New Oblivion add-on inspired by Goonies
by James Ransom-Wiley 
{ May 17th 2006 at 3:25PM }
Speaking about the upcoming 'Thieves Den' Oblivion download, Bethesda developer Ashley Cheng explained, "Basically, it's Goonies." The downloadable mission will task players with taking control of a cavernous lair, which houses an abandoned pirate ship. Once the ship is yours, you're free to assemble a merry band of pirates and get your loot on.But if plundering ain't your thing, don't sweat it. According to Cheng, Bethesda has an additional 6–7 add-ons, including an epic dungeon, waiting in the queue. The plan is to release new downloadable content every 3–4 weeks as long as folks are playing. If you're concerned that these micro-downloads are taking the place of a hearty expansion, don't be. Bethesda still plans to release a full-fledged expansion or two.
The Thieves Den download should be available within the next two weeks. A price point has not been set.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
JodyAnthony @ May 17th 2006 3:33PM
I for one would rather have constant small updates than like yearly large updates.
makes me wish i had a 360 or pc that wasnt made of 98% ass and 2% silicon. Oblivion is sounding good.
FreQ @ May 17th 2006 3:37PM
I do LOVE Oblivion, but I fear that by the time all these downloads are released, the game will have cost me over $100.
I know I'm not obligated to buy these, but as a huge fan of the game I feel like I'm missing out on some of the experience by not getting these.
Unfortunately for Bethesda, Most people will have completed the game by now, so I doubt they'll sell as many of these add-ons now as they did when the game was first released.
Eric @ May 17th 2006 3:39PM
Screw Oblivion I want a Goonies game. I want to use my Wiimote to control Chunk's chubby gut doing the "truffle shuffle"...If you can't make his fat shake sexy enough for Mouth, you don't get in the house!
It would also be cool to control the "pinchers of power" with the Wiimote to evade being impaled by a spike set by One-eyed-Willy and friends.
C'mon it sells itself! Any game involving Sloth and his echo I would buy in a heart beat!
Paul P. @ May 17th 2006 3:41PM
Sloth love Chunk. :(
Totalgamerzone @ May 17th 2006 3:50PM
i still need to get oblivion for my pc :(
patrick @ May 17th 2006 3:53PM
so how many times do you have to pay for this game?
JodyAnthony @ May 17th 2006 3:58PM
"6. so how many times do you have to pay for this game?
Posted at 3:53PM on May 17th 2006 by patrick 0 stars"
uh, zero?
l @ May 17th 2006 3:59PM
Oblivion is a good game. Oblivion for PC modded with free user-created mods is a GREAT game.
The Oblivion mods from Bethesda are garbage.
patrick @ May 17th 2006 4:03PM
haha you got me.
AoE @ May 17th 2006 4:15PM
patrick, $60 for several hundred hours of gameplay. SEVERAL HUNDRED, and you're complaining when they release a few somewhat resonably priced addons? If you're so offended, don't buy the addons. Oh, and please, point out to me any other 360 titles that offer so much bang for your buck; every other title I've picked up counted the hours of gameplay in the 10's not 100's....
Freq, even if people have played through the main storyline by now, I doubt any but the greatest game-nerd cave dwellers among us have completed the game per-se. The last one (including expansions) took 900 hours of my time, and I played it regularly for a few years.
patrick @ May 17th 2006 4:21PM
um i didn't complain. i asked a question. and solitaire was free and i've played that for two hundred billion gillion hours. and i probably will buy the expansion, i'm just broke, and i much prefer mods. :D
JodyAnthony @ May 17th 2006 4:30PM
AoE needs to get a life.
I'm just sayin'
Dixonij @ May 17th 2006 4:38PM
11. AoE needs to get a life.
I'm just sayin'
Posted at 4:30PM on May 17th 2006 by JodyAnthony 0 stars
Agreed.
900hours/24hrs per day= 37.5 days spent playing the game.
WAAAAAAAAAAY too long to play one game IMHO.
DeeWox @ May 17th 2006 4:58PM
Ok... Cool, but I don't really care because I can't download anything of the add-ons because I'm living in Norway...
mike_p @ May 17th 2006 4:58PM
AoE has a life. He just enjoys that video game. Do you not enjoy video games, JodyAnthony?
MosquitoControl @ May 17th 2006 6:21PM
" patrick, $60 for several hundred hours of gameplay. SEVERAL HUNDRED, "
I don't know how you play, but I got 100 on the dot. Did almost every sidequest. Did every guild. Did the main plot. Got 100.
One housemate did it all in 80. Another will probably take 110. But still... 100 hours, not hundreds. Just 100. Still very nice.
