He didn't die, he just fell unconscious, and when he came round he stood bolt upright and enthusiastically welcomed me to his home. On one hysterical occasion, I beat a man to a bloody pulp in the hope that I could rob his corpse of an important key. Every single character in the world of Tamriel is so utterly numbskulled that they should be in a care home somewhere. The problem is, it's difficult to differentiate between pieces of design lunacy that are actually supposed to happen, and the AI system having a bit of a special moment. You stand a fair chance of making the game look decidedly stupid as well. Do something like this, and you don’t only risk making your lovingly-crafted NPCs seem like idiots. Hell, at least make the rocks fall on top of him so suddenly that he has no chance to dodge out of the way.
Give him one hit point so he dies during the first battle, or something.
If you're going to kill off a character to add an element of challenge, then fair play, but at least think of a sensible way to approach it. And a third time, before the realisation finally hit me: this is scripted! This is scripted, and it's rubbish. I could forgive that: role-playing games haven't exactly been lauded en masse for their impressively intelligent characters, after all.
#THE ELDER SCROLLS IV OBLIVION PC FULL#
I sensibly took a step back, but my knight companion decided this would be a brilliant time to run forward at full pelt, get hit by an enormous boulder, and topple off the walkway into a pit of angry lava. As we progressed, a cliff to our right crumbled, huge chunks of rock rolling down the hill towards us. A fearful knight tagged along behind me, seemingly reluctant to offer any meaningful support against the legions of impish baddies. A particular favourite moment of mine occurred within the first of the recurrent 'Oblivion Gates' - portals to a hellish and otherworldly dimension, inhabited by the evil Daedra, who are increasingly seeping their way through to our world. Oblivion has shamelessly annoyed the hell out of me more than almost any other title that springs to mind, mainly because it undercuts its inherent fabulousness with a big, steaming pile of completely faecal idiocy. It manages, despite itself, to be remarkably enjoyable. But each point, seemingly a damning criticism in isolation, seems to matter very little when caught up in the subversive magic of actually playing the game. I've taken some notes during my ridiculous number of hours spent playing Bethesda's monster, and most of them are brutally negative. I've played a fair few RPGs in my time, yet Oblivion has me completely stumped. I'm never usually one to moan about glitches all that much, but when they regularly remove you from the whole experience, it's difficult not to let it hamper your fun." Just as you manage to suspend disbelief and let the high-fantasy tide wash over you, something completely moronic happens and you're thrown rather aggressively back to the dismal reality of sitting in front of a screen, playing an embarrassingly geeky computer game.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PC) review
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