Suprisingly this game plays decent (mid-level graphics) on a older PC (2400 XP), but make sure you have a decent videocard. As with any graphics heavy game, lots of objects on screen at the same time will slow things down a lot.

This is a great price for the game, but as #1 said this does take a hit on ur framerates so be prepared.

Awesome game, but its better to buy an Xbox 360 for this game than spend $400-$500 video card that can run it at playable frame rates. Most can play the game at high settings but only indoors. Once you go outside, everything goes to hell. This game is what Morrowind should have been.

A)
There are hacks for low-level video cards. I can run it on my older notebook by turning off some of the textures. Not as "pretty" . . but over 30f/sec.

B)
This game really sucks. Surprisingly it's the most lifeless of the series. Morrowind was CREATED. Everything was painstakingly placed so that you knew every dungeon held a surprise and that next BIG treasure could be just around the corner guarded by a super powerful who-knows-what. Oblivion is "generated".. so when you go into a dungeon you know it's "textures #3" placed randomly and since you are level 13 you get loot level 13 guarded by the 3 different level 13 monsters. IT ABSOLUTELY SUCKS BEYOND IMAGINING.
Worst waste of time of my life. Utterly lifeless, utterly useless. Avoid. Can't be clear enough: THIS GAME SUCKS.

Great game, the strat guide is a must also. prepare to spend hours exploring the vast world.

#4 so would you recommend this game or not?

lol #6.

Can someone explain what the title means? It has so many words in it.. "Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" so does that mean some old dudes wrote on some scrolls, and there is an atomic bomb that blows everything to oblivion? I don't get it. What is a morrow wind? Is that like some sort of wind that is made out of bone marrow? I know this game is an RPG but what the dilly, yo.

#4 is right this game sucks. Hours and hours of meanless quests and wandering. Not worth $20 or more importanly the 100+ hours you could waste playing. Probably be better to take that $20 and buy a case of natty light and drink until you pass out.

I actually enjoyed this game quite a bit. I don't really like these RPG style games, most of them require too much focus and attention for me. This game was pretty easy to jump into and play in my spare time. One of the few RPG style games where I felt like I could load it up, play for 10 minutes and have accomplished something when I just wanted to kill time for a few minutes.

That said, the reviewers all raved about how "huge" the world was and how you could just wander around and find new caves, dungeons, missions, etc. I thought that part of it was boring. Give me some good, interesting missions and I could care less about the six hundred thousand little caves dotting the landscape with various treasure and armor. A couple of the missions were extremely well done (the main mission is good, and there are a couple where you are sent to other worlds that are pretty good).

Also... somewhere along the line I lost one of the main mission objectives (no mission marker) and thought that the objective was to close all of the Oblivion gates one by one. I got about 6 gates into it, saw that there were at least a couple dozen more and decided it f***ing sucked and went online to find a cheat... only to find that I just had to talk to someone to continue the misson properly.

This is all from a non-gamer who just found this game as a good way to kill some time.

Morrowind is full of glitches and was very badly designed. And #4 I am not sure if you are confusing Oblivion with Daggerfall. If you want some good unique quests join a guild, or the Dark Brotherhood. I am just biased cuz i am not a fan of the japanese RPG or the dungeon crawler /hack n slash RPG.

#8 lol

actually, if you don't do any of the quests outside the main quest, you could probably finish the game in under 15 hours easily. So if you think it's not worth playing though all the "meaningless" quests, then you really won't waste over 100 hours in the game.

#11, yeah, the dark brotherhood stuff was good. On second thought, it's worth 20 bux just for that.

But otherwise? Even the main quest?

sucks. And morrowind is great when you get the gold edition with all the bugs ironed out.

This game is a steal at that price.

"Awesome game, but its better to buy an Xbox 360 for this game than spend $400-$500 video card that can run it at playable frame rates. Most can play the game at high settings but only indoors. Once you go outside, everything goes to hell. This game is what Morrowind should have been."

That's bull. You don't need to lay down that much cash to play this game at 1280x720 @ 30fps (which even the 360 can't keep up all the time). Spending $400 on the 8800 GTS would give you closer to 1920x1200 @ 60fps with AA, AF, and HDR enabled. Not to mention, the PC version kept the dedicated modder following that Morrowind gained.
As for the game itself, I wouldn't say this is what Morrowind SHOULD have been. While Oblivion looks prettier and has a larger physical game world, Morrowind was bigger in terms of sidequests, dungeons, and open-ended things to do. Oblivion doesn't pack as much into the world as Morrowind did.

lots of stuff to do...
but i say the game itself is boring

this game looks awesome! good debate here. i've been curious about this series but never jumped in - at $20, it's worth a shot!