Vanilla Oblivion - Forests

[heathenwilliamduke]

very beautiful and lush. too bad the real world isn't like this anymore thanks to corporate creep

[iamthe1337est]

It's surprising how far ahead of this Skyrim is even though it runs on the same hardware.

[E6DeltaGirl]

I do this too - walking around the forests. I don't get why people say they all look the same. I think there's a lot of variety in the environments, like down south near Leyawiin its very boggy and marsh like compared to the Great Forest in central Cyrodiil, especially with the different weather patterns like you showed in the video. It's nice to see another gamer enjoying the quieter more subtle things in the game :)

[yurishan1994]

GIX what is vanilla ? is it like a graphics mod or something ?

[gixG17]

@yurishan1994 It's quite the opposite.  Vanilla means "plain", in the sense that there are no mods installed.

[yurishan1994]

@gixG17 thanks ;)

[idonthavevids1]

I actually watched this video and decided to buy the game before i watched any of your lets play videos. Now I have seen all of your great videos and found one of my favourite games! You are doing a great job, keep it up!

[landofold]

@vampires357 Calm down. He probley meant and you post a link where he can BUY one or something.

[vampires357]

@sargin1. Oh my we are high today. Vanilla is no mods, just plain Oblivion. Or mabey you ment "Can you post a torrent link?" If so, please go buy the game with your own money, you lazy little shit.

[Winner8501]

I am fascinated by people who say Oblivion needs mods to look good. Seriously, get a grip people - yes, some mods do improve the textures, the weather simulation and whatnot, but Oblivion still looks damn fine even without them. Compared to Morrowind, Oblivion looks infinitely (yes, infinitely) better.

I play it with some mods, but they mostly affect the gameplay, not the visuals.

[sargin1]

can you give us a link to get vanilla oblivion?

[Koblaja12]

In the next TES game they MUST have the enviroments of morrowind and the combat from oblivion and there is the perfect game.

[the000sucka]

and much mods

[bludeborne]

@Koblaja12 well i think the next on is in Summerset isle or Skyrim, if its in skyrim that would be cool but summerset isle would have a crazy enviroment

[Koblaja12]

One of the greatest things to do in Oblivion is to run around in the forests and hunting with a bow.

[Kalenus5]

Decent but alot of mods are better

[Koblaja12]

Look at all those bad comments! If you are going to say something bad, dont say anything at all!

[xxxFaustusxxx]

Oblivion can look so much better with some mods thrown in.

[ThornLodgeKnight]

i smell bullcrap here....

[lucadepu]

woah calm down oblivion is sick

[JoeyBieg]

If you think this looks good, download Natural Environments, you'll be amazed.

[oblivion0011]

you don't need mods for oblivion,this game is perfect...

nice vid bro

[Farlodan]

no, its not perfect :P when bethesda manages to melt all that good stuff from morrowind and the things from oblivion together and forge a new bright supergame from it, THIS would be the perfect game! ;-)

[oblivion0011]

this is perfect at least for me.....but i'l wait for tes5 maybe they made something even better but to be honest i doubt it...

:)

[oblivionfan12345]

well to a fairly new player (1 year or less) it might seem that way but ibe been playing since release and i'll tell ya, OOO and MMM definately add to the experiance

[Quartrez]

Aah, I barely can tolerate the 2D sprites that make up the leaves of the trees. I often stand beneath one and look at the sky and rotate just looking at how the leaves rotate as you rotate >_>

[MouthofSaurons]

Me hates faking too :(

[Hysse98]

What version of the MacBook Pro is this? 13''?

[gixG17]

15", MBP 3.1

[xxxFaustusxxx]

Oblivion is good stuff - but a lot of mods are needed to make it better.

[kamil99994]

Mods are practically the only thing that keep Oblivion alive now.

[TESpedia]

@douche bag, mods suck

[xxxFaustusxxx]

@TESpedia

Someone's mad they played the console version and couldn't use mods.

[Blashyrkh22]

@xxxFaustusxxx What's the point of playing RPGs on consoles?

[BlackFrost1728]

@Blashyrkh22 i play rpgs on the ps3, and i enjoy them the most

[JerryPRHS]

Hahahhaahahahaha!!! At 5:06, it's just a nice walk in the woods, nowhere near a lake, then a mudcrab comes out and pwns your ass, hahahaha!

[Quartrez]

Nice video. You should've shown a little of the northmost area, where there is snow (I love winter so I think I always go there when I play that game. I'd be quite happy to see a TES-like RPG taking place in a setting similar to Northern Cyrodiil like Skyrim, for example.

[JerryPRHS]

That's where the next Elder Scrolls game is gunna be is in Skyrim. 2010 I think they said, but don't hold me to it.

[Gomka1000]

Or summerset ilse

[JerryPRHS]

Where did you hear that? Just curious, cuz all the proffesional sites I've been to (eg. UESPwiki) say Skyrim.

[Gomka1000]

Well, I just thought what with all the references to it in oblivion, they were forshadowing TES V Summerset Isle.

Plus it would be more interesting than just snow and mountains

[Iceberqe]

nope theyre talking about all provinces, not only summerset isle

[Gomka1000]

Yeah but they go on about daedra worship.

[morag815]

people who pay to play a glorified forest simulator should really just burn their money and be done with it

[SandBarAndYou]

How can they burn it if they've already spent it? Makes no sense!

