So I stayed up and played Oblivion until 2am last night (had to go to bed early since I had a dentist appt this morning). Yeah, I like this game. Plenty. Right now, I'm playing as a knight (hey, I like to hack and slash, what can I say) and I've mostly just been puttering around doing quests. Tons of fun. :-)
Now I have to ask -- for those of you who've played this game, do you have some tips for a n00b? Anything and everything is welcome. :-)
Why doesn't the 360 come with a wireless card? I don't want to string ethernet cable all the way into my office just so I can do the Live stuff. Any ideas?
PS -- sorry in advance, Lis. I'm sure I'm going to be a terrible boyfriend for a while. ;-)
The wireless card thing is a snag that everyone's been dealing with... I'd rather have a hard link when Halo 2 or Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter want a constant stream during mp.
AFA the Oblivion tips... just play man, you're doing everything right. Markers are helpful, use your hot keys... talk to people.
If you've played Morrowind, about 90% of the advice for it applies to Oblivion also. They haven't changed a lot, game-mechanics-wise. Really, even Daggerfall experience should transfer over without too many problems.
There are various leveling exploits you can do on 360 by taping buttons down, but don't bother-- Oblivion levels the monsters along with you, so all you'll do is make everything else in the game harder.
There are also bug-based cheats; there's a guy in Imperial City you can kill, and then endlessly pull money from his corpse. (That might be on purpose; who knows? Sounded like a bug to me, though.)
Morrowind had at least two critters that would buy items from you at 100% of their value... one was a mudcrab near Vivec, the other was a Scamp in... some city I can't remember the name of. It's likely that Oblivion has similar NPCs, but I haven't found any yet.
Understand how the leveling system works would be my main piece of advice. I have a buddy who bought the game but didn't read the manual, and he isn't using any of the primary skills for his class, so he's been playing for like 30 hours and is still level 4.
But Jake's mostly right, too. Just play. It's not a competitive game. And in Oblivion, it doesn't even really matter what level you are (since it automatically levels-up monsters to catch up to you.) Just walk around and explore, or kill people, or do whatever you want. Be a vampire for awhile. It's supposed to be impossible to break the main quest, no matter how many people you kill or what happens to you.
The 360 works with any wireless bridge you find out there. There's also a Microsoft 'official' wireless adaptor for it. I just moved my wireless base station into my entertainment center, plugged the 360 in physically, and kept my two computers on wireless instead. I don't care if I have an extra 10ms of latency when surfing websites on my Mac, but I don't want it on my 360.
Oh, one piece of advice: If you find the unicorn, don't try to ride it unless you like getting blasted by an uber-powerful monster. ;)
I agree with Jake on the wireless vs wired. The wired ethernet seems much better for Halo 2 where slight delays can cause you to play like crap. There are wall plug ethernet adapters, but the ones I've seen aren't as fast as the wireless.
I recommend running the wire. It's pretty easy if you have access from an unfinished basement or attic to both rooms. You might need some fish tape if you're running wire in an insulated wall.
I know at one point I saw a wireless "adapter" (think it's a bridge actually) for use with the GameCube, XBox and PS2. Pretty sure it was on BestBuy's site.
Try looking for these:
- Linksys Wireless-G Game Adapter
- D-Link 4-Port Wireless G+ Gaming Router
Many of the Linksys WAPxx products can from a wireless bridge with 2 units. I did this several times with the older WAP11 units to connect buildings. The newer WAP54g seems to have the same capability.
Isn't this a new house? Where is the geekoid 5 miles of cable?
Wired is better, and usually cheaper.
If you're really a big MS fan:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xbox360wirelessnetadapter/default.htm
That's the official bridge for it. And since it uses USB, it keeps the ethernet port free for systemlink. But, like I said above, any wireless bridge will work... you can find them much cheaper.
Dude, you built an entire house form scratch, you are an uber-nerd, you telling me you didn't run cat-5 to every fricking room in the house (including bathrooms?)
Turn in your man card, you flunked out.
Are you back here now? The Bank in Sartell. Friday night. Be there:)
Aaron,
I first tried using a 3rd party (linksys) wireless adapter with the 360... it worked OK, sometimes... other it just refused to connect. So I broke down and got the "official" 360 wi-fi gadget.
Since then I've not had an issue with any connection. Oh, I'm using a Netgear MIMO router connected to my cable modem too. I noticed a big difference when I added it to the mix.
Cheers!
Kev
(Gammer Tag: SerKevin)
So "marginally" addictive, that we've not seen a post in 3 days. lol
Obviously, I'm not much a gamer. I play some Command & Conquer every now and then...a bit of Continuum once in a while, but I just don't get into games like I used to(I've beaten all Resident Evil games up to the point they were switched to the Game Cube).
Come....up....for....air.....
@Bill, I have it on very good authority that "Aaron can not come up for air this weekend as he is breaking in a new computing platform"
Not how I'd have described it but the words of one who knows :)
Yeah, I figured it was pretty embarrassing to say he was holed up, playing video games and eating cold pop tarts for three days straight.
Hey, to each their own, but I would rather stick pins in my eyes... ;p