[Particle Person]

Destiny seems like pure sci-fi to me. Bungie seems to be sticking to what they know, which is power armor and aliens. I may have missed something, since I haven't been following it closely.

[Ghost of V]

Destiny seems like pure sci-fi to me. Bungie seems to be sticking to what they know, which is power armor and aliens. I may have missed something, since I haven't been following it closely.

Well, there is something called "space magic" (really) and there is a Warlock class who specializes in this. I haven't been following the game closely either, but it seems mostly sci-fi with elements of fantasy thrown in.

[Saddam Hussein]

Certainly not.

lol@lies

Although I suppose what you said was true at the time.  You weren't planning on buying it then.

[beardo]

heehehehehehe

[Saddam Hussein]

Vanus Galerion has one of the worst voices in the game.  It's high-pitched, grating, and has a distinct American accent.  It sounds almost like the voice that Trey Parker uses for generic adults on South Park.  Still, at least he's alive in this time period, so I'm spared having to deal with yet another fucking ghost.

[Particle Person]

I haven't heard his voice, but to be fair, an American accent doesn't make any less sense than any other terrestrial accent for any inhabitant of Nirn.

[Saddam Hussein]

It's fantasy.  American accents aren't allowed in fantasy.

<Saddam> Why are there so many ghosts in this game?
<beardo> Saddam: why are there so many living in this game?
<Saddam> Veloth, Ysgramor, Shalidor, etc.
<Saddam> At this rate, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if fucking Lorkhan's ghost popped up for a chat
<beardo> Oh no, my armour is damaged. Let's go to a food merchant and have him repair it!
<Saddam> And I don't think Lorkhan would really have a ghost in the traditional sense
<beardo> no
<Blanko> Saddam: Sounds like something Kirkbride would write
<Saddam> Maybe Kirkbride is secretly a writer for this game!
<Saddam> dun dun dun
<Blanko> He's a
<Blanko> GHOST WRITER
<Saddam> YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
<Saddam> I hope you put your sunglasses on as you wrote that
<Blanko> I don't have sunglasses
<Saddam> You fool
<Saddam> But seriously, it's pretty lazy writing to constantly just have a ghost pop up to tell me what to do
<Saddam> Any murder in the world could be instantly solved by just casually asking the ghost
<Saddam> Maybe that's why the Dark Brotherhood isn't in this game
<Blanko> Don't give them ideas
<Saddam> Actually, the Fighters Guild questline is partially about finding a murderer
<Saddam> They summon the ghost, ask him who murdered him, and boom, mystery solved
<Saddam> So I guess they already had the idea
<Blanko> CSI Tamriel
<Saddam> I bet they actually carry their sunglasses with them in anticipation of making puns

[Vindictus]

I am truly upset at having missed such witty and sharp conversation.

[Particle Person]

Indeed. All of those witticisms.

[Rushy]

But guys, if Saddam didn't incessantly post his IRC conversations here, a wide audience wouldn't be able to appreciate his clever commentary.

[Ghost of V]

Ghost Writer was a pretty good show.

[Saddam Hussein]

morrobump:

I think there is some sort of double standard going on here. Some of you seem to think that Oblivion is generic because of its setting, which many of you have likened to Tolkien's Middle-Earth. However, Oblivion obviously does not take place in Middle-Earth.

Now, when we use the same argument against you: "Dwemer share many similarities with Dwarves, therefore they are a generic archetype". Your tone changes completely. Now, somehow it's forgivable that they based Dwemer on Dwarves and it's not generic at all. Why is that given that they share so many similarities?

I won't deny that the Dwemer are inspired in part by Tolkein's dwarfs, however, Dwemer are only a small part of Morrowind's setting. Nearly everything about Oblivion is generic. The landscape, the architecture, the fire and brimstone antagonist, etc. There's plenty of interesting stuff, but almost none of it is on the surface. That isn't necessarily a bad thing.

The wisdom of Alexandyr.  What "interesting stuff" were you thinking of, by the way?  I don't disagree or anything, but I'm curious as to what you had in mind.

[Ghost of V]

Oh god not this shit

[Saddam Hussein]

Okay, I'd just like to take this moment to beg Alexandyr and Rushy not to start their low-content yes-it-is-no-it-isn't exchange up again.  Debate is cool, tedious pedantry is not.

[Rushy]

Morrowind is just as generic as any other TES game.

[Saddam Hussein]

Morrowind is just as generic as any other TES game.

Irrelevant.  We are talking about Oblivion right now.

[Rushy]

Irrelevant.  We are talking about Oblivion right now.

Well since I made an equivocal statement it is in fact quite relevant. See, watch:

Oblivion is just as generic as any other TES game.

It doesn't matter which game I refer to because the sentence refers to all of them simultaneously. You should know better, Saddam.

[Saddam Hussein]

I liked the remnants of the Ayleid civilization, like the magical stones and the ruins.  Mainly because it was actually a culture we could investigate and find out more about, and there wasn't much of that in the overall game.  Almost everyone, regardless of their race or location, was just part of this bland homogeneous blob of Imperial subjects.  That is itself a culture, and I won't claim that it's any more or less "generic" than the Nord culture or the Dunmer culture or whatever, but the lack of variety was a big disappointment to me.

[Particle Person]

With each new game a lot of new peripheral lore is introduced through new books, dialogue, places, and occasionally sources outside the game, and there's always a lot of it so something is bound to be interesting. I can't think of any specific examples from Oblivion at the moment apart from the weird stuff Kirkbride included in Knights of the Nine.

[Saddam Hussein]

Each new game?  Even TESO?

I never played Knights of the Nine.  Or Shivering Isles, for that matter.  I've heard they're good, though, so I may get to them someday.