Today I met and spent significant time with Bethesda and their most important title, Oblivion. I spent half of my day playing the expansion for the Xbox 360 and PC, Shivering Isles, and the other half playing the PlayStation 3 version of the title.
While messing around, I cleared up a few rumors floating around about the PS3 version of the game. I'd like to share them with you and make sure you can seperate the truths from the lies:
Rumor: To decrease loading time, the developers put five versions of the game on the Blu-ray disc of the PS3.
Truth: Not true. They squeezed all the content of one game, not five. Load times are not drastically reduced across the board either. Most loads will not take as much time as they do on the 360.
Rumor: The PS3 version will not be able to accept downloadable content -- specifically horse armor -- because of the machine's limitations.
Truth: A rep for the game said this was also false. He said their ability to do downloadable content relies on the permission of Sony and how they want to handle microtransactions, not any restrictions that may exist on the PS3 hardware.
Finally, a random fun fact: The PlayStation 3 version of Oblivion supports up to 720p -- but you should know, the game looked much better on Sony's console.
Contest:
3:05 PM on 02.12.2007
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Thank god Sony has their publishers/developers to pull their shit together and make this a decent console.
I personally don't like Oblivion, but it does look much better on the PS3. As with a lot of games, they just look sharper on the PS3 than they do on the 360.
No wait, THERES BLUE-RAY! ALL HAIL BLUE-RAY! MASTER OF THE NEXT GEN! WE ARE NOT WORTHY TO STAND IN ITS PRESENCE!
I have this game on 360, but never really got into it; still interested in maybe trying it again one day.
360 FO LIFE!!!!!!!!!!
I believe Bethesda took advantage of the new Achievement policy and added 250 achievement points to the Knights of the Nine expansion.
Because there wasn't any AF on the 360.
I keep hearing people talk about how the PS3 will have better graphics, but I don't see how. The 360 has the better GPU, I can believe that it will have better physics down the road but I doubt the graphics.
According to the latest rumors, the new shaders that facilitate this will eventually make their way to the PC/X360 versions via either a patch or the Shivering Isles expansion itself.
In the end it doesn't really matter, I have my console of choice and am enjoying it. I was just curious.
But then I remember that this is just a blog, and while there is a certain level of polish to the proceedings that might give people the idea that these guys are highly paid professionals, they're just regular joes, passing along info and giving their opinions on stuff relating to our mutual hobby. While often entertaining, it hardly rates above your average forum post in terms of importance.
In other words, regardless of whether or not he's right, Summa is free to say whatever he wants about anything he wants, and it will never matter much, aside from the value one might get out of having his unique personal insight. And on that point, your mileage may vary.
With people talking about a game that comes out later than the other and looking better what about VF 5 which version to buy then? Is the Xbox going to look better because it comes out later? Also acheivements pts
Is it me or is my PS3 collecting dust because its glossy or because I'm not playing it?
And no, the PS3 version does not come with Shivering Isles content.
As far as the expansion coming for the PS3, they didn't say.
also cocks.
I agree I noticed after spending a considerable amount of time with either the 360 or PS3 that the PS3 just looks crisper and sharper.
http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2007/01/ps3_oblivion_seeing_double_to.php
I'm just saying that the likelihood you were lied to (intentionally or not) is there.
- Eddie
In other words, it was a joke meant to make a point. Ill thought out perhaps, seeing as it's backfired and all, but a joke all the same.
If I really thought that you were being ass backwards, regardless of whether or not I acknowledged that it was your opinion, I probably would've said something more about it than that. Really. I'm just that sort of asshole.
I'm only telling you what I was told and saw.
You said:
"Truth: Not true. They squeezed all the content of one game, not five. Load times are not drastically reduced across the board either. Most loads will not take as much time as they do on the 360."
I mean, sure you're not responsible for what other sites report, but you are responsible for what you say, and what you said wasn't "I was told they only have a single 'copy' of the game on the disc," but rather that all "'double-duping' rumors were completely false."
It's a big difference.
- Eddie