Meanwhile, these "downloads" are about 15 minutes. Tops. A waste of money. Unfortunately Xbox Live won't let me password protect my credit card so my housemate buys all this crap. He offers to pay me back, but that's not the point - I don't want to support Bethesda nickel-and-diming. More to the point- I don't want to hear him whine for weeks about how big a waste of money it was. Don't buy it then!
Geist @ May 17th 2006 6:28PM
I got the two recent expansions (not the horse armor) and I have to say they were eh. The Orrery was just going around to camps and killing certain guys, and the other (your own tower) was just like getting a new home in any other city. You find it, you buy supplies, and you're done. Not terribly interesting. Maybe these will be better.
MosquitoControl @ May 17th 2006 6:33PM
Ok, for the record, I have not gone into every cave. Although I've gone into a fairly significant chunk.
But I've hit the point that I have no interesting quests in my quest log and can hardly find any to do. Sure, I can go try to find 15 more nirnroot... but why? I get nothing from it. That's a chore, not a game.
I can go into some caves I haven't been in, but it's hard for me to remember which ones those are, and again I get nothing from it. I already have armor better than I'll find in a random cave. I'm rich beyond my dreams (although I only have three houses.) I have great weapons made from sigil stones and still have 20+ sigil stones from gates I closed.
There's no incentive to go into another cave. I won't find anything. Combat has become ridiculously easy and nothing hurts me. My stats go up slowly because I rarely use my main abilities (I kill so quickly that my weapon skills rarely go up, and I sneak so well that I rarely get hit.)
I had a damn good time in the game. But with 100 hours done there's literally nothing left for me.
I blame the item system somewhat. Diablo kept me playing forever because I wanted the next great item, even if it was only marginally better than what I had. Here you start getting superpowerful things quickly, then you start making armor and realize it's better than anything you can find. So questing for items is irrelevant as you've made things that fit you much better.
obo @ May 17th 2006 11:40PM
But is Chunk indestructable?
http://chunkpicard.ytmnd.com/
docLEXfisti @ May 18th 2006 3:27AM
nice Bethesda - how about releasing the already 3 available add-ons for the rest of Europe on 360, before thinking about additional releases?
Not to forget the many, many bugs in the game - maybe they should be adresses as well, before any enhancements are made . ...
it just seems to come down to money. Which is also a very strange behaviour, considering the Xbox 360 version sold a lot more copies than the PC version.
greetz from Vienna
Mr. Nosuch @ May 18th 2006 7:27AM
All I want is the patch for the 360 that fixes problems with broken quests. I can't finish the existing game (and get my damn achievement points like the addict I am) due to a broken quest. And I'm not so interested in making a new character to do it.
I'd like to see the game, as shipped, fixed.
New content is nice, but bug fixes should really come first.
matthew @ May 18th 2006 10:46AM
Mr. Nosuch:
What is the name of your broken quest?
I'm at 72 saved hours and have finished Mage's, Fighter's and Arena. I started on Thieve's last night. I haven't used any of the glitch cheats, highest difficulty, and I am having a great time. I never fast travel, so that may be adding a lot of gaming time for me as well. I've only done the first task in the main quest as well. It's wonderful because I feel like my character is really living in the world and it will be fun to become the Hero after having spent so much time already living in it. This is really the best Western RPG I've played, I think. It's fun to turn on for one hour at a time and do little tasks, or to turn on for 12 hours at a time and work on a guild. I have some 50-odd completed quests and about 25 or so in my current quest log. Really, I don't see myself finishing the game by 100 hours, probably 150-200. And I am sure that those hours are going to be just as fun as the last 72.
As far as extra content goes, I've downloaded every one besides the Horse britches and they've been alright so far, although short. I'll probably continue getting new ones though, as I think that Bethesda is figuring out what we do and don't like about the last three. This game will keep my happy until the secong gen of 360 titles and Wii.
MrFluffy @ May 18th 2006 1:22PM
Hey you guys!
Personally, I like to play for hundreds of hours. It means that the game is great and in-depth.
I have 300 hours on the XBOX version of Morrowind. When I get Oblivion, I plan to have many many more hours than 300. Especially since it's a much larger and more beautiful game.
Mr. Nosuch @ May 18th 2006 8:57PM
My broken quest is a missing body in the well, one of the early mages guild quests. I basically finished all my other achievements except for the mages ones, and I can't proceed with my character because the body is gone.
Yes, I could load a *very* early save, or just start a new character, but after sinking 100+ hours on my existing one, I'd like to just finish it off.
I just want closure, darn it. Plus I am lazy.
secretdubai @ May 22nd 2006 7:49AM
There's always an incentive to go into Oblivion gates, if you haven't found all the rare eq yet. I found the Amulet of Axes on a Dremora (if my memory is correct) - it gives 33% Reflect Damage. Combine that with the Ring of the Iron Fist (also 33% Reflect Damage) and I have become a suicide machine. Enemies hit me and they die, quite rapidly.