answer: That's the way it should be, gaming shouldn't have sacred cows. Just because something is critically acclaimed doesn't mean it's good! The first Halo is heavily praised, but all it really is is a lackluster FPS game. What makes it special is that it really brought multiplayer FPS to the public eye -- it's the game that brought it to the frat.

I suspect Oblivion's GOTY status(es) resulted more from what it showed a game could do and from its massive scope.

onidavin

Regardless of what he says, I still find my self quit nostalgic about my time in Tamriel and longing for a return trip.

Dr.Fondler

there are no sacred cows for this guy. come on, man, this game won countless GOTY awards.. but i have to agee, elder scroll games do get boring half-way through

the_answer

@glibby: I'm zero punctuating Zero Punctuation

jsf49

@Furiursa: I lol'd. Getting a normal looking character out of that character generator was more of a challenge than the actually game.

Zio

@holyOrange: Not saying Fallout is not great! I didn't think it was, but when i played it, man i was damn wrong.

holyOrange

i thought the game was boring.

bubuli

@FrigidAir44: its not stale for me. i have the ps3 version and the pc version.. :D The only problem i had was with the inventory system. Takes too much time to scroll down. And yeah the people are ugly (i managed to create an un-ugly one for my character).

If you've played all of the Elder scrolls games, you would see that this really is the best. I've played them all from Arena to Oblivion, and am waiting for the next installment while playing this game. I haven't actually finished it yet. There are TONS of stuff to do.

On a side note, I've played daggerfall for at least 2 years (without playing any other game, well maybe a little Mechwarrior 2). I've didn't even try to play Fallout (the first one) because I didn't think it was that great and I was still enjoying Daggerfall.

And i have Daggerfall installed on my Laptop. Trying to finish that game again, in spite of the multitude of bugs, which don't bug me cause i know how to avoid them.

holyOrange

First time I laughed in a while he was focusing too much on nitpicking and not making enough randomly funny references...such as pissing the cat through the roof in fear...that was Golden

majatt

Overall I liked Oblivion. But if there's one thing I can agree on it's that exploring the landscape just wasn't fun. The landscape just consisted of like hills and mountains.

kojirodensetsu

Oblivion is awesome! He doesn't agree... oh well. Oblivion is awesome :)

okenny :)

@karateka:

You can get the Platinum Hits version for $30 like I did. I got that one only because I decided I would never play it enough to want the extra content. But after buying it yes, I am slightly disappointed because it was the only top-rated 360 I had not bought or at least rented/played. I only bought it because I decided that a rental would kind of ruin it for me for such a large game. Besides, $30 isn't too bad for a little disappointment (then again, I'm only a couple hours in, I could still be impressed.)

On another note, I still need to buy GTA 4 when I get the money. I rented it first since I had never played a GTA before, but it is a game I will definitely buy at some point. Bioshock, not so much, I could do with just another rental.

CarbonFalcon

Everything he says about the review pretty much sums up my feeling about Oblivion.

Janos2615

@Cola82: Should of got the PC version. I got bored fighting the same monsters. There is a mod that creates new monsters and even unique stuff.

Other mods just make the game better. I feel sorry for the 360/PS3 version that have to deal with the same stale Oblivion over and over.

FrigidAir44

Hahaha, that was hilarious. It's the first time I've watched one of Yahtzee's videos and frankly, everything he says is true. Still enjoyed the game nonetheless. Ironically, I had the same glitch he did when he was talking about the beggar woman--for some reason she'd go from croaky voice to a rich aristocratic voice. Very weird.

September

Hey Fahey!

Speaking of reviews... what about a final review of Iron Man game of the movie? Noticeably absent!

I agree with Penny Arcade on Oblivion:
[www.penny-arcade.com]

Cojo21

I still proudly poured in about 160 hours into the game. There was a lot more to love than to hate, in my opinion. Plus, I'm a whore for loot.

