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• 1 Sam // Jun 4, 2008 at 11:48 am

  Awesome. As per usual. What are the monkey pants like?
  and I guess you’ll have something to say about Yatzhee’s review of oblivion.

• 2 Lack_26 // Jun 4, 2008 at 11:52 am

  Yeah, Yatzhee wasn’t that favourable to Oblivion. To be honest his impatience made him miss out, PCGAMER UK has a great article this month about lots of graphical tweak mods to make it look far better. He should have tried the exploring as well, plus some of those mods out there add a whole lot to the game (Better cities, OOO, for example).

• 3 Sam // Jun 4, 2008 at 11:58 am

  Mr. Croshaw vists this blog, so maybe he’ll take note…or maybe he’s commenting in disguise…
  Anyway. Back to living in oblivion, and that.
  If you do buy a house, won’t that just give you a free inn in that city? because you seem to move around a lot and it seems to me (as a non-oblivion player) a bit of a waste.

• 4 Lack_26 // Jun 4, 2008 at 1:03 pm

  He did have a lot of legitimate points that I agree with.

  Anyway, it’s good to hear of Nordrick’s non-adventures in Bruma. I certainly hope that he doesn’t get killed, there can be some pretty vicious spoon-hoarding wolves around.

• 5 PsyWarrior // Jun 4, 2008 at 1:27 pm

  Nondrick is an NPC. He wants a house. He wants to be a successful alchemist-trader, and live a totally unremarkable life in an unremarkable house. Like all the other NPCs, except he probably has killed more women…

  Houses are also useful in that you can store things in them. You cannot carry an infinite amount of items in Oblivion, and so sometimes you encounter things you want to keep but don’t want to carry around all the time, using up your inventory space (for example, Nondrick’s cutlery set). You could just put them in a random chest in someone’s house, but they probably wouldn’t be there when you got back. And yes, they’re also a free place to sleep (if by ‘free’ you mean ‘not less than 2000 gp’)…

• 6 Punjabi Fury // Jun 4, 2008 at 3:36 pm

  I don’t treat Zero Punctuation as real reviews. They’re entertaining little snippets of pig-headedness encased in some crude humour. Funny, but worthless in terms of making your mind up about a game.

• 7 Punjabi Fury // Jun 4, 2008 at 3:51 pm

  Another Nondrick gem btw.

• 8 Sam // Jun 5, 2008 at 3:23 am

  Well I meant “free” in the sense that whenever he vists that city in the future he’d have a “free” place to stay.
  I didn’t take into account the whole item thing, or (stupid of me) that he’s trying to be a NPC and buying a house would just the kind of thing a NPC would want to do.

• 9 SenatorPalpatine // Jun 5, 2008 at 8:30 am

  ZP is great, but you’re right Punjabi, it shouldn’t be taken seriously as reviews. (Honestly, SSBB owns)

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