Comments on: Oblivion Review

By: FinalSin

FinalSin — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:01:53 +0000

Having read the review and discovered Morrowind for the first time in the space of two weeks, I am looking forward to ordering Oblivion at the end of this week. Twas an excellent review, certainly. Though I had no idea they usually took that long.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:40:46 +0000

Heheh. I imagine that to be a kind of whunk!

I am getting kind of sick of this disconnection now. It was nice at first, having a life outside of work, but now I want my non-life back.

By: Alex Holland

Alex Holland — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:31:09 +0000

Lower case h! Mortified. *sound of attempted self-defenestration*

By: Alex holland

Alex holland — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:30:28 +0000

Older sister, one presumes.

When in blazes are you going to be back online, Tom?

By: craigp.

craigp. — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 08:47:25 +0000

Who is of course Angelina’s more attractive sister. Ahem.

By: craigp.

craigp. — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 08:46:35 +0000

*crosses of Agelina Jolie*

Badoom doom tisch.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:07:24 +0000

Awesome! If only quotes came with photos of the reviewer’s grinning face, I could cross off another Thing To Do Before I Die.

By: Zeno Cosini

Zeno Cosini — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:57:37 +0000

Actually “foot-high” doesn’t really qualify as “giant,” does it? Sorry, that giant was superfluous. Nevertheless: woo!

By: Zeno Cosini

Zeno Cosini — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:56:23 +0000

And you’re on the side of doubledecker buses! You’re saying (or at least PC Gamer is saying) in giant foot-high letters: “Destined to be mind-blowing.”

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:58:32 +0000

Excellent! I noticed happily that the regular edition of the game has a quote from my preview on it, and apparently they’re going to sticker the next run of copies with one from the review.

By: Zeno Cosini

Zeno Cosini — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:29:15 +0000

There’s a poster for Oblivion at the top of the escalator at Shepherd’s Bush Tube station that greets me every morning on the way to work – incorporating a quote from your PC Gamer review.

By: The_B

The_B — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:59:36 +0000

I think I’m going to cry.

Here I sit, on Oblivion Release day, WITHOUT a copy that I’ve had on pre-order since your preview. But Sendit and the Postal Service have failed to get it to me in time for today. Why did I stray from Play.com? More infuriatingly, even if it does come tomorrow I’ll be unable to play, as I’m out of the house all day.

And hearing everyone else rave is making me…

I’ll be back after I’ve sacrificed something.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:47:20 +0000

Three, actually - Mr Jim Rossignol also did Philosophy at uni.

The other words are basically just paragraphs from a less interesting review. Not much fun to read since many of them are about flaws that bothered me at first, but were forgotten as I played more.

By: Dave McLeod

Dave McLeod — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:18:47 +0000

Fantastic review. Read it plenty of times as a means of tiding myself over till I get a chance myself to play.

Fascinating to learn that my two favorite writers share academic interests with me (I’m shooting for Philosophy and Theology, you’re the philosopher and John W’s the Theologian). Can’t be chance…

Where did the other 7000~ words go? More ‘journal extracts’? Or just embellishment of various points? Wouldn’t mind seeing the full monty myself…

By: RK

RK — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:43:18 +0000

Hi Tom, just thought i’d pop in to say congratulations on the TESIV review (and the whole PCGamer gig in general). Sounds like the game will be every bit as addictive as Morrowind was. All the best, hope you get many more cool reviews in the future.

By: Captain Bassoon

Captain Bassoon — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:47:26 +0000

Having enjoyed your review, I reread it and it was just as excellent the second time. I enjoyed it, although I wish you had covered system specs in something other than the “We recommend”. Still, I know I can’t run it at the moment, so no problem for me. Congratulations, well done, and keep it up (the writing too).

By: The_B

The_B — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:32:37 +0000

Firstly, congratulations on your second PCG cover story, and in a row as well…

Secondly, back on the internet I presume? If so welcome back.

Thirdly, damn you. Damn you to hell. The review has made me so damn impatient for the game now. I must play it, and I may have to cry tears of RPG joy when it is finally in my hand. But why so long? I must have it now!

In all seriousness though, the review really did make for compelling reading, I would hazard that I would have liked to view the full monolith version, should you ever be allowed to reproduce it, but the review really did give me a clear view on the game, and I felt the score seemed entirely fair. It was quite probably the best review I’ve so far this year – and far from being arse kissing I mean that in all honesty.

By: erdniS

erdniS — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:23:27 +0000

Good for you, and thumbs up for what seems to be a great review!

Interesting to read how a game review comes to life too.