ThisCharmingMan

I agree with everything he said. Its not a bad game but it tries to do too much at the same time and thats coming from someone who played it for 100 hours +. Maybe i'll trade it in for Lost Odyssey.

Nexus6

I thought it was retarded how they recorded the same exact lines for different races (different voice actors).

Hearing different actors say the exact same things word for word really pissed me off, all it shows is writer laziness.

If they just would have changed the words around a bit, it would have been that much more immersive.

Kenny

I spent 80 hours on oblivion and 90% of that I was bored out of my skull, I kept thinking if I level up I might enjoy it, and I never once bumped into a clever AI character, Radient AI my arse, 100% scripted lies.

roll on Fable 2.

jigglypoofs

Well he's usually on to something, I liked oblivion but i cant shake the feeling that it is pointless.. wow ftw!

will52

@Furiursa:
@Zio:

Takes patience with the character creator.

...and a hair mod.

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belo

funny as always. The deepness is Oblivion's draw. Best RPG I've played to date.

dadeisvenm

@siempre: Same.

belo

haha! loved the bit about npc talking to themselves about how much they love to shop at the store they own :P I have seen that kind of stuff many times XD

hrabbit

Forests resembled real forests. To some forests are boring (in real life). Meh, I enjoyed exploring and finding things. I actually liked the repeated foresty areas, made that game seem more realistic to me than a new landmark, or major spectacle right around every corner. The game wasn't perfect by any means, but it sure is a blast to play because you can do what you want. The enemies leveling up with you is a bit annoying though. As is the experience system which gives the same exp for casting the most powerful spell as it would to its equivalent of the smallest spell.

And there is no problem with the bloom/HDR lighting. It's just a cool special effect. If you don't want it, you can turn it off (PC version at least).

CyberGlitch

I find it interesting where he never said that the game was BAD. Sure, he certainly said that it wasn't immersive, and that it lost some of its appeal because of that, but it's entirely possible that he still enjoyed himself.

And what game with Captain Picard doesn't earn itself a few brownie points?

GhostWhoWalks

I have racked up over 500 hours on 3 different Oblivion characters, and it's easily, easily, EASILY my favorite RPG of all-time. It's not without its problems, but the whole package just dwarfs every other RPG I've ever played. All I needed to get immersed in the game was to run across the countryside. Other than GTAIV, Oblivion has the most cohesive, realized game world I've ever visited, it felt like a real place.

@Monkeez:

Everything you don't like is either a mod or graphical setting away on PC.

Strangelove

I actually got back to playing Oblivion a week or so ago. I'm now 80 hours of gameplay in and have yet to even investigate Kvatch (one of the first storyline quests). As others have said though, by and large any major complaints can be remedied by way of community created mods. They really do transform things (often literally) for the better.

Slash3

He's dead on with the characterization of Bethesda's writing skills; these are the reasons I dread Fallout 3.

FellTheDabus

Wonder what he'd say about Ninja Gaiden.

Zero_Beat

He was completely right on every point, but like he identified himself, he never became immersed, hence his problem, hence the reason we all enjoyed it.

Also, I lol'd thoroughly at the force-feeding the conversation pie. That wit is why we all love him...

Saith17

Oh for the love of...
Come on Fahey. You're a cool guy, don't give into the "He says it sucks, so it must suck" mindset.
No matter how quickly a reviewer talks. I still am not a fan of Yahtzee and shit like this is exactly why. If you type out his exposition, he reads just like any old GameFAQs troll. But because he says it rapidfire with a British accent, people fucking love it.

WildVulture

He might be right, but none of those points ever bothered me the first time I played through it. I just remember loading the game up and, three months later, I woke up with most of the quests beat and a bad case of carpal tunnel.

Bissrok

@Strangelove: I might have to give it another shot then, I only played the game in its original state cause I borrowed it off a friend.

Monkeez

As a few others before me have said, Oblivion is an okay game out of the box, but a COMPLETELY AWESOME MIND-BLOWING EXPERIENCE after a few (dozen) well-selected mods. I'm not entirely certain whether that's cause to praise or damn Bethesda.

