Even the New York Times is enjoying Oblivion, as they’ve posted up an article in the Arts section on the game. Registration is not required to read the article. They bring up an important point; that single-player RPG’s are dwindling even though there’s a massive market out there for them (as indicated by huge numbers of Oblivion being sold already.) I’d really love to see more offline RPG’s released, especially quality ones like the Baldur’s Gate series and Oblivion.

While World of Warcraft is fun, I can’t stand the insulting, “n00b” immature types that constantly reminds you you’re playing with not only players of your own age, but those who just entered puberty and think nasty jokes and incessant swearing is “teh funnay!” From the NYT article:

“We wanted to make that quintessential fantasy role-playing experience, like we had growing up,” said Mr. Howard, Oblivion’s executive producer. “I like the traditional things like skeletons and trolls and zombies. But we also wanted to make Oblivion the role-playing game for the next generation — both the next generation of hardware and the next generation of people who haven’t played these kinds of games.”

If you haven’t yet, be sure to read our review of Oblivion, as well.