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Live 12-Hour Oblivion Marathon
HarvardFrankenstein writes "Gamespot's Greg Kasavin will be playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for 12 straight hours tonight (Monday, March 20th) and the entire marathon session will be broadcast live. Kasavin will be 'offering commentary about the experience as it transpires. Subscribers will see a picture-in-picture view of Kasavin as he spends an increasing number of successive hours playing the game, and they will be able to chat with each other over the course of the event.'" The event starts tonight at 6pm PST, if they get started on time.
Do you want the list that matters for this particular purpose, or the complete list? How about both:
For the purpose of this particular marathon, the ones that seem to matter are the increased progressive scan resolution, view distance, and just about everything that requires the input of more than one word of text. (For example, in the PC version of Tribunal, you could add textual markers to the world and local maps, but you couldn't in the Xbox version. There's probably a similar distinction for Oblivion. We'll know tomorrow.)
In general, though, the features you lack are the Construction Set (a full half of the game), free downloadable player created content, the ability to buy expansions without having to re-buy the whole game, a whole slew of graphical options that *aren't* exported in the game menus (what did they disable in the PC version so they could say the Xbox version is the same?), and, if Morrowind is anything to go by, the features that they added in the patches, Yes, the differences between the two are being played down by everybody right now, but that's probably because the only people who have played the game at this point derive some portion of their income from Microsoft.