Current mood:	mellow
Current music:	Retiens moi

Oblivion...uhhh...hmmm...ROCKS! Yes, that's the word!
Flashback to...ummm...1998? I'm trying to install this weird-sounding RPG on my...oh...486 machine. It's called Elder Scrolls: Arena, and as I start playing it, I realise it's different. For one, it's open-ended. And not pseudo-open-ended (where they just stuck in a bunch of rooms unrelated to the main story). And it was amazing. The graphics were amazing too (anything over the 256x192 of my ZX Spectrum was an improvement back then), and I only stopped playing it when I lost the CD for some reason. The game I was playing was a demo, but I kept hoping that I'd play that again someday.

A few days back, I found that Bethesda (the makers) were giving away the 1998 version free. I couldn't run it natively, so I fired up DosBox, and ran it. And I died.

After playing HL2, this, *this* was horrible. I did try very hard to think that this was the game that I'd played so much back then, but i could not bring myself to play it. *Sob*.

Then...
"Among the best products shown at last year's E3 Expo, the gaming industry's annual mega-event, was the medieval fantasy PC game Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. " - Review in The Houston Chronicle

Elder Scrolls Four? All the others had just passed me by somehow!
So right now, I am playing Oblivion. And it's all I hoped it would be.

Screw the FPS. Long live the RPG.
Does anyone release text adventures these days? I'm in the mood for some.