I also think that the scenery could have done with a tad more variety. If I wanted to explore a forest, I'd--you know--explore a forest, IN TRUE HIGH DEFINITION. I liked running around Hell, though. And Shivering Isles. That was loads-o-fun.

JustThisGuy

I couldn't finish Oblivion because everything looked the same everywhere you went. Totally agree with all his points.

mugido

Meh. I only laugh at most 3 times in his reviews. (once in this one.) It's usually a very half-assed laugh too. Yet for some reason I just HAVE to watch his reviews when posted on this here internets website.

I have this never-ending hope that "oh, maybe I'll actually like this review."

Akanubon

Well, the thing I'll give him is he's spot on with the voices, except for Stewart and Bean.

I too loved Oblivion. About 200+ hours of it and could raelly do so much more with it.

Also, Strangelove is correct. Get the PC version of the game and get mods. You can make it look even better with much higher res textures, get rid of every possible character looking ugly, make the god awful armor designs better, re-balance the auto-level up monsters, replace the unsightly HUD with something much more intuitive and easy on the eyes....anyway yeah.

Karlott

"Leave it to Yahtzee to make me feel bad about a game I spent over sixty hours exploring"
Only 60 hours, I spent at least 130 hours on that damn game. And thats not even counting the shivering isles which probably adds 35 or so more hours.

gamecrazychris

It's odd. Just the other day, my friend and I were talking about how Morrowind was so much more immersive than Oblivion. Although I love the gameplay changes that Oblivion brought to the table, something about it didn't draw me in with the same verve.

Cam_Ras

I can't fully agree with everything he says but damnit he does have a point. I am surprised with such a hugely stacked game that almost every place outside the cities look alike and that there are only like maybe 5 voice actors.

And I have to definitely agree that everytime I actually get into the game, something takes me out of it.

i don't know why, but it still trumps many other games out there. and I still haven't beaten it yet, 120 hours in.

Batousi

Yahtzee is pretty funny, but I don't like how so many of his fans treat his word like gospel. He's a silly comedy reviewer, guys.

bonnebonne

whatever. 379 hours, bitches.......and still is a great time playing it.

jfx316

I like yahtzee, but sometimes his own fame is stuck so far up his ass he has to take any tiny flaw as a huge thing.

SupaPhly

Whats messed up is that I put in over 500 hours into Morrowind. Oblivion felt 'different' but not really in a good way. I wish my pc could run Oblivion, if it had I wouldn't have bought it on 360. Mods make a HUGE difference.

Nexus6

@SupaPhly: Isn't it one of the bases of caricature to take a tiny flaw and blow it out of proportion for comedic effect?

@mugido: I had the same experience. After the umpteenth identical-looking cave/town/Oblivion gate, everything felt like more of the same. And since I didn't find the story too engrossing... I had a good time while it lasted, though.

Antiterra

Also I didnt like how everything was leveled and that the skill selectionw was dumbed down.

TheGreySpectre

Well an ok game, I actually felt that oblivion was missing a number of things compared to morrowind. While oblivion is techincly bigger than morrowind, morrowind feels begger due to the varying landscape sections and the fact that you cant see all the way across the map. In addition oblivion had a piss poor user interface. I'm sitting at my computer, I don't need size 36 font text with 2 inch Icons. Somthing like morrowind where you can actually display the whole world map on a high resoultion monitor while looking at your inventory would have been nice.

Maybe its me, but I prefer written dialogue to spoken dialogue for the majority of games. Spoken is important for the occasional comment made to spice up a town, but anything past hello or the weather is nice and you are cutting back on content.

Also... whatever happened to having to actually read the directions on a quest. As opposed to having every quest loaction marked out for you.

I am hoping when they do Fallout 3 it has more of a morrowind type of feel than an oblivion type of feel. (obviously I hope the most it has a fallout/fallout 2 type of feel, but things will obviously be different with the altered perspective)

TheGreySpectre

@Zio: See I am glad I am not the only one!!!

