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Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Dragon Age: Origins are all in the running to be displayed at a new exhibition and collection of digital media at the Smithsonian Art Museum in Washington D.C., designed to celebrate "The Art Of Videogames”, which opens on March 16th, 2012.
The collection will split eighty games into five eras, perhaps ranging from the ZX Spectrum and 8-bit legends Missile Command and E.T The Extra-Terrestrial, all the way up to modern blockbusters such as Mass Effect 2 and, of course, the games represented by the Nexus websites.
Though the collection is being curated by Past Pixels founder Chris Mellisinos, the public is also able to have a say in what goes into the exhibition. With a choice of 240 games spread over nearly 40 years of gaming tradition, you all have until April 17th to visit the website and register your vote. With only an email address you can help decide what games should be preserved for posterity, and which games Roger Ebert will see when he is inevitably dragged there by a smug industry figurehead.
Elizabeth Broun, the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, stated that;
“Playing video games involves many personal choices, so, in keeping with the spirit of the exhibition’s content, we want to involve the public in helping us select games for the exhibition.”
Vote for Oblivion, Fallout, Dragon Age or any other of the selected games now at the Art Of Videogames website, found in the link below.
Art Of Videogames website
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A moderator has closed this comment topic for the time beingThe point you brought up is one of the flaws on the surface of the game. Yes, it bothers me that they did that to the armor, but go beyond the armor, and into the story of characters, places, etc and you will find the depth of Oblivion.
But we are clearly not looking for the same things in The Elder Scrolls games, so there's really no point in discussing it further.
(We are also moving quite off-topic^^)
Exactly what about the TES lore in Oblivion is spoiled to you?
If you read the books, listen to the NPCs stories, you'll realize that the lore is very good!
Broken Scaling System, that's not in-depth, generic storyline is not in-depth either - that's just the main quest, which, yes I agree with you is not so great. good, but not great.
There's many other interesting quests to find around the world, with good background-stories.
But this all depend on what you like about a game. If you're not interested in the lore of a gameworld, you won't look for these things, and then Oblivion might seem to be a dull game, as all TES games needs the lore to be great.
Those absurd changes are what you see on the surface, not in the depths, but yes, I agree with you that they did a few bad changes for the PC-users to get more customers. But they did get a lot of X-box players, which means more money for them, which means that the next game will have more quality features. (i.e more voice actors, more music)
The reason why many people thinks it's shallow is because they don't bother going to the depths of it, because on the surface it looks shallow. (Just like in a pond, if it looks shallow, you don't bother diving in it...)
If you go into the depths of Oblivion, you will find everything that defines a good TES game; interesting characters and stories, a rich and detailed lore!
It's just that the atmosphere of the game isn't like Morrowind, where everything was a little alien to everyone, whereas Oblivion seemed too realistic in it's atmosphere, everything was so normal - on the surface.
It was rated #3 best by PCGamer. (The panel of judges consisted of 22 people, so it's not some bs.)
This was this year though, last year it was #6.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10OCPff2AyBT5GLOMTewfJIP1f7CL_8wj9r0uYiNNGPU/edit?authkey=CKHzzKwB&hl=en&pli=1#
My point exactly. To some people, if the game doesn't meet their personal prefferences, then it's 'broken'And what i said earlier, just an observation really.Something i've seen alot in forums:
'man..i hate this game, it's too easy! too many powerful armors! i hate it!...oh, btw, check out my character in a modded T-51B with 100DR, 20 strenght and 50 small guns!