Quote Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF View Post
Oblivion? Without mods, not very good. It's a game with an uninspiring story, fair-to-good combat, very shiny but very bad aesthetically, especially when you keep in mind that Cyrodiil was supposed to be a vast jungle (and we know Bethesda can do great aesthetics because that was a major reason Morrowind was so great), terrible voice acting, terrible dialogue, terrible writing in general, boring and insipid quests, lack of choices, completely inconsequential player actions, AI which is so legendarily retarded that how they thought it a good idea to hype the quality of the AI is beyond me. Skills are simplified from Morrowind, itself simplified from Daggerfall, and I presume in TESV you'll have a choice of four skills; fight, magic, move-sneaky, and talk.

Don't even get me started on scaled levelling.
Yep. Everything here is true, yet I still love the game. Morrowind is certainly the better RPG, I think, but... geh. Fallout 3 (probably Oblivion's closest relative) does a lot of things better than Oblivion, but I still do prefer Oblivion. It's just a guilty pleasure, I guess. Can't wait for ESV.

Quote Originally Posted by Yeargdribble View Post
Oblivion is an evil game. It's the game that I occasionally get an itch for when I'm trying to play the dozens of other games gather dust on my shelf. When I grab it I check out of reality for well over a month. I get absolutely obsessed with mods to make it prettier and to add tons of fantastic content. I play it until my eyes bleed. Usually it takes some great force (like an out of town trip) to break my addiction. Then I put it back on the shelf for a good 6 or so months.
Yep, yep, yep and yep.