@belo: That actually doesn't look totally eye-bleedingly wretched! Congrats! :D

Still, the game wasn't unplayable, but I think at that time my gaming was split almost evenly between FPSs and MMOs. I DO have friends who absolutely ADORE the game, but I couldn't get over how homely EVERY thing was in the game and the random annoying wolves and skeletons etc.

Furiursa

@Antiterra: I know that, but what I was saying is that he knows now that he is famous and people worship him (look at all the people who suddenly talked greatly about Painkiller after his review) and uses it to control peoples view of games, whether its a good game or an average game
with average games he usually declares them as crap, causing a small chunk of the internet to lean on his side and then they convince other people.

SupaPhly

Oblivion wasn't a *perfect* game, but it was (and is) a great game. Sure, if dungeon crawls are your thing, then you might get twitchy about the levelling - but dungeons are best left well alone in my game, and I'd rather just be off wandering around and enjoying the - yes - scenery.

I mean, come on - you have icy mountains in the north and Greek-island beaches in the south. The "jungle" to the east at least bears a resemblance to the Everglades, and the north west is craggy rocks and deciduous forest. You can't tell me the game doesn't have scenery.

In fact, that's pretty much what I do in my own game - too many hours to count. I just install a pretty house mod and then wander over to look at it, ticking off any quests I encounter along the way. I've booby-trapped a stuffed head to fake an accident (really!); I've chased painted trolls around with turpentine (yes!); and I've even watched it literally raining dogs.

I've not yet made it to the top of the mages' guild, nor pulled off the ultimate heist for the theives' guild - so there's still some way to go.

Come on, admit it! You love this game! Sure, most of the NPCs ming for England, but there's a guy working for the fighters' guild in ... Skingrad, I think ... who is really something of a hottie - and you can't say that Sheogorath's voice doesn't do it for you - *all* the girls love Sheo.

Which brings me to Shivering Isles - as a standalone title, it would be one of the best ever games, and really, if you haven't tried it, you should jolly well feel ashamed of yourself. Pah! "Comedy" reviews or no, if you don't enjoy Oblivion, you really don't know what fun is.

princess_stomper

Good ol Yahtzee, ruining perfect memories in the only unique way he can. Bless you.

Shiryu

It's a shame he didn't review the 360 version; I would have loved to hear what he had to say about those load times.

UltimatePancakeSensation

I can't believe you're actually giving weight to this yahoo's reviews.

nlangan

@WildVulture: We have another winner here.

Fahey was kidding.

Billkwando

I didn't have the immersion problem he had. As soon as I stepped out of that dungeon I was immersed but I agree with everything he said about the characters, dialogue and story. I just didnt give a rats ass about the story and after about 80 hours the gameplay grew stale for me. But those 80 hours prior to that were great just roaming the countryside raiding dungeons and shit. My biggest beef was there just wasn't enough variety in weapons and armor. Once you got the daedric stuff you were pretty much done. I want Diablo level variety in my loot in a RPG.

Gray665

I don't play Obliviion but that has to be one of the most hilarious reviews he has done. Hats off once again.

"NPCs converse with themselves about buying from a shop owned by themselves"
ROFL

Jagzthebest

Great review as usual.

I have to ask though who else totally wants to see Young People Fu-----?

Tzero7

Oh and I absolutely DESPISED Oblivion...and I had bought the Limited Edition set too so I was psyched to play it. I got out of the dungeon, got my 50 achievement points, and didn't get much farther after that.

Knoxximus (360/PSN)

Not asking you, Tzero7....just like saying it.

Knoxximus (360/PSN)

Young people fucking?

Knoxximus (360/PSN)

@Tons Of Fun: Someone has trouble with sarcasm...

monkeybars

young people f--ng? can't wait to see that!

surft

60 hrs? if you think thats alot, you sir are a punk, i played that epic game, and shivering isles for 315 hrs. but that game has no replay abilty at all for me.

npa191