I loaded it up the other day but just can't get in to it. I think it's a mix of having played it for 8 billion hours in the past and the graphics just don't seem to be so epic anymore. I'll leave it for another year and see if it tickles my fancy then

I'm going back to Arena.

And if you want a game with a mind-boggling array of stats, requirements and lengthy, roundabout quests, play Daggerfall! I've had that game for years and still haven't made it through the MQ yet. I really need to finish that some time. I always get distracted by doing something silly like finding a new kind of house to buy or trying to find all the paintings.

I could see myself going back to Oblivion, but only with a lot of mods installed. That was already the only way I was willing to play it. Same goes for Morrowind. Eventually I decide my TES games need some kind of overhaul mods to keep them fresh. I think I spent three days fiddling with Wrye Bash to get the last Oblivion setup I had working nicely.

it did have some good quests but i think they're just as good in skyrim, and everything is else is superior so as great as oblivion was, skyrim easily surpasses it.

Probably. Modded Oblivion is still at least equally good as vanilla Skyrim. It takes a while for Skyrim mods to catch up.

Shivering Isles alone was more enjoyable to me than all of Skyrim. Throw in some of the superior questlines found in Oblivion compared to their Skyrim counterparts (Mages > Winterhold, Fighters >>>>>>> Companions, Dark Brotherhood Oblivion >>> DB Skyrim, Knights of the Nine >> Legion/Stormcloak), and there's no doubt I'm going back soon.

Skyrim improved on a lot, but the quest designs were so underwhelming that it's become a bore exploring what was a fantastically created game world. Skyrim's Main Quest does beat out Oblivion's, but that boils down to a "lesser of two evils."

I've been trying on and off since I got Skyrim to try and finish Oblivion. Had it for a few years now, but its just painful for me to play that game for some reason I can't quite nail down. I'll probably keep trying, I hate wasting money, but it more often than not sends me into opening up JMC and dialing up a MUD.

One of these days Martin, I'll give you that artifact... probably.

I enjoyed Oblivion a lot, I'll definitely be going back to modded Oblvion after I get tired of Skyrim. (Which will take quite a while by the way.)

Have played Oblivion to the death, same with Morrowind.
I stopped playing Morrowind then I found I had picked the mushrooms for the first mage guild quest in the staring city without remember, it was just instinct.

Nah bro'. Ra'vhash is keeping his tail in Skyrim.

I never stopped playing Oblivion. But now I play Skyrim too.

nah oblivion was fun, but skyrim improved alot of things, cant wait till we see some major mods come in

What bothers me... well, actually infuriates me... about Skyrim is how many broken quests there are. Windhelm is especially full of them, to the point I hate to go to that town. I've just hit a new one: "Repairing the White Phial". One of the things needed is a Briar Heart. I now have 5 stuck in my inventory, including the specific one I was sent to get. (The only way I've found to get them out of my inverntory is to eat them... but don't bother, even though I ate all i had on me before I collected the Briar Heart indicated by the quest, the quest didn't update to recognize I'd collected the proper one.) Right Forsworn Briarheart (white arrow over his head... that never goes away), right heart, no update. That was a lot of work for nothing.

Skyrim is a glitchfest, Oblivion wasn't. Oblivion was one of my favorite games of all time, I played the main game and all its add-ons over and over as different sorts of characters. Finally had to stop when I realized I knew what was around every corner.

Yes, Skyrim graphics are great, and the stereo sound is amazing... and I don't want to forget the great Smithing and Enchanting possibilities... but I play games for the story. Though there are some amazing flashes of brilliance in the main questline, overall it fails. Since Skyrim's questlines don't update after you complete them, including the two major questlines, as a whole, the Skyrim story is severely broken. In all honesty, though Oblivion did recognize when you completed a questline, otherwise it was very muted... but, HEY! at least it RECOGNIZED the quest was completed!

If I was grading Skyrim, it would get an A for graphics and sound... and crafting... and a D for quests, sliding toward F for all the broken/uncompletable quests, and the almost total lack of recognition that any of the quests, even the two major ones, had been completed.

Wonder if I can play Oblivion again yet without knowing everything that's going to happen everywhere I go?

Guilds? Spellmaking?

guilds in both games are one dimensional, you join all of em and nobody reacts differently towards you, there is no conflict between guilds and such.

spell making was one dimensional too, you could only create spells that were already available, so its not like you were creating new spells, just weaker versions of a proper spell to work with your personal mana cost. you can still mix shock and fire when using 2 hands, so its like they never truly got rid of it

I'm definitely going back to oblibion until I can mod the everloving crap out of skyrim. Oblivon was much more fun to me. As a game skyrim is absolutely stunning and epic. As an Elder scrolls game it's above average to borderline good. Personal opinion of course, skyrim didn't come nearly as close to being the best game in the series as I could have if the Devs put a little more TLC into it.

I had a much different experince with spellmaking in Oblivion ... it was really fun and robust and allowed me tailor my mage to my own playstyle.

This. I'm going back to Daggerfall eventually! Still lots to do in Skyrim for now though.

Naaah... I just finished a 400+ hr Oblivion playthru not to long ago. It;ll be awhile before I go back..... but I WILL go back eventually.

So true. In Morrowind, different factions had disposition to eachother, and members of those factiosn reacted to you accordingly. For example, the Tevlanni and Mages guild didn't get along. I seem to remember if your disposition was low enough people would refuse to even trade with you. New Vegas took the factional idea in an even better direction, IMO.

In Skyrim, you can pretty much join and be everything and no one reacts - there doesnt even seem to be personal disposition, let alone factional.

One thing I preferred in Oblivion, and other TES games is each town having a mages guild, fighters guild.. seems a bit small and limited in Skyrim, and would add to the feeling of the towns themselves.

While Skyrim is fun it is no where near as the fun I had in Oblivion. The Shivering Isles was the best DLC content to date from any game I played. I thought about loading up Oblivion after Skyrim was finished, but "Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning" is coming out in a couple of weeks and I'll be playing that. If Skyrim did not feel so darn empty, I would have no need to find another game to play.

I cant go back..

I usually play an alchemist and i got pretty fed up of failing to pick basic flowers!

And as for dragons - whats boring about that?! when i hear one i look up to see what type im facing, if its an elder dragon i have to choose whether to fight or run away depending on what potions and companions i have with me! it makes it exciting and random.

Dragons - threat
Oblivion gates - chore

No thank you, Skyrim is a better game in every regard imo.

Are you joking? the dragons look stiff and fly around like cardboard, well, to each his own I guess. For the record I'm having a great time with skyrim but dragons sure as hell aren't part of that.

..no they don't?
Lol, cardboard? Exaggerate much?