[Quartrez]

Oblivion is far from being only about simulating a forest. From what I've heard, it also has hundreds upon hundreds of hours of gameplay.

I have it, it's wicked Oo

[FlamingHotKittens]

over 200 hours of gameplay.

[Quartrez]

But Morrowind seems to have like twice the gameplay content. Anyway... I'll like it Friday... But be able to play it two weeks from now... Sucks a lil', but as we say : Better later than never

[JerryPRHS]

Boy, you apparently don't know shit about Oblivion so you shoulds go do whatever the hell it was you were doing before you opened your mouth.

[Playlistamac]

i just started playing as a night elf mod they can turn invisble for a day and have acrobatic fortify once per day 70 pts for 15 sec

[flamelayer5]

just wondering, how much did your macbook pro cost and is it decent for playing high quality games.

[gixG17]

It was the mid-range model from Apple. So around $2,699.00 CA.

It is decent for high quality gaming but now the new models are WAY better. For example, the new one has twice the ram and twice the Vram (9600GT instead of an 8600GT) not to mention a bigger harddrive.

[flamelayer5]

kinda off my price range, but i found a decent gaming laptop that can play oblivion and others.

[Screamtilyoucant]

so from a player personal view is it worth buying to play on macbook?

how to you actualy fight in he game and what not i have played it on 360 and beaten it many many times.

your thoughts?

[gixG17]

on a non-pro macbook? I'm not sure. I used to play the game on an old PC with low graphics and it was still enjoyable.

Fighting in the game requires 3 buttons excluding the hotkeys for switching spells and weapons. Left-click is swing, right-click is block, "C" is cast spells. Hold-left-click is a power attack, etc.

Combat is a bit more like a FPS... as your skill levels only affect how much damage you inflict, not how often you hit.

I'd recommend it.

[HustlinFlo]

Not bad for a mac.

[goldatra3]

HAHA true !lol.

[semillasdelorto]

Nice video, I love it. Whatever men, even nowdays, Oblivion still kick some ass.

He was a great game, and still a good game after all this years. Seeya!

[Acimon]

Yeah! It really kicks some serious ASSes, but one thing:

Morrowind. More variable armors, and clothing. And much better sidequests.

I don't get it why forced bethsoft to stop Morrowind MOD for Oblivion.

[TheDarkLegionTC]

frames?

anything else you installed to get oblivion running on the macbook pro?

[gixG17]

FPS varies based on what you're looking at, but with my rig and settings I get anything between 40-to-60fps.

As for installing anything else, nope. Just bootcamp, Oblivion and Fraps (for the recording).

[TheDarkLegionTC]

so they are on the highest settings?

wow! might as well get myself if a macbook pro for school. But is it a good gaming laptop as well?

[gixG17]

Yeah I got the macbook pro to do my 3D work and gaming.

It's a solid gaming machine but I tend to reduce some settings on my games to guarantee high performance. In Warhammer Online, for example, I can run the game on highest settings no problem but, during keep sieges, it's sluggish (100+ people on screen throwing spells around will do that).

[Darknesskid10]

on my pc it looks nicer without this mod...well my system is: intel Core 2 Duo E7300 2x 3.3 GHz 4GB ram High End Pc800 DDR2 512MB Nvidia Geforce 9600GT

[gixG17]

Without what mod?

[Bolzmann13]

Ey dude.. There's no mods installed there smartass.

[Stummy777]

i have it on pc the graphics are great

especially the forests

[stealthknight22]

I only wish that I had a pc that could run oblivion at it's full potential. I have the

ps3 version which looks better than the 360 version, but the pc version looks sooo much better at very high quallity.

[bezkomentare]

2560x1600 HDR lights, everything maxed, average fps: 28

I wish it runs at least 50.

Is there a rig fast enough to pull that out?

[hats4us]

man i spent like 200 hours playing that game such a great game

[SgtXbox360]

how many gigs of ram?

[gixG17]

2 Gigs of Ram

[Bollehamsteren]

Holy snap, those are some good grahics.

[Dragory]

Nice video... these kinds of videos always make me think of how awesome the sounds in Oblivion truly are. I never actually think about it while playing myself.

[stevelizzle]

urmothersmom, the macbook pro has a very good graphics card that comes already installed. Even the base model macbook pro would be able to run this game on high settings. The Macbooks on the other hand have integrated graphics, so they would not be able to run this game or many newer games decently.

[urmothersmom18]

do macs need a graphix card

[stevelizzle]

wow, awesome. Im getting a macbook pro soon. Which sku did you get? (mind posting the specs) and what do you run the game at (settings wise) thanks for posting this +fav.

The game is so pretty.

[gixG17]

I have the 2.4Ghz Macbook Pro and in-game settings are maxed. I then tweaked the .ini file a bit.

iShadowMapResolution=2048

bUseWaterReflectionsMisc=1

bUseWaterReflectionsStatics=1

bUseWaterReflectionsTrees=1

bUseWaterReflectionsActors=1

The increased Shadow Map resolution makes the Self-Shadows look better.

For actual gaming, I reduce the draw distance on Trees (50%), Actors (50%), Items (25%), Objects (50%) and Grass (25%). With HDR lighting, the grass doesn't "pop".