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    Nehrim: Oblivion Overhaul, a new 50 hour RPG

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Zymphad, Nov 5, 2011.

  1. Zymphad

    Zymphad Zymphad

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    Nehrim

    It's an overhaul of Oblivion, a stand alone game set in a different story line. It creates a copy of your Oblivion folder and installs Nehrim on top since it replaces much of the files.

    Supposedly the main quest line is much longer and intensive than Oblivion.

    The landscape is also more extensive. Everything is handrawn and not generated and repeated like it is in Oblivion.
     
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    Wow. Might have to give this a shot.
     
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  3. Zymphad

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    It's fully voice acted. You check the staff listing and see how many voice actors they used.

    It's impressive.
     
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  4. R3d

    R3d Notebook Virtuoso

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    Is the voice acting in english? I thought it was all german with english subtitles.
     
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  5. MrFong

    MrFong Notebook Evangelist

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    All in German, last I checked.

    All in, Nehrim's pretty immersive, and the storyline isn't too bad. Beats Oblivion's main quest, I guess.
     
    MrFong, Nov 6, 2011
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    roliath Notebook Consultant

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    too bad skyrim comes out next friday
     
    roliath, Nov 6, 2011
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  7. Wallzii

    Wallzii Notebook Consultant

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    I installed this and have played a couple hours so far and am really enjoying the experience. The world from what I've seen thus far is full of detail and breathing with life; the forests actually look real with how dense they are!

    I'll probably abandon this when Skyrim is released, but for now it shall have to tide me over.

    One gripe I have so far however is that the game randomly freezes, so I have to save often to ensure I don't lose too much progress.
     
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    Meh, don't know if I can play with subtitles only. Kind of loses the allure.
     
    HTWingNut, Nov 7, 2011
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    Jasp Notebook Evangelist

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    What? you gotta be kidding me, FF7 never lost its allure because it had millions of lines of text. I don't know gamers today just want everything on a plate..lol

    On a more serious note, would love to try this but currently playing through Fallout 3 again and with skyrim out on friday its sadly not much of a priority.
     
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  10. hockeymass

    hockeymass that one guy

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    FF7 is a completely different type of game.

    At one point, there were games where your player was represented by a cross and monsters were @ symbols. Time marches on, bro.
     
    hockeymass, Nov 7, 2011
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  11. MrFong

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    I guess someone's on the dub side of the great Sub vs Dub debate, huh.

    Oh, man. The hours I sunk into Akalabeth. Those were the days.
     
    MrFong, Nov 7, 2011
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