[sperring]

Hi, I'm a new MacBook user and I've been dying to get my hands on Oblivion for Mac for a while now. I found numerous places but they only have for Windows. Does anyone know where I can get one and if they know any good websites to buy games besides Apple store i would appreciate it. Thank you

[J'nathus]

To my knowledge, there is no such thing as an Elder Scrolls Mac port. The mere fact that a game exists on PC does not predicate its existence on the Mac.

[bookman]

especially when you are dealing with pc centric devs like Bethesda Softworks.

[Sargiel]

It's a shame Morrowind wasn't ported by anyone either ..

[Tetsuya]

well, since Bethesda hasn't produced a game worth playing since Daggerfall, i'm not too worried.

[J'nathus]

Tetsuya, on July 4th 2009, 11:40 AM, said:

well, since Bethesda hasn't produced a game worth playing since Daggerfall, i'm not too worried.

I liked both Morrowind and Oblivion. I liked parts of Morrowind better than Oblivion, but Oblivion had a very fun world to play in. (My opinon . . . just like that statement was YOUR opinion, but you stated it as though it were a fact.)

[Rev-O]

Outside of graphics and sheer size, Morrowind was much better imho. Much more immersive. Oblivion is a great time waster and a wonderful game, but it lacks many of the qualities that made Morrowind so amazing.

[Tetsuya]

J, on July 4th 2009, 12:09 PM, said:

I liked both Morrowind and Oblivion. I liked parts of Morrowind better than Oblivion, but Oblivion had a very fun world to play in. (My opinon . . . just like that statement was YOUR opinion, but you stated it as though it were a fact.)

then you should play Daggerfall. Other than the shinier graphics and terrible voice acting, that's all Oblivion and Morrowind are. Daggerfall + bad consolized gameplay & terribad voice acting.

[The Liberator]

I will give it that Oblivion and Morrowind has terrible acting and the NPC's do not make you feel like you want to keep any of them alive. In fact, if you could, you would kill all of them. Apart from all that, they are not bad games.

Liberator.

[J'nathus]

Tetsuya, on July 4th 2009, 04:28 PM, said:

then you should play Daggerfall. Other than the shinier graphics and terrible voice acting, that's all Oblivion and Morrowind are. Daggerfall + bad consolized gameplay & terribad voice acting.

I don't know about the terrible acting, as much of Morrowind was text, but I am incapable of even trying Daggerfall. I'm too much of a graphics snob to go that low. It might be quite awesome, as is the original Doom or other older games, but the immersion factor of those dated graphics is far too low for my tastes.

I agree that graphics alone do not a great game make, but as I said I quite enjoyed Morrowind and Oblivion and spent countless hours playing both, so 'to me' there is worth there. To you . . . not so much, but that does not make it a fact that they are terrible.

[Rev-O]

The Liberator, on July 4th 2009, 08:03 PM, said:

I will give it that Oblivion and Morrowind has terrible acting and the NPC's do not make you feel like you want to keep any of them alive. In fact, if you could, you would kill all of them. Apart from all that, they are not bad games.

Liberator.

Funny that you mention it... last thing I did in Morrowind was systematically exterminate as much of the population as possible. Never managed to kill everyone before I grew bored, but I did put a staggeringly large dent in the population. Vivec even got the bare fisted beat down of doom!
My biggest problem with Oblivion is the overwhelming sense of more-of-the-sameness about half way through the game. It just doesn't feel as unique as Morrowind. Feels like an Elder Scrolls flavored generic sandbox RPG. And, for a sandbox RPG there are precious few quality equipment easter eggs in the game. No mud crab merchant, no Daedric crescent, no boots of blinding speed, etc.
Oblivion is very pretty to look at though and for completionists, good for an obscene amount of hours of game play.
I'd still pick up Morrowind for the Mac, if it ever became available.

[J'nathus]

I don't know about the loot, but I really enjoyed the quests in Oblivion. There was a '10 little indians' kind of thing when you're an assassin - having to take the household members out one at a time in private so no one saw you do it... By the end of that quest I was so impressed with the cleverness of it all. How the last girl noticed . . . "Well everyone else is dead, and I know I'm not the killer . . so . . OH NO!!!"

Yeah, I guess it was all the graphics that made that enjoyable for me. Just a pretty new game... that's what I get into.

[OsgoodShepard]

Morrowind and Oblivion were great RPG's that never made it to the Mac...except...somewhere out there are ciderized versions if you look hard enough.

[Janichsan]

OsgoodShepard, on July 10th 2009, 02:18 PM, said:

Morrowind and Oblivion were great RPG's that never made it to the Mac...except...somewhere out there are ciderized versions if you look hard enough.

Morrowind definitely works pretty well with CrossOver Games, Oblivion as it seems with some extra effort.

On a side note: from today on, Daggerfall can officially be downloaded from Bethesda for free.

[ladyjaye]

It's because of the non-existence on Mac of games like Oblivion (or their Mac Intel-only compatibility in certain cases) that I bought an Xbox 360. I'd rather play on my Mac, but it's a simpler alternative for me. Of course, like others pointed out, since you have a MacBook, you can go the Windows way too.

[Tetsuya]

i wouldnt want to play either of those games on an Intel GMA chipset or even the GeForce 9400M

[Vader]

Tetsuya, on July 11th 2009, 05:17 AM, said:

i wouldnt want to play either of those games on an Intel GMA chipset or even the GeForce 9400M

Oblivion plays great on the 9400m. With just about everything turned to high, I usually average around 30 fps. I play on a 2.0GHz Macbook (white) with 4GB of RAM. Don't underestimate the 9400m. I'm currently playing the mac version of Neverwinter Nights 2, and it's running great with everything set to medium, looks fantastic too!

[OsgoodShepard]

Vader, on July 11th 2009, 09:39 PM, said:

Oblivion plays great on the 9400m. With just about everything turned to high, I usually average around 30 fps. I play on a 2.0GHz Macbook (white) with 4GB of RAM. Don't underestimate the 9400m. I'm currently playing the mac version of Neverwinter Nights 2, and it's running great with everything set to medium, looks fantastic too!

I played Oblivion on my Macbook 2.4 GHz with 2 GB and a x3100. After some recommended adjusting to some sound file problems, game play was very good.

[Cyan421]

Whoa, free Daggerfall!! NICE! Anyone know if its playable on PPC mac? PPC dosbox? oh i found it before I even hit post!

http://prdownloads.s...al.dmg?download

[Janichsan]

Cyan421, on July 13th 2009, 05:19 AM, said:

Whoa, free Daggerfall!! NICE! Anyone know if its playable on PPC mac? PPC dosbox? oh i found it before I even hit post!

It works, but from my experience I would recommend a fast PPC - or some heavy tweaking.