Mysterious PS3 launch title is Oblivion

I have the PC version of Oblivion. Has anyone else noticed the way distant land has really blurry textures and then all of a sudden it changes drastically when you get closer? That is really annoying. Does anyone know if the Xbox 360 version has the same issue?

Yup...They enhanced the graphics, added a whole new quest line, and a new guild or some shit.....so basically they made it better..ohhh yeah im sure there wont be any bugs either.....so i will be buying it for the PS3 !!!! Hell yeah.......The only thing that has pissed me off is Bioshock was supposed to be a PS3 launch title helping to make the PS3 launch lineup even better than it already was....dor sure though..the PS3 launch will be waaaaayyyy better than 360's !!!!!

I belive ATI's graphics solution (which is in the 360) is ahead of Nvidia's (which PS3 uses). As far as the PC platform is concerned, and with a single video card solution(no crossfire or SLI) NVidia hardware can't do AA and HDR at the same time, while ATI's can. This wasn't initially a problemm, as the game itself only allowed a exclusive choice, either one or the other. Then the "chuck patch" appeared, which allowed ATI users to force HDR and AA on newer cards. Nvidia users still don't have this capability. Even with just HDR enabled, (no AA) it is generally known that ATI cards handle the game better than Nvidia ones. A lot of people suspect that it is because the game was developed with the 360's ATI graphics hardware in mind in the first place. Also, unlike the PC release, the 360 version natively used both AA and HDR.... Perhaps these issues will be resolved for the PS3 release, but I'm doubing it. Core isn't going to help much at all, as this game is definatly GPU limited. Its pretty much common knowledge that the 360 GPU is a smidge better than the PS3's, and since the game was probably originally developed with the 360 in mind, I bet the graphics will be slightly worse on PS3.

Tom: I believe you can find some user mods that replace the distance land textures to something more hi res. In fact, Gamespot (I think), or online gaming site did a big comparison between the graphics mods and tweaks that the community has released and the vanilla game. The game has a the capacity to look tons better if you've got the hardware. I had forgotten about those mods when I made my last post. Even if devs do somehow tweak the graphics to look better than the 360, I doubt it will ever look as good as a properly tweaked out PC version that has the right user mods. Not to mention the interface mods which expand the inventory and map screens, provide color maps, etc. Basically, if you've got the hardware, the PC is definatly the way to play this game.

"52. I have the PC version ... the way distant land has really blurry textures and then ... changes drastically when you get closer ... is really annoying. Does anyone know if the Xbox 360 version has the same issue?"

Yeah it's much the same on the 360. You can fix this on the PC via some INI tweaking and/or higher-res LOD textures. I don't have a specific link offhand, but that info is readily available on the official forums. It's easy to install and doesn't carry much of a performance hit.

Anyway, this is good news I guess. I'm more interested to see what the PSP game is like since it's a different game rather than a port.

It may be that I've seen too much of Oblivion on the PC, but the PS3 screens don't actually look very impressive. Of course it's still early days, and having some screens is better than nothing.

This is going to induce lots more flame wars though. It was bad enough that with a heap of tweaking the PC version makes the 360 version look like crap, now there will be PS3 fanboys bragging about how they see five more polygons and two more frames per second...

I just hope this Knights of the Nine comes for 360/PC at some point. It's likely a hacked version could be made (someone made the Xbox GTA III's higher-res textures work with the PC version, for instance), but I'd far sooner have something official.

51. you should take a look at the screenshots before you claim they "enhanced" the graphics. you're getting a great game, don't get me wrong, but you're getting the ugly daughter version.

I just bought this for PC 2 days ago...so BOO!

Well I was not gonna get a PS3 this year anyway.

All I can say is we better get the extras.

"The game wasn't choppy on 360 anyway.

Sony fans always attack framerate because you cant prove it. Perfect thing to lie about.

If you put a timer on it, microsoft games always have better framerates than Sony games. It isn't provable but it is true. - Bill"

Consider writing something logical next time. I brought up the framerate, so I assume you are lumping me in some 'Sony Fan Group' that attacks framerate on 360 games... Not the case. I'm attacking low framerate because it's annoying, and it's certainly not exclusive to the 360... It's just that no other 'next-gen' system is out yet, so what I'm trying to say is, "I hope framerates can increase because it sort of sucks that Oblivion and G.R.A.W., both supposed to be launch titles on the 360, have dragged brand-new next-gen hardware to annoyingly low framerates during chunky scenes." I don't want it happening on ANY platform I'm playing on, which will be all three new systems by the end of November, barring any trouble getting a PS3 or Wii.

Your last sentence is just nuts, by the way. Certified. I put a timer on it.

