Interview Pete Hines interview at Edge

[JarlFrank]

Todd agrees. (in an Interview at Gamasutra about Fallout)

...trying to make a better game than our last.

>>interview<<

Toddy knows that Oblivion sucks, he prefers Ultima.

The Ultima series is still my favorite, and probably is still my biggest inspiration as far as presenting a fully realized world in a game. Ultima 4 to 7 are so ahead of their time it's just unbelievable.

His biggest inspiration? Why then are the NPCs in Ultima 7 feeling more alive than those in Oblivion? And where the heck is the moralic stuff that was in the Ultimas? The great puzzles and storylines?

Strangely, the games made back then ALL were a lot better than the stuff made today. And if Oblivion is also ahead of its time, we'll have a very bad time coming to us. Really.

 

[Lumpy]

It's nice that they are giving players a chance to skip the cure vampirism quest. That quest was very tedious and boring:
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Vampire_Cure

Otherwise there's nothing to get from the interview. It's just to get the usual blow job from the press.

Looking at that webpage I found this:

A much easier vampire cure, the Font of Renewal, is made available if you buy the official plugin Deepscorn Hollow.

So if you can't figure out how to cure vampirism why not just make a plug-in that cures you without doing the "long and difficult" quest? :wink:

Because then it would be cheating!!
No, really, that's the explanation you'd get at TESF.

 

[Lumpy]

There was a 4 volume novel in Oblivion. V 2 and 4 were available in shops, there was only one copy of V3 in the University library, and V1 was ultra-rare random loot.
Nuff said.

And the vampirism thing is pure Bethesda. The quest in Oblivion was boring, so the obvious solution would be to remove it completely? WTF?

 

[slak]

You are on a rail too, but you get to write your own timetable.
I actually thought that comment was OK, but the vampirism one is ouch.

No, being able to just ignore the main quest without any consequence makes it useless and uninteresting to pursue.