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I just spent half an hour writing a post explaining why Oblivion is a terrible game and it got deleted so smurf that noise, I'm just going to bulletpoint it.

  • The fascinating setting of Morrowind was abandoned in favor of generic fantasy claptrap. Cyrodiil is actually the Roman Empire in a big jungle but screw that for some medieval forests!
  • The leveling system is stupid and it means unless you plan and focus what you are doing you will gimp yourself.
  • When you do level, the leveled lists are terrible and you will come across common bandits wearing armor worth more than a city.
  • No, Todd Howard, a difficulty slider that adjusts damage taken and enemy HP does not make up for this
  • The daedric invasion should be a complex, scary, fascinating event. Instead it's a few scripted battles and a bunch of generic, repetetive hellish dungeons. Outside of these there's absolutely no idea you're in the middle of a war between planes of existence, no threat that demons will spill out of someplace and force you to run back to the city, nothing at all except boars, goblins, and bandits demanding ONE MILLION HUNDRED SEPTIMS while wearing a suit of armor worth enough to let them retire to a beachfront manor.
  • Daedra aren't supposed to be a bunch of mindless demons and you should be able to interact with them as individuals and factions in a parallel world.
  • Ahahahaha what the hell is wrong with the speech options in this game.
  • The combat is superficially improved thanks to active blocking and removing whiffs, but that and the addition of ragdolls isn't enough to make the game any more balanced or enjoyable in any underlying fashion.
  • I ain't even touching the writing, quests, or plots, suffice it to say that you can approximate the same experience by feeding someone with diarrhea a spicy curry and waiting a few hours, then listening at the bathroom door.


In short Oblivion is a terrible game. Not a good game with flaws, not a decent game which simply fails to live up to its promise, a thoroughly broken, unenjoyable mess that I have no desire or inclination to ever play again.
most of these are common flaws with like every Bethesda game!