I pirated Oblivion when it came out. It was got repetative and was a bit overhyped. I would have much MUCH rather had Zone of the Enders 3 than a game that is already out for 2 systems.

@12: I felt that while the graphics were not as good as on the 360

Erm.. what kinda video card you using? And what settings? This game is freakin 10x better on PC and X360 at 1280x1024 with AA and everything up. o.O

Now, if this game runs with no frame rate issues on PS3, we will know for sure PS3 is more powerful than Xbox 360.

Too many dumbasses on this site......For anybody to think that a game like Oblivion would look worse on the PS3 (MORE ADVANCED SYSTEM WITH BETTER GPU) than on the 360 (LAST WEEKS NEWS) is dumb as shit.....god you guys really are dumb.....a game doesnt get downgraded when the developers have more power to use and more storage...god stupid there is already rumors that the game received or is receiving graphical improvments....god dumbasses lmao
PLAYSTATION ALL THE WAY

PS2 really needed great exclusives to survive, because the multi launches would always look better on Xbox1... of course, better hardware.

Now, the new multi will always look better on PS3, it's good for Sony, if games look better, same price, same launch date, what would you like to play? You love 360 so bad to play a weaker versions of new games?

Screenshots were so nasty! I'd rather play with a few bugs then with that fugly crap. Oblivion is a great game, but it would not be as interesting to play if it was ugly. Would have lost interest long ago...

It's too bad the PS3 has less video memory than the 360. It will have lovely 1080p textures, but they'll be limited to about half the draw distance of the Xbox 360.

Hey, but maybe they'll use all that extra space to give the people more than six different voices!

while you sony fools are playing a half year old game,i'll be playing gears of war!!!

Its funny though... now that a great game like oblivion is coming out for another system, all of a sudden its "old news" or year old trash.

Somehow that makes it any less of a great game? So does that make GH2 on 360 a garbage port from current gen crap?

Seriously guys, how is this bad news either way you look at it? Unless you're just completely devoid of anything meaningful in your life and have to cling to a game on ONE console for it to have any merit?

its good news for the PS3 bottomline, just like GH2 is good news for the 360. Simple as that.

sorry Oblivion fans but i am not putting your sloppy seconds on the top of my ps3 game list

Actually, Oblivion is one of the best non-FPS games the 360 has to offer (although how it will stack up against the impressive-looking White Knight Story is another matter).

I guess it's going to be tough for PS3 fanboys to change tack from "olol ff13 owns oldbliv!1!" to "hah we get 50 more polygins than u an 20 missons u dont!1!"...

Unless Beth trips up, Oblivion will be just as good a game as it is (or isn't?) on the 360. And with the addition of Knights of the Nine it will be even better.

BFD. It will be a $29.99 on the 360 when it debuts on the PS3 for $59.99.

The game doesn't look great on Xbox360 nor PC because lack of memory for textures on the 360. The game was designed for the 360 and that's why the distant textures look like crap. Luckily PC users can get high resolution versions of a lot of Oblivion textures to enhance the experience as well as countless other graphics-related stuffs. I was skeptical of installing the graphical enhancement mods since the game is already so demanding on hardware, but it didn't slow the game down too much. Damn shame Oblivion wasn't made exclusively for the PC first- most of the problems with the game (gameplay, ui, graphics) are a result of designing for the 360 and the 'mainstream' console gamer. Although I can't blame them. They gots to get paid.

Wonderful!

No way was I ever going to have Oblivion on my PC (Morrowind is laggy, so you can imagine the weakness) - good move Sony. Getting a PS3 now.

I doubt that Chess... as even used 360 games at this point are still like 35.99.

Heck even COD2 is still 60 bucks most places and that was a launch game.

Want to know irony about this HUGE game?

It will be running on a BD9. A nine gigabyte Blu Ray disc.

While I'll they got a good game they also got a different game almost.

While the 360 owners wait a couple of minutes for load times its going to be more for PS3 owners (Blu-Ray loads slower) although PS3 owners won't experience the slow downs (two reasons: better processor, duplication glitch will be fixed)

1. Oblivion is unlikely to be any better than the 360 version. It is coming out in 2 months and that gave Bethesda, who is notoriously crappy when it comes to coding, a whole of a year to move Oblivion from the 360/PC to the PS3. Given the PS3 is a whole different beast than the PC-style 360, the bugs are going to be just as bad as they were across the board. For comparison, Bethesda STILL hasn't gotten Morrowind working right, what makes anyone think the PS3 version is going to, especially when it is such a foreign architecture? This is further amplified given that Bethesda wasn't putting all of its efforts into just porting and testing the PS3 version. They just had to add in more quests and have been producing add-ons this entire time. Meaning? The PS3 version, given Bethesda's poor history of programming stability, is shaping up to be worse than the 360 and PC versions. Don't expect patches either, Bethesda doesn't have the PS3 online component available (like all other third party guys), so they cannot add it into the game.

