Let me start off by saying that Skyrim will never make OB easily forgotten, i just feel skyrim will give us little reason to play OB again. OB had pretty dull gameplay compared to Morrowind, lots of design flaws, and the setting that imo will be the reason ill never go back. Skyrim like oblivion will be Morrowind's sixy sister this time perhaps with actual good content and gameplay mechanics. What do you think?

P.S I will always love Oblivion i just feel the two games i will still play a year or two from now will be Morrowind and Skyrim.

Nah, Oblivion will always have a special place in my cold, dead heart.

wrong

i liked oblivion more than morrowind.

Seeing as I never played Morrowind, I can't vouch for the replayability of that, but for me, Oblivion has already gotten boring and I got it two years ago. But, I'm on Xbox 360 and therefore vanilla, so mods probably enrich the experience by about 10000000%

Nah. All the TES games are interchangeable in my opinion as they all have different looks and feels. While I love Morrowind more, Oblivion did so many things better (combat, voice overs, questing, environments, etc). I'll definitely be playing Skyrim the most. However, when I'm content with it, I'll always switch back to the previous ones as they never really get old.

This. I played Oblivion 1st and I honestly prefer it. I know thats not the general opinion here but thats how I feel, So it will remain a game a go back to.

Prevent me? No, I don't feel any connection. I finished Oblivion 4 or 5 times or 4 and a half and I guess I'll never go back playing it. I'm still playing Morrowind because I recently bought the expansions. It's not Skyrim that will make me forget Oblivion, it's the natural order of things. I've played it for 3 years and I'm moving on. Skyrim+expansions+mods will keep me busy up to Tes 6.

Don't think Elder Scrolls VI or VII will stop me playing Oblivion, my record is only 58 gates shut in one playthrough, this needs to be beaten one day.

I stopped playing Oblivion a long time ago. After finishing it, the DLC and SI over 100 times. It kinda wears off. I'm pretty sure I can recite most of the main quest dialogue. But it will have a special place in my gamer heart (just like Morrowind,) it was a game that kept me going for six years.

Actually Morrowind and Oblivion both do this to each other for me. While playing Morrowind I miss the better A.I., Combat, Graphics, better quests, and so on of Oblivion. And when playing Oblivion I miss Vvardenfell, having more weapons/armor, a few spells that were absent in OB, and so on.

I imagine Skyrim will be similar. Though I hope it tops them all so much that I just miss everything about Skyrim when playing them

I don't get understand your ambiguous post, OP. Still struggling to work out if you still play Morrowind or not...

Naah, I'l probably still play it. Not for a good long while though I'd imagine

I do. I just don't have oblivion installed any longer and I feel with Skyrim releasing i have little reason to ever reinstall it again.

Me too. And if anything it will force me to play Oblivion. The more and more stuff I here makes Oblivion sound better and bettter. If the info released continue like this, I will be more exited for Oblivion than Skyrim.

Q: Does Skyrim look like a game that will prevent you from playing OB?

A: No, OB is a game that prevents me from playing OB.

I did not enjoy Oblivion after about the first 5-10 hours of play. It looked spectacular, and there were a number of new and interesting features, but the more I played it the emptier and more meaningless it felt. Between the blatant level-scaling, the lack of unique items, the "can't fail" game mechanics, the irrelevance of many of the character stats compared to player skills, and the automatic 3-day respawn of almost everything, it felt like nothing but a pointless "diversion", not a game. After struggling to maintain interest long enough to complete the MQ, I haven't even been able to muster the ambition to try Shivering Isles (which I hear is good), because the basic game just bored me to the brink of outright annoyance. A popular "overhaul" and several other significant mod changes at least got me through it, but even mods merely "masked" the inherent problems somewhat, not solved them.

I certainly hope that Skyrim becomes the "new standard". The potential is there at least, if Bethesda learned anything about both the good and bad sides of "streamlining" since OB and FO3. In my opinion, MW still holds the title, and I still play it fairly regularly (it's definitely aged a bit, a few of the same old bugs and issues that were a problem back then are still there, and it takes a lot of mods to keep it even semi-fresh after all these years), while OB sits in a bottom drawer along with a couple of other "abandoned" games that I'll probably never play again.

Once Skyrim comes out I doubt that I will ever go back to Oblivion, dont get me wrong I enjoyed Oblivion but it just doesnt have that timeless quality and besides I cant imagine there will be anything from Oblivion that I will miss that isnt in or done better in Skyrim.

Yes, it will.

Oblivion got old fast. It took almost no time to play through and had no reason to keep playing once you hit level 18+.

I love them all

Yeah it does look like it will triumph over it in every possible way. Right now I'm inclined to believe it'll both beat OB and MW.


You realize the game re-opens the gates if you close too many right?

I`ve been playing OB on and off since release date and still have fun playing it. But....I gotta say, when Skyrim comes out, that will replace OB for me, no doubts at all.

once skyrim is out i dout ill play oblivion again (unless i feel lik goin through the SI again) since the skyrim gameplay trailer looks vastly improved over oblivion. it seems that all the cool features from oblivion have been upped 1000X and the graphics are amazing. but ill stilll go back and play morrowind since they have different gameplay mechs and ive hav yet to finish it (jus got it a month ago).

Yeah, it does.
The only reason to play Oblivion over Morrowind is the graphics(and Morrowind's can be improved enough by mods) and the better combat - but the combat in Oblivion was still not that great.

Skyrim will have better graphics and combat, as well as a less copy/paste world and without the horrible level scaling system. Won't be playing Oblivion any time after Skyrim.

It wont be easy to go back to Ob after how good Skyrim looks. I dont think i ever will if im totally honest.

Yeah. One of the only things Oblivion had going for it was graphics, now that's gone. I can still replay Morrowind because of the rich story, the immersion, and hidden nooks and crannies. Oblivion is already boring.