As we say here in the forum; You don′t quit playing Oblivion. You just take various long breaks

We come back to it alright. We all come back...

I"m surprised the OP got so many NO responses.

I not only went back, but in the middle of playing Skyrim put in 96 hours in Oblivion.

Skyrim has better graphics and the mechanics of gameplay have been improved. But not all is golden- the lack of the finger pad of choices, the lack of NPC interaction, both with themselves and you, and the lack of a deep character build make Oblivion a better RPG than Skyrim.

Oblivion is so good you can play it when you know all the quests. I dont' know how many will say that about Skyrim yet. They think they'll play it forever, but those still playing Fallout 3 - and I mean every week or month, are much fewer than the majority who played it, enjoyed it, shelved it. Fallout 3 is like Skyrim. The character build is largely missing. Without a deep character build, you play for as long as that new castle or dave is interesting to you.

Events and fixtures like castles last only a while, but building a character last much longer. Oblivion has the character build.

You're not the only one that got killed by that rat...then again when I first played my hp was in the negatives.... xD

I'm playing both Skyrim and Oblivion at the moment, but I'm finding myself playing more Oblivion due to the fact that it's not a crash and lag fest like Skyrim is, I swear Oblivion is the only good Ps3 Beth game and it was made by another company!...Er ranting aside, I do prefer to play Skyrim because it lets me use my creativity more and allows me more freedom when I play a character, But Oblivion, every time that I play it's still just wow, I can't say more, but "wow".

Given all the posts, and the names of the posters, I think because this was originally in the Skyrim forums. So most of the people commenting are those only interested in the game of the minute, with wowie graphics, and don't look back when they move on to the next popular new title.

Sadly games now a days cater to that crowd....which means that games get so dumb down that it's just sad and it always leaves me thinking "Umm, is this game for 5 year olds?"...while us who will actually keep playing the game for years to come get left in the dust.
It's one of the reasons why I got myself a ps2, hmm spend 5-10$ on a game that will last me a few hundred hours, or spend 60$ for a game that last 10 hours, my choice was clear.

I played Oblivion and enjoyed it, but I don't think I'll be playing it again for a few years. The grinding of skills really got to me, I want to focus on developing the story of my character not my stats. This is also why I don't think I'll be playing Skyrim for a while either and why I am back in Fallout.

So my official answer to the OP is not right now, I am too busy with Fallout 2.

Going back to Oblivion? Is there a law that says it's impossible to play more than one game at a time?

Yes, I know: you're referring to obsessive gaming. That's not something I do; I spend a few hours on a game, maybe, in a week. As it is, I've got heavily modded Oblivion and Morrowind on my drive. Skyrim, which I played for about 4 hours, had great possibilities, but a lot of things I didn't care for. I've set it aside, as I originally set aside Oblivion when it came out, for modders to work on over the next 6 months or so.

I've already "been back" to Cyodiil, with Eradi~Kate and Lady Saga. I think I've been back twice with each character. The experience is always refreshing. I was worried that Skyrim would be so kick-ass, I'd have no desire to return to Cyrodiil, but the truth is that Skyrim IS kick-ass, but it doesn't stop me from returning back to Cyrodiil occasionally.

To oversimplify: Skyrim is an updated graphics game... without large mods and without any current dlc.

All there is to do is visit tombs for words and kill dragons. There is no Shivering Isles or Integration, no Vilja and no DLL with patrol routes, no Weather All Natural or Immersive Interiors, strip clubs and vampire cows, anatomical K'hajiit and Argonians, wings and wigs, whales or triceratops, sailable ships or throwable weapons, no workaround to dress up npc's any way you want, etc. Not to mention all the great quest mods.

Oblivion has a lot of material to stick around for. Skyrim has Macho Man dragons and Spiderman spiders, which are bad model swaps.

DLC's will make Skyrim interesting as long as they last, long as they last.

Oblivion is not dependent upon new castles and quests. It's not even dependent upon superior graphics. It has character development, and that lasts a very long time in the hands of a thoughful person.

Oblivion and Morrowind was the first things I went back to after a few hours of Skyrim
so it's the other way around for me.
If fact I'm about to 'go back' to Baldurs Gate because I want a more D&D type game.

Oblivion was a great game but i dont think i could play it without the mods. i really like skyrim's vanilla version better so overall i probably couldn't go back

I find that I can only play one game regularly and some others casually. As in, my main game right now is Fallout 2, but I occasionally play Star Wars: Empire at War with my brother. I personally don't think I could focus completely on Oblivion if i was also playing Fallout 2.

It can be an interesting challenge keeping two games much alike, but very much different, sorted in one's mind while playing them more or less in tandem.

Well, I'm alternating between sessions of Fallout (1) and Oblivion, but my present Oblivion character is pretty unique, so there's no confusion. Also, I've got so many hours in Oblivion that I'm no longer really interested in pursuing quest lines; it's all about role play.