2. Oblivion has been out for forever and a day, so it isn't that big a deal.

3. White Knight, another PS3 game, is going to probably beat Oblivion up one side the virtual realm and down the other. It looks better, seems to play smoother, and looks to be far more interesting than the already interesting Oblivion.

Ultimately, this was a "surprise" announcement that offers absolutely no benefits or negatives for either side of the party.

so what if the sony fanboys like this and compliment the ps3, ...remember - thats why they are fanboys, who gives a sh** what they think. the truth is, they can drool and awww all they want, there is only 400,000 ps3 units , good luck getting one, and good luck saving enough money to buy one and the game your drooling over... and while your doing that, i will be pushing aside my over a year old copy of oblivion that i already beat the crap out of "twice" thats old news,..

and be making room on my mantle for

'just cause',
'splinter cell:double agent',
'call of duty 3',
'forza motorsports 2',
'gears of war',
'F.E.A.R',
'TH-p8',
'rainbow 6:vegas',
'2 days 2 vegas',
'blue dragon',
'alone in the dark',
'golden axe',
'burnout 5',
'halo 3',
'bioshock',
'mass effect',
'gta 4',
----and about the time that i get done beating gta 4, you should finally be able to afford 1 game 1 console and actually be able to pick one off a store shelf, ...late 2007

xxooxxooxxoo

This is a sweet game, everyone should get to play it. The only problem with the game on 360 is the load times. As far as frame-rate drops/glitches, it isn't as bad as a lot of people here make it out to be. I don't find it taking away from the game much.

I have done virtually every quest in the game except for the last Daedric quest and all of the main quest. The game has froze 2 or 3 times on me in that time. And, in one quest, I brought this stupid argonian girl to her mother for a quest and it never ended. Other than that, pretty great game.

Err...doesn't Sony need news that will actually help SELL their ridiculously priced and over-hyped rich boy system?

Pretending as if Oblivion actually DOESN'T EXIST unless its on their system is a tad bit pretentious even for them.

I finished Oblivion a couple months back - I need something to justify 600 damn dollars, not old news.

The best reviewed 360 game to date is being released on PS3, that is a great coup for Sony and great for gamers in general.

Platform exclusives are increasingly becoming timed exclusives as developers/publishers need maximum return on their next gen investment. It wouldn't surprise me to see Dead Rising and Lost Planet appear on PS3 at some point either.. and then DMC4 on 360 too.

Team Ninja used to be staunchly XBox only and yet their best game Ninja Gaiden is now heading to PS3. Times are a changing.

"Its pretty much common knowledge that the 360 GPU is a smidge better than the PS3's"

Yeah, and it's pretty much common knowledge that every gamer is a hardware specialist when it comes to their platform of choice. They even know the CPU opcodes.

eric, you'll be playing Gears of War and i'll be playing MGS4. i believe it's a match.

And for the last time, about frame rates: i loved the original SNES Star Fox, and it ran at about 12 FPS. I also love Shadow of Colossus and it runs at about 20/25 FPS. And yes, by the end of XBox 360/PS3 life, the last hurrah games will be running at about 20 FPS too...

Framerates don't really matter if the game is fantastic. No matter how powerful the machine, technically ambitious titles always bring it down to a halt...

Point One: YAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!

Next, Responding to #47 Bill
"From what I've seen the pS3 version looks like shit! It looks like a last gen game or something. Apparantly the graphics (someone said the water?) are downgraded from 360 version."

SHUT UP FOOL, THE GAME ISN'T OUT YET! DID YOU PLAY THE GAME NUMB NUTS?! THEY'RE SCREENSHOTS! DO YOU WORK FOR BETHESDA?!?! HAVE YOU SEEN IT IN MOTION!? YOU FLAMING FANBOY!

Final Point: YAAAAAAAAAY!

"Its pretty much common knowledge that the 360 GPU is a smidge better than the PS3's"

Errr, Common Knowledge? Right..
jp007.. Maybe you're referring to Ati is better than Nvidia in consoles, because there is NO WAY IN HELL, ATI Is better than Nvidia anywhere else. Sales for Nvidia have kicked ATi to the curb, which recently brought around the buyout of ATi by AMD.
STOP ARGUING ABOUT WHAT CONSOLE's BETTER!! PLEASE?!

Are you that fucking retarded, almost every site has already confirmed that the mystery title is NOT oblivion, but that oblivion would be going to PS3. Get your damn facts straight joystiq and don't post stuff unless your facts are right.

I really don't care if the game has Atari like graphics. I always look at gameplay, strategy and character development in RPGs long before graphics.