Eve of Oblivion
I’ll be buying Oblivion tomorrow, driven in no small part by vicarious enthusiasm I’ve obtained from friends foaming at the mouth at the prospects of a next-gen Morrowind sequel. I’ve mentioned before that I never played Morrowind, but hey, if devoted fans of that game have reasons I should be more excited, I’ll get more excited. I’m easily excitable about these sorts of things.
I’m envisioning a scenario where I adore Oblivion to the point that its expansive, explorable world negates any motivation I may have to play any other game or engage in any other game-related pursuits. It happened last year with World of Warcraft. It could happen again.
March 21st, 2006 at 2:41 pm
[...] Even with two AAA titles out in the past couple of weeks (Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter and Oblivion) I still find that I’m not really gravitating toward the Xbox 360. All the trimmings on the periphery (Xbox Live Arcade, Gamer Points) still intrigue me but the games don’t. I’ve never played any of the Elder Scrolls games (even though I own Morrowind) but I’ve been fascinated by the excited surrounding Oblivion. I’ll be watching Adam’s blog, since he’s in the same boat and will be playing an Elder Scrolls game for the first time. Even with all the excitement, I’m still content with the occasional Halo 2 match with friends and a little NCAA 2006. I’d also like to snag a copy of both Mercenaries and Forza since I never finished either of those. I also have a stack of games that I’ve only played briefly that I’d like to get to. [...]