> to be fair, I've never played any of the originals. I had
> never been into rpg-style games, Oblivion was also the
> first game I played for some time, and it was the graphics
> and atmosphere that blew me away. That game sold me the
> xbox 360. I suppose it is a bit rpg-lite, but as someone
> who's never been familiar with the genre it's a good place
> to start; not too complicated, and also not too far
> removed from the more generic shoot em ups/smash em ups
> I'm more used to,
>
Exactly that's the reason I didn't particularly like it. If I want an FPS, I'll get Crysis, which I did for X-mas season.
It's just annoying that most magazines treat it now as the pinnacle of RPGs. Graphics and soil erosion isn't everything.
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