No two people in Oblivion look alike, and every speaking character in the game has lip-synched dialogue performed by real vocal actors. And we mean actors: Bethesda, the game's developer and publisher, hooked up with top Treker Patrick Stewart to voice the king. However, the story feels like classic been-there-done-that fare: sinister tragedy leaves a kingdom leaderless, terrible curse revealed, the aforementioned gate to Hell opens, oh-my-God-the-pain, epic quest ensues.
After 12 years, the modders merging Morrowind and Skyrim say their project would "come out faster" if "we were all working with Bethesda," but it would be "much worse"
RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says Skyrim is the perfect example of why it doesn't matter if players finish games because "a lot of people never finish the crit path," but "they love it"