It's been so long since I played Fallout that I've forgotten an awful lot, so it's almost "new" to me. The game sort of "unfolds" as I play it. I like that.

I love all of the TES games, and Skyrim is my first favorite. However, I have found myself occasionally digging out my old copy of Morrowind GOTY edition as well as popping in my Oblivion GOTY edition CD and just playing. And it's not just to remember certain elements of the story, or for that nostalgic effect - I loved all of the TES games, specifically Skyrim and Oblivion. Skyrim is my first favorite TES game, and Oblivion comes a close second. I thought Oblivion was a better game than Morrowind, though I'm sure that the Morrowind zealots would disagree. I liked the setting of Oblivion the most - Cyrodiil, being the central province of the Empire, you had pretty much a little bit of everything in terms of climate. Cyrodiil felt like a paradise to me, and as explained in another thread - Oblivion gave me that WOW! factor when I first started, whereas Morrowind was like "Ahh, finally a game that doesn't force you to be a fast-paced person." Cyrodiil, even to this day, makes me want to live there sooo much. (Now, SI takes that feeling and doubles it for me ) Plus, I loved the graphics in Oblivion, almost more than the ones in Skyrim. (I also have Bomret's Detailed Bumpmaps as well as some other graphical mods, making it look so insanely real it's not even funny)

Arguably, I have to say Skyrim and Oblivion might be equal in terms of my favorites, to be honest. I liked Morrowind, and since it was my first TES game, it always will be special to me, but I personally think that each TES game has advanced better and better. Though I don't really agree with what Bethesda's been doing outside of their game development, I do have to say that Bethesda definitely knows what they're doing in the games, especially the Elder Scrolls games. (It's the same situation to me with FO3 - I honestly think it was an excellent game, and I don't know why so many people criticize it negatively)

I'm playing Oblivion, but I know I'd rather be playing Skyrim. Oblivion has so many things wrong with it, and from what I've read, many of them were amended in Skyrim. Of course, nothing is perfect, but I can't conceive of it being worse, given what I've seen and read. I guess I'll never know, since it's Steam-only and I'm one of those crazy Steam-haters.

Before I start I will state that I love Fallout 3.
The majority of the criticism towards Fallout 3 comes from the Fallout dinosaurs, the people who have played the originals. I've just finished Fallout, I'm playing 2 and I'll be playing Tactics next and the difference between the new and old is immense. Bethesda is very good at creating a game world, but some of the things they are not good at are interesting stories, characters and dialogue. They made an effort with Fallout 3, but these aspects pale in comparison to the originals. Not only this, but a good deal of Fallout 3 does not match up with the Fallout lore.

A lot of people(me included) also really hated how they made the main story incredibly black and white. No matter what you do the Brotherhood of Steel will be your allies and the Enclave will be your enemy. Nothing in the Fallout series is black and white, it's all as grey as the ground of the Capital Wasteland. Many(and I am slowly becoming one of them) also say that Fallout 3 isn't really an RPG, the lack of choice in the roleplaying makes it a shooter with RPG elements. When you leave Vault 101 you are a 19 year old kid looking for his/her father...nothing you do will change this fact. This is one of the things a lot of people really hate about Fallout 3.

This is also why many of the dinosaurs say that Fallout New Vegas takes some of the best features of the new and old in one game. I will also repeat that I love Fallout 3, even though it may not seem like it now. It introduced me to Fallout which in turn introduced me to RPG's.
From what I have heard, many things were removed in the transition.

bro i know more then anyone about this series put 7000 hours into oblivion and 4000 into morrowind(obviously those are close but rough estimates) and to be honest skyrim kills all of them

I was making an outsiders statement since I have only put 100 hours into Oblivion and haven't played Skyrim. Not as interested as I used to be.

If you've actually been playing Oblivion for an average of 3 hours (or more) a day, 7 days a week, since it was launched, you cannot possibly have a view of Oblivion which compares with your view of the newer product. I have a pickup truck that I bought new in 2005, and if I bought a new one today, I would swear up and down that it was better than the old one. "Familiarity breeds contempt."

One day. I got oblivion late, so I only never finsihed the main quest, Knights of Nine Eight, Mage's Guild, Fighter's Guild, Thieves Guild, or Shivering Isles. I was having to much fun exploring and doing the dark brotherhood quest, and the arena

I'll probably go back to Oblivion one day, it was my first Elder Scrolls game and as much as I feel Skyrim improves upon it, I have a boatload of nostalgia tied to it.

YA actually i can i am not some close minded hermit thank you.oh and also if you knew hopw to do math then you would know one would not have had to play it 3 hours a day 7 days a week from its release till now.Not even close.

He never said you were close minded, he never actually insulted you. He also does know how to do math and so do I:

3x365=1095x6=6570

Actually it